John Keel, March 25, 1930 – July 3, 2009 

Saturday Morning EDT/

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The Universe is Crumbling All Around Us Update

Presented with the illuminating comments of  the great Fortean, John Keel

Fort was not against the astronomers. He was amused by them. But the other sciences are just as amusing. Archaeologists have been busy burying more things than they dig up... ignoring everything that doesn't fit into their theories. For example, they tell us that North America was uninhabited by anyone except Indians before the Europeans arrived. They overlook all the stone towers and structures found all over this continent (including miles of paved roads) when the Pilgrims arrived. Fort cataloged all kinds of metal objects from swords and axes to coins that have been found and dated as pre-Columbian. Somebody was mining ore and coal in this country, and pumping oil in Pennsylvania before Columbus set sail. Rather than tussle with the problem of identifying those mysterious North Americans, the archaeologists have chosen to ignore these artifacts. - Disneyland of the Gods


The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia has been enlisted by what remains of the SETI program to search for radio emissions coming from 86 "Earth-like planets" identified by NASA's Kepler telescope reports the Sidney Morning Herald. The chances of success are remote. I suspect the time window during which intelligent life uses radio waves for communication is a short one. I suspect the chance that intelligent life is on any of those planets is slim. I suspect that the chance that there is intelligent life on one of those planets in the short time period radio waves may be used for communication which are now reaching Earth is vanishingly small. The game is fixed.

It is almost as if scientists want to say:

"See! Nothing going on out there!"

Andrew Siemion, a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley was quoted in the story:

"Our search employs the largest fully steerable radio telescope on the planet, and the most sensitive radio telescope in the world capable of undertaking a SETI search of this kind,'' Siemion said.
''We will be looking at a much wider range of frequencies and signal types than has ever been possible before,'' he added, describing the instrumentation as ''at the very cutting edge of radio astronomy technology''.

This is like saying they are using cutting edge technology to detect horses and buggies on these planets.

Kenneth Arnold, the private pilot whose sighting on June 24, 1947, set off the first modern flying saucer scare, quietly investigated UFOs in depth for years, and then in 1955 he, too, issued public statements expressing his belief that the objects were actually some form of living energy and were not necessarily marvelous spaceships. -Why UFOs? Operation Trojan Horse, 1970

Annie Jacobsen in her new book,  Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base, has come up with a new explanation of Roswell. It was a Soviet plot to cause fear and panic in the USA.  Josef Stalin, with the assistance of Dr. Mengele, supplying mutant children to pose as aliens, arranged the crash. Nice one Annie. Disinformation is alive and well.

History prefers fantasy to fact. Legend endures while truth coughs up blood which dries and fades. We prefer to teach our children that Christopher Columbus was a hero and have buried his glaring faults. We choose to pass on the nonsense that the Great Chicago Fire of October 8, 1871 was ignited when Mrs. O'Leary's discontented cow kicked over a lantern, and we forget that that fire was actually caused by a gigantic still-unexplained fireball which swept low across the skies of several states, destroying dozens of communities and creating a kind of death and havoc which would not be seen again until the great fire raids of World War II.-  Why UFOs? Operation Trojan Horse, 1970

Benjamin Radford's "Bad Science" column mocks the belief in djinns and black magic in Iran and the rest of the Muslim world. Mr. Radford predictably takes this stance since he is a man who believes in Nothing, not that there is anything wrong with that. 

 It seems several close advisors of Iran's  President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have been denounced and arrested by mullahs for consorting with djinns and resorting to black magic according to the Guardian UK:

  

Several people said to be close to the president and his chief of staff, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, have been arrested in recent days and charged with being "magicians" and invoking djinns (spirits).
Ayandeh, an Iranian news website, described one of the arrested men, Abbas Ghaffari, as "a man with special skills in metaphysics and connections with the unknown worlds".
The arrests come amid a growing rift between Ahmadinejad and Khamenei which has prompted several MPs to call for the president to be impeached.

It is easy to disparage seemingly irrational beliefs in unseen things that have persisted for thousands of years. It is even easier to revile the works of religious fanatics. The word djinn itself means in Arabic, beings or things concealed or covered in darkness. So one can always attribute bad luck, sickness and disaster to the djinn. 

I am not prepared to comment on the reality of the djinn. But I do find it interesting that the President of Iran, who has been demonized by the West is now indirectly accused of consorting with demons by the religious establishment of his country. 

In Mexico there are stories of the ikals, tiny black men endowed with the powerof flight who live in caves and kidnap humans. In India the giant bird known as the Garuda is an important part of the mythology. The gods Vishnu and Krishna traveled around the heavens on the back of a great Garuda. North American Indians have extensive legends about the Thunderbird, a huge bird said to carry off children and old people. It was accompanied by loud noises, hums, buzzes and, apparently, rumbles from the infrasonic and ultrasonic levels. Known as Piasa to the Indians of the Dakotas, it was supposed to have terrifying red eyes and a long tail. - Mothman Prophecies, 1975

A chupacabra like creature has been reported in Belarus. 250 rabbits are said to be the victims:

Bites in the form of four large holes were discovered on the victims' bodies, being in the closed cages at the time of the accident.
In addition, young people, who rested in the countryside, announced that they had seen strange creature of about 1.5 meters high, moving nearby on hind limbs. According to them, the animal resemble an ostrich but with hooves, dog-like head, jaw with large teeth, gray hair, hanging in tufts, and eyes gleaming red in the dark.

In Kenya a strange kid was born: 

Residents of Mkaomoto village in Malindi district woke up to find a goat had given birth to a kid with human features. The goat's kid has a bald head, eyes, mouth and nose similar to a human. Superstitious villagers have started talk it could be a ghost. Hundreds of residents rushed to the home of Joseph Baya at 7am to see strange creature after word spread.

With millions of people barrelling along our highways each day, it is not unexpected that Driving
Unknowns (DUNKs) are becoming more and more common. The UFO literature is now filled with
reports of the strange things that happen to people in automobiles. A majority of our monster and
tall, hairy humanoid reports come from solitary motorists, usually those driving alone along country roads late at night. In the average account, the car passes around a bend in the road and suddenly happens upon a landed UFO or a monster shuffling across like a chicken seeking the other side. Many of the classic episodes in the UFO annals began in this way. Add to this the growing number of stories of witnesses who innocently stopped to aid what appeared to be a fellow motorist in distress, only to be suddenly attacked by Men In Black types who grimly warn them to keep quiet about something they saw previously. It is easy to conclude that driving can really be hazardous to your health.-  Disneyland of the Gods

Oh yes, let us look at the situation in Japan.
TEPCO proclaimed that a worker who collapsed and died at Fukushima Daiichi today was not poisoned by radiation. It was stated that the worker who was in his 60's probably died of a heart attack. Another source cited exhaustion. Well, it looks like they really don't know what caused the death. But they can announce that it wasn't radiation. That's exactly been the problem with TEPCO from the beginning. They are blowing wishful thinking out their asses and calling it information.
It is now established through photographic analysis that there was a meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi much more severe than previously admitted by TEPCO.
TEPCO has begun construction of a "sarcophagus" to contain radiation at plant 1. This is the plant that definitely experienced a meltdown that created a hole in the pressure vessel which allowed an enormous amount of radiation to escape.
Giant polyester sheets will be used to cover the shut down and wrecked nuclear plants at Fukushima Daiichi to contain radiation still spewing from the site according to the Wall Street Journal.
Inaccurate information from gauges in plant 1 from the beginning of the catastrophe has resulted in bad information about the seriousness of the meltdown there according to Asahi.com:
TEPCO officials admitted on May 12 that a "meltdown" had occurred in the No. 1 reactor. Fuel rods had melted, and the molten fuel accumulated and caused small cracks at the bottom of the reactor pressure container, they said.
Until now, TEPCO officials only said that fuel rods were partially damaged and compiled a work schedule in April for restoring a stable cooling system based on that assumption.

Members of the Board of Directors of TEPCO can expect further pay cuts said Japanese Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Banri Kaieda. More justified pay cuts of fat cats have never been imposed. But more painful sanctions are necessary as punishment for such a failure of corporate authority.

"The U.S. government is being taken over by the space people!"
This rumor spread throughout the country in 1967, an updated version of the old  devil theory. Actually it got its start in 1941 when James V. Forrestal, the  brilliant secretary of defense in the Truman cabinet, went bananas and raced  through the corridors of the Pentagon screaming, "We're being invaded and we can't stop them!" He was convinced that his phones were being tapped and some  enormous conspiracy was underway. Soon after he was placed in a hospital he  leaped out a window to his death. While the press blamed his paranoia on the  tensions of the cold war, the UFO enthusiasts knew better. Air force  Intelligence had compiled a Top Secret Estimate of the Situation following their UFO investigations in 1947-48. Their conclusion, according to the late Capt.  Edward Ruppelt, was that flying saucers were extraterrestrial. Forrestal, so the  story went, was one of the few to read that report before Air Force Chief of  Staff Hoyt Vandenberg ordered all copies destroyed, and it blew his mind. - Mothman Prophecies, 1975

Monday Morning EDT/
Monday Evening Japan Time
The Whole World Is Going To Hell
And It Is Our Fault
Update

With the Kind Assistance of Thomas Paine 
Revolutionary Pamphleteer
A Complicated, Difficult Man
Who Hated All Engines of Human Oppression

February 9, 1737 [O.S. January 29, 1736] - June 8, 1809

The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed. [The Theological Works of Thomas Paine]

Vivian Norris at the Huffington Post has also noticed the lack of information on the true state of affairs at Fukushima Daiichi.
From her post today:

There is something extremely disturbing going on and having lived through the media blackout in France back in April and early May 1986 [Chernobyl Time for you kids out there], and speaking to doctors who are deeply concerned by the dramatic increase in cancers appearing at very young ages, it is obvious that information is being held back. We are still told not to eat mushrooms and truffles from parts of Europe, not wild boar and reindeer from Germany and Finland 25 years later.


Vivian recommends (also cited and recommended on this blog)  http://www.fairewinds.com/updates for honest information on the situation from nuclear experts such as Arne Gundersen. She further details stonewalling by officials in Japan.
Highly recommended.


Fukushima Groundwater Contamination Worst in Nuclear History from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.

Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistant that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel. [Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason]

MIT's The Physics arXiv Blog tells us today that chain reactions continued despite shutdowns at Fukushima Daiichi in a  self explanatory post titled  "Chain Reactions Reignited At Fukushima After Tsunami, Says New Study Radioactive byproducts indicate that nuclear chain reactions must have been burning at the damaged nuclear reactors long after the disaster unfolded"

Today, Tetsuo Matsui at the University of Tokyo, says the limited data from Fukushima indicates that nuclear chain reactions must have reignited at Fuksuhima up to 12 days after the accident.
Matsui says the evidence comes from measurements of the ratio of cesium-137 and iodine-131 at several points around the facility and in the seawater nearby. He has calculated what the starting ratio must have been by assuming the reactors had been operating for between 7 and 12 months.
He says the ratios from drains at reactors 1 and 3 at Fukushima are consistent with the nuclear reactions having terminated at the time of the earthquake.
However, the data from the drain near reactor 2 and from the cooling pond at reactor 4, where spent fuel rods are stored, indicate that the reactions must have been burning much later.

"The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted in future years, when home should afford neither friendship nor safety." - Common Sense, January 10, 1776

Over and over in what my active imagination appears to be almost a conspiratorial enterprise we are being reassured by the local press in the United States with similar phraseology like this example drawn from Pantagraph.com of Bloomington, Illinois.  

A nuclear radiation incident similar to the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in northeastern Japan is unlikely to happen at the Clinton nuclear plant, say Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials.
"All nuclear power plants are designed to handle the most severe, natural phenomenons such as earthquakes, flooding, tornadoes and things of that nature," said NRC public affairs spokesman Prema Chandrathil at a recent open house in Clinton. "But we will continue to evaluate such incidents as they had in Japan and see how they relate to our plants and make any changes if necessary."

No my friends, the Clinton plant will have its own inimitable and unique problems as happens in every nuclear disaster. And its nuclear problems will be cited  as not being possible anywhere else. Each nuclear plant in the United States is telling us that an accident such as happened at Fukushima Daiichi is unlikely. 

But do they say that any accident is unlikely? 

No.

"It is of the utmost danger to society to make it (religion) a party in political disputes." - Common Sense, January 10, 1776

Read the story of Angelo "Doogie" Golatt, a minister who specialized in working with developmentally disabled youths and allegedly abused them sexually wherever he went. Religion is the perfect mask for evil. 

Doogie's blog. 

"Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to "bind me in all cases whatsoever" to his absolute will, am I to suffer it?" - The American Crisis, No. 1, December 19, 1776

It's so bloody heart warming to see that the Wheeling Intelligencer is still banging the war drums to destroy people who are simply defending their own land against foreign incursion as they have done for thousands of years. There are enemies everywhere. And we shall keep making them as long as we send American soldiers half way around the world to kill tribesman on their own turf. 

"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." - The American Crisis, No. 1, December 19, 1776

The 14th Dalai Lama spoke at the University of Minnesota last night. 

"Compassion is the key factor for good health. ... It is not money or materialistic concerns, it is compassion and also education," he said. "If you do bad things for people, you get negative consequences. But if you do good things for people, you get good consequences."
"Use this for your own well-being," he urged.
In recognition of Mother's Day, the Dalai Lama lauded mothers for providing the affection and warmth people need to develop a compassionate society.
"My mother (was) so kind to me when I was young — I was the youngest of the children — that she really spoiled me," he said with a laugh. With the influence of his mother, he felt "deep inside, I am much calmer."

Tom's Death Mask

Thomas Paine died reviled and abandoned by both those in whom he had once generated conservative hatred and those in whom he inspired the spirit of revolution. 

"Thomas Paine had passed the legendary limit of life. One by one most of his old friends and acquaintances had deserted him. Maligned on every side, execrated, shunned and abhorred – his virtues denounced as vices – his services forgotten – his character blackened, he preserved the poise and balance of his soul. He was a victim of the people, but his convictions remained unshaken. He was still a soldier in the army of freedom, and still tried to enlighten and civilize those who were impatiently waiting for his death. Even those who loved their enemies hated him, their friend – the friend of the whole world – with all their hearts. On the 8th of June, 1809, death came – Death, almost his only friend. At his funeral no pomp, no pageantry, no civic procession, no military display. In a carriage, a woman and her son who had lived on the bounty of the dead – on horseback, a Quaker, the humanity of whose heart dominated the creed of his head – and, following on foot, two negroes filled with gratitude – constituted the funeral cortege of Thomas Paine." -Robert G. Ingersoll

Common Sense

The Rights of Man

The Age of Reason

Complete Writings of Thomas Paine

Joan Crawford is Coming For You

Friday Morning EDT/

Friday Evening Japan Time 

I'm Melting! I'm Melting! Update


With the Assistance of Joan Crawford

"Don't fuck with me, fellas. This cowgirl has been to the rodeo before."

Superb photographs of Fukushima Daiichi can be found here.  At the Cryptome website where you can find photographs and documents of all kinds on the nuclear industry in this world. The first link brings you inside Fukushima Daiichi 1 for the first time since the earthquake.

"I love playing bitches. There's a lot of bitch in every woman - a lot in every man."

CNN reports Prime Minister Kan wants to shut down the Hamaoka nuclear plant with three reactors in Omaezaki until earthquake and tsunami protections can be built. Authorities are very concerned about the high risk of earthquake at the site. Perhaps the concern would have been more appropriate when plans for construction were brought before authorities. 

"The primary reason for this request is in the interest of the safety and security of the people of Japan," Kan said. "We came to this conclusion because of the grave impact on Japan's people that could be incurred as a result of a serious accident at Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant."

"During 'Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?', I knitted a scarf from Hollywood to Malibu."

It is now, as reported in Discovery Magazine, believed that the early African hominid Paranthropus boisei used his huge flat dentition to eat grasses rather than nuts as previously believed. Scientists cleverly pulverized the enamel of twenty two of the primates who lived 1.4 to 1.9 million years ago to determine carbon signatures of the foods consumed. The various carbon isotopes matched up with a grass and sedge diet rather than the nut diet.  It sounds like an evolutionary dead end to me. Primates competing with grazing animals for grass sounds like a losing proposition. Primates had no chance until they picked up weapons and fed on the grazers, which is a much more efficient way to get nutrition from grass.  Oxygen isotopes in the samples revealed the climate was “semi-arid savannah with woodlands along rivers or lakes.”

"I was born in front of a camera and really don't know anything else."

Fans of CSI will be interested in this article about forensic anthropologist Doctor Bill Bass. Bill has run  a "body farm" since 1971 for the University of Tennessee where dozens of corpses of different sexes and age are scattered in various states of decay under different circumstances, such as bagged and buried or left in the open air. It is a sort of pilgrimage site for the Gil Grissoms of the world. From the article:

Law enforcement is asking two questions when bring you a body. First is: who is it? And second is: how long have they been there?" said Bass.
The corpses are placed in all sorts of positions and conditions to duplicate crimes. They're buried in mud, locked in trunks, submerged in water. They're even hanging from trees.
"Because you think about how people dispose of bodies. You wrap 'em. Wrap'em in plastic or you have trash cans," said Rebecca Taylor, assistant coordinator of the Body Farm........

"I cannot abide the odor in the body farm," said Carol Bass. "It takes you three days to get it out of your nose, it really does. I don't care what anybody says."

Highly recommended. And what Carol says about the smell of a corpse is absolutely spot on. When I was a young man living in Dorchester there was a horrendous smell coming from under a porch I had to pass on the way to the Savin Hill Station. The next day it was said that they pulled out the decomposed body of a Whitey Bulger associate.

"I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend."

Meanwhile, politicians are resuming meeting about the "budget crisis" and all are just so ready to work together to resolve it. From a PBS talking head show yesterday:

REP. JOHN BOEHNER [Majority Leader Of the United States Congress, in a clip] R-Ohio: When it comes to increasing the debt limit and the need to have reductions in spending nothing is off the table except raising taxes.

LORI MONTGOMERY [The Washington Post] : I don't think they are. I think what they're saying is, we recognize that Democrats have pledged to protect these programs. We believe that these are the largest drivers of future deficits -- and they're absolutely right about that -- however, we also recognize that we need to reach an agreement to pass this debt ceiling pretty quickly. Therefore, instead of arguing forever about health care and taxes, like we always do, why don't we start looking for some common ground and start from there?

LORI MONTGOMERY: That's an excellent question, and I wish I could answer it fully.
They say that they're still plowing ahead. Sen. Tom Coburn, who is a member of the gang of six, had to suddenly go home because of a family emergency. So they aren't meeting right now. But they say they're going to return to the table when they get back next week.
And I think the problem they're facing at this point is, you know, these are three very conservative Republicans who desperately believe in this goal. But the package that they're looking at would involve a tax reform proposal that raises additional revenue but it leaves to the committees to decide how that will happen. And I think they're having a very difficult time signing off on something where they can't control the particulars.

Republicans think they can balance the budget without raising taxes. No one ever mentions the defense budget. Medicare and Social Security are always on the table for these people. They are hallucinating that they even have a chance to balance their imaginary dollars. The central bank (Federal Reserve) will not let them. Debt is too profitable.

"Nobody can imitate me. You can always see impersonations of Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. But not me. Because I've always drawn on myself only."

Fox News actually used a President Obama impersonator to debate Ron Paul on the John Stossel Show. The amazing thing is that Paul went along with the farce.

"Recently I heard a 'wise guy' story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men. It's an interesting story, but I don't know twenty-five men I'd want to invite to a party."

"The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in 'Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?'"- Bette Davis

Young Joan by Alfred Cheney Johnston

Check her out:
Mildred Pierce 
A Woman's Face
The Women
Sudden Fear

This card is attributed to the letter Peh, which means a mouth; it refers to the planet Mars. In its simplest interpretation it refers to the manifestation of cosmic energy in its grossest form. The picture shows the destruction of existing material by fire.....
At the bottom part of the card, therefore, is shown the destruction of the old-established Aeon by lightning, flames, engines of war. In the right-hand corner are the jaws of Dis, belching flame at the root of the structure. Falling from the tower are broken figures of the garrison. It will be noticed that they have lost their human shape.
They have become mere geometrical expressions......
The dominating feature of this card is the Eye of Horus. This is also the Eye of Shiva, on the opening of which, according to the legend of this cult, the Universe is destroyed.

-The Master Therion (Aleister Crowley) the Book of Thoth, XVI. THE TOWER  [OR:WAR]

Thursday Morning EDT/

Thursday Evening Japan Time

A Corrupted and Disintegrating World Update

Punctuated by the Words Of 
Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz, 

June 1, 1780 – November 16, 1831

A Philosopher of War

"War is the province of chance. In no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for this intruder. It increases the uncertainty of every circumstance and deranges the course of events."

Workers entered Plant 1 at Fukushima Daiichi today for the first time since it exploded on March 12.
They are limited to forty minute shifts due to the extremely high levels of radiation in the blasted plant.
They are attempting to install six special filtering units to remove radioactive dust from the air  which will allow workers to spend more time in the plant to install critical cooling equipment to pump in water with the aim to avoid further meltdown or explosive reactions by forcing a cold shutdown on the glowing melted pile of nuclear material in the gut of the plant.
Good luck lads. You couldn't pay me enough.
The Los Angeles Times also reports on this story today and also drops a few tidbits on radiation in the area:

Even as work to stabilize the reactors continued, officials announced new findings of radioactive contamination. Tepco said Tuesday that it found high amounts of radioactive isotopes along the sea floor less than 2 miles off Japan's northeastern coast. The company said that cesium-134, cesium-137 and iodine-121 turned up in tests performed April 129 in two places at a depth of 65 feet to 100 feet.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Masataka Shimizu, right, bows to a Nihonmatsu villager to apologize [again] for the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. (Associated Press / May 4, 2011)
I wonder if he is getting a sore back yet.

"We continue to monitor radioactivity levels in fish and other sea organisms."

-Taisuke Tomikawa, TEPCO flack

Yes, keep monitoring, but what are you doing with the information, Taisuke?

And what can you possibly do about it?

"Only great and general battles can produce great results"

The Wall Street Journal tells us that TEPCO is finally bringing in fresh bento meals to the belabored workers at Fukushima Daiichi. They had been subsisting on pouched-packed food, bread and noodles. Bunks are also being brought in to the nearby Fukushima Daini nuclear plant's gym. They had been using sleeping bags on mats on the floor. By mid May they will have showers.

Goshi Hosono, a senior aide to Prime Minister Naoto Kan, said that nearly two months after the onset of the crisis, the time had come to take better care of workers. He and Tepco officials were speaking at a news conference.
"I hope this will allow workers to refresh themselves and devote themselves to the hard task in hand," said Mr. Hosono, who is representing the premier at a joint disaster headquarters with Tepco.
"Until now, we haven't paid enough attention to conditions for workers, as we have focused squarely on containing the accident," he said. "It has also been hard for Tepco to improve conditions for its own workers, given the hardships faced by evacuees forced out of their own homes."

"If the enemy is to be coerced, you must put him in a situation that is even more unpleasant than the sacrifice you call on him to make. The hardships of the situation must not be merely transient - at least not in appearance. Otherwise, the enemy would not give in, but would wait for things to improve."


Reuters reports that the problems in Japan have not prevented taxpayer assisted and indemnified new construction of nuclear facilities in the United States. New projects in South Carolina and Georgia are expected to begin soon without delay. These will be new reactors at existing facilities. Westinghouse which is mostly owned by Toshiba is the provider. 

"If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles."


The last know World War One combat veteran, Claude Choules,  who served in the Royal Navy, died at the age of 110. He witnessed the surrender of the German imperial fleet at the Firth of Forth, in Scotland.
Link at CNN. 

"It is clear that war is not a mere act of policy but a true political instrument, a continuation of political activity by other means"


Jonathan Jones in the Guardian UK gives a strange take on the quest to restore looted Nazi art treasures to rightful owners. He claims that paintings like the Klimt Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I returned to the Bloch-Bauer family from Vienna in 2006 after a long legal battle, belongs in the museum that essentially looted it from the Bloch-Bauer estate after the Nazis absorbed Austria. Jones claims it would have acted as a kind of monument to the lost Jewish culture of the city. Antisemitism takes many contorted forms these days.
At any rate, if you or your family had art stolen by Nazis there is an inventory online at the Commission for Looted Art in Europe.

"Where judgment begins, there art begins."

Klimt, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I
Note the Eye in the Pyramid motif in her dress.

Our meandering and aimless and impossible to win war in Afghanistan will reach its tenth anniversary on October 7, 2011. It continues without a goal, without strategy, and without meaning.


"War belongs not to the province of Arts and Sciences, but to the province of social life. It is a conflict of great interests, which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others. It would be better, instead of comparing it with any Art, to liken it to business competition, which is also a conflict of human interests and activities; and it is still more like State policy, which, again, can be looked upon as a kind of business competition on a great scale."

José Benlliure y Gil, 1858-1937
La Barca De Caronte

With the reported death of the enigmatic Osama Bin Laden there have been expressions of hope for the Muslim World. But we must temper our hope for the inevitable change that must come to Islam. Only change coming from within will be real. And that change will proceed slowly. Reform can never be imposed from without on the cultures of the Middle East. As ancient as that part of the world is, Islam is yet the little brother of the world's important religions. Islam is an immature self-consciouse hothead, like an adolescent who refuses to admit any error or misdeed. The natural progression of any religion is towards flexibility and tolerance.
The stiff-necked religion is ultimately inimical to the spirit of man and will be rejected if it is not altered.
Humans eventually tire of the old and obvious yet effective trickery the masters of oppressive cultures use when they emotionally proclaim:

"You may be miserable but you are so lucky to be favored of [Place name of appropriate god here.] And you are so much better than [Place names of other people, religion, race here.] Now do as we order you to do."

Muslims are about fourteen centuries into their religion. That is around the time Christianity began to reform. And, Judaism began to get flexible (of necessity) about a millenia and a half in. Islam as a religion and a culture  will reform and get away from the strict norms and rules that hold back its people (and need I say it, their women especially). Perhaps a religion needs to get to the point where it stops taking itself so seriously in the sense that it needs to be on a mission to force the world to conform to the message. Would a true religion need to  force itself on people?  If a religion is not freely chosen how successful can it be? To paraphrase a certain guy: By their fruit you will recognize them. Ultimately men are swayed by results, not claims of future reward for donning a metaphysical straight jacket that induces unhappiness and neurosis.

Be careful what you wish for in the Middle East, in the Islamic countries. It is prudent to temper one's enthusiasm here. A popular democratic government in that part of the world will tend to support some policies that will appear very strange to us in the West. However, it is important to understand that changes which may   appear backwards and retrogressive could actually lead to liberalization. Martin Luther was a reformer of Christianity yet he was actually very conservative, turned on the peasants who first supported him, and despised Jews above all others. However, his notion that any man may interpret the Bible for himself sounded the first the death knell of the oppressive Catholic Church and opened the way for liberal Christians. Islam is at  the beginning of a very long process. Christianity has shown that for all the progress it has made from its bloody repressive past, there are still many flaws in its major institutions. Change never evades friction and never travels in a straight upward motion. 

The religion to fear is the next important religion to be born. Babies are beautiful, full of hope and trouble.

As in the United States where there are no good guys running things or wanting to run things, so in Libya there are no good guys on either side of their battle because there are no perfect men walking around today. When we see rebels sending a representative to the World Bank before they have won their rebellion, something is wrong. We should let the natural process take its course. But men with certain evil interests are already forcing that process to their own wills.

It's probably best not to speculate too much about these matters when you don't have all the information at hand. The theme of one of my favorite books, Voltaire's Candide, is  that a certain road to unhappiness is travelled when one is absolutely sure he has all the absolute answers on a meta-scale:

"Cunégonde grows uglier and more disagreeable every day. Cacambo works in the garden of the small farm. He hates the work and curses his fate. Pangloss is unhappy because he has no chance of becoming an important figure in a German university. Martin is patient because he imagines that in any other situation he would be equally unhappy. They all debate philosophy while the misery of the world continues. Pangloss still maintains that everything is for the best but no longer truly believes it. Paquette and Giroflée arrive at the farm, having squandered the money Candide gave them. They are still unhappy, and Paquette is still a prostitute. 
The group consults a famous dervish (Muslim holy man) about questions of good and evil. The dervish rebukes them for caring about such questions and shuts the door in their faces. Later, the group stops at a roadside farm. The farmer kindly invites them to a pleasant dinner. He only has a small farm, but he and his family work hard on it and live a tolerable existence.
Candide finds the farmer’s life appealing. He, Cunégonde, and his friends decide to follow it, and everyone is satisfied by hard work in the garden. Pangloss suggests to Candide once again that this is the best of possible worlds. Candide responds, “That is very well put . . . but we must cultivate our garden.”"

Death Carrying A Child, Stefano della Bella,  1645-1651

Paracelsus

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Created with the assistance of
THEOPHRASTUS BAUMBAST VON HOHENHEIM,
Commonly known as Paracelsus, Swiss
Physician, Alchemist and Occultist of the sixteenth century,
Born on the 10th November, 1493, at Sihlbrücke,
Near Einsiedeln, Canton Schwyz,
Died on the 24th September, 1541, at Salzburg.

"Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven."

Japan's cavalier approach to its nuclear crisis has forced one government official to give up his post. Bloomberg reports that Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan accepted the resignation of  a nuclear advisor today.


The government accepted the resignation of Toshiso Kosako, a professor at the University of Tokyo, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said at a press conference in the capital today. The adviser disagreed with the maximum annual radiation exposure allowed in elementary schools, Edano said, adding there was a “misunderstanding.”...
Kosako resigned in protest against the government’s “impromptu” handling of the crisis and delays in bringing the situation under control, Kyodo News reported, citing comments made by the adviser at a press conference yesterday. Kosako disagreed with the maximum annual radiation exposure of 20 millisieverts allowed by the government in elementary schools, according to Edano.
“We’re not saying it’s OK for children to get exposed up to 20 millisieverts,” he said. “We’re trying to reduce children’s radiation exposure as much as possible. Our plan would be much lower than 20 millisieverts a year.”

It was only a misunderstanding. Ignoring laws and prolonging the crisis is a "misunderstanding." What I do not understand is why the Japanese government has been so stingy with information on radiation emanating from the wreck at Fukushima Daiichi. What I do not understand is why the government of Japan has not frog-walked TEPCO executives to jail for falsifying information and ignoring safety rules. But I suppose their reasons are the same reasons no Wall Street crooks have been arrested here in the United States. Governments are now wholly owned subsidiaries of the corporations. Our politicians have no sympathy or empathy with the people, they only obey their Masters in the hidden mansions and  board rooms of the world. 

"The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars."

The Mainichi Daily News reports that a member of a panel advising the government on earthquake reconstruction plans does not want Fukushima prefect to continue to produce nuclear power. 

"I want Fukushima to make the decision to abandon nuclear power, independent from government policy discussion," the 57-year-old panel member, Norio Akasaka, told the Mainichi.

Watch your back, Norio.

Bloomberg reported this week that radiation readings inside the reactors are the highest yet. I suppose that means radiation escaping the reactors must be pretty pretty high. But it is difficult to come by such information.

"It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is from nature that the disease comes, and from nature comes the cure, not from physicians."

The New York Times tells us that old nuclear plants are "cash cows" because they can be bought much more cheaply than new ones can be built. I might ad that these buyers of nukes have no liability for damages they inflict on the people or the planet since the government has hoodwinked the people into indemnifying these dangerous monstrosities for free. Let's start sending insurance bills to the nuclear industry based on real potential for damage, death and loss. Or, the people could simply stop indemnifying any nuclear plant, or at least those operating after their posted lifespans. The market for old nuclear plants will then collapse.

Meanwhile, there is no investor sentiment to invest in new nuclear plants. Only the United States government seems enthusiastic about pouring billions of dollars it does not have into the nuclear industry for construction. Someone ask our President at his next press conference about this. Please. 

The 19th Figure

'Thou art leaping about in thy garden and art well pleased with thyself; but giving up thy wisdom and following thy pleasure thou makest bad use of thy leapings. Therefore shall it happen to thee even as thou art lying there, and those that should be thy peace will hunt thee and force thee to leap high. But take thought with thyself and consider that human things are vain. Then wouldst thou become altogether changed and wouldest be safe from the misfortune into which thou doest daily walk. Bethink thyself that pride and ill-manners never ended well.'-The Nineteenth Figure of the Prophecies of Paracelsus

Euthanization of animals starving and neglected in the Fukushima Exclusion Zone has begun.

The 16th Figure

'A child that goes to school and learns, when it arrives at years of discretion is ashamed of its childish work and destroys it. Thus shall it also happen to thee. As thou writest in such a manner thine own work shall be nought. For which reason there will be much labour for nought and in vain. For the time teacheth and giveth knowledge that not every pearl is a true pearl that is alleged so to be. Therefore a hand shall fall upon thee that will tear thee to shreds.'-The Sixteenth Figure of the Prophecies of Paracelsus

Two senior Japanese officials stated that four of the six reactors at Fukushima Daiichi  have a chance of further catastrophic events and are remain volatile. 

The 2nd Figure

'A flower groweth to the destined height. He that causeth her to grow also causeth her to fade. This happens to thee, for Magic hath therewith adorned thee, that thy coming up should be known, and also how thou has come to nought. For before thou wast, Magic hath known thee and therefore compared thee to a flower, that to-day is in bloom and to-morrow is withered. Wisdom and Fear of God would have preserved thee, but thou has overlooked it, thine own wisdom hath seduced thee.'-The Second Figure of the Prophecies of Paracelsus

Information about the spread of radioactivity in Japan is being suppressed. 


The chief of the Meteorological Society of Japan has drawn flak from within the academic society over a request for member specialists to refrain from releasing forecasts on the spread of radioactive substances from the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
In the request posted March 18 on the society's website, Hiroshi Niino, professor at the University of Tokyo, said such forecasts, which he says carry some uncertainty, ''could jumble up information about the government's antidisaster countermeasures unnecessarily.''.....
Niino later said in commenting on the intention he had in issuing the statement, ''If (society members') forecasts were announced, it would have carried the risk that ordinary people may panic.''

But Toshio Yamagata, another University of Tokyo professor who is a member of the society, said meteorological scientists have the responsibility to encourage the government to take the right course of action by announcing their forecasts ''especially when a country is going through a critical situation.''
''Our society has degenerated into a bureaucratic entity,'' he warned.

That says it all. 

The Japanese bureaucracy has relaxed hair cutting laws to allow barbers to cut hair in evacuation shelters instead of approved barber shops.

The 11th Figure

'Although the sun did once shine upon thee, and thou hast glutted thyself with food and plunder, and wast sitting among the honeycombs, yet thou hast not wisely considered the end, and hast forgotten the winter; therefore he taketh away thy pleasure, and will compel thee to suck thine own paws. For as thou art bear-like, and has no further reason, Magic hath driven thee into the toils that thou shouldst be known. But if the wit of man had been thine, the winter would not have overtaken thee.'- The 11th Figure of the Prophecies of Paracelsus


Back home more tornadoes have continued to kill more people (339 at last count)  and destroy more churches of those who strongly believe in Jesus and disbelieve in climate change in a part of the country run by politicians who hate the federal government but are now asking for its help. 

Reports of looting are widespread in the afflicted areas. 

'Thou hast divided duty into left and right, as if it were oppressing thee. Both sides will cause thee anxiety and hatred shall altogether overcome thee. For a harlot divideth her wantonness and for a while she hath her way, but woe to her when her deceit is discovered. Then cometh true the saying, "no love without pain." Although thou didst mightily rejoice that thou art without a head, a head shall be placed upon thee and thou shall become a limb, though thou art not accustomed to it. But against thy will shalt thou swallow and eat what is not thy natural food.'- The Fourth Figure of the Prophecies of Paracelsus

The 4th Figure

Links: The Prophecies of Paracelsus

Oliver Cromwell, attributed to Anthony Van Dyck

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Presented with the assistance of Oliver Cromwell 
b.25 April 1599 – d.3 September 1658
Called "Old Ironsides" he was a Puritan and a Roundhead soldier in the Civil War,
who brought down the Monarchy,
oversaw the execution of Charles I,
which he called a "cruel necessity" and,

Became Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
Within two years of his death the Monarchy was restored, 
His body was disinterred from Westminster Abbey, 
Hung on the gallows then beheaded by Charles II.
His head was publicly displayed on Westminster Hall for 25 years. 

Ollie's Wax Death Mask in the British Museum

"What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted."

The death toll is now 178 and rising [now at 292 at 7PM EDT Thursday]  in the wake of the latest round of tornadoes to rip through the South this week.
155 tornadoes were reported in the United States  yesterday by the Storm Prediction Center, bringing the number to over 800 this month.
Monday in Pulaski County Arkansas the Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church was destroyed.
The Mamre Baptist Church near Peek's Hill, Alabama was destroyed and a man was found dead in the debris, one of 65 who died in the storms in the state.
The Ford Chapel United Methodist Church in Harvest, Alabama, the oldest of that denomination in the state was destroyed yesterday.

The New Bethel Baptist Church in Cherokee County, Alabama lost its roof and steeple. 

In Mississippi the Smithville Baptist Church and neighboring Smithville United Methodist Church were both destroyed.

The First Baptist Church in Cullman, Alabama was heavily damaged. 

In Autaga County Alabama the Boone's Chapel Baptist Church was heavily damaged. 

Last week's tornadoes damaged or destroyed many other churches throughout the South including the Zoar Baptist Church in Deltaville, Virginia. The destruction did not deter Easter worshipers who held outdoor services. 

Christ Church in Wetumpka Alabama was destroyed April 24 last year on Easter Day. This Easter the church broke ground for a new nave and sanctuary. 

"No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going. Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking. Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged."

Slate Magazine asks the question "Did industry-government collusion contribute to Japan's nuclear disaster?" in an article title "Nuclear Incest" today which relies heavily on a report in yesterday's New York Times. "Culture of Complicity Tied to Stricken Nuclear Plant"

"A 10-year extension for the oldest of Daiichi’s reactors suggests that the regulatory system was allowed to remain lax by politicians, bureaucrats and industry executives single-mindedly focused on expanding nuclear power. Regulators approved the extension beyond the reactor’s 40-year statutory limit just weeks before the tsunami despite warnings about its safety and subsequent admissions by Tokyo Electric, often called Tepco, that it had failed to carry out proper inspections of critical equipment." -The New York Times

Meanwhile, the latest scheme to prevent radiation from seeping into the sea at Fukushima Daiichi is to build a gigantic holding tank at the site to hold all the radioactive water being created from the frantic cooling activities going on at several locations at the complex. There is no word on how long it will take to build such a huge tank or whether it will be engineered to be earthquake proof. 

TEPCO reports that one of their woman employees was exposed to high radiation at the site but she has not displayed any symptoms of radiation poisoning so far.

Meanwhile Goshi Hosono, Prime Minister Naoto Kan's special advisor on management of the nuclear crisis. said "There is no way Tokyo or Kyoto will come into harm's way." and that the crisis was receding.

"Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry."

General Electric has its best profit outlook  in a decade despite the uncertainty in the nuclear industry which is an important part of its business. All the plants at Fukushima Daiichi are of GE design and two were built by the company. 

Afterward..

"I have seen in this revolution a circular motion of the sovereign power through two usurpers, father and son, to the late King to this his son. For ... it moved from King Charles I to the Long Parliament; from thence to the Rump; from the Rump to Oliver Cromwell; and then back again from Richard Cromwell to the Rump; then to the Long Parliament; and thence to King Charles, where long may it remain."- Thomas Hobbes

Ambrose Bierce, as he appeared in 1892
 born June 24, 1842, disappeared December 26, 1913, 

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Assisted today by Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary

HEMP, n. A plant from whose fibrous bark is made an article of neckwear which is frequently put on after public speaking in the open air and prevents the wearer from taking cold.

Authorities continue to withhold accurate radiation reading emanating from Fukushima Daiichi and spreading around the world. Only radioactive iodine is being somewhat monitored, which, with its relatively short half life,  is the least of our worries.

HEAVEN, n. A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own.


EX-SKF blogger gives us the fantastic story today that the symbol or mascot of the Fukushima Daiichi Plant 1  is the ostrich. He is not kidding. The Yomiuri Shinbun reports today, so far only in the Japanese edition as far as I can tell, that there is an ostrich farm with thirty of the pathetic creatures that have been left to die for lack of care in the evacuated area near the plant. Why the ostrich? Fukushima Daiichi public relations states:
"Just like an ostrich that grow big on small feed, the nuclear power plant that generates large amount of electricity with small amount of uranium"

HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.

The Wall Street Journal tells us that officials are inspecting wrecked Plant 1 for leaks today with robots.  I suspect this attempt to discover the location of leaks that must be patched before continuing with a scheme to fill the damaged and cracked plants with water in an attempt to stall the continuing meltdowns of reactor cores will unfortunately be futile. There are also leaks in the spent fuel rod pool at Plant 4 that must be repaired unless they are happy with a situation that requires constant addition of water to prevent waste fuel ignition, which creates tons and tons of new radioactive water which will end up in the Pacific Ocean. The more I think about it, the more I believe that this huge mangled beast will never be tamed. This mess is going its own way no matter what the authorities say. 

IDIOT, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.

Protesters in the UK are complaining about the Prince Charles' guest list for the upcoming nuptials of his son. They are upset that some of the royal attendees include various princes and kings from countries mostly in the Middle East and dictators from Commonwealth nations which are not quite up to their standards in granting civil rights to their people. 

Don't these people understand that their Royals created those Royals and dictators? 

From bad comes bad. 

Protest the fact that you have your Own Parasitical Royals, not the fact that they tend to hang out with their spiritual offspring. 

ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.

The Huffington Post presents to us a handy interactive map that shows the location of nuclear plants around the world. It makes it easy to check how close you live to a death dealing device from Hell and how old and dangerous it is. They try to suggest that "legal costs" helped prevent plants being built since Chernobyl, which is relatively insignificant in a totally subsidized industry.  Ignore the BS about how much greenhouse gas has been prevented by these plants. That is pure propaganda from the nuclear industry akin to telling someone he  has fortunately avoided further leg injuries since having that double amputation.

MEDAL, n. A small metal disk given as a reward for virtues, attainments or services more or less authentic. It is related of Bismark, who had been awarded a medal for gallantly rescuing a drowning person, that, being asked the meaning of the medal, he replied: "I save lives sometimes." And sometimes he didn't.

TEPCO released a vague, poorly labeled and confusing radiation map of Fukushima Daiichi on April 23. 

OMEN, n. A sign that something will happen if nothing happens.

The India Express quotes the determined Srikumar Banerjee, chairman, Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) who says there is "no substitute" for nuclear energy and that the country is going forward with the Jaitapur project: 

“Around 40 per cent of the country’s population does not have access to electricity. If providing power to those deprived of it is important for growth, then there is no substitute to nuclear energy. Coal, for instance, won’t last forever. Also, if we consider coal as the option to produce energy, then we would be increasing the carbon dioxide emission by 50 per cent, which, on the backdrop of depleting environmental conditions is not feasible. Nuclear energy is thus sustainable energy, not for decades but for centuries. Also the volume of nuclear waste is very small.” 

Of course, they are doing it for the people. 

ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.

Yesterday Emperor Akihito ate fish caught at the town of Kitaibaraki forty miles from the Fukushima Daiichi plant. "I felt calm when I saw His Majesty's face. Tear came to my eyes." said a 74 year old survivor at a shelter he was visiting yesterday. 

OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe in which so many pious naturalists have seen a conspicuous evidence of design. The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly.

Young Mr. Crowley

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With Verbal Punctuation 
From the "Wickedest Man In the World" 
Aleister Crowley 1875 - 1947

"It is impossible to lay down precise rules by which a man may attain to the knowledge and conversation of His Holy Guardian Angel; for that is the particular secret of each one of us; a secret not to be told or even divined by any other, whatever his grade. It is the Holy of Holies, whereof each man is his own High Priest, and none knoweth the Name of his brother's God, or the Rite that invokes Him."
Book 4, One Star in Sight

Hidden, hidden, hidden away in a small little story today in the Daily Yomiuri Online  we find the information that radiation from plant 1 alone is leaking into the atmosphere at 154 terabecquerels per day. Previously, on April 5,  authorities from the Japanese Nuclear Safety Commission had assured the world that radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi complex was "less than 1 terabecquerel per hour."  Our imagination flies to the stars meditating on the nature of the occult knowledge the nuclear priests are guarding from the eyes of the uninitiated. 
Garnered from Japanese blogger EX-SKF via Natural News. 

"The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach." 

Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan is under pressure to step down after his Japan Democratic Party suffered defeats in local elections Sunday. A new puppet may be pulled out of the trunk but the Wizards behind the curtain will continue to pull the strings. 

“‘All in this kind are but shadows’ says Shakespeare, referring to actors. The Universe is a Puppet-Play for the amusement of Nuit and Hadit in their Nuptials; a very Midsummer Night’s Dream. So then we laugh at the mock woes of Pyramus and Thisbe, the clumsy gambols of Bottom; for we understand the Truth of Things, how all is a Dance of Ecstasy.”
-Commentary to the Book of the Law, II:9

High resolution photographs reveal in all its splendour the nuclear plant complex at Fukushima Daiichi. Blogger Lucas Whitfield Hixson walks us through the photographic evidence which reveals the extremely dangerous nature of the damage at the MOX fueled reactor at plant 3. He deduces that the top of the reactor and the containment vessel itself was blown off by the hydrogen explosion that occurred within the reactor itself, releasing plutonium and spent fuel into the atmosphere. 

"The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing."

The fishing industry in Japan may have been dealt a fatal blow by the tsunami and its related issues reports the San Francisco chronicle:
"Thirty years ago we used to think Japan was the number one fishing country in the world, with the best catching and processing methods, but that's really no longer the case," Ryosuke Sato, chairman of the Kesennuma Fisheries Cooperative Association, said in an interview in the town, 400 kilometers (250 miles) north of Tokyo. "We've been in terminal decline."


"Every serious or spiritual thought is made a jest; poets are thought "soft" and "cowardly," apparently because they are the only boys with a will of their own and courage to hold out against the whole school, boys and masters in league as once were Pilate and Herod; honour is replaced by expediency, holiness by hypocrisy. Even where we find thoroughly good seed sprouting in favourable ground, too often is there a frittering away of the forces. Facile encouragement of a poet or painter is far worse for him than any amount of opposition."

- Energized Enthusiasm


The market for silver has taken off. The $1500 per ounce price of gold is at an all-time high in our magick fiat dollars, yet many have just realized that the price of silver related to the price of gold is at a historical low, despite the fact that at $44 an ounce, silver is also at an all time high. This reveals about a 34:1 gold to silver price ratio. Over the centuries this ratio has coursed around 14:1. This fact alone tells us that silver has a long way to go before it reaches its natural value. (The cynic might say that gold has a long way to fall.) Silver is more important industrially than gold in our day and it is required for many of our electronic toys, your high definition TV and cell phone being two of them.
Silver has also been the precious metal whose value has been repressed for a hundred and fifty years by the teeter-tottering modern banking system headquartered in the City of London.
$100 an ounce silver is a very reasonable expectation.
Some are predicting much higher prices. 

There, in that sanctuary of silences,

There is a Word,

The Word that built the city, never heard

By any of those archangel phalanxes,

Unuttered even in the holy heart

Of God, or breathed by its own lightning breath,

Since from all being it stands ever apart,

Its name being Life, and that name's echo Death.

 The City of God

We find out that University at Buffalo physicist Dejan Stojkovic and his colleagues proposed in 2010  that the early universe had one dimension and acquired more as the universe developed and expanded until it reached the three dimensional nature we are familiar with today. The Universe may assume a four dimensional nature in an expanded future. 

"Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty."

Authorities in Malaysia are sending boys with feminine mannerisms to a boot camp designed to train them in proper masculine behaviour reports OnIslam.net

"This is a character-building program,” Daud was quoted by The New Straits Times as saying.
“We hope the students will emerge stronger, physically and mentally, after attending the camp.
The minister said that the camp is the first of many series in the program.
“The first batch is made up of boys, aged between 13 and 17, who happen to display some feminine characteristics."
Daud said the camp does not aim to change the students' sexual preferences and has nothing to do with anti-gay sentiments.
"These boys were without many friends before but chances are, after the camp, they will be much stronger and emerge with a higher level of self-confidence." The minister denied that the camp was a military-style, adding that students only march in unison every morning.
"But the rest of the day would be filled with activities such as jungle trekking, paintball, aerobic workouts and several other fun activities," [State education department director Razali] Daud said.
The program also includes religious lectures, visits to local mosques and interaction with local residents.
"They would be divided into groups and each group would be assigned tasks, including hoisting the national flag and reciting the Rukun Negara (a national ideology which is supportive of religion),” the minister said.


 This is a heartwarming tale. The boys will make friends for life at this camp. 

SWEET, sweet are May and June, dear,
        The loves of lambent spring,
      Our lamp the drooping moon, dear,
        Our roof, the stars that sing;
      The bed, of moss and roses;
        The night, as long as death!
        Still, breath!
      Life wakens and reposes,
        Love ever quickeneth!

Sweet, sweet, when Lion and Maiden,
        The motley months of gold,
      Swoop down with sunlight laden,
        And eyes are bright and bold.
      Life-swelling breasts uncover
        Their warm involving deep --
        Love, sleep! --
      And love lies with lover
        On air's substantial steep.  

  Venus, TANNHAUSER

"Lam" 1918, portrait by Aleister Crowley of the extra-dimensional entity he invoked, used as the frontispiece to his commentary on Blavatsky's, The Voice of the Silence, with this description: "LAM is the Tibetan word for Way or Path, and LAMA is He who Goeth, the specific title of the Gods of Egypt, the Treader of the Path, in Buddhistic phraseology. Its numerical value is 71, the number of this book."