+ Kan inte minnas om jag tipsat om Michael Muhammad Knights intervju med Peter Lamborn Wilson / Hakim Bey förut, men det må väl vara hänt i så fall. Kolla också in den här artikeln av samma författare: Bleeding for the Imam: Heartbreak and Catharsis in Muharram. Fina grejer.

+ Citat i repris: "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." -- Goro Adachi.

+ The footprints of one of the most fearsome creatures ever found in the British Isles — a water scorpion the length of a person — have been discovered in Scotland. Tracks in rock on the east coast of Scotland were created 330 million years ago by the six-legged Hibbertopterus, which was 1.6m (5ft 3in) long and 1m (3ft 3in) wide. (!!!)

+ Alarm over dramatic weakening of Gulf Stream. The powerful ocean current that bathes Britain and northern Europe in warm waters from the tropics has weakened dramatically in recent years, a consequence of global warming that could trigger more severe winters and cooler summers across the region, scientists warn today.

+ Toy soldiers. Games have always prepared young people for war but, asks Pat Kane, should we be concerned about the increasingly explicit links between digital gaming and the military?

+ Man oh man, kolla in Tim Bouchers nya inlägg: Overstanding Nuwaubianism. Fan nu faller ju pusselbitarna på plats vad gäller Lost Children of Babylon, som jag tycker är en rätt fresh grupp. Ja ya ja ya. Massor av mer information finns på Wikipedia. Det här var typ det märkligaste jag hört på länge.

+ Islam in the Mix: Lessons of the Five Percent.

+ The Idolatry That Has Sneaked Into Islam.

+ The device, called the Mosquito ("It's small and annoying," Stapleton said), emits a high-frequency pulsing sound that, he said, can be heard by most people younger than 20 and almost no one older than 30. The sound is designed to so irritate young people that after several minutes, they cannot stand it and go away.

+ Nu har Alex Jones lagt upp videon på amerikaner som är ute och skjuter på olika bilar som kör förbi: The 'Trophy Video': Bloodthirsty Contractors Randomly Shoot Iraqi Drivers Dead. Rätt ironiskt är att jag igår såg ett BBC-program om Al-Qaida, där reportern ställde en muslimsk webmaster mot väggen för att hans sajt visade avrättningar av soldater och "contractors" (kan inte komma på vad det svenska ordet är). Reportern försökte hävda att alla "contractors" var civila, vilket webmastern starkt motsatte sig. "De är ockupanter." "Nej, de är civila!" Här ser man väl vem av dem som var närmast sanningen.

+ Pentagon Black Ops: Abducting Peacemakers in Iraq. The Rev Alan Betteridge, from the Fellowship of Reconciliation, of which Mr. Kember is a member, said he was a ‘genuine peace activist’… Mr. Kember, who campaigned against the war in Iraq, was seized on Saturday from a mosque he was visiting in a Sunni area of western Baghdad with the three other hostages. It has been reported that they were talking to Muslim clerics about the abuse of Sunni detainees,” more than enough reason for Kember to be abducted by black op “insurgents” who ” just grabbed” the name Swords of Righteousness “out of the air, a tactic which goes back to Beirut,” according to the Guardian. It should be remembered that the Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena was also kidnapped as she prepared to interview survivors of Fallujah, now admitted to have been attacked with chemical weapons and a napalm derivative.

+ First two bitter wars in Chechnya. Then a savage massacre in Beslan. Now Russia's nightmare is coming true: an explosion of Islamic militancy across an entire region.

+ 12 Things that Science Can't Explain...But That Happen Anyway.

+ The two police marksmen who shot dead an innocent Brazilian in the belief that he was a suicide bomber will escape criminal charges for murder or manslaughter, sources close to the inquiry believe. Helt sjukt, men föga oväntat.

+ EU May Suspend Nations With Secret Prisons. Kommer nog knappast hända, men det är ett bra hot.

+ A "trophy" video appearing to show security guards in Baghdad randomly shooting Iraqi civilians has sparked two investigations after it was posted on the internet, the Sunday Telegraph can reveal. That's democracy, y'all!

+ Ny blog om Islam och dreadlocks (!): Islamicly Locked.

+ Kenneth Anger - A Second Meeting.

+ Har kriget mot Syrien börjat? Syria has accused the United States of launching lethal military raids into its territory from Iraq, escalating the diplomatic crisis between the two countries as the Bush administration seeks to step up pressure on President Bashar Assad's regime.

+ A former Canadian Minister of Defence and Deputy Prime Minister under Pierre Trudeau has joined forces with three Non-governmental organizations to ask the Parliament of Canada to hold public hearings on Exopolitics -- relations with “ETs.” Alltså kolla in den här artikeln! Helt mystisk!

+ A computer disc about the size of a DVD that can hold 60 times more data is set to go on sale in 2006.

+ Intressant intervju med den briljante Wise Intelligent från Poor Righteous Teachers hittar du här: Each One Teach One.

+ Fears for peace plan as Sharon rejects territorial concessions. Intet nytt under solen, alltså.

+ The US government has announced formal terrorism charges against Jose Padilla - more than three years after arresting the US citizen as an alleged would-be "dirty bomber".

+ Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has supported Coptic candidates in the parliamentary elections, the group's spokesman told IslamOnline.net, maintaining that the group views the Copts as partners of the homeland and enjoy as equal rights and duties as Egyptian Muslims. (...) "The Copts are our partners and enjoy as equal rights and duties as Muslims and have the right to run for parliamentary polls and ministerial and public posts."

+ Tim har knåpat ihop en mycket intressant post om drömmar. Läs den ---> Who Are the People In Your Dreams?

+ Science Daily: Mildly Depressed People More Perceptive Than Others.

+ Jeff på Rigorous Intuition har ett mycket läsvärt nytt inlägg om Lovecraft och Necronomicon.

+ President George Bush föreslog i april 2004 en bombräd mot det arabiska tv-bolaget al-Jaziras huvudkontor i Qatar. Men den brittiske premiärministern rådde honom att avstå. Planetens värsta hycklare månne?

+ Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood (MB) members claimed further gains Monday, November 21, in the second round of parliamentary polls, maintaining their record-breaking first phase momentum despite widespread voter intimidation and violence.

+ Deactivating a specific gene transforms meek mice into daredevils, researchers have found. The team believe the research might one day enable people suffering from fear – in the form of phobias or anxiety disorders, for example – to be clinically treated. Hm ja, eller för att ge till soldater så de blir mindre räddhågsna kanske. Militären brukar vara snabbare på att lägga händerna på sånt där än den civila läkemedelsindustrin.

+ The Mystery of the Green Menace. Intressant artikel om Absinth.

+ Jaha, nu kommer straffet för att Muslimska brödraskapets kandidater gjorde succé i valet i Egypten.. Närmare 200 anhängare till Muslimska brödraskapet greps av polisen i Egypten innan vallokalerna öppnade på söndagsmorgonen för andra omgången av parlamentsvalet.

+ The Dirty War: Torture and mutilation used on Iraqi 'insurgents'. Skrämmande artikel från The Guardian om demokrati,The American Way.

+ A crucial UN summit on expanding net access around the world has ended in Tunis marred by controversy over censorship and who runs the internet. En intressant grej döljer sig i slutet av artikeln, som jag hoppas leder till att U-länderna och fattiga människor över planeten kommer till internet: Highlights included the unveiling of a working prototype of the sub-$100 laptop, the tool of the One Laptop Per Child campaign spearheaded by MIT director Nicholas Negroponte. The "green machines" are powered with a wind-up crank, have very low power consumption and are designed to help children all over the world interact with each other while learning.

+ The UN has formally rejected a US invitation to visit the Guantanamo prison camp, saying it cannot accept the restrictions imposed by Washington. I gammal Sovjetstil: UN human rights experts said the US had refused to grant them the right to speak to detainees in private.

+ The revisionist British historian David Irving is likely to remain in custody in Austria for at least a week, prosecutors say. Jag tänker inte komma dragandes med dammiga Voltaire-citat, men det är helt sinnessjukt att man i dagens "demokratiska" EU kan bli inlåst för att man framför en radikalt annorlunda syn på historien.

+ Butterfly wings work like LEDs. When scientists developed an efficient device for emitting light, they hadn't realised butterflies have been using the same method for 30 million years. Fluorescent patches on the wings of African swallowtail butterflies work in a very similar way to high emission light emitting diodes (LEDs). (!!!)¨

+ Arab football star may join Israel's most racist club.

+ "The planet’s most serious danger is the government of the United States. The people of the United States are being governed by a killer, a genocidal murderer and a madman," Chávez said at a meeting of Venezuelan and Brazilian business executives in Caracas, reports Forbes.

+ Briljant ny post om Amman-bomberna av Kurt Nimmo. Check it! Intel Op al-Zarqawi Voice Talent Issues Correction.

+ Scientists may have found a gene for fear -- a gene that controls production of a protein in the region of the brain linked with fearful responses. Åhå! Hur länge ska vi chansa att det tar innan det blir en mäkta kraftfull gatudrog av det där? Eller kanske CIA-drog..

+ A new walk-through airport lie detector made in Israel may prove to be the toughest challenge yet for potential hijackers or drug smugglers.

+ US Vice-President Dick Cheney has said that the US must be prepared to fight the war on terror for decades.

+ Unreality TV: The final frontier. It all began five years ago when 10 volunteers moved into a custom-built house cut off from the rest of the world to live under the ever-constant gaze of hidden television cameras.

Big Brother was an instant hit, and its success marked the birth of modern reality television, spawning countless imitators all eager to cash in on the format.

Now, the genre is about to cross the final frontier. Channel 4 is attempting to pull off the biggest hoax in television history: convincing nine contestants that they have travelled into space.

+ Var och såg på nya filmen Lord of War häromkvällen. Förvånansvärt stark och politisk skildring av världens "illegala" vapenhandel, men också spelet bakom kulisserna. Rekommenderas varmt.

+ On the line: the internet's future. Over the next three days a United Nations summit, in the unlikely setting of Tunisia, will attempt to thrash out the future of the internet. More than 40 world leaders, including Kofi Annan, the UN secretary general, are set to attend, and the ownership of the World Wide Web itself is at stake. What the delegates won't discuss is the creeping spectre of censorship.

+ An Israeli army captain has been acquitted of all charges arising from the killing of a 13-year-old girl who was repeatedly shot by troops in southern Gaza in October last year. Varför är jag inte det minsta förvånad?

Från The Guardian: An Israeli army officer who fired the entire magazine of his automatic rifle into a 13-year-old Palestinian girl and then said he would have done the same even if she had been three years old was acquitted on all charges by a military court yesterday.

+ 5 Marines Killed as U.S. Pushes Sweep in Western Iraq. Gud vare prisad!

+ Nu börjar ännu fler konstigheter kring Amman-bomberna läcka ut. Se vad Xymphora och Kurt Nimmo har att säga om saken. "The lights at the wedding hall went off seconds, maybe just one second, before the blast, although there was electricity outside the room in the corridor, the nearby lobby area and the reception," Fadi al-Kessi told The AP. "For some reason, I looked to my right in the darkness and saw what looked liked lightening, then there was a loud boom. It felt like the explosion came from the ceiling, then people started running out," notes the AP.

+ Fuel's paradise? Power source that turns physics on its head. t seems too good to be true: a new source of near-limitless power that costs virtually nothing, uses tiny amounts of water as its fuel and produces next to no waste. If that does not sound radical enough, how about this: the principle behind the source turns modern physics on its head.

+ Meditation builds up the brain. Meditating does more than just feel good and calm you down, it makes you perform better – and alters the structure of your brain, researchers have found.

+ Dozens of UFOs that the Ministry of Defence cannot explain have been sighted in Wales in the past three years, the release of confidential papers has revealed.

+ The "Ötzi curse" legend has been strengthened with the death of the seventh person to come into contact with the world's oldest and best-preserved mummy.

+ Globala väderdata från september och oktober tyder på att 2005 kan bli ett rekordvarmt år. Den genomsnittliga globala tempraturen, inräknat över både land och vatten, var under september i år 0,63 grader över genomsnittet för perioden 1880-2004, och den varmaste septembermånaden sedan 1880.

+ Kolla bilden från ett av hotellen i Amman här. Alltså, den ursprungliga rapporten sa att bomben hade gömts i taket, vilket sedan dementerades till förmån för en historia om irakiska al qaida-självmordsbombare. Jag är ingen sprängämnesexpert, men måste säga att med tanke på hur skadat taket är ser onekligen den första versionen mer trolig ut. Ett självmordsbombarbälte är ju designat för att spränga utåt från självmordsbombarens midja/bröst och inte uppåt. Hm hm hm.

Se vad Xymphora och Kurt Nimmo har att säga:

• The Jordan river of lies.
  
• Iraqi Patsy Confesses on TV.

+ Moustaffa Akkad som producerade den fina filmen The Message - The Story of Islam blev visst sprängd i bitar i Amman-dådet. :´(

+ The Universe is Only Pretending, Physicist Says. Like a Hologram, the Universe Merely Appears to Have Three Spatial Dimensions, Scientists Infer.

+ Shard of pottery supports Bible account of David and Goliath.

+ Kurt Nimmo har knåpat ihop en fin sammanfattande artikel om bomben i Jordanien: Amman Bombings: Corporate Media Revises Script.

+ IDF choppers in service of drug cartel. American officials demand Israel provide explanations for how U.S.-made choppers sold to Israel ended up in service of Columbian drug cartel.

+ Muslim Brotherhood Second in Egypt's Polls. Alhamdulillah!

+ Peyote Won't Rot Your Brain.

+ Jaha, så har "Al-Qaida" varit framme igen. När jag läste om attacken i Jordanien i morse hamnade jag på den israeliska tidningen Haaretz hemsida, där det stod att samtliga israeliska gäster på hotellet hade evakuerats timmarna innan och flygits tillbaka till Israel efter ett trovärdigt hot. När jag kommer hem från jobbet har plötsligt den sidan bytts ut mot en sida som påstår raka motsatsen: No truth to report of Israeli evacuations before Amman bombs. Precis samma sak uppmärksammade jag och tusentals andra då Londonbomberna smällde av. Direkt efteråt skrev tidningarna att Benjamin Netanyahu fått ett tips timmarna innan och evakuerats från London, där han av en händelse befunnit sig. Lite senare samma dag dementerades historien och Netanyahu hade visst inte alls fått någon varning.

Här har Al-Jazeera lite information om Jordanien-historien: Amman hotel evacuation report denied.

+ Och apropå det, så vet verkligen de däringa terroristerna att när de ska spränga sina bomber. Londonbomberna kom påpassligt nog när hela världen hade ögonen på G8 och Tony Blair och hans kompisar. Et voila, och alla glömde visst bort att G8 i vanlig ordning inte uträttade ett skit för världens fattiga. Och nu kom Jordanienbomberna lämpligt nog när mainstream-pressen äntligen började vakna upp till att USA faktiskt använder kemiska stridsmedel för att slakta irakier. Blam blam, så försvann den storyn till förmån för ännu en AL QAIDA AL QAIDA AL QAIDA-historia.

+ Jihad Unspun kastar in handduken. :|

+ The Independent: What cocaine says about you. If four million people in England and Wales between 16 and 59 admit to taking a Class A drug and 11 million to taking any illegal drug (which, by the way, may be more people from that demographic than the number who smoke tobacco, go to football matches or to church put together), it means that many fewer people are going to jump in fright when the government or the tabloids go "boo" at them.

+ Dagens Kurt Nimmo:

France Riots: Go Blame al-Qaeda.

Zarqawi Black Op Hits Amman. Amos N. Guiora, a former senior Israeli counter-terrorism official, said in a phone interview with The Times that sources in Israel had also told him about the pre-attack evacuations…. "‘It means there was excellent intelligence that this thing was going to happen," said Guiora, a former leader of the Israel Defense Forces who now heads the Institute for Global Security Law and Policy at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. "The question that needs to be answered is why weren’t the Jordanians working at the hotel similarly removed?’"

+ How Convenient: Bali Bomb Suspect Explodes. Does anybody see a pattern here...?

+ Goro Adachi har snickrat ihop en ny riktigt märklig och fascinerande post här.

+ The Independent: US forces used chemical weapons during assault on city of Fallujah. Powerful new evidence emerged yesterday that the United States dropped massive quantities of white phosphorus on the Iraqi city of Fallujah during the attack on the city in November 2004, killing insurgents and civilians with the appalling burns that are the signature of this weapon.

+ Why is France Burning? The rebellion of a lost generation.

+ A man beaten into a coma by rampaging youths has died of his injuries, French authorities revealed today, as it emerged that urban unrest spread to over 270 towns last night. (!!!)

+ How did Al Qaeda operatives escape Afghan jail? The escape of four Al Qaeda operatives earlier this month from a U.S.-run Afghan jail created confusion and suspicion among the world leaders- How were the escapees, dressed in orange jumpsuit, able to break out of the top-security detention center in Afghan's Bagram air base near Kabul? How did they manage to cut across the giant military base with some 12,000 U.S. soldiers?

+ Fantastic Planet har en intressant post om apokalypsen och anti-krist: The Slippery Slope of Apocalypse.

+ SVD har en intressantintervju med Abdel-Monem Abul-Fattou, talesman för Muslimska brödraskapet.

+ Via WRH: Palestinian boy shot by IDF dies. Let me see if I have this right. The Israelis shoot a 12 year old boy in the head because he is playing with a toy rifle. The IDF refuses to allow the father to see his son in the hospital while he is still alive, then after he is dead, the Israelis ask if the parents will donate the boy's organs to save Israeli lives. That about it?

+ Via Malung TV News: I became a girl to foil a micropenis nazi.

+ Study: Religious use of peyote not harmful to American Indians. After five years of research, Halpern and other McLean researchers did not find any evidence of brain damage or psychological problems in church members who frequently use peyote, which contains the hallucinogen mescaline. In fact, they found that members of the Native American Church performed better on some of the neuropsychological tests than other Navajos who do not regularly use peyote.

Test av ny grej:

+ Bang! Bang! You're Deaf!

One night last week in Israel thousands of panic-stricken citizens leapt from their beds, so alarmed by a noise which shook the skies "like heavy bombardment" that the Tel Aviv and central district police switchboards crashed, overloaded by worried callers.

The military had to apologize for disturbing the sleep of Israeli citizens. The sound had not been intended for their ears. It had somehow escaped from a series of confined sonic booms being inflicted on Palestinian citizens in the Gaza Strip hundreds of kilometers away. So if they thought the bang was loud in Tel Aviv, you can imagine the sound in Gaza, where shockwaves have also cracked walls and smashed thousands of windows.

In Israel they heard but one bang, muffled in comparison to the dozens of earsplitting"sound bombs" created by Israeli air force jets breaking the sound barrier at low altitude over the Gaza Strip. Only this week there have been 28 sonic booms, sometimes as little as an hour apart through the night. During five days in late September, the air force caused 29.

Palestinians describe the sound as an earthquake or huge bomb. They liken the effect to being hit by a wall of air that is painful on the ears, sometimes causing nosebleeds and "leaving you shaking inside".

Men att göra detta mot en civilbefolkning är ju naturligtvis inte terrorism, och FN sitter lugnt och håller käften.

+ Washington Losing War on Terror: US Experts.

+ Peak Fascism. Rigorous Intuition reder ut sambanden mellan fascism och oljekris och primitivism och Shambala och Alexander Dugin. Obligatorisk läsning.

+ "When modern science began about three hundred years ago, one of the consequences of separating mind and matter was that science slowly lost its mind." ~ Dean Radin

+ A documentary seven years in the making tying Bill Clinton to an Arkansas prison blood scandal that spread AIDS to thousands around the world is set to screen in Hollywood next week – renewing controversy about the long-forgotten story.

The film, which premieres at the prestigious American Film Institute film festival next Tuesday, reportedly uncovers fresh evidence about how thousands in Europe contracted AIDS and hepatitis through tainted blood deliberately shipped even after widespread problems were discovered in Canada where some 10,000 had already been infected.

"Factor 8: The Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal," made by Kelly Duda, an Arkansas native, will reveal new details about how inmates at an Arkansas jail were paid to donate blood despite authorities knowing they had AIDS and hepatitis.

The documentary shows how senior figures in the state prison system altered prisoners' medical records to make it look like they were not carrying the deadly diseases.

+ Via Cryptogon: The CIA has been hiding and interrogating some of its most important al Qaeda captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe, according to U.S. and foreign officials familiar with the arrangement.

+ Denver voters OK marijuana possession.

+ "I don't own a single share of stock!" filmmaker Michael Moore proudly proclaimed. He's right. He doesn't own a single share. He owns tens of thousands of shares – including nearly 2,000 shares of Boeing, nearly 1,000 of Sonoco, more than 4,000 of Best Foods, more than 3,000 of Eli Lilly, more than 8,000 of Bank One and more than 2,000 of Halliburton, the company most vilified by Moore in "Fahrenheit 9/11."

+ Via Daily Grail, ny bild från NASA på "ansiktet på Mars."

+ Mechanism of 'blindsight' explored.

Blindsight is a phenomenon in which people with a deactivated primary visual cortex -- an area of their brain essential for visual perception -- can still sense objects in their field of vision.

Using an electromagnetic brain stimulation technique, the researchers deactivated the primary visual cortex in 12 volunteers. An object on a screen -- such as a colored disk or a horizontal or vertical bar -- was then flashed in front of the temporarily blinded volunteers.

Although the volunteers reported no awareness of the objects' characteristics the majority of the time, they also guessed correctly at a level significantly higher than chance.

The results suggest the existence of a visual pathway that bypasses the primary visual cortex and can process some characteristics unconsciously, the scientists said.

+ The mystery of the eye. While watching NBC2 coverage of Hurricane Wilma about two dozen residents called the station reporting an unusual sighting. While watching a Doppler loop of Hurricane Wilma coming ashore, a number two appeared in the eye of the storm.

+ One of the (alleged) suicide bombers who (allegedly) attacked London on 7 July was filmed arguing with a cashier about being short-changed hours before he (allegedly) blew himself up. "Ge mig min penny, jag behöver den för att betala färjekarlen!"