Quote Aliceinwonderland:(if Palindromedary will excuse that expression! tsk...)

"trueamericavet"- thank you.

Palindromedary ~ Thanks! Very good stuff. Here is another 4 part documentary about Nikola Tesla where they actually mention the Methernitha Testatika machine. I'm not sure how I feel about this technology unless I have the opportunity to pour a whole lot of time and energy into. However, I do feel strongly that it is worth exploring. There is no better way fighting our way out of the current tyranny we find ourselves pitted against then to destroy the bonds that they use to restrain us. I firmly believe that the the best and most likely way to do that is through the development of an energy source that is under the total control of the consumer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phqL4A7tgsY

Quote Palindromedary:Does healthcare really have to cost so much here in the US when it is so much more inexpensive everywhere else?

Palindromedary ~ Absolutely not! And thanks for asking that simple, and oh so important question. When a society properly focuses its resources toward an objective--such as the good health of it's citizenry--economic and effective ways are quickly secured for the good of all. The world is full of such examples. There is no excuse for health care--or education for that matter--to be so mind bogglingly expensive and difficult to obtain. Was education or health care that expensive in this country when we were children? Of course not. Hospital bills and tuition may have been high, but they were easily affordable by most people; and, no one ever had to go into debt to pay them. Has the quality of these services increased so much as to warrant such an increase in cost? Absolutely not! In fact, the quality of both has declined significantly over the years. Technology may have improved significantly; yet, if it doesn't increase quality and reduce cost it is a non factor. The truth of the matter is that the skyrocketing cost of both healthcare and education is only a result of monopolization and exploitation. The end goal is to dumb down the masses and increase the instance of early death in the poor. There is no other logical conclusion to explain the trend when compared with our own history and the current state of affairs in the rest of the world. The elitist in this country want an ignorant and exploitable labor force that self terminates shortly after--or just before--their useful years of servitude are over. They want helpless and disposable slaves. The death camp scenario of Loren Bliss is a very accurate assessment.

AIW, I agree with your comments regarding repub motivations. However, my point was that the repubs say the social security trust fund is worthless because it consists of treasury certificates and at the same time they demand a poison pill, post office retirement trust fund which will also consist of treasury certificates having value in some mysterious way which they fail to indicate. Their intent to eventually privatize these functions for their own profit is obvious but we would do well to point out that their views of the two trust fund accounts are polar opposites (i.e.) one worthless and the other a dire necessity. My use of 'Responsible' was ironic, therefore the capitalization.

Quote Aliceinwonderland:they're not teaching kids how to write in longhand (i.e. "cursive") anymore. Everything is being done on keyboards now, and the decision-makers assume it isn't needed. So now we've got generations who can't read or write "cursive".

http://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2013/12/we-cant-let-congress-fast-track...

Perhaps there is method to this madness...hand written letters cannot be so easily spied on as typing things into a computer or mobile device. For one thing, they'd have to open the letters and then have analysts read them then seal them back up and send them to their intended recipient.

CAPCHA is an example of how they can roughly determine whether a human or a computer is there. And most of the time they use print rather than use cursive..although they usually deform and displace the characters from what most computers would be able to interpret as valid characters. I think variations in cursive..ie: handwriting styles...would be even harder for a computer to interpret.

When I worked in the Pentagon back in the 70s, they had OCRs (optical character readers). At the time, it was rather large and operators would scan documents and whenever an unrecognized character was detected by the computer the operator would see that page and highlighted character on the monitor. She/he would have to analyze what the character should have been and then type it in to correct the document.

So, if nobody is able to write anymore in cursive..they have to print or type. Some people may not print so clearly but I think most people's printing is a lot easier to interpret than most cursive writing. Even though they may now have the ability to interpret most cursive writing, it is most likely not very reliable or readily spied on.

I appreciate your perspective, PD. But it distresses me to see the English language mutilated like this. So now it's "fashionable" to be only semi-literate? Ye gods... Another concern of mine is that they're not teaching kids how to write in longhand (i.e. "cursive") anymore. Everything is being done on keyboards now, and the decision-makers assume it isn't needed. So now we've got generations who can't read or write "cursive".

What's happening to our culture? Are computers & technology robbing us of our heritage?! I don't know about you, but I find this disturbing. - AIW

Loren ~ That being said, I've read you analysis of current events several times and must say it appears to be terrifyingly accurate and eloquently explicative of everything that is currently going on. In all, it is an airtight analysis.

The shear emboldening of the establishment toward fascist agendas is clearly explained by:

Quote Loren Bliss:Meanwhile the death of the Soviet Union cleared the way for the unapologetic imposition of fascism. This is the logical extension of capitalism's core ethos of infinite greed elevated to maximum virtue -- the rejection of every humanitarian principle humans have ever sought to assert.

Though the U.S.S.R. was never the worker's paradise it claimed to be, its mere existence compelled the capitalists to cloak their innate savagery with concessions to humanitarian demands. Now, with the Soviet Union gone and China hopelessly co-opted by capitalism, there is no force on earth capable of resisting capitalism's maturity into overt fascism.

You then go on to explain why in the grip of utter darkness flashes of light occur that tend to misdirect and confuse us. Palindromedary and myself have questioned these "impotent" gestures to death. They make little sense from neither the standpoint of the current agenda or their ability to succeed and cause any real change. One must even ask themselves what chance the ACA has of staying law if a subsequent Administration decides to abolish it? The mere fact that all the current budget agreements do nothing to stay the possibility of another debt ceiling crisis in two months clearly demonstrate what a colossal waste of time this charade really is. The only potentially logical explanation I have heard yet has been given by you:

Quote Loren Bliss:In this context, the United States with its global empire and its intent to conquer the rest of the world has become the de facto Fourth Reich. Its foreign and domestic policy is shaped accordingly.

Meanwhile the emergence of domestic resistance movements has forced the One Percenters to slow their efforts to turn the U.S. into an electronic concentration camp. The sudden charade of a small degree of political rationality in the capitol is one of the results.

But this sudden appearance of civility is nothing more than a deception intended to give the Ruling Class time to perfect its methods of oppression. The long-term goal is creation of a concentration-camp state that is so effective it does not need the obvious Gestapo-and-death-camp apparatus that characterized the Third Reich.

If correct I might add that our only course of action would be to keep up the heat. Here complacently is an action that is truly futile. We must not allow these deceptions to succeed.

Quote DAnneMarc:You doubt the power of sound waves? Even a small unamplified voice can trigger an avalanche.

Of course, now, with high powered electrical devices that can crank out many decibels of sound they have the capability of doing some pretty wild things...none of which, however, is the ability to levitate 1 ton rocks. They might be able to shatter them with those high tech weapons. But, as I said before, thousands of Egyptians all singing some note just would not do much of anything at all except give everyone a great big headache.

The claims made in the video are typical of those who attempt to use the lingo of pseudo-science to make their nonsense sound legitimate.

And yes, I've certainly heard about HAARP and the claims by some that they are making holes in the atmosphere, trying to control the weather, by using microwaves. Of course, microwaves are not sound waves and so that is almost like comparing apples and oranges. Sound waves are variations in compressive and decompressive forces on the air molecules and are not electromagnetic as are microwaves. And again, it is modern-day high-tech and high-power stuff that the ancients did not have.

Quote DAnneMarc:The notion that sound waves can nullify gravity by destructive interference is a notion that I neither believe or disbelieve. It is intriguing enough that I will have to see it tested to determine what I believe either way.

Quote DAnneMarc:The most fascinating items mentioned in the movie are about the engineering marvels of the MYT engine, the PAPP engine, and the Methernitha motor. I know that the internet is full of free energy BS. Yet whenever an idea looks plausible I investigate. As you saw yourself Palindromedary, the MYT engine exists. Oddly, so does the PAPP engine.

Yes, I agree that this is pretty fascinating..I hope it doesn't turn out to be a fake. And I have read things about Zero Point Energy and Dark Energy some year ago.

Here's an interesting video where Hutchinson levitates many varied objects including a 60 pound canon ball. At first, I had wondered if he was using a hidden magnet and used some kind of ferrous material impregnated into what appeared to be non-ferrous materials like plastic cups, etc. I did a magic trick once using a wooden chop stick where I drilled a hole and inserted a nail. Then used a ver powerful magnet under the table and made the chop stick move around "mysteriously". James Randi, eat your heart out! ;-}

One creepy scene, in the video, was when the ice cream, in a plastic cup, slowly rises into the air and then the whole plastic cup shoots up into the air. Hmmm! I wonder how they did that? Very spooky!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO-1l0lXR_U

By the way, there is an interesting youtube video of one of Jame Randi's TV shows where he "debunks" (he doesn't like the word "debunk") this "scientist" inventor's little black box that he claimed he could detect telepathic brain waves to a man on the stage from his wife sitting in the audience. The box would send out a higher pitched and louder squeal after Randi gave the signal with his hand for the woman to begin sending telepathic thoughts to her husband sitting in the chair next to the box. It seemed to work just fine..squealing away with increased pitch and amplitude. So then Randi asked the man in the chair to turn his chair around and face away from the audience and that he would give the woman the signal with his hand to begin sending telepathic thoughts. Well, the box began to squeal as before but the only problem was that Randi never did signal with his hand for the woman to start sending thoughts. Randi asked the inventor if he would consent to someone else to analyze what was in the box and the embarrassed inventor quipped "certainly not!". Randi made yet another one of the charlatans bite the dust.
Couldn't find that one..but here's another..Randi "debunking" a person claiming he has psychic powers of telekinesis.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlfMsZwr8rc

Palin, the misspellings and grammatical errors haven't escaped my eye. I've censored myself from commenting on it, for very personal reasons. I don't want to be like my mom, the English major, who liked to nitpick on my grammar. But don't worry, this isn't meant as a criticism of you! My problem, not yours. - AIW

DAnneMarc: I certainly didn't take it as an insult (that you corrected me on the soul/sole misusage). I welcome it. I see it as a way of improving myself. It's just that I am constantly seeing so many other people constantly misusing words and misspelling them all of the time... spelling checkers don't catch word misusage like "there" for "their". In fact, sometimes spelling checkers indicate that some words like "misusage" are misspelled when they really are not. Type it into Google search and you will see.

As Aliceinwonderland has said: she has a problem with acronyms. I guess I have a problem with seeing a word like "there" when it should have been "their"; or "then" when it should have been "than". They really do stand out. I hope my criticisms are taken not as any form other than a friendly suggestion. We all make mistakes occasionally but when those mistakes are constantly repeated, then it cannot be merely a case of hasty composition or slip of the fingers.

As Mr. Hartmann implies, the revision of the national domestic policy debate from humanitarianism to austerity is perhaps the greatest and most democracy-killing triumph the forces of capitalism have imposed on the United States.

Prior to President Nixon's declaration of war on the Working Class, domestic politics focused on expansion of programs like the President Roosevelt's New Deal, President Kennedy's New Frontier and President Johnson's War on Poverty.

But Nixon, in a 1974 post-inaugural interview by William Randoph Hearst Jr., damned U.S. workers as spoiled brats. Henceforth, he said, all federal policies would be aimed at imposing ever-worsening hardships on all those we would today identify as members of the 99 Percent.

Though the interview appeared on Page One of every Hearst newspaper, it has since vanished down the Orwell hole. The purging of the material was so complete it is no longer available even in public-library microfiche archives.

After that, the shift from humanitarianism to austerity was a primary part of both parties' hidden agendas. But it was Democrat Jimmy Carter who initiated the first welfare cutbacks and so began the actual imposition of austerity. Since then, every president -- Republican and Democrat alike -- has fostered the increasing brutality of the U.S. economy.

From the perspective of the Ruling Class, this ensures what is called a "disciplined workforce" -- that is, a workforce too terrified of economic disaster to resist capitalist oppression.This -- workers' abject fears of the consequences of resistance -- is the real reason the USian union movement is dead.

Meanwhile the death of the Soviet Union cleared the way for the unapologetic imposition of fascism. This is the logical extension of capitalism's core ethos of infinite greed elevated to maximum virtue -- the rejection of every humanitarian principle humans have ever sought to assert.

Though the U.S.S.R. was never the worker's paradise it claimed to be, its mere existence compelled the capitalists to cloak their innate savagery with concessions to humanitarian demands. Now, with the Soviet Union gone and China hopelessly co-opted by capitalism, there is no force on earth capable of resisting capitalism's maturity into overt fascism.

In this context, the United States with its global empire and its intent to conquer the rest of the world has become the de facto Fourth Reich. Its foreign and domestic policy is shaped accordingly.

Meanwhile the emergence of domestic resistance movements has forced the One Percenters to slow their efforts to turn the U.S. into an electronic concentration camp. The sudden charade of a small degree of political rationality in the capitol is one of the results.

But this sudden appearance of civility is nothing more than a deception intended to give the Ruling Class time to perfect its methods of oppression. The long-term goal is creation of a concentration-camp state that is so effective it does not need the obvious Gestapo-and-death-camp apparatus that characterized the Third Reich.