The Placebo Effect - The Triumph of Mind over Body
One of the most commonly used terms in medical language is the word placebo. The placebo effect is used as a scale for evaluating the effectiveness of new drugs. But what exactly is the placebo effect and what are its consequences in the deterministic structure of Western medicine? The placebo effect has been frequently abused by health professionals to denote and stigmatise a fraud or fallacy.
Alternative therapies have often been characterised as merely placebos. But the placebo effect is not a fraudulent, useless or malevolent phenomenon. Continue
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Uranium Found on the Moon
2009 07 04
Uranium exists on the moon, according to new data from a Japanese spacecraft. The findings could help decide where to build future lunar colonies, since manned outposts will need energy, and could potentially derive it from nuclear power plants.
Furthermore, since uranium supplies on Earth are scarce, mining uranium on the moon to satisfy our energy needs at home could prove ... |
FBI Interviews: "Hussein Lied About WMD Out of Fear of Iran"
2009 07 04
Disinformation or a case study in historical revisionism?
Saddam Hussein let the world believe Iraq had weapons of mass destruction because he did not want to appear weak to Iran, according to the Washington Post.
Saddam Hussein, former Iraqi president, reacts as a death sentence is delivered during his trial in 2006.
In interviews with the FBI before he was hanged, the ... |
Earth 2100 the Final Century of Civilization (Video)
2009 07 03
Interesting propaganda from ABC.
'Earth 2100': the Final Century of Civilization?
By Alexa Danner | abcnews.go.com
Planet at Risk: Experts Warn Population Growth, Resource Depletion, Climate Change Could Bring Catastrophe in Next Century
It's an idea that most of us would rather not face -- that within the next century, life as we know it could come to an end. Our civilization could crumble, ... |
The Launching of U.S. Cyber Command - CYBERCOM
2009 07 03
Offensive Operations in Cyberspace
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates signed a memorandum on June 23 that announced the launch of U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM). A scheme by securocrats in the works for several years, the order specifies that the new office will be a "subordinate unified command" under U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM).
According to the memorandum, CYBERCOM "will reach initial operating capability (IOC) ... |
EPA May Have Suppressed Anti-Global Warming Study
2009 07 03
Accusations are flying over leaked e-mails that the EPA suppressed an internal report that casts a skeptical light on using regulations to reign in carbon emissions and reduce global warming. We were promised that "the days of science taking a back seat to ideology," were over, but clearly someone didn't get the message. |
Goldman Sachs behind every market crash since 1920s
2009 07 03
Taibbi writes that Goldman Sachs has traditionally been a late arrival to market bubbles, getting in once others have started the trend, but, once in, the company quickly ramps up the bubble, predicts its bursting, and then hedges its bets so as to make money from the bubble crash.
The article, which is not yet officially available online, adds one more ... |
“Alien Symbols” in Milk Hill and South Field
2009 07 02
Below Milk Hill's White Horse at 4:30 AM on Summer Solstice Sunday, June 21, 2009, Steve Amor reported to Cropcircleconnector.com that there was a “circle and pattern” in the wheat field there. The pattern had a teardrop-shaped center with a configuration of four connected circles on one side and five more circles of ascending diameters on arcing lines tethered back ... |
Setback for Tony Blair's ambition to be president of Europe
2009 07 02
Former prime minister, who is believed to be considering bidding for the post, faces stiffening opposition from Sweden and Spain
Tony Blair's ambition to become Europe's first president have been set back by stiffening opposition from Sweden and Spain, the two countries chairing the EU for the next year.
Senior officials in Stockholm, which assumed the six-month rotating presidency of the EU ... |
Joseph Ratzinger and The Secret History - Why The Pope Is To Blame For the Sex Scandals
2009 07 02
Shocking as these statements may be, there is a clear chain of evidence that backs them up. Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger, bears a unique personal responsibility for the entire mess. Moreover, his responsibility has nothing at all to do with his current position as Supreme Pontiff. His actions forty years ago helped set the stage of the crisis in ... |
Martin Bormann was Rothschild Agent -- Damning Evidence
2009 07 02
The second most powerful man in Nazi Germany, Martin Bormann, was a "Soviet" (i.e. Illuminati British) agent who ensured the destruction of both Germany and European Jewry. Thus, he advanced two of the Illuminati's main goals: integrate Germany into a world government by annihilating its national, cultural and racial pretensions, and establish Israel as the Masonic bankers' world capital ... |
Quetzalcoatl And The Galactic Jellyfish
2009 07 02
At 9:45pm on Wednesday (03-Jun-2009), I was pondering the manifestation of crop circles and how their remarkable glyphs might occur in other mediums/substances apart from cereal crop. I recalled there have been formations in snow, ice and water. I thought about sand. Earth. Like the Nazca lines. What about the sky? Air? As if to seek further inspiration, I looked ... |
First Electronic Quantum Processor Created
2009 07 01
A team led by Yale University researchers has created the first rudimentary solid-state quantum processor, taking another step toward the ultimate dream of building a quantum computer.
The two-qubit processor is the first solid-state quantum processor that resembles a conventional computer chip and is able to run simple algorithms. (Credit: Blake Johnson/Yale University)
They also used the two-qubit superconducting chip to successfully ... |
Murdoch CEO Labels Bloggers “Political Extremists”
2009 07 01
A stinging attack by John Hartigan, the CEO of Rupert Murdoch’s News Limited, labels bloggers and alternative media outlets as “political extremists”. Hartigan implies that bloggers should be jailed as they are in oppressive police states like China and Burma. |
Beck guest Scheuer: "The only chance we have as a country right now is" for bin Laden to "detonate a major weapon" in U.S.
2009 07 01
From the June 30 edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck:
Article and Video from: MMTV |
Ahmadinejad orders probe into Neda's 'suspicious' death
2009 07 01
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has asked the Judiciary chief to conduct a through investigation into the death of Neda Aqa-Soltan, an Iranian woman who was shot dead in Tehran's post-vote protests.
In a letter to Iran's Judiciary chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahroudi on Monday, Ahmadinejad called for a serious probe into the "suspicious" death of Neda and recognizing elements behind her ... |
Brazilian Judge Rejects Jester Fishing Tour Operator's Request for Habeas Corpus
2009 07 01
On June 23, 2009, Brazilian federal judge, MARIA LUCIA GOMES DE SOUZA, denied a June 19, 2009 Habeas Corpus request filed on behalf of former fishing tour operator Richard Wayne Schair of Gainesville, Georgia. If granted, this would have protected Schair from unlawful detention upon entering Brazil after being charged with rape, corruption of minors and operating a house of ... |
Civilization by Marco Brambilla (Video)
2009 06 30
Civilization is a video installation we created with artist/director Marco Brambilla for the elevators Standard Hotel in NYC. It's comprised of over 400 video clips and it takes elevator passengers on a trip from hell to heaven as they go up or from heaven to hell as they go down. Pictures of the installation and Q&A with Brambilla and Crush ... |
2 kids discover plastic-eating microbes
2009 06 30
It’s not your average science fair when the 16-year-old winner manages to solve a global waste crisis. But such was the case at last May’s Canadian Science Fair in Waterloo, Ontario, where Daniel Burd, a high school student at Waterloo Collegiate Institute, presented his research on microorganisms that can rapidly biodegrade plastic. |
Czech MPs mull suspension of Klaus' powers over Lisbon treaty
2009 06 30
The Czech social democrat party is discussing the possibility of suspending president Vaclav Klaus' powers if he does not sign the EU's Lisbon treaty.
The temporary suspension would require a simple majority of 41 votes in the country's 81-seat senate and would allow caretaker prime minister Jan Fischer to sign the document instead.
Social democrat senator Alena Gajduskova is leading an ... |
Pyramid and All-Seeing Eye – Their Occult Meaning and Use in Corporate Logos
2009 06 30
The Pyramid and the All-Seeing Eye on the American dollar bill are the ultimate “conspiracy theory” symbol. And there’s a good reason for that. They reveal at the same time who the conspirators are, where they’re from and where they want to go. The fact that the Great Seal is an occult and Masonic is a fact, proven by the ... |
NASA moon bombing violates space law & may cause conflict with lunar ET/UFO civilizations
2009 06 30
The planned October 9, 2009 bombing of the moon by a NASA orbiter that will bomb the moon with a 2-ton kinetic weapon to create a 5 mile wide deep crater as an alleged water-seeking and lunar colonization experiment, is contrary to space law prohibiting environmental modification of celestial bodies. The NASA moon bombing, a component of the LCROSS ... |
Innoculations: The True Weapons Of Mass Destruction
2009 06 30
“One basic truth can be used as a foundation for a mountain of lies, and if we dig down deep enough in the mountain of lies, and bring out that truth, to set it on top of the mountain of lies; the entire mountain of lies will crumble under the weight of that one truth. And there is nothing more ... |
Crucifying The Earth On the Galactic Cross
2009 06 30
While the world is anticipating the effects of the End of the Maya Long Count Calendar on December 21 2012, they have already started to develop right in front of our eyes. The Cross, in all its forms, presents the most ancient symbol, and a series of meanings stands behind each of them (See Supplement 1). Some of these meanings ... |
Sisterhood of the Skulls
2009 06 30
The Neapolitan caves where a cult of old women "adopt" human skulls and commune with the dead
A row of skulls at Fontanelle, including several in shrines provided by women who had "adopted" them.
Naples has a reputation for being Italy’s city of greatest extremes. The gap between rich and poor is nowhere more visible; despite being devoutly pious, the city is ... |
Madoff gets 150 years for fraud
2009 06 30
Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff was sentenced Monday in New York to the maximum 150 years behind bars for fleecing hundreds of investors out of tens of billions of dollars in a massive Ponzi scheme. |
Shift Possible on Terror Suspects’ Detention
2009 06 30
The Obama administration is considering forgoing legislation and issuing an executive order that would authorize the president to incarcerate some terrorism suspects indefinitely, White House officials said Friday. |
EPA relents, discloses list of high-risk coal ash sites
2009 06 30
The EPA initially refused to disclose the location of the high-hazard sites to the public, saying it would share the information only with members of Congress and their staffs. Sen. Barbara Boxer , D- Calif. , the chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee , pressed the agency to release the list, saying the public had a right ... |
A robot displaying human emotion has been unveiled
2009 06 29
Kobian, a "humanoid" robot, which can express seven human emotions, has been unveiled by researchers at Waseda University in Japan.
The Emotional Humanoid Robot can express seven different feelings, including delight, surprise, sadness and dislike. In addition to assuming different poses to match the mood, Kobian uses motors in its face to move its lips, eyelids and eyebrows into various positions, ... |
Mummy Was No Lady
2009 06 29
If mummies could only talk, what would they tell us? Perhaps why one in the Brooklyn Museum of Art was wrapped up like a woman but turned out to be a male. Researchers at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y., examined four of the museum’s mummies using CT — or computed tomography — to see what they could find ... |
Ice on fire: The next fossil fuel
2009 06 29
Deep in the Arctic Circle, in the Messoyakha gas field of western Siberia, lies a mystery. Back in 1970, Russian engineers began pumping natural gas from beneath the permafrost and piping it east across the tundra to the Norilsk metal smelter, the biggest industrial enterprise in the Arctic.
By the late 70s, they were on the brink of winding down the ... |
Oceans charge up new theory of magnetism
2009 06 28
A radical new idea may revolutionise our understanding of one of the most vital forces on Earth
Earth's magnetic field, long thought to be generated by molten metals swirling around its core, may instead be linked to ocean currents, according to controversial new research published this week.
It suggests that the movements of such volumes of salt water around the world ... |
Japan Unveils Mind Control Robot (Video)
2009 06 28
In Japan scientists at the Honda Research Institute have unveiled the world's first brain to machine interface. Dubbed BMI short for Brain Machine Interface this new technology system will enable people to control robots using their mind.
Pushing buttons and fiddling with levers to control a robot could be a thing of the past. Honda's new system works using a brain ... |
Polar bear expert barred by global warmists
2009 06 28
Mitchell Taylor, who has studied the animals for 30 years, was told his views 'are extremely unhelpful’. One of the world's leading experts on polar bears has been told to stay away from this week's meeting, specifically because his views on global warming do not accord with those of the rest of the group. |
Iranian Protest vs. London Protest
2009 06 28
European and American image-consumers love such feisty expressions of democratic discontent; burning cars, throwing bricks, beating the crap out of riot police unlucky enough to come off their two-stroke motorbikes.
Because dissent is laudable overseas: At home it’s undemocratic. |
NASA gets cold feet on Moon base plan
2009 06 28
NASA will probably not build an outpost on the moon as originally planned, the agency's acting administrator, Chris Scolese, told lawmakers on Wednesday. His comments also hinted that the agency is open to putting more emphasis on human missions to destinations like Mars or a near-Earth asteroid.
NASA has been working towards returning astronauts to the moon by 2020 and building ... |
U.S. reverses Afghan drug policy
2009 06 28
Washington is to dramatically overhaul its Afghan anti-drug strategy, phasing out opium poppy eradication, the U.S. envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan told allies on Saturday. U.N. figures indicate Afghanistan's opiate output has risen more than 40-fold since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion. |
The Climate Bill & ‘Carbon Trading’: Scam of The Century
2009 06 28
“The fight over regulating the $592 TRILLION over-the-counter derivatives market spilled over into climate-change legislation being debated in the U.S. House of Representatives today. A derivatives provision tucked inside the 1,201-page measure to limit greenhouse gases is intended to spur Congress to enact new laws reining in a largely unregulated swath of U.S. financial markets, according to Representative Bart Stupak ... |
'If I didn't confess to 7/7 bombings MI5 officers would rape my wife,' claims torture victim
2009 06 26
A British man spoke publicly for the first time yesterday to accuse MI5 officers of forcing him to confess to masterminding the July 7 bombings. Jamil Rahman claims UK security officers were behind his arrest in 2005 in Bangladesh. He says he was beaten repeatedly by local officials who also threatened to rape him and his wife. Mr Rahman, who ... |
John Cusack, Superstar: 2012 and the Age of Horus
2009 06 26
Well, the full trailer for 2012 is here. And as to be expected from a Roland Emmerich film, it's chock-full of mass destruction and genocide. The guy certainly has a knack for it, doesn't he? Apocalyptic film seems to have an added appeal during times of malaise like this one- it's the ultimate fantasy of the global reset button. Of ... |
Mystery surrounds Michael Jackson's sudden death
2009 06 26
One day after Michael Jackson's sudden death, speculation was already turning on Friday to what killed the 50-year-old "King of Pop" just weeks before his long-awaited series of comeback concerts. Jackson, a former child star who became one of the best-selling pop artists of all time before a descending into a strange and reclusive lifestyle, died on Thursday afternoon at ... |
Round-the-world solar plane debut
2009 06 26
Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard has unveiled a prototype of the solar-powered plane he hopes eventually to fly around the world. The initial version, spanning 61m but weighing just 1,500kg, will undergo trials to prove it can fly at night. Dr Piccard, who made history in 1999 by circling the globe non-stop in a balloon, says he wants to demonstrate the ... |
'Everyone's a pagan now'
2009 06 25
The Beltane Bash, following The Pagan Pride Parade, London, 2009. Photograph: Teri Pengilley
Look out, here come the pagans. It's late May in central London and a man dressed as a tree, a witch in a velvet robe and a woman pretending to be a raven with a long black beak are dancing through the streets of Holborn, with several hundred ... |
The Ubiquitous Matrix of Lies
2009 06 25
Let's begin with beer. Near my home I drive past a billboard advertisement for Coors Light. The slogan is, "Coors rocks Harrisburg." Now, does anybody actually believe that Coors does in fact "rock Harrisburg?" No. Does the Coors corporation itself believe it? No. Does anyone believe that Coors believes it? No. It is a lie, everyone knows it is a ... |
Azerbaijani President says nation must prepare for war with Armenia
2009 06 25
“Azerbaijan has military formations capable of carrying out any mission. If necessary, Azerbaijan can use its military power to restore its territorial integrity, and it is our sovereign right. International law allows us to do it," the president said.
“We live in a state of war, thus our primary goal is and should be the strengthening of our army. With the ... |
Why Afghanistan might gain a CEO
2009 06 25
As race for presidency nears, a new role is eyed for a former US ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad: Help Kabul work with the outside world.
On the ground: Security contractors guarded Mr. Khalilzad, then US ambassador to Iraq, in Baghdad in 2007.
JACOB SILBERBERG/AP/FILE
Afghan voter Bakhtiar Najman has some 40 other options this August besides President Hamid Karzai, whose leadership he describes as ... |
Ukraine cancels joint navy exercises with US
2009 06 25
The Sea Breeze 2009 exercises, planned for the Black Sea between July 13 and 26, were meant to simulate anti-piracy action. But the Ukrainian parliament did not bring forward legislation authorizing overseas troop deployment on its territory.
Exercises planned in 2006 were annulled after pro-Russian demonstrations in the country. |
Police Expert Recreates Ancient Mummy's Face
2009 06 25
Using state-of-the-art forensics science, a police sketch artist who works with the Maryland Department of Justice and the State Police Missing Persons Unit has reconstructed the face of the University of Chicago-owned mummy of the ancient Thebes temple singer Meresamun. A second reconstruction has been done by Chicago artist Joshua Harker, who has used a software that reconstructs dead people's ... |
Predictive Programming 2.0: Operation Blackjack
2009 06 25
At first glance the picture gallery seems to depict nothing but poorly illustrated mushroom clouds and other archetypal images of doom towering over familiar landmarks. As the months drew on, the story evolves as the emerging super state replaces the initial horror of the “attacks”. This also very meticulously follows the plausible storyline of problem-reaction-solution, where government creates the terror, ... |
Neo-Cons Are Cheerleading For A Terrorist Who Helped Kill Hundreds Of U.S. Marines
2009 06 25
The horrible irony to arise out of the riots and protests in Iran is that many Neo-Cons and phony conservatives, in their unified effort to enthusiastically embrace the Anglo-American establishment’s agenda for regime change, are cheerleading for a brutal thug who directed a terrorist campaign that killed hundreds of U.S. Marines in the 1980’s. |
God hates Twitter
2009 06 25
Leave it to God to spoil the party: The Catholic churches of Scotland are speaking out against Twitter, Facebook, and other social networking technologies, which are being decried by the Church as creating an "obsessive" reliance in their users. |
Time Travel: Fantasy or Science?
2009 06 24
Physicist Builds Time Machine to Save his Father's Life - People might think he was crazy, even though he has worked his way to a job as a tenured physicist at the University of Connecticut.
But it's not a secret anymore, because of something really crazy. He said he thinks he has come up with a way to do it. |
Doctors Baffled, Intrigued by Girl Who Doesn't Age
2009 06 24
Brooke Greenberg is the size of an infant, with the mental capacity of a toddler.
She turned 16 in January.
At about 16 pounds and 30 inches, 16-year-old Brooke Greenberg has not aged significantly, physically or apparently cognitively, since she was a toddler. Doctors hope that her case could shed light on the mysterious genetics behind aging.
(Courtesy Greenberg Family)
"Why doesn't she age?" ... |
Retired 9/11 General Among Metro Deaths in DC
2009 06 24
Among the nine fatalities in yesterday's deadly subway train collision in Washington D.C. was a retired Air Force general who headed the National Guard in the nation's capital and gave the order to scramble fighter jets during the 9-11 terror attack.
At a news conference at the crash site this afternoon, Washington DC Mayor Adrian Fenty confirmed that Maj. Gen. ... |
Prototype Nokia phone recharges without wires
2009 06 23
Prototype Nokia phone recharges without wires.
By Christopher Null | www.YahooTech.ca
Pardon the cliche, but it's one of the holiest of Holy Grails of technology: Wireless power. And while early lab experiments have been able to "beam" electricity a few feet to power a light bulb, the day when our laptops and cell phones can charge without having to plug ... |
Iran Lashes Out At West, Media Over Election Unrest
2009 06 23
Iran accused the U.K. and U.S. on Sunday of meddling in its affairs, amid an international outcry over its crackdown on protests over the results of last week's presidential election. |
Riot police use tear gas to halt protest in Iran
2009 06 23
Riot police cracked down anew on demonstrators in Iran's capital on Monday hours after the feared Revolutionary Guard threatened to crush any further post-election protests. A witness described an "air of sadness" marked by people wailing prayers into the night. |
Life After Guantanamo: Why the Media's Happy-Ending Narrative Is Totally Bankrupt
2009 06 22
The transfer of four Uighur prisoners to Bermuda has been treated like a happy human-interest story, but the truth is far darker. |
Mars May Still Be A Living Planet, Methane In Atmosphere Reveals
2009 06 22
A team of NASA and university scientists has achieved the first definitive detection of methane in the atmosphere of Mars. This discovery indicates the planet is either biologically or geologically active. |
Definitive Evidence For Ancient Lake On Mars
2009 06 22
A University of Colorado at Boulder research team has discovered the first definitive evidence of shorelines on Mars, an indication of a deep, ancient lake there and a finding with implications for the discovery of past life on the Red Planet.
This is reconstructed landscape showing the Shalbatana lake on Mars as it may have looked roughly 3.4 billion years ago. ... |
Plant communication: Sagebrush engage in self-recognition and warn of danger
2009 06 22
Sagebrush exhibits communication only when air contact is allowed, says Richard "Rick" Karban, shown here bagging sagebrush. When air contact is blocked with plastic bags there is no indication that communication has occurred |
Is Moore's Law about to die?
2009 06 22
It's one of the most famous maxims in the technology world: Moore's Law, originally conceived by Intel's Gordon Moore in 1965, posits that the number of transistors on a circuit will double every 1 1/2 to 2 years. That has held true -- like a rock -- since it was envisioned, from the 2,300 transistors on an Intel 4004 to ... |
2012 [Video]
2009 06 22
2012 Movie Trailer"Never before has a date in history been so significant to so many cultures, so many religions, scientists, and governments. A global cataclysm brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors."
Video from: YouTube.com
InterNet Movie Database: 2012
Geoff Stray - Beyond 2012: Catastrophe or Ecstasy
Geoff Stray - Crop Circles, Catastrophe, ... |
9/11 Hero Dog Cloned
2009 06 20
Clones of 9/11 hero dog unveiled in Los Angeles
Trust, Solace, Prodigy, Valor and Dejavu in Los Angeles, California to present the cloned puppies of Trakr, a German shepherd, who sniffed out survivors from under the rubble of New York's World Trade Center after the 2001 terror strikes. Trakr was cloned in South Korea under the direction of Doctor Hwang Woo-Suk. ... |
Taser death: stun gun fired 28 times
2009 06 20
Civil liberties groups are demanding a more thorough investigation after it emerged a Queensland man who died during an arrest last week may have been tasered by police more than 20 times. |
A solar-powered pyramid on wheels
2009 06 20
If the pharaohs of old ever decided to build Popemobiles for themselves, I imagine they'd look something like this. What you're looking at is the Dreamcar 123, described by inventor Greg Zanis (pictured above) as a vehicle for the future that's as safe as the cars used in Nascar. Someday, he'd like to see his solar-powered pyramid travel over thousands ... |
Gates: Hawaii missile defense in place
2009 06 20
The United States has positioned more missile defenses around Hawaii as a precaution against a possible North Korean launch across the Pacific, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday.
"We do have some concerns if they were to launch a missile to the west in the direction of Hawaii," Gates said.It cited an analysis by Japan's Defense Ministry and intelligence gathered by ... |
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