Monday, October 17, 2011

"How Anger Fuels Atheistic Arrogance"


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The majority of people in the world believe there is a God. Many of them don’t yet know Him personally through faith in Jesus, but they nevertheless accept the fact that He exists. Atheists, on the other hand, act like their subjective opinion on the matter carries the weight of a Papal Edict. They ...
RH Goes both ways. It isn't just the atheists. Let's be fair about it. I do know a lot of so called Holy people or Christians who use Religion as a front for business purposes or to be a so called pillar of the community & there so full of B/S some of my atheists friends are more kind and loving and better with there actions then a lot of Church going people
    • RH Most of them say they love every one and some do but man some of them get pissed off when u bring up creation or Christ


    • Rogi Equality Riverstone No, it does NOT go both ways! 
      We are angry that superstitious zealots try to cram their ignorance down not only our throats, but our kids' in school. 
      We are angry that we get fired, get evicted and get harassed by zealots. Atheists receive CONSTANT death threats from Christians and Muslims. 
      We are angry that superstition is being used by corrupt puppets of lobbying firms for major corporations to convince people that war is good, that science is evil, that thinking is dangerous and that personal responsibility is in either their g*d's or satan's hands, not theirs. 
      We are angry that pompous propagandists put words in our mouths, the way your article does, to keep their sheep in line. 
      We are angry that people who believe in magic and do not respect reality want Queer people killed, tortured and ostracized. 
      We are angry that women are seen with such contempt, we should not have control over our own reproductive organs without a man's approval. 
      We are angry that our kids can't be in the Boy Scouts if they don't believe in a magic sky daddy. 
      We are angry that our soldiers are pumped full of fundamentalist propaganda before being sent to kill people of other faiths, who are just as brain washed. 
      We are angry that "g*d" is coming into EVERY political issue in this coming Presidential race, when our country is supposed to separate the secular from the "sacred." 
      We are angry because YOU are SO convinced you know the mind of someone you think created the Universe, you won't listen to reason, logic or facts. 
      We are angry because that mentality creates genocides and wars and flies planes into buildings. 
      We are angry because you demonize US instead of admitting you're just too lazy to admit your own responsibilities for what's wrong with the world. 
      We are angry because superstitious zealots have mass murdered hundreds of millions of people in the name of g*d, on BOTH SIDES of every conflict. 
      We are angry because your superstitions drag us into the Dark Ages, because your "faith" nearly killed Galileo for simply stating the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the solar system. 
      We are angry because you berate, harass, hurt, slander and stigmatize us. 
      We are angry because we just tried to donate half a million dollars to the American Cancer Society and, because they're so SCARED of YOU, they refused our donation! They'd rather let people die than take money from people who don't need a g*d as an excuse! 
      We are angry because Fox "News" and damn near every other media outlet in this country pumps you full of lies about us and you're so righteous....I mean gullible... you believe it.
      And we are angry because ALL your sacred texts, every religion on this planet, believes the superstitious myths and scratchings of Bronze Age SAVAGES, rather than reality! 
      We are angry because you'd rather post pompous, ignorant, arrogant garbage like this with your nose in the air and your head up your ass, rather than listen to ANYTHING we have to say! 
      Tell me something: if your magic man in the sky is so freaking powerful, WHY THE HELL ARE YOU COWARDS SO AFRAID OF US?????

Jesus Returns!

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Jesus is back... and he is pissed!

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Friday, October 14, 2011

Beethoven 5th Sympony, 1st mvt. (animated score)


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Beethoven's 5th Symphony, First movement, accompanied by an animated graphical score.
FAQ
Q: Why did you make yet another video of this piece?
A: I've recently been rewriting my music animation software, and as part of this work, I added support for smoothly-shaded triangles. I wanted to try them out in a new style of animation, and this was the first thing I came up with. The effect was different enough from the bar-graph version that I thought it was worth having both of them on my main YouTube channel (smalin). I also added the time-warp idea (that I'd previously only used in my "balls" display), and barlines (which I changed so that they light up). Oh, and I also used the dynamic levels from the recording to change the width (height) of the shapes.

Q: Where can I get free sheet music for this piece?
A: Here:
http://tinyurl.com/beetop67

Q: What do the colors in the bar-graph score mean?
A: The colors show which instruments are playing. Here's a chart:
http://www.musanim.com/pdf/Instruments_B5.pdf
The chart doesn't always match, because when two instruments are playing the same note, their colors combine. That is one of the many shortcomings of this animation.

Q: Please tell me more about the composer.
A: You can read about Beethoven here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beethoven

Q: Who is playing this?
A: I licensed this recording from
http://www.royalty-free-classical-music.org
It is performed by the Royalty Free Classical Music Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Keith J. Salmon. I don't know anything beyond that about the recording (like, whether it is a real orchestra or synthetic, who are its members, when and where was the recording made, etc.)
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Liberal: "Bill's views on religion are controversial"


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Rogi Equality Riverstone Listen to me very carefully, Loud Mouth. Mahr's "views on religion" are not "controversial." What IS controversial are the "views on religion" that have absolutely corrupted and overwhelmed the secular, civil political process in the USA. Mahr is an atheist: one who does not believe in a g*d. That's supposed to be a perfectly acceptable position, according to the founders of this nation, including Thomas Jefferson, whose writings frequently mirror Mahr's views. Mahr has every right, reason and responsibility to deconstruct the superstitions, irrational, theocratic hate mongering set free on this continent right now. If you don't want to be associated with atheists, igtheists, agnostics and the like, perhaps you can keep the moniker, "Loud Mouth," but need to drop the self-definition of "Liberal." If the "Liberals" in this country had the spine to come out and directly challenge the anti-science, revisionist history bull crap coming out of the mouths of GOP candidates, invalidate them and stand up for reason, independent thought and an end to mob mentality, we could turn this mess around. Mahr is a political commentator. He's commenting. period.
 
I realize that Bill's views on religion are controversial; It is not my intention to get into a debate about whether there is or is not a God or whether JC is the savior, etc. Bill's views, specifically, on OWS and the left needing something to move them are spot on. As well as his comments on the centrist Dems. We need to end the filibuster!! And primary their asses; Then, vote them out!! :)
www.msnbc.msn.com
 
Oct. 11: HBO's Bill Maher talks with Rachel Maddow about Republicans attacking each other and Mitt Romney in particular because of his Mormon faith.

I realize that Bill's views on religion are controversial; It is not my intention to get into a debate about whether there is or is not a God or whether JC is the savior, etc. Bill's views, specifically, on OWS and the left needing something to move them are spot on. As well as his comments on the centrist Dems. We need to end the filibuster!! And primary their asses; Then, vote them out!! :)
 

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

kate asked what I'm doing


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There's no PO delivery here and I can't afford a PO box (rv park residents are considered "temporary," so can't get free boxes).

I'm very stressed, but working hard. I'm building a greenhouse out of trash and will video tape it soon.

I'm on YouTube now, primarily in the skeptical/scientific/atheist communities, but dabbling in feminism, Queer issues and whatever strikes my fancy. I only have a craptacular webcam in the Netbook Rachel got for me, and no room on either computer for good editing software, so I need to be resourceful in how I produce videos. My training in broadcast journalism won't let me make something too crappy for public consumption, though.

There are descriptions/Info below each video with links, explanations, etc.

I did this as a video response to a young, atheist woman who asked what in the world we would end in 2012 (a flip of the "end times" "prophecies" for next year. This it how I would end the world in 2012: http://youtu.be/ZDzC7NC1Z2w

This is my memorial to Troy Davis, that guy in Georgia who was executed...I mean lynched...recently: http://youtu.be/YN5KGs_MJ2Y

I'm dabbling in a new blog and video series: Celebrating Omnipotent Sperm Temple for wombMen (COST4Women), in which I review cultural memes, political candidates, etc. without ever mentioning Abrahamic faiths' obsession with patronage, control of females & children, etc. No culture is off limits, nor is any body else. http://youtu.be/MyjcF3txS9E

Now, this one is a response to a guy from Luxemburg whom I stumbled over. In fact, his name is Guy (pronounced GEE with a hard "g"). I have a very tender spot in my heart for him. He is sweet and smart and funny and wicked and does all atheist videos, but with characters, humor and plain ol' joy, like US and English atheists can't even touch. We are becoming good friends. What I did NOT know, when I made this video, is that there is an infestation of so-called "men's rights" in a portion of the atheist YouTube community that is quite abusive, crass, arrogant, disrespectful, etc. So, when some of these fellows listened to the 2 video set I'll post here, they assumed some stuff about me and went on the attack. One even posted very veiled threats that he might research who I am and where I live and "drop my docs," expose me to my community. I don't care. While it sickens me that people can be so warped, I HAVE to speak. Now, the really interesting thing, the thing that most surprises me, about this video is that there is NO script and NO editing. I never say "um, ah..." I only lost my place once, when a bug flew down my night gown and I sound poised, articulate and clear. I'm getting a lot (relatively speaking) of support, subscriptions and "friend requests," as a result. It's also my most watched video. People want me to continue. It's all just from the heart. It's a response to Guy (he calls himself "Goxter" on YouTube), calling for us as rational people, to frame our arguments and discussions with rationality, logic and respect for our debate opponents. I jumped at the chance to speak: http://youtu.be/q2EVBwmFf3c

I'm meeting WONDERFUL people, from all over the planet. Some have church damage, as do I. Many are very into science, philosophy, sacred texts as literature, social history, politics... on and on. And not at some superficial level. Some of these people are beyond "smart." I have no interest in television. I seldom even watch movies on the internet anymore. I spend my free time watching home-broadcast videos by regular human beings from all over the planet and it is MARVELOUS to break my isolation in this travel trailer in NM and sit in a living room in Denmark, a school yard in India, a biology lab in England or a back yard in Luxemburg. I can't tell you how beautiful this is to me.

So, what am I doing? Not much. Just preparing my trailer for winter, finishing my green house and sitting on my fat rump, listening to the insides of people's minds all over the planet. Not much.
 

Monday, October 10, 2011

Richard Dawkins Reads His Hate Mail Again


It would help immensely in my comprehension of audio recorded in a "bright," reverberating room if one's camera operator could better stifle the impulse to giggle while love mail is being read, but I certainly can understand the impulse.

Curiosity - Did God Create the Universe


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Stephen Hawking unfolds his personal, compelling vision of the biggest question of all: Who or what created the universe in which we live? The groundbreaking series Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking combined cutting-edge CG with Hawking's witty, distinctive and incisive worldview. Now, we take the journey a step further, as physics and cosmology become tools to answer questions that philosophers have struggled with for thousands of years.

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Saturday, October 01, 2011

Literally Genesis 30


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Welcome to part Thirty in this series of videos in which I take the advice of all of those Christian fundamentalists and read my bible - literally

You see if you are going to believe in the literal "truth" of the bible and take it literally then literally is the only way that you can read it.

In this episode Jacob becomes a daddy again and again and again and again, not content with getting to know his first wife, he gets to know the rest of the domestic staff too but he just cannot seem to make his second wife Rachel pregnant no matter what.

It seems that the Lord just loves to make Jacob's life a misery so it's not surprising that His wife Rachel ends up pimping him out for sexual favours in the world's first drugs deal.

Jacob eventually ends up making a deal with his father in law about his wages and devises a cunning plan to come out on top, experimenting in breading various livestock for the colour of their fur which leads to some interesting breeding techniques that take advantage of the most advanced understanding of genetic engineering at the time

Most surprising of all is when his goats give birth to cattle which completely owns every creationist on the planet who has ever said that evolution is not true because one kind of animal has never been seen to come out of another kind.

Then again they are probably not reading their bibles literally


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"The Good Book"
Written and Performed by Tim Minchin

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Thursday, September 29, 2011

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Quran Commercial


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From The Comedy Jesus Show
Taking all forms of faith-based retardation to task.
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"Everybody Poops" - a bad lip reading of the Black Eyed Peas


From: BadLipReading | Mar 29, 2011 | 1,053,334 views
Available on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/everybody-poops/id429230...

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LYRICS:

Poop Poop
Poop Poop
Poop Poop

I can't think when i gotta poop

Poop Poop
Poop Poop (Poop!)
Poop Poop

No eye contact! I'll beat you down!
'Cause you know that that's not scary
Hero!
You'll never find a human that steals school supplies
And if you do
Let me know who (who)
And I'll beat him down.

I like to poop poop out the bad vibes
That's right, I'm the best one.
And when we do a show I always start with this
And then usually around five I'll lay down and
Then I poop poop poop on the floor!
Piano.

Everybody poops
And if they don't they're an android
And should be destroyed.

I forgot to break the mirrors
And the spaceship soared away
Why not tell me they left?
You gotta flush the toilet
Yeah, see that's right
Professional baby
I'm gonna find a chicken fight
Then gonna go poo poo

Mama told me she wrote me a note
She forgot that I'm a soft machine man
Looks like we got a big mean dookie on deck
And I hate those greenish potatoes with them soggy fish sticks!

When I'm on the pot after working for hours
Watch out down there
When i'm dumping my log

Everybody poops
And if they don't they're an android
And should be destroyed.
I be regular, bitches

Everybody poops
And if they don't they're an android
And should be destroyed.

Yeah I'm going downtown
Gotta get me some tissue
Fergie used it all up
'Cause she got bowel issues
Yeah, she ain't no android
You can take my word
I'm-I-I-I-I-I'm gonna go poop poop

When I'm on the pot after working for hours
Watch out down there
When i'm dumping my log

Everybody poops
And if they don't they're an android
And should be destroyed.
(Th-th-th-that's a big one!)

Everybody poops
And if they don't they're an android
And should be destroyed.
(Open wide!)

Yeah, see that's right

Hero!

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Original video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m48GqaOz90
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Saturday, September 24, 2011

IF KIDS SHOWS WERE REAL!


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BLOOPERS&DELETED SCENES: http://bit.ly/KidsXtras

DOWNLOAD SEXY ALBUM: http://bit.ly/SexyAlbumDownload

What would happen if kids shows were real?
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Hey it's our very own website: http://smosh.com
Oh and our Facebook page: http://facebook.com/smosh
Want to know when we're filming and/or pooping? Now you can: http://twitter.com/smosh


Stephen Colbert PWNs Glenn Beck?


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When Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" took on Fox News commentator Glenn Beck last week, it was a battle of the fake pundits that could only leave one man on top as I show in this video.

You can find the full 7 minute segment of "The Colbert Report" from which I took the 5 short clips for this video on the Colbert Nation website at http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/252013/october-08-2009...

You can find the YouTube webpage of my friend Thunderf00t's video titled "Fox News shows murder blames it on godless" which I show in this video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMwZ76QB7uk

You can find the YouTube webpage of my Fox News bias playlist which I show in this video at http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A3BD2524FE99BD4D

You can find the YouTube webpage of my previous video titled "Who Listens to Michelle Malkin" which I show in this video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIvYSKQLA4c


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CULT in a BOX !


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AdrianLunnon
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Thursday, September 22, 2011

They Fell For My Hoax Video


  • ps: this shit's goin in my blog! roflmfao....oh I can't stop laughing

  • roflmfao!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh, dude, you made my night! I've been feeling so sad and scared all day, since the murder of Troy Davis. I haven't smiled or laughed all day, except when my cat got a fly strip stuck to both his back ankles and ran, hysterically, though the yard. Oh, DUDE! This is so precious, priceless and such a relief! ha ha ha I can't stop laughing. Oh, DUDE!

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Many 9/11 "Truthers" weren't fooled by my ridiculous fake video of 7 World Trade Center being taken down by controlled demolition. But those who did, well..... gullible people are gullible.


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Friday, September 16, 2011

World's smallest stop-motion film


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Dot. The world's smallest stop-motion animation character shot on a Nokia N8

http://youtu.be/CD7eagLl5c4


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Professor Fletcher's invention of the CellScope, which is a Nokia device with a microscope attachment, was the inspiration for a teeny-tiny film created by Sumo Science at Aardman. It stars a 9mm girl called Dot as she struggles through a microscopic world. All the minuscule detail was shot using CellScope technology and a Nokia N8, with its 12 megapixel camera and Carl Zeiss optics.
See more projects and how the 'Dot' film was made at http://www.nokia.com/nseries or http://www.facebook.com/nokia

Dot. The making of.

http://youtu.be/XTbzSiwbRfg



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Here's a little film that takes you behind the scenes at Aardman. It reveals what went in to making the world's smallest character animated film and how it was shot using a Nokia N8.
See more projects at http://www.nokia.com/nseries

 

Monday, September 12, 2011

HAPPY INTERDEPENDENCE DAY!



HAPPY INTERDEPENDENCE DAY!

A Declaration of Interdependence: a crowdsourced short film

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From the filmmakers behind CONNECTED
Directed by @tiffanyshlain Music by Moby
To declare your interdependence, please join us at www.letitripple.org

A DECLARATION OF INTERDEPENDENCE is a crowdsourced short film by the filmmakers behind the feature film CONNECTED (www.connectedthefilm.com).

It is premiering right now at Interdependence Day Sept 12, 2011 in New York near groundzero at Threelegged Dog Art & Technology Center.

To participate in the "100 languages challenge" with DotSub and the world to translate the film into 100 languages, go to http://dotsub.com/id11



The Little Shop of Horrors: Jonathan Haze, Dick Miller, Jack Nicholson (...


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The Little Shop of Horrors is a 1960 American comedy film directed by Roger Corman. Written by Charles B. Griffith, the film is a farce about an inadequate young florist's assistant who cultivates a plant that feeds on human flesh and blood. The film's concept is thought to be based on a 1932 story called "Green Thoughts", by John Collier, about a man-eating plant. The film stars Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles and Dick Miller, all of whom had worked for Corman on previous films. Produced under the title The Passionate People Eater, the film employs an original style of humor, combining black comedy with farce and incorporating Jewish humor and elements of spoof. The Little Shop of Horrors was shot in two days utilizing sets that had been left standing from a previous production on a budget of $30,000.

The film slowly gained a cult following through word of mouth when it was distributed as the b movie in a double feature with Mario Bava's Black Sunday and eventually with The Last Woman on Earth. The film's popularity increased with local television broadcasts, in addition to the presence of a young Jack Nicholson, whose small role in the film has been prominently promoted on home video releases of the film. The movie was the basis for an Off Broadway musical, Little Shop of Horrors, which was made into a 1986 feature film and enjoyed a Broadway revival, all of which have attracted attention to the 1960 film.

On Los Angeles's skid row, penny-pinching Gravis Mushnick (Mel Welles) owns a florist shop and employs sweet but simple Audrey Fulquard (Jackie Joseph) and clumsy Seymour Krelboyne (Jonathan Haze). Although the rundown shop gets little business, there are some repeat customers; for instance, Mrs. Siddie Shiva (Leola Wendorff) shops almost daily for flower arrangements for her many relatives' funerals. Another regular customer is Burson Fouch (Dick Miller), who eats the plants he buys for lunch. When Seymour fouls up dentist Dr. Farb's arrangement, Mushnick fires him. Hoping Mushnick will change his mind, Seymour tells him about a special plant that he crossbred from a butterwort and a Venus Flytrap. Bashfully, Seymour admits that he named the plant "Audrey Jr.", a revelation that delights the real Audrey.

From the apartment he shares with his hypochondriac mother, Winifred (Myrtle Vail), Seymour fetches his odd-looking, potted plant, but Mushnick is unimpressed by its sickly, drooping look. However, when Fouch suggests that Audrey Jr.'s uniqueness might attract people from all over the world to see it, Mushnick gives Seymour one week to revive it. Seymour has already discovered that the usual kinds of plant food do not nourish his strange hybrid and that every night at sunset the plant's leaves open up. When Seymour accidentally pricks his finger on another thorny plant, Audrey Jr. opens wider, eventually causing Seymour to discover that the plant craves blood. After that, each night Seymour nurses his creation with blood from his fingers, and although he feels increasingly listless, Audrey Jr. begins to grow, and the shop's revenues increase due to the curious customers who are lured in to see Audrey Jr.

The plant (voiced by writer Charles B. Griffith) develops the ability to speak and demands that Seymour feed him. Now anemic and not knowing what to feed the plant, Seymour takes a walk along a railroad track. When he carelessly throws a rock to vent his frustration, he inadvertently knocks out a man, who falls on the track and is run over by a train. Miserably guilt-ridden, but resourceful, Seymour collects the body parts and feeds them to Audrey Jr. Meanwhile, at a restaurant, Mushnick discovers he has no money with him, and when he returns to the shop to get some cash, he secretly observes Seymour feeding the plant. Although Mushnick intends to tell the police, the next day, when he sees the line of people waiting to spend money at his shop, he procrastinates.

Cast Jonathan Haze as Seymour Krelboyne Jackie Joseph as Audrey Fulquard Mel Welles as Gravis Mushnick Dick Miller as Burson Fouch Jack Nicholson as Wilbur Force John Shaner as Dr. Phoebus Farb Myrtle Vail as Winifred Krelboyne Leola Wendorff as Mrs. Siddie Shiva Wally Campo as Detective Sergeant Joe Fink / Narrator Jack Warford as Detective Frank Stoolie Charles B. Griffith as Voice of Audrey Junior / Kloy / Drunk dental patient / Screaming patient / Flower shop burglar
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Saturday, September 10, 2011

CIA LSD Experiment on Psychosis (Secret Documentary Film)


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There have been numerous experiments performed on human test subjects in the United States that have been considered unethical, and were often performed illegally, without the knowledge, consent, or informed consent of the test subjects.

Many types of experiments have been performed including the deliberate infection of people with deadly or debilitating diseases, exposure of people to biological and chemical weapons, human radiation experiments, injection of people with toxic and radioactive chemicals, surgical experiments, interrogation/torture experiments, tests involving mind-altering substances, and a wide variety of others. Many of these tests were performed on children and mentally disabled individuals. In many of the studies, a large portion of the subjects were poor racial minorities or prisoners. Often, subjects were sick or disabled people, whose doctors told them that they were receiving "medical treatment", but instead were used as the subjects of harmful and deadly experiments.

Many of these experiments were funded by the United States government, especially the Central Intelligence Agency, United States military and federal or military corporations. The human research programs were usually highly secretive, and in many cases information about them was not released until many years after the studies had been performed.

The ethical, professional, and legal implications of this in the United States medical and scientific community were quite significant, and led to many institutions and policies that attempted to ensure that future human subject research in the United States would be ethical and legal. Public outcry over the discovery of government experiments on human subjects led to numerous congressional investigations and hearings, including the Church Committee, Rockefeller Commission, and Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, amongst others.

In 1950, the CIA initiated Project Bluebird, later renamed Project Artichoke, whose stated purpose was to develop "the means to control individuals through special interrogation techniques", "way[s] to prevent the extraction of information from CIA agents", and "offensive uses of unconventional techniques, such as hypnosis and drugs." The purpose of the project was outlined in a memo dated January 1952 that stated, "Can we get control of an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against fundamental laws of nature, such as self preservation?" The project studied the use of hypnosis, forced morphine addiction and subsequent forced withdrawal, and the use of other chemicals, among other methods, to produce amnesia and other vulnerable states in subjects. In order to "perfect techniques for the abstraction of information from individuals, whether willing or not", Project Bluebird researchers experimented with a wide variety of psychoactive substances, including LSD, heroin, marijuana, cocaine, PCP, mescaline, and ether. Project Bluebird researchers dosed over 7,000 U.S. military personnel with LSD, without their knowledge or consent, at the Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland. More than 1,000 of these soldiers suffered from several psychiatric illnesses, including depression and epilepsy, as a result of the tests. Many of them tried to commit suicide.

In 1952, professional tennis player Harold Blauer died when injected with a fatal dose of a mescaline derivative at the New York State Psychiatric Institute of Columbia University, by Dr. James Cattell. The United States Department of Defense, which sponsored the injection, worked in collusion with the Department of Justice, and the New York State Attorney General to conceal evidence of its involvement for 23 years. Cattell claimed that he did not know what the army had given him to inject into Blauer, saying: "We didn't know whether it was dog piss or what we were giving him."

In 1953, the CIA placed several of its interrogation and mind-control programs under the direction of a single program, known by the code name MKULTRA, after CIA director Allen Dulles complained about not having enough "human guinea pigs to try these extraordinary techniques." The MKULTRA project was under the direct command of Dr. Sidney Gottlieb of the Technical Services Division. The project received over $25 million, and involved hundreds of experiments on human subjects at eighty different institutions.

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The North Star: Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, and Walter Bre...


Here's an odd, little find I stumbled on at YouTube. Written by Lillian Hellman, pro-Soviet propaganda.

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The North Star (also known as Armored Attack in the US) is a 1943 war film produced and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. It was directed by Lewis Milestone and written by Lillian Hellman. The film starred Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, Walter Brennan and Erich von Stroheim. The music was written by Aaron Copland, the lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and the cinematography was by James Wong Howe. The film also marked the debut of Farley Granger.

The film is about the resistance of Ukrainian villagers, through guerrilla tactics, against the German invaders of Ukraine. The film was an unabashedly pro-Soviet propaganda film at the height of the war.

In the 1950s it was criticised for this reason and it was recut to remove the idealized portrayal of Soviet collective farms at the beginning and to include references to the 1956 Hungarian Uprising.

In June 1941 Ukrainian villagers are living in peace. As the schools break up for vacation, a group of friends decide to travel to Kiev for a holiday. To their horror they find themselves attacked by German aircraft, part of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Eventually their village itself is occupied by the Nazis. Meanwhile men and women take to the hills to form partisan militias. The full brutality of the Nazis is revealed when a German doctor (Erich von Stroheim) uses the village children as a source of blood for transfusions into wounded German soldiers. Some children lose so much blood that they die. A famous Russian doctor (Walter Huston) discovers this and informs the partisans, who prepare to strike back. They launch a cavalry assault on the village to rescue the children. The Russian doctor accuses the German doctor of being worse than the convinced Nazis, because he has used his skills to support them. He then shoots him. The peasants join together, and one girl envisions a future in which they will "make a free world for all men".

Cast * Anne Baxter as Marina Pavlova * Dana Andrews as Kolya Simonov * Walter Huston as Dr. Pavel Grigorich Kurin * Walter Brennan as Karp * Ann Harding as Sophia Pavlova * Jane Withers as Clavdia Kurina * Farley Granger as Damian Simonov * Erich von Stroheim as Dr. von Harden * Dean Jagger as Rodion Pavlov * Carl Benton Reid as Boris Stepanich Simonov * Ann Carter as Olga Pavlova * Esther Dale as Anna * Ruth Nelson as Nadya Simonova

The House Committee on Un-American Activities would later cite The North Star as one of the three noted examples of pro-Soviet works made by Hollywood, the other two being Warner Brothers' Mission to Moscow (1943) and MGM's Song of Russia (1944). Similar U.S. World War II movies are RKO Radio Pictures's Days of Glory on Russian resistance in the Tula Oblast and MGM's Dragon Seed on Chinese efforts against the Japanese occupation.

The extent to which the film incorporated official Soviet propaganda about collective farms prompted British historian Robert Conquest, a member of the British Foreign Office's Information Research Department (a unit created for the purpose of combating communist influence and promoting anti-communist ideas) in the 1950s to later write "a travesty greater than could have been shown on Soviet screens to audiences used to lies, but experienced in [collective-farm conditions] to a degree requiring at least a minimum of restraint."

The film was rereleased in 1957 under the title of Armored Attack. This version starts with the entry of the German column into the town and ends with narration of Hungarians fighting the Red Army during the Hungarian Uprising of 1956.



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Thursday, September 08, 2011

two chinese boys:dadada


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the new clip of the tow chinese boys
funny crazy and stupid
the music is Pepsi "dadada"(FIFA World Cup 2006
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Sunday, September 04, 2011

Ask Jupiter 2 - The Talking Cat is Back



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Jupiter, the talking cat is back to answer more of your questions!

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Theme music: Excerpt from "Maverick" (by me)
End theme: Me being silly

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Sunday, August 28, 2011

Guy shows his junk on The Weather Channel



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Field reporter Eric Fisher gets increasingly agitated as he tries to warn people of the dangers of Hurricane Irene and people start taunting him in droves. Keep an eye on the second guy in the red shorts for some junk action.

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this video has been AGE RESTRICTED??? WHY? His pecker's so small, you can barely SEE IT!

Best #Irene Sign Thus Far...... on Twitpic

Best #Irene Sign Thus Far...... on Twitpic

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Saturday, August 27, 2011

Charlie Brooker on the American News Media. Funny




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From Charlie Brookers Newswipe.

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Sam Harris- Game, Set, Match.



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Sam Harris makes a fantastic point! If physical damage to the brain can alter our perception of the world, why are there still people who believe that their perception is somehow separate from their physical body and will float away to somewhere else when they die?
I recently had a mormon missionary approach me with his religion and when I asked him this, he was utterly unable to respond.