2005-07-25

Back to fibernation, deep into the underground... be seeing you.

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2005-05-11

The newsfeed has remained in hibernation for long enough. Time to start posting again. For news related to our activities please see Some Place Else new entries section on the right.

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Vatican spreads cancer
Cardinal and priest in charge of Vatican Radio have been convicted of polluting the atmosphere with powerful electromagnetic waves. Two scientific studies have suggested a field of Vatican Radio broadcasting antennas north of Rome may have caused high rates of cancer in the area. The first, in 2001, found that magnetic fields around the transmitters were much higher than normal limits allow. (from BBC news)

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2004-12-12

John Dee's crystal ball stolen
A rare 16th-century crystal ball that belonged to John Dee, philosopher, mathematician and astrologer, and a consultant to Elizabeth I, has been stolen from the Science Museum in London. The thief also took a statement about the ball's use by the pharmacist Nicholas Culpeper, written on the reverse of ancient deed manuscripts in the mid-1600s. It's good to have the manual with you in case something goes wrong... (Times Online)

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2004-11-15

Jhonn Balance, we miss you
No other words...

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2004-10-28

Hobbits and leprechauns do/did exist
Scientists have discovered a new and tiny species of human that lived in Indonesia at the same time our own ancestors were colonising the world, reports BBC. Some scientists speculate that species like this (Homo floresiensis) might still exist, somewhere in the unexplored tropical forest of Indonesia. More also in Nature Magazine and probably a host of other news / nature / science sites around.

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2004-09-14

In Search of the Red Demon
"Under an orange moon, Jacquie and I are 75 feet deep in the Sea of Cortez waiting for demons to appear. As we search the black water below our camera lights, a green glow begins to move toward us. Bioluminescence is signaling the approach of a shoal of Giant Humboldt squid rising to investigate us. There's no doubt they're hungry..."
Very interesting story about these squids, not to forget some incredible photos of them.

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2004-09-09

Real Underground Cinema
Police in Paris have discovered a fully equipped cinema-cum-restaurant in a large and previously uncharted cavern underneath the capital's chic 16th arrondissement. Officers admit they are at a loss to know who built or used one of Paris's most intriguing recent discoveries.
"There were two swastikas painted on the ceiling, but also celtic crosses and several stars of David, so we don't think it's extremists. Some sect or secret society, maybe. There are any number of possibilities", said a police spokesman.
The tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs". There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said. Also a restaurant and bar were found underground next to the cinema.
UPDATE!
Clandestine group reveals how it built its cinema beneath the city
There are, at most, 15 of them. Their ages range from 19 to 42, their professions from nurse to window dresser, mason to film director. And in a cave beneath the streets of Paris, they built a subterranean cinema whose discovery this week sent the city's police into a frenzy.... (from the Guardian, via DTM)

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Spider venom - the next fashion drug?
Inmates in an Australian prison are said to have farmed deadly spiders to use their venom as a narcotic. Apparently they kept some poisonous redback spiders as pets and milked them for venom, then watered it down before injecting it to obtain a high. Reminds of certain novels by WS Burroughs...

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2004-07-19

Correspondence of a Nigerian gubernatorial candidate and a Cthulhu Cult researcher
Everyone's familiar with the Nigerian scam emails... this site, Dave Ehi reverse scam, presents a scam in reverse. "If you're familiar with the works of H.P. Lovecraft, a fantasy and horror writer from the 1920s, you'll appreciate this." We did indeed.

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2004-06-08

Atlantis found! Again!
Yes, this time from the south coast of Spain. Scientist Rainer Kuehne says he may have found remains of the lost city of Atlantis. Satellite photos of southern Spain reveal features on the ground appearing to match descriptions made by Greek scholar Plato of the fabled utopia. Dr Kuehne thinks the "island" of Atlantis simply referred to a region of the southern Spanish coast destroyed by a flood between 800 BC and 500 BC.

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George W. Bush - accused of rape, target of assassination, licensed to torture, losing his mind?

Thoughtcrimenews.com reports:
The woman who filed charges against George W. Bush of rape "committed suicide"
Mrs. Margie Schoedinger had accused Bush of rape and other sexual crimes against both her and her husband. Curiously, virtually no newspapers had interest in reporting either the rape charge or the apparent suicide. Her time of death, the Autumn Equinox 2003, may turn on nazi-occult-skull'n'bones conspiracy theorists...

ThoughtCrime News also reported of the recent CIA resignments a week before they happened, claiming that the CIA bosses and Colin Powell were involved in a plot to assassinate President Bush, and perhaps others. And as the plot was uncovered they had to go... Mr. Tenet's comment about quitting "for the well-being of his family" suddenly has a new undertone...

In addition to his overall moronic decisions and actions, an article, Bush's Erratic Behavior Worries White House Aides, suggests that George W. Bush is starting to lose it. About time for the USA to lose him, at least.

While I'm at it, I might as well quote BBC quoting another source:
US 'not bound by torture laws'
"Torturers acting under presidential orders could not be prosecuted" ... "The president, as commander-in-chief, has the authority to approve almost any physical or psychological actions during interrogation, including torture, the newspaper reported."

Final quote for today comes from Charles Manson:
"Can the world be as sad as it seems?"

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2004-05-03

Red rain brings alien microbes
"In July, 2001, a meteor exploded in the air above Kerala, India. From July through September, reports were made of red rain falling. A local scientist, Dr. Godfrey Louis, has analyzed the rain and made the most extraordinary discovery. The red color is caused by microbes unlike any others known." This news from sciscoop.com.
From The Hindu Business Line:
"It's official. The coloured rain in some parts of Kerala was caused by the fine dust thrown up by a disintegrating meteorite. The celestial body, passing at great speed, deposited the dust in the monsoon clouds, causing the downpour of colour."
Quotes from the reports by Dr. Louis:
"The red cells under study appear to be the resting spores of an extremophilic microorganism." ...
"These chemosynthetic organisms grow optimally at an extreme high temperature of 300 degrees C in hydrothermal conditions and can metabolize inorganic and organic compounds including hydrocarbons." ...
"While these extreme hyperthermophiles contain proteins, our study shows the absence of DNA in these organisms, indicating a new primitive domain of life with alternate thermostable genetics. This new biology proves our earlier hypothesis that these microbes are of extraterrestrial origin and also supports our earlier argument that the mysterious red rain of Kerala is due to the cometary delivery of the red spores into the stratosphere above Kerala."
Read the full PDFs:
Cometary panspermia explains the red rain of Kerala
New biology of red rain extremophiles prove cometary panspermia

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2004-04-26

Goomi's Unspeakable Vaults (of Doom)
Weird Tales from the Old Ones... for those into H.P. Lovecraft and his Cthulhu Mythos.

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Japanese wending machines
A personal favourite would be the last one - a vending machine for 'used' schoolgirl panties. That's just what one needs while waiting for the metro in Shinjuku...

Pictures from Iraq
A nice collection of pics that I believe gives quite an authentic view on the current situation in there... Includes some dead people etc. but also other scenes.

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2004-02-07

'Mindsight' could explain sixth sense

"Some people may be aware that a scene they are looking at has changed without being able to identify what that change is. This could be a newly discovered mode of conscious visual perception, according to the psychologist who discovered it. He has dubbed the phenomenon "mindsight"."

"Our visual system can produce a strong gut feeling that something has changed, Rensink says, even if we cannot visualise that change in our minds and cannot say what was altered or where the alteration occurred.

"I think this effect explains a lot of the belief in a sixth sense." He has no idea what physical processes generate mindsight, but says it may be possible to confirm it exists using brain scanners."

Read the whole story at New Scientist.

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2004-01-08

FBI Issues Alert Against Almanac Carriers

WASHINGTON - The FBI (news - web sites) is warning police nationwide to be alert for people carrying almanacs, cautioning that the popular reference books covering everything from abbreviations to weather trends could be used for terrorist planning.

Watch Out for Organic Farmers!
"In an apparently ludicrous turn of events, the FBI warned local law enforcement across the country to be on the lookout for the latest al-Qaeda manual -- the Farmer's Almanac. "

"Don't Let Them Catch You Reading!
Notes on the Inherent Evil of Almanacs

As al Qaeda threatens a new round of spectacular mayhem, and America steps up requests for armed marshals on incoming flights, the latest warning from the FBI cuts straight to the heart of the terrorist threat in America today. No, we're not talking about lethal chemical weapons owned by disgruntled militiamen – we're talking about something so dangerous it could only be possessed by a farmer, or perhaps even your grandmother. We're talking about an almanac."

Label as many people as possible as "potential terrorists" and you'll get a hold of them under regulations against terrorism, forgetting regular legistlation.

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2003-12-31

Indian police baffled by Western woman found in cave
A Western woman, who looks about 50 years old, was found "dishevelled and in shabby clothes" and without a passport in a cave in the Indian Himalayas in April near the tourist resort of Manali.

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2003-12-19

The dead grow impatient
Ancient Egyptian shabti - funerary figures that represent servants in the afterlife - are causing unease for those working at Bergen Museum. The figures appear to be moving in their glass cases.
"The exhibition opened in May 2001. Since then these small figurines have moved. Some of them have turned 90 degrees. They stand in glass cases that are sealed and locked but you can see it in the trails in the dust," said museum guard Richard Saure.
This news from Aftenposten.

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2003-12-10

H.P. Lovecraft lives!
...in our dreams and the Internet, anyway.
- The yearbook for the town of Arkham
- Cthulhu Chick : Who will be eaten first?
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wagn'nagl fhtagn !

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2003-12-07

Bush's Occult War

"The Iraq War Began, And Ended, On Occult Holidays
As with any occult undertaking, the Iraq War was conducted strictly according to occult holidays and occult numbers. Once you understand this reality, you will see that this war is likely Act I of a global war. "

Satanic Druids, Mother Earth and other proofs so scientifically calculated to prove that it's yet again another secret Occult conspiracy!

More at The Cutting Edge Ministries.

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2003-11-27

Invasion of the body snatchers!
BBC reports several rather interesting parasite cases. First, one Tanya Andrews brought herself a souvenir from Costa Rica:
"A month later she developed an extremely painful lump on her head. At first, she thought she had an abscess, but then it wriggled. At the Hospital for Tropical Diseases they recognised the problem straight away - it was the living maggot larva of a botfly."
Another one got a leech into his nostril in Nepal:
"... a brown worm-like creature emerged from his right nostril and looked around. 'I swear it had two beady eyes on it. And it came out two or three inches, looked around and then retracted. I thought it was a dream, a vision of some sort.'
"In shock, Broughton rushed off to his doctor who tried to remove the mysterious creature. But it wasn't going to give up its home easily. 'He had this thing pulled out eight or ten inches and I'm looking at it cross-eyed down the end of my nose, and he's looking at it, he has a look of absolute horror on his face. And the thing came off. And there was this leech.' "
Then, a biologist at the University of Salford intentionally swallowed the immature tapeworm cyst as part of an experiment. In twelve weeks it the tapeworm grew six feet long.

About botfly (Dermatobia hominis, the first of the cases reported), this page informs you of the ways to get rid of it once you're lucky to get one... it is a relief (?) to learn that "It only hurts when the maggot squirms and if you swim, presumably because you are cutting off its air supply."
And here's more information on the human botfly in general. A nasty bug... make sure you won't miss the rather graphic content on page two...!

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2003-11-18

Send Back Your MP3s!
"We knew stealing that music was wrong." Then they figured out what to do... with idiot proof instructions for everybody else to do the right thing. Scroll down to option #4, fax back your illegal mp3's and everybody will be happy. Right?

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2003-11-17

Scientists create a virus that reproduces
From USA Today: "Genomics pioneer Craig Venter announced that his research group created an artificial virus based on a real one in just two weeks' time. When researchers created a synthetic genome (genetic map) of the virus and implanted it into a cell, the virus became 'biologically active', meaning it went to work reproducing itself."

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2003-10-31

Surprise! Our little corner of the universe is even smaller than we thought.
Wired features an article about dark matter, dark energy and the ingredients and the structure of the universe.
"Everything we can see or touch, everything material and physical, is mere fat in the cosmic milk. Everything we thought was important is a tiny fraction of what's really going on."
The article, even though being too brief, paints quite a qliphothic vision - but we knew all this already, right?

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2003-10-29

Dragonflys, CIA's spies?
The CIA once built a mechanical dragonfly to carry a listening device but found small gusts of wind knocked it off course so it was never used in a spy operation.
After seeing the life-like "insectothopter," Toni Hiley, curator of the CIA museum, jokes that she cannot look at a dragonfly in the same way anymore.

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Germans elect Dracula to council
Voters in a district southeast of Berlin chose a self-proclaimed descendant of Count Dracula Sunday to represent them in a local council, election officials said Monday.
Ottomar Rodolphe Vlad Dracula Prince Kretzulesco is not a blood relative of the infamous fictional Romanian noble but was adopted by a direct descendant of Transylvania-born Vlad the Impaler in 1987.
Ottomar "Vlad" Berbig's adopted ancestry has allowed him to draw about 100,000 Dracula fans a year to his castle in Schenkendorf.

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2003-10-28

Sotheby's to sell rare occult book collection
From Guardian: Books from one of the most eccentric collections in the country are being sold to settle some of the collector's debts. The Sotheby's auction next month will include around 600 books, mainly on witchcraft and the occult: a tiny part of the vast library of the late artist Robert Lenkiewicz.
The collection includes the first edition of the notorious Malleus Maleficarum, published in 1487. The article also mentions "the mummified corpse of a tramp called Edwin McKenzie, nicknamed Diogenes. He has determined that the remains, which once served as a paperweight and were found in a drawer in the studio, are of no commercial value and has handed them to the trustees."

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2003-10-23

Through the Eye of an Octopus
"Clearly, Steve was looking�his big hooded eye followed me, and a single five-foot-long arm reached out to the hand I held above the water's surface. The arm inched up past my wrist to my shoulder, its suckers momentarily attaching and releasing like cold kisses. I couldn't help feeling as if I was being tasted, and I was, by tens of thousands of chemoreceptors. And I couldn't help feeling as if I were being studied, that a measuring intelligence lay behind that intent eye and exploring arm."
Steve is an octopus, and the article reveals us something about the intelligence of these species.

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2003-10-22

Each Beat Feeds the Earworm...

" Unexpected and insidious, the earworm slinks its way into the brain and refuses to leave. Symptoms vary, although high levels of annoyance and frustration are common. There are numerous potential treatments, but no cure.

"Earworm" is the term coined by University of Cincinnati marketing professor James Kellaris for the usually unwelcome songs that get stuck in people's heads. Since beginning his research in 2000, Kellaris has heard from people all over the world requesting help, sharing anecdotes and offering solutions. "

Read the whole story.

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2003-10-17

Platon Was Right?
According to data from an American satellite, there's suggestion that the universe is a dodecahedron.

"THERE are five Platonic solids of perfect symmetry. Three, the tetrahedron, octahedron and icosahedron, have triangular faces. A fourth, the cube, has square faces. The fifth, the dodecahedron, has pentagonal faces. Plato believed that the first four corresponded to the elements of which the Greeks thought the material world was composed: fire, air, water and earth. The dodecahedron, however, corresponded to quintessence, the element of the heavens. As Plato put it, �God used this solid for the whole universe, embroidering figures on it.� And if the arguments of a paper in this week's Nature stand up, Plato will have been proved right. For Jean-Pierre Luminet, of the Paris Observatory, and his colleagues believe that the universe is, indeed, a dodecahedron."

News from The Economist.

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2003-10-11

O Phalle!
For thee phallically inclined:

"There has been a superstitious reverence for the erect penis, the phallus, for thousands of years for this very reason, long before the pornographic industry began to worship it themselves and it's priests promulgated it's sexual virtues for financial gain to their millions of followers. "

The rest at the site.

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2003-10-10

Pope Loves AIDS?
Well, he might say otherwise, but the Catholic Church has been accused of telling people in countries with high rates of HIV that condoms do not protect against the deadly virus.

Cardinals, bishops, priests and nuns in four continents are saying HIV can pass through tiny holes in condoms.

Nice & godly... Well, the victims might just get to Heaven...

More from BBC

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Sonar is killing whales?
Sonar may cause a type of decompression sickness in whales and dolphins similar to the "bends" in humans, scientists said on Wednesday.

Although it seems an unlikely illness for the aquatic creatures, researchers from the Zoological Society of London and the University of Las Palmas in the Canary Islands have found bubbles in the tissue of stranded whales and dolphins similar to the effects of decompression sickness (DCS) in humans.

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2003-09-09

Niko Skorpio live in Berlin - 2003/09/15 - with KOUHEI (Jap) and LIDDIKOATIGHT (Jap) @ Automatenbar (Munzstr. 21, 10178 Berlin). For all the details click here.

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2003-08-11

Mars is getting close
Red Planet will be as near to Earth's orbit as it has been in at least 5,000 years.
On Aug. 27, Mars will be 'only' 34,646,418 miles away.

Talk about once-in-a-lifetime visits: During the next few weeks, our planetary neighbor -- Mars -- glides ever closer, ultimately making its nearest approach to Earth in all of recorded history. (From The Miami Herald.)

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2003-08-09

Lights are going out
Not enough stars are being born to replace those that are dying across the cosmos, according to a new study supporting previous claims that the universe is headed into darker times. (From MSNBC.)

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2003-08-07

The blob in the lacoon - or a Shoggoth?
There's a "gelatinous," "ocra-green" "biological mass" that's the size of a small car in the lagoon behind Robert Masterson's house. The retiree, who has lived at his house for the last 17 years, said that the blob has made him quit swimming in and eating crabs out of his watery backyard.
"Have you smelled a dead horse?" Masterson asked. "That's what it smells like."

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And now for world politics:
The Bush Administration's Top 40 Lies About War and Terrorism,

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2003-07-31

CIA presents: Freedom Fighter's Manual
In the early 80's the CIA published a sabotage manual and distributed it throughout Nicaragua. The anti-Sandanista pamphlet is full of tips on bringing down the infrastructure of the country. "The Freedom Fighter's Manual" is illustrated with childlike cartoons and brief captions.

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2003-07-26

RAJAPINTA LIVE
Space: Finland, Helsinki, Kaapelitehdas, Studio L�-bas
Time: 2003/08/01, starting from 20:00
Free entry!

Performing in listed order: (Finnish descriptions provided by the organizer)
Outi-Illuusia Parviainen: avausperformanssi, jossa subjekti kokee maailman ja huutaa.
Torvikollektiivi: apokalyptinen torviorkesteri sieltä jostakin.
Älymystö: industriaalisia musiikkikokeiluja thereminillä vahvistettuna.
Ancient Cats From Saturn Visit Ceres: kestoltaan epämääräinen signal-to-noise dj-setti, jonka yhtäjaksoinen seuraaminen ei välttämättä ole suositeltavaa.
Rajapinta: synkän surrealistista äänimaisemaa ylläpitävä koneduo.
Kouhei Matsunaga: Merzbow'n ja monen muunkin kanssa yhteistyötä tehnyt japanilainen muusikko.

Some links of relevance:
- Dozens of Rajapinta mp3's
- Kouhei / Natiho Toyota CDr available in Some Place Else shop in limited quantities. Some mp3's here, too.

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2003-07-18

Besides TG, other fossils are emerging...

Fossil of 'Nessie monster' trips up pensioner

The fossilised remains of a long-necked, carnivorous sea reptile, which existed 150 million years ago, have been found in Loch Ness.

The discovery of four perfectly preserved vertebrae of a plesiosaur - the prehistoric creature most commonly associated with modern "Nessie" sightings - has led to claims that the fossil represents the first evidence of an original Loch Ness Monster.

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Throbbing Gristle website and info on everything (refering to previous news) is up there.

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2003-07-16

RE-TG ?!
Rumours are being circulated of perhaps the most unlikely (IMO) band re-union ever. Throbbing Gristle! How come people who've always used to look forward (those yet learning see Coil, Genesis P-Orridge, Chris & Cosey) are suddenly getting nostalgic? Maybe they aren't. But instead of speculating any further we can wait till Spring 2004 and see.
Hint: go to www.wayahead.com, search for Throbbing Gristle and see the results.

Edit:
Peter Christopherson on the Coil mailing list: "Please note TG is NOT REFORMING. If there is sufficient interest we may play the following weekend as well in the same setting rather than turn people away, but I can put my hand on my heart and promise this is a one-off deal - TG will NOT be coming to a stadium/theatre/factory near you EVER!"

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2003-07-12

Update: Giant sea creature NO LONGER baffles Chilean scientists
CNN: Chilean scientists said on Friday their study of a huge blob of flesh found on a Pacific beach about three weeks ago concluded it was the carcass of a sperm whale, ending speculation of a giant octopus.
Rather interesting, last time they said "We'd never before seen such a strange specimen", with a no-it's-not-a-whale type statement (see our newsfeed from early July).

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2003-07-04

Mixed-sex "chimaera" human embryo created
An experiment in the United States has created a mixed-sex human embryo.

The team involved insists that the creation of the embryo was designed to cure illness, but critics say moral and ethical standards have been breached.

The process they used creates what is known as a "chimaera" - a blend of two embryos, each of which would have a distinct genetic identities. News from BBC News.

The reactions towards the experiment have been quite negative. Some reasons behind it may be due to the medical world's attitude towards intersexed humans. More information on the subject from ISNA.

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Giant sea creature baffles Chilean scientists
Chilean scientists were baffled on Tuesday by a huge, gelatinous sea creature found washed up on the southern Pacific coast and were seeking international help identifying the mystery specimen.
"We'd never before seen such a strange specimen, We don't know if it might be a giant squid that is missing some of its parts or maybe it's a new species," said Elsa Cabrera, director of the Center for Cetacean Conservation in Santiago. This from CNN.

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2003-07-03

New artist enters Some Place Else
Ovro is the name. Debut album due out in Autumn 2003. In the meantime there are some mp3's in the Some Place Else Radio section.
Some Place Else also re-opened the online shop and are making plans for several new releases for the later part of this year.

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2003-07-02

"The Last Resort"
When you have a teenager on the rampage, who are you going to turn to? In America, parents send their troubled offspring to Jamaica's Tranquility Bay - a 'behaviour-modification centre' which charges $40,000 a year to 'cure' them.
Sounds sane and healthy indeed.

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2003-06-30

Indian sun-gazer hot property with NASA
A 64-year-old man born in Gujarat and who has lived in Kerala most of his life has been invited by the US space agency to demonstrate how he controls hunger, greed, desire and anger by gazing at the sun.

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2003-06-26

Early Scientology information from the 1970's tells why you would want to become a "Volunteer Minister". Cure the world and all that jazz...

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2003-05-22

Ghosts are the mind's way of interpreting how the body reacts to certain surroundings, say UK psychologists. Obvious, yes - the article is interesting anyway. Via BBC News.

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Koneisto 2003 programme now online
Koneisto is a festival for electronic music in Helsinki, Finland.

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2003-05-19

Something rare: Niko Skorpio: the SKORPIOns - No Love At The First Sting is currently on Eyespark's All Night Album Replay at the Black Box Radio.
Says Eyespark, "Complex glitchy sound assemblies from Finland, with a decidedly warped/demented edge. Quirky... is... probably an understatement. This EP is a collection of Skorpio remixes and demo outtakes from 2000... and covers a fair amount of compositional ground. From scattered staccato-glitch dance music... to deep droning dark ambient... to um..
recontextualized metal. Keep listening, and you'll experience quite an intriguing range. At it's heart, this EP is pure sound experimentation... some of which works,
and some of which never even attempts to work, but all of which is exceedingly worth contemplating. This is inspired sound."
Let it be said that this is not an official release or anything like it, but a bunch or remixes and unfinished tracks never meant for a wide audience. But, there it is, go for it!
** edit: not anymore -- in these latter days you can still find it via the Some Place Else Forum. **

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Speaking of relativity, the Albert Einstein archive is right about to open at www.alberteinstein.info. Included are tons of correspondence, pictures, notes and who knows what else...

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Escher's Relativity in Lego
Very good, even. I wonder where's my big box of Legos from the early 80's...

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2003-05-15

Predictions for the future of industrial music this year - well you guessed all that already, right? :-D

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Ibrahim Terzic will play live at Kaiku Festival in Rovaniemi, Finland on 2003-05-31. Kaiku is a sound & video art festival in Rovaniemi, Finland. Other live artists include:
Pure & Berger (AUT / NOR)
Emi Maeda (JAP)
Kelly / Roberts / Verhaverbeke (US / UK / FRA).
Entrance to the events is free. More info here.

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Site-related news since a while... Darkstyle have a new mini-CD out. Titled Whispering Wnoices, five tracks. More info here.

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2003-05-12

Know Thy Secret Ruler! #4
Ken Adachi

Ken Adachi's site, "Educate-Yourself" has an inspiring motto: "The Freedom of Knowledge, The Power of Thought" (not only is it inspiring, it's copyrighted, oops). True to the motto, Educate-Yourself is a multi-subject fountain of secret information ranging on silenced-out medical information to Adachi's main culprit for all things gone bad, the Illuminati.

The satanic Illuminati criminals are intent on killing off 85 % of the American public. Do you dare to find out how?

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2003-05-05

Know Thy Secret Ruler! #3
Burlington National UFO and Paranormal Research and Education Center

This site beams with information. It includes loads of (not too well) hidden information on official-level interactions between the US of A government and Aliens as well as non-USA UFO news.

"Have you ever been curious to find out JUST HOW MANY ALIEN RACES there really are here, living on our planet. I think you will be AMAZED as to the reported number." Go and find out the number.

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2003-04-28

Know Thy Secret Ruler! #2

This week's conspiracy theorists is:

Robert Gaylon Ross, Sr.

Mr. Ross's "RIE - Ross International Enterprises" enlightens us about the evils done by the Elite and their even more evil plans for the future. Not to mention the truth about "Globalization".

Elite Serial Killers and other secret societies are responsible for all the major assassinations and it's all geared towards New World Order. You have been informed and warned.

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2003-04-23

Know Thy Secret Ruler!

Everybody loves conspiracy theories, especially the staff of Kaaos.org. So, as a tribute (which just might grow into a series) towards all the world's conspiracy theorists, who obstinately continue to pursue their never-ending altruistic quest for the Truth in spite of all the scorn they get from self-proclaimed sceptics, we give you...

David Icke

This conspiracy theorist extraordinaire has not only found out that the Illuminati are secretly ruling the world (heck, everybody knows that), he has unearthed who, or rather, what the Illuminati are.

They are in fact a reptilian race of shape-shifters, who are just posing as humans. Remember the 1983 sci-fi series "V"? That's pretty much how things really are... The Illuminati are of extra-terrestial origins (among others, from a star system called Draco, quite fittingly) and due to needing human blood in order to keep up their human appearance, they also seem to be behind the stories about vampires.

Go and read all about... everything!

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2003-04-03

Super squid surfaces in Antarctic

A colossal squid has been caught in Antarctic waters, the first example of Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni retrieved virtually intact from the surface of the ocean.

"Now we can say that it attains a size larger than the giant squid. Giant squid is no longer the largest squid that's out there. We've got something that's even larger, and not just larger but an order of magnitude meaner."
This news from BBC.

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2003-03-16

Talking Fish
"A fish heading for slaughter in a New York market shouted warnings about the end of the world before it was killed, two fish cutters have claimed. Zalmen Rosen, from the Skver sect of Hasidic Jews, says co-worker Luis Nivelo, a Christian, was about to kill a carp to be made into gelfilte fish in the city's New Square Fish Market in January when it began shouting in Hebrew."
(Thanks to wyrtti for sending the URL to this story.)

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2003-03-09

Who Needs Rights, Anyway?

With scary shades of past developments that have lead to totalitarianism before, new laws are being secretly pushed in the wake of terrorism scare in the US of A. Secret arrests, summary deportations, expanded surveillance without court oversight and the ability to strip Americans of their citizenship - just some of what a secret Domestic Security Enhancement Act would give rights to.

The act that could be called The Police State Enhancement Act of 2003, would enable authorities to declare individuals to be official enemies with whom the United States is at war, spy on activities which aren't against any laws, criminalise publishing information the government wants to hide and more.

As in earlier similar developments, large number or Americans are quite willing to trade their civil rights (who needs rights to do things you wouldn't do, but a terrorist might, right?) for merely promises of increased safety. The results don't need to match the promises - after all, when the laws have been passed, questioning them might get you deemed a criminal and a terrorist.

Even the currently ongoing whipping up a war fits the picture: a common enemy is needed to divert the attention away from what is happening at the home front and being in war is the perfect excuse for passing even stricter laws that may never get struck down. Just like the law that enabled the Japanese internment during WW2.

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2003-03-07

Everything's a Yoni
... including Stonehenge. At least this is what (phallicly-named?) Anthony Perks, a professor emeritus of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of British Colombia in Vancouver, and a doctor at the university's Women's Hospital, says.

"Perks believes the labia majora could be represented by the outer stone circle and possibly the outer mound, with the inner circle serving as the labia minora, the altar stone as the clitoris and the empty geometric center outlined by bluestones representing the birth canal."

Read the rest at Discovery Channel's site.

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2003-03-06

Justice Department Seizes "Occult" Terrorism + Piracy Site
Irreality.org.uk - "a website claiming to be the internets number one portal for the occult underworld was seized by the justice department yesterday, following a four month hearing regarding the content of the site."
Sounds unbelievable. Leaving the mentioned "piracy" aside, would resources like Death & Hell or Hakim Bey's TAZ be considered "terrorism" and taken over tomorrow?
Hm... checking backgrounds, whois (via Register.com) tells that irreality.org.uk is still owned by a Jonathan Blake. Whois database last updated March 3th, as of writing this, whereas this piece of news dates from March 4th. We'll see...

More: Former irreality front page found from Google's cache.

Yet some more: Look what the bat dragged in from the above-mentioned cached page: www.chaosmatrix.org - so seemingly Chaos Matrix is finally back online!

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2003-03-05

Kamarikonsertti
Jazzkammer, Helsingin tietokoneorkesteri, Nam June Paik performance documentaries - Jumo Jazz Club, Helsinki, Finland, 2003/03/06. Recommended! More info: Club Praxis.

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2003-03-04

Art worth checking out
Says the artist, "painting, to me, is a magical act; a way of paying attention. when i'm working, ideas, forgotten memories, bits of old dreams will often surface suddenly. i find the world becomes more fluid, more colorful and making art becomes an act of freedom." Recommended!

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2003-02-26

I hope your ears won't bleed...

"Throbbing Gristle were pioneers of industrial thrash. What sane person would listen to their 24-hour box set in one sitting? Step forward Alexis Petridis"
This news from Guardian Unlimited.

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2003-02-25

The World Is Ending!

Prepare for the end of your worldly pleasures, the world will end in 57 years. This from the predictions made by Sir Isaac Newton, discovered from little-known handwritten manuscripts stored in a library in Jerusalem. Newton, considered by many being Britain's greatest scientist, being an apocalyptic thinker may come as a surprise. However, he's said to have spent some 50 years trying to predict the end of the world.
This news from Hindustan Times.

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2003-02-05

Slow Music, As Slow As Possible
"The first notes in the longest and slowest piece of music in history, designed to go on for 639 years, are being played on a German church organ on Wednesday." "Composed by late avant-garde composer John Cage, the performance has already been going for 17 months - although all that has been heard so far is the sound of the organ's bellows being inflated."
This news from BBC.

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2003-01-30

Rajapinta return...
After a little winter holiday, the Songs of the Weak free MP3 download project continues.

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Anarchists and the fine art of torture
Inspired by the likes of Bunuel, Dali and a host of Bauhaus artists, mind-bending prison cells were built by anarchists 65 years ago during the civil war of Spain.
Most were the work of an enthusiastic French anarchist, Alphonse Laurencic, who invented a form of "psychotechnic" torture, according to the research of the historian Jose Milicua.
Fascinating...!

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2003-01-24

While you watch elsewhere, we're passing laws...
Under a rule proposed under Bush's Faith-based executive order, the government plans to take money earmarked for building houses for the poor and use it instead to fund church buildings. This is from a press release from the American Civil Liberties Union:

'WASHINGTON - The American Civil Liberties Union today criticized a federal policy change proposed by the Department of Housing and Urban Development that will allow religious groups to use taxpayer dollars -- previously set aside to house single parents, the homeless and people with AIDS -- to finance the construction and renovation of their houses of worship.'

'"This is probably the most clearly unconstitutional aspect of the White House's faith-based initiative that we've seen up to this point," said Christopher E. Anders, Legislative Counsel for the ACLU�s Washington Legislative Office. "What this does is take federal money that is serving the neediest of the needy in our society and diverts it to the bricks-and-mortar construction of churches and sanctuaries and other places of worship."'

This rule proposal was quietly published on January 6th when the news media where covering the opening of the new session of Congress. Side Note: Bush seems to love to do things "under cover" like this -- expect lots of rules, regulations, and appointments to be made during the upcoming war in Iraq as the news media will be concentrating most of its limited resources on covering the war.

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2003-01-19

DNA to Music
MADRID, Spain - Imagine the human genome (news - web sites) as music. Unravel DNA's double helix, picture its components lined up like piano keys and assign a note to each. Run your finger along the keys.
Spanish scientists did that just for fun and recorded what they call an audio version of the blueprint for life.

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2003-01-17

Naked dance, full dress rehearsal
Follow-up for our 2002-12-07 "Raindancing to stop the drought" -news.
"The women of drought-stricken Ouyen aren't praying for rain - they're dancing. Without their clothes on. Inspired in November by the story of women in a parched part of Nepal who performed a nude rain dance which seemed to bring on the monsoon, Lynne Healy had an idea. [She] gathered a rain dance committee who have enlisted the help and support of the shire council and business sponsorship and, now . . . have been inundated by women wanting to join in the ritual, planned for early March. To date there are 70 local women and more than 100 others from elsewhere who have pledged to take part. The youngest are teenagers - the oldest, 73."
News from The Age

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2003-01-16

Giant squid attacks French boat
"I saw a tentacle through a porthole ... it was thicker than my leg and it was really pulling the boat hard", tells veteran yachtsman Olivier De Kersauson about their encounter, according to BBC.

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2003-01-04

Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend ...
... and now you can wear your best friend as a diamond. Today's odd business link is LifeGem, a company that turns your dead relative or loved one - including pets - into a... diamond. Before you ask: No, this isn't a hoax.

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2003-01-03

Mapping Mars
NASA needs your help. After finishing a training session, you can help with mapping the craters of Mars. It isn't a paid job, but can give you something to do if the boredomdeamon attacks.

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2002-12-31

Mind your head, it's full of holes.
Recalled an old favourite subject: trepanation. Smith College Museum of Ancient Inventions presents a trepanation kit about 4000 years old, and Trepan.com is a site for all kinds of related information - history, purpose, tools, people who had it done etc.

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2002-12-29

Cloned Baby - follow-up
Claims of a successful human cloning has given a jump-start for demands for banning human cloning whether the claims are true or not. For example, the French President Jacques Chirac is calling for a global ban.

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2002-12-28

Prelinger Movie Archives
Prelinger Archives is a collection of over 45,000 "ephemeral" (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films. See films like "Duck and Cover", educational film aimed at children, teaching what to do if there's an atomic attack or "Perversion for Profit", anti-pornography film.

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2002-12-27

Cloned baby birth claim
Probably everyone read about this already, but for the record: "A controversial company linked to a philosophical sect says that it has produced the world's first cloned human baby", tells BBC.

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Defenders of Human Rights....
"Those who refuse to cooperate inside this secret CIA interrogation center are sometimes kept standing or kneeling for hours, in black hoods or spray-painted goggles, according to intelligence specialists familiar with CIA interrogation methods. At times they are held in painful positions and deprived of sleep with a 24-hour bombardment of lights -- subject to what are known as "stress and duress" techniques."

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2002-12-24

The Super Holy It
Site dedicated to the Only True God. When you get the password prompt, type "I believe" (case sensitive).

No comments.

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2002-12-22

Round 'Em Up!
Hundreds of Iranian and other Middle East citizens were in southern California jails on Wednesday after coming forward to comply with a new rule to register with immigration authorities only to wind up handcuffed and behind bars.

Does this remind you of anything?

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2002-12-20

Abandoned Buildings
A good-looking site owned by a Belgian group of recession art explorators. "We like to call it 'recession-art' a form where economic recession, or industrial degradation take a central role and is pictured in all it's glory."

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Race is Invented, not Biology
A group of scientists - writing in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - have found that people who appear white may genetically be mainly African, while people who look black may genetically be European or Amerindian. That is, human races are human inventions, not a biological fact. Read more from BBC World.

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2002-12-19

zone tour
"What is urban exploration?... a way of seeing the city by its hidden and often functional side." Database of several types of urban exploration sites in four countries, as well as movies and photographs to take you there.

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Guerilla News Network
US-based underground news organization with a mission to expose global issues otherwise left outside the mainstream media.

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2002-12-18

Visions from the Underworld
A photographuc journey into the hidden, derelict and abandoned drains, reservoirs, bridges and industrial sites of Sydney, Australia.

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Moo(v)ing Art
Valerie Laws with her poetry-by-sheep isn't the only one creating poetry by moving artiodactyls. Nathan Banks from New York used grazing cows as his composers of poetry, getting lines like "organic conceptual art as poetry."

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2002-12-16

Ruin - Japan
Today, our tour of urban ruins takes us to Japan. Videos and photography. Enjoy!

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The Most Unlucky Church in the World

"The church was wrecked by two earthquakes, a flood, and a landslide - all of which happened while it was still being built. It later became an opium den and after it was abandoned most of the remains were washed into the sea."

Looking at this from a Finnish perspective, there are local stories about churches that could not be built where they were intended to, originally. There are even accounts of what got built during the day being taken down during the night. By whom? Spirits of the land, some say. Maybe this particular unlucky church was also found offensive by the spirits of the land it was being built on, or it wasn't otherwise just meant to be built there. Think about it, if you will.

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2002-12-15

Kryztoc Photography
Today's interesting link is Kryztoc Photography
Gothic? Industrial? Historical? Urban decay? Great photography anyway.

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Victims via Internet
They say you can find everything via the internet. Apparently that really is the case. A German man managed to find a villing victim for his cannibalistic desires....

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2002-12-14

An Eye for the Forbidden
Photography of Joel Peter Witkin. Dark, disturbing, utterly fascinating. Go, see!

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Dolphin-safe Tuna? Think Again..
"Populations of dolphins aren't rebounding in some areas of the Pacific Ocean where Mexican, Colombian and Venezuelan tuna boats kill about 3,000 a year, according to a study by U.S. government scientists." And this from a U.S. government scientists' findings.

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