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The Kitchen Sink / DDjuke Box: Rolling Stones - Memory Motel
« Last post by JoeP on Today at 05:12:33 PM »
Rolling Stones - Memory Motel   

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Diner Newz Channels / Joe's Newz Links
« Last post by JoeP on Today at 04:55:10 PM »
                             Newz Links:

Trust an Ape?...or a Robot?


Would you trust those eyes? Researchers found deceit and deception was 'rife' in the animal world

Greek addicts turn to deadly shisha drug

As Greece Struggles with Debt Crisis, Its Shipping Tycoons Still Cut a Profit

Thousands protest in Rome against cuts




Toronto Mayor in 'crack cocaine' video scandal

Canada could see indigenous uprising


Canada has recently seen a wave of indigenous protest through the Idle No More Movement


UK's climate change adaptation team cut from 38 officials to just six

Climate Change Has Shifted the Locations of Earth's North and South Poles

Hansen - Global warming has not stalled

Madness or Cold Calculation?
 
Drone Pilots Expose Politicians’ Lies


U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Robin Rand, 12th Air Force commander, observes two Airmen with the 6th Reconnaissance Squadron as they demonstrate the Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) Field Training Unit simulators at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M.


The Paradoxes of Empathy
 
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Energy / Re: Energy in 2013: What's next for oil, gas, renewables?
« Last post by agelbert on Today at 02:27:34 PM »
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Quote from: Golden Oxen on May 17, 2013, 04:03:59 PM

Canada boosts advertising budget for tar sands, Keystone XL

Canada has increased their expenditure on advertising for tar sands and the Keystone XL pipeline from $9 million in 2012, to $16.5 million in 2013, Peixe writes. The advertising campaign is targeted at Obama administration officials, hoping to sway their opinion on Keystone XL.

Canadians must be pretty stupid...advertising campaign? Just do like corporations and the rich folks do, and give the money directly in the form of campaign contributions, donations to mistresses to keep their living expenses off the books, private charter jets when Obama wants to go golfing in Pebble Beach, all the NORMAL stuff.
Yep. The new normal:  :(

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Canada boosts advertising budget for tar sands, Keystone XL

Canada has increased their expenditure on advertising for tar sands and the Keystone XL pipeline from $9 million in 2012, to $16.5 million in 2013, Peixe writes. The advertising campaign is targeted at Obama administration officials, hoping to sway their opinion on Keystone XL.

Canadians must be pretty stupid...advertising campaign? Just do like corporations and the rich folks do, and give the money directly in the form of campaign contributions, donations to mistresses to keep their living expenses off the books, private charter jets when Obama wants to go golfing in Pebble Beach, all the NORMAL stuff.

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Tesla Model S Sales Much Higher Than Similarly Priced Cars From Mercedes, BMW, & Audi

May 18, 2013 Nathan

It’s near impossible to deny the success that Tesla Motors has been having as of late. The Model S has been selling extremely well. Its stock has been climbing to new heights, it has turned a profit, it has announced that it will be repaying its DOE loan five years early, and the company is gearing up for the release of several new models over the next few years. And now, new data from LMC Automotive is providing a good visual for that success — showing that the Tesla’s Model S is selling considerably better than similarly priced cars from Mercedes, BMW, and Audi.



Read more at http://cleantechnica.com/2013/05/18/tesla-model-s-sales-much-higher-than-similarly-priced-cars-from-mercedes-bmw-and-audi/#TDgwCDtlPUXke5ii.99
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Re: Were the Viking "Raids" a Religious Conflict? "RE MEETS GO"

« Reply #139 on: Today at 04:55:49 AM »

Quote from: Golden Oxen on May 17, 2013, 04:45:39 PM

There was only one truly Epic battle in all of history.

RE meets GO, Study It!  Learn From it! Remember It!  Less than 2 minutes but timeless in it's message and wisdom.

A WORD TO THE WISE IS SUFFICIENT! And the lesson here clearly is

DOWN GOES BAMBI! DOWN GOES BAMBI!!!

AHEM! Since my fine feathered fellow friend GO recommended I peruse, analyze, ponder and, most of all, LEARN from this epic battle of RE vs GO, I have endeavored to be an objective observer of this fantastic felonious force display of two titans locked in mortal combat.
:argue: :13344-6:
:hammer:  :BangHead: :violent1:  :violent4: :violent5: :icon_mad: :angry1: :angry2: :angry3: :angry4:  :angry5:  :thefinger:
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Mindful of Surly's prudent advice and admonition about the quixotic and ephemeral life of Bambi in the presence of Godzilla and after careful observation of this earth shattering contest of admantine wills worthy of a lightsaber dual between Obi Wan and Darth Vader, I have come to the following thoroughly scientific, objective and unbiased conclusions free of prejudice or any impure thoughts about what's in it for me  :icon_mrgreen::

Golden Oxen's avatar is a four legged ruminant.
RE's avatar is a four legged ruminant.

Golden Oxen has nothing but sweet, loving and protective thoughts about his avatar.
RE, otherwise known as DA Godfader, has been know to EAT his own avatar's tongue!

Whereas the term "Golden Oxen" only shares TWO of the first three letters with the name of a certain large, intelligent, ill tempered and vengful reptile, the word "Godfader" has the same first three letters as said reptile.

Sorry, GO. :'(:crying:   :wc:










GODzilla is DA GODfader! :laughing7:


 
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Diner Newz Channels / Caribbean talks conservation on Branson's island
« Last post by agelbert on Today at 10:09:27 AM »
Another One Percenter that gets it. :sunny:
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On Friday, delegations from the participating governments signed a communique pledging to establish a framework for a regional approach to coastal conservation, including "increasing considerably the number of marine protected areas." They also said they recognized an urgent need to protect sharks and rays, and vowed a "dramatic acceleration in the transition from fossil fuels to alternative energy sources over the next five years." :emthup: :icon_sunny:

Caribbean talks conservation on Branson's island




Friday May 17, 2013 | David Mcfadden for The Associated Press

NECKER ISLAND, British Virgin Islands (AP) — Surrounded by a turquoise sea and a menagerie of exotic animals on a billionaire's private island, political and business leaders gathered Friday to back an initiative aimed at expanding protection for the Caribbean's imperiled coasts and waters.

The "Caribbean Challenge" calls for special protected zones along at least 20 percent of the region's coasts by 2020 in hopes of protecting its biodiversity and its crucial tourism market. The region's scattered islands have 10 percent of the world's coral reefs and some 1,400 species of fish and marine mammals.

Richard Branson, the adventuring CEO and founder of the Virgin Group of companies, is co-hosting the two-day meeting at Necker Island, his home in the British Virgin Islands where he has developed an ultra-exclusive eco-resort that showcases renewable energy technology, reintroduced flamingoes, imported lemurs and other creatures.

"It's just so important to get every single Caribbean country 100 percent behind protecting the wonderful sea life and the wonderful reefs and mangroves, and therefore the species that occupy our oceans," Branson said from his 74-acre Caribbean retreat, a haven for entertainment and business A-listers.

British Virgin Islands Premier Orlando Smith and Grenada Prime Minister Keith Mitchell are also co-hosting the gathering of delegations from nine Caribbean countries, chiefs of resort companies and cruise lines, representatives of the World Bank, United Nations and other international bodies, private foundations and environmental groups.

"This is not a situation where we can say: This is a Caribbean thing and it doesn't include anybody else. This is an international issue," Mitchell told reporters gathered for a brief press conference held on Necker's tennis courts, not far from an animated group of lemurs.

Full Story here:

http://www.newsdaily.com/article/56d05454fb11c3e0cf6df1492253e919/caribbean-talks-conservation-on-bransons-island

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Some of the Caribbean Challenge's participating countries — Bahamas, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, and the British Virgin Islands — have already taken steps to reach their conservation targets.

The Dominican Republic has actually exceeded its 20 percent goal by creating more than 30 new protected areas in recent years.

The Bahamas established the largest marine protected area in the region by expanding a national park in Andros from 185,000 acres to 1.28 million acres. Heavily overfished Jamaica has set up several "no-take" fishing sanctuaries and fishermen say they are seeing improvements. :emthup: :icon_mrgreen:
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Why do I think the One Percenters are absolutely essential to solving the planetary problems that THEY MOSTLY CREATED? ???

Read this to find out:

Why the 1% are the most capable of saving  humanity!
http://www.doomsteaddiner.org/blog/2012/08/13/sexual-dimorphism-powerstructures-and-environmental-consequences-of-human-behaviors/
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The Kitchen Sink / Re: Doomstead Diner Comic Strip
« Last post by Golden Oxen on Today at 07:44:23 AM »
130520 daily cartoon friday p465
130520 daily cartoon friday p465
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Also in the 19th and 20th C's people started thinking in terms of End Times drawing nearer and focussing on passages and parables to that end.

No disagreement there... people can come up with all sorts of interpretations when they have a singular focus, instead of a broader Biblical one.

rev 7 says hurt not the earth, trees, and seas until gods servants are "sealed". Obviously its only since industrialization and  deforestation and pollution that this was relevant.

Revelation is highly symbolic and metaphorical. We can either take that section as meaning a literal 144k people from the literal tribes of Israel will be literally given a seal on their foreheads, or something more reasonable... either way, there is nothing indicating a Rapture there.

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Luke 17-21 I believe, says to be worthy to escape all the things to come. as just in the days of noah so it shall be again the days of the son of man (when polar caps melt). You need to head for high ground.

Mathew 24, all of it and in particular where it says two shall be in bed and 1 taken the other left behind. two in a field, one teleported up the other left behind. Obviously if you go anywhere with me, you should drive.

These are parallel passages. Who were the people "taken" in the days of Noah? Clearly, the people taken by the Flood were the wicked.

As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.  38For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away"

Again, no support for a Rapture of believers.

Also, I really really recommend you take a look at this website - http://ancientaliensdebunked.com/

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Ancient Aliens Debunked is a 3 hour refutation of the theories proposed on the History Channel series Ancient Aliens. It is essentially a point by point critique of the “ancient astronaut theory” which has been proposed by people like Erich von Däniken and Zecharia Sitchin as well as many others.

The film covers topics like:

Ancient building sites: Puma Punku, The Pyramids, Baalbek, Incan sites, And Easter Island. Ancient artifacts: Pacal’s rocket, the Nazca lines, the Tolima “fighter jets”, the Egyptian “light bulb”, Ufo’s in ancient art, and the crystal skulls. Ancient text issues: Ezekiel’s wheel, Ancient nuclear warfare, Vimana’s, the Anunnaki, and the Nephilim.
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Ashvin
You mean interpretation not invention. In the days when the average knave could not read there were only a few bible scholars with particular focuses, mainly around issues of shame and control. Later when people became literate they discovered passsages hitherto kept from their awareness, hence the term Dark Ages when all learning was jealously guarded. Also in the 19th and 20th C's people started thinking in terms of End Times drawing nearer and focussing on passages and parables to that end.

rev 7 says hurt not the earth, trees, and seas until gods servants are "sealed". Obviously its only since industrialization and  deforestation and pollution that this was relevant.

Luke 17-21 I believe, says to be worthy to escape all the things to come. as just in the days of noah so it shall be again the days of the son of man (when polar caps melt). You need to head for high ground.

Mathew 24, all of it and in particular where it says two shall be in bed and 1 taken the other left behind. two in a field, one teleported up the other left behind. Obviously if you go anywhere with me, you should drive.

RE
Not quite true there is  no theory of two equally powerful gods. Demigods Marduk and Quetzlcoatl are equal rivals setting up civilizations, building pyramids or machu pichu etc that humans cannot replicate or provide adequate explanation of all around 5-6,000 yrs ago. One of these is the symbol of the serpent in many ancient civilizations around the same era, which is why he was in the garden of eden tempting eve, the other is also known as jehovah or yahweh.


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