SHEL "Lost At Sea"

Caribbean Permaculture Research Institute of Barbados

These folks are doing a kickstarter campaign to try to build a classroom, kitchen, and office.
Let's help them get this place going.

Here is their website: Caribbean Permaculture Institute of Barbados

Here is their Kickstarter page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1413679591/caribbean-permaculture-research-institute-of-barba

I can think of few causes better than supporting a PRI. This kind of thing helps people help themselves in a way that respects the earth. Check them out and if you like what you see, throw them a few bucks if you can spare them.

Thanks so much.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Y Control

The Covert Origins of ISIS

Anti-Russian graffitti in Bulgaria

"On August 19 The Moscow Times reported about Russia's demand that Bulgaria try harder to prevent vandalism of Soviet-era monuments, after yet another monument to Soviet troops in Sofia was spray-painted.

The Russian Embassy in Bulgaria has issued a note demanding that its former Soviet-era ally clean up the monument in Sofia's Lozenets district, identify and punish those responsible, and take "exhaustive measures" to prevent similar attacks in the future... The vandalism was the latest in a series of similar recent incidents in Bulgaria - each drawing angry criticism from Moscow."--Source

"Figures of Soviet soldiers at the base of a Soviet Army monument in Sofia, Bulgaria, spray-painted into superheroes. The writing in Bulgarian, "в крак с времето," means "in keeping with the times."

For more of Oleg Atbashian's work check out http://thepeoplescube.com/. 

METRIC "Help I'm Alive" - a Deco Dawson short film

Patterns

Mickey Mouse Gas Masks

Is this touchingly scary...or scarily touching?

"On January 7th, 1942, one month after Pearl Harbor, T.W. Smith, Jr., the owner of the Sun Rubber Company, and his designer, Dietrich Rempel, with Walt Disney’s approval introduced a protective mask for children. This design of the Mickey Mouse Gas Mask for children was presented to Major General William N. Porter, Chief of the Chemical Warfare Service. After approval of the CWS, Sun Rubber Products Company produced sample masks for review. Other comic book character designs were to follow, depending on the success of the Mickey Mouse mask.

The mask was designed so children would carry it and wear it as part of a game. This would reduce the fear associated with wearing a gas mask and hopefully, improve their wear time and, hence, survivability."--Source

 H/T--thisisnthappiness.com

On second thought, I'm going with creepy. Here's hoping that this century bears little resemblance to the last.

Bamboo Construction

 "What makes bamboo so sustainable is that it is essentially a grass that can mature in 3-5 years. Species vary in wall diameter of the canes, color, and overall size, making it ideal for everything from strips for flooring to poles for structural support. It has a tensile strength equal to steel. It has always been a valuable building material in the tropics, but has been considered a “poor man’s timber” because its starchy cellular structure makes it susceptible to rot, insects, and mold. Even so, it has also been valued for its aesthetic beauty and as a symbol of resilience, bending to adversity and then rebounding."

Hit the link to find out their breakthrough treatment to make bamboo more rot resistant.


http://www.industrytap.com/tough-steel-prolific-grass-bamboo-boron-building-ethic-future/20887

Meet Truthy

I don't know about you, but this gives me the creeps...

"The federal government is spending nearly $1 million to create an online database that will track “misinformation” and hate speech on Twitter.
The National Science Foundation is financing the creation of a web service that will monitor “suspicious memes” and what it considers “false and misleading ideas,” with a major focus on political activity online.
The “Truthy” database, created by researchers at Indiana University, is designed to “detect political smears, astroturfing, misinformation, and other social pollution.”"---Source

Truthy website

I wonder how long it is before it is adapted to automate censorship. Maybe the ChiComs can help on that end.

Ron Paul on Ferguson

...the warfare state, and how it points both outward and inward:

" America’s attention recently turned away from the violence in Iraq and Gaza toward the violence in Ferguson, Missouri, following the shooting of Michael Brown. While all the facts surrounding the shooing have yet to come to light, the shock of seeing police using tear gas (a substance banned in warfare), and other military-style weapons against American citizens including journalists exercising their First Amendment rights, has started a much-needed debate on police militarization.
The increasing use of military equipment by local police is a symptom of growing authoritarianism, not the cause. The cause is policies that encourage police to see Americans as enemies to subjugate, rather than as citizens to “protect and serve.” This attitude is on display not only in Ferguson, but in the police lockdown following the Boston Marathon bombing and in the Americans killed and injured in “no-knock” raids conducted by militarized SWAT teams."

More at Lewrockwell.com

ISIS

And not the awesome song by Dylan, either.

Pretty decent article on ISIS and its origins. 

While I largely agree with the Anand Gopal, I don't believe he is looking far enough back on the origins of the Arab Spring and ISIS.

It didn't start with the US involvement in the MENA region post-9/11 for the GWOT. It began with Britain and France carving up the Middle East out of the remains of the Ottoman Empire after WW I.

These borders lumped together ethnic enemies (divide and conquer, maybe?) to be ruled over by Western-backed strongman dictators to allow for "easy trade negotiations".

Despite that disagreement, I think the journalist is right on on the current state of affairs and his assessment on the best course of action for the US in response to ISIS.

The White Stripes - Isis (Bob Dylan). Live Demo 2002. 5/9

Been a while since I posted a music video, so heare you go. The good kind of Isis, not the Caliphate. Too bad they didn't do this on 5/5, that would be too fitting. Good cover, enjoy.

Crypto 2.0

"Just when people were getting used to the idea that bitcoin might not be a boom-and-bust fad destined for failure, entirely new applications of the technology have joined digital currency on stage.
Crypto 2.0 – also know as cryptography 2.0, decentralized applications, or, popularly, as bitcoin 2.0 – is the application of block chain or distributed ledger technology to things other than digital currency. The block chain offers the ability to facilitate decentralized ownership and store, transfer and process information in a decentralized, programmable way. Many consider that innovation to be the true value of this technology." 

More at Coindesk.

Soon we will begin to see how revolutionary cryptocurrency really is.

Paintings from a man with pineal gland cancer

Check out these amazing paintings from a man who had pineal gland cancer. For more of his work be sure to click the link at the bottom of the article.

http://ultraculture.org/blog/2014/08/14/incredible-psychedelic-paintings-man-pineal-cancer/

What an excellent depiction of the cybernetic nature of consciousness.

Jello Biafra was a genius

I pointed it out once before in Rediscovery that Jello's lyrics were certainly applicable today in the case of domestic politics in the state of California.

His insight into foreign policy was just as sharp and in fact, nearly prescient. Check out this video, from the 80's as well, mind you. This isn't an official video and the references are updated to the early part of the last decade but, they are relevant again in the early part of this one.

McMoon's--"Dumpster diving for science"

"From an abandoned McDonald's in the backyard of NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, a dozen or so volunteer scientists and engineers have taken control of a decommissioned, still running, 70s-era space satellite, currently some 20,000 kilometers away, by using discarded vintage space computers and a few sweet eBay finds.

The so-named "McMoon's" Control Center is some sort of bizarre testament to human ingenuity and what a bunch of very smart people with virtually no budget or proper authorization can pull off."

Read the rest at Motherboard.

Current state of oil supply and demand

"We frequently see stories telling us how well the United States is doing at oil extraction. The fact that there are stories in the press about the US wanting to export crude oil adds to the hype. How much of these stories are really true?"

RTWT

Sociopaths and politics

"the probability of the people in power being individuals who would dislike the possession and exercise of power is on a level with the probability that an extremely tender-hearted person would get the job of whipping master in a slave plantation.”

RTWT

On the Ebola outbreak

SCG's take on the Ebola outbreak. Well worth a watch.

Ebola - What You're Not Being Told: http://youtu.be/JnQVUf775VE