These loud sounds are occurring all over the globe. Some suggest it's a hoax. But it's improbable that all these reports and videos would be hoaxes. It's a phenomenon without a satisfying explanation. My guess is it has something to do with HAARP.
New Worldwide Map Of Bizarre Sounds
and videos
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Strange Sounds Map and Videos at this link
Andy Borowitz: How dare Obama use facts in his speech!
January 25, 2012
Obama Risks Alienating Republicans By Using Facts
Radical Tactic Sparks Outrage
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WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) – In what some critics are calling the most radical tactic ever employed in a State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama risked alienating congressional Republicans last night by repeatedly using facts.
Mr. Obama stirred controversy throughout the speech with his relentless references to facts, data, and things that have actually happened, all long considered the third rail of American politics.
As the President made reference to tax rates and unemployment numbers, as well as sixteen separate mentions of Osama bin Laden, congressional Republicans’ blood began to boil.
After the speech, a furious Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters, “It’s been a longstanding tradition in our politics not to use facts in a State of the Union Address, a tradition the President chose to ignore in an outrageous way tonight. I won’t stand for it and the American people won’t stand for it.”
“We want to work with the President for the good of the American people,” added House Speaker John Boehner. “But he’s going to have to take facts off the table. That’s a deal-breaker for us.”
The President did not mention any of his GOP presidential rivals by name in his speech, but at one point said that government should be “leaner,” a blatant jab at former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Food for Thought -- Right-wing Reflections
For all those who are determined to put a Republican such as Gingrich, Santorum, Palin, Perry, or Bachmann in the White House, here are a few things to consider regarding the far right wing philosophy and where it leads:
DEATH OF AN ORDINARY HOUSECAT
By RJ Eskow
There's nothing to see here. Move along. Nothing, that is, but this report of a minor incident in Russellville, Arkansas: "Democratic Congressional candidate Ken Aden's campaign manager returned home to find his family pet slaughtered, with the word 'liberal' painted on the animal's corpse."
A statement from the Aden campaign describes the cat as an adult mixed-breed Siamese and included a graphic description of the pet's injuries.
The statement said that the four children of campaign manager Jacob Burris "discovered the gruesome scene as they exited the family vehicle to enter their home" after "the perpetrators scrawled 'liberal' across the cat's body and left it on the doorstep of Burris' house."
"To kill a child's pet is unconscionable," the candidate is quoted as saying.
I know, I know. It's not the most important story in the news this week. In a time of war and financial crisis, there are a lot bigger stories to report than the death of a house cat. It was just an ordinary pet like millions of others, a playmate to some children and a companion to their parents.
Nor is this an electoral scandal. The Aden campaign said they "did not believe the Womack campaign to be responsible," adding that "before Christmas... a (radio) station owned by Womack's father, actually promoted a toy drive held by Aden's campaign for children in the Third District."
People, especially conservatives, will rush to say it's an isolated incident of random violence that could've happened to anyone. They've said that before. Lots of times, in fact.
The shooting of churchgoers at a liberal Unitarian church in Knoxville was an isolated incident.
The shooting of police officers in Pittsburgh was an isolated incident.
The shooting of deputies in Okaloosa, Florida was an isolated incident.
The killing of a Tucson man and the shooting of his wife and daughter (the nine-year-old was shot in the head at point-blank range) was an isolated incident.
The murder of an African-American woman and the raping and wounding of her sister, followed by the killing of a homeless man, was an isolated incident.
The killing of an African-American security guard at the Holocaust Museum was an isolated incident.
Except...
The man who shot those Knoxville Unitarians had these books on his bookshelf Liberalism is a Mental Health Disorder by Michael Savage, Let Freedom Ring by Sean Hannity, and The O'Reilly Factor, by Bill O'Reilly. Michael Savage said the ACLU "will kill us all," that "the white male has nothing to lose... you haven't seen him explode... his ugly side," and that "the radical left and the radical Muslim are blood brothers." Hannity has a book called Deliver Us From Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism. O'Reilly calls liberals "Nazis" and encouraged al Qaeda to attack liberal San Francisco.
The killer said he shot those people because "liberals" are "destroying America." Hmm. Wonder where he got that idea? "Who I wanted to kill was every Democrat in the Senate and House, the 100 people in Bernard Goldberg's book." That would be the book entitled The 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America. (Hint: None of them are conservatives.)
The man who killed those Pittsburgh police officers was afraid that Obama would take away his guns and deprive him of other rights.
So was the man who killed those deputies in Florida.
The accused killers of that Tucson man -- including a woman who was identified by the little girl who was shot in the head -- were extreme right-wingers in the anti-immigration movement.
The man who killed that woman, raped and wounded her sister, and then murdered a homeless man was a right-wing white supremacist. He was on his way to a Jewish Community Center when he was arrested.
The man who shot that security guard was a right-wing tax protester.
The people who were killed in these acts of are human beings, not pets. Their absence is still being felt every day -- by family and friends, by co-workers, by an entire community. Nobody will mourn a little housecat from Russellville, Arkansas -- nobody except four children and their parents.
So why does it matter? The Talmud says that destroying a single soul is like destroying "a universe entire." Who can doubt the living souls inside the creatures that live among us and share our experiences? Killing a pet is a sick act. The dehumanization of psychopathic human beings often begins in childhood with the torture and killing of animals.
The same gradual dehumanization can take place in a society, too. After Gabrielle Giffords was shot I refused to raise the volume or turn up the heat on our rhetorical divide, and opted for a "moment of silence" instead. But just as there's a time for silence, there is also a time to speak.
Even if it's about a cat. If we don't speak now, when will the dehumanization stop? But if people can't see the common thread of life that binds human beings together -- liberal and conservative, immigrant and native-born, black and white -- how can they see the force that binds us to other life?
Of course, the cat's killers don't represent an entire movement. But where's the outrage within the right over the violent and extremist rhetoric? Where was the outrage when people died, over and over?
Here are the kinds of statements that are still tolerated by the conservative movement without censure or criticism:
Ann Coulter said "the only way to talk to a liberal is with a baseball bat," that "We need to execute people like John Walke... to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too," and "My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building." (That last comment's a two-fer: She wanted him to kill journalists and that's her "only regret," meaning she doesn't regret the murder of Federal workers, other people visiting the Federal building that day, or the children in the onsite day-care center in that Oklahoma Federal building.)
"Even Islamic terrorists don't hate America like liberals do," said Coulter. Sure, she's getting increasingly strident as her star continues to fade. But she's got plenty of company.
Leading conservative publication Human Events has a regular "Guns & Patriots" section.
Andrew Breitbart said "We outnumber (liberals) in this country, and we have the guns... I'm not kidding."
Rush Limbaugh said "I tell people don't kill all the liberals. Leave enough so we can have two on every campus -- living fossils..."
Rep. James Hansen said of President Bill Clinton, "Impeach him, censure him, assassinate him."
Michele Bachmann said she wanted her supporters "locked and loaded" and "on the front side of the political battle."
CNN commentator Erick Erickson suggests that "mass bloodshed" might be appropriate if the Supreme Court's rulings on abortion aren't to his movement's liking.
Glenn Beck says liberals are "the enemies of God," coming "for the kill on religion," and are "enemies of freedom." He also said he was "thinking about killing Michael Moore... I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it... No, I think I could. I think he could be looking me in the eye, you know, and I could just be choking the life out -- is this wrong?"
If liberals are Nazis, fascists, mass murderers, enemies of freedom, if they should be shot, hanged, choked, beaten, killed, then what's wrong with killing a liberal's cat?
It's true that not all the violent rhetoric is on one side, but it's vastly greater on the right. And the violence has been directed against the left. Coincidence? We report, you decide.
Full disclosure: When I wrote about bank crimes a while back one or two commenters began mentioning violent acts against Wall Street executives. But they're commenters, not leading voices. And I immediately toned down my rhetoric, which wasn't violent but was strong.
Here's what I keep thinking: If someone were ever hurt by anyone who'd read something I'd written I'd be devastated. I'd devote a large part of my life to reflecting on what role I might have played in the violence, and to helping reduce the violence from that moment on. I think bankers should be investigated, and the lawbreakers among them should be prosecuted. But if one were hurt, especially because of anything I'd done -- however unintentionally -- I'd be heartbroken.
Wouldn't you?
But there wasn't a single moment of reflection, much less remorse. Not from Hannity. Not from O'Reilly. Not from Savage or Goldberg. On the contrary, Hannity was outraged when I laid some of the responsibility for the Unitarian killings at his feet. (A true totalitarian to the end, he raged and screamed on the air and said I should be 'fired' from the Huffington Post.)
Now a cat is dead. Not a first responder or a churchgoer or a toddler in an Oklahoma day-care center. Just a cat. We don't know if it was male or female. We don't even know its name.
If there wasn't any remorse or reflection after those deaths and injuries in Knoxville, there certainly won't be any over the death of a tiny creature in a little Southern town. The town was Russellville, Arkansas, in Pope County, population 27,000 or so. Bet you didn't know it's the county seat.
They'll probably arrest some teenagers sooner or later. Just kids. Just kids who learned this behavior somewhere.
And it was 'just' a cat. It was just a companion for an Arkansas family and a playmate for its children. The kids will cry but life will go on. The rhetoric won't change and the incident will be forgotten by tomorrow.
There's nothing to see here. Move along. It was an isolated incident.Monday, January 23, 2012
Interview re. Weird Sounds, plus a few videos
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Interesting speculation takes place in this interview regarding what these sounds might be... Who knows?
50 years after JFK assassination--and obfuscation continues
Just more proof about who is really running things in our world -- and how they keep the lid on their own nefarious actions...forever.
The Deaths of JFK and RFK and the Silence of the Lambs
By Russ Baker
EXCERPT:
None of the films that Hollywood seems willing to tackle touch on what the great, great mass of careful investigation, research and scholarship has shown over the years--the extremely high likelihood that JFK's death was a covert operation engineered by exactly the kinds of people whose profession was to displace leaders and carry out military-precision operations under cover. (My own book, Family of Secrets, has four chapters of new, abundantly documented and heavily footnoted material on the Kennedy assassination, including the answer to why George H.W. Bush cannot remember where he was on Nov. 22, 1963--and there are many other fine books, both recent vintage and released over the years, which carefully lay out enough evidence to settle the matter to all but the most closed-minded. Examples here, here, and here.)
Nearly half a century after the death of a president who took bold steps against abuses by the one percent of the one percent, we are still in denial about how and why he died. Our leading institutions and individuals are not only scared to talk about the truth, but glad to cynically profit from tired lies and evasions.
So where are we when it comes to our own boldness and advanced self-awareness? This year, we may be headed toward a presidential general election contest between a wealthy predator and a putative reformer who has made his peace with the most powerful, wealthiest circles in America. If not that wealthy predator, then perhaps a demagogic blowhard of the extreme mercenary variety.
Wonder what Jack and Bobby would have to say?Sunday, January 22, 2012
Strange Noise heard in Germany sets off car alarm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=CNql-wSfM0A
These strange sounds are being heard all over the planet, but no one has yet identified what they are. So many guesses...but it's not being reported in mainstream media. Too scary and would raise too many questions that can't/won't be answered. Check out the right sidebar when you go into this link -- there are so many other reports...WHAT IS THIS?
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Liberian war criminal Chas. Taylor worked for CIA
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/20/alleged-war-criminal-charles-taylor-worked-for-cia-report/
Oh, my goodness! What a shock! (NOT!)
A privileged glimpse into the obvious is more like it! These guys are only allowed to flourish if they obey what is commanded by the U.S. (by the ruling forces behind the facade of our government). Those powers don't care how many millions get killed -- in fact, their agenda is to cull the human herd, so whatever is done in this way is happily lauded by them. The Charles Taylors and Idi Amins of the world are puppets, just doing their dirty work for the real rulers -- and getting paid for it. Until it's time to pay the piper; then they are done away with in whatever manner works best at the time.
Friday, January 20, 2012
Great article about the Republican candidates debacle--So true!
Romney Bombs, and Other Thoughts on the GOP Debate
20 January 12
have an article about South Carolina and the GOP race coming out in Rolling Stone soon, so I can't say too much about that race here. But I do have a few quick notes about last night's debate in Charleston, which I had the misfortune to attend.
• I was astonished to wake up this morning and read, in this morning's Wall Street Journal, this assessment of Romney's performance: "Mitt Romney turned in one of his strongest debate performances, defending his business record and laying into President Barack Obama as aggressively as he has in any previous debate."
I don't know Journal writers Patrick O'Connor or Neil King, so I can't say for sure if they were there last night, but if they were, were they watching the same event as the rest of us? I thought Romney was a disaster and last night very nearly achieved the impossible: sharing a stage with Newt Gingrich and looking like the bigger asshole.
To me, the exchange where he fell overboard mid-answer and had to ask moderator John King what the question was ("But you asked me an entirely different question?") came close to being an Ed Muskie moment.
The most interesting part of seeing these guys up close is seeing the way people like Rick Santorum and Gingrich respond to Romney in person: They appear to find him physically repulsive, their noses even scrunching up at him when they address him, like cops opening up a trunk with a body in it. And I think it's real, I don't think it's an act. Romney is so totally insincere and calculating and soulless, it physically offends other politicians. It's incredible to watch.
• I've given up trying to predict this race. Watching the events of last night, I saw plausible nomination scenarios for all four candidates. Don't forget that if the merry-go-round of incompetence continues much longer - if Romney and Newt and Santorum keep hot-potatoing frontrunner status and primary victories - Ron Paul is going to waltz into the convention with a mass of delegates and a legit argument that he was the strongest and most consistent candidate.
• Standing next to the bloodless corporate cipher Mitt Romney and the pompous, bloviating egomaniac Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum - creepy religious lunatic Rick Santorum! - came off like Clarence Darrow breaking up a Klan rally. "Rick Santorum, en fuego!" cracked one of the reporters in the media room, during Santorum's tirade about Newt's "grandiosity."
• After the revolution comes and the Show Trial/Firing Squad period of our history begins, someone from CNN is going to have to answer some very tough questions about "Kevin," the cheesy guy the network brought onstage before the debate to warm up the crowd and introduce John King. Casual viewers at home did not have to see this performance, so I won't share anything about it here, but if anyone among the press or the audience from last night has an explanation for me about that whole business, please write to me and let me know, because I'm very confused.
Anyway, I have to get back on the road to a Mitt rally. More later ...
P.S. I'm giving away a hi-res "Starve The Squid" poster to the reader who comes closest to calling tomorrow night's election results. I'm guessing:
Gingrich 31
Romney 23
Santorum 23
Paul 23
What are these weird sounds being heard around the globe?
VERY STRANGE -- Go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5XsVZ8OgTs What do you think might be causing these sounds? Check out the right sidebar at this site for several more instances of this sound. It's been heard in London, Los Angeles, Maryland, New Jersey, Mexico, Russia, Romania, Alaska, Canada, etc., etc. This phenomenon Is making the news in local papers, radio stations, and TV channels -- but, of course, the corporate-owned major media will not allow reporting on it.
I suspect it may have something to do with HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Reasearch Program). For more info. about the infamous and insidious HAARP program located in Alaska, go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnRPZOUVhJ4 When you learn what this program is about and what it can do, you will be alarmed at its far-reaching impact/import for our planet and its inhabitants. The consequences of this program can be devastating to us and our Earth.
Check out the strange formation of clouds being seen around the world also. They are very unnatural and are apparently being caused by an electromagnetic force of some kind. See these clouds on youtube. Here's one site, and you can find many more in the sidebars: http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=UjkakKP1btk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZYMCE3qbrE&feature=related
We owe it to ourselves and our children to inform ourselves about these events occurring all over our planet. Please watch the DVD "Thrive" made by Foster Gamble and his wife. Gamble is an heir of the Procter-Gamble corporation. You can watch "Thrive" for $5 on the website www.thrivemovement.com or buy it for $20 on amazon.com. You will be amazed/astounded and probably very concerned when you learn about what is being done to us, without our knowledge, by the ruling forces on Earth. You may want to dismiss this as just "quackery" or "junk," but I urge you to watch the film Thrive and then see what you think, after having reviewed its information. The credibility of this film and all of the scientific, government and military experts and witnesses who appear in it cannot be denied. After watching it, you may want to share its information with friends. We are all in this together.
We need to wake up and realize what is happening, folks! Watch "Thrive" and other documentaries that have been prepared by those who have woken up and are trying to alert the rest of us to the dangers we and our planet are in! Isn't it better to know about these things and try to do something about it, than to hide our heads in the sand?
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Interesting interview on the View
A good clip with a little more news re. Newt and 2nd wife Marianne:
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/exclusive-gingrich-lacks-moral-character-president-wife/story?id=15392899#.TxhZ_vk0iSo
Newt: The Family Values Guy (testimony from his 2nd wife)
So, it seems that one part of that juicy ABC News "bombshell" interview with Marianne Gingrich concerns one of the "big ideas" that Newt Gingrich, hive of constant innovation, had during the period of time the former House Speaker was out of office: he wanted Marianne, his second wife, to enter into an "open marriage" arrangement, so that he could continue to consort with Callista Bisek. (You know, the third wife that introduced him to Catholicism.)
ABC's Brian Ross interviewed Gingrich about the matter:
GINGRICH: I said to him, we've been married a long time. And he said, yes, but you want me all to yourself. Callista doesn't care what I do.ROSS: What was he saying to you, do you think?
GINGRICH: He was asking to have an open marriage, and I refused.
ROSS: He wanted an open marriage.
GINGRICH: Yeah, that I accept the fact that he has somebody else in his life.
ROSS: And you said?
GINGRICH: No. No. That is not a marriage.
Of course, to a certain extent, this is something we've already basically known. Let's recall that in the August 2010 Esquire profile of Gingrich, Marianne offered this account of their marriage's last days:
Early in May, she went out to Ohio for her mother's birthday. A day and a half went by and Newt didn't return her calls, which was strange. They always talked every day, often ten times a day, so she was frantic by the time he called to say he needed to talk to her."About what?"
He wanted to talk in person, he said.
"I said, 'No, we need to talk now.'"
He went quiet.
"There's somebody else, isn't there?"
She kind of guessed it, of course. Women usually do. But did she know the woman was in her apartment, eating off her plates, sleeping in her bed?
She called a minister they both trusted. He came over to the house the next day and worked with them the whole weekend, but Gingrich just kept saying she was a Jaguar and all he wanted was a Chevrolet. "'I can't handle a Jaguar right now.' He said that many times. 'All I want is a Chevrolet.'"
He asked her to just tolerate the affair, an offer she refused.
So, the new wrinkle here is that Marianne Gingrich is characterizing this as a desire on Newt's part to have an open marriage, rather than just have his wife tolerate his affair on the side. In many ways, this is a distinction without a difference, though I suppose it now makes a lot of his new demonstrations of Catholic conversion to be ... well, I suppose the phrase we're using these days is, "pious bologna."
Newt Gingrich has yet to weigh in on these new allegations from his ex-wife. In the past, he's written off his infidelities as events that occurred while he was too busy loving America.
UPDATE: There's been a mad dash to break these Marianne Gingrich scooplets, and the Washington Post has their own interview with Marianne Gingrich on the matter of this "open marriage." (This is the "exclusive print interview" with Marianne Gingrich, by the way.)
The fun part is that we learn that the day after Newt Gingrich asked Marianne for a divorce, he gave a lecture to the Republican Women Leaders Forum titled, "The Demise of American Culture" in which he decried the way liberals "talk about values," suggesting that they would not prefer that "young people" to "learn that George Washington was...A man of standards, a man who earned the right to be father of this country?"
As Marianne Gingrich told the Post:
“How could he ask me for a divorce on Monday and within 48 hours give a speech on family values and talk about how people treat people?” she said.
I mean...has she met Newt Gingrich?
Mitt feels our pain
POSTED January 19, 2012
A Letter from Mitt Romney
About My Finances
SOUTH CAROLINA (The Borowitz Report) – Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney has released the following letter to the American people:
Dear American People:
Over the past several days, my personal finances have been distorted into a grotesque caricature by the mainstream media, pundits, and other people who can count. I am writing to you to set the record straight by explaining my finances in terms the American people can relate to.
Let’s say you bought a bottle of Chateau Lafite Rothschild 1982 for $5,000. A couple of years later, what do you know, you sell that same bottle for $10,000. So you just made a profit of $5,000 through your own hard work. How much of that should you pay to the government? I’d say fifteen percent.
Now let’s say you have a fellow mowing the lawn at your 7,000 square foot home in La Jolla, and he turns out to be an illegal. You say, “No way, Jose” (Jose is actually his real name) and send him packing. He doesn’t deserve his full paycheck, since he lied to you in Spanish, but it wouldn’t be fair to give him nothing, either. So you pay him fifteen percent.
Now let’s pretend the United States of America is like one big restaurant. Not a fancy restaurant, mind you, but one that only gets two Michelin stars. And let’s say that you order a meal of Beluga caviar, white truffles and gold shavings, washing it down with your favorite beverage, Chateau Lafite Rothschild 1982. The bill arrives and it’s quite a hefty one for a working stiff who only made $375,000 last year in speaking fees. (That’s right: minimum wage.) So when it comes to toting up the bill, how much should I tip the waiter, who in case you’re having trouble following this metaphor is the IRS? You got it: fifteen percent.
I think I’ve now shown, using these real-life examples that everyone can relate to, that no one should ever pay more than fifteen percent on their taxes. If you have been paying more than that, you should get rid of your loser accountant pronto. That’s another thing I have in common with regular Americans: we like firing people.
So – now that I’ve laid it out in simple terms that even you can understand, do you agree that you and Mitt Romney have a whale of a lot more in common than you thought? I’ll bet you ten grand you do.
Au revoir,
Mitt
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