Asian Women with White Men Suck?

from chinaSMACK ::: blogger Christine H. Tan explores the intricacies of interracial relations: here's a snippet or two:::

Just think about that for a while — without being politically correct, what is your gut reaction to Asian women with white men? ... "We're not all rich old white men with young ferocious Asian wives... but they do exist." ... I keep a blog where I’ve occasionally touched upon my type of interracial relationship, particularly in two posts, The Asian Girlfriend Complex, and Ending Bias against White Male and Asian Female Couples?. I wrote these posts because I am very much aware of the negative associations...

Little Mermaid, Revisited

A look back at Disney's 1989 classic featuring the human-obsessed underwater princess, Ariel. 119

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We have a FOLLOWER! Trojan asteroid tags along on Earth's orbit...

The asteroid in the Earth's orbit around the sun has been hiding from view, mostly overhead during daylight, study finds. This celestial disciple could be the next off-world destination for astronauts from earth!

Something else is inching skyward...

GARBAGE CITY: EGYPT -- AFTER REVOLUTION...

bellavidaletty posted: Stirrings

“I’m not trying to be sexy.

It’s just my way of expressing myself when I move around.”

Elvis Presley

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Colombia: RIP Joe Arroyo

Colombia: RIP Joe Arroyo

Written by Lully Posada for Global Vioices · Translated by Silvia Viñas · Americas

Colombian salsa singer Álvaro José Arroyo González, better known as Joe Arroyo, passed away on July 26 in Barranquilla. On Twitter, blogs and websites his fans reacted to the news remembering his life and his songs.read »

Languages: Tweeting in Chichewa in Southern Africa

The Indigenous Tweets project recently interviewed Edmond Kachale, a software developer based in Malawi, who has been active in promoting th... More »

Pisgah Crater volcanic activity: DutchSinse vs. USGS and the rumble in the desert

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I mentioned yesterday about the fight for truth in the secular world. I'd stated that the people know there is stuff going on, but the people who have access to the data or are otherwise in official capacities speak to the opposite of what we see and know. Or they deny completely what...

TechCrunch

Possible Atrix 4G Successor Caught On Camera With 8MP 1080p Shooter In Tow - Here’s a mystery for you: Images of a Motorola Android handset have surfaced on Chinese blogs, and it looks incredibly similar to the Atrix 4G.

Michelle talks bin Laden raid...

...'it's not good, but it's good'



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NetActive 27 July 2011

The Westchester County Department of Health is notifying residents to avoid direct contact with the Hudson River along Westchester County now throughout the weekend.

A fire at a major wastewater treatment plant at W. 135th Street and 12th Avenue in New York City took the plant out of service and untreated wastewater has been discharging into the Hudson since about 5:15 p.m. Wednesday, according to the New York City Department of Environmental Protection.

The New York City Department of Health is warning swimmers and kayakers to stay out of the Hudson River now through the weekend. Westchester County Department of Health was notified of the incident today and is advising people who use the Hudson River waters along Westchester County for recreational purposes, namely swimmers, windsurfers and kayakers, to avoid direct contact with the Hudson River now throughout the weekend.

The New York City Department of Environmental Protection will be providing updates on the situation as needed at http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/home/home.shtml.

Poo In The River (It Ain't Winnie Duh!)

I'm not really big on chicken-little style disaster predictions, perhaps the most frightening of which was that whole millenium thing. But I do recall reading a book in the early 90s about Nostradamus, and his prediction (off by a few years) of the 9/11 act of terror "from the skies above the New City".

John Hogue studies Nostradamus. Nostradamus has a few "comet predictions" and as we learned a few days ago, space debris ike comets and asteroids or meteors can pop up out of nowhere, and we'd have about 5 days notice to do anything (if we could do anything) about them.

Elenin is a comet. Hogue writes "As the orbiting earth lined up with it and the Sun a significant earthquake took place either that very same day or within a few days. The first alignment coincided with a magnitude 8.8 quake hit the Chilean coast sending a Pacific wide tsunami on 27 February 2010. Next came a 7.2 temblor shaking up Christchurch, New Zealand on 4 September 2010. The third alignment of Sun-Earth-Elenin happened on 15 March, four days after 11 March 2011 when Japan’s 9.0 quake crushed and later drowned over 25,000 people and knocked out four nuclear reactors along the northeast Honshu coastline with a vast flooding tsunami that also sent waves reverberating across surface of the Pacific Ocean." The comet will align two more times this year, in September and November. Something to think about.

If Hogue's theory is correct, science must assume that earth's inner core can be influenced by gravity or perhaps some undiscovered property of passing celestial bodies. The hardest part of deciphering Nostradamus' predictions is that you have to imagine yourself living in a century where most of the inventions and things we take for granted did not exist. If the man was privvy to "visions" of the future, he must have struggled to convey what he "saw" - especially historical "clips" seen occurring in a different langauage and culture. So if he wrote "Hister" instead of "Hitler" we understand why. We should also understand that until his infamous "Mabus" prediction comes clearly into focus (via the passgae of time), we won't be able to accurately discern the identity of "Mabus".

Nostradamus' 9/11 prediction was accurate, and we come to know that after analysis it conforms to the structure of his previous forecasts. He used anagrams at times (and perhaps other "tricks" so one could not easily figure out exact dates etc.) - and again I'm sure a lot of what he was able to write down he himself probably did not fully understand. Like if you brought Napoleon here to 2011 for 10 minutes and then ask him to write down what he saw - let's assume he was in a room where the TV was on tuned to the news, there were a few magazines and a newspaper on the coffee table, and someone was chatting away on a cell phone. All this stuff is in English and he has to write his experience in his native French.

Back to the comet: we wait and see. What do YOU think? Another "Chicken Little"?

Disasters this September and November? Alignment-Earthquake connection?

Global warming nightmare?

Ocean Currents Speed Melting of Antarctic Ice

Stronger ocean currents beneath West Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf are eroding the ice from below, speeding the melting of the glacier as a whole, according to a new study in Nature Geoscience. A growing cavity beneath the ice shelf has allowed more warm water to melt the ice, the researchers say—a process that feeds back into the ongoing rise in global sea levels. The glacier is currently sliding into the sea at a clip of four kilometers (2.5 miles) a year, while its ice shelf is melting at about 80 cubic kilometers a year - 50 percent faster than it was in the early 1990s - the paper estimates.

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A Major Glacier is Undermined: Ocean Currents Speed Melt of Antarctic Ice

Did you know that a nuclear power plant in the United States is in danger of a meltdown?

"In every country where there have been nuclear incidents, the industry has constantly lied about the nature and severity of the problem, until they can’t lie anymore."

This evening on twitter:

ABSCBNNews ABS-CBN News

Japan issues tsunami alert following strong

quakehttp://bit.ly/kRj3NK #world #news

Nebraska Nuclear Meltdown?

Earlier today there was a tornado watch out for New York City... but who would ever have thought a twister would touch down in Springfield, Mass.? Not I!

via youtube - Uploaded by wish Tornado touches down Springfield, MA www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5fX072sQH8

Mother Earth has been very testy over the last few years. Payback for the Gulf Oil Spill?

Tornado hits Springfield as violent storms sweep across state
1 hour ago

Babcock said the agency believed the storm that hit Springfield was a tornadoand had received damage reports from the city. ...

Springfield TORNADO!

Italians have been heading out of Rome over fears a giant earthquake was about to hit, based on a seismologist's 1915 prediction that "the big one" would strike on May 11, 2011... W-w-w-well, there has been a shaker, realtively nearby...

If this proves to be the only temblor today, perhaps we should conclude that changes to the earths' rotation or by some other reckoning unforeseen by the prophet shifted the location?

And thinking along those same lines, could those Art Bell style prophecies about chunks of comet that were supposed to have caused major disasters across Europe in the late 1990's possibly still be on the way somewhere out there? Just askin'!

May 11 2001 Earthquake Prediction

Catching up on my print reading! One of may favourite magazines is aperture. The Spring 2011 edition (no. 202) contains an awesome article (page 40) about photography's "secret life as a creative medium" circa 1860. You must see the stunning black-and-white photography by Camille Silvy. Think of Silvy as the Civil War-era version of Andy Warhol. He was an artist who enhanced his works much the same way modern digital photographers enhance theirs with tools like Photoshop. Silvy produced over a million prints between 1859 and 1868.

More B&W ::: Award-winning freelance photog and UAlbany alumni Teru Kuwayama documents history in some of the most dangerous places on the planet. [UAlbany Magazine, Spring 2011, Volume 20, Number 1] Kuwayama arrived in Albany with no career goals "at all," joined the Student Photo Service despite a lack of interest in photography (and initially no intention of joining the group!). Says he: "A year later, I ran the place." Kuwayama's shots are amazing! See them here. You may also check out his Fall 2010 project, Basetrack (on facebook).

The pictures taken by Kuwayama and Silvy capture time in the analog world. And it looks like the lack of our understanding of the digital world may be our undoing.

Get you 2012 thinking cap on now, as you recall Stephen Hawking's waning about broadcasting our presence to outer space? Hawking’s logic on aliens is, for him, unusually simple. The universe, he points out, has 100 billion galaxies, each containing hundreds of millions of stars. In such a big place, Earth is unlikely to be the only planet where life has evolved. Turn to Page 6 of Scientific American [May 2011] and read the appearing dead center of the page. To summarize, gently: for years we've been employing tools like radiotelescopes and SETI to search for life in the stars by trying to intercept what we would define as communication waves or frequencies, but all we have ever "heard" is noise.

Did you know that digital data compression, when transmitted - is NOISE. NOISE, unless you happen to know the codec or can solve the algorithm needed to decipher it. So all that NOISE scientists are picking up with their equipment may very very very well be embedded with alien transmissions! (Hopefully those on other worlds long abandoned the analog technology required to discover US.) Let's hope they did forget - for, if not, perhaps some alien scientist "fooling around" with old analog equipment will turn the tables and find us before we find him... could that be the danger that awaits us as "The end of the world" in 2012?






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