Thousands of scientists dispute the idea of man-made global warming. Their explanation? The sun is getting warmer.
In a related twist of fate, "green jobs" actually cost jobs.
In other enlightening government news, the government agreed to lie about 9/11 and some in Congress are pushing drugs for new mothers.
The truth movement is making a difference, which is why mainstream media is attempting to hijack it.
Back with more in a minute.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Monday, April 13, 2009
Mental Clutter by Glenn Campbell
Back in the early days of computers, every second of computing time was considered precious. On mainframes, users were billed for the CPU time their program used. Computing time was horrendously expensive, so people wrote their programs to use as little of it as possible. Each program was run in sequence (or "batched"), and when the computer got to your program (stored on punch cards or paper tape), it performed the task quickly then sent you the bill.
Today, computing is ridiculously cheap. Today's personal computers can do more that a multimillion dollar room-size computers a few decades ago, so no one thinks much about CPU usage. As long as your own computer has sufficient capacity for the task at hand (say, the word processing program I am using now), no one cares how efficient the program is or what empy processes are running in the background.
Unfortunately, the same oversupply of computing power does not apply to the human brain. If you think of the brain as a biological computer, its physical capacity hasn't changed in thousands of years. "CPU time" is still extraordinarily precious. Everything though you think takes time. You have think about things sequentially—first about one problem, then another—and at the end of the day, there are only a limited number of thinking units available to you. The physical machine also has a limited lifespan—longer that a typical PC but certainly not infinite.
In your own universe, your brain is the most expensive and valuable mainframe you have. Why, then, would you want to throw any of its capacity away?
People can be very efficient with their thinking time when they are focused on an important task, like writing a report or bringing an airplane in for a landing, but as soon as you give them the freedom to use their brain time as they wish, they seem intent on wasting it.
It is not a waste of brain to just sit and think, as long as the topics covered are important. Daydreaming is not necessarily a misuse of the brain's CPU time either, because that's often how you solve real-world problems. There is nothing wrong with staring into space and free-associating, because this is the way we process our past experiences and plan our future actions.
What is a waste of mental resources are all those millions of outside products and diversions that do nothing for us except soak up CPU time. Crossword puzzles and video games are prime examples. Vast swathes of brain time are absorbed by these devices with nothing to show for them in the end. Come to think of it, just about everything marketed as entertainment is a mental time waster of some kind. People are always seeking "stimulation" in their entertainment—that is, a high occupation of mental resources—but it isn't usually meaningful stimulation that contributes anything to their lives.
It seems as though most people want to waste their own brain capacity. They drink to avoid using it. They "party." They watch meaningless TV shows for hours every day. They have those iPod thingys stuck in their ears at all times so there's no possibility of any conscious thought intruding.
Perhaps this is the most destructive addiction of all: the addiction to thought avoidance.
This disease manifests itself as "boredom" whenever ones mental time isn't fully programmed. Boredom is like the smoker's craving for a cigarette or an alcoholic's lust for drink. As soon as most people have "nothing to do," they panic and try desperately to fill the mental space with something.
And it isn't just video games that fill the void. A voracious reader can be just as much an addict. Is he reading because of the real benefit he is getting from the content or because of the anxiety he feels whenever he sits alone without anything to process?
Why do people avoid their own thoughts? Perhaps it is because those thoughts keep leading them to unpleasant conclusions. If you feel, deep down, that you are worthless or have made mistakes you can't deal with, your unhindered thoughts are always going to lead you back there. If you keep your brain continuously occupied, then you never have to think those thoughts. When the amusements run out, though, that's when panic strikes and you look for something, anything, to keep the bad thoughts at bay.
If you care about doing something useful with your own mental capacity, you can't be swayed by boredom or panic. Instead, you must only do things with your brain time that make sense. Like CPU time on a mainframe, your "thought space" is something you need to protect and never waste. Like any other precious resource, it has to be carefully managed.
You can never tell your brain exactly what to think, but you can manage the environment in which it operates. If there is too much clutter in that environment, you're not going to get a lot of useful thinking done. If you are constantly being interrupted by outside stimuli, it is going to be difficult to accomplish much complex higher-level creativity. If you turn off the radio, remove the Bluetooth from your ear, turn of the laptop and withdraw temporarily from people, the quality of your thinking processes will probably improve.
Those are exactly the conditions that most people equate with "boredom," but if you are wise, you will learn how to work with boredom and make it your friend. Only by being comfortable with your own thoughts can you make the most of your brain capacity.
http://thingsyoudontneed.blogspot.com/
Today, computing is ridiculously cheap. Today's personal computers can do more that a multimillion dollar room-size computers a few decades ago, so no one thinks much about CPU usage. As long as your own computer has sufficient capacity for the task at hand (say, the word processing program I am using now), no one cares how efficient the program is or what empy processes are running in the background.
Unfortunately, the same oversupply of computing power does not apply to the human brain. If you think of the brain as a biological computer, its physical capacity hasn't changed in thousands of years. "CPU time" is still extraordinarily precious. Everything though you think takes time. You have think about things sequentially—first about one problem, then another—and at the end of the day, there are only a limited number of thinking units available to you. The physical machine also has a limited lifespan—longer that a typical PC but certainly not infinite.
In your own universe, your brain is the most expensive and valuable mainframe you have. Why, then, would you want to throw any of its capacity away?
People can be very efficient with their thinking time when they are focused on an important task, like writing a report or bringing an airplane in for a landing, but as soon as you give them the freedom to use their brain time as they wish, they seem intent on wasting it.
It is not a waste of brain to just sit and think, as long as the topics covered are important. Daydreaming is not necessarily a misuse of the brain's CPU time either, because that's often how you solve real-world problems. There is nothing wrong with staring into space and free-associating, because this is the way we process our past experiences and plan our future actions.
What is a waste of mental resources are all those millions of outside products and diversions that do nothing for us except soak up CPU time. Crossword puzzles and video games are prime examples. Vast swathes of brain time are absorbed by these devices with nothing to show for them in the end. Come to think of it, just about everything marketed as entertainment is a mental time waster of some kind. People are always seeking "stimulation" in their entertainment—that is, a high occupation of mental resources—but it isn't usually meaningful stimulation that contributes anything to their lives.
It seems as though most people want to waste their own brain capacity. They drink to avoid using it. They "party." They watch meaningless TV shows for hours every day. They have those iPod thingys stuck in their ears at all times so there's no possibility of any conscious thought intruding.
Perhaps this is the most destructive addiction of all: the addiction to thought avoidance.
This disease manifests itself as "boredom" whenever ones mental time isn't fully programmed. Boredom is like the smoker's craving for a cigarette or an alcoholic's lust for drink. As soon as most people have "nothing to do," they panic and try desperately to fill the mental space with something.
And it isn't just video games that fill the void. A voracious reader can be just as much an addict. Is he reading because of the real benefit he is getting from the content or because of the anxiety he feels whenever he sits alone without anything to process?
Why do people avoid their own thoughts? Perhaps it is because those thoughts keep leading them to unpleasant conclusions. If you feel, deep down, that you are worthless or have made mistakes you can't deal with, your unhindered thoughts are always going to lead you back there. If you keep your brain continuously occupied, then you never have to think those thoughts. When the amusements run out, though, that's when panic strikes and you look for something, anything, to keep the bad thoughts at bay.
If you care about doing something useful with your own mental capacity, you can't be swayed by boredom or panic. Instead, you must only do things with your brain time that make sense. Like CPU time on a mainframe, your "thought space" is something you need to protect and never waste. Like any other precious resource, it has to be carefully managed.
You can never tell your brain exactly what to think, but you can manage the environment in which it operates. If there is too much clutter in that environment, you're not going to get a lot of useful thinking done. If you are constantly being interrupted by outside stimuli, it is going to be difficult to accomplish much complex higher-level creativity. If you turn off the radio, remove the Bluetooth from your ear, turn of the laptop and withdraw temporarily from people, the quality of your thinking processes will probably improve.
Those are exactly the conditions that most people equate with "boredom," but if you are wise, you will learn how to work with boredom and make it your friend. Only by being comfortable with your own thoughts can you make the most of your brain capacity.
http://thingsyoudontneed.blogspot.com/
Friday, February 20, 2009
The illegitimacy of American government isn't permanent
We all know the American government does messed up things, like spying on protesters and labeling them terrorists.
By now, many of us know that the Federal Reserve is a private bank that is bankrupting America.
But what you may not know, is that our government is likely not the Republic we thought it was, but a corporate Empire that continually serves the rich and takes from the poor.
President Obama has proven that he too works for the establishment, and not the people.
At the rate we're going, dissent may soon be outlawed, the way it now is in Britain.
In the meantime, fight the power, but keep the faith.
If a man can invent this, we freedom fighters can turn this ship around.
After all, the power of our minds is unlimited.
By now, many of us know that the Federal Reserve is a private bank that is bankrupting America.
But what you may not know, is that our government is likely not the Republic we thought it was, but a corporate Empire that continually serves the rich and takes from the poor.
President Obama has proven that he too works for the establishment, and not the people.
At the rate we're going, dissent may soon be outlawed, the way it now is in Britain.
In the meantime, fight the power, but keep the faith.
If a man can invent this, we freedom fighters can turn this ship around.
After all, the power of our minds is unlimited.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Israel, Obama, and another cure for cancer
Welcome back Truth seekers!
Tony Farmer introduced me to the Gerson Institute today, which claims to cure cancer.
He also sent me this article which says flu vaccines can lead to Alzheimer's (I knew it! Well, not really, but I knew they were bad for you).
Ron Paul is trying to end the Federal Reserve. His archives on LewRockwell are a wealth, no, a national treasure of information.
Meanwhile, the Democrats might be on the attack against net neutrality, and Salon.com's Glenn Greenwald says Obama failed his first test on civil liberties and accountability -- resoundingly and disgracefully.
When the army is slicing someone's genitals with a scalpel, there needs to be a public trial.
And finally, in honor of my friend Dan, here is a sampling of the real story on Israel.
Controversial Bestseller Shakes the Foundation of the Israeli State
What if the Palestinian Arabs who have lived for decades under the heel of the modern Israeli state are in fact descended from the very same "children of Israel" described in the Old Testament?
And what if most modern Israelis aren't descended from the ancient Israelites at all, but are actually a mix of Europeans, North Africans and others who didn't "return" to the scrap of land we now call Israel and establish a new state following the attempt to exterminate them during World War II, but came in and forcefully displaced people whose ancestors had lived there for millennia?
Israel is destroying the Palestinian food supply, bombing schools, and arresting their own citizens for protesting.
Israel is the aggressor.
Tony Farmer introduced me to the Gerson Institute today, which claims to cure cancer.
He also sent me this article which says flu vaccines can lead to Alzheimer's (I knew it! Well, not really, but I knew they were bad for you).
Ron Paul is trying to end the Federal Reserve. His archives on LewRockwell are a wealth, no, a national treasure of information.
Meanwhile, the Democrats might be on the attack against net neutrality, and Salon.com's Glenn Greenwald says Obama failed his first test on civil liberties and accountability -- resoundingly and disgracefully.
When the army is slicing someone's genitals with a scalpel, there needs to be a public trial.
And finally, in honor of my friend Dan, here is a sampling of the real story on Israel.
Controversial Bestseller Shakes the Foundation of the Israeli State
What if the Palestinian Arabs who have lived for decades under the heel of the modern Israeli state are in fact descended from the very same "children of Israel" described in the Old Testament?
And what if most modern Israelis aren't descended from the ancient Israelites at all, but are actually a mix of Europeans, North Africans and others who didn't "return" to the scrap of land we now call Israel and establish a new state following the attempt to exterminate them during World War II, but came in and forcefully displaced people whose ancestors had lived there for millennia?
Israel is destroying the Palestinian food supply, bombing schools, and arresting their own citizens for protesting.
Israel is the aggressor.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
The Renovation of TheAndrewMeyer.com
Welcome friends!
TheAndrewMeyer.com is now updated in all sections, with new contributors (including this article on marijuana curing cancer), new columns, new music, new front-page videos, and much more.
Soon, I will even have t-shirts designed by artist Phil Fung up for sale!
I will continue to update the site weekly with the most relevant news and videos.
In cleaning up the site, I had to cut some articles. I don't want to forever relegate my friends' work to the memory hole, so I will post them here:
Double Dose of Kummer
Two Bad Ass Columns - 9/6/07
By Chris Kummer
Michael Vick, Barry Bonds, and other behavioral anomalies
Sports - 8/28/07
By Max Wolson
DB (Denver Broncos)
Sports - 8/23/07
By T. Lilly
The folly of serious
By The Andrew Meyer
Thanks for staying tuned, new and exciting updates will be available weekly!
-Andrew
TheAndrewMeyer.com is now updated in all sections, with new contributors (including this article on marijuana curing cancer), new columns, new music, new front-page videos, and much more.
Soon, I will even have t-shirts designed by artist Phil Fung up for sale!
I will continue to update the site weekly with the most relevant news and videos.
In cleaning up the site, I had to cut some articles. I don't want to forever relegate my friends' work to the memory hole, so I will post them here:
Double Dose of Kummer
Two Bad Ass Columns - 9/6/07
By Chris Kummer
Michael Vick, Barry Bonds, and other behavioral anomalies
Sports - 8/28/07
By Max Wolson
DB (Denver Broncos)
Sports - 8/23/07
By T. Lilly
The folly of serious
By The Andrew Meyer
Thanks for staying tuned, new and exciting updates will be available weekly!
-Andrew
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Out to Lunch
I am going on blogging hiatus for a while.
In the meantime, check out bradblog.com, reddit.com and blackboxvoting.org for reliable information on the 2008 election scams.
Voter's rights are in jeopardy once again across America.
-South Carolina
-Nevada
-Texas
No matter where it is, the same cast of characters is always being slighted.
Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel get kicked out of debates because TV is allergic to the truth.
You can now add Barack Obama to the list of the slighted. He is the "mainstream candidate" most for change, and the theft of his NH delegates shows that even his measured, miniscule brand of change is not something the establishment is willing to accept.
They will cheat and lie and steal and go to any cost to win.
Pay attention America. Stay vigilent.
Andrew Meyer, over and out.
In the meantime, check out bradblog.com, reddit.com and blackboxvoting.org for reliable information on the 2008 election scams.
Voter's rights are in jeopardy once again across America.
-South Carolina
-Nevada
-Texas
No matter where it is, the same cast of characters is always being slighted.
Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel get kicked out of debates because TV is allergic to the truth.
You can now add Barack Obama to the list of the slighted. He is the "mainstream candidate" most for change, and the theft of his NH delegates shows that even his measured, miniscule brand of change is not something the establishment is willing to accept.
They will cheat and lie and steal and go to any cost to win.
Pay attention America. Stay vigilent.
Andrew Meyer, over and out.
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Possible Fraud in Iowa, New Hampshire Primaries
UPDATE: Ron Paul finished with 15% of the NH Hand Count, which would have put him in 3rd place.
From Bev Harris of blackboxvoting.org, the star of "Hacking Democracy" and an expert on voting fraud:
"1-4-08: Eh? Iowa Republicans STILL missing 65 precincts in results
It isn't even a skillful magic show.
The Republican caucuses usually take only half as long as the Democratic caucuses, due to simpler procedures. Yet the Republicans are lagging behind the Democrats now by over TEN HOURS in having all their results in. Results delays are a red flag.
Alert CSPAN watchers caught TV screen shots of Giuliani vote totals going down by a couple thousand votes midstream in, I believe it was, Linn County. That needs a confirm; screen shot images were posted on various blogs, but if anyone recorded the coverage and can corroborate those screen shots, please let us know.
As many of us know, vote totals that go DOWN during the middle of the count can be an error, but also can signal an election theft tactic whereby votes from a candidate finishing very low in the pack are skimmed off and given to a favored candidate higher in the pack. If corroborated, the vote total shift will be another red flag.
And with the Republican race, I wouldn't look first at fraud in the number one position. I'd look for it in the area of repositioning candidates in the second through sixth spot.
- The delay in results is a red flag.
- The vote totals going down during the count is a red flag.
- The failure to release county results in live time, as promised in a Republican Party press release on Jan. 2, is a red flag.
- The failure to release precinct totals at all is a corrupt procedure. Note that the day before the caucuses, after much pressure, the Republicans did (belatedly) promise to release the precinct results on election night. They didn't.
In addition: I'm trying to get information on whether the public was kicked out of the room during hand counting in all locations, or just some.
I will be publishing some reports by caucus attendees in the "Front Lines" section later today.
There is absolutely no reason to consider any of the Republican caucus results to be credible.
I'm not saying they are wrong, I am saying the breakdown in checks and balances was stunning enough to call it not a magic show, but a bad magic show.
Bev Harris"
The screen shots of the altered Giuliani vote counts can be found here.
Meanwhile, it is possible that Hillary Clinton received a boost from the Diebold voting machines.
An explanation of how Diebold machines can be easily rigged found here.
Also, Ron Paul votes weren't counted due to "human error" in at least one county in New Hampshire.
And finally, get ready for some serious shenanigans in the upcoming South Carolina primary. They are using machines de-certified by numerous other states.
Digg.com is no longer the best news source for truthful and up-to-date information on the democratic process.
Reddit.com and WhatReallyHappened.com are now providing my information.
I only wish some of this information was printed in the NY Times.
Good luck, America, and God Bless.
(Oh, and for the record, Hillary didn't really "win" New Hampshire. Despite what the media has reported, she and Obama get the exact same number of delegates anyway.)
From Bev Harris of blackboxvoting.org, the star of "Hacking Democracy" and an expert on voting fraud:
"1-4-08: Eh? Iowa Republicans STILL missing 65 precincts in results
It isn't even a skillful magic show.
The Republican caucuses usually take only half as long as the Democratic caucuses, due to simpler procedures. Yet the Republicans are lagging behind the Democrats now by over TEN HOURS in having all their results in. Results delays are a red flag.
Alert CSPAN watchers caught TV screen shots of Giuliani vote totals going down by a couple thousand votes midstream in, I believe it was, Linn County. That needs a confirm; screen shot images were posted on various blogs, but if anyone recorded the coverage and can corroborate those screen shots, please let us know.
As many of us know, vote totals that go DOWN during the middle of the count can be an error, but also can signal an election theft tactic whereby votes from a candidate finishing very low in the pack are skimmed off and given to a favored candidate higher in the pack. If corroborated, the vote total shift will be another red flag.
And with the Republican race, I wouldn't look first at fraud in the number one position. I'd look for it in the area of repositioning candidates in the second through sixth spot.
- The delay in results is a red flag.
- The vote totals going down during the count is a red flag.
- The failure to release county results in live time, as promised in a Republican Party press release on Jan. 2, is a red flag.
- The failure to release precinct totals at all is a corrupt procedure. Note that the day before the caucuses, after much pressure, the Republicans did (belatedly) promise to release the precinct results on election night. They didn't.
In addition: I'm trying to get information on whether the public was kicked out of the room during hand counting in all locations, or just some.
I will be publishing some reports by caucus attendees in the "Front Lines" section later today.
There is absolutely no reason to consider any of the Republican caucus results to be credible.
I'm not saying they are wrong, I am saying the breakdown in checks and balances was stunning enough to call it not a magic show, but a bad magic show.
Bev Harris"
The screen shots of the altered Giuliani vote counts can be found here.
Meanwhile, it is possible that Hillary Clinton received a boost from the Diebold voting machines.
An explanation of how Diebold machines can be easily rigged found here.
Also, Ron Paul votes weren't counted due to "human error" in at least one county in New Hampshire.
And finally, get ready for some serious shenanigans in the upcoming South Carolina primary. They are using machines de-certified by numerous other states.
Digg.com is no longer the best news source for truthful and up-to-date information on the democratic process.
Reddit.com and WhatReallyHappened.com are now providing my information.
I only wish some of this information was printed in the NY Times.
Good luck, America, and God Bless.
(Oh, and for the record, Hillary didn't really "win" New Hampshire. Despite what the media has reported, she and Obama get the exact same number of delegates anyway.)
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