Tonight on Planet Waves FM :: The Gospel According to Darkness
Tonight's program considers the state of the world here at the edge of the Pluto in Capricorn era, as we embark on the Pluto in Aquarius era.
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Letter to Mike Stone re the veracity of chemistry
The problem with chemistry is opposite that of virology, Mike.
The corporate chemists know exactly what compounds they are dealing with and in what concentrations they exist. They know where in the manufacturing process they are formed, and they know in what concentrations they are shipped out. I have never seen an issue with the GC/MS as a tool that measures concentrations accurately.
The molecular diagrams of corporate chemists specifically identify the chemicals, and you can track this in their paperwork and documentation over time, for example, with the discovery of dioxin, and the manufacturers’ knowledge of where it ends up in their products.
This is not about whether the molecule on paper looks like the molecule in reality; it’s about the understanding of the formula, and the known effect of exposure on people.
Manufacturers know the toxicity levels; their internal documents support this.
They then use various means of deception and falsification to present the entirely opposite picture to the public, and claim the products are safe when in fact they are deadly. What you get is years of Lysol distributed with dioxin in the final product, with consumers being told in TV ads to wash dogs and kids’ toys with the stuff.
Here is an example of this from the history of PCBs, which are dioxin-like compounds that were used for hundred of purposes; the doc is from my own collection. This was taking place in the mid-1970s after the reality of PCB-contaminated game fish was exposed in Sports Illustrated as poisoning fishermen and their families with PCBs.
IBT labs was a safety testing firm allowed by EPA/FDA etc, which was conducting a fraudulent operation on behalf or Monsanto and many others:
In a letter to IBT Labs two months later commenting on a set of PCB test results, Wheeler [of Monsanto] wrote, "We would hope that we might find a higher 'no effect' level with this sample as compared to the previous work."
In later years, Monsanto's requests would become even more blatant. "In two instances, the previous conclusion of 'slightly tumorigenic' was changed to 'non-carcinogenic,'" Monsanto wrote in July 1975. "The latter phrase is preferable. May we request that the Aroclor 1254 report be amended to say 'does not appear to be carcinogenic.'"
Two weeks later, Calandra [president of the IBT testing lab] responded: "We will amend our statement in the last paragraph on page 2 of the Aroclor 1254 report to read, 'does not appear to be carcinogenic' in place of 'slightly tumorigenic' as requested.”
Testimony about the IBT Labs scandal in a Texas lawsuit against Monsanto indicates that IBT was aware that PCBs caused extremely high numbers of tumors in test rats, with 82 percent developing tumors when fed Aroclor 1254 at 10 parts per million and 100 percent at 100 parts per million. Yet with a stroke of a pen, IBT Labs certified PCBs a noncarcinogen.
To be clear, 100% of the rats getting tumors is considered “non-carcinogenic.” The chemistry is well understood. The deception is in the rhetoric.
PS— then viruses are blamed for the diseases caused by toxins.
efc
Commentary on Existential Philosophy from Waking Life by Richard Linklater. The words are those of Prof. Robert Solomon himself, unscripted.
“The reason why I refuse to take existentialism as just another French fashion or historical curiosity is that I think it has something very important to offer us for the new century. I’m afraid we’re losing the real virtues of living life passionately, sense of taking responsibility for who you are, the ability to make something of yourself and feeling good about life.
“Existentialism is often discussed as if it’s a philosophy of despair. But I think the truth is just the opposite. Sartre once interviewed said he never really felt a day of despair in his life. But one thing that comes out from reading these guys is not a sense of anguish about life so much as a real kind of exuberance of feeling on top of it. It’s like your life is yours to create.
“I’ve read the postmodernists with some interest, even admiration. But when I read them, I always have this awful nagging feeling that something absolutely essential is getting left out. The more that you talk about a person as a social construction or as a confluence of forces or as fragmented or marginalized, what you do is you open up a whole new world of excuses.
“And when Sartre talks about responsibility, he’s not talking about something abstract. He’s not talking about the kind of self or soul that theologians would argue about. It’s something very concrete. It’s you and me talking. Making decisions. Doing things and taking the consequences. It might be true that there are six billion people in the world and counting.
“Nevertheless, what you do makes a difference. It makes a difference, first of all, in material terms. Makes a difference to other people and it sets an example. In short, I think the message here is that we should never simply write ourselves off and see ourselves as the victim of various forces. It’s always our decision who we are.”
— Prof. Robert Solomon, UT Austin, from the film Waking Life.
Thanks for introducing me to the work of Jane Siberry.
The Robert Solomon statement about existentialism and being a responsible human being [text at the program; Planet Waves FM page] is precious, golden. WOW!!
Lots to contemplate. Islam be the way is more rooted in Judaism than in Christianity.
The escalation in the Red Sea and indeed the entirety of Southwest Asia (kudos, "Middle East" is BS) is way alarming. Yemen's Ansar Allah, BTW, are not Hamas, they are more Shiite than Sunni, but the two groups are part of an alliance that's resisting the imposition of US-Israeli complete control of the region.
And i have to opine that religion explains only how the elites get populations to act it totally irrational ways. The policies being imposed by the elites, which they get people to support, are not based upon the religious concerns of these elites, however, but upon global power/economic relations. Just like fear of invisible "terrorists" is how the powers got to lock down 4.4 billion of the planet's humans, on behalf of the elites' concerns that their economic system was facing a meltdown.
EXCELLENT points about the difference between virology and materials science, the second one providing practical predictions for what we do to achieve specific material results. This is a consequence that the second involves repeatable, falsifiable experiments utilizing independent variables, with a long history. The first most definitely does not. Viruses remain mental constructs, material only if you count files filled with computer code as being material (rather than a collection of numbers, symbols).
What's true about materials science is also true regarding astrophysics. Try to navigate, or to figure out geography, or our effects upon the ecosystem, without understanding the shape of what we're situated upon.The foolish notion that everything is fake is an example of what Terence McKenna talked about when he said "Having an open mind is a good thing, but not if it is so open that your brains fall out."
An example of a group which incorporates individuals while preserving them? Several musicians working together, looking at each other, and spinning out a jam out of pieces of chords, instant melodies, shifting rhythms. I'm sure you know who i mean. :-) [By the way, i do not think that groups are inherently totalitarian or inherently develop into totalitarian entities. There have been too many exceptions for me to accept this, e.g. the collectives in Catalonia during the early part of the Spanish Civil War, which George Orwell described in “Homage to Catalonia.”]