The SS EDMUND FITZGERALD was a freighter that sunk in a big storm in Lake Superior on Nov 10, 1975.. All 29 souls were lost that fateful night, it was so fast there wasn't so much as a mayday.. This ship became legendary throughout the Great Lakes and was well documented through Canadian folk singer Gordon Lightfoot.. This is my eulogy to those lost souls, no disrespect is intended whatsoever, in fact quite the opposite.. These were brave men who would go down in history.. The Canadian legend continues.. Thanks for your respect..

NAUTICAL GRAVE

KAIROS - a greek word meaning "opportune moment".. I have been searching to find a certain record that had a sample that used to play in my head once in a while, I knew what it was, just had to wait.. A few years later, BAM! There it was, and here this is.. I love this track, I consider it some of my best work, even though it's not really my style at all.. Maybe just a fleeting glimpse, an "OPPORTUNE MOMENT".. Enjoy..

KAIROS

Last train for the night on the subway.. Jazzy hip hop with that east coast flow.. Drunks and weirdos, the night owls are out.. Watch for closing doors, sit down, and enjoy your ride.. 

TUNNEL VISION

REALIST - a noun that means a person who accepts the world as it literally is. Some may say you never expect good things to happen, but maybe you're just a realist, a person who uses facts and past events, rather than hopeful feelings and wishes, to predict the future...

SYSTEM FAILURE

As in every election we’re now being bombarded with propaganda about how “your vote makes a difference” and associated nonsense. According to the official version ordinary citizens control the state by voting for candidates in elections. The President and other politicians are supposedly servants of “the people” and the government an instrument of the general populace. This version is a myth. It does not matter who is elected because the way the system is set up all elected representatives must do what big business and the state bureaucracy want, not what “the people” want. Elected representatives are figureheads. Politicians’ rhetoric may change depending on who is elected, but they all have to implement the same policies given the same situation. Elections are a scam whose function is to create the illusion that “the people” control the government, not the elite, and to neutralize resistance movements. All voting does is strengthen the state & ruling class, it is not an effective means to change government policy. 

If a party wins the elections but implements policies that go against the interests of big business then profits will go down and businesses & investors will withdraw their investments. This capital flight will cause the economy to crash. If the ruling party does not change its policies to appease big business then they'll lose the next elections due to the bad economy. In practice most parties change their policies to appease the corporate elite in order to avoid losing power.
- Stefan Molyneux


REALITY CHECK

Growing inequality is the flip side of something else: shrinking opportunity. Whenever we diminish equality of opportunity, it means that we are not using some of our most valuable assets—our people—in the most productive way possible. Second, many of the distortions that lead to inequality—such as those associated with monopoly power and preferential tax treatment for special interests—undermine the efficiency of the economy. This new inequality goes on to create new distortions, undermining efficiency even further. To give just one example, far too many of our most talented young people, seeing the astronomical rewards, have gone into finance rather than into fields that would lead to a more productive and healthy economy.

Third, and perhaps most important, a modern economy requires “collective action”—it needs government to invest in infrastructure, education, and technology. The United States and the world have benefited greatly from government-sponsored research that led to the Internet, to advances in public health, and so on. But America has long suffered from an under-investment in infrastructure (look at the condition of our highways and bridges, our railroads and airports), in basic research, and in education at all levels. Further cutbacks in these areas lie ahead.

None of this should come as a surprise—it is simply what happens when a society’s wealth distribution becomes lopsided. The more divided a society becomes in terms of wealth, the more reluctant the wealthy become to spend money on common needs. The rich don’t need to rely on government for parks or education or medical care or personal security—they can buy all these things for themselves. In the process, they become more distant from ordinary people, losing whatever empathy they may once have had. They also worry about strong government—one that could use its powers to adjust the balance, take some of their wealth, and invest it for the common good. The top 1 percent may complain about the kind of government we have in America, but in truth they like it just fine: too gridlocked to re-distribute, too divided to do anything but lower taxes.
- by Joseph E. Stiglitz



WAR CANOE

Market manipulation is artificially raising or lowering the price of stock on any national securities or commodities exchange or in the over-the-counter (OTC) marketplace. Market manipulation generally involves orchestrated stock purchases or sales designed to inflate or deflate the true sales volume, demand, and ultimately, price of a stock.

One of the most common market manipulation schemes is known as a “pump and dump.” In pump and dump schemes, the perpetrators accumulate free trading stock in a company, artificially inflate (or pump) the stock price, and after the price reaches its peak, sell (or dump) their shares at a profit. The pump involves recruiting unwitting investors through misleading sales practices, false public information, or deceptive corporate filings. Many of these schemes employ boiler room methods in which brokers who are bribed to participate in the scheme use high-pressure sales tactics to sell restricted shares to victim investors. These additional investors raise the price of the stock. Once the price of the targeted shares reaches a certain point, the perpetrators dump their free trading shares at a profit and leave innocent investors with worthless stock. Victim investors holding restricted shares are unable to even try to sell their shares due to the restricted nature of their stock.

Pump and dump schemes often involve the technique of reverse merging a private company into a publicly traded “shell” company. In these instances, the individuals who are carrying out the scheme form a private company and use it to acquire a publicly traded shell company. A shell is generally a defunct company with little or no assets, no employees, and no business plan, but which still has stock registered with the SEC. In a reverse merger, the fraudsters sell their shares in the private company to the publicly traded shell in exchange for shares in the public company. After the sale, the perpetrators simply change the name of the newly formed public company and carry out a standard pump and dump. The effect of a reverse merger is that the fraudsters obtain control of a newly formed public company with minimal SEC regulatory review, thus allowing them to conduct a pump and dump scheme.

Market manipulation schemes can occur on any of the national securities exchanges, but they are most common in the OTC marketplace. Stocks traded on OTC markets are commonly referred to as penny, micro-cap, pink sheet, or bulletin board stocks. These stocks generally have few shares outstanding and little trading volume. As a result, they are more likely to be targeted for manipulation. Brokers who are engaged in illegal activities may also use “off-market” transactions in conjunction with a market manipulation to raise additional capital. In these cases, brokers sell worthless penny stock directly to investors rather than using one of the national securities exchanges or OTC quotation systems.

Computer intrusion is another method used in market manipulation schemes. Computer intrusion involves criminals hacking into victims’ personal online brokerage accounts and using them to purchase shares of a targeted stock to inflate its price. As in traditional pump and dump schemes, once the price of the stock reaches a certain point, the perpetrators dump their own shares and walk away with a profit..
- Department of Justice, FBI


RIGGED MARKETS

Are people dumber than they used to be?  Were previous generations mentally sharper than us?  You may have suspected that people are getting stupider for quite some time, but now we actually have scientific evidence that this is the case.  As you will read about below, average IQs are dropping all over the globe, SAT scores in the U.S. have been declining for decades, and scientists have even discovered that our brains have been getting smaller over time.  So if it seems on some days like you woke up in the middle of the movie “Idiocracy”, you might not be too far off.  Much of the stuff that they put in our junk food is not good for brain development, our education system is a total joke and most Americans are absolutely addicted to mindless entertainment.  Fortunately we have a lot of technology that does much of our thinking for us these days, because if we had to depend on our own mental capabilities most of us would be in a tremendous amount of trouble.

Sadly, this appears to be a phenomenon that is happening all over the planet.  As a recent Daily Mail article explained, IQ scores are falling in country after country…

Richard Lynn, a psychologist at the University of Ulster, calculated the decline in humans’ genetic potential.

 

He used data on average IQs around the world in 1950 and 2000 to discover that our collective intelligence has dropped by one IQ point.

 

Dr Lynn predicts that if this trend continues, we could lose another 1.3 IQ points by 2050.

One IQ point does not sound like a lot, but when you go back even further in time the declines become a lot more dramatic.  For example, a psychology professor at the University of Amsterdam named Jan te Nijenhuis has calculated that we have lost a total of 14 IQ points on average since the Victorian Era.

And we don’t need a professor to tell us that this is true.  Just go back and read some of the literature from that time period.  Much of it is written at such a high level that I can barely even understand it.

 

There is other evidence that people are getting stupider as well.  For instance, SAT scores in the United States have fallen significantly in recent years…






There appears to be a disturbing trend in American high schools. If we judge the quality of education by the scores that students get on their SATs, then it appears that things are getting worse.

 

Since 2006, the overall average SAT score has fallen by 20 points, dropping from 1518 to 1498 in 2012. Scores are also down in each of the three categories tested, with reading dropping 9 points, mathematics dropping 4 points, and writing falling 9 points. It’s a fair bet that students aren’t becoming less intelligent, so exactly what is going on?

And this decline in SAT scores is not just limited to the past few years.  As the following chart from Zero Hedge demonstrates, SAT scores have been declining in America for decades…
- Submitted by Michael Snyder of The American Dream blog




DISSED HEAVY

Some common characteristics of Narcissistic Personality Disorder  types who inhabit the Web 2.0 / social media scene:
•Narcissists can be irresistibly charming. They appear to be so deeply in love with themselves that others get taken along for the ride with them. They develop polished communication and manipulation skills that can easily dazzle you like the Wizard of Oz. Narcissists “go big” leave an “epic” first impression on many people. 
•Narcissists are all about themselves.  A relationship with a narcissist is typically a “one-way street.” When the conversation is focused on the narcissist, they become alive and animated. When it’s someone else’s turn to talk or take the stage, they tend become distant and withdrawn. 
•Narcissists lack empathy for others.  Narcissists are impostors who are so wrapped up in the drama of their own internal world, they almost completely lack the ability to empathize with others. The best they can offer is “psuedo-empathy” of the type that a telemarketer offers during a closing pitch. They may act nice when they want something from you, but that’s about it. 
•Narcissists are preoccupied with power, status, recognition, money, followers, fame.  They will stop at nothing to get more fans, more followers, more time in the limelight, more accolades. They are relentless, inexhaustible social climbers who sometimes excel at sales, business development and executive roles. Many high-level narcissists use money and its privileges as the perfect bait to draw the chosen into their inner circle of loyal supporters and admirers. 
•Narcissists are defensive & hypersensitive to criticism. NPD people protect their brittle self-esteem by launching biting, harsh attacks on those who dare to criticize and question them. They are also very controlling about how others view and think of them – by positively rewarding the praise and tyrannically punishing dissent. When it’s impossible for them to attack the critic directly, they’ll do anything in their power to block or sabotage their future success.
•Narcissists indulge themselves extravagantly.  They’ll do anything to get first class travel, new gadgets, sexual conquests, spa treatments, exclusive after party invites, fancy swag bags, exclusive club memberships, extravagant homes and cars. All these things provide external proof of their adequacy and help (momentarily) fill the enormous emptiness inside them. When they get them, they’re quick to brag about it and post lots of details and TwitPics.
•NPD people can be exhibitionists.  In order to keep the life-sustaining supply of attention focused on them, they will metaphorically “drop their pants” and reveal TMI that most professionals never would. They will open talk about their drug use, sexual life or fantasizes, their income, their enemies or their business exploits. They especially love speaking gigs, interviews, video blogging, karaoke, etc., – becuase moments in the limelight are life-sustaining soul food for their inadequate self concept.
•NPD people keep score. They watch rivals with microscopic vigilance, and will come up with cunning ways to sabotage, outdo or humiliate them. Multimillionaire VCs with NPD are envious of the billionaire ones. On Twitter, you’ll notice that narcissists almost always maintain a very high ratio of followers to friends — reflecting their lack empathy and primal need for their numbers to reflect “one- way” attention. They never “give back” and pay attention to someone else unless they absolutely have to. 
- by Brett Borders on December 8, 2009

DIGITAL NARCISSISM

Though galaxies look larger than atoms and elephants appear to outweigh ants, some physicists have begun to suspect that size differences are illusory. Perhaps the fundamental description of the universe does not include the concepts of “mass” and “length,” implying that at its core, nature lacks a sense of scale.

This little-explored idea, known as scale symmetry, constitutes a radical departure from long-standing assumptions about how elementary particles acquire their properties. But it has recently emerged as a common theme of numerous talks and papers by respected particle physicists. With their field stuck at a nasty impasse, the researchers have returned to the master equations that describe the known particles and their interactions, and are asking: What happens when you erase the terms in the equations having to do with mass and length?

Nature, at the deepest level, may not differentiate between scales. With scale symmetry, physicists start with a basic equation that sets forth a massless collection of particles, each a unique confluence of characteristics such as whether it is matter or antimatter and has positive or negative electric charge. As these particles attract and repel one another and the effects of their interactions cascade like dominoes through the calculations, scale symmetry “breaks,” and masses and lengths spontaneously arise... 
- Natalie Wolchover, Quanta Magazine




MULTIVERSE FREQUENCY

Every year, there's a new song that we all hate until we don't anymore. And it turns out that's because we were brainwashed to like them.

Research suggests that repeated exposure is a much more surefire way of getting the general public to like a song than writing one that suits their taste. Based on an fMRI study in 2011, we now know that the emotional centers of the brain — including the reward centers — are more active when people hear songs they've been played before. In fact, those brain areas are more active even than when people hear unfamiliar songs that are far better fits with their musical taste.

This happens more often than you might think. After a couple dozen unintentional listens, many of us may find ourselves changing our initial opinions about a song — eventually admitting that, really, Katy Perry's "Dark Horse" isn't as awful as it sounds. PBS' Idea Channel's Mike Rugnetta explains, it's akin to a musical "Stockholm syndrome," a term used originally by criminologist Nils Bejerot to describe a phenomenon in which victims of kidnapping may begin to sympathize with their captors over time..

Most people assume that they hear a song everywhere because it's popular. That's not the case — a song is popular because it's played everywhere. It is technically illegal for major labels to pay radio stations directly to play certain songs, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen. The phenomenon is called "payola" (an amalgam of the words pay and Victrola), and it was rampant in the 1960s up through the '80s, during which period the music industry was literally run by the mob. It still happens today, even though it isn't as blatant. Labels pay independent promoters to "incentivize" radio stations to play their music, or create program caps to make sure a song gets enough plays to have its effect. There's real neuroscience behind the strategy: If you hear something enough, you'll start to like it.

That Stockholm effect happens with culture, too. The scientific term for this phenomenon is the "mere exposure effect," discovered in the '60s by Robert Zajonc, and it can apply to anything — images, shapes, songs or people. In his study, participants reported liking songs more the second and third times they were exposed to them. This same response occurred even when participants weren't aware of any previous exposure. It seems then that people can easily mistake the fluidity of their ability to identify and fully comprehend a song with actually liking it. So once a song gets stuck in your head it may quickly transition from being irritating to being beloved. A good example of this is the inexplicable popularity of ear worms like the Black Eyed Peas' truly heinous "I Gotta Feeling."... 
- By Tom Barnes August 04, 2014



INSTRUMENTAL PROPAGANDA

Music and pleasure

Music is strongly associated with the brain's reward system. It's the part of the brain that tells us if things are valuable, or important or relevant to survival, said Robert Zatorre, professor of neurology and neurosurgery at Montreal Neurological Institute. 

One brain structure in particular, called the striatum, releases a chemical called dopamine in response to pleasure-related stimuli. Imaging of the brain can reveal this process is similar to what happens in your brain in response to food or sex. 

But unlike those activities, music doesn't have a direct biological survival value. "It's not obvious that it should engage that same system," Zatorre said.

Musicians can't see inside their own brains, but they're aware of moments of tension and release in pieces, and that's what arrangers of music do. 

Zatorre and colleagues did an experiment where they used whatever music participants said gave them pleasure to examine this dopamine release. They excluded music with words in order to focus on the music itself rather than lyrics -- the melodic structure, for example. 

At the point in a piece of music when people experience peak pleasure, part of the brain called the ventral striatum releases dopamine. But here's something even more interesting: Dopamine is released from a different brain area (the dorsal striatum) about 10 to 15 seconds before the moment of peak pleasure. 

Why would we have this reaction before the most pleasurable part of the piece of music? The brain likes to investigate its environment and figure out what's coming next, Zatorre explains.

"As you're anticipating a moment of pleasure, you're making predictions about what you're hearing and what you're about to hear," he said. "Part of the pleasure we derive from it is being able to make predictions."

So if you're getting such a strong dopamine rush from music -- it could even be comparable to methamphetamines, Zatorre said -- why not make drug addicts listen to music? It's not quite that simple. 

Neuroscientists believe there's basically one pleasure mechanism, and music is one route into it. Drugs are another. But different stimuli have different properties. And it's no easier to tell someone to replace drugs with music than to suggest eating instead of having sex -- these are all pleasurable activities with important differences...
- By Elizabeth Landau, CNN.
- tree image used from Jethro Tull's album "SONGS FROM THE WOOD"


LIVING STEREO

A rat race is an endless, self-defeating, or pointless pursuit. It conjures up the image of lab rats racing through a maze to get the "cheese" much like society racing to get ahead financially..

In an analogy to the modern city, many rats in a single maze expend a lot of effort running around, but ultimately achieve nothing (meaningful) either collectively or individually. This is often used in reference to work, particularly excessive or competitive work; in general terms, if one works too much, one is in the rat race. This terminology contains implications that many people see work as a seemingly endless pursuit with little reward or purpose.

The increased image of work as a "rat race" in modern times has led many to question their own attitudes to work and seek a better alternative; a more harmonious work-life balance. Many believe that long work hours, unpaid overtime, stressful jobs, time spent commuting, less time for family life and/or friends life, has led to a generally unhappier workforce/population unable to enjoy the benefits of increased economic prosperity and a higher standard of living.

With regard to environmental problems and the tragedy of the commons, rat races occur when governments compete to have the lowest environmental standard in order to remain attractive to polluting industries. For example, if one country has a high carbon tax in order to internalize externality costs, production may mitigate to countries that have lower standards and lower costs to the country at a much higher societal cost. Thus, it becomes a race for the lowest acceptable environmental standard at high externality costs, even though individually the countries may all be better off societally if there was no such race, i.e. it just becomes a prisoners dilemma where no one wins...

- From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

RAT RACE

"We have gone sick by following a path of untrammeled rationalism, male dominance, attention to the visible surface of things, practicality, and bottomlineism. 

We have gone very, very sick. 

And the body politic, like any body when it feels itself to be sick, it begins to produce antibodies or strategies for over coming the condition of dis-ease. 

The 20th century is an enormous effort at self-healing. Phenomenon as diverse as surrealism, body piercing, psychedelic drug use, sexual permissiveness, jazz, experimental dance, rave culture, tattooing. The list is endless. 

What do all these things have in common? 

They represent various styles of rejection of linear values. 

The society is trying to cure itself by an archaic revival. By a reversion to arachaic values. 

When I see people manifesting sexual ambiguity, or scarifying themselves, or showing a lot of flesh, or dancing to synopicated music, or getting loaded, or violating ordinary cannons of sexual behavior, I applaud all of this. 

Because it’s an impulse to return to what is felt by the body. 

What is authentic. 

What is archaic. 

When you tease apart these archaic impulses at the very center of all these impulses is the desire to return to a world of magical empowerment of feeling. 

At the center of that impulse is the shaman. Stoned. Intoxicated on plants. Speaking with the spirit helpers. Dancing in the moonlight. Vivifying and evoking a world of conscious living mystery. That's what the world is. 

The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. 

The world is a living mystery. 

Our birth, our death, our being in the moment. These are mysteries. They are doorways, opening on to unimaginable vistas of self-exploration, empowerment, and hope for the human enterprise. 

Our culture has killed that. Taken it away from us. Made us consumers of shoddy products and shoddier ideals. We have to get away from that. And the way to get away from it is by a return to the authentic experience of the body. And that means sexually empowering ourselves. And it means getting loaded. Exploring the mind as a tool for personal and social transformation. 

The hour is late. The clock is ticking. 

We will be judged very harshly if we fumble the ball. We are the inheritors of millions and millions of years of successfully lived lives and successful adaptations to changing conditions in the natural world. Now that challenge passes to us: the living. 

That the yet to be born may have a place to put their feet and a sky to walk under. That is what the psychedelic experience is about. Is caring for, empowering, and building a future that honors the past, honors the planet, honors the power of the human imagination. 

There is nothing as powerful and as capable of transforming itself and the planet as the human imagination. 

Let's not sell it straight. Lets not whore ourselves to nit wit ideologies. 

Lets not give our control over to the least among us. 

Rather, claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. 

The tools are there. 

The path is known. 

You simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead and get with the program of a living world and an reempowerment of the imagination."

- RIP TERENCE MCKENNA

AUTHENTIC EXPERIENCE

A shell corporation is a company which serves as a vehicle for business transactions without itself having any significant assets or operations...

Shell corporations have been used to commit fraud, by repeatedly creating an empty shell corporation with a name similar to existing real corporations, then running up the price of the empty shell and suddenly selling it (pump and dump).

There are also shell companies that were created for the purpose of owning assets (including tangibles, such as a real estate for property development, and intangibles, such as royalties or copyrights) and receiving income. Reasons behind creating such a shell company may include protection against litigation and/or tax benefits (some expenses that would not be deductible for an individual may be deductible for a corporation). 

Sometimes, shell companies are used for tax evasion or tax avoidance...

- WIKI

SHELL CORPORATION

"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on and individual level. It’s got to happen inside first..."

- Jim Morrison

MISSION STATEMENT

A major cyber offensive that brought down Internet behemoths Twitter and Paypal is thought to have been launched by hackers using common devices such as webcams, baby monitors and digital recorders.
In a huge breach of global Internet stability, hackers brought down well-known sites including Netflix, Twitter, Paypal and Spotify.
The widespread disruption was the result of a coordinated assault on some of the underlying infrastructure that powers the Internet. Dyn, one of several companies responsible for hosting the crucial web directory known as the Domain Name System (DNS), suffered a sustained so-called “distributed denial of service” (DDoS) attack, leading many people intermittently to lose access to specific sites or to the Internet entirely.
Attackers overwhelmed the system using hundreds of thousands of devices that had been infected with malicious code to create a "botnet," Dyn said it had fought off a number of different attacks throughout Friday. Outages were reported in the Eastern United States before sweeping across the country and over Europe...

The Independent 
- Harriet Agerholm

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