For your viewing and continued commenting pleasure, here’s the 23 most (dis)informing stories disinfo.com visitors were checking out over the last week. If you’re interested in contributing to disinfo.com please contact us here. Enjoy and keep contributing!

Who Parked The Moon?

Despite six announced visits by U.S. astronauts between 1969 and 1972, the Moon remains a riddle to scientists in many regards. The solutions to these riddles could indicate an alien aspect of our familiar Moon…

Pentagon Tries To Stop Book By Buying All Copies

Thanks to Isaac Hils for this. As publishers, this story definitely appeals to us at disinformation: Authors with books the Pentagon wants to stop, take note! From the Guardian…

Relentless Views of The Pope And His Opinions

In a letter to the Guardian, harsh words were written towards the pope’s visit to the country. Disagreeing with his religious and political actions, and lack of actions, the pope is presented in an interesting depiction from the eyes of these English citizens…

Meet Stark County, Ohio’s Phil Davison: A Politician Who REALLY Speaks His Mind

Gabe writes on Videogum: “If you ask me, I think that both of the parties are corrupt and more interested in playing politics with each other than they are in making this country a better place for regular Americans like you and me. Now, what I’d like to see is someone who really speaks his mind…”

Turtles Could Hold the Secret to Human Immortality

Alasdair Wilkins writes on io9: “All animals eventually grow old and die. It’s an inevitable fact of life — except when it isn’t. Some animals, like tortoises and lobsters, never grow old, and learning their secrets could let humans live as long as they want…”

Video Game Players Make Faster Real Life Decisions

Kids, pay attention, here’s some ammo to fire back at your parents when they tell you that you spend too much time playing video games, via Reuters…

Artist Runs Into Tornados

Francis Alÿs runs straight into a tornado in the name of art. The strange thing is, this wasn’t the first time Alÿs willingly put himself in danger. Alÿs’ video installation is coming to New York’s Museum of Modern Art next year. You can view a clip of the video…

U.S Government Clamps Down On Natural Remedies

You knew it was coming — $5 Billion of sales that Big Pharma would like for itself is surely enough to get the U.S. Federal government and its friends in the mainstream media to persuade the public that plant medicines don’t work and are dangerous, despite many centuries of effective use by peoples around the world…

Anti-Masturbation Candidate Christine O’Donnell Wins Republican Senate Primary in Delaware

Oh man, Joe Biden must be loving that anti-masturbation/Tea Party-backed candidate Christine O’Donnell is up for his old Senate seat…

How to Respect Sex Workers

Monica Shores on Alternet writes a great short piece with links for further research on how to…

God Has Poor Penmanship: ‘CAT’ Written in This Cat’s Fur

I guess God/Jesus was getting tired of throwing all the Jesus images all over the place. I like this, it means the Almighty has a sense of humor, but he really does have terrible penmanship…

The Biology of Soul Murder

Shannon Brownlee writes in U.S. News and World Report: “Once viewed as genetically programmed, the brain is now known to be plastic, an organ molded by both genes and experience throughout life. A single traumatic experience can alter an adult’s brain…”

Westerners vs. the World: We Are the Weird Ones

Adam McDowell writes in the National Post: “The Ultimatum Game works like this: You are given $100 and asked to share it with someone else. You can offer that person any amount and if he accepts the offer, you each get to keep your share. If he rejects your offer, you both walk away empty-handed…”

The Banned Pregnant Nun Ice Cream Ad Photo

Pregnant nuns? It’s not like it’s unheard of, but as the UK government tries to pretend it really wants the uber-expensive Papal visit this week, its Advertising Standards Authority has banned the ad. The ice cream maker couldn’t have asked for a better marketing coup…

The Single Biggest Threat to U.S. National Security … Is Its Debt

Washington’s Blog writes: “In February 2009, the head of U.S. intelligence — Dennis Blair — said that the global financial crisis was the largest threat to America’s national security. All of America’s intelligence agencies apparently agreed…”

Religious Search Engines Provide A Blasphemy-Free Internet

A number of websites have sprung up that provide the pious with a way to surf the internet without the threat of un-biblical content. Search for “Obama” on the Christian search engine SeekFind, for instance, and rather than a standard biography, the first result is a page discussing the Antichrist. NPR reports:…

The Loneliest Man In The World

This past month Slate wrote about the “most isolated man on the planet,” the sole remaining member of an Amazonian tribe, living a solitary existence in the jungle. Obviously, dozens of people may be choosing to live in remote locations by themselves — the difference is that this man’s isolation is not a conscious decision. Rather than seeking contact…

A History Of The Iraq War, Through Wikipedia Edits

Here’s how you write history in the contentious twenty-first century. Every edit made to the Wikipedia page “The Iraq War” published as a bound, multi-volume set. Via booktwo…

Jon Stewart is the First “Journalist” To Hold Tony Blair Accountable for His Iraq War Position

Watch the whole thing online (wasn’t aired on TV) and decide. Just because he has a new book out Stewart and The Daily Show are doing the job the American mainstream media should be doing…

Facebook’s Asocial Mark Zuckerberg

Two weeks before the theatrical release of The Social Network, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg gets an in-depth interview/profile in the New Yorker. “Zuck” comes across as enigmatic, unfeeling, and awkward — an odd person to be reshaping the nature of social interaction and connection on a global scale…

Is This How the ‘Planet of the Apes’ Begins? Wild Chimps Outwit Human Hunters

Great, now all we need is some virus to kill all the cats and dogs on the planet, so we start taking primates as household pets and they become smarter. Thanks scientists for helping to create our eventual Ape Overlords. Slippery slope, real slippery slope. Matt Walker writes on BBC Earth News…

Is the U.S. Government a Dysfunctional Family?

Anxiety Culture writes: “A branch of psychology called Transactional Analysis (TA) has a diagram called The Drama Triangle which is used for analysing psychological games. Interestingly, this triangle seems equally applicable to political games…”

After Punk: The Story of What Came Next

Simon Reynolds’ acclaimed first volume of post-punk memory sifting — Rip it Up and Start Again — went a long way toward exploring and explaining the various flowerings that bloomed from the bruised and bloodied blossom that was ’70s punk rock. If you thought one volume of exhaustive, evocative reconstructing of the period would suffice, you would be wrong, and Reynolds proves this point…

If you’ve haven’t been here in a while, here’s the 23 most (dis)informing stories disinfo.com visitors were checking out over the last two weeks. If you’re interested in contributing to disinfo.com please contact us here. Enjoy and keep contributing!

The Big Lebowski Matrix Mashup Video

Ever wonder what it would be like to explain The Matrix to The Dude? Morpheus gives it his best….

Rare Hunter S. Thompson Documentary Surfaces on YouTube

It’s been nearly 5 years since the Good Doctor said adiós and pulled that silver trigger, bringing Gonzo to an end for good — or so one would think….

Does The Past Exist Yet?

The future has yet to be determined, but what about the past? This recent Huffington Post piece discusses the possibility that what you do in the present shapes both future and past — “historical events such as who killed JFK, might depend on events that haven’t occurred yet.”…

Why Time Slows Down In Near-Death Situations

Neuroscientist David Eagleman hatched an experiment to learn about why our sense of time slows to a crawl in near-death situations (such as a free fall from a significant height). Disappointingly, it’s not because our abilities of perception kick into Matrix-style hyperdrive. NPR reports:…

Did The CIA Test LSD On An Entire French Town?

For a short, nightmarish period in August 1951, dozens of residents of Pont-Saint-Espirit suffered from extreme hallucinations, leading to five deaths. A newly-unearthed memo hints that it was a CIA experiment, the BBC reports:

One Fifth Of American Adults Don’t Use The Internet

… according to a Pew study discussed in an insightful manner by Erick Schonfeld on TechCrunch. He is asking the fundamental question: Who are these folks who wouldn’t be reading this website, or any website for that matter, at all?

Why Christwire Rocks

Depending on your religious beliefs and affiliations, you may or may not be aware of the megapopular Christwire. The New York Times explains why it’s such a joke…

Intel Developing Computers That Read Minds

Cool news from Intel, so I wonder if Apple is working on an iThink. Richard Gray writes in the Telegraph…

Woman Defies Naysaying Doctors And Grows Back Finger

Never say never — especially when it comes your your health! Elizabeth Cohen reports for CNN…

MIT Unveils Nanotech/Robot Swarm To Skim Ocean Oil

MIT reveals a swarm of autonomous floating robots that can digest an oil spill. The 16-foot robots drag a nanowire mesh that acts like a conveyor belt to soak up surface oil “like paper towels soak up water,” absorbing 20 times its weight and then harmlessly “digesting” the oil by burning it off….

Just Say No To Freedom Of Religion

The inimitable Christopher Hitchens says the taming and domestication of religious faith is one of the unceasing chores of civilization, at Slate…

Canadian Automaker Develops Car Made Of Hemp

A group of Canadian companies have come together to design an electric car, dubbed the Kestrel, with a body sculpted from a super-tough composite produced from mats of hemp. A prototype is being tested, and the first 20 Kestrel cars will be delivered next year. No word on what sort of fumes are emitted by the tailpipe. Via CBC News…

The Atomic Cake Controversy of 1946: A “Mission Accomplished” Photo-Op From Yesteryear

President George W. Bush and many of his top administration officials were often accused of hubris in their eight-year run, but I have to say this incident from 1946 really tops the literal cake. It has the haughtiness of President Bush’s 2003 “Mission Accomplished” photo-op aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, combined with an element as you see below, I can best describe as … callous. From CONELRAD Adjacent…

The Ultra-Rich Are Meaner Than Rest of Us

What a shocker. Matthew Lynn writes for Bloomberg News…

Henry Rollins and Glenn Danzig Live Happily Ever After in New Zine

The good people at Microcosm Publishing have sent me a few interesting packages lately and I’ve been sifting through the goodies picking out a few shiny treasures to share with you Disinfonauts…

Two Asteroids Perilously Close To Earth

These ones probably won’t hit, but they show that so-called Near Earth Objects could collide with our planet at any time with precious little warning. From ABC News…

Police Raid The Headquarters Of PRQ, Webhost Of Pirate Bay And Wikileaks

Police in several European countries are coordinating a fight against a certain “radical conception of freedom,” embodied by Wikileaks and Pirate Bay. Rogue euronerds beware, French paper-of-record Le Monde writes…

A Happy Meal 137 Days Later

Artist Sally Davies runs the classic, terrifying “McDonald’s burger time-lapse” experiment. The goal of course is to see how long it takes food from McDonald’s to alter in appearance even the slightest bit. At 137 days and counting, this meal looks identical to how it did at the time of purchase. Via Refinery 29…

Blackwater’s Back-Channel Deals With U.S. Government

In one of the better pieces of investigative reporting seen in the New York Times of late, James Risen and Mark Mazzetti reveal the continuing close relationship between the U.S. Government and the disgraced mercenary group Blackwater (now re-named Xe, but they’re not fooling anyone)…

Using Psychedelics To Treat Depression

It’s been a long struggle, more or less since the days of Timothy Leary and Albert Hofmann in the ’60s, but doctors and scientists are finally being allowed to treat depression with some of the most effective drugs known to them: psychedelics. Anne Harding reports for CNN/Health.com…

How Much Money Do You Need To Be Happy? $75,000 Per Year

For residents of New York City it’s going to be considerably more than that! From the Los Angeles Times…

The German Military Believes ‘Peak Oil’ May Bring About the End of Democracy and Free Markets

Der Spiegel reports that a German military think tank believes ‘peak oil’ may occur this year, and that it could cause the collapse of both democracies and free markets within 30 years….

Another Ex-Scientologist Publishes Damning Tell-All

The Village Voice writes: “Adding to Scientology’s woes, some of the people who have been making defections in recent years are turning around and writing damning tell-alls…”

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Florida Baby Facebook Photo Sparks Controversy

Michael Phelps got caught through Facebook, why not a baby! They do say a picture is worth a thousand hits, um, words. CBS News reports…

Zombie Ants!

The zombies have come, but it’s not exactly the apocalypse. Carpenter ants being taken over by fungi sounds like the beginning of a Science-Fiction film, but this time it’s just Science. From Discovery Magazine…

The Skateboarding Priest Video

“Come on kiddies, you’re safe with me — I can skate!” … Hmmm, I’m not sure this Hungarian priest looks like someone I want my kids to skate with, but believe it or not Reverend Zoltan Lendvai, 45, who lives and preaches in Redics, a small village on Hungary’s border with Slovenia, has become a YouTube sensation!

Why Did the Nazis Film the Dying Jews of Warsaw?

Sharon Waxman on her blog WaxWord: “In a French-themed café a block from the teeming beach, producer Noemi Schory explained why her new Holocaust documentary, An Unfinished Film, did not deserve the R rating that the MPAA handed down last week after a final appeal…”

Jupiter Swallowed A Super-Earth: It’s One BAMF

Everyone knows Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System, but new research suggests it was the baddest MF around, knocking off its competition before it could grow. David Shiga writes in New Scientist…

Jon Stewart On The Ground Zero Mosque (Video)

Is the Burlington Coat Factory hallowed ground?

Western Scientists Finally Tell Patients Why Tai Chi Is Good For Them

The Chinese have known this for thousands of years. Better late than never, I suppose! From WebMD…

TorrentReactor Buys and Renames Russian Town

Ernesto writes on TorrentFreak: “TorrentReactor, listed among the five most popular torrent sites on the Internet, has surprised friends and foes by acquiring a small town in central Russia…”

The Price of Truth

Adrian Lamo’s critics faced him down at a hacker’s conference. Lamo sat on the stage, placid, blinking pronouncedly as his hecklers continued. They prodded him, asking if he would have been tempted to release the data that a man who contacted him had sworn upon threat of military legal prosecution never to release…

The New Villains of New Media: Apple, Google & Facebook

Brent Lang explains why for The Wrap: “They’re supposed to be the good guys, right? No longer. Over the past year, several technology giants have begun to shed their status as white knights…”

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Scientists Develop A Vaccine For Stress

Is this a step on the path to a Brave New World? The head of a research team at Stanford says he is on the verge of producing a vaccine that would deactivate the brain’s stress-causing chemicals. For the first time, people could shut off the fight-or-flight mechanism…

Soak The Very, Very Rich

A sensible suggestion from the capable mind of The New Yorker’s James Surowiecki, but what are the chances that our government will implement it, one wonders (whilst thinking of all those campaign contributions made by the very rich)…

Who Owns You? 20% of the Genes in Your Body are Patented (Video)

Drew Halley writes on Singularity Hub: “Here’s a disconcerting thought: for the past thirty years, genes have been patentable. And we’re not just talking genetically modified corn — your genes, pretty much as they exist in your body, can and have been patented…”

New Jersey Bans The Word ‘Retarded’

One is tempted to say that this new law in New Jersey is, um, mentally challenged. Story from NJ.com…

Virtual Reality Asks Tough Behavior and Anxiety Questions

Ever wonder what it was like to be the opposite sex? Ever wonder what it was like to be the opposite sex and abused? Virtual reality may be the key to engaging in such questions. BBC News reports…

Richard Hoagland Reveals The Secret War In Space

Richard Hoagland tells interviewer Dr. Steven Greer about a secret war in space. I really don’t know what to make of his claims — any suggestions?

Pea Found Growing In Man’s Lung

Jill Blocker writes on Eat, Drink & Blog: “The old wives’ tales about swallowed gum staying in the stomach for 10 years and swallowed watermelon seeds growing in bellies just got a little truth attached to them, after a pea seed was found growing inside a man’s lung…”

How to Spot a GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) in the Grocery Store

The Suburban Jungle writes: Are you eating Genetically Modified Foods? Do you know how to tell? I recently found out that you can easily tell whether the produce you purchase at the grocery store is a GMO just buy looking at the PLU (price look up) code.”

1 in 5 Americans Think Obama Is Muslim

Most of the news media seem to think this is a bad thing. Personally I think it’s great – a significant number of Americans voted for a man they thought was Muslim when electing their president. Story from NPR…

Google CEO To Young People: You’ll Be Able to Get a New Identity When You Reach Adulthood

Check out Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s solution for privacy advocates in this Wall Street Journal article over the weekend. Suddenly that Google Chrome logo looks like an all-seeing eye to me instead of some futuristic Simon…

What Else Is Built In The Shadow Of Ground Zero?

Is Lower Manhattan hallowed ground? The blog History Eraser Button presents photos of the other businesses and organizations located directly by the World Trade Center site, as near as the proposed “Ground Zero mosque” is slated to be…

A Fun New (Old) Game to Play While Drinking

While the readers — and writers — on this site are no strangers to a good time, even the heartiest of partiers can find themselves stranded in a rut caused by lack of novelty. We’ve all known the soul-crushing boredom that results from having the same conversation with the same people in the same place again…

Considering that nobody knows what’s going to happen in 2012, the end of the Mayan Calendar functions as a tremendously intriguing meme upon which we can project our hopes and fears, dreams and desires. Hollywood has now offered up a massive collective shadow projection in the form of a $250 million disaster epic that takes the aesthetics of annihilation to a new pitch of perfection.  Paradoxically, this doom-riddled blockbuster could create a great opening to offer an alternative vision of what 2012 could be for our planet. Potentially, 2012 could represent the coming-to-consciousness of the human species, in which we take responsibility for our role as agents of conscious evolution.

A rising grassroots movement now realizes we can no longer expect governments, corporations, or any outside authority to create the beautiful world we long to live in. We have to do it ourselves. This growing network of Evolvers, Burners, Bioneers, Transition Towners, and others are developing new cooperative networks that can help heal our planet while providing sustainable solutions to the disastrously unsustainable economic and political systems that disempower people, keeping them asleep.

For this month’s Spore, over thirty cities will host conversations on 2012 and the evolution of consciousness, including “counter-screenings” to Sony Pictures’ 2012 world-catastrophe film.

Spores may preview a portion of Mangusta Productions upcoming feature-length documentary 2012: Time for Change, directed by Joao Amorim and starring 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl author Daniel Pinchbeck, along with a section of the disinformation documentary 2012: Science our Superstition, produced by Gary Baddeley.

In addition, current bestselling 2012 Story author John Major Jenkins will give a short video presentation for those participating in the Spores. Afterward, we will discuss indigenous prophecies and global transformation, and how to prepare ourselves and our communities for rapid changes to come.

We sincerely hope you can attend the upcoming Spore: Click here to find the Spore near you, or email jonathan [at] evolver [dot] net to start your own.

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Ralph Bernardo
Managing Editor, Disinformation