Posts Tagged ‘Disinformation News’
Everything You Wanted to Know About 2012 But Were Afraid to Ask
December 21, 2012 is the end date of the sophisticated Long Count Calendar created by the ancient Maya in Central America. But is it a doomsday that is foretold in the Mayan calendar, the Chinese oracle of the I Ching or in an Internet-based prophetic software program? Is there any truth to these doomsday prophecies? Some theorists believe that on that date, the Earth will experience unprecedented, cataclysmic disasters ranging from massive earthquakes and tsunamis to nuclear reactor meltdowns, while yet others see a coming renewal, a rebirth of consciousness.
To help sort out the information, Gary Baddeley, the writer/producer of 2012: Science or Superstition and president of The Disinformation Company will present the current schools of thought and answer questions from a public not certain if they should prepare for survival or something…
Everything You Wanted to Know About 2012 But Were Afraid to Ask
December 21, 2012 is the end date of the sophisticated Long Count Calendar created by the ancient Maya in Central America. But is it a doomsday that is foretold in the Mayan calendar, the Chinese oracle of the I Ching or in an Internet-based prophetic software program? Is there any truth to these doomsday prophecies? Some theorists believe that on that date, the Earth will experience unprecedented, cataclysmic disasters ranging from massive earthquakes and tsunamis to nuclear reactor meltdowns, while yet others see a coming renewal, a rebirth of consciousness.
To help sort out the information, Gary Baddeley, the writer/producer of 2012: Science or Superstition and president of The Disinformation Company will present the current schools of thought and answer questions from a public not certain if they should prepare for survival or something…
Evolver: 2012, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Dimensional Shift
Where will you be when the 5,125 year Long Count Calendar of the Classical Maya ends on December, 21, 2012? Will you be hiding in an underground cave from global cataclysm and magnetic polar reversal? Will you be entering a multidimensional realm of hyperspace triggered by mass activation of the pineal gland? Will you be picking up the pieces of a ruined world or dancing the night away at the party at the end of time?
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…
Celebrity Hoax Dupes Tabloids
Paul Lewis reports in The Guardian:
The plan to subvert the pages of some of Fleet Street’s bestselling newspapers was hatched in a windowless office in east London. For months, a team of documentary makers had sat in the Brick Lane film studio they called “the cell”, trawling through tabloid clippings in search of stories they could prove were untrue.
They decided to concoct an experiment to test their theory that tabloid editors sometimes publish celebrity stories with scant regard for the truth.
“We consumed a lot of coffee thinking about it,” said Chris Atkins, the director of the forthcoming film Starsuckers. “How can we do this intelligently? How can we prove our point? But how can we make it funny?”
Atkins and his producers decided the answer was to pose as members of the public and offer completely…
Can We Really Read Minds?
Digby Tantam reports in Psychology Today:
Telepathy and the interbrain. The belief in telepathy is deeply rooted in many of us, and not only science fiction fans. Mothers ring their daughters thousands of miles away, and their daughters say, “How did you know? I was just thinking of you”. We walk into a room and we just get a feeling about someone: it is as if we knew what they were thinking, and what they will say next.
Professors of parapsychology — and there are a few — have been unable to replicate these results in the laboratory. Minds they have to conclude cannot pass thoughts or images to other minds directly. Perhaps this should not be a surprise. After all, we do pass thoughts and images to each other pretty effectively by…
Nothing Relieves the Pain Like a Few Benjamins
Jay MacDonald writes:
Who cares if money can’t buy you love? It can still be your best friend forever.
That’s one of the surprising findings in a new Chinese-American academic research paper, “The Symbolic Power of Money,” published in the journal Psychological Science.
Like any best friend forever, money demonstrated to researchers its ability to soothe us, reduce our sense of social exclusion and even lessen life’s painful moments.
As researcher Xinyue Zhou of the psychology department at Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou, China, puts it, money acts as a substitute for another of life’s pain buffers: love.
“I was surprised,” says Katherine Vohs, co-author and marketing professor at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management. “The findings were surprising because no one had connected the symbolic meaning of money to pain. The money…
India Sleepwalks To Total Surveillance
It wasn’t tough for a protagonist in a Kundera novel to figure out if he/she were living in a police state. Looking out of the apartment window they could see agents of the state keeping a watch over them from a car parked in the street round the corner. Sometimes shady characters broke in and rummaged through shelves looking for letters or diary notes. Their phones were wiretapped and there was absolutely no way of knowing if the friend they met for a drink last night was an informer or not.
It was our age of innocence and Kafka wasn’t thought to be a realist. Under repressive regimes people lived in constant fear, but the terror they felt and the machinery that enforced it was tangible.
Not any more. We live in…
Interview With CARGO 200 Director Alexei Balabanov
“Cargo 200″ opens today for an exclusive one week run at Cinema Village in New York. This is Disinformation’s first arthouse film release and it has garnered amazing reviews. The New York Times says:
“Art house meets grind house in ‘Cargo 200,’ Alexey Balabanov’s morbidly compelling thriller set in the Soviet Union.”
This is a link to a great interview with Balabanov by Vadim Rizov. There’s really nothing quite like “Cargo 200″ or its director!
Disinformation: The Podcast Interviews Jim Marrs!
In this conspiracy-laden episode of Disinformation: The Podcast, Raymond Wiley and Joe McFall feature an interview with Jim Marrs, author of ABOVE TOP SECRET, as well as numerous other fortean bestsellers. Jim talks with us about many of the subjects covered in ABOVE TOP SECRET, and gives us his insights into the ups and downs of the conspiracy sub-culture that fascinates so many. We continue our conversation about the sub-culture with Bill Irvine from www.abovetopsecret.com, one of the premiere conspiracy sites on the web.
Listen to the new ‘cast on disinfo.com or on iTunes (subscribe today)!
‘2012: Science Or Superstition’ Screenings This Week!
We have upcoming screenings of 2012: Science Or Superstition in Detroit, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Nashville, IN, Albuquerque, NM and more to come! Go to 2012.bravenewtheaters.com for the theatrical event info near you.
Interested in hosting a screening? Please contact us at dvd@disinfo.com whenever you are. Help us show this film throughout the U.S., Canada and the world!
Check out the official 2012: Science or Superstition website at 2012dvd.com and join our Worldwide 2012 Meetup Group. Find The Others!
Our 2012 film on DVD (with extra features) is now available for preorder on Amazon.
A big thanks for all the people organizing these screenings! Looking forward to many more!
Jim Marrs On ‘Coast To Coast AM’ Tonight: Nov. 24 at 10 PM PST
Hey everyone, just a heads up that Jim Marrs will be on Coast To Coast AM tonight (Nov. 24, 2008) at 10 PM PST discussing his new book ABOVE TOP SECRET with host George Noory.
Jim is always fascinating — highly recommended late night listening!
To find your local Coast to Coast AM affiliate in the U.S. and Canada, click here. Coast to Coast AM is also on Sirius XM Channel 165 and has an internet cast.
ABOVE TOP SECRET: Uncover the Mysteries of the Digital Age is available at Amazon and wherever great Jim Marrs books are sold!
More on ABOVE TOP SECRET: Uncover the Mysteries of the Digital Age:
Contrary to an old adage, what you don’t know CAN harm you. You want to know all about those conspiracies you hear about, but don’t want to spend your life digging through…
Paulson Was Behind Bailout Martial Law Threat
Senator James Inhofe has revealed that Henry Paulson was behind the threats of martial law and a new great depression prior to the passage of the bailout bill, having made such warnings during a conference call on September 19th, around two weeks before the legislation was eventually approved by both the Senate and Congress.
As we reported at the time, on October 2, Democratic Congressman Brad Sherman gave a stunning speech on the House floor during which he decried the fact that, “Many of us were told in private conversations that if we voted against this bill on Monday that the sky would fall, the market would drop two or three thousand points the first day, another couple of thousand the second day, and a few members were even told that…
Disinformation: The Podcast Is Here!
Disinformation® All Hallows’ Eve Bulletin: The NEW Disinformation Podcast is HERE!
In the inaugural episode of Disinformation: The Podcast, Raymond and Joe speak with author Robert Bauval about his new book THE EGYPT CODE. Robert Bauval is the author of The Orion Mystery and co-author, with Graham Hancock, of Talisman. His new book explores the relationship between ancient Egyptian myth, ritual, architecture and astronomy. Mr. Bauval joins us from Spain to discuss his life, his work and his philosophy.
Look for Disinformation: The Podcast on iTunes by searching for “disinformation” — Disinformation: The Podcast is also available at www.disinfo.com/podcasts.
We are very excited to welcome Ray and Joe as Disinfonauts. Enjoy the show!
— Ralph Bernardo, Managing Editor
P.S. After listening be sure to check out what’s new on www.disinfo.com!
About Disinformation: The Podcast:
Raymond Wiley and Joe McFall are the former co-hosts of Out There…
