Rick Santorum Unveils Dystopian Horror Flick
The Hunger Games? Nope, this year’s hottest dramatic depiction of our nightmarish future is Rick Santorum’s ‘Obamaville’, a look at a ’small American town two years from now if Obama is reelected’. What will 2014 under Obama be like? The playgrounds are empty, rusted, and littered with children’s abandoned shoes, signs are painted in blood, the numbers on clocks are printed in Soviet-font, and the sun rarely shines. No joke, a campaign spokesperson said this teaser is the kickoff an eight-part miniseries:
How To Make Your Candy Bar Not Look Like A Gun
In a clip from his short-lived but oft intriguing Awful Truth program, Michael Moore takes to the streets of Giuliani-era New York City and paints residents’ wallets, keys, and snack foods day-glo orange in the hope of stemming the tide of ’self defense’ police shootings of people holding everyday objects. More relevant than ever in the aftermath of the Trayvon Martin killing:
One Weekend At Occupy Wall Street
Toronto filmmaker Bert McKinley lets his camera do the talking:
In early October 2011 I went down to New York City to spend a long weekend at Zuccotti park – Campsite for Occupy Wall Street. This is what I saw and some of people I talked to in my 3 days spent at Occupy.
How To Stage War Reporting
Via Russia Today, an interesting look at mainstream media outlets (Al Jazeera, CNN) dramatizing conflict journalism — in this case, in Syria.
The camera is shaken to make the footage seem raw and amateur, a stream of grey smoke in the sky is reported as stemming from a nonexistent “explosion”, and an onscreen personality requests background gunfire for a sound effect for his live shot on Anderson Cooper 360. In short, “The activists who become journalists try to make their shows as ‘hard’ as possible. The more blood and death, the higher the price.”
Want To File A Police Complaint?
…and this is what you could run into. A compilation of the intimidation, and threats of arrest, one can face when attempting to file a complaint regarding police misconduct:
Fork Theremin Expresses Your Eating As Musical Sounds
Created in Japan, an eerie musical instrument that creates synesthesia — the blurring of the line between senses. Different categories such as fried foods, dairy, and vegetables produce different sorts of sounds:
EaTheremine (Eat + Theremin) is a fork-type instrumen that enables users to play various sounds by eating foods. These sounds are changed, according to resistance values of foods attached on the fork.
Watch Sprawl From Las Vegas Consume The Desert
From NASA, watch the cancer-like growth emanate outward from Las Vegas:
When Landsat 5 launched on March 1, 1984, Las Vegas was a smaller city. The outward expansion of the city is shown in a false-color time lapse of data from all the Landsat satellites.
Are You Spreading Enough Awareness?
In response to the KONY 2012 saga, the Awareness 2012 Campaign has been unrolled. No doubt in collaboration with marketing campaigns organized by leading corporations, through social media, it aims to make young people more aware:
Ron Paul Says GOP Primary Elections May Have Been A Sham
A display of paranoia run amok? Sour grapes over a disappointing performance? Or could he be onto something? Ron Paul questions the veracity of the results in the Republican primaries, implying that vote tallies are being doctored to favor the picking of a more “establishment” candidate:
White House Releases Death Of Bin Laden Trailer
Barack Obama is the president, but more importantly, he’s the star of the Barack Obama movie. You may not have been aware that his first term was being turned into an officially sanctioned documentary as it happened — here’s the minute-long teaser clip released by his reelection campaign on the killing of Osama bin Laden:
Mysterious Phoenix Light Flashes
The morning traffic report from Phoenix’s West Valley on Fox affiliate KSAZ-TV takes a turn towards the weird:
Anti-Abortion Group On Planned Parenthood’s Plot To Hook Kids On Sex
This may seem like a parody, but it’s not: the conservative American Life League uncovers how, in addition to dispensing “mountains of birth control”, Planned Parenthood is plotting to program a generation of children into sex addicts by spreading filthy lies such as “masturbation is normal” and “women menstruate”:
Home Movies From The Manhattan Project
Newly unveiled — a beautiful, haunting glimpse at life inside the carefree, secret 1940s desert summer camp that birthed the atom bomb:
In 1943, the top scientists from the United States and other nations gathered in Los Alamos, NM for the Manhattan Project. Among them was physicist Hugh Bradner. With informal permission from the U.S. Army, he shot a collection of home movies of life in a place that officially didn’t exist, and of people working on a project that ultimately changed history. His footage represents the only look at life in the Los Alamos area during that time.
The Origami Micro-Robot Bee
The bee population may be collapsing, which potentially means a big blow to our food supply and civilization itself. But, at least we have an idea of the replacement that will emerge from the rubble — the beautiful, tiny, easily mass-produced robo-bee that will flutter through the future:
The Harvard Monolithic Bee is a millimeter-scale flapping wing robotic insect produced using Printed Circuit MEMS (PC-MEMS) techniques.
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Are the Koch Brothers Funding Rush Limbaugh?
Just in time for the release of Brave New Foundation’s new film, Koch Brothers Exposed, Rush Limbaugh has thrown in with Charles and David Koch in their letter war with Obama campaign manager Jim Messina. No surprise there; Rush has made his fortune defending the rich and powerful against the 99%. But does Rush actually have a vested interest in the Koch brothers’ success?
The letter war started when Messina sent a fundraising letter saying the billionaire brothers bankroll “Tea Party extremism” and manipulate oil prices to buttress their energy business. The Kochs responded that Obama was treading on their “right to free speech.” (To them, I guess, being criticized by the president is tantamount to being arrested for sedition.) Team Obama shot back again, and here we are.
Rush has taken to the airwaves and lauded the Kochs. “This is how you do it,” he says. And on the surface, the reason for Rush’s apologetics is…
Seattle Cop Caught On Tape Telling Man He Will Be Framed For Robbery
Seattle’s KOMO 4 News reports on their city’s police department’s issue with tens of thousands of cop car dashcam videos “vanishing”. In the latest incident for which cruiser footage of critical moments was mysteriously lost, two innocent young men (both African American) were beaten and arrested at gunpoint for no legitimate reason. After they are taken to jail, an officer tells one that he will “make stuff up” and send them to prison for robbery.
But no worries, the police department investigated itself and found no wrongdoing by officers. A department spokesman comments that concerned citizens have to “trust the system, trust the process”.
Meet The Teenage Exorcist Sisters
Reverend Bob Larson claims to have exorcised more than 15,000 demons around the world in his career. Watch Anderson Cooper talk to his daughters, who have taken up their father’s trade.
17-year-old Tess first performed an exorcism a friend who was possessed. She says that one of the tell-tale signs is eyes that dilate: ‘You can see evil.’ Brynne’s first exorcism was at age 13: ‘I got up on stage in front of 3,000 people and cast a demon out in Africa.’ This and all the other tips teens need to know about demonology:
Pussy Riot’s Performance At One Of The World’s Most Hallowed Orthodox Churches
Pussy Riot is a bright young Moscow musical act known for its anti-Putin message and raucous behavior. Their latest shenanigans were a blasphemous performance at Russia’s main cathedral. Russia Today explains:
Russian Cossacks are to stand guard over Moscow’s Orthodox churches after a feminist punk band broke into a Cathedral and sang blasphemous songs at the altar. Earlier this month, four members of the all-girl band Pussy Riot rushed the church dressed in mini-dresses and wearing masks. Without losing time, they sang a song entitled Holy Shit before being escorted out by security.
The Month’s BBC News Remixed
15 editions of the BBC’s News at Six from January, edited down to two minutes, changing what the anchors did say into what they should have said:
Ninel Kulagina Moving Objects With Her Mind
Less heralded but more legit than famed/controversial spoon-bender Uri Geller? Paranormala on the alleged telekinetic abilities of Soviet soldier Ninel Kulagina:
Psychokinesis, or the ability to manipulate objects with the mind, is a notoriously difficult to prove ability. Defiant against attempts to debunk, is the case of Ninel Kulagina. A female soldier in the Soviet Red Army, Kulagina found that whenever she became angry poltergeist activity would manifest in the room around her. With practice, she learned how to focus her power and move objects at will. Scientist Edward Naumov was among the first to test her claims by spreading a box of matches on a table.
