Circle of 13: 21 May 2012

Monday, May 21, 2012

South Korea finds smuggled capsules contain human flesh

The Associated Press reports:

South Korea has seized thousands of smuggled drug capsules filled with powdered flesh from dead babies, which some people believe can cure disease, officials said Monday.

The capsules were made in northeastern China from babies whose bodies were chopped into small pieces and dried on stoves before being turned into powder, the Korea Customs Service said.

Customs officials refused to say where the dead babies came from or who made the capsules, citing possible diplomatic friction with Beijing. Chinese officials ordered an investigation into the production of drugs made from dead fetuses or newborns last year.

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South Korea Steps Up Fight Against Human Flesh Pills from China

...Demand for the pills has been driven by the belief that the fetus is a “tonic” for disease, the China Daily cited the documentary as saying. Consumption of human placentas is more common in China, where it is believed to help revive blood supply and circulation, according to the China Daily report. A report in the Global Times, a tabloid published by the official People’s Daily, said the human flesh pill were used to enhance sexual performance.

The Korean customs announcement comes less than a month after China’s drug regulators announced the suspension of sales of 13 drugs (11 Chinese traditional medicines and two antibiotics) after finding they were encased in gelatin capsules that contained excessive levels of chromium. According to China’s state broadcaster, CCTV, the toxic drug capsules were believed to originate from factories in China’s coastal Zhejiang province and had been made using scraps of leftover leather...

Income inequality leads to more US deaths, study finds

The findings suggest that income inequality at any one point doesn't work instantaneously - it begins increasing mortality rates 5 years later, and its influence peaks after 7 years, before fading after 12 years.

William Hamilton Obituary

William Hamilton, the radical theologian, who has died aged 87, stirred great controversy in the 1960s by pronouncing God dead.

Chicago Anti-NATO Protest Update

The Chain of Obedience

The death squads and concentration camps of history were never staffed by rebels and dissidents. They were were run by those who followed the rules.

Living in a Banksters’ Paradise – Part 1 of 2

Paul Adams, J.D. writes for Activist Post:

A more recent study found that Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Wells Fargo and HSBC now have the power of the Federal Reserve at their fingertips.

That makes sense because after years of making bad loans with artificially low interest rates and foreclosing on millions of American homes, the Fed bailed out the following banks with at least $16.9 trillion according to page 131 of the first GAO audit:

Citigroup: $2.5 trillion ($2,500,000,000,000)
Morgan Stanley: $2.04 trillion ($2,040,000,000,000)
Merrill Lynch: $1.949 trillion ($1,949,000,000,000)
Bank of America: $1.344 trillion ($1,344,000,000,000)
Barclays PLC (United Kingdom): $868 billion ($868,000,000,000)
Bear Sterns: $853 billion ($853,000,000,000)
Goldman Sachs: $814 billion ($814,000,000,000)
Royal Bank of Scotland (UK): $541 billion ($541,000,000,000)
JP Morgan Chase: $391 billion ($391,000,000,000)
Deutsche Bank (Germany): $354 billion ($354,000,000,000)
UBS (Switzerland): $287 billion ($287,000,000,000)
Credit Suisse (Switzerland): $262 billion ($262,000,000,000)
Lehman Brothers: $183 billion ($183,000,000,000)
Bank of Scotland (United Kingdom): $181 billion ($181,000,000,000)
BNP Paribas (France): $175 billion ($175,000,000,000)
and many more including banks in Belgium of all places

However, other economists estimate the bankster theft and financial raping of dollar holders since 2008 is $29 trillion.

That’s right, largest banks, many of which appear to own shares in the private Federal Reserve, bailed themselves out in excess of the U.S. 2010 GDP ($14.59 Trillion - value of all goods and services produced in the U.S. for the year). Yes, even the fictional national debt of $15.7 trillion dollars could have been paid-off for less than the bankster stole.

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Spain's Indignados one year on ― more relevant than ever

The emergence of a new generation of neighbourhood activists under the 15-M banner has led to a revival of the neighborhood associations, created in the 1960s and 1970s struggle against the Franco dictatorship. With this has come generational cross-fertilisation.

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Ishmael Reed quote from 'Mumbo Jumbo'

‎"If the British prose style is Churchillian, America is the tobacco auctioneer, the barker; Runyon, Lardner, W.W., the traveling salesman who can sell the world the Brooklyn Bridge every day, can put anything over on you and convince you that tomatoes grow at the South Pole."

~ Ishmael Reed (b. 1938), U.S. novelist, poet, essayist. Mumbo Jumbo, ch. 4, Atheneum (1972).

1939 World's Fair Meets the Swingin' Love Corpses

From the Wikipedia entry: "The 1939--40 New York World's Fair, which covered the 1,216 acres (4.92 km2) of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park (also the location of the 1964--1965 New York World's Fair), was the second largest American world's fair of all time, exceeded only by St. Louis's Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904. Many countries around the world participated in it, and over 44 million people attended its exhibits in two seasons. The NYWF of 1939--1940 was the first exposition to be based on the future, with an opening slogan of "Dawn of a New Day", and it allowed all visitors to take a look at "the world of tomorrow". According to the official New York World's Fair pamphlet" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_New_York_World's_Fair

With Dr. Philo Drummond - sax and vocals, Col. Sphinx Drummond trumpet and vocals, Bishop Ray Hay - guitars and vocals, Mojo Skippy Butcher - drums, Lafe Kowabunga - bass guitar.

Part 1

Swingin' Love Corpses Tunes: Afternoon Jam, Reptilian Sister-In-Law, Transparent Dreams Of Nocturnal Atlantis, Occidental Rejections

Part 2

Swingin' Love Corpses Tunes: Blistering Corpses, The 22nd Time I took a Dump on this Trip

Part 8

Message to Anonymous Subgenius

Brothers and Sisters,
We must confront ourselves.
We know that all men and women are created good.

We must understand why you have gone bad. You can not play checkers with your life, jumpin' around like an 'ol whirl wind.

Wrapping your dishes and plates and then unpacking them and placing them back on the shelf.

This is not the way Jehova One has designed you to act.

Unless.. you are willing to admit, that you are a normal, a pink boy, a ninny, a twit.

Only then can you decide where your path shall lead you. We know in head, that we are all created good by Jehova One.

Some of you got such bad luck sometimes in your life, you couldn't hang yourself with your own neck tie.

This is when you should look to Bob.

When you look to Jehova One, and say "Bob, come into my life" and you shall see, one set of footprints in the sand.

And that is when you will know, that Bob has charged you $5.99 to carry you to the nearest taxi.

Praise Bob in his divine ways.

You got to know, that life is like a vanishing twin. A baby inside of a twin inside of a woman's belly.

That's how confusin' this wiggly world can be. You got to raise up above this wiggly world and grab the hand of Bob!

Praise him and all that flows through Bob!

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Sweden's Royal Academy of Science highly critical of wind power

Thirteen of Sweden's most eminent scientists within climate and energy explain that the current Swedish wind power investment is a huge mistake that will cost the Swedish people billions of dollars without providing any benefits to the country. It is also stated that wind production is minuscule, but was it to increase significantly then it would entail additional costs to electricity consumers in the form of demands for increased network expansion and back up power generation. All in all this means that the expansion of wind power as a whole is negative for the electricity consumers and for Sweden's competitiveness. There are no environmental benefits either because wind power is not able to reduce carbon emissions.

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Penn State Professor Says Global Warming Skeptics Are Guilty of a “Crimes Against Humanity”

Via Weasel Zippers:

“The findings are shocking," Dr. Alex Rogers, IPSO's scientific director, said in a statement released by the group. "This is a very serious situation demanding unequivocal action at every level. We are looking at consequences for humankind that will impact in our lifetime, and worse, our children's and generations beyond that."

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michael of bernicia - Beating the Banksters!

michael of bernicia gives a presentation to a Freedom North West meeting on the 21st of March 2012.