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Xe not the end of the blood-soaked Blackwater brand

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Photo: Andrew R. Whalley/Flickr CC

Blackwater, among the most tainted blood-soaked brands out there, is now slapping its pay print logo on pro shops.

The shops are located near military bases along the East Coast.

In an effort to distance themselves from the name which many felt was tainted, Blackwater executives came up with the inert name “Xe” to help revamp their tarnished image. Here we are a little over a year later and although Xe didn’t seem to do much for anyone, it seems that the name Blackwater still has some life in it. Despite negative connotations almost everywhere else, the firm still enjoys a great deal of support from the gun owning public. So it only seems natural that the Blackwater name and iconic bear paw logo would begin to see a resurgence. Poised to open are combination pro shops and indoor ranges in Fayetteville, North Carolina and Salem, Connecticut. What is the significance of these two disparate locations you might ask? Fayetteville should come as no surprise as it is home to Fort Bragg. However, many would not know that Salem is right up the road from the Navy’s submarine force based in Groton, Connecticut.

via Blackwater Pro Shops – Coming to a Town Near You « Soldier Systems.

Coleman accused: short shrift to Bigfoot sex

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Image: Cryptomundo. (Click to visit Coleman's blog.)

Loren Coleman — one of the Heretic’s “Ten to Watch in 2010” — reports that one Bigfoot sex-obsessed lecturer complained to the Portland Daily Sun (in its April 1 edition) that his research was omitted from the legendary cryptozoologist’s forthcoming tome about the beast:

It seems that “Henry Yarncooler, a lecturer on Bigfoot legends, said he can’t understand why [Loren] Coleman and co-author Michelle Souliere, owner of the Green Hand bookstore where the [International] Cryptozoology Museum resides, want to censor details of Bigfoot’s breeding habits.”

It does not appear, from Coleman’s post, that the Portland Daily Sun contacted him, or cited his past presentations and writings on  “cryptosexology,” particularly those pertaining to the mighty, hairy, one.

via Cryptomundo » Dueling Cryptos: Coleman vs Yarncooler.

Coleman partners with Strange Maine on Bigfoot tome

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Premier cryptozoologist and Bigfoot hunter, Loren Coleman, is collaborating on a new book with another, not-so-crazy Mainer:

“Tentatively, Bigfoot in Maine by Loren Coleman and Michelle Souliere, is due for 2012, from Idyll Arbor, Inc.. The company’s publisher, Pine Winds Press has released Bigfoot in Georgia: Legends, Myths, and Sightings by Jeffrey Wells, the now-classic Bigfoot Casebook Updated by Janet and Colin Bords, Valley of the Skookum by Sali Sheppard-Wolford, and Robert W. Morgan’s two books. Pine Winds Press shall be trekking its way through other states in the near future, in search of writers of other Bigfoot books.”

via Cryptomundo » Coming Soon: Bigfoot In Maine.

MPP: UN "meddles" in US marijuana legalization fight

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The UN is sticking its nose into the business of individual US states, by complaining that any trend toward legalization of weed will have a domino effect, globally, says the MPP:

“The U.N.’s International Narcotics Control Board’s (INCB) attempts to meddle in marijuana reform in the United States were denounced by the Marijuana Policy Project on Thursday.

The INCB, which is currently meeting in Vienna, Austria, said in a recent report that they were ‘deeply concerned’ that the 14 U.S. states that have medical marijuana laws are sending the ‘wrong message to other countries.’”

via Toke of the Town – Cannabis news, rumor and humor.

WaterMill gadget: Not-so-cost effective?

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Photo: CC/Danny Barron

Some readers of my Boston Globe column today caught a glitch (and a few of those got their knickers twisted) over my thoughts about the WaterMill, a device that sucks drinking water out of the air.

Here’s one very reasonable remark, from “Dave-P-2“:

The WaterMill, although sounding like a good idea, costs $2,000 and takes 11.0 cents of energy to produce a gallon — up to three gallons per day.

I’m all for alternative energy sources, but Mark, do you really think this cool device “should take a bite out of the water bill for most families”?

via These retro phones won’t bust the budget – The Boston Globe

Touché. In my piece, I should have written, “bottled water costs.” But with the solar panel powering the WaterMill, which I do mention, you could theoretically begin making potable water for free.

I also understand that many people prefer the taste, the fluoride and the low costs they get with their municipal water supplies. They also trust the government more than themselves to provide clean water for their families.

Boston shrinks will challenge association's "ethics"

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from Mark:

Boston area shrinks this month will protest the American Psychological Association’s weak stance against torture.

The APA’s ethics code (see excerpt, below) is giving shrinks a free pass to help U.S. forces commit war crimes at Guantanamo Bay, protester organizers say.

Psychologists have a long history of participating in torture.

The entire “positive psychology” movement, for example, is rooted in sadistic animal experiments by former APA president Martin Seligman, who coached  CIA interrogators (unwittingly, Seligman says) on torture techniques.

Seligman decades ago electrically shocked dogs until they stopped trying to save themselves: a state he called “learned helplessness.”

More recently, Seligman explained his theories at a CIA-organized event. At least CIA two psychologists at Guantanamo credit Seligman with inspiring their torture protocols.

Psychologists Won’t Let Go of Torture Debate – World of Psychology
“If the conflict (between a psychologist’s moral duties and a government order) is unresolvable via such means, psychologists may adhere to the requirements of the law, regulations, or other governing legal authority.” It is worth noting that this new option is absolute and unqualified and applies not just to the specific requirements enumerated in the code but more generally to all “ethical responsibilities.”

Antichrist touches down in Boston

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Dr. José Luis De Jesús Miranda’s number is 666. But he says the pope is the real devil.

(The Antichrist’s followers milled about this Boston intersection Saturday, seeking new friends:  Photo: Courtesy of The International Ministry Growing in Grace.)

from Mark:

The Beast’s peeps were here last Saturday, to “tell the world that God is on Earth and that the Vatican is the most evil organization in existence with Pope Benedict XVI as the worst terrorist in the world,” according to Axel Poessy, spokeswoman for the Government of God on Earth.

Poessy, a follower of the Miami-based preacher (and self-described Antichrist) Dr. José Luis De Jesús Miranda, passed those comments along to me in an email this morning.

“The Boston manifestation was an spectacle unto the world,” said Poessy, who is also a model (see a snap from her portfolio, right).

From the photos she sent me, however, it looks like only a small, if passionate, group, had gathered in front of the New England Aquarium for the protest.

Miranda’s disciples come for his “anything goes” brand of positive Christianity. They give their fortunes to him, and get tattoos of his brand, “666,” to demonstrate their devotion to the man.

To read more and how some people are responding to Miranda’s most curious prosperity gospel, click here:

New World Leader Claims He Is Jesus Christ. Con Man or Prophet? by David A. — education, facts, awareness | Gather
De Jesus wears fine suits and diamond-encrusted rings, drives a 7 Series BMW, and, until recently, lived in a 5000-square-foot Miramar home with Corinthian columns and vaulted ceilings. He also travels with a battalion of guards who wear dark suits and conspicuous earpieces. Surrounded by his personal security team and beautiful women, José Luis de Jesús, devoted his speech to striking against religious believers and assured his audience that those who follow his, belong to him.

Cape Cod licenses go to the devil

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(A powerful figure: Some want 666 on their headstones, others their license plates. Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland. Photo: Leo Reynolds)

The Mark of the Beast is making big bucks for Cape Cod Charities this summer (link, excerpt, below). Bids for the plates (28 to-date) are exceeding the $600 mark. Other “lucky” numbers, such as 888 (eight is lucky in China), are doing equally well in the bidding for new “custom” license plates from the Commenwealth of Massachusetts.

Cape license plate bidding goes apocalyptic – BostonHerald.com
Devilish drivers are burning up an online auction in a bidding war over plate 666.

It’s all part of the Cape & Islands license plate auction that lasts until Aug. 1.

Plate numbers 1 through 999 are up for grabs with the sign of the devil leading the way as of yesterday, the first day of bidding.

The most popular plate in the auction, 666, known as the devil’s number, has grabbed at least 24 bidders looking to ride under the mark of the beast.

Bush, Obama, Cheney, Ramses: All in the family

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(Blood is thicker than water. Photos: Ramses, right, by Jimmy Smith; President George W. Bush, courtesy of the White House)

from Mark:

I’ve listened to enough patriot radio, and done enough Googling, to know that America’s leading politicians and personalities are related (see link, excerpt, below).

Still, I was struck by this recent statement by the far-out occult conspiracy researcher and broadcaster Freeman: “George W. Bush is a direct descendant of Ramses (one of the ancient Egyptian kings).

This is an important assertion for students of the reptilian/ET agenda. It is also, I imagine, impossible to prove.

I do not know a thing about family trees, so I cannot tell you whether this one from David Icke is accurate…

But I am astonished at how the mainstream media uses firm evidence of elite inbreeding, where it exists, to mock conspiracists and to claim, perversely, that it somehow proves politicians serve very different masters.

FactCheck.org: Are Barack Obama and Dick Cheney cousins?
Obama’s other relatives, by the way, include George W. Bush, who, according to the Sun-Times, is his 11th cousin. They share the same great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents, a 17th-century Massachusetts couple named Samuel Hinckley and Sarah Soole Hinckley. And Harry S. Truman was Obama’s fourth cousin four times removed, the paper says. The New York Post, using ancestry.com, reported that Brad Pitt and Obama are ninth cousins. Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga told the BBC that his maternal uncle was Obama’s father, making them first cousins (we think).

We wouldn’t make too much of this, though. After all, according to at least some researchers, a common ancestor for all humans now alive may have existed just several thousand years ago. That means you, dear reader, could have a cousinly relationship that may not go all that far back to everyone from Jack Kevorkian to Tina Fey to Hugo Chavez to the woman selling trinkets from a piece of cardboard on a Bangalore street corner.