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Synchronicities strike the rails

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Here’s one for Loren Coleman (The Copycat Effect) and the synchromystics. I’ve noticed several reports of collisions in the heavy and light-rail industries since May 28–and one intense, and fictitious scene, in Caprica, which appeared online earlier this year, in promos for the new series.

The Disney Monorail crash killed a 21-year old man who was raised in Disney’s planned community, Celebration.

Picture 1 Photo: WFTV-9

Washington, DC, Metro train collision. AP photoNewton, Mass. Green Line derailment. AP Photo

Photos (clockwise from top left): Early scene from the Caprica pilot; Washington, DC, Metro crash; Green Line crash, Newton, Mass., May 28; the Disney Monorail crash.

WASHINGTON – At least two people are dead and nine people are injured after a Metro Red Line train derailed and collided with another Metro train, officials say.

The six-car train derailed and then collided with another train between the Takoma Park and Fort Totten stations around 5 p.m. Monday, trapping several passengers.

via 2 dead after Metro train derailment, collision – wtop.com.

UN uber alles: Rules establish reign from outer space

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Note: This is a lightly edited version of the piece Alan Watt read last night on his radio program, Cutting Through the Matrix (Fri., Nov. 7, 2008).–mb

Announcement encourages lowly earthlings to salute global governance

The European Space Agency next Friday will launch a copy of the UN’s 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights to a permanent spot aboard a space lab orbiting the Earth.

It’s a symbolic gesture, celebrating an empty promise, which the UN made 60 years ago to protect the world’s most vulnerable people.

“In recognition of the fact that human beings are at times downtrodden, the Declaration can symbolically find its place ‘above’ all the peoples of the world,” ESA astronaut Léopold Eyharts said in an announcement (link, below).

The Universal Declaration promises freedom from bondage, and a handful of other rights that only a psychopath could find objectionable.

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Secretary-General Trygve Lie and Chief Architect W.K Harrison depositing copies of the UN Charter and the UDHR while laying the corner stone for the secretariat building, NY, 1949. Credit: UN Photo

But the Universal Declaration is more than a list of shared values.

It also includes passages that strip away individual liberties and increase the power of the State.

One example:

According to Article 29 of the Universal Declaration, if exercising your human rights brings you into conflict with “the purposes and principles of the United Nations,” your rights become null and void.

via ESA Portal – Universal Declaration of Human Rights flies into space

Royal Mint strikes jigsaw coins

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I am unfamiliar with the symbology of the Shield of the Royal Arms, but that’s what folks in the UK will see, this time in pieces, on their new pocket change. The Royal Mint explains the exoteric meaning of the Royal Arms here, at least. — mb

(The Royal Mint this summer will release new coins, which, cobbled together, complete a jigsaw image of the shield of the Royal Arms on their reverse side. Image: Core77)

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The winning designer is 26-year-old Matthew Dent, originally from Bangor who now lives and works in London as a graphic designer.

His idea divides one image over the six coins of the penny to the penny to the fifty pence. Each coin features part of the design and by arranging each coin in a certain way completes the design, much like a jigsaw.