X Class

The satellite photo above is worth clicking on for a larger view.

I've been hanging out with some very interesting people and they all have a lot of insanely entangled threads interconnecting each other with narratives that are very hard to keep an open mind on. However, there is one scientific metric that I can point you towards as a sort of unifying theory without going down the rabbit hole of ideas. 

They all largely agree that the Sun is much more than some inanimate object and that its part of a system that responds not only to outside galactic phenomena but in some part reflects the collective consciousness/well being of the planet. A thought that is no more irrational (to me) than quantum mechanics and non locality/Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Personally I have a hard time figuring out how a sun burns for such a long long time. I don't buy conventional thinking on that point. You can see with the largest X Class Solar flare since 2006 above, that in so many ways it's about as fire-like it gets 

NASA writes: On Valentine's Day (ET) the Sun unleased one of its most powerful explosions, an X-class flare. The blast was the largest so far in the new solar cycle. Erupting from active region AR1158 in the Sun's southern hemisphere, the flare is captured here in this extreme ultraviolet image from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The intense burst of electromagnetic radiation momentarily overwhelmed pixels in SDO's detectors causing the bright vertical blemish. This X-class flare was also accompanied by a coronal mass ejection (CME), a massive cloud of charged particles traveling outward at nearly 900 kilometers per second. Skywatchers at high latitudes should be alert for aurorae tonight.

Propaganda

Nice find from the Granite Studio. The poster says "With Japanese, Chinese, and Manchu working together, a Great Peace can be brought to the world". It's interesting that this kind of message could even be peddled given how brutal the Japanese were with rapes and competitive beheading and of course the Chinese population are itching with revenge now to take Japan out. I'm not exaggerating.

However we see below that some things don't change. it's a subtle form of propaganda though given that it was paid for by the Royal Thai army backed regime who had just slaughtered over 90 Thais and alienated the majority of the electorate. Many were assassinated by telescopic crosshair sniper units. This is the same Royal Thai Army who then went on to massively increase their military budget to include the first submarine as part of the overall military package.


This is from an army that has never picked on a decent opponent like the Burmese Tatmadaw as the Royal Thai Army has since the 1930's historically performed much better at shooting its own people on behalf of the wealthy elite.

Naturally this could never happen in the U.S but there are still too many political reportage sycophants out there who think Obama is a saviour. Neither he nor anyone in the GOP is. It's the way it is. More on my propaganda and advertising thinking over here.

Google One Pass

I welcome any experimentation with simple online payment models. Particularly in light of how Paypal was originally destined to be a game changer, but once the institutions got their legislative mitts securely on it, the model mutated into the greedy blood sucking vampire beast it is today. 

I hope Google's effort is better than this largely lacking in detail video (they really need an agency to tell them this is pants).