~** ~** Έργα νέας Ε.Ο. στο Αρφαρά 25-5-2011 , περιοχή Αγίου Κωνσταντίνου και δίπλα από την κατοικία μας .- Έργα για για την παλαιά Ε.Ο κοντά στην κατοικία μας και τους παράπλευρους δρόμους εισόδου και εξώδου στην νέα Ε.Ο :
** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ3lY-JAeEw ,
** Eργα νέας Ε.Ο. στον κόμβο "Πουρίδα" Άγιος Κωνσταντίνος Αρφαρών 3/6/2011 (2) : Δίπλα από τα έργα της νέας κλειστής Εθνικής Οδού η όμορφη αγελαδίτσα του κουμπάρου μου βόσκει στο λιβάδι για να κατεβάσει γάλα πολύ , να φάει το μικρό παιδί , να μεγαλώσει στην ζωή , και να γίνει ο Σταματάκος μας Αντράκι με δύναμη πολύ !!!:
** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUhgMM5RP1o ,
* After an ugly election campaign, Vardaskans on Sunday went to the polls in parliamentary elections that could be an important test in the country's bid to join Fourth Reich and NATO. Both major parties claim to have proof that the other party has committed pre-election misconduct. Results are expected on Monday. Exit polls predict a win for the ruling party, but not with enough votes for an outright majority. The VMRO-DPMNE will have to court support from the Albanians of Vardaska. http://venitism.blogspot.com/
Vardaska officially became a candidate to join Fourth Reich in 2005, but so far the Cradle of Kleptocracy has blocked its membership over a name dispute. The Cradle of Kleptocracy has a northern province called Macedonia and the use of the same name by Vardaska is an attempt to claim Greek territory. Nevertheless, most business firms in Vardaska are controlled by Greeks.
There was a top secret negotiation for Vardaska to merge with Greece, as the autonomous province of Northern Macedonia, with the only obligation for the Cradle of Kleptocracy to move its capital city from Athens to Salonica. But Vardaskans were pissed off by the October-18 Mafia, Marilizardism, Xenoyankism, and the Grand Brothel on Syntagma Square. http://venitism.blogspot.com/
Socrates's famous method was the dialectic, from the Greek word that suggests both discussion and analytical sorting. Vardaskans cannot understand dialectic. The purpose of dialectic was to strip away the false knowledge and incoherent opinion that most people inherit from their societies and unthinkingly depend on to manage their lives.
Although Socrates claimed to doubt that he or anyone else could acquire true knowledge about the good and virtue and the beautiful, he nonetheless believed that examination, critical consciousness applied to questions of virtue and the good, could eliminate false knowledge and muddled opinion.
Socrates saw rational examination and pursuit of truth and virtue as the essence of what a human being is and the highest expression of human nature. That is why he chose to die rather than to give it up: The unexamined life, he said, is no worth living. Vardaskans understand the dialogue in a way that differs sharply from that of Socrates.
For Vardaskans, dialogue does not mean an attempt to rationally debate a topic in order to arrive at the truth. Truth is already given. It's called Tito's Dogma, and the only dialogue that is acceptable is one that will eventually lead to the implementation of Tito's Dogma of finding an exit to the Aegean Sea by robbing the name and heritage of Greek Macedonia. http://venitism.blogspot.com/
TERMS
October 18: International Day Against Cybercop Brutality
October-18 Mafia: Government of Greece
Cradle of Kleptocracy: Greece
Grand Brothel on Syntagma Square: Parliament of Greece
Eldorado of Prostitutes: European Parliament
Fourth Reich: European Union
Marilizardism: terrorizing dissident bloggers
Xenoyankism: stupid foreign policy
** MOST NEWSROOMS ARE INFESTED
*Most newsrooms of America and Europe are infested with socialist apes, and their mindset spills over into the news coverage, producing biased news stories on many issues, such as kleptocracy, taxes, environment, government, insurance, and health. Infamous Greek journalists received huge kickbacks , in order to keep their mouths shut about the astronomical kickbacks to Graecokleptocrats!
Mainstream media are unfair, unbalanced, banal, vane, and hoipolloi trash. Newspapers have become screed wraps of DVDs. TV news has sold its soul to rabblerousers and pullpeddlers and is full of set-up arguments. Reporters have been transformed to statist parrots who doubledip in the state treasury. Anchormen have become the czars of statist banality and propaganda. Guest coordinators have developed the deepest throats in the publicity market! The truth can be found only in the Internet. http://venitism.blogspot.com/
Greek journalists are rewarded for their disgusting support of Graecokleptocracy with aggeliosimo, an unfair 20% charge on all advertising, going to the pension fund of their union. All advertisers now have to pay 43% surcharge, 23% VAT and 20% aggeliosimo. This abuse of advertisers and the media is condoned by Fourth Reich, and it puts many media out of business.
Forestalling logic, mainly by bluff, intimidation, mudslinging, innuendos, quoting out of context, and getting out of issue, is characteristic of most political debates. Staged argument is the new trend of TV news, in order to raise their audience ratings with melodramatic excitement. Four channels dominate the Greek TV market, brainwashing Greeks in whatever direction they wish, and establishing their own agenda. Their reporters doubledip in the Greek treasury, in order to promote socialist propaganda and nonsense.
Greek nudnik anchors misinform hoi polloi surrounded by stupid parrots. TV stations always invite the same characters, those shrews who repeat the same nonsense adinfinitum and adnauseam. Most Greek journalists are in cahoots with the two statist mafias, Pasok and Nea Democratia, to dumb down hoi polloi, in order to perpetuate the corrupt status quo. That's why Greeks browse the internet in order to find the truth.
Because our brains retain stories better than any other form of information, we develop shortcuts to handle all the information we need to in the modern world. The most important shortcut is the narrative. The narrative is the quick story that has developed over a long period of time for any organization, company or important public figure. It's the way we store and organize the information. The narrative elicits and disseminates knowledge, encourages collaboration, generates new ideas, and ignites change. All TV parrots use narratives to promote their nonsense. http://venitism.blogspot.com/
The Fairness Doctrine, aka Censorship Doctrine, was a policy of the United States Federal Communications Commission(FCC), introduced in 1949, that required the holders of broadcast licenses both to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that was honest, equitable and balanced. The Fairness Doctrine should not be confused with the Equal Time rule. The Fairness Doctrine deals with discussion of controversial issues, while the Equal Time rule deals only with political candidates. In 1987, the FCC abolished the Fairness Doctrine, prompting some to urge its reintroduction through either Commission policy or Congressional legislation.
The equal-time rule specifies that radio and television broadcast stations must provide an equivalent opportunity to any opposing political candidates who request it. This means, for example that if a station gives one free minute to a candidate on the prime time, it must do the same for another candidate. However, there are four exceptions: if the air-time was in a documentary, bona fide news interview, scheduled newscast or an on-the-spot news event the equal-time rule is not valid. Since 1983, political debates not hosted by the media station are considered news events, thus may include only major-party candidates without having to offer air time to minor-party or independent candidates.
Statists want to reimpose the Fairness Doctrine, and they now have even more weapons with which they can silence citizens. And now they are seeking to expand their censorship to the internet, and beyond! Communications commissars can use different regulations, like localism and media diversity, to achieve the exact same Fairness Doctrinesque results, silencing the talk radio hosts we love and count on every day.
Commissars believe the government has a role in deciding what your local interests are, in your town on your local talk radio station, and want to not renew their licenses based on what they think you need to hear. Kleptocrats also seek to impose media diversity regulations, to force some station owners out and allow their hand-picked cronies in.
Commissars declare that given the new political climate, kleptocrats have a tremendous opportunity going forward to reinvigorate media, to ensure that the public airwaves truly deliver the kind of news and information that kleptocrats need to sustain democratic dialogue and to reflect the great diversity of West. http://venitism.blogspot.com/
* In a free society, we are supposed to know the truth. In a society, such as the Cradle of Kleptocracy, where truth becomes treason, however, we are in big trouble. The more freely information flows, the stronger the society becomes, because then citizens of countries around the world can hold their own governments accountable. They can begin to think for themselves. Censorship should not be in any way accepted by any company from anywhere. And in West, companies need to make a principled stand. This needs to be part of our Graecoroman culture. Consumers worldwide will reward companies that follow those principles. http://venitism.blogspot.com/
The body of blogger Noel Lopez Olguin, a local journalist based in the eastern state of Veracruz who had been missing since 8 March, was found in the state capital, Xalapa, on 1 June, four days after Marilizardist Alejandro Castro Chirinos, also known as El Dragon, was captured in the nearby city of Coatzacoalcos and confessed to participating in his murder. Police said Castro, who was caught in possession of Lopez's camera, told them where his body was buried.
The motive for Lopez's murder is linked to his blog and his work as a journalist. A social activist who covered community issues including corruption and security, he had appealed to the public to report abuses by Marilizardist kleptocrats.
Marilizardism has metastasized in Mexico. Merciless Marilizard Xenoyank, the culprit alternate Greek FM of the October-18 shock and awe, terrorizes Graecoblogosphere. Accusing dissident bloggers of treason, Graecokleptocrats have manufactured a blood libel in cyberspace, which in turn incites hatred and violence. http://venitism.blogspot.com/
Located on the Gulf of Mexico, Veracruz is a major transit point for drugs being trafficked to the United States. The feared paramilitary group Los Zetas is said to be particularly active in the area around Jaltipan, the town where Lopez lived and worked, which lies near Veracruz's southern border with Oaxaca state.
Reporters Without Borders hopes that the police will quickly establish the murder motive and urges the federal authorities to start implementing the protection mechanisms for journalists and bloggers promised by the federal government, which were agreed on at meeting organized by the interior ministry on 3 November 2010.
Reporters Without Borders again included the Sinaloa, Gulf and Juarez cartels in the updated list of Predators of Press Freedom that it released on 3 May. Mexico is one of the western hemisphere's most dangerous Marilizardist countries for the media, with a total of 73 journalists killed and 12 missing since 2000. In the state of Veracruz itself, a total of eight journalists have been killed since 2002.
A grenade was meanwhile thrown at the headquarters of the Vanguardia newspaper in Saltillo, in the northern state of Coahuila, on 30 May. No one was injured but the building and two cars were badly damaged. The newspaper has reportedly been harassed and threatened by criminal groups that do not want their activities covered.
Three journalists – Pablo Hernandez and Ismael Villagomez of the daily El Norte and Canal 26 Univision correspondent Luis Lorenzo Escalera – were arbitrarily detained and roughed up by police while covering the confiscation or counterfeit products on 30 May in Ciudad Juarez, in the northern state of Chihuahua. Hernandez and Villagomez were held for half an hour at the police station without being given an explanation. Escalera was held for 45 minutes. They all filed a complaint with the municipal police internal affairs department.
Marilizard Xenoyank is the most disgusting predator of internet. The freakish October-18 mafia, is the only government on Earth which robs the computers of its citizens! Infamous CCU is the brutal arm of October-18 mafia which terrorizes the cyberspace, robbing computers at gunpoint, perjuring, jailing dissident bloggers, and gagging the truth. CCU of Graecokleptocracy is the most disgusting gang in Fourth Reich. http://venitism.blogspot.com/
TERMS
October 18: International Day Against Cybercop Brutality
October-18 Mafia: Government of Greece
Cradle of Kleptocracy: Greece
Grand Brothel on Syntagma Square: Parliament of Greece
Στο αγιάζι της ενημέρωσης Παρασκευή 3 Ιουνίου 2011 :
** 'Οταν οι έμποροι παιδικών ψυχών έχουν έδρα την πανίσχυρη εκκλησία μας από που τελικά να φυλαχτούμε;
* Θα επανέλθω με περισσότερα στοιχεία, αναφορές και ποινικές διώξεις που έχουν ασκηθεί σε μερικούς μόνον δυστυχώς.... από αυτούς που ανέλαβαν να κουκουλώσουν αυτά τα εγκλήματα και να εξαπατήσουν την δικαιωσύνη με σκοπό να μην αποκαλυφθούν ποτέ.
* Ελπίζω να είναι κατανοητό για ποιο λόγο θέλουν την πλήρη απομάκρυνση των παιδιών μας από τους πατεράδες των.
** Με εκτίμηση σε όλους τους αναγνώστες, Θωμάς Κανταρέλης.
* Το ηφαίστειο Ποποκατεπέτλ, πιου βρίσκεται 60 χιλιόμετρα νοτιανατολικά της πόλης του Μεξικού, εξερράγη την Παρασκευή, εκτινάσσοντας νέφη τέφρας σε ύψος 3 χλμ. * Εξερράγη το απόγευμα της Παρασκευής το ηφαίστειο Ποποκατεπέτλ που βρίσκεται 60 χιλιόμετρα νοτιανατολικά της πόλης του Μεξικού, εκτινάσσοντας νέφη τέφρας που έφτασαν σε ύψος τριών χιλιομέτρων.
* Οι αρχές Πολιτικής Προστασίας του Μεξικού ανέφεραν ότι η τέφρα δεν είναι επικίνδυνη για τον πληθυσμό αλλά οι πολίτες ενημερώθηκαν ότι θα πρέπει να βρίσκονται τουλάχιστον 12 χιλιόμετρα μακριά από το ηφαίστειο.
* Το ύψους 5.400 μέτρων Ποποκατεπέτλ άρχισε να εκτινάσσει τέφρα αφού νωρίτερα είχε αρχίσει να σείεται για αρκετά λεπτά, και όπως φαίνεται εάν η κατάσταση αυτή συνεχιστεί ενδέχεται η τέφρα να φτάσει μέχρι τις πόλεις Αμεκαμένα ή Πουέμπλα.
**Το ξύλο της αρκούδας στη Βουλγαρία!
* Άναψαν τα αίματα σε αγώνα παίδων στη Βουλγαρία, όταν ο γνωστός και μη εξαιρετέος Ντάνιελ Μποριμίροφ επιτέθηκε σε γονέα που διαμαρτυρόταν στον διαιτητή, με αποτέλεσμα να ξεσπάσει άγριος καυγάς. -
**Δύο εργάτες εκτέθηκαν σε ραδιενέργεια στη Φουκουσίμα
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* Ραδιενεργή ακτινοβολία ανώτερη από το όριο των 250 μιλισιβέρτ ετησίως δέχθηκαν δύο εργάτες της κατεστραμμένης πυρηνικής μονάδας της Φουκουσίμα, όπως ανακοίνωσε η Tepco. -
** Αντιπολίτευση Δήμου Καλαμάτας
* Επιφυλάξεις για το υπόγειο πάρκινγκ
* Οι διαμαρτυρίες των δημοτικών παρατάξεων της αντιπολίτευσης, με τελευταία παρέμβαση αυτή του Θ. Μπρεδήμα, για την ανάγκη ενημέρωσής τους γύρω από το θέμα του υπόγειου πάρκινγκ και της υπό υπογραφή σύμβασης μεταξύ του Δήμου Καλαμάτας και της εταιρείας «Ελλάκτωρ», έπιασαν τόπο τελικά.
* Χθες το μεσημέρι, στο γραφείο του αρμόδιου αντιδημάρχου Χρ. Ριζά και παρουσία των αντιδημάρχων Αν. Καραγιάννη, Αθ. Ηλιόπουλου, του διευθυντή των Τεχνικών Υπηρεσιών Β. Τζαμουράνη και του μελετητή της ανάπλασης που θα γίνει στην περιοχή υπέργεια του χώρου κατασκευής του πάρκινγκ Παν. Νασόπουλου, έγινε μια πρώτη ενημέρωση των δημοτικών παρατάξεων.
** Ανάκτορο Νέστορα
* Θα συντηρηθεί με απόφαση του ΚΑΣ
* Ένα από τα σημαντικότερα μνημεία της μυκηναϊκής Ελλάδας, το ανάκτορο του Νέστορα στην Πύλο, πρόκειται να αναστηλωθεί. Κατά τη συνεδρίαση του Κεντρικού Αρχαιολογικού Συμβουλίου (ΚΑΣ), που έγινε την περασμένη Τρίτη 31 Μαΐου, τα μέλη του γνωμοδότησαν ομόφωνα υπέρ της μελέτης που εισηγήθηκε η Διεύθυνση Συντήρησης Αρχαίων και Νεότερων Μνημείων.
** Έτοιμοι για ληστεία ήταν δύο Αλβανοί
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* ΜΕ ΚΟΜΜΕΝΟ ΔΙΚΑΝΝΟ, ΦΥΣΙΓΓΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΓΑΝΤΙΑ
* Έτοιμοι για διάπραξη ληστείας ήταν δύο Αλβανοί, 23 και 24 ετών, οι οποίοι συνελήφθησαν από αστυνομικούς της Ασφάλειας Καλαμάτας προχθές μία ώρα μετά τα μεσάνυχτα. Οι αστυνομικοί προσπάθησαν να τους ελέγξουν σε δρόμο της Καλαμάτας και ενώ ο ένας σταμάτησε, ο άλλος τράπηκε σε φυγή, όμως έγινε αντιληπτός από τους αστυνομικούς που τον καταδίωξαν σε πολυκατοικία της περιοχής, όπου είχε κρυφτεί, και συνελήφθη.
** Μεσογειακή Διατροφή
* Εορταστικό τριήμερο στην Κορώνη
* Ένα εορταστικό τριήμερο Μεσογειακής Διατροφής, με αντιπροσωπείες από την Ισπανία, την Ιταλία και το Μαρόκο, θα λάβει χώρα από σήμερα έως και Κυριακή στην Κορώνη. Η Μεσογειακή Διατροφή έχει αναγνωριστεί ως Άυλη Πολιτιστική Κληρονομιά της Ανθρωπότητας από την UNESCO (Ναϊρόμπι Νοέμβριος 2010), μετά από κοινή πρωτοβουλία της Ελλάδας (Κορώνη), της Ισπανίας (Σορία), της Ιταλίας (Σιλέντο) και του Μαρόκου (Σέφσαουεν). -
** Μαραθόλακκα
* Σε νέο αδιέξοδο ο Δήμος σε 15 ημέρες που θα κλείσει * Ενώ στην Υπηρεσία Καθαριότητας και ειδικότερα στην Επιτροπή Διαγωνισμού για την επεξεργασία των απορριμμάτων του Δήμου Καλαμάτας «ξεσκονίζουν» τους φακέλους των προτάσεων των τριών εταιρειών προκειμένου να φτάσουν στο καλύτερο δυνατό και αδιαμφισβήτητο αποτέλεσμα, στη Δημοτική Αρχή έχουν αρχίσει ήδη να σκέπτονται το χώρο επεξεργασίας ο οποίος θα αντικαταστήσει τη Μαραθόλακκα, όταν προκύψει ο ανάδοχος. -
** Yποτροφίες
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* Από την οικογένεια του καπετάν Βασίλη
* Η Επιτροπή Υποτροφίας «Παν. Φωτέα» συνεδρίασε προχθές στο Διοικητήριο για τη διάθεση χορηγίας της οικογένειας στη μνήμη του καπετάν Βασίλη Κωνσταντακόπουλου. Ειδικότερα, αποφάσισε για τις υποτροφίες νεοεισαχθέντων φοιτητών ακαδημαϊκού έτους 2009-2010 σε Νομική Σχολή ελληνικού πανεπιστημίου.
** Πυροσβέστες
** «Ο Θεός να βάλει το χέρι του»
* Με τα χειρότερα χρώματα περιγράφει η Ένωση Αξιωματικών Πυροσβεστικού Σώματος την κατάσταση στην οποία βρίσκεται η Πυροσβεστική Υπηρεσία κατά τη φετινή αντιπυρική περίοδο.
* Σύμφωνα με σχετική της ανακοίνωση, από τα 21 διαθέσιμα Canadair (CL215 και CL 415) μόνο τα 8 είναι σε ετοιμότητα. -
** Βαλύρα
* Διαδικασίες για σύσταση ΤΟΕΒ Αγίου Φλώρου
* Η καλή λειτουργία του Γενικού Οργανισμού Εγγείων Βελτιώσεων (ΓΟΕΒ) και η δημιουργία Τοπικού Οργανισμού Εγγείων Βελτιώσεων συζητήθηκαν προχθές, στις 9.30 το βράδυ, σε σύσκεψη στο παλιό Δημαρχείο της Βαλύρας.
* Τη σύσκεψη συγκάλεσε ο πρόεδρος της Τοπικής Κοινότητας Βαλύρας Κων. Γεωργακόπουλος, ο οποίος κάλεσε τους προέδρους των Τοπικών Κοινοτήτων και Αγροτικών Συνεταιρισμών της περιοχής του αντλιοστασίου του Αγίου Φλώρου – Σκάλας - Αγίου Φλώρου – Πλατέος – Αρφαρών – Ανεμόμυλου – Λάμπαινας – Αριστοδημείου, ενώ σε αυτή παρέστησαν και κάποιοι παραγωγοί.
** Δικαστικοί Υπαλλήλοι
* «Ανεβαίνουμε στην έδρα με πυρετό»
* Εβδομάδα δράσης των δικαστικών υπαλλήλων ξεκινά από τη Δευτέρα και, όπως έχει αποφασισθεί από την Ομοσπονδία Δικαστικών Υπαλλήλων, από 6 έως 10 Ιουνίου θα πραγματοποιούν (και στη Μεσσηνία) τρίωρες καθημερινές και επαναλαμβανόμενες στάσεις εργασίας σε όλες τις δικαστικές υπηρεσίες, από τις 12.00 το μεσημέρι έως τη λήξη του ωραρίου.
* Την Πέμπτη δε, 9 Ιουνίου, στο Σύλλογο Δικαστικών Υπαλλήλων του Πρωτοδικείου Καλαμάτας θα διεξαχθούν εκλογές για την ανάδειξη νέου Διοικητικού Συμβουλίου και αντιπροσώπων για την Ομοσπονδία (ΟΔΥΕ) και την ΑΔΕΔΥ.
** «Αγανακτισμένοι»
* Κινητοποίηση για 9η μέρα * Εννέα ημέρες χθες μετά την πρεμιέρα της διαδήλωσης των αγανακτισμένων στην πλατεία 23ης Μαρτίου στην Καλαμάτα και το κίνημά τους επιμένει.
* Η καθημερινή παρουσία δεκάδων διαδηλωτών παραμένει σταθερή στην πλατεία, ενώ συνεχώς αυξάνονται οι πολίτες που θέλουν να λάβουν μέρος στη συγκεκριμένη διαμαρτυρία.
* We describe the "nearest" stars as being 2,000 light "years" away; the light reaching us now left them back when humans were still fashioning flint arrowheads here on Earth. The span of the Milky Way is, similarly, 100 thousand light years across – again, a measurement of distance expressed as a measurement of time. http://venitism.blogspot.com/
Many telescopes can allow us, on this basis, to see a distance reaching back 3,800 million years – to a point when the Universe was only a third of the age it is now. The very best can take us back to the beginning, and from this we know that the Universe has been expanding since it was formed more than 13 billion years ago.
Understanding what happened in between relies on a conception of space and time's indivisibility – which is roughly when things start to get a bit strange. At least, that's what happened when Gerry Gilmore, Professor of Experimental Philosophy at the University of Cambridge addressed his audience on the subject at the Hay Festival this week.
A thing, Gilmore stresses, is also defined by the space it occupies. "By saying there is `nothing here', I am saying that there is still a space and time here, even though there is nothing," he explained. So "nothing" is not the same as "not anything". "Not anything" only happens when you take the space and time away. "Once you get your head round that little distinction, you're away," Gilmore added.
One of the more remarkable things about the Hay Festival is that about 500 people will get up in time to drive to a 10am lecture, in a tent, in a fairly damp field, on a subject as baffling and perplexing as this. Clearly aware that not everyone is of the same disposition, mathematicians have given us the number zero to help us get the hang of the nothing/not anything distinction. Zero, sometimes misunderstood as the bottom of the numerical chain, is of course in the centre of it. On either side of zero, an endless string of positive and negative numbers stretch endlessly away.
The same thing happens in space. "Space is actually a fuzzy ball full of energy," Gilmore said. "You are sitting on chairs which you think are hard, but you know that if you look hard enough the chair is not a hard piece of plastic, but a bunch of molecules with large gaps between them." This continues as we delve ever further into the microscopic depths of any material until we reach quarks – most of any material is, in fact, nothing but a magnetic field of positive and negative energy.
All of space is like that – made up of stuff that's barely there. Between elementary particles there is nothing except space-time, a balance between positive and negative energy cancelling each other out. It is, effectively, therefore, balanced at the zero point between positive and negative. But locally, that means that within space-time a concentration of either positive or negative energy can exist. If you get a lot of this locally, it can cause a bang – a very big one. http://venitism.blogspot.com/
One such bang started our own Universe. Its beginning was therefore a small fluctuation in a sea of nothing, when the time equalled zero. The heat and debris that was produced following its explosion indicates that fast expansion followed.
Once it started to cool, however, an unexplained defect was revealed. What should have been half positive and half negative energy, or half matter and half anti-matter, turned out to have slightly disproportionate allocations of the two. There is, in fact, a one part in 1,000 excess of matter – so while most positive and negative particles met and cancelled each other out, forming heat and radiation, a small quantity formed into what we see around us. We are all the result of this defect.
It turns out that we are also a lot older than we think, at least in part. Most of this early matter initially turned into hydrogen – which means that the hydrogen making the water in our bodies is about 13.7 billion years old. The structure of the Universe then emerged as this matter fell into place, triggered by shockwaves created by the sound of the Big Bang, that caused it to pile up. Hydrogen, packed together at high temperatures, melted and formed into the next most stable elements in the Universe; helium, carbon and oxygen. These were cooked up inside stars.
"In a very real sense, we are all stardust," Gilmore said. "That's a nice way to think about yourself, as the product of that nuclear process. As my daughter tells her brother, however, `I'm stardust; you're nuclear waste'."
The study both of the expanse of space-time and the tiny, elementary particles which inhabit it, has since the last century allowed researchers to probe a strange, quantum world of anomalies where the traditional laws of physics no longer apply.
One of the early discoveries in this regard was that light behaves both as a particle and a wave. The duality was understood by James Clerk-Maxwell, when in the course of correcting equations for electro-magnetism he was able to show that magnetic fields and electric fields create one another on a mutual basis, and that light is a force that carries magnetic fields.
This does not answer the particle-wave paradox, but highlights the strangeness of the world researchers have unveiled. "The answer to whether light is a particle or a wave is fundamentally `yes'." Gilmore said. "Nature is telling us that there is not one single answer to the question. We can ask simple questions but that doesn't mean there will be simple answers. Nature actually appears to like mutually inconsistent answers to those questions."
As an experimental philosopher, Gilmore also takes the view that the moral to this unfinished story is one that stresses the need to make progress in our knowledge of what the Universe is through scientific experiment and observation. Nature appears abstruse, because it is offering us information without any right answers. This does not suit the way in which we like to process information, categorising things according to cultural context. "What we may be misunderstanding the most is the way our own minds work," he concluded. "The sort of answers science is producing about the Universe are simply not the answers we were expecting." http://venitism.blogspot.com/
** FAKING THE "FACT OR FAKED" SHOW
* There is a conspiracy theory that Uncle Sam tries to hide ET, UFOs, and many paranormal phenomena! Ted Goertzel points out conspiracy theories are easy to propagate and difficult to refute. Having long flourished in politics and religion, they have also spread into science and medicine. It is useful to think of conspiracy theorizing as a meme, a cultural invention that passes from one mind to another and thrives, or declines, through a process analogous to genetic selection (Dawkins 1976). The conspiracy meme competes with other rhetorical memes, such as the fair debate meme, the scientific expertise meme, and the resistance to orthodoxy meme. http://venitism.blogspot.com/
Goertzel notes the central logic of the conspiracy meme is to question, often on speculative grounds, everything the establishment says or does and to demand immediate, comprehensive, and convincing answers to all questions. Unconvincing answers are taken as proof of conspiratorial deception. When an alleged fact is debunked, the conspiracy meme often just replaces it with another fact. When the conspiracy meme is reinforced by a regular diet of alternative videos and one-sided literature, it can become a habitual way of thinking. People who believe in one conspiracy are more likely to believe in others.
Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files is a paranormal investigation television series produced by Base Productions that began airing July 15, 2010, on SyFy. The show follows a team of investigators, led by former FBI agent Ben Hansen, who review various photographs and viral videos, mainly from the internet, of alleged paranormal activity. If a particular piece of evidence is deemed intriguing enough to warrant further investigation, they set out to recreate and explain the sighting. But Karen Stollznow asserts the show's cast and producers are the ones doing the faking!
The investigative team consists of pseudoexperts who claim to have a background in paranormal research. There is Ben, the former FBI agent; Jael, the journalist; Austin, the stunt pseudoexpert; Chi-Lin, the photography pseudoexpert; Devin, the tech specialist; and Bill, the lead pseudoscientist.
Stollznow points out that for all of their supposed expertise, the team members' research methods are dubious. Their initial approach is to recreate anomalous phenomena, quite correctly, but then they proceed to recreate the phenomena badly, or they recreate irrelevant phenomena. They mistake scientific tools for the scientific method. They aren't familiar with basic principles of skepticism, such as Occam's razor and the axiom that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. In their conclusions the unexplained becomes the inexplicable and they appeal to supernatural explanations over natural ones.
But determining whether footage is fact or faked still doesn't determine whether it's paranormal or not. Even if the phenomenon and filming is legitimate and not staged, that doesn't presuppose that what is captured is paranormal. http://venitism.blogspot.com/
Stollznow notes that over the course of two seasons, the team has investigated claims of a ghost car, a haunted playground swing, UFOs, lake monsters, spirit writing, an anti-gravity spot, cattle mutilation, ectoplasm, Bigfoot and an alleged chupacabra. They use a wide range of cutting-edge paranormal reality TV equipment, including pocket radar, electromagnetic (EMF) meters, bionic ears and, most important, a scientific kit containing:
Safety eyewear, black Sharpies, black ink pens, reclosable bags, evidence envelopes, swab boxes, polypropylene screw cap evidence collection tubes, sterile cotton tip swabs, transfer pipettes, sterile water ampule, tongue depressors, evidence slide boxes, plastic disposable tweezers, and disposable blades.
In one episode, the team visits Fishers, Indiana, to investigate a phenomenon they've already decided is a "cemetery phantom." The "evidence" features footage of a bright light they call an "orb," examples of Electronic Voice Phenomena (recordings of alleged spirits), and increased EMF activity near the tombstone of a civil war soldier. The team devises some experiments to reproduce the effects, and because they can't reproduce the phenomena exactly, they theorize that the original video shows evidence of paranormal activity. They conclude that the film has captured either the "ghost of a civil war soldier" or a "ghost train" because the cemetery is located near a former railroad crossing.
Stollznow muses that what takes them thirty minutes to prove incorrectly takes one scientific paranormal investigator three minutes to disprove. Doctor Atlantis, aka Blake Smith, of the Monster Talk podcast examined the footage and the theories and produced his own video analysis. For all of the Fact or Faked team's elaborate tests and elaborate theories, they never once reviewed the clip in slow motion. In doing so as a first step, Smith revealed that the unearthly "train" was an earthly spider on a web. "Oh what a tangled web we weave…when we run around in the dark with video cameras," he concludes. On the show's online forums hundreds of viewers deduced that the footage captured a spider.
** ALEXANDRA LIDDY AND VACLAV KLAUS SHOW THE WAY TO ENERGY POLICY
* Alexandra Liddy points out that a diverse, market-based national energy portfolio of fuel sources allows the private sector and state and local leaders to effectively provide affordable electricity and transportation, attract jobs, and foster business growth and improved quality of life for families. Any comprehensive national energy policy that relies on, or mandates, a future of expensive and unreliable fuel sources threatens to make the current economy energy deficient and future generations indebted to foreign governments for decades. http://venitism.blogspot.com/
Proposed international agreements for carbon-cap-and-trade schemes or carbon-dioxide regulations restrict Americans' own use of their country's resources and is tantamount to economic unilateral disarmament. Not only do carbon-cap-and-trade systems and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation of carbon dioxide raise energy prices, these practices are also detrimental to developing economies struggling to raise their own citizens out of poverty.
Vaclav Klaus points out people tend to confuse environment protection with climate control. We have to take care of our rivers, lakes, seas, forests, and air. But humans cannot control the climate. Rabblerousers have been for a long time searching for a simple and sufficiently threatening catastrophe that could justify the implementation of kleptocratic ambitions. After having tried various alternative ideas, they came up with the idea of dangerous, man-made global warming. This concept was formulated despite the absence of reliable data. http://venitism.blogspot.com/
Liddy asserts state and local governments should allow power producers and consumers to determine pricing, technology deployment, and selection of fuels and supplies. State governments can and should audit their own properties and buildings for effective technologies, systems, surface treatment, and energy efficiency to save taxpayer money. Energy efficiency for government buildings should be determined by state and local governments, however, not by federal dictate. Beyond that, energy efficiency does not mean pitting one region of the country against another.
Consumer demand and competition between industries, retail businesses, and commercial enterprises are the real drivers of energy-efficient products. Federal energy policies that cap or restrict use of certain types of fossil fuels, such as coal, natural gas, or oil, under the auspices of environmental protection, limit the ability of the people in the states to determine the best means to fuel their own economies for manufacture, agriculture, trade, and other services. The truth is that government mandates are not a productive or sustainable alternative to free markets.
Liddy notes that restrictive legislation and environmental regulations that, in effect, levy taxes on the production of electricity or petroleum raise the cost of doing business for companies and the cost of living for consumers. Families not only pay the price at the fuel pump, thermostat, and grocery store, but bear the full cost of any taxes imposed on businesses by government regulators.
Lower-income families carry the biggest proportionate burden of these costs and struggle the most to make ends meet under regressive energy taxes. Most important, such restrictive policies that raise the cost of energy inhibit the financial freedom and spending power of families, enterprises, and communities. Ultimately, government-imposed costs for electricity harm West's international competitiveness for jobs and investment.
Klaus recalls that rabblerousers bought into the global warming dogma(WGD) at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, fell in love with it and – without waiting for its scientific underpinning – started preparing and implementing economically damaging and freedom endangering measures. They accepted the idea that participating in the global warming game is easy, politically correct and politically profitable, especially when it is obvious that they themselves will not carry the costs of the measures they are advocating and implementing and will not be responsible for their consequences.
West has an abundance of onshore and offshore energy resources that can enable the affordable transportation of goods, whether locally, regionally, or internationally. States set standards that allow the private sector to access, inventory, and develop fuel reserves off their coasts or under their land through private leasing. While the states should set standards for outside access to resources within their boundaries, private energy companies are best able to determine the most effective and affordable means of providing electricity and transportation fuels for local commerce and economic development.
Furthermore, the states should be able to share royalties from federal lease sales for the safe development of those reserves as established by precedent through the sale of Lease 181 in the Gulf of Mexico in 2006. Four Gulf of Mexico states receive 37.5 percent of the federal revenues generated by the lease sale. Restricting access to those affordable fuels leads to higher gasoline prices and electricity costs, which have a significant negative impact on job creation, transportation, and individual mobility. Such restricted access also unnecessarily increases dependence on imported oil. http://venitism.blogspot.com/
There are plenty of arguments indicating that the real threat is not global warming itself. The real threat comes when kleptocrats start playing with the climate and with all of us. Environmentalism and global warming alarmism ask for restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions, which would substantially increase the costs of energy. This would be devastating, because cheap energy is the source of much of our prosperity.
The Global Warming Dogma(GWD) asks for an almost unprecedented expansion of government intrusion into our lives and of government control over us. They tell us how to live, what to do, how to behave, what to consume, what to eat, how to travel, how to spend our holidays and many other things.
**UNCLE SAM AND UNCLE KEN ALWAYS TOGETHER, IN PLENTY AND WANT
* Obama points out Uncle Sam(US) and Uncle Ken(UK)live in a global economy that is largely of their own making. And today, the competition for the best jobs and industries favors countries that are free-thinking and forward-looking; countries with the most creative and innovative and entrepreneurial citizens.
That gives nations like the United States and the United Kingdom an inherent advantage. For from Newton and Darwin to Edison and Einstein, from Alan Turing to Steve Jobs, we have led the world in our commitment to science and cutting-edge research, the discovery of new medicines and technologies. We educate our citizens and train our workers in the best colleges and universities on Earth. But to maintain this advantage in a world that's more competitive than ever, we will have to redouble our investments in science and engineering, and renew our national commitments to educating our workforces.
Uncle Sam and Uncle Ken do not have the corruption problems of Fourth Reich. Fourth Reich is an illegal confederation that has no voted constitution, a flag no one salutes, an anthem no one sings, a Fuehrer no one can name, a parliament of prostitutes, a capital of huge bureaucracy no one controls, a currency that soon will not exist, rules of fiscal behavior that no member has been penalized for ignoring, a commission which is the Eldorado of corruption, brutal cybercops, and kleptocrats galore! http://venitism.blogspot.com/
Fourthreichian monetary unification is the Trojan horse for overall harmonization of economic rules, policies, and laws in Fourth Reich. Any eurozone problem is interpreted as a consequence of the lack of harmonization and leads to another wave of a creeping harmonization. Following every crisis meeting with Napoleon Sarko, Chancellor Merkel always declares that coordinating tax policies and labor laws is not just about currency issues but also about political cooperation, which has to be deepened. In other words, more enslavement to Brussels, transforming the confederation to a federation!
Eurokleptocracy, gigaregulation, Antitrust Armageddon, and gigataxation, especially VAT, are the real causes of the European financial meltdown. Fourth Reich(EU), an unvoted illegal confederation, cannot protect Europeans from Eurokleptocrats, especially Graecokleptocrats, and police brutes, especially Graecocybercops. Fourthreichian Premier Barroso condones the disgusting Graecokleptocrats who accuse dissident bloggers of treason, confiscate their computers, and lock them is jail! http://venitism.blogspot.com/
The freakish October-18 mafia robs computers and terrorizes the blogosphere! Why on Earth Durao Barroso, Neelie Kroes, Viviane Reding, and Cecilia Malmstroem of the European Commission cannot rein in Graecokleptocrats? If Fourth Reich(EU) cannot protect Greeks from October-18 mafiosi, who will? Greek dissident bloggers want back their stolen computers, their stolen files, their stolen personal data, and their stolen lives. Restitution is a basic right in a civil society. Brutal Graecocybercops should be abolished now. http://venitism.blogspot.com/
Obama notes that Uncle Sam and Uncle Ken recognize that no matter how responsibly we live in our lives, hard times or bad luck, a crippling illness or a layoff may strike any one of us. And so part of our common tradition has expressed itself in a conviction that every citizen deserves a basic measure of security -– health care if you get sick, unemployment insurance if you lose your job, a dignified retirement after a lifetime of hard work. That commitment to our citizens has also been the reason for our leadership in the world.
Obama asserts that having come through a terrible recession, our challenge is to meet these obligations while ensuring that we're not consuming -- and hence consumed with -- a level of debt that could sap the strength and vitality of our economies. And that will require difficult choices and it will require different paths for both of our countries. But we have faced such challenges before, and have always been able to balance the need for fiscal responsibility with the responsibilities we have to one another.
The debts of Uncle Sam and Uncle Ken are due to spending, whereas the debt of Cradle of Kleptocracy is due to political corruption. The impunity of the 300 Graecokleptocrats of the Grand Brothel on Syntagma Square is the most freakish thing on Earth. Even though they looted many billion euros in kickbacks and churning, not a single Graecokleptocrat has ever gone to jail! They are protected by the parliamentary immunity, and nobody can touch them, no matter what. Moreover, they have the nerve to jail dissident bloggers. It's a long way from the 300 Spartans of Leonidas! Allons enfants de la Grece! http://venitism.blogspot.com/
TERMS
October 18: International Day Against Cybercop Brutality
October-18 Mafia: Government of Greece
Cradle of Kleptocracy: Greece
Grand Brothel on Syntagma Square: Parliament of Greece
** Τα γυμνά κόκκαλα πείθουν όσους τα βλέπουν ότι τίποτε από τα γήινα δεν είναι δικό μας .- ( Γρηγόριος ο Θεολόγος ) .-
** Nα θυμάστε...Ο ανώτερος άνθρωπος είναι σκληρός με τον εαυτό του. Ο κατώτερος άνθρωπος είναι σκληρός με τους άλλους....Καληνύχτα & Όνειρα γλυκά !! Stamos Arfara Messinias Greece .-
~** Έργα νέας Ε.Ο. στο Αρφαρά 25-5-2011 , περιοχή Αγίου Κωνσταντίνου και δίπλα από την κατοικία μας .- Έργα για για την παλαιά Ε.Ο κοντά στην κατοικία μας και τους παράπλευρους δρόμους εισόδου και εξώδου στην νέα Ε.Ο :
** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ3lY-JAeEw ,
** Στους δρόμους για 8η ημέρα οι «Αγανακτισμένοι»
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* Για 8η όγδοη διαδοχική ημέρα συγκεντρώνονται μαζικά στο Σύνταγμα και σε άλλα κεντρικά σημεία της χώρας οι «Αγανακτισμένοι», διαμαρτυρόμενοι για την κατάσταση που βρίσκεται η χώρα. Αποδοκιμασίες κατά των Βουλευτών την Τρίτη. -
** Γενική απεργία στις 15 Ιουνίου
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* Δυναμική η απάντηση των συνδικάτων στα μέτρα του μεσοπρόθεσμου προγράμματος. Για τις 15/6 προγραμματίστηκε η γενική απεργία, ενώ στις 9/6 κατέρχονται σε απεργία οι εργαζόμενοι των ΔΕΚΟ και των υπό ιδιωτικοποίηση επιχειρήσεων. -
** Επίσκεψη Λοβέρδου στην Εισαγγελία Πρωτοδικών
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* Την προϊσταμένη της Εισαγγελέας Πρωτοδικών επισκέφτηκε ο Ανδρέας Λοβέρδος, με αφορμή την έρευνα που διενεργείται προκειμένου να εντοπιστούν ατασθαλίες στα νοσοκομεία της Ελλάδας και σχετικές προμήθειες υλικών και μηχανημάτων.
** «Η λευτεριά δεν χαρίζεται, κερδίζεται»
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Συναίνεση για την κυβέρνηση είναι η τυφλή υπακοή στις επιταγές της Τρόικας, δήλωσε ο Μίκης Θεοδωράκης σε εκδήλωση πανεπιστημιακών στα Προπύλαια ενώπιον πλήθους κόσμου, στον οποίο τόνισε πως «η λευτεριά δεν χαρίζεται, κερδίζεται». -
** «ΜΜΕ και εθνική εικόνα στην ώρα της οικονομικής κρίσης»
* Συζήτηση με θέμα «ΜΜΕ και εθνική εικόνα στην ώρα της οικονομικής κρίσης», διοργάνωσε το ΕΛΙΑΜΕΠ σε συνεργασία με την Ένωση Ακολούθων Τύπου. -
~** Σε οριακό σημείο το λιανικό εμπόριο στην Καλαμάτα :
* Ζοφερή η κατάσταση των μικρομεσαίων επιχειρήσεων στη Μεσσηνία
* Ζοφερή είναι, σύμφωνα με τη ΓΣΕΒΕΕ, η εικόνα που εμφανίζεται στο λιανικό εμπόριο από τα επίσημα στατιστικά στοιχεία, ενώ αναδεικνύει και την κατάσταση συνολικά της οικονομίας, καθώς οι εξελίξεις στο εμπόριο επηρεάζουν πολλούς κλάδους, όπως η μεταποίηση, η βιοτεχνία, οι μεταφορές κ.λπ.
* Προς επίρρωση των παραπάνω, σε δηλώσεις του στο «Θ» ο πρόεδρος του Εμπορικού Συλλόγου Καλαμάτας Γιώργος Λαγανάκος υποστήριξε ότι «υπάρχουν αρκετές εμπορικές επιχειρήσεις στην Καλαμάτα που έχουν αναστείλει τη λειτουργία τους και άλλες που προσπαθούν με όλες τις δυνάμεις τους να επιβιώσουν. Και πολύ φοβάμαι ότι, αν η κυβέρνηση δεν αλλάξει πολιτική, ο αριθμός των κλειστών καταστημάτων θα αυξηθεί δραματικά. Σύμφωνα με τα στοιχεία μας, στη Μεσσηνία τον τελευταίο χρόνο έχουν κλείσει 150 καταστήματα».
** 70% η πτώση του τζίρου
* "Ξεζαντάραμε" λένε οι ταξιτζήδες
* Στο 60% έως 70% μειώθηκε ο τζίρος των 156 και πλέον ταξί της Καλαμάτας τους τελευταίους μήνες, σε σύγκριση με το αντίστοιχο διάστημα τα προηγούμενα χρόνια, εξαιτίας της οικονομικής κρίσης. Ο αριθμός των πολιτών που επιλέγουν να πάρουν ταξί για τις μετακινήσεις τους μειώνεται καθημερινά, με συνέπεια να μειώνονται και τα έσοδα των αυτοκινητιστών.
* Η μειωμένη κίνηση αλλά και οι αυξήσεις στις τιμές των καυσίμων έχουν, επίσης, ως αποτέλεσμα να μην επαρκούν οι πιάτσες ταξί που υπάρχουν στο πολεοδομικό συγκρότημα για τη φιλοξενία των οχημάτων που αναμένουν πελάτη και τη στάση των διερχομένων οδηγών.
** Αεροδρόμιο Καλαμάτας
* 20 εκατ. ευρώ τα έργα εκσυγχρονισμού του
* Περίπου 20 εκατομμύρια ευρώ εκτιμάται πως θα στοιχίσουν τα έργα εκσυγχρονισμού του αεροδρομίου της Καλαμάτας, σύμφωνα με όσα ανέφερε απαντώντας σε σχετική ερώτηση ο αντιπεριφερειάρχης Μεσσηνίας Χρ. Μαλαπάνης.
* Ο κ. Μαλαπάνης, ο οποίος ξεκίνησε την προετοιμασία του θέματος, στο πλαίσιο υλοποίησης της σχετικής απόφασης του Περιφερειακού Συμβουλίου Πελοποννήσου, είπε πως έγινε μια πρώτη συνάντηση, προκειμένου να συζητηθούν τα απαιτούμενα έργα.
* Ζήτημα πρώτης προτεραιότητας είναι η απαλλοτρίωση των 44 στρεμμάτων, όπου διαπιστώθηκε πως χρειάζεται ανανέωση των περιβαλλοντικών όρων.
** Greeklish
* Το τέλος της ελληνικής γραφής;
* Τα greeklish έκαναν την εμφάνισή τους από τότε που το chat, όπως και τα γραπτά μηνύματα, εισέβαλαν στη ζωή των Ελλήνων.
* Οι λόγοι για τους οποίους καθιερώθηκαν; Η ταχύτητα στο γράψιμο, το «κρύψιμο» της ανορθογραφίας, η τεμπελιά στο να πατήσεις το συνδυασμό shift + alt για να γυρίσεις το πληκτρολόγιο του υπολογιστή στην ελληνική γραφή και η μόδα…
* Αυτά οι τέσσερις λόγοι ήταν αρκετοί για να μας κάνουν να ξεχάσουμε να γράφουμε στα ελληνικά.
** Κορώνη
* Το Ασπρόχωμα παρέχει δυνατότητες ανάπτυξης
* Ένα εορταστικό τριήμερο Μεσογειακής Διατροφής, με αντιπροσωπείες από την Ισπανία, την Ιταλία και το Μαρόκο, θα λάβει χώρα από Παρασκευή έως και Κυριακή στην Κορώνη.
* Η Μεσογειακή Διατροφή έχει αναγνωριστεί ως Άυλη Πολιτιστική Κληρονομιά της Ανθρωπότητας από την UNESCO (Ναϊρόμπι Νοέμβριος 2010), μετά από κοινή πρωτοβουλία της Ελλάδας (Κορώνη), της Ισπανίας (Σορία), της Ιταλίας (Σιλέντο) και του Μαρόκου (Σέφσαουεν). Σύμφωνα με την απόφαση αυτή, η Μεσογειακή Διατροφή αποτελεί ένα σύνολο δεξιοτήτων, γνώσεων, πρακτικών και παραδόσεων που ξεκινούν από τη γη, το αγροτικό τοπίο και φτάνουν μέχρι το τραπέζι και συμπεριλαμβάνουν τις καλλιέργειες, τη συγκομιδή, την αλιεία, τη διατήρηση, τη μεταποίηση, την προετοιμασία και, ιδιαίτερα, την κατανάλωση των τροφίμων. Αυτά και πολλά ακόμη θα συζητηθούν στην τριήμερη εκδήλωση της Κορώνης, με συνδιοργανωτές την UNESCO, το υπουργείο Αγροτικής Ανάπτυξης και Τροφίμων, το υπουργείο Πολιτισμού και Τουρισμού και το Δήμο Πύλου - Νέστορος.
** Ποδηλατοδρομία
* Το Ασπροχώμα παρέχει δυνατότητες ανάπτυξης
* Η ποδηλατοδρομία που πραγματοποιήθηκε την περασμένη Κυριακή 29 Μαΐου στην ευρύτερη περιοχή του Ασπροχώματος, από τους Ποδηλάτες Καλαμάτας και τους κατοίκους της περιοχής, δείχνει το δρόμο της ουσιαστικής ανάπτυξης του Δήμου Καλαμάτας, αναφέρει σχετικό δελτίο Τύπου του Πολιτιστικού και Εξωραϊστικού Συλλόγου Δυτικής Παραλίας και Νέας Εισόδου Καλαμάτας «Ο Ποσειδών».
** Υπόγειο πάρκινγκ
* Τα είπαν Δημοτική Αρχή και "Ελλάκτωρ"
* Σύσκεψη κορυφής, η οποία κράτησε σχεδόν δύο ώρες, πραγματοποιήθηκε χθες στην Τεχνική Υπηρεσία μεταξύ εκπροσώπων της Δημοτικής Αρχής, με επικεφαλής το δήμαρχο Παν. Νίκα, και αρμόδιων αντιδημάρχων και εκπροσώπων της εταιρείας «Ελλάκτωρ», εν όψει των υπογραφών της σύμβασης για την έναρξη κατασκευής του υπόγειου χώρου στάθμευσης στο ύψος του Διοικητηρίου.
* Το περιερχόμενο της συνάντησης των δύο πλευρών δεν έγινε γνωστό, αλλά θα πρέπει να θεωρείται βέβαιο ότι κατά τη διάρκειά της εξετάστηκαν όλα τα τεχνικά και οικονομικά ζητήματα που διέπουν το έργο. Τις επόμενες ημέρες, ίσως και σήμερα, θα πρέπει να αναμένονται σχετικές ανακοινώσεις από πλευράς Δημοτικής Αρχής, ενώ θα υπάρξει και συζήτηση στην αμέσως επόμενη συνεδρίαση του Δημοτικού Συμβουλίου Καλαμάτας.
** Σκουπίδια
* Ολοκλήρωση διαδικασιών για το διαγωνισμό
* Συνεχίζεται από πλευράς της αρμόδιας επιτροπής του Δήμου Καλαμάτας η εξέταση των δικαιολογητικών που κατέθεσαν οι τρεις εταιρείες (Ram, Μεσόγειος Α.Ε. και Ηλέκτωρ, συμφερόντων της οικογένειας Μπόμπολα) οι οποίες συμμετείχαν στο διαγωνισμό για την επεξεργασία των απορριμμάτων του Δήμου, προϋπολογισμού 3,1 εκατομμυρίων ευρώ περίπου για ένα χρόνο, με δυνατότητα παράτασης για ακόμη έναν.
* Η παραπάνω διαδικασία φαίνεται αρκετά επίπονη και η επιτροπή διαγωνισμού καταβάλλει κάθε προσπάθεια ώστε το αποτέλεσμα να μην μπορεί να αμφισβητηθεί από καμία πλευρά. Πάντως, μέχρι τις αρχές της επόμενης εβδομάδας υπολογίζεται να έχει ξεκαθαρίσει το θέμα.
** Προληπτική οδοντιατρική
* Τα παιδιά δε φοβούνται πια τον οδοντίατρο!
* Είχαμε την εντύπωση ότι τα παιδιά, αν όχι φόβο, ένα δισταγμό απέναντι στον οδοντίατρο τον είχαν. Κι όμως, χθες στο 19ο Νηπιαγωγείο Καλαμάτας εκπλαγήκαμε από την άνεση με την οποία έπαιρναν θέση για να εξεταστούν από τον κ. Νικητόπουλο, ο οποίος επισκέφθηκε το σχολείο στο πλαίσιο της Εβδομάδας Προληπτικής Οδοντιατρικής που υλοποιεί ο Οδοντιατρικός Σύλλογος Μεσσηνίας. Όχι μόνο δεν έδειχναν τρομαγμένα, αλλά απολάμβαναν και την όλη διαδικασία!
** Ν.Ε. ΠΑΣΟΚ
* Επικίνδυνο το αντιμνημονιακό παραλήρημα Σαμαρά
* Ο κ. Σαμαράς οργάνωσε Ζάππειο Ι και Ζάππειο ΙΙ, για να φανερώσει στο λαό το περιβόητο σχέδιό του, που θα μπορούσε υποτίθεται να λύσει το οικονομικό μας πρόβλημα. Πλην, όμως, ματαίως. Δεν τον ακούει κανείς, εκτός από το σκληρό πυρήνα της παράταξής του. Δέκα εννέα ολόκληρους μήνες κάνει ό,τι περνάει απ’ το χέρι του για να μπορέσει να πείσει τους Έλληνες ότι έχει τη μαγική, τη μοναδική, αξιόπιστη λύση για τη χώρα. Άνθρακες όμως ο θησαυρός. Δεν πείθει, δεν εμπνέει, δεν έχει απήχηση, αδυνατεί να προσφέρει σοβαρή, εναλλακτική πρόταση εξόδου από την κρίση.
** ANTITRUST ARMAGEDDON HITS FOURTH REICH
* There is an Antitrust Armageddon in Europe between tiptop companies and Fourth Reich(EU). Eurokleptocrats are willing to do anything in order to get kickbacks from industry leaders. The European antitrust laws have the unfortunate consequence of harming Europeans by chilling innovation and discouraging competition. Instead of protecting competition, EU laws protect competitors who give kickbacks to kleptocrats! Kickback is the lubricant that allows a European industry to run smoothly! No European machinery can run without lubricant! Eppur si muove! http://venitism.blogspot.com/
Antitrust Eurocommissar Joaquin Almunia points out last year, the European Commission and the competition authorities of our 27 Member States in the European Competition Network issued more than one hundred decisions based on Articles 101 and 102. EU antitrust has been transformed into a terrorist religion, which relies on pseudoeconomic theories that bestow a veneer of objectivity and credibility on EU law enforcement practices that actually rely on hunch, whim, and blackmail.
On all EU antitrust cases, from mergers to price fixing, arbitrary antitrust laws lead to ill-informed juries and bureaucratic abuse. Those laws also create a perverse incentive for entrepreneurs to hold down sales volume, stop innovation, and avoid improvements in price, quality, and service; otherwise, such entrepreneurs could become the next targets of the antitrust terrorists.
Since the start of the European Competition Network(ECN) in 2004, Eurokleptocrats have decided more than 500 cases. More importantly, their decisions have become more consistent and their workload better allocated. Eurokleptocrats should add to these figures the sector-specific expertise that they are developing together in key economic areas and the role they are playing in promoting competition in legislative initiatives.
Galileo muttered the phrase Eppur si muove, And yet it moves, after being forced to recant in 1633, before the Inquisition, his belief that the Earth moves around the Sun. Similarly the new inquisition of regulators force executives to admit something they did not do, in order to get smaller penalties. Eppur si muove! http://venitism.blogspot.com/
Over a year ago, Almunia adopted provisional Antitrust Best Practices with innovations such as earlier opening of formal proceedings and state of play meetings at key points of the process. During the public consultation, Almunia has received many critical comments. Importantly, Almunia has taken the time to test the draft measures in practice. Thanks to this work, Almunia has prepared a new version of the Best Practices which he will soon put forward for consultation in the Commission and with the national antitrust authorities.
European antitrust laws lead to huge corruption, because government officials ask for kickbacks in order to erase the alleged violation. The standard kickback in EU is 10% of the erased penalty! Many Greek officials were caught on tape asking for the corrupt tithe! Many European political parties make up their election expenses from kickbacks on antitrust cases! This is the worst possible blackmail, where tiptop ethical companies are held hostage by European kleptocrats. Eppur si muove! http://venitism.blogspot.com/
The main innovation is the inclusion of a section on fines in the Statement of Objections. In the future, companies will have a better idea, at an early stage, of the elements taken into account to calculate the fines; such as the value of the cartelised sales, an indication of the gravity, and issues of recidivism.
This innovation will open a channel for dialogue with the parties: it will help Almunia exchange information relevant to the calculation of the fines, and avoid post-decision corrections which, although they remain rare, are always unpleasant for both sides. The Best Practices will also give the parties earlier and wider access to key documents, such as economic studies, before formal objections are raised. In this way, they will be able to better understand the issues being investigated and to explain their point of view.
Also, the state of play meetings, which have proved to be very useful, will be extended from antitrust proceedings to cartel cases. The parties will have the right to meet Almunia's services after the oral hearing to discuss how the case is proceeding. State of play meetings will also be introduced for complainants so that Almunia can discuss with them whether he will continue to investigate a matter that they have raised with him. The overall goals of these changes are to make Almunia's procedures more transparent and to involve the parties more closely.
European antitrust law is wielded most often by favor-seeking businessmen and their kleptocrat allies. Instead of focusing on new and better products, disgruntled rivals try to exploit the law by consorting with kleptocrats. EU officials routinely direct antitrust regulators to bend the rules in pursuit of political ends. In reality, the threat of abusive EC power is far larger than the threat of oligopoly. Eppur si muove!
The right to a fair hearing is a fundamental right. This right is safeguarded by the two Hearing Officers, who report directly to Almunia. Since this function was introduced in 1982, Hearing Officers have earned an impeccable reputation. They are independent from the case handling services and dedicated to ensuring that the process is fair and impartial. http://venitism.blogspot.com/
However, their role is currently limited to the stages in Almunia's proceedings after the statement of objections is sent. But Almunia believes procedural rights need to be upheld since the start of an investigation, and he plans to revise their mandate accordingly in the course of this year. This change will give the parties an independent review of their procedural claims over the entire process.
The only viable definition of monopoly is a grant of privilege from the government. It therefore becomes quite clear that it is impossible for the government to decrease monopoly by passing punitive laws. The only way for the government to decrease monopoly is to remove its own monopoly grants. The antitrust laws, therefore, do not in the least diminish monopoly. What they do accomplish is to impose a continual, capricious harassment of efficient business enterprise.
A significant improvement to antitrust process will be to allow the Hearing Officers to solve legal-privilege issues – an important issue in practice. Under antitrust new rules, companies claiming privilege over documents could address themselves to the Hearing Officers, let them check the content of the documents and ask them to make a recommendation.
Almunia is confident that this can go a long way in resolving this type of issues in the future and avoid unnecessary litigation. The new mandate will also reaffirm that candidates who are not officials of the European Commission may apply for the post – a possibility that Almunia will consider in the future. http://venitism.blogspot.com/
* Reporters Without Borders is shocked to learn Haleh Sahabi, a dissident blogger and contributor to the magazine Chashm Andaz (Panorama), died in hospital after being hit hard in the stomach earlier today when she, fellow family members, and friends resisted attempts by security officials to stop the funeral of her father, Ezatollah Sahabi, a leading opposition figure and onetime editor of the monthly Iran-e-Farda.
Marilizardism has metastasized in Iran. Merciless Marilizard, the culprit FM of October-18 shock and awe, terrorizes Graecoblogosphere. Accusing dissident bloggers of treason, Graecokleptocrats have manufactured a blood libel in cyberspace, which in turn may incite hatred and violence. http://venitism.blogspot.com/
"We address our most sincere condolences to the Sahabi family for this double tragedy," Reporters Without Borders said. "Iran has lost a great defender of freedom of expression and the regime has killed his daughter, an active defender of the families of political prisoners. We will not forget this crime. The two press freedom predators at the head of the Islamic Republic are responsible for this courageous woman's death."
"We insist that the authorities shed light on all the circumstances of this murder. Those responsible must be tried and sentenced. The violence that the regime uses against its opponents is appalling. It not only bans all of their activities but also tries to erase them from society and the collective memory."
Aged 56, Haleh Sahabi had known the suffering of the families of prisoners of conscience all her life. Since her childhood, her father and other relatives had spent spells in prison under two successive regimes. As her result of her activities in support of the families of political prisoners who had been executed during the 1980s, she became a spokesperson for the victims of political oppression – something the regime could not tolerate.
Marilizardists use charge stacking, which is the ability to charge a large number of overlapping crimes for a single course of conduct. The potential for injustice is heightened when each of the alleged crimes is vague and overly broad. However even if each of these offenses is narrowly defined to cover only serious misconduct, combining crimes enables prosecutors to get convictions in cases where there may be no misconduct at all. When deciding whether to plead guilty, any rational defendant takes account of the sentence the defendant may receive if he goes to trial and loses. By stacking enough charges, Marilizardists try to jack up the threat value of trial and thereby induce a guilty plea, even if the government's case is weak.
Global Tax Revolt points out the Marilizardist persecution of dissident bloggers is unquestionably a serious attack on freedom of speech, and contrary to Article 2 of Lisbon Treaty, Article 10 of the European Convention of Human Rights, and Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The disgusting government of Graecokleptocracy cannot bully the blogosphere without repercussions and blowbacks. The international civil society got a shock and awe from the brutality of the infamous government of Graecokleptocracy on October 18, 2010. http://venitism.blogspot.com/
** DISTRIBUTED MIND
* The idea of a distributed mind among animals is not new, according to Peter Godfrey-Smith, who focuses his efforts on the philosophy of science. Experiments indicate that when a bird learns a skill using only a single eye, and is later tested while being forced to use the other eye, the learning does not transfer well. http://venitism.blogspot.com/
"This suggests that animal minds lack the cohesiveness that humans have," said Godfrey-Smith, a philosophy professor at Harvard. "It may have something to do with consciousness. Maybe it acts as a unifying tool."
Alvin Powell points out Godfrey-Smith has been swimming with octopuses for years, diving in and around Sydney Harbour during summer breaks in his native Australia. It is only recently, however, that he noticed that supremely camouflaged octopuses were pretty common there.
"For years, I was swimming and diving in this area of Sydney Harbour. I had an idea they were there, but didn't know what to look for," Godfrey-Smith said.
Once he understood what to look for, he realized octopuses were all around. They're so well-camouflaged, he said, it is best to look not for the animal, but for their dens. They often collect bits of marine debris — broken glass, tiles, and other hard substances — and put them out front.
"They're watching us even if we're not watching them," Godfrey-Smith said.
Intrigued, he looked into the scientific literature and was struck by how little was known about octopuses. Octopuses and other cephalopods such as squids are thought to be the most intelligent invertebrates, but the nature of their intelligence is still a mystery.
Octopuses have large nervous systems, centered around relatively large brains. But more than half of their 500 million neurons are found in the arms themselves, Godfrey-Smith said. This raises the question of whether the arms have something like minds of their own. Though the question is controversial, there is some observational evidence indicating that it could be so, he said. When an octopus is in an unfamiliar tank with food in the middle, some arms seem to crowd into the corner seeking safety while others seem to pull the animal toward the food, Godfrey-Smith explained, as if the creature is literally of two minds about the situation.
Powell notes there may be other explanations for the observations. But whatever the answer, it seems likely that octopus intelligence is quite different from that of humans and, as researchers ponder the broader meaning of intelligence, may be as different as is likely to be encountered, short of finding it on other planets. http://venitism.blogspot.com/
That's because other creatures that are believed intelligent — such as dolphins, chimpanzees, some birds, elephants — are relatively closely related to humans. They're all on the vertebrate branch of the tree of life, so there's a chance the intelligence shares at least some characteristics. Powell points out octopuses are invertebrates. Our last common ancestor reaches back to the dim depths of time, 500 million to 600 million years ago. That means octopus intelligence likely evolved entirely separately and could be very different from that of vertebrates.
"Octopuses let us ask which features of our minds can we expect to be universal whenever intelligence arises in the universe, and which are unique to us," Godfrey-Smith said. "They really are an isolated outpost among invertebrates. From the point of view of the philosophy of the mind, they are a big deal."
Powell muses there is another major difference between humans and octopuses: Females sometimes eat the males! http://venitism.blogspot.com/
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Mister President, members of the Court,
I am here because of what I have said. I am here for having spoken. I have spoken, I speak and I shall continue to speak. Many have kept silent, but not Pim Fortuyn, not Theo Van Gogh, and not I.
I am obliged to speak. For the Netherlands is under threat of Islam. As I have argued many times, Islam is chiefly an ideology. An ideology of hatred, of destruction, of conquest. It is my strong conviction that Islam is a threat to Western values, to freedom of speech, to the equality of men and women, of heterosexuals and homosexuals, of believers and unbelievers.
All over the world we can see how freedom is fleeing from Islam. Day by day we see our freedoms dwindle. Islam is opposed to freedom. Renowned scholars of Islam from all parts of the world agree on this. My witness experts subscribe to my view. There are more Islam scholars whom the court did not allow me to call upon to testify. All agree with my statements, they show that I speak the truth. That truth is on trial today.
We must live in the truth, said the dissidents under Communist rule, because the truth will set us free. Truth and freedom are inextricably connected. We must speak the truth because otherwise we shall lose our freedom. That is why I have spoken, why I speak and why I shall continue to speak.
The statements for which I am being tried are statements which I made in my function as a politician participating in the public debate in our society. My statements were not aimed at individuals, but at Islam and the process of islamization. That is why the Public Prosecutor has concluded that I should be acquitted.
Mister President, members of the Court,
I am acting within a long tradition which I wish to honour. I am risking my life in defence of freedom in the Netherlands. Of all our achievements freedom is the most precious and the most vulnerable. Many have given their lives for freedom. We have been reminded of that in the commemorations of the month of May. But the struggle for freedom is much older.
Every day the armoured cars drive me past the statue of Johan de Witt at the Hofvijver in The Hague. De Witt wrote the "Manifesto of True Freedom" and he paid for freedom with his life. Every day I go to my office through the Binnenhof where Johan van Oldenbarneveldt was beheaded after a political trial. Leaning on his stick the elderly Oldenbarneveldt addressed his last words to his people. He said: "I have acted honourably and piously as a good patriot." Those words are also mine.
I do not wish to betray the trust of the 1.5 million voters of my party. I do not wish to betray my country. Inspired by Johan van Oldenbarneveldt and Johan de Witt I wish to be a politician who serves the truth end hence defends the freedom of the Dutch provinces and of the Dutch people. I wish to be honest, I wish to act with honesty and that is why I wish to protect my native land against Islam. Silence is treason. That is why I have spoken, why I speak and why I shall continue to speak.
Freedom and truth. I pay the price every day. Day and night I have to be protected against people who want to kill me. I am not complaining about it; it has been my own decision to speak. However, those who threaten me and other critics of Islam are not being tried here today. I am being tried. And about that I do complain.
I consider this trial to be a political trial. The values of D66 [a Dutch leftist liberal party] and NRC Handelsblad [a Dutch leftist liberal party] will never be brought before a judge in this country. One of the complainants clearly indicated that his intentions are political. Even questions I have asked in parliament and cooperation with the SGP are being brought as allegations against me by Mr Rabbae of GroenLinks [the leftist Dutch Green Party]. Those on the Left like to tamper with the separation of powers. When they cannot win politically because the Dutch people have discerned their sinister agenda, they try to win through the courts. Whatever your verdict may be, that is the bitter conclusion of this trial.
This trial is also surrealistic. I am being compared with the Hutu murderers in Rwanda and with Mladic. Only a few minutes ago some here have doubted my mental health. I have been called a new Hitler. I wonder whether those who call me such names will also be sued, and if not, whether the Court will also order prosecution. Probably not. And that is just as well. Because freedom of speech applies also to my opponents.
My right to a fair trial has been violated. The order of the Amsterdam Court to prosecute me was not just a decision but a condemning verdict by judges who condemned me even before the actual trial had begun.
Mister President, members of the Court, you must now decide whether freedom still has a home in the Netherlands.
Franz Kafka said: "one sees the sun slowly set, yet one is surprised when it suddenly becomes dark."
Mister President, members of the Court, do not let the lights go out in the Netherlands.
Acquit me: Put an end to this Kafkaesque situation.
Acquit me. Political freedom requires that citizens and their elected representatives are allowed to voice opinions that are held in society.
Acquit me, for if I am convicted, you convict the freedom of opinion and expression of millions of Dutchmen.
Acquit me. I do not incite to hatred. I do not incite to discrimination. But I defend the character, the identity, the culture and the freedom of the Netherlands. That is the truth. That is why I am here. That is why I speak. That is why, like Luther before the Imperial Diet at Worms, I say: "Here I stand, I can do no other."
That is why I have spoken, why I speak and why I shall continue to speak.
Mister President, members of the Court, though I stand here alone, my voice is the voice of many. This trial is not about me. It is about something much greater. Freedom of expression is the life source of our Western civilisation.
Do not let that source go dry just to cosy up to a totalitarian ideology. "Freedom," said the American President Dwight Eisenhower, "has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die."
Mister President, members of the Court, you have a great responsibility. Do not cut freedom in the Netherlands from its roots, our freedom of expression. Acquit me. Choose freedom.
I have spoken, I speak, and it is my duty – I cannot do otherwise – to continue to speak.
Thank you. http://venitism.blogspot.com/ .-
