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Te video of a break-dancing toddler reminded me of another report, that, in my eyes, clearly shows that there are past lives which we sometimes access if the stimulus is just right. This report tells about a little girl that remembers that it knows Thai-dance, and can actually perform it well beyond the abilities of a child her age.

Watching this toddler performing his break dance…

…it makes a lot more sense to me that he or his body remembers from last time around when he was a real good break dancer than to shoe-horn accepted reality into the observable facts and believe that this little guy who is called a ‘toddler’ for a reason has suddenly left all toddling behind just because I had observed some break dancers for a while. Even if the dad is an accomplished break dancer that would not explain his ability to control his body well beyond what other toddlers can do. I had seen and heard my dad sing opera all the time, but I could not do that! And I am sure that there are kids of accomplished pianists that see their parent practice for hours every day that don’t suddenly start ripping some Chopin.

Anybody else with clear proof that past lives exist?

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This is a really funny video, even though it’s at the expense of a poor Japanese tourist. Here we go…

Judging from the multitude of videos with similar content it appears to be some part of the Turkish culture that is even exported to other countries.

Trying to imagine how this would work in Germany which imported lots of Turkish ‘guest-workers’ in the 60s and 70s. Maybe this Turkish-Ice-Cream gig is something newer because I have never seen it while I lived in Germany. There were certainly plenty of Turkish ice-cream parlors and ice-cream cafes in Germany after the work, for which the workers had been imported initially, went away and these Turkish workers did not want to go back and had to find something else to support them.

Turks opened ice-cream shops just as the Italians opened pizza restaurants.

Maybe some Turks tried this ice-cream trick but word must have gotten around that it’s not advisable to play this trick on German males if you wanted to keep your nose un-bloody.

I can’t wait how it continues!

Read about Pioneer One today in one of the blogs I regularly visit – and got stuck. That was a blog post that cost me more than half an hour of my life and ten bucks – but it was definitely worth it. Much better than get sucked in one YouTube video after another until you feel as put through the wringer.

In the process I learned of another video site – vodo.net – which seems to be one for a bit bigger projects. Pioneer One does seem to be a bigger undertaking as the first show of this series is a half hour long professionally made video, intended to be mainly distributed as a torrent (in this case of about 1.1 GB.)

What is it about? The site describes it tersely as

An object in the sky spreads radiation over North America. Fearing terrorism, U.S. Homeland Security agents are dispatched to investigate and contain the damage. What they discover will have implications for the entire world.

This first show, according to the liner notes, cost a mere $6000, due to the fact that pretty much all of the contributors did it as volunteers. The next three shows are planned to use up about 20k and satisfied and curious viewers are asked to donate to hear and see the story continue.

I certainly want to know what’s happening next so I did my fair share (*) and did contribute – and now I can’t wait.

Want to have a little spoiler? The last word in the show is ‘absofuckinglutely!’

If that convinces you go there (click on the image above) and enjoy.

(*) This is meant as a stab in the direction of US Tax attorneys that force people at gun point to pay their ‘fair share’ – nothing fair about THAT! Contrary to the situation here where there is no initiated violence involved, just a voluntary contribution in the amount what YOU think is fair.

When you are living within one specific group and have little or no information flowing into you from the outside, it is obvious that this closed system will make at least some sense. Often these systems are consistent within themselves.

Such a system could be your church that does not allow you to consider outside information (Scientology is a very clear example for that) or, if we go a bit bigger, you country. As countries go, one that has not many borders (compared to its size) is the best to accomplish that. Here the US of A is a prime example – pretty big land mass, no neighbors to the left and right and not very loud neighbors at the top and bottom. In a closed system like  this, especially if the flow of information is so tightly controlled, the members of this system will hardly get a chance to assume an external viewpoint.

Europe is in the process of becoming a more closed system now that the European Union is tying all the countries more and more together. In the old days of a weak EU and more nationalistic countries the variety of opinions was much bigger and these different opinions could traverse borders rather easily through radio waves that did not stop at borders and the exchange of foreign newspapers.

After moving into the US and being exposed to one-sided reporting within its closed system I soon noticed that reading a British or German news paper often shed a completely different light on a situation. But with Europe and the US becoming more friendly and ruled by the same kind of tyrants the difference in opinion has become smaller and it gets more difficult to find a differing opinion.

Where can we go now to find different views on a specific situation?

I just learned that it’s the unlikely candidate Australia! See here what we can learn from down under…

The following are some quotes of Stefan Molyneux’s videocast about fake and real heroism:

Heroism is never where you are.

It’s never anything that you can achieve in your own life to become a hero – all you have to do is sit around and whine until some old dude in an old blanket comes along and whisks you off to a life of adventure and combat.

…

All these mythologies which have remained essentially unchanged for thousands of years, are entirely about enslaving you, and turning you into useful cannon fodder for your masters.

Real heroism is something that you can achieve here, today.

Sounds interesting, yes?

Imagine that I consider myself a Star Wars and science fiction appreciater (no, I do not call  myself a fan of anything!) so, it was a bit of a bitter pill to swallow. But all real change starts with discomfort as – by definition – we have to move out of our comfort zone.

But, Stefan says it best, so you better grab a coffee, make yourself comfortable on the sofa and give Mr. Molyneux a chance to stir you up a bit to get off that sofa…

You are still on that sofa of yours – OK, here is part 2…

Are you still on your sofa? – - – - – Pity!

Thanks, Dennis, for sending me this great commercial for Telefunken tubes. I actually remember finding a radio like this in the attic, plugging it in to see if it still worked – did not – unplugging it, opening it, getting in there with some pliers and being thrown right across my room. Did not know then that these big metallic pots were capacitors (no, not flux capacitors!) that kept a charge for quite a while after unplugging the radio. Never forgot it after that, though.

Without further ado, here this little gem…

Just in case your German is a bit rusty, here’s the translation of what is said:

In a moment we will hear the high C.

NOW!

Bravo, bravo, nearly as Caruso!

We have to record this very gently.

The precious note is then entrusted to the antenna
which carefully puts onto the wave – to be received elsewhere.

And here comes the catastrophe!

What’s a beautiful radio if it has used up, hoarse tubes?

The wonderful note is wretchedly mutilated;
and what then leaves the speaker – for goodness sake!

But not to worry, your radio gets back its impeccable sound with new Telefunken tubes.

Out with them! (The old ones, into the trash – Müll)

And now listening to the radio becomes delightful again.
Often one new Telefunken tube is all it needs, and the sound is full and clear again.

Even the high C – brilliant again with new Telefunken tubes.

Let your specialist check your radio;
Maybe you should also rejuvenate it with new Telefunken tubes.

The following video starts with a quote from George Orwell, you know the guy who predicted 1984, which reads…

Political language is designed to make
lies sound truthful, and murder respectable,
and give the appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Please also go to the Collateral Murder website to enjoy the full length video. It’s well worth it to educate yourself what you will be financing in just a few days,on April 15, when you make your confession and write the check to the hitman.

What comes to mind is the nice slogan you often see on bill boards and public construction sites:

Your Tax Dollar at Work

PS: To handle problems like this, by the way, is not to tell the governments “Don’t Do That!” – don’t tell them anything, just get rid of them. We do not need them to build our streets – and we certainly don ‘t need them to educate our kids. Anything government can do, the free market can do better, as Wes Bertrand explains in Complete Liberty.

This might be a tad offending but let me tell you that I love Dean Kamen’s work and when I watched his talk at TEDMED I was moved and needed a few tissues to wipe away tears.

But, I could not help thinking about who causes these ‘kids’ to lose their limbs. Mr. Kamen touched this subject towards the end of his talk and I understand that he is not able to answer those questions in the forum he is talking.

So, here I am, jumping in and lending a helping hand. Over the last few month of study of politics, societies and history I have come to the understand what make state and government unique – they have a monopoly on initiating violence, with the stress on ‘initiate.’

For pretty much everybody the initiation of violence is at least immoral, but politicians have managed to wave a magic wand and now for them and their cronies suddenly killing, stealing and kidnapping is lawful and moral and for the ‘public good.’ These are the people (if you still want to call them that) that meddle with other countries affairs and start kill them if they suddenly have the galls to use force in a defensive way telling them to stop. Obviously these ‘people’ don’t do the killing themselves. That would be way too dangerous, they might come home with missing limbs! So, they use emotional arguments and their ‘free’ press to convince their ‘kids’ to do the killing for them.

Now you might think that they are not that bad if they hire Mr. Kamen to invent replacements for those lost limbs. But, sorry, I don’t believe that they do this out of the goodness of their hearts – it’s a publicity stunt!

And here, Mr. Kamen , I must say, I am disappointed that you are falling for that. In my eyes you are a genius in the technical arena (and I will get a Segway at one point) but I want you to apply this genius to the social arena as well. Because, right now, if you are giving support to the only group that made it legal for itself to initiate force, you are validating their actions.

And this, by the way, applies to everybody who works for ‘the man.’

ref: TED talk Dean Kamen – The Emotion Behind Invention.

This TED talk by Adora Svitak moved me…

Don’t have much to add to it, except maybe that it changes dramatically how I see my son and what comes from him.

In my inbox I found the following video, promoting to always wear your seat-belt…

This reminded me of my own experience with seat-belts and what effect the government had on my usage.

Up to the time of my first cars. back in the old days in Germany, there were no seat-belts. Surprisingly I am still alive despite the fact that I, even as a kid, mostly rode in the passenger seat next to dad while mom and little sis were in the back.

So I grew up without seat-belts but when seat-belts went on sale, during my second or third junk car, I thought they were so cool that I actually retro-fitted my old clunker with them – at very high expenses relativ to my meager money supply as a student. And believe me, I wore them all the time – no trip without strapping in. I would have preferred those race-car 4-point belts, but could not afford them. This was the time when those belts actually saved my life when I had a tire blow on the freeway at 140 kmh (about 90 mph for all you imperialists.)

Then the well-meaning government stepped in with the attempt to save us all and made use of seat-belts mandatory. And what happened? I, young and full of opposition to anything exerting authority, suddenly stopped to use them.

I know, it’s silly, they had saved my life before, but it’s not an uncommon behavior. Try it yourself when you get a chance: find somebody doing something he or she likes and order them to do it. Guess what will happen?

I finally got over that and now wear seat-belts whenever I believe it’s the right thing to do to protect me from harm. The biggest harm these days, I believe, would be suffering at the hand of a cop who catches me not using the belts and presenting me with an invitation to the local court house; but, hey, that’s a harm and so wearing the belt protects me from that harm.

But I also know that in a crash of only 30 miles I would not have the arm strength to keep me from flying through or at least into the wind shield, and that also effects my decision to click it.

This reminds me of this cute slogan you see on free and high ways

Click it or ticket!

Am I the only one being appalled by our masters to now package their threat to do violence against us in cuteness? You wonder – what violence? Just try to play it through:

1. you don’t click it
2. you get a ticket
3. you throw it away because you have harmed nobody
4. a warrant for your arrest is issued
5. you ignore that because you have not harmed anybody
6. cops try to arrest you
7. you resist because nobody has been harmed by your actions
8. you get shot

I know, you can avoid all that by just doing what the master tells you – and enjoy the cuteness of “click it or ticket” without thinking of the implied “and then I kill you if you don’t do as I tell you to…”

Back to the beginning – wouldn’t it be much better if companies would just offer the belts and make them so good and comfortable that you just want to wear them?

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