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French economist Gabriel Zucman has come to California bearing a familiar French solution to a fiscal problem: another tax. Once based at the University of California, Berkeley, Zucman is back and campaigning for Proposition 40, which would impose an allegedly one-time 5 percent tax on the net worth of Californians worth more than $1 billion. Zucman, who coauthored the proposition, estimates that the tax could raise about $100 billion and claims that 90 percent of the proceeds would go to health care. The California Legislative Analyst's office is far more cautious, saying it would raise only "tens of billions" and...

An analysis pointing out the intersection of transhumanism and the occult.

Jan. 7, 2009 -- Stonehenge was built as a dance arena for prehistoric "samba-style" raves, according to a study of the acoustics of the 5,000-year-old stone circle. Using cutting-edge technology, Rupert Till, an expert in acoustics and music technology at Huddersfield University in northern England, discovered that Stonehenge's megaliths reflect sound perfectly, making the stone circle an ideal setting for listening to repetitive trance rhythms.

Barack Obama’s speeches contain the hypnosis techniques of Dr. Milton Erickson, M.D. who developed a form of “conversational” hypnosis that could be hidden in seemingly normal speech and used on patients without their knowledge for therapy purposes. Obama’s speeches intentionally contain: Obama’s techniques are the height of deception and psychological manipulation, remaining hidden because one must understand the science behind the language patterns in order to spot them. This document examines Obama’s speeches word by word, hand gesture by hand gesture, tone, pauses, body language, and proves his use of covert hypnosis intended only for licensed therapists on consenting patients....

Page 39: "Jesus is moved to repentance by the preaching of John and submits to his baptism. Perhaps his manual labor was sometimes less than perfect, perhaps he cheated a customer even if unintentionally. John was announcing 'forgiveness of debts' using a word, forgive, which in peasant experience was always linked with forgiveness of debts. Even Jesus as an artisan could plausibly have needed forgiveness of debts." Page 40: "Scholars note that Jesus initially was a disciple of John, even baptizing others with the baptism of John (John 3:22). No doubt he also learned the basic skills of a Holy...

Out of catastrophe comes fresh hope. Six months ago, my friend Michael Jackson was facing disaster in every area of his life - his career was flatlining, his finances were coming apart at the seams, his reputation was smeared by a television show that he had hoped would relaunch his image. Worst of all, he was facing a court case that could destroy him utterly. The courage he needed to withstand whatever fresh ordeals were in store was awesome. I felt deep sympathy and pity for him. Worse than this, I blamed myself. I had persuaded Michael to make the...

If you can stomach it (both via the above link and here):Link: http://mfile.akamai.com/1689/wmv/bmguk.download.akamai.com/1689/Faithless1/faithless_wmv_high.asxis a 2-minute streaming video (broadband recommended), on Windows Media Player, by a U.K. "trance-rap" music group called 'Faithless'.The song is called "I Want More".One would FIRST think this would be pictures of starving North Korean peasants, crying in the Korean language for more rice gruel.But what you will be 'treated' to is a clever if not disgusting tribute to the mass brainwashing in North Korea, particularly in the more privileged capital city of Pyongyang, and 'mass games' in the sports stadium, intense socialist-flavored gymnastics, N.K. soldiers...