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LinkedInThis one is a topic I commented recently on aByte Show interview, and that is the US military's new "plasma cannon," and I thought it would be worth a more detailed look here. Here is Russian TV that brings you this bit of news: US Army to smite enemies with Tesla-like lightning bolts? The basic idea here is very simple. The laser acts as a conductive channel for a plasma, or, an electrically charged gas, toward its target. The laser heats a gas, ionizing the air through which it passes, and thus creates a column or channel taht is not electrically neutral. In other words, the column … [Read more...]
LASER-INDUCED PLASMA CHANNELS, THE US MILITARY, AND SOME PALEOPHYSICAL THINKING OF THE UNTHINKABLE
July 13, 2012 By
AN INDEPENDENCE DAY WEEKEND LOOK BACK AT C. WRIGHT MILLS AND “THE POWER ELITE”
July 2, 2011 By
Yesterday I wrote about my ambivalent feelings about Independence Day and the American Empire, hinting at the existence of a power elite whose methods - in spite of the break with the British Empire - haven't really changed. Indeed, there is a certain segment of the analytical community that views the American Empire as but a continuation of the British one, under new management. In that vein, it's worth looking back at sociologist C. Wright Mills' 1956 classic study of The Power Elite (Oxford University Press, 1956). Consider these statements as, in part, the backdrop for President … [Read more...]
HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY WEEKEND…I THINK
July 1, 2011 By
Well Happy Independence Day weekend, everyone. Except that I'm in an ambivalent frame of mind. What are we really celebrating? The mythology has it that we threw of the tyrannical yoke of the British Empire - represented by its German monarch George III - and all it's pomps and works, gained our "liberty", marched across a continent, fought a civil war to free the slaves, put a quite end to the Kaiser and his dreams of world conquest in short order, and again made the world safe for democracy by single-handedly teaching that upstart Hitler a thing or too. Being too tired to teach Stalin a … [Read more...]
NEWS AND VIEWS FROM THE NEFARIUM JUNE 23 2011
June 23, 2011 By
Joseph comments on Comet Elenin, NASA's director Bolden's speech, members' comments, and the spate of alien invasion movies and series on television recently. … [Read more...]