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Tank Driver

Sun, 11 May 2008 02:46:33 GMT

One of my favorite Pangea Day videos. If you missed it the first time I beg you to watch this.

5th of June 1989 Beijing. Tiananmen Square protest.

Avenue of Eternal Peace...

Day after the massacre.

A lone protester stood in a row of Chinese Type 59 tanks prompting them to stop advancing towards the crowd. A man whos identity to this day is unknown is called the "Tank Man" or the "Unknown Rebel". Despite the rumors that he has died or still lives, in this video, we get to see a different perspective - Pangea Day promotes, "Inside every tank there is a human being."

See the world through someone else's eyes.

Credits Johannes Leonardo,

http://www.pangeaday.org/

November Uniform

Mon, 05 May 2008 03:12:13 GMT

My fascination with Numbers stations will never end. Ever since I discovered them accidentally around the early 90's, it was only by recent googling I came to realize these strange off-world and seemingly out of time transmissions heard in common shortwave-able radios are filled with assumptions mainly aligned towards government spies said to use them as one-way communication sources filled with hidden messages. With likely assumptions, number stations are still, generally, a mystery and is rarely talked about. I also found out that I was not the only one (yet again) drawn by their spooky yet hypnotic string of numbers and phonetic letters voiced by varying speeches and intonations usually by women, men and even little girls. Voice characterizations I can only describe as something very quaint, spooky, twilight zone-esque, that in time I grew quite a liking and stimulating enough that I consider playing them as I sleep, establishing what nightmares such sounds can procure.

Recordings of shortwave numbers stations from archive.org

I'm Bookoo Dinki Dau!

Fri, 02 May 2008 03:41:20 GMT

As our country celebrates Labor Day yesterday, several hundreds of people protested under the hellish heat of the Sun to oust the current emperor of the present Galactic Empire who happens to be half-hobbit, half-Ewok and has the "precious" economy of this country by its knees. During these moments of exercised freedom, I was at home spending the ghoulish morning and afternoon fighting communists in Vietnam who are as tenacious as the protesters which were mixed by left-wing parties waving red flags on the streets showing much "dissatisfaction" towards our government and of course the United States. These left-wing groups are usually maintained by your typical U.P. students harvesting the benefits of government-paid education.

Before I went to celebrate the Worker's Holiday at my friend's house, I had long and bloody battle against the N.V.A. and the Viet-Congs, Charlies, Mr. Charles in a video game called Battlefield: Vietnam.

I always enjoy the pre-mission 1960's era rock n' roll music like the Letter by Box Tops, and other bands of the time such as, Jefferson Airplane, Deep Purple, The Guess Who, Canned Heat and many more. With this summer heat around and commies protesting on the streets, the magic works almost perfectly and it feels like your actually one of the guys who served during this controversial war...

In a historical mission called Operation Irving, we were dropped via huey helicopters on a small fishing village just opposite our island, quite similar to the scene in the movie, Apocalypse Now only this time without the surfing, the eccentric general and Ride With the Valkyries music to scare the VC's. It's just plain and simple firefight and ground control which was all in all good because the enemy does not care and would gladly fire their stingers and RPG's without hesitation. We lost 3 men before we even landed as SA-7 stingers hit one of our helicopters, but we eventually took hold of the island with the help of napalm - but that's because I love the smell of napalm in the morning...uh, or in the afternoon.

As I had my lunch by noon, the anti-government groups accompanied by left-wing protesters started eating root crops like kamote (sweet potatoes), bean soup, and water with salt, to show our government of a world without rice and sky-high prices, they also started eating fish heads instead of the whole thing. I felt sorry for the old folks who were there and theres just no hiding how society had deteriorated here. They were protesting, and they really meant it, and it got me - nothing political just simple human compassion.

Don't get me wrong I still hate commies, but not much as I hate Arabs who have an uncanny fetish for beating up Filipino overseas workers, and sodomizing clean-shaven peoples.

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:09:31 GMT

Its funny because I do this everytime I don't get the lyrics.

Colorful Ascension

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:14:40 GMT

There is still no sign of Reverend Adelir Antonio di Carli, a Roman Catholic priest who flew off the coast of Sao Paolo Brazil last week, after using hundreds of helium filled balloons trying to set a world record. He went missing after strong winds blew him out to sea...

The people and media were quite confident that he'd be all right after losing contact for hours, although missing for five days - now seven - took Brazilian authorities and search parties to worry whether he actually survived.

Mineral Wars: Rice, Lies, Price, and Poly-ticks

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:30:01 GMT

I never thought so many people were afraid of China.

Anyway, the price of rice is skyrocketing. It's impressive how the government can divert people's attention from the true issue at hand by starving them. The president, for a woman of her well, "stature", reminds me of "Brain" from Pinky and the Brain, although not that globally ambitious, shes quite an extreme elitist nevertheless. An example of this is by turning several rice fields into golf courses for her new powerful friends - The Chinese. Recently, without her people's consent of course, our Chinese neighbors have stationed around the Spratly Islands just a few nautical miles away from Palawan in the South China sea. The islands themselves have been claimed by neighboring countries, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Taiwan. Smacked in the middle of the already divided islands - too small to be inhabited - are divided by the countries mentioned. Strange that China would sit their fishing/oil vessels on ours (as seen in the news) comfortably waving on the news crew like tourists and friendly pie-in-hand neighbors, without any concern of territorial dispute or an intervention from our step-dad, the United States. It appears our economical "savior" did her job well and is reforming us to who knows what.

Without drought problems or floods caused by typhoons, it is unusual that we'd be having this problem. The farmers themselves claim that the harvest is as good, and there hasn't been any shortage problem. It is almost surreal to discover we're buying rice from the Americans - who don't grow rice - and actually wake up one day and find out this is true..

Hypothetical Conflict

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:48:56 GMT

The following presentation you are about to see doesnot condone unnecessary angst to the countries, China and Tibet ortowards me. This also means that what you are about to see does notshow insensitivity to both the countries' current conflict which is theoutcome from years of, well, conflict... The following presentationmerely gives us a view in a comicalsense of what will happen if both of these culturally rich andbeautiful countries wouldn't ceased their differences or work thingsout, instead offering us a dark and grimmer future...

Sorry for the picture quality, folks. I had to convert the nicer and crisp .bmp files to .jpg for easier upload since I happen to be a victim of an incompetent internet service provider that has trouble uploading files larger than a few kb's.

Normal Human Frailty

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:38:21 GMT

I've been having 'obedience' trouble these days. There have been things, or should I say, duties I am staying away from and I also came to realize I grunt at the most mundane tasks. Today I'm having a slight headache from thinking too much or too little and probably due to the sudden change in temperature patterns here in the Philippines. Anyway I decided I'd stay in my room for the rest of the day, clean my mind with all the negativity. But upon doing so, I untintentionally glanced at my small clone trooper figure which stood inside a bookshelf opposite my bed, and I find it quite strange and appropriate that I'd be looking at it (if it was not looking at me first :| ) with my mind questioning loyalty and obedience issues to some very important people in my life. Remembering them from the movies, I know how these clones are, their devotion, unswerving loyalty, and obedient cannon fodders - always the first to die in battle are impressive qualities - qualities I am having a hard time "getting" (well...except for the first to die, part anyway) without letting a few interjections slip off me.

Looking at it, I began to imagine what if God made me and bred me with a mind with limited autonomy? Perhaps I wouldn’t be too much mixed with emotions that I find very unnecessary, and of course thoughts that might lead me to the wrong direction even though it feels right. I sometimes hope I wasn’t too individualistic and aware of it and listened and obeyed more to my parents without question so I wouldn’t be much of a victim to wrong decisions as I had made in the past. Why is life so complicated despite the simplicity that is all around us?

But even that, I doubt everything around us is actually that simple...

I know this kind of pondering is somewhat out of a mad scientist planning to create men and turning them into machines shutting off certain aspects we can distinguish as human, like our emotions, and certain cravings or weaknesses, eliminating them from our genes forever, making us beyond normal physical human limits void of weaknesses. Although if we were without human weaknesses, what would relativity change for us? What would God replace to a man who does not possess His divinely defined specs and customized normal human frailty He gave each and every one of us?

Conspiracy vs. Conspiracy

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:47:19 GMT

One of my chief interests in life is figuring out reality least likely to be consider real. I will sit in front of the computer for a long time reading stuff we normally will never have the chance of knowing anywhere else. An example of this was Al Bielek’s CD recording, his supposed time and extradimensional travel accounts, his involvement with the Montauk Project and Philadelphia Experiment, alien-human collaborations and tremendous amount of missing person records in the United States who are never found and never seen - again. I understand that most of the proper nouns stated back there do not sound familiar, and quite honestly much of the accounts I have heard in the recordings are quite absurd. However, this is maybe or primarily due to the circumstances they are founded on are part of an unpopular culture – a developed story involving conspiracy theories as a basis of its existence, which in turn are laden with doubt and suppressed greatly by the reality we came to know, believe, love, and wake up everyday with.

I for one would not be able to sleep well at night if I knew first-hand that the government was creating “portals” that opened doors to other dimensions. I just saw Stephen King’s The Mist and if you’re familiar with real-life Project Arrowheads like the infamous Montauk Project which the novel had references from, most readers might pretty much end up scratching their heads, the least, if the whole issue doesn’t insult certain aspects of intelligence. These and everything else I find very interesting topics. Sadly, I am limited to talk about it because such things are unheard of this side of the planet and most people are already too busy trying to figure out our own government conspiracies, and our very own version of aliens who we call, politicians.

Today I was surprised to discover that a close friend of mine believes that we did not land on the Moon. My friend believes this mainly because Star World (Asia's version of Fox) (?) made a really elaborate and interesting TV show about the Moon Hoax some time ago. I on the other hand have heard of the Moon Hoax before and unlike many conspiracy theory fans out there I don’t believe this hoax/claim. We had a debate that did not last long mainly because I just find the whole matter uninteresting, with reasons like the “no stars” in the background, the ripples seen in the American flag erected by the astronauts and so on.

It is obvious especially those adept in photography that it is hard to catch lesser lighted objects in the presence of brighter objects, the same reason we do not see stars at the daytime. The pictures show the reflection made by lunar soil alone is enough to hide dimmer lighted stars especially for cameras in the 1960’s, although if the astronauts landed on the dark side of the moon where it is seemingly eternal night the question could have been a little more accurate. Another famous issue is the ripples in the flag which some people believe to be the presence of wind. It’s funny enough that the puppetmasters in NASA would be careless to create a multi-million dollar “movie” only to be ruined by 'breeze' and leave it unedited especially if the mistake was made on one of the most iconic flag in history which is the American flag.

The following explanation was taken from NASA regarding the ripple effect:

Pictures of Apollo astronauts erecting a US flag on the Moon show the flag bending and rippling. How can that be? After all, there's no breeze on the Moon....

Not every waving flag needs a breeze -- at least not in space. When astronauts were planting the flagpole they rotated it back and forth to better penetrate the lunar soil (anyone who's set a blunt tent-post will know how this works). So of course the flag waved! Unfurling a piece of rolled-up cloth with stored angular momentum will naturally result in waves and ripples -- no breeze required!

The best rebuttal to allegations of a "Moon Hoax," however, is common sense. Evidence that the Apollo program really happened is compelling: A dozen astronauts (laden with cameras) walked on the Moon between 1969 and 1972. Nine of them are still alive and can testify to their experience. They didn't return from the Moon empty-handed, either. Just as Columbus carried a few hundred natives back to Spain as evidence of his trip to the New World, Apollo astronauts brought 841 pounds of Moon rock home to Earth. ~ NASA

For any conspiracy theorist, it is extremely disappointing whenever there is a more valid explanation than what they are trying to prove from supposedly reading between the lines. Much like the issue of September 11 (9-11) who some purported to be the US government’s own handiwork. Another issue I just find hard to stomach and a conspiracy I just LOVE to HATE.

However there is one significant question that remains as a disappointment that we can all agree on and this is how come there hasn’t been much development in Space Travel? One terrifying story involves an Astronaut Edwin Eugene “Buzz” Aldrin during his voyage de dans la Lune (Trip to the moon). A respected astronaut, Col. Aldrin claims that there were others on the moon before Apollo 11 and by the presence of structures and numerous sightings it seemed to appear they were there for quite sometime. They thought it was the Soviets at first, but as described by the astronauts and the astronauts who landed there later on from different moon missions claim it was not human. Such allegations can only be acquired from the astronauts themselves and are usually hesitant to talk about it except for Buzz Aldrin who has nurtured the experience sharing it despite several “life-altering” attempts. Pro-Moon landing conspiracy theorists have also done a great help in improving the clouded history of extraterrestrials and in the process the lunar landing fact. Complex and simple we may see things, astronauts are as curious as the man of the street and are haunted by the same question, “Are we alone out there?”

Were US Astronauts Ordered Not To Report UFOs & Aliens?

"We have contact with alien cultures."
--Astronaut Dr. Brian O'leary

"We all know that UFOs are real. All we need to ask is where do they come from, and what do they want?"
--Apollo 14 Astronaut Capt. Edgar Mitchell

"Mission control, we have a UFO pacing our position, request instructions!"
-- Astronaut Cady Coleman NASA transmission shuttle mission STS-73

"In my official status, I cannot comment on ET contact. However, personally, I can assure you, we are not alone!”
--Charles J. Camarda (Ph.D.) NASA Astronaut

"All Apollo and Gemini flights were followed, both at a distance and sometimes also quite closely, by space vehicles of extraterrestrial origin - flying saucers, or UFOs, if you want to call them by that name. Every time it occurred, the astronauts informed Mission Control, who then ordered absolute silence."
--Maurice Chatelain, former chief of NASA Communications Systems.

I believe we are not alone. I’m just not that lame or arrogant to say we are alone, but I am not going to say who exactly is out there if they are in fact out there and not already with us and among us. Based on my experience I have witnessed some things that are unexplainable. Unexplainable to a degree that it is not necessarily void of explanation but are just beyond the present state of understanding and whether the explanation itself justifies the experience or merely just adds more questions furthering the confusion – a realization that there are more missing parts of the puzzle.

Dysfunctional House Music

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:45:21 GMT

        We have come to a time where technology is changing rapidly and in the process we are carried by such innovation that reaching towards the future is faster than we expect. This is something I am hesitant to follow so I strapped myself with a chain ball of the old world so it'd be harder for the winds of change to carry me. People ask "Why such a jerk? ". Truth is, I do not know. But just because something is "In" doesn't mean I have to follow it. I'm your personal timecop, priviledged enough to be armed against a decisive, low-intensity psychological conflict that is modernism and not reduced to be a creature only defined as a zombie. What can I say?

    This new version of Modern society is what I call a wannabe. I'm saying, everything tries to be something aligned to whatever they confirm and strictly to only what they understand. Commercialism is everywhere, filled with promises and guarantees it tries to imply, littering the streets and buildings with massive posters of tampons, shampoos, that seemingly and humorously sold especifically for giants.

    Nothing seems to last long enough too, as modern society feeds on money, they will eventually change everything that has already been made, calling it fancy names, versions, models and such. Even the word "Modern" is old. Now there is a chance it'll be replaced by "Nano", or "Synth", like animals, as science explains, "With every new species discovered, there are those that die out - lost forever." However, I do not live in a hive and I don't consider myself as a mere animal or a single celled organism. I believe change has much to depend on the things they would "change". A new "thing" cannot survive without relying on its antecessors so basically it is the other way around.

   Today I will try to explain one thing I do not like in modern society. As a music lover I am deeply affected by today's music. I think music today is generally unimaginative, repetitive and heavily lined-up with singers whos voices are clones, meaning artists and rockers who's voices are quite the similar with one another. There are many things in modern music I cannot stand, one of these is House music. If you don't know what it is, then I envy such innocence. House music is normally heard in places where the lights are switched off, or interestingly switched down to a minimum to be replaced with UV florescent bulbs and colored lights - I would only define amazing and surreal if I was a 3 three year old child. Speaking of a 3 year old child, House music is also like a child getting hold of his own keyboard instrument using every button of the instrument so that he can hear about just any sound available to it and later mixing them up making his own Platinum-worthy record.

    I also came to realize or observe that bad music has a company much like a raver always come with another weirdo who just had too much 'E'. Maybe this is to escape the harsh reality of life while indulging his or her senses in the harsh reality of musical death. This said bad company is called a remix. A remix is usually a famous song that basically sucks, meaning the song is usually about how rich the singer is or how many men or women he/she has had because he/she is such a awful artist who works out his/her body instead of juicing up his/her mind of any artistic references (if there's actually one inside). This type of music's probability of survival in the Billboard is equivalent to man suffering from short-term memory (like the Guy in the movie, Memento). A remix is an awful music redone with the help of more bad music (sometimes a really good song inside massacred by muderous beats) to probably make the worst possible tune to ever grace in humanity's air waves and ear drums. Some of my friends love it, or at least pretend to, mainly because the opposite sex tend to be attracted to glorified senseless noise.

    Anyway to any parent out there, I would like to warn you that if your son or daughter is acting a little weird like, staring into nothingness, tongue out, elbows up, knees bend, feet apart, either that, he might be suffering from drug addiction, he could also be in love, demon-possessed or simply listening 'House' music.