Friday Round-Up 3

by **Hobb** Fri 24 Jun 2016 - 0:43

Quote of the Week

The pain of war cannot exceed the woe of aftermath
LED ZEPPELIN - The Battle Of Evermore (1971)

I never thought I'd ever be listening to Led Zepplin, but researching the roots of D&D's Monster Manual keeps dragging me back to the 70s..."Let's get down to it, boppers..."

Lockheed Threatens Economic Harm to Canada for Refusing to Buy F-35
http://sputniknews.com/military/20160616/1041478841/lockheed-extorts-canada-purchase-f35.html

If Canada walks away from F-35, expect to relocate work in Canada to other purchasing nations," Steve Over, Lockheed’s director of F-35 internal business told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
US Bullying Canada to Pursue Anti-Russian Foreign Policy
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/06/10/us-bullying-canada-to-pursue-anti-russian-foreign-policy/

The transnational lobbying effort to internationalize the Magnitsky Act – a US law passed in 2012 that places sanctions and restrictions on key figures in the Russian government. Former US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul expressed his extreme displeasure (dare I say revulsion) at the idea that the Canadian Government, and specifically its Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion, could possibly make the independent decision to not follow the diktats of Washington in adopting a Canadian version of the Magnitsky Act.

In highly undiplomatic language, McFaul bluntly declared, “Do you stand for human rights or not? If this is an important value then this is something that should be done.”
As for the British EU vote - here is a summary of the response by the elites when Europeans votes on this (or similar) subjects.

I haven't any strong feelings on this issue because I have not researched it - but a 'no' vote would really stir the point in Europe. We might be heading back to a pre-WWII political environment as the Great Liberal post-war consensus crumbles. Of course, it is crumbling because the heirs, the neo-Liberals, have so thoroughly sold-out to corporate interests that the countries they rule hate them...
The Cutting Room Floor is a website where people dig around in the codes of old videogrames looking for interesting stuff. Occasionally they come across interesting rants, or ASCII art of the Canadian flag and Shrooms or weird earlier versions of games. It's like 'code archeology'.
https://tcrf.net/The_Cutting_Room_Floor
https://tcrf.net/The_New_Tetris
https://tcrf.net/Proto:The_Legend_of_Zelda
That god awful book, The Secret, is still being mentioned by people, so I'm posting this a quote from the author Rhonda Byrne. She told Associated Press that people died in the Holocaust and 9/11 “because their dominant thoughts were on the same frequency of such events.” Yep - 'bad things only happen to people think bad thought'. If only Anne Frank had practiced positive thinking...
Hyperloop One is taking its crazy transport system underwater
http://www.sciencealert.com/hyperloop-one-is-taking-its-crazy-transport-system-underwater

The Hyperloop, a concept proposed by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, is billed as the fifth mode of transport, one that can travel up to 1,220 kilometres per hour (758 miles per hour) without getting people in it dizzy.

The transport system houses people in a pressurised capsule riding on a cushion of air, and may use a number of propulsion systems such as magnetic levitation, or air pressure like that in an air hockey table.

In response to the Hyperloop I have to post this link to the Great Eastern radio program
http://gporter.net/great/episodes/ge_s3_04.mp3

Great Eastern Script: