NASA’s upper management was barred from stopping climate activist, James Hansen, from promoting a political agenda.

The full report by Dr. Tony Phillips  is available from the National Academies Press. The news story reveals NASA’s upper management was barred from stopping climate activist, James Hansen, head of NASA’s research on climate, from promoting a political agenda. The NASA climate retreat signals that a paradigm shift is now in full swing and the discredited claims of man-made global warming alarmists are being tossed aside at the highest levels of government.

Endless war for profit

If you were a US leader, or an official of the National Security State, or a beneficiary of the private military and surveillance industries, why would you possibly want the war on terror to end? That would be the worst thing that could happen. It's that war that generates limitless power, impenetrable secrecy, an unquestioning citizenry, and massive profit.

Just this week, a federal judge ruled that the Obama administration need not respond to the New York Times and the ACLU's mere request to disclose the government's legal rationale for why the President believes he can target US citizens for assassination without due process. Even while recognizing how perverse her own ruling was - "The Alice-in-Wonderland nature of this pronouncement is not lost on me" and it imposes "a veritable Catch-22" - the federal judge nonetheless explained that federal courts have constructed such a protective shield around the US government in the name of terrorism that it amounts to an unfettered license to violate even the most basic rights: "I can find no way around the thicket of laws and precedents that effectively allow the executive branch of our government to proclaim as perfectly lawful certain actions that seem on their face incompatible with our Constitution and laws while keeping the reasons for their conclusion a secret" (emphasis added).

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Oral sex prevents preeclampsia

Women who regularly performed oral sex were dramatically less likely to develop preeclampsia than were those who shied away from this sex act.

What is Cosmism?

The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but we cannot live forever in a cradle.

(Tsiolkovsky, 1911)

Crater Tsiolkovsky, the largest crater on the back of the Moon.

Cosmism is an existential philosophical orientation that sees the survival of mankind and of the individual as part of humanity's "common task". The migration of humans into space is seen as inevitable, since it is essential for humanity's long-term survival. The increase in human life-span is seen as another essential task. Certainly, given the known propulsion technologies, the vast time-spans needed to reach other stars necessitate extended life-spans or reversible suspended animation. For example, NASA (the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration) funded a basic research program on hibernation/suspension that continued into the 1980's, when budget cuts forced its termination.

"Cosmism is based upon a holistic and anthropocentric view of the Universe which presupposes a teleologically determined—and thus meaningful—evolution; its adherents strive to redefine the role of humankind in a Universe that lacks a divine plan for salvation, thus acknowledging the threat of self-destruction. As rational beings who are evolving out of the living matter of the Earth, human beings appear destined to become a decisive factor in cosmic evolution—a collective cosmic self-consciousness, active agent, and potential perfector. Cosmic evolution is thus dependent on human action to reach its goal, which is perfection, or wholeness. By failing to act correctly, humankind dooms the world to catastrophe. According to Cosmism, the world is in a phase of transition from the 'biosphere' (the sphere of living matter) to the 'noosphere' (the sphere of reason). During this phase the active unification and organization of the whole of humankind (or 'living matter endowed with reason') into a single organism is said to result in a higher 'planetarian consciousness' capable of guiding further development reasonably and ethically (in line with 'cosmic ethics'), changing and perfecting the Universe, overcoming disease and death, and finally bringing forth an immortal human race." (Hagemeister, 1997)

Originally, Cosmism advocated “storming the heavens” and aimed at overcoming Russian slavery and centuries old backwardness. Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov (1828—1903), a scholar, teacher, itinerant wise man, and Christian mystic is considered to be the founder of Cosmism. He predicted cloning and artificial organs, and is thought to have set the agenda for Soviet science (Rosenthal, 1997). Fyodorov advocated the scientific method for radical life extension, human immortalization, and even resurrection of the dead. Another well known Cosmist is Konstantin Eduardovitch Tsiolkovsky (1857—1935), who pioneered space exploration. In 1903, he published the first serious scientific work on space travel, "The Exploration of Cosmic Space by Means of Reactive Devices [Rockets]". Tsiolkovsky believed that colonizing space would lead to the perfection of the human race, with immortality and a carefree existence. Other Ukrainian-Russian Cosmists included Vladimir Vernadsky (1863—1945) the founder of biogeochemistry, who coined the term "biosphere" and developed the notion of the "noosphere", and Alexander Chizhevsky (1897—1964), who pioneered heliobiology (the Sun's impact on Earthly life). The Main-belt asteroid 3113 Chizhevskij was named after him in 1978. So, Cosmism started out as a type of mysticism, but after the formation of the Soviet Union, science became the new "magic": "Science and technology in a sense became a new type of wizardry, with the engineer and craftsman its new prophets and priests" (Vanchu,1997). 

The "Great Silence" problem or Fermi Paradox (lack of any sign of alien civilizations) was first noted by Tsiolkovsky. His 1933 solution was that advanced intelligences have not intervened in the hope that humans might develop a uniquely "new and wonderful stream of life." He also suggested that the lack of contact is due to advanced intelligences not considering mankind ready for a visit. "Where is everybody?" was the question that suddenly occurred to the physicist Enrico Fermi in 1950. He had calculated that an extra-terrestrial civilization must have spread throughout the Galaxy and found it very odd that there was no evidence of their arrival. It is now estimated that there are thousands of intelligent civilizations in the Galaxy. They have had billions of years to get here, so even though great distances must be covered, the lack of evidence is inexplicable. The Fermi Paradox deepens as evidence for life on other planets continues to increase. Tsiolkovsky's "zoo hypothesis" continues to be one leading explanation for the Great Silence.

Why the Universe may be teeming with aliens

Transhumanist philosophy incorporates elements from Cosmism, as does the cryonics movement, which advocates low-temperature suspended animation (cryogenic stabilization as a medical procedure). Recent research in philosophy has advocated Cosmism as a rigorous foundation for a system of wholistic health: "The Cosmist personal norm of health has real universal sense, insofar as it expresses the single functional meaning of subjective and objective wellbeing in relation to each man: personally inherent gratifying feelings and perceptions, individual physiological constitution (biotype), and psycho-sociological wellbeing with respect to his/her realisation and carrying out the basic (ultimate, cosmist) functionality, i.e. his/her natural healthy vital activity" (Khroutski, 2003).

If there is no immortality, reason will sooner or later invent it.

- Gromov in Anton Chekhov's "A boring story"

References:

Hagemeister, M. (1997). Russian Cosmism in the 1920s and today. In Rosenthal, B. G. (Ed.). The occult in Russian and Soviet culture. (pp. 185-186). Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Khroutski, K. S. (2003). In search of the universal personalist approach in biomedicine: a Cosmist hypothesis. Paideusis - Journal for Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Studies: Volume 3.

Rosenthal, B. G. (1997). Introduction. In Rosenthal, B. G. (Ed.). The occult in Russian and Soviet culture. (p. 11). Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Tsiolkovsky, K. E. (1903). The Exploration of Cosmic Space by Means of Reactive Devices (Исследование мировых пространств реактивными приборами). The Science Review (Nauchnoe Obozrenie), n. 5. 

Tsiolkovsky, K. E. (1911). [Letter]. Kaluga, Russia.

Tsiolkovsky, K. E. (1933). The planets are occupied by living beings (in Russian). Manuscript in archives of Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics, Kaluga, Russia.

Vanchu, A. J. (1997). Technology as esoteric cosmology in early Soviet literature. In Rosenthal, B. G. (Ed.). The occult in Russian and Soviet culture. (p. 222). Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Global Warming = War on the Poor

From a leading Global Warming activist:

The government is about to shift £8.6bn from the poor to the middle classes. It expects a loss on this scheme of £8.2bn, or 95%. Yet the media is silent. The opposition urges only that the scam should be expanded.

Censored documents now publicly available

Last year, I uploaded a series of documents, concerning the censorship being practiced by the Cryonics Institute (CI), to the Files Page of the CI Yahoo Group. These Documents, available only to CI members, were deleted. 

Just prior to the 2011 CI Board of Director's Election, a libelous statement, "Opposition to the candidacy of David Stodolsky for Director of CI," was distributed to all voting members of CI. I immediately issued a document listing the errors in that Statement. However, the Statement was reprinted without correction in the magazine Long Life (Jan.-Feb. 2012, Vol. 44, No. 1-2, pp. 12-14). Comments on the libelous statement and myself appeared in next issue of Long Life (March - April 2012, Vol. 44, No. 3-4, p. 23). On page 11 of Long Life, Vol. 44, No. 5-6 (May-June 2012) a paragraph mentioning me appears on the lower right hand side of the page. It says, in case Members feel I should have received more votes in the Election, "we're printing a series of letters that was sent to CI voting members." This all suggests a continuing pattern of defamation, part of what I have termed a "coverup."

Due to the continuing censorship and libel, I am now making public all related Documents. This appears to be the only option left, if I am to protect my reputation and if CI Members are going to understand what is happening at CI. 

A summary of events preceding the 2011 Election is presented in Breakdown of Democracy v2. Details appear in Censorship and Democracy?, Unfair "Election Coverage" by Long Life Magazine, The Customer as Enemy, and Our Path to Destruction. Libelous statement distributed by the Cryonics Institute and Libelous statement distributed .... - Correction were prepared around the time of that Election. A zip archive containing all Resolutions and a mailing list Guidelines document are also available. Documents are in the PDF format.


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