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SpaceX To Skeptics: We Can Beat China
2011-05-04 22:51:00 #leftcontainerBox{float:left;po-sition:fixed;top:60%;left:70px}-#leftcontainerBox .buttons{float:left;clear:both;-margin:4px 4px 4px 4px;padding-bottom:2px}#bottomc-ontainerBox{width:50%;padding-t-op:1px}#bottomcontainerBox .buttons{float:left;margin:4px- 4px 4px 4px}SpaceX has sent out a press release aimed at silencing the chatter that the young rocket company prices are “too good to be true” (since not even China can match SpaceX’s prices). However in the process of defending the reputation of his rocket company, CEO Elon Musk does reveal a few interesting tidbits about SpaceX that may ...
By: Colony Worlds
On Deception: Phillip Adams Observes A James Randi Demonstration
2010-10-31 00:00:00 In this weekend's 'The Australian' (30-31 October 2010), renowned broadcaster and journalist Phillip Adams relates an amusing episode during the visit to Australia from the famous U.S. magician and exposer of psychic scams, James Randi. In regard to anyone with a mind bent on deception - be it magician, politician, psychic, etc., - Phillip Adams ends his piece by commenting: "When they want you to look at A, look at B. He says that Randi took an unlit cigarette and put it on a desk, saying that:
Gross fraudulence: Gerald Moreno tries to ridicule Robert Priddy
2010-09-16 11:25:00 On Gerald Moreno’s countless hundreds of anti-Priddy websites, blogs and comments, few show such patently manipulated (i.e. falsified) screen captures than the one shown below. [Yet he took care to accuse me - also falsely - of fraudulent screen-caps, which were actually made from Google caches, which differ from the original site in details, and ...
Daily Kos Editor Says Global Warming Skeptics Should Commit Suicide
2010-07-30 19:30:00 -By Warner Todd Huston This is how the left treats those with whom they disagree, folks. Daily Kos contributing editor and Examiner.com writer Steven Andrew has suggested that anyone that disagrees with the globaloney of global warming should commit suicide in a "Soylent Green world." In his examiner column headlined, "Studies Show Dramatic Decrease in Plankton," Andrew made what he called a "symbolic suggestion" that might "be in bad taste."...
Swami Nityananda Sex Scandal News Round Up
2010-05-24 22:08:00 The following is a quite brief but useful selection of Indian press articles. They suffice to give a sense of the unfolding of the Nityananda sex scandal saga. It is a great pity that Sathya Sai Baba and his core servitors are not being held to public accountability. He is vastly more powerful and influential than Nityananda. It does India no credit, nationally or internationally, that she occasionally nets in a few minnows and not the tiger sharks. The enormous public reaction to the Nityananda case furnishes a picture that makes two issues extremely clear. The first is that blind faith in gurus down the milennia has been made a matter of wide public debate. The other is that new generations are beginning to throw off the shackles of the past. The question that remains is whether Indian shall ever become the great democracy that she could be. These factors are well brought out, if rather wordily, by the South Indian lawyer. See my note, and the video links, at:
Lawyer K.V.Dhananjay on Swami Nityananda Furore In India
2010-05-24 06:52:00 For those who appreciate a calm, rational discussion of issues relating to the Swami Nityananda sex case in India, the following interview of the South Indian lawyer K.V. Dhananjay is worth watching. India's vastly overloaded and deeply-flawed justice system is made most apparent. Difficulties in bringing any formal justice to Sathya Sai Baba and his core servitors can be inferred from this discussion It is these grave difficulties which Sathya Sai Baba's de facto apologists, ever ready in violation of their guru's teachings against harsh words and other forms of attack, completely - and with great shallowness - would try to deny.
Nityananda, Sathya Sai Baba et al? Do Hindus Really Approve Sexual Immorali
2010-05-21 02:05:00 The court appearances of Swami Nityananda of India on charges of improper sexual behaviour towards a number of young women have made him the butt of outrage throughout India. Innumerable news articles, blogs, chatrooms, attest to the overwhelming abhorence of a very broad Hindu public for the types of sexual practices being referred to in the Nityananda court proceedings. In recent years, a top-ranking Hindu leader sent me an email (which can be verfied for bona fide media and scholars who may wish to check that what networked former Sathya Sa Baba devotees and other critics claim is true). See: Sathya Sai Baba: ?Considerable Concern? In Wider Hindu Community. This outstanding leader, recognized by a wide cross-section of Hindu organizations in his country, wrote: ?There is considerable concern among the Hindu Community, especially among the educated. It is very hard to get any action from the temples as they do not wish to cause difficulties with the Sathya Sai Baba groups. Peo...
Basava Premanand Long Challenged Indian Governments To Come Clean On Sathya
2009-11-18 00:13:00 Among many attempts to awaken India to the great danger posed by chronic addiction to swamis, gurus and the like, the formost Indian rationalist B.Premanand tried to arouse government and public accountability. The odds he faced were utterly formidable. See my in memoriam tribute to Premanand, with whom I kept in touch over the years: Basava Premanand. Vale. A fighter for truth who lived what others preach One might have thought that the religious organizations, were they to have nothing to hide, would, in effect, have said something like this: Yes, we agree that horrible oppressions in the name of religion exist. We disagree with Premanand in regard to deism and disbelief. However, we are at one with him in wishing to stop exploitation, and we too will speak out very clearly, and do our best to ensure that you are not a voice crying in the wilderness.
Gerald Moreno?s Attacks On Individuals and Institutions Critical of Sathya
2009-08-28 14:57:00 How could any Sathya Sai Baba devotee - of those many who are decent and sincere - bear to read Gerald Joe Moreno's writings? The constant welter of the latter's constant, strident, vituperative and demeaning posts to the Internet can, even at a quick glance, be gauged by the titles of but a small portion of his links, which, for convenience, are posted here: Partial List of Gerald Moreno's Vast Postings Contra Sathya Sai Baba Critics. See also: About Gerald 'Joe' Moreno's Chameleon and Deceptive Websites
New Zealand Lawyer Exposes Official Cover Up of Killings In Sathya Sai Baba
2009-08-20 01:33:00 Long before worldwide allegations of Sathya Sai Baba?s serial sexual abuse of boys and young men began to surface in earnest ? circa AD 2000 ? notable individuals shocked by signs of cover up ? started to analyze situations, and leave the Sathya Sai Baba camp. For an example of early investigators, see the article by Warren C. Pyke LLN (Hons.) LLM (VUW), Barrister, New Zealand 3-3-1993: Sathya Sai Baba Murders Evidence (A New Zealand Barrister Analyses Police Evidence). Another earlier investigator of various serious allegations against Sathya Sai Baba was Terry Gallagher, an agricultural scientist and businessman who, in consequence of his findings, resigned as head of the Sathya Sai Organization in Australia. See: Terry Gallagher?s Testimony
Senior Indian Policeman (Rtd) Speaks Out About Sathya Sai Baba Murders Cove
2009-08-07 12:11:00 As the years have passed, the Government of India and the Government of Andhra Pradesh have not been able to silence all police personnel. One who has refused to shut up is a senior, retired policeman V. J. Ram, whose work as a detective won him a Presidential Medal. He has spoken out against the massive cover up of the police killings in Sathya Sai Baba's private quarters, when Sathya Sai Baba and his brother (the late) Janaki Ramaiah (who was on the Sathya Sai Central Trust) had charge of events soon after the slayings occurred.Those who wish to know more about V.J. Ram's work are welcome to contact me (my details are obtainable by clicking on the tab - Barry Pittard
Sathya Sai Baba?s Slurred Speech Due To Old Age. ?Eenadu? News Report
2009-08-02 12:26:00 That Sathya Sai Baba has made egregious historical and scientific blunders does not inspire confidence in his statements about pre-historical events. See my article: Huge Sai Baba Gaffes Various commentators have pointed to Sathya Sai Baba's 'turkey throat' and other signs of ageing in him, his episodes of falling over (one of which I have observed at quite close quarters along with many shocked observers at a Puttaparthi darshan), his uttering of inanities, his fits of crying, his walking round and round in circles, his blank stare and mask-like face, and so on.
to skeptics on man made climate change
2009-07-22 01:43:00 SUN AND EARTH HAVE BEEN IN A THERMAL EQUILIBRIUM FOR MILENIUMS. NO DOUBT THAT GLOBAL WARNING WILL STOP WHEN WE STOP BURNING FUELS TO EXAUST HOT CO2, WHICH CAUSES TEMPERATURE INCREASE. FROM: MY CARS AN A BILLION MORE, MY STOVE AN A BILLION MORE, MY BOLER AN A BILLION MORE, your airplain an
So it seems the Climate Skeptics aren?t really *Climate* Skeptics.
2009-07-20 01:25:00 Yo yo yo peoplez! Sen. James Inhofe has been claiming he has a list of climatologists that say Global Warming is a scam. It turns out, almost all of the people on the list are not climatologists. Whaaah?!?! A Senator that would lie to us? No way! Oh yes way, just ...
Brian Steel On John Hislop?s 27 Years as Sathya Sai Baba?s Spokesman
2009-07-18 02:07:00 In my recent note Brian Steel On Sathya Sai Baba?s Credibility Gap. John Hislop Contributions, I drew attention to Brian Steel's scholarly article which deals with a seminal figure, Jack Hislop, in the spread of the Sathya Sai Baba movement: Sathya Sai Baba?s credibility gap: Contributions by John Hislop. (Brian Steel January 2009). Steel refers to the controversial Walter Cowan ?resurrection? in 1971, mentioning the refuting evidence presented by Professor Erlendur araldsson , B. Premanand, (the late) Professor Dale Beyerstein. For decades, these critical points met with no satisfactory explanations from the Sathya Sai Baba camp, and yet a great number of devotees rejoice in this so-called miracle of resurrection, as they do in so many 'miracles' of their guru, which, however, keep on being disproved by film footage of excellent provenance
Gay Marriage: its Advocates, Practitioners & Skeptics
2009-04-06 10:07:00 At the heart of the two most serious books on either side of the gay marriage debate is a question we should all be asking as we wrestle with whether or not states should extend the benefits of marriage to same-sex couples. Both Jonathan Rauch in Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good for Gays, Good ...
By: GayPatriot
Sleight Of Hand. The Slightness of Sathya Sai Baba
2009-03-09 04:52:00 The magic tricks Sathya Sai Baba employs are a pale shadow of these. But they are comparable to what a clever enough amateur friend or aquaintance of ours (or perhaps we ourselves) can learn and perform. This blog has links to YouTube and other sources which show magic tricks performed by, and in some instances explained, by some of the greatest magicians of all times. These include: Harry Houdini,David Blaine,Lance Burton,
Sathya Sai Baba in hindsight
2009-03-01 14:56:00 I first wrote the following around 2001 in a web page: “Some of what I experienced of Sai Baba’s extraordinary and positive powers through many years is undeniable, even after the most rigorous sceptical investigations, and I do not regard him as any ordinary person. After much soul-searching and disturbing discoveries, however, I have simply ...
Sathya Sai Baba?s literal stories from scripture
2009-01-22 10:18:00 COUNTLESS INDIAN ‘GOD-MEN’ AND GURUS HAVE PRONOUNCED THAT THEY ARE INCARNATIONS OF DEITIES LIKE KRISHNA, RAMA AND MANY OTHERS… BUT SATHYA SAI BABA HAS EXCEEDED THEM ALL IN INCREDIBLE CLAIMS! Sathya Sai Baba always speaks as if most of the events described in the Ramayana, the Mahabharata incl. Bhagavad Gita, and the Srimad Bhagavatha actually ...
Robert Priddy?s Ten Top Posts on Sathya Sai Baba, Jan 2009
2009-01-09 13:55:00 It is quite instructive to survey Robert Priddy's current ten Top Posts posts out of his great many articles on his blogsite at: http://robertpriddy.wordpress.c-om Below are the titles, accompanied by a quote from these.
Shirdi Sai Baba and Sathya Sai Baba
2009-01-04 19:02:00 Drawn by deep alienation from Western materialism, and the attraction of a timeless Indian spirituality, especially in regard to respect for other beings irrespective of race, caste or creed, I lived for a number of years around Sathya Sai Baba. I had also a great love for Shirdi Sai Baba
Many Power Brokers Follow Failed Prophet Sathya Sai Baba
2008-12-28 23:03:00 Even in most recent pronouncements, Sathya Sai Baba can be seen making prophecies that are bound to be falsified before long, just as, well before today (see Related Readings, below) his many other absurdities have been shown to be seriously unfulfilled. Much of this would not matter to non Sai Baba followers the world over. However, they had best know that cult members in many countries are in positions of power and influence
Revealing Materials On Sai Baba Of India
2008-12-21 11:40:00 In a surprise visit to Puttaparthi and other official Sathya Sai Baba locales in late 2008, Brian Steel acquired a series of books and audio materials. There are several notable scholarly and other strengths observable in Brian Steel’s vast opus on the Sathya Sai phenomenon. Yet again, these qualities come into play in his most ...
How Cult Exposure Spreads Far And Wide (Sai Baba Case)
2008-12-19 00:27:00 In its many months of intensive investigation, the BBC in the making of 'The Secret Swami' (like other media that has seriously investigated) uncovered evidence that was beyond the range of internationally networked former devotees.
?No fear of bombs? in India, Said Sai Baba a Week Before Mumbai Terrorist A
2008-12-01 00:13:00 While India's and the world's self-promised 'Saviour' potters and dithers, just as the Emperor Nero fiddled while Rome burnt. A little more than a week before the horrendous terrorist strike on Mumbai, Sathya Sai Baba made yet another of his statements which have been tragically faulted by events seen by an aghast world only a few days later (and, in fact, all along, by a long series of terrorist attacks in India - extraordinarily overlooked by Sathya Sai Baba in his reported statement
Sathya Sai Baba, 83. Health Critical. Some Key Links
2008-11-26 01:54:00 A select resource for critics, scholars, media investigators, and also those questioning their way out of affiliation with Sathya Sai Baba, India's most famous - and infamous - religious teacher and his international Sathya Sai Organization
Sathya Sai Baba Video. Too Weak To Cut Birthday Cake
2008-11-24 23:03:00 See videos which reveal Sathya Sai Baba, in November 2007, as unable to cut his birthday cakes any longer. See revealing photos. For some time, he has had a mask-like face, suggestive of a degenerative disease. These images completely falsify his own statements in recent years that he would not age
India?s ?Emperor? Sai Baba. By His Lavish Spending Ye Shall Know Him
2008-11-22 22:45:00 Sathya Sai Baba has said that the world should come to him with empty hands. On the other hand, he has succeeded in getting many to come to him with their hands full of gold. The Golden Age of The World Sai Kingdom Is At Hand That gold is now flashing more than Disneyland-like at Puttaparthi, as ...
Sai Baba 83. Has Said He Will Rule World
2008-11-22 01:44:00 Incredible (literally) golden opulence abounds - flashily and gaudily - at Sathya Sai Baba's 83rd birthday celebrations in Puttaparthy, Andhra Pradesh, South India. This guru - whom many believe to be the most powerful and wealthy in India's long history of gurus - proclaims that he will first rule India and then the rest of the world - all in his own lifetime.
Sai Baba?s Imperial 83rd Birthday Celebrations Photo, Puttaparthi, India
2008-11-20 22:57:00 Gold and Glitter of Imperial Pomp Tagged: Birthday celebrations at Puttaparthi
Isaac Tigrett. Wealthy Promoter of Superstition
2008-10-15 00:18:00 Former Norwegian head of the worldwide Sathya Sai Organization Robert Priddy exposes a superstitious belief of Isaac Tigrett, one of Sathya Sai Baba’s key financial backers. Tigrett is an immensely wealthy U.S. citizen, who walks with some of the most powerful leaders in the world. Businesses he has built include famous institutions such as The Hard Rock Cafe ...
Sathya Sai Baba Continues To Ail
2008-09-12 04:20:00 Mrs Geetha Reddy, Tourism Minister of Sathya Sai Baba’s State, Andhra Pradesh, had to provide a helping hand to the supposed Divine Hand of one who said that we would not see him age after his 60’s birthday. Devotees honest enough to admit it would have to attest that he has made many mistaken prophecies ...
?World Hindu? by 2030. VHP?s Singhal Reports Sathya Sai Baba Told Him
2008-09-09 01:59:00 One of India’s most powerful Hindu nationalist leaders, Ashok Singhal, who has an international profile in the Hindu world, has just told an assembly of political and religious luminaries in Delhi of a prophecy he says Sathya Sai Baba shared with him. The Organiser, September 14, 2008, reports: “… Shri Singhal also threw light on how ...
Derren Brown?s Magic Trumps Sathya Sai Baba?s
2008-09-08 04:18:00 Would Sathya Sai Baba be happy to let the students in his education system see Derren Brown, the great British magician? Or devotees to start to consider that he (SSB) is not all that he has proclaimed himself to be - which is the ALL, incarnated in the fullest expression of the Divine in the ...
Exposing Worldwide Sathya Sai Baba Cult (Sept 08,i)
2008-09-04 01:17:00 The following, mostly short, articles have appeared at: http://robertpriddy.wordpress.c-om and http://barrypittard.wordpress.c-om and, in one case, at Robert Priddy’s main website - Sathya Sai Baba In Word And Action in the last few days. The following information is compiled at: http://www.saibaba-x.org.uk/HOM-E/Sai_Baba_news.htm where there is an extensive list of blogs and articles, with the latest updates clearly noted. Barry Pittard. 4 September, ...
Human Rights World Report 2008. India In Sore Shape
2008-09-02 04:25:00 The Human Rights Watch World Report 2008 is in marked conflict with Sathya Sai Baba’s promises made over many decades. He has said that he would first save India and then the rest of the world - this within his own lifetime. His millions of followers hear his blatantly untrue statements but remain silent and blindly ...
Michael Goldstein?s Chilling 9/11 Remarks
2008-09-01 01:25:00 Chairman of the worldwide Sathya Sai Organization, Dr Michael Goldstein of Covina, southern California - once in an email widely circulated to the Sai cult devotees - made extraordinary statements about 9/11. Become A Sai Devotee And Get Terrorist-Proof Here is the statement from Dr Goldstein, a medical doctor of Covina, California, USA. A second reading may be ...
?World Avatar? Sathya Sai Baba?s Troubled Trail
2008-08-31 00:42:00 In any clear reading of the officially published works of Sathya Sai Baba, there are zig-zagging trails of anomaly. The Troubled Trail One sees glaring contradictions, unfulfilled prophecies and broken promises. The multi-colored and pretty ‘balloons’ that he has for so many decades floated - supposedly for the delight of all humanity - keep on popping, ...
Sathya Sai Baba vs. Richard Dawkins
2008-08-25 12:48:00 Sathya Sai Baba has constantly denigrated reason, science, logic and scholarship in favour of faith, especially faith in himself. However, he has proved that he cannot be relied on at all in any way. With his deeply flawed logic and demonstrated ignorance of scientific fact and logical thought, he cannot face up to any rational ...
?God?s? Ex-Shah, Indulal Shah
2008-07-30 02:50:00 Indulal Shah, of Mumbai, India, was the world head of the Sathya Sai Organization, and, previously, for decades, the head of the Indian wing of that organization. In June 1993, at the time of the Puttaparthi police killings in Sathya Sai Baba?s bedroom, Indulal Shah rose to his height in adroit and politically powerful suppressive actions ...
The Non Miraculous Benefit of Who and What is Different
2008-07-20 00:57:00 The interested reader can readily find a whole literature concerning the scientific investigation of miracles and other alleged supraphenomena. (I shall soon blog on the issue of the alleged Shirdi Sai Baba miracle, said to have occurred in Bangalore on July 18, 2008, courting such headlines in the Indian national press such as the Times ...
Self-documented Folly of India?s Would-be God
2008-07-10 09:38:00 It is sobering to consider that Sathya Sai Baba’s influence extends into powerful corners, and his marked deficiencies reveal the worthwhileness of exposing his human rather than any divine qualities. One of the benefits of Brian Steel’s extensive examination of official Sathya Sai publications is that we can see with considerable impact the extraordinary ignorance, inconsistency ...
Believing in Sai (photo) and spiritual growth
2008-06-20 15:32:00 Under the title “How is believing in miracles helpful in one’s spiritual growth? (http://saibandhu.tblog.com/arc-hive/2005/05/) by Anjali Gadiraju one reads the following:- “Once Bhagavan said to an old man, “Today is the death anniversary of your wife.” Bhagavan even told him more details. He may have met so many people in between. Yet He remebers everything and ...
Dangers to the lives of critics of Sathya Sai Baba
2008-05-18 12:24:00 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/prog-rammes/this_world/3813469.stm That it is too dangerous for opponents of Sathya Sai Baba to enter India, considering his control of much of the government, judiciary, local police etc. is underlined by the number of murders, fatal accidents and disappearances registered through the years. It is hardly inviting to any sensible citizen to go to this place when ...
Hossa Silencing Skeptics, So Far
2008-05-15 02:26:00 The biggest knock on Marian Hossa was his play in the post season. Know that Hossa has played 12 games in the post season this year, where are the critics?
By: Rumor Me This
Top people protected from prosecution in India
2008-05-05 23:49:00 THE MURDER COVER-UP CONTINUES DESPITE INTERNATIONAL FOCUS http://news.sky.com/skynews/art-icle/0,,30000-1314979,00.html This tragic case has at least come to international notice due to the courage of Mrs. MacKeown, whose daughter’s kidneys and other inner organs were removed from the corpse without her consent, which she is still trying to recover but without success so far! Where is the British Consulate ...
Blockbuster And Circuit City: Most Of You Are Skeptics
2008-04-15 17:26:00 Posted By:Margaret BrennanMost Retail Detail readers are skeptical about Blockbuster's attempted takeover of Circuit City. Carl Icahn is financing this deal but Circuit City management seems to be resisting it. What's interesting is that Circuit City is now in play. Â Â Â Read More Topics:Mergers & Acquisitions | Consumers | Retail SalesSectors:Personal and Household Goods | RetailCompanies:Circuit City Stores Inc | Blockbuster IncPermalink
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Cult Exposure. By Their Documents Ye Shall Know Them
2008-04-01 05:13:00 Those organizations and individuals approached by the International Sathya Sai Organization may do well to look at the page just constructed by Robert Priddy. Now a retired academic from the University of Norway, he was for over fifteen years its head in Norway, until his prolonged and rigorous investigations disclosed its profound duplicity (often hidden ...
Ye Olde Goracle Bloviates On Skeptics
2008-03-29 12:44:00 Sad, really Self-avowed “P.R. agent for the planet” Al Gore says those who still doubt that global warming is caused by man - among them, Vice President Dick Cheney - are acting like the fringe groups who think the 1969 moon landing never really happened, or who once believed the world is flat. Confronted by Stahl with ...
By: Pirate's Cove
Al Gore On 60 Minutes This Sunday, Hits Back At Climate Change Skeptics
2008-03-28 19:05:00 It’s been a week of renewed interest in Al Gore, so what better way to cap it off than with an interview on 60 Minutes this Sunday? The former Vice President sites down and chats with Lesley Stahl about climate change skeptics, Global Warming, and even shows his new green-renovated home. Here’s a small preview, “Confronted ...
By: Ecorazzi
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