A trip on the road at supersonic speed spanning across five continents and four seasons.

Official video for “Chemin Vert” of electronic musician A Ghost Train. The video was made using panoramic frames from Google Street View from different parts of the world mapped as stereographic projections.

If you have a fast computer with a powerful graphic card, make sure to try also the immersive, interactive version on: jamez.it/project/chemin-vert/

Video: Giacomo Miceli, jamez.it/
Music: A Ghost Train, aghosttrain.com/
Panos: Google, google.com/

Their conspiracy theories and fake outrages and persecution fantasies are so irrational and bizarre, we’ve wondered many times whether today’s right wingers might actually be from some other universe.

Well, today we have persuasive evidence that this conjecture, crazy as it might seem, is actually the reality. Because Mitt Romney slipped up and let the alien cat-like creature out of the bag: he’s not really campaigning for President of America.

Oh no, my friends.

In truth, Mitt Romney is trying to become leader of the parallel universe version of the United States, known to its weird wingnut inhabitants as “Amercia.”

Mitt Romney (L) performs Amercian ceremonial dance with Yog-Sothoth (R)

This explains many things; for example, Romney’s robotic mannerisms, his seeming inability to empathize with the concerns of human beings, and his strange stilted grammar. And the laws of nature must be different in Amercia, which would explain why so many wingnuts are Birthers.

The only question left to answer: is the Romney-thing trying to bring about an alternate universe End Times, merging America with Amercia and canceling out both universes entirely in a blinding flash of derp?

Stay tuned for further developments.

Another day, another outright lie from one of the most dishonest right wing “pundits,” Dana Loesch, who told CNN’s Carol Costello this morning that right wing Birthers don’t exist.

Here is what — nobody — nobody believes that the President wasn’t born in Hawaii except for people like Phil Berg and the Clintons. Nobody believes that. So I think this whole issue is moot at this point.

Really? “Nobody believes that?”

It’s ridiculously easy to show how dishonest Loesch’s claim is; all we have to do is go to the website where she’s an editor, Breitbart.com, and read the comments for their ludicrous Birther article on that publisher’s bio that Obama had nothing to do with: The Vetting - Exclusive - Obama’s Literary Agent in 1991 Booklet: ‘Born in Kenya and Raised in Indonesia and Hawaii’.

There are more than 5000 comments now in this thread. But Dana Loesch wants the CNN audience to believe that the only Birthers in America are Democrats.

Obama needs to come clean about - “misrepresenting” himself - (like Elizabeth Warren) - and why he acquired a State Grant - under “Barry Soetoro” - as a “FOREIGN” student - as indicated by the California Assembly records - to attend Occidential College - registered as a “foreign” student - from Indonesia - of Muslim faith.

Either he was GAMING the System - “pretending” to be a “foreign” student - to acquire FREE MONEY - through FRAUD - to attend our American univesities,
or he knows that he was “ineligible” to serve as POTUS and Commander-in-Chief - and placed all his PERSONAL information under seal - birth records, college transcripts, passport information, etc. - as his First EXECUTIVE ORDER - to further conceal these matters - while Obama operatives failed to destroy/hide the California Assembly records - listed as a foreign student - as his passort information was destroyed.

During the 2008 presidential campaign, there was a CYBER-CRIME at the US State Department - in which the passport information of Obama/Soetoro was “tweaked” - along with other presidential candidates, such as Hillary Clinton’s - as the means to distract from the actual target = to alter the passport information of Barack HUSSEIN Obama/Barry Soetoro.

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I wonder if Romney will bring up the lies of Obama’s birth. What would happen if the COURT tried the “case” and prevented him , Obama,from getting in office. This will put the Constitution on trial as well. The culprits are far too many to fit int one big court room……..mega media, Soros, etc. etc.

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Everything isn’t spelled out in the constitution. But, that a president must be a natural born citizen IS spelled out in the constitution. There are legitimate questions about Obama being a natural born citizen and if he would just be forthcoming, he could put it all to rest.

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It’s not about “birther” conspiracy theories. It’s not about avoiding the “birther” label at all costs. It’s about the staunch secrecy of Barack Obama. It’s fundamentally about one simple question: what the hell is Obama hiding?

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Too much to cover it all here…….but one would think anyone who was not a
hopeless Obot would be demanding a real investigation by Congress of
Obama/Soetoro or whoever he is….but Congress knows what the results of the
investigation would be….and prison time is not something they want to
chance…….therefore, no investigation, just obfuscation, lies and denial.

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I think the issue at this point is the cover up. Forgery is a felony. Sheriff Joe’s investigation is a “felony investigation.” Many people are wondering if there something ELSE about the birth certificate. Why not share it? Why produce a forgery? That in itself is enough to send him packing in my opinion.

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Hawaii verified two things that are fatal to Obama’s qualifications for the presidency: first, he has a foreign father who was never an American; second, Obama is a dual citizen.Hoping to put an end to the story,those pesky ballot challenges and Sheriffs, Hawaii and the AZ SoS perpetuate the myth and meme of ‘born in the USA”, or “American citizen”–as the only qualifying factor for President– to deceive the voting public. The Hawaii release did not authenticate Obama’s 2011 electronic version of the Birth Certificate, leaving Sheriff Arpaio’s investigation in tact and relevant. Hawaii also did not verify anything about Obama’s adoption.

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Obama Lawyer Admits In Court Birth Certificate On White House Website Is A Forgery fedupusa.org/2012/0……

Help Bring War Criminal Obama to Justice infowars.com/help-b…

“We the People Demand a Full Scale Investigation into the Eligibility Requirements of President Obama to be President and to run again for a second term” Sign Here: petition2congress.c……

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It’s not just the B.C. of the Impostor, it is the fact that his “Daddy” was never a US citizen which makes B.O. unconstitutionally qualified to even run for POTUS

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His birthplace has not been proven! Your word is NOT proof. You are obviously a moron. A forged digital copy of a birth certificate is NOT proof. We will move on when we are good and ready. We will move on when we get to the bottom of this fraud that has been perpetrated on the America people and find the TRUTH. Go Cold Case Posse!

And when the truth is exposed, you liberals and your manipulative lying media will appear as rats to the American people. Disgusting rats, scurrying about spreading the plague. Then you will effectively be exterminated.

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Check all the way to the bottom.. The footprint is there…simple enough to prove — or disprove.. My money is on - that he is NOT an American Citizen in any way…
We need him gone…and …even more right is…in jail !!

I could keep copying and pasting all day — there are literally thousands of comments from right wing Birthers, who seem to have completely missed the Breitbart.com disclaimer that their article is not promoting Birtherism.

When Dana Loesch says “nobody believes that,” she is simply lying. On CNN, in front of the whole country.

(h/t: STLActivist.)

Loesch replies in her usual way:

Surprise! Creepy middle-aged Ponytail Brigade still being creepy birthers. Yawn.

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) May 30, 2012

That’s right — for pointing out that a huge number of the readers of her website are Birthers, she’s calling us … Birthers.

Here’s a truly stunning example of Fox News’s total lack of journalistic ethics — a vicious four-minute attack advertisement pretending to be news, on Fox & Friends.

The perfect follow-up: Jon Stewart’s opening segment from last night, with an epic rant about Roger Ailes.

The far right religious fanatics of “Live Action” are pushing yet another “hidden camera” hit job on Planned Parenthood today, a hit job so obvious and inept that Planned Parenthood caught on to Live Action’s sneaky activities more than a month ago.

This time, the heavily edited video is supposed to be proof that Planned Parenthood encourages women to abort female fetuses: Terribly Dumb Sting Operation Claims It Captures Planned Parenthood Endorsing Sex-Selective Abortion.

Erin Gloria Ryan of Jezebel.com points out that Live Action leader Lila Rose (who has called for abortions to be “done in the public square” and thinks Planned Parenthood is in league with Satan the Evil One) is simply lying again.

Lila Rose, Live Action’s leader who is terrified of sluts, told The Daily Caller that this is just a tiny thread in a giant fetus sweater that she’s about to unravel.

First of all, the statistics and studies indicate that we are adding to the growing problem across the world of sex-selective targeting of unborn girls for abortion. We are going to be demonstrating - starting with this video from Texas - that the abortion industry in the United States is aiding and abetting this horrific problem.

Sounds pretty legit, right? Except it appears that Rose performed a complicated and risky fact-selective abortion in making that statement — it’s pure, steaming bullshit.

Statistics do not indicate that the US has a problem with sex-selective abortions, nor do they indicate an increasing gender discrepancy in the American birth rate. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the sex ratio — the number of baby boys born per 1,000 baby girls — has actually been decreasing slightly but steadily over the last 30 years. In 1983, 1,052 boys were born for every 1,000 girls born in the US; in 2009, 1,048 boys were born for every 1,000 girls. This is only indicative of a “growing problem” if by “growing problem,” Rose means “growing anti-abortion rights talking point.”

Further, so few abortions in the US occur after the 20th week that even if every single one of them were the result of sex-selection, only 1.5% of pregnancy terminations would occur at a time when sex selection was even possible. Additionally, 77% of Americans surveyed think that sex selective abortion is wrong — they’re hardly clamoring to abort in the 23rd week because they want a Jr instead of an -ette.

And finally, as Planned Parenthood pointed out in its statement following the release of this video, even if sex-selective abortion were a problem in the US, interfering with women’s access to safe, legal abortion isn’t going to fix anything — leading health organizations “do not believe that curtailing access to abortion services is a legitimate means of addressing sex selection, and are clear that gender bias can only be resolved by addressing the underlying conditions that lead to it.”

If these fanatical anti-choice loons are so sure they have God on their side, and their cause is so righteous, why do they lie so often?

Of course, all the right wing blogs jumped right into line and started helping promote Live Action’s scam, because it’s what they do. One example of many: Ed Morrissey at Hot Air, who does that wingnut inverted projection thing again, and dubs this the “real war on women.”

The right wing blogosphere is having yet another anti-Obama freak-out today; this time they’re ranting at Obama for doing something they would enthusiastically applaud if it were the policy of a Republican president: Secret ‘Kill List’ Tests Obama’s Principles.

This is an interesting article about the targeted assassinations of Al Qaeda leaders, and the Obama administration’s “kill list.” Finally, the far left and the far right have found something upon which they can agree, albeit for very different reasons.

WASHINGTON — This was the enemy, served up in the latest chart from the intelligence agencies: 15 Qaeda suspects in Yemen with Western ties. The mug shots and brief biographies resembled a high school yearbook layout. Several were Americans. Two were teenagers, including a girl who looked even younger than her 17 years.

President Obama, overseeing the regular Tuesday counterterrorism meeting of two dozen security officials in the White House Situation Room, took a moment to study the faces. It was Jan. 19, 2010, the end of a first year in office punctuated by terrorist plots and culminating in a brush with catastrophe over Detroit on Christmas Day, a reminder that a successful attack could derail his presidency. Yet he faced adversaries without uniforms, often indistinguishable from the civilians around them.

“How old are these people?” he asked, according to two officials present. “If they are starting to use children,” he said of Al Qaeda, “we are moving into a whole different phase.”

It was not a theoretical question: Mr. Obama has placed himself at the helm of a top secret “nominations” process to designate terrorists for kill or capture, of which the capture part has become largely theoretical. He had vowed to align the fight against Al Qaeda with American values; the chart, introducing people whose deaths he might soon be asked to order, underscored just what a moral and legal conundrum this could be.

In possibly the most pathetic illustration yet of the Republican Party’s descent into madness, Mitt Romney says he needs the support of whacked out Birthers like Donald Trump.

“You know, I don’t agree with all the people who support me and my guess is they don’t all agree with everything I believe in,” Romney said. “But I need to get 50.1% or more and I’m appreciative to have the help of a lot of good people.”