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Coffee, Tea, or Should We Feel Your Pregnant Wife's Breasts Before Throwing You in a Cell at the Airport and Then Lying About Why We Put You There?
Coffee, Tea, or Should We Feel Your Pregnant Wife's Breasts Before Throwing You in a Cell at the Airport and Then Lying About Why We Put You There?[...] After a short time I received a visit from the arresting officer. "Mr. Monahan," he started, "Are you on drugs?"Was this even real? "No, I’m not on drugs."
"Should you be?"
"What do you mean?"
"Should you be on any type of medication?"
"No."
"Then why’d you react that way back there?"
You see the thinking? You see what passes for reasoning among your domestic shock troops these days? Only "whackos" get angry over seeing the woman they’ve been with for ten years in tears because someone has touched her breasts. That kind of reaction – love, protection – it’s mind-boggling! "Mr. Monahan, are you on drugs?" His snide words rang inside my head. This is my wife, finally pregnant with our first child after months of failed attempts, after the depressing shock of the miscarriage last year, my wife who’d been walking on a cloud over having the opportunity to be a mother...and my anger is simply unfathomable to the guy standing in front of me, the guy who earns a living thanks to my taxes, the guy whose family I feed through my labor. What I did wasn’t normal. No, I reacted like a drug addict would’ve. I was so disgusted I felt like vomiting. But that was just the beginning. [...]
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Audio of the Day
Audio of the DayThis song explains it all.
Listen to the words C A R E F U L L Y
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Sanitized for your protection
Sanitized for your protectionInformation Awareness Office Web Site BEFORE:
Information Awareness Office Web Site NOW:
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The Flying Saucers Are Real
The Flying Saucers Are Real
It is a template for much of what would follow: the paranoia, the government disinformation, the inescapable conclusion that the saucers are not of this earth.
Keyhoe, with his spare, matter of fact writing style, which also conveys a profound sense of wonder, has to be the prototype for the deadpan Fox Mulder of the X-Files.
On one hand we can see the birth of a key modern mythology. On the other, there is a body of almost naive evidence in this text unpolluted by that very mythology.
The case studies are real. The witnesses were highly reliable. These cases are still unexplained. (via)
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Is Bush a moron? No, it's worse - he's a sociopath
Is Bush a moron? No, it's worse - he's a sociopath
Mark Crispin Miller, the author who wrote The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder, wrote his book only intending to make his readers chuckle. He has continued to catalogue the so-called Bushisms, and has noticed a disturbing trend.
He only makes gaffes and malapropisms when he's talking about domestic policy initiatives.
"I know how hard it is to put food on your family," Bush was quoted as saying. "That wasn't because he's so stupid that he doesn't know how to say, `Put food on your family's table' — it's because he doesn't care about people who can't put food on the table," Miller says... Miller contends it's because he can't keep his focus on things that mean nothing to him.
On the other hand, Bush has no trouble talking in the language of violence.
"He has no trouble speaking off the cuff when he's speaking punitively, when he's talking about violence, when he's talking about revenge. "When he struts and thumps his chest, his syntax and grammar are fine," Miller said.
Miller's conclusion? He argues that Dubya has a "sociopathic personality."* and is "incapable of empathy." Now, Miller is not a psychologist- he's a media studies professor. He even compares Dubya to The Fonz at one point.
*Thank the stars! Someone who knows the difference between a sociopath and a psychopath! We were beginning to think everyone was going to fall into goosestep with certain pinheaded delusionals and proliferate the abuse and misuse of the term psychopath.
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We're doomed to dither
We're doomed to dither
Maths proves decisions are harder to make when the wrong choice hurts more.We become confused and indecisive if we stand to lose more by making the wrong choice than we could gain by making the right one, two physicists in Israel calculate. The best strategy in such circumstances, say the pair, may actually be to flip a coin1.
Their conclusions are based not on individual psychology, but on a simple mathematical model of decision-making called the minority game. [more]
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Corporate chiefs told to follow animal urges
Corporate chiefs told to follow animal urges
Oxford zoologists form consultancy to advise businesses on riskThree British zoologists have set up a consultancy firm that plans to sell ideas gleaned from the study of animal behaviour to corporate clients.
Animals and businesses face many of the same problems, argues one of the group, Alex Kacelnik of the University of Oxford. "A petroleum company forages for oil in much the same way as a starling might forage for worms," he says. The basic choice they face, he points out, is whether to stay in a field that is productive but in decline, or to move on and take a chance elsewhere. [more]
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Nanotech builds cells
Nanotech builds cells
Artificial membrane printed onto silicon chipsResearchers are building polka dot cell coats by borrowing silicon technology. They could help understand what triggers allergies.
On a chip, the team from New York's Cornell University makes tiny patterns simulating the delicate oily sheath that encloses cells watery innards.
The artificial membranes - as small as one thousandth of a millimetre wide - could help researchers figure out what stimulates immune cells, explained team member Adam Hammond at the American Society for Cell Biology meeting this week in San Francisco. [more]
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Bill of Rights Defense Committee: Make your city or town a Civil Liberties Safe Zone
Bill of Rights Defense Committee: Make your city or town a Civil Liberties Safe Zone.
What follows is a summary of key provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act and Executive Orders that threaten rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution. To learn how the new legislation infringes on rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, read AP's one-page Overview of Changes to Legal Rights and BORDC's A Guide to the USA PATRIOT Act and Federal Executive Orders (Requires PDF). You may also order it as a 16-page booklet. You will also find many good articles and editorials on our Links page.
On October 26, 2001, President Bush signed into law the USA PATRIOT Act (acronym for "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism"). Passed hurriedly (many Congressmen stated later they had not even had time to read the law) it creates a new crime, "domestic terrorism," so broadly defined that it could conceivably apply to acts of civil disobedience.
The USA PATRIOT Act gives the FBI and the CIA greater rights to wiretap phones, monitor e-mail, survey medical, financial and student records, and break into homes and offices without prior notification. It creates a new crime of domestic terrorism that is so broadly defined that it may be applied to citizens acting legally to express their dissent.
Under this Act and other legislation, noncitizens are being deported or detained indefinitely without judicial appeal.
The dangers of the USA PATRIOT Act are augmented by a Bureau of Prisons order allowing federal agents to abridge the attorney-client privilege by eavesdropping on conversations between lawyers and their clients held in federal custody.
The Justice Department has dismantled regulations against COINTELPRO operations that were enacted following abuses of the civil rights and peace movements of the 50's, 60's and 70's.
The Administration has ordered secret military tribunals for suspected terrorists. In addition to being unfair and unnecessary, the U.S. threat of using military tribunals increases the likelihood that U.S. citizens will be treated accordingly overseas, and decreases the likelihood that other governments will be willing to extradite suspected terrorists or other parties wanted by the U.S. [more]
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Ouch!
Ouch! - relicious
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Canadians to lead weapons inspections team into USA
Canadians to lead weapons inspections team into USA
In the new year, Rooting Out Evil will be sending a team of volunteer weapons inspectors into that greatest of rogue nations, the United States of America.
We have selected the US as our first priority based on criteria provided by the Bush administration. According to those criteria, the most dangerous states are those run by leaders who:
1) have massive stockpiles of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons;
2) ignore due process at the United Nations;
3) refuse to sign and honour international treaties; and
4) have come to power through illegitimate means.
The current US administration fulfills all these criteria. And so, again following Bush’s guidelines, Rooting Out Evil is demanding that his administration allow immediate and unfettered access to international weapons inspectors to search out their caches of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons.
If they refuse to comply, we will assemble as many volunteer weapons inspectors as possible at a major border crossing between the US and Canada and attempt to cross into the US on a mission of peace. We will be greeted on the US side by Americans who favour true global cooperation, an end to weapons of mass destruction, and a regime change in the US at the next election.
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::VOX UPDATES::
::VOX UPDATES::Updates in reference to this story.
VOXNYC Mirror site:
http://lightscion.com/VoxNYC_MIRROR.htm
Download VOXNYC (5.83MB):
http://nyc.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/voxnyc.zip
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Fear No Conceptual Art
Fear No Conceptual Art (NYT- Free Reg Required)
"Yesterday's loony loner is today's Conceptual artist," says one of many snickerworthy bits in today's New York Times article about an art student who placed black boxes painted with the word FEAR around subways, causing quite the hubbub. But writer Michael Kimmelman, while bringing up good points about the state of art in a world where you see a black box in a subway and *assume* it's an art prank, is too stuffy and cranky to get into the spirit even the tiniest bit.
"By provoking fear, the work trafficked in emotional violence," Kimmelman says, wagging his finger. Since when does that prevent a work from being effective, much less from being "art"? If I were in Union Station and saw an unattended box or bag painted black and sporting a FEAR tag, I'd certainly stop and take notice. I wouldn't be enough of a moron to think it was a freakin' BOMB; I'd think it was a startling, humourous bit of artwork. I would think about my personal relationship to fear and public transportation and how objects become charged in public spaces. I'd think about the changes in New York and throughout our country since 9/11. I'd think about the role of fear in violence, in a Michael Moore, Bowling for Columbine kinda way. Whether juvenile or sophisticated, this work would make me *think.*
Student artist Clinton Boisvert was arrested and jailed overnight; he will be charged with reckless endangerment. Other people's paranoid idiocy is now YOUR crime, so watch what you say and do, children. I suppose leaving a GAP shopping bag on the L train is akin to shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theatre nowadays? -mag/tif
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Mass arrests of Muslims in LA
Mass arrests of Muslims in LAImmigration officials in southern California have detained hundreds of Iranians and other Muslim men who turned up to register under residence laws brought in as part of the United States' anti-terror drive.
Muslim groups estimated that at least 500 men were detained in and around Los Angeles after they complied with an order to register by 16 December.
People went down wanting to co-operate and then they were detained
The arrests sparked angry protests in the city by Iranian-Americans waving banners which read "What's next? Concentration camps?" and "Free our fathers, brothers, husbands and sons". -NWD
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Cult says it has cloned a human
Cult says it has cloned a human
Biotech wing of Quebec-based Raelians reveals that girl is due within two weeksA Quebec-based cult that believes space aliens created Earthlings in a lab 25,000 years ago says it has produced the world's first human clone to be born within two weeks, possibly on Christmas Day.
The Raelians, a free-love fringe sect that runs the theme park UFOland in Quebec's Eastern Townships, have offered no way to verify the claim or validate that this highly controversial experiment is under way.
But an official with Clonaid, the cloning company the Raelians founded in 1997, told CTV News that the clone is a girl and a genetic replica of a U.S. woman in her 30s who is unable to have children with her husband naturally.
The woman is said to be pregnant with a clone of herself, and is nearly ready to deliver by cesarean section.
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Web activists keep constant eye on Pentagon's data-mining point man
Web activists keep constant eye on Pentagon's data-mining point man
Internet activists have a message for John Poindexter, the head of a controversial Pentagon research project to find terrorists by searching the everyday transactions of Americans: Threaten to invade our privacy, we'll invade yours.
They've plastered Poindexter's e-mail address and home phone number on dozens of Web sites, forcing him to block all incoming calls. They've posted satellite images of his suburban Washington house and maps showing how to get there. And they've created online forms to collect even more personal data on him. Comment: Wow, what an incredibly evil thing to have done...
Addition: Attacking DARPA's Total Information Awareness effort and publicizing satellite photographs of John Poindexter's (head of TIA) house is probably what got me this. I guess that when it comes to surveillance, what is good for the goose is not good for the gander.
Imagine my consternation at reading the following:
This Yahoo! Account Has Been Deactivated
Please remember that the Yahoo! Terms of Service provides that Yahoo! may terminate a User's password, account or use of the Service if Yahoo! believes (a) that a User has violated or acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of the Yahoo! Terms of Service, or (b) that a User has violated the rights of Yahoo! or other Users or parties.
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This means the Psy-Op list at Yahoogroups is no longer functional as only the account smileyundaunted@yahoo.com that is able to approve messages and subscriptions is gone. There even seems to be some attempt to prevent people from accessing the public archives at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/messages but when you get to the blank page that results by clicking on the url, you can refresh for the archives (but if you want to archive any of the info therein, I would hurry: my under_the_gun list, just last year, suddenly found itself missing some three thousand messages). Attacking DARPA's Total Information Awareness effort and publicizing satellite photographs of John Poindexter's (head of TIA) house is probably what got me this. I guess that when it comes to surveillance, what is good for the goose is not good for the gander. I consider myself to have been hit by a known Iran-Contra felon.
Included in this post (scroll down) is a synopsis of why I have been targeted recently, including all the dangerous links themselves, but first a look at what got me targetted initially in 1999, the year of Jam Echelon Day and of the Battle in Seattle. READ THE WHOLE STORY->
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MISINTERPRETING OSAMA'S MESSAGE
MISINTERPRETING OSAMA'S MESSAGEWhile media experts were preoccupied with analyzing Osama bin Laden's voice, they failed to comprehend, or even read, his actual words. Speculation about hidden meanings and secret clues totally ignored the obvious intended message, which is so clear that it doesn't even need decoding.
Because of the intense hate and fear evoked by Osama, because we are so traumatized by him, we automatically block those dimensions of his communication that are not pure threats. We simplify and reduce complex messages, transforming them into plans to attack unconditionally. Speculation is based more on fantasy than expertise.We unconsciously refuse to perceive what he is actually saying, as if understanding this evil person is a betrayal to ourselves and is letting him win. Our dangerous assumptions can lead to self-fulfilling prophesies.The image of the enemy universally generates a powerful emotional charge
that distorts perception. Our narrow range of thinking, so deeply ingrained, is shaped by a homogenous media, with constant repetition of a simplistic worldview, characterized by black-and-white thinking, egocentrism and psychological ignorance. Our inability to receive meaning is tantamount to a collective cognitive disorder.We see the enemy only as intent on destroying us, no matter what we do. We believe that the only thing we can do is destroy him before he destroys us; but that is an impossible endless game, because we will always generate new recruits.
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Voxfux on the run?
Voxfux on the run?
At 10AM on Friday the 13th, A combined task force from the Secret Service, FBI, CIA, and Major Crimes Unit raided a Long Island home believed to be that of the political essayist who writes under the pen name Voxfux.
There were simultaneous raids at several locations throughout New York City and Brooklyn.
The case has the potential to be a lightening rod for civil libertarians, coming just days after the passage of the controversial Homeland Security Act. The articles believed to be penned by the mystery writer can be found at www.voxnyc.com.
Maybe Voxfux can be found at one of these. Via American Samizdat
Here's an open letter from him:
"Dear Valis,
Thank you for your excellent site. At 10 oclock this morning (Dec 13) Approximately 40 agents from a joint group of CIA, FBI, And Major Crimes unit. Surrounded my home on Long Island New York (I was not there) and entered and proceeded to conduct a thorough search and removal operation while detaining a tennant who occupys an apartment on the premises. I am in contact with my counsel (from NYCLU) NY Civil Liberties Union. (Norm Seigal)
I will try to make a further update tommorrow. As for now I wish someone could archive as many of the articles on my voxnyc.com site as possible. I apologize for such a brief note but it has been a terrible moment and I am literally on the run. I do not wish this information to be released until after I have suitable time to consult with my counsul maybe a day or two.
Thank you
vox"
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Gnu, Knew, New
New Ozric, New Whitey Beige, New Media of the Moment by Tif (right over there->), New Members of the Team.
Did I mention that there's new stuff?
Gnu, New, Knew...ok, I'll stop now.
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Rat-Brained Robot
Rat-Brained Robot
Rat neuron cells on silicon are the brains behind a new robot—a breakthrough that may lead to better computer chips.Steve Potter’s brand new robot would probably never make it to the second round of Battlebots. The size of a coffee mug, the cylindrical robot slides across a round meter-sized playpen on an apparently chaotic path. But this robot is a thinker, not a fighter, and it does its thinking with a network of neurons—culled from rat embryos—that resides a few feet away on an electrode-activated silicon chip. -Via BB
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Filmmaker Michael Moore's E-mail Intercepted/Home Searched by Secret Service
Filmmaker Michael Moore's E-mail Intercepted/Home Searched by Secret Service
(The Story of a Vietnam Vet Caught in a Government / Celebrity Surveillance Crossfire)In a not-so-cryptic “message” eventually intended for all U.S. citizens -- but likely one very famous American in particular, three armed U.S. Secret Service agents and a local sheriff employed psychological intimidation to invade the privacy of retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Michael Moore, 49, of Goldston, North Carolina at his home on December 10, 2002...
In another warning sign of what lies ahead for all Americans regarding police-state abuse of power (thanks to sections of the post-September 11 “Patriot Act” approved by Congress and signed into law by President Bush), U.S. Intelligence intercepted North Carolinian Michael Moore’s email -- likely believing it was written by independent film producer-icon (“Bowling for Columbine”) and author (“Stupid White Men”) Michael Moore. Inother words, they got the wrong Michael Moore.
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Breaking Open the Head
Breaking Open the HeadThe publication of Daniel Pinchbeck’s new book, Breaking Open The Head (Broadway Books, $24.95) is, to my mind, nothing short of a publishing event. Pinchbeck, co-founder and co-editor (with novelist Thomas Beller) of the highbrow literary magazine Open City, has come up with something I had despaired of seeing again after the untimely death of Terence McKenna, an instant classic of drug literature. And just in time: This generation badly needs its own Doors of Perception, and Breaking Open The Head is it, arriving not a moment too soon.
In a way, Breaking Open The Head is almost two books in one: On one hand an historical overview of how psychedelics (or “entheogens” in politically correct tripper parlance) made their way into the diet of middle-class American students, ushering in the ‘Age of Aquarius,’ “hippie,” and opposition to an unpopular and misguided war, and on the other hand a travelogue and marvelously candid account of Pinchbeck’s shamanic vision quest to “break open” his own head. (From disinfo.com)
Comments:Lots of email requests for this one.
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Ten Thousand Monkeys Issue 40 isOut!
Ten Thousand Monkeys Issue 40 is Out!
About the pic: I'm infatuated with old medical imagery. The fact that all this stuff is swimming around under my skin.
- Greetings from Aggistan
- Ellis Island Girl
- 11:04 p.m.
- Titular Assets
- The Trip to Italy
- Lots of new articles and other fun stuff.
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The Thresher Pack
The Thresher PackSome excellent stuff from Thresher. Let's look at those again, shall we?
Richard Preston Gives Us the Horrors
Interview with the author of bioterror novels The Hot Zone & Cobra Event..
Although his fictionalized Hot Zone was a hot enough vehicle to get carjacked into the bio-exploitation flick Outbreak, it was not until Cobra Event that he scared the Government. Cobra scared Bill Clinton so exquisitely that the former Chief called up Newt Gingrich insisting he read the damn thing now, Newt buddy, then find Preston and debrief him. As a result, Preston got to terrify Congressional subcommittees about bioweapons and the hearty types who bioengineer them. He makes a fascinating lunch date, especially if you don't scare easily.. and it helps if you're another certified nerd.">Richard Preston Gives Us the HorrorsInterview with the author of bioterror novels The Hot Zone & Cobra Event
RICHARD PRESTON is a frightener. Although his fictionalized Hot Zone was a hot enough vehicle to get carjacked into the bio-exploitation flick Outbreak, it was not until Cobra Event that he scared the Government. Cobra scared Bill Clinton so exquisitely that the former Chief called up Newt Gingrich insisting he read the damn thing now, Newt buddy, then find Preston and debrief him. As a result, Preston got to terrify Congressional subcommittees about bioweapons and the hearty types who bioengineer them. He makes a fascinating lunch date, especially if you don't scare easily.. and it helps if you're another certified nerd.The Mental State of the Union
By John Shirley
I'm sane, no really I am.
I'm not insane. No really I'm not.
Except...I've struggled with clinical depression and drug addiction, and these are both diseases of the brain. For a long time I made the same mistakes in life over and over, knowing better each time-- but doing it anyway. I was married and divorced four times before I figured out that I was giving in to relationship-wrecking compulsive behavior.
But since I don't rave on the street, I don't stalk people or have delusions of grandeur or hallucinate or hear voices, let's pretend I'm not crazy.
When I was young, I was in a mental hospital because of an overdose of a powerful street drug.
The drug that put me there made me temporarily psychotic. I chased my mother around and smashed windows and I bit a cop on the leg as he cuffed me and I writhed vomiting and hallucinating in the back of his police car. I was strapped on my back on a table staring at a naked light bulb for two days, while the same movies played over and over in my head. Shattered glass flying in slow motion as I break the windows, over and over again like those mistakes in my later life, smashing every window in the house. It was the same Security Ward in Oregon in which Ken Kesey set One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. One guy screamed at his penis, "Stop it, stop it, leave me alone!" (I know the feeling, actually.)The Indiscreet Charm of the Bush-Nazi Web Conspiranoids
By Phil Leggierre
"American politics has often been an arena for angry minds," historian Richard Hofstadter wrote nearly four decades ago. As the first great analyst/connoisseur of American political paranoia, or what he called "the paranoid style," Hofstadter, who died in 1970, would have been amazed by the web.
As we all know, myriad versions of the perennial conspiracy theories Hofstadter knew well, the ones involving plots by Freemasons, Jesuits, Jews, and/or Communists to take over the world, are alive and thriving in the new medium. In addition, the web, as a radically accelerated technology for moving facts, rumors, myths and memes, has vastly widened the theater of the political imagination. It has become, for better and worse, the spiritual home of "conspiranoia." A quick search of the word "conspiracy" on Google turns up (as of mid-2001) just under 2 million hits. All of the modern classics are well represented. These include; JFK Assassination plots (75,000 hits) (whether by CIA, Mafia, Gusanos or the newly popular Federal Reserve theory), extraterrestrial visitations (over 75,000 sites), and shadow world governments (well over a million) (as administered by, the Trilateral Commission, Council on Foreign Relations, The UN, The Bank of England and any one of several dozen other organizations). Then there are the more recent conspiracy theories involving; the deliberate or accidental unleashing of the AIDS virus (roughly 65,000 hits), U.S. government involvement in the Oklahoma City bombing, (nearly 100,000), and collusions between DuPont Chemical and the oil Industry to squelch hemp production (10,000).
Many, indeed most of these conspiracy "exposes" are illogical, if not totally incoherent, rants. Others are obsessively detailed, but ultimately implausible concoctions of fact and fantasy. And a few are well researched and documented. Not a few are a bit of all of the above. All are populist attempts to locate cracks in the official versions of history.
Nowhere is this seen as clearly as in the sites devoted to the current rising stars of web conspiranoia, the Bush family.
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Creepy's Gallery
Creepy's Gallery
What are we going to do with DW? We simply have to get him into a 12 step Clown's Anonymous program.
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Hyper-light-speed antenna
Hyper-light-speed antennanote: I'm not sure if this is old news or not, but I haven't seen it before. The patent's from Feb. 2000. Also it uses a sucky Quicktime
interface to show the drawings - I guess the's so you can't copy them, as they sell copies.
(from the patent:)
"The main aspect of the present invention is to send RF signals
faster than the speed of light."
"The following describes, in simple terms, what the present
invention actually does. The present invention takes a transmission
of energy, and instead of sending it through normal time and space,
it pokes a small hole into another dimension, thus, sending the
energy through a place which allows transmission of energy to exceed
the speed of light."
"It has been observed by the inventor and witnesses that accelerated
plant growth can occur using the present invention."
"For accelerated plant growth, first, you need to create a hot surface
that is more than 1000 degrees Fahrenheit. Next, you need a strong
magnetic field. Only one device is needed for this function. This allows
energy from another dimension to influence plant growth." -chiaroscuro
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TOO MUCH INFORMATION
Too Much InformationWhen it comes to concocting fevered visions of the future as a way of illuminating the present, Jules Verne got some things right in his time, Aldous Huxley got others, and George Orwell got still others. In our time—in this terror-haunted interlude (we hope) of background-hum dread and well-founded paranoia—no literary divinator gets it righter than the sci-fi pulp master Philip K. Dick, author of "Clans of the Alphane Moon" and dozens of other books, and inspirer of some of Hollywood's spookiest dystopias, including "Blade Runner," "Total Recall," and "Minority Report." And this is odd, given that he has been dead for twenty years. Too bad he's not still around. It would be interesting to get his take on the Information Awareness Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense. More ->
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Philip K. Dick's Black Iron Subdermal Prison
Philip K. Dick's Black Iron Subdermal Prison
by valisOriginally published in my new weekly column at PrisonPlanet.comAs we slingshot into the 21st Century, it is becoming increasingly apparent that the governments and institutions that mold our minds have implemented a system from which we cannot escape. Are we really trapped in a prison with no doors or walls?
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JAPAN HERO
JAPAN HERO
Shows targeted at Japanese children.Sentai or tokusatsu program.
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Licenced to kill: Bush's CIA hit list
Licenced to kill: Bush's CIA hit list
PRESIDENT George W Bush has given the CIA permission to kill about two dozen top terrorism suspects around the world whom it believes are plotting to attack American interests, a report said today.
The New York Times said today that Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda leaders topped the list.
Bush has given the CIA the go-ahead to kill the listed suspects if it is impractical to capture them and if civilian casualties can be minimised, the paper said.
White House and CIA officials declined to discuss the list, the Times said. More->
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Are We Going to War for Oil? (Well DUH!)
Are We Going to War for Oil? (Well DUH!)
It's now been discovered that what was once thought to be an oil bonanza in Central Asia—with more oil than exists in the Middle East—is actually a bust. And despite government support of hydrogen fuel cells, research indicates that these will not be a viable reality in the near future, meaning we'll continue to depend on Middle Eastern oil. At the same time, there's been a dramatic shift in U.S. foreign policy toward Iraq and Saudi Arabia—and these things may be connected.
Estimates of oil reserves in the Caspian Sea have gone from 200 billion barrels to around 20 billion barrels. ExxonMobil is closing one of its Caspian offshore projects due to the poor results of exploratory drilling, and ChevronTexaco is withdrawing as well. Also, the Tengiz field in Central Asia is very expensive to pump and deliver to market and the oil has a high sulfur content (as much as 16 percent). Disposal of this waste sulfur will be a major problem.
There has been very little talk lately about the trans- Afghanistan pipeline, probably due to continuing instability in the country. One planned pipeline which is also being rethought is the 1,090-mile long Baku-Ceyhan pipeline, which will cost about $2.9 billion and will link an existing pipeline from Azerbaijan to the Turkish Mediterranean Port of Ceyhan, crossing high mountains and territory occupied by the Kurds, who may be aligned with Islamic terrorists. Critics question whether there are enough oil reserves in the Caspian Sea to support the pipeline, so U.S. interest in it may really be an effort to destabilize OPEC. More->
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Karl Jaspers Quote
"Everywhere in the world I dread that same self-deception which holds that "it can't happen here." It can happen anywhere. It becomes unlikely only where the mass of the population is aware of the threat, where there is accordingly no relapse into lethargy, where the character of "totalitarianism" is known and recognized from its very inception and in each of its aspects-as a Proteus which is constantly putting on new masks, which glides out of your grasp like an eel, which does the opposite of what it claims, which perverts the meaning of its words, which speaks, not to impart information, but to hypnotize, divert attention, insinuate, intimidate, dupe, which exploits and produces every type of fear, which promises security while destroying it completely."
—Karl Jaspers
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Oscars Ban Palestinian Film
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has banned an award-winning Palestinian film from their competition because they assert that Palestine is not a country 'according to the UN.' Ali Abunimah and Benjamin Doherty point out the inherent hypocrisy in this:
In 2001, AMPAS accepted an entry from Hong Kong, even though that former British colony is now an administrative region of China, with no status at the U.N. In 2000, the film Solomon And Gaenor, a love story about a Yiddish-speaking Jewish man and a Welsh girl, was a finalist for the Best Foreign Film award, representing Wales. Wales is not an independent state.Palestine, by contrast, has maintained an officially recognized permanent observer mission at the U.N. for decades and dozens of countries have recognized the state of Palestine and maintain diplomatic relations with it at the ambassadorial level.
This raises the question: Is there a double standard to keep Palestine out of the Oscars? [more]
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 Ong's Hat: The Beginning |
| "I got really into this "time-travel cult" called Ong's Hat when a computer-game programmer I know told me she was contacted by a physics scholar who said that a bunch of her recent games reflected their canon. This dude told my friend that someone from Ong's Hat had befriended her and inspired her to create certain games without her realizing it. Whoa, right?" - Jane Magazine |
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