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When are they going to remake The Parallax View?
When are they going to remake The Parallax View?
What happened on June 26?
Jul. 17th, 2007 11:31 amThe radio monitoring world is nerdy rather than political, and when ideology shows up it's almost always right-wing: crew-cutted middle-aged white guy thinking. But in general, it's off the table.
This week, however, Monitoring Times' "Utility World" blog asks the interesting question: What happened on June 26?
The short version, for those who TL;DR or aren't interested in radio geekery: the transmissions being heard indicate either an unusually large exercise, or preparations for war.
This week, however, Monitoring Times' "Utility World" blog asks the interesting question: What happened on June 26?
The short version, for those who TL;DR or aren't interested in radio geekery: the transmissions being heard indicate either an unusually large exercise, or preparations for war.
spinach chain letter stupidity kills
Sep. 18th, 2006 02:34 amI got a chain letter which I will not reproduce here about how the spinach is just fine and it's a big conspiracy and no one is really getting sick from the spinach and it's the evil spinach-hating anti-raw-food forces spreading the lies about the virtuous spinach because "they" don't want you to eat nice raw healthy spinach and live forever.
It was sent from a local raw food place which may well make very nice food themselves but will never get a goddamn dime from me after seeing this. Thanks for the dangerous tinfoil hat bullshit, goodmoodcafe.com
Please don't forward crap like this. It's not "just another side to the story." It's deadly paranoid garbage.
It's bad enough that this country is trashing its public health infrastructure and letting Big Agriculture "regulate" itself. Let's not make things worse. Hundreds of underpaid and underappreciated scientists and public health experts are working 24 hours a day to trace the source of this and every other food-borne disease outbreak and save lives. Calling them liars is nasty and irresponsible.
There is no anti-spinach conspiracy. If you want safer food, pay attention to things like this and why they happen. Super E. Coli bacteria exist because of brain-dead factory farming, and they get into the food because big food corporations wrote the laws that say they can wipe their asses on your food if they feel like it.
There's your conspiracy and it's right out in the open.
It was sent from a local raw food place which may well make very nice food themselves but will never get a goddamn dime from me after seeing this. Thanks for the dangerous tinfoil hat bullshit, goodmoodcafe.com
Please don't forward crap like this. It's not "just another side to the story." It's deadly paranoid garbage.
It's bad enough that this country is trashing its public health infrastructure and letting Big Agriculture "regulate" itself. Let's not make things worse. Hundreds of underpaid and underappreciated scientists and public health experts are working 24 hours a day to trace the source of this and every other food-borne disease outbreak and save lives. Calling them liars is nasty and irresponsible.
There is no anti-spinach conspiracy. If you want safer food, pay attention to things like this and why they happen. Super E. Coli bacteria exist because of brain-dead factory farming, and they get into the food because big food corporations wrote the laws that say they can wipe their asses on your food if they feel like it.
There's your conspiracy and it's right out in the open.
We have a quasilegal military prison in Guantanamo Bay. The status of the prisoners there is precarious. Military justice applies, and events are recorded and public records made.
We also have a murky gulag of international detention centers, to which various foreign terrorism suspects are flown in unmarked planes. It is not known how many prisoners there have been or what their fates have been. Nothing is publicly recorded.
At least one U.S. citizen has been detained in an irregular manner in a military prison, and his case has been well-reported and debated.
How do we know that U.S. citizens and others are not being simply picked up off the streets and disappeared? Any witnesses could be threatened into silence with the Patriot Act.
And if it isn't already happening, how will we know? People go missing all the time. It's a big country. They could try it out with some random people who don't seem to matter before they went after someone who might be noticed.
We also have a murky gulag of international detention centers, to which various foreign terrorism suspects are flown in unmarked planes. It is not known how many prisoners there have been or what their fates have been. Nothing is publicly recorded.
At least one U.S. citizen has been detained in an irregular manner in a military prison, and his case has been well-reported and debated.
How do we know that U.S. citizens and others are not being simply picked up off the streets and disappeared? Any witnesses could be threatened into silence with the Patriot Act.
And if it isn't already happening, how will we know? People go missing all the time. It's a big country. They could try it out with some random people who don't seem to matter before they went after someone who might be noticed.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/05/terror/main1683852.shtml
It starts:
The fun is all in the last sentence, though:
And the news calls this an "exclusive" and runs it unchallenged. Bleah!
It starts:
U.S. officials believe Canadian arrests over the weekend and three recent domestic incidents in the United States are evidence the U.S. will soon be hit again by a terrorist attack. Privately, they say, they'd be surprised if it didn't come by the end of the year, reports CBS News correspondent Jim Stewart in a CBS News exclusive.Then they go on to say that terrorists are committing robberies in order to finance terror attacks, and list a couple of incidents in which various bad guys had what seemed to be political terrorism objectives.
The fun is all in the last sentence, though:
The next attack here, officials predict, will bear no resemblance to Sept. 11. The casualty toll will not be that high, the target probably not that big. We may not even recognize it for what it is at first, they say. But it's coming — of that they seem certain.Okay. So, they're now reserving the option of pulling out any Very Bad Day that might have some tenuous connection to Islamic extremists and calling it a terrorist incident. If some career criminals who got Muslim names in prison rob a store in a mall and there's a big ugly shootout, or if some mentally unstable loser with a connection to Islam runs over a lot of people on a sidewalk, or if any number of medium-spectacular crimes occur that they can tie to "terror" in any way, it will be more evidence that we should be afraid and that we should give up yet more liberty.
And the news calls this an "exclusive" and runs it unchallenged. Bleah!
Delaware to test response to flu outbreak
By Patricia Breakey
Delhi News Bureau
DELHI — Don’t panic if you see officials wearing masks and gloves taking people into custody in Delhi. It’s just a pandemic-flu isolation and quarantine drill being staged by several Delaware County and state agencies.
Mandy Walsh, Delaware County Public Health preparedness program coordinator, said the drill will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday.
"We don’t want people to be alarmed," Hamilton said. "We are just trying to be prepared."
[ ... ]
"The law-enforcement personnel will be wearing protective equipment," Walsh said. "People may see unmarked cars driven by people with masks and gloves. They will be knocking on doors and serving orders."
Walsh said the respirator masks cover the nose and mouth and have canisters on the sides, which give them the appearance of a gas mask. Some of the volunteers have been instructed to resist the court order, so people may see someone being taken from their home unwillingly and a scuffle may occur, Walsh said.
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trinnitl
By Patricia Breakey
Delhi News Bureau
DELHI — Don’t panic if you see officials wearing masks and gloves taking people into custody in Delhi. It’s just a pandemic-flu isolation and quarantine drill being staged by several Delaware County and state agencies.
Mandy Walsh, Delaware County Public Health preparedness program coordinator, said the drill will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday.
"We don’t want people to be alarmed," Hamilton said. "We are just trying to be prepared."
[ ... ]
"The law-enforcement personnel will be wearing protective equipment," Walsh said. "People may see unmarked cars driven by people with masks and gloves. They will be knocking on doors and serving orders."
Walsh said the respirator masks cover the nose and mouth and have canisters on the sides, which give them the appearance of a gas mask. Some of the volunteers have been instructed to resist the court order, so people may see someone being taken from their home unwillingly and a scuffle may occur, Walsh said.
[...]
From http://www.thedailystar.com/news/stories/2006/05/22/dt7.html via
trinnitlNot likely to get national coverage
Apr. 20th, 2006 02:30 pmI'm fascinated by this one, though: $500K Seized: Strange Situation at Nuclear Plant.
Yeah, so. Big truck full of stuff. Nuke plant. Five hundred grand in small bills. Trucker with no ID. This sounds like the beginning of a Bob Trout story. One hopes the nuke plant is a coincidence and it's just the usual drug deal/money laundering gone wrong.
Or maybe if you mix your crack with plutonium it's even better!
Yeah, so. Big truck full of stuff. Nuke plant. Five hundred grand in small bills. Trucker with no ID. This sounds like the beginning of a Bob Trout story. One hopes the nuke plant is a coincidence and it's just the usual drug deal/money laundering gone wrong.
Or maybe if you mix your crack with plutonium it's even better!
Guaranteed not to contain any chicken jizz
Mar. 3rd, 2006 12:25 amWhile at Mother's Market (local health food nut store) today I was browsing around in the My Abdomen Hurts section for charcoal, which I found. I also found all the other stuff that may or may not make one's abdomen stop hurting: licorice root, ginger, dragon's foot oil, chelated monkulare niblets, etc. One of these products was listed as being contained in "hexane-free caplets".
Okay. Hexane is what we usually call "gasoline". Who the fuck puts gasoline in their medicines? Is this some health food store nutcase fear, or should I be concerned that the Tylenol or the K-Y Jelly or the inferior-brand Daily Vitamins I'm guzzling have Chevron Mid-Grade in them?
Okay. Hexane is what we usually call "gasoline". Who the fuck puts gasoline in their medicines? Is this some health food store nutcase fear, or should I be concerned that the Tylenol or the K-Y Jelly or the inferior-brand Daily Vitamins I'm guzzling have Chevron Mid-Grade in them?
flata points out that some people lost their heads because the all-knowing government spy agency, the NSA, put cookies on people's computers. A "privacy advocate" named Daniel Brandt is upset about this, and has previously been upset about the CIA using persistent cookies on their public website.
I feel sorry for the web monkey who put those in for whatever boring typical reason people use persistent cookies, because that person is in big trouble. I also think that a "no persistent cookies" policy for websites of this kind is a fine idea, almost entirely because it reduces this kind of pointless paranoia. But let's get real, here. You can turn off cookies, and anyone who's serious about privacy does. There's no way the NSA is using persistent cookies to track individual website visitors; that's inane.
Danny boy, the NSA has shit you don't even know about, probably archiving the entire Internet way better than Alexa and analyzing it and putting it in databases and crunching it up to find Al-Qaeda and screw the Chinese. They don't need "cookies", okay? Oh, and by the way, you keep mispelling "rendez-vous" in your emails to your mistress, the one in Dayton. Get that shit straight, okay?
This was almost as "good" as the podjacking idiot.
we see you
Dec. 11th, 2005 03:10 pmGPS in the cellphone, unsurprisingly, turns out to be a mixed blessing. With that plus surveillance cameras, RFID, caller ID, and car-based tracking systems like OnStar, we're on our way to the Panopticon. Not a trend I like.
High quality kook
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psychoceramics for the strange and wonderful life of Mikko Jack, Julie Andrews' forgotten firstborn son, Finnish royalty, and central figure in the deep and dangerous mysteries of the last century. He's also a stevedore.
I wish I could get hold of the 14-hour video he sent to Blake Edwards.
psychoceramics for the strange and wonderful life of Mikko Jack, Julie Andrews' forgotten firstborn son, Finnish royalty, and central figure in the deep and dangerous mysteries of the last century. He's also a stevedore.I wish I could get hold of the 14-hour video he sent to Blake Edwards.
The war with Iran has already started.
I'd love to dismiss it because Ritter has a loud mouth and because it's on Al jazeera.
But Ritter has been right way too much, and if they're the only ones who'll print it, maybe that's because it's true?
I'm not such a big fan of the New Necessary 581% Paranoid Lifestyle, here.
I'd love to dismiss it because Ritter has a loud mouth and because it's on Al jazeera.
But Ritter has been right way too much, and if they're the only ones who'll print it, maybe that's because it's true?
I'm not such a big fan of the New Necessary 581% Paranoid Lifestyle, here.
