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Tuesday, November 26
You are a Suspect "When you board a plane in the next year, your pilot may be armed. Make a call from a pay phone at the ballpark, and it may be tapped. Pay for a sandwich with a credit card, and the transaction may wind up in an electronic file with your tax returns, travel history, and speeding tickets. "These are some of the ways that the biggest reorganization of the federal government in half a century could trickle down into the minutiae of the daily life of Americans. "The Homeland Security Act that President Bush is poised to sign is sweeping in scope and will have big consequences, intended and unintended, on everything from civil liberties of Americans to due process for immigrants." "If the Homeland Security Act is not amended before passage, here is what will happen to you: "Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank deposit you make, every trip you book and every event you attend -- all these transactions and communications will go into what the Defense Department describes as 'a virtual, centralized grand database.' "To this computerized dossier on your private life from commercial sources, add every piece of information that government has about you -- passport application, driver's license and bridge toll records, judicial and divorce records, complaints from nosy neighbors to the F.B.I., your lifetime paper trail plus the latest hidden camera surveillance -- and you have the supersnoop's dream: a "Total Information Awareness" about every U.S. citizen. "This is not some far-out Orwellian scenario. It is what will happen to your personal freedom in the next few weeks if John Poindexter gets the unprecedented power he seeks." -Welcome to the future, big Bro Georgie W is watching. http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn20021121.html Every 15 seconds a woman is battered in the United States. Every 23 seconds a woman is raped in South Africa. Every minute in the United Kingdom police receive a call for assistance in situations of domestic violence. Almost half of all women in Bangladesh have been physically abused. democracynow.org Thursday, November 21
HEALTHY PLEASURES BEEF SCAM November 18, 2002 -- The upscale organic-food chain Healthy Pleasures has been scamming customers by repackaging conventional meat and passing it off as organic and natural, a Post investigation has found. The chain has been relabeling beef at its three Manhattan stores, according to current and ex-employees and industry insiders, gouging customers by several dollars per pound on some cuts. "People trust them to sell them a superior product, and that is just not happening," said one source, who asked to remain anonymous. "The beef is marked 'natural' and 'organic,' and often that simply isn't the case." Organic meat producers are prohibited by the USDA from using hormones, pesticides and antibiotics in the raising of farm animals. Natural meat must be "minimally processed" and contain no artificial ingredients, according to USDA rules. Healthy Pleasures owner Helen Burgess and chain manager Omar Bashar contend their meat business is legit. But after being asked about The Post's findings, Bashar and two store workers surrounded a Post photographer on the street and wrestled a camera from his hands. His photos were destroyed, and the three men were charged with felony robbery, criminal mischief and criminal possession of stolen property. The Post's probe found: * Current and former workers have been instructed to remove meat purchased from IBP - a nationwide producer of conventional beef that doesn't handle organic or natural products - from bulk packaging and put it in butcher display cases with organic and natural labels. "We would open the boxes, take the meat from the bulk bags and carry it upstairs on a lug," said a former employee. "Then we would put it in the case and stick the natural and organic signs on it. We were told never to take IBP boxes up to the selling floor, where customers might see them." You can buy the rest of the article here: nypost Scientists in the United States are to press ahead with plans to create a new lifeform in the laboratory. Dr Craig Venter - the man behind the privately funded human genome sequence - and Dr Hamilton Smith - a Nobel-Prize-winning geneticist - want to create a man-made microbe with the minimum number of genes needed to sustain life. The project has received $3m from the Office of Science at the Department of Energy in the US and preliminary work is already under way. If successful, this experiment, the scientists claim, will be the first step to developing new cost-effective energy sources. This could mean artificial bugs engineered to pump out vast quantities of hydrogen to power cleaner cars. In recent years, scientists have improved their ability to manufacture to order long chains of DNA - the so-called "code of life" - in the laboratory. This skill makes it theoretically possible to synthesise the genetic material necessary to drive and maintain a very simple organism - a small bacterium. Dr Venter first proposed the idea of creating an artificial bug in the lab in 1999. It raised a number of ethical and safety issues and any attempt to create the lifeform was then put on hold while these were debated. Of particular concern is the potential of this type of technology to be used to develop new biological weapons. Publishing only limited details about the work could ease worries. There is also concern about the danger to human health from a man-made organism escaping into the environment. However, the scientists say they would exclude certain genes to make the new microbe safe. The organism would be rendered incapable of infecting humans and would die if it ever escaped its petri dish, they say. I stole this from Warren Ellis who stole it from here. The Bush family’s deepest, darkest secret is not Prescott Bush’s involvement in financing Nazi Germany, nor George’s involvement in Contra Aid, or the October Surprise, or anything he did for the CIA. And it’s certainly not George Jr.’s cocaine use. Find out what the deep dark secret is, here.  Gay experiments preceding AIDS (1978-1981) Scientists also discount any connection between the official outbreak of AIDS in 1981 and the experimental hepatitis B vaccine program (1978-1981) at the New York Blood Center in Manhattan, which used gays as guinea pigs shortly before the epidemic. Curiously, the exact origin of AIDS in the United States remains unstudied. Health authorities simply blame promiscuous gay men, but never adequately explain how a black heterosexual African disease could have transformed itself exclusively into a white young gay male disease in Manhattan. Researchers claim HIV incubated in Africa for more than a half century until AIDS broke out there in 1982. However, in the U.S. there was no incubation period for gay men. As soon as homosexuals signed up as guinea pigs for government-sponsored hepatitis B vaccine experiments, they began to die with a strange virus of unknown origin. The hepatitis B experiments began in Manhattan in the fall of 1978; the first few cases of AIDS (all young gays from Manhattan) were reported to the CDC in 1979. excerpt from http://www.paranoiamagazine.com/blaming.html Follow the Money: The Bush-bin Laden Connection President Bush's September 2001 address to the American people will live on in infamy. In it, Bush roused the American people to a "war on terrorism," which was to consist of rooting out the financial sources of support for terrorist activities. A global effort ensued in the following weeks. Bush then signed an executive order freezing the financial assets of several alleged charities reputed to be "fronts" for the al-Qaida network. According to a report by Christopher Byron dated 9/24/01 entitled "Terrorists, dollars and a tangled web" (www.msnbc.com/news), however, one glitch got ahead of Bush's fanaticism: following this money trail would require investigators to "probe deep into the offshore activities of America's mightiest banks and the financial affairs of many of America's leading public figures," including George W. and George H.W. Bush. More Paranoia The Awful Secret The objective of the Bush cabal and the war in Iraq is to get control of all of the oil before the blackouts start! John Kaminski How stupid are Americans - and how false are their elected representatives - to believe and actually repeat the thought that a far-off nation with the world's second-largest oil reserves, a battered and constrained nation that had already witnessed hundreds of thousands of its citizens killed by the United States, that this bedraggled and helpless nation is actually a threat deserving a full-scale invasion by American troops? How stupid are Americans not to see that all this war talk is a diversionary tactic, a red herring meant to cover up crimes of the American government: widespread corruption that robbed Americans of billions of dollars in scandals named Harken, Enron and Halliburton; a meaningless genocidal attack on Afghanistan that failed to achieve its stated objective yet killed 5,000 innocent people; and an attack on American soil that killed another 3,000 Americans. In the meantime, the highest levels of the U.S. government work diligently to cover up the brutal facts that highly placed officials knew this atrocity was going to happen and did nothing to stop it. In fact, they wanted it to happen because it served their purposes. The shock of 9/11 and the butchery in Afghanistan have been displaced from the headlines of the criminally sycophantic mainstream media as President Bush continues his ludicrous push for more death and destruction, constantly changing his rationale as one lie after another is exposed as vicious fiction. Make no mistake: the purpose of the illegal and unconscionable aggression against Iraq is meant to cover up the Bush administration's complicity in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C. The mainstream media, a virtual interlocking directorate with the Bush cabinet and his behind-the-scenes moneymen, continue to ignore the central questions about 9/11: » why did the air defense apparatus fail to respond to the hijackings? »why haven't the stock market anomalies been investigated and identified? » why did some people know not to fly that day? »Why were fires still burning underneath three structures of the WTC five weeks later? You haven't read that in the New York Times, and you won't. The attack on Afghanistan was planned long before 9/11, yet carried out as if it were a search for someone named Osama bin Laden. Five thousand dead, Americans implicated in a horrific massacre, even some Canadians killed for no good reason. Now it turns out many of the Taliban were evacuated in U.S. planes. American military bosses declared the operation a success, and the newspapers didn't blink. Read the rest of this long, angry, and most probably biased article here Tuesday, November 19
For those of you who are not sure what to get me for Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, or any other December holiday that begins with a 'C' that sounds like a 'K', or is not pronounced at all, here is a short list: This would look nice in front of my computer! I could talk to all my new holiday friends, while I update my blog on this! Droool. The perfect companion gift for the next item. Grin! I could pay you a visit in this! Swanky! Just send me an E-mail and I'll let you know where to send the stuff!! Tuesday, November 12
Dear Mr. President: I represent a small consortium of voters who are deeply concerned over your proposed {or, if appropriate, ongoing} military action in Iraq. Given the amount of public speech and political rhetoric you have devoted to this issue in past months, it seems to us as though you are more interested in playing commando than in fighting an actual war with actual human casualties. Enclosed with this letter, we have sent you some small gifts: one PlayStation 2 game console, one copy each of SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs and Conflict: Desert Storm, a memory card and an extra controller for Mr. Cheney's use. We ask that you accept these gifts and use them, rather than the lives of Iraqi civilians and our U.S. servicemen, to fulfill any militaristic fantasies. Respectfully, Mikel Reparaz Chairman Buy Bush a PlayStation 2 Campaign 
Buy Bush a PlayStation 2 Campaign Tuesday, November 5
I know, I know...it's been a while, but, I've been busy. Hey, what've you got to do that's better than to wait around for me to post, huh? Here...jackels! This is why I love America! And by love, I mean hate. Smiles all round! OMAHA, Nebraska (AP) -- The head of an excavation firm has thrown down the gauntlet. Art Dore Sr., 66, is challenging his 60-something rival Virgil Anderson to a boxing match. The two have feuded over city demolition contracts -- in court and at City Hall -- for months. "This is the way that men are supposed to settle things," Dore said. "Is he a man or is he a mouse?" Anderson, head of Omaha's Anderson Excavating Co., apparently is declining the offer. He would only say: "I'm just not going to play their games." CNN |
