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7/17/2004

Video Games Based on Ghetto Life :.

Impressing degenerate, crap culture on youth:

One of the dominating themes at this year's E3 was what many dubbed the "thugging" of the games industry. Alongside the expected and the predictable, the sequels and the remakes, an inordinate amount of emphasis had been placed on urban and hip-hop themes in games. Whether it was established franchises morphing into more streetwise versions of their former selves or new franchises emerging wearing their hip-hop influences on their sleeves, it was clear that the urban lifestyle is being embraced by developers and publishers alike.



Terrorist Photo Students :.

Ian Spiers had just hours to finish an assignment for his photography class. He was taking shots of a railroad bridge near the Ballard Locks when an officer with a German shepherd approached him, asked him what he was doing and requested some ID.

Later, he was questioned and photographed by a Homeland Security agent.

It was the second time in less than two months that Spiers had been questioned about taking pictures of a landmark that attracts hundreds of tourists a day, many of whom snap photos of the ships passing between Lake Union and Elliott Bay.

A growing number of photographers around the country have been similarly rousted in recent years as they've tried to take pictures of federal buildings and other major public works, said Donald Winslow, editor of the National Press Photographers Association's magazine.

"We've seen the constant erosion of our civil liberties amid this cry for homeland security by doing things that have an appearance of making us safe, but in reality it's a sham," Winslow said. "No one showed up at the World Trade Center and took photographs from nine different angles before they flew planes into it."

The morning of May 26, Spiers explained he was a photography student at a community college, showed a copy of his assignment, then asked the officer if he was legally obligated to show his ID.

The officer said no and walked away. But soon after, several armed officers approached him, including three from the Seattle Police Department and three from the federal Homeland Security Department.


7/16/2004

Mossad Agent Caught Shipping Explosives to Al Queda :.

How do you like dem' Apples?

Philippine National Police (PNP) operatives apprehended an Israeli, Mera Doutvsky, suspected to be a member of the al-Qaeda terror network in in Baguio City on June 7.



Saddam 2.0: Allawi Executed Inmates :.

U.S. appoints psychopath to "lead" Iraq:

Iyad Allawi, the new Prime Minister of Iraq, pulled a pistol and executed as many as six suspected insurgents at a Baghdad police station, just days before Washington handed control of the country to his interim government, according to two people who allege they witnessed the killings.

They say the prisoners - handcuffed and blindfolded - were lined up against a wall in a courtyard adjacent to the maximum-security cell block in which they were held at the Al-Amariyah security centre, in the city's south-western suburbs.

They say Dr Allawi told onlookers the victims had each killed as many as 50 Iraqis and they "deserved worse than death".

The Prime Minister's office has denied the entirety of the witness accounts in a written statement to the Herald, saying Dr Allawi had never visited the centre and he did not carry a gun.

But the informants told the Herald that Dr Allawi shot each young man in the head as about a dozen Iraqi policemen and four Americans from the Prime Minister's personal security team watched in stunned silence.



Plankton Cool Off with Own Clouds :.

Phytoplankton may be small, but that doesn't mean they can't do big things -- like change the weather to suit their needs.

A recent study funded by NASA's Earth Science Department shows that the tiny sea plants release high quantities of cloud-forming compounds on days when the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays are especially strong. The compounds evaporate into the air through a series of chemical processes that result in especially reflective clouds. This, in turn, blocks the radiation from bothering the phytoplankton.

The findings not only confirm earlier theories that plankton are linked to the creation of clouds above the ocean but could also lead to a better understanding of how living things affect the Earth's climate.




7/15/2004

Hookers Mass in New York for GOP Convention :.

Family values:

With thousands of Republicans set to invade the city this summer, high-priced escorts and strippers are preparing for one grand old party.

Agencies are flying in extra call girls from around the globe to meet the expected demand during the Aug. 30-Sept. 2 gathering at Madison Square Garden.

"We have girls from London, Seattle, California, all coming in for that week," said a madam at a Manhattan escort service. "It's the week everyone wants to work."

"It's going to be big," agreed one operator at a midtown escort service.

Charging from $300 to upwards of $1,000 for an hour of companionship and a whole lot more, escorts said they can always count on conventioneers for big business.



'Mossad Agents' Jailed in Fake New Zealand Passport Scandal :.

More on Israeli criminal activity:

The prime minister of New Zealand angrily denounced Israel and imposed diplomatic sanctions on it after two suspected Mossad agents were jailed for six months for trying on false grounds to obtain a New Zealand passport.

The plot, which involved obtaining a passport in the name of a tetraplegic man who had not spoken in years, provoked a furious reaction yesterday.

"The breach of New Zealand laws and sovereignty by agents of the Israeli government has seriously strained our relationship with Israel," said the prime minister, Helen Clark.

"This type of behaviour is unacceptable internationally by any country. It is a sorry indictment of Israel that it has again taken such actions against a country with which it has friendly relations."

High-level visits between the two countries will be cancelled, visa restrictions imposed for Israeli officials, and an expected visit to New Zealand by Moshe Katsov, the Israeli president, later this year has been cancelled.

Ms Clark said Israel had ignored requests made three months ago for an explanation and an apology.


7/14/2004

Chip Implanted in Mexico Judicial Workers :.

Well, well, well.... Here we go:

Security has reached the subcutaneous level for Mexico's attorney general and at least 160 people in his office - they have been implanted with microchips that get them access to secure areas of their headquarters.

It's a pioneering application of a technology that is widely used in animals but not in humans.

Mexico's top federal prosecutors and investigators began receiving chip implants in their arms in November in order to get access to restricted areas inside the attorney general's headquarters, said Antonio Aceves, general director of Solusat, the company that distributes the microchips in Mexico.

Attorney General Rafael Macedo de la Concha and 160 of his employees were implanted at a cost to taxpayers of $150 for each rice grain-sized chip.

More are scheduled to get "tagged" in coming months, and key members of the Mexican military, the police and the office of President Vicente Fox might follow suit, Aceves said. Fox's office did not immediately return a call seeking comment.


7/12/2004

Attention, Shoppers: You Can Now Speed Straight Through Checkout Lines! :.

I'm not kidding, this is the actual tagline from the story in Wired:

Radio-frequency chips are retail nirvana. They're the end of privacy. They're the mark of the beast. Inside the tag-and-track supermarket of the future.



JAPAN: SCHOOLKIDS TO BE TAGGED WITH RFID CHIPS :.

It's always for the children. How can you be against anything that's for the children?

I find it interesting that this is being done in Japan. Japan is, to many in the West, a "free an open" society. In actuality, however, Japan has a profoundly fascistic and highly regimented society. Japanese fascism is subtle, almost elegant in its appearance. Japanese fascism is the model by which all other implementations of fascism must be rated. The reason for this is because Japanese individuals (resident of Japan, not necessarily people of Japanese decent living elsewhere) are essentially bred to comply with systemic and cultural norms that insure system maintenance. Japanese fascists enjoy a militaristic following from their subjects. For example, it is not uncommon for Japanese workers to die from service to their corporations. Karoshi is a Japanese term that means, "death from overwork."

As I've said before, the brainwashing of children is key to any system of fascism. Therefore, it makes perfect sense that Japan, a state with one of the purest expressions of fascism (if not the most overt), would be the first to carry out RFID indoctrination of its children. The U.S. is implementing biometric surveillance and access control in schools, but it is chipping that will ultimately be used because the RFID technology allows for the automatic tracking of individuals anywhere an RFID reader can be installed; subway stations, supermarkets, movie theaters, libraries, etc.

Look for implantation soon. Perhaps the argument will be made that a child could be saved from a kidnapper if the chip was implanted. Under the "backpack" system, the kidnapper simply has to discard the backpack. Obviously, this is just the beginning phase of the PSYOP to convince people to submit to microchip implantation.

I remember fifteen years ago when this type of discussion was just about as fringe as fringe could get. And now, gaze upon it:

The rights and wrongs of RFID-chipping human beings have been debated since the tracking tags reached the technological mainstream. Now, school authorities in the Japanese city of Osaka have decided the benefits outweigh the disadvantages and will now be chipping children in one primary school.

The tags will be read by readers installed in school gates and other key locations to track the kids' movements.

The chips will be put onto kids' schoolbags, name tags or clothing in one Wakayama prefecture school. Denmark's Legoland introduced a similar scheme last month to stop young children going astray.

RFID is more commonly found in supermarket and other retailers' supply chains, however, companies are now seeking more innovative ways to derive value from the tracking technology. US airline Delta recently announced it would be using RFID to track travellers' luggage.



Officials Discuss How to Delay Election Day :.

Get your bucket o' popcorn and your 64oz Big Gulp of sodeepop ready. This one is rated "R" for ridiculous. Let's see, a Bush appointed snake handler is in charge of figuring out how to postpone the election in the event of a terrorist attack? Oh sure. Why not? Can you imagine trying to make up nonsense like this!? You couldn't do it!

U.S. officials have discussed the idea of postponing Election Day in the event of a terrorist attack on or about that day, a Homeland Security Department spokesman said Sunday.

The department has referred questions about the matter to the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel, said spokesman Brian Roehrkasse, confirming a report in this week's editions of Newsweek magazine.

Newsweek said the discussions about whether the November 2 election could be postponed started with a recent letter to Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge from DeForest Soaries Jr., chairman of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.

The commission was set up after the disputed 2000 presidential vote to help states deal with logistical problems in their elections.

Soaries, who was appointed by President Bush, is a former New Jersey secretary of state and senior pastor of the 7,000-member First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens in Somerset.




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