Archive for the 'Social Engineering' Category
The Fourth Kind
August 19th, 2009I noticed some chatter in a couple of nonsense polluted backwaters about a psychologist and some related cases in the upcoming alien abduction film, The Fourth Kind. At first, I wasn’t going to post anything about this, but to head off people from emailing me about it, I decided to go ahead: I spent about […]
Airlines to Require More Passenger Data
August 13th, 2009Via: Wall Street Journal: Airlines this week will begin requiring some people making reservations for domestic flights to submit their dates of birth and genders as part of a screening process aimed at keeping boarding passes out of the hands of suspected terrorists, the Transportation Security Administration said. The agency said the screening would all […]
FLU: U.S. GOVERNMENT PREPARING TO FEED CHILDREN IN CLOSED SCHOOLS; “REACH PEOPLE AT WORK”
August 13th, 2009What are the Secretaries of Health and Human Services, Homeland Security and Education really saying here? Our agencies are working with the Department of Agriculture to make sure children will have access to healthy meals if their schools close, and with Departments of Commerce and Labor to reach people at work. This sounds like they’re […]
Massachusetts Deputizes Dentists, Others to Help with Vaccinations
August 13th, 2009Via: Boston Globe: Massachusetts health authorities took the unprecedented step yesterday of deputizing dentists, paramedics, and pharmacists to help administer vaccines against both the seasonal flu and the novel swine strain expected to make a return visit in the fall. In another emergency measure, regulators directed hospitals and clinics to provide vaccine to all their […]
The Cash “Magically Appeared on Their Electronic Benefit Cards”
August 12th, 2009What’ll it be? A $100 bonus to get the chip implanted early? Via: New York Daily News: A $200 back-to-school giveaway for needy kids sparked a mad rush for money on the streets of New York on Tuesday. “It’s free money!” said Alecia Rumph, 26, who waited in a Morris Park, Bronx, line 300 people […]
British Government Installing CCTV Cameras Inside Private Homes
August 3rd, 2009Via: Wired: As an ex-Brit, I’m well aware of the authorities’ love of surveillance and snooping, but even I, a pessimistic cynic, am amazed by the governments latest plan: to install Orwell’s telescreens in 20,000 homes. £400 million ($668 million) will be spend on installing and monitoring CCTV cameras in the homes of private citizens. […]
The Deep Politics of Hollywood: Close Encounters with the Pentagon
August 3rd, 2009I wish I’d taken a screenshot from the scene in the 2007 Transformers where John Turturro is shown against a wall and the sign to the left of the frame says something like, “322 days since last accident.” HAHA. I almost upchucked the lamb chop I ate for dinner that night. I hit REWIND and […]
UK’s (Voluntary for Now) National ID Card Unveiled
July 30th, 2009Via: BBC: Home Secretary Alan Johnson has unveiled the final design of the controversial national identity card. The card will be offered to members of the public in the Greater Manchester area from the end of this year. Ministers plan to launch the £30 biometric ID card nationwide in 2011 or 2012 – but it […]
India to Control Population Growth by Giving People Television (Not The Onion)
July 30th, 2009Via: Times Online: India intends to harness the passion-killing properties of late-night television to help to control a potentially catastrophic population explosion. Ghulam Nabi Azad, the Health and Family Welfare Minister, has called for the country to redouble its efforts to bring electricity to all of its huge rural population. The introduction of the electric […]
Martial Law and the Militarization of Public Health: The Worldwide H1N1 Flu Vaccination Program
July 29th, 2009Via: Global Research: If Martial Law were to be adopted in the context of a Public Health Emergency, what we would be dealing with is the “forced vaccination” of targeted population groups as well as the possible establishment of facilities for the internment of people who have been quarantined. In this regard, it is worth […]
