Archive for the 'Social Engineering' Category
UK: Thousands of Foreign Criminals Work at Airports Unchecked
May 9th, 2008All of that bullshit air travelers go through in the name of security and… Via: Telegraph: Despite warnings that terrorists would try to recruit people working “airside” in terminals – with direct access to aircraft and baggage – no attempt has been made to check whether foreign workers have committed any offences abroad. The vetting […]
Flying Saucers, Tiny Helicopters Compete in British War Game
May 9th, 2008A lot of this reads like a Jackass with a cast of smart kids, but I think that the point isn’t so much the technology, but the social engineering aspect. Get the young ones thinking about serving the homeland. Get them to realize that, “Hmm. Building terminator robots could lead to a good career. Gee. […]
Federal Agents Arrest Illegal Immigrants LEAVING U.S.
May 7th, 2008It’s practice for what’s coming. Illegal immigrants now. American thought criminals later. * You weren’t planning on being able to avoid those pesky databases at the airport by simply driving out, were you? * Also, the Feds may be robbing people who are carrying cash, or taking their DNA. We don’t know because, as the […]
The Gospel of Consumption and the Better Future We Left Behind
May 7th, 2008Highly recommended. Via: Orion: By the late 1920s, America’s business and political elite had found a way to defuse the dual threat of stagnating economic growth and a radicalized working class in what one industrial consultant called “the gospel of consumption”—the notion that people could be convinced that however much they have, it isn’t enough. […]
Anti-Psychotic Drug Use Soars in U.S. and U.K. Children
May 5th, 2008Before reading the piece below, please see: The Danger of Excessive Vaccination During Brain Development: The Case for a Link to Autism Spectrum Disorders. Cui bono? Via: AP / Newsweek: American children take anti-psychotic medicines at about six times the rate of children in the United Kingdom, according to a comparison based on a new […]
Multinationals Make Billions in Profit Out of Growing Global Food Crisis
May 5th, 2008Via: Independent: Giant agribusinesses are enjoying soaring earnings and profits out of the world food crisis which is driving millions of people towards starvation, The Independent on Sunday can reveal. And speculation is helping to drive the prices of basic foodstuffs out of the reach of the hungry. The prices of wheat, corn and rice […]
American Firm to Build Amusement Park in Baghdad
April 24th, 2008Via: Times Online: Llewellyn Werner admits he is facing obstacles most amusement park developers never have to deal with – insurgent attacks and looting. When you are building an amusement park in downtown Baghdad, those risks come with the territory. Mr Werner, chairman of C3, a Los Angeles-based holding company for private equity firms, is […]
France: Camembert Wars Get Dirty
April 21st, 2008“The war against raw milk is very interesting and illustrative; it sums up the political and economic situation that has the world in a death grip.” —Raw Milk and Lifting the Veil that has Been Pulled Over Our Eyes Via: Guardian: In his tiny workshop with a view of his cows, Francois Durand stood lovingly […]
“Operation Sudden Impact”
April 19th, 2008Via: Infowars: Federal law enforcement agencies co-opted sheriffs offices as well state and local police forces in three states last weekend for a vast round up operation that one sheriff’s deputy has described as “martial law training”. Law-enforcement agencies in Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas took part in what was described by local media as “an […]
Chip Can Detect Bird Flu
April 16th, 2008Via: PC Magazine: Europe ‘s top semiconductor maker, STMicroelectronics , said it has developed a portable chip to detect influenza viruses including bird flu in humans. The device, which functions as a mini laboratory on a chip, can screen and identify multiple classes of pathogens and genes in a single diagnostic test within two hours, […]
