Archive for June, 2007
Big Brother, Big Business
June 3rd, 2007Here’s a two hour CNBC piece about privacy, surveillance and the emerging biometric lockdown. Even though the situation presented here is grim, we know that it’s much worse. If, however, you or someone you know is looking for a general, easy to understand presentation on these issues, and have about two hours to spare, this […]
Taking Liberties
June 2nd, 2007Via: noliberties: The shocking truth about the erosion of our fundamental civil liberties by Tony Blair’s government will be exposed this summer in TAKING LIBERTIES, released in UK cinemas by Revolver Entertainment June 8th 2007. Right to Protest, Right to Freedom of Speech. Right to Privacy. Right not to be detained without charge, Innocent Until […]
Dutch Try to Grow Enviro-Friendly Meat in Lab
June 2nd, 2007Coming to a domed city near you. Via: Reuters: Dutch researchers are trying to grow pork meat in a laboratory with the goal of feeding millions without the need to raise and slaughter animals. “We’re trying to make meat without having to kill animals,” Bernard Roelen, a veterinary science professor at Utrecht University, said in […]
Forced to Eat Higher Food Prices
June 1st, 2007Via: Kitco: What I am in a panic about is that from the Financial Times we read the terrible news that “Retail food prices are heading for their biggest annual increase in as much as 30 years, raising fears that the world faces an unprecedented period of food price inflation. Few countries have not felt […]
State Department Orders Site to Take Down Photos of $592 Million U.S. Embassy In Iraq
June 1st, 2007Winning hearts and minds, now with obscene embassy/palace. Via: ThinkProgress: On Tuesday, ThinkProgress highlighted photos of the U.S. embassy in Iraq, which is set to open in September. Projected to cost $592 million, the embassy will have a staff of 1,000 people and operating costs will total $1.2 billion a year. The complex will be […]
People May Be Arbitrarily Stopped and Searched by Police in All of London
June 1st, 2007Via: BBC: Under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000, police officers may randomly stop someone without reasonable suspicion, providing the area has been designated a likely target for an attack. The power is currently in force across the whole of London.
Raising Questions About 9/11 Gets an Army Sergeant Demoted for “Disloyalty”
June 1st, 2007Via: Fort Worth Weekly: These days, Donald Buswell’s job is not as exciting or dangerous as it once was. For the past few months, his working hours have been spent taking care of some 40-plus wounded soldiers at San Antonio’s Fort Sam Houston medical center. The work is sometimes menial, even janitorial, but he doesn’t […]
DARPA to Create Brain-Chipped Cyborg Moths
June 1st, 2007Via: The Register UK: Famed US military mad-scientist bureau DARPA (the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency) is engaged in an effort to grow/build cyborg moths for use as spies. No, really. The program is called Hybrid Insect Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems, or HI-MEMS. In it, the arguably over-caffeined DARPA boffins aim to construct a tiny lepidopterine infiltration […]
TB Guy’s Father-In-Law Is a CDC TB Expert
June 1st, 2007Imagine my shock. Obviously, this entire thing is a bunch of bullshit intended to frighten you, at some point, into the arms of some crook with a needle. Since I can’t even bring myself to quote much from this claptrap nonsense, I’ll just include the part about the guy’s father-in-law, who happens to be a […]
Remember My Warnings About Closed Source Computer Security Products and Services?
June 1st, 2007Read the Ugly Truth About Online Anonymity and then try to guess who’s an affiliate for Armorware, a proprietary computer security software suite? This is Mike Ruppert’s Armorware page. That’s right. That Mike Ruppert. I stopped paying attention to Ruppert after his weird statements in the wake of the Gary Webb murder, which came after […]
