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16 hour work days, food that's poison, obesity, insurance and medicine they can't afford. At some point it collapses on itself because there's only so much greed an economy can stand. We are entering a recession exactly as predicted by Former World Bank Vice President, Chief Economist and Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz in 2006.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/news_alert_120602_illegalbush.html

This is my first of a series of diaries about prisoners murdered by US forces. It will tell the story of an Iraqi man who died hanging by his cuffed wrists from a door frame, gagged, and beaten to death by his US interrogators. As the Final Autopsy Report noted:

The remains are received clad in a white shirt, white pajama type pants, and white
undershorts. Feces covers the clothing from the waist down....There is gauze dressing on the left wrist. No other evidence of medical intervention is noted.... The right chest wall has fractures of ribs three through seven anteriorly and ribs six through twelve posteriorly. The left chest wall has fractures of ribs two through nine anteriorly and ribs seven through twelve posteriorly. There are fractures of the lateral aspect of ribs nine and ten on the left side. There is a horizontal fracture through the mid-portion of the body of the sternum."

Yes, our tax dollars are paying for this. Hung up by the wrists and beaten so badly that he not only had over 25 separate rib fractures, many slicing into his lungs, he also had a fractured sternum. The thick, solid bone protecting your heart.

It gets uglier over the fold. It's time to face reality.

• bewert's diary :: ::

UPDATE: Wow, top of the rec list. You care. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. I have at least two more weeks of similar diaries, I want to make them happen, to get the facts, the horrible knowledge, out to the public in the leadup to Conyers hearings. Again, thank you all for the support. Together, we might be able to have an effect.

UPDATE 2: Some context, as much as I can glean:

The autopsy seems to have been performed as part of an Army CID investigation. I was done under the auspices of (from the header of the autopsy report):

ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE QF PATHOLOGY
Office of the Armed Forces Medical Examiner
1413 Research Blvd., Bldg. 102
Rockville, MD 20850
1-800-944-7912

The incident in question occurred in Al asad, Iraq on Jan. 9, 2004. The victim was a member of the Iraqi Army-the rank has been redacted. The autopsy was performed at BIAP Mortuary in Baghdad. After the autopsy,

ADDITIONAL PROCEDURES
Documentary photographs are taken by OAFME Photographer PH3 [redacted] USN
Specimens retained for toxicologic testing and/or DNA identification are: vitreous fluid, cavity blood, spleen, liver.urine, brain, bile, lung, kidney; and psoas muscle
The dissected organs are forwarded with body
Clothing and personal effects are released to the Army CID agents present at the autopsy

So it seems that it was an incident that was investigated as a crime. With more digging we might be able to find out more details, but right now I'm not sure who, what, or why. And this treatment is not condoned, as it resulted in death. As we know, it's considered torture only if major organ failure or death occurs.

UPDATE 3--This appears to the case of Abdul Jaleel.

From the Final Autopsy Report:

Circumstances of Death: Iraqi detainee died while in U.S. custody.

Authorization for Autopsy: Office of the Armed Forces Medical Examiner, lAW 10 USC 1471

Identification: Identification by accompanying paperwork and wristband, both of which include his nam

Its like the holy grail of data analysis;

And just like the holy grail, it doesn't exist. Ever heard the expression "garbage in, garbage out"? Now imagine how that applies to a huge database of information compiled from diverse sources (including unverified, anonymous tips), where nothing is ever thrown away, and where nobody's quite sure what they're looking for.

The human brain is amazingly good at finding patterns - so good that it often finds patterns that aren't really there. Even with years of experience, training, and peer review, professional scientists are pretty bad at handling problems like confirmation bias, post hoc reasoning and the file-drawer effect - how are law enforcement agents likely to fare, with no statistical training and no effective oversight?

The people constructing these databases are falling into the trap of believing that more data means better data. That's an understandable mistake for people who are usually "data-poor", such as archaeologists, historians and detectives. But anyone from the "data-rich" sciences will tell you that once you have the data you face a whole new set of problems, and I very much doubt that counterterrorism officials, working in conditions of secrecy and under pressure to justify their jobs, are going to handle those problems in a rigorous way.

Please note that I'm not trying to say "police officers are too stupid to understand statistics" - scientists make these mistakes all the time, but they operate in an atmosphere of relative transparency and competition, where it's usually in some other scientist's interest to bring errors to light. The same conditions don't apply to government officials.

What does this mean? It means that false positives will lead to innocent people being monitored, blacklisted and imprisoned without trial, while false negatives will mean genuine threats go undetected. We urgently need to make our governments understand that more data doesn't necessarily lead to better decisions.

There hasn't been any indications that information gained by illegal surveillance has been used in an attempt to prosecute someone.

"Prosecute?" What an old-fashioned notion! US citizens can be declared enemy combatants and held without trial if they provide "material support" to an undefined enemy in an undeclared, neverending war (such as by linking to a jihadist website). Who needs prosecutions?

Ahh, we have a proponent of free speech zones. Obviously the kind of person who would arrest someone for reading the constitution.

You know what pisses me off? People who "actively clean this shit" for everyone they host. I'm in the process of setting up my own mail server because I can't even get email from my girlfriend in Japan, yet actual spam continues to make in through. I can't even email certain friends because of brain dead spam filtering. You assholes are killing email. So you can go fuck yourself with that gavel and stop infringing on my freedom to associate with who I please. I can manage my own whitelist and it's truly none of your goddamned business in deciding what is and isn't spam to ME.

Sure you do. Just like you can delete your own unwanted email. It remains unconstitutional to jail them for merely making their pitch in your presence.

googlesearch ron+paul+naacp, Results:about 207,000 for ron paul naacp. (0.19 seconds)

Hit #1: NAACP President: Ron Paul Is Not A Racist
Hit #6: A Huge Endorsement for Ron Paul - NAACP President, Nelson Linder

If you really want to know there are places you can go to start finding out.

NAACP President: Ron Paul Is Not A Racist

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2008/011308_not_racist.htm

but I am WAY more worried about Google than I am about Microsoft

So am I.

Google is quickly becoming the private sector equivalent to the CIA

If you hove a bend towards conspiracy theories, you may say it is the CIA expanding its brand into the private sector.

Would be worth researching their history a little deeper.

CC.

How can you be so sure that one's political affiliations "will always, always" have an impact on their life? To use such strong words one needs facts, and I am really sorry, but you don't have any.

Because they're looking to collect, and unify, all the information about each citizen. Fact: they're trying to use national ID cards to pin your identity down; Fact: they're trying to use databases to track your biometrics and link them to the cards; Fact: Our affiliations (political and otherwise) are being tracked by both government agencies and by commercial enterprises - and have been for years, just ask those poor bastards in 1950's Hollywood who got hauled up before McCarthy; this is nothing new. Fact: Watching these elections, what do we see but people's college behaviors and affiliations dragged up out of the blue? Hillary roomed with lesbians. Oooo! What about people who are trying to pursue normal lives and suddenly "wikipedia has a FELON as a CFO!", where the hell did that come from, and why is it even relevant? Did she screw up her work? No. Was she even accused of doing anything wrong? No. It's just past behavior being brought up to haunt current life and lock someone into a role they may very well have no part in. You can't be rehabilitated, you're low class and you will STAY low class. You don't think tracking is going on? Called Experian or one of its brethren lately? Seen your FBI file? Are you aware of the no-fly, no-buy, no-bank-account lists, all sans anything even remotely resembling due process? Think your email is private? When's the last time you transacted more than 10 grand at the bank? Do you realize that each of those transactions gets reported to the feds, and yes indeed, TRACKED? Talked to anyone overseas? Think that call wasn't monitored for keywords? Carnivore ring a bell? How about Echelon? Are you one of those clueless folk who think your SSN was used only for your retirement, as promised?

Buddy, the only reason you're "really sorry" is because you've got your head deep in the sand. But I agree, you are one sorry excuse for an informed person. You can fix it, though.

What's even worse, you base your argument upon speculation, which most of the time includes gross oversimplifications of societal matters.

No, I base my arguments upon facts in the record. Current and recent behaviors and data; basically ince3 the early 1900s until today, you can see all manner of problems that are government related. Everything I talked about there is objective fact. There's plenty more where that came from, too.

It is absurd to think that there is one unified entity which works toward a certain goal, and that entity includes everyone that is in charge of anything important for a society.

Yes. Why would you think that? Are you paranoid? It is a very large collection of traitors, bent upon sundering the constitution either knowingly or otherwise. They aren't an "organization", they are an unaffiliated collection of people with similar goals and similar methods. This doesn't make them any easier to deal with, in fact, it makes it considerably more difficult.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot one thing. "Orwell was indeed an optimist." I mean, come on.

You didn't "forget it", you just aren't together enough to see it. With your head as far in the sand as it is, this comes as no surprise. You should read 1984. Carefully. Then look around you and note the low level preparations going on. The camps built by the administration's bully-boys, Haliburton. The executive orders that revoke posse comitatus, you know about that, right? You know how the commerce clause has been mangled to mean "anything that COULD be be interstate comm

P.S. Reductio ad Hitlerum doesn't help your argument.

I guess you didn't read my post or any of the information I linked.
If you had you would have realized I am talking about early 1930's Germany for the most part. Germany was a parliamentary democracy, fairly liberal and very similar to the U.S. today. Way before Hitler and before the National Socialist party was anything but an outsider. You could easily have the conversation and compare it to ANY fascist state that used to be a democracy and closed in on itself; Italy in the 20's, Russia in the 30's, East Germany in the 50's etc.

Since you mention the Constitution, there are laws being passed as we speak (already passed this year and proposed right now) that dismantle and subvert the constitution.

But as a matter of fact, there are direct links between Hitler, Hitler's financier and Prescott Bush, our current president's grandfather. Prescott Bush was involved in a coup attempt in the U.S. to overthrow FDR. The attempted coup was financed by the same man who financed Hitler. Congressional hearings at the time have evidence of this.
BBC Reference

Furthermore, the movement within the U.S. government has directly used tactics, imagery, phrases and ideas from fascist Germany in current times and it's directly related to the things that I'm talking about.

I call Bullshit on your pompous invocation of Godwin's law and ask that you at least dig around a bit before responding.

PODCASTof a radio interview the Alex Jones show for further reference.

Dennis Kucinich has repeatedly voted against bills that would deprive americans of their freedom and privacy. He voted against the Patriot Act which erodes away key civil liberties, and the "Thought Crime Bill" http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2007/261007_ensnare_activists.htm , which could be, which is so broadly worded and loosely defined it could be used against peaceful activists. Even Ron Paul did not vote against the Thought Crime Bill. Kucinich was one of only 6 representatives to vote against it. If you want freedom, and you want your liberties preserved, the best choice is Kucinich.

Another 1960s experiment, in which ten soldiers on a training flight were told by the pilot that the aircraft was disabled, and about to ditch in the ocean. They were then required to fill in insurance forms before the crash -- ostensibly so the Army was not financially liable for any deaths or injuries.

They were actually unwitting participants in an experiment: the plane was not crippled at all. It revealed that fear of imminent death indeed causes soldiers to make more mistakes than usual when filling in forms.

It immediately reminded me of Stanley Milgram's Experiments. Where the test subjects are 'set up' and are tested on something different than appearances would indicate. They're tested in extreme conditions and caused such a shock at their time that I surely think they should be #1 on this list. I think Milgram started working on a really incredible part of human psychology: the unconscious rules that we live by so that our society can function. The weirdest part of what his research led to, imho, is that these un-knowing rules are so secretive; we hide them from ourselves. They have not been studied before, or since as far as I know. Until recently...
A group of Internet geeks got together on alt.seduction.fast and started working together to combine resources and model these secret behaviour rules in order to improve their success with women. They have had great success at what they call The Game. As these rules emerged they quickly realized that they are useful in all social situations rather then just the art of the 'pick-up'. Consequently several of these previous geeks are now somewhat superstars in their circles.
What's ironic to me though, is that knowledge of the built-in secret social rules be it Milgram's or the pick-up artists, does not translate to ease of their manipulation. There seems to be a built-in restraint component that does not go away merely because a subject knows it exists. As anthropologists would say, the system is protecting itself...

Now, when one starts to ponder what is often called 'High Level' game. Is it unusual for it to drift into analyses of people in the highest strata of society who use these rules to maintain their already dominant position? I don't want to go all 'Alex Jones' on this, but how much truth resides in conspiracy students who aren't content with staring at the surface veneer of the mass propaganda force-fed to us? Zeitgeist would translate more or less to 'spirit of the age'. Is Zeitgeist the true spirit of our age? Be your own judge, but be enlightened by the journey.
Thank you.

Then there's the campaign by WP admins who delete all pages on 9/11 truth. This should be disturbing whether or not you're one of these "truthers."

Bottom line is WP cannot be trusted to give you a true democratic viewpoint as they claim. It may be the encyclopedia "anyone can edit," but only on approved topics.

Just for a hoot, I looked around, and found this link out there. I have NO idea if this guy's on the level and/or sane, but he's fairly convinced...

If you want to see what RFID tags can do when hit with enough RF energy...

http://www.prisonplanet.com/180304_RFID_article.ht ml

Your making two assumptions.

First, that whoever is in power next will WANT to investigate this.

Second, that there will be a "next election", don't forget that those in power do anything to stay in power. This administration has already tried to delay the elections in '04 due to concerns over security and has since set itself up with some scary martial law powers.

Anyone want to take bets on the odds of there being a major "terrorist attack" in the US within 4-6 months of the next election? And as long as it doesn't directly impact the "common person", increase in gas price, beer, cable TV or interrupt Monday night football, most of the sheeple will just let it happen.

Now before you tinfoil hat rejected-debunker-super-sleuths-know-it-all-yuppie -hipster-techno types say one goddamn thing, read the article.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2007/03 0807_reverses_stance.htm

http://www.prisonplanet.com/news_alert_120602_ille galbush.html

Well, if placebo medicine can cure cancer, (numerous documented cases, and not only cancer)
why can't an unfounded fear or belief that cellphones cause cancer actually CAUSE cancer?

Or, perhaps it CAN cause cancer, in people particularly sensitive to it for X reasons.
We've spent a lot of money researching this phenomena, but that doesn't discount the
possibility that we've been looking in the wrong way. Or *intentionally not finding it.

It took 50 years for asbestos to be tagged. And 20 for hormone replacement.

Can you imagine the potential liability if cell phones did, in fact, cause cancer?
We have seen how they handle such situations, before.

First things first: why China?

Exactly, there's just as much reason to be afraid of these things in oppressive first world regimes. The US government is already getting some websites to turn over their user lists. How long until they talk Microsoft or Google into giving them access to their data mining facilities? If they can get 80% accuracy, well that's probable cause, and that will get them a warrant for a search. Eventually we'll all have to be very careful what we search for, lest we end up on a list somewhere.

The pentagon and the streets in its neighborhood were admittedly constructed by Masons. The area around it has an owl shape, and a pentagram, the pentagon is in the inside part of the pentagram. An owl, btw, is the god Molechm, worshipped for millenia historically and more recently by the Bohemian Grove. http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2005/0 20104grovebackground.htm

E. Howard Hunt's deathbed JFK murder confession

Former CIA agent, Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt names the men who killed Kennedy

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/april2007/300 407deathbedconfession.htm

>With as many people who would be in on the conspiracy, we should be getting deathbed confessions already. One deathbed confession, coming right up. http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/april2007/300 407deathbedconfession.htm/

On his deathbed recently confessed to the conspiracy..
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/april2007/300 407deathbedconfession.htm

The motives were there in spades too.

Yeah Yeah, knock the messenger (prisonplanet), but read it first.

Thanks for telling me, I just updated my sig. Youtube periodically deletes 911 truth videos and then somebody puts it back up. I can be reached at my user@yahoo.com email account, just substitute the string user with geltenfloor. If you want to learn more about this then go to then do go to these sites

http://www.infowars.com/
http://www.prisonplanet.com/
http://www.informationliberation.com/

Watch the movies Terrorstorm, Loose Change 2nd Edition, Police State 2000, 2003 on
video.google.com (just search for them, you'll find them people make sure those
docs are up). While you're at it also enter "Global Warming Swindle" in video.google.com

Take care
JG

The only thing missing between Iraq an Oakland or Richmond, CA is flying helicopter to place to place.

• Election staff convicted in recount rig in Ohio 2004 presidential election that gave President Bush the electoral votes he needed to defeat Democratic Sen. John Kerry
  
  
• Bush signs landmark executive order increasing White House power over federal agencies
  
  
• Bush's Signing Statement Dictatorship
  
  
• Senator asks Bush to explain signing statement that gives President authority to open mail without warrant
  
  
• Bush Moves Toward Martial Law
  
  
• US Attorney General Questions the Right to a Fair Trial
  
  
• The White House is replacing U.S. Attorneys throughout the country
  
  
• Attorneys for the District of Columbia argue that the Second Amendment right to bear arms applies only to militias, not individuals
  
  
• U.S. citizens to be required "clearance" to leave the United States
  
  
• plenty more, regretfully...
  
  

• Election staff convicted in recount rig in Ohio 2004 presidential election that gave President Bush the electoral votes he needed to defeat Democratic Sen. John Kerry
  
  
• Bush signs landmark executive order increasing White House power over federal agencies
  
  
• Bush's Signing Statement Dictatorship
  
  
• Senator asks Bush to explain signing statement that gives President authority to open mail without warrant
  
  
• Bush Moves Toward Martial Law
  
  
• US Attorney General Questions the Right to a Fair Trial
  
  
• The White House is replacing U.S. Attorneys throughout the country
  
  
• Attorneys for the District of Columbia argue that the Second Amendment right to bear arms applies only to militias, not individuals
  
  
• U.S. citizens to be required "clearance" to leave the United States
  
  
• plenty more...
  
  

On the freedom of religion front, there's also Bush's attempt to withhold AIDS treatment from Africans that have access to abortions, and the faith based initiatives.

The other areas actually look worse. Under Clinton, US radio stations were consolidated into the hands of a few by the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Television and newspapers are following. The trend has accelerated, and now the military (now, government) is even writing some of our news for us, and ISPs are lobbying congress so they can control speech online. The NSA has been building up networks to log all IP connections made over the Internet background.

• Election staff convicted in recount rig in Ohio 2004 presidential election that gave President Bush the electoral votes he needed to defeat Democratic Sen. John Kerry
  
  
• Bush signs landmark executive order increasing White House power over federal agencies
  
  
• Bush's Signing Statement Dictatorship
  
  
• Senator asks Bush to explain signing statement that gives President authority to open mail without warrant
  
  
• Bush Moves Toward Martial Law
  
  
• US Attorney General Questions the Right to a Fair Trial
  
  
• The White House is replacing U.S. Attorneys throughout the country
  
  
• Attorneys for the District of Columbia argue that the Second Amendment right to bear arms applies only to militias, not individuals
  
  
• U.S. citizens to be required "clearance" to leave the United States
  
  
• plenty more...
  
  

• Election staff convicted in recount rig in Ohio 2004 presidential election that gave President Bush the electoral votes he needed to defeat Democratic Sen. John Kerry
  
  
• Bush signs landmark executive order increasing White House power over federal agencies
  
  
• Bush's Signing Statement Dictatorship
  
  
• Senator asks Bush to explain signing statement that gives President authority to open mail without warrant
  
  
• Bush Moves Toward Martial Law
  
  
• US Attorney General Questions the Right to a Fair Trial
  
  
• The White House is replacing U.S. Attorneys throughout the country
  
  
• Attorneys for the District of Columbia argue that the Second Amendment right to bear arms applies only to militias, not individuals
  
  
• U.S. citizens to be required "clearance" to leave the United States
  
  
• plenty more regretfully, see Part II
  
  

• Election staff convicted in recount rig in Ohio 2004 presidential election that gave President Bush the electoral votes he needed to defeat Democratic Sen. John Kerry
  
  
• Bush signs landmark executive order increasing White House power over federal agencies
  
  
• Bush's Signing Statement Dictatorship
  
  
• Senator asks Bush to explain signing statement that gives President authority to open mail without warrant
  
  
• Bush Moves Toward Martial Law
  
  
• US Attorney General Questions the Right to a Fair Trial
  
  
• The White House is replacing U.S. Attorneys throughout the country
  
  
• Attorneys for the District of Columbia argue that the Second Amendment right to bear arms applies only to militias, not individuals
  
  
• U.S. citizens to be required "clearance" to leave the United States
  
  
• plenty more, regretfully...
  
  

[quote]
NEW YORK - Along a gritty stretch of street in Brooklyn, police this month quietly launched an ambitious plan to combat street crime and terrorism.
But instead of cops on the beat, wireless video cameras peer down from lamp posts about 30 feet above the sidewalk.

They were the first installment of a program to place 500 cameras throughout the city at a cost of $9 million. Hundreds of additional cameras could follow if the city receives $81.5 million in federal grants it has requested to safeguard Lower Manhattan and parts of midtown with a surveillance "ring of steel" modeled after security measures in London's financial district.
[blockquote]

For more read: http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/april2006/160 406nypdflips.htm

Then watch as the lack of police presence attracts criminals to the open:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqNfXg1nE3k

But of course, if this system where to be fool proof, crime would have be enforced.

Youtube is now in the hands of search monopolist Google. Many said that they paid too much, but what really was bought was influence, worth far more than any revenue stream they could derive from it.

What will happen now is that google will allow activism it approves of or is indifferent to, and lower the search rankings/drop from top 10 lists any activism that it doesn't like. The same thing it already does with news and search.

I doubt this will change anything. All it will do is further tighten control.

For example, google/youtube has already been caught pulling / removing from top 10 lists the video where the BBC stated that the Salomon Brothers building (WTC7) had collapsed... 20 minutes before the event actually occurred.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2007/ 260207building7.htm

But before we can have our Mars colony we still have to take out the
trash because I don't see why this parasitical scum http://prisonplanet.com/articles/june2006/110606At tendees.htm (Bilderberger'06 Attendee List) would want to let us go there.

Looking at the technical problems such as radiation protection (Mars has no magnetic
field to deflect particles btw), designing shelters and then bringing in the heavy
equipment for building all those cool domes that are on the covers of Robert Heinlein's
books and solving hell of a lot of other problems...

taking out the trash is in comparison a minor, straightforward chore.

...aircraft remote control systems in a bid to eliminate the threat of terrorist hijackings...

Didn't anyone here watch episode 1 of The Lone Gunmen???

Jump in the microwave for three minutes!! Just make sure that your eyes don't start on fire.

People wanting to learn more about this directly from a former IRS agent can watch
the Alex Jones Interview with former IRS Agent Joe Banister:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3KMGK22gOs part1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFmeoGn0kwQ part2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bavy91QnRsc part3

http://www.infowars.com/
http://www.prisonplanet.com/

There is a whole lot more to "The Law" than fifty yards of paper in
a bookshelf that goes all the way to the top of the ceiling. No matter
what any piece of paper says, "The Law" does not apply equally to
everybody ... if it applies atall... US District Judge Dawson (presiding
over the conviction of author Irwin Schiff) is quoted as saying:
  "I will not allow the law in my court room" and then telling the jury
"You must follow the law as I give it to you".

People (especially tax protestors) tend to forget that whatever happens
to be "The Law" and its du jour interpretation is always ultimately enforced
at gunpoint. But then... just because you can shoot Randy Weaver's son and his wife
while holding a baby in her arms by your black op punks and not have to answer
to the courts you own doesn't make what you do lawful.

Yeah, because the security threats to facilities come from the general public which gets its aerial imagery free from these years-old databases, not from corporate, governement or international orgs with budgets for the plentiful (even cheap) aerial/satellite products with recent updates, higher resolution, GIS overlays, even realtime observations. Or their own aircraft/satellites to generate their own custom data.

These blurred images are just Google caving into various narrow interests with either something negligent to hide from an enquiring public or its reporters, or just pretending to secure facilities with meaningless handwaving, or both.

Simcurity: when you just don't care to provide real security, and a simulation will do instead.

Wasn't there a story a while back were large sums of US cash was setting off the RFID security scanners at department stores. And someone microwave the money and found that bthe eyes of the presidents blackened.

This isn't the exact story i was thinking of but it details it a little better.

Recently in the US it has become illegal to melt down the coinage. Reason: The metal content of the coins has become more valuable than the face value of the coin. What with the continuing rise in commodity prices (or the return of inflation (or the imminent collapse in the value of some currencies)) the primary reason for this microchipping of coins and notes (and this Canadian experiment) might just be authentication of the currency. As reported elsewhere: http://www.prisonplanet.com/022904rfidtagsexplode. html & http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20011219S0016

Of course, there are surveillance "benefits" too.

Are you sure the black boxes were never found? This would have been the only time EVER that FDRs were not recoverd in the US.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2004/2 81004blackbox.htm

Don't be so sure about the 10 year figure... look at the SIP program in Texas. Or the story in Virgina from a couple of years ago (Full story on another site); (Start of the archive story, need to pay for the full version)... And of course, commentary from FORMER MADD members...

The prohibitionist are back... and fighting strong now...

Nephilium

Why on earth aren't people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time. --- Jack Kerouac, beat writer

http://www.prisonplanet.com/022904rfidtagsexplode. html or google for more

They're are no islamic terrorists[1], 9/11 was an inside job, and Osama Bin Laden is a CIA agent.

[1] That is to say before the pentagon carried out it's plan to collapse Iraq and create terrorists who were inimical to the United States(see: 'P2og'):

http://prisonplanet.com/articles/august2005/220805 faketerrorism.htm
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-670819007 1483512003&q=9%2F11+Mysteries
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7860484536 86176230&q=terror+storm