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Re:as usual
Blame your current administration, everyone else seems to.
(tinfoil-hat on)
A bit of a coinicidence that these events are not visible or clouded out, isn't it?
Those "Clouds" are carefully engineered using stratotankers dumping chemtrails to keep you passive and unresisting, and also to obscure your view of anything that might possibly cause you to question your leaders.
Ah, crap, I can't keep up this tinfoil hat charade... but surely someone can extrapolate further from what I've posted. Carry on :-) -
Terrorists?Wait a minute, I thought the latest was that 9/11 was faked just to enrich the Republicans and to let the Israelis kill more innocent children in the Middle East. You can read more about it at The Fatal Flaw in The 911 Coverup.
So, would you rather have the government chasing after imaginary terrorists and squashing the civil rights of citizens? Or going after software thieves?
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Re:So?
You hope so? Better close your eyes then. That's right, the police can arrest you and haul you off to jail in chains for speeding, failing to signal, honking without due cause, having your stereo too loud, not having your seatbelt done up, or turning into the wrong lane. Instead of getting a ticket, you go to jail. They usually don't, because that would be dumb, but they CAN and there is NOTHING you can do about it. They don't even need a reason, other than they felt like harassing you.
On the topic of new police powers, they don't need warrants anymore, either. Link
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Seems easier to sneak a spy into closed source.Of course it's even possible for a foreign agent to sneak into a secretive oranization like this one .
It wouldn't surprise me if some Closed-Source companies have foreign nationals working on their software as well.
In either case, whoever's using software for National Security better audit the source code themselves. I wouldn't want missle systems to use Linux or Windows or some other RTOS without a careful audit.
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Re:Hello Computer....
Well, if you don't mind it being Aluminium Oxide, which is a ceramic, it's been around at least two years, Article, though I seem to recall seeing a varient of this before 2000 in a Popular Science magazine.
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Biosafety Level Misinformation
References to BSL5 appear to be using poor/outdated terminology.
A non-canonically sourced article here (coincidentally mentioning Plum island) mentions "The confusion stems from two separate ranking systems, one for organisms and one for facilities. There are four levels of facilities, said Ms. Hays. And there are four levels of organisms. But once upon a time there were five levels of organisms, the top rank reserved for animals diseases forbidden in the mainland U.S."
A passing reference to this old classification system can be seen here.
The current CDC listing of Biosafety Criteria is here.
My quick searches using Google to check US government web sites turns up only a handful of references, all false positives (so to speak). This suggests that any mention of BSL-5 is either outdated, incorrect, fictitious, or (for the paranoid) leaked classified information.
Having read the BSL-4 specs from the CDC, about the only step up I can imagine for a BSL-5 facility is "Remote teleoperation only; no on-site human presence allowed. No material, organic or otherwise, may ever leave the facility." Anyone stupid enough to even try to play with something that would need that level of containment ought to be shot; it isn't even useful as weapon, it just exteminates the species. -
The Tin Foil Hats SayAs seen in this article featuring the testimony of Dr Carol Rosin. Dr Carol Rosin was the first woman corporate manager of Fairchild Industries and was spokesperson for Wernher Von Braun in the last years of his life. She founded the Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space in Washington DC and has testified before Congress on many occasions about space based weapons. Von Braun revealed to Dr Rosin a plan to justify weapons in spaced based on hoaxing an extraterrestrial threat. She was also present at meetings in the '70s when the scenario for the Gulf War of the '90s was planned.
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As practically a deathbed speech, he educated me about those concepts and who the players were in this game. He gave me the responsibility, since he was dying, of continuing this effort to prevent the weaponization of outer space.
When Wernher Von Braun was dying of cancer, he asked me to be his spokesperson, to appear on occasions when he was too ill to speak. I did this. What was most interesting to me was a repetitive sentence that he said to me over and over again during the approximately four years that I had the opportunity to work with him.
He said the strategy that was being used to educate the public and decision makers was to use scare tactics That was how we identify an enemy. The strategy that Wernher Von Braun taught me was that first the Russians are going to be considered to be the enemy. In fact, in 1974, they were the enemy, the identified enemy. We were told that they had "killer satellites". We were told that they were coming to get us and control us-that they were "Commies."
Then terrorists would be identified, and that was soon to follow. We heard a lot about terrorism. Then we were going to identify third-world country "crazies." We now call them Nations of Concern. But he said that would be the third enemy against whom we would build space-based weapons.
The next enemy was asteroids. Now, at this point he kind of chuckled the first time he said it.
Asteroids- against asteroids we are going to build space-based weapons.
And the funniest one of all was what he called aliens, extraterrestrials. That would be the final scare. And over and over and over during the four years that I knew him and was giving speeches for him, he would bring up that last card.
"And remember Carol, the last card is the alien card. We are going to have to build space-based weapons against aliens and all of it is a lie."
I think I was too naive at that time to know the seriousness of the nature of the spin that was being put on the system. And now, the pieces are starting to fall into place. We are building a space-based weapons system on a premise that is a lie, a spin. Wernher Von Braun was trying to hint that to me back in the early 70's and right up until the moment when he died in 1977.
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As practically a deathbed speech, he educated me about those concepts and who the players were in this game. He gave me the responsibility, since he was dying, of continuing this effort to prevent the weaponization of outer space.
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Re:From the ARDA Page
There's that, but then there's also the Other High-Risk Military Intelligence Operations that need to be funded
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youve got to be kidding me...It is clear from the articles in the Royal Charter, that the BBC is entirely responsible for setting its own standards for broadcasting, which it does in the "Producers Guidelines". In addition, the BBC is also responsible for dealing with complaints about its programmes through its own in-house procedures. This is a totally unsatisfactory situation, as the BBC is setting the standards and is then the judge and jury on complaints about non-compliance with its own procedures and standards.
There is ample evidence to show that the BBC is very unwilling to accept any complaints about its programmes. This applies to complaints from individuals about specific programmes or even complaints about a whole series of programmes resulting from years of very detailed research. This is evident from the work carried out by Minotaur Media Tracking Ltd., an independent research organisation, which was reported in David Keighley's paper to the BBC Bias Conference. Alistair Campbell, the PM's Director of Communications, is also quoted as telling MP's
Since you pointed it out with your BBCBias farce, read it very carefully. What I see are people whining - and take a look and KNOW WTF and who TF is complaining mainly (The Daily Telegraph) about the BBC. So you think it is a good thing to have government DICTATE, wait let me out this in your terminology, narrate, what BBC posts. Are you kidding? Maybe you should switch to Psyop central CNN. Read it clearly The BBC is financed by a TV licence paid by households. It does not have to serve the interests of advertisers, or produce a return for shareholders. They stand nothing to gain.
Let me ask you something, and I doubt you'll give the correct answer, Al Jazeera, this is what? Media jihad machine for terrorists? Hell many would disprove this, what about Guerilla News? I'm not talking IndyMedia here where any hoohaa can post whatever they want now. Wait, since you point out your BBCBias site. Israel has now 'banned the BBC' by withdrawing cooperation for Visas and individuals for comment after many months of consistently biased pro-Palestinian reporting So let me get this straight, because Israelis are upset that the Palestinian side of the news is being showed... Oh wait what was I thinking. You're right damn you BBC for being biased and pointing out the other side of the story. You my friend made me a believer, a true right wingist! Thank you
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Re:If anyone knew
No tell the truth. An evil dicktator took over the the US of A by rigging the election and proceded to destroy the economy which put you and several million other people out of work.
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Re:There isn't much that can't be outsourced
What part of the economy can we be competitive in with the current trade agreements. We have a 500 ***billion*** trade deficit right now!!!!!!
Dude, please understand what trade deficit means before you go picking on trade agreements. (Not that I am a fan of the current ones). America's Maligned and Misunderstood Trade Deficit.The problem with NAFTA and the WTO is that we gave away the farm. We didn't insist that other countries rise to our level (i.e., with labor standards, environmental standards, etc.) and as a result, we're grossly mismatched. You can't expect any part of our economy to compete with another country that doesn't have similar regulation. Just not going to happen.
As a matter of principle you did insist on a rise in environmental standards with NAFTA. Hence the formation of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation.
However in reality, NAFTA has worked as a tool for lowering of environmental standards, in all countries involved, due to the way it allows big business to sue governments for protecting the environment & health of its citizens. See: Billion Dollar NAFTA Challenge To California MTBE Ban, Canada's First Province-Wide Ban of Cosmetic Pesticides Threatened Under NAFTA, and Metalclad vs. Mexico: The Toxicity of NAFTA's Ruling.
On the other hand, sometimes governments do steal property from businesses, or intimidate them, and it's not necessarily a good thing. Cronyism and corrupt officials exist everywhere, at all levels (not just the rich), so NAFTA's mechanisms are not entirely without merit.
The danger to workers in the USA isn't unfair trade relationships with other countries. It's inappropriate relationships with wealth and power in your own country. Next time you notice a huge trade or budget deficit, at any level, ask yourself this: if every government in the world is in debt at the same time (and that is possible), who do they owe it to? What does that mean in terms of power and influence? And is that good for workers?
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Re:But what is this thing? (Fulgurites)
Take a look: More info and pictures of Fulgurites on Earth .
They look exactly like that thing on Mars.
BTW, Fulgurite reminds me of the Wizard's bad-ass "F" spell in Ultima 3 (Fulgar). ;-)
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Re:But what is this thing?
Much better images here: www.rense.com
I know Rense is a bit of a tin-foil hat site, but NASA have been strangely silent on this.
The original NASA picture is at: marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov [large file]
Even the mainstream press are (deliberately?) ignoring it.
I don't think it's debris from the lander.
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Would NASA tell us anyway. . ?A fun read/rant over on Rense from a guy who worked for enough years on NASA contracts to realize that official space science was full of corruption, laziness and annoyance.
--He talks about some of the crap which went unreported during several doomed space missions. A legitimate story or more cointelpro stuff? Who knows. Entertaining reading nonetheless.
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Re:Secret Service
ok here are some links... I didn't spend much time so there isn't much... but it should give you an idea. As I mentioned earlier, it is harder to find stuff fore the present day (90's and 2000's), not because they are less corrupt, but because the information only comes out after a while. Some of these stories may be duplicates--I didn't spend time weeding them out...
DISCLAIMER: I have not checked the sources. I am hoping that none of this is fabricated information. Questionable sources are marked with (Q)
Hoover's F.B.I. and the Mafia: Case of Bad Bedfellows Grows
J Edgar Hoover (Q)
Black Mass: The Irish Mob, The FBI and A Devil's Deal
Deadly Alliance: The FBI's Secret Partnership With the Mob
FBI Protection Of Informants Condemned In Mob Ruling
FBI Corruption & The Justice Department ....05.04.00
Round Up The Usual Suspects (Q)
The Government-Criminal Connection - Part Three (Q)
Armed Conflict in America (Q) (blatantly biased against the left-wing... just read the quoted article in the middle of the page)
Ruling due on FBI link to mob: Immunity offer claim at center of decision.
Funny story, Bush blocks mob investigation (read the 2nd story): Bush Invokes Executive Privilege in Mob-FBI Case
Anyway I hope that provides A LITTLE BIT of the FBI corruption.
BTW, what the hell is a dot head? Does this mean that you work for the FBI? Did I just blow your cover? ;)
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Re:I smell political shenanigansDisclaimer: IANA railway engineer, I am also not one of those freaky-deeky, paranoid, everyones-out-to-get-me types.
I wouldn't say as strongly. The system has its faults in extremely high initial investment cost. Particularly, the infrastructure has to be built ground up based on not having tracks. At a distance of 750 miles, that is quite a large sum of faith. The 9 year project has already cost an arm and a leg. I'm not so sure I would be willing to fork over such large sums of money like that when other technologies exist that have proven themselves, are cheaper, and almost as fast (~300km/h).
A study done by a railway consultancy group in Germany has postulated through computer simulation models the efficiency of a Transrapid system is about equal if not less of a "standard" (not maglev) railway. In fact, their conjectures show two to three times more energy required over the marketed ramblings of Transrapid. However I can't speak for the validity of this company, and this study was done more than four years ago from which there have been about 50 patents issued since the published article, and there have been 29 patents filed (but not issued), I'm guessing the situation is more like the situation featured by MegaRail Transportation Systems Inc which is still a year and a half lagging.
I know for certain though that maglev has not become drastically cheaper in initial construction. It is only in the chance of longer term fuel and cost efficiencies it may pay off to invest in it. This is why I think 750 miles is a bit far at this point and would be much better suited for changing over the city subway system network in the richer parts.
As of this moment, in rural areas, the Chinese people live in squandor. It really is a depressing sight and the awareness of such situations will spread with the ease of transportation to such areas. When people have more and more free time to devote to issues that they may otherwise glance over in effect to pay a bill, priorities may not always be akin to someone who lives in a more relaxed state. Given a Transrapid system would cost quite a bit, one trip costing roughly 1/20th of one person's income for a month, there should be more attention focused on that of the 1 billion or so population that does not live in the top 1% of wealth for the country. It is not the United States there, and people are not often exuberantly wealthy as they may be in the good ole' west. It is usually governemnt officials yes, but they also have insight into making their lives filled with more power and that of their family and descendants. As a result, the country must prosper the same and it would not be able to do as much through this system.
Of course I am not making China out to be concerned about their people because they generally are not except in the image they may portray to their trading partners, or at least in any public news stories. Rather, the social implications are only a sidestep to other motivations which I have only briefed upon, namely control and power distributed through their descendants. It should be understood that this method values is prevalent all the way to the lower classes except of those in
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Re:That's a dumb question.
That's true, although there they are only concerned about enforcing that females faces never get shown and several other religious nonsense.
Saudi Arabia is probably the most fundamentalist contry in the world (followed closely by the USA), and you better wish to never have your ass sitting there.
Roblimo may be happy to see all that hunks in long cloths, no underpants and big mustaches, but he's probably ignorant enough to avoid looking at the obvious big picture: none really criticizes saudis because they:
detain the world's biggest oil reserves and
have mecca and medina, the muslims holy cities on their territory. Iin other words, anyone who messes with Saudi Arabia would spawn a jihad (holy war) made by all muslims in world against himself.
Saudi Arabia imposes a strong censorship, with a big firewall/proxy blocking them to access almost all relevant and independent news sources overseas. I wouldn't be surprised that most "geek" websites are blocked there.
Some people even think the 9/11 attacks were produced by Saudis, despite the Bush administration propaganda against OB Laden (which is saudi too).
The saudi royal family is the most screwed one in the world, read this book to check how things work there.
I don't have anything against anyone specifically in Saudi Arabia (although they smell badly) or muslims culture, I have even met with some very nice people from there, but the fact is that the country is very screwed and it is quite hard to believe they can even hold a middle class to develop the country, and it's almost impossible to imagine a geek culture running there.
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Re:FoI act factoid...
You may recall, I wasn't talking about "eye-witnesses" but the total absence of physical evidence despite thousands of "documented" encounters.
Would phisiological differences between people who claim to be abductees and the rest of us be sufficient?
Or how about evidence of implants being seen with MRIs?
We have lots of evidence, just no conclusive proof.
As others have said absence of evidence is not the same as evidence of absence.
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Re:bleeding heart RepublicanEasy: cook at home and take the food with you. It's cheap, you know exctly what goes into the food, and the level of cleanliness is as high as you desire.
That's not the only beef. From anti-aging creams to surgical sutures to chocolate milkshakes and marshmallows...we have injected animal products from cattle, sheep, and hogs into nearly every corner of our lives. Here's a short list: List
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Not only meatFrom anti-aging creams to surgical sutures to chocolate milkshakes and marshmallows...we have injected animal products from cattle, sheep, and hogs into nearly every corner of our lives.
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Re:ET life was suggested by Christ himself
Sorry to reply to my own post, but I just remembered that the Catholics have a whole doctrine on extraterrestrial life (can't find a link right now, sorry).
One Vatican astronomer says the possibility that humanity is alone in the universe is madness. Weirdly, the Jesuit order maintains observatories for the Vatican, some of which do important astrophysical research! -
Re:As much as I would like to see...The attacks are coming from a minority of Saddam loyalists or foreign Islamic terrorists.
Wow... you're really carrying the party line there, huh?
In reality, we don't know who is organizing and executing these attacks. Given the hatred of the US in certain parts of Iraq, it could just be random farmers picking up weapons and capping servicemen while they sit in traffic. There's a quote from an Iraqi that I read a month ago or so in an ABCnews story about a battle that led to Americans firing randomly into a marketplace... ahh, yes, the quote:All the people in town today are asking for revenge. They want to kill the Americans like they killed our civilians. Give me a gun, and I will also fight.
So I think that gives us a fairly good picture of the sentiment some Iraqis share as a result of our occupation. Note that these Iraqis are not neccessarily Saddam loyalists... hating us will do just nicely. If it was just one story, I wouldn't be so worried. But I've read statements like the one above too many times during the occupation. We're risking a grass-roots movement here if we don't get this nation on its feet quickly.
I think the word you are looking for is controversy, not scandal. Any close election is going to be controversial.
So you don't think that the Supreme Court's invention of a new job for itself - The Decider of Tough Elections - was scandalous. I tend to think the voters should decide the election, not a bunch of potentially partisan judges. We've got election protocol so that this sort of influence is supposedly impossible. Bah. I wont harp on something so long gone. Let me just say that for a body that is supposed to decide an action's constitutionality, they never justified the constitutionality of their own actions.
we are turning control over to an Iraqi government at midnight on June 30th next year
Actually, we're not turning over control on that date... what we're doing is changing the name of the occupation. From then on we'll be an "invited pressence" rather an an occupying power. I'm not making this up. That's the real plan. I mean, I'm sure that some of the government will be up and running, but the power will still ultimately reside with Americans since we'll still have over 100k troops there. No country is ever anything other than a colony when it has a foriegn army residing in it. Cut the troop numbers to the amount that used to be in Saudi Arabia, and Iraq will finally be a free country.
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Last i checked....
...AIDS education is equivilent to baptist religion in the United States of America.
...Citizens of the United States of America pay 2-3x as much for US Made Rx drugs than any other people in other countries pay for US Made drugs. And George W Bush's recent seniors drug bill just made it illegal to go to canada to purchase drugs.
...Internal Government agencies murder and jail for life farmers for producing state sanctioned crops.
...freedom of speech is nonexistant in the United States of America.
...soldiers are given amphetamines to enhance battle skills.
...infanticide of children in poverty is commonplace
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Re:Time travelUmm, the President, and the CIA, and plenty of others, *did* know in advance? From http://www.rense.com/general25/knewknow.htm:
In the summer of 2001, Russian intelligence and President Vladimir Putin warned the CIA that 25 terrorist pilots were going to hijack commercial aircraft for suicide missions.
Attorney David Shippers, who led the impeachment case against Bill Clinton, warned Attorney General John Ashcroft and Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert that he had proof from a credible source (that he has still not revealed) about a plot to use hijacked commercial airliners to ram the White House and Capitol. (Source: Info Wars (radio program) Oct 10 2001)
This list of specific warnings about suicide hijackings is but the tip of the iceberg. The Bush administration received many more warnings of an imminent attack from foreign governments (Israel, Germany, Egypt, UK, Russia), FBI agents (whose investigations were obstructed) and covert operatives who were studiously silenced (Naval Intelligence Officer Delmart "Mike" Vreeland, for one)
See http://www.rense.com/Datapages/bushkn.html for more info.
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Re:Time travelUmm, the President, and the CIA, and plenty of others, *did* know in advance? From http://www.rense.com/general25/knewknow.htm:
In the summer of 2001, Russian intelligence and President Vladimir Putin warned the CIA that 25 terrorist pilots were going to hijack commercial aircraft for suicide missions.
Attorney David Shippers, who led the impeachment case against Bill Clinton, warned Attorney General John Ashcroft and Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert that he had proof from a credible source (that he has still not revealed) about a plot to use hijacked commercial airliners to ram the White House and Capitol. (Source: Info Wars (radio program) Oct 10 2001)
This list of specific warnings about suicide hijackings is but the tip of the iceberg. The Bush administration received many more warnings of an imminent attack from foreign governments (Israel, Germany, Egypt, UK, Russia), FBI agents (whose investigations were obstructed) and covert operatives who were studiously silenced (Naval Intelligence Officer Delmart "Mike" Vreeland, for one)
See http://www.rense.com/Datapages/bushkn.html for more info.
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Re:bin laden..
No, it wasn't about WMD, nor can you back up your claims that it ever was supposed to be all about WMD
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush turns his attention on Friday to the United Nations after the Senate joined the House in strong votes authorizing a possible U.S. attack on Iraq.
The Republican-led House and Democratic-led Senate by wide margins approved the resolution that Bush wanted to reinforce his demand that the U.N. Security Council threaten the use of force, if necessary, to enforce its requirements that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein abandon programs for biological, chemical or nuclear weapons.
"The Congress has spoken clearly to the international community and the United Nations Security Council," Bush said in a statement issued after the early-hours vote.
"Saddam Hussein and his outlaw regime pose a grave threat to the region, the world, and the United States. Inaction is not an option, disarmament is a must," Bush said. -
Re:What are the chances?
Type in "smallpox vaccine dangers" into Google.
Here's some nice pictures of some side effects.
From article: "NO. No matter WHAT they say or threaten you with, tell them ....NO. No vaccines.... ever. Period." Maybe a little paranoid, but read for reasons.
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Re:50 thumbs on a page is too few ...
My comment was in context of communication between people and other people, and encompasses more things than just instructional.
I don't mean to denigrate images as a means of communication -- after all, we do have paintings, sculpture -- objects that speak when words fail us.
However, as a way of disseminating news, images suck. What do you make of this image? Is this a guy inspecting a bunch of tanks? Or this? Is this some kind of pervy kiddie porn?
Actually both these pictures are classics, communicating outrage, shock and sorrow -- but they wouldn't if words didn't accompany them and provide context.
Also, letters communicate sparingly and that is why they are used in programming. But there are a lot of people who prefer the GUI IDE even for programming
GUI IDEs make extensive use of text. Perhaps I'm biased towards text because I'm a programmer, but I'd like you to make me a make-like tool using only visual manipulation. IMO, GUIs are useful for tasks involving spatial orientation, but the power of text to communicate complex instructions cannot be beat. -
Re:OLD NEWS
I believe hes talking about this
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OLD NEWS
Weapons like these were already used in Iraq by our own military. It is truly shameful what some people will do in the name of patriotism. This sounds like something the Nazis would have done in WW II.
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Yep, and here's how...
Trying to fake a major event using mocked up tape is the wrong way to do this. You'd need to fake so much corroborated and consistent material that the whole charade would fall apart in hours.
If you really wanted to perform a convincing hoax, for example a UFO crash, all you'd need to do is fake the incident itself and have a bunch of people playing the parts of those involved. Then simply sit back and watch the media eat itself. You don't have to take on the media head on by playing it at it's own game, it's far more powerful to subvert the power and influence of the media against itself.
A small group of actors could easily stick to a improvised script for long enough and remain relatively consistent if all the major details were agreed beforehand. (After all, you don't want it to be too neat) If you can then stage the incident convincingly enough, the power of the media will guarantee that it becomes truth before you can say Orson Welles. After all, how hard can it be to fake a convincing UFO crash? It's all smoke and mirrors.
The stupidity of mainstream media and its target audience is almost limitless. It can't be that difficult to fool them. I don't want to score political points, but as some people have mentioned, the media coverage of the recent war in Iraq was hardly a bastion of truth and that was a real conflict in which real people died real deaths. If they can be fooled on something that important, then I don't expect them to pay much attention to anything.
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contrails?
Don't you mean chemtrails?!
Oh, I guess you actually mean contrails. Darn.
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Some independent news pages:
Some independent news pages: Information Clearinghouse
Jeff Rense
What Really Happened
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Kucinich
FWIW, Rep. Dennis Kucinich was and is against the PATRIOT Act. He also doesn't stand a chance, but it's good to be thorough.
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Re:list of stories
It behooves you to know what the stories are about before you go off on them. Case in point, #11 refers to a specific incident in which "Northern Alliance" -- Abdul Rashid Dostum's, more specifically [ google him for some fun! ] troops, with the apparent aid or at least the blind eye of US troops, killed captured Taliban. The ultra-liberal the Drudge Report even picked that one up.
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Canadian no smile rule just the start
Recently there was a story in the press about a new rule for Canadian passorts: no smiles. Now we know why...to normalize the faces for facial recognition.
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Something new to worry about
If mini black holes, Planet X, super volcanoes in Yellowstone Park, imminent destruction of the galaxy, and God know what else, now there is this, suddenly dying from instant lung hemorrhage. Where's Fox Mulder when you need him?
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Re:I Don't Know, But I Have A PlanI think we can fix this problem if we all run out into the street and fire AK-47s into the air randomly. I mean, that's what the Iraqis do and they live in the 3rd world where power outages are much more common. So, they must know how to solve these kinds of problems. Oh yeah, and don't forget to chant "Death To America" and blame "the occupiers".
Wow. The depth of your delusion is staggering.
Bagdhad was a major city with employment, civil services and the whole infrastructure one would expect from a modern city. --And YES, it was a modern city despite the lies propagated by the US media. I knew a kid from Syria who had travelled through much of the middle east. He fixed my own movie-based delusions, and I have since then sworn to do some actual reading before I open my big mouth to repeat propaganda.
The average Iraqi citizen doesn't have an AK-47. Saddam's enforcers, yes, but not the regular people with families and jobs and lives to lead. Owning a machine gun under Saddam's rule would have been fairly stupid. It would have gotten you thrown in prison. --Saddam knew, (as does Bush), that it's hard to repress a citizenry when they are armed.
Anyway, all of that modern infrastructure, (Power, telecommunications, water, sewage), was blasted out of existence by the invading American forces and it was replaced by. . . You guessed it; Nothing. Now there is only chaos, and over-stressed American GI's with jittery trigger fingers. People are now starving and fearful in their own city with no basic services. --Well, until the Isreali telco was awarded the contract to set up a cell phone network. (After, that is, Betelco, an Arab company, was told to dismantal the 5 million dollar start up service it had implemented two weeks ago without the approval of the US, (read: Zionist cronyism).
Life sucks for the residents of a country suffering under foriegn tyranny, as enforced by soldiers who have been taught to believe that Arab people are savages who run around shooting AK-47's into the air. It's easier to treat them like dogs when that kind of (very, very typical) propaganda is being used.
Here's a link from one an 'imbedded' reporter who has been emailing his reports home. An eye on the inside.
Seriously. You need to watch fewer movies and biased CNN reporting before you make such ignorant comments about a people who have been devastated simply because most Americans were too gullable to see Bush's lies for what they were.
Take care, and peace to you.
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Here's a theory. . .The system doesn't get hacked. Or it does. It doesn't matter, because this time, (after being burned once already), the people are paying attention. --Heck, this Diebold stuff, (Die-Bold???? What's with that etymology?), and its inherent problems is even making real news.
So. . .
The people will be watching closely the left hand of the magician, (misdirection). Maybe there will be some election fraud, maybe there won't be. It doesn't matter, because the people will get their president of choice. --I'm guessing, Democrat, Howard Dean.
Still theorizing here. . .
Now some say that Bush need only set another war going during the campaign, and that this will assure his re-election. Maybe. --Thing is, to do so, he'll need to do some very unpopular things. Like recalling tens of thousands of reservists to active duty. --Because the U.S. military is spread very thinly. Or even more un-popularly, calling a Draft. (Collective shudder. Is everybody here over the age of 21? No? I see. Hope all you youngsters like combat boots and DU.)
"The scramble to find replacement units for Iraq duty is stark testimony to just how thinly the 480,000-strong U.S. Army is stretched.
Of the Army's 33 active-duty brigades, 21 are deployed overseas -- 16 in Iraq, two in Afghanistan, two in South Korea, and one in Bosnia. All but three of the rest are either preparing for one of those missions, recovering and retraining after one of those missions or held in reserve. " Story here
So maybe this will be enough to piss everybody off. --There's already a scandal brewing on the back-burner about Bush's lying to congress. There's the crappy shape of the economy, thanks to Bush's complete mis-management. And there's the fact that he's an ex-coke head who can't even talk properly without making a hundred and one creepy Freudian slips. (I lost my link, but there are long lists of his verbal screw-ups all over the web. Go look. It's just crazy!)
Of course, if things get really bad, all Bush need do is punch that big red button and call down a state of emergency, and that's the end of the show. Democracy over, bub. Welcome to the new Amerika.
However, this Howard Dean guy. . .
Looks bright and new. He's saying all the right things. --While he was governor, he managed to keep Vermont out of deficit while the rest of the country went to shit. He's openly criticizing Bush's stupid war on Iraq, (a war which is getting a couple of kids killed every day. --And those are just the official numbers.) People are losing faith in Bush, and Dean sounds like a good guy. He's also talking about some social welfare reform which all the millions of people too broke to afford medical coverage, might just perk up enough at the sound of to head in droves to try out those new DieBold machines. . .
Problem is, Dean is also being backed by the Zionists. (Now, please, moderators, curb your knee-jerk desire to mod me into dust at the first sound of Jewish conspiracy, and at least finish reading this. There's no hate here or Trollish nonsense. Just listen). . .
A man named, Steve Grossman, is Howard Dean's head of campaign Fundraising.
What does that mean? I'll tell you:
Steve Grossman was ALSO the president, -not just some pamphleteer, but the president- of one of the most powerful Israeli lobby groups in the entire world, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).Steve Grossman shed his official Democratic posts in 1992 when members of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee elected him as their president. Now, Grossman has co
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Rubin, Chaum, who is next, Morse?!
Finally Rubin (of RSA fame) speaks up and the scandal gets respect and coverage.
Now Chaum (another famous cryto patent holder) gets banned?
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Progam was written by a drug smuggler...
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Progam was written by a drug smuggler...
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a message from germany
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Re:Excellent critique
that HLA is not just about updating object state data during gameplay - it can also be used to setup of the initial rules regarding object interaction
Well, the biggest difference between HLA and DIS, after all, is that HLA is fully generic and makes no assumptions about the subject being simulated. (Whereas DIS only works if you have vehicles shooting at each other, the arbitrary attribute-definitions of HLA allow it to represent cardiovascular blood-flow or thermal conductivity just as easily). DIS came with its own set of rules for object interactions. While this limits the standard's reusablity, it makes it more useful as a target for compatibility. If two programs use DIS, you can be sure they will make general sense when plugged together. But knowing that two systems use HLA tells you nothing about their prospects for interoperability.
So, any statement of the form "HLA can XXX" is trivially true. (Well, unless you go into the weeds... standards-compliant HLA cannot emulate DIS, for example)
they were the first one to achieve integration between live, virtual, and constructive simulations - something that has (to my knowledge) evaded Millenium Challenge.
The eetimes article mentions nothing about LVC integration... I suppose you have another data source.
Live and virtual are easy to combine- this has been done at least since 1980s SimNET at Knox. Adding in "constructive" is trickier, and arguably impossible. You can pack a constructive sim into a virtual framework... but at that point, is it really constructive anymore? The guarrantees normally provided by constructive sim are broken if it's accepting input from live players. I'd call that "code reuse from constructive models into a virtual sim project".
The list of software used in MC02 is long (40+ programs?) and I don't recognize all the names. However, if any one of them had been initially designed for constructive execution, one could say that MC02 had already achieved LVC.
(Note that the only real goal of MC02 was to achieve simulation interoperability milestones, and not to actually gain insight into future combat strategies. It was too haphazard to draw conclusions from)
As a result, Linux is special (but not necessarily unique) because of lower initial cost, multiple platform capability, and because of the Open Source development support that surrounds it.
Linux is still only marginally successful in the wargaming arena. Both traditional big-iron UNIX and desktop Microsoft Windows are still strong competitors (it pains me every time I watch a venerable M&S be ported to Windows, but the customers demand it). Most of Linux's success comes at the expense of more costly Unixes. The free development tools are nice, but not a major factor to DoD customers (they care more about recurring deployment costs than one-off development expenses)
Offtopic, there is an interesting article regarding "Open Source" development and wargaming. The article is funny to read, because it's so completely wrong- the author wasn't even using a valid definition of "Open Source". The ModSAF program he refers to was only "Open Source" as much as Minix was (all changes must be sent to the project originator), and we all know what happened to Minix. -
Re:countdown has begun...hacked up like cuecats...
Oh no, those poor kitties!
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Now that nobody trusts Bush. . .What happens next?
A couple of my friends are betting on Shrub hitting the 'Emergency' button and instigating a total lock-down of the U.S., suspension of all rights and the firing up of the 800 or so empty but staffed and waiting American concentration camps sitting idle around the nation. "Night of Long Knives" and all. . .
While this IS planned, no doubt, I tend to feel (make that fevrently hope) that we're not quite there yet.
Here's a quote from a recent interview with Eustace Mullins. . .
You know Howard Dean's campaign chair is Stephen Grossman, ex- president of AIPAC...
OH MY GOD! He is? Well, Jewish money is buying this campaign...
Dean's another blank slate. He's never done anything, and they're raving about him. When you see someone become the darling of the media, watch out for someone like that. You know they're compromised...compromised forever, you can't expect anything from them.
--Keeping in mind that 'Jewish Money' would more aptly be called 'Zionist Money'. Zionism doesn't have the best interests of the Jews at heart by a long shot!
Moderators. . . Please at least glance at the link info before you label this message 'Troll' (it's not. I don't have a deficient ego.) If you can't deal with this stuff, please get your fear levels under control rather than irresponsibly use your mod points. This stuff is here and it affects everybody. Cringing denial won't make it go away. Best to learn what it out there so that it can't hurt you.
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So now that everybody FINALLY hates Bush. . .What happens next?
A couple of my friends are betting on Shrub hitting the 'Emergency' button and instigating a total lock-down of the U.S., suspension of all rights and the firing up of the 800 or so empty but staffed and waiting American concentration camps sitting idle around the nation. "Night of Long Knives" and all. . .
While this IS planned, no doubt, I tend to feel (make that fevrently hope) that we're not quite there yet.
Here's a quote from a recent interview with Eustace Mullins
You know Howard Dean's campaign chair is Stephen Grossman, ex- president of AIPAC...
OH MY GOD! He is? Well, Jewish money is buying this campaign...
Dean's another blank slate. He's never done anything, and they're raving about him. When you see someone become the darling of the media, watch out for someone like that. You know they're compromised...compromised forever, you can't expect anything from them.
--Keeping in mind that 'Jewish Money' would more aptly be called 'Zionist Money'. Zionism doesn't have the best interests of the Jews at heart by a long shot!
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Re:It's not a stereotype, it's a statistic
Truly remarkable!
It so happens that the earth is stopping on its axis, although if you are sure you don't have a gas problem, I'm sure you would be welcome should you decide to immigrate to Canada, although it is good to have people like you south of the border too. -
Going a little too far?Putting RFID tags inside the crotch of individually-sold panties may be going a little too far...
Also, contrary to this post's title, Wal-Mart still plans a major implementation of the technology in its distribution centers.