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U.S. Deploys Satellite Jamming System
CNN has an article about a ground-based satellite jamming system that "uses electromagnetic radio frequency energy to knock out transmissions on a temporary and reversible basis, without frying components". Is this just another old school EM jamming technique, or something new? Of course they won't say, citing "operational security" concerns.
My wife had a special satellite dish installed at our house so she could receive broadcasts from the Phillipines (Pinoys are wonderful wives!).
I mention this only to illustrate that our household receives information from other countries, something that this project might prevent.
Yes, my neck is bending from the weight of tinfoil on my head. Bush & Co. may attempt to put a strangehold on the mass media in the U.S. by blocking all outside information.
The internet renders such fantasies almost null and void except for the possibility of instituting filter controls on all network connections entering/leaving this country. Impossible? China has a head start on such a system.
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... In a dark alleyway, a young child appearing no more than seven or eight years old scrambles among the trash.
... As a seagull attracted to the deadly shine of a fish hook, he notices a glint of light from the darkness. Cautiously approaching, he nears the source of luminescence.
... "Lea' me 'lone..." a voice moans from under a pile of rain-soaked newspapers. "I don' need your help," Kerry screams as he rises in drunken fury. "It wash Florida! Whol' damn Bush fam'ly is bed t'gether. Just leh'me drink mysel' ta death."
... "He's over here, Sir!" Whipping his young head around, the boy stared as one of new Stormtroopers came around the corner wearing infrared goggles, took aim and fired a 'warning shot' into the leg of the drunken hobo.
... Striding nearer, confident the escapee would no longer evade his fate, the 'trooper raises his automatic until a tiny green dot is centered on the forehead. "This'll teach you to talk about the 'affliction' of Commander Cheney's daughter."
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I need to leave this topic before this posting degenerates into a story of a dark future that rivals the fiction of Neal Stephenson.
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