Ditto.
Glad to see you were able to pry that armoire off you with nothing
more than a wire coathanger, set of keys, and piece of lint -- a
regular MacGyver you are. ;)
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Thank god.
You could at least
(Now if this doesn't make your feelers go up, nothing will.) After
doing a search on the Net for the Bank of America laptop theft I
referenced earlier, I found an article about the same laptop
scenario involving a completely different incident. (Yes, that's
right folks: same stolen laptop
Verizon Wireless passes mark for 911 call location
Reuters
2 hours, 38 minutes ago
Verizon Wireless, the No. 2 U.S. carrier, said on Friday more than
95 percent of its customers had phones capable of identifying their
location when they call 911 for help.
U.S. Federal Communications
In my opinion there is one good thing to come out of the No Plane
Theory being covered in the mainstream press (in light of the latest
release of the Pentagon video): the fact they had to acknowledge
the existence of alternative theories and the community which
supports them.
How many
Just for the *ehem* Hell of it? ;)
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Just curious if anyone else has seen this trailer, and do any of you
plan on seeing the movie?
I was surprised to see how unflinching and numb I was to it all. I
just sat there like a zombie. It didn't stir anything in me, didn't
make me all teary eyed -- nothing. I was more like, yeah,
Toronto Star
www.thestar.com
How Internet monitoring sparked a CSIS probe
Jun. 3, 2006. 05:52 PM
MICHELLE SHEPHARD
STAFF REPORTER
Last night's dramatic police raid and arrest of as many as a dozen
men with more to come marks the culmination of Canada's largest
ever terrorism
(Never say, never, eh?)
FLASHBACK, 2003:
CTV.ca News Staff
Updated: Thu. Dec. 4 2003 11:36 PM ET
A prominent Toronto lawyer known for defending national security
cases says he won't be handling any more. Rocco Galati says he's
heeding a frightening death threat over his handling the case
For all you techies out there: it would be interesting to see a
side-by-side comparison of video of the buildings' collapse.
(Although I realize there's tons of other footage out there for
reference, this one instantly sparked memories of the Twin Towers'
collapse, down to the squibs (??)
I second the blogger's comment Alex Jones avoiding the use of foul
language. In fact, I've heard Alex Jones rebuke guests who've used
foul language on his show, noting that he doesn't allow that type
(or that kind) of language on his show.
So, unless Mr. Jones has had a change of policy, I'd
The next attack here, officials predict, will bear no resemblance
to Sept. 11. The casualty toll will not be that high, the target
probably not that big. We may not even recognize it for what it is
at first, they say. But it's coming of that they seem certain.
Amazing how they know so many
It all comes down to one equation: Vanity - Humility = Vulnerability.
People would rather be an open book than protect their livelihood.
(I guess there's no fun in working behind the scenes, eh?)
I say NSA is smart for mining in open sources; they'll probably find
more than they can handle in
I believe you're not Chip Berlet, can *I* have the $10,000? ;)
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Millegan continues to hold on to his delusional belief that I am
Chip Berlet. What's sad about this nuttiness is that it undercuts
his credibility
It sunk, and I find it ironic that the same person who claims to
oppose the suppression of discussion about the Israel lobby on the
Net, would suppress any opposing views of one the first
men to state after 911 that, Israel had nothing to do with 911.
Something for *you* to think about as you
Why are patriots synonymous with conservative, far-right views?
Can't one be opposed to political policies and their nation's leaders
while supporting the foundations of their country?
I consider myself a patriot, but in a naïve sense since my beliefs
have not yet been put to the ultimate
If you happen to survive WWIII (or are we up to WWIV now?), then
here's where you need to set your GPS coordinates... oh and, pack a
sweater, a vegetable steamer and some... polar bear repellant.
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Work on biodiversity 'doomsday
(Stereotyping falls under the realm of politics, no?)
I have to agree with this article. I've found New Yorkers to be
generally courteous and downright helpful at times, too. I think
they get a bad rap. As I've said before, they're not rude they just
like to cut to the chase.
But for all
Well if the Navy is openly soliciting bids for companies to spy on
Internet activity, this shouldn't come as a surprise.
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http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/06/21/att_nsa/?
source=whitelist
Salon
Rapp described what steps he would use, for example, to locate and
steal the credit-card records...
[...]
Brokers have tricked telephone carriers into disclosing private
customer information and broken into online accounts...
These data brokers are nothing more than identity thieves. It's
Hell, I'd marry one if they'd teach it to open the door for me and
not belch in public...
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.physorg.com/news70202621.html
Learning to communicate and adapting our behaviour to the
information we
, better_off_said
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rapp described what steps he would use, for example, to locate
and
steal the credit-card records...
[...]
Brokers have tricked telephone carriers into disclosing private
customer information and broken into online accounts...
These data brokers
So why did they change this headline from 400 to 2,000 years? That's
a big leap. The National Academy of Sciences a bunch'a drama queens
or what?
Earth hottest it's been in 2,000 years
By JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 12 minutes ago
The Earth is running a slight fever from
Me thinks Cap'n May is a Manchurian Candidate... no offense.
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Prologue to Publishers and Readers
Dear Lt. Col. Fowkes, I seldom have an opportunity to enter into
a debate with an officer of your rank, as
(Apparently they were serving fishsticks for lunch again.)
Saddam ends hunger strike after missing one meal
Reuters | Fri Jun 23, 7:54 AM ET
Saddam Hussein ended a brief hunger strike after missing just one
meal in his U.S.-run prison, a U.S. military spokesman said Friday.
The former Iraqi
(While I was searching the latimes.com site for coverage of the 9/11
conference I found this...)
It wasn't the subject matter so much that caught my attention as it
was the medium in which the writers of the FX show, `Rescue Me'
chose to discuss the fallout by its fanbase over a controversial
I couldn't help but notice how this article seems to be absent the
usual cynicism (aside from the conspiracy theorists label, if one
takes offense to that). It even felt like it was defending the
reasons behind the movement by citing the August 2004 Zogby opinion
poll. One would be hard
Can you site a source -- a quote?
Thanks.
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-- Forwarded message --
From: Total Information [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Jun 8, 2006 2:19 PM
Subject: [planehuggers] nick berg's father on larry king
Oh brother, stop me if you've heard this one before...
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Shane Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Captain May,
We are interested in talking to you about the comments you
made in an article written for
Right now, I'm more threated by the U.S. attempting to intercept a
N. Korean missile. If that really happens, well... I smell disaster
ahead...
Cap'n May strikes me as an MPD Vreeland-type, only with better
writing skills. (I can see why various news outlets at least
responded to his
.)
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Can you site a source -- a quote?
Thanks.
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bill.giltner@ wrote:
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From: Total Information totalinfo
(...add this to my growing list.)
Red Cross laptop with donor data stolen
1 hour, 12 minutes ago | AP
A laptop containing personal information from thousands of blood
donors including Social Security numbers and medical information
was stolen from a local office of the American Red
Again, I've seen Sean mention the alternative (fake opposition)
media several times now.
I would like an explaination on what he means. Since Sean refuses to
awknoweldge me directly (very strange I might add), might anyone on
here know -- or care to specualate?
Thanks.
Search the
Anyone here read it yet? I just finished itcouldn't put it down.
(I'm dubbing it the DaVinci Code of 9/11.)
Baer spins a masterful talean alleged fictional piecebased on real
characters and actual events building up to that fateful day.
Baer even includes John O'Neill as a main
Chalk it up to my A.D.D., but I could only get 5 minutes and 27
seconds into the 1 hour, 44 minute video (EGADS). I can't watch
anymore unless there's a POINT.
Someone please tell me what pointing out helicopters with arrows
PROVES, other than the maker of the video can count like a
rumormillnews.com? Good God, surely you jest?
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Misty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To: the_octopus
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Armageddon or New Age [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Misty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006
Nation's capital declares crime emergency
By BRETT ZONGKER, Associated Press Writer
2 hours, 31 minutes ago
Two groups of tourists were robbed at gunpoint on the National Mall,
just hours after the police chief declared a crime emergency in the
city in response to a string of violence that
I don't know what's so unusual about Israel's support group --
nothing new. The Christian Armageddonists' sole motive is to bring
about Armageddon, and that can only be done when Israel is given
back to its chosen people. Doesn't matter that the two groups
don't share the same religious
More fodder for you believers of global warming. ;)
--
2006 sets heat record for US | Reuters
By Deborah Zabarenko
Thu Jul 20, 9:32 AM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The first six months of 2006 were the
warmest, on average, since the
I had this repeating dream last night where I'm stuck in the safe
house scene from Steven Spielberg's Munich. It would keep
replaying with the same characters, but with different scenarios and
outcomes. At one point I heard a voice in the background
saying, by way of deception thou shall
of caution seems to make
sense.
better_off_said [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Worst case scenarios? Let's see, fossil fuels dry up, no
more
electricity (all kinds of problems *there*, the least of which
being
no more popsicles), most of the human race is wiped out, the
remaining ones
attempting
to consolidate a dictatorship in the U.S.
better_off_said [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
pro population reduction
Care to elaborate the means by which you would like to see this
accomplished? My *morbid* curiosity calls to me now...
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Diamond's recent book on this subject?
Brilliant and stimulating stuff.
If you think the current level of population is sustainable, I'd
like to know why, based on resource and pollution factors.
better_off_said [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perhaps you should change it to read
Ah hah! You just wanted an excuse to read the latest issue of Forbes
whilst looking sincere! Nice try buddy, but I saw right through the
ruse. ;)
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political-research is a forum for independent and skeptical
We've had a break in the weather, so everyone's nixed the talk about
global warming. They're like, Global wha -- ? *b*
That's how SoCal rolls: reactive, not proactive.
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I forwarded a couple of the emails I was referring to earlier
to political-research@yahoogroups.com but they haven't shown up.
Did they get:
a. rejected
b. forwarded to the incorrect addy
c. delayed due to body surfing
d. all of the above
e. delayed due to body surfing
Just curious,
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(Thought some of you might find this interesting.)
I was doing a little 'spring cleaning' (yes, ever the
procrastinator) and I found a September 12, 2001, copy of the Los
Angeles Times in my hang on to (for whatever reason) pile.
Although it's only been five years, sometimes it feels longer,
There you go again with the population reduction, only this time
it's voluntary.
Help me understand, does this mean I have to euthanize my children,
elderly family members -- myself? (Peanut gallery, keep your
comments to yourself!) Should all women experiencing second
pregnancies get
, given resource and pollution contraints.
I am not advocating violating the civil rights or freedoms of
anyone when I suggest that we need to reduce the number of people on
planet Earth.
better_off_said [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There you go again with the population reduction
Read the AP headline below and tell me what comes to mind:
ROCKETS HIT LEBANON DESPITE CEASE-FIRE
Then read the article:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060815/ap_on_re_mi_ea/lebanon_israel
Why didn't the AP use the more accurate headline: HEZBOLLAH ROCKETS
HIT LEBANON?
Just a little reminder
Holy cow, that was the longest retirement announcement I've ever
read.
Good for him though, it's obvious the poor guy needs a break; every
relationship gone bad working or personal turns out to be a
spook or a honey pot.
Maybe the fresh air will do him good, clear his mind from those meth
Did you see Jay Leno interviewing Charlie Rose on his 9/11/06 show?
He blasted ALL 9/11 conspiracy theories by lumping them with the no
planers. (No commentary allowed either -- he cut it
off short after that.)
Job well done Webfairy and Holmgren; give yourselves a hearty pat on
the back...
I had/have one which continues to turn off my key logger shield. Is
this common? It's driving me nuts, not to mention slightly creeping
me out.
Just curious, thanks...
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Just add this to the list of 9/11 anomalies I guess. These are not
the men described in the press as radical Islamic fundamentalists.
This would have been a somber occasion; it would have been
disrespectful for them to laugh and joke as the video shows --
unless of course they knew that
.
I would bet the farm that this video is a cheesy and tawdry
fake, like everything else about the official story on 9/11.
Everything emanating from the neocon camp on 9/11 is a non-stop
assault on one's intelligence and common sense.
better_off_said [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
Guess we'll just have to resort back to casual sex. Drats. :-/
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*No More Casual Conversations?*
We are rapidly turning into a society where our intimate
conversations can
be saved and made public later. This
Drug raid yields Los Alamos documents
By LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated Press Writer
9 minutes ago
A drug bust at a trailer park in New Mexico turned up what appeared
to be classified documents taken from the Los Alamos nuclear weapons
laboratory, authorities said Tuesday.
Local police found
...drug production in Afghanistan surged so much after the fall of
the Taliban that supply could now be exceeding global demand for
heroin, threatening to spur more drug use.
...its production has soared since a U.S.-led invasion ousted the
government of the Islamist Taliban in 2001.
(Nope, didn't get this from the Onion, believe it or not...)
The association...sent a letter to her saying that residents were
offended by the sign and the board 'will not allow signs, flags etc.
that can be considered divisive.'
[...]
Kearns ordered the committee to require Jensen to remove
That's creepy.
Let's just hope my mother-in-law never gets a hold of this
technology... ;)
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Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006
17:32:17 -0800
From: Declan McCullagh [EMAIL
Wasn't the Navy denying this technology a while ago, when activists
blamed them for beached whales or dolphins? I'm foggy about the
details since it was a while ago, but I just thought this
solicitation was interesting in light of their denials:
NECO SOLICITATION NUMBER: N0016407R8900
SITE
.)
better_off_said [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wasn't the Navy denying this technology a while ago,
when activists
blamed them for beached whales or dolphins? I'm foggy about the
details since it was a while ago, but I just thought this
solicitation was interesting in light
Virginia governor closes gun loophole
By BOB LEWIS, Associated Press Writer
7 minutes ago
The governor on Monday closed the loophole in state law that allowed
the Virginia Tech gunman to pass a federal background check and buy
the weapons used in the massacre.
Gov. Timothy M. Kaine issued an
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/91.html
Russia strikes natural gas pipeline deal
By ALEXANDER VERSHININ, Associated Press Writer
Sat May 12, 6:36 AM ET
The leaders of Russia, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan reached a
landmark pipeline deal on Saturday that will strengthen Moscow's
control over Central Asia's energy export routes.
The
They believe that HAL cannot hear them, but are unaware that HAL is
capable of lip reading.
OMG, one the of the greatest all-time scenes, I get chills just
thinking about it. But, per ususal, I digress (thanks though).
This technology is creepy. I think about it when I'm on my
Don't mean to sound paranoid, but don't you guys find
this latest twist just a little odd?
File this under M for Mother of All Coincidences, The:
Father-in-law of man with tuberculosis is TB researcher
By Coloradoan staff
The father-in-law of Andrew Speaker...is a TB researcher for the
What always gets me is how the neocons change their song and dance
to suit them; they like to have it both ways.
When making their case for potential for nuclear terrorism there's
a multitude of foreknowledge to be cited, dating back to the '90s,
however, when it comes to 9/11, no one saw it
and al-Qaeda. What the neocons
predict they make happen. This is a rerun of Mossad predictions
about 9/11. There is no bigger issue facing Americans than this one.
better_off_said [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote: What always gets me is how
the neocons change
My wild guess is that he doesn't have TB at all, and that this is
some kind of test of protocols, or perhaps a political stunt to
increase border security.
That's a valid theory. Also, it could initiate some type of
requirement for medical screening for all passengers, or a no
fly list for
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I'm still betting that Sorcha Faal is a working group in an intel
agency.
You got that right.
Oh and, hats off to you and your finely tuned hoax sensor. ;)
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You know, my first reaction to this story was, good work! If she's
uncovering real terrorists -- and there is no doubt that there are
real terrorists out there, including Muslim terrorists -- she's doing
us all
Opium production has risen in Afghanistan every year in Afghanistan
since U.S.-led forces toppled the Taliban from power in late 2001...
Well *how else* are we supposed to fund the war on terror? ;)
--
Afghan opium crop soars to
Flights 11 and 77 were really Transformers. They turned into iddy-
biddy remote controlled cars on 9/11. That's why no one noticed.
Now explain what happened to the people *inside* the Transformers?!
And why are we being lied to?! It's a conspiracy I tell you!
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ever comes out. Power
struggles within the power elite will decide that.
better_off_said [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote: Flights 11 and 77 were really
Transformers. They turned into iddy-
biddy remote controlled cars on 9/11. That's why no one noticed.
Now explain
I swear I didn't find this on The Onion...
China Animates Police To Patrol Internet
The Associated Press
Published: Aug 29, 2007
BEIJING - Police in China's capital said Tuesday they will start
patrolling the Web using
Zakariya Reed, a Toledo firefighter, said in an interview that he
has been detained at least seven times at the Michigan border since
fall 2006. Twice, he said, he was questioned by border officials
about 'politically charged' opinion pieces he had published in his
local newspaper. The essays
ringleader
134. Rupert Murdoch /c Zionist billionaire
/nml
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Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: With no new
evidence,
Fox continues
.)
Connections: family members, friends, etc. Sorry to undercut the
romantic outlaw image. :)
better_off_said [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote: Thanks for the kind thoughts,
Sean. But where I live we're
surrounded my too much damned cinderblock to be threatened by,
well
. Nelson DeMille
also comes close to expressing this point of view in his last novel
Wild Fire.)
better_off_said [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote: Doesn't seem like the type of
plot to come from the neoconservative
ilk, especially one affiliated with the likes of Limbaugh
As if the code name Curveball wasn't enough to tip them off --
hello!
-
Secret source of phony Iraq intel outed
2 hours, 10 minutes ago | AP
The Iraqi defector code-named Curveball, whose false tales of
biological weapons labs
I don't believe that the World Trade Center was brought down by our
own explosives. ['Commentary: The CIA's Gift to Conspiracy
Theorists,' By Robert Bear, December 7, 2007, www.time.com]
That statement doesn't mean Robert Baer *doesn't* believe the World
Trade Center was brought down by
expression -- smart of
you to catch that.
All of this is of course speculation -- perhaps the surface story
as we know it so far is the true story.
better_off_said [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote: Set up because they knew he
would take the bait... couldn't
say
Not sure if this has already been posted (it's from June 12th), but
I found this story so disturbing -- should be titled How to Create
Sleeper Assassins in One Easy Step.
-
Teachers Defend Tactics in Hoax DWI Program
Thursday,
: Americans needed to be traumatized for their own good.
better_off_said [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote: Not sure if this has already been
posted (it's from June 12th), but
I found this story so disturbing -- should be titled How to
Create
Sleeper Assassins in One Easy Step
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Sounds like a case of a schizophrenic gone off his meds (and I don't
mean that in an offensive way), especially with the I don't hear
you, I don't see you response, but something about this story just
seemed odd -- even more odd than the story itself. Is it just me?
Now no doubt, as this article says, officials are going to conclude
Ivans acted alone and close the case. And that's the last we'll
ever hear of this story in any official capacity.
--
Dead Army vaccine scientist eyed in anthrax
And in spite of this latest revelation, a public survey poll would
undoubtedly still list the same Islamic radicals who carried out
the 9/11 attacks as the perpetrators behind the anthrax attacks.
Unfortunately, the significance of this story will be lost
to history.
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