Anthrax Could Terrorize Again
Posted by admin - 11/10/08 at 07:10:13 amProfessor Francis Boyle, a bio-weapons expert spoke with radio host, Alex Jones August 21. This is an edited, excerpted transcription of that interview.
Francis Boyle: “I had drafted the United States biological weapons anti-terrorism act of 1989 that was passed unanimously by both Houses of the United States Congress and signed into law by President George Bush Sr.”
After realizing that the anthrax attacks looked like a domestic job, Boyle called a high-level official in the FBI who deals with terrorism and counter-terrorism, Marion “Spike” Bowman. Boyle and Bowman had met at a terrorism conference at the University of Michigan Law School.
“I told Mr. Bowman in October 2001, the only people capable of the anthrax attack would be those individuals working at either United States government labs or private contractors. Obviously it seemed to me it was US government related. I told Agent Bowman, ‘It’s also been reported this summer that the CIA was engaged in anthrax work as well.’ He said he would take that information to the proper channels and we hung up.
Then it occurred to me I had such a list going back to when I tried to get that legislation through and so I called him back and I told him, ‘You could get the CIA list from the CIA.’ He said ‘The FBI was working with Ft. Detrick,’ and I said, ‘Fort Detrick could very well be the problem here.’
At that point, I assumed good faith on the part of the FBI in this investigation because it had killed several people. It had shut down the United States Congress–which I think was probably the greatest political crime ever inflicted on our republic in its history. But then I read that the FBI had authorized the destruction of the US government Ames-Strain data collection in Ames, Iowa. Ames-Strain was the anthrax strain responsible for US bio-warfare programs. Everyone knew that. And indeed that’s all been confirmed. You can read it in today’s New York Times. When I read about the Ames-Strain destruction I knew a cover-up was under way. Legitimate scientific researchers could have taken that collection and used it to genetically reconstruct precisely how, when and where the the weapon come from, and they destroyed it.
This clearly was a federal crime in its own right–destruction of evidence. That evidence should have been preserved as evidence of a crime. It was obvious they were covering-up–and have been covering up ever since.
In today’s New York Times the FBI admits that Bruce Ivans submitted a culture to the FBI, which they promptly destroyed. So there you have–yet again, an instance of destruction of evidence and obstruction of justice by the FBI.
The important issue to realize is this: there is today in existence a stockpile of super, weapons-grade, anthrax that is under the control of the original perpetrators of the Anthrax attacks of October 2001 and that stockpile can and will be used against-when their masters decide that it would be politically convenient to scare and terrorize the American people. They could launch another attack on US–including the Congress, the Judiciary, and the media.
I believe the first anthrax attack was designed to ram through the PATRIOT act because Senator Tom Daschle and Senator Patrick Leahy who were targeted victims of the attacks were holding the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act up and once the anthrax attack occurred, it rammed right through. Indeed, the renewal of the USA P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act Senator Russ Feingold was holding it up and all of a sudden–out of nowhere, some white powdered substance appeared at one of the Senator’s office buildings. It was an anthrax scare, and then all of a sudden–renewal of the PATRIOT Act went through. It wasn’t real anthrax, but it didn’t have to be real anthrax this time.
I think people in Congress-they’re smart intelligent people. I think they know who were responsible. I don’t think they believe the cock and bull FBI explanation. But of course, they’re afraid. Their lives are on the line.
I think what we have to do now is insist on a full-scale Congressional investigation along the lines of the Watergate hearings-open public hearings by a joint committee of Congress because this attack was designed to shut Congress down–which it did. It succeeded for the first time in the history of our republic when congress was actually rendered inoperative. The Supreme Court was also shut down. And our media were attacked–our fourth estate.
The Presidency and the Executive branch was not attacked. I’ll leave that to you to figure out, but we do know that the White House was on Cipro [a drug designed to protect people who have been exposed to anthrax spores.]
Sometimes, things really do just happen
Posted by admin - 07/10/08 at 05:10:16 amI talked recently about how little other people typically think about you, and how that should be a freeing things. Also, just how difficult it can be to accept that because, let’s face it, we all see the world through our own perspective, and that perspective is utterly and completely focused on ourselves. So, it’s easy to begin to question what we’ve done or not done when a friend doesn’t respond the way we think they should.
Case in point, recently I had sent a couple of emails to a good friend of mine, and gotten no response at all. One of them even included a very simple question that didn’t require more than a yes or no answer, yet there was none forthcoming.
I actually did start to wonder what I had done or said to her that caused her to try and avoid me like this. We’ve been friends for years, and I was worried that maybe something had happened to suddenly make her uncomfortable with me.
I shrugged these concerns off and tried to continue on like normal, but it still left me wondering.
Turns out, her workplace email system had flagged my messages as spam, and she didn’t even see them until a few days or a week after I had sent them. There was no conflict, no nothing, just someone who was going about their days not really thinking about checking her spam folders for emails from people she hadn’t heard from lately.
So you see, sometimes, people aren’t trying to avoid you, they really are busy, or really don’t get your message. It happens, lighten up. 
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More Pittsburgh Online Dating Profile Gems
Posted by admin - 06/10/08 at 01:10:27 amJust what goes on Sundays at your place?
If I meet a hot guy…here’s the average Sunday…morning sex…coffee…sex…shopping…dinner with the family…see a movie…wine…night sex. But that’s sunday, not everyday can be sex 3x’s a day, just sundays…well okay saturday’s too!
Job: medical/dental
Which virtues give you most of your self confidence?
The fact that I could write a prescription that would render you unconscious. (Just Kidding)
If you could ‘Do Lunch’ with anyone, who would it be?
That’s an easy one, Osama Bin Laden. That way when he wasn’t looking I could put a triple dose of anthrax in his food and that terrorist moron would ‘drop dead’!!
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
I think if I could change something about myself it would be to never have did so much LSD in the 60s, no, wait I was born in the 70s-nevermind….
Someone may want to say “hello”, but not know how to get the ball rolling.
WELL, THEY COULD ALWAYS COMMENT ON MY BEAUTIFUL HAIR, MY BEAUTIFUL BROWN EYES, MY FLAWLESS SKIN, MY BODY BEAUTIFUL…
The Importance of Personality in Creativity (a drunk rambling)
Posted by admin - 04/10/08 at 06:10:07 amI’ve become increasingly aware just lately of the importance of personality in creativity, especially in creativity of a visual manner. As i’ve been exploring generative art, and indeed as I have been tied down in the purely functional and rational world of investment banking (i’ve been working on a large application for JP Morgan, forcing my mind to wonder over the possibilities of aesthetic creations, whilst drenched with the harsh and bleak reality of investment banking) I have come to appreciate (more concisely) the relevance, importance and potency of personal interpretation in most things creative (especially visually aesthetic creativity).
What is “Personality in Creativity”???
When I talk about personality in creativity what I am talking about is the way in which individual human beings are capable of understanding, relating to and ultimately experiencing things in a completely different and abstract way from one another.
I think my understanding of this has become most prevalent in recent times, you see I bought my boyfriend a digital SLR camera for his birthday (a rather nice Canon EOS 400D) and I couldn’t help but notice that often I would find a shot or scene that I thought was worth capturing, the interesting part is that sometimes my boyfriend wouldn’t feel the same way (more often than not he would, or he was just humoring me, who knows!) It was through these continued and often random occurrences of indifference over what was considered aesthetically pleasing that I arrived at my ephinpy of revelation.
The Ephinpy of Revelation
My revelation was one of appreciation for the individual, in the same way that I would attack a pragmatic problem or a technologically challenging task from a certain perspective, my boyfriend, your girlfriend indeed your [whoever] or (especially) another person will see the same problem / aesthetic from another perspective.
It is indeed the way in which we as creative individuals are able to see, analyze, appreciate, and then (finally) form preferable, concise resolutions to aesthetically or mentally challenging problems.
I’m using the perspective of pragmatic and aesthetic creativity interchangeably, you see this is the way in which I (creatively) perceive a challenge, it is an aspect of my personality and something which is as unique in its execution to me as the very fabric of which I am formed.
The Very Fabric of Which we are Formed
This is the point, as obvious at it seems, I’m trying to make, The way I will solve a problem, the way I will view an aesthetic, even the way in which I will appreciate sound, touch, taste… It’s all unique to me. As is the way you will react to these stimuli.
As obvious as it seems to say this out-loud, I sometimes think there are a great deal of people in the world that need reminding that you should view this “with your own eyes”, be that with your actual eyes, or a perceived sandbox of conformed rationality, it should be your spectrum of creativity (or rationale) that paints the answer, not an emulated or derived palate of someone else’s expression.
“A Derived Palate of Someone Else’s Expression”
When I talk about this I’m not saying that people shouldn’t learn, be inspired by and ultimately study others work to gain a better understanding of a particular field of creative expression (far from it, indeed I believe that it is often only possible to understand and therefore form a creative expression about a given problem / aesthetic, if you have first studied and understood how peers would approach the same problem)
What I am saying is that it’s important to move beyond this. Take what you have learnt, apply it and reiterate. Your creativity will then be peppered with the nuances of your personality, and ultimately you individuality.
This drunk rambling was bought to you buy 6 pints and 2 shots of tequila. Thank you.
libsecondlife 0.3 Released
Posted by admin - 03/10/08 at 01:10:57 amYes, another libsecondlife release! This one is much better than the 0.2 release. We have full working inventory and full CAPS/LLSD support and a lot of other new features and bug fixes.
Check out the release notes, or download the source
Zambia / Mister Seaman from Zimbabwe, you made my morning
Posted by admin - 02/10/08 at 10:10:23 amThank you mister Seaman from Zimbabwe, you started a small coffee stand on Lusaka International Airport. You know what a traveller needs at the beginning of the day: good coffee. But… what i don’t…
Read about the whereabouts of independent Africa Correspondent Arjen Westra. travelling the continent and reporting on things he sees and hears and…. smells.
Freshly Washed
Posted by admin - 01/10/08 at 10:10:21 am
Spam Observations #49
This morning I received a very touching letter from Rick Hadley, or perhaps from the very pretty, but evidently lonely, Olga. I wasn’t quite sure. Spammer Gender Confusion strikes again. At least Rick/Olga sent me a picture of “herself”.
Hi my friend!
I only wished to write to you the letter and to tell as in general my letter got to you! First I would like to speak a little about myself my name is Olga to me 29 years I live in Russia to Kirov. All the others wash data and a photo in the appendix to the letter data.
Olga, I have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about. OK, I get that you live in Russia and you’re 29. But unless you’re trying to attract a geek with a laundry fetish, I’d lose the data washing. And even though I’m sure your appendix is as hot as the rest of you, a photo of it is something you might want to keep to yourself for a second date. With a surgeon.
I was in agency of acquaintance and to me advised yours e-mail the address I do not know whence they him took but they gave me yours e-mail that I could have acquaintance to you.
‘Whence’…? Nice. We do tend to mostly avoid it these days though. Personally, I like it and would happily see it make a comeback, but I think I’m in a small minority. I’m also partial to ‘heretofore’ and ‘wherewithal’ though they don’t get much of guernsey in day-to-day conversation either.
And I only wanted that you have spent about 10 minutes both looked wash a photo and wash data and received from you the answer you would like to have acquaintance to me or you only would not like this?
There we go with the washing again. If Olga is a bot, I think her data has been washed a few too many times.
Tell to me I so only the nobility it much would like. Also I shall wait much your answer.
Olga, I would very much like to oblige, but I am not at all sure what the question is…
I started to search the man as to me very alone and 29 years and I do not have man if you wish to begin with me correspondence or easier to begin acquaintance tell to me your answer. I shall wait much!
I hope your new friend well I hope that I can become for you friend Olga ! Can you send me you photo and story life on my e-mail
Olga encloses with her email a document with a strange name which I assume to be Russian for pleaseturnmypcintoaspamzombie.exe. Now, I don’t like to keep poor Olga waiting much, so, with the help of Babelfish, I’ve responded to her in her native language:
Дорогое Ðльга,
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Doesn’t that look convincing! This is how Babelfish says it should appear to her:
Dear Olga,
You for your electronic mail. I hope that this finds you in the best way. I no to entire confident of what you you mean by washing your data, but it is casting a spell. I so love to obtain correspondence from dear women in the foreign countries. What maintenance! From where, can I ask to you, he did make you to find my address of electronic mail? I would fall in love to see the photograph of your application if you have one. I will hold his to my of bulletin board for others to take pleasure. You never know, one of my single man friends it could wander by and see it! I hope to hear from you very soon.
Sincerely your
The Saint
I hope she doesn’t keep me waiting much with her reply.
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Posted by admin - 30/09/08 at 08:09:49 am
If You Leave a Stupid Ad in a Public Place, We WILL Have Fun with It
Posted by admin - 29/09/08 at 11:09:20 pmThese are the sorts of things we do on weekends to amuse ourselves:
Zig.
Zig zag.
Zig zag ZOOM!
Kamran’s flailing arms aside, my favourite part of the video is the beginning where I have to tell that woman she can walk in front of the camera. I swear New Yorkers are only polite when they’re being filmed.
Also, I should mention that this is from months ago, just in case you get freaked out by my short hair and the fact that we’re wearing coats in the midst of summer. Because I know our every move affects your emotional health.
Implementing HaloScan Powered Comments
Posted by admin - 27/09/08 at 01:09:31 amFor some time now, I’ve been using a
Magic the Gathering card database for a testing bed for various things. Earlier today
I learned about a service that will provide commenting functionality for your website.
HaloScan was easy to set up even for a non-blog type website. It only required a few lines of pasted JavaScript code in two places to get it going.
My test page shows what the free service has to offer (rating, comments, trackbacks). With a small donation more services would be available, which might be something I would consider if I ever take the mtg website seriously.
This quick-to-set-up service will be another tool to help those that are trying to get webservices up quickly, like
a few
articles I’ve
read recently.