Privacy...or not

The technology behind Ontario's new enhanced driver's licences will allow people to secretly track other people's activities and movements unless privacy protection is added. The radio frequency identity (RFID) tag that will be embedded into the card can be read not only by authorized readers, but just as easily by unauthorized readers. There is a request to include an on-off switch that will provide better privacy protection with the new licences, which are scheduled to start rolling out June 1. On that date, the U.S. will start requiring a passport for all Canadian visitors entering the country at land crossings without an enhanced driver's licence.
The RFID microchip inside the licence contains only a unique identification number and no other information. The licence will come with a sleeve that will protect it from being read. However, people are often required to use their licences away from the border and most drivers will abandon the use of the protective sleeve.

H1N1 handmade

Suspicions that the virus is a result of genetic engineering were raised by Adrian Gibbs, a scientist from Australia who was a part of the team that created Tamiflu, medicine for the swine flu. Gibbs points out it is possible that the virus was created during experiments conducted by scientists in order to create viruses and vaccination for them. The virus and its behaviour were supposedly observed in eggs.
The theory of the virus “escaping” a laboratory was justified due to facts that the virus had mutated and spread outside the laboratory at great speed!

They are turning on us...
Researchers recently revealed that they had observed monkeys planning future combat. A researcher from Sweden described a daily ritual of a 30-year-old chimpanzee, Santino, that loathes his human visitors at a zoo north of Stockholm and thus begins every morning by roaming his enclosure to collect stones and place them strategically in handy piles for subsequently hurling at irksome visitors.



Here's to you...
Galileo Galilei was honored at a gallery in Florence, Italy, to mark the 400th anniversary of his transformative work, which was widely discredited at the time (as contradicting the Bible) and which subjected him to vicious slanders. The exhibit includes Galileo's only preserved body part: one of his middle fingers.

Pharaohs or Aliens

Extraterrestrials have become frequent guests in Bosnia & Herzegovina. Recently an unidentified object was photographed above Travnik, but last week it was established that the UFO was in fact Jupiter. However another piece of information arrived from Bosnia: an unidentified flying object was again photographed, this time above Mostar.
According to the photographer’s claims, the glowing object stood motionless above Mostar’s Centar 2 neighbourhood for more than an hour and then disappeared without a trace...
Something's gotta give - pyramids or UFOs!

Earthly Species We Don't Know About

More than 1,000 new animal species were discovered in the last decade in the area surrounding the Mekong River that runs through Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam, including striped rabbits and a spider bigger than a dinner plate. Also found was a pink millipede that secretes cyanide, giant carp, Mekong stingray, largetooth sawfish, Irrawaddy dolphin...







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"Substances"

The remote Manitoba First Nations tribes in Canada have largely moved away from alcohol abuse to the abuse of much more potent "superjuice," made with a fast-acting yeast that encourages quick brewing. However, underbrewing results in the swill's continuing to ferment in the stomach after consumption, causing violent pain and progressive inebriation lasting for days.

38-year-old man was cited for disorderly conduct in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin after he bought a beer for his sons, ages 2 and 4, at the county fair. He could not be charged for providing alcohol to minors because, under Wisconsin law, parents are exempt, but he was written up for swearing at police...

Two 18-year-olds spotted police approaching their trailer-park home in Salina, Kansas, panicked, and tossed illegal drugs out a window. Police spotted the flying drugs, even though cops had originally intended only to serve warrants on two of their neighbors. The rest is history.

Internationalization of the World

Brazilian Senator Cristovam Buarque (Professor of Brasilia University, ex-governor of Brasilia)in October of 2000 gave a lecture in the NY University. After the lecture he was questioned about the internalization of the Amazon region.
And, this was his answer:
During a recent discussion, in the United States, someone asked my opinion regarding the internationalization of the Amazon Region. The youngster asserted that he expected a response of a humanist and not of a Brazilian.
This was the first time anyone had established the humanist viewpoint as the starting point for my response. In fact, as a Brazilian I would have responded simply against internationalization of the Amazon Region. Even if our governments have not given the attention that this treasure deserves, it is ours. I responded that, as a humanist, realizing the risk of environmental destruction that threatens the Amazon Region, I could imagine its internationalization, just as for everything else that is important to humanity.
If the Amazon Region, from a humanist΄s point of view, has to be internationalized, then we should internationalize the oil reserves of the entire the world as well. Oil is just as important to the well being of humanity as the Amazon Region for our future. Nevertheless, the owners of oil reserves feel it is in their right to increase or decrease oil production and to raise or lower the price. The rich of the world, feel they have the right to burn this valuable possession of humanity. Similarly, the financial capital of the wealthy nations should be internationalized. If the Amazon Region is a natural reserve for every human being, then it could not be burned down by the decision of a landowner or a country. To burn down the Amazon Region is so tragic, as the unemployment provoked by the arbitrary decisions of world wide speculators. We cannot permit that the world΄s financial reserves serve to burn down entire nations according to the whims of speculacion.
Before the (internationalization of the) Amazon Region, I would like to see the internationalization of all the world΄s great museums. The Lourve cannot belong only to France. Each museum in the world is a guardian for the most beautiful works produced by the human genius. It cannot be permitted that these cultural possessions, as the natural posession of the Amazon Region, can be manipulated or be destroyed according to the whims of an owner or a country. Recently, a Japanese millionaire decided to have a painting of a grand master burried with him in the grave. This painting should have been internationalized.
At the time of the meeting, in which this question came up, the United Nations convened the Forum of the Millennium and the presidents of several countries had difficulties in attending due to barriers (they faced) at the border. Therefore, I contend that New York, as the base of the United Nations, should be internationalized. At least Manhattan should belong to all of humanity. Similarly Paris, Venice, Rome, London, Rio de Janeiro, Brazilia, Recife, every city with its own beauty, its own history should belong to the whole world.
If the United States wants to internationalize the Amazon Region, due to the risk of leaving it in Brazilian hands, then we should internationalize all the nuclear stockpiles of the United States. Particularly since they have already shown that they are capable of using these weapons, causing a destruction thousands of times greater than the sad fires taken place in the Brazilian forests.
During their debates, the current U.S. presidential candidates have defended the idea of internationalizing the world forest reserves in exchange for the debt. We could begin to use this debt to guarantee the right of every child in the world to attend school. We could internationalize the children treating all of them, regardless of their birthplace, as a posession which deserves the care and attention of the entire world. Even more so than the Amazon Region. When the world leaders attend to the world΄s poor children as possessions of Humanity, they will no longer permit that these children work when they should be studying, that they die when they should be living.
As a humanist I accept to defend the internationalization of the world. So long as the world treats me as a Brazilian, I will fight so that our Amazon Region will be ours. Only ours.

God Bless America...and Canada for that matter

John McCain, if elected, may not live long enough to fill out a second term, leaving Sarah Palin as president (!). Yet, Palin suggests that Joe Biden might be too old for the job...
McCain stresses the importance of "ensuring that America is secure, and not dependent on oil from people like Hugo Chavez or other parts of the Middle East which is, we know, could be destabilized under certain sets of circumstances."
Hope Chavez knows Venezuela is in the Middle East...

What about the prudent Canadian PM Stephen Harper?
Trying to paint himself a moderate is hard case to make when you get caught plagiarizing an Iraq speech from war-driven Australian PM John Howard.

Cultural Diversity

About 250,000 women in the Southern India states of Karnataka and Maharashtra are self-described "elite" sex workers whose impoverished, or devoutly pious, parents "dedicated" them as children to the Hindu goddess Yellamma. Despite the state's outlawing the practice in 1982, the women's fate as "devadasis" remains an attractive alternative to ordinary marriage (which would usually be to poor and abusive men) and provides a degree of status, in that they dress nicely and can inherit family property, while street prostitutes cannot.

Christopher Sullivan, 43, was arrested in Oshkosh, Wisconsine, as the person who allegedly sent his upstairs neighbors threatening packages, including a Polaroid photo of three naked Barbie dolls with their heads cut off. He told police he was angry that the couple were too loud when they had sex.

Democracy at its best

The two states whose electoral votes decided the presidential races in 2000 (Florida) and 2004 (Ohio) are provoking anxiety this time around as well. In Palm Beach County, Fla. (home of the "butterfly ballot" in 2000), 3,478 optical-scan votes disappeared between primary-night counting on Aug. 26 and the official recount a few days later (flipping the outcome of at least one race).
Ohio officials claimed that they had fixed a software-logic tabulating error in Premier Election Systems machines used in some counties (but, according to a spokesman for Premier, a company formerly known as Diebold, that error had been present for the last 10 years).
The Ohio secretary of state ordered election officials to end the practice of taking voting machines home at night during election season "for safekeeping," even though such "sleepovers" had been encouraged in order to protect the machines from tampering.)

Oh, my...

Gift from Above

Mohammed Bello Abubakar, 84, a Muslim preacher in the western Nigerian state of Niger, told a BBC reporter in August that, although he personally has 86 wives (and 170 children), other men could not handle that many. "(M)y own power is given by Allah," he said. "That is why I have been able to control 86 of them." The usual maximum for Muslims is four, but Bello Abubakar said the Quran does not specify punishment for violation. Besides, he said, "I don't go looking for (women). They come to me" because of his reputation as a healer. (Two weeks later, Reuters reported that local clerics were pressuring Bello Abubakar to divorce 82 wives of his choice, but a spokesman for the preacher said he was resisting.)

Believers

Rocky Twyman of Washington, D.C., started Pray at the Pump, a brief, scattered national campaign in June to urge prayer to bring down gas prices. A colleague in St. Louis claimed his prayer sessions caused the price drop in July, pointing to his use of the civil rights anthem "We Shall Overcome" (and his new verse, "We'll have lower gas prices")!!!!!

Salinas, Calif., Mayor Dennis Donohue, frustrated at this year's dramatic surge in gang violence, kicked off a campaign to urge a citywide fast, which he said was a proven technique in achieving social justice!!!!!

Can't touch this

Because of his search for evidence on the existence of UFOs, 40-year-old Briton hacker Gary McKinnon is in trouble, awaiting extradition to the USA from his London home. He had raided official NASA site and is facing a 70-year prison sentence.
Gary claims he saw photos of alien space crafts on NASA`s site. He says he was inspired for his action by Hugh Cornwall`s Guide for Hackers and his main interest are secrets of the American government on alien space crafts and high technology. He claims he has found documents recording 400 testimonies of unidentified flying objects.
Flight controllers and persons in charge of controlling nuclear missiles wrote down their unusual encounters with UFOs. Witnesses spoke of up to date technology which they took over from UFOs or destroyed it. NASA is in possession of a large amount of photos and processed and unprocessed documents. When asked if this was just another strategic game of the American Army or a reconstruction of a hypothetic situation, Gary responded that anything was possible because it is widely known that the army wants complete sky domination.

People or Animals

*Evolution scientists at Switzerland's University of Lausanne just reported that over the course of 30 to 40 generations, ordinary flies tend to live longer if they're stupid. The researchers guessed that heightened neural activity overtaxed their systems.
*A farmer in Jilin province of China had been found with a tortoise that is addicted to nicotine. The farmer, a smoker himself, said he was surprised when the pet puffed on a cigarette he had playfully stuck in its mouth, and since then, he occasionally shares smokes with it.

The latest in the hand watch technology

The Swiss watchmaker Romain Jerome (which last year created a watch made from remnants of the Titanic) introduced the "Day&Night" watch, which unfortunately does not provide a reading of the hour or the minute. Though it retails for about $300,000, it tells only whether it is "day" or "night" (using a complex measurement of the Earth's gravity). CEO Yvan Arpa said studies show that two-thirds of rich people "don't (use) their watch to tell what time it is" anyway. Anyone can buy a watch that tells time, he told a Reuters reporter, but only a "truly discerning customer" can buy one that doesn't.

Living in a Box

*Representatives of about 300 Islamic madrassa schools meeting in New Delhi decided that Muslims could not buy health insurance because the Quran forbids gambling (!) They do say they will continue to "explore" ways of reconciling Sharia law with health care financing...

* When Albert Einstein was getting estranged from his wife, Mileva Maric, he proposed a "contract" in which they could continue to live together under certain conditions:
a) You will make sure
1. that my clothes and laundry are kept in good order;
2. that I will receive my three meals regularly in my room;
3. that my bedroom and study are kept neat, and especially that my desk is left for my use only.
b) You will renounce all personal relations with me insofar as they are not completely necessary for social reasons…“you will stop talking to me if I request it.”
And he vowed, “In return, I assure you of proper comportment on my part, such as I would exercise to any woman as a stranger.”

Enlightened?

On May 1, 1776, the former Catholic priest (?) and professor at the university in Ingolstadt in Bavaria, Adam Weishaupt, founded the Illuminati group, which was financed by international bankers. The Illuminati were mentioned as far back as the 15th century as a group of Gnostics, and their activities were destroyed by the Inquisition. Weishaupt’s plan was to control the ruling structures in most countries, and it was feared that he wanted to totally destroy the Catholic Church and all of its foundations. (If you haven't read it, I'm sure you'll see Dan Brown's "Angels & Demons" movie that is in the making with Tom Hanks) .
They are considered ideological founders of the new world order.
It is not certain this secret society managed to keep tradition today, even though many societies have used their name. I goes all the way to presidential circles.
Here is a little somethin' about them.

And the truth shall set you free...

The New York Times published a detailed report which reveals the huge scale of the propaganda machinery that has been selling false information about the successes and failures of the American invasion of Iraq.
Donald Rumsfeld as the defence minister, a year before the invasion, authorized the formation of an expert team for propaganda which was led by 75 retired military officers whose basic aim was to “offer good news from Iraq, even when there was no good news”.
The administration touched the bottom when they decided to hire professional or less professional actors who presented themselves and were hired as journalists and expert advisers. This occurred before and after the invasion, whilst the Pentagon made sure there was an uninterrupted flow of unfounded and/or false news, disinformation that first of all changed public perception, and then promoted “success or prepared the public for failure on the battlefield”. The investigative journalist for the Times, David Barstow, reveals the typical wage an “expert for propaganda” earned. One of the conservative commentators earned an envious 240,000 dollars per year for his services.
This practice, that was being carried out by Bush’s team for national security in cooperation with a large number of Pentagon officials, lasted until April 20 this year, when the American military chiefs were concerned about the latest headlines, and informed the public via their spokesperson Robert Hastings that the program has been frozen.
Barstow dedicated a full two years to the investigation, during which via attorneys and the Freedom of Information Act, forced the Bush administration to release 8,000 pages of documentation that recorded the propaganda that was enabled and supported by the ongoing war in Iraq. Even though his first report was very detailed, it is expected that the NYT will continue to reveal details about the ways that the Pentagon occupied the American media and then created a false picture of reality.

See the video about it Here

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