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Operation Sink the Pirate Act

Sink the Pirate Act Ahoy! Uncle John Ashcroft wants the Depratment of Justice to setup a program to bust file sharers. Woo Yay for frivelous ways to spend tax dollars. Taxpayers are to foot the bill for civil suits to protect business.

From the EFF:

“The PIRATE Act (S.2237) is yet another attempt to make taxpayers fund the misguided war on file sharing, and it’s moving fast. The bill would allow the government to file civil copyright lawsuits in addition to criminal prosecutions, dramatically lowering the burden of proof and adding to the thousands of suits already filed by record companies. It would also force the American public to pay the legal bills of foreign record companies like Bertelsmann, Vivendi Universal, EMI, and Sony. Meanwhile, not a penny from the lawsuits goes to the artists.”

Send a quick letter to your senators and tell them what you think about the Pirate Act.

It won’t be long before file sharing becomes a felony, I’m sure. I mean, afterall, P2P and file sharing is a gateway application to terrorism, child abuse, and pedophilia. (That Sen. Hatch is completely whacked out)

This Ain’t Texas, Folks

Bush is the Antichrist

A welcome sign across the street from the Ice Palace, greets visitors coming to watch hockey.

America’s Silent Holocaust?

Hitler Thanks America for teaching him Eugenics How can that be, America compared to genocidal Nazi’s? How is the thought even fathomable? The arduous battle fought by our brave soldiers to end the tyranny of Adolf Hitler. To abolish the Third Reich and end their years of torture and murder.

We’re all familiar with the atrocities performed by the Nazi soldiers and the like. Hitler’s undying desire to rid Germany of the meek and feeble, the worthless, the poor, the genetically “unfit”, his ultimate plan of Creating the Master Race. The very thought of having to live through a time in history where the government sought to exterminate it’s own people on the absurd belief that they were unfit to live, makes me cringe.

Jumping back into current times, we presume that we are far removed from such an event, even further from a government and it’s followers to even think of devising such a plan. After some research, I’ve come to find out that we aren’t that far removed from such an atrocity. In fact, as I write this, I’m burdened with the truth that had my mother been declared an unfit citizen of the United States, I would not be here right now. Yes, declared unfit by the United States.

Being surrounded with horrific details of current war crimes, I’ve found myself fumbling through America’s dark history. The first thing I learned was that during World War II, America really wasn’t disgusted with Hitler’s plan for a master race, that in fact America aided Hitler in his quest. Sound absurd? It isn’t.

From 1933 to 1945 Nazi Germany’s government began racial health policies that began with mass sterilization of “genetically diseased” persons. Something that was practiced, surprisingly by numerous countries.

US Chart on Eugenics Movement What most American’s don’t know, is that during the years of 1927 and 1979, America sterilized more than 60,000 people nationwide. (Hitler actually praised the U.S. for it’s eugenics movement in Mein Kempf.) What is more startling is that the Eugenics law was first passed in 1907 in Indiana!

Even after the tragedies of World War II, after the entire nation had been exposed to the discovery of genocide and the techniques that had been performed by the Nazi’s upon innocent life, America still continued the practice of forced sterilization in it’s own plan to “cleanse the nation of genetically diseased” people.

California led the nation, recording over 20,000 involuntary sterilizations, Virginia being second with 8,000, most done before World War II.

Our fine nation had already begun it’s pursuit of genetic purity, which then became a blueprint for the Nazi effort to create their own master race.

These forced sterilizations happened so frequent, especially among poor Southerners, that it was labled “Mississippi Appendectomies”. Which is why many of these people never even new they were sterilized until years later when they tried to conceive. As most were given these surgeries disguised as appendix removals or in order to improve their health.

Think of your relatives, your mom,dad, grandparents, think of how old they were, think that the last forced sterilization was in 1979.

The numerous accounts of these forced sterilizations emerged in the newspaper in 1980. Late in the year of 1980 the American Civil Liberties Union of Virgina filed suit to force the state to locate, notify, and offer treatment to victims, almost 30 percent of whom were still of childbearing age!

A lawsuit was settled in 1985 and the state agreed to fund a campaign to alert patients to their possible sterilization. They even set up a confidential hot line to help those who had questions.

However, it wasn’t until 2002 when the state apologized for what it had done. Virginia wasn’t the first, Alberta, Canada apologized in 1999 for the forced sterilization of more than 2,800 people and also agreed to pay $82 million to 246 victims, in addition to more than $140 million they dished out in settlement with 900 other victims. Which just goes to show you that genocide wasn’t just practiced by Nazi Germany, it in fact stemmed from America who first practiced systematically sterilizing it’s own people to “racially cleanse it’s great nation”.

In fact, the more I keep reading about this, the more I discover it’s not really a secret. It’s just something we’re not told about, it’s something we have to look for. Just type “Nazi Eugenics” into your search engine, you’ll find more archives about the American Eugenics Society than you will about the Nazi’s Eugenics plan.

In addition to that, the new United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has an exhibit dedicated to the forced sterilization that was carried out in the United States.

What I’ve learned: Acts of torture are only bad when places other than the U.S. are doing it.

Because they’re cousins, identical cousins…

What do Bush, Kerry, and Hugh Heffner all have in common? Sounds like a lead-in to a bad joke, huh? Not this time, well, not too much of a joke. Bush, Kerry, and Heffner are all cousins!

What a world.

The Disturbing W

Damn W! Here I am casually browsing the intrawebnetdotcom. When I went to type a web address into the address bar in Firefox, by accident I typed just a W and hit enter and well, a virgin eye surprise is in store! Try it and be disgusted and frightened!

Place your bets on the next terrorist attack

I had a conversation with a friend of mine and she was telling me about this half-cocked plan of an anonymous gambling system based on betting on future terrorist attacks that this guy named Poindexter tried to create. I was beyond fascinated with this that I had to research just what exactly this scheme entailed and who Poindexter is.

The Original Big Brother PoindexterWho is John M. Poindexter?
Truth be told, he has quite a record. He was an Admiral in the United States Navy and the National Security Advisor during the Ronald Reagan presidency. He was convicted of multiple felony counts: conspiracy, obstruction of justice, lying to Congress, defrauding the government, and the alteration and destruction of evidence pertaining to the Iran-Contra Affair. However, his conviction was overturned on the grounds that he had been granted immunity from prosecution as a result of his testimony before Congress.

In 2002 he had been appointed as the Director of the Pentagon’s Information Awareness Office. His duty was to gather as much information as possible about everyone into a central database run by the government. The information was to include details about travel, credit card purchases, medical history and so on and so forth. Thus, he is the brain behind the Total Information Awareness (TIA) program.

In protest against the unveiling of TIA, Matt Smith, a columnist of the San Francisco Weekly, published John Poindexter’s home address and phone number, along with the names and addresses of his next door neighbors. His actions quickly transposed into an internet meme and this information was popping up all over the internet. Shortly after his phone was disconnected.

What was Policy Analysis Market?
The Policy Analysis Market (PAM) was a proposed futures exchange developed by the United States’ Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and based on an idea first proposed by Net Exchange, a research firm specializing in the development of online markets, and the Economist Intelligence Unit was also involved.

DARPA, of course, is headed by John M. Poindexter himself.

The Policy Analysis Market was a trading plan in which investors would be able to bet on political and economic events in the Middle East, such as the chance of assassinations and terrorist acts.

On PAM’s web page it had images and examples of how the trading system would be carried out. Unfortunately, that webpage has been withdrawn, BUT, thanks to Cryptome you can view the cached original version of PolicyAnalysisMarket.com.

In defense of PAM the Pentagon (who was overseeing the program) stated that it was part of a research effort “to investigate the broadest possible set of new ways to prevent terrorist attacks.”

The U.S. government was encouraging people to bet on and make money from atrocities and terrorist attacks.

When this project was revealed at a press conference, a political uproar ensued and the Pentagon immediately cancelled PAM and a week later John M. Poindexter submitted his resignation. (A copy of Poindexter’s resignation letter [PDF format])

For a brief time the PAM website revealed that it might be back in 2004 without government ties. This brings us to….

Prediction/Idea Futures Markets
I found a few prediction markets online:
Foresight Exchange
TradeSports

There are plenty of others, some real and some not. You just have to look for them. Interesting, to say the least, but not nearly as interesting as a government funded terrorist prediction market.

Iraqi Rewards Program

WMD Missing Forget your frequent flyer miles, don’t bother with Blockbuster’s rewards program, the CIA has something better: The Iraqi Rewards Program!

The Bush administration is giving out prizes to Iraqi’s that inform the CIA of where the WMD have been hidden! It’s quite simple, you just fill out an online form and submit away! But don’t be worried about your privacy, they assure you that, “We will carefully protect all information you provide, including your identity.

I hope that most Iraqi’s that have been liberated from electricity, clean water, food, and housing still have access to the internet!

Nobel Peace Prize

Bush Blair Welcome to bizzaro world. George W. Bush and Tony Blair were nominated for the Nobel Peace prize, among other nominees being Pope John Paul, the Salvation Army, former Czech President Vaclav Havel, and Chinese dissidents are also among nominees. I’m terribly confused. I don’t know what else to say. It’s too early for this.

Pentagon threatens to kill journalists

Maybe I was wrong in my previous entry. It appears that the Pentagon is threatening to kill independent reporters in Iraq.

Kate Adie, a veteran BBC war correspondent, was told by senior Pentagon official “that if uplinks –that is the television signals out of… Bhagdad, for example– were detected by any planes …electronic media… mediums, of the military above Baghdad… they’d be fired down on. Even if they were journalists”.

If you think that whatever coverage you might see on the news is 100% not filtered, you are very wrong.

“The Americans are: a) Asking journalists who go with them, whether they are… have feelings against the war. And therefore if you have views that are skeptical, then you are not to be acceptable. Secondly, they are intending to take control of the Americans technical equipment …those uplinks and satellite phones I was talking about. And control access to the airwaves. And then on top of everything else, there is now a blackout (which was imposed, during the last war, at the beginning of the war), …ordered by one Mr. Dick Cheney, who is in charge of this”

Webcam in Iraq

I’ve been getting quite a few search hits for a webcam in Baghdad and Kuwait. I’m assuming that you want a glimpse of the bombing, the dead, and the dying when the war begins. Considering that Baghdad and Kuwait are going to be blown to confetti, I doubt there will be live webcam coverage of it. If you think you’re going to miss out on the grisly deaths of civilians and the destruction of cities, I assure you they will show the bombing on your major cable networks like they did during the Gulf War. Maybe even on pay-per-view this time around.

Some of you might also be interested in WebcamInIraq.org a site that is trying to have a webcam in Baghdad. Although, I think setting up a webcam in a city under siege is probably the least of everyones concerns.

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