Herds of Fat Troglodytes Commence Orgiastic Binge, WalMart Sets Sales Record :.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Saturday it hit a single-day company sales record during the traditional day-after-Thanksgiving shopping sprees, taking in more than $1.52 billion nationally.



More: Woman Trampled by Rampaging Mob Seeking Cheap DVD Players :.

In my opinion, the collapse of this society seems as natural and unstoppable as the sun rising in the morning. I now view it as a beautiful thing, a spark of hope. I dream about it, actually.

Gaze upon it. Marvel at it. Look at what we have become. At a minimum, you can watch the barrel of monkeys outside your window and you won't feel the need to ever pay for entertainment again:

A 41-year-old woman was knocked unconscious and then trampled by a mob of shoppers who continued to step over her as she suffered a seizure during a Friday sale at Wal-Mart in Orange City, Fla., according to Local 6 News.

Authorities said that Patricia Van Lester arrived at Wal-Mart at 3 a.m. for an early sale on a DVD player for her mother. When the store's doors opened at 6 a.m., Van Lester grabbed the DVD player but was quickly overcome by hundreds of shoppers rushing into the store.

The woman was knocked to the ground, slammed her head on the ground and suffered at least one seizure, according to Local 6 News.

Her sister watched the incident and tried to stop the crowd as they made their way to the merchandise.
posted by Kevin at 3:44 PM

Federal Reserve/IRS Audio Files :.

Tired of reading about it? Hear it for yourself...

Research Credit: NF
posted by Kevin at 3:29 PM

Assassinated Reuters Camaraman Uncovered Evidence of Mass U.S. Casualties in Iraq :.

When journalists point cameras at the "wrong" subject matter, they are taking their lives in their hands. Usually, the truth will be aborted and thrown in the trash by the editor/producer before the "story" is released. Perhaps U.S. PSYOPS controllers were not willing to take chances with the veracity of the Ministry of Truth and executed Dana as a result:

Mazen Dana, the Award winning Reuters camera man, shot dead by US troops whilst filming outside Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison in August - with full permission and press accreditation from the US Authorities in Baghdad - told his brother Nazmi, a chilling tale days before he died.

"Mazen told me by phone few days before his death that he discovered a mass grave dug by U.S. troops to conceal the bodies of their fellow comrades killed in Iraqi resistance attacks," Nazmi said.

"He also told me that he found U.S. troops covered in plastic bags in remote desert areas and he filmed them for a TV program. We are pretty sure that the American forces had killed Mazen knowingly to prevent him from airing his finding."
posted by Kevin at 2:28 PM

Wal-Mart "Eats" More U.S. Manufacturers :.

LaRouche material is about 80% good stuff, 20% rat poison.* This article is pretty good:

As EIR has shown in a series of articles (Nov. 14, Nov. 21), Wal-Mart is a driving force for America's implementation of the Imperial Rome model: Unable to reproduce its own population's existence, the United States has, for the past two decades, used an over-valued dollar to import goods from abroad. Wal-Mart markets an immense volume of these goods, many of which are produced under slave-labor conditions. It pays below-subsistence wages to its American workers, and drives down the wages of competing retail stores.

* From Who Is LaRouche and What Does He Want?

Mae Brussel, who for the better part of 17 years (1971-1988) conducted a weekly 60-minute radio program on KAZU in Pacific Grove, California, unraveling the full ramifications of the assassination of JFK, stated off camera that the LaRouche material is about 80% "deeply factual" (comparable to the information found in Covert Action Quarterly ) and about 20% "rat poison." In other words, at the core of the NCLC (as with other political cults) probably 20 members or less actually see the "big picture," while 95% of the group-true-believer types, the "drones"-man tables and phone lines, do research, write stories, and believe they are on the side of the angels "fighting the Oligarchy." Meanwhile, a monkey wrench gang in the editorial department determine the party line and put a spin on the aggregate to make it unpalatable with 90% of the public.

posted by Kevin at 2:13 PM

Billions for Bankers--Debts for the People :.

Online version of a great book:

History reveals nations can be conquered by the use of one or more of three methods.

The most common is conquest by war. In time, though, this method usually fails, because the captives hate the captors and rise up and drive them out if they can. Much force is needed to maintain control, making it expensive for the conquering nation.

A second method is by religion, where men are convinced they must give their captors part of their earnings as "obedience to God." Such a captivity is vulnerable to philosophical exposure or by overthrow by armed force, since religion by its nature lacks military force to regain control, once its captives become disillusioned.

The third method can be called economic conquest. It takes place when nations are placed under "tribute" without the use of visible force or coercion, so that the victims do not realize they have been conquered. "Tribute" is collected from them in the form of "legal" debts and taxes, and they believe they are paying it for their own good, for the good of others, or to protect all from some enemy. Their captors become their "benefactors" and "protectors".
posted by Kevin at 2:05 PM

Dubya to Jeb: $8.5 Million for Fascist Pig Operations

Full text follows because this will slide down the memory hole pretty fast:

Iraq bill includes millions for Miami meeting

By Alex Navarro Clifton, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 4, 2003

Buried in a bill that provides money for the war in Iraq is an $8.5 million federal boost for Miami to host the Free Trade Area of the Americas conference later this month.

Passed in the House last week and the Senate Monday, the FTAA money is a single line within the massive Iraq bill.

But for the 40 local communities expected to provide extra police officers and equipment at the conference, it helps ease the financial burden on already strapped cities and counties.

Between 20,000 and 100,000 protesters are expected to flood downtown Miami during the conference set for Nov. 17-21.

"The money enables the city of Miami and Miami-Dade County in particular to go the extra mile in security," said Charles Cobb, chairman of the nonprofit Florida FTAA Inc., which is helping organize the conference. "It gives them much more comfort to do whatever is necessary to provide good security and do it in a friendly, positive way."

The FTAA would establish a free-trade zone among the nations of the Americas and the Caribbean, excluding Cuba. It would be the world's largest free market, with a combined gross domestic product of nearly $13 trillion and nearly 800 million consumers.

U.S. Rep. Clay Shaw, R-Fort Lauderdale, said Miami can't be expected to shoulder the entire security burden, especially since violence and protests have erupted at free trade meetings in Seattle and Cancun, Mexico.

"I think we can be sure we'll have the same problem in Miami," Shaw said. "It's certainly to the United States' advantage to show the world we can have a successful conference in the U.S., protect civil liberties and maintain order."

U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Miramar, also supports federal money for the FTAA.

"Congressman Hastings is supportive of having the meeting in South Florida and that obviously costs money," said Hastings' spokesman, Fred Turner. "As far as the federal government can help with funding, he's happy it was included."

Cobb said it's important for Miami to make a good impression on the foreign ministers attending the conference.

"Security is a critical element," said Cobb. "Doing it firmly, but friendly."

Research Credit: TR
posted by Kevin at 7:54 PM

Phoenix Sounds Death Knell for BIOS :.

If you're planning on stockpiling motherboards, you might want to think about getting them soon. Or not. I mean, what will the stockpiling of motherboards accomplish?

Personally, I will never use DRM enabled hardware. I will simply scale back my use of computers as DRM systems become ubiquitous. I'm sure that a handful of the nerds/freaks/propellerheads etc. will squeal and eventually roll their own networks and maybe even bring back the BBS as a form of communication. These people will represent the same social strata as the weirdos who show up to Apple ][ user groups wearing aluminum foil hats.

What it all boils down to is this: Either you are going to be in this system, or you are going to be outside of this system. I hate to say it, but it's not going to be easy either way:

If all goes according to plan, a new product the company dubs Core System Software (CSS) will serve as the foundation of PC architecture.

By design, Phoenix's CSS transfers digital security, network management and disaster recovery away from the control of software to hardware, truly differentiating itself from legacy BIOS.

For developers, Phoenix's Device-Networked Architecture (d-NA) serves as a structured framework, and is composed of a set of interoperable software building blocks designed to allow for the construction of highly differentiated solutions.

As part of the "trustworthy computing" model established by Microsoft, Phoenix d-NA will leverage support for Redmond's CryptoAPI (CAPI) to deliver intrinsic security on systems running Windows and .NET applications. In addition, a variation of digitally signed core system software will allow the integration of devices serving as network endpoints - a step the company bills as the "critical first link in a 'chain of trust'."

See My Other DRM Coverage:

Microsoft Ramping Up to Total DRM Lockdown

Microsoft Moving Windows Into BIOS

Phoenix Developing DRM-Equipped BIOS

1984 Telescreen: Microsoft Athens

One Generation Away from Intel DRM CPUs

Microsoft Sneaks in DRM Trojan Horse as Critical Update
posted by Kevin at 7:09 PM

Smack My Bitch Up :.

Poppy cultivation in Afghanistan doubled between 2002 and 2003 to a level 36 times higher than in the last year of rule by the Taliban, according to White House figures released Friday.

The area planted with poppies, used to make heroin and morphine, was 152,000 acres in 2003, compared with 76,900 acres in 2002 and 4,210 acres in 2001, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy said in a statement.
posted by Kevin at 5:52 PM

Buy Nothing Day :.



WalMart Dungeons :.

In my opinion, if you shop at WalMart, you're with the terrorists. The U.S. government spent billions of dollars and killed (directly and indirectly) millions of people to make the world safe for corporations like WalMart to rape and plunder. This obscene system must collapse, it can't continue like this:

When Wal-Mart Stores demands a lower price for the shirts and shorts it sells by the millions, the consequences are felt in a remote Chinese industrial town, at a port in Bangladesh and in Honduras, under the corrugated metal roof of the Cosmos clothing factory.

Isabel Reyes, who has worked at the plant for 11 years, pushes fabric through her sewing machine 10 hours a day, struggling to meet the latest quota scrawled on a blackboard.

She now sews sleeves onto shirts at the rate of 1,200 garments a day. That's two shirts a minute, one sleeve every 15 seconds.

"There is always an acceleration," said Reyes, 37, who can't lift a cooking pot or hold her infant daughter without the anti-inflammatory pills she gulps down every few hours. "The goals are always increasing, but the pay stays the same."

Reyes, who earns the equivalent of $35 a week, says her bosses blame the long hours and low wages on big U.S. companies and their demands for ever-cheaper merchandise. Wal-Mart, the biggest company of them all, is the Cosmos factory's main customer.
posted by Kevin at 12:45 AM

WTF?: Millions of Dollars Found in Truck in Texas :.

Authorities found boxes filled with millions of dollars when they searched an 18-wheeler after its paperwork "didn't add up" during a routine inspection.

Eleven boxes filled with packaged money were found in the truck Wednesday among its regular load, boxes of heat-and-serve dinner rolls, authorities said. The total was estimated at $6 million US.
posted by Kevin at 5:27 PM

Euro and Dollar: Maybe They Will Both Collapse :.

Oops:

The EU decided Tuesday to let Germany and France, the eurozone's two biggest economies, respectively, off the hook for repeatedly breaking the EU's Stability and Growth Pact, the set of rules underpinning Europe's single currency.

The accord, endorsed by ministers from all 15 EU nations, temporarily suspended the pact's disciplinary measures against Germany and France for failing to get their public deficits under 3.0 percent of gross domestic product (GDP).
posted by Kevin at 6:04 PM

When Cash Is Only Skin Deep :.

Oh sure. Why not?

A Florida company has announced plans to develop a service that would allow consumers to pay for merchandise using microchips implanted under their skin.

Applied Digital Solutions CEO Scott Silverman said he believes the company's VeriChip -- a subdermal microchip that uses radio frequency signals to broadcast an identification number to a scanner -- could someday replace credit cards. Under Silverman's plan, rather than swiping a bank card to make purchases, micro-chipped customers would scan themselves using special readers.
posted by Kevin at 10:39 AM

Flurry of Hits from Singlestep.com

Hello, ladies and gentlemen. To what do I owe the honor?
posted by Kevin at 3:34 PM

Peace Activist Shot in the Back :.

The sequence below shows with practically no doubt that Nikki was hit while running away from the approaching police, who gave no order to disperse and no warning that they were about to open fire.

Here's why dealing with cops on this level is dumb.
posted by Kevin at 3:20 PM

Complete Idiot's Guide to Visualizing Bill Gates' Personal Wealth

Sent in by TR:

Step 1. Sit down, remain calm, have a very strong drink at arm's reach.
Step 2. Go to www.lcurve.org.
Step 3. Click on the "Zoom in" and "Zoom out" buttons.
Step 4. After you regain consciousness, swig down your medicine.
Step 5. Go to www.pathtofreedom.com and get out of this con game.
posted by Kevin at 2:54 PM

Can I Get Some Freedom Fries with My Purple Pills :.

Usually, I find the San Francisco Chronicle to be rag used by Berkeley Democrats to flog the familiar and dumb Left vs. Right mantra. This article, however, is pretty good. Mark Morford's level of insubordination is insane.*

Most of you know how I feel about the pharmaceutical industrial complex. Conventional medicine amounts to medical fraud at best and genocide at worst. This article does a good job of describing how the decendants of Dr. Mengele use perception management to create artifical demand for dangerous, toxic and expensive drugs. Good stuff:

A swarm of giant purple pills gently fall from the azure sky, rotating slowly as they fall, like a rain of Skittles, like manna from the gods of Merck. A well-drugged housewife happily bakes cookies with her children as a bird sings on the windowsill. Happy narcotized citizens of America go about their business, usually in slow motion, always grinning calmly, the colors of the world oversaturated and utopian and creepy.

* This is an inside joke. Most of you know regular Cryptogon contributor, TR. Well, TR and I used to work together at the same company. As that company was about to go down, do to gross managerial incompetance, TR started telling a co-worker that our PHB (known affectionately as, The Gimp) needed to go. We wanted to fire the PHB, in effect. That co-worker, a dutiful computer programmer with two PhDs, who wore sensible sweaters, kept engineering notebooks and taught Bible study classes told TR, "Your level of insubordination is insane!"

HAHAHA!

The entire thing collapsed in the end, but, to this day, TR and I still like to say, "Your level of insubordination is insane!" Keep this phrase in mind the next time someone dares to speak the truth about a situation.
posted by Kevin at 2:20 PM

M.A.T.R.I.X. Almost Operational :.

My suggestion would be to place every executive and member of the board of Seisint under direct physical surveillance. Watch them shop. Watch them fill up their minivans with gas. Take pictures of them beating their children. Video tape them taking drugs and consorting with prostitutes:

The most massive database surveillance program in history, the Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange could soon offer authorities extensive information on the lives of New Yorkers.

Potentially more information than they'd ever expect: past addresses and phone numbers; marriage and divorce records; arrest records; real estate information; photographs of neighbors and business associates; car make, model and color; hunting and fishing licenses; and more.

Much more.

The database, created by Seisint, a small Florida high-tech company, offers law enforcement officials access to a centralized database capable of combing through data for patterns or suspicious traits.

"It's going to save lives," Seisint vice president Bill Shrewsbury boasted. "It's not Big Brother - it's a life-saving investigative tool."

Seisint Senior Executives:

Paul S. Cameron
President & Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Cameron joined Seisint in the spring of 2000, following a 14-year career with Accenture. As a Partner in the firm, Mr. Cameron built a reputation for leading large, highly complex operations engagements with Fortune 500 clients, including Delta Airlines and Ford Motor Company. While at Accenture, Mr. Cameron was responsible for building the firm�s Customer Contact group, a global team responsible for generating over $300 M in revenues and which focused on call center strategy, solutions and outsourcing. Mr. Cameron earned his B.A. in Economics and Computer Studies from Northwestern University.

Christiane Breton
Chief Financial Officer

Ms. Breton joined Seisint in 1999 and has served as the Company�s CFO since December 2002. Prior to that, Ms. Breton served as Seisint�s Vice President of Finance. Before joining Seisint, Ms. Breton served as the CFO of Database Technologies, Inc. Database Technologies became a public company, trading first on the Nasdaq as DBTO and then on the NYSE as DBT. The company later merged with ChoicePoint, Inc., a NYSE-listed company. From 1985 to 1992, Ms. Breton served as Controller of several companies in diverse industries and was an accountant for a regional public accounting firm.

Armando Escalante
Chief Operating Officer

Mr. Escalante joined Seisint in December 2001 with more than 20 years in the high-tech industry, most recently from Diveo Broadband Networks, where he served as Vice President of Engineering and Operations. Prior to Diveo, Mr. Escalante served as Vice President for one of the fastest growing divisions of Vignette Corporation, an eBusiness software leader. Mr. Escalante holds a B.S. in Electronic Engineering from USB in Caracas, Venezuela; a Master's degree in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey; and an M.B.A. from West Coast University in Orange, California.

Kenneth J. Schwartz
General Counsel

Mr. Schwartz is the General Counsel for Seisint, Inc. Mr. Schwartz came to Seisint in July 2000 from Schwartz & Riddle, P.A., where he specialized in the areas of corporate law, commercial transactions, intellectual property and trade secrets, trademark protection and employment law and employment defense. Mr. Schwartz earned his B.A. from Washington University and his J.D. from the University of Miami.

James P. Swift
Executive Vice President

Mr. Swift joined Seisint in May 1999 from Modus Operandi, Inc., a management and technology consulting firm, where he spent nearly a decade leading business process improvement efforts with a portfolio of Fortune 500 clients. As Senior Vice President, Mr. Swift was responsible for directing the Business Solutions practice, including business development, project delivery and software product development. Mr. Swift earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Seisint Board of Directors:

Jack Hight
Chairman

Mr. Hight has more than forty years experience creating and leading information technology companies. This includes thirty-four years as president or chairman of four corporations, three of which were merged into companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Mr. Hight is chairman of the board at Modus Operandi, Inc. and was founder and chairman of the board at Intec Systems, Inc. Mr. Hight was a co-founder and president of Electronic Data Systems Federal Corporation, which merged with Electronic Data Systems Corporations (EDS) in 1968.

Martha Barnett

Ms. Barnett is a partner in the Florida-based law firm of Holland & Knight LLP, and chair of the firm's Public Law Department. In addition to her work for the firm, she is also a past president of the American Bar Association, a former member of the Board of Governors and a former chair of the American Bar Association House of Delegates. Among the boards Ms. Barnett has served on are the Martindale-Hubble Legal Advisory Board, the American Judicature Society Board, and the Lawyer�s Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

Bruce Barrington

Mr. Barrington is the founder of Clarion Software Corporation. In 1992, Clarion was merged with Jensen & Partners, International (JPI) to form TopSpeed Corporation, a leading provider of database software development tools and services. In 1974, Mr. Barrington co-founded Huff, Barrington, Owens & Company (HBOC), a leading provider of enterprise-wide healthcare information systems, which merged with McKesson Corporation in 1999. Prior to co-founding HBOC, Mr. Barrington held various management positions with McDonnell Douglas Corporation and Caterpillar Tractor Company.

Leon Brauser

Mr. Brauser brings to the board more than 50 years of experience in launching and growing businesses. His first venture originated with a New York-based car dealership, Brauser Motors, which was quickly complemented with a daily car rental and leasing company. In 1972, Mr. Brauser acquired Kertz Security Systems, Inc. and developed it into the region's leading security systems provider. It was purchased by Wayne Huizenga's Republic Industries in 1995.

Joel Friedman

Mr. Friedman is a partner at Accenture. During his 29 years with the firm, Mr. Friedman has held many leadership roles, including establishing the firm's strategy consulting practice, which has grown to become the second largest strategic consulting group in the industry, and worldwide leadership for the banking and financial markets industry, the largest industry segment served by the firm. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Calico Commerce and of the Accenture Worldwide Board of Partners. Mr. Friedman also serves as a member of the Dean's Advisory Council at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Paul S. Cameron

Mr. Cameron joined Seisint in the spring of 2000, following a 14-year career with Accenture. As a Partner in the firm, Mr. Cameron built a reputation for leading large, highly complex operations engagements with Fortune 500 clients, including Delta Airlines and Ford Motor Company. While at Accenture, Mr. Cameron was responsible for building the firm�s Customer Contact group, a global team responsible for generating over $300 M in revenues and which focused on call center strategy, solutions and outsourcing. Mr. Cameron earned his B.A. in Economics and Computer Studies from Northwestern University.

Ira Siegel

Mr. Siegel held various executive positions during his 26-year tenure at Reed Elsevier, Inc., one of the largest publishing companies in the world. In addition to serving as a member of its U.S. Board of Directors, Mr. Siegel served as president and CEO of LEXIS-NEXIS, one of the world's largest and most sophisticated commercial online delivery services; president and CEO of R.R. Bowker, publisher of reference materials for libraries; and president and CEO of Martindale-Hubbell, publisher of the definitive legal biographical directory.
posted by Kevin at 1:31 PM

Teamsters Stiff Striking California Markets :.

Gentle hint for California readers: You might want to grab some food. Ahh, nevermind, I'm sure there will always be freedom fries available:

Southern California truckers announced Monday they would halt deliveries to three major supermarket chains involved in an ongoing labor dispute.

The Teamsters' Joint Council 42 announced in El Monte that its drivers would honor picket lines set up at nine regional distribution centers used by Ralph's, Albertson's and Vons.

Los Angeles television station KABC said grocery clerks who struck Vons and were subsequently locked out at Albertson's and Ralph's last month had extended their picket lines to the distribution centers.
posted by Kevin at 1:26 PM

Congress Expands FBI Spying Power :.

This thing is totally down. It's a matter of running for the hills at this point:

Congress approved a bill on Friday that expands the reach of the Patriot Act, reduces oversight of the FBI and intelligence agencies and, according to critics, shifts the balance of power away from the legislature and the courts.

A provision of an intelligence spending bill will expand the power of the FBI to subpoena business documents and transactions from a broader range of businesses -- everything from libraries to travel agencies to eBay -- without first seeking approval from a judge.
posted by Kevin at 1:21 PM