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Conservative? A drug addict with three failed marriages. Hmm:
Conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh announced Friday that he and his wife, Marta, are divorcing.
The Limbaughs "mutually decided to end their marriage of 10 years" and have "separated pending an amicable resolution," according to a statement released by Limbaugh's publicist.
posted by Kevin at 1:24 PM
Feed and Post Title Update
My Blogger template has been an ugly, slapass, cut and paste, script kitty endeavor from day one. That trend continues with the l8EsT m0Dz.
When I started Cryptogon two years ago, Blogger was pretty primitive. Nowadays, though, it supports all kinds of keen features; for which none of the tags are included in my old, almost-from-scratch template!
So, the desire to have a correct looking Atom feed finally overcame my laziness when it comes to frigging with the code for this thing. The feed now has properly parsed XML. Yay. You also get a list of the last 10 stories on the right. Yay.
Oh yeah, the old link designator for stories ":." has been retired. If the story title is orange, it's a link. If the story title is just black, like this entry, there is no link. I hope you guys like the formatting changes.A couple of people bitched and complained within an hour of me getting rid of the ":.". I messed around with it, and determined that you can have your ":." and I can still have my feed look correct. What do the rest of you people think? Do you want the link as ":." at the top, as it has always been, or would you prefer a separate container at the bottom of each post that says something like, "source" or "story" or even the actual URL. And don't complain about the title being a little bigger. I'm not changing that. It stands out better now.
By the way, the complainer who has a return address at insightbb.com, your server returns:
Permanent Failure: 551_not_our_customer
Delivery last attempted at Sat, 12 Jun 2004 23:44:51 -0000Note: I really hope I haven't broken anything, but if I did (and it's very possible that I did with the antics I've been pulling) please let me know.
posted by Kevin at 1:07 PM
6/11/2004
The Best Defense Is a Good Armageddon :.The Bush administration is ramping up bioterrorism research that will press beyond traditional defenses against natural biowarfare germs to explore genetically engineered superbugs, as well as the means to mass-produce and disseminate them.
After spending almost $10 billion on biodefense research, defense scientists say broader studies of bioterror threats are needed to weigh the chances of certain attacks, tell U.S. intelligence what to look for and shore up defenses.
"If any other country set forth a program like this, U.S. intelligence undoubtedly would call it an offensive program," said Edward Hammond, head of the Sunshine Project, a group in Austin, Texas, that tracks bioweapons and biodefense issues.
"Our enemy now is not the Russians or Saddam. It's biotech itself. It's imagining what we can do to fight the technology," he said. "If you generate that mentality, it's sort of no-holds barred." Research Credit: Karen, and thanks for the excellent title! HAHA!
posted by Kevin at 6:27 AM
Wealthy U.S. Investors Avoiding Stocks :.Wealthy U.S. investors are optimistic about the outlook for the stock market but worries about terrorism and other geopolitical factors have kept them from opening their wallets, according to a survey released on Tuesday.
posted by Kevin at 5:49 AM
Old Bohemian Grove Picture from National Geographic :.Just boys having fun!
Power Party
Photograph by Gabriel Moulin, 1915
To purge himself of worldly concerns, a member of the elite Bohemian Club participated in a 1915 Cremation of Care ceremony�complete with candles and a robed and hooded comrade to guide him. This private club of influential men still meets annually north of San Francisco and uses this symbolic ritual to kick off its summer retreat. But today the ceremony involves burning a mummy-like effigy named Care at the foot of the group's mascot: a 40-foot-tall (12-meter-tall) concrete owl.
posted by Kevin at 5:44 AM
Blowing Money at Near Peak Cold War Levels! :.Sickening:
World military spending surged during 2003, reaching $956 billion, nearly half of it by the United States as it paid for missions in Iraq, Afghanistan and the war on terror, a prominent European think tank said yesterday.
The money has been effective in waging war, but threats of terror and weapons of mass destruction still exist, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
Military spending rose by 11 percent, which the group called a "remarkable increase." The amount was up 18 percent from 2001.
The $956 billion spent on defense costs worldwide corresponded to 2.7 percent of the world's gross domestic product, according to the annual report.
"It's very close to the Cold War peak in 1987," said SIPRI researcher Elisabeth Skoens, who co-authored the report.
posted by Kevin at 5:38 AM
Reagan Mourners Fail to Maintain Appearances :.Flip flops, fat guts, American flag t-shirts... and a decaying corpse? Lovely:
Ronald Reagan was a formal man. He would step off Marine One in a finely tailored suit, tossing a wave and a smile. Even as he cut brush at his Santa Barbara ranch, his jean jacket seemed freshly pressed, his pompadour impeccable.
The same can't be said for many of his mourners, some of whom trundled past his flag-draped coffin yesterday wearing flip-flops, cargo shorts and T-shirts, their flabby midsections exposed. Some young women wore ultra-mini skirts and halter tops. Altogether, the sweaty masses clashed with the crisp honor guard in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, perhaps America's most sacred secular site.
Bobby Golike, 20, showed up to pay his respects to the 40th president in shorts, sock-less sneakers and a black T-shirt that read, "Slackers Unite! Tomorrow."
posted by Kevin at 5:18 AM
6/10/2004
Low Speed Hydrogen-Electric Hybrid Car Planned :.Alternate Energy Corporation has come up with some kind of inexpensive material that produces hydrogen when placed in water. Of course, when you try to figure out how that works (here's the
FAQ), they don't say. They claim that nothing nasty is produced in the process. Their device is consuming some proprietary alloy to do this.
There is no reason why this technology couldn't be used on larger, 100% electric vehicles right now... If there were any around. Hint: If GM had allowed EV1 users to buy their vehicles. (There are a handfull of 100% electric
Toyota RAV-EVs out there, somewhere.) With the AEC hydrogen generator and the hydrogen burning internal combustion engine, that EV1 battery system could be taking a 3KW charge as soon as the batteries started to drain. Obviously, this wouldn't be enough power to allow an EV1 to run indefinitely, but having access to 3KW for charging at all times, on board the vehicle, would be an incredible leap forward! (In case you don't know, the EV1 battery system generated INSANE amounts of power, up to 102 kilowatts.)
I found out that
a 1.2KW charger would fully charge the EV1 in about 15 hours. So, if you were to strap that new AEC 3KW hydrogen system into an EV1... that's it. Your average to work/from work transportation needs would be easily met. For longer trips, perhaps there is an EV1 freak/engineer out there who could help us determine how long an EV1 could travel, continuously, before the batteries were depleted WITH a 3KW charge being applied the entire time*:
Alternate Energy Corporation (AEC), ticker symbol ARGY, announced Tuesday that they, together with Feel Good Cars Inc. and others, intend to produce a prototype hydrogen powered internal combustion engine electric vehicle.
With twelve prototype all-electric urban low speed vehicles on the road, Feel Good Cars (FGC) is preparing for production in September of this year, with two thousand in the first year, according to Ian Clifford, President of FGC. The ZENN plant is capable of manufacturing 10,000 cars a year.
Feel Good Cars intends to provide the platform and technical know-how relative to their ZENN electric technology, which stands for "Zero Emissions No Noise."
Limited to 25 miles per hour, the ZENN is a city-driving-only vehicle. As a low speed vehicle (LSV), the ZENN is governed by special licensing and registration stipulations that vary from state to state in the U.S.
Alternate Energy Corp (AEC) specializes in making hydrogen on the fly for a hydrogen-powered back-up power system for businesses. In this, their main project, they use a Ford 4.9-liter truck engine that is designed to run on hydrogen. They expect to be in production of these units also by the end of the year.
Now that they have met each other, AEC plans to retrofit a ZENN so it will run with electricity produced from an on-board 3-HP internal combustion engine that runs on hydrogen that is produced on the fly from water. They estimate that there will be not only enough electricity to recharge the battery, but also to run the motors.* How do I get 3KW? The test system (golfcart) for the hybrid car required 10 liters of hydrogen per minute to produce 1KW from the hydrogen burning generator. The ZENN car will require 30 liters of hydrogen per minute. I'm assuming that a generator using 3X the hydrogen will produce about 3X the amount of electricity, or 3KW.
posted by Kevin at 4:43 AM
BBC: Is the World's Oil Running Out Fast? :.This unnecessary crisis has been engineered to eventually create chaos:
If you think oil prices are high at $40 a barrel then wait till they are four times that much.
How will you pay to run your car? How will you get the children to school? How will you heat your house? How much will transported food go up in price?
How will we pay for plastics, metals, rubber, cheap flights, Simpson's DVDs, 3G phones and everlasting economic growth?
The basic answer is, we won't.
This is the message from the Association for the Study of Peak Oil (ASPO).Research Credit: JH
posted by Kevin at 4:02 AM
Global Ecophagy :.THEY call it "global ecophagy". That's "eating the Earth" to you and me. Rumour has it that this is what replicating nanostructures might do, and according to one estimate, they could gobble up the entire planet in about three hours flat.
So it's a mystery why the announcement by German chemist Gunter von Kiedrowski last December that he is on the brink of making self-replicating objects just nanometres across has passed off so quietly. No one batted an eyelid when von Kiedrowski and his team at the Ruhr University of Bochum reported they can copy the chemical information in complex molecules that are designed to assemble themselves into pre-defined structures.
posted by Kevin at 3:53 AM
Monsanto's GE Crops Spawn Superweeds Across Indiana :.Marestail populations that are immune to glyphosate were first identified in 2002 in the southeast Indiana counties of Jackson, Bartholomew, Clark, Jefferson and Jennings.
Recent field inspections by Purdue University researchers found the weeds in another 15 counties to the north and west, said Bill Johnson, Purdue Extension weed specialist.
Glyphosate is the active ingredient in many herbicides, including Roundup.
Indiana farmers annually plant millions of acres in crops genetically modified to withstand Roundup applications. This year alone, 88 percent of the state's projected 5.45 million acres of soybeans are expected to be Roundup Ready varieties.
posted by Kevin at 3:49 AM
The Horror: Food Makers Changing Genes :.RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!
Food producers are turning to biotech to create designer foods with "improved mouth feel," ingredients with uniform flavor and even flatulence-free beans.
Genetic changes to cows and pigs are also on the horizon, according to companies at this week's Biotechnology Industry Organization show here. The goal is "branded meats that consumers will pay more for," said Ed Quattlebaum, president and CEO of MetaMorphix.
Monsanto will use the company's pig genome-mapping system to find the genome responsible for certain desired characteristics, such as marbling, tenderness and flavor. Marker-assisted selection tools may eventually be able to "certify a steak will be tender," Quattlebaum said.
DNA tracing is being used to ensure the safety of meat, including a DNA/RNA assay machine that can be put on the back of a pickup truck and taken to feedlots. "The closer we can get technology to the farm, the better," said Larry Schook, CEO of Pyxis Genomics, which is working to have totally traceable pork by July. The database will be searchable along the entire market stream, so that shoppers in Japan can scan a bar code on a packaged steak to find its source.Related: The Meatrix
posted by Kevin at 3:00 AM
Report: Pentagon Wasted $100M on Unused Airline Tickets :.Defense Department spent an estimated $100 million for airline tickets that were not used over a six-year period and failed to seek refunds even though the tickets were reimbursable, congressional investigators say.
The department compounded the problem by reimbursing employee claims for tickets bought by the Pentagon, the investigators said.
To demonstrate how easy it was to have the Pentagon pay for airline travel, the investigators posed as Defense employees, had the department generate a ticket and showed up at the ticket counter to pick up a boarding pass.
posted by Kevin at 2:08 AM
June Cryptogon Garden UpdateBounty:
Cukes!
Rots!
posted by Kevin at 2:01 AM
Britain: Frustration of the Do-It-All Women :.Ahhh, the fruits of "women's liberation" have amounted to unrelenting gloom, sheer frustration, misery and disgust. Everything in this article sounded vaguely familiar to me. I thought for a second, and then I remembered where I'd seen this story before. Way back in 1992, I took a Russian Society and Culture class in college. The professor assigned a book called
Soviet Women: Walking the Tightrope, by Francine Du Plessix Gray.
Gray found that Soviet women felt that they had been scammed. While having jobs and equal rights as men, they wound up having to bare the same household responsibilities they had before their socialist "liberation." This is from the book's synopsis on Amazon:
The subtitle reflects the attitudes of Soviet women, who are constitutionally guaranteed full equality with men, but who after decades of working harder than most members of the opposite sex are willing to be a little less equal and have a lot less work to do. The geographically, culturally, and economically diverse group of women interviewed herein are bound by the recurring theme of lack of time and often lack of energy to accomplish all the tasks expected of them. Working women have essentially two jobs-the one they go to and the one they return to.Well, well, well... The Soviet System is alive and well...in Britain:
It is a picture of unrelenting gloom that will only delight cosmetic surgeons. The dominant emotion experienced by modern women in Britain is sheer frustration as they struggle through a miasma of misery, including disgust with their bodies, exhausting and unrewarding work, childcare, chores, haphazard finances and unsatisfying sex lives.
More than a quarter of 2,000 women interviewed for a survey of women's lifestyles said they "intended" to have plastic surgery to ameliorate their poor body image. That cosmetic solution is one of several ways 81% of women wish they could change their life, including quitting their jobs and moving abroad.Note: It's the same in the U.S.
posted by Kevin at 12:39 AM
6/9/2004
Bush/Zombie Reagan 2004 :.Get out the Vote!
It's Morning in America... Again! Difficult times call for great leaders -- men of vision, strength and courage. Men like George W. Bush and the shambling, reanimated corpse of Ronald Reagan. Welcome to the official Web site of Bush/Zombie Reagan 2004, Inc., home of the new Republican presidential ticket!Research Credit: Karen
posted by Kevin at 9:50 PM
COUP D'ETAT: The Real Reason Tenet and Pavitt Resigned from the CIA on June 3rd and 4th :.Look, anytime you choose to utilize junk yard dogs to accomplish some task, you need to be prepared for the reality that they may, at some point, decide to go off on their own and refuse your orders to return to their filthy pen. I think it is very likely that this is what has happened in the Bush administration. They followed the 9/11 script, but then They went off the reservation when They invaded Iraq. Will Senior, The Prince of Darkness himself, be called upon to eat his own son and Cheney?
It's very possible.
I've been bewildered, for months, over the fact that no WMDs have been found in Iraq. Isn't that curious?
Why wouldn't They just fly in a planeload of that stuff and then make the announcement that They found it?
The answer might be that the CIA wasn't/isn't allowing any of these antics to take place because that invasion shouldn't have happened in the first place. The answer might be that the CIA was/is preparing to eat Bush and Cheney because they refused to stand down when told to do so.
If the CIA is actually pushing this hard, we can only assume that Bush and Cheney, et. al. will push back. Remember, there are no protagonists here. This is a fight between ratfucking murderers and criminals of the highest order. The ultimate question becomes: Who is going to feed of whom, first? And what if it doesn't go the way of Nixon-style coup? What if it goes the way of JFK-style coup?
What happened to John F. Kennedy after he went off the reservation (in those days, it was his handling of Cuba, Vietnam and Executive Order 11110)?
The CIA blew his head off in public.
You have to believe that if the CIA is actually doing what Ruppert documents in his report, they will have a backup plan in the event that the Bush junta refuses to go quietly. That backup plan may involve a cast of thousands, if you know what I mean. If the CIA has painted bullseyes on them, your guess is as good as mine as to how big the primary blast radius will need to be.
While I'd like to believe that this will go down in an impeachment hearing, like Mike Ruppert believes it will, it just might go down on CNN, with a flash and a ball of fire:
Why did DCI George Tenet suddenly resign on June 3rd, only to be followed a day later by James Pavitt, the CIA's Deputy Director of Operations (DDO)?
The real reasons, contrary to the saturation spin being put out by major news outlets, have nothing to do with Tenet's role as taking the fall for alleged 9/11 and Iraqi intelligence "failures" before the upcoming presidential election.
Both resignations, perhaps soon to be followed by resignations from Colin Powell and his deputy Richard Armitage, are about the imminent and extremely messy demise of George W. Bush and his Neocon administration in a coup d'etat being executed by the Central Intelligence Agency. The coup, in the planning for at least two years, has apparently become an urgent priority as a number of deepening crises threaten a global meltdown.
Based upon recent developments, it appears that long-standing plans and preparations leading to indictments and impeachment of Bush, Cheney and even some senior cabinet members have been accelerated, possibly with the intent of removing or replacing the entire Bush regime prior to the Republican National Convention this August.Research Credit: MR, NF, Karen, Dave
posted by Kevin at 8:14 AM
AudioBlogger :.I would encourage all Blogger users to set this up and make sure it's operational. It's hard to know when or how this could come in handy, but I think it just might at some point. This feature is free for Blogger users.
I think this is a very powerful tool. With a mobile phone, you can instantly post an audio message to your website that is accessible by anyone on the Internet. That is incredible.
You better believe that this capability will, at some point, pose a national security threat to the United States government. A potential problem exists with the fact that
They can remove your audio messages at will. If anything
interesting gets posted, people should immediately save the audio file or files locally and then create mirrors of the material.
The good news, besides the fact that it's free, is that you can have unlimited 5 minute posts, and never use any space on your server. That's kinda keen. In any event, I think it's worth it to set this up and keep it handy,
just in case:
posted by Kevin at 4:48 AM
Total Information Awareness System Fully Operational :.Unfurled:
Lt. Col. Doug Dyer, a program manager for DARPA, defends TIA as a necessary sacrifice in the war on terrorism.
"Americans must trade some privacy for security," he says. "Three thousand people died on 9/11. When you consider the potential effect of a terrorist attack against the privacy of an entire population, there has to be some trade-off."
The trade off means virtually every financial transaction of every American is now recorded and monitored by the federal government. Any bank transaction, all credit card charges plus phone records, credit reports, travel and even health records are captured in real time by the DARPA computers.
"Basically, TIA builds a profile of every American who has a bank account, uses credit cards and has a credit record," says security expert Allen Banks. "The profile establishes norms based on the person's spending and travel habits. Then the system looks for patterns that break from the norms, such of purchases of materials that are considered likely for terrorist activity, travel to specific areas or a change in spending habits."
Patterns that fit pre-defined criteria result in an investigative alert and the individual becomes a "person of interest" who is referred to the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security, Banks says.
posted by Kevin at 4:45 AM
American Corporations and the Third Reich :.* Yawn * Is any of this news to you people anymore?
America certainly deserves credit for its important contribution to the hard-fought victory that was ultimately achieved by the Allies. But the role of corporate America in the war is hardly synthesized by President Roosevelt's claim that the US was the "arsenal of democracy." When Americans landed in Normandy in June 1944 and captured their first German trucks, they discovered that these vehicles were powered by engines produced by American firms such as Ford and General Motors. 1 Corporate America, it turned out, had also been serving as the arsenal of Nazism.Related: What Really Caused World War 2?Research Credit: TR
posted by Kevin at 4:24 AM
GREENSPAN: FED READY TO ACT ON INFLATION :.Yeah baby:
Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, on Tuesday indicated that interest rates might have to rise faster than expected to keep inflationary pressures under control.
Speaking from Washington via satellite link to a conference in London, Mr Greenspan said he remained confident that the Fed could afford to remove monetary stimulus from the US economy gradually but that he was ready to take stronger action if necessary.
posted by Kevin at 4:14 AM
MARTIAL LAW: BODY BAGS SEEN AT G8 LOCKDOWN :.Could anyone even sit down and make this stuff up?
"How did this happen?" asks local teacher David Ray Dockery ("Hairy Dave" to his friends), hurling industrial quantities of organic cereal and dog food into his pick-up in preparation for the exodus to the mainland. "We're just a little-bitty island. No one ever thought we'd be put in a position where we'd have a bullseye on our back."
Paranoia, perhaps. But there's nothing like the chunter of helicopters to put the wind up a generation raised on M*A*S*H . The skies along the coast, normally the arena for spectacular aeronautics by brown pelicans, are black with military aircraft, swooping low over the houses on endless security sorties. Roadside checkpoints, manned by cheery grunts cradling machine-guns, are scarcely more reassuring.
"This is real scary shit," says Jay Thompson, a Delta flight attendant, who has decided to sit out the siege at home. "We never had a war here. We're not used to seeing tanks and guns on American soil. This is stuff you see in movies."
Larry, editor of The Great Speckled Seagull, a "semi-underground" periodical, is a gentle radical who wears a cowboy hat with a feather in it and carves weirdly beautiful faces in the island's trees. He has just heard a rumour that 2,000 body bags have been delivered to the clapboard Chamber of Commerce across the road from the bookstore. This intelligence is passed around like a joint at a fortysomething party, a delicious whiff of recreational danger. Five minutes later, one of the island's fire chiefs drops by, fresh from a briefing. It's not a rumour. The body bags are here, together with a refrigerated lorry to take away the corpses. "I liked it better when it was a rumour," says Larry.
posted by Kevin at 4:06 AM
FATHER TAKES SON OFF SPEED (RITALIN), MAY FACE CHILD ABUSE CHARGES! :.Man, it is over! Put a fork in it!
When Chad Taylor noticed his son was apparently experiencing serious side effects from Ritalin prescribed for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, he decided to take the boy off the medication. Now, he says he may be accused of child abuse.
In February, 12-year-old Daniel began displaying some symptoms that his father suspected were related to the use of Ritalin.
"He was losing weight, wasn't sleeping, wasn't eating," Taylor told ABC News affiliate KOAT-TV in New Mexico. "[He] just wasn't Daniel."
So Taylor took Daniel off Ritalin, against his doctor's wishes. And though Taylor noticed Daniel was sleeping better and his appetite had returned, his teachers complained about the return of his disruptive behavior. Daniel seemed unable to sit still and was inattentive. His teachers ultimately learned that he was no longer taking Ritalin.
School officials reported Daniel's parents to New Mexico's Department of Children, Youth and Families.Then a detective and social worker made a home visit.
"The detective told me if I did not medicate my son, I would be arrested for child abuse and neglect," Taylor said.
posted by Kevin at 3:58 AM
School Kids Told to Make Passing Out a Passing Fad :.WTF is going on in public schools? Take your kids out of these nut houses!
Teachers and parents in Cape Elizabeth are warning middle school students about the dangers of deliberately making themselves pass out, a developing trend among youngsters in the community.
The strange behavior became an issue last week at Cape Elizabeth Middle School when teachers learned that students were going through a regimen in which they blocked the flow of oxygen to their brains, which caused them to lose consciousness. Students told staff members that it gave them a "rush" or a "good feeling."
posted by Kevin at 3:45 AM
Suicide by Pseudoscience :.I've been waiting for weeks for this to get posted online. It's not just U.S. media that's being compared to Stalin's propaganda machine; check out what this
Wired article has to say about the U.S. scientific establishment. Wow:
The Union of Concerned Scientists in a February report pointed out something the science press has known for years: The Bush administration has no respect for science. Ideologues prefer to make up the laws of nature as they go.
Presidential science adviser John Marburger complained that the UCS's account sounded like a "conspiracy theory report." That's because it is one. As the report amply documents, the Bush administration has systematically manipulated scientific inquiry into climate change, forest management, lead and mercury contamination, and a host of other issues. Even as Marburger addressed his critics, the administration purged two advocates of stem-cell research from the President's Council on Bioethics.
When politicians dictate science, government becomes entangled in its own deceptions, and eventually the social order decays in a compost of lies. Society, having abandoned the scientific method, loses its empirical referent, and truth becomes relative. This is a serious affliction known as Lysenkoism.
Trofim Lysenko was Joseph Stalin's top stooge in Soviet agricultural science, a field that was mercilessly politicized by fanatics. His specialty was inventing nutty schemes - things like stimulating the evolution of trees by overcrowding them to get them to cooperate, as though they were communist minions. This totalitarian huckster spent his whole career promising exciting results and bringing about only disaster. But the party never judged itself on results, so he always got a free pass.
Politics without objective, honest measurement of results is a deadly short circuit. It means living a life of sterile claptrap, lacquering over failure after intellectual failure with thickening layers of partisan abuse. Charlatans like Lysenko can't clarify serious, grown-up problems that they themselves don't understand.
State-sponsored pseudoscience always fails, but slowly, like a wheat field choked with weeds. (This is a particularly apt comparison, because Lysenko claimed that the weeds infesting Soviet wheat fields had evolved from the wheat itself.) It fails in predictable ways, and these are the very ways in which the Bush science policy is going to fail.
posted by Kevin at 3:34 AM
6/8/2004
TRIPOD II AND FEMA: Lack of NORAD Response on 9/11 Explained :.For six weeks I have been investigating a number of other 9/11 wargames that link directly to the work done by Global Free Press on Tripod II and other wargames. I am not exaggerating when I say that we may be close to the Holy Grail of 9/11.
I am certain that it will not be too long before these wargames receive serious coverage in the mainstream press. If they are reported on while still linked to the FEMA myth, the Bush administration will have a free shot to discredit the Tripod story (and all of the wargame stories) by disproving the FEMA part to the press and then asking, "Why should we even respond to the rest?"
The wargames will tie Bush and/or Cheney and Rumsfeld directly into a complete paralysis of fighter response on 9/11. I have gone directly to many NORAD, DoD, NRO, and other sources and questioned them. I have knocked on many doors and I have even obtained some documents. I have obtained an on-the-record statement from someone in NORAD, which confirmed that on the day of 9/11 The Joint Chiefs (Myers) and NORAD were conducting a joint, live-fly, hijack Field Training Exercise (FTX) which involved at least one (and almost certainly many more) aircraft under US control that was posing as a hijacked airliner. That is just the tip of what I have uncovered.
There never was a stand down order issued. That would have been way too incriminating and risky a piece of evidence. And it also might have been ignored by eager fighter pilots who had trained their whole lives to respond to a hostile aircraft killing Americans. There are several statements that the "new" NORAD procedures transferring scramble authority to Rumsfeld on June 1, 2001 were ignored by several NORAD commanders on 9/11 including General Larry Arnold. That's exactly what I would have expected.
posted by Kevin at 5:32 AM
Rise of the Machines: Polymorphic Robots :.Oh yeah, this sounds great!
"The concept is that you build a robot that can automatically change its shape and size according to environmental feedbacks," Dr. Shen said at a recent meeting in suburban Boston. "If it sees a hole in the wall or a pipe, it can become a snake, go through the pipe. If it needs to climb on stairs ... it can literally grow legs. Or if the terrain is downhill, it can become a ball and roll down."
"There's no fixed brain in this particular robot," Shen noted � if you cut the robot in half, the modules will detect the change and adjust their behavior accordingly.
"You can cut off the robot's head and the rest of the body will select a leader and go from there," he said.
CONRO has many possible applications. "You can apply it directly to homeland security and military applications," Shen said, "and you can apply it to explore an unknown environment where you do not know beforehand what kind of shape is best for the environment. You let the robot decide."
posted by Kevin at 5:18 AM
Stanford Business Professor Says MBA Is Worthless :.HA!
Somewhere in the world, I'm sure there are many thousands of people who invested loads of time and money in getting a master's degree in business administration and who are now glad they did. However, they are not the people who have been writing to me lately. One reader says he used his MBA to line his African gray parrot's birdcage. Others decry the degree as a "joke," the "biggest waste of time and money imaginable," and a "confidence game." In all, the mail is running about 95 to 1 against. Let's suppose you are not in this group. They're just a bunch of soreheads, you say? Think again: Jeffrey Pfeffer is on their side, and he's a professor at the graduate business school at Stanford.
posted by Kevin at 5:14 AM
Hydrogen Reactor Improves Fuel Mileage by 15 to 20 Percent :.This is no long term solution to our energy problems, but it's a quick and easy way to increase mileage by as much as 20%. This is extremely simple, actually. Pipe the gas output from a conventional electrolysis system into the air intake for the engine. That's it. You might have encountered the substance that Dynamic Fuel Systems calls Jetfuel. It's water.
Before you send me emails saying this is BS, consider the fact that Dynamic Fuel Systems just completed a
deal in the European Union for CDN $60 million:
The JetstarTM gasifies our hydrogen compatible JetfuelTM by separating the hydrogen and oxygen molecules creating hydrogen and oxygen gases. These gases are produced only while the engine is running. The automatic fill system with primary and secondary safety components is simultaneously monitored within the JetstarTM. The gases are produced under a slight pressure to ensure a consistent flow to the engine. A hose from the JetstarTM delivers the gas to the intake of the vehicle, allowing the gas and fuel vapor to mix resulting in a more complete burn.
posted by Kevin at 4:48 AM
Threat of Terror Colors Plans for Security at Funeral Events :.I've been watching, in stunned amazement, at the outpouring of emotion from the numbnut hordes over the death of Reagan.
As frightening as this is to do, put yourself in the minds of the people who carry out false flag operations. Might the Reagan burial events be too much of a tempting target for Them to resist? What would happen if the CIA/Mossad/MI6/al-Quaeda did
something?
How do we begin to imagine the troglodyte response if someone so much as farts at this Reagan thing?
The terrorists attacked us as we were mourning the Gipper!? * voices quivering * hands shaking * Kicking us while we're down?! Cut to little girl holding an American flag, "Daddy, why do the terrorists hate us?"
I think it's safe to say that soccer moms would be signing up for martyrdom operations! Praying to God for the quick implantation of microchips in their pink spawn. Tripling the number of Jesus fish and American flag stickers on the back of their SUVs. Demanding martial law. Etc...
I'm not saying that this is going to happen, just that if it does, we are going to see bedlam piled on top of chaos.
I was wondering if They were planning on hitting the G8 gathering... But think of it in terms of maximum numbnut impact. The average American probably can't even name the G8 member states. But those same numbnuts are turning out by tens of thousands for this Reagan thing. Millions will be watching on TV in the U.S. and around the world. Live. If you have a way of recording TV shows, I'd just let it roll on CNNMSNBCFOXABCetc the entire time. You never know what might slip out if something happens during a live feed.
Probably, and hopefully, nothing will happen. But I've kinda just got a bad feeling about the end of this week. Can They resist taking advantage of something like this? We don't have to wait long to find out:
WASHINGTON, June 7 - For Lyndon B. Johnson's funeral here in 1973, security consisted primarily of police officers at the viewing, the service, the airport and the routes in between. The officers did not have radiation detectors on their belts, automatic weapons on their shoulders or gas masks at the ready.
As official Washington prepares to pay tribute to former President Ronald Reagan at its first state funeral in more than 30 years, the threat of terrorism looms large over three days of events starting Wednesday. Though the police say there is no specific indication that the events will be targets, the presence of almost every major federal officeholder, hundreds of foreign dignitaries and thousands of onlookers has the authorities moving into overdrive.
"For L.B.J.'s funeral, the only security was police with sidearms," said Richard A. Baker, the Senate historian. "That was about as sophisticated as it got. It was nothing compared to the sophistication and the resources we have today."
Led by the Secret Service, local police departments, government agencies and the military are canceling days off and scrambling to deploy thousands of people. There will be snipers on rooftops, bomb-sniffing dogs on the ground, plainclothes officers roaming the crowds and helicopter surveillance - and that is just what might be seen. The authorities also promise covert efforts, as well as teams of specialists in the wings to deal with everything from a nuclear response to chemical dangers.
At the Capitol, where Mr. Reagan's remains will lie in state for more than 24 hours beginning Wednesday evening, the police will use a dozen metal detectors to screen as many as 200,000 mourners. Events are being scripted down to the smallest detail for a memorial service there that will draw Vice President Dick Cheney and hundreds of other public officials, including members of Congress and Supreme Court justices.
posted by Kevin at 2:52 AM
6/7/2004
Saudi Arabia Top Buyer of UK Arms :.The U.S. and Britain, partners in hypocrisy:
Britain continues to supply large quantities of arms to countries whose policies the government says it disapproves of, including Israel and Saudi Arabia, according to the latest annual report on weapons exports, published yesterday.
Human rights groups immediately seized on the document as evidence that the government was ignoring its own guidelines by approving arms sales to such countries as Indonesia, Colombia and Nepal.
The report reveals that Britain exported more than �992m worth of arms last year, with Saudi Arabia topping a list in which other traditional British strategic allies also feature prominently. They include Oman and the United Arab Emirates.
posted by Kevin at 11:33 PM
Experts: Americans Would Trade Rights for Security :.I was talking with
TR on the phone. We were discussing how people will simply go along with everything they're told to do. If the point ever arrives where they come to think, "Wait a minute, enough is enough," it will be far too late to do anything. Hint: It's already far to late to do anything:
In today's America, prisoners are held incommunicado for years, newspapers can't photograph soldiers' coffins returned from Iraq and the government can secretly track the books citizens read and the movies they watch.
But civil liberties can erode much further before Americans will say enough is enough, say experts in social history and political behavior.
Fear struck by the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks helped launch the curtailment of civil liberties in the name of national security, and that fear keeps Americans willing to trade away rights for safety, they say.
"We're at war," said Ken Weinstein of the Hudson Institute, a policy think tank. "That's why it doesn't bother us."
Nor is there a clear "tipping point" to swing opinion the other way, added Karlyn Bowman, a polling expert at the American Enterprise Institute. "We don't seem to be anywhere near it at this time."
Just after Sept. 11, 2001, polls showed two-thirds of Americans felt it would be necessary to give up some civil liberties to protect the nation. A year later, that number still stood at about half, Bowman said.
"Most people don't see a broader threat," she said. "People seem to be pretty comfortable with the general state of affairs regarding civil liberties."
posted by Kevin at 7:37 PM
Administration Lawyers Argued Bush Has Authority to Legally Order Torture :.A group of lawyers in the Bush administration argued in a paper last year that the president has supreme authority over the questioning of terrorist suspects, and can legally order interrogators to torture or commit other crimes against them.
The lawyers, not identified by name, were part of a working group writing a policy governing interrogation techniques to be used at the prison for terrorist suspects at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.Research Credit: BW
posted by Kevin at 7:29 PM
Book: U.N. Sex Orgies, etc. :.There we are, now:
Despite efforts by the U.N. to block it, three field workers are publishing "Emergency Sex & Other Desperate Measures: A True Story From Hell on Earth."
The book talks of sex fueled by fear -- or boredom -- and that is what the authors call emergency sex.
The stories are first hand accounts by three U.N. staffers who worked in hotspots like Cambodia, Somalia and Rwanda for nearly a decade.
Among the strongest allegations in the book is the one that says some U.N. officials demanded local workers hand over 15 percent of their salaries.
Another is that Bulgaria freed prison inmates to serve as peacekeepers in Cambodia.
One of the authors describes the Bulgarians as "a battalion of criminal lunatics ... They're drunk as sailors, rape vulnerable Cambodian women and crash their U.N. Land Cruisers with remarkable frequency."
posted by Kevin at 5:12 PM
George H.W. Bush on Reagan :.Well, well, well:
"And sure enough, a lot happened on his watch that was very, very positive towards a new world order, toward a peace."
posted by Kevin at 1:49 PM
Not Even a Hedgehog :.Christopher Hitchens unfurls on Reagan:
The fox, as has been pointed out by more than one philosopher, knows many small things, whereas the hedgehog knows one big thing. Ronald Reagan was neither a fox nor a hedgehog. He was as dumb as a stump. He could have had anyone in the world to dinner, any night of the week, but took most of his meals on a White House TV tray. He had no friends, only cronies. His children didn't like him all that much. He met his second wife�the one that you remember�because she needed to get off a Hollywood blacklist and he was the man to see. Year in and year out in Washington, I could not believe that such a man had even been a poor governor of California in a bad year, let alone that such a smart country would put up with such an obvious phony and loon.
posted by Kevin at 1:33 PM
Killer, Coward, Conman - Good Riddance, Ronnie Reagan :.Greg Palast unfurls on Reagan:
The New York Times today, in its canned obit, wrote that Reagan projected, "faith in small town America" and "old-time values." "Values" my ass. It was union busting and a declaration of war on the poor and anyone who couldn't buy designer dresses. It was the New Meanness, bringing starvation back to America so that every millionaire could get another million.
"Small town" values? From the movie star of the Pacific Palisades, the Malibu mogul? I want to throw up.
And all the while, in the White House basement, as his brain boiled away, his last conscious act was to condone a coup d'etat against our elected Congress. Reagan's Defense Secretary Casper the Ghost Weinberger with the crazed Colonel, Ollie North, plotted to give guns to the Monster of the Mideast, Ayatolla Khomeini.
Reagan's boys called Jimmy Carter a weanie and a wuss although Carter wouldn't give an inch to the Ayatolla. Reagan, with that film-fantasy tough-guy con in front of cameras, went begging like a coward cockroach to Khomeini pleading on bended knee for the release of our hostages.
Ollie North flew into Iran with a birthday cake for the maniac mullah -- no kidding --in the shape of a key. The key to Ronnie's heart.
Then the Reagan roaches mixed their cowardice with crime: taking cash from the hostage-takers to buy guns for the "contras" - the drug-runners of Nicaragua posing as freedom fighters.
I remember as a student in Berkeley the words screeching out of the bullhorn, "The Governor of the State of California, Ronald Reagan, hereby orders this demonstration to disburse" ... and then came the teargas and the truncheons. And all the while, that fang-hiding grin from the Gipper.
In Chaguitillo, all night long, the farmers stayed awake to guard their kids from attack from Reagan's Contra terrorists. The farmers weren't even Sandinistas, those 'Commies' that our cracked-brained President told us were 'only a 48-hour drive from Texas.' What the hell would they want with Texas, anyway?
Nevertheless, the farmers, and their families, were Ronnie's targets.
In the deserted darkness of Chaguitillo, a TV blared. Weirdly, it was that third-rate gangster movie, "Brother Rat." Starring Ronald Reagan.
Well, my friends, you can rest easier tonight: the Rat is dead.
Killer, coward, conman. Ronald Reagan, good-bye and good riddance.
posted by Kevin at 1:20 PM
Iraq: U.S. Loses Presidential Battle :.Oh really? Cui Bono?
Sheikh Ghazi's appointment marks an extraordinary rise to power for the former vice-president of a telecommunications firm in Saudi Arabia, even if his post is a largely ceremonial one.
Born in 1958, in Mosul, he is a Sunni Muslim and sheikh of the Shammar tribe, one of the largest in the Arab world.
The tribe extends over several Arab nations and provides powerful bonds of kinship in the Middle East.
The mother of Crown Prince Abdullah, the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, was from the Shammar.
Sheikh Ghazi left Iraq to study engineering, first in Saudi Arabia and then at Georgetown University in Washington before returning to the Middle East.
Acquaintances during his 15-year residency in the Saudi kingdom describe him as a conservative family man.
"He has lived the life of a tribal sheikh, which meant he didn't have to work for money," said Jawhar Sourchi, a Kurdish businessman.
Members of the Saudi royal family, to whom Sheikh Ghazi is related, invested heavily in his telecommunications firm. Until his return to Iraq last year, he played little role in politics, staying out out of the inter-party squabbling of Iraq's opposition-in-exile.Research Credit: FadE
posted by Kevin at 6:45 AM
The Evacuation of Saudi Arabia :.My previous comments on Saudi Arabia add useful datapoints to this piece from Jane's Defense.
Back in August of 2002, I
wrote:
Saudi Arabia, not Iraq, is the actual crown jewel in the eyes of U.S. geostrategists... Think in terms of a U.S. imperial strategy. Saudi Arabia WILL NOT be allowed to come under control of a radical Islamic regime. Absolutely, positively, will not. However, the House of Saud knows it's in dire trouble. I would not be surprised, at all, if the U.S. military was introduced into Saudi Arabia to, in effect, insure the "stability" of the criminal Saudi Regime.A little later, I
wrote:
We all know what is going to happen to Iraq. That is a done deal.
What is less clear is what is going to happen to Saudi Arabia. Take a look at a map of the region... Is there anyone out there who thinks that the establishment of U.S. Central Command less than three hundred miles from Riyadh is a coincidence?And now this, from Jane's Defense:
The steady exodus of expatriate workers from Saudi Arabia is set to gather pace in the coming weeks following the latest terrorist assault against foreigners in the Kingdom. JID assesses whether Al-Qaeda's long-standing strategy of destabilising the increasingly embattled House of Saud stands any real prospect of success.
Although the ousting of the Saudi royals has been predicted for some years the monarchy in the desert Kingdom has managed to survive thanks to support from the USA and its own policy of buying off or otherwise silencing its domestic opponents. However, with the US Department of State now urging its citizens to leave and the British Foreign Office issuing warnings to its own expatriates, the steady outflow of skilled Western workers is almost certain to gather pace - raising serious questions about the impact of an exodus of foreign technicians on the country's oil industry.
Of course, that is precisely the reaction that those who planned the attacks in Khobar on Sunday which left 22 dead are hoping. Of equal concern is the escape of three of the assailants amid mounting allegations by survivors that a deal was done between the militants and the Saudi security forces in return for the release of the remaining 41 hostages.
For some experienced Middle East analysts, there are significant parallels between the current situation in Saudi Arabia and the final months of the Shah of Iran before his flight into exile, followed by the Islamic revolution which swept the ayatollahs into power (and cost the USA one of its key regional allies). As one foreign policy veteran told JID: "The collapse of authority tends to be the end result of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Once there is the perception that the old regime is doomed, it is usually a matter of time before it actually collapses. We saw precisely this sequence of events in Iran in 1979."
There is mounting concern among Western intelligence agencies that Al-Qaeda's next move will be to target the Kingdom's oil infrastructure in order to disrupt production. Any incident which threatens to reduce Saudi exports is almost certain to fuel the escalating price of oil - which reached a 21-year high at the end of May (although in real terms, this is still lower than the peaks reached during the 1973 oil crisis).Research Credit: DG
posted by Kevin at 5:53 AM
Advertising Damages Mental Health :.One of the best-known advertising ideologues, Jacques Sequeles from the Euro-RSCG agency formulated: "Advertising conquers everything and has become the schoolmaster of our children. They only sit for hours with their teachers but enthusiastically watch the television for a thousand hours. They sit glued or spellbound to our spots. Thus advertising becomes the schoolmaster for life."
The power of pictures of visual communication is also unbroken in adult age. This power of virtual pictures is stronger than logical arguments. Even if you feel elevated above this, the tirade of advertising pictures is still drilled into you.
posted by Kevin at 5:40 AM
Bill Joy: Chances of a "Civilization-Changing Event" as High as 50% :.The people who can see what is about to happen are all screaming, "Watch out!" but it's like we're whispering in a windstorm. Oh well:
In an earlier conversation, Joy had singled out James Watson, who discovered with Francis Crick the double helix of DNA, as a scientist who rejects Joy's arguments for weighing benefits against bad outcomes. Watson has indeed said that it makes little sense to stop research on account of unspecified risks or "evil." In the name of science and discovery, he says, we are ethically obliged to go forward. "That position has to be wrong," Joy insists. In his view, we are ethically bound to slow down.
This is not an easy case to make. In his last unpublished manuscript, speaking of those in the science and business communities who dispute the catastrophic potential of their work, Joy said, "I wonder where these people hide their fear." I asked Joy about this in another e-mail message. Where is the fear today? A few days after, at 2:10 a.m., Joy wrote: "I think our lack of pandemic experience is the key. We don't know what it feels like. It seems like Hollywood. It isn't real enough to us that we demand action, we just file the catastrophic thought and tolerate its dissonance and that it conflicts with other things we believe. As humans we do this so well. And, of course, there is Bertrand Russell's experience. . . . But I hope that we can transcend his bitter experience, somehow, now. We must try."
Some weeks later, he sent a note to point out that a SARS research lab in China had been shut down that day. A safety breach had led to several infections. "This is the reality of handling such dangerous things," he wrote. He had wanted to remind me. Accidents will happen.
posted by Kevin at 5:20 AM
USA Patriot Act Check Required for Home Purchases :.With the passage of the USA Patriot Act of 2001, which required that financial institutions create anti-money-laundering compliance programs, anyone purchasing property must be checked against a list of names of known and suspected terrorists. The list has been around since before the September 11 attacks, but increasingly the ritual closing ceremony has involved writing yet another check to the title company that runs the homebuyer�s name against that list.
What's behind it? The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control maintains the "specifically designated nationals" (SDN) list of people blocked from participating in "any transaction or dealing in property or interests" within the United States. These people have been identified "to have committed, or to pose a significant risk of committing, acts of terrorism," according to White House Executive Order 13224, which was issued Sept. 24, 2001. Although the blocked-persons list has been around in some form for about a decade, under the order private individuals (be they jewelers, pawnbrokers or suburban families) buying or selling property are now considered "financial institutions" by the government. And the responsibility has fallen to the title companies to check all parties involved in a transaction against the list.
posted by Kevin at 5:11 AM
Artists Subpoenaed Under USA Patriot Act :.Three artists have been served subpoenas to appear before a federal grand jury that will consider bioterrorism charges against a university professor whose art involves the use of simple biology equipment.
The subpoenas are the latest installment in a bizarre investigation in which members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force have mistaken an art project for a biological weapons laboratory (see end for background). While most observers have assumed that the Task Force would realize the absurd error of its initial investigation of Steve Kurtz, the subpoenas indicate that the feds have instead chosen to press their "case" against the baffled professor.Research Credit: MH
posted by Kevin at 4:53 AM
Webmaster Charged with "Terrorist" Weblinks :.Link to the wrong material, and you could be hauled off by guys wearing ski masks and armed with machine guns. Yes. That's right. You see, of course, that we are now living in a system of arbitrary law enforcement. They can take any of us down, for any reason, at their whim:
Al-Hussayen maintained a number of web sites, including those associated with the Islamic Assembly of North America (IANA) (a non-profit charity organization) and the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation (a charity group based in Saudi Arabia). The government charges that some of the content on these web sites included articles, links, and posts to content "justifying and encouraging violent jihad." And, according to the government's twisted argument, Al-Hussayen's work as webmaster for those sites makes him guilty of "material support" for terrorism.
posted by Kevin at 4:51 AM
Your Wasted Tax Dollars: Military "Boneyards"Billions and billions and billions of dollars.... gone. * poof * I think Reagan should be buried in one of these boneyards. A good deal of this junk was built under his watch:
Eyeballing Burial of Submarine ReactorsEyeballing US Warplane Graveyard 1Eyeballing US Warplane Graveyard 2
posted by Kevin at 4:34 AM
Film: Supersize Me :.WARNING: Contains spoilers. Don't read what follows if you want to experience the full effect of the shock and awe that this film delivers.
I saw the film,
Supersize Me, last night with a friend (a really smart girl from New Zealand who has been gardening her entire life and doesn't own a television). I highly recommend this astonishing documentary to everyone. It touches on many topics that are familiar to Cryptogon readers. As your humble Cryptogon editor, however, I think that the horror of this thing was worse for me than the average audience member, since I'm familiar with how wide and deep all of it goes. I'm sure you will see what I'm talking about if you watch this film.
The three points that resonate in my mind after seeing
Supersize Me are:
1) Heavily processed "fast food" is not just unhealthy, it is toxic and can kill you.
2) Doctors are generally clueless as to how dangerous and addictive bad diets are. Note the evolution of the perspectives from the medical doctors as this experiment unfolds. At the beginning, they didn't think much of anything would happen to Morgan Spurlock, the filmmaker. None of these MDs imagined that, by the end of the 30 day period, he would be, quite literally, taking his life in his hands by eating at McDonald's. I espcially liked the mention of McDonald's outlets inside hospitals! HAHA!
Also note the vitamin and mineral numbers mentioned by the registered dietitian (an occupation on par with psychiatry in terms of quackiness). Dietitians use the U.S. recommended daily allowance (USRDA) as a guide to health. The RDA provides baseline minimums that would theoretically keep people alive; never mind staying healthy or optimizing health. The point is: Spurlock's blood work showed that he was deficient by as much as 50% in some categories ON THE RDA SCALE.
3) Children are a high-value target for corporations. The weapon of choice that these corporations use to hunt kids: Television.
If you allow your children to watch commercial television, you might as well allow them to play with loaded firearms. I AM NOT KIDDING. The television is destroying their minds and encouraging them to consume dangerous, addictive poisons that will destroy their bodies.
It's one thing to read about all of this, but it's quite another to see it unfurled on the big screen. All in all, I felt that
Supersize Me was an extremely effective film. While much of the information preaches to the Cryptogon choir, you might use it to try to shock a McDonald's-eating friend or family member into seeing the danger of their behavior. If eating nothing but McDonald's "food" for 30 days can nearly kill a healthy young man, what does eating it a few times per week do to you?
Nothing good.
Indeed, I have to wonder if people who see this film will ever step foot inside a McDonald's again.
posted by Kevin at 3:44 AM
6/6/2004
Report: WalMart Growth Often Subsidized by Taxpayers :.Wal-Mart Stores have enjoyed more than $1 billion in economic development subsidies from state and local governments across the United States, according to a new study released by a Washington, D.C.-based research group.
Good Jobs First, a research group monitoring state and local job subsidies, found 244 cases in which Wal-Mart retail stores or the distribution centers that service them have received state or local economic development subsidies. The subsidies amounted to just over $1 billion according to the report released Sunday.Related: WalMart DungeonsRelated: $30 Million Worth of Cocaine on WalMart TruckRelated: Chinese Try Mobile Death VansRelated: WalMart Culture: Piss and Shit on WallsRelated: All Walmart Stories on Cryptogon
posted by Kevin at 5:37 PM
