Sunday, March 29, 2009

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Implanted with a chip from a distance


With this ID Sniper Rifle you can be implanted with a identity microchip from a distance and not even notice. It will feel like a mosquito-sting, and you will probably think that is all it was. Welcome to the brave new world of privacy infringement. Did I say privacy? What privacy?

New World Order

It would seem that my suspicions were not unfounded. How many paranoid prophets will it take to agree and propagate that the New World Order is on the way before the masses take head?

The Infamous "We the People"/"Second American Revolution" Videos



Tyranny vs Liberty

When the people fear the government there is tyranny; when the government fear the people there is liberty. -- Thomas Jefferson

Post 9/11 Blues

China's Fur Production

I posted some of PETA's anti animal cruelty campaigns before. Although PETA sometimes give biased accounts, they often reflect the truth too. And the truth are at times worse.

I didn't watch through the whole of the video below. It is disturbing. It shows animals being skinned for fur while they are still alive. You may wish to give it a skip.


Pledge to go fur-free at PETA.org.

The real question is, how can we make a difference? PETA suggests the following:

The globalization of the fur trade has made it impossible to know where fur products come from. Skins move through international auction houses and are purchased and distributed to manufacturers around the world, and finished goods are often exported. China supplies more than half of the finished fur garments imported for sale in the United States. Even if a fur garment's label says it was made in a European country, the animals were likely raised and slaughtered elsewhere—possibly on an unregulated Chinese fur farm.

Because a fur's origin can't be traced, anyone who wears any fur at all shares the blame for the horrific conditions on Chinese fur farms. The only way to prevent such unimaginable cruelty is never to wear any fur.

Sunday, March 22, 2009

CCTV Game

Starting tomorrow I'm going to begin to play a new game. I'm going to attempt to avoid being captured by CCTV cameras. Where I cannot avoid them, I'm going to use hats and baseball caps and other types of manoeuvring, turning away and covering up, to avoid unnecessary photos taken of me.

It is not that I'm camera shy, having anything to hide or suffer from major paranoia -- I am, however, against societies turning into Big Brother conglomerates and don't want to be a blind drone, mindlessly following the stream. There's not much I can do about it, I know -- but at least I can play the game, fully aware that it exists.
The past several years has seen a dramatic increase in CCTV surveillance of public space. Video cameras peer at us from the sides of buildings, from ATM machines, from traffic lights, capturing our every move for observation by police officers and private security guards that often act with very little public or legislative oversight. While the effectiveness of these devices in reducing crime is dubious at best, recent cases of misuse by public and private authorities serve to question the appropriateness of video monitoring in public space. [From i-See.]
We just don't know how often CCTV surveillance is abused -- with any of us being potential victims.

Instead of it bothering me too much, I'm going to make a game of it and turn "normal" outings into "extraordinary" cloak-and-dagger events. Who's joining in?

Another Reason for Disliking Facebook

I've ranted about the dangers of Facebook in the past -- but did you ever consider this...

Other people posting things about you on Facebook. Take for instance this guy, who literally has his most humiliating moments photographed and posted on Facebook.

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Another New York Calamity?


Will New York City be struck by more tragedies, as the one that befell it in 2001? Some “prophets” seem to think so.

David Wilkerson, a New York based pastor, is one such a “prophet” that seems to think so. Yes this is the same David Wilkerson of "The Cross and the Switchblade".

Recently Wilkerson said that he has been impressed by the Holy Spirit that :
“An earth-shattering calamity is about to happen. It is going to be so frightening, we are all going to tremble – even the godliest among us.

“For 10 years I have been warning about a thousand fires coming to New York City. It will engulf the whole megaplex, including areas of New Jersey and Connecticut. Major cities all across America will experience riots and blazing fires – such as we saw in Watts, Los Angeles, years ago.”
Wilkerson is not the first to have impressions of New York City on fire. A lady, thought by many to be a prophet of God, named Ellen White, wrote about it over a century ago, before there were majestic skyscrapers decorating the cityscape of New York.
“On one occasion, when in New York City, I was in the night season called upon to behold buildings rising story after story toward heaven. These buildings were warranted to be fireproof, and they were erected to glorify the owners and builders. Higher and still higher these buildings rose, and in them the most costly material was used. Those to whom these buildings belonged were not asking themselves: “How can we best glorify God?” The Lord was not in their thoughts.

“The scene that next passed before me was an alarm of fire. Men looked at the lofty and supposedly fire-proof buildings and said: “They are perfectly safe.” But these buildings were consumed as if made of pitch. The fire engines could do nothing to stay the destruction. The firemen were unable to operate the engines.”
Also the politicians seem to prophecy doom for America. Remember Joe Biden’s ghastly prediction:
“Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy [Obama]. And he's gonna have to make some really tough - I don't know what the decision's gonna be, but I promise you it will occur. As a student of history and having served with seven presidents, I guarantee you it's gonna happen.”
I’m forced to ask, like blogger Adam asked, how does Joe Biden know this? Is it all part of a masterminded plan? Or is he also a “prophet” in tune with the inspiration of God? I don’t know.

What I do know is that I won’t be surprised if the visions of Wilkerson and White, or the political rhetoric of Biden comes to pass. Calamity is in the air. You can smell it, can't you?