+ Nu har faktumet att USA strävar efter att äga och kontrollera vädret också nått mainstream-media, sisådär fem år efter att nyhetsförmedlare på internet började posta om det: U.S. Military Wants to Own the Weather. While some consider the idea farfetched, some military tacticians have already pondered ways to turn weather into a weapon (...)

+ Via Ran Prieur: Scientists aim to beat flu with genetically modified chickens. Ahh, that's what the bird flu scare is about, to frighten us into accepting the replacement of all chickens with genetically engineered chickens, which of course will be patented and owned. Next, they'll invent a human gene that gives immunity to some scary disease, and "responsible" parents will buy that gene for their kids, and then we'll all be the property of Monsanto, which by then will have changed its name to EarthTech.

+ Super-soldiers may get brain-chip. US military experts are attempting to create an army of super-human soldiers who will be more intelligent and deadly thanks to a microchip implanted in their brains.

+ Intressant artikel om fildelning och Antipiratbyråns maffiaverksamhet: Nätkriget - Hollywood slår tillbaka!

+ 80 dagsböter. Det var straffet för en socialdemokratisk lokalpolitiker som fälldes för bedrägeri och urkundsförfalskning. Hon blåste försäkringskassan på 100.000 kronor, pengar hon stoppade i egen ficka, läs historien här i DN. Samma straff som när man förvarar en filmfil på sin hårddisk som andra kan komma åt. Ingen personlig vinning eller bevisad skada för någon annan.

+ Och så vill jag gärna rekommendera dokumentärserien The Century of the Self, av producenten Adam Curtis som också gjort den likaledes briljanta The Power of Nightmares (finns också på archive.org). I CotS granskar Curtis psykoanalysen och vad Freud (Dr Fraud, som jag alltid vill säga) och hans kumpaner egentligen pysslade med. Ladda ner dessa två dokumentärserier så har du verkligen fått en grundkurs i rädslans politik och propagandakonst.

+ The Prince of Wales will try to persuade George W Bush and Americans of the merits of Islam this week because he thinks the United States has been too intolerant of the religion since September 11.

+ Let me get this straight. The Security Council met in a special session yesterday and issued a strong condemnation of the words of the Iranian president. In the same week, Israeli occupation forces, using fighter jets, launched more than 13 raids into Gaza, the most densely populated area of the world, and the Security Council did not even notice? Where is the outrage, as Bob Dole used to say.

+ Former UN Weapons Inspector: Don't Rule Out Staged Government Terror.

+ Och hämtat från ovanstående artikel: ''I CALL IT the madman theory, Bob," Richard Nixon said to Robert Haldeman.

(...) "I want the North Vietnamese to believe," he went on, "that I've reached the point that I might do anything to stop the war. We'll just slip the word to them that for God's sake, you know Nixon is obsessed about communism. We can't restrain him when he's angry, and he has his hand on the nuclear button, and Ho Chi Minh himself will be in Paris in two days begging for peace."

From Oct. 10, 1969, through the rest of the month the US military was ordered to full global war readiness alert, without any provocation, and with no explanation to US commanders as to the alert's purpose. Nuclear armed fighter planes were dispersed to civilian airports, missile countdown procedures were initiated, missile-bearing submarines were dispersed, long-range bombers were launched, targeting was begun. On Oct. 27, in the climactic action designed to make it seem the madman was loose, the Strategic Air Command was ordered to dispatch B-52 bombers, loaded with thermonuclear weapons, toward the Soviet Union. Eighteen of the bombers took off from bases in the United States in an operation named Giant Lance. ''The bombers crossed Alaska," Sagan and Suri wrote, ''were refueled in midair by KC-135 tanker aircraft, and then flew in oval patterns toward the Soviet Union and back, on 18-hour vigils over the northern polar ice cap." The ominous flight of these H-bombers to, and then at, the edge of Soviet territory continued for three days.

+ Proposed legislation in Australia would make it a crime for one parent to tell the other that their child had been detained under anti-terror laws, a report says. (!!!!! !!!!!)

+ Rigorous Intuition har ett nytt bra inlägg idag: The Left, the Right, and the Wrong.

+ The drinks industry is planning a ruthless campaign of economic incentives and psychological tricks to get customers to drink as much as possible when licensing laws are relaxed, The Observer can reveal. Ja visst ser ni, alkohol är ju inget problem i samhället. Bäst att låta företagen härja fritt.

+ Millions of Iraqis believe that suicide attacks against British troops are justified, a secret military poll commissioned by senior officers has revealed. The poll, undertaken for the Ministry of Defence and seen by The Sunday Telegraph, shows that up to 65 per cent of Iraqi citizens support attacks and fewer than one per cent think Allied military involvement is helping to improve security in their country.

+ Islamists and Mujahedeen Secure Victory in Afghan Vote. At least half of the 249-seat Wolesi Jirga, or lower house of Parliament, will be made up of religious figures or former fighters, including four former Taliban commanders.

+ They have been walking, leaping and even sailing the planet for millions of years - but will the lemurs, man's long-lost cousins, survive the destruction of Madagascar's forests? :*( Lemurer som är ett så bra djur.

+ Cats may be allergic to humans.

+ More On that Fake al-Zawahri Letter.

+ Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday refused to rule out U.S. troops still being in Iraq in 10 years or the possibility that the United States could use military force against neighboring Syria and Iran.

+ SBS has broadcast footage of what it says is United States soldiers burning two dead Taliban fighters as they faced Mecca and using the charred and smoking corpses in a propaganda campaign in southern Afghanistan.

+ More than one in four U.S. troops have come home from the Iraq war with health problems that require medical or mental health treatment, according to the Pentagon's first detailed screening of servicemembers leaving a war zone.

+ Why do we believe in God?

+ Just because a document from a color laser printer doesn't carry your name doesn't mean no one can trace it back to you, privacy advocates warn. The Electronic Frontier Foundation says it has cracked the tracking codes embedded in Xerox Corp.'s DocuColor color laser printers. Such codes are just one way that manufacturers employ technology to help governments fight currency counterfeiting.

+ Israel redraws the roadmap, building quietly and quickly. Nähä! As foreign leaders, including Tony Blair, praised Mr Sharon for his "courage" in pulling out of Gaza last month, Israel was accelerating construction of the West Bank barrier, expropriating more land in the West Bank than it was surrendering in Gaza, and building thousands of new homes in Jewish settlements.

+ Via Daily Grail: Wilhelm Reich, Orgone Energy, and UFOs.

+ TactaPad Puts Your Hands In The Digital World. (!)

+ Från och med nu ska jag försöka lägga senaste uppdateringarna längst upp i stället för längst ner.

+ New Scientist: Marijuana might cause new cell growth in the brain. A synthetic chemical similar to the active ingredient in marijuana makes new cells grow in rat brains. What is more, in rats this cell growth appears to be linked with reducing anxiety and depression. The results suggest that marijuana, or its derivatives, could actually be good for the brain.

+ Apocalypse Now - 2012: Is it True?

+ Bush told Blair of 'going beyond Iraq'. George Bush told Tony Blair shortly before the invasion of Iraq that he intended to target other countries, including Saudi Arabia, which, he implied, planned to acquire weapons of mass destruction.

+ The other thing that struck me as odd about the Zawahiri letter was that at the end he raises the question of whether a non Iraqi should be leading the insurgency. This is odd for several reasons. Al Qaeda does not think in terms of natipnality but of the umma or Muslim community. It reads to me like an attempt to undermine Zarqawi. And it is an insult.

+ A chemical found in cannabis can act like an antidepressant, researchers have found. The Journal of Clinical Investigation study showed rats given a cannabinoid were less anxious and less depressed.

+ The US has announced the creation of a new intelligence agency led by the CIA to co-ordinate all American overseas spying activities. The National Clandestine Service (NCS) will oversee all human espionage operations - meaning spying by people rather than by technical means.

+ Harold Pinter: What would Wilfred Owen make of the invasion of Iraq? A bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of International Law. An arbitrary military action inspired by a series of lies upon lies and gross manipulation of the media and therefore of the public.

+ Juan Cole: Zawahiri Letter to Zarqawi: A Shiite Forgery?

+ The bird flu virus discovered in Turkish poultry is the highly-pathogenic H5N1 strain that scientists worry could mutate into a human virus and spark a global flu pandemic likely to kill millions, EU authorities confirmed today.

+ Al Qaeda movement rejected as fake a letter by the group’s second in command Ayman al-Zawahri, issued by U.S. officials earlier this week, according Reuters news agency.

De amerikanska propagandamakarna blir tamejfan allt sämre på att göra propaganda för var dag som går verkar det som. När Bushs popularitetssiffror sjunkit till katastrofala nivåer och kriget i Irak går åt helvete, så kommer ett Al Qaida-meddelande som säger att de ska ta över hela Irak minsann så fort amerikanerna åkt hem (HÖR NI DET AMERIKA? SÅ FORT NI ÅKER HEM SÅ KOMMER VI ATT TA ÖVER!) Al Qaida som många betydande analytiker och forskare (till skillnad från propagandister) menar inte existerar som en faktisk organisation, utan snarast är att beteckna som en ideologi och en metod. Nåväl, att ta över och styra över ett mångmiljonland bestående av 60% shia-muslimer ska väl inte vara några problem för spöket Bin Laden, den levande döde al-Zarqawi och den alltid lika alerte Ayman Al-Zawahri...

För den som verkligen är intresserad av al-Qaida eller islamism vill jag rekommendera två böcker. Först och främst Mattias Gardells nyligen utkomna "Bin Ladin i våra hjärtan" och Jason Burkes "Al-Qaeda : The True Story of Radical Islam". Fina grejer.

+ Samma tema: Republican Mayor Michael Bloomberg boosted his lead over his Democratic challenger, according to a poll released Wednesday, just days after he announced a possible terrorist threat to the city’s subways.

+ Does al-Qaeda exist?

Every day since the 9/11 attacks of 2001 there have been media reports about al-Qaeda - its leaders, members, capabilities, bank accounts, reach and threat. What is this al-Qaeda? Does such a group even exist?

Some terrorism experts doubt it. Adam Dolnik and Kimberly McCloud reckon it's time we 'defused the widespread image of al-Qaeda as a ubiquitous, super-organised terror network and call it as it is: a loose collection of groups and individuals that doesn't even refer to itself as al-Qaeda'.

+ Most of Iraq is in a state of anarchy, with insurgents controlling parts of Baghdad just half a mile from the so-called Green Zone, an Independent debate was told last night.

+ It is simply astounding how many videos and audio tapes and letters slip through al-Qaeda’s fingers and into the hands of the Pentagon, the State Department, and various Bushites and intelligence factotums. Recall the Osama dinner party video found in Afghanistan and the “al-Qaeda in Iraq” chemical weapons plant left behind in Fallujah. Now we have a letter purportedly from Ayman al-Zawahri to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, “acquired during U.S. operations in Iraq,” according to the Associated Press. How this supposed letter was “acquired” is not revealed. Maybe Ayman didn’t affix the correct postage. Or maybe Abu didn’t leave a change of address.

+ African Spider Craves Human Blood, Scientists Find.

+ Thousands of Muslim Brotherhood students demonstrated Tuesday, October 11, inside Cairo University to press for more freedoms on campus and fair student elections amid watertight security.

+ The MAPS 2006 Calendar.

+ The Times: Bad as this violence was, many soldiers discovered a weapon far more powerful than fists: Islam. Because religion was the most important issue for nearly all the prisoners in Camp Delta, it became the most important weapon used against them. (...) Translators with the Joint Intelligence Group (JIG) also confirmed that some prisoners were forced to prostrate themselves in the centre of a satanic circle lit with candles. Interrogators shouted at them, “Satan is your God, not Allah! Repeat that after me!” Det finns inte ord..

+ The bones of at least nine more "hobbits" - a miniature species of human discovered two years ago - have been unearthed by scientists excavating the floor of a cave on a remote Indonesian island.

The discovery of the remains confirms that the miniature people, who grew to about 3 feet, were a truly ancient species and not merely pygmies or modern humans with diseased skulls.

+ Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said on Tuesday that he would appeal against the High Court of Justice's ruling to ban the use of Palestinian civilians by the army as "human shields" in operations against suspected militants.

+ Duped and Clueless: How Easily We Fool Ourselves.

Do you always get what you ask for? A new study finds that when you don't, you might not even notice the difference.

Swedish researchers showed a pair of female faces to 120 volunteers for 2 seconds and then asked them to choose which one they thought was more attractive. The researchers then asked the volunteers to explain their choice.

The trial was repeated 15 times for each volunteer, using different pairs of faces. but in three of the trials the faces were secretly switched after a decision had been made.

Surprisingly, not only were a large number of the volunteers oblivious to the switch when ultimately allowed to take a longer look at their choice, they were actually able to gave detailed explanations for why they preferred the face that, indeed, they had actually rejected.

It would be asking for an apple and then explaining exactly why you wanted the banana you got instead.

+ Internet Map : Brain Map.

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+ The fossilized skulls of two adults and one child discovered in the Afar region of eastern Ethiopia have been dated at 160,000 years, making them the oldest known fossils of modern humans, or Homo sapiens. Howell added that these anatomically modern humans pre-date most neanderthals, and therefore could not have descended from them, as some scientists have proposed.

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+ Dying to Win. Pape is a professor at the University of Chicago and the director of the Chicago Project on Suicide Terrorism, which compiled a database of every suicide bombing and attack between 1983 and 2003. (...) Some of his findings:

• the leading instigators of suicide attacks are the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka, a Marxist-Leninist group whose members are from Hindu families but who are adamantly opposed to religion.
  
• of the 315 separate attacks in the database, 301 (95%) could have their roots traced to large, coherent political or military campaigns.
  
• of the 384 (out of 462 total) attackers whose religious or ideological affiliation could be determined, 218 (57%) were secular and 166 (43%) were religious.
  
• of the 381 attackers whose sex could be determined, 59 (15%) were women.

+ How the US Erase Women’s Rights in Iraq. During his stint in Baghdad as the U.S. Proconsul, L. Paul Bremer often appeared with pro-Occupation women groups to foster the myth that the U.S is “liberating Muslim women”, while at the same time signing laws that were detrimental to women’s rights. Like George Bush and Tony Blair, Paul Bremer is no feminist, but he used feminism’s rhetoric to enforce Western imperialism. “Whether in the hands of patriarchal men or feminists, the idea of feminism essentially functioned to morally justify the attack[s] on native societies and to support the notion of comprehensive superiority of Europe [and America]”, wrote Leila Ahmad, professor of women’s studies and an expert on gender at Harvard University. Hence, feminism serves as the “handmaid of colonialism”, added Ahmed.

+ Det är inte ofta man får chans att hålla med Svenska dagbladets ledarskribenter, men någon gång ska väl vara den första.. Hela det så kallade genusperspektivet är ett gift som lär människor att se sig som enbart delar av ett kollektiv, utan eget ansvar och utan egna möjligheter att göra något av sina liv, helt hjälplöst utlämnade till mystiska "strukturer" som bara en liten upplyst elit riktigt kan se, förstå och bekämpa med staten som murbräcka.

+ Human hands glow, but fingernails release the most light, according to a recent study that found all parts of the hand emit detectable levels of light.

+ A leading Norwegian pro-Palestinian activist has said she once worked for the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad as a double agent.

+ In a dramatic rebuff to President George Bush, the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the man who dared to tell the Americans that the main plank of the US argument for waging war on Iraq was based on a lie.

The Nobel committee bestowed the prestigious award for 2005 on Mohamed ElBaradei, the UN official who rose to prominence by exposing the lengths that America would go to in its efforts to build a case for war.

+ Three Key Witnesses Against Sharon Assassinated. Man får alltid ta vad Judicial-Inc säger med en näve salt, då de rätt ofta är vårdslösa med sanningen för att lägga fram sina anti-sionistiska konspirationsteorier (ja, i vissa fall rent av anti-semitiska), men grundhistorien i denna artikel stämmer faktiskt. Se till exempel den kände reportern Robert Fisks artikel här: Car crash adds to Lebanese suspicion of Israeli cover-up.

+ Bush's approval rating remains at all-time low. Kanske dags att låta en terroristattack äga rum för att distrahera lite..

+ The Nation: Holocaust Creationism. A riveting new book by historian Peter Novick describes how "the Holocaust" as we speak of it today--a singular event--barely existed in Jewish consciousness or anybody else's at the end of World War II and for many years afterward. American Jews had learned by 1945 about the fate of "the 6 million." But for Jews and non-Jews alike, it was the overall course of the war and the deaths of 50 million people that were the dominant facts. Jews understood themselves to be one group among many that suffered immense and heartbreaking losses.

+ The US decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 was meant to kick-start the Cold War rather than end the Second World War, according to two nuclear historians who say they have new evidence backing the controversial theory.

According to an account by Walter Brown, assistant to then-US secretary of state James Byrnes, Truman agreed at a meeting three days before the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima that Japan was "looking for peace". Truman was told by his army generals, Douglas Macarthur and Dwight Eisenhower, and his naval chief of staff, William Leahy, that there was no military need to use the bomb. "Impressing Russia was more important than ending the war in Japan," says Selden. Truman was also worried that he would be accused of wasting money on the Manhattan Project to build the first nuclear bombs, if the bomb was not used, he adds.

+ A former U.S. Marine in Iraq alleges that his battalion committed atrocities against Iraqi civilians during the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, including shooting unarmed protesters.

+ Goro Adachi fortsätter sina makalösa, mystiska, profetiska utläggningar om symboliken i de stora världshändelserna: Sine of Deep Impact.

+ Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025.

+ Peace march coincidences. Detectable concentrations of tularemia bacteria, a known biological weapon, were found at exactly the place where the march was held at the time of the march (...) Amtrak suspended southbound rail service out of New York on the morning of September 24, allegedly because a beam fell onto electrical wires in New Jersey. This affected "the travel plans of at least hundreds and possibly more than 1,000 protesters, organizers said."

+ Mer här: Did Bush administration attack peace movement with military grade biological bacteria?

+ Want to check your e-mail in Italy? Bring your passport.

+ Och anti-Bush-propaganda fortsätter leda till polisingrepp i USA: Wal-Mart developers turn in student photo of Bush to police.

+ :D

+ Ha! Lite Illuminati-kodad händelse detta: The trial began today of five people for the murder of Italian financier Roberto Calvi, 23 years after he was found hanging underneath London's Blackfriars Bridge.

Calvi hittades alltså hängd upp och ner under Blackfriars Bridge, inte långt efter att frimurarlogen P2 avslöjats med att planera en statskupp i Italien. Calvi tvättade pengar åt maffian, var knuten till P2 och var Vatikanens egen bankir. En smutsig historia, minst sagt.

+ Ang. Katrina: No evidence backs up reports of rescue helicopters being fired upon.

+ AOL Time-Warner Censors Alex Jones Websites.

+ Could proposed new intelligence-gathering powers for the Pentagon lead to spying on U.S. citizens? The question is being asked as the White House considers new roles for the military inside America's borders.

+ Hmm.. Intressant! Cars stolen in US used in suicide attacks. The FBI's counterterrorism unit has launched a broad investigation of US-based theft rings after discovering some vehicles used in deadly car bombings in Iraq, including attacks that killed US troops and Iraqi civilians, were probably stolen in the United States, according to senior US Government officials.

Varför skulle irakiska motståndsmän smuggla dyrbara bilar hela vägen från USA till Irak för att sedan spränga dem i luften, när det finns gott om bilar i Irak? Tycker det låter som att sanningen bakom denna uppgift är någon helt annan.

+ Hoj! Nytt nummer av det utmärkta netzinet SubRosa är äntligen ute!

+ Och Graham Hancocks nya bok Supernatural är ute nu. Verkar klart intressant. Och bjuder på fina bilder av Pablo Amaringo gör Hancock här!

+ Back to the USSR v. 303030323413213332123123: Oregon woman kicked off flight in Reno over offensive shirt. Att ha på sig en anti-Bush-t-shirt är nu ett säkerhetsproblem.. National Security National Security National Security Titta djupt i mina ögon ... du känner dig trött ... NATIONAL SECURITY NATIONAL SECURITY ... så trött..

+ Scientists have made from scratch the Spanish flu virus that killed as many as 50 million people in 1918, the first time an infectious agent behind a historic pandemic has ever been reconstructed. Åh så härligt! Precis vad jag vill att Bush-regimen ska ha i sina förråd!

+ Composer cracks Rosslyn's musical code. Ytterligare en anledning till att Rosslyn är en av de märkligaste kyrkorna i världen.

+ Intressant ny dokumentär på gång: Do you believe in a thing called Mana?

+ Tenth Planet Has a Moon. The newly discovered 10th planet, 2003 UB313, is looking more and more like one of the solar system's major players. It has the heft of a real planet (latest estimates put it at about 20 percent larger than Pluto), a catchy code name (Xena, after the TV warrior princess), and a Guinness Book-ish record of its own (at about 97 astronomical units-or 9 billion miles from the sun-it is the solar system's farthest detected object). And, astronomers from the California Institute of Technology and their colleagues have now discovered, it has a moon.

+ Join the National Guard - get 3 free music downloads! (!!!)

+ You Can't Handle the Truth - Psy-ops propaganda goes mainstream.

+ Magazine ad "unleashes hell" for Boeing and Bell.

+ A symmetrical face isn't just prettier - it's healthier too. (!)

+ Soup runs in London are being increasingly abused by people who are not poor, needy or homeless, according to research that claims there is now one for every two rough sleepers in the capital. Dagens jävla människor alltså!

+ Med hjälp av ett material som finns i blöjor vill en amerikansk affärsman betvinga naturen och ändra på vädret. Ett ämne som förvandlar vatten till gelé ska sprejas över orkaner. Det ska sakta ner orkanvindarna och göra dem mindre farliga, är tanken.

+ Back to the USSR: Bush-administration köpte journalist. Bush-administrationen spred olaglig "förtäckt propaganda" när den skulle försöka få den amerikanska allmänheten att acceptera en utbildningsreform. (...) - Att skattebetalare får finansiera propaganda från Vita huset är ytterligare ett tecken på den kultur av korruption som genomsyrar Vita huset och den republikanska ledningen, kommenterade senator Edward Kennedy.

+ US Navy Seals Torturing Iraqis. Och så kan det vara värt att åter igen förfasas över bilderna från Abu Ghraib, så vi inte glömmer bort vad amerikanerna och britterna gör i Irak. Torture of Iraqis at Abu Ghraib.

+ Wired: Activate Cloud Shield! Zap a Twister!

Over the course of the next century, the weather will be our most powerful weapon. So says Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025, part of a 1996 Air Force-commissioned report forecasting the technology required to maintain US air and space leadership into the next century. "Current technologies that will mature over the next 30 years will offer anyone who has the necessary resources the ability to modify weather patterns, at least on the local scale," the study says. "Weather modification can provide battlespace dominance to a degree never before imagined. By 2025 it will be within the realm of possibility."

+ MP Michael Meacher Says Brits Recruited Terrorists. An astonishing claim that M16 recruited Muslim extremists in Britain for terror training abroad has been made by Oldham MP and former cabinet minister Michael Meacher. Mr Meacher also suggest that a British Muslim held under sentenced of death in Pakistan for beheading a US journalist is being kept alive because he was a British double agent.