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"FRENCH STUDENTS TORTURED AND STABBED 250 TIMES IN TARANTINO-STYLE RAID ON LONDON HOME" "It also sent shockwaves across France where the loss of two of the country's finest young minds was seen as proof of Britain's spiral into knife-obsessed lawlessness." |
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![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} nsshere. Our mission: Visit the Museum of Tolerance in West Los Angeles. This museum is an adjunct of the Simon Wisenthal Center.We spent most of the time visiting two exhibits. The first was their exhibit on the Holocaust, which took us along a guided presentation from the situation in Germany in the mid-1920s up and through the liberation of the concentration camps. They made the activity more personal by giving us a card with the name of a child as we entered, and we followed the life of the child midway through the war, to what happened to them. My child was Eduard Hornemann, born in 1932 in Eindhover, Holland. Alas, even though his father was an official with Phillips Corporation, he didn’t make it... in the fall of 1944 he was sent to a camp where they experimented with children, and he was infected on purpose with tuberculosis, dying in 1945 when the British were less than three miles from the camp. One of the things the exhibit emphasized was how ordinary people were swept up in the racism, and how bit by bit unspeakable things were done under government direction. This led quite well into the other main exhibit, which focused on Tolerance and Intolerance. There it was emphasized on how one person can make a different. How we can take responsibility for ourselves, how can we can work to make a more tolerant society. In some ways, it is sad that so much intolerance and racial hatred is still out in the world (and certainly all over the internet). It’s a hard subject to convey, and they Museum seemed to convey it well (especially as their focus is children--during the school year, they have over 700 students a day go through). After those two exhibits, we had a quick lunch. We briefly expored the two other exhibits that were open. One was on family history. This was interesting in that last year at this time we were in Nashville at a family reunion for a branch of the family that came over in the 1850s. We did have family on my side that escaped from White Russia, but in the early 1900s, through China and then San Francisco to New York. That tied well to the other special exhibit: a photo exhibit on the Jews of China. One thing I learned there was the large number of Jews that China saved during the holocaust. In any case, it was a fascinating day, marred only by a headache in the morning. It was nice to spend the day with my daughter. I have a lot of interest in this area, having taken classes in Antisemitism when I was an undergraduate at UCLA in the 1980s (from Dr. Deborah Lipstadt, ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/syndicated.gif){kind=small} historyontrial, now one of the foremost fighter of Holocaust Denial). |
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Kee-rist. Has Roanoke not learned? From the latest VCDL VA-ALERT: **************************************** 1. City of Roanoke cannot ban guns at Fourth of July Festival, contrary to flyer **************************************** There is a 4th of July festival at River's Edge Sports Complex in Roanoke tomorrow. It is cosponsored by the anti-gun Roanoke Times. The flyer says that "all firearms are strictly prohibited." Sounds like the Roanoke Times is smoking some kind of weed again. The City CANNOT ban guns in a public park. If have talked to the Roanoke Commonwealth Attorney's office and also Sgt. Smith with Roanoke PD to make sure we are one the same page. The event will have off-duty Roanoke officers providing security. If you are prevented from bringing a legally carried gun into the event by any of the officers, comply with their unlawful orders, but first get their names and badge numbers and give that information to me so that this can be settled later. You might ask the officers to contact Sgt. Smith or the Commonwealth Attorney's office to confirm that the officers cannot legally enforce a gun ban on public property. The code section that prohibits the City from banning guns in pubic parks and buildings is 15.2-915. Those carrying concealed shouldn't have any problems as the officer's won't know you're carrying, of course. |
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| Buying Storage Food Locally--Prepare While Keeping a Low Profile |
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| Food storage is perhaps the single most important preparedness measure that every family should take. It is insurance against any number of perils, ranging from natural disasters and disruption of transportation to something as mundane as simply being laid off from work. In part because of galloping food and... | |||||
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| Jim, I’ve been stockpiling medicine since before it was fashionable. My dad is a physician and gave me an Rx for ciprofloxacin and other antibiotics before 9/11 (in prep for Y2K). That is all refrigerated and despite official expiration dates, probably still fine. More recently, my dentist wrote me an... | |||||
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| Letter Re: Economic Gloom and Doom is Justified |
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| 07:32pm 03/07/2008 | |||||
| Jim, Ironically, just a day after I wrote an e-mail chiding you [for giving too much attention to economic gloom and doom in SurvivalBlog], I had a meeting with one of our clients that has been a very successful Wall Street trader. He gave me a laundry list of... | |||||
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| Jack B. recommended a very interesting series of video clips from a seminar presented by economist Don McAlvany. o o o Today is the last day for BulletProofME.com's special sale on Interceptor Body Armor and Kevlar helmets, just for SurvivalBlog readers. o o o Facing a soaring trade... | |||||
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| "With respect to our rights, and the acts of the British government contravening those rights, there was but one opinion on this side of the water. All American whigs thought alike on these subjects. When forced, therefore, to resort to arms for redress, an appeal to the tribunal of... | |||||
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Took a distictly rural fire call. Toned out for Automobile Accident Personal Injury - Lawnmower Rollover. ???????? OK, 15 and I jump in to the -2 truck. 15 is driving amd I'm on shotgun/radio. The call is way the heck back in the sticks. We roll up and a very heavyset woman was riding her lawn tractor along the road. She got to close to the edge of the road over a culvert and her and tractor went over the edge, fell about 6 feet into a creek with the lawn tractor on top of her. By the time we pull up a neighbor has shown up with a front end loader and chain and uses these thing to get the tracor off her. Now she's lying in the creek (about a foot deep) and about 6 feet below grade. Myself and 3 guys from the rescue squad are trying to strap her into a backboard and at the same time round up more bodies because, hey, she a BIG girl! 3 squad guys, me and two bystanders get her strapped in and get the back boadr up just as the -9 rescue truck arrived. 30 and 51 are riding the rescue truck. A couple of guys show up in POV's and now we have enough men to pass this broad up out of the creek to the team that will carry her to the ambulance. We get her in the ambulance and do a quick inventory; she's in a fair bit of pain and a decision was made to call for a helicopter. The adjoining fire district was toned out and instructed to set up a Landing Zone on the Taconic Parkway. The ambulance takes off, we do paperwork and clear the scene. Back to the firehouse and I hang up my bunker pants to dry and drain my boots. |
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LOL America! This sure does away with that whole "if you don't like it then leave!" argument presented by true-believer nationalist-statists: http://www.economist.com/finance/displa Congress increases the ransom expats must pay to escape the taxman So, to reiterate, "If you don't like it, then leave, but leave your assets here." (No offense, Desertmouse) |
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 CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) -- An Illinois man was charged with possession of a potentially deadly neurotoxin commonly found in puffer fish after the FBI led a raid at his home Monday. Edward F. Bachner, 35, of Lake in the Hills, was charged with one count of illegal possession of a toxin, according to a federal complaint filed in U.S. district court. Bachner is listed as the corporate secretary of Rosetta Wireless Corp. in Naperville, in suburban Chicago. Bachner was arrested after accepting a small amount of tetrodotoxin delivered by an undercover federal official at his home, the FBI said. Tetrodotoxin is a neurotoxin that in large doses can cause paralysis and death. It's often linked to consumption of puffer fish, a delicacy from the Indian and Pacific oceans that can prove fatal if not prepared properly, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Bachner, using the alias Edmond Backer, attempted to purchase 98 milligrams of tetrodotoxin through the Web site of a New Jersey chemical company, according to the FBI. Bachner claimed he was a doctor working for Illinois-based EB Strategic Research, which does not exist. The quantity of the toxin requested alarmed an employee at the chemical company, who alerted authorities, the FBI said. Bachner appeared before a magistrate judge at the federal court in Rockford and is being held without bond until his next court appearance. If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in prison. Calls late Monday to Bachner's home and business went unanswered Note to self, never buy tetrodotoxin off the internets. Also, please find a better "untraceable" toxin mmkay? |
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 Evidence that Iran halted its nuclear bomb plan ignored, says ex-CIA agent JOBY WARRICK, Washington Wed, Jul 02, 2008 US:A FORMER CIA operative who says he tried to warn the US agency about faulty intelligence on Iraqi weapons programmes now contends that CIA officials also ignored evidence that Iran had suspended work on a nuclear bomb. The one-time undercover agent, who has been barred by the CIA from using his real name, filed a motion in a federal court late last week asking the government to declassify legal documents describing what he says was a deliberate suppression of findings on Iran that were contrary to agency views at the time. ( Read more ) My opinon: Iran is still working towards a nuclear weapons program. If they have stopped it's only because they lack the technology to do so at the present time. So, where does that leave me? Do I really think that George II can do some good by bombing the fuck out of the facilities they "think" are there? Not unless they get ALL the sites. Do I think that the use of Tactical Nuclear Weapons is warranted *even the B61 bunker buster* No, opening the Nuclear Genie here is a bad idea. Would a competently run OP to depose or liquidate Ahmadinejad and Khamenei be a better solution to destabilize the grip of right wing clerics on the government? Yes. Will that happen? Not likely. I fear that this president won't even have the swiftness to allow the Israeli's to bomb Nantaz and the other sites and thus lessen the anti American blood lust that will surely be the beacon for all to join the Qaeda school of terrorism and electronics. In short, we're fucked. I tend to believe the reporting from Sy Hersh and others who have mentioned the plans on the table for Iran. I expect to turn on the TV soon and see it all, with scrolling text and 8x10 color glossy photos. Meanwhile, there is this little gem of an article: Iran Captures U.S. Spies By Jeff Stein | July 2, 2008 12:07 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) David Ignatius has the gem down low in today's Washington Post column, which describes a half-hearted, even feckless U.S. covert action program to send operatives from Iraq into Iran. "The danger of these cross-border activities was explained to me by one intelligence source," Ignatius writes. ( Read more ) I think the word "feckless" says it all... |
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 (June 26, 2008) The personal data, including Social Security numbers (SSNs), of more than 20,000 people were exposed after the US Social Security Administration (SSA) mistakenly included the information on the Death Master File (DMF), according to the agency's inspector general. The DMF is provided to the Commerce Department's National Technical Information Service (NTIS), where it can be purchased by the government, investigators, credit reporting companies and others. The SSA removed the information from the list when it learned of the error, but the information had already been shared with others. In some cases, the data were available for viewing on the Internet. [Editor's Note (Pescatore): This is one of those "data quality" incidents, not really a security issue, sort of like when the fortune cookie company put the risqu fortunes into the wrong fortune cookies. The SSA has had a phenomenally good security record over the years, and consistently high FISMA grades as a consequence of their strong security program. ] Ooooh the Death Master File! Sure, now that data may be out there, but, wouldn't it be more of a concern to those 20K people that they were added to the "Death Master List" though they are not in fact dead? Do you know how hard it is to prove to the gubment that you are in fact, alive? Holy shit have I heard horror stories of that. So the SSA suddenly says you're dead and your credit stops working, people come to the house to take shit, and generally your life "at least the one we call it" within the confines of our society, comes to a screehing halt. It's like the old chestnut from the juvinile movie "Hackers", ya know, where they ultimately make the FBI dead ala the system. Heh. Thanks SSA! I guess it could be a boon for some... "What? I'm dead? Cool!" |
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 When you have a voice over that says "Whoa, I have never seen that before!" and the screen has the image of Angelina Jolie's ass and tatt's, you would be wrong. We ALL have seen "That" before... And that also goes for your shitty movie. Been there, done that, and better the first time in the Matrix. Yours, CoB |
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 Dear Mr. Sales Boy “technician” at Buy More. I have news for you. YOU are NOT a computer technical God! Thus, you work at Buy More, and not in some uber corporation for high dollar figures ok? Now that we have that out of the way, please, just believe me, the “customer” who actually works in the real corporate world in information security and technology, when I tell you my Toshiba piece of shit laptop has a problem! After getting the laptop worked on recently for a main board issue, I got it back, dropped the drive in it (more on that further down) and started using it. I soon noticed that much of the time I was trying to use it, the cores sat at about 100% use. It was thus, very hard to do anything on the laptop because it just choked. Added to this, now the laptop got super heated around the power button area. So much so, that it was painful just to shut it down, IF you indeed could, because when you do shut it down, the power does not actually go off. Instead you have to yank the battery for it to power down fully. I tried the usual scientific method; changed hard drives and images, even went as far as booting to a live distro of *nix to only have the system choke and die. Finally, I decided it was time for two things. 1) Purchase a new laptop 2) Send this one back again under the purchased warranty for them to see whats wrong with it! So, off I set with the laptop in hand to the Buy More. I walk up to the geek behind the counter and explain the problem. “Oh, well lets see” he says and boots the system. He fiddles with it as I tell him what's been going on, and also ask him why in the world does “Buy More” need my hard drive to send the laptop out for service? They had demanded the laptop have a hard drive the last time around, so I put a dummy in there to make them happy, but that is just plain stupid. “Uhh, well, they need it to fix it” is the gist of the reply... “Well, you aren't getting my data on my hard drive so I replaced the drive with the one from the one I just bought, it's an acer image...” *As an aside, let me tell you a story about some Buy More Geeks who got into some trouble stealing someone’s data off their hard drive…Geek Squad Pr0n Bust Or maybe the Dead Pr0n Star's Hard Drive story will be more to your liking... “Whoa” he says “That's bad! How can you do that? There are drivers and...” “The image is immaterial, drivers that cannot be installed will not be used, just listen to what I am saying. The image for the laptop itself works fine, its the main board that is at issue here. I have checked for trojans and malware, I have checked on all the possible problems and the only one that is consistent here is a hardware issue. Especially given that I just had it worked on because the main board failed altogether!” I say. “Well...” he starts to tell me that it seems to be fine and he thinks that he can't take it in, but I give him the look of; “look buddy I am about to slap you” and thinks better of it. He takes the laptop in for testing.... I say thank you and move on. I hate late teen early twenty something minimum wage geeks. |
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