Month: March 2007

Le BotCast with Cheese Shows

BotCast #11 – The Waterfalls of sin

BotCast #11 – The Waterfalls of sin

BotCast #11PREMIÈRE ÉPISODE EN MP3 SURROUND!!!!!!!! On vous présente des plants de marijuana indestructibles, des taxes d’essence sur l’huile à frire, des juges qui s’exposent, et des rats cyborgs volants. Pour écouter le cast en son surround, visitez www.mp3surround.com pour downloader le codec ou le Player surround. Pas grave si vous n’avez pas de Surround, ça joue pareil sur votre lecteur MP3 standard. 17 mars 2007. NOTES & ARTICLES

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Break: Benoit Campeau, Jack the coon www.BenoitCampeau.com
OutTro: DeltaX, The Waterfalls of sin
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-Show number           11
-Date    17 mars 2007
 
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Tune:             Waterfals of sin
Artist:              DeltaX
Group:  NOISE
Year:             
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Channels:          16
Samples:         28
Size:                794k
Patterns: 71,66 ,20 unused   different

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Google Brainwashing Teachers

Google Teacher Academy brainwashes teachers to become Google Certified talking heads, drilling the usefulness of Google.com and its product base into the brains of students from the age range of 5 to 18 years old.

URL: http://digg.com/tech_news/Google_Brainwashing_Teachers

 

Canada troops battle 10-ft Afghan marijuana plants

“We tried burning them with white phosphorous — it didn’t work. We tried burning them with diesel — it didn’t work. The plants are so full of water right now … that we simply couldn’t burn them,” he said.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

 

Judge: Jurors need not see evidence, must take FBI suspicions “on faith”.

In his instructions prior to closing arguments in the Albany “terror sting” case (pizza shop owner allegedly agrees to launder money for missile sale to terrorists; such “contract” allegedly witnessed by local imam), U.S. District Judge Thomas McAvoy told the jurors that the FBI’s “certain valid suspicions” about the defendants had prompted the federal sting. However, under the current regulations, jurors could neither hear nor consider the evidence that prompted the sting operation in the first place; the validity of the FBI’s “suspicions” must be taken on faith.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

 

71 lacs contaminés au Québec

Le problème des cyanobactéries prend de l’ampleur au Québec, alors que le nombre de lacs touchés a augmenté en un an de plus de 40 % à l’échelle provinciale et de 50 % sur la rive nord du fleuve. Suite

URL: http://www.ledevoir.com/2006/10/17/120616.html

 

http://www.ziopedia.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1960&Itemid=0

GOP Uses Remarks to Court JewsMoran’s Comments Cited in New Appeal Republicans have seized on the assertion of Rep. James…

URL: http://www.ziopedia.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1960&Itemid=0

 

Pentagon closes Guantánamo Bay hearings to media

Reporters will be barred from hearings that begin Friday in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, for the 14 suspected terrorists who were transferred last year from secret CIA prisons, officials said Tuesday.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

 

La création du SCRS n’aurait pas accru la sécurité

Le Canada n’est pas devenu plus sûr parce qu’on a dépouillé la Gendarmerie royale du Canada de sa responsabilité en matière de collecte du renseignement et qu’on l’a confiée au SCRS (le Service canadien du renseignement de sécurité). Au contraire, c’est devenu un endroit plus dangereux, soutient un ancien haut gradé de la GRC.

URL: http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20070307/CPMONDE/70307264/1019/CPACTUALITES

 

 

Latest Microsoft WGA Update Phones Home

According to tests conducted with an Ethernet sniffer program, if the user clicks the close button to cancel the installation of this WGA update, Windows sends information back to Microsoft. This information includes version numbers of both Windows and WGA, the language of the operating system, some registry information, and a cookie.

URL: http://digg.com/security/Latest_Microsoft_WGA_Update_Phones_Home

 

 

Chinese defector reveals that China has over 1,000 spies in Canada alone

Most of these are economic spies, stealing technologies, such as the Blackberry cellphone, which was copied last year by a Chinese company and called the Redberry. The thefts cost over $12 Billion dollars per year to Canadian companies.

URL: http://digg.com/security/Chinese_defector_reveals_that_China_has_over_1_000_spies_in_Canada_alone

 

Plus de 100 agents de la GRC ont commis des infractions

Plus de 100 policiers de la Gendarmerie royale du Canada ont été trouvés coupables d’infractions diverses depuis deux ans, selon un relevé divulgué par Sun Media.

URL: http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20070313/CPFRONTPAGETEST/70313061/1019/CPACTUALITES

 

YouTube is killing my business!

Utube, YouTube, whose tube?A company, which sells used machinery for making tubes has seen its site utube.com knocked off line by millions of online searchers looking for the video site.

URL: http://digg.com/tech_news/YouTube_is_killing_my_business

 

 

Abolition contestée

Les groupes de défense des immigrants dénoncent l’abolition du programme de contestation judiciaire par le gouvernement de Stephen Harper. Le programme, qui recevait 3,2 millions par année du gouvernement fédéral, servait à financer les démarches judiciaires de groupes minoritaires qui se sentaient lésés dans leur droit à l’égalité garanti par l’article 15 de la Charte des droits canadienne, tels les francophones hors Québec, les femmes, des immigrants ou des réfugiés. Suite du texte réservée aux abonnés

URL: http://www.ledevoir.com/2006/10/14/120423.html

 

Police accuse Israeli president of rape

Israel said today its police force had acquired evidence suggesting President Moshe Katsav had raped and molested women who worked for him.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

 

 

Ashcroft: Bush should be trusted not to abuse new powers

n the following MSNBC video, former Attorney General John Ashcroft says that President Bush should be trusted not to abuse new powers granted to him by Congress.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

 

 

Catholic Priest Claims Relationship With Foley

A Catholic priest told The Sarasota Herald-Tribune on Wednesday that he had an intimate two-year relationship with former Representative Mark Foley of south Florida when Mr. Foley was a teenage altar boy.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

 

Senior judge charged with exposing himself on trains

One of the most senior judges in Britain has been charged with exposing himself to two women on trains, police said yesterday.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

 

 

State makes big fuss over local couple’s vegetable oil car fuel

Wetzel uses recycled vegetable oil, which he picks up weekly from an organization that uses it for frying food at its dining facility.”They told me I am required to have a license and am obligated to pay a motor fuel tax,” David Wetzel recalled. “Mr. May also told me the tax would be retroactive.”Since the initial visit by the agents on Jan. 4, the Wetzels have been involved in a struggle with the Illinois Department of Revenue. The couple, who live on a fixed budget, have been asked to post a $2,500 bond and threatened with felony charges.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

 

Are YOU Breaching iTunes EULA?

The End User License Agreement for Apple’s iTunes music player software states that their software is not allowed to be used for the manufacture of missiles, nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons. What were they on when they wrote their EULA?

URL: http://digg.com/apple/Are_YOU_Breaching_iTunes_EULA

 

Priests to Purify Site After Bush Visit

Mayan priests will purify a sacred archaeological site to eliminate “bad spirits” after President Bush visits next week, an official with close ties to the group said Thursday.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

 

Confessions of a Torturer: The story of Army interrogator Tony Lagouranis

It was his desire to learn Arabic as well that took him to Iraq.And there, as an army interrogator, he tortured detainees for information he admits they rarely had. Since leaving Iraq he’s taken this story public, doing battle on national television against the war’s architects for giving him the orders he regrets he obeyed.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

 

Study Shows Internet to Be Resilient Against Terror Attack

Researchers have simulated what would happen to Internet reliability in the United States if terrorists were able to knock out various physical components of the network. The good news is that it would be very difficult to cause major disruptions across the country, although destruction of some key parts could seriously degrade Internet quality.

URL: http://digg.com/security/Study_Shows_Internet_to_Be_Resilient_Against_Terror_Attack

 

 

Apple’s Sense of Humor: “Do not Eat iPod Shuffle”

We can only assume that Apple had a pica-sufferer on staff when they decided to render the advice highlighted above (that’s a real screengrab from the iPod Shuffle website, by the way — isn’t Apple funny?)

URL: http://digg.com/apple/Apple_s_Sense_of_Humor_Do_not_Eat_iPod_Shuffle

 

Verizon: “Unlimited bandwidth means 5GBs or less or we cancel your account”

Verizon offers an “unlimited” wireless data download service. Specifically, it’s limited to five gig per month. After that, you get fined $175 and your account is cancelled. “The people who cancel your account … don’t know how to answer your questions, they just know how to accuse their customers of downloading porn.”

URL: http://digg.com/tech_news/Verizon_Unlimited_bandwidth_means_5GBs_or_less_or_we_cancel_your_account

 

The Ultimate Open Source Licence: Do What the F**k You Want To License

Title says it all.Now if only we could get Apple and Microsoft to Adopt this licence. LOL.By the way its the Third licence, Click it to read it. * Shared Source License for IronPython * Python Software Foundation License Version 2 * Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License * ElementTree License

URL: http://digg.com/linux_unix/The_Ultimate_Open_Source_Licence_Do_What_the_F_k_You_Want_To_License

 

 

http://www.nwowatcher.com/ebooks/%5Bconspiracy%5D.The.Illuminati.Formula.Used.to.Create.an.Undetectable.Tot al.Mind.Controlled.Slave.pdf

 

 

A 30-year-old Scotsman sued the sender of a single spam message and received more than $2600 in court.

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Une ex-croupière raconte son entraînement à vider les compulsifs

Une ancienne croupière du Casino de Charlevoix, Eléonore Mainguy, publie un livre qui explique comment elle a été entraînée à vider les poches de ses clients, sans tenir compte de leur détresse.

URL: http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20070309/CPACTUALITES/70309025/1019/CPACTUALITES

 

 

http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20070310/CPINSOLITE/70310032/5406/CPINSOLITE

Paris Hilton : le blackout

La Presse

On le sait, on vous en parle trop. Mais cette fois-ci, c’est pour une excellente raison.

Du 19 au 27 février, Associated Press a tenté un <> de cette célèbre insignifiante en refusant de relayer toute information la concernant.

Résultat : zéro plainte.

Comme quoi le vaste public peut très bien vivre sans voir sa face. Malheureusement, le 27 février, AP a été obligée d’en parler, à cause de son arrestation pour conduite en état d’ébriété.

 

Mais au moins, l’expérience a été faite, et AP jure qu’elle continuera à exercer son jugement journalistique dans son cas. Croisons les doigts.

 

Hospital Equipment Unaffected By Cell Phone Use, Study Finds

March 12, 2007 Although cellular telephone use has been prohibited in hospitals because of concerns of interference with medical devices, a new study by Mayo Clinic researchers shows that calls made on cellular phones have no negative impact on hospital medical devices, dispelling the long-held notion that they are unsafe to use in health care facilities. Three hundred tests were performed over a five-month period in 2006 using two cellular phones, which used different technologies from different carriers and 192 medical devices. Not a single problem was found. The study’s authors say the findings should prompt hospitals to alter or abandon their bans on cell phone use. ..

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Students at the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai (Bombay) have been told that the college will be turning off the free internet access provided on the campuses 13 student hostels from 11pm to 12.30pm; in an effort to promote socialization and early bed times for undergraduate students

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http://infowars.com/articles/ps/china_bbc_hidden_cam_selling_prisoner_organs.htm

An undercover investigation by BBC News finds that China has a flourishing trade of organs from executed prisoners. China is becoming the destination of choice for rich foreigners in need of organ transplants. One hospital said it could provide a liver for about $100,000.

China has more executions than any other country in the world. Officials told undercover reporters that executions increase prior to national holidays, so many organs are available around those times.

The following video report features hidden camera footage of organs being sold in China.

Video unavailable, what a surprise

 

 

LinuxChix.org – A linux community of WOMEN??

LinuxChix is a community for women who like Linux, and for women and men who want to support women in computing. The membership ranges from novices to experienced users, and includes professional and amateur programmers, system administrators and technical writers.

URL: http://digg.com/linux_unix/LinuxChix_org_A_linux_community_of_WOMEN

 

 

Florida Police Shot Suspected Cop Killer 68 Times

Officers fired 110 rounds of ammunition at the man suspected of killing a sheriff’s deputy, killing the suspect, according to an autopsy released by the sheriff’s office.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

 

http://www.ziopedia.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1790&Itemid=0

Michael Chertoff and Dept. of Homeland Security has been fingered again as a co-conspirator. Elements of a secret French anti-terror…

URL: http://www.ziopedia.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1790&Itemid=0

 

Michael Chertoff and Dept. of Homeland Security has been fingered again as a co-conspirator. Elements of a secret French anti-terror team just busted a Mossad operation which was designed to bomb the Fort McHenry Tunnel in Baltimore, Maryland in the first week of October.

In the early morning hours of September 21, 2006, an unmarked white van was stopped by Maryland State Police driving north and south and back and forth through the Fort McHenry Tunnel.

After being stopped by the police the individual was detained after it took the driver of the van fifteen minutes to produce an Israeli passport, now expired, and an international drivers license also expired.

In the backseat of the van was a computer laptop and fifteen different types of sophisticated cameras. Also found in the backseat was a notebook with the Washington D.C phone number to Homeland Security and the phone number to Cable News Network (CNN 2028987900).

The Israeli citizen was then sent to the Maryland Co-Ordination and Analysis Center for further interrogation.

Note: The phone call that tipped the Maryland State Police came from 1-800-LaFayette-Save America.

After twelve hours of interrogation it can now be reported that the Head of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, and criminal Attorney-General Gonzales, ordered the release of the Israeli citizen claiming diplomatic immunity for an individual that had an expired drivers license and passport.

HOW DARE YOU! YOU TYRANTS AND CONSPIRATORIAL KINGS.

It can now be reported that the individual Israeli was a member of an advance team of Mossad that had been ordered to bomb the McHenry Tunnel in early October. This dovetails to a secret meeting on Sept. 12, 2001, at the Hay-Adams Hotel in Washington D.C. in which elements of both British and Israeli Intelligence discussed with a representative of Dick Cheney alleged National Security issues.

When is alleged Vice-President Dick Cheney going to turn over his Energy Taskforce notes from Feb. and Mar. 2001 showing Cheney and Con Rice were actually negotiating with the Osama Bin Laden-Taliban government of Afghanistan for an oil pipeline deal through Afghanistan.

These negotiations were happening seven months before Sept. 11, 2001 Attack On America.

Of course the current President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karazai, was formerly a UNICAL executive.

As Governor of Texas, Bushfraud, on three occasions, invited Taliban officials to visit the Governor’s Mansion.

So when is Cheney going to turn over these Energy Taskforce notes?

Don’t hold your breath just ask the Gang of Five on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Retired New Jersey Police Commander Allan Duncan, been hired by 9-11 widows, has now completed his report on 9-11 and named Michael Chertoff co-conspirator in Obstruction of Justice, i.e. the events of Sept. 11.

Mossad Agent Chertoff, as then U.S. Attorney in Bergau County, New Jersey in 1998 helped drop charges against an Egyptian arms dealer named Elamir Magy.

Magy was the subject of a DEA sting operation called Diamondback, which had fingered Magy and his Egyptian arms dealer handler aka Moshen for narcotics and arms dealing in the New Jersey area.

It can now be reported that both Magy and Moshen were actually Mossad agents and FBI Informants.

Both were also involved and connected to Osama Bin Laden’s alleged terror network and the smuggling of nuclear suitcase-type explosives into the USA.

Despite protests from former President Bill Clinton and former Vice-President Albert Gore Jr. the two Egyptian arms dealers aka Mossad agents were allowed to go free and the charges dropped i.e. direct communications between Chertoff then U.S. Attorney in New Jersey and the then head of the FBI Louis Freeh.

HOW DARE YOU! YOU TYRANTS AND CONSPIRATORIAL KINGS

Note: Louis Freeh was more concerned about protecting his own FBI Informants aka foreign intelligence agents than protecting the USA. Freeh spent over seven years blackmailing former President Clinton on behalf of the Bush Crime Syndicate.

Freeh’s major objective was to blackmail Clinton and utilize criminal box independent counsel Kenneth Starr to frame then Vice-President Albert Gore (now the duly elected U.S. President) for making a phone call from the wrong room.

P.S. CONNECT THE DOTS AND DISMANTLE THE BOX. It gets worse, of course. It should be important to note again that it was Chertoff, who in 2001 was then Assistant Attorney-General and compromised FBI Director and punk Louis Freeh, that allowed the 9-11 Urban Moving Systems Dancing Israeli New Jersey gang to go free and escape interrogation vis a vis their role and knowledge of 9-11.

PPS – As of July 2001 both Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress had received briefings from then CIA Director George Tenet that major Arab Terror Cells on the East Coast linked to Osama Bin Laden and Mohammed Atta had actually been infiltrated and compromised by the Israeli Mossad.

It can now be reported that one of the Democrats aware of the Israeli infiltration of the Arab Terror Cells was none other than Bush’s third cousin John Skull & Bones Kerry-Cohn aka Bush’s 2004 Election Patsy.

Question: Can we assume now that Kerry knew about 9-11 before he learned he was half-Jewish? Well just call David Frum. He will figure it out.

So what did Bush know and when did he know it?

HE KNEW IT ALL FOLKS!

And Bushfraud and Chertoff ignored the warnings and allowed what now can be clearly seen as a British-Israeli 9-11 Black Op to go forward and assassinate 3,000 Americans in New York. All you have to do is connect the dots in this criminal box.

Stay Tuned More To Come Tonight linking Chertoff to P-Tech Software and the actual compromising of the American Defense Shield on Sept. 11/01.

Source: The Birdman

 

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/02/cyborg_flying_r.html

Cyborg Flying Rats Invade China

The People’s Daily Online reports that scientists in China have successfully used brain implants in pigeons to control the birds’ movement:

Scientists with the Robot Engineering Technology Research Center of east China’s Shandong University of Science and Technology say they implanted micro electrodes in the brain of a pigeon so they can command it to fly right or left or up or down.

The implants stimulated different areas of the pigeon’s brain according to signals sent by the scientists via computer, and forced the bird to comply with their commands.

“It’s the first such successful experiment on a pigeon in the world,” said the lead researcher, who hopes the work will have “practical use” in the future.

In the United States, similar work on animals has been of interest to the military. For example, the pigeon news follows the equally amusing animal tale about the Pentagon’s attempts at creating remote controlled shark spies. Like the Chinese pigeon experiment, the sharks had brain implants used to control their movements.

But don’t hold your breath waiting for animal spies to roam the world anytime soon. One of the most infamous would-be animal espionage projects, dubbed Acoustic Kitty, dates back to the 1960s, when the CIA wired a furry feline to eavesdrop. On its trial run, the cat was run over by a car.

Sharon Weinberger

UPDATE: Noah here.  Sharon, as an Iowa girl, may be able to look at this development with detached amusement. I, for one, am outraged.  Those of us growing up in New York know that there is nothing nastier than the swarming, disease-ridden, flying rats who turn every public place into a fight for room to breathe.  Now China is looking to engineer a fleet of cyborg pigeon slaves?  Damn them.  And damn those old ladies who feed the pigeons, in the first place.

 

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Le BotCast with Cheese Shows

BotCast #10 – Geometric Shadows

BotCast #10 – Geometric Shadows

BotCast #10 On vous présente des beaux noms de sites web, des chihuahuas congelés, Pulp Fiction Fucking Short Version, un wok transmetteur et des politiciens et juges pédophiles. TestDummy est encore là et poursuit les origines de l’impôt et du terme “Docteur”. 1er mars 2007.

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Break: Milan Kolarovic (Acumen), World War II Memoirs (4m40) www.milankolarovic.com
OutTro: Ryan Cramer, Geometric Shadows
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-Show number            10

-Date    1er mars 2007
 
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– Le iPhone Shuffle      “Call Martin”    -“Calling, Roger”

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Un pirate envoie un juge en prison

 Nicolas Ritoux, collaboration spéciale 
27 février 2007 – 08h12
 
Un juge de la Cour supérieure de Californie a été condamné la semaine dernière à 27 mois de prison pour possession de pornographie infantile.
 
Ironiquement, c’est un pirate informatique qui a découvert les images qu’il possédait en fouillant son ordinateur à distance, de façon totalement illégale.

Le jeune cybercriminel a fait part de sa découverte à un organisme de lutte contre la pédophilie, qui l’a fait suivre aux autorités compétentes. Bien que les preuves aient été obtenues de façon illégale, le juge Ronald C. Kline a fini par passer aux aveux après cinq ans de procédures judiciaires.

Le jeune pirate se nomme Brad Wilman et habite chez ses parents en Colombie-Britannique. Il avait conçu un virus de type «cheval de Troie» qu’il cachait dans des images à caractère pédophile diffusées dans des forums Web.

Il est ainsi parvenu à surveiller des centaines d’ordinateurs de présumés pédophiles partout dans le monde, allant jusqu’à lire leurs courriels. Il aurait ainsi transmis plusieurs dossiers de preuves à la police, même si celle-ci lui répétait qu’il s’agissait d’une atteinte illégale à la vie privée.

 

Konami slot machines pulled for subliminal messaging

Filed under: Gaming

While we’ve seen quite a few instances where shifty gamblers got the boot, this time it’s the slot machines participating in a mass exodus of Canadian casinos. In another tale of misguided marketing garnering awful PR, Ontario’s provincial gambling operator has “pulled 87 video slot machines out of service or physically removed them from its casinos” after an investigation found

URL: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/96813211/

 

While we’ve seen quite a few instances where shifty gamblers got the boot, this time it’s the slot machines participating in a mass exodus of Canadian casinos. In another tale of misguided marketing garnering awful PR, Ontario’s provincial gambling operator has “pulled 87 video slot machines out of service or physically removed them from its casinos” after an investigation found some tricky imagery hidden within. Apparently, a number of Konami slot machines flashed “winning jackpot symbols” for a fifth of a second every so often, purportedly giving players “subliminal messages” that would keep them chucking away coins for longer periods of time. Comically, Konami is asserting that the flashing images are simply a ” software glitch” that will be fixed shortly, which leaves us wondering what else could be ailing these machines for the betterment of the establishment. Regardless, the Ontario-based discovery has spawned several other investigations in the US, British Columbia, and Quebec, but it has “yet to be determined” if the flashing imagery has effected the gameplay of addicts professional gamblers.

 

MS Tech Support Tell Customer to Use Activation Crack

“The Customer Service Manager told me that I could either borrow an XP Home disk from a friend (isn’t that software piracy ??) or look online for one of the many Vista Activation cracks to bypass Vista Activation completely, and specifically mentioned “TimerLock” (um… hey, HE told me to do it !!). Well, I followed his instructions.”

URL: http://digg.com/software/MS_Tech_Support_Tell_Customer_to_Use_Activation_Crack

 

Google-ized

Google’s unofficial slogan is “Don’t be Evil.” It seems that such a slogan should be applied to oneself above all. Evil aside, Google has put itself in a position of, what can only be construed as, being a censor of information; for example, its decision to violate the openness of the internet by censoring Uruknet from its news service, collaboration with Chinese regime [3], and removing certain sites from google ads, such as controversial Ziopedia.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

 

TV Station Uses a $10 Wok as a Transmitter – Very Clever

Why pay $20,000 for a commercial link to run your television station when a $10 kitchen wok is just effective? A small television station from the deep south of New Zealand are using wok’s to transmit their program, instead of the more expensive, “professional” option. And, amazingly, it works!

URL: http://digg.com/hardware/TV_Station_Uses_a_10_Wok_as_a_Transmitter_Very_Clever

 

Texas Governor Perry took Merck money before mandating cervical vaccine

Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) says that it’s just a coincidence that he and eight other lawmakers received donations of $5,000 each from Merck lobbyists just a few days before mandating the drug giant’s HPV cervical cancer vaccine for all females in Texas ages 12 and up.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

 

Safety alarms raised at nuclear weapons plant

Electrical failures have shut down the plant. The roof has leaked. Decrepit machinery dates back more than 40 years. Safety lapses led inspectors to levy fines twice within two years. And employees, under deadline pressure, complain they are often worked past the point of exhaustion. If this factory were producing medical devices or refining gasoline, the conditions would be serious enough. But this is where they work on nuclear bombs.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

 

Affidavit: McVeigh had high-level help

Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols says a high-ranking FBI official “apparently” was directing Timothy McVeigh in the plot to blow up a government building and might have changed the original target of the attack, according to a new affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Utah.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

 

German Bible Goes Politically Correct

A new German translation of the Bible is aimed at ridding the Holy Scriptures of their misogynist and anti-Semitic traits as well as flashing out the relationship between the poor and the privileged.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

 

http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/02/expert_debunks_.html

According to a new study by a researcher at Texas A&M International University, studies that see a connection between video games and violent behavior usually suffer from shoddy research techniques. Dr. Christopher Ferguson studied the results of a number of recent studies linking violent video games to aggressive behavior with an eye not just to individual results, but also to overall trends in the studies as a whole.

Ferguson found that the connection between violence and gaming had more to do with publication bias than it did with any actual correlation. In other words, journals were more likely to publish studies that supported the hypothesis that playing violent games made a subject more prone to violent behavior. Nothing like scientific stacking the deck, eh? Ferguson sums it up nicely:

Thus it was concluded that there is little evidence from the current body of literature on violent video games that playing violent video games is either causally or correlationally associated with increases in aggressive behavior.

Expect He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named to jump on this one like a duck on a junebug, folks.

Researcher Finds Scant Evidence Linking Violent Games With Aggressive Behavior

Researcher Finds Scant Evidence Linking Violent Games With Aggressive Behavior

Any scientific link between violent video games and violent behavior remains tenuous.

At least, that’s the conclusion of a Ph.D faculty member at Texas A&M International University’s Department of Behavioral, Applied Sciences and Criminal Justice. The researcher, Christopher Ferguson forwarded GamePolitics information about a study he recently completed. In an e-mail, Ferguson wrote:

I conducted a meta-analysis of studies associating violent video game exposure with aggressive behaviors.  A meta-analysis involves collecting existing studies in the literature, and obtaining an over all effect size (i.e. degree of relationship) for all of the studies examined.  This allows us to get a sense, not just for individual research projects, but rather for the overall result from combined studies in a field.

In the current publication, studies that examined violent video game effects on aggressive behavior were analyzed. Also examined was a phenomenon called “publication bias” which means that scientific journals are more likely to publish studies that support a particular hypothesis than those that reject it.

Results from the current meta-analysis found that there were about 25 recent studies on violent video game effects, with conflicting results.

Overall results of the study found that although violent video games appear to increase people’s aggressive thoughts (which it would not be surprising that people are still thinking about what they were just playing), violent games do not appear to increase aggressive behavior.

This as true for both correlational and experimental studies.  Also it was found that studies that employed less standardized measures of aggression produced higher effects than better standardized measures of aggression.  In other words, better measures of aggression are associated with lower effects.

Publication bias appeared to be a significant issue for studies of aggressive behavior.  Thus it was concluded that there is little evidence from the current body of literature on violent video games that playing violent video games is either causally or correlationally associated with increases in aggressive behavior.

Ferguson included a copy of his findings, from which the following quotes were lifted:

(it) appears that news outlets may promote media violence in general, and video game violence specifically as a direct cause of violent behavior.

Despite the relatively young and sparse nature of the research on violent video game effects, some researchers have claimed that the evidence is conclusive…
Yet a close read of the literature reveals that many of the studies used to support this link provide only questionable or inconsistent evidence.

Part of the problem may be that video game researchers have adopted unreliable methodologies from media violence research in general… Most of the research (particularly laboratory research) employs unvalidated ad-hoc measures of “aggression”.

Lead-laden lunchboxes OK’d by government

In 2005, when government scientists tested 60 soft, vinyl lunchboxes, they found that one in five contained amounts of lead that medical experts consider unsafe — and several had more than 10 times hazardous levels.But that’s not what they told the public.Instead, the Consumer Product Safety Commission released a statement that they found “no instances of hazardous levels.” And they refused to release their actual test results, citing regulations that protect manufacturers from having their information released to the public.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

 

More than a year after death, man found in front of his TV

Neighbors said they had thought Ricardo was in a hospital or nursing home. Still, neighbor Diane Devon said residents at a gathering last month remarked that they hadn’t seen him in some time. “We never thought to check on him,” she said.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

 

Four more Americans charged in CIA kidnapping of Muslim cleric

On Friday an Italian judge charged four more Americans to stand trial for kidnapping of Italian cleric Hassan Nasr in 2003, bringing the total number of Americans charged to 26.

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http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20070218/CPARTS01/70218029/1043/CPARTS01

Le Canada, une menace pour Hollywood

Le piratage des films est en pleine expansion au Canada, alimentant les marchés internationaux et ulcérant les grands studios de Hollywood qui comptabilisent leurs pertes par millions.

La Chine et la Russie posent «le plus de problèmes à l’industrie du droit d’auteur», mais «le problème de l’enregistrement non autorisé de films (camcording) dans les cinémas au Canada frôle la crise».

Ce constat a été fait cette semaine par l’Alliance internationale pour la propriété intellectuelle (IIPA), un groupe de pression financé par l’industrie américaine du droit d’auteur, la plus importante au monde, dans une lettre envoyée à la représentante américaine au Commerce, Susan Schwab.

L’Alliance, qui accuse le Canada de ne pas protéger suffisamment les droits d’auteur, demande aux autorités américaines de mettre le voisin canadien sur la «liste de surveillance prioritaire» des pays fautifs dans ce domaine aux côtés de la Chine, de la Russie et de l’Inde.

«En 2005 on estimait qu’environ 20% des films piratés sur le marché mondial provenaient du Canada, et un bon pourcentage de Montréal», estime Serge Corriveau, enquêteur pour l’Association canadienne des distributeurs de films, une antenne des grands studios hollywoodiens.

Ceux-ci chiffrent à plus de 6,1 milliards de dollars les pertes qu’ils subissent annuellement à cause du piratage de leurs films dans le monde.

«Les blockbusters (films à grand succès) attirent toujours les pirates, mais au cours des dernières années au-delà de 200 films ont été enregistrés (au Canada) et ils se sont retrouvés dans 45 pays», assure M. Corriveau.

L’industrie dénonce le «laxisme» des lois canadiennes en matière de lutte contre le piratage de films. Alors qu’aux États-Unis, l’acte de filmer au cinéma est un crime dans plusieurs États, dont la Californie, il n’en est rien au Canada.
Certes, une personne prise en flagrant délit de filmer dans un cinéma peut y être poursuivie au civil par le propriétaire de la salle, le distributeur ou le studio. Mais pour que des accusations criminelles soient portées contre cette personne, la police doit prouver qu’elle avait l’intention de distribuer le film.

«Pour prouver l’intention, ça demande plus de preuves. Il ne s’agit pas de voir quelqu’un filmer dans un cinéma, il faut accumuler des preuves afin d’avoir un mandat de perquisition, par exemple, pour aller fouiller dans son ordinateur. Ce n’est pas facile», explique Helaine Lavergne, porte-parole de la Gendarmerie royale du Canada (GRC).

Devant ce quasi-vide juridique, des propriétaires de salle se font justice eux-mêmes. Lors de premières à Montréal, qualifiée dans l’industrie de «capitale canadienne du piratage«, certains cinémas utilisent des détecteurs de métal à l’entrée afin de décourager les pirates potentiels. La direction d’une chaîne de «méga-cinéma» est même allée jusqu’à interdire l’entrée à de présumés pirates.

Et si Hollywood perd de gros sous dans cette histoire, des adeptes du piratage n’en font pas pour autant leurs choux gras.

«Il y a tellement de gens qui le font de nos jours. Ce n’est pas vrai que les pirates font tous de l’argent avec ça (…), on fait ça pour le plaisir, pour regarder les films chez nous. On le fait aussi un peu pour emmerder les studios américains. Ils ne sont pas à plaindre, ils ne manquent pas d’argent», se vantaient récemment deux pirates déclarés au Journal de Montréal.

 

“US Senators to arrive in israel for indoctrination”

“We think that it is important that the members of the delegation feel the connection and understand Israel better. They are mostly non-Jewish and we want them to feel some obligation to the country,” he added.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

 

JE VEUX EN PARLER PLUS EN DÉTAIL DE CELLE LA http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2007/02/14/software-warnings.html
The entertainment and software industries have found an effective tool to deter some Canadians from downloading TV programs, movies, music and software. And it doesn’t involve going to court.

A number of industry groups, mostly based in the United States, are relying on e-mail to get the message out that peer-to-peer file sharing is illegal. Thousands of the e-mails are being sent to Canadian users each month under a program known as “notice and notice.”

Major Canadian internet service providers including Rogers, Bell and Telus have voluntarily agreed to distribute the notices to their customers on behalf of the industry associations. Telus forwards an average of 4,000 notices every month.

Stephen Harrington received a notice late last year after downloading a computer game from a bit torrent file-sharing site. (Bit torrent sites are used to share larger files, such as movies.)

Harrington wanted to play the game with his friends, liked it, and purchased it a few days later.

“Actually, I almost deleted it. But I read through and was quite surprised. But I was initially concerned,” Harrington said.

The entertainment industry has long expressed frustration with Canada, and its unwillingness to modernize copyright laws.

“Canada’s copyright laws regarding uploading and downloading are unclear, and that does present a number of challenges in curbing internet piracy,” said Neil MacBride, a vice-president with the Business Software Alliance, a Washington D.C.-based industry association that fights software piracy.

The Business Software Alliance sent out about 60,000 “notice and notice” e-mails to Canadian internet users in 2006. “They’ve been most effective,” MacBride said.

‘Stop this infringing activity’

“If you’re somebody who’s [downloading] and you receive word that you’re essentially using somebody else’s property without their permission, it seems to have the desired effect — namely, people take it seriously and alter their behaviour accordingly.”The notices contain terse legal language: “This unauthorized copying and distribution constitutes copyright infringement under applicable national laws and international treaties. We urge you to take immediate action to stop this infringing activity and inform us of the results of your actions,” reads one of the e-mails, sent by NBC Universal to Canadian internet users who were suspected of downloading a NBC television show.

Canadian users are tracked by IP address when content is downloaded from the internet.

“It doesn’t have any significant legal weight in the sense that it doesn’t mean they’re facing a lawsuit immediately or even the claims of infringement have been proven,” said leading internet law expert Michael Geist of the University of Ottawa.

But Geist said the “notice and notice” program has been successful in scaring people to stop downloading.

“I think they’ve proven surprisingly effective and in fact indications are that when subscribers receive these, a significant proportion will take down the offending content if, in fact, it is infringing,” he said.

Harrington says he has not downloaded material using peer-to-peer sites since he received his e-mail notice, forwarded by his ISP, Rogers Communications. But he is concerned about privacy: What information are the ISPs passing along to the industry groups?

“The ISPs are the only ones who know what individuals are doing what, so they’re trying to push that thin blue line and get to individual privacy that way,” he said.

No privacy issues, ISPs say

Both Rogers and Telus maintain they do not pass any personal information, such as user name or address, to any of the groups initiating the notice e-mails.

“We protect the rights of our customers and the privacy of our customers and the information about our customers quite vigorously and we do not pass the information about our customers on to third parties,” said Michael Lee, chief strategy officer for Rogers Communications.

The notice program in effect in Canada is essentially a tool to alert users that they are downloading what the industry groups see as copyrighted material. Even though tens of thousands of e-mails have been distributed over the last few years, no one has been prosecuted for copyright violation as a result of the notices.

“Notice and notice” differs from the “notice and take-down” program that’s in place in the United States. There, when an industry group notices an alleged copyright violation, an e-mail similar to the ones being sent to Canadian users is forwarded to the American ISP. In most cases, the ISPs are forced to immediately take down the content or face penalties.

“I think notice-in-notice is a great alternative that really respects privacy and free speech much more than notice and take-down,” said Ren Bucholz of the internet advocacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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The Effectiveness of Notice and Notice

The CBC runs a story today on the growing use of “notice and notice” by copyright holders.  Telus apparently sends out about a thousand notices each week, while the Business Software Alliance says it sent out 60,000 notifications to Canadians last year. These numbers are consistent with my own experience as I now regularly receive emails from Canadians asking about the implications of such notifications. The notice and notice system involves a notification from a copyright holder – often involving movies, software or music – claiming that a subscriber has made available or downloaded content without authorization on file sharing systems.  The Internet Service Provider forwards the notification to the subscriber but takes no other action – it does not pass along the subscriber’s personal information, remove the content from its system, or cancel the subscriber’s service.  It falls to the subscriber to act and as the CBC story notes, many remove the infringing content (if indeed it is infringing) voluntarily. 

Some people object to U.S.-based notifications that carry no legal weight in Canada being sent to Canadians with the cooperation of Canadian ISPs.  I am supportive of the system since I think it balances various interests in fair manner.  First, it stands in marked contrast to the U.S. notice and takedown approach, which creates incentives for ISPs to remove content without warning or evidence of actual infringement.  The recent avalanche of Viacom notices – which targeted dozens of non-infringing videos – provides a good case study for why the notice and takedown system can have a chilling effect on online speech.  Second, the approach protects user privacy, consistent with national privacy law and the CRIA file sharing case from 2004.  Third, it reflects a consistency between industry practice and proposed legislation.  While Bill C-60 was criticized for some its provisions, many applauded the decision to codify a notice-and-notice system into law (I assessed the ISP provisions here).  The IIPA may be demanding that Canada follow the U.S. approach, but the effectiveness of the Canadian notice and notice system demonstrates that a balancing privacy, free speech, and copyright can lead to solutions that serve everyone’s best interests.

 

http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20070216/CPMONDE/70216028/1014/CPMONDE Un juge italien a décidé vendredi de renvoyer devant le tribunal de Milan (nord) 26 agents de la CIA poursuivis pour l’enlèvement en Italie d’un ex-imam égyptien en 2003, l’un des cas de transfert secret de détenus dénoncé par le Parlement européen.

La décision du juge des audiences préliminaires de Milan, Caterina Interlandi, concerne aussi le général Nicolo Pollari, ancien chef des services de renseignement militaire italiens (SISMI), limogé en novembre pour son implication dans cette affaire.

Il figure sur la liste des accusés aux côtés, entre autres, des anciens responsables de la CIA en Italie, les Américains Jeff Castelli et Robert Seldon Lady, ou de l’ancien numéro 2 du SISMI, Marco Mancini.

Le procès, sans précédent en Europe en ce qui concerne le nombre d’agents américains renvoyés devant la justice, débutera le 8 juin, a ajouté Mme Interlandi, et il se déroulera par contumace en ce qui concerne les citoyens américains.

Selon la presse italienne, la majorité des 26 agents a agi sous de faux noms et se trouve actuellement aux États-Unis.

Il y a 15 jours, la justice allemande a délivré 13 mandats d’arrêt contre des agents présumés de la CIA soupçonnés d’avoir enlevé en 2003 en Macédoine l’Allemand d’origine libanaise Khaled el-Masri.

L’enlèvement d’Abou Omar est l’un des cas dénoncés par le rapporteur du Conseil de l’Europe Dick Marty dans son étude sur les vols secrets de la CIA.

Soupçonné de terrorisme, l’ex-imam égyptien Abou Omar a été enlevé le 17 février 2003 à Milan par un commando de la CIA aidé par des agents italiens, selon le parquet de Milan.
Conduit à la base américaine d’Aviano, dans le nord-est de l’Italie, il a été transféré en Égypte après le rapt, où il a été incarcéré et affirme avoir subi des tortures.

Relâché dimanche par les autorités égyptiennes, il a annoncé son intention de porter plainte contre Silvio Berlusconi pour obtenir dix millions d’euros de dommages-intérêts «pour son implication dans l’enlèvement en tant que chef du gouvernement (à l’époque des faits) et pour avoir permis à la CIA de le capturer».

Un mandat d’arrêt européen a été émis contre les 26 Américains mais la demande d’extradition adressée aux États-Unis est toujours sur le bureau du ministre italien de la Justice, Clemente Mastella, seul autorisé à la transmettre.
Check ca, c’est véridique. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8996055986353195886&q=Les+OGM+sont-ils+dangereux+pour+la+sant%C3%A9 OGM : un reportage fait fureur sur Internet
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Stéphanie Bérubé
13 février 2007 – 08h54
 

Depuis quatre jours, plus d’un million d’internautes ont regardé le documentaire français «Les OGM sont-ils dangereux pour la santé? L’étude qui accuse».

Propulsé par une fausse rumeur de censure, ce reportage de 2005 se passe de courriel en courriel. Le sujet de tant d’intérêt? Deux études démontreraient que des rats nourris avec des OGM subiraient eux-mêmes des mutations génétiques.

«C’est un documentaire très choquant parce qu’on voit que certains secrets commerciaux sont très bien protégés», indique Jocelyn Desjardins, de Greenpeace Québec, qui est évidemment ravi de voir la popularité inespérée de ce reportage. D’une moyenne de 300 connections par jour, en novembre, le lien de Google qui présente la vidéo est maintenant visité par 10 fois plus de monde, tous les jours. Hier après-midi, ils étaient plus de 2,3 millions à avoir pris le temps de regarder le reportage.

Les messages qui accompagnent la vidéo, lorsqu’elle est envoyée par courrier électronique, parlent d’un cas de censure. Or il n’en n’est rien. «C’est un beau cas de téléphone arabe», admet Jocelyn Desjardins. Même le patron de la défunte émission française 90 minutes a été surpris de l’ampleur du mouvement. Il a confirmé qu’il n’y avait pas eu censure.

Si le reportage fait tant jaser, deux ans après sa diffusion initiale, c’est que peu de films abordent le sujet des organismes génétiquement modifiés, croit le représentant québécois de Greenpeace. Et celui de l’émission 90 minutes adopte un ton très dramatique, avec musique d’ambiance et sous-entendus très efficaces.
On y présente deux études sur des rats nourris aux OGM, dont une provenant du fabricant de grains transgéniques Monsanto. Bien qu’on ait trouvé des lésions sur certains rats nourris au maïs Monsanto, la multinationale a défendu son innocuité. Avec succès : la France a autorisé son utilisation en 2005. Au Canada, ce maïs transgénique est approuvé pour la consommation humaine depuis 2003.