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Quelle horreur: CIA dosed, terrorized French town with LSD

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Beware the baguette. Photo: Jeremy Keith/Flickr CC

Imagine what hundreds of Frenchmen went through in 1951, when they were reported to have eaten bread contaminated with ergot.

Several died in the incident, which unfolded over several days.

Now, imagine how their families are feeling today, now that a reporter has reveals that the CIA was behind the whole thing. Rather than being sickened by bread contaminated with the hallucinogenic fungus, it appears the CIA somehow introduced LSD into one town’s food supply:

“H P Albarelli Jr., an investigative journalist, claims the outbreak resulted from a covert experiment directed by the CIA and the US Army’s top-secret Special Operations Division (SOD) at Fort Detrick, Maryland.

The scientists who produced both alternative explanations, he writes, worked for the Swiss-based Sandoz Pharmaceutical Company, which was then secretly supplying both the Army and CIA with LSD.”

via French bread spiked with LSD in CIA experiment – Telegraph.

More: Read conspiracies historian Alan Watt’s remarks about government LSD mind control experiments (subtitled, “Why your parents are really screwed up”), here.

Nanny State's next stop: your bum

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Whatever happened to, "I am honored to accept your waste?" Photo: Ingorrr/Flickr CC

And you thought recycling was a bitch: How long before they’ve got us sorting our poop and pee, Stateside?

Toilets that catch urine and feces, separately, are catching on with do-gooders throughout Europe, according to a recent study. Told that their waste could be sorted, and converted into fertilizer (yes for food, and yes, for human consumption), they were only too happy to oblige.

Men also say they are willing squat over the bowls to pee, in order to hit their marks in the so-called “NoMix” toilets — something that’s difficult to do, standing up.

More of the disgusting story:

“NoMix-toilets have drawbacks, most importantly phosphate precipitation (20) causing blockages, or the necessity to sit to urinate (practical issues reviewed in (21)). Nevertheless, NoMix-toilets are increasingly installed.”

via High Acceptance of Urine Source Separation in Seven European Countries: A Review – Environmental Science & Technology (ACS Publications).

Cannabis, computers, conspiracies: latest MSM recipe for disaster

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The takeaway, from this week's Pentagon shooting: Pot will make you crazy. Photo: nimbin mardi grass 2009/Flickr CC

The Washington Post today describes John Patrick Bedell as “a troubled 36-year-old Californian who loved marijuana, computers, and conspiracy theories.”

If those interests form some kind of explosive mix, as the WaPo story indicates, then we’re in a hell of a lot of trouble.

Suspicions that 9/11 was an inside job are widespread, as are pot use and technophilia — the latter two, at least, are directly supported by the government.

Bedell pulled a gun at an entrance to the Pentagon this week not because of his interests, or his character, but — as Bedell’s parents rightly put it — his mental illness.

I’d be interested, then, to know which psychiatric and psychological treatments Bedell did get, if any. That will go further to answering the “why” of this story, than a list of hobbies.

Here’s a bit of the sensational stuff, though, from WaPo:

Bedell left an electronic trail thick with written, video, and audio manifestos. In an audio address posted on the Internet, he suggested that after the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy the United States had been infiltrated by a cabal of gangsters he called the “coup regime.’’ Bedell believed that the group has continued manipulating the country “up to the present day’’ and was probably responsible for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the Iraq war.

via Gunman troubled, friends say – The Boston Globe.

Pentagon shooter aimed to create synthetic life

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Photo: Zoe/Flickr CC

Mad scientist proposed creating self-assembling nanobots and “smart dust” with DNA.

This week’s anti-government, lone gunman, John Patrick Bedell, is another perfect poster boy for the government’s crackdown on the pro-pot and 9/11 truth movements.

Bedell, who was killed at a subway entrance to the Pentagon, was bent on according to the LA Times,

“revealing the truth behind the 9/11 “demolitions.”

Bedell also bore a grudge against the authorities, who busted him with weed at his California home some time ago.

But the mad scientist’s greatest passion may have been bringing about the Singularity — that future point in human evolution, predicted by Ray Kurzweil and others, when genetics, nanotechnology and robotics become a single science, reality and virtual reality become indistinguishable, and people become immortal.

Bedell, in 2006, proposed blending DNA with standard, integrated circuits, to create self-propagating “smart dust,” tiny, self-propagating — indeed, living — sensors and robots that could provide governments will blanket surveillance capabilities.

And in this way, Bedell shares something with another gun-wielding nerd in the news: UAH shooter, Amy Bishop, designer of a cyborg mechanism, the Neuristor.

Here’s Bedell’s proposal for the DNA-integrated circuit hybrids:

via Pentagon shooter apparently doubted 9/11 facts in Web posting – latimes.com.

Click here for a primer on synthetic biology.

Interested in tech from the Hub? Check out this week’s User Friendly

Brace yourselves for the truth, as he sees it

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Alan Watt is still coming to us live via the Republic Broadcasting Network, weeknights at 8 p.m. EST. He offers a penetrating look into the news of the day, making his voice one of the most intelligent, and spellbinding, in internet talk radio.

From Watt’s bio:

“Alan Watt is a long-term researcher into the causative forces behind major changes in historical development.”

Warning: If you linger too long on RBN, you might find some of the rants from the network’s other hosts hard to stomach.

via Programs & Hosts | Republic Broadcasting Network.

Heretic on 2012: Fear people, not God (news video feature)

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The young Boston investigative journo Dan Rowinski recently produced this news feature about 2012 (below), as part of his graduate studies at BU.

Dan interviews me (I’m cited as an “apocalyptic expert”), along with Mayan and millennial experts from BU, and end-timers on the street.

I enjoyed watching the piece. The point I make in it is that the risk of chaos in 2012 is very real: not from above, mind you, but from crazy people getting amp’d up with anticipation.

Apocalyptic – 2012 News Feature from Dan Rowinski on Vimeo.

Kill your iPhone, before it kills you

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Image: Marshall Astor/Flickr CC

A stunning piece from GQ strongly suggests that the Wi-Fi and mobile phone businesses are screwing with our health by burying bad experimental results.

There’s a precedent for this: The author of the GQ piece, Christopher Ketchum, notes that the tobacco, asbestos, and herbicide industries all hid the dangers of their products for years.

Now, it’s the mobile phone industry’s turn, and they’re using the standards body, the IEEE, to do their dirty work, Ketchum writes:

“The committees setting the EM safety levels at the IEEE historically have been dominated by representatives from the military, companies like Raytheon and GE, the telecom companies, and now the cell-phone industry. It is basically a Trojan horse for the private sector to dictate public policy.” The IEEE's “safe limits” for microwave exposure are considerably higher than what they should be, says Allan Frey, who was a member of the organization in the '70s. “When it comes to this matter, the IEEE is a charade,” Frey told me.

via Warning, Your Cell Phone May Be Hazerdous To Your Health: Gear + Gadgets: GQ.

Some additional reading.

Coke's face-match trickery makes suckers of Facebookers

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I sure hate what Bob Barr put us through, back when he was leading the effort to impeach Bill Clinton.

But the man makes perfect sense when he’s talking about the privacy threats posed by intrusive, government spy technologies.

Here, Barr reveals the problem with the ungodly mashup of facial recognition software and social media, in Coca Cola “Facial Profiler” campaign:

Coca Cola is a multi-national corporation which means it operates in conjunction with and under the watchful eye of our and other national governments around the globe. Posting a picture on Coke’s website or Facebook may on the surface appear to be a harmless act; but giving a multinational corporation access to a digitized photo of one’s self contributes to the building of a globally accessible database that can be used for facial-recognition cameras and systems. The privacy implications associated with having potentially hundreds of millions of digital pictures from people throughout the world in a database or databases is astounding.

via Facial profiling and Coke Zero game | The Barr Code.

The CIA-backed technology that searches your face for signs of “bad intents” already exists, of course.

Poppa Baard. Photo: Chris Taggart

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This bit reminds me, by the way, of my own observation last October that Bob Barr looks like a Baard.

Buzzkill for the global warming gang: Global atmospheric CO2, temps, not changing

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Don't worry. Be happy. Photo: Ville Miettinen/Flickr CC

Good news for 2010! We’re not all gonna die, just yet:

CO2 levels in the atmosphere, it turns out, have not changed since 1850, according to a recent report:

This suggests that terrestrial ecosystems and the oceans have a much greater capacity to absorb CO2 than had been previously expected.

via Controversial new climate change data: Is Earth’s capacity to absorb CO2 much greater than expected.

All this, on top of the 2008 finding that global warming, well, ain’t happening.

This should ease Al Gore’s guilt, the next time he boards a private jet.

Stay tuned for the next decade’s bogeyman, as additional findings emerge in 2010 that further contradict the global warming panic of 2006-9.

Ventura's numbers confirm that conspiracies are a "guy" thing

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Photo: Stefan Kloo/Flickr CC

Photo: Stefan Kloo/Flickr CC

No wonder so many women I know, roll their eyes whenever I mention my blog, or what I’m reporting on.

One friend, a librarian at the Milton Public Library, said, “Yeah Mark, it’s a guy thing.”

Now, some statistical confirmation. Men flocked this week to Jesse Ventura’s new show, Conspiracy Theory, the numbers show:

CONSPIRACY THEORY Ratings Highlights:

* CONSPIRACY THEORY WITH JESSE VENTURA premiered with 1,635,000 viewers, truTV’s biggest audience ever for a new series launch.

* The premiere episode also scored truTV’s biggest deliveries of men 18-34 (206,000); men 18-49 (494,000); men 25-54 (532,000); and adults 25-54 (812,000) for a 2009 series launch.

* Additional deliveries for the premiere include 341,000 adults 18-34 and 767,000 adults 18-49.

via Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura Delivers 1.6 Million Viewers, truTV’s Biggest Audience Ever for a New Series Launch – TV Ratings, Nielsen Ratings, Television Show Ratings | TVbytheNumbers.com.