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Perhaps the whole distraction-story about steroid use in professional sports is even less about the drugs than I supposed. Perhaps, it’s all about surveillance–of the doped athletes and the duped fans alike.
Microchips anyone?
The entire spectacle surrounding Barry Bonds and, more recently, Roger Clemens in particular and steroid/human-growth hormone use in general among professional athletes [...]

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Well, I’m about a month late in catching this news, but better late than never?
From Wired:
Hushmail, a longtime provider of encrypted web-based email, markets itself by saying that “not even a Hushmail employee with access to our servers can read your encrypted e-mail, since each message is uniquely encoded before it leaves your computer.”
But it [...]

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I’m almost whole disconnected from the realities spun by TV, though the realities weaved by the spider’s web of internet often catch me in their snares, so pleasing they are to the monkey’s of comfortable habit that lie within me. Nevertheless, I have found myself flipping through the channels recently now that I’ve moved [...]

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Naomi Klein’s set to release a new book, The Shock Doctrine, tying what we here would call psychological warfare or psy-ops to corporate and governmental interests in our current Spectacular Times. I’m glad to see this book coming out because I’ve been telling people that events like 9/11 are exploited to induce trance and [...]

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The society whose modernization has reached the stage of the integrated spectacle is characterized by the combined effect of five principal features: incessant technological renewal; integration of state and economy; generalized secrecy; unanswerable lies; an eternal present.
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This is Called The Show
Just in time for the commemoration of 9/11, the “Day Everything Changed,” Osama Bin Laden has dropped his new hit video, entitled “I’m still the Bogeyman! Fear me!” The video includes the added bonus single, “If You Don’t attack Iran, then I’ve won! Muhwahahahahahahahhahaha!” This is according [...]

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Standing on the subway at two a.m., I see two movie posters side by side and I begin to sense the unsettling nature of the current zeitgeist. Call them Signs and Signifiers of the Spectacular Times.
I first saw the poster for this movie:

And to it’s right, I saw the poster for this one:

The tag [...]

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Knowing the script of Spectacular Reality many in the United States are living through now, the little boys of the 80’s may have learned what to expect and even what parts to play from watching the cartoon programming on TV. Specifically, I’m referring to the 80’s cartoon version of G.I. Joe and its [...]

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I’ve been taking an unofficial vacation from posting, but figured I’d break some of the site silence to continue my 10 Ways Experiment. To briefly refresh anyone’s memory out there or to initiate them into this little exercise, I’ll summarize it. Basically, I take things in my every day environment–events, overheard snippets of [...]

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In the near future, true believers in Christ all over the world will mysteriously disappear from the earth. Jesus will descend from heaven and take his brides (Born-again Christians) into His kingdom…Anyone in whom the Lord Jesus Christ does not dwell will be left on this earth after the Rapture…The shocking effect about the [...]

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