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I’m glad some folks at least are picking up on the fact that Bhutto, in one of her last interviews, mentioned the death of Osama Bin Laden. In particular, I’m glad this guy’s doing it.
From JAZZ from HELL:
And right on cue, shortly after former Pakistani premier Bhutto’s own slaying, two key al-Qaeda news items [...]

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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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What does the death of Benazir Bhutto have to do with high weirdness?
If you don’t know much about the 23 enigma, I suggest referring to the work of Robert Anton Wilson.
Bypass the terrible movie released last year about it. If you happen across the German film, 23, which is based upon the true [...]

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Go here for part 1 and here for part 2 for the background.
FYI–S 1959 has been quietly making its way through Congress with little mass-stream coverage for awhile now, so this is the time when it’s important to contact the folks that ostensibly represent us to express your discontent about this bill. That is, [...]

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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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So lots of people have been talking about this Jay-Z video, Blue Magic. Mainly, they are pointing out the fact that he’s flashing Euros. Being hip-hop’s poster-boy of the most successful hustler, showing Euro’s probably signifies that Jay’s committed himself to surviving. Mayhaps he’s sending a message to all the rest of [...]

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We have been living in a 1984-Brave New world for quite some time already. The Deputy Director of National (that is, corporate power) Security, Donald Kerr simply confirmed this all the more baldly recently with his little hypnotic suggestion about changing the definition of “privacy:“

Definition Changing for People’s Privacy
By PAMELA HESS
WASHINGTON (AP) [...]

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It’s a wonder what the reaction to this girl’s four-armed, four-legged birth would have been stateside.
From Reuters:
BANGALORE, India (Reuters) – Doctors in India have successfully operated on a 2-year-old girl born with four arms, four legs and extra internal organs, doctors said on Wednesday.
A team of around 30 medics removed what amounted to Lakshmi Tatma’s [...]

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Well, Google, the company with the famous tagline “Don’t be Evil” is beginning to show it’s true colors more and more.   Like, say, disappearing cryptogon articles from its search results.
Check out the full story at cryptogon.
Also, see commentary at Pop Occulture.

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Maverick Muslim author Michael Muhammed Knight, who I interviewed awhile back about his book The Five Percenters, is being sued by another Muslim writer, Asma Gull Hasan, because she thinks Knight encouraged a punk band to write a song about her being slutty or something. She also thinks he defamed her by portraying [...]

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