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“I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.” – Number Six, “The Prisoner” Via Oddity Central: People usually get tattoos to show off their personality, but for the employees of Rapid Realty getting inked was simply a quick and sure way to get a 15% permanent bonus. Company owner Anthony Lolli has been more than happy to pay for tattooing fees, but doesn’t take credit for the idea. Surprisingly enough, it...
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If it’s in the name of “security,” telecommunications corporations can now monitor users’ personal messages with special legal immunity granted from existing wiretapping laws, CNET News reports: Obama administration officials have secretly authorized the interception of communications on networks operated by AT&T and other service providers, a practice that might otherwise be illegal under federal wiretapping laws. The secret legal authorization from the Justice Department originally applied to a cybersecurity pilot project in which the military monitored defense contractors’ Internet...
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Former VP Al Gore, attending the Milken Institute 2013 Global Conference in Los Angeles, tells Bloomberg Businessweek that Congress has been hacked (but he’s using a metaphor). He also addresses his favorite topic, climate change: The post Al Gore: Congress Has Been Hacked appeared first on disinformation. …read more
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Here we go again: another mainstream media article condemning all conspiracy theories due to some easy to mock dubious ones. This time by Scientific American: Did NASA fake the moon landing? Is the government hiding Martians in Area 51? Is global warming a hoax? And what about the Boston Marathon bombing…an “inside job” perhaps? In the book “The Empire of Conspiracy,” Timothy Melley explains that conspiracy theories have traditionally been regarded by many social scientists as “the implausible visions of a lunatic...
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Looks like the Guantanamo hunger strikers have caught the attention of US President Obama. From USA Today: President Obama said Tuesday that his administration would re-engage Congress on closing the U.S. military-run detention center at Guantanamo Bay, calling the facility a “recruitment tool for extremists” and suggesting it is undermining U.S. security. “It needs to be closed,” Obama said at a White House news conference marking the first 100 days of his second term. “I’m going to go back at...
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Whatever gravity that having five former congressmen and one senator might have brought to this year’s UFO disclosure hearing at the Washington Press Club may be negated by the revelation that each of them received a $20,000 honorarium for their presence. I’m available if anyone wants my opinion on UFO disclosure. Bribe – I mean, “honorarium” – negotiable. Via The Guardian: The politicians who made up the committee were given just five minutes each to cross-examine witnesses, but defended their...
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Messy Nessy Chic on a surreal symbol of the history of colonialism — the human zoo: In the furthest corner of the Vincennes woods of Paris lies the remains of what was once a public exhibition to promote French colonialism over 100 years ago and what we can only refer to today as the equivalent of a human zoo. In 1907, six different villages were built in the Jardin d’Agronomie Tropicale, representing all corners of the French colonial empire at...
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Enjoy the first portion of Fist of Jesus, an in-the-works feature film from directors David Muñoz and Adrián Cardona which interprets the Bible (correctly?) as an epic horror/action gorefest in which corpses rise from death: The post Christ Battles The Living Dead In Fist Of Jesus appeared first on disinformation. …read more
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Imagine if this Swedish invention were to become a part of stop-and-frisk. US News and World Report writes: Police might soon be able to detect more than just alcohol on their breathing test devices. A new Swedish-designed device can detect 12 different controlled substances, including methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin, morphine and marijuana. In a study published in the Journal of Breath Research Thursday, Olof Beck, of Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet, detected drugs on the breath of 47 patients at a drug addiction...
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It has been announced that nine sheep born this past October at Uruguay’s Institute of Animal Reproduction have been developing normally and living contentedly. The sheep were genetically engineered to contain a gene from a jellyfish which spurs the production of green fluorescent protein, a modification which will no doubt soon become common among designer house pets: The post Uruguayan Scientists Create Healthy Glow-In-The-Dark Sheep appeared first on disinformation. …read more
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