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Anonymous hacks police website, releases personal information
Hackers affiliated with the group Anonymous obtained personal information for more than 150 police officers from an old website of the West Virginia Chiefs of Police Association and posted the data online.
The FBI is investigating, said William Roper, the association's president and the police chief of Ranson, W.Va., said.
"It's a shame that folks have to do this," Roper said Wednesday.
He said the hackers obtained the home addresses, home phone numbers and cellphone numbers of current and retired police chiefs from a website that has not been used in two years. The association has a new website but some information was still stored on the old one.
"I don't think they gained anything with this," said Roper, who was among the officers whose information was posted by the hackers. "They just obtained information that's already easy to get."
"My number's in the book. My cellphone is a department cellphone so it's readily easy to get" he said.
A group called CabinCr3W posted the information and included a link to it in a Twitter post on Sunday.
In an online message by CabinCr3w addressed to "citizens of West Virginia," the hacking group says it has been monitoring cases of police brutality.
"We are here to remind you that we the taxpayers pay your exorbitant salaries, and those salaries of your officers," the message says. "Your job is to protect and serve, not brutalize the very people that pay your wages. Muzzle your dogs of war, or we will expose more of your sensative (sic) information."
The state Office of Technology notified the association on Monday that the website had been compromised after it was alerted by the Multi-State Information & Analysis Center, which detected suspicious activity, said Kyle Schafer, the state's chief technology officer.
"Our folks took that call and went out and took a look, saw the information and knew that wasn't right," he said.
Roper said he notified the association's members and other law enforcement agencies. He has not received any reports of officers receiving harassing or crank phone calls since the information was posted.
Roper believes the hackers have too much time on their hands. If they are arrested, "we'll give them things to do to occupy themselves, incarceration if possible," he said.
The Charleston Gazette (http://bit.ly/zLZxrB) first reported the hacking.
Clarksburg, W.Va., Police Chief Marshall Goff and Charleston, W.Va., Police Chief Brent Webster were among those whose information was posted online. Both said Wednesday that they have been contacted by the FBI about the incident.
"Like any of the public out there, we are at times victims also," Goff said.
Goff said he does not believe the hacker group accomplished anything because his information is already publicly accessible.
"My number is published in the book because I feel that as an official figure I need to be accessible to the public," he said.
Webster said he was not overly concerned because he did not provide much information on the website.
"But I don't like it," he said.
CabinCr3w's Twitter page is laced with references to the hacking collective Anonymous.
Last week, Anonymous hit the web with a slew of hacks, including releasing a recording of a conference call between the FBI and Scotland Yard in which law enforcers discussed how to stop the hacking group.
Anonymous also claimed credit for defacing the Boston Police Department's website. And in Salt Lake City, officials said the personal information of confidential informants and tipsters had been compromised.
Roper said his association's old website will be taken down after the investigation is completed. The group's board of directors will discuss whether the current website needs additional security measures.
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32 Signs That The Entire World Is Being Transformed Into A Futuristic Big Brother Prison Grid - #NWO - #Realness - #WakeUp
Do you want your children and grandchildren to live in a futuristic "big brother" control grid where everything they do is watched, recorded, tracked and tightly controlled? Well, that is exactly where things are headed. We witnessed some really bad totalitarian regimes during the 20th century, but what is coming is going to be far more restrictive than any of the despots of the past ever dreamed was possible. Today, nearly every government on earth is tightening their grip on their citizens. Paranoia has become standard operating procedure all over the planet and nobody is to be trusted. Global politicians will give speeches about liberty and freedom even as they undermine them at every turn. There are very, very few nations on the planet where liberty and freedom are increasing. Instead, almost everywhere you turn the "control grid" is getting tighter. Governments don't want us gathering together and interacting with one another. Instead, they want us to work our tails off to support the system, they want us enslaved financially and constantly drowning in debt, and they want us addicted to television and other forms of entertainment. They want us as numb and docile as possible. Meanwhile, all over the globe they continue to construct a futuristic "big brother" control grid that will ensure that they will always be able to control us.
Sadly, this is not the plot to some post-apocalyptic science fiction movie.
This is really happening.
When you read the list below, each of the 32 signs may not seem to be all that significant individually. However, when they are all taken together, they paint a truly frightening picture….
#1 The days of the free and open Internet are slowly coming to an end. Many nations around the world have implemented strict Internet censorship and many other nations are moving in that direction. With each passing year the level of freedom on the Internet diminishes.
Regulation of the Internet has even become a primary topic of discussion at G-8 meetings. According to The New York Times, French President Nicolas Sarkozy is leading the charge for a more "civilized Internet"….
Leaders of the Group of 8 industrialized countries are set to issue a provocative call for stronger Internet regulation, a cause championed by the host of the meeting, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, but fiercely opposed by some Internet companies and free-speech groups.
Why are free speech groups strongly opposing what Sarkozy is trying to do?
It is because western governments want to kill liberty and freedom on the Internet just like China is doing. The Internet has been a great tool for waking people up and distributing information, and the control freaks that want to run all of our lives do not like that one bit.
#2 Internet censorship in China, the largest nation on earth, is absolutely brutal. The Chinese government blocks any websites that talk about such topics as the Dalai Lama, the 1989 crackdown on Tiananmen Square protesters and Falun Gong.
Even web searches for the English word "freedom" are blocked.
#3 Starting next year, all new cellphones will be required to contain a chip that will allow the president to broadcast "emergency alerts" to the cellphones whenever the president wants. Cellphone users will not be allowed to opt out of the presidential messages.
The following is how a CBS news report describes the new system….
A new national alert system is set to begin in New York City that will alert the public to emergencies via cell phones.
It's called the Personal Localized Alert Network or PLAN. Presidential and local emergency messages as well as Amber Alerts would appear on cell phones equipped with special chips and software.
#4 The U.K. has more surveillance cameras per citizen than anywhere else in the world. In fact, according to one estimate, there are 4.8 million video cameras constantly watching every move citizens make.
#5 A "certified TSA official" was brought in to oversee student searches at the Santa Fe High School prom last weekend.
Will this kind of thing soon be happening at every high school in America?
#6 The U.S. Department of Agriculture is spending huge amounts of money to install surveillance cameras in the cafeterias of public schools so that government control freaks can closely monitor what our children are eating.
The following is how a recent article posted on Infowars.com describes this new program….
Billed as part of an effort to reduce obesity and improve eating habits, small cameras are programmed to take snapshots of lunch trays before and after each student eats. Each child is uniquely identifiable via a barcode attached to the tray. The amount of calories and nutrients that each child has consumed is then calculated via a database containing 7,500 different varieties of food.
#7 The EU is spending hundreds of millions of euros on propaganda campaigns in an attempt to convince the citizens of Europe that the EU is good for them.
#8 Today, FBI surveillance teams regularly employ warrantless GPS tracking to monitor the movements of peaceful activists - even if they are not suspected of ever committing a crime. The Obama administration is fighting in court to keep this practice legal.
#9 According to FBI Director Robert Mueller, "homegrown terrorists" represent as big a threat to American national security as al-Qaeda does.
#10 Federal VIPR teams are establishing a series of "internal checkpoints" all across the United States. The following is how a recent article by Paul Joseph Watson described these VIPR team activities….
The TSA has announced its intention to expand the VIPR program to include roadside inspections of commercial vehicles, setting up a network of internal checkpoints and rolling out security procedures already active in airports, bus terminals and subway stations to roads and highways across the United States.
By the way, who in the world decided that it would be a good idea to call them "VIPR teams"?
What is next? Are we going to find out that the TSA has hired Cobra Commander and Destro as consultants?
#11 Thousands of "dysfunctional" families in the U.K. are being subjected to intensive 24-hour surveillance to make sure that their children attend school, go to bed on time and eat proper meals.
#12 U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer says that Amtrak should have a "no ride list" similar to the "no fly list" used at U.S. airports.
Before you can get on an airplane today, your name is checked to make sure that it is not on any international watch lists.
So what do you have to do to get on an international watch list?
Nobody really knows.
What is next?
A "no breathe list"?
#13 U.K. authorities are now admitting that every phone call, text message, email and website visit made by private citizens will be stored for one year and will be available for monitoring by government agencies.
#14 The amount of cell phone surveillance that goes on is absolutely staggering. For example, one German politician named Malte Spitz recently went to court to force Deutsche Telekom to reveal how often his cell phone was being tracked. What he found out was absolutely amazing. It turns out that in just one 6 month period, Deutsche Telekom recorded the longitude and latitude coordinates of his cell phone 35,000 times.
#15 DARPA has now developed new video surveillance technology that many are warning will bring about the end of public anonymity. The following is how the ExtremeTech blog is describing this new technology….
To be in public is to be on camera, but most video footage is discarded, as only so much can be sorted and analyzed — until now. DARPA has created a technology that can index and analyze video in real-time, marking the end of anonymity in public places.
#16 In the U.K., it is now illegal to photograph the police for any reason whatsoever.
#17 Police in the U.K. have purchased software that will enable them to easily follow the "digital footprints" of virtually anyone. The following is how one recent news report in the U.K. described this new software….
The Metropolitan Police has bought Geotime, a security programme used by the U.S. military which tracks suspects' movements and communications and displays them on a three-dimensional graphic.
The software aggregates information gathered from social networking sites, GPS devices like the iPhone, mobile phones, financial transactions and IP network logs to build a detailed picture of an individual's movements.
#18 In Tacoma, Washington a seventh grade student was recently questioned by the Secret Service about a message that he posted on his Facebook page.
Be very careful about what you put up on Facebook or Twitter. The entire world can see it.
#19 According to the ACLU, state police in Michigan are using "extraction devices" to download data from the cellphones of motorists that they pull over. This is taking place even if those pulled over are not accused of doing anything wrong.
The following is how an article on CNET News describes the capabilities of these "extraction devices"….
The devices, sold by a company called Cellebrite, can download text messages, photos, video, and even GPS data from most brands of cell phones. The handheld machines have various interfaces to work with different models and can even bypass security passwords and access some information.
#20 Last year, one shocking poll found that 51 percent of Americans agree with this statement: "It is necessary to give up some civil liberties in order to make the country safe from terrorism."
#21 The MPAA and RIAA have submitted their master plan for enforcing copyright rights to the new Office of Intellectual Property Enforcement and it includes installing spyware on everyone's computers that would detect and delete any infringing materials.
#22 The U.K.'s new Internet law includes a "three strikes" rule that allows your entire family to be cut off from the Internet if anyone who lives in your house is accused of copyright infringement - without proof or evidence or trial.
#23 Would you like to have your face scanned and your ID recorded every time you attend a public event? Don't laugh. The San Francisco Entertainment Commission is actually proposing a new rule which "would require all venues with an occupancy of over 100 people to record the faces of all patrons and employees and scan their ID's for storage in a database which they must hand over to law enforcement on request."
#24 Today, the U.S. government and governments all over the industrialized world have become so obsessed with reducing carbon emissions that now they even tell us what kinds of light bulbs we are allowed to buy.
#25 The Obama administration is developing a universal "Internet ID" program that would watch, track, monitor and potentially control your activity on the Internet. These "trusted identities" are being touted as a way to increase safety and security on the Internet and as a way to eliminate the need for dozens of different usernames and passwords.
#26 As I have written about previously, the "Internet kill switch" is rapidly becoming one of the favorite new tools of tyrannical governments all over the globe….
Once upon a time, the Internet was a bastion of liberty and freedom, but now nation after nation is cracking down on it. In fact, legislation has been introduced once again in Congress that would give the president of the United States an "Internet kill switch" that he would be able to use in the event of war or emergency. Of course there would be a whole lot of wiggle room in determining what actually constitutes a true "emergency". The members of Congress that are pushing this "Internet kill switch" bill want the U.S. to become more like China in this regard.
#27 A shocking document released by Wikileaks proves that high level U.S. government officials have been pushing for North American integration. According to the document, some of the goals of this integration would be to turn North America into an economic zone similar to the EU, to have one common currency for the entire continent and to have one common "security perimeter" for the entire continent.
Let us hope that a plan like this never comes to pass.
#28 One of the most liberty-killing pieces of legislation in recent years was the Patriot Act. Unfortunately, the vast majority of Republicans and the vast majority of Democrats will never vote against the renewal of the Patriot Act because they don't want to look "soft" on terrorism.
About the only U.S. Senator to stand up against the Patriot Act is Rand Paul. He is doing all he can to fight a one man battle against the Patriot Act but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is doing his best to extend the Patriot Act without any debate taking place.
Top Democrats are attempting to claim that even debating the renewal of Patriot Act provisions would "endanger" national security.
Of course most Republicans are not going to stand in the way because they absolutely love the Patriot Act.
If you still believe that the Patriot Act is a good idea, you should watch this video, and you should read this recent article.
#29 If you display the wrong political message on your car, you may find law enforcement officials cracking down on you.
A 73-year-old Virginia resident was recently kicked out of a national park for displaying a sticker promoting "Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty" on his car.
The following is an excerpt from a recent Rutherford Institute report about this incident….
The Rutherford Institute has come to the defense of a 73-year-old Virginia resident who was allegedly ordered by a park ranger to remove his car from a national military park in South Carolina because of political messages attached to his vehicle. Jack Faw, whose ancestors fought in the historic battle memorialized at Kings Mountain National Military Park, contacted The Rutherford Institute after being told by a park ranger that the decal promoting a political organization associated with Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), which was displayed on the back window of Faw's car, was not allowed in the park.
#30 Brutal crowd control techniques are not just for major events anymore. Recently, riot police in Illinois used tear gas, LRAD sound weapons and crowd suppression tactics against a bunch of college students that were just blowing off some steam at a year-end block party at Western Illinois University.
#31 The U.S. government is gathering more information on all of us than ever before. According to a recent article in the Baltimore Sun, every six hours the volume of information that the NSA gathers is equivalent to the entire Library of Congress.
Nobody is anonymous anymore. The truth is that the U.S. government, governments across the globe and major international corporations have more information about you than you probably ever dared to imagine.
#32 If you think things are bad now, just wait until you see what global authorities have planned for the future.
Are you ready to live in a "Planned-opolis"? Are you ready to use a "calorie card" and to have what you eat determined by a "global food council"?
The following video was originally produced by the Forum for the Future, a major NGO funded by big corporations such as Time Warner and Royal Dutch Shell. In this video, the Forum for the Future presents their chilling version of the future….
If you don't want to live in a "Planned-opolis" where everything you do is constantly watched, tracked and controlled by a horde of bureaucrats then you better say something now.
The entire globe is moving in the direction of totalitarianism. Our world is literally becoming a prison grid. Of course those in power say that we need more regulation and more control "for the good of humanity", but that has never worked out too well in the past, now has it?
If you don't like the direction this world is headed then now is the time to stand up and let your voice be heard. If you wait until they are ripping the last shreds of liberty and freedom away from you it will be too late.
UK police to track suspects via social networks
Britain's Metropolitan Police Force has bought software designed to track suspects' activity, logging their movements and tracking who they're talking to by collating information from social networking sites, mobile phones, GPS and other sources.
GeoTime, developed by US company Oculus, tracks targets by collecting information about their social networking activity, mobile phone use and collating it together with data on financial transactions and IP address logs. Users can visualise the snooping data by using a timeline and animated display, which maps the suspect's relationships in the form of a 3D network.
The Met has confirmed it has purchased the software, which is already in use by the US military, but declined to rule out using it to investigate public order offences, the UK's Guardian newspaper reported today.
Alex Hanff, the campaigns manager of Privacy International, told The Guardian: "Once millions and millions of pieces of microdata are aggregated, you end up with this very high-resolution picture of somebody, and this is effectively what they are doing here."
Lawyers and human rights campaigners have expressed concern that the software could be used to monitor innocent parties such as protesters, in breach of data protection laws.
Hugh Tomlinson QC, a barrister specialising in privacy issues, says that public bodies such as the police must be able to justify the lawfulness of their data collection.
"Storing data because it's potentially interesting or potentially useful is not good enough. There has got to be some specific justification," Tomlinson said.
The Met is the only UK police force to so far declare its intention to use GeoTime, but the software is also being trialled by the Ministry of Defence.
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How the U.S. Government Forged a Surveillance Society - #NWO
On September 12, 2001, President George W. Bush invited members of Congress and the media for a meeting in the cabinet room of the White House. The mood was understandably anxious, somber: The World Trade Center lay in rubble, the Pentagon had a hole gouged into it and shock and awe had settled over the United States. One of the most extraordinary periods of American history – what would come to be known as the "Post 9-11 Era" – was beginning.
The president gravely laid out the situation and the steps his administration would take to secure the homeland, but during the course of the meeting he also made this significant declaration: "We will not allow this enemy to win the war by changing our way of life or restricting our freedoms."
Those were heroic words of principle and patriotism in a traumatic time, but history would show that government's reaction to the terrorist threat was the exact opposite than the protection of freedoms. Instead, government rushed in with a massive plan to create a surveillance society, intending to watch and document every action by the American people as a means of ultimate security.
First, Congress passed the Patriot Act, giving law enforcement powers to circumvent many Constitutional guarantees to personal privacy and home security. Then Congress created the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The department immediately became an army of more than 170,000 employees by combining twenty two existing federal agencies, including the
Border Patrol, Coast Guard, Secret Service, FEMA, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Customs Service, Animal and Plant Health Inspection, Federal Protective Service, FBI's Computer Incident Response Center and several more lesser agencies of the same type. In the middle of this rush for security, Congress created the Transportation Security Agency (TSA). Also born in this Post 9/11 era were state fusion centers with the intention of combining federal, state and local law enforcement agencies into instant response teams, intending to eliminate bureaucratic overlap and red tape, in case of another terrorist attack or Hurricane Katrina-type disasters.
Finally, Congress passed the REAL ID Act, promoted as an attempt to standardize the process and format for creation of all state drivers' licenses to achieve increased security. Proponents argued that, under REAL ID, we will know that anyone carrying a drivers' license is legal in this country and therefore not a threat.
What most Americans do not know is that the blue print for REAL ID did not originate in the United States, but in the backrooms of a United Nations organization called the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). That organization is tasked with the goal of creating a once-size fits all international identification system using massive data banks that contain individual biometric information on nearly everyone in the world. Biometrics is defined as measurement of the body. One might correctly think of fingerprinting, iris scans and facial recognition as biometrics.
In compliance to this goal, REAL ID mandates a certain picture quality for all drivers' licenses. Those photos are to comply with the ICAO's Document 9303 biometric format. Your photo taken by a local DMV is run through special software which measures and analyzes the unique identifiable characteristics of your face. The process results in a unique numeric code which identifies a person according to facial measurements. In other words, under REAL ID, using the adopted standard of the ICAO, your face is reduced to a number code, a number which is read by a computer and be tracked by surveillance cameras worldwide.
Why would the United States agree to implement such a system? What happened to the promise that we would not let the terrorists change our way of life? How did the United States move from a free society, bent on preserving our freedoms in a dangerous terrorist-driven world to one of total surveillance over the actions of every citizen? What was the unseen hand that led to such decisions?
The international focus on drivers' licenses through REAL ID came as a result of plans for international biometric passports. Passports, of course, are a control device of travelers both coming and going through US borders. Discussion regarding the use of E-Passports started soon after 9/11. It was not until the Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of 2002 that our federal government put in place the framework for the issuance of E-Passports. E-Passports utilize both biometric technology and RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology.
Focusing on passports, however, was about to create an international problem for the US government that would force it to accelerate and expand its surveillance plans, leading to a global surveillance system beyond what most in Congress intended.
Using the excuse that the US government wanted to learn as much about Al- Qaeda as possible, the US began to dictate to foreign governments that they also needed to implement E-Passports. Without them, said the US, their citizens would not be able to enter the US. In addition, the US wanted those nations to provide all information they had on Al-Qaeda members.
Meanwhile, the United Nations set up a committee named simply "Al-Qaeda." Again, the stated goal was for all nations to cooperate in an Al-Qaeda clearing house of information. Each government was to provide the names of the members of Al-Qaeda that the respective governments were aware of.
What became obvious to many in our government was, if we expected information about citizens of other countries our government was also going to have to "ante up" and provide information about our citizens to the other nations. This is when things started to get out of control. Global information sharing was seen as a necessity. All "chips" were on the table. For the system to work the personal and sensitive information, including the biometrics of all citizens in all countries, had to be made available to intelligence and law enforcement people around the world.
Other nations resented the United States telling them that they must supply information about their citizens if the US wasn't willing to do the same. The US was forced to comply with its own dictates. And so the drive was on for the creation of an international surveillance system. REAL ID, while not recommended by the 9/11 Commission, became the center piece for the drive to document each and every American and placed their biometric records in international data bases.
The Real ID Act of 2005 was signed into law in May, 2005. The rulemaking process took roughly 2 1/2 years to be completed. During that 2 1/2 years over six hundred groups and organizations came out against the law for a variety of reasons. These groups covered a broad political spectrum from the far right to the far left. Religious organizations representing all major religions spoke out against the Real ID Act.
Among the reasons for such overwhelming opposition is that Real ID is an unfunded federal mandate; the federal government intervening in the issuance of state driver's licenses; the unfettered power Real ID provides the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security; a variety of privacy concerns; First Amendment religious concerns of which many were by Christian evangelical ministries; the state driver's license would become a de facto national identification card; and the requirement that each driver's license applicant would provide biometric samples.
In order for a state to be in compliance with the law, each state has 18 "benchmarks" they must complete or satisfy the Department of Homeland Security that the state is working towards completing the individual benchmarks. Opposition has been strong as 25 states, either as a result of law or resolution, opposed the Real ID Act. Because of the opposition, the Real ID Act implementation date has been postponed twice. However, proponents are determined to force implementation anyway and DHS demands that states comply by May, 2011.
If enforced, Americans will find what the saying "under government's thumb" really means. Biometric documents will be required for nearly every action Americans take. A digital/electronic footprint will be the only way to access bank accounts; accessing transportation (at any level); purchase of goods and services; obtaining employment; and so forth. Every one of these actions will be stored in databanks and transferred to international databanks for storage.
Along with REAL ID, more legislation is pending in Congress to create even more control, all sold as just another way to keep us secure. One piece calls for a "National Worker's Identification Card" and Senator Lieberman wants a new biometric social security card. If these proposals are passed into law and Real ID or anything else similar is in place it will be "game over". Employers and retailers will have to have biometric readers and RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) scanners.
In addition, American law enforcement is being changed and with it, America's unique justice system is being changed too. Once law enforcements mission was to catch criminals after a crime was committed. And even those captured were protected as"innocent until proven guilty." That Constitutionally-protected rights made American justice unlike any other in the world. It has been one of the cornerstones of American freedom and security over freedoms and the less-certain future they offer.
We must remember that the stated goal for the total surveillance system has been that the world would be as one, carrying the same documents to assure everyone is equal, everyone is known, and everyone is legitimate. Under the system, say the proponents, security can be guaranteed.
So now the surveillance system is nearly fully in place. What are the results? Are we safer? The fact is, with all of the biometric data bases being established, RFID chips, Closed Circuit TVs, Automatic License Plate Readers, National Security Letters, State Fusion Centers, the Patriot Act, and the establishment of the behemoth Department of Homeland Security, we are not any safer than we were on the day before 9/11.
Why? First, while the government increases surveillance over every individual in he name of protection from terrorists, our borders remain wide open. Anyone wanting to do harm to the United States is able to simply walk into the country and be aided by an entire network providing shelter, money, weapons, and access to American programs for money, schools and jobs. They can illegally purchase counterfeit birth certificates and social security cards and obtain state drivers' licenses in any state. Only three states have the ability to authenticates birth certificates.
Programs like E-Verify, sold as a way to guarantee that only legal residents get jobs, actually aid those entering illegally. It makes the Social Security Number the most valuable commodity in the nation – a valuable prize. That makes it profitable for underground criminal networks to obtain and produce them. Terrorists networks have the means and the money to lead that effort. In addition, a study commissioned by DHS and performed by Westat reported that E-Verify is wrong more than it is right when dealing with a person in our country illegally is vetted out. In these situations E-Verify is wrong 54% of the time and right only 46% of the time.
And there is one more fact that renders the entire surveillance effort worthless in the fight against terrorism. Back to those E-Passports and the US demand for other nations to comply. The whole
Under REAL ID and the growing surveillance society, however, law enforcements mission is emerging to be one of "crime prevention" before it occurs. The only way such a policy could work is for government to be able to observe our every action, including monitoring phone calls, opening mail, monitor our financial transactions, monitor who we associate with and monitor our travel. The government has programs to achieve each and every one of these things. DHS and National Security Agency (NSA) have both engaged in domestic spying. The Defense Department had a program called "Total Information Awareness" (TIA) that was designed to combine and access all of the video cameras now in place in nearly every store, shopping mall and parking lot to monitor every move we make. Now on the back burner, TIA could be reactivated at any time. All that is missing is the final requirement that all Americans must carry in their pockets the document tying them into the system – the REAL ID drivers' license.
Once fully implemented, REAL ID means a "one-size fits all" policy, leading to the end of Constitutionally- protected First and Fourth Amendment rights. Proponents believe "safety" trumps "freedom" and any cost. With full implementation of REAL ID, government will finally have the laws, technologies and the ability governments throughout history have always sought to exercise total control over the people. Yet many Americans still refuse to be alarmed, seeking safety program depends on honest, reliable governments producing honest, reliable, secure documents on their own citizens. They don't.
Many Moslem countries in the Middle East consider the US to be their enemy.Pakistan's government, for one, while pretending to be our ally, is full of government workers who are either friends or members of Al- Qaeda. They have helped hide Al-Qaeda leaders since the inception of the war on terrorism. It is a known fact by US intelligence agents. Any effort made by the US to coordinate strategy with such governments fails because plans are immediately shared with the enemy by such government workers. The internal politics of these countries put the governments in an untenable position. If the leaders of these countries are perceived to be working with U.S. intelligence officials there is blowback against them for working with the "Infidels" of the United States. As a result, information from these nations, to this day, is at best questionable and unreliable.
To rely on such countries to provide honest documentation for citizens by way of passports or other identification is pure folly. It is easy for government employees to provide Al- Qaeda operatives all the "legitimate" documentation they need to travel freely inside the surveillance bubble that has been established to supposedly catch them.
Any honest observer or government leader dealing with the situation on a daily basis has to know the truth – that REAL ID and its fellow programs are not about protecting us in the war on terror. So what is the real purpose? What are we really doing?
The fact is Real ID is designed to enroll every citizen into a single global system of identification and financial control. Doubt that – then consider these words of Robert Mocny speaking for DHS when he said, "information sharing is appropriate around the world," and DHS plans to create a "Global Security Envelope of internationally shared biometric data that would permanently link individuals with biometric ID, personal information held by governments and corporations."
Meanwhile, Julian Ashborn speaking as the Chairman of the International Biometric Agency said, "What information do governments share? With whom is my data shared and why?" All of these questions need to be addressed by an agency with global powers"
These officials are telling openly telling us what they plan – global governance. Americans are just not listening. The truth is we are not safe. And such a system will never make us safe. But what we have done in the name of safety is to create an international surveillance system that destroys the unique American system of liberty and justice, "harmonizing" us into the same totalitarian system that controls so much of the rest of the world.
It can be stopped now- before it is fully implemented.
But once REAL ID is enforced in every state through compliant drivers' licenses, it will be too late. Every American who cherishes their Constitutionally- guaranteed rights have until May of this year to demand that their state governments stand strong and continue to oppose compliance with this international straight jacket. Our protests postponed it for several years. We must do it again.
Call now or understand that, once in place, there will be no way for this generation to pass freedom to the next. REAL ID is that great a threat.
© 2011 Tom DeWeese - All Rights Reserved


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Keep walking, talking, and thinking continued...
Walking also encourages socializing, Butler points out, which contributes to male longevity. "My group has breakfast together after our walks and we even have little symposia on topics that interest us."
Greenblatt affirms that the potential for male life extension has to do with the brain and not just the body. "Men who remain intellectually active, not just physically, tend to thrive," he says. "That means, are they reading, following the news, participating in social clubs? I see a lot of men who've had successful careers. The ones who don't have social relationships or interests they cultivate generally have a real tough time in retirement."
Love handles and love lives: Do they affect male longevity?
What about sex? "The more the merrier," chuckles Butler. "Actually, we don't study sexuality enough, so I can't answer scientifically that sex per se leads to a longer life. But we do know that married men live longer than non-married. That may not be related to sex, but to the fact that, in couples, there is someone looking out for you, particularly if you get sick."
"Men who are widowed have a considerably shorter life expectancy than men who are married — however, the opposite is true for women," observes Greenblatt. "When women lose their husbands, that improves their life expectancy. That says a lot about who is helping who."
There is more good news for aging men, according to Greenblatt. If you put on a few pounds as you get older — and we're talking about in your 70s or 80s here, not 50s or 60s — it might not be the end of the world. "Weight, as men age, appears to be less and less important," Greenblatt says. "In fact, a normal body weight in an older man is more predictive of dying than being overweight." This might be due to the fact that the male population with a normal body mass includes some people who used to be overweight but are now sick and losing weight — so the average life expectancy of the normal weight group might be dragged down by these ailing men. "But who knows — that's just conjecture," says Greenblatt. Carrying a few extra pounds "might simply be an advantage," as men age, he says.
So let's review — a couple drinks a day, strolling around the park, hanging out with friends, plenty of sex (OK, that last one is not scientific, but it doesn't seem to hurt), not sweating the love handles, enjoying life. A guy could get used to this life-extension program.


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The Costa del Silencio resort is perfectly situated to take advantage of the wide range of world class facilities of Playa de las Americas, Los Cristianos and the kite surfing and windsurfing hot spot of El Madano, and has a marvellous bus service running to each of these spots. If you take a hire car from Costa del Silencio, it is the perfect, quiet base from which to explore the finest points of Tenerife, and there are plenty of them!
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by James Slater: Finally, heavyweight legend, the immortal Rocky Marciano, will be honoured by a statue of his likeness this coming September. The statue will be erected in The Rocks hometown of Brockton, Massachusetts. The tribute will be a piece of work that depicts Marcianos right-hand KO over Jersey Joe Walcott; fittingly a fight that took place 60 years ago in September.
Older fans and historians maintain how Marciano, born Rocco Francis Marchegiano on Sept. 1st in 1923, was the toughest, most determined heavyweight fighter of all-time. Certainly Marciano's statistics were perfect. Retiring unbeaten at 49-0 - surely the most famous numbers in heavyweight boxing - "The Rock" won every pro fight he had..
A sickly baby (Rocky contracted pneumonia and almost died before he was two-years-old), Marciano relied on his freakish strength and unbelievable resiliency when he was fighting. Turning pro in March of 1947 (July 1948 for good, as a single pro win was followed by a further series of amateur bouts, one of which he lost on points, to Coley Wallace), the 24-year-old heavyweight worked his way towards a world title fight. Fighting at an extremely active pace, with an astonishing 11 fights coming in 1948 alone, Rocky ran over almost everyone he met in the ring. Fast becoming a fan favourite due to his action style and KO punching power, Marciano had two particularly memorable fights during this time.
Firstly, in December of 1949, in only his second fight in New York (most of his early fights took place in Providence, Rhode Island), Rocky met and almost killed Carmine Vingo. Then, in his very next fight, also in New York, Marciano had all he could handle against Roland La Starza - winning a ten-round split decision that many people felt he'd lost. These two would meet again.
Now 25-0(22), Rocky was getting nearer and nearer to the world title, then just having been declared vacant due to the retirement of the superb Joe Louis. A further 11 wins followed, before Rocky was matched with the former champion, who had been forced out of retirement by financial needs put on him by the quite disgusting actions of the IRS. Sad at having to take on the great "Brown Bomber," who was now way past his best, Marciano cried after KO'ing the 37-year-old Louis in the 8th round.
For Rocky there were a further four wins, before he finally got a title shot, fighting the crafty Jersey Joe Walcott for the championship on the day of his birthday in 1952. Rocky was put down in the very 1st round, but came back to stop a leading Walcott in fine style in the 13th round. Crunching Walcott with his famous "Suzy Q" right hand, Marciano was the champ at 43 seconds of the 13th round.
Only six successful defences followed, which is a factor that serves to keep some experts from listing Marciano in the top-five of greatest-ever heavyweight champions. Also a knock on Rocky, through no fault of his own, was the fact that he met a lot of veteran opponents in his reign as champ. Walcott, aged 39, was beaten for a second time, this time in one round, as was light-heavyweight standout Ezzard Charles, aged 33. Both Charles fights were epic encounters, with fight one being a close 15-rounder and the rematch being a fight that almost saw Rocky have his nose sliced off his face - courtesy of "The Cincinnati Cobra's" punches.
Before coming through these battles Rocky, by now aged 30, had also seen off the challenge of the man who had pushed him so hard back before he was champion, in La Starza. This time Marciano stopped his man in 11 rounds, giving La Starza a real going over in the process. Try and protect yourself from Marciano's blows to the head by keeping your guard up and "The Rock" would beat on your arms so badly you'd suffer broken blood vessels. La Starza found this out firsthand in September of 1954.
A 9th round TKO win over Britain's brave Don Cockell, who took a beating along with an assortment of fouls, followed, before Rocky's final fight. Stopping light-heavyweight champion Archie Moore, all 41-years of him, in the 9th round on September 21st, 1955, Marciano was to suffer his second career knockdown. Again put down early - in the 2nd round - the soon-to-be 32-year-old climbed back up and knocked the fight out of "The Ole Mongoose," sending the crafty old man down a number of times before the end.
And then it was over. With a perfect record of 49-0(43) and after having reigned as champion for two days shy of three years, Rocky quit. Citing back problems and family pressures as the reasons for his retirement, the incredibly popular fighter who had grown to become known as "The Brockton Blockbuster" made good with his decision. There would be no ill-fated comeback for this great fighter.
Sadly, Rocky didnt live long enough to enjoy his enduring fame and respect, or his hard-earned (and carefully looked after) money. Passing away in a plane crash the night before he would have turned 46. How he would have beamed at the sight of a statue honouring his greatness.
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Written by bitblitter
6 years ago
Category: Feature discussion
3 posts since Tue, 20 May 08
I have a few applications in PHP4 that I can't easily upgrade to PHP5 (classes, mostly) and the client in the old version of PHP uses an authentication method only available to MySQL 4.0 and earlier.
The method to allow it to connect to a MySQL 5 database is to change the password, using OLD_PASSWORD() to set it.
It may be helpful for those of us who still have projects with the old version of PHP or have to use older clients to add an option for it.
An example of implementation could be the current version of PhpMyAdmin, with a checkbox for activating this option.
Written by ansgar
6 years ago
5045 posts since Fri, 07 Apr 06
If the server option OLD_PASSWORD is activated, a call to PASSWORD('123') gives the same result than OLD_PASSWORD('123').
If OLD_PASSWORD is disabled, an older client won't be able to connect, even if the account has its password set with OLD_PASSWORD('xyz').
The conclusion to these two theses is that PASSWORD('123') is always the method of choice, either if the OLD_ option is set or not. The function OLD_PASSWORD('123') should never be of any real use when it comes to update the password field of user accounts.
Written by bitblitter
6 years ago
3 posts since Tue, 20 May 08
Hi, thanks for answering.
I used this workaround provided in the MySQL manual ( http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/old-client.html )
If you search for php "Client does not support authentication protocol" (on google) you can see this problem is quite common for php4 users, and the solution provided is the same.
Written by ansgar
6 years ago
5045 posts since Fri, 07 Apr 06
Ah I see, you're talking about this bit:
wrote: Reset the password to pre-4.1 style for each user that needs to use a pre-4.1 client program. This can be done using the SET PASSWORD statement and the OLD_PASSWORD() function
Yes, that seems an option to implement in HeidiSQL's user manager.
What about instead setting the global server variable "OLD_PASSWORDS=ON" ?
Written by servertude
6 years ago
39 posts since Wed, 27 Feb 08
bitblitter wrote: Hi, thanks for answering.
Servers are generally fixed installations with a slower upgrade cycle than clients, what is the reason that clients cannot be upgraded?
Written by servertude
6 years ago
39 posts since Wed, 27 Feb 08
servertude wrote: bitblitter wrote: Hi, thanks for answering.
bitblitter wrote: Hi, thanks for answering.
I see you have older applications, but not being able to authenticate with legacy code, seems like a fairly small issue when it can be remedied with a 5 minute server config change. More likely the application has other issues after the authentication which will require an upgrade of the client anyway.
Written by bitblitter
6 years ago
3 posts since Tue, 20 May 08
I didn't know about the old_password global variable, and I'll try it.
But if i set it to ON, does it affect newer clients?
Written by rosenfield
6 years ago
127 posts since Wed, 24 Jan 07
Newer clients will continue to work if you set old_passwords=true in my.{ini/cnf}.
Effectively, setting the above option causes the server to generate password hashes using the old rather than the newer scheme.
The MySQL wire protocol ensures that clients are backwards (but not forward) compatible. Newer clients first try to authenticate using the new hashing method; if that fails the server will inform the client to downgrade authentication. The client then tries again, using the old scheme.
The only problem you will encounter is latency; while connecting, a newer client binding to a server using old passwords will have an extra network roundtrip.
Security wise, even the new authentication scheme is outdated by modern security standards. If you want good security you should wrap the connection in SSL.
When using SSL, if your application is sensitive to response times (for example if it is a web application), you will probably want to keep a pool of open connections too, as the SSL handshake can take a short moment.
In PHP, connection pooling is called "persistent connections" and are accomplished using for example mysql_pconnect instead of mysql_connect.
SSL can be enabled using the right options to mysql_pconnect, but as far as I can tell, you can only validate one way, the server has a certificate and the client can validate that it's valid - not the other way around. Therefore I would, at the moment, suggest that if you require a secure connection, you do something else. For example carry the MySQL connections inside a SSL-VPN or similar tunnel. Just until MySQL server attains a better features set security-wise.
Of course, there's no need to waste CPU time encrypting and decrypting data if your application does not need security or is already protected by other means.
The details of password hashing in MySQL are covered here:
Written by rosenfield
6 years ago
127 posts since Wed, 24 Jan 07
There's a nice document showing how to tunnel MySQL connections inside SSL here:
Pretty simple, just run stunnel with a port to listen on, a server certificate, and a port to proxy the raw connection to.
It covers trusting the server via server certificates only. In order to also authenticate the client, you need to add "-v2" to the stunnel options on the server, which means "accept trusted certificates only". Then you need to add "-p client_cert.pem" to the stunnel command line on the client, to instruct stunnel to use a client certificate there. Et voila.
Creating a CA and a couple of certificates using OpenSSL is covered in the FAQ on stunnel.org, and in numerous other places via Google.
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Great Thanksgiving salads and vegetables
Bring color and fresh flavor to the table with your picks from these fall salads and vegetables
This quick recipe for piquant brussels will save precious time this Thanksgiving, without sacrificing on taste.
These brussels sprouts are just 34 calories per serving, making them a healthy addition to your Thanksgiving meal. You need only a splash of oil on the leaves because you cook them quickly, like a warm salad, and they stay crisp.
Recipe: Warm Brussels Sprout Leaves with Toasted Garlic and Lemon
Parmesan cheese and crunchy pine nuts will make a Brussels sprouts lover even out of those self-professed haters.
Tender, thinly shaved Brussels sprouts are sautéed with salty, crispy pancetta in this simple, crowd-pleasing side dish.
Sometimes the simplest of recipes are the most delicious. Plenty of garlic, some thyme, and really fresh green beans add up to more than the sum of their parts.
Recipe: Garlic and Thyme Green Beans
A little bit of cayenne kick makes these green beans stand out from the pack of their bland, boiled cousins.
Recipe: Southwestern Roasted Green Beans
A little white wine, fresh lime juice, and manchego cheese jazz up ho-hum Thanksgiving Day green beans.
Recipe: Garlic Green Beans with Manchego
Instead of baking cauliflower in a classic cream sauce, we've sliced it thinly and roasted it (with very little fat) to get a nicely toasted flavor–and keep it just shy of 40 calories per serving.
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Tender carrots and crunchy pecans get tossed in a sweet brown sugar and ginger glaze for a quick side dish that's easy and delicious.
Recipe: Glazed Carrots with Pecans
Garlic and red chile pair perfectly with peppery sautéed broccoli rabe for a colorful veggie side dish.
Recipe: Sautèed Broccoli Rabe with Garlic and Chiles (Rape Fritte)
By topping parmesan-flavored creamed spinach with a bread crumb topping, creamed spinach becomes a great potluck dish that can be made up to a day ahead and needs just a few minutes under the broiler to be hot, crunchy, and ready for the table.
Recipe: Creamed Spinach Gratin
Lemon's bright flavor and sweet currants give spinach a festive touch for Thanksgiving entertaining.
Recipe: Spinach with Lemon and Currants
Sweet persimmons, crunchy pecans, and bright green spinach make for a festive salad at the Thanksgiving table.
Recipe: Spinach and Persimmon Salad
The secret to a low-calorie salad is a lean, flavorful dressing. This one is based on apple juice and a small amount of heart-healthy walnut oil, providing plenty of autumn-inspired flavor.
Recipe: Apple-Fennel Salad with Walnuts
Sweet citrus and dates, in season throughout the west all winter long, pair beautifully with bitter radicchio. Tangelos and blood oranges would also work well in this recipe.
Recipe: Radicchio Salad with Citrus, Dates, Almonds, and Parmesan Cheese
This fall salad is bursting with color and flavor from sweet poached pears, crunchy macadamia nuts, creamy goat cheese, and jewel-colored pomegranate seeds--very impressive.
Recipe: Poached Pear, Macadamia, and Spinach Salad with Goat Cheese
This pretty mix of fall favorites, sweet Asian pears, crisp fennel, and crunchy walnuts, is a perfect salad for special occasions.
For this soup—adapted from her 2013 book Vegetable Literacy—author Deborah Madison makes a quick stock from the trimmings of the main ingredients: She sets a pot with 5 cups of water on the stove, and as she chops, she tosses in the squash peels, pulp, and seeds; the ends of the onion; some basil and mint sprigs; and 1 tsp. each of coriander seeds and peppercorns. She lets it simmer, partly covered, and it's ready by the time she needs to strain it for the soup.
At the end of a holiday dinner, cookbook author Deborah Madison likes to serve a big refreshing salad, passed around at the table. This one is based on a recipe in her her book Vegetable Literacy (Ten Speed Press, 2013).
Whorled broccoli romanesco is an exotic treat, yet it's very easy to prepare—just steam until tender. If you can't find small heads, just break a full-grown head into florets (cauliflower works too). This recipe is adapted from one in Vegetable Literacy (Ten Speed Press, 2013), by Deborah Madison.
Wilting the cabbage briefly brings out its color and flavor, and softens it. This recipe is based on one in Deborah Madison's book Vegetable Literacy (Ten Speed Press, 2013). She likes to add small mint leaves right before serving—they're aromatic and cheerful.
Recipe: Wilted Red Cabbage with Mint
Like cranberries, this colorful medley of small onions adds a sweet-tart note to a Thanksgiving dinner. Deborah Madison created this recipe for us based on one in her book Vegetable Literacy (Ten Speed Press, 2013), and she vastly prefers small, regular shallots (about the size of a walnut in its shell) to the supersize ones. The small type are firmer and blend better with the other onions.
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@ May 20, 2008 8:17 PM in Combustion analyzerI have prepared a simple spec sheet for our anticipated oil-to-gas steam boiler changout. The final item calls for the results of a combustion analyzer test on the installed new boiler. (Does anyone care to see my spec sheet?) The first business to quote took exception to doing any combustion analyzer testing, telling me that the boiler is tested and qualified by the factory, and the roll-out switch takes care of any CO issues. Is he a mainstream, modern professional? Or should I shop around for someone more up-to-date?
@ May 18, 2008 7:56 PM in Savings with insulationI am thinking that icycene is the way to go.
@ May 18, 2008 7:55 PM in Estimating annual fuel usageThere is an error in the formula. As the Delta T rises, fuel usage rises.
@ May 18, 2008 5:22 PM in Savings with insulationWhen I said "wood-frame" I simply meant that it is made of 2x4 wood frame:-)
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@ May 18, 2008 3:25 PM in Savings with insulationI have just discovered that our wood frame facility, which used 5500 gallons of oil this past season has zero insulation in the ceiling/roof. The boiler is 40% oversized and I was planning to replace it, but now that I see no insulation, I figure that should be the first plan of action. Is this correct logic, as far as payback is concerned? Steve
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@ May 16, 2008 4:46 PM in Peerless or Smith? Any Reviews or Recommendations?I've got quotes from two contractors and two different kinds of boilers - a Smith Series 8 steam/oil fired residential boiler and a Peerless WBV steam boiler. I've been looking around online for reviews of either and have not seen much other than some negative reviews of Peerless because of noise issues but I'm not even sure that's relatable to the model I'm looking at. Does anybody have any knowledge of either type? Good or bad experiences?
@ May 13, 2008 8:59 PM in TRV recommendationsIs the Macon OPSK One pipe steam valve assembly with VB-18 vacuum assembly what I need?
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@ May 12, 2008 9:49 PM in TRV recommendationsCan some pros recommend a specific model TRV to control some one-pipe steam radiators?
@ May 4, 2008 2:35 PM in Oversize steam boilerI think this thread has diverted from the original question: what kind of additional efficiencies can I roughly expect by downsizing to the correct size boiler with 28 gallons less water. It will be essentially the same style boiler, just three less sections? For instance, if I use 5500 gallons this season, would I use 20% less, i.e. 1100 gallons less equal to $3,500. Then if it cost $25K to replace, I have a better sense of the pay-off. I need a sense to determine whether it is worth the investment.
@ May 4, 2008 12:52 PM in Oversize steam boilerI have the Carlin 301 burner. I called an engineer at Smith and he told me that the old 19 is the same as the newer 19A. I read with interest your comment about a hi-low-hi burner. There is a gas version available today that has the correct capacity. Would this be beneficial for our installation? The total replacement of what today is a working boiler appears prohibitive based on the first quotation that I received. I just want to figure out how to somehow reduce our 5500 gallon annual oil usage. The gas meter is fifteen feet from the boiler.
@ May 3, 2008 6:20 PM in Transition from Oil to Gas with one-pipe Steam System (Resid.)Insulate those steam pipes! You're wasting a ton of money by not.


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Oil fell towards $111 a barrel on Friday after U.S. Federal Reserve officials indicated they may at least slow a stimulus programme this year, threatening the economic recovery in the world's biggest fuel consumer.
Some of crude's losses were pared after a key U.S. jobs report showed the pace of hiring by employers had eased slightly in December, but hinted at momentum in the labour market's recovery from the 2007-09 recession. [ID;nL1E9C3AA1]
Signs of hesitation within the Fed about more increases to the central bank's $2.9 trillion balance sheet had boosted the dollar and weighed on crude in earlier trade, with Brent falling to a session low of $110.38.
"A much firmer U.S. dollar and speculation about an earlier end to Fed bond purchasing are putting oil prices under pressure," said a Commerzbank research note.
By 1439 GMT, Brent crude was trading down 77 cents to $111.37. U.S. crude was off 29 cents at $92.63.
While the Fed said it would keep buying bonds to boost the economy over the coming months, minutes of a December meeting showed some officials are growing concerned about the programme's potential risk to financial markets.
Several thought it would be appropriate to slow or stop asset purchases well before the end of 2013.
Putting a floor under oil, Thursday's figures from the American Petroleum Institute showed a steeper-than-expected drop of 12 million barrels in crude inventories in the week to Dec. 28. Analysts were expecting a 900,000 barrel draw.
Data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration is due later on Friday. (Additional reporting by Florence Tan in Singapore; editing by Jason Neely and Keiron Henderson)
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This is my first HAPPY story!! *laughs* Seriously, completely happy and hyper randomness and chaos ensured! And a lot of taking the mick...[includes AFI, Fall out Boy, Adam Lazzara and Panic! At th...
Warning: Please don't take offence at our story if you are a. an emo (I think I am too, didn't mean any of it) b. a vegan cheese (we all know Davey's taking something) or c. a Spencer Smith adorer (His hair rocks) Yeah it's all nonsense and my mom reckons I'm now on something. Have fun.
Disclaimer: ME owns MY hyperness but NOT anyone in THIS story.
Chapter 93.6
Vegan Cheeses...Cheesi...Choose
Frank was bored. In fact bored wasn't the word he'd use but the word he used is pages long and hard to pronounce...because he needed something to do so I'm not gonna try and say it. He was sooooo bored he had decided to listen to Kelly Clarkson...because Gerard had nicked all of his other CDs. Just as he got to word 39 in 'Since U Been Gone' (cos he was counting) Adam Lazzara wandered in.
"Hey Frankie! What you listening to?" Adam asked, plonking himself down on the bright yellow sofa.
Frank turned around and shoved the CD under Adam's nose "The 57 word of 'Since U Been Gone'" he told him...then got confused because by the time he'd finished saying it the CD was on the 87th word.
Adam screwed his nose up but nodded anyway "But Frankie...why?" He asked, sounding like a small, fluffy, lost sheep. Awwww.
"Because Gee has all my CDs." Frank sighed and went back to sitting on the purple carpet with his legs crossed and counting the words in 'Since U Been Gone'.
Adam nodded and decided that was good enough before standing up and disappearing into a puff of bright green and pink pok-a-dot smoke with a slight poofing sound...because Adam Lazzara can do that.
Far away in Canada where there are bears and ducks and SNOW Gerard was listening to all of Frank's CDs. So far he'd been listening for 3 hours and he was beginning to get cold because he was in a small, cardboard box with no heating (obviously) and it was winter in Canada. So he flicked a switch in the side of the box and it appeared in Las Vegas, which was, of course, a lot warmer than Canada had been because it was further away from the pole and scientific stuff like that which gave Gerard a headache.
So it just happened that as Gerard and his card box appeared in a random street in Las Vegas, Brendon Urie and the guys from Panic! At the Disco drove down that very street in their giant sky blue garbage truck. Gerard popped his head out of the cardboard box and looked up at them in time to see Brendon attempt to stop before he ran Gerard over and crash into a nearby house. Seconds later a rather bedraggled Ryan Ross jumped out of the back of the truck, pulling Spencer's arm with him.
"Damn it Jon!" He yelled into the back of the vehicle "Spencer's arm came off again!"
Jon poked his head out of the rather twisted back doors and sighed down at the wires trailing from the splintered metal end of what had been Spencer's arm. "Oh well, Brendy'll fix it. I s'pose I'd ought to go turn him off." Seconds later there was a muffled squeak from inside the truck and Jon popped his head back out.
Ryan was half way down the road at this point and had completely forgotten about poor Brendon, who was trapped in the rubble of the house and the truck because he had found a rather interesting cardboard box with Gerard inside...that played Smashing Pumpkins.
"Wow!" Ryan exclaimed "A cardboard box with Gerard Way's head on top that plays Smashing Pumpkins!" Yes dummy I already said that sighs you just can't get the staff these days...Oh story sos...
Gerard looked around at him in surprise "Wow!" He yelled "A guy with emo hair!"
Ryan Ross looked insulted and stared at Gerard, who was busy detaching himself from the box then moving it onto the sidewalk. "Well you have...you have..." He said and then ran out of words for the wonderfulness that is Gerard Way's long, black hair.
"I have what?" Gerard asked, looking confused and making half of the fangirls in the world melt into a puddle of loving goo.
Then as half the world melted, down the road skipped a bunnie...a pink fluffy bunnie...a bunnie in the shape of Jade Puget...holding a scared looking Bob.
"You sure this is for vegans?" Ray asked worriedly as he turned a packet of tuna paste upside down in an attempt to read it better.
"Just put it in the damn trolley." Bob hissed, he was stressed; it had taken them two hours to get there and another half an hour waiting for some stupid old woman to pull out of her parking space. On top of this Ray had insisted on returning all the lost trolleys to their parking bays and then seeking out an assistant to make sure that all of the damn metal contraptions were given the correct amount of oil - honestly if only his afro adoring fan girls could see him now...but then again they'd probably just end up creating the NIFTPOCTT or the national institution for the prevention of cruelty to trolleys.
Just then Davey turned into the aisle, whispering lovingly to the trolley wheels.
Bob raised an eyebrow and then sighed in frustration "What the hell is with these vegetarians??" He muttered.
"Hey!" Davey yelled, making several people look around and mutter something about vegetarians to the confectionaries. "That's not nice! You'll hurt the dairy free cheese's feelings!" He scolded Bob, looking down at the funny looking blue cheese that was sitting contentedly in the trolley...if cheese can sit contentedly that is...
As Bob was contemplating the possibility that cheese could sit contentedly a large, funny, pink bunnie that looked strangely like Jade skipped down to where Bob was standing, holding a sign saying:
'Look! It's kill a Bob day'
Bob looked shocked and was about to summon the aid of the NSFTPOCTB (the national society for the prevention of cruelty (and general unfairness) to Bobs) but before he could even start to mutter 'Jelly fish' there was a weird pop, like a large bunnie being strangled and Bob disappeared...into almost thin air. The bunnie (who looked like Jade...freakily) began to scratch it's left ear with it's right foot but got confused and fell over into a heap of pink jelly on the floor.
Ray looked at where Bob had been, then at the puddle of jelly on the floor, then at Davey who was whispering comfortingly to the dairy free cheese before asking.
"So is tuna paste for vegans?"
In the meantime...
Mikey was sitting, traumatized outside one of Pete Wentz's numerous recording studios somewhere in Chicago. He figured he was probably lost and at the wrong one and was really wishing he'd brought Bob but then exactly why he was here anyway caught up with him and he began to wish he'd just sent Bob instead...
As Mikey was thinking about this Pete Wentz suddenly rushed past scattering papers and muttering something about Patrick and Nutella. Seconds later he dashed back out again and stood there grinning like Frank on crack cocaine...not that Frank had done crack cocaine...he was better than that...he'd done heroine instead.
"Ah, Mikey, Mikey, Mikey." If Mikey had been scared before he was pretty close to wetting himself right now. "Come in, sit down, have a chair, we're all friends here." Mikey highly doubted this and the picture of Pete on the back wall of the studio did little to boost his spirits...it was the picture from the internet.
"Umm Pete...I love how you've decorated..." Mikey stuttered, attempting to sound friendly.
Pete motioned to a chair and Mikey hesitantly sat down, it was gonna take ages to wash his jeans clean. "So how is the band?" Pete asked, carefully adjusting himself in his chair.
"Umm..." Mikey mumbled "They're all good..."
"And Frankie?" Said Pete, slightly too curiously as he leaned forward in his chair. "I don't suppose his little wedding plans have been interrupted lately..." He asked hopefully.
Mikey looked uncomfortable "No...Frank's fine...and happily engaged." Mikey told him, slightly louder, hoping that he'd get the point.
"Well I suppose we'd better talk about why you're here." Pete began, a little miffed.
"Ummm yeah..." Mikey agreed, happy to get off the topic of Frank.
"Well as you know I currently own a wonderful record label with plenty of hopeful new talent already signed up..." Pete started proudly.
"Yeah you have three bands don't you?" Mikey butted in, earning himself a glare from Pete.
"Well...yeah but anyway I was just thinking to my...myself wouldn't we all be honoured if My Chemical Romance came and joined us." Pete grinned happily...scarily like Frank.
"But...but you're an EMO label..." Mikey said, sounding horrified and backing away slightly...which is difficult when you're sitting in a chair...against a brick wall...
"But you're an emo band!" Pete explained slowly, spelling out the syllables.
Mikey shrieked something about blasphemy before turning into a bright spotted green frog in a puff of yellow smoke. "Rib-bit." He exclaimed before turning back into Mikey...only slightly yellower.
Pete fortunately didn't notice Mikey's change to his usual form (so someone has to kiss him before they go out on stage...I thought everyone knew that) because he was far to preoccupied with 19-19-1985...umm sos wrong song...I meant his reflection in the large mirror that corner one of the walls. "So you wanna join or not?" He asked, partly to Mikey, partly to his reflection.
Mikey croaked accidentally and shook his head "No! You guys are like..." then he trailed off...not able to say what came next.
"What?" Pete asked, sounding confused and looking lovingly at the little picture of Frank he had unfolded from his pocket and hoping that Mikey didn't notice him talking to it.
"But...but we're like...well Gee says we're NEO DEATH so we can't...it would look...screwed..." Mikey stammered...trying again to back away and managing to fall off the chair.
"But Mikey, Mikey, Mikey." Pete told him, coming over and helping him up before putting an arm around his shoulders. "You shouldn't let your annoying, insensitive older brother rule your life, you should go your own way, make your own decisions!" Pete explained, sounding scarily like the witch out of the Wizard of Oz...not that Mikey watched the Wizard of Oz of course.
"But...but I'm kinda useless on my own...I'm like Bob..." Mikey started and then felt extremely sorry for Bob and changed it to Ray instead.
"But Mikey, think of the fame, the glory that could come from leading a band like MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE! Join the dark side and all of this..." Pete trailed off as he realised what he said.
Mikey looked horrified and threw Pete's arm from around his shoulders before running to the door and yelling "I'll never join you!"
And then found the door was locked.


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NASCAR and dirt racing being drawn closer together
By admin | June 6, 2011
By Richard Allen
Strange as it may seem NASCAR and dirt late model racing are two very different forms of racing that have in the past had two separate fan bases and two separate sets of competitors.
To an outsider it may seem as if both forms of racing are very similar in that they feature high speed stock cars going around oval tracks. But in reality, NASCAR and dirt racing are worlds apart. However, for one night each June these two racing worlds collide in Rossburg, Ohio at the Eldora Speedway in a charity event known as the 'Prelude to The Dream'.
The Prelude pits drivers from NASCAR and other forms of racing against one another on the famed ½ mile dirt track owned by Tony Stewart.
This one night aside, to mention the fact that NASCAR has had significant drop offs in attendance and television ratings over the last few years will not exactly draw sympathy in a dirt track pit area.
With that said, there are some fans who enjoy both forms of racing. And more, it seems as though the two forms of racing are being drawn closer together with each passing year. Oddly enough, the very struggles mentioned above being experienced by NASCAR is actually serving as one of the vehicles pulling each toward the other.
As the NASCAR economy that roared in the early 2000s began to weaken, team owner Jack Roush and his engine building business partner Doug Yates made the decision to divert some of their resources away from NASCAR and into other types of motorsports. Among those were drag racing, off road racing and dirt racing. As opportunities for their core business decreased, Roush and Yates were faced with laying off workers and seeing significant areas of shop space go to waste if changes were not made. Thus, they moved in new directions.
Earnhardt Childress Racing Engines has made similar business decisions as Roush Yates Engines and is now also a major player in the production of dirt racing power plants.
Engines are not the only ways in which NASCAR and dirt racing are coming together. Tony Stewart, Ken Schrader and Kenny Wallace have become deeply involved in the sport by means of track ownership. And, each of these three own racing teams and compete on a regular basis on dirt in sprint cars, modifieds and late models.
Kasey Kahne, Clint Bowyer and Bobby Labonte are also prominent team owners in either sprint cars or dirt late models.
Not all of this association is a good thing for dirt racing. Certainly, the infusion of money, technology and exposure have their benefits. At the same time, however, if a rising tide lifts all boats, a lowering tide brings all boats down.
A number of dirt tracks schedule events to coincide with NASCAR races in the hope of luring the multitude of fans headed for asphalt races to their facilities. Here in east Tennessee, the Volunteer Speedway in Bulls Gap has often set their schedule to take advantage of Bristol Motor Speedway race weekends. Now, with crowds significantly lower for the Sprint Cup races there, the dirt track has fewer fans to lure.
Tracks in Florida and south Georgia that plan around the February races in Daytona find themselves in the same predicament as the Volunteer Speedway.
There are plenty of other issues that go along with these two forms of racing drawing closer. But whether the ever nearing ties between NASCAR and dirt racing are for the better or the worse can be debated in much more detail another time. For now, let's enjoy the two forms of racing coming together on Wednesday night for the benefit of some worthy charities.
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