uk cops to be 'microchipped' in big bro tracking scheme

from daily mail: Every single Metropolitan police officer will be 'microchipped' so top brass can monitor their movements on a Big Brother style tracking scheme, it can be revealed today.

According to respected industry magazine Police Review, the plan - which affects all 31,000 serving officers in the Met, including Sir Ian Blair - is set to replace the unreliable Airwave radio system currently used to help monitor officer's movements.

The new electronic tracking device - called the Automated Personal Location System (APLS) - means that officers will never be out of range of supervising officers.

But many serving officers fear being turned into "Robocops" - controlled by bosses who have not been out on the beat in years.

wamu gets $7b infusion, cuts jobs, sees big loss

from reuters: Washington Mutual Inc, the largest U.S. savings and loan, said on Tuesday it obtained a $7 billion capital injection from private equity firm TPG Inc and other investors, but that mortgage problems will lead to a $1.1 billion quarterly loss and the elimination of 3,000 jobs... WaMu, as the thrift is known, said it expects a first-quarter loss of $1.40 per share, more than twice the 51 cents that analysts on average expected.

zombie computers, pocket lie detectors & stolen laptops

zombie computers decried as imminent nat'l threat
from threat level: Gangs of thousands of zombie home computers grinding out spam, committing fraud and overpowering websites are the most vexing net threat today, according to law enforcement and security professionals... at the RSA 2008 security conference entitled "Protecting the Homeland: Winning the Botnet Battle," which was marked by a mix of resignation, indignation and post-9/11 rhetoric... Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff leaned on Estonia as evidence of the need for a federal government "Manhattan Project" for computer security.


pentagon issues pocket lie detector to troops
from raw story: The Pentagon is planning to give US troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan "hand-held lie detectors" aimed at rooting out potential insurgents and terrorists. But polygraph experts doubt the system's accuracy and Defense Department memos show results of the few tests that were run were manipulated to demonstrate more success with them than was achieved, according to an MSNBC investigative reporter...

The Pentagon, in a PowerPoint presentation released to msnbc.com (581kb PDF) through a Freedom of Information Act request, says the PCASS is 82 to 90 percent accurate. Those are the only accuracy numbers that were sent up the chain of command at the Pentagon before the device was approved. But Pentagon studies obtained by msnbc.com (134kb PDF) show a more complicated picture: In calculating its accuracy, the scientists conducting the tests discarded the yellow screens, or inconclusive readings.

stolen nih laptop held social security numbers
from washington post: Social Security numbers for more than 1,200 participants in a National Institutes of Health study were stored on a stolen laptop containing their medical records, putting those patients at risk of identity theft, agency officials said yesterday... That file included Social Security numbers for at least 1,281 of the 3,078 patients enrolled in the multi-year study, which is sponsored by the NIH's National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.

collateral 40: a bug's life

from collateral news: This weeks episode is about remote controlled bugs, implanted micro-cameras and the Pentagon's latest attempt to spy on terrorists ... wait a few years and this new technology called 'Hybrid Insects Mems' or 'Hi-Mems' will be in the hands of domestic law enforcement flying around your living room.

'flame protection unit' or chinese paramilitary police

from steve watson: A 30 man squad of crack trained Chinese paramilitary cops will today march through the streets of San Francisco, policing the one and only US stop on the Olympic torch relay, and tackling any American protesters who get in their way. The news follows revelations that the London and Paris Olympic torch relay stops were policed by an elite "Flame Protection Unit", hand picked from special police units of the People's Armed Police, China's internal security force.

olympic torch relay was started by the nazis
from the sun: The Olympic flame dates from ancient Greece – but the torch relay was devised by the Nazis. Propaganda chief Carl Diem had the idea for the Berlin Olympics in 1936. The relay from Greece to Berlin was meant to represent the “progression” of Adolf Hitler’s “superior race”. It ended with a youth plunging the torch into the brazier at the Olympic Stadium. Despite its Nazi links, the concept of the eternal Olympic flame caught on.

9/11: lawyers, lies, medals & media

ksm, alleged 9/11 architect, gets navy lawyer
from miami herald: For two decades, attorney Prescott Prince was a solo practitioner with a small family and criminal law practice in eastern Virginia, and a reserve Navy career on the side... Tuesday, the soft-spoken 53-year-old with a mustache and thinning hair found himself with what well could be the case of a lifetime, if not the century: The Pentagon assigned him to defend Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the reputed al Qaeda kingpin and alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks...

we have no record of mukasey's 'warning'
from raw story: The vice chair of the prominent 9/11 Commission is denying Attorney General Michael Mukasey's claim that the US received a warning before the attacks of Sep. 11, 2001, Salon reports. "I am unfamiliar with the telephone call that Attorney General Mukasey cited in his appearance in San Francisco on March 27. The 9/11 Commission did not receive any information pertaining to its occurrence," said former Rep. Lee Hamilton in a statement received by Salon's Glenn Greenwald, who has closely followed the Mukasey revelation.

medals mulled for 9/11's flight 93 victims
from usa today: Relatives of the passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 are stepping up pressure on Congress to decide whether the people who died fighting their attackers on Sept. 11, 2001, deserve the nation's highest civilian award... Debra Burlingame is the sister of Capt. Charles "Chic" Burlingame, a pilot who died when his American Airlines flight crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11. She agrees that the people on Flight 93 deserve an honor beyond what others receive. "They were magnificent. And that story should be told," she said. "When you acknowledge them with these kind of historic gestures you make sure that those stories never die."

jesse ventura on hannity & colmes
from youtube: Former Minnesota Governor Jesse 'The Mind' Ventura on Fox News Hannity & Colmes April 8, 2008.


jesse ventura schools dopey & insanthony

'god gets my revenge on royal family'

from press tv: Mohammed al-Fayed abandons his 10-year campaign to prove that Princess Diana and his son were murdered in a plot by UK secret services. The father of Dodi al-Fayed, killed in a Paris car crash with Princess Diana in 1997, said on Tuesday he accepted the verdict of an inquest jury and was giving up his legal attempts to show the couple were murdered... "I'm leaving the rest for God to get my revenge, but I'm not doing anything any more," he said.

9/11: remains, appeals, contradictions & vidal

ny medics identify four 9/11 victims
from press tv: The New York medical examiners have identified the remains of three men and one woman slain in 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center. "I don't think any of us know how to react to it," said Douglas Mann, whose cousin Ronald Milstein was working as a temp in the twin towers on 9/11. "It's incredible, one, that they found something, and two, that they were actually looking after 6-1/2 years," Mann said... The remains of more than 40 percent of the 2,749 people killed at the site have yet to be identified.

9/11 case goes to appeals court
from wnyc: Today, a federal appeals court will weigh whether the government illegally used the material witness law in the months following Sept. 11. The plaintiff in this case was detained and kept under court supervision for over a year, but was never charged with a crime or asked to testify as a witness in another case.

9/11 contradictions: bush in the classroom
from david ray griffin: The official story of 9/11 is riddled with internal contradictions. One of these contradictions involves the question of how long President Bush remained in classroom in Sarasota, Florida, on the morning of 9/11... Dismissing the crash as an accident, Bush said that they would go ahead and "do the reading thing anyway."
related: theologian stirs 9/11 conspiracy pot in ventura

gore vidal supports new 9/11 investigation

outside the box #147

here is the latest episode of "outside the box," hosted by alex ansary.
it was originally broadcast by portland community media on april 3, 2008.

from alex ansary: Alex talks with Steve Shenk from efoodsdirect.com about the future of the American food supply and what people should be doing now to prepare. Later, a local video journalist who had his camera taken by the Portland Police makes an appearance to tell his side of the story.

bush officials 'will be indicted for war crimes'

from raw story: In an interview Sunday on CNN, onetime gay conservative pundit Andrew Sullivan asserted that Bush officials who worked on a memo authorizing legal use of torture "should not leave the country" because they "will be, at some point, indicted for war crimes."

will petraeus testimony signal attack on iran?

from paul craig roberts: The London Telegraph reported that “British officials gave warning yesterday that America’s commander in Iraq will declare that Iran is waging war against the US-backed Baghdad government. A strong statement from General David Petraeus about Iran’s intervention in Iraq could set the stage for a US attack on Iranian militiary facilities, according to a Whitehall assessment.”

The neocon lacky Petraeus has had his script written for him by Cheney, and Petraeus together with neocon warmonger Ryan Crocker, the US governor of the Green Zone in Baghdad, will present Congress next Tuesday and Wednesday with the lies, for which the road has been well paved by neocon propagandists such as Kimberly Kagan, that “the US must recognize that Iran is engaged in a full-up proxy war against it in Iraq.”

extinquished torch, internet2, absolut raza & swatkids

olympic torch put out three times
from ap: Security officials extinguished the Olympic torch three times Monday as protests against China's human rights record turned a relay through Paris into a chaotic series of stops and starts. Despite massive security, at least two activists got within almost an arm's length of the flame before they were grabbed by police.

web could collapse as video demand soars
from telegraph: The internet could grind to a halt within two years under the pressure of booming demand for online video, experts have warned. Soaring visitor numbers to video websites such as YouTube and the BBC's iPlayer are putting the copper wires, which underpin parts of the internet, under severe strain. related: superfast internet may replace world wide web, coming soon: superfast internet & nuclear scientists turn to 'the grid' to crunch data

absolut apologies for ad campaign
from ap: Absolut vodka company apologized Saturday for an ad campaign depicting the southwestern U.S. as part of Mexico amid angry calls for a boycott by U.S. consumers. The campaign, which promotes ideal scenarios under the slogan "In an Absolut World," showed a 1830s-era map when Mexico included California, Texas & other southwestern states. Mexico still resents losing that territory in the 1848 Mexican-American War...

swat officers bring children on raid
from local6: Two SWAT officers are being counseled after bringing their young children along with them on a drug raid. The Orange County SWAT team searched a house on Napoleon Street Friday, arresting three people and recovering guns and drugs. The two officers who brought their children on the raid will not be disciplined. Both officers said the incident will not happen again, Local 6 reported.

what do we consider to be an act of war in cyberspace?

from washington times: U.S. military officials seeking to boost the nation's cyberwarfare capabilities are looking beyond defending the Internet: They are developing ways to launch virtual attacks on enemies.

But first the military will have to figure out the proper boundaries.

"What do we consider to be an act of war in cyberspace?" asked Lt. Gen. Robert J. Elder Jr., who heads the Air Force's cyberoperations command. "The military is not going to tend to do that (use virtual strike capabilities) until you cross some line that constitutes an act of war."

Elder said initial uses likely would be limited to diverting or killing data packets that threaten the nation's systems, the way the military may intercept a foreign ship carrying arms in international waters.

The remarks came late Friday during a New York chapter meeting of the Association For Intelligence Officers, a nonprofit group for current and former intelligence agents and their supporters.

charles manson goes creative commons for record

from wired: Murderous psycho and wannabe musician Charles Manson has released a record under a Creative Commons license, according to the LimeWire Music Blog. Manson, ringleader of the "Manson family" cult that killed actress Sharon Tate and committed other ghastly crimes during the late '60s, always fancied himself a musician. His record One Mind - which was originally released in 2005, according to CharlieManson.com - gives everybody a glimpse of his musical artistry (as well as his whack-job theories) - and the Creative Commons license means you're free to share and remix Manson's mad tracks.
download the album here

pandemic, monsanto, bono & ssri school shooters

bethel, ct runs pandemic flu drill
from news times: Sooner or later a virus spreading quickly around the world will make millions of people very sick in a short period of time. It might be the bird flu percolating in Asia right now. It might be something unknown. But given the adaptability of flu bugs, and the ease of world travel, something will catch fire. "We're not talking about what if," said Norma Gyle, of New Fairfield, the state's deputy commissioner of public health. "We're talking about when." ... On Saturday, the region will have a chance to see how it responds to a pandemic flu in real time, with a mock flu pandemic drill at Bethel Health Care Center.

monsanto’s harvest of fear
from vanity fair: Monsanto already dominates America’s food chain with its genetically modified seeds. Now it has targeted milk production. Just as frightening as the corporation’s tactics – ruthless legal battles against small farmers – is its decades-long history of toxic contamination... Some compare Monsanto’s hard-line approach to Microsoft’s zealous efforts to protect its software from pirates. At least with Microsoft the buyer of a program can use it over and over again. But farmers who buy Monsanto’s seeds can’t even do that.

sonny bono 'assassinated' by hitmen
from herald sun: Sonny Bono, former husband and singing partner of superstar Cher, was clubbed to death by hitmen on the orders of drug and weapons dealers who feared he was going to expose them, a former FBI agent claims. Ted Gunderson, now a private investigator, has told the US Globe tabloid that Bono, who served as mayor of Palm Springs for four years, did not die after hitting a tree on a Nevada ski slope in January 1998 as everyone believed.

antidepressant drugs linked to school shootings
from natural news: A parents' rights organization has called on Congress to investigate a potential link between psychiatric drugs and school shootings, and called for parents to be better informed about the risks of such medications. New York-based Ablechild accused the mental health industry of "[continuing] to downplay the risks of drugs widely prescribed to millions." ... Ablechild said that eight recent school shooters were taking antidepressant medication at the time of their crimes, and that most parents are unaware of this fact. Among the shooters taking antidepressants were Eric Harris in Columbine, Colorado, and Kip Kinkel in Springfield, Oregon.

media monarchy episode070

episode070 of media monarchy features mlk+40, torture yoo, oliver stone, border drone, digital angel, fusion centers & animal rfid, 9/11 ventura, mukasey, specter & olson, dea, fbi & cia corruption, music by dion and tons more...

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media monarchy is originally broadcast on the portland radio authority every friday at 10am pacific/1pm eastern and can also be heard on the revere radio network every sunday at 4pm pacific/7pm eastern...

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US to mark 40th anniversary of mlk's assassination

from monsters & critics: The Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was shot 40 years ago, has been turned into the National Civil Rights Museum.

His birthday has become a national holiday, and every US school child and adult knows his name.

On Friday, the United States will mark the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, the civil rights leader who shook the country out of its apartheid past and led one of the country's most historic social movements ever.

King was struck down by a sniper at age 39 as he stepped onto a balcony at the Lorraine Hotel for a breath of air during a labour strike in Memphis.

His assassin, James Earl Ray, a white man obsessed with hatred for blacks who hoped he would be paid by segregationists for his deed, had stalked him from city to city across the Deep South until he had his chance. He was convicted and died in jail in 1998.

The April 4, 1968, assassination triggered country-wide race riots in which more than 40 people died and neighbourhoods were destroyed.

student directories, cheney, yoo & the border fence

pentagon wants student directories
from thinkprogress: The Army Times reports that the Pentagon “has announced a new get-tough policy with colleges and universities that interfere with the work of military recruiters and Reserve Officer Training Corps programs... Under rules that will take effect April 28, defense officials said they want the exact same access to student directories that is provided to all other prospective employers."

cheney opposed chemical weapons convention
from danger room: Vice President Dick Cheney opposed the signing ratification of a treaty banning the use chemical weapons, a recently unearthed letter shows. 183 countries pledged never to "develop, produce, otherwise acquire, stockpile or retain chemical weapons, or transfer, directly or indirectly, chemical weapons to anyone" under the Chemical Weapons Convention, put into effect in 1997.

pentagon releases john yoo's torture memo
from ap: The Pentagon on Tuesday made public a now-defunct legal memo that approved the use of harsh interrogation techniques against terror suspects, saying that President Bush's wartime authority trumps any international ban on torture... "Our previous opinions make clear that customary international law is not federal law and that the president is free to override it at his discretion," said the memo written by John Yoo, who was then deputy assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel.

rules to be waived for border fence
from ap: The Bush administration plans to use its authority to bypass more than 30 laws and regulations in an effort to finish building 670 miles of fence along the southwest U.S. border by the end of this year, federal officials said Tuesday. Invoking the two legal waivers - which Congress authorized - would cut through bureaucratic red tape and sidestep environmental laws that currently stand in the way of the Homeland Security Department building 267 miles of fencing in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas...

update: as he waives laws for bush’s border fence, chertoff says immigrants must ‘comply with the law’

oliver stone rushes to finish off bush bio-pic

from politico: They first crossed paths four decades ago at Yale University. But Oliver Stone’s climactic encounter with George W. Bush may come in movie theaters as early as this fall. Stone is planning to begin production this month of his upcoming film biography of the president, tentatively titled 'W'. An early draft of the screenplay, recently obtained by Politico, suggests the widely acclaimed, widely denounced director plans a departure from his previous presidential pictures 'JFK' and 'Nixon', both of which revolved around dark conspiracies at the seat of power.

drones, chips, secret spies & street-sweeper cameras

feds to fly more drones along US borders
from ap: Four Predator B drones have become fixtures over Arizona since October 2006, and two more will join them soon, Juan Munoz-Torres, a Customs and Border Protection spokesman, said Wednesday. Once those six are in place, the agency wants Congress to fund six drones along the Canadian border and six more on Florida's Gulf Coast and the Caribbean, said Douglas Koupash, who heads Customs and Border Protection's drone program.

digital angel & the nat'l animal identification system
from gps daily: Digital Angel has discussed the goals of the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) and the Company's position in an effort to educate investors and consumers... Animal identification provides producers with a uniform numbering system for their animals and links livestock/poultry to their premises of origin. Animal tracing, the final component of NAIS, allows producers to choose a private or state animal tracking database and report certain animal movements that may pose a significant risk of disease transmission.

'the complex': the real-life matrix
from mother jones: At the beginning of Nick Turse's The Complex, we meet "Rick," an educated, antiwar, Daily Show-watching resident of the New York City suburbs. Rick wakes up to a Sony alarm clock, brushes his teeth with Crest toothpaste, and showers with Herbal Essences shampoo before catching a segment about Iraq on NBC's Today Show. If you asked him, Rick would tell you that his life has no connection to the military. But so far, everything Rick has touched has been produced by a company that does business with the Pentagon. The rest of his day will be no different.

fusion centers to data-mine suspect civilians
from kurt nimmo: Call it Stasi, the American version, circa 2008. “The government is rounding up your cell phone numbers, insurance claims, credit reports, financial records, and the names of your associates and relatives and sharing them with law enforcement officials nationwide,” reports John Byrne for Raw Story... In East Germany before our rulers decided the Berlin Wall must fall, the Stasi did much the same, although they didn’t have the sophisticated technology available to the mysterious “fusion centers” in the United States. But the idea was exactly the same - to ferret out dissidents and compile dossiers on every aspect of their lives. related: civilians handle minor duties for strapped police

street-sweeper cameras eye illegal parking
from washington times: D.C. officials have put cameras on light poles, police cars and government buildings. Now they're preparing to put them on street sweepers in the latest example of increasing surveillance of city residents. The D.C. Council yesterday unanimously passed legislation introduced at the request of Mayor Adrian M. Fenty that will let officials equip the District's tractor-sized street-sweeping machines with cameras that can scan license plates and photograph vehicles illegally parked in a street-sweeping zone.

randi's whores, cannibal ted, swastika john & kill aaron

randi rhodes suspended for calling hillary a 'whore'
from raw story: Air America has allegedly suspended talk radio host Randi Rhodes after she made scathing statements off-air about Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and former Democratic vice presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro.


ted turner: overpopulation will lead to cannibalism
from ajc: Failure to address global warming will have us all dead or eating each other by mid-century... One way to combat global warming, Turner said, is to stabilize the population. "We're too many people; that's why we have global warming," he said. "Too many people are using too much stuff." Turner suggested that "on a voluntary basis, everybody in the world's got to pledge to themselves that one or two children is it."

swastika drawn on ashcroft poster at skidmore
from wnyt: Some members of the Skidmore College community plan to protest a lecture Wednesday night by former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft. At least one person has already made their feelings known by drawing a swastika on a sign promoting Ashcroft's appearance. Some think the conservative Ashcroft at Skidmore is out of place, but all think drawing a swastika on an Ashcroft poster was out of line.

aaron russo was target of assassination
from new york times: A hedge fund manager and art collector from New York testified under immunity Tuesday that Anthony Pellicano, the Hollywood private detective accused of wiretapping and racketeering, had once offered to have a movie producer killed for him. Adam D. Sender, the owner of Exis Capital, a hedge fund that at one point had more than $1 billion in assets, said in Federal District Court here that he had paid Mr. Pellicano about $500,000 to investigate Aaron Russo, a producer and onetime talent manager whose film credits included “Trading Places.” Mr. Russo died of cancer last year.

outside the box #145 & 146

here is the latest episode of "outside the box," hosted by alex ansary.
it was originally broadcast by portland community media on march 20, 2008.

outside the box #146

here is the latest episode of "outside the box," hosted by alex ansary.
it was originally broadcast by portland community media on march 27, 2008.

and here are the latest episodes of "outside the box" on we the people radio network...
from april 2, 2008.
stream: m3u & ram or download: hour1 & hour2

from march 29, 2008.
stream: m3u & ram or download: hour1 & hour2

from march 26, 2008.
stream: m3u & ram or download: hour1 & hour2

from march 22, 2008.
stream: m3u & ram or download: hour1 & hour2

from march 19, 2008.
stream: m3u & ram or download: hour1 & hour2

a glimpse into the wilderness awareness school

from alex ansary: Alex Ansary presents a look at some of the skills you can develop at the Wilderness Awareness School located in Duvall, Washington. In this video, you will be introduced to several arts such as percussion flaking, fire making, and identifying and harvesting medicinal and edible plants. You can learn more about the school at www.wildernessawareness.org.

9/11: ventura, saddam, mukasey, olson & specter

jesse ventura joins the 9/11 truth movement
from 9/11 blogger: Jesse Ventura tells Alex Jones that he could kick himself for believing the official 9/11 story at first and wishes he would have raised more questions, questions that still haven't been answered to his satisfaction.

update: the ap picks up the story!

saddam tapes: cia/mossad behind wtc93?
from newsweek: Perhaps most revealing of all was a tape of Saddam's conversations with his ministers after the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993 - a plot linked to a group of Islamic radicals, one of whom, Abdul Rahman Yasin, was an Iraqi-American who fled to Baghdad after the attack... But the newly discovered tape shows that Saddam and his ministers were puzzled by the bombing and wondered whether the "Zionists" or U.S. intelligence were secretly behind it.

mukasey hints US had attack warning before 9/11
from paul joseph watson: During a speech at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on Thursday, Attorney General Michael Mukasey tacitly admitted that the U.S. government intercepted a call about 9/11 - before 9/11. Before the 2001 terrorist attacks, he said, "we knew that there had been a call from someplace that was known to be a safe house in Afghanistan and we knew that it came to the United States. We didn't know precisely where it went," reports the San Francisco Chronicle.

update: top dems demand mukasey provide 9/11 memorandum

'9/11 contradictions' excerpt: 3 official denials of ted olson's report of calls from barbara olson
from david ray griffin: Late in the day on 9/11, CNN put out a story that began: “Barbara Olson, a conservative commentator and attorney, alerted her husband, Solicitor General Ted Olson, that the plane she was on was being hijacked Tuesday morning, Ted Olson told CNN.” ... Ted Olson’s report was... the sole source of the widely accepted idea that the hijackers had box cutters. However, although Ted Olson’s report of phone calls from his wife has been a central pillar of the official account of 9/11, this report has been completely undermined.

specter confirms able danger & anthrax coverups
from 9/11 blogger: Questions posed by members of Philly 9/11 Truth to Senator Arlen Specter about the pre-9/11 military intelligence program Able Danger and the post-9/11 anthrax attacks were responded to with a fair degree of candidacy.

al-qaeda: 9/11 conspiracy theories ridiculous