Wednesday, January 4, 2006

'Savage'. Savage is actually Michael's pen name (blab name?). Maybe he should have chosen Lunatic or Monster. I've heard him call for nuking all Arabs. Indeed, he reminds me of what a radio commissar must have sounded like, urging the destruction... By Lew Rockwell. [LewRockwell.com Blog] I always thought his name was remarkably appropriate, but I didn't realize he'd deliberately chosen it. Apparently he believes in truth in advertising, like that Mugabe lieutenant who called himself "Hitler." comment () trackback ()  9:13:15 PM     One More Reason to Love Vermont (Biotech Crop Edition). The Vermont House of Representatives has rejected the misnamed "Farmer Protection Act" that would have imposed strict liability for "contamination"... [Hit and Run] The last time I was in Vermont (four and a half years ago) I noticed that the majority of the crops (and there were quite a few) growing along the highway between Burlington and Rutland were biotech crops, and advertised the fact. comment () trackback ()  8:41:15 PM     Abramoff and the Bush Doctrine. Abramoff's disclosure of volumes/decades of "daily wrap" documentation that detail ubiquitous government corruption will be the death knell for the US effort in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as the entire Bush Doctrine. On its present course, the entire Republican machine is in the process of flying apart. Of course, if you have a very pessimistic view of our government (and the Republicans), Iran is now squarely on the front burner. The grainy gun camera images of the Iranian bunker buster strikes will be on CNN in H hour minus... [John Robb's Weblog] It's worse than that. The Democrats have the same incentive to start a war to take people's minds off corruption, and they've done it before. comment () trackback ()  8:20:07 PM     RFID Zapper. This is an interesting demonstration project: a hand-held device that disables passive RFID tags. There are several ways to deactivate RFID-Tags. One that might be offered by the industries are RFID-deactivators, which will send the RFID-Tag to sleep. A problem with this method is, that it is not permanent, the RFID-Tag can be reactivated (probably without your knowledge). Several ways of permanently deactivating RFID-Tags are know, e.g. cutting off the antenna from the actual microchip or overloading and literally frying the RFID-Tag by placing it in a common microwave-oven for even very short periods of time. Unfortunately both methods aren't suitable for the destruction of RFID-Tags in clothes: cutting off the antenna would require to damage the piece of cloth, while frying the chips is likely to cause a short but potent flame, which would damage most textiles or even set them on fire. The RFID-Zapper solves this dilemma. Basically it copies the mircowave-oven-method, but in a much smaller scale. It generates a strong electromagnetic field with a coil, which should be placed as near to the target-RFID-Tag as possible. The RFID-Tag then will recive a strong shock of energy comparable with an EMP and some part of it will blow, most likely the capacitator, thus deactivating the chip forever. An obvious application would be to disable the RFID chip on your passport, but this kind of thing will probably be more popular with professional shoplifters. [Schneier on Security] I'd pay for such a device as a commercial product. comment () trackback ()  8:08:50 PM     # Richard Cowan at Marijuana News - Steve Kubby Is the Only One In This Story Who Has NOT Broken The Law, But He Faces the Death Penalty - Steve Kubby has been living in British Columbia for quite a while, where he can take the medicine, cannabis, that keeps his rare adrenal cancer under control. Unless he is granted a stay at his January 9 hearing, he will be turned over to Placer County, California pigs on January 12, and put in jail with no bail and no medicine. He will likely die within a few days. Personally, I think it's time to hunt down and kill every legislator who ever voted for a "law" criminalizing the sale or possession of any drug, every cop who ever arrested anybody for breaking such a bogus "law", and every judge who ever prevented a proper defense in a drug war case. They are all conspirators in a massive crime against humanity. But I'm not volunteering to start the shooting. Guess that makes me a hypocrite, or at least a coward. More at kubby.com. [clairefiles] Two of the leading cancer specialists in the US and Canada have confirmed that Kubby has malignant pheochromocytoma, a very rare form of adrenal cancer, and that only cannabis has kept him alive for decades longer than is typical in such cases. From 1999, see Prominent Cancer Specialist Says Steve Kubby Should Be Studied, Not Jailed;His Case Has Major Medical Implications. Nonetheless, he is under a Canadian departure order that will deliver him to the US authorities on January 12, 2006, unless a stay is granted in a hearing on January 9th. He will be jailed on a "no-bail warrant" and eventually transported to Placer County, California. Of course, he could also be held on federal flight charges and the US government does not even recognize the existence of medical cannabis, and denies that there is even a right to mention it in a US federal court. See Facing January 12th Expulsion From Canada, The Kubbys Launch Legal Assault On Refugee Process. Now Is The Time For Kubby's Supporters -- And Friends Of Freedom Everywhere -- To Rally Behind Them. Consequently, within hours of being taken by the US, Kubby will suffer excruciating headaches, nausea and other symptoms of soaring blood pressure caused by unpredictable spikes in his adrenaline levels. See A Critique of the Kubby Refugee Ruling: What Is It About Dead That You Don't Understand? Within a few more days -- or perhaps just hours -- he will suffer irreversible kidney damage, and/or blindness and a stroke. Then, if he is lucky, he will die. Steve Tuck, another medical cannabis patient who was delivered to US authorities and held a week without any medication, said that he would rather have died than endure even a few more weeks of such torture, and his need for cannabis is not as absolute as Kubby's. And yet, no one seems to care, because Kubby is a medical cannabis patient, and serious people simply cannot allow themselves to be seen taking the cannabis issues seriously. Otherwise, their status as "serious people" might be in danger. For an improbable exception, see WorldNetDaily Continues Its Critique of the Drug War with An Article by Steve Kubby: "Bill Of Rights Is The Cure For Government Disease." Outstanding! ... If Steve Kubby dies, the real murderers will be those who remain silent. [End the War on Freedom] comment () trackback ()  7:49:21 PM

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