In an apparent tribute to Phillip K. Dick, The FDA has granted a company in the States the ability to implant chips in the heads of humans for the supposed purpose of helping paralyzed people.
But the head of the company used to work for DARPA, the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, a military organization openly working on Human Assisted Neural Devices in the hopes of creating soldiers who can continue to fight in situations of extreem stress, possibly without food or sleep.
Here is a page that everyone should read. It's a list of all DARPA's current projects on humans.
Modern cultish figureheads always fascinate me. I just learned of this man Joseph Kony, who runs the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda. The army is mostly made up of abducted children and the warriors are mostly child aged. He claims to want to run Uganda by the Ten Commandment plus another ten his prostitute cousin wrote such as, "Thou shall not have any kinds of charms or remains of small sticks in your pocket, including also the small piece used as a toothbrush." He is possessed by spirits who help him run his people.
They number in the thousands and the government has been forced to negotiate with them. So they're actually becoming a "legitimate" political party. Apparently more than 1 in 10 children in Northern Uganda have been abducted.
Also there's just one ethnic group who make up the LRA, the Acholi. AND the REASON, these people are so war prone, is because when "the British ruled the nation, they mandated that all soldiers had to be over 6 feet tall. Unlike the rest of Uganda's population, which are short and squat, the Acholi are tall and slim — and the Acholi parlayed their positions in the military into subjugating their peers."
Plus they're cannibals.
Fascinating.
An excerpt from the article below,
" According to U.N. documents, Kony's imagined spirits include a Sudanese female Chief of Operations; a Chinese Deputy Chief, Ing Chu, who commands an imaginary jeep battalion; an American named King Bruce, reportedly after martial arts film star Bruce Lee; another American named Jim Brickey, who fights with Kony's troops as long as they obey his commands, and the spirit of Juma Oris, the deceased interior minister under former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin.
Kony is a former altar boy and was part of an earlier Christian fundamentalist rebel movement, the Holy Spirit Movement, which was founded in 1986 by a former prostitute, Alice Lakwena. But that movement came to a quick end — no doubt because Lakwena promised her followers immunity from the bullets of government troops."
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/uganda021104.html
Under the new Unborn Victims of Violence Act, there is a high potential for the law to be used against women who unintentionally harm their own baby even when they have full intentions of having the baby. North Carolina already has a feticide law on the books and, according to a *great* article by Lynn M. Paltrow on TomPain.com, "scores" of women who are addicted to drugs have been charged with child abuse when they do the blood test after delivery. Some have been dragged to jail while still bleeding. Get excited, this law is coming to the whole country. One woman is serving a 12 year sentence for the death of her child and she would have gotten a 2 year sentence for having a late term abortion. In essence this makes getting pregnant illegal if you are a junkie or alcoholic. And then of course, this will make abortions more prevalent.
My friend Francis sent me this press release about female suicide bombers and wondered:
"what the hell do women suicide bombers get in that grand islamic heaven? the men get 40 black eyed virgins, and the women get.. 40 more layers over their faces? 40 more levels demoted from men? or do they get to walk outside without their face covered for 40 minutes? i'm going to read the koran to find out."
Suicide Bomber Kills Man in Uzbek City of Bukhara, AP Reports 2004-04-01 10:28 (New York)
By Heather Langan
April 1 (Bloomberg) -- A female suicide bomber killed a man today in the Uzbek city of Bukhara, the U.K.'s Sky News cited the Associated Press as saying.
The bomber survived the explosion, Sky said, citing AP.
Attacks this week in the central Asian nation are directly linked to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network, AP cited Ilya Pyagay, deputy anti-terrorism chief at the Uzbek Interior Ministry, as saying earlier today.
A series of attacks killed at least 43 people in the country, including 19 who died in bomb blasts and shootings on Monday in the capital, Tashkent, and Bukhara, an ancient desert city that is one of Uzbekistan's prime tourist attractions. The attacks were the worst in the former Soviet republic since 1999.
I'm thinking this is christian propaganda to make them feel good about ruling the country right now. But it's scary:
DID YOU KNOW?
As you walk up the steps to the building which houses the U.S. Supreme Court you can see near the top of the building a row of the world's law givers and each one is facing one in the middle who is facing forward with a full frontal view - it is Moses and he is holding the Ten Commandments!
As you enter the Supreme Court courtroom, the two huge oak doors have the Ten Commandments engraved on each lower portion of each door.
As you sit inside the courtroom, you can see the wall, right above where the Supreme Court judges sit, a display of the Ten Commandments!
There are Bible verses etched in stone all over the Federal Buildings and Monuments in Washington, D.C.
James Madison, the fourth president, known as "The Father of Our Constitution" made the following statement "We have staked the whole of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self- government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God."
Patrick Henry, that patriot and Founding Father of our country said, It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists but by Christians, not on religions but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ".
Every session of Congress begins with a prayer by a paid preacher,whose salary has been paid by the taxpayer since 1777.
Fifty-two of the 55 founders of the Constitution were members of the established orthodox churches in the colonies.
Thomas Jefferson worried that the Courts would overstep their authority and instead of interpreting the law would begin making law...an oligarchy....the rule of few over many.
The very first Supreme Court Justice, John Jay, said, "Americans should select and prefer Christians as their rulers." How, then, have we gotten to the point that everything we have done for 220 years in this country is now suddenly wrong and unconstitutional?
Please forward this to everyone you can. Lets put it around the world and let the world see and remember what this great country was built on.
In God we trust!
National motto of the United States of America
My friend David's response to Bush's recent anti-female legislation.
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FETII MANIFESTO
republicans do not go far enough. they should give fetuses the right to vote as well as simple fetal rights "to life". in fact, our electoral system simply excludes the right for fetii to organize into collective political units (for instance, political parties, nonprofits). also, what about fetal access to institutions like university and the workforce?
fetii, you have nothing to lose but your chains! leave behind your sheltered uterine oppressed existence and LEAVE THE WOMB!
come on, its time to grow up and move on.
WE'RE ALL INDIVIDUALS! if we want our rights as fetuses, we have to organize that way across the board.
signed,
george w. bush
(president and founder, Grown-Up Fetii For A Better America, GUFFABA)