all ur cargo are belong to us.
'feds radiating americans'?
mobile x-ray vans hit us streetsas an antiterror measure, the us government has deployed mobile x-ray technology to randomly scan cars and trucks.
Just thought I would bring forth some info from long ago that was discussed here. This is a post from Ohio Cowboy.
I did stumble across this picture from the site. We are having our freedoms stripped from us, and there will be nothing we can do about it. I am all for catching criminals, but it seems that people will feel like they are walking on eggshells in their own home, and in their daily lives, knowing they are being watched. This will not provide for a healthy environment.
all ur cargo are belong to us.
'feds radiating americans'?
mobile x-ray vans hit us streetsas an antiterror measure, the us government has deployed mobile x-ray technology to randomly scan cars and trucks.
ZBV in action
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The Z-Backscatter vans can scan vehicles while the system itself is moving, scanning an entire row of parked cars in a single pass-through and producing clear images. They can also be operated in stationary mode by parking the system and producing X-ray images of vehicles as they pass by. In high-threat areas, a stationary mode van can even be operated remotely from up to 500 meters/ 0.3 miles away.
The technology’s abilities include near-photo quality views through clothes when used in airport screening systems, which caused something of a privacy uproar. Questions have also been raised re: the health risks to those scanned, which may well be ignored in situations of war or insurrection, but become a live issue when proposed as an requirement for popular activities like airline travel.
Jan 2/08: AS&E announces “a multi-million dollar order” for the OmniView™ Gantry system and the Z Backscatter Van™ (ZBV) from its local distributor in Italy, AUS.TECH S.p.A. The systems will be deployed to inspect cargo and vehicles entering a major, high-volume Italian port. The OmniView Gantry combines 6.0 MeV high-energy transmission with 3 Z-Backscatter imaging modules to provide left, right, and top-views.
Oct 10/07:AS&E announces that the U.S Government has purchased its first Z Portal™ drive-through screening system with three Z Backscatter imaging modules (left, right, and top-view) and Forwardscatter™ technology, and reordered 3 Z-Backscatter™ Vans (ZBV), for inspecting trucks and passenger cars in high-volume traffic areas. The contracts are valued at $3.9 million, and include installation, and operator training.
With this order, AS&E states that “over 300 ZBVs will be deployed worldwide for force protection, VIP and event security, law enforcement, and port and border security.”
People are unknowingly being scanned on the highway. These things can also go into neighborhoods and scan your homes.
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There is more information here: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/social/current/152029/1/You-can-be-spied-on-even-when-your-cellphone-is-off
anyone who deeply believes in a "free press" is very naive in my opinion.
for example, consider how stories about scandal suddenly appear out of nowhere after candidates actually start running.
i am also aware of how surprizing revelations appear in european newspapers about figures in the us - while little or nothing is reported in the american press.
Crystal pods will be coming to pick up some of us.
i googled an old aquaintance recently.
awhile back she had attended julliard on scholarship.
the last i had heard of her, she was breaking in and getting parts with a prestigious theatre company.
I often read ex-JWs bemoaning the fact of losing out on opportunities because of WT or parents enforcing WT dictates. But this person had all kind of opportunities at her feet and made a choice that many would see as a deliberate failure. Still waiting for answers to all my questions as to "why".
i am sure you have read ezikiels story of the watchman, jehovahs wittnesses use this example often as the reason for prophecy and preaching, it is a comendable thing to have a alert man standing watch over your home peace of mind is a good thing.
but if this man sounds a warning of posible danger everyone in the home becomes alert and takes steps to protect themselves!.
but what if the watchman gives an alert and everybody goes on the alert and nothing happens?
arimatthewsdavies:
We are to be our own watchmen! we are to be responsable ourselves!
LET us not trust our lives to the watchman who has become the undertaker.
but instead lets all stand firmly doing what we know is right let us encourage our fellowman to do the same.
Profound. Exactly right.
kitaro - silk road.
when i was a junior high school student, i liked this japanese artist's music.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8izpwkq-u8.
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I LOVE KITARO!
I started listening to Kitaro in the mid 80's.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/09/27/book_details_motives_for_suicide_at_harvard/?page=1.
what he left behind: a 1,905-page suicide noteauthor described nihilistic outlookby david abel, globe staff | september 27, 2010. in the end, no one really knows what led mitchell heisman, an erudite, wry, handsome 35-year-old, to walk into harvard yard on the holiest day in his faith and fire one shot from a silver revolver into his right temple, on the top step of memorial church, where hundreds gathered to observe the jewish day of atonement.. but if the 1,905-page suicide note he left is to be believed a work he spent five years honing and that his family and others received in a posthumous e-mail after his suicide last saturday morning on yom kippur heisman took his life as part of a philosophical exploration he called an experiment in nihilism.. at the end of his note, a dense, scholarly work with 1,433 footnotes, a 20-page bibliography, and more than 1,700 references to god and 200 references to the german philosopher friedrich nietzsche, heisman sums up his experiment:.
every word, every thought, and every emotion come back to one core problem: life is meaningless, he wrote.
If only he had published before making this tragic decision, and opened himself up to others who could weigh and debate these thoughts, perhaps he would have come to a different conclusion. This is one reason I think it is so important to share our innermost thoughts while we have this cover of anonimity. We need one another to lift us, to pull us back from the depths of despair sometimes. Perhaps someone could have had a different insight that could have influenced his direction and reasoning. It's not good to keep everything bottled up inside.
I am sorry for his family and for those who had to see this. Suicide is always a very selfish act. The fact that he chose to do this publicly in front of hundreds of people, committing this horrible scene to their memories forever is unforgiveable. I hope no children were there.
I don't go for free stuff in grocery stores. They must think we are all really dumb.
For instance, if I go to XXXX store they have "Buy One/Get one FREE". Potato chips are $5.oo for the first bag, the second is free.
But if you go over to XXXXXX store they are having a "HALF PRICE" sale. Potato chips are $2.50 for a bag.
So what's the damn difference?
And people at both stores walk out thinking they got a deal. Go figure.
What are some of the things you have gotton? Coupons? Products? Do they ever ask for your opinion on the stuff they send you?
Beware the "freestuff". There is usually some marketing research that you will have to provide. Some companies will give you a new free product to try for a month, but then they want your phone number and address on the pretext of calling you about it in a month to see if it worked or how you liked it.
I remember years ago, there was a company giving out a new bug spray that was supposed to have some birth control type chemical in it for roaches. My friend would not take the free offer and used the excuse "I'm Catholic and don't believe in birth control" (even for bugs!!!)
Anyway, I think some of it is for test market and to get people's reactions.
I don't like the big brother aspect of it with marketing agencies having my personal info or location. Because then you start getting a lot of junk mail, soliciting phone calls and spam email. You never know where it comes from or how they got your name, but a lot of these free things where you have to give your info have "adhesions" on them...and your info is shared with other companies who send the junk mail and phone calls.
