Virginia To Outlaw The Mark Of The Beast

Posted in stranger than fiction on February 11th, 2010

The House of Delegates is scheduled to vote Wednesday on a bill that would protect Virginians from attempts by employers or insurance companies to implant microchips in their bodies against their will.

It might also save humanity from the antichrist, some supporters think.

Del. Mark L. Cole (R-Fredericksburg), the bill’s sponsor, said that privacy issues are the chief concern behind his attempt to criminalize the involuntary implantation of microchips. But he also said he shared concerns that the devices could someday be used as the “mark of the beast” described in the Book of Revelation.

“My understanding — I’m not a theologian — but there’s a prophecy in the Bible that says you’ll have to receive a mark, or you can neither buy nor sell things in end times,” Cole said. “Some people think these computer chips might be that mark.”

Read more at: Human microchips seen by some in Virginia House as device of antichrist (Washington Post)

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Pentagon Wants to Create Immortal Synthetic Soldiers

Posted in US government, stranger than fiction on February 7th, 2010


The Pentagon’s mad science arm may have come up with its most radical project yet. Darpa is looking to re-write the laws of evolution to the military’s advantage, creating “synthetic organisms” that can live forever — or can be killed with the flick of a molecular switch.

As part of its budget for the next year, Darpa is investing $6 million into a project called BioDesign, with the goal of eliminating “the randomness of natural evolutionary advancement.” The plan would assemble the latest bio-tech knowledge to come up with living, breathing creatures that are genetically engineered to “produce the intended biological effect.” Darpa wants the organisms to be fortified with molecules that bolster cell resistance to death, so that the lab-monsters can “ultimately be programmed to live indefinitely.”

Pentagon Looks to Breed Immortal ‘Synthetic Organisms,’ Molecular Kill-Switch Included (Wired)

DARPA Wants to Override Evolution to Make Immortal Synthetic Organisms (Popular Science)

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Want to Overthrow the US Government? You’d Better Have a Permit!

Posted in US government, stranger than fiction on February 6th, 2010

In South Carolina, if you are interested in overthrowing the US Government you need to register first.  The SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES REGISTRATION ACT is now a law in the State of South Carolina. The law says:

Every member of a subversive organization, or an organization subject to foreign control, every foreign agent and every person who advocates, teaches, advises or practices the duty, necessity or propriety of controlling, conducting, seizing or overthrowing the government of the United States, of this State or of any political subdivision thereof by force or violence or other unlawful means, who resides, transacts any business or attempts to influence political action in this State, shall register with the Secretary of State on the forms and at the times prescribed by him.

and

Any organization or person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than twenty-five thousand dollars or imprisonment for not more than ten years, or by both fine and imprisonment.

Soon you might see the sign at the border reading, “All prospective terrorists must possess a permit

Apply for your permit here (pdf)

Please submit in duplicate with $5 processing fee.

No joke: South Carolina now requires ’subversives’ to register (Rawstory.com)

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Ghost Ships Not Just For The Movies Anymore

Posted in US government, stranger than fiction on February 3rd, 2010

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technology for use by the military, have a bizarre new job ahead of themselves. They are planning to produce an entirely unmanned, automatic ghost ship to cruise the oceans of the world for months or years on end without the need of any human contact.

They are calling the new project Anti-submarine warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV), and intend to assemble “an X-ship founded on the assumption that no person steps aboard at any point in its operating cycle”. The uncrewed vessel would be capable of amazing range and endurance.  It could go for “global, months long deployments with no underway human maintenance”, criss crossing oceans largely without any human input .

US plans crewless automated ghost-frigates (The Register)

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Was Nixon Stalking Frank Sinatra?

Posted in stranger than fiction on January 30th, 2010

When planning for the reelection bid of President Richard Nixon, his aides plotted the “seduction” of Frank Sinatra, who was viewed as a source of “massive financial resources,” and a man who “controls a great number of celebrities, entertainers and other public figures.”

According to memos released by the National Archives,  the plan to woo Sinatra was detailed in a confidential “eyes only” October 1971 memo from Charles Colson to H.R. Haldeman, Nixon’s chief of staff.

The several month long campaign worked like a charm. Not only did the Tricky Dick and Ol’ Blue Eyes enjoy a fateful first date, their on-again, off-again romance lasted for years.

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