The shock of discovering that most of the power in the world is held by ignorant and greedy people can really bum you out at first; but after you’ve lived with it a few decades, it becomes, like cancer and other plagues, just another problem that we will solve eventually if we keep working at [...]
Do you believe everything you know? Do you know everything you hold as a belief?
We are forced to take irrelevant factoids for granted and start buying into other peoples’ ideas, sooner or later – how much we have left of ourselves at the end of the day is a testament only to our perseverance.
We are [...]
Somewhere, nestled in-between a food court and a fashionable shoe store, a new kind of propaganda awaits the consciousness of impressionable (and bored) teenagers: the new US Army Experience Center.
Pay no attention to the man (you know, the one with the gun, orders to seek and destroy, Modular Lightweight Load-bearing Equipment, et cetera) behind the [...]
It’s no secret that the FDA has ties to the pharmaceutical industry (even if they claim that it does not effect their behavior) - consider Donald Rumsfeld, former CEO of Searle Pharmaceuticals (he was the head honcho when aspartame (NutraSweet) passed FDA approval, despite outcry from doctors who had performed research and determined that the [...]
Gavin Gibbons, apparently a representative of the National Fisheries Institute, happened upon my blog. I can’t imagine what he would be interested in, aside from adding his comments to my Toxic Fish is Big Business post.
Apparently he was in a hurry and could not be bothered to read the post (if he had, he might [...]
For those who have not been following the long story of lies and government corruption adjunct to tuna fish:
Tuna is big business. Americans eat nearly three pounds of canned tuna per capita every year, making it the nation’s second most popular seafood (behind shrimp). The government promotes it via school lunch programs, wic (the federal [...]
It is official… you are not alone. You are not anonymous. You are watched.
If you want to see how ThorpeGlen’s systems work for yourself, just log on to https://81.143.55.50:58443; all you need to do is figure out a username and password. Who isn’t a spy now?
For I am The Operator, your Operator, a kind Operator, a spiteful and a jealous Operator…
… an Operator who is not a cheesy web search directory, nor another cheesy web search directory, nor a redirect to an incomplete biking, hiking, and geocaching resource.
You will probably also notice that this is “Operator Speaking” and not [...]
A wise piece of general internet etiquette reads: “Do not feed the trolls.” One would do well to remember this…
… but what of the petty, manipulative people you meet in your everyday existence? What of the pathological liars, the drama queens, the shifty gossips, and the parasitic leeches who pass themselves off as salesmen?
I do [...]
There has never been a better time to be a person. The bright minds and busy hands behind technology will never cease to bring us edifying new inventions perfectly-suited to the purpose of spreading love and joy.
In an era when the only way to cow terr’rists is by being the biggest, meanest, bomb-droppingest terr’rist on [...]
