POISON! POISON! Damn, am I pissed.

[mikal haley]

Oh yeah. So: an American comic turned politician named Al Franken seems on the verge of being elected. I like that. I've been a fan of his sort of intellectual comedy since I needed a babysitter.But his name reminds me of a conspiracy theory that came up and subsided on the internet a few years ago...people couldn't really DO anything about it. If Franken's gonna be an elected official, I have to be easy and find a different way to talk about it.It's the sick sort of stuff that makes me want to use the gutter curse words I grew up with. I'll refrain for now.It really has more to do with Don Rumsfeld anyway.So this will be the last time I PERSONALLY use this word: "Franken-Food."It refers to the disturbing process of genetically modifying seeds that was done, reportedly, by some major corporations -- two names that come to mind are StarLink and MONSANTO.DISTURBING CHAIN OF CAUSAL FACTORSOk. So the OTHER conspiracy theory is that: after Don Rumsfeld was ANNOUNCED by the Bush Administration that he was no longer part of the cabinet, that he had been put out? The theory is that he simply got a secret office deeper in the White House-connected complex of buildings that go south to Virginia...a bigger staff, and a job like he had before but even more in charge. Can I confirm that?I can't confirm a LOT of the stuff I read on the internet. I just know that the corporate media of the world will generally NOT report on wrongdoing by their bosses...United States Department of DefenseNews TranscriptSecretary Rumsfeld Media Availability En Route to Chile[Excerpt on DARPA'S Total Information Awareness program]November 18, 2002[...]Q: [Admiral Poindexter?]Rumsfeld: Well, you know it recalls to memory the front-page stories across the nation about weapons in space last year. The next morning I was prepared to brief about the space commissions organizational recommendation. Cartoons followed, op-ed pieces followed.Then of course when the military commissions came up, the immediate response was, I think it was something like "oh summary executions, torture!" I can't imagine who would say something like that. But that is what was said and "what has happened?" We've had a perfectly rational group of very distinguished legal experts, both political parties of all political persuasions, have come together to advise us and we've made our announcements of how we're going to plan on how to handle these things if and when somebody is heaved over the transit to us, and everyone's now relaxed.And then there was the office of strategic influence. You may recall that. And "oh my goodness gracious isn't that terrible, Henny Penny the sky is going to fall." I went down that next day and said fine, if you want to savage this thing fine I'll give you the corpse. There's the name. You can have the name, but I'm gonna keep doing every single thing that needs to be done and I have.That was intended to be done by that office is being done by that office, NOT by that office in other ways.Q: (inaudible)Rumsfeld: Now. We're now into a new one of these where people are, ready shoot, aim. I would recommend that people take a nice big deep breath and look at the pattern in the past and rather than assuming the worst, they get their sea legs, make some inquiries, learn something.Now, the short answer to your question is no, I can't explain it. I don't know much about it. And what I do know, I'm not sure I understand completely which is not surprising. I spent a good chunk of my recent life, a couple of decades in defense development, in technologies, I'm sorry Bryan...in pharmaceuticals, in electronics.What you do is take money and invest it in forward-looking things, in things that you don't know much about. Things that may not ever happen, but things if they do happen might very well be helpful. And as you go down that road, very often there are non-intuitive paths that you end up following that you didn't understand when you began.Indeed in pharmaceutical research, if you go back, much of what we benefit from today was arrived at serendipitously. It was not something that someone set out to do. You take intelligent people, give them a focus and direction and provide them with some money.Now what is going on in DARPA? DARPA was the beginnings of the Internet. When the network began the people doing it had no idea that what would evolve would be what we see today. It never crossed their minds.Package switching and various things came as a result of various contracts with RAND. It's been an amazing thing in the world. What is going on in DARPA today is exactly that kind of activity. You've got a bunch of very talented people working internally, dealing a lot of talented people outside the institution, taking some small fraction of the taxpayers money, investing it and to see if we can't find ways to do things better.One of the tasks that you'll find in DARPA, meaning the Defense Advanced Research and Development. What is the A?Whitman: Agency.Rumsfeld: Of course, that was a test to see if you are as sharp as Torie. And indeed you are. I lost one letter in another of a billion acronyms.We gave that to them as an assignment of thinking through what can we do to help on the war on terrorism? What can we begin thinking through?What happens is some of the things that evolve never reach fruition. Some of the things that evolve reach fruition, but they're not appropriate for anyone in government. Some of the things evolve, reach fruition and in fact may be more appropriate for the Department of Transportation dealing with the global war on terrorism or they may be more helpful to the Department of Homeland Security or the FBI or somebody else. Then that's where they go. In some cases they help the Department of Defense through its statutory responsibilities.I do not believe there have been a number of editorials I have seen one editorial and one op-ed piece and on the other hand I don't read them but if there are more, Bryan, I would like to see them.Q: Did you see the one in the Early Bird?Rumsfeld: That's the only one that exists to my knowledge. Let me put a cap on this. In the event any sensitive issue were to evolve, one looking at the past 22 months, a reasonable person, might reasonably expect that the administration, that the Department of Defense would have discovered it and recognized it and handled it appropriately, by getting the kind of advice and counsel like I did with respect to commissions.So, the hype and the alarm approach, it seems to me is a disservice to the public and the public need not be told "oh my goodness gracious this is terrible, we're doing some research and development, which hasn't gotten very far and which we don't know what it will produce and if it ever produces anything it could be just terrible." I mean that is not a very sophisticated message. It's kind of like summary executions.Q: We are not making the Public comfortable here.Rumsfeld: If I haven't answered that I don't have control of the English language. I mean the fact of the matter is, Charlie, DARPA doesn't do anything like that. DARPA does research and development, that's why they're there. If something comes up -- let's say they discovered something perfectly terrible. They really did, instead of just pretend, lets say they really come up with something that was just so fundamentally horrible -- Is your question what would we do with that?Q: (inaudible)Rumsfeld: I don't know. I began by admitting my ignorance. I am not knowledgeable about the dozens and dozens and dozens of things that are going on in DARPA.I have met Poindexter. I don't remember him much though. I had known him years and years and years ago when he was [in] a junior position and he explained to me what he was doing at DARPA but it was a casual conversation. I haven't been briefed on it; I'm not knowledgeable about it. Anyone who is concerned ought not be. Anyone with any concern ought to be able to sleep well tonight. Nothing terrible is going to happen.=====================================================WHENEVER RUMSFELD DENIES SOMETHINGa part of me wants to defecate with FEAR.========================================================I am very sorry.But when I look at the long-range implications of Rumsfeld and what he is capable of I want to scream AAAAAAAA MAD SCIENTIST HE'S INSANE, HE HATES US ALL RUN SCREAM AAAAAbecause of his brags about what he is trained in.DONALD RUMSFELD: "I spent a good chunk of my recent life, a couple of decades in defense development, in technologies(...)in pharmaceuticals, in electronics."i wonder if anyone else here has found that they suddenly have found themselves estranged from dear friends who liked DIET PEPSI?AAAAAAA A MAD SCIENTIST~ HE HAS CREATED EVIL POISON AND EVIL ARTIFICIAL BRAINWAVES, HE WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD AND HE DOESN'T LOVE ANY OF US AAAAAAi want to panic. Instead I stay really calm.But the combination:defense developmenttechnologiespharmeceuticalselectronicsRUMSFELD is famous for being the head of the company that put a "special ingredient" into Diet Pepsi that turns into formaldehyde in the body. I have observed more than one person that I love dearly glug the stuff down like it was spring water, and then watch them become bloated physically and psychologically almost impossible to get along with. Diet Pepsi!If SOMEONE wanted to create, say, some comic book ninja two stage poison (the candle has one sort of poison, and there is a powder in the wine. The ninja drinks wine with the victim -- but then leaves them with a book to read before dark, knowing that they will have to light the poison candle...)Also: Don Rumsfeld oversaw the development of the, uh, Vehicle Mounted Active Denial System, or what the Taliban call "the American death ray."ACTIVE DENIAL???the technology works on wavelengths very similar to the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program.EVERY being on the planet has an aura. The aurora borealis -- what the H. A. A. R. P. is allegedly "researching" - is the planet's electromagnetic "aura"...each human being's body generates,along with body heat, an electromagnetic aura. Inside our brains, electricity, the same thing we see in thunderstorms -- is moving back and forth between brain cells. Mr Rumsfeld used this to his advantage in constructing the H. A. A. R. P.I don't believe, incidentally, in "mind control" -- in that -- no one can control another's mind.But -- brain ability can be perverted. Tampered with. Altered artificially and DAMPENED -- so that if someone can hypnotize another -- or use technology to stop people from thinking about certain subjects..."that's too deep for this early in the morning..." "i can't do anything about that anyway..." "yeah, I know but big deal?"forms of active denial...

WHAT I AM SUGGESTING is a rough overall "synopsis" of how different technologies and programmes work together to basically [i]dull minds globally[/i].i will add more later. I am exhausted...I sort of feel like this!