Excited Delirium

Stories about Excited Delirium, the Shock Economy and a little fiction here and there.

Monthly Archives: January 2008

Canada – Officials Cave to Pressure

It was very exciting to see that our government was ready to make a statement about the abuses of two countries: the US and Israel. For a brief moment, we had taken the high road and it seemed like we were going to finally show the world that we had a spine. The source of the direction was with a training document that would help officials identify abuses of citizens in foreign jails.

Ooops! Nope. We just caved like a house of cards. With just a tweak of pressure, the original document that identified countries that were abusing human rights, we changed our stance and the documents were changed:
http://therealnews.com/web/index.php?thisdataswitch=0&thisid=830&thisview=item

According to Maxine Bernier, the policy document will be rewritten and apologies were issued for the "misprint".

Booooooo!

Shock Iraq – 935 Lies Surrounding Invasion Rationale

This article really shouldn’t come as a surprise. Not when there’s money to be made.

This is a very slow site (likely due to unforeseen millions of instant pageviews), but worth it once it loads:
http://www.publicintegrity.org/WarCard/

Here’s another link with a synopsis:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080123/ap_on_go_pr_wh/misinformation_study

Unfortunately for all of us, the s**t is hitting the fan now in the form of "market correction".

Patent of Taser-proof clothing?

It’s hard to imagine an entire industry materializing from the looming threat of being tasered just because you didn’t use the drive through or for some other stupid reason, but here goes:
Man Files Patent for Taser-Proof Clothing
http://www.geekologie.com/2007/11/man_files_patent_for_taserproo.php

US Economy in Freefall?

It looks like the market is going to open on a very negative note this morning:
"Futures point to sharply lower open Tuesday"

Making this "Red Tuesday" instead of Blue Monday .

Perhaps this is finally happening because of this:
Missing Trillions
where trillions of dollars have been recorded as missing and trillions more are disappearing?

Or perhaps because of this:
Record Bonuses Paid to Wall Street Execs
where the dis-equilibrium continues, even when Bush Co tries to salvage the economy with extremely poorly thought out take breaks versus real genuine economic repair

Or maybe even because of this:
History of Money & Banking
where people are finally understanding the veneer of corruption that is running our lives.

I’m not sure what’s going to happen today, but I can tell you this: expect a hell of a ride. Bush is likely to seek deflection from his failed economics package and carving of the soul of the US economy (likely in the form of an attack on Iran), more trillions are probably going to vaporize and those who aren’t in cash are going to wish they were.

Blue Monday. Red Tuesday.

TASER to visit Toronto

Arizona-based Taser International will be in Toronto hawking their latest products (maybe even the ones with the MP3s?) to the Toronto Police Force.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2008/01/15/tto-tasers.html?ref=rss

It amazes me how easy it has become for companies like this to sell fear to all levels of government.

I wonder if their timing has anything to do with the Falconer Report on Toronto Schools. Maybe it was all one big sales pitch for new hardware?

Media Coverage – deFacebook

I came across this article and appreciated the frank observations from the author, Tom Hodgkinson:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/14/facebook?

The question is, and I’m open to ideas from visitors, how do you de-Facebook? Once you’re on, how do you get off and flip the bird to this so-called phenomenon?

At a certain point, it’s impossible to remove information, so what do you do?