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Sunday, January 1st 2006

A Brief New Year's History Dept.

Ancient cultures, including those as varied as the Romans and the Hindus,
celebrated New Year's Day on April 1. It closely follows the vernal equinox
(March 20th/21st.) In medieval times, much of Europe celebrated March 25,
the Feast of Annunciation, as the beginning of the New Year.

In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII ordered a new calendar (the Gregorian Calendar) to
replace the old Julian Calendar. The new calendar called for New Year's Day to be
celebrated Jan. 1. Many countries, however, resisted the change.
In fact, some European countries held out for centuries ( Scotland until 1660;
Germany, Denmark, and Norway until 1700; and England until 1752).

In 1582, France adopted the reformed calendar and shifted New Year's Day to Jan. 1.
However, many people either refused to accept the new date, or did not learn about it,
and continued to celebrate New Year's Day April 1.

Other people began to make fun of these traditionalists, sending them on "fool's errands"
or trying to trick them into believing something false.

The French came to call April 1 Poisson d'Avril, or "April Fish."
French children sometimes tape a picture of a fish on the back of their schoolmates,
crying "Poisson d'Avril" when the prank is discovered.

In 1752, Great Britain finally changed over to the Gregorian Calendar,
and April Fool's Day began to be celebrated in England and in the American colonies.

And Now For Our Feature Presentation -

For My Readers Who Are Too Hung Over To Read Too Much Dept.

Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Rita

Video Shot in Bulgaria...Don't Believe in UFO's ?
Watch it HERE...You decide.

Too Many Whoops ! So Little Time !
Merry Whoopsmas !

And Finally For This Issue -

Scenes I'd Like To See Dept.

"Think For Yourself" ©
Beowulf

Saturday, January 7th 2006

"You do not become a 'dissident' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances.
You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society."
~ Vaclav Havel

Tips For Those In The Know -
(Disclaimer- By reading this, you agree to hold me harmless.)

If you hate the growing trend in RFID tags and chips,
heads up, there is relief -
It is known that microwaves will overload the devices,
but they could set the items they're embedded in on fire
when they explode. (It's a small, potent, 'pop'. Don't freak out.)

Instead -
You can build a small, cheap device with a coil that will generate a strong
electromagnetic field. It should be placed as near to the target RFID-Tag
as possible. The RFID-Tag then will receive a strong shock of energy
comparable with an EMP and the chip should fry, deactivating it.

	A bit of paper might help	Varnished copper wire soldered to the flash
Buy a small disposable camera with a built-in flash. You're going to modify the electric components. (Cool, huh ?) Place a coil made from coated copper wire inside the camera exactly where the film was. Solder the coil leads between the camera's electronics and the flash. Some single use cameras may require some kind of switch to be built into them, since their activating-mechanism usually is too small and primitive. Once the switch is connected and tested, close the camera. Presto Change-o ! An RFID-Zapper, destroying RFID-Tags with the power of ordinary batteries ! (A little science goes a long way.)

That's it for now kids. Remember to Smash The Police State !

And Now For Our Feature Presentation -

We Sing Their Praises On High Dept.

Let's take a moment of silence for a couple of things this week.

On Friday, January 06, 2006 -
First - With his wife Nina at his bedside, Lou Rawls died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
at the age of 72. (Though other records say 70.)
He was hospitalized last month for treatment of lung and brain cancer.

A long-time community activist, Rawls played a major role in United Negro College Fund
telethons that raised more than $200 million. He often visited and performed at black colleges but never attended college himself.

Rawls' trademark was his smooth, four-octave voice, which Frank Sinatra once
called the 'silkiest chops in the singing game."

His long life and career covered everything from beer commercials -
"When you've said Budweiser, you've said it all", (Yep, that was him),
to gospel singing; being a sergeant in the 82nd airborne; dying in a car crash
and coming back after a 5 day coma; making 52 albums; winning 2 Grammy
nominations; appearing in 18 movies and 12 television series.

My deepest respects to his wife Nina and four children:
Louanna Rawls, Lou Rawls Jr., Kendra Smith and Aiden Rawls.

Sir, my hat's off to you. You were a very good man. Thank you.

Second - A fire destroyed Chicago's 116-year-old Pilgrim Baptist Church.
A historic structure that was built as a synagogue and became known as
the birthplace of American gospel music.
(It's been a rough Friday.)
Towering flames collapsed the peaked wooden roof and brick columns
of the 1890 church designed by architects Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler.

The synagogue, initially run by Adler's father, a rabbi, was converted into
a church in the 1920's as the Jewish population migrated elsewhere.
It became an anchor of the once-thriving Bronzeville neighborhood
for Chicago's growing black population.

Thomas A. Dorsey, the son of a Baptist minister and a church organist,
became the church's music director, melding blues with sacred hymns into gospel music.
His choir featured such stars as Mahalia Jackson, James Cleveland and Sally Martin.
Among Dorsey's many compositions performed at the church were,
"Take My Hand, Precious Lord."
Many objected to Dorsey's music as overly secular.
"I've been thrown out of some of the best churches in America," the widely -
regarded father of gospel music once said.

C'mon Chicago - Rebuild This Piece Of Musical History !

You've Gotta Be Fuckin' Kidding Me Dept.

As of the New Year, Sony/BMG has settled a series of class-action lawsuits
stemming from its use of software that was intended to prevent illegal copying of
its CD's but left customers' computers vulnerable to viruses and other attacks.
Sony/BMG produced 4.7m CD's containing the software, nearly 3m were sold.

Consumers who bought any of the 52 titles with XCP software will receive
replacement copies and the choice of two compensation packages:
a cash payment of $7.50 and one free album download; or three free album downloads.
Users of the MediaMax software will receive a free download.
And - they promise they won't make 'em anymore.

That's it !?!

For installing malicious rootkits and spyware on millions of computers with
their infected CD's ? With malice aforethought I might add.
(How much time and money are you spending to clean up the mess they made ?)

Let's think about this for a moment.
Our corrupt government.
Trade agreements with Japan. (Sony.)
The BMG thingy. (Bertelsmann AG.)
Somebody, or lots of somebody's got bought off.
The only thing missing is Jack Abramoff.
And a suicide / murder.
I'm gonna be sick.
Get me something to be sick in....
....I mean it...
...'Scuse me...
...Whauuuuuuuulp...

(Wiping chin),

You know what?
Fuck You Guys.
BOYCOTT SONY/ BMG !
Byte Me.

Who Me ? I Just Wander From Room To Room Dept.

Wacky warning labels. We've all seen 'em.
There's an annual awards contest for the wackiest.
Now in its ninth year, it is conducted by Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch, M-LAW,
to reveal how lawsuits, and concern about lawsuits, have created a need for
common sense warnings on products.

How about a warning label on a heat gun and paint remover that produces
temperatures of 1,000 degrees and warns users,
"Do not use this tool as a hair dryer"
-or-
A label on a kitchen knife that warns: "Never try to catch a falling knife."
-or-
A warning label found on a bottle of dried bobcat urine made to keep rodents and
other pests away from garden plants that says: "Not for human consumption."

Have some of us become that stupid ?
Maybe so.
Take a look for yourself. Have fun.

And Finally For This Issue -

Scenes I'd Like To See Dept.

"...Fucking Traitors..."

"Think For Yourself" ©
Beowulf

Monday, January 16th 2006

New Song on Listen Page.

"...Just So Long As I Was The Dictator."
~ G.W. Bush

"The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people
from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie.
It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent,
for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth
becomes the greatest enemy of the State."
~ Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels

"The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot
to destroy America 's freedom and before I leave this office,
I must inform the citizens of their plight."
~ John F. Kennedy, Columbia University - November 12, 1963
(JFK assassinated Friday, November 22, 1963 - 12:30pm Central time,
Dealy Plaza, Dallas TX.)

"The American People expect me to do everything in my power under our laws
and Constitution to protect them and their civil liberties, and that is exactly what I
will continue to do, so long as I'm the president of the United States."
~ G.W. Bush

Tips For Those In The Know -
(Disclaimer - By reading this you agree to hold me harmless.)
Tired of cameras watching you everywhere ?
You can take care of them without a lot of technical know-how.
You can blind the cameras with paint, balloons, lasers, infrared devices,
wrist rocket, or even a rock.

That's it for now folks, and remember to Smash The Police State !

And Now For Our Feature Presentation

I'm A Legend In My Own Mind Dept.

Think you're popular ?
We'll Geez, all our friends show up at our gigs.
Yeah, but what about everybody else ?
Are strangers talking about you ?
I mean of course in the blogosphere.
Where you wonder how in the heck these folks ever found out about you.
Word of mouth ? What're they saying ? Are they calling you names ?
(For me, I wouldn't be surprised. If I'm not pissing somebody off,
I'm not doing my job. - Just read some of my e-mails.)
Well, sorry but you won't find that out here.
What you will find out - is if anybody besides your buddies are talking about you.
Find Out Now.

Operators Are Standing By Dept.

New York State Attorney General Elliot Spitzer's latest investigation is looking
into the music industry's collusion in pricing.
"The concern is that, when selling their music to subscription services,
music labels engage in what may amount to a passive form of collusion,
resulting from their use of 'most favored nation status' clauses,
as they are known in the trade.
Unlike downloading services -
in which labels sell songs to retailers for a set wholesale price -
the prices charged to subscription services are derived from complex licensing agreements. The most-favored-nation clauses, or MFNs,
seek to ensure that if a rival label negotiates better deal terms,
the label with most-favored-nation status gets the same terms.
Critics say that, because all of the major labels have sought or secured such clauses
from subscription-music services, the result is anti competitive."

There's no one point of view on the MFNs.
A Universal Music Group spokesperson put it this way:
"Universal is committed to providing our artists with the best possible service and this includes protecting them as their music is used and exploited in new and different ways."
Then president of the American Antitrust Institute said,
"Antitrust enforcers seem to recognize most-favored nation as a red flag."
And Jonathan Potter, executive director of the Digital Media Association said,
"The MFNs of a few years ago were not as aggressive."

Labels were insistent upon MFNs and in a roundabout way called the practice collusion.
Anonymous music executives said the MFNs were needed to facilitate a growing market.
"The music industry wanted to establish the online marketplace as quickly as possible,
but we didn't want to get bogged down in debates over prices."

And all you wanted to do was play your songs.
I'll bet you didn't know there was an army of salivating dogs did you.
I give an obligatory Byte Me.
(You want to have people around you to protect you from people like them.)

My Toys ! My Toys ! I Can't Do This Job Without My Toys Dept.

Apple released the much-ballyhooed iTunes on January 10th.
The new version includes a MiniStore feature that recommends tracks to buy
similar to those a user is listening to.

On its support website it says-
"iTunes sends data about the song selected in your library to the iTunes Music Store
to provide relevant recommendations. When the MiniStore is hidden,
this data is not sent to the iTunes Music Store."

Soon after the update was released, blogger Marc Garrett wrote a journal entry
about MiniStore and the data it passes back to Apple.

Further work by other bloggers such as Kirk McElhearn found that the data
being sent back to Apple to make the recommendations included artist, title,
genre as well as unique identifiers for a computer and iTunes account.
(Ooops !)

Apple didn't mention that, although they did mention in the license agreement for iTunes
that it contact the Gracenote music database to work out which album is being played
via the program.

It has been confirmed that when the MiniStore is hidden, no data is being transferred.

So this is just a heads-up. If you don't want your information being sent off
to a third party to do whatever third parties do with your personal information,
then hide the MiniStore.

Got it ?
Good.

And Finally For This Issue -

Scenes I'd Like To See Dept.

...Out of the mouth's of babes...

"Think For Yourself" ©
Beowulf

Sunday, January 22nd 2006

"Sarah, if the American people had ever known the truth
about what we Bushes have done to this nation,
we would be chased down in the streets and lynched."
~ George Bush Senior, speaking in an interview with
Sarah McClendon in December 1992



Until we, as a Nation, can come to terms and address the Bush administration's
complicity and collusion in the murder of 3,000 of our own citizens on 9/11,
then the American psyche will continue to suffer from cognitive dissonance.

Further, everything that came after that, and continues to this day, is a product of
an evil cabal occupying the White House that is at war with America
and its citizens on a hell-bent crime spree to loot our great nation to ruin.


(If Alito Gets Confirmed, You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet !)

"Major Combat Operations Have Ended."
~ G.W.Bush, May 1st 2003

"I'm a War president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office
in foreign-policy matters with War on my mind."
~ G.W.Bush, Meet The Press - February 8th 2004

(He thinks he's a king.  He's not.  He's an idiot asshole.
An Organ Grinder's Monkey.
Illegally appointed by a corrupt criminal cabal.
He doesn't respect The Constitution, Our Soldiers, or Us.
I stand by my original assessment -
Everything He Touches Turns To Shit.  He's a Shit Magnet.)
IMPEACH the Bastards.
Byte Me.

Tips For Those In The Know -

This is Important !
Call your Senators.  Filibuster Alito !
Say No To The Unitary President.
Contact your Senators Now !
Smash The Police State !

And Now For Our Feature Presentation

A Moment Of Silence Dept.

Soul / R&B legend Wilson Pickett died of a heart attack on Thursday, Jan. 19th,
at a hospital near his Virginia home, at the age of 64.

Born in Pratville, Ala., Pickett moved to Detroit as a teen and joined the Falcons,
singing on their 1962 hit 'I Found a Love'.  By 1965, he had signed a solo deal
with Atlantic, scoring a No. 21 pop hit with 'In the Midnight Hour', which he co-wrote
with legendary sessions musician Steve Cropper.

A slew of late '60s R&B / Soul hits followed including 'Land of 1,000 Dances',
'Funky Broadway', '634-5789', 'She's Lookin' Good' and 'Mustang Sally'.
As the '70s dawned, Pickett scored three consecutive top 20 pop singles with
'Engine Number 9', 'Don't Let the Green Grass Fool You' and 'Don't Knock My
Love Pt. 1'.

Five of his singles reached No. 1 on the Billboard R&B charts.  Pickett associated
himself with some of the top sessions musicians of the time, and was a frequent
visitor to Stax and Muscle Shoals Studios.  He even hired the late Duane Allman
to play guitar on his 1969 cover of the Beatles 'Hey Jude'.

He is survived by his fiancé and four children.
He will be buried beside his mother Lena in Louisville, Ky.

Thanks for the great music.  You honor us all.

Talk About A Downward Spiral Dept.

Fitty Cent, Gee, Let's see if you got your street cred back after playing
at some 13 year old girl's Bat Mitzvah.
No, I guess not.

Because....Whoops!....

Now, you're being sued for copyright infringement for stealing some of the lyrics
for your 2003 hit 'In Da Club' from a song by former 2 Live Crew frontman Luther
Campbell.

Parts of 'In Da Club', from the Shady / Aftermath / Interscope album 'Get Rich or Die Tryin',
copy 'It's Your Birthday', released in 1994 on Campbell's solo album 'Still a Freak for Life',
were stolen, the lawsuit alleges, and is seeking unspecified damages.

Stealing from 2 Lame Crew ?
You're turning into a joke.

I'm thru' with you - beotch.
Byte Me.

The Answer My Friends Is Blowin' In The Wind Dept.

2005's global tally for digital music downloads - $1.1 billion.
That's a lot of scratch.
Settle down.  It's only 6% of the market.
Although it's starting to take a bite out of CD Sales.

Problem is, even though some download stores offer upwards of a million songs,
the search for rare, lost or out-of-print tracks can be frustrating for collector types.
The reality of digital music is that songs just don't magically appear at online stores.
There needs to be enough of a financial incentive to go through the steps involved in
reviving the music and getting them to stores.
(Rarities place on peer-to-peer networks don't have this problem - but that's another
story.)

Enter Universal Music Group International (UMG.XX), the world's largest music company
by market share, Wednesday said it was digitizing 100,000 previously deleted European
recordings in order to make them available over the Internet.

Universal will take recordings from what it claims is the music industry's largest archive,
including music from Marianne Faithfull, Fairport Convention, Nirvana and Jacques Brel.

Global sales of recorded music fell 1.9% in the first half of 2005, the latest period for which
figures are available, while physical music sales fell 6.3% over the period, however,
digital music sales tripled over the period to 6% of total record industry sales.

"Over the next three to four years we aim to re-issue perhaps as many as 10,000 albums
for downloading, which amounts to more than 100,000 tracks", said Barney Wragg,
senior vice president of Universal's eLabs division.

Good.
There's a lot of great music out there from that ancient period when labels supported new music.
(Like my 1979 Tin Huey LP.)
Unless you like Ass-hlee Simpson.
(You need to cut Aspartame out of your food intake.  M'kay ? 'Kay !)

For me, this is a mixed bag.
While I appreciate Universal's efforts to wring a few more bucks out of us
by re-issuing way cool older stuff, it doesn't alleviate the fact that Corporate psychopaths
have rendered the music industry creatively bankrupt.

We just came back from a party for X-tal where I was one of the cameramen
filming them at a private pre-gig show this weekend.
(The last time they played was 10yrs. ago)
They were great !
Best thing I've witnessed in a long time.
It's Too Bad the corporate whores are missing what's happening across America.

Excluding Universal for at least trying,
I'm issuing a blanket Byte Me to the music industry.

And Finally For This Issue -

Scenes I'd Like To See Dept.

"I'm a Uniter, Not a Divider."
~ G.W.Bush, May 6th 1999

"Think For Yourself" ©
Beowulf

Sunday, January 29th 2006

The President, Vice President and all Civil Officers of the United States,
Shall be removed from office on Impeachment for and conviction of,
Treason, Bribery, or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors.
~ Section 4, Article II, U.S. Constitution

The Greatest Trick The Devil Ever Pulled
Was Convincing The World That He Didn't Exist Dept.

Halliburton Subsidiary KBR Just Received A HomeReich Security Contract
Of $385 Million A Year For 5 Years To Build Detention Centers In The U.S.

There Are Hundreds Here Already.
Empty.
Fully Staffed.
Waiting.
Guess Who They're For...Comrade.

WHY ?
Because They're Not Here To Save Us.
They're Here To Enslave Us.
Prison Labor is Big Business.

I Just Received A DHS Document Entitled "ENDGAME".
It Ties In Nicely With Operation 'CableSplice'.
And 'Copper Green'.
And 'P2OG'.
(The sheer volume of operations against the public is astounding.)

If You're Not Outraged - You're Not Paying Attention.

Fight The Police State !

Some Things The Government Is Hiding From You - For Now Dept.

Ft. Leonardwood , Missouri . Fake ' Suburb City' Constructed For Urban War Gaming.
They're Practicing So They Can Round You Up.
(Why Do You Think There Have Been So Many Exercises In Major Cities Lately ?)

Nashville Concentration Camp on State Property

Close to Nellis Air Force Base

Desoto National Forest which is near Wiggins, MS,
and Camp Shelby(a military base).

Camp Grayling1 Michigan

Detention Centers Already Built

Your Ride To The Patriot Re-Adjustment Camps
(Ankle and Wrist Restraints Included)

United Nations Vehicles On American Soil.
(These are coming in. Not going out.)

A Fleet Of UN Busses Highway 95 in Bastrop County, Texas

Port Beaumont, Texas

Russian Military Equipment in Michigan

Vancouver , WA - Tanks Fitted With Rubber Pad Tracks.

Our Nation is in a Constitutional Crisis.
We're in danger of losing it all.
('Ya don't know what 'ya got, 'til it's gone.)
This is why it's so important for you to help stop this madness.
According to Kissinger, the public are just "Useless Food Eaters".
Stop Cheney's 'Shadow Government'.
Stop Mad King George.
Take Back Congress in '06.
Impeach Bush / Cheney.
Jail Them All.
Byte Me.

Unite And Fight Dept.

I'd like to say a Big Thank you to the San Francisco Bay Guardian
for running a Front Cover Impeachment story.
SFBG has remained independent, and thus able to print what it wants.
Kudos. Kudos to them.

As opposed to San Francisco's SF Weekly,
which is part of the New Times Publishing Group.
They were recently 'bought' by Clear Channel, and the paper has suffered accordingly.
The best they can do is take a lot of cheap pot-shots at the SF Bay Guardian.
They were lots better when they were still an Independent paper.
So, until the Weakly can find the balls to fight the corporate hand that feeds them,
- Byte Me.
To the Guardian - Thank You.

END THE 'CULTURE OF CORRUPTION' !

And Finally For This Issue -

Scenes I'd Like To See Dept.

Justice Is Served

"Think For Yourself" ©
Beowulf

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