Month: March 2012

As we reported earlier this week, the old time conspiracy theorists are being proven right after all these years: The television set will soon be watching you..

A new report details just what exactly new high definition smart TV sets will do.. such as facial recognition technology and microphones inside.. The NEILSON ratings may have a game change. Maybe instead of counting the amount of TV sets tuning in, it can just tune into your living room. Head count in real time. And it can even listen to make sure you’re enjoying ..

The future is now.

Freaked out yet?

Cue the song from Queen: you can’t stop it now.. Gas prices high so far this March, some people are paying as much as four or five dollars a gallon!

How much more people take? Well as much as your car can take in gas. It is going to be a long hot spring and summer, just as it was a warm and sultry winter. It is pretty bad when people from the United States need to go to get a passport and go to Mexico just to buy cheaper gas. Experts don’t really see any way out of this for everyone. And if an Iran war begins in earnest we may have six dollars, seven dollars, who knows what amount of dollars for gas at that time…

Welcome to your reality.

Some must read–or must avoid–news..
A smattering of headlines from the globe as it turns.

• Rabbi, three children shot dead outside Jewish school in France.. this one is tragic.. hope they find the culprits as soon as possible.
• Afghan shooting suspect “no memory” of incident: report … mind control drugs maybe? Could it be he actually forgot. Or is insanity just temporary?
• Mothers Of Children With Autism Earn 56 Percent Less .. lots of moms actually quit their jobs to take care of their kids. This study should not be a shocker. Money isn’t everything… love is. And by God I wish we’d find a cure for this thief of childhood..
• US reportedly to search again for Amelia Earhart … Didn’t work before, but we try again. I’d put money on this: The mystery will continue.. 
• Einstein Proved Right in Retest of Neutrinos’ Speed .. I can sleep better tonight. Light still is fastest. 
• New Frog Species Found in New York City .. and if scientists looked closer they would probably discover brand new HUMAN species in New York, too
• Amsterdam UFO Accidentally Caught on Tape (Video)‎  
• ‘The River’ Producer to Write ‘Paranormal Activity 4′ 

No?
Neither did an NBC reporter who was arrested for reporting on a shooting of a young child.. on the sidewalk outside of hospital. At a non-active crime scene.

The police officer bellowed:

Your First Amendment right can be terminated if you’re creating a scene or whatever. Your First Amendment right has got limitations.

And..

I don’t care about no damn lawsuit! F*ck a lawsuit. Just ’cause you sue doesn’t mean you’re going to win”

 Cameras caught the scene. NBC reporters reported on it. And a whole lot more people now wonder … just what are those “limitations” to the First Amendment?

One hot summer day long ago somewhere in time, a man took out a dime from his pocket and gave it to his son.. his son ran down the street to the ice cream truck.. today the man would have to give the credit card and ask for the receipt. We’re going cashless, babaaaay.. Hell or high water, that fine mark of the beast is on its plastic way.

The world may have been moving this way for a while, but it is going to get a whole lot faster with Sweden’s goal to get rid of printing bank notes. Also behind it? ABBA’s own Bjoern Ulvaeus, who has been promoting the cashless Sweden for some time..

Buses don’t accept cash there.. Priests stand in line watching the God fearing churchgoers flash their credit card and swipe away.. Does God take Mastercard?

CBS news reports it this way:

It’s no surprise that Sweden and other Nordic countries are at the forefront of this development, given their emphasis on technology and innovation.

For the second year in a row, Sweden ranked first in the Global Information Technology Report released at the World Economic Forum in January. The Economist Intelligence Unit also put Sweden top of its latest digital economy rankings, in 2010. Both rankings measure how far countries have come in integrating information and communication technologies in their economies.

It should be no surprise that this is the way of the new age. No paper. No coins. Not a dollar to spare for the homeless guy with no teeth.. not even two nickels to rub together..

Cashless. But who controls the machine? Better yet, what prices can be charged .. what service fees? You’re stuck in the mix. The Matrix is inescapable.

And the magic final question: What happens when the dramatic solar flare escapes the behemoth in our solar system, speeds towards the planet, and knocks the grid for a loop?

Will God accept cash then?

Take a chance, indeed..

You may not be able to look at the image of a TSA worker patting down a child in a wheelchair. But for me, being a father, seeing the photo of him trembling in fear reaching out for his parents’ hands was even worse..

The family was on the way to Disney. For a nice vacation. In the process the child with a broken leg was patted down and checked for explosive residue..

Record heat.
Record cold.
Record snow.
Record dry.
Record flooding…

RECORDS RECORDS …
And this coming week?
That’s right. You guess correct if you said that more record weather is on the way.

The only danger with the ‘records’ expected this week is that severe weather and tornadoes are expected to couple the heat and extreme temps.. Deadly tornadoes potentially will strike large portions of the United States.

Now is the time to prepare and be ready. Have a plan. Have storable food and water, at least as much as you can get a hold of.. and just hope the storm passes by without much fanfare.

But as we have seen from recent history, most storms have lots of fanfare before they become memory.

The video game industry is vast. Worldwide.. Dominant.. teenage boys stand in long lines any given week a new shoot ’em up disc of mayhem gets released. They “are” the game.. Aim. Fire.

But a new GUARDIAN article is taking a deep look into something that many people have known and others just suspected for years: The video game industry is quite tied in to the military.

No, I don’t think DUCK HUNT or SUPER MARIO BROTHERS of 1980s fame can be lumped in with the game industry.. it has changed in the past few decades from the bubbly graphics and chime-laden music of the Nintendo cereal generation.

This new generation of gamers are being given a tool; violence with options, murder with reasons.. torture and blood for a purpose. The game is so realistic that teenage minds sometimes may think they are playing a game in reality itself.

As the GUARDIAN reports on, though, there are documents that reveal the shadowy ties between the makers of the game and the makers of the reality: the military.

So there they play.. the ultimate game may soon be the ultimate reality that is lived after the game age passes by..