just venting. no big deal.

college: starts on monday, and i get a letter saying i cant get loans. yesterday. because i dropped out of college 15 years ago, and i paid my own way then. that’s ridiculous. i gotta write ‘em a letter, and even if they decide to let me get the loans, it’ll be like a month [...]

just knowing that people are doing this is going to get me flagged by my facial expression.

New airport agents check for danger in
fliers’ facial expressions
By Kaitlin Dirrig | McClatchy Newspapers

Posted on Tue, August 14, 2007

WASHINGTON — Next time you go to the airport, there may be more eyes on you than you notice.
Specially trained security personnel are watching body language and facial cues of passengers for signs of bad intentions. The [...]

war is peace.

War is Peace
Noam Chomsky
Excerpted from Fateful Triangle, 1999

On June 6, 1982, a massive Israeli expeditionary force began the long expected invasion, Operation “Peace for Galilee,” a phrase “which sounds as if it comes directly out of the pages of 1984,” as one Israeli commentator wrote:Only in the language of 1984 is war-peace and warfare-humane. One [...]

Iranian Unit to Be Labeled ‘Terrorist’
Washington Post |August 15, 2007
Robin Wright
The United States has decided to designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, the country’s 125,000-strong elite military branch, as a “specially designated global terrorist,” according to U.S. officials, a move that allows Washington to target the group’s business operations and finances.
The Bush administration has chosen [...]

NYPD warns of homegrown terrorism
threat
Analysis cites disaffected Muslim youth, argues for more intel-gathering
NEW YORK – Citizens who quietly band together and adopt radical ways — not just established overseas terrorist groups like al-Qaida — pose a serious threat to American security, a new police analysis has concluded.
The New York Police Department report, to be released [...]

seems to me like the government considers us an enemy.

US spy satellitles to be used on Americans
Raw Story | August 14, 2007
Nick JulianoLocal and federal agencies are to have vastly expanded access to information gathered from spy satellites in the U.S., the Wall Street Journal reports.
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Information from “some of the U.S.’s most powerful intelligence-gathering tools” will soon be at the disposal of a [...]

new declassified documents.

Pakistan: “The Taliban’s Godfather”?
Documents Detail Years of Pakistani Support for Taliban, Extremists
Covert Policy Linked Taliban, Kashmiri Militants, Pakistan’s Pashtun Troops
Aid Encouraged Pro-Taliban Sympathies in Troubled Border Region
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 227
Edited by Barbara Elias
Posted – August 14, 2007
For more information contact:
Barbara Elias – 202/994-7000
belias@gwu.edu

Washington D.C., August 14, 2007 – A collection [...]

VETS DENIED TREATMENT
Soldier exposed to depleted uranium in training dies of leukemia caused by toxic weapon residue
 
By Mark Anderson
Several young U.S. Marines in the same California hospital ward are suffering from the same aggressive form of leukemia, and the cancer may be linked to exposure to depleted uranium (DU). DU is a super-dense radioactive material [...]

the loss of a friend.

i just found out about a half an hour ago, that a friend i hadn’t seen in a long time passed away. He was a boss of mine, and not only a boss, but i also considered him a friend. he was one of those rare individuals who can be taken at his word, and [...]

(posted on my blog)
figure this might help people out.
EVERY ONE PLEASE TAKE NOTE; THERE ARE CLAIMS BEING FILED ON LAW SUITS FOR CLASS ACTION ON DRUGS SUCH AS RISPERDAL AND REQUIP AGAINST THE DRUG COMPANIES FOR NOT PUTING CERTAIN WORDS ON WARNING LABELS EACH STATE HAS DIFFERENT STATUE LIMITATIONS FOR YOU TO FILE A CLAIM [...]