apocalypse

The Klan is growing, fueled by and fueling anti-immigrant sentiment. Chapters grew 63% between 2000 and 2005 after a drop through the 90's. An ironic form of comfort against the accusation that I was deserting my country by moving abroad until it got better.

Software may well start watching all our (just as I suspected) unwatched surveillance camera feeds, turning America into a true surveillance society. Thanks to London for taking the lead... but it was the US that destroyed itself long before in V for Vendetta.

Our government was brilliant enough to ship over $4 billion in cash, weighing 363 tons, on military aircraft to Iraq in 2003 and 2004 at the request of the Iraqi minister of finance. "'Who in their right mind would send 363 tons of cash into a war zone?'.... On December 12, 2003, $1.5 billion was shipped to Iraq, initially 'the largest pay out of U.S. currency in Fed history'... It was followed by more than $2.4 billion on June 22, 2004, and $1.6 billion three days later." More irony: I and my fellow gamblers were debating at Casino Royale whether there was really $1 million in dollar bills in the educational display box at the RMSC's new Moneyville exhibit. Thanks to that instructive experience, I now actually have a visual image of how these shipments might appear.

13 computers manage global internet traffic (according to who?) and were briefly overwhelmed by hackers. The attacks continue.

Just some tidbits to brighten everyone's day.