Democracy Now! | Seymour Hersh: "We've Been Taken Over by a Cult"

Oh boy- read up and do something!


Democracy Now! | Seymour Hersh: "We've Been Taken Over by a Cult": "One of the ways -- one of the things that you could say is, the amazing thing is we are been taken over basically by a cult, eight or nine neo-conservatives have somehow grabbed the government. Just how and why and how they did it so efficiently, will have to wait for much later historians and better documentation than we have now, but they managed to overcome the bureaucracy and the Congress, and the press, with the greatest of ease. "

Oddly Enough News Article | Reuters.com

Cigarrettes are evil... and you always have a choice as to what you do with yourself...

Oddly Enough News Article | Reuters.com: "The owner of a Michigan company who forced his employees to either quit smoking or quit their jobs said on Wednesday he also wants to tell fat workers to lose weight or else"

RE: The post below

This has to be one of the strangest, if not slightly disturbing things I've seen. Here are all the pieces:

1. I have a plug-in for Firefox that allows me to right click and make the page I'm on into a blog entry.

2. I have a Hotmail account I logged into today where I received a spoofed email that looked to be from Paypal.

3. I forwarded the spoofed email to spoof@paypal.com.

Here is where this all gets weird:

1. I never received the email response that is posted below from Paypal. I've checked my Hotmail account and trash can- no email has been seen by me.

2. When using the context menu plug-in to Blogger, there are at least two steps in making a blog entry post- one of which requires pushing a button.

3. The entry was posted at 4:29- the exact minute that I decided to shut down my computer and leave work today!!!



I'm completely at a loss to explain this, if anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear them.

RE: Q510 - Thank you for your email to PayPal (KMM5982881V88323L0KM)

Dear ,

Thank you for contacting PayPal.

Thank you for bringing this suspicious email to our attention. We can
confirm that the email you received was not sent to you by PayPal. The
website linked to this email is not a registered URL authorized or used
by PayPal. We are currently investigating this incident fully. Please do
not enter any personal or financial information into this website.

If you have surrendered any personal or financial information to this
fraudulent website, you should immediately log into your PayPal Account
and change your password and secret question and answer information. Any
compromised financial information should be reported to the appropriate
parties.

If you notice any unauthorized activity associated with your PayPal
transaction history, please immediately report this to PayPal by
following the instructions below:

1. Log in to your account at https://www.paypal.com/ by entering
your email address and password into the Member Log In box

2. Click on the Security Center at the bottom of the page

3. Click on 'Report a Problem'

4. Select the Topic: Report Fraud

5. Select the Subtopic: Unauthorized use of my PayPal Account

6. Enter your question in the 'Summarize your question in one
sentence' box

7. Click Continue

8. Follow the instructions to access the appropriate form

If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us again.

Sincerely,
PayPal Account Review Department


************************************************************************
This
email is sent to you by the contracting entity to your User Agreement,
either PayPal Inc or PayPal (Europe) Limited. PayPal(Europe) Limited is
authorized and regulated by the Financial Services Authority in the UK
as an electronic money institution.
***********************************************************************
PayPal and its representatives will NEVER ask you to reveal your
password. There are NO EXCEPTIONS to this policy. If anyone claiming to
work for PayPal asks for your password under any circumstances, by email
or by phone, please refuse and immediately contact us via webform at
https://www.paypal.com/wf/f=sa_pass.
***********************************************************************





Original Message Follows:
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Subject: PayPal Account Security Measures
From:
Reply-To: service@paypal.com
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:30:49 +0000

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Dear reachjeremy@hotmail.com We recently noticed one or more attempts to log in to your PayPal account from a different IP address. If you recently accessed your account while traveling, the unusual log in attempts may have been initiated by you. However, if you did not initiate the log ins, please visit PayPal as soon as possible to check-up your account information: href=3D"http://www.vgflammersfeld.de/allgemein_vg_flammersfeld_10_fach= abit.html"> http://www.paypal.com /= cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=3D_t= >login-run Changing your account is a security measure that will ensure that you are the only person with access to the account. Thanks for your patience as we work together to protect your account. = Sincerely, PayPal ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and choose the "Help" link in the header of any page. PayPal Email ID PP11018

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MSNBC - Fear not, these CRACKPOTS can be saved

MSNBC - Fear not, these CRACKPOTS can be saved

The first step for the CRACKPOT Christians is to accept that they have a problem. I know programs exist that can reprogram the insufferably preachy and transform them back into normal people like the rest of us. They have to get the message that taking the Good Book, living by the parts they agree with and disregarding the parts they don’t, is a learned behavior and can be cured. They need to be taught that looking for secret messages where none exist is an urge that should be resisted.

village voice > news > Inauguration 2005 by Rick Perlstein

Read this and be scared!

village voice > news > Inauguration 2005 by Rick Perlstein: "'As attorney general,' Dean says, 'Gonzales can resist any and all efforts to prosecute high officials of the Bush administration, absent photographs of Dick Cheney choking Condi Rice and dangling her off the Memorial Bridge for messing with his policies.'"

Oddly Enough News Article | Reuters.com

Ummmm...

"The best prevention: Sit in your car as it warms up. "Unfortunately, that's the best thing you can do," Gotell said. "

How about locking your car while its warming up, and using a spare or key fob to get in?!?!?

Oddly Enough News Article | Reuters.com