It's not that nobody knew in advance; Check the bottom here)

Nederland doet het vrij goed in de 2008 Corruption Perception Index, en scoort zelfs beter dan Australië en Canada. Minst betrouwbare land is op dit moment Somalië. En terwijl al die aanstellers hier mekkeren over het faillissement van hun banken, verhongert de rest van de wereld. Dat de rijkste 10% van de wereld 84% van de welvaart bezit, en de armste helft van de planeet moet leven van minder dan 2 euro per dag, vergeet men liever maar even. Winst op de voedseldistributie is belangrijker dan het bestrijden van de honger;"It turns out that while farmers grow enough food to feed the world, commodity speculators and huge grain traders like Cargill control the global food prices and distribution. Starvation is profitable for corporations when demands for food push the prices up. Cargill announced that profits for commodity trading for the first quarter of 2008 were 86% above 2007. World food prices grew 22% from June 2007 to June 2008 and a significant portion of the increase was propelled by the $175 billion invested in commodity futures that speculate on price instead of seeking to feed the hungry."Misschien dat de crash in de US (die wellicht ook andere welvarende landen met…

slowly active for the US

"The sun's current state could result in changing conditions in the solar system." is how NASA carefully describes it. There will be an exceptional press conference later today about the Sun situation. August was entirely without solar-flares, as was september until the first flare appeared yesterday (much later than expected): I've learned that we don't really have to be worried though, because alien-channeling crazy Blossom Goodchild predicts that The Federation Of Light will come and show us love from outer space on October 14th. So if the sun dies on us, we can always still ask them to beam us up. On August 1st 2008 Blossom Goodchild pressed the 'Send' button to the 128 subscribers of her 'White Cloud' e-mail list, with a channelled message from The Federation of Light, informing us of their upcoming visitation to our skies on October 14th 2008 when one of their space craft will be clearly visible. According to Blossom, these aliens say "the sane are seen as insane by the truly insane people", and it will really piss her off good if they don't show up this time! Part of the message:We wish it to be understood that on the 14th day of…

Dit blijft een uiterst interessante zaak: Leeftijdgenoot en autist Gary was op zoek naar informatie over buitenaardse technologie die sub-organisaties van de amerikaanse regering aan het reverse engineeren zouden zijn. Hij ontdekte dat een heleboel Windows XP desktops binnen die organisatie nauwelijks beveiligd waren en installeerde RemotelyAnywhere op een aantal desktop-PC's. Een paar jaar later werd hij ontdekt. Zie hier interview met hem over de zaak. Zie hier een recenter interview met hem, en hier over hoe de zaak er nu voor staat..

fast forward to 29:30 to see the interview with Ray. Also check him out on TV with Glenn Beck 1, 2, 3

(better late than never)