The world apparently on the threshold of a Swine Flu pandemic. Millions could be at risk. No one is safe. Governments positioning themselves for mass enforced vaccination programs. Ever get that hit of “I’m sure I’ve been here before”?

You should do, at least in the U.S.

You have been here before. Except last time, one person died, a handful of unconfirmed cases were noted around the world, and the U.S. government forced millions to take enforced flu shots.  

Oh, and one other difference – that time, the CDC was fully aware that that particular strain of the vaccine had not been tested as safe for humans and could lead to severe neurological disorders, paralysis, and even death. Thing is, they kinda forgot to mention this to the 46 million people that were forced to take the shot.

The above CBS 60 minutes film was broadcast once in 1976, and then never seen again. Until now, when it has ben unearthed. It’s quite satisfying to watch the former head of the CDC squirming when he denies ever being told of the risks, only to then be confronted with one of his staffers stating “well, actually, you knew because I told you so.” Fucker.

So, when the government tells you that you must take the shot to stave off the risk of death, make your own decision. But remember this and my earlier posts. And don’t think for one minute that your government isn’t capable of putting your life at risk by feeding you with propaganda and not quite giving you the full picture.

Me? I think I’ll pass and take my chances.

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Giant Bomb - fucking awesome game site. They’ve just launched their iphone app that allows you to follow their articles and watch their videos (Persona 4 Endurance Run, anyone??) on your iphone. And this has to be one of the funniest videos I have seen from a game site an a hell of a long time. Do not drink milk whilst watching.

 Watch this, then go join the community over there. You won’t regret it.

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Some things just need to be done for the betterment of all, and putting an end to Sega’s increasingly sad and depserate attempts to re-invigorate the Sonic franchise os one of them.

Dudes…you crossed the line of feasability with the godawful animated series. Anything after that is just pissing in your own beer.

Sonic is no Link, no Mario, no Master Chief. Fucking let it go already.

See this week’s crushing denouement right here.

Those loveable, crazy Japanese. If it weren’t for the national disdain for first-person shooters, I would want to be Japanese. They’re awesome. This video is but more proof of such.

The song is titled “Hibi no Neiro” (Tone of Everyday) and is utterly charming.

So, I thought it was time to bring some new characters into the strip. This is Norbert Dentressangle. He’s not a geek, he’s a nerd. Hopefully he will appear from time to time and introduce some good geek vs.nerd material to the strip.

Catch a faceful of this week’s strip right here: BAM! And there it is.

Austrian investigative journalist Jane Burgemeister has filed charges with the FBI against the WHO and the UN, high-ranking world government officials and corporate heads, warning that a co-operative effort between government and pharma companies will lead to the greatest crime in the history of humanity.  Details after the jump.

With the Baxter pharmaceuticals company due to release its A/H1N1 influenza vaccine next month, Burgemeister contends that the swine flu epidemic is, in its entirety, a manufactured event intended to severely reduce the human population, notably in the United States. She contends that an illicit co-operation between pharma companies and shadowy goverment agencies intends to remove the burden of population from the resources that the United States and other major countries have, allowing both the pharma companies to profit (from sales of the faux vaccines) as well as secret controlling cabals (who will then control the resources of the de-populated countries). In her charges, she accuses the pharma companies of manufacturing the swine flu and avian flu virus to incite the need in the public mind for the vaccine – which , when delivered, will be a concoction of toxins intended to create a mass cull.

Sounds pretty tin-foil, right? Well, for once, the accuser actually comes up with some facts to back her theories up. And they can make for scary reading.

In her charges, Burgermeister presents evidence of acts of bioterrorism that is in violation of U.S. law by a group operating within the U.S. under the direction of international bankers who control the Federal Reserve, as well as WHO, UN and NATO. This bioterrorism is for the purpose of carrying out a mass genocide against the U.S. population by use of a genetically engineered flu pandemic virus with the intent of causing death. This group has annexed high government offices in the U.S.

Specifically, evidence is presented that the defendants, Barack Obama, President of the U.S, David Nabarro, UN System Coordinator for Influenza, Margaret Chan, Director-General of WHO, Kathleen Sibelius, Secretary of Department of Health and Human Services, Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Department of Homeland Security, David de Rotschild, banker, David Rockefeller, banker, George Soros, banker, Werner Faymann, Chancellor of Austria, and Alois Stoger, Austrian Health Minister, among others, are part of this international corporate criminal syndicate which has developed, produced, stockpiled and employed biological weapons to eliminate the population of the U.S. and other countries for financial and political gain.

The charges contend that these defendants conspired with each other and others to devise, fund and participate in the final phase of the implementation of a covert international bioweapons program involving the pharmaceutical companies Baxter and Novartis. They did this by bioengineering and then releasing lethal biological agents, specifically the “bird flu” virus and the “swine flu virus” in order to have a pretext to implement a forced mass vaccination program which would be the means of administering a toxic biological agent to cause death and injury to the people of the U.S. This action is in direct violation of the Biological Weapons Anti-terrorism Act.

Burgermeister’s charges include evidence that Baxter AG, Austrian subsidiary of Baxter International, deliberately sent out 72 kilos of live bird flu virus, supplied by the WHO in the winter of 2009 to 16 laboratories in four counties. She claims this evidence offers clear proof that the pharmaceutical companies and international government agencies themselves are actively engaged in producing, developing, manufacturing and distributing biological agents classified as the most deadly bioweapons on earth in order to trigger a pandemic and cause mass death.

In her April charges, she noted that Baxter’s lab in Austria, one of the supposedly most secure biosecurity labs in the world, did not adhere to the most basic and essential steps to keep 72 kilos of a pathogen classified as a bioweapon secure and separate from all other substances under stringent biosecurity level regulations, but it allowed it to be mixed with the ordinary human flu virus and sent from its facilities in Orth in the Donau.

In February, when a staff member at BioTest in the Czech Republic tested the material meant for candidate vaccines on ferrets, the ferrets died. This incident was not followed up by any investigation from the WHO, EU, or Austrian health authorities. There was no investigation of the content of the virus material, and there is no data on the genetic sequence of the virus released.

In answer to parliamentary questions on May 20th, the Austrian Health Minister, Alois Stoger, revealed that the incident had been handled not as a biosecurity lapse, as it should have been, but as an offence against the veterinary code. A veterinary doctor was sent to the lab for a brief inspection.

Burgermeister’s dossier reveals that the release of the virus was to be an essential step for triggering a pandemic that would allow the WHO to declare a Level 6 Pandemic. She lists the laws and decrees that would allow the UN and WHO to take over the United States in the event of pandemic. In addition, legislation requiring compliance with mandatory vaccinations would be put into force in the U.S. under conditions of pandemic declaration.

She charges that the entire “swine flu” pandemic business is premised on a massive lie that there is no natural virus out there that poses a threat to the population. She presents evidence leading to the belief that the bird flu and swine flu viruses have, in fact, been bioengineered in laboratories using funding supplied by the WHO and other government agencies, among others. This “swine flu” is a hybrid of part swine flu, part human flu and part bird flu, something that can only come from laboratories according to many experts.

WHO’s claim that this “swine flu” is spreading and a pandemic must be declared ignores the fundamental causes. The viruses that were released were created and released with the help of WHO, and WHO is overwhelmingly responsible for the pandemic in the first place. In addition, the symptoms of the supposed “swine flu” are indistinguishable from regular flu or from the common cold. The “swine flu” does not cause death anymore often than the regular flu causes death.

Burgermeister notes that the figures for deaths reported for the “swine flu” are inconsistent and there is no clarity as to how the number of “deaths” has been documented.

There is no pandemic potential unless mass vaccinations are carried out to weaponize the flu under the guise of protecting the population. There are reasonable grounds for believing that the mandatory vaccines will be purposely contaminated with diseases that are specifically designed to cause death.

Reference is made to a licensed Novartis bird flu vaccine that killed 21 homeless people in Poland in the summer of 2008 and had as its “primary outcome measure” an “adverse events rate”, thereby meeting the U.S. government’s own definition of a bioweapon (a biological agent designed to cause an adverse events rate, i.e death or injury) with a delivery system (injection).

She alleges that the same complex of international pharmaceutical companies and international government agencies that have developed and released pandemic material have positioned themselves to profit from triggering the pandemic with contracts to supply vaccines. Media controlled by the group that is engineering the “swine flu” agenda is spreading misinformation to lull the people of the U.S. into taking the dangerous vaccine.

The people of the U.S. will suffer substantial and irreparable harm and injury if they are forced to take this unproven vaccine without their consent in accordance with the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act, National Emergency Act, National Security Presidential Directive/NSPD 51, Homeland Security Presidential Directive/HSPD-20, and the International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza.

In the U.S. since 2008, Burgermeister charges that those named in her allegations have implemented new and/or accelerated the implementation of laws and regulations designed to strip the citizens of the U.S. of their lawful constitutional rights to refuse an injection. These people have created or allowed provisions to remain in place that make it a criminal act to refuse to take an injection against pandemic viruses. They have imposed other excessive and cruel penalties such as imprisonment and/or quarantine in FEMA camps while barring the citizens of the U.S. from claiming compensation from injury or death from the forced injections. This is in violation of the laws governing federal corruption and the abuse of office as well as of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Through these actions, the named defendants have laid the groundwork for mass genocide.

Using the “swine flu” as a pretext, the defendants have preplanned the mass murder of the U.S. population by means of forced vaccination. They have installed an extensive network of FEMA concentration camps and identified mass grave sites, and they have been involved in devising and implementing a scheme to hand power over the U.S. to an international crime syndicate that uses the UN and WHO as a front for illegal racketeering influenced organized crime activities, in violation of the laws that govern treason.

She further charges that the complex of pharmaceutical companies consisting of Baxter, Novartis and Sanofi Aventis are part of a foreign-based dual purpose bioweapons program, financed by this international criminal syndicate and designed to implement mass murder to reduce the world’s population by more than 5 billion people in the next ten years. Their plan is to spread terror to justify forcing people to give up their rights, and to force mass quarantine in FEMA camps. The houses, companies and farms and lands of those who are killed will be up for grabs by this syndicate.

By eliminating the population of North America, the international elite gain access to the region’s natural resources such as water and undeveloped oil lands. And by eliminating the U.S. and its democratic constitution by subsuming it under a North American Union, the international crime group will have total control over North America.

Has to be said, looking into her accusations, this does not all come across as total made up nonsense. Consider this: pharmceutical companies in the U.S. are now exempt from prosecution for deaths arising from vaccinations. This may be all hokum, but it’s a hell of a risk to Burgemeister’s reputation and career if it is. Just keep all this in mind if you suddenly find that you no longer have the constitutional right to refuse the vaccination. Go do your research, and see what you think.

You can read Burgemeister’s blog here, and a somewhat confusing partial translation of part of her charges here.

Remember the big old black behemoth that was the original Xbox? Remember the old Duke controller that was large enough to have its own gravitational field?  Ah, those halcyon days.

One of the best…no, wait, funnest games in those days was Serious Sam. A totally silly, balls-to-the-wall no-story pure arcade action FPS. No overarching theme (really), just guns and endless waves of insanely bizarre enemies. If you fondly remember the game, read some awesome news after the jump!

If, like me, you thoroughly enjoyed the game but cringe every time you connect the old console with it’s 480p visuals to your shiny, enormous hi-def TV that manages to make anything non-HD look like ass, then you may be glad to know that Croteam are relaunching Serious Sam: The First Encounter (the first half of the Xbox version of the game – it was actually both the first and second encounter munged together) to Xbox Live. And not only that, they have reworked the visuals to something approaching modern standards. Here at dogsounds Towers we can’t wait to get our hands on this little puppy. But we also harbor a deep-seated hope that Croteam have no intention or relaunching Serious Sam 2 because, frankly, that game was just a pile of dog’s bottom-products.

Here’s a nice screenie. You can see more over at Kotaku.com:

So, I think of myself as a geek, not at all a nerd, and (I would hope) never, ever a dork.

But after some conversations at work I was asked to define the differences between geeks and nerds. Was one good, one bad? Why? What is the difference? And how does someone know if they are a geek? And how geeky are they?

I gave what I thought was the probable difference between the two, but then came across this little description in a comment on MilitantGeek that sums it up very well (in fact, better than the blog it was posted on). It’s like NAT settings for geeks. And that statement right there makes me a geek. Anyway:

Geeks are Nerds with social skills.

They have an incredible passion for knowledge, but fit into society. Geeks are able to communicate with other geeks, also with Nerds, Regular People, and even dorks.

Nerds can communicate effectively only with other nerds & tolerant geeks.

Dorks often can’t effectively communicate.

Geek = good grades in school, popular, often athletic. Graduates & gets a good job, a hot wife (or husband if female), and raises future geeks.

I am not fully sure about the last bit, i.e. athleticism. Or good grades. Or popular. Someone is fluffing their own nest there, I think.  But, I think it explains everything rather nicely.

Now, if you want to find out just how geeky you are, take this little test here and find out. I was surprisingly only a total geek at 26.82446%. Bu then, allowing for the fact that some of the options are utterly American and therefore not relevant, I would include a localisation bonus of around 38%. Or thereabouts. And Martin would get an extra 22.6% increase for owning an oscilloscope. And I get an extra 2.8% for knowing what that is.

So, we all know that the Apollo astonauts landed on the Moon and did their astronauty stuff there (playing golf, pulling donuts in the car, singing, all very pioneering).

Unless you are some half-witted tinfoiler who is convinced it was all complete fakery (despite fucktons of hard, physical, scientific and reprodcible evidence to the contrary), you’ll know that the Moon landings were, one of mankind’s greatest,  if not the greatest, achievements.

But when you look at the seat-of-your-pants technology involved, it’s a miracle the astronauts got there at all. The whole world watched in anticipation and prayer as the mission neared its goal. But even the powers that be knew that, should it have all gone horribly wrong the consequences would be felt the world over.  So much so that, should the worst have happened, President Richard Nixon would have delivered a very moving speech. Find out what that would have been right after the jump.

Records from the Whitehouse at the time show the following speech, drafted by Bill Safire and forwarded to H. R. Haldeman:

Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace. These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice.

These two men are laying down their lives in mankind’s most noble goal: the search for truth and understanding.

They will be mourned by their families and friends; they will be mourned by their nation; they will be mourned by the people of the world; they will be mourned by a Mother Earth that dared send two of her sons into the unknown.

In their exploration, they stirred the people of the world to feel as one; in their sacrifice, they bind more tightly the brotherhood of man.

In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.

Others will follow, and surely find their way home. Man’s search will not be denied. But these men were the first, and they will remain the foremost in our hearts.

For every human being who looks up at the moon in the nights to come will know that there is some corner of another world that is forever mankind.

Fortunately, this was never read aloud to the public. Who knows where we would be now had it been.

It’s geek-out time here again at dogsounds towers, and here are two little treats for your inner geek. Remember, the laws of physics cause geeks and nerds to repel, so nerds need not apply. Jump right in after the…uh…jump.

Firstly, a charming and mesmerising interactive journey from the world of the macro – our everyday world – to the world of the quantum, with the Nanoreisen “adventure beyond the decimal”. With quiant and charming sounds and a very subtle and delicate sense of humor, this interactive flash animation takes you from the everyday – a mosquito, a laptop, a car headlight- to the world of the quantum. And includes a very lost and confused-looking mite.

Experience it for yourself here and note the extra level of geek topping in the subtle Star Wars sound effects. The site offers an update service to keep you informed af further adventures to be had. Sadly, you may be waiting for physicists to actually discover the updates first.

Secondly, a fascinating short video that demonstrates something that, go on, you know you have always wondered: just what exactly does happen when you fire a particle accelerator at a webcam?  Haven’t you? Not even a bit?  Wow, you are so a rubbish geek. Sure you’re not a nerd in denial? As ever, facebook readers will have to click here to see the video.