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Halo 3 is without doubt the most anticipated computer game of all time. Halo 3 predecessor (shockingly named Halo 2) made an estimated $125 million in sales within the first 24 hours of its release in the United States and Halo 3 is expected to beat any computer game sales numbers ever achieved. Halo 3 has been pre ordered by more than 1.5 million people and additional 300k copies have been sold without pre orders.

Considering Halo 3 pricing – standard edition for $60, limited edition for $70 and “legendary” edition for $130 – Microsoft is looking at a nice bank out of this game and rightly so. The sales of Microsoft XBox 360 consoles have been way behind other gaming consoles and failed to make any profits for Microsoft. With the coming of Halo 3, Microsoft could easily sell more than 3 million copies within first two weeks and it is likely that many people who buy the game, also end up buying the console… Good times for Microsoft.

Star Simpson is a 19 years old student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where she’s enrolled in the computer and science program. Today, she put on a black hoodie, attached a computer circuit board and some wiring to it and walked into the Logan International Airport in Boston dressed up like that. She approached a terminal worker, asked a question, turned around and walked away. She got then surrounded by the police with machine guns. Star Simpson is now charged with disturbing the peace and possessing a hoax device. She’s probably happy by now she’s not actually killed, cause that was a read deal ordeal. Police in full gear ready to take down what clearly appeared to be a suicide bomber…

Star Simpson now claims that her fake bomb was a piece of art and she wanted to stand out on career day (whatever that means). She was proud of her art and wanted to display it (well done girl, now it’s seen all over the world).

I ain’t going to Venezuela. And if I have to, I’ll pray I don’t get involved in the accident… Cause I don’t want to wake up to excruciating pain caused by the autopsy…

Carlos Camejo of Caracas, Venezuela got involved in a bad accident on a highway and was declared dead. He was taken to the morgue and when medical examiners begun an autopsy, Carlos Camejo started to bleed big time. Those medical examiners immediately realized something wasn’t quite right here and it was further proved to them after Carlos Camejo, despite having been declared dead, woke up and started screaming for the pain form the scalpel cuts was so excruciating. What a trip?

To identify the dead body, Carlos’ wife came to the morgue and oops… He was sitting in the hallway… More trippy!

This type of “dead man awakens” situation makes you wander – if funeral homes didn’t perform embalming so quickly, wouldn’t we see way more people wake after they were proclaimed dead? We know from the history long ago, that occasionally the dead people would wake (that was before embalming was introduced) and even now we have cases where buried coffins are unearthed only to find that the person that was lying inside is turned from its original position and there are scratch marks form the fingernails as they were trying to get out…

Back to the Carlos Camejo story though. Does anyone else think that someone sucks at their job and failed to properly examine the body before declaring it dead? Does anyone else think that morgue examiners are probably filing for a job change?

WTF? You have probably never heard the name Andrew Meyer before and so haven’t I. Today, Andrew Meyer is the most talked about topic on teh interweb. He’s the student who got tasered by the police for asking a question at a John Kerry forum. Take a look:

Ouch! If you watch that video again, you’ll hear one of the police officers say that he’s being arreasted for trying to incite a riot. Ummmm, what? That was a riot? He was asking a goddamn question.

Andrew Meyer sure may have seemed like an idiot with his logic being a bit fuzzy at times, but does that equal to “trying to incite a riot”? Now I have seen it all!

I find it kind of sad that several police officers, who are supposed to be trained in their jobs, had to resort to a taser to subdue a single guy – regardless of whether he was wrong or right. There was no need to taser a guy who is on the ground and already in handcuffs and under officers control.

And people were just standing by, watching! Andrew Meyer may have been a wackjob, or maybe he wasn’t invited to the party or maybe he’s a general prick, but there was still no reason to torture him with a taser. Not when he’s down on the ground and under control.

Here’s another video which is a little longer and shows that Andrew Meyer was arrested:

What happened to the freedom of speech? Such display of power by the cops to a question at a Q&A meeting has no match in any western country. What a joke!!! Can people no longer express their opinions without being silenced in this country?

And what about John Kerry himself? Doesn’t he feel ashamed for just standing there watching this abuse and not telling the cops to chill it out a bit? Why did he go to a public question and answer meeting in the first place if he didn’t want to be asked controversial questions? The very principle of freedom this nation was founded on has just been shattered. Who would have thought a guy would get tasered at the university for asking a question, even though it may have been a hard one (question that is). The direction this country is taking is truly sickening!

Put options of the stock market can be looked at as bets that stock will crash. Put options on United Airlines and American Airlines were placed by an anonymous investor shortly before 9/11. United and American Airlines are the companies whose aircrafts were hijacked during 9/11 attack. Because put options involve great risks, if someone puts billions of dollars in put options, it clearly indicates that they know something we don’t know. Put options that were place prior to 9/11 were later traced by private researchers (Securities and Exchange Commission refused to reveal this information) to a Dutch bank with ties to a former CIA director.

In late August this year (few weeks ago) somebody again placed 245 000 put options anonymously on the Dow Jones Eurostoxx 50 index which would once again indicate that someone has a foreknowledge that the general public does not.

These anonymous investors are basically risking $1 Billion dollars that we’re going to have another event similar to 9/11 by September 21st, or they’ll lose their money. The only way for them to make money out of that huge investment is if the market crashes by a third to a half by September 21st 2007 (that is the expiry day of said put options).

Sales of this scale are referred to as “Bin Laden Trades” because it would take another 9/11 (or a Chinese dollar reserve dump) to make these options valuable. If such event does occur, the trader is looking at cashing 2 billion dollars.

Now – why is it that someone knew exactly what was going to happen on 9/11 and was able to cash on put options big time? How come they knew exactly which airlines will be hijacked and when?

Not surprisingly, the 9/11 commission released the statement after their investigation, that even though some unusual trading activity did occur just before 9/11, quote “it was all coincidentally innocuous and not the result of insider trading by parties with foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks”

Here’s a comforting news (though coming from an independent investigator, not a verifiable source):

Most of the investments in these put options originated in Germany through the Deutsche Bank. Deutshce Bank had earlier acquired Banker’s Trust, an investment banking firm whose Vice Chairman in charge of “private client relations” in the late 1990’s was A. B. “Buzzy” Krongard. In March of 2001, Krongard was appointed Executive Director of the CIA.

On the other hand – billions of dollars change hands in trades every day. Pro Investors with giant fund managers follow their indicators and make investments based on it. Billion dollars is not uncommon in these circles. Sometimes they make a whoop lot of money because they’ve made an educated guess. Other times they lose but it has been proven throughout the history that this kind of co-incidental trades do happen.

Today, there’s 4 days left to see if it’s all just a big conspiracy theory or something we should have really listened to…

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and War is the terrorism of the rich. — Peter Ustinov

Lars Vilks is a Swedish cartoonist who drew the series of cartoons entitled “modog” portraying prophet Muhammad with a dog’s body.

Abu Omar al-Baghdadi – the leader of al-Quaeda in Iraq offered $100k bounty for the murder of Lars Vilks and additional $50k for Ulf Johansson, the chief editor of the Nerikes Allehanda where cartoons were published. al-Quaeda group further offered 50% bonus if Lars Vilks was “slaughtered like a lamb” – which means to have the throat cut.

Lars Vilks seems to be able to keep his cool and says: “It’s good to know how much one is worth”. Following the incident, another Swedish national daily paper – Dagens Nyheter republished the cartoon and its editor Thorbjörn Larsson said:

We live in a country where freedom of expression is not dictated by fundamentalists, nor by governments. To me, publishing it was the obvious thing to do.

al-Quaeda’s Abu Omar al-Baghdadi called Lars Vilks a criminal when he announced the $100k award be put on his head.

Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt initiated talks with ambassadors of Muslim based countries in Sweden in an attempt to defuse the tension. Free press and the right of free speech and expression are not punishable by Swedish law.

There certainly are risks and consequences involved when one exercised their right to expression. Just as you have the right to speak, so do they have the right to disagree. This is the point of free speech. And that’s what western civilizations are (or should be) all about – fundamental freedoms, such as the aforementioned freedom of speech, as well as freedom of press, freedom of religion, freedom of peaceful assembly and so forth. This freedom of speech right certainly gets misused by whiny little bitches who use word “censorship” each time somebody exercises their right to object, but that’s not the point.

Abu Omar al-Baghdadi has made a reference to giant Swedish companies such as Ericcson, Scania, Volvo, Ikea, and Electrolux stating that al-Quaeda would strike the economy of these companies as part of their revenge against Lars Vilks’ cartoons. Now, if al-Quaeda said they were going to boycott Swedish products and companies, I could in a sense understand that as that is how you exercise your fundamental freedoms and you are entitled to choose who you do business with and who you don’t. But to put a price on the head of an artist???

There are reports that OJ Simpson is being questioned by Las Vegas police Department (LVPD) about robbery. The incident took place late last and involved breaking into a room at the Palace Station Casino in Las Vegas. Police are investigating the incident and seceral people are being questioned apart from OJ Simpson. The official police statement is to be issued later today, but from early reports it appears that OJ Simpson has not been arrested.

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Roald Dahl was an author and a screen writer who had his fingers in such high profile movie flicks as You Only Live Twice – a James Bond movie, or Chitty Chitty Bang Bang – a Disney feature. His writing career is most recognized through some of the most successful children books that include Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Twits, James and The Giant Peach, Matilda and The BFG. Roald Dahl was an outstanding story teller able to master mischief through his writing like no other. It’s actually quite accurate to assume that Roald Dahl is one of the most unusual writers. His writing is as entrancing today as it had been before he died 17 years ago. Roald Dahl would have celebrated his 91st birthday today. Happy Birthday to you, Roald, Happy Birthday, man.

Welcome everyone. As you can see I have no clue what I’m talking about and so don’t you, apparently. Otherwise you wouldn’t be here, would you? As it turns out, this blog was created on September 11, 2007. There was no particular reason to start it right on the 6th anniversary of 9/11, it just worked out like that. Any relation between this blog and the 9/11 events are strictly coincidental. Now that I look at it, though… it’s pretty cool. It will be easy to remember