================================================= Expat Worlds Bi-Monthly Digest ================================================= 14 May, 2004 Vol. 6, Issue 07 .....IN THIS DIGEST..... ==== THE STORY =================== (Compliment from the Expat World Newsletter) -=Knowledge is Power, Knowledge is Freedom=- ==== OTHER EZINES ================ ==== EW SPECIAL ================== -=Free Expat World Newsletter subscription=- ==== HUMOR, TRIVIA, NEWS AND MORE... == -=Trivia=- -=News Story=- -=Traveller's Tales=- -=Jokes=- ==== THE RESOURCE TIP ============= -=Protected Storage PassView=- ==== INSIDE THIS MONTH EXPAT WORLD == -=Table of Content=- ==== THE STORY ================================== KNOWLEDGE IS POWER, KNOWLEDGE IS FREEDOM We don't know how many of you our readers visit our web site www.expatworld.net but if you haven't been there lately you are missing out on our new bookstore additions. There are more than 25 new titles on freedom, personal and financial privacy, offshore related topics and bureaucrat busting material. In this light, we are giving a little preview of one of the books in the new selection entitled: How to Get Anything on Anybody. We encourage you to take a look at the site and see if there is anything we can help you with. Commentary: HOW TO GET ANYTHING ON ANYBODY The flat aim of the book is to provide a look at the cutting edge of surveillance and investigative technology. It's an encyclopedia of the whats, whos and hows of personal, corporate and government surveillance. The things you find in it will please the vast majority of readers and piss the hell out of a few of them. To point out the philosophy of the book I, your editor, must digress for a second. Call it editorializing if you want but when I was a kid (so long ago) one of my favorite science fiction stories was set in the future, after a machine had been invented that could receive real time video and audio from any location on earth without a transmitter. Access was first limited to the highest levels of government, then someone showed it to his friend and they told their friends... Well, the upshot was that individual governments ceased to exist because governments exist primarily to keep secrets. See, if one could actually know what every scientist, warrior, politician et. al. was planning, where the resources actually were, what various forms of greed or foolishness were actually about to be implemented... If everyone had access to the same weapons, personal insights-well you get the idea. Now please, please don't take me for a socialist, or even a closet liberal, my personal belief, although God knows why it should concern you, is that if everybody had one acre of land to grow food on there would always be some son of a bitch that wanted two... But, you see, if they didn't have any secrets previously hidden greed couldn't deceive the masses. Look at the laws that put the fear of God into the nice young lady at the Radio Shack tape recorder section when I inquired about the specs of their JBR recorder. She said, "A man from the justice department came down and warned us that we could go to jail if we tell people..." The JBR!!! This is a small, stereo tape recorder. Period. GOD FORBID the general public know the specs and gain access to small stereo tape recorders that the government was using for less than honorable uses. The great unwashed might rise in anger, structures would be pulled down thread by thread. Society as we know it today could crumble!-Silly? Well, yes, and no. To me it seems like the initial step in oh-so-gently alleviating the first amendment is to deny existing information to the people who paid for it in the first place. No, I don't think everyone should be given a set of instructions, some plutonium and a map to Iraq, but neither do I think unsuccessful laws like the Patriot Act, should be used to eat away at the constitution in the name of law and order. In fact, personally, I could care less about enforcing the unenforceable laws-if some guy wants to visit the local callgirl, hey, don't stop him on my account; as far as I'm concerned it relaxes the dude, relaxes some stresses that he may have played out on the local lassies, and lets the cops concentrate on real crime. Just make sure that "randy Andy" doesn't have to steal my stereo or shoot my friends to afford his visit to the lady of the night. But even if you don't agree with me that this is the "correct" pattern of thought, I still have trouble visualizing this scene on a dark New York street corner between a prostitute and a customer. You want to party? I want all kinds of party. Ok, Sweetie, you got the bread? No, no, but I got Lapin's newest book, you know the one where he explains the use of the Tektronix spectrum analyzers to find frequency hopping transmitters to find out if the cops are listening in on your phone calls. "Far fuckin' out. It's a deal!" Also, as this is written it is illegal, as in go-to-jail- don't pass-go, in a number of third world countries to possess or use innocent devices as phone scramblers. 'Why? Because we love you, M. I. C. K. E. Y. No, it's because the government doesn't want anyone to have the right to talk in private. No lie, it's that simple. By far, most surveillance jobs are not FBI or DEA-sanctioned probable cause busts but are, in fact, one spouse trying to get the goods on his/her partner, or a white collar businessman who has decided the best way to get ahead is to lie, cheat, and steal. It go on every day, everywhere. A number of other cases are unauthorized attempts by a person who actually is in law enforcement or employed by the government to spy on you and yours. Okay, okay so much for our political digression. How to Get anything on Anybody is a operation manual on gathering information about anyone. Before I have you nodding off reading my political digression, believe whatever you want, but know this: Knowledge is power, knowledge is freedom. Check our Freedom Library at www.expatworld.net. Here is a list of titles of our new books in our Freedom Book Store. At the sites you will find a short description of each and ordering instructions. - Don't Shoot the Bastard - 101 more ways to salvage Freedom - Quick and Dirty Guide to - Learning Languages Fast - New ID in America - Privacy Handbook - Overseas Americans - Radio Monitoring - Explore the world of espionage - Living Well on Practically Nothing - Investing Offshore - Patent Secrets - Book on Bookies - Get Even, The complete book of dirty tricks - Get Even 2, More dirty tricks from the master of revenge - Whole Spy Catalog - Revenge Encyclopedia - Improved Lock Picking - Do-It-Yourself Medicine - Alaskan Bootleggers Bible - PI - Identity, Privacy, and Personal Freedom - How to Get Anything on Anybody - How to Get Anything on Anybody, Book II - 101 Things To Do 'Til The Revolution - Vanish - I am not a Number - Super Privacy ==== OTHER EZINES =============================== ASIAN TIMES ONLINE Asia most trusted source for news, business,commentary and analysis from throughout Asia and our world. 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According to the Camino a Canaan cemetery the sensor attached to the coffin is to avoid anyone being buried alive. Spokesperson for the cemetery told La Cuarta: "We want to be pioneers and avoid catalepsy cases, in which a person gets completely paralysed for a few hours and ends up buried as if they were dead. "We want families to rest assured that if a case like this ever happens their loved ones will be immediately rescued." ----- Law: Residents of even numbered addresses may not water their plants on odd-numbered days excluding the thirty first day where it applies. Country: USA State: Minnesota City: Cottage Grove Explanation: In an effort to conserve water usage this law was enacted. However, what lawmakers might not realize is that many residents may compensate for not being able to water their plants on some days by watering their plants even more on the days they are allowed to do so. ----- TRAVELLER'S TALES DILL PICKLE Traveller's Tales Reader Bill B. phoned a food delivery outlet in Manila. Receptionist: May I have your name please? Bill: Bill. Receptionist: John? Bill: No, Bill. Receptionist: Dion? Bill: Bill. Receptionist: Jill? Bill: No, Bill. Do you know Bill Clinton? Receptionist: Yes. Bill: My name is Bill, like in Bill Clinton. Receptionist: Okay, Dill Clinton. May I take your order, Sir Dill? ----- Oxymoron: Virtual Reality ----- "Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 ton." - Popular Mechanics, March 1949. ----- The government announced today that it is changing its emblem to a condom because it more clearly reflects the government's political stance. A condom stands up to inflation, halts production, destroys the next generation, protects a bunch of pricks, and gives you a sense of security while you're actually being screwed. ----- Windows A woman called the Cannon help desk with a problem with her printer. The tech asked her if she was "running it under Windows." The woman then responded, "NO, my desk is next to the door. But that's a good point... 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