8:47 pm CST

Checked my stats this morning and discovered that, overnight, this site received over 1500 visitors!  They were coming from bOING-bOING.net,where this blog and my comic strip Operation Northwoods were mentioned by my friend Mark Fraunfelder, and Metafilter.com which reproduced the bOING-bOING links.

In Metafilter's comments section, someone noted that the Northwoods piece would be better if it were accompanied by footnotes.  I agree.  Presently, the piece is posted on the Comics Journal website; however, when I post it here, I will provide a bibliography, as well as a list of relevant links documenting Operation Northwoods and other matters brought out in my piece (including the meeting at Clint Murchison’s house the night before the JFK assassination, depicted in the above panel).

Also, recently, this site has been visited by two notable persons ...

A few nights ago, Uri Dowbenko, author of the new book Bushwhacked: Inside Stories of True Conspiracy, emailed me after finding this site.  (Since then, we have talked on the phone and had a lively conversation!) Uri's articles may be read at Conspiracy Planet.

Also, last night, I received an email from filmmaker provocateur Mike Zieper.  It was Mike who made the notorious "Military Takeover of NYC", which purported to be a training film for a planned race riot instigated by the U.S. military in Times Square on New Year's Eve Y2K. This hoax resulted in a frightening visit from the FBI and the temporary removal of his website.

Check out Mike's most recent hoaxes "Deathbed Confession" and "Could This Be Real."

Learn more about Mike Z. and his unique brand of subversive filmmaking at his website.

Tomorrow evening I will be going to Dallas to visit family for a couple of days.  Will update this blog when I get back!

10:17 pm CST

Hey, Kids! COMICS! Now showing in the theatre, a comedy short subject, “Showdown at Rio Bobo.”

9:59 pm CST
Media Release: Electronic Frontier Foundation and Stanford Law Clinic Sue Electronic Voting Company

San Francisco - A nonprofit Internet Service Provider (ISP) and two Swarthmore College students are seeking a court order on Election Day tomorrow to stop electronic voting machine manufacturer Diebold Systems, Inc., from issuing specious legal threats. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Center for Internet and Society Cyberlaw Clinic at Stanford Law School are providing legal representation in this important case to prevent abusive copyright claims from silencing public debate about voting, the very foundation of our democratic process.

Diebold has delivered dozens of cease-and-desist notices to website publishers and ISPs demanding that they take down corporate documents revealing flaws in the company's electronic voting systems as well as difficulties with certifying the systems for actual elections.

Swarthmore students Nelson Pavlosky and Luke Smith have published an email archive of the Diebold documents, which contain descriptions of these flaws written by the company's own employees.

"Diebold's blanket cease-and-desist notices are a blatant abuse of copyright law," said EFF Staff Attorney Wendy Seltzer. "Publication of the Diebold documents is clear fair use because of their importance to the public debate over the accuracy of electronic voting machines."

Diebold threatened not only the ISPs of direct publishers of the corporate documents, but also the ISPs of those who merely publish links to the documents. In one such instance, the ISP Online Policy Group (OPG) refused to comply with Diebold's demand that it prohibit Independent Media Network (IndyMedia) from linking to Diebold documents. Neither IndyMedia nor any other publisher hosted by OPG has yet published the Diebold documents directly.

"As an ISP committed to free speech, we are defending our users' right to link to information that's critical to the debate on the reliability of electronic voting machines," said OPG's Colocation Director David Weekly. "This case is an important step in defending free speech by helping protect small publishers and ISPs from frivolous legal threats by large corporations."

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), passed by Congress in 1998, provides a "safe harbor" provision as an incentive for ISPs to take down user-posted content when they receive cease-and-desist letters such as the ones sent by Diebold. By removing the content, or forcing the user to do so, for a minimum of 10 days, an ISP can take itself out of the middle of any copyright claim. As a result, few ISPs have tested whether they would face liability for such user activity in a court of law. EFF has been exposing some of the ways that the safe harbor provision can be used to silence legitimate online speech through the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse.

"Instead of paying lawyers to threaten its critics, Diebold should invest in creating electronic voting machines that include voter-verified paper ballots and other security protections," said EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn

10:12 pm CST
I continue to watch with maniacal glee as my article ”Television and the Hive Mind” runs amuck throughout the Internet, self-replicating itself and leaving hyperlinks and controversy in its wake. It has been posted on all manner of websites—left wing, right wing, Christian, New Age, UFO, Native American, Biker Message Boards, Mind Control Forums, and numerous blogs. Here are the latest places it has appeared:

indymedia.org

The indymedia posting is followed by a few comments, including this one:

I read every single word and analysed it for new information to add to the "dirt" I have on TV

People are addicted to TV - very much like in the movie "They Live"

Tv doesn't just shape reality though, to a great extent the reason it works is because it tells people *what they want to hear*. Both the programming and commercials entrain the brain to expect short simple answers which TV provides - it takes reality and reduces it to sound bites. A steady diet of TV causes one to want sound bites. The commenter above wants them...

indianz.com

The above is a Native American site. The person who originally posted it on this message board no doubt did so hoping to provoke serious thought. However, as you will see, most of the comments sarcastically associate the article with dubious topics such as shape-shifting lizards. This is odd, since I promoted no such nonsense anywhere in the article, but rather, went to some pains to point out that associating “bug-eyed aliens and ghosts” with legitimate political discourse is a trick by the media manipulators to confuse the populace. Yet, even after reading this (or not), some persons remain obstinately blind to their victimization by the mass media. Such is the power of mass mind control.)

Rumor Mill News (Okay, I posted this one myself, under my alias, Bison Bill.)

IANews (What is fascinating about this posting of the article is that it is the latest re-post of a variant (or mutation) of the article in which an earlier re-poster on another site highlighted passages in different colors for emphasis and added his own comments.)

On even more sites, the article has been linked rather than posted in its entirety. (A good many of the links, by the way, are to the re-postings of the article on Memes.org or Rense.com rather than the original posting on this site, MackWhite.com.) I cannot begin to list all these sites, therefore the best two must suffice:

On this blog, ahumanmovement.blogspot the blogger writes, “Certainly some interesting early history, but then our friend - just goes crazy …”

A similar concern for my psychological well-being occurs on Cycleworld.com, where there is a discussion about the article, in which one person writes, “Interesting piece. Hard to get a handle on exactly where his paranoia is coming from, seemingly from everywhere.” Another simply quotes the famously psychotic (and, some say, mind-controlled) science-fiction author Philip K. Dick: “I know it's my psychosis, but I can't let them catch me!"

However, one person had this to say:

There is definitely something to what he says here. The government's interest in the development of digital television, to the point of giving away billions of dollars of air-wave space, is a cause for concern. Faux News is basically a propaganda arm of the Republican Party and I don't doubt that television has a negative effect on cognitive function.

I don't doubt that even if there are no plans to carry things to the levels discussed in this article that the idea has been studied.

On the same message board, there is this comment. I am not sure what point the poster was trying to make, but it is so good I may start using it as a theme song:

It's written by Mack the White. "oh that pen bites, with that ink dear..."

10:44 pm CST
My friend, Rayelen Allen, author of Diana Queen of Heaven, has just posted the following interesting article on her Rumor Mill News Forum:

Diana, The Real Reason Stores are Pulling the Globe

11:53 am CST
"If voting could really change things, it would be illegal."
--Excerpt from a Diebold Election Systems internal memo.

Read more highly incriminating excerpts HERE.

11:44 am CST
U.K. papers are reporting this morning that French authorities have accused the British government of a cover-up in the death of Princess Diana. There is also talk that Diana’s body may be exhumed. Read about it HERE.

Also, the London Observer has reported that secret videos recorded by Diana—“which would have caused huge embarrassment to the royal family if they had been made public”—have been destroyed. However, it is believed that an audio tape still exists on which the princess recorded a former aide to Prince Charles alleging he had been raped by a senior courtier. He also described seeing the same man involved in a sexual act with a member of the royal family. Read about it HERE.

4:25 pm CST
Dr. Len Horowitz, author of Death in the Air and Emerging Viruses, has written a provocative article, LA Fires More Than Economic Boom, describing what may be the real cause of the Southern California fires.

4:22 pm CST
Looking over my stats for the month of October, I see that this site received 4,050 visits. Most visitors were from the U.S.; however, huge numbers were from Australia, Canada, the U.K., Netherlands, New Zealand, Italy, Greece, Sweden, Japan, Austria, and Germany. In addition, there were significant numbers from Denmark, Finland, Norway, France, Brazil, Poland, Switzerland, Estonia, Mexico, Singapore, and Belgium.

One of the highest search strings for this site was “princess diana murder conspiracy.” My favorite search strings were: “fear of paranormal psychological studies”; “hooded man ... news ...illuminati signals”; “dream robot cartoon”; “how do doctors install micro-chips in the brain”; and “bupkus definition” (seems I’m not the only one who knew bupkus about bupkus).