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This is NOT a creation of my (but rather, one of someone else's) imagination

Friday, 4. December 2009, 06:16:54

J.Edgar.Hoover, Nigeria, phishing, officialese ...

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Anti-Terrorist And Monitory Crime Division.
Federal Bureau Of Investigation.
J.Edgar.Hoover Building Washington Dc
Customers Service Hours / Monday To Saturday
Office Hours Monday To Saturday.
Attn: Beneficiary,

This is to Officially inform you that it has come to our notice and we have thoroughly Investigated with the help of our Intelligence Monitoring Network System that you are having an illegal Transaction with Impostors claiming to be Prof. Charles C. Soludo of the Central Bank Of Nigeria, Mr. Patrick Aziza, Mr Frank Nweke, Dr. Philip Mogan, none officials of Oceanic Bank, Zenith Banks, Barr. Derrick Smith, kelvin Young of HSBC, Ben of FedEx, Ibrahim Sule,Larry Christopher, Dr. Usman Shamsuddeen, Dr. Philip Mogan, Paul Adim, Puppy Scammers are impostors claiming to be the Federal Bureau Of Investigation. During our Investigation, we noticed that the reason why you have not received your payment is because you have not fulfilled your Financial Obligation given to you in respect of your Contract/Inheritance Payment.

Therefore, we have contacted the Federal Ministry Of Finance on your behalf and they have brought a solution to your problem by coordinating your payment in total USD$11,000.000.00 in an ATM CARD which you can use to withdraw money from any ATM MACHINE CENTER anywhere in the world with a maximum of $4000 to $5000 United States Dollars daily. You now have the lawful right to claim your fund in an ATM CARD.

Since the Federal Bureau of Investigation is involved in this transaction, you have to be rest assured for this is 100% risk free it is our duty to protect the American Citizens. All I want you to do is to contact the ATM CARD CENTER via email for their requirements to proceed and procure your Approval Slip on your behalf which will cost you $110.00 only and note that your Approval Slip which contains details of the agent who will process your transaction.
CONTACT INFORMATION
NAME: Mr. Kelvin Williams
EMAIL: williamskelvin22@yahoo.cn
Telephone: +2348191213677

Do contact Mr Mr. Kelvin Williams of the ATM PAYMENT CENTER with your details:

FULL NAME:
HOME ADDRESS:
TELL:
CELL:
CURRENT OCCUPATION:
BANK NAME:
AGE:

So your files would be updated after which he will send the payment information's which you'll use in making payment of $110.00 via Western Union Money Transfer or Money Gram Transfer for the procurement of your Approval Slip after which the delivery of your ATM CARD will be effected to your designated home address without any further delay.We order you get back to this office after you have contacted the ATM SWIFT CARD CENTER and we do await your response so we can move on with our Investigation and make sure your ATM SWIFT CARD gets to you.
Thanks and hope to read from you soon.

ROBERT S. MUELLER, III
DIRECTOR, FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535

Note: Do disregard any email you get from any impostors or offices claiming to be in possession of your ATM CARD, you are hereby advice only to be in contact with Mr. Kelvin Williams of the ATM CARD CENTER who is the rightful person to deal with in regards to your ATM CARD PAYMENT and forward any emails you get from impostors to this office so we could act upon and commence investigation.

official looking, huh?

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Thin Line between Art & Hoax, Part Deux

Thursday, 5. November 2009, 04:19:51

DABA girls, hoaxes, Spoiled Rich People, Eat the Rich ...

Sorry for taking so long to get around to this. I remember carrying an article which I remember tearing out of Time Magazine about an alleged (although neither I nor the Time Magazine writer knew this at the time) support group called "DABA Girls", or "Dating A Banker Anonymous". Some highlights of the article:

The economic crisis came home to 27-year-old Megan Petrus early last year when her boyfriend of eight months, a derivatives trader for a major bank, proved to be more concerned about helping a laid-off colleague than comforting Ms. Petrus after her father had a heart attack.

For Christine Cameron, the recession became real when the financial analyst she had been dating for about a year would get drunk and disappear while they were out together, then accuse her the next day of being the one who had absconded.

Dawn Spinner Davis, 26, a beauty writer, said the downward-trending graphs began to make sense when the man she married on Nov. 1, a 28-year-old private wealth manager, stopped playing golf, once his passion. “One of his best friends told me that my job is now to keep him calm and keep him from dying at the age of 35,” Ms. Davis said. “It’s not what I signed up for.”

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Congress Approves $500 Billion For Monument To Human Folly

Wednesday, 4. November 2009, 19:55:39

decision by committee, government spending, waste, vanity ...

WASHINGTON—In recognition of mankind's inherent propensity for tragically foolish decisions, Congress allocated nearly $500 billion Monday for the construction of a new national monument honoring human folly.

"From Hannibal's disastrous crossing of the Alps to Custer's humiliating defeat at Little Bighorn, human history has been plagued by senseless mistakes, and it is high time we built a memorial to honor that history," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said of the expensive and ill-advised monument. "My deepest hope is that future generations of Americans will one day look upon this pointless edifice and be filled with a sense of awe and wonder at mankind's utter lack of foresight."

"To think of all the ways our time and money could have been better spent," Pelosi continued. "I can imagine no more fitting tribute."

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Yikes! Food that ain't necessarily food!

Tuesday, 3. November 2009, 06:58:39

Calcium Caseinate, coffee creamer, margarine, Men At Work ...

Vegemite

There was even a hit song in the early eighties where they sing a verse about this stuff!

I come from the Land of Down Under!

Lever pre-2000

Same processes used for the manufacture of soap, margarine and munitions

Safe and stable edible material having reinforced concrete-like structure

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Halliburton Sells Nukes to Iran

Saturday, 31. October 2009, 05:58:50

Merchants of Death, evil, Iran, Halliburton ...

Halliburton "sold nuclear technology to Iran"

Senate hearing on foreign subsidiaries of U.S. companies dealing with Iran

Halliburton, the notorious U.S. energy company, sold key nuclear-reactor components to a private Iranian oil company called Oriental Oil Kish as recently as 2005, using offshore subsidiaries to circumvent U.S. sanctions. This clip shows Democratic Senators Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) grilling Sherry Williams, V.P. and Corporate Secretary for Halliburton about the company's deplorable ethics and questionable practices.

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Big List of Evil Organizations

Saturday, 31. October 2009, 01:14:56

evil, abomination, Multi-National Corporations, oil companies ...

1. Starbucks
2. Microsoft
3. WalMart
4. The Gap Corporation (including The Gap, Old Navy and Banana Republic-- I suppose they think the last name is supposed to be funny)
5. AT&T
6. Whole Foods (abominable labor practices under the pretext of being "cool")
7. Nike
8. GATT (General Agreement on Trade & Tariffs), which effectively negates the sovereignty of Nations (with their annoying labor, quality & environmental regulations) and allows nations to be sued for enforcing those regulations on other nations which choose to ignore socially/environmentally/etc. conscious manufacturing practices
9. Wells Fargo (who however, because of their entirely ruthless banking practices, will undoubtedly turn out to be the "Last Bank Standing")
10. Oil companies in general: Exxon, Chevron,
11. De Beers (blood diamond trade)
12. Halliburton - a.) After Democrats take control of Congress in January, 2007 (after sweeping into office in the November, 2006 elections on the failure of (primarily) ex-Halliburton CEO Dick Cheney's disasterous policy decision to invade Iraq, and handing nearly trillions of dollars of no-bid contrats to his old company, those patriotic souls at Halliburton turn tail and move their base of operations out of the US, to their welcoming tax haven (heaven) of United Arab Emirates in Dubai.