March 31, 2005
A few readers have emailed me asking why, after recently setting up a folder, this notice on my News page suddenly disappeared. The explanation is very simple. Shortly after going online, I received threats of lawsuits, legal actions, etc.
Having already experienced such matters and seeing how trivial this issue truly was, I decided not to pursue it further. On Earth, we already have far more serious problems. Wasting energy on such trivialities would be nothing but a waste of time.
That said, for several days we had the strange sensation of being plunged into a short story by Marcel Aymé. The situation began simply: a website had been created: http://www.dgse.org. Suddenly, a reader pointed out that the addresses dgse.org and dgse.com were redirecting to... a Texas jewelry store, the Dallas Gold and Silver Exchange. Surreal.
A fairly plausible hypothesis is that the administrator of the "unofficial DGSE site" had simply... forgotten to pay the renewal fee for the domain names. The American company noticed this and promptly seized the opportunity to reclaim them. This led to a series of rather absurd misunderstandings. Indeed, several websites dedicated to various "services" contained a link pointing to the "unofficial DGSE site," which then automatically redirected internet users to... the Texas jewelry store! The same thing happened with a page from the American FAS (Federation of American Scientists), and undoubtedly also with countless other sites across many countries that had copied this link. In passing, we learned that there are numerous "unofficial sites" within various services, some of which even informed us that although the site discussing their activities was managed by a SARL, they "controlled" the information published there. At this point, the only thing we can say is: "It's their problem."
The domain name market is free and without any right of first refusal.
is thus being offered for sale by its owner, who suggests "we make him an offer." However, it's unlikely to interest the Texas jewelry store, which has already taken possession of
and
unless it has a branch in France.
is currently held by a company called "Creative Network Service," focused on graphic design. No offer for sale.
is taken and is for sale.
is registered by an English-speaking owner and is for sale.
The domain name cnrs.com appears to be vacant, but a reader, Mr. Robert Ash, residing in Japan, informs me that the sect "Church for Natural Redemption through Science" might be interested in acquiring it.
Another reader, Sébastien, informs me that if you type:
and
you end up on some genuinely original content—simply because the networks forgot to register the domain names.
Monday, April 5, 2005
Receipt of an "honorable anonymous" message:
cerp netcourrier.com.
This one sends us to a new website (official? unofficial?):
and more specifically to the page:
http://centurion.estsurle.net/dgse.org.htm
Caution: some sound files are particularly aggressive, so it is recommended to lower the volume before clicking on certain files. The main homepage contains a section called "Elite Units," which links to a DGSE page whose URL is:
http://centurion.estsurle.net/dgse.htm
But if you click on the link mentioned above—which was in the message I received—you'll find the same text, accompanied by the image:
Frustrating...
End of this interlude. Back to current events. Discovery of the scale and rapid development, in near-total public indifference, of the phenomenon of "tagging" and marking objects with RFID chips—first passive, then rapidly active—inevitably followed by the tagging of human beings. Observing the staggering inertia of the vast majority of people, politicians, and journalists in the face of this unstoppable evolution.
Gillette plans to implant 500,000 passive RFID chips into its razors. Very soon, all products will be marked this way—not because, as the company claims, "it will simplify inventory management," but because the job of supermarket sales assistants will disappear completely. Sales staff will vanish, along with displayers, warehouse workers, and handlers. Items will be placed (or replaced) by robots. Labor costs will drop, and unemployment will rise further. Faced with such a surge and such a prospect of increased profit margins, consumer complaints and the protests of consumer associations will carry little weight. People will be told that the chips will be deactivated after passing through checkout, but they will have no way to verify this.
After placing microchips in razors, they will be placed in... eyeglass frames, clothing, watches, and everything else humans might carry with them—including dental implants, crowns, and even prosthetics. People will thus be tracked without their knowledge. Detection systems will not only transmit data on their movements to central computers but will also store this information in the chip's volatile memory, which quickly becomes "rewritable."
Reality far surpasses fiction, by a wide margin.
As I said, the already minuscule size of these devices (one-tenth of a millimeter) will make it possible to have people ingest them. Biologists claim it's possible to design chips capable of lodging themselves in the abdominal wall. They could even be implanted into the brains of people previously anesthetized using microwave guns. These objects, which cannot be detected or removed, could then serve as relays for multiple actions, depending on where they are implanted in the brain (the trace of implantation disappears very quickly). For implanted subjects, access to certain locations or entire regions could be denied, under threat of unbearable pain. These chips, whose remote destruction could cause death, induce unbearable headaches, or trigger convulsions, could become irresistible tools of pressure. They could deliver subliminal messages for "crowd control," "mob management," or even induce hallucinations. The "rewritable" and remotely interrogatable chips are already operational, accessible via coded keys. Big Brother is quietly installing himself within our societies, without most people even realizing it. The motivation? "Security" and the power of a small group over a vast multitude of human beings.
We knew this would happen sooner or later, but we didn't realize it would happen so fast. Incidentally, note that the company manufacturing the chips ordered by Gillette is called:
Alien Technology
You can't make this up.
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