DC Madam Predicted She Would Be Suicided

Paul Joseph Watson, Prison Planet Thursday, May 1, 2008

Click here to listen to Palfrey clearly state that she would not commit suicide.

DC Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey predicted she would be “suicided” on several occasions both recently and as far back as 17 years ago - comments that now appear ominous in light of the announcement that the former head of a Washington escort service allegedly killed herself today.

“If taken into custody, my physical safety and most probably my very life would be jeopardized,” she wrote in August 1991 following an attempt to bring her to trial, “Rape, beating, maiming, disfigurement and more than likely murder disguised in the form of just another jailhouse accident or suicide would await me,” said Palfrey in a handwritten letter to the judge accusing the San Diego police vice squad of having a vendetta against her.

During several recent appearances on The Alex Jones Show, Palfrey also said that she was at risk of being killed and that authorities would make it look like suicide. She made it clear that she was not suicidal and if she was found dead it would be murder.

Palfrey had threatened to release the names of well-known clients of her upscale call girl ring in the nation’s capitol, and had indicated that Dick Cheney may be one of them.

“We now know it goes at least as high as a United States Senator,” Palfrey told The Alex Jones Show, “I’m hearing rumors now from other people that there are other possibilities in that stratosphere so to speak, on that level.”

“No I’m not planning to commit suicide,” Palfrey told The Alex Jones Show on her last appearance in July, “I’m planning on going into court and defending myself vigorously and exposing the government,” she said.

“Blanche Palfrey had no sign that her daughter was suicidal, and there was no immediate indication that alcohol or drugs were involved, police Capt. Jeffrey Young said,” according to an AP report.

Click here to listen to Palfrey clearly state that she would not commit suicide.

Click here to listen to the entirety of the last interview with Palfrey.

UPDATE: In an almost uncanny development, as soon as this article started to go viral on the Internet, Time Magazine released a story claiming that Palfrey told author Dan Moldea that she would rather commit suicide than go to jail. What a funny coincidence!

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Making analog televisions feel useful

I received my digital TV converter box gov’t coupons over the weekend. In case you’ve not yet seen or heard any of the commercials, or flipped through the newspaper to find a advertisement for this program, there is a looming deadline for analog television. In February of 2009, all broadcast signals in the USA will switch over to digital and television sets that can receive only analog broadcasts will display only dancing salt and pepper from that moment forward.

All TVs since 2005 have been fitted with digital as well as analog tuners. (Televisions that don’t have tuners included in their manufacture are just called “monitors.” You’d be hard-pressed to buy one of these on accident.) So if your TV is less than 3 years old, you’re in the clear. If it’s not, you’ll need a converter box for it to pull in even your local broadcast channels – such as PBS – over the air.

The FCC has mandated that we all be sufficiently notified and that there be coupons available for citizens to use toward lessening the financial hardship of the switch. Each of us is allowed up to two coupons. You’ll need a converter for every TV you use after February 2009 that is analog-only. The official website to request these coupons is DTV2009.gov. There is additional information and tools at this website, including a tool for locating where to buy a converter, but it’s likely that any retailer who sells televisions will have converters available.

NOTE: Digital TV is not the same as HDTV (High Definition TV). Normal Digital TV converter boxes will not enable you to watch over-the-air HDTV programming. You have to buy a converter capable of HDTV as well as Standard Definition DTV to see this programming. Read this page at DTVFacts.com to learn more.

DTVFacts.com aims to better educate consumers and does an excellent job of it.

ConsumerReports.org has a terrific website dedicated to the transition.

From ElectronicHouse.com: “A new report by the consumer advocacy group MassPirg (Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group), finds many retailers are misleading consumers about the upcoming analog-to-digital television transition.”

Wikipedia’s page on the transition is available here.

DTVAnswers.com is another informational site, published by the National Association of Broadcasters.

If you have any specific problems or would like to learn more about individual converter boxes or other hardware, I highly recommend searching or posting a new message to the Audio Video Science Forum.

Newegg.com has converter boxes available in their “Set-top box” category, but I’m not sure if they can accept the coupon. I’ll provide an update when I find out.

Whistleblower: Cellular carrier giving FBI unfettered access

Computer security analyst Babak Pasdar says that a major mobile telecommunications carrier has a built-in backdoor that provides an undisclosed third-party with unfettered access to its internal technical infrastructure, including the ability to eavesdrop on all calls through its network. In an affidavit that describes the circumstances and basis for the allegations, Pasdar provides evidence which could indicate that the FBI is on the other side of the secret line, engaging in warrantless surveillance of mobile communications.

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Whistleblower: Cellular carrier giving FBI unfettered access

Video - Leave It To Dennis Kucinich | The 35 Percenters

Dennis Kucinich (1) (2) (3) has the best platform of any candidate (4), bar none. Even the Beav thinks so (5):

(Thanks Mom)

Lawrence Lessig on ending corruption

Lawrence Lessig (1) (2), professor of law at Stanford Law School, founder of the Creative Commons (3) and board member at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (4) has announced his next ten years will be dedicated to ending corruption (5) (6).

Where do I sign up?! Well, probably at Lessig’s Corruption wiki (7).

(If you would like to see more of Mr. Lessig, take a look at “The Withering of the Net: How DC Pathologies are Undermining the Growth and Wealth of the Net” (8) (9). Very worth the 40 minutes.)