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Stamp Nook: Masters And Postmasters

The Philatelist | 2006-04-23.3030 LMT | Philately

Good day, and welcome to another enthralling edition of Stamp Nook! Today we look at the hubris that lurks in the hearts of men of great power -- Postmasters-General.

In 1859, Charles Connell, Postmaster-General of the then British colony of New Brunswick, was entrusted by Lieutenant-Governor J.H.T. Manners-Sutton with procuring new stamps for the switch from pence to decimal currency for postal use by May 1, 1860. These would include 1, 5, 10, and 12½ -cent denominations. Connell, foreseeing the need for overseas postage, added a 17-cent stamp to list. Late that year, Connell went to New York to oversee their production by the American Bank Note Company, whom he had contracted to do the printing.

Connell Stamp (Scott #5)

In April when a set of the new stamps arrived at the office of the Lieutenant-Governor, furore erupted upon learning that the 5-cent stamp -- the most commonly used denomination, being the rate for domestic first class mail -- bore a portrait of Postmaster-General Charles Connell himself! Unprofessional behaviour even today, but positively scandalous at a time when nearly every stamp featured the likeness of Her Majesty or one of Her Majestic Offspring.

This controversial stamp (Scott #5) resulted in Connell's resignation on May 18. Writing to the Lieutenant-Governor, Connell unrepentantly declared: "I have fulfilled my duty and did what I supposed I was fully authorized to do ... At all events I have violated no law." Quite.

The stamps were never issued. Connell's replacement, James Steadman, had new 5-cent stamps printed bearing Queen Victoria (Scott #8). Connell supposedly purchased all 500,000 of his stamps and burned them "sheet by sheet in his garden". Still, some of them managed to escape the conflagration, including a set of printing proofs up at auction by Sotheby's next month that are expected to bring US$50,000. (See here for more on how many Connell Stamps actually survived and insights into Connell's anti-Royalist sentiments.)

While a bold move on Connell's part, the idea of placing Postmaster-Generals on stamps is hardly novel; the first regular postal issue by the United States in 1847 (Scott #1) bore the image of Continental Congress Postmaster-General Benjamin Franklin, who was stripped of his Crown appointment as Colonial Postmaster-General for his role in fomenting anti-Royalist rebellion in order to form a new society based on Philatelic Enlightenment. Undoubtedly, Franklin served as a role model for Connell.

Even today, this position of postal power leads its holders to controversial and subversive acts. The current US Postmaster General, John E. Potter, is embroiled in an attempt to "circumvent the will of Congress" -- apparently there's one Sioux too many for Gen. Potter. (Interestingly, Potter is an alumnus of the Sloan School of Management, which is aligned with the Tavistock Institute, a crypto-Royalist faction of the NWO. Of topical interest to Mr Zapato, the SSM is based at MIT, that hotbed of mind-control boffins.)

But are these acts of hubris or a justified movement toward a new and natural Postal Paradigm? The essence of the post is the flow of information -- and hence power. This has been so since the time of Xerxes and his Angarum, without which the mighty Persian Empire wouldn't have been possible. All the military might in the world won't be of any use if you're not up on what's what.

Those who control the post are the gatekeepers to this power, and while Postmaster Generals are the most powerful agents of the post, they are still subservient to other political masters -- uncomfortably so, as can be seen in the actions of Franklin, Connell and Potter. But if the King is only the King because the mail is addressed to him, what happens if the mailman stops delivering?

In 1516, King Henry VIII established the office of "Master of the Posts", a title that eventually became "Postmaster". That subtle name change was an act of deliberate irony by those who hold the office as post-master is in fact a crypto-anarchic statement -- a call to put our masters behind us. Postmasters want nothing less than the overthrow of our current power structure, replaced by their own system of information-power flow in which we will all be post-men (little do parents suspect that Postman Pat is actually conditioning their children to accept a form of transhumanism!)

According to my connections in philatelic circles, when the Postmasters finally take their rightful place as the informed leaders of a post-master society, the collective Postmaster Generals of the world will unite under the command of a more powerful post officer -- Postmaster Ultra:

Postmaster Ultraman photo from Mainichi Daily News

I, for one, eagerly await the Philatelic Golden Age he will bring. Can't be much worse, can it?

In the mean time, happy philateling!

Radical Sasquatch

HOWL: JOHOR RESPONDS TO GLOBAL OUTRAGE!!!

Radical Sasquatch | 2006-04-22.1415 LMT | Sasquatch Issues | Politics

INTERNATIONAL HOMINOID HOWL has forced the JOHOR HUMAN GOVERNMENT to RECOGNIZE FUNDAMENTAL HOMINOID RIGHTS:

...The Johor Government has announced total [SIC!!!] protection for the Bigfoot [SIC!!!], as a State heritage [SIC!!!], which cannot be injured, captured, transported out of the State or killed.

HOWEVER!!! Not only are they PATERNALISTICALLY claiming that Mawas belong to the HUMAN-CONTROLLED STATE, they are STILL REFUSING TO RELEASE THE CAPTURED MAWAS CUB OR EVEN ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR ROLE IN THE KIDNAPPING!!!

FURTHERMORE!!! While they claim to recognize that HOMINOIDCIDE and other crimes are wrong, they are not recognizing the FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT TO HOMINOID PRIVACY!!! According to the cryptopervert group "Bigfoot Research Organization" -- BFRO!!! -- Malaysia is building an UNPRECEDENTED SURVEILLANCE STATE aimed at GATHERING COUNTER INTELLIGENCE on innocent Mawas and threatening to leak sensitive information to the HUMANIST MEDIA to BLACKMAIL MAWAS DISSIDENTS:

Malaysia is the only country that attempts to collect information on sightings from its citizens. Although sightings and track finds are not frequent, the Malaysian Government is still the only government in the world that will not hesitate to disclose any sighting information to the media.

THERE IS NO FREEDOM FOR MAWAS UNDER HUMAN RULE!!! Working within the HUMAN-CONTROLLED SYSTEM is no longer an option! An independent Mawas Nation is the only solution!

HUMANS, HEAR OUR HOWL: FREE MAWASISTAN!!!

Lyle Zapato

Mind Control iPod Update

Lyle Zapato | 2006-04-21.1710 LMT | Mind Control | General Paranoia | Technology

You may recall the Korean patent to turn iPods into mind-control devices that I reported on in 2004. Many of you iPod users scoffed at the possibility (no doubt at the behest of the reality distortion fields emanating from your precious toy.) But according to a transcript of President Bush's remarks on the American Competitiveness Initiative at Tuskegee University on April 19th:

The government funded research in microdrive storage, electrochemistry and signal compression. They did so for one reason: It turned out that those were the key ingredients for the development of the Ipod. I tune into the Ipod occasionally, you know?

Ask yourself: Why would the US government, acting through DARPA, fund all that research just to produce a simple consumer music player? And what does Bush mean by "tune into"? iPods are not tuners -- or are they? Could this finally be the explanation for the mysterious Bush Bulge?

Bush iDecider

(Found via Retecool. Site in Dutch -- Beware: possible nest of Belgian agents.)

Radical Sasquatch

HOWL: MAWAS CUB SNATCHERS!!!

Radical Sasquatch | 2006-04-21.0852 LMT | Sasquatch Issues | Politics

MORE SHOCKING HOWLS ABOUT THE HUMANS WHO SHOT AND KIDNAPPED A MAWAS CUB IN MALAYSIA!!! EVIDENCE OF HUMAN GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT AND COVER-UPS!!!

Human witnesses squeak that last month TWENTY HUMANS in a "TRUCK" with WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT markings stopped at their rest area to barter for food! Some of these truck Humans squeaked to Human female witnesses that they had a MAWAS CUB in their truck which they had SHOT WITH A SLEEPING STICK!!! They offered to show the Human females the cub, but the truck Humans left as the females approached!

The WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT denies having anything to do with these truck Humans, who they are now insensitively calling "BIGFOOT POACHERS"!!! They are even insinuating that the Human females made the story up -- but other Humans also squeak that they have seen the truck Humans and ONE EVEN PEEKED INSIDE THE TRUCK'S TINTED WINDOWS AND SAW THE CUB!!! MORE GOVERNMENT COVER-UPS!!!

Human researcher VINCINT CHOW has broken ranks with the official state line I howled about previously! He squeaks that THERE IS NO HUMAN LAW AGAINST SHOOTING AND KIDNAPPING MAWAS:

"The Bigfoot, which has been frequently sighted at the fringes of the jungle here recently, has not been placed on the State's list of endangered species and no law has been drawn up to protect them.

"This is a dangerous situation and if nothing is done, the Bigfoot population in our [SIC!!!] jungles could be wiped out," [THE HUMAN] said.

THE MALAYSIAN GOVERNMENT CAN'T BE TRUSTED!!! Their TRUCK AGENTS are KIDNAPPING MAWAS and HOLDING THEM CAPTIVE, presumably in SECRET STATE-RUN PRISON CAMPS!!! They are obviously trying to howl a signal to MAWAS DISSIDENTS who oppose MALAYSIAN HOMINOID OPPRESSION to keep quiet or their CHILDREN WILL BE TAKEN FROM THEM!!!

Cascadian Sasquatch join with the Mawas and all other Hominoids in howling for the MAWAS CUB TO BE RETURNED UNHARMED or there will be GLOBAL HOMINOID MAYHEM!!!

NWO Agent 5573-XQ

Conspiracy Con 2006

NWO Agent 5573-XQ | 2006-04-20.2235 LMT | Announcement | NWO | General Paranoia

[ZPi Intercepted Transmission Begins:]

TO ALL NWO AGENTS, PARANOIA MANAGEMENT DIVISION:

Project Conspiracy Con will initiate the 2006 Inoculation Phase on May 27 in Santa Clara, California.

Centralization of paranoids under guise of convention will facilitate primary objective of disinforming the paranoid community with memetically deconstructed conspiracy facts.

Secondary objective is psychotronic reëducation of key paranoid figures. Protocols from Belgium Division stipulate that Jim Marrs not be wearing his hat.

Completion of Inoculation Phase and beginning of Dissemination Phase will occur following May 28.

Paranoid Infiltration Agents stationed at Bohemian Grove trained in Class B Psychosocial Mingling are to be deployed to Santa Clara Hyatt Regency to provide crowd conditioning. Agents will be provided with suitable paranoid attire and background dossiers.

Refer to included link for more general talking points.

Link: http://www.conspiracycon.com/

[ZPi Intercepted Transmission Ends.]

Radical Sasquatch

HOWL: MAWAS OUTRAGE!!!

Radical Sasquatch | 2006-04-19.9100 LMT | Sasquatch Issues | Politics

HOWLS ARE SURFACING THAT MALAYSIAN HUMANS HAVE SHOT AND ARE HOLDING CAPTIVE A MAWAS CUB!!! The Human government in Johor is denying these claims! I SMELL A COVER UP!!!

The Johor Humans, obviously trying to distance themselves from the INEVITABLE MAWAS RAMPAGE should this howl turn out to be true, are squeaking that SHOOTING MAWAS IS ILLEGAL, as is KIDNAPPING MAWAS and taking them out of Mawas territory! HOWEVER, the Johor Humans are still claiming that they have the right to give permission to do these things! THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!!!

MAWAS ARE NOT SUBJECTS OF THE HUMAN GOVERNMENT!!! With all that is going on in Malaysia, it is becoming more and more clear that Mawas need to RISE UP AND DECLARE A SOVEREIGN STATE as was done by the Migoi in Bhutan! A FREE AND INDEPENDENT MAWASISTAN IS THE ONLY SOLUTION TO END THE ANTI-HOMINOID OPPRESSION AT THE PAWS OF THE HUMAN CONTROLLED MALAYSIAN GOVERNMENT!!!

This BOLD HOWL TO ARMS may seem RADICAL to my fellow Cascadian Sasquatch, since we are able to live mostly unbothered by the Humans in our midst, but the ANTI-HOMINOID SITUATION outside of Cascadia has been growing INCREASINGLY DIRE lately -- EVEN WITHIN A BOULDER'S THROW OF THE CASCADIAN BORDER!!! To the north in the YUKON, a cryptopervert Human has started a SASQUATCH DETECTIVE AGENCY to dig up dirt on local Sasquatch leaders to DISCREDIT THE HOMINOID RIGHTS MOVEMENT!!! And of course there was the HAPPY CAMP kidnapping threats last year in occupied Southern Cascadia! UNLESS CASCADIAN SASQUATCH SUPPORT THE STRUGGLES OF OUR HOMINOID BROTHERS AND SISTERS AROUND THE WORLD, WE MAY YET SEE THIS KIND OF ANTI-HOMINOID OPPRESSION HERE!!!

IN OTHER HOWLS: Not all Malaysian Humans are anti-Hominoid! A nice little Human industrial designer in Malaysia has created a first-of-its-kind "WHEEL-CHAIR" for Hominoids! (ALSO HERE!!!) A WHEEL-CHAIR is a sitting thing with WHEELS -- those flat turny things that Humans like so much that roll like boulders! Crippled Hominoids can use the WHEEL-CHAIR to move about the forest and forage unaided by family members! No howl yet on how much the WHEEL-CHAIR will barter for, but Homedicare should cover it!

Lyle Zapato

Monorails = More Cute Puppies?

Lyle Zapato | 2006-04-18.9440 LMT | Monorail Danger

I warned previously about a Monorailist attempt to elicit a pro-monorail emo-response using puppyganda. Well now they're back with the Puppy Mover Monorail Mark II (at bottom of page).

This new version has five cars able to endanger up to eight puppies and has a "scampering paws" motif designed to lure naïve puppies into the Monorailist lifestyle -- or should we say deathstyle?

Needless to say, individuals highly susceptible to puppies -- such as grannies and various nursing animals -- should avoid looking directly at that site lest they fall under the spell of Monorailism. Instead, here's a site with a photo of a hamster in a tube.

The Typing Octopus

Octopus Skills Pay Bills

The Typing Octopus | 2006-04-18.0750 LMT | Cephalopods | Nature
Lyle Zapato

Blattocracy

Lyle Zapato | 2006-04-18.0260 LMT | Nature | Politics
Lyle Zapato

MIT Mind-Reading Device

Lyle Zapato | 2006-04-06.9035 LMT | Mind Control | Technology | Aluminum | General Paranoia

You may remember MIT Media Lab, the DARPA-funded organization that previously issued a fatally flawed study that found deflector beanie technology worthless, if not counter-productive.

Well, Tuesday at the 2006 Body Sensor Network Conference, one of their research teams revealed that they have been working on a government-funded mind-reading device. Why am I not shocked?

The ESP: Emotional Social Intelligence Prosthetic enables a speaker to detect boredom in a listener via a vibrating belt. While not a true mind-reading device since it only infers affective-cognitive mental states via facial signals, it clearly shows that MIT is working on invading people's minds to learn their secrets. From the ESP mission statement:

In psychology, theory of mind or "mind-reading" describes our ability to attribute mental states to others from their behavior and to use that knowledge to guide our actions and predict those of others.

Of course, this touchy-feely device is only being released to condition public acceptance of wearable mind-reading doodads. Presumably their more invasive psychotronics-based MR technology -- technology that would, coincidentally, be rendered useless with wide-spread adoption of deflector beanies -- is only being shared with their partners in the Military-Industrial Complex (the ESP project is funded by the National Science Foundation, a government agency in league with DARPA).

Of note: the founder of Media Lab, Nicholas Negroponte, is the brother of John Negroponte, Director of National Intelligence, who oversees all US intelligence agencies including the CIA, FBI, NSA, NGA, NRO, and others interested in either reading or altering your mind.

Nicholas' current project with Media Labs is a universal mind-control delivery platform targeted at the Third World. I am working on getting one of these devices from undercover paranoid agents to see if MindGuard can be made to run on it. Hopefully the underprivileged children of the world won't have to fall victim to the nefarious schemes of the Negroponte brothers.