911 artifacts of melted concrete & steel

Concrete disintigrates at about 1000 degrees fahrenheit but doesn't melt untill it reaches approximately 3000 degrees. Steel melts at around 2500 degrees so this conglomerate must have formed at around this temperature as some of the gun parts are melted. If the whole thing was to exceed the melting point of the agragate in the concrete it would end up being a form of lava or obsidian.

If a geologist in the distant future were to find one of these artifacts he would probably have no idea what he was looking at or why these man made objects ended up in the conglomerate.

Some speculation on thermite.

One of the things that could possibly cause temperatures of this magnitude would be thermite. The other one is the use of direct energy weapons which is easily diverted because it sounds like such a crazy idea to anyone who hasn't seen the information on them. However Youtube has some interesting videos that show that such things do exist and are indeed being used and have been operational for some time.

Why write about such a mundane subject?
I suppose it's because I wonder how the NIST could be working on an explanation of what happened on that fateful day, and still has not completed their report, allthough it allready contains 10,000 pages. I suppose that it's because I think that there should be an independent and open investigation. You know...like things are done in a democracy...G:

               911: Melted Steel & Concrete from WTC6

                              911smokinggun.blogspot.com

      Thermobaric Weapons and Nanothermite a Brief History

 

                             Wordgeezer on Youtube

Antarctic ice shelf continues to break up

~VIDEO~

A large chunk of the Wilkins ice shelf has broken off showing the long lineal fractures and right angle corners of these huge blocks of ice. A scientist from the British Antarctic Survey predicted this break-up in 1993. In the following article is an awesome video of the ice shelf taken from an old Twin Otter Aircraft.

Whether caused by something called Global Warming or a natural warming cycle, this cannot be ignored. I believe that the primary cause of the current warming trends is the unprecedented harvesting of trees and plantlife by mankind on virtually every part of the planet. The cooling effects of the transpiration of water from trees when removed in large areas like Brazil has an effect on weather patterns, and at the same time decreases Mother Natures ability to replenish the very oxygen that is necessary for animal life. The Earth's resources, fossile fuels in particular, are like a natural battery, providing fire to run the technology we feel is necessary to enhance our existance, and we are using it up like there is no tomorrow.

This whole thing probably started when Zog Earlyman cooked up his first Mastadon steak and our technology hasn't really advanced much since those times. Mankind has learned how to burn the crap out of everything, but hasn't even came close to replicating the natural ability of plant life to utilise carbon dioxide in the production of oxygen.

End of rant...G:


British Antarctic Survey

25 Mar 2008

Glaciologist Ted Scambos from the University of Colorado alerted colleagues Professor David Vaughan and Andrew Fleming of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) that the ice shelf looked at risk. After checking daily satellite pictures, BAS sent a Twin Otter aircraft on a reconnaissance mission to check out the extent of the breakout.

Professor Vaughan, who in 1993 predicted that the northern part of Wilkins Ice Shelf was likely to be lost within 30 years if climate warming on the Peninsula were to continue at the same rate, says,

"Wilkins is the largest ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula yet to be threatened. I didn't expect to see things happen this quickly. The ice shelf is hanging by a thread – we'll know in the next few days or weeks what its fate will be."

Jim Elliott was onboard the BAS Twin Otter to capture video of the breakout for Vaughan and colleagues. He says,

"I've never seen anything like this before – it was awesome. We flew along the main crack and observed the sheer scale of movement from the breakage. Big hefty chunks of ice, the size of small houses, look as though they've been thrown around like rubble – it's like an explosion."

The breakout is the latest drama in a region of Antarctica that has experienced unprecedented warming over the last 50 years. Several ice shelves have retreated in the past 30 years - six of them collapsing completely (Prince Gustav Channel, Larsen Inlet, Larsen A, Larsen B, Wordie, Muller and the Jones Ice Shelf.)

Professor Vaughan continues,

"Climate warming in the Antarctic Peninsula has pushed the limit of viability for ice shelves further south – setting some of them that used to be stable on a course of retreat and eventual loss. The Wilkins breakout won't have any effect on sea-level because it is floating already, but it is another indication of the impact that climate change is having on the region."

Details @ 1:52

Please excuse the low quality of these images. They are digital photos of what happened in a fraction of a second at 1:52 of the video. Watching the video, the whole conflagration appears on the right and exits at the left of the screen as far as I can tell without a video editer. Of particular interest is the bird like figure. Why isn't it in the other images when this whole thing happens in a fraction of a second? Note the vertical shadow on the left side of the picture in the last two frames...

Are Star Wars weapons being used in Basra?

from Swissinfo.ch

March 28, 2008 - 6:15 PM

In one strike before dawn, a U.S. helicopter fired a hellfire missile at gunmen firing from the roof of a building, killing four of them, Cheadle said. A Reuters photographer there filmed windows blown out of cars and walls pocked with shrapnel.
Later in the day cars were engulfed in flames after an apparent air strike on a Sadr City parking lot. Police said another U.S. air strike in Kadhimiya, a Sadr stronghold in northern Baghdad, killed five people. U.S. forces said they killed 27 fighters in
operations in the capital on Thursday.



There are some pretty strange things on this video.

1:09 Burning vehicles much like found at the World Trade Center disaster.

1:41 Aircraft shooting fireballs.

1:42 A fast moving aircraft streaks from the right side of the picture and exits to left.

I don't have the capacity on my computer to capture video stills,so will give the times on the video where I seen these aircraft or whatever they are. To do it I had to keep running it over and over and quickly hitting pause.

1:52 There's a whole lot going on here in just a fracion of a second. The overall view is rapid, but you will notice something streakinf from right to left. Here's what I found by hitting pause after many tries.

1 Three aircraft enter at right side of picture.

2 Large eagle shaped figure followed by one aircraft at center of picture

3 Large eagle figure has moved to left and been passed by the single aircraft.

4 Large eagle figure exiting to left.

5 Gray area like a cloud or force field at exit point.

6 A gray area could be seen on the right just before the three aircraft entered,

Bush calls battle in Iraq 'a defining moment'; U.S. steps up air attacks

USS Constellation Air Wing 2 Hits Targets Near Basra

Tibet , The Olympic Torch, & the Brahmaputra River

Well, Beijing is using a heavy hand in Tibet as Beijing continues to take control of the country. There are lots of reasons for this, one of them being that they want no bad publicity for the 2008 Olympics. Another one being that Tibetens resent the huge influxes of Han Chinese who are taking over their cities and the environmental abuses done by mining and water projects.

China restricts Mount Everest ascents to clear the way for the Olympic torch

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BEIJING - China is denying mountaineers permission to climb its side of Mount Everest this spring, a move that critics say reflects government concern that Tibet activists may try to disrupt plans to carry the Olympic torch to the world's tallest peak.

Taking the Olympic flame to Everest's 8,850-metre summit is shaping up to be one of the grandest and most politicized feats of an already politicized Beijing Games.

The relay directly touches on one of China's most sensitive issues: its often harsh 57-year-rule over Tibet.

Beijing contends Tibet is historically part of China.

But many Tibetans argue the Himalayan region was virtually independent for centuries and accuse China of trying to crush Tibetan culture by swamping it with Han people, the majority Chinese ethnic group.

Tibetan activist groups have criticized the Olympic torch run up Everest as an attempt by Beijing to add legitimacy to Chinese control of Tibet.

A letter sent this week by the government's China Tibet Mountaineering Association to expedition companies said climbs of Everest and Mount Cho-Oyu, which straddle the border between Chinese-controlled Tibet and Nepal, should be postponed until after May 10.

The letter, which was posted on a foreign mountaineering website and verified Wednesday by the association, cited "heavy climbing activities" as among the reasons.

But mountaineering groups, incensed by the decision, said the main reason is the torch relay ahead of the Beijing Olympics in August.

"No matter whether you're an individual or a group, it's impossible to get permission to climb the mountain" from March to June, said Li Hua of the Tibet Polar Land Exploration Tourist Co. in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa.

Plans to bring the torch to the summit are shrouded in secrecy, but preparations made by the Beijing Olympic organizers point to an early May ascent.

Activists have, in the past, unfurled banners at the Everest base camp and the Great Wall of China calling for Tibet's independence.

In a sign of the inflamed passions surrounding Tibet, some 300 Buddhist monks staged a demonstration in Lhasa this week, the largest protest march in nearly two decades. Separately in India, several hundred Tibetan exiles tried to get past Indian police and launch a protest march to Tibet to coincide with the Olympics.

"Beijing is using the Olympics torch ceremony, which should stand for human freedoms and dignity, to bolster its territorial claim over Tibet," John Ackerly, president of the Washington-based International Campaign for Tibet, said in a statement.

The Brahmaputra River

China-India Clash Over Chinese Claims to Tibetan Water

Brahma Chellaney

New Delhi — Sharpening Asian competition over energy resources, driven in part by high growth rates in gross domestic product and in part by mercantilist attempts to lock up supplies, has obscured another danger: Water shortages in much of Asia are beginning to threaten rapid economic modernization, prompting the building of upstream projects on international rivers. If water geopolitics were to spur interstate tensions through reduced water flows to neighboring states, the Asian renaissance could stall.

Water has emerged as a key issue that could determine whether Asia is headed toward mutually beneficial cooperation or deleterious interstate competition. No country could influence that direction more than China, which controls the Tibetan plateau — the source of most major rivers of Asia.

Tibet's vast glaciers and high altitude have endowed it with the world's greatest river systems. Its river waters are a lifeline to the world's two most-populous states — China and India — as well as to Bangladesh, Myanmar, Bhutan, Nepal, Cambodia, Pakistan, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. These countries make up 47 percent of the global population.

Yet Asia is a water-deficient continent. Although home to more than half of the human population, Asia has less fresh water — 3,920 cubic meters per person — than any continent besides Antarctica.

The looming struggle over water resources in Asia has been underscored by the spread of irrigated farming, water-intensive industries (from steel to paper making) and a growing middle class seeking high water-consuming comforts like washing machines and dishwashers. Household water consumption in Asia is rising rapidly, according to a 2006 U.N. report, but such is the water paucity that not many Asians can aspire to the lifestyle of Americans, who daily use 400 liters per person, or more than 2.5 times the average in Asia.

The specter of water wars in Asia is also being highlighted by climate change and environmental degradation in the form of shrinking forests and swamps, which foster a cycle of chronic flooding and droughts through the depletion of nature's water storage and absorption cover. The Himalayan snow melt that feeds Asia's great rivers could be damagingly accelerated by global warming.

Senior blogger reports what the Mainstream Media won't

For up to the minute happenings on the Iraq war and military vets in general check out the information on Bill Corcoran's blog. He is a fellow senior citizen and a veteran of the Korean war. Bill was a reporter and columnist for 40 years for a chain of newspapers in the suburbs of Chicago and a military veteran having served in the United States Army Combat Engineers. His blog, CORKSPHERE, is devoted to news accounts about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars that are no longer covered by the mainstream media in the United States.

from Bill's blog...

UNBELIEVABLE AMOUNT OF VIOLENCE ROCKS IRAQ: LIST OF MORE U.S. CASULATIES

The following is the longest list of ONE DAY violence in Iraq we have EVER posted since starting this blog three months ago. How anyone in their right mind can say things are getting better in Iraq boggles the mind.

NEW DEATHS AND INJURIES TO U.S. TROOPS REPORTED HERE:

The DoD is reporting a new death previously unreported by the military. Pfc. Antione V. Robinson of injuries sustained when the vehicle he was repairing collapsed in Nawa, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, March 19th. No other details were released.

The Corvallis Gazette Times is reporting the death of a civilian working for the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, part of the U.S. Department of Defense. Paul Converse died by rockets and mortars that hammered the Green Zone in centrial Baghdad on Easter Sunday

Former marine Josh Hoffman spent months recovering at a hospital in Virginia while his comrades returned home. A sniper's bullet in the neck left him paralyzed from the shoulders down in January of 2007.

Staff Sargent David DeCann of Newark was clearing roadside bombs when one went off right next to him. His parents say his survival is a miracle. While clearing roads south of Baghdad, a roadside bomb went off right next to him. Don said, "He doesn't know if he stepped on it or the other guy stepped on it. One of them stepped on the pressure plate." DeCann suffered shrapnel wounds to his hip, a perforated eardrum, and cuts and scrapes.

VIOLENCE AND SECURITY INCIDENTS IN BAGHDAD AND ALL ACROSS IRAQ

Baghdad:#1: Gunmen also attacked an office and clashed with guards from the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council at the entrance of Baghdad's main Mahdi Army stronghold of Sadr City, police said. SIIC's armed wing, the Badr Brigade, is the main rival of the Mahdi Army.Gunmen attacked headquarter of Badr organization in Habibiyah area causing no casualties.Unidentified armed groups attacked on Tuesday an office of the Dawa Party – Iraq Organization in Sadr City, eastern Baghdad, and set it ablaze but no casualties were reported, a party legislator said.

#2: In Baghdad's Sadr City, a sprawling slum of about 2 million people that is Sadr's biggest stronghold, residents said armed Mehdi Army fighters had appeared on the streets and ordered Iraqi police and soldiers to get out of the district.

#3: Baghdad, clashes erupted between militia members and Iraqi soldiers in al-Hamza Square at the edge of Sadr City, the sprawling slum in eastern Baghdad that is a Mehdi Army stronghold. Fighting then spread to other neighborhoods including Shaab and Amin. In the southern Baghdad neighborhood of Abu Disher, al-Sadr's office called for citizens to engage in civil disobedience. Stores closed and people took to the streets to protest military operations and arrests. The Interior Ministry said civil disobedience tactics were seen in five Baghdad neighboroods.Police said fighting erupted in several Sadr City neighborhoods between Mehdi Army fighters and the Badr Organization, the armed wing of a rival Shi'ite faction.

#4: A former Corvallis city councilman has died from injuries sustained when rockets pounded Baghdad's U.S.-protected Green Zone on Easter, a newspaper reported. Dick and Leona Converse of Corvallis told the Gazette-Times newspaper they learned Sunday that their son, Paul Converse, had been injured and likely wouldn't survive. On Monday, two officers from the Oregon Army National Guard arrived at their door. Converse, 56, was a financial analyst who audited contracts in Iraq, said Kristine Belisle, a spokeswoman for the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, part of the U.S. Department of Defense.

#5: smoke could be seen over the Green Zone after an apparent mortar or rocket attack.Three mortar shells hit the Green Zone today.Several volleys of mortars or rockets struck inside the Green Zone, the government and diplomatic compound.The Green Zone, the government and diplomatic compound, came under 12 indirect attacks that included 16 rockets, the U.S. military said. At least three people were wounded from the attacks, while structural damage in the compound was limited.

#6: Two roadside bombs killed one person and wounded eight others in Bab al-Sheikh district of central Baghdad, police said

.#7: Gunmen seized two police vehicles and kidnapped six policemen in the Maamil district of northeastern Baghdad, police said.

#8: Six missiles were fired by unidentified men in Abu Dshir neighborhood, in the southern Baghdad district of al-Dora on Tuesday, eyewitnesses said. "The missiles landed in the neighborhood while supporters of Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr are conducting a peaceful sit-in protest," a local resident told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq – (VOI).Another eyewitness said light gunfire was heard after the rockets fell. No comments were made by police and nothing is yet reported on whether there were any casualties or damage sustained.

#9: U.S. military helicopters fired on armed gunmen in Sadr City to support coalition and Iraqi security forces protecting the area's checkpoints.

#10: A mortar attack killed one U.S. soldier on patrol in the Adhamiya district of Baghdada, the U.S. military said. The mortar was fired from the vicinity of Sadr City.

#11: U.S. forces surrounded Sadr city, eastern Baghdad, while the Baghdad Operations Command imposed a curfew on it as of this afternoon until Wednesday morning, the official spokesman for the Baghdad's operations said on Tuesday. Eyewitnesses also said that sounds of discontinuous gunfire and explosions are heard at different neighborhoods of the city. Power went off at some parts of Sadr city, while people there rushed to buy foodstuff preparing for security deterioration. One of the eyewitnesses told VOI "U.S. forces allowed four firefighting trucks and three ambulances to enter the city."

#12: Three mortar shells targeted a police station in Al Qanat area injuring two policemen.#13: Police found 5 dead bodies throughout Baghdad, one in Palestine Street, two in Sleikh, one in Nahdha, one in Saidiyah.

Diyala Prv:#1: and a U.S.-allied Sunni fighter also was killed in a drive-by shooting northeast of the capital, police said.

Kut:#1: Gunmen and police clashed in the southern city of Kut, where last week Mehdi Army fighters battled police. A Reuters witness said he could hear the sounds of gunfire. The streets were empty and shops closed. Police said a curfew had been imposed

.#2: Armed followers of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr seized control of five districts in the southern Iraqi town of Kut on Tuesday, police sources said. The sources said Sadr's Mehdi Army militia were in control of the Jihad, Shuhada, Zahara, Sharqiya and Hawi districts of the city, which has 18 districts in total. A Reuters witness in the city said he could hear shooting and explosions. U.S. warplanes were circling overhead.

#3: Clashes raged sporadically in Kut as militants fought Iraqi and US forces but there were no immediate reports of casualties.

#4: Mortar attacks wounded two civilians in Kut, police said.

Hilla:#1: Gunmen wounded three police officers on patrol in the city of Hilla, 100 km (62 km) south of Baghdad.

#2: At least two people died in the Hilla clashes, security officials said.

#3: Two bodyguards of the Babel province's governor were wounded on Tuesday in an armed attack on his house in central Hilla, a police source said. "Unidentified gunmen attacked Babel governor's house at Al-Aoroba neighborhood in central Hilla," the source told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI) on condition of anonymity." Fierce clashes took place between the governor's guards and the gunmen, during which two of the guards were wounded," he explained.

Najaf:#1: Three rockets hit the technical institute that the American forces using according to police.

Aziziya:#1: Eight or ten policemen were wounded in clashes in Aziziya town, north of Kut, police said.

Muthanna Prv:#1: In Samawa, capital of southern Muthanna province, police imposed a curfew after Mehdi Army fighters appeared on the streets. Curfews were also imposed in Hilla and Kut, police said.

Qurna:#1: One militant and one police officer were wounded in clashes in the southern Iraqi town of Qurna, 80 km (50 miles) north of Basra, police said.

Basra:#1: Iraqi forces clashed with Shiite militias in the southern oil port of Basra on Tuesday as a security plan to clamp down on violence between rival militia factions in the region began. AP Television News video showed smoke from explosions rising over the city and Iraqi soldiers exchanging gunfire with militia members.Maj. Abbas Youssef, a police officer in the Basra hospital, said four civilians had been killed and at least 18 injured in the fighting. The U.S. military said Tuesday that five suspected militants were killed in Basra while attempting to place a roadside bomb. Ten others were injured after being spotted conducting suspicious activity, the statement said.A hospital source said "tens of wounded" were arriving at hospitals with some too busy to accept more casualties.Eight civilians and four soldiers of the Mahdi army, a militia loyal to radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, were reported killed, while 26 others were wounded, security sources told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.Two ambulance drivers said they had transported eight bodies to Basra's Sadr Educational hospital. A police major at al-Mawana Hospital said it had received four bodies and 18 wounded.Police and hospital officials reported that at least 22 people had been killed and 58 wounded in the clashes. Iraqi authorities on Monday imposed an indefinite nighttime curfew on the city.

#2: At least one Iraqi battalion has already been sent to Basra, an official in the defense ministry said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn't supposed to talk to the media. Other battalions may be called from Iraq's southern provinces.

#3: Iraqi Interior Minister Jawad al-Boulani survived an assassination attempt on his motorcade in Basra, security officials said Monday. The officials said Boulani's motorcade was attacked late Sunday by men attacking with gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades, reported KUNA, the Kuwaiti news agency. Boulani wasn't hurt in the attack but several cars of the motorcade were damaged.

#4: Eyewitnesses from the neighboring areas of al-Jumhuriya and al-Aaliya, central Basra, told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq – (VOI) on Tuesday that the violent clashes in Basra were continuing from 12:00 a.m. until the present time, adding security forces were using tanks and artillery while the gunmen were using mortars and RPG-7 rockets.

#5: In Tamimiya, central Basra, known to be the most important stronghold of gunmen in Basra, eyewitnesses said a large force, backed by fighter planes and helicopters, besieged the area, where it managed to wield power after violent confrontations.

#6: In al-Jamiyat area, 8 km western Basra, another local resident said clashes were going on since the midnight of Monday with different kinds of weapons used, adding fighter planes were heard pounding some targets.

#7: An eyewitness from al-Maaqal, 10 km north of Basra, said "clashes in the area left two gunmen killed in al-Kaziza district, noting "their bodies were still littering main street there. "He said three people from the al-Kaziza fuel station were wounded and a child from the area was severely wounded from a stray bullet. "The child will most probably die due to failure to have him rushed to a hospital," said the witness.

#8: Early in the morning a mortar barrage struck the headquarters of the Iraqi Army 14th Brigade near the Jesr al-Zubair area in western the city, but there was no reports on casualties, a local police source told Xinhua.

#9: Another mortar barrage targeted the Shatt al-Arab Hotel in central the city, where the Iraqi Army operations office based, the source said without providing further details.

#10: British troops remained at their base at the airport outside Basra and were not involved in the ground fighting Tuesday, according to the British Ministry of Defense. Air support was being provided, but a spokesman could not say if it was U.S. or British planes.

#11: Gunmen kidnapped three Iraqi policemen guarding a police training centre, police said.#12: An AFP correspondent said fighting in Basra died away late afternoon and the streets were empty even of security force vehicles.

Mosul:#1: Meanwhile, the brigadier said an explosive device was detonated targeting a military ambulance belonging to the 2nd division of the Iraqi army near al-Haramat region in western Mosul, causing some material damage to the ambulance."The explosion caused no casualties," he said.#2: Unidentified gunmen blew up a house of a policeman's father in Somer neighborhood, southeastern Mosul, using bombs," a police source said. "They booby-trapped it and remotely detonated it, causing severe material damage to the house but without casualties," the source, who requested anonymity, told VOI.

#3: Police patrols found an unknown body in al-Muthanna neighborhood in eastern Mosul," Brig. Khaled Abdul Sattar Saadon told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq.Six bodies were found in different districts of Mosul, police said.

#4: Unidentified gunmen killed an employee working in a morgue in the city of Mosul on Tuesday, police said. "The gunmen killed the employee near his home in al-Rifaie neighborhood, west of Mosul," a security source, who did not want his name mentioned, told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq – (VOI). "The victim, a relative of Ninewa Governor Dreid Kashmoula, is the second morgue employee to be killed," the source said, adding no further details.

#5: Gunmen abducted the son of an official of the journalists' union, Ghanim Ismail, outside his house in eastern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.Al Anbar Prv:Haditha:#1: Iraqi police killed a militant who was trying to throw a grenade at a police patrol on Monday in Haditha, 250 km (150 miles) west of Baghdad, police said.

Afghanistan:#1: Four policemen and two civilians have been killed as a group of Taliban insurgents ambushed Afghan border policemen patrolling near the border with Iran in western Afghan province of Herat, said a police officer on Tuesday. Rahmatullah Safi, the provincial border police chief told Xinhua that the attack came on Monday evening when the border police were patrolling with vehicle in Shindand district.

#2: Gunmen fatally shot two Afghan members of a mine-clearing team on Monday, a day after five members of another team were killed in an attack in a nearby province. The latest killings came after a ceremony in the Archi district of Kunduz province in northern Afghanistan to mark the completion of a de-mining project, said Gen. Ayub Salangi, the provincial police chief. Gunmen shot at one of the team's cars, killing a driver and a team member from the Mine Detection and Dog Center, a UN-funded local group, Salangi said. He said he didn't know who the attackers were or if the shooting was motivated by a private grudge or anti-government hostility.

AND WITH ALL OF THIS HAPPENING IN JUST ONE DAY IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN, PRESIDENT BUSH, VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY AND FOX NEWS STILL HAVE THE GALL TO SAY THINGS ARE GETTING BETTER IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN.

Posted by Bill Corcoran at 3:48 PM

CORKSPHERE

1984 REVISITED

A repost of an old article from Dec 2006 for my friend from T&J Furniture


Brothers and sisters: we are so far beyond 1984 that Orwell no longer applies. When I read his book 40 tears ago, it left the impression that there would be no escape from the eye of Big Brother, but we made it to the new millinium, and could actually have a private moment if we paid hiking fees to the government for visiting our wilderness areas. A place where there was no 60 cycle per second magnetic hum from the wiring in our homes, business's and streets. A place of exquisite quietness that can't be described but only felt.

That is before the cell phone, which operates on microwaves emmiting from the towers that you see whever you might travel. You can take your trusty cell phone with you into places like the Mount Jefferson Wilderness, and many people do for security, without even considerating the trade off. To be sitting by a mountain lake, and have your only contact with the outside world play a robotic little electronic tune, and disrupt the peace and harmony of the moment is not cool.

Now George Orwell was speaking of the government keeping track of you through your TV set, which did indeed seem like a scary prospect, but the US has taken it out of the living room, and put it on the person of millions of people on this fragile planet.

Cell phone users, beware. The FBI can now listen to everything you say, even when the cell phone is turned off. The FBI has the ability from a remote location to activate a cell phone and turn its microphone into a listening device that transmits to an FBI listening post, a method known as a "roving bug." Experts say the only way to defeat it is to remove the cell phone battery.

"The FBI can access cell phones and modify them remotely without ever having to physically handle them", James Atkinson, a counterintelligence security consultant, told ABC News. "Any recently manufactured cell phone has a built-in tracking device, which can allow eavesdroppers to pinpoint someone's location to within just a few feet," he added.

SO?

~VIDEO~

On the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion, ABC’s Good Morning America aired an interview with Vice President Cheney on the war. During the segment, Cheney flatly told White House correspondent Martha Raddatz that he doesn’t care about the American public’s views on the war:

YouTube - 9/11 Truth: Why Won't The Media Show World Trade Center 7?

Includes EXTREMELY RARE footage of WTC7 wreckage smoldering up-close on the night of September 11, 2001. 9/11

Here Steven Jones is asked what he would like to show, and he said building 7, that it hasn't been shown in the main stream media, but Tucker Carlson ends up saying that he would have to get an ok from NBC. Apparently it had to be from the top and it was never shown.

9/11 Truth: The Collapse of WTC 7 - Who Knew in Advance?


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3/24/2008
This video I added today,thanks to my friend Anthony from across the pond...G:

Obama passport records breached: Dept. of State has allready deleted it's "Cookie"

COMPUTERWORLD

Update: Obama passport records breached; IT system flagged violation

By Patrick Thibodeau

The State Department's decision to provide broad access to passport records may seem, on the face of it, to be a problem. But the department is also trying to balance access to data with IT security, according to its IT Strategic Plan for 2006-2010. That plan points out that "one lesson of September 11, 2001, is that restricting access to information poses serious risks, often outweighing the impact of potential unauthorized disclosure."

The report goes on to say that "security decisions must be based on rigorous debate of pros and cons by all stakeholders: end-users, security specialists and IT experts."

The Obama campaign, which learned of the breach Thursday afternoon, is scheduled to be briefed by Kennedy on Friday. Responding to initial news of the breach, Bill Burton, an Obama campaign spokesman, said, "This is an outrageous breach of security and privacy, even from an administration that has shown little regard for either over the last eight years."

It is also unclear what investigative options are open to the department at this point. The inspector general — actually, the acting inspector general; the position has been unfilled for several months — can do little more than request interview time with the contractors' former employees.

"Cookie" Krongard is Conspicuous in His Absence

Howard J. "Cookie" Krongard, was a political appointee in the government of President George W. Bush. Krongard was head of the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of State. His position was known as the State Inspector General or State IG. After being accused of averting probes into contracting fraud in Iraq and a possible conflict of interest regarding investigations into Blackwater Worldwide, Krongard left his post on January 15, 2008, and was not eligible for retirement.

Upon the departure of Howard Krongard, William (Bill) Todd was named Acting Inspector General. He had been appointed on June 15, 2006, as Deputy Inspector General of the Department of State and the Broadcasting Board of Governors. Mr. Todd directs all Office of Inspector General activities, domestically and abroad, including 260 diplomatic missions in 163 countries and international broadcasting operations in 61 languages that reach an audience of more than 100 million people around the world.

Biejing Elite Ramp Up Tibetan Oppression

The Age

A Tibetan woman screams after being arrested during a protest in Kathmandu, the capital of Tibet's Himalayan neighbour, Nepal.

Mary-Anne Toy, Songpan, Sichuan Province
March 21, 2008

"LOVE your country, love your religion, together let's build a harmonious society," reads the banner fluttering in the spring sunshine at the 400-year-old Tibetan monastery in remote Sichuan province.

The Communist Party slogan, intended to reassure people that religion can co-exist with communism, rang hollow this week as Beijing mobilised its formidable security forces to contain the worst outbreak of Tibetan protests against Chinese rule in two decades.

More on Tibet



Tibet’s Gamble December 1, 2003

Can the Dalai Lama’s China talks succeed?
By Jehangir Pocha

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They had waited for him since dawn, sun-drenched along an uneven mountain road. But when the Dalai Lama’s motorcade swept by, his passing wave left many vaguely disenchanted.

Officials had warned that he would not be stopping; nevertheless, disappointment is hard to accept from a man many consider a god.

Now, as the 68-year-old Dalai Lama engages in talks with the Chinese government on the future of Tibet, there is a deepening sense of foreboding that he is falling short.

Last September, after intense secret negotiations, a personal emissary of the Dalai Lama met with the Chinese government in Beijing for the first time since 1959. A second meeting followed in May this year.

Many of Tibet’s 110,000 exiles see this as progress toward their return home. But others are irked by how much the Dalai Lama has conceded just to get a seat at the table.

His Holiness, as the Dalai Lama is universally called here, has dropped Tibet’s demand for independence from China in return for autonomy. There are also indications that Tibetans might accept this autonomy over a limited part of Tibet.

Long before Communist China’s army entered Tibet in the early 1950s, vast tracts of Tibetan land had been absorbed by China into regions such as Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu and Yunnan. In 1959, when the Dalai Lama fled to India, China gained control over what was left of Tibet and in 1965 turned this area into a province called the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR).

The Dalai Lama now lays claim to all traditional Tibetan land, both TAR and the areas seized by China. But many say this demand is unrealistic and he should be flexible.

A Cornered Dog May Bite

But not everyone is happy with the concessions being made to the Chinese.

“You cannot give up the independence of Tibet. Anyone who tries this is making a mistake,” says Kalsang Godrupka Phuntsok, president of the Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC). With 20,000 members, the TYC is the largest NGO within the Tibetan community and is critical of the Dalai Lama’s “middle path” diplomacy.

Sitting in the TYC’s spartan headquarters, Phuntsok says: “The negotiations mean nothing. The Chinese cannot be trusted. They are just playing with (the Dalai Lama), buying time and waiting for him to die.”

Phuntsok says the time has come for Tibetans to set aside nonviolence and begin “targeted, victimless violence” against the Chinese, such as blowing up economic targets and railway bridges.

Students around him nod and say they are willing to die for their cause. Dhondup Dorjee, 24, explains why. “It’s not that I believe in violence,” he says sharply, “but even a street dog, if he’s cornered, will bite you.”

Not Always Nonviolent

With the Tibetan struggle iconized by the smiling, benevolent face of the Dalai Lama, such sentiments may surprise some. Few people realize that the Tibetans have tried violence against the Chinese before. Between the mid-’50s and 1972, Tibetans waged a covert war against China from Mustang in Nepal with the assistance of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

The operation, code-named ST CIRCUS, was one of the CIA’s longest-running projects.

Thousands of Tibetan guerillas were trained at a base called Dhumra, or “the garden,” at Camp Hale in Colorado and also in Saipan. They were then parachuted into Tibet via Thailand or were smuggled in over land from Nepal.

President Nixon ended ST CIRCUS when he re-established diplomatic ties with China, and the operation’s records have never been made public.

Continued

A video anthology of premeditated hegemony

George Bush Sr. speech on Iraq War 1991



"This is an historic moment. We have in this past year made great progress in ending the long era of conflict in cold war. We have before us the opputunity to forge for ourselves and future generations a New World Order."

George W. Bush Inauguration



President Bush speech Sept 11, 2001



Here's where the Duhhbya puppet is certified as the War president, while being cast in the mold of a simple and (cough) religious man.

"Tonight I ask for your prayers for all those who grieve, for the children whos worlds have been shattered, for all whos safety and security have been threatened, and I pray they will be comforted by a power who is greater than any of us. Spoken through the ages in psalm 23: Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I fear no evil for you are with me."


Bush´s primping before invasion of Iraq speech.



I especially like the far out ending.

These are the images broadcasted live from the white house 2 minutes before the official speech of bush in the 20th mars 2003, when the iraq war begun. We watched it live in RTP1 - portuguese national tv Station, and in Euronews.


President Bush Announcing Invasion of Iraq



What we are seeing here is an under qualified excuse for a man who parrots the Neoconservative spin just as has been done from day one of his installment in the White House. As most of us know, almost every seat in his cabinet was filled by a member of the PNAC, and every on of them were in contact with the right wing think tanks that orchestrated the takeover of the United States Government and had designs
on the takover of the Middle East.

George Duhhbya Bush on the 5th. Anniversery of the Iraq War

Exercise for the Elite: 4 minutes a day will keep you in shape!

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However: Some folks don't really have a lot of bread or even really care to be wealthy. Some of these new fangled inventions just don't make much sense to them.

Long Distance Hikes on the Longest Trail

End to End Hall of Fame

Peter Wolfe who was a recovering alchoholic who was living on the streets decided to dry out by hiking the longest trail in the US. It took 7 years for him to get in shape but it wasn't expensive and he enjoyed what he was doing. He wasn't really on a very tight schedule, and didn't have to cram his exersize into a 4 minute time slot to sustain himself. In 1974 Peter was the first to attempt the whole 4, 400 miles and is still remembered for it and has a trail named for him.

So I guess what I'm trying to say is that some of these new fangled inventions will be the death of us, what with microwave pollution on the increase. Who do you know that doesn't have a cell phone around. I don't own one myself, but I'm surrounded by them. My kids are all experts on them and are one step from a Blackberry, just waiting for the larger bandwidths that will soon be the norm and fast connections that will allow teleconferences all over the planet. It will take a long hike in the wilderness to escape from the EMW's if we can even do so at all...G:

The old Oregon off shore Subduction zone shook a little this AM

We always freak out a bit when we hear of seismic activity off the Oregon coast. There have been 8.5 quakes according to geological history here and it will not be a pretty picture if it happens again. The quake this morning was a 5.9 centered where the Gordita ridge meets the Blanco fracture zone.

The Real Story about the Bull Market

Behind the Scenes in the Beltway

by Al Martin

(3-10-08) A major meltdown in the markets was narrowly averted on Friday, March 7, when the Federal Reserve announced a doubling of its Term Auction Facility (TAF) money auction from $50 to $100 billion dollars per month (which is effectively 28 day money). In its announcement, the Fed said that the reason it was doing this was because of continuing illiquidity in the nation’s subprime markets, subprime municipal junk and junk bond market. In other words, by this action, the Fed is saying that $50 billion a month is not enough. It is not providing enough short-term liquidity to allow the financial institutions that carry inventories and make markets in these securities to do what they are in business to do -- to maintain liquid markets in these securities. This is very serious indeed.




The Truth is not Out There

The Truth Is In Here.

The Conspirators:
Secrets of an
Iran Contra Insider
by Al Martin
Just $19.95


"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."

-- George W. Bush (August 5, 2004)

BIOGRAPHY: ALEXANDER S. MARTIN

* AL MARTIN is an independent political and economic analyst with 25 years of experience as a trader on NYMEX, CME, CBOT and CFTC. He is considered to be a primary source of independent analysis whose focus is on markert technicals.

After working as a broker on Wall Street, Al Martin was involved in the so-called "Iran Contra" Affair as a fundraiser for the Bush Cabal from the covert side of government a/k/a the US Shadow Government.

I think we're going to miss Admiral Fallon

This guy has obviously been drinking koolaide with
the Neoconservative cabal that now occupies the whitehouse. He sounds more like a book keeper for Dick Cheney than an Admiral who is the head of the chiefs of staff.

vujaday

"I think the biggest threat we have is the potential for the nexus of net weapons of mass destruction and terrorism. We know that terrorists are seeking those weapons...and how are they seeking them?...in every possible way"...):

A discussion about Admiral William Fallons resignation

A$hcroft $ings...Let The Dollars $oar

FORBES

Associated Press
Ashcroft: No Conflict on Monitoring Deal
By ANGELA DELLI SANTI 03.11.08, 5:22 PM ET

Zimmer a manufacturer of replacement hips and knees, was one of four companies that agreed to pay fines and hire outside monitors under deferred prosecution agreements settling charges over alleged kickbacks to doctors.

Zimmer agreed to pay Ashcroft's law-lobbying firm between $28 million and $52 million to monitor the company for 18 months and report the results to the government.

Rep. Henry Johnson Jr., D-Ga., asked Ashcroft why his firm is collecting two fees - $750,000 a month plus $895 per hour - more than other monitors also appointed in the New Jersey case.

"The reason our fees are appropriate is the complexity of the case and the extent to which we have been involved," Ashcroft replied.

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Office of Management and Budget

Article compliments of OMB Watch

Thursday, January 17, 2008

The Blind Leading the Blinder

The Washington Post reported this morning that congressional leaders have asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to investigate the use of no-bid contracts to hire businesses and corporations to oversee and monitor other businesses and corporations. Sen. Patrick Leahy☼ (D-VT) and Rep. John Conyers☼ (D-MI) apparently thought something smelled fishy when a federal prosecutor steered a no-bid, 18-month contract worth between $28 million and $52 million to his old boss, former Attorney General John Ashcroft.

The contract is for overseeing an out of court settlement the Justice Department reached with a knee and hip replacement company called Zimmer Holdings, Inc. from Warsaw, Indiana. Apparently Zimmer Holdings was accused of bribing giving kickbacks to doctors who used their knee and hip implants. Now the way these types of settlements work is that the monitoring company is paid directly by the offending business that it is supposed to be monitoring. Therefore, Ashcroft's consulting firm will be paid directly by Zimmer Holdings - the very entity he is supposed to be overseeing to make sure, if you can believe this, they don't make more illegal payments or bribes.

It's hard for me to even begin to describe the gut-wrenching, mind-boggling irony of this situation. First off, how can Mr. Ashcroft be expected to monitor a company in an independent manner that is paying him directly? Second, it's not like Zimmer Holdings was accused of union-busting or providing unsafe working conditions for its employees. They were accused of bribing doctors! Wouldn't it be reasonable to believe they could continue to attempt to offer illegal bribes? And how would the public know if they were doing that? Because the monitor company's bills are not subject to an independent review, are we just supposed to take Mr. Ashcroft's word for it?

While I certainly wouldn't accuse Mr. Ashcroft of being involved in covering up questionable activities or practices (cough), he isn't the only one involved in contracts like these. In fact, they are being relied on by the Justice Department more and more. A new study by two lawyers in Texas has found there has been a 600 percent increase in these types of settlements between the department and large companies in the last five years. Even more amazing, the same prosecutor who awarded the contract to Ashcroft (Mr. Christopher Christie of New Jersey) has directed similar contracts to other former colleagues at the Justice Department, and several other former government officials with ties to the Bush administration have been awarded similar contracts since 2001 according to the Washington Post. While we all know Mr. Ashcroft is above reproach, I have no way to know whether these other former government officials are.

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Will the "Commander in Chief" choose Betrayus for Centcom?

The Man Between War and Peace

As the White House talked up conflict with Iran, the head of U.S. Central Command, William "Fox" Fallon, talked it down. Now he has resigned.

By Thomas P.M. Barnett

March 11, 2008, 3:10 PM

If, in the dying light of the Bush administration, we go to war with Iran, it'll all come down to one man. If we do not go to war with Iran, it'll come down to the same man. He is that rarest of creatures in the Bush universe: the good cop on Iran, and a man of strategic brilliance. His name is William Fallon, although all of his friends call him "Fox," which was his fighter-pilot call sign decades ago. Forty years into a military career that has seen this admiral rule over America's two most important combatant commands, Pacific Command and now United States Central Command, it's impossible to make this guy--as he likes to say--"nervous in the service." Past American governments have used saber rattling as a useful tactic to get some bad actor on the world stage to fall in line. This government hasn't mastered that kind of subtlety. When Dick Cheney has rattled his saber, it has generally meant that he intends to use it. And in spite of recent war spasms aimed at Iran from this sclerotic administration, Fallon is in no hurry to pick up any campaign medals for Iran. And therein lies the rub for the hard-liners led by Cheney. Army General David Petraeus, commanding America's forces in Iraq, may say, "You cannot win in Iraq solely in Iraq," but Fox Fallon is Petraeus's boss, and he is the commander of United States Central Command, and Fallon doesn't extend Petraeus's logic to mean war against Iran.

So while Admiral Fallon's boss, President George W. Bush, regularly trash-talks his way to World War III and his administration casually casts Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as this century's Hitler (a crown it has awarded once before, to deadly effect), it's left to Fallon--and apparently Fallon alone--to argue that, as he told Al Jazeera last fall: "This constant drumbeat of conflict . . . is not helpful and not useful. I expect that there will be no war, and that is what we ought to be working for. We ought to try to do our utmost to create different conditions.

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Duhhbya said today:

"During his tenure at Centcom, Admiral Fallon's job has been to help ensure that America's military forces are ready to meet the threats of an often troubled region of the world, and he deserves considerable credit for progress that has been made there, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan."

Without a word about Fallon's diplomacy toward Iran or his advice to Musharaff in troubled times. Just another general of the many that disagree with Der Fuhrer only this one is an Admiral.

Can the NIST report explain the collapse of WTC1 to Edna Cintron

From: TheWebfairy

Edna stood waving for rescue in the North Tower plane shape hole for at least 20 minutes.
Her picture is in the NIST reports, waving to us that their tales of thousand degree heat from jet fuel is a lie.
There is effort afoot to deny her reality and her valor, from monsters who believe only in the banal and the mundane.
Edna Cintron doesn't fit their script.



Meet Edna Cintron

Webfairy Calls RabbitHoleCentral at MNN

Paula Gloria has a new laptop PC and can stream when she does shoots at MNN (Manhattan Neighborhood Network). Today was especially profound as the famous webfairy, Rosalee Grable, the woman who first saw that there was no plane in the dust cloud on the first hit on WTC 1, called into the show and was able to watch (through the laptop stream) as Paula and her guest with Joe Friendly and Harold Channer (in the control room) played Rosalee's latest video "Meet Edna Cintron" about the lady, a simple office worker, who was waving from the "airplane" hole in the WTC for over an hour.....

Charlie Rose: An interview with Stephen Hawkings

Stephen Hawking
1942

Stephen Hawking was born on the 300th anniversary of Galileo's death. He has come to be thought of as the greatest mind in physics since Albert Einstein. With similar interests -- discovering the deepest workings of the universe -- he has been able to communicate arcane matters not just to other physicists but to the general public.

Hawking grew up outside London in an intellectual family. His father was a physician and specialist in tropical diseases; his mother was active in the Liberal Party. He was an awkward schoolboy, but knew from early on that he wanted to study science. He became increasingly skilled in mathematics and in 1958 he and some friends built a primitive computer that actually worked. In 1959 he won a scholarship to Oxford University, where his intellectual capabilities became more noticeable. In 1962 he got his degree with honors and went to Cambridge University to pursue a PhD in cosmology. There he became intrigued with black holes (first proposed by Robert Oppenheimer) and "space-time singularities," or events in which the laws of physics seem to break down. After receiving his PhD, he stayed at Cambridge, becoming known even in his 20s for his pioneering ideas and use of Einstein's formulas, as well as his questioning of older, established physicists.

In 1968 he joined the staff of the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge and began to apply the laws of thermodynamics to black holes by means of very complicated mathematics. He published the very technical book, Large Scale Structure of Space-Time but soon afterwards made a startling discovery. It had always been thought that nothing could escape a black hole; Hawking suggested that under certain conditions, a black hole could emit subatomic particles. That is now known as Hawking Radiation. He continued working on the theory of the origin of the universe, and in doing so found ways to link relativity (gravity) with quantum mechanics (the inner workings of atoms). This contributed enormously to what physicists call Grand Unified Theory, a way of explaining, in one equation, all physical matter in the universe.

At the remarkably young age of 32, he was named a fellow of the Royal Society. He received the Albert Einstein Award, the most prestigious in theoretical physics. And in 1979, he was appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, the same post held by Sir Isaac Newton 300 years earlier. There he began to question the big bang theory, which by then most had accepted. Perhaps, he suggested, there was never a start and would be no end, but just change -- a constant transition of one "universe" giving way to another through glitches in space-time. All the while, he was digging into exploding black holes, string theory, and the birth of black holes in our own galaxy.

In 1988 Hawking wrote A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes , explaining the evolution of his thinking about the cosmos for a general audience. It became a best-seller of long standing and established his reputation as an accessible genius. He wrote other popular articles and appeared in movies and television. He remains extremely busy, his work hardly slowed by Lou Gehrig's disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a disease that affects muscle control) for which he uses a wheelchair and speaks through a computer and voice synthesizer.

"My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all."

In Defence of George Duhhbya Bu$h by Ronald Weick of American Thinker Magazine

Ronald, who poses as an intellectual on the JREF forum fancies himself as a defender of truth, while contradicting the majority of the American people and almost all the people in the rest of the world. He is what might be called a pseudoskeptic in the true intellectual world, but personally I would say thay he is not even wrong.

And Heeere's Ronald...

In a more rational world, a mass delusion that gripped millions of citizens of the strongest, richest, and most technologically advanced nation would set off alarm bells in the citadels of culture. The guardians —— thinkers, teachers, writers, print and electronic media —— would recognize their duty and rise to meet the crisis. Here, in Twenty—First Century America, a sizable segment of the voting population believes that the President promoted a ruinous war through a deliberate policy of lies and deception, and the loudest cries of 'Burn the witch!' are coming from the intelligentsia.

Confronting irrationality is an unrewarding business. People believe strange things because they want to. A quirky notion is a security blanket, a battered recliner —— an object fraught with so much emotional baggage that the gentlest suggestion to throw it out provokes snarling resistance. Children often cling to a belief in Santa after they have matured past the innocent embrace of magic and logical impossibilities. Embarrassingly, many Democrats are willing to maintain a similar belief that George Bush misled the nation, even though five minutes' reflection should suffice to reveal the almost surreal implausibility of it all.

This goes beyond audacity —— this is delusional. Everywhere, liberals and leftists are inhaling deeply, inflating their lungs in preparation for the salutary roar, 'BUSH LIED!' I will therefore assert again, very clearly, that nobody is actually prepared to defend the proposition that George Bush took this nation to war knowing that there were no WMDs in Iraq.

Here's some more of the same crap...):