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12/6/2003
SEAS Power UpdateSome of you may remember the SEAS Power situation. I covered it here. Dr. Steven Greer, SEAS CEO and Disclosure Project Director, is scheduled to be a guest on Coast to Coast AM Radio with Art Bell. Greer will be on tomorrow, December 7, 2003, 10 to 11 pm Pacific Time (1 to 2 am Dec. 8th Eastern time, 6 to 7 am GMT). After the last round of BS, this better be good. UPDATE: Nothing NewI listened to it. More bloviation. Nothing solid at all. Greer should have talked about ethanol. That would have made a much more informative show.
posted by Kevin at 6:15 PM
U.S. Unfurls Draconian Israeli Methods in Iraq :."This fence is here for your protection," reads the sign posted in front of the barbed-wire fence. "Do not approach or try to cross, or you will be shot."
"With a heavy dose of fear and violence, and a lot of money for projects, I think we can convince these people that we are here to help them," Colonel Sassaman said.Iraqi towns have been ringed with barbed wire. Citizens have been issued ID cards that are printed in English only! If they want to enter or leave their towns, they have to do so through a U.S. military checkpoint using that English only ID. Also consider that this is an account from the New York Times! Imagine what the situation on the ground is actually like. Anyone who thinks this can't happen in the U.S. is out to lunch. Take a good long look at what the U.S. is doing over in Iraq and you will get a feel for where things are headed on the homefront: In Abu Hishma, encased in a razor-wire fence after repeated attacks on American troops, Iraqi civilians line up to go in and out, filing through an American-guarded checkpoint, each carrying an identification card printed in English only.
"If you have one of these cards, you can come and go," coaxed Lt. Col. Nathan Sassaman, the battalion commander whose men oversee the village, about 50 miles north of Baghdad. "If you don't have one of these cards, you can't."
The Iraqis nodded and edged their cars through the line. Over to one side, an Iraqi man named Tariq muttered in anger.
"I see no difference between us and the Palestinians," he said. "We didn't expect anything like this after Saddam fell."
The practice of destroying buildings where Iraqi insurgents are suspected of planning or mounting attacks has been used for decades by Israeli soldiers in Gaza and the West Bank. The Israeli Army has also imprisoned the relatives of suspected terrorists, in the hopes of pressing the suspects to surrender.
The Israeli military has also cordoned off villages and towns thought to be hotbeds of guerrilla activity, in an effort to control the flow of people moving in and out.
American officials say they are not purposefully mimicking Israeli tactics, but they acknowledge that they have studied closely the Israeli experience in urban fighting. Ahead of the war, Israeli defense experts briefed American commanders on their experience in guerrilla and urban warfare. The Americans say there are no Israeli military advisers helping the Americans in Iraq.
posted by Kevin at 5:54 PM
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posted by Kevin at 4:25 AM
12/5/2003
Joseph Newman Claims 10 Kilowatt Closed Loop Generator, Video :.I've been following this stuff long enough to know that videos and claims mean nothing. Let's see plans that a competant engineer can turn into a machine that never needs to be recharged, RUNS ITSELF and the rest of the shit I plan on having in my yurt. If this thing is actually real, my recommendation to Mr. Newman: Don't fly. Joseph Newman's technology does not "create" energy. What his technology accomplishes (as verified by more than 30 scientists and engineers) is the TRANSFORMATION of energy from one state into another, TOTALLY IN ACCORDANCE with the First Law of Thermodynamics. That is also accomplished in accordance with Einstein's equation of E = mc^2 [originally written by Einstein as EL (Electricity) = mc^2. (from Einstein's 1912 manuscript)]
Ironically, when Joseph Newman originally began his research over 35 years ago, it was precisely because he HAS so firmly believed in the First Law of Thermodynamics that he knew it was possible to innovate his technology. As a result, his successfully operational technology works in accordance with the First Law of Thermodynamics and represents a verification of same.
In keeping with the 1st Law of Thermodynamics, one cannot simply create "energy" from nothing. All generation of energy consists of energy transfers/transformations that operate in strict accordance with that 1st Law.
That is PRECISELY what occurs in Joseph Newman's technology.
posted by Kevin at 4:54 PM
12/4/2003
Pump and Dump: November Insider Stock Sales Hit 2-Year High :.This rally is so false it's insane: Stock sales by top U.S. corporate executives reached their highest level in more than two years in November, a bearish signal at a time when the stock market has surged amid strong growth in the economy and company earnings.
Last month corporate executives cashed in $4.5 billion worth of their own companies' shares, up 43 percent from October and nearly double the five-year monthly average, according to Thomson Financial's Insider Research, which tracks insider transactions.
Meanwhile 3,680 executives from 1,592 companies engaged in share sales. Both measures set five-year highs.
posted by Kevin at 5:55 PM
Canadian Lawyer Was Made an Offer He Couldn't Refuse :.No horse head, but the strangled cat did the trick: Fighting for his composure, lawyer Rocco Galati said Thursday that he will drop all of his terrorism-related cases after a death threat that he said he believes came from an intelligence agency.
Mr. Galati is known as a tough-minded counsellor and he said he has put up with plenty of abuse for representing people many Canadians have no sympathy for. He has endured angry communications before and once found a strangled cat on his doorstep, but he almost broke down Thursday as he described his disillusionment upon receiving the threat.
�I'm not on the verge of tears for my safety. I'm on the verge of tears because it means we now live in Colombia. It means that the rule of law is meaningless. It means that lawyers cannot represent anyone even in what you profess to be a democracy here in Canada,� he said. �It comments on where we've arrived as a society.�
posted by Kevin at 5:51 PM
Hack the Vote :.Inviting Bush supporters to a fund-raiser, the host wrote, "I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year." No surprise there. But Walden O'Dell � who says that he wasn't talking about his business operations � happens to be the chief executive of Diebold Inc., whose touch-screen voting machines are in increasingly widespread use across the United States.
For example, Georgia � where Republicans scored spectacular upset victories in the 2002 midterm elections � relies exclusively on Diebold machines. To be clear, though there were many anomalies in that 2002 vote, there is no evidence that the machines miscounted. But there is also no evidence that the machines counted correctly. You see, Diebold machines leave no paper trail.Research Credit: NF
posted by Kevin at 2:01 AM
12/3/2003
War Chimp Planning a Return to the Moon? :.How about first using decades old technology to solve our energy problems on this planet? When President Bush delivers a speech recognizing the centenary of heavier-than-air-powered flight December 17, it is expected that he will proffer a bold vision of renewed space flight, with at its center a return to the moon, perhaps even establishment of a permanent presence there. If he does, it will mean that he has decided the United States should once again become a space-faring nation.
posted by Kevin at 11:18 PM
Will Segways Become Battlefield Bots? :.It's called the Segway Human Transporter, but the Pentagon is drafting the two-wheeled scooter as part of a plan to develop battlefield robots that think on their own and communicate with troops.
The program is still in the research phase, so the self-balancing scooters aren't expected to report to boot camp anytime soon. So far, university researchers armed with Pentagon funding have programmed Segway robots that can open doors, avoid obstacles, and chase soccer balls -- all without human control.Don't worry, this thing will be coming for you soon enough.
posted by Kevin at 11:04 PM
Wet Work: In Search of the Buy Button :."People who are more likely to purchase a product show significantly higher memory encoding than those who are less likely," explains Richard Silberstein, a neuroscientist with the Brain Sciences Institute at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. He developed the headgear used in Greenwich.
Using machines that detect brain tumors and strokes to determine whether pink satin underthings will outsell black ones or if people really like pickles on their hamburgers--could this yield practical results? Some big marketers are sufficiently intrigued to put research money into the idea. Among the companies looking into whether brain signals can supplement or replace traditional tests of consumer response to commercials are General Motors, Ford of Europe, and Camelot, the U.K.'s national lottery operator.Research Credit: TR
posted by Kevin at 10:59 PM
Does al-Qaeda Exist? :.Bush's turkey isn't even real: Adam Dolnik and Kimberly McCloud reckon it's time we 'defused the widespread image of al-Qaeda as a ubiquitous, super-organised terror network and call it as it is: a loose collection of groups and individuals that doesn't even refer to itself as al-Qaeda'. Dolnik and McCloud - who first started studying terrorism at the prestigious Monterey Institute of International Studies in California - claim it was Western officials who imposed the name 'al-Qaeda' on to disparate radical Islamic groups and who blew Osama bin Laden's power and reach 'out of proportion'. Both are concerned about the threat of terror, but argue that we should 'debunk the myth of al-Qaeda'.
There is a 'rooted public perception of what al-Qaeda is', says Dolnik, who is currently carrying out research on the Terrorism and Political Violence Programme at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies in Singapore; but, he says, such perceptions are far from accurate. Dolnik argues that where many imagine that al-Qaeda is 'a super organisation of thousands of super-trained and super-secret members who can be activated any minute', in fact it is better understood as something like a 'global ideology that has not only attracted many smaller regional groups, but has also facilitated the boom of new organisations that embrace this sort of radical and violent thinking'. Dolnik and others believe that, in many ways, the thing we refer to as 'al-Qaeda' is largely a creation of Western officials.Research Credit: TR
posted by Kevin at 10:34 PM
1-Shot Killer: U.S. Mercenaries Testing New Ammo in Iraq :.Ben Thomas and three colleagues were driving north out of Baghdad in an SUV on a clear mid-September morning, headed down a dirt road into a rural village, when gunmen in several surrounding buildings opened fire on them.
In a brief but intense firefight, Thomas hit one of the attackers with a single shot from his M4 carbine at a distance he estimates was 100 to 110 yards.
He hit the man in the buttocks, a wound that typically is not fatal. But this round appeared to kill the assailant instantly.
�It entered his butt and completely destroyed everything in the lower left section of his stomach ... everything was torn apart,� Thomas said.
Thomas, a security consultant with a private company contracted by the government, recorded the first known enemy kill using a new � and controversial � bullet.
The bullet is so controversial that if Thomas, a former SEAL, had been on active duty, he would have been court-martialed for using it. The ammunition is �nonstandard� and hasn�t passed the military�s approval process.
�The way I explain what happened to people who weren�t there is � this stuff was like hitting somebody with a miniature explosive round,� he said, even though the ammo does not have an explosive tip. �Nobody believed that this guy died from a butt shot.�
The bullet Thomas fired was an armor-piercing, limited-penetration round manufactured by RBCD of San Antonio.
posted by Kevin at 10:00 PM
The Pain Merchants: U.S. Exports $20 Million of Shackles, Electro-Shock Technology :.A new Amnesty International report charges that in 2002, the Bush Administration violated the spirit of its own export policy and approved the sale of equipment implicated in torture to Yemen, Jordan, Morocco and Thailand, despite the countries' documented use of such weapons to punish, mistreat and inflict torture on prisoners. The US is also alleged to have handed suspects in the 'war on terror' to the same countries.
The total value of US exports of electro-shock weapons was $14.7 million in 2002 and exports of restraints totaled $4.4 million in the same period. The Commerce and State Departments approved these sales, permitting 45 countries to purchase electro-shock technology, including 19 that had been cited for the use of such weapons to inflict torture since 1990.
The report � The Pain Merchants � also reveals that the US approved the 2002 export to Saudi Arabia of nine tons of Smith & Wesson leg-irons. Former prisoners in Saudi Arabia have stated that their restraints were stamped with the name of Smith & Wesson.
posted by Kevin at 9:36 PM
Bush's Stunt Turkey :.It's all just schlock for troglodyte consumption: In the most widely published image from his Thanksgiving day trip to Baghdad, the beaming president is wearing an Army workout jacket and surrounded by soldiers as he cradles a huge platter laden with a golden-brown turkey.
The bird is so perfect it looks as if it came from a food magazine, with bunches of grapes and other trimmings completing a Norman Rockwell image that evokes bounty and security in one of the most dangerous parts of the world.
But as a small sign of the many ways the White House maximized the impact of the 2 1/2-hour stop at the Baghdad airport, administration officials said yesterday that Bush picked up a decoration, not a serving plate.
Officials said they did not know the turkey would be there or that Bush would pick it up. A contractor had roasted and primped the turkey to adorn the buffet line, while the 600 soldiers were served from cafeteria-style steam trays, the officials said.
posted by Kevin at 9:19 PM
WalMart Culture: Piss and Shit on the Walls :.Internal WalMart memo: Subject: Inappropriate use of restrooms
posted by Kevin at 3:45 AM
Kurt Vonnegut on Psychopathic Personalities :.I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d�etat imaginable. And those now in charge of the federal government are upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography, plus not-so-closeted white supremacists, aka �Christians,� and plus, most frighteningly, psychopathic personalities, or �PPs.�
To say somebody is a PP is to make a perfectly respectable medical diagnosis, like saying he or she has appendicitis or athlete�s foot. The classic medical text on PPs is The Mask of Sanity by Dr. Hervey Cleckley. Read it! PPs are presentable, they know full well the suffering their actions may cause others, but they do not care. They cannot care because they are nuts. They have a screw loose!
And what syndrome better describes so many executives at Enron and WorldCom and on and on, who have enriched themselves while ruining their employees and investors and country, and who still feel as pure as the driven snow, no matter what anybody may say to or about them? And so many of these heartless PPs now hold big jobs in our federal government, as though they were leaders instead of sick.
What has allowed so many PPs to rise so high in corporations, and now in government, is that they are so decisive. Unlike normal people, they are never filled with doubts, for the simple reason that they cannot care what happens next. Simply can�t. Do this! Do that! Mobilize the reserves! Privatize the public schools! Attack Iraq! Cut health care! Tap everybody�s telephone! Cut taxes on the rich! Build a trillion-dollar missile shield! Fuck habeas corpus and the Sierra Club and In These Times, and kiss my ass!
posted by Kevin at 1:51 AM
12/2/2003
More on the Death of Michael Halton at the UN :.This case has become completely strange already. As usual, there are more questions than answers. When I think of a conventional 9mm shot to the head, that scene is pretty ghastly. However, the article states, "The dead officer seemed to have committed suicide. Blood was spotted in the officer's right ear, leading investigators to believe the fatal shot was to his head." He seemed to have committed suicide?! This is interesting. A full velocity (or plus pressure, +P) 9mm jacketed hollow point (JHP) fired at a human skull at point blank range would leave little to the imagination as to the mechanism of death. "Blood spotted on the officer's right ear," is a strange description. There should have been blood everywhere. There should have been an exit wound on the skull, and blood, brain and possibly sections of skull on the walls. What would explain such a small amount of blood and no exit wound? Subsonic 9mm is one possible explanation. (I doubt an assassin would use silenced .22 because there is no way that would wash in the pathology report.) A subsonic 9mm fired at point blank range would not leave the skull. Weapons exist that fire subsonic 9mm loads that are almost completely silent. The pathologist would have to know the difference between a full velocity 9mm wound profile and a subsonic 9mm wound profile. The position of the gun is almost always interesting in these types of cases. The gun should be several feet from the body. The recoil from the blast throws the weapon back and out of the hand of the person pulling the trigger. But not in this case. It wound up wedged between the officer's legs. I wonder if Halton's weapon was even fired. That's what I'd like to know most of all. Not if a cartridge was missing from the magazine, but if the weapon was actually fired. Is there powder residue on the hand that Michael Halton supposedly used to hold the weapon to his head? Is there singeing on the skull and hair from the muzzle blast? (A silenced weapon contains most of the hot gasses from the muzzle blast.) Is there an impression on the skull from where the muzzle of the weapon made contact? Is that impression consistent with Halton's Glock? Even if Halton's weapon was fired, how is it possible that nobody else in the area heard the shot!? Does anyone buy suicide as an explanation for this one? From the article: At approximately 11:45am, a room adjacent to the cavernous General Assembly, used for occasional meetings and parties was entered. The room was darkened with curtains drawn. When the room's lights were turned on, the dead officer's body was discovered in a corner at the far end of the room.
Surprisingly, the dead officer had some company.
Only a few feet away, was another U.N. security officer who had decided to take a brief nap, apparently not knowing the officer seated nearby was dead.
Officers on the scene were puzzled by what they saw next... The dead officer seemed to have committed suicide. Blood was spotted in the officer's right ear, leading investigators to believe the fatal shot was to his head.
However, those on the scene say the officer's head was in a raised, not slouched position, as one might expect in a suicide.
The officer's gun was also found wedged between his legs.
Nobody heard any shots fired.
posted by Kevin at 3:24 PM
AIDS in Africa: It's the Vaccinations :.Not dirty needles, although they would like you to believe that: The largest association with HIV infection was found to be the number of medical injections, far higher than the risk associated with blood transfusion or the number of sexual partners.
More startling, however, is that children whose mothers were HIV negative were reported turning up HIV positive in surprisingly high numbers. In one study, 39 percent of children aged between one and 24 months were found to be HIV positive, despite having an HIV negative mother; and another study found 24 percent of children aged between one and 48 months were HIV positive, with HIV negative mothers.See: WHO Murdered Africa: Dr. Theodore Strecker's research of the literature indicates that the National Cancer Institute in collaboration with the World Health Organization made the AIDS virus in their laboratories at Fort Detrick (now NCI). They combined the deadly retroviruses, bovine leukemia virus and sheep visna virus, and injected them into human tissue cultures. The result was the AIDS virus, the first human retrovirus known to man and now believed to be 100 percent fatal to those infected.
posted by Kevin at 1:56 AM
Wars for Oil? Make Your Own Automobile Fuel :.This is incredible. There are simple and smart solutions to our most difficult problems. Although, there's one problem with ethanol: anyone can make it: I personally have driven five of my own cars on it, as well as many others. I have been able to get the same miles per gallon on 160 proof as I did with gasoline. There is hardly any pollution: no heavy hydrocarbons, so no SMOG. Best of all, I found I had the freedom of driving around on a fuel I had made instead of buying it from fat cat oil barons.The Ethanol Story: If alcohol is such a great fuel (and fuel additive), then why isnt everyone using it? <--- You wont believe this!
posted by Kevin at 12:42 AM
12/1/2003
Is the Rally Real? You Better Be Sitting Down For This One :.Incredible! I'm almost ready to get cash out of my credit cards so I can short this thing! If you think "dumb money" isn't a meaningful description of the average investor, just wait until you read this article: Nearly half the investors polled in a survey erroneously believed that stock market losses were insured and 70 percent were unaware of the risks of buying stocks on margin, according to the National Association of Securities Dealers.
The brokerage industry's self-regulatory organization released the survey results as it announced the creation of an investor education foundation with initial funding of $10 million. Additional money will come from fines levied by the NASD on brokerage firms and individuals for disciplinary breaches.
In the April survey of 1,086 adults around the country who had recently made at least one investment, 97 percent of respondents said they needed to be better informed about investing, while nearly half said they could have avoided a negative investment experience if they had known more.More: Gold Over $400, Dollar Down Against Euro, Again :.Gold jumped to its highest in more than 7-1/2-years above $400 an ounce in Europe on Monday as fund buyers took advantage of a strong euro/dollar rate and also dragged silver to a near-four-year high above $5.50.
The euro hit a lifetime high of $1.2041 against the battered dollar earlier on Monday and also rose to its highest in more than two months against the yen following the death of two Japanese diplomats in Iraq.
posted by Kevin at 3:09 PM
Another Suicide? * Wink * Bilnk * Nod *Body Found Inside U.N.
By The Associated Press
December 1, 2003, 3:01 PM EST
A body was found inside United Nations headquarters on Monday, a U.N. spokesman said. U.N. security and the New York police department are investigating the matter.
The U.N. spokesman said the person had been shot, and that the body was discovered inside the building's third-floor lounge at about 11:30 a.m. He declined to give any details on the deceased person pending notification of the family.
The spokesman, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the world body considered the shooting an "isolated incident."UPDATE: Looks Like a Suicide to Me * Wink * Bilnk * Nod * :.A guy sits down for a coffee break and blows his head off. Sounds perfectly believable to me: A U.N. security guard was found dead inside U.N. headquarters at midday on Monday with a gunshot wound to the head, the head of U.N. security said.
Michael Holton's body was found in a third floor lounge shortly before noon. He was discovered by two officers who were sent to check on Holton after he did not return to his duty station following a break, said Michael McCann, the U.N. security chief.
McCann told a news conference the incident was the first of its kind inside the United Nations buildings.
Holton, 41, was found in a lounge area where U.N. employees often take their breaks. He was seated in one of the chairs and his gun was on the chair next to his leg, McCann said.
McCann said that Holton was a 16-year veteran of the U.N. security department, was married and had two children. McCann gave no further details on the family. Holton was a U.S. citizen.
posted by Kevin at 12:41 PM
11/30/2003
The Soldiers At My Front Door :.Preaching to Saruman's orcs: But I was surprised the following morning to hear 75 soldiers singing, shouting and screaming as they jogged down Main Street, passed our St. Joseph�s church, back and forth around town for an hour. It was 6 a.m., and they woke me up with their war slogans, chants like �Kill! Kill! Kill!� and �Swing your guns from left to right; we can kill those guys all night.�
Their chants were disturbing, but this is war. They have to psyche themselves up for the kill. They have to believe that flying off to some tiny, remote desert town in Iraq where they will march in front of someone�s house and kill poor young Iraqis has some greater meaning besides cold-blooded murder. Most of these young reservists have never left our town, and they need our support for the �unpleasant� task before them. I have been to Iraq, and led a delegation of Nobel Peace Prize winners to Baghdad in 1999, and I know that the people there are no different than the people here.
I decided I had to do something. I put on my winter coat and walked out the front door right into the middle of the street. They stopped shouting and looked at me, so I said loudly, publicly for all to hear, �In the name of God, I order all of you to stop this nonsense, and not to go to Iraq. I want all of you to quit the military, disobey your orders to kill, and not to kill anyone. I do not want you to get killed. I want you to practice the love and nonviolence of Jesus. God does not bless war. God does not want you to kill so Bush and Cheney can get more oil. God does not support war. Stop all this and go home. God bless you.�
Their jaws dropped, their eyeballs popped and they stood in shock and silence, looking steadily at me. Then they burst out laughing. Finally, the commander dismissed them and they left.
posted by Kevin at 3:34 PM
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Readers will come to see
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In Silent Theft, David Bollier
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however, our government turns a blind eye—or sometimes helps
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because we have lost our ability to see the commons.
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When Corporations
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