Mike Rivero explains the so called "Iran nuclear threat".
http://whatreallyhappened.com/
0 John Cleese Orders Strike on Iran in Israeli Ad for Chocolate Spread Um, what?
We've already established that John Cleese will do anything for money when it comes to shooting ads. (Faulty showers, anyone?) He seemed to redeem himself just a little bit recently with the amusing DirecTV spot.
But now he's back to doing stuff that's just weird. For example: the
new Israeli commercial below, in which he plays a Western general who,
at the behest of Israel, accidentally orders a military strike on a foe,
presumably Iran. "I promise you we will be in and out in 33 minutes,"
one of the Israelis tells Cleese. "We have the right to defend
ourselves!" The former Python, ever the bumbling idiot, ignores the man,
and instead tastes some Sababa Egozim chocolate-hazelnut spread that
happens to be sitting nearby. Impressed, he mumbles the brand name,
which apparently translates to something like, "Let's get nuts." The
Israelis take this as official approval for a strike, and soon the
missiles are flying. I think I speak for everyone when I say, what just
happened?
0 Juila Gillard caught completely off guard by Fabian Society question in Perth, July 2012
FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY
16 July 2012: Footage from the broadcast of the People's Forum on the Carbon Tax, where Australian Labor Party Prime Minister Julia Gillard is asked about her Fabian Society membership and its influence on the recently established carbon tax.
Further coverage - http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/breaking/14247538/gillard-tells-perth-fo...
Former Australian PM Bob Hawke (also a Labor Party Leader & Fabian Society member) is quoted in the question as saying:
"I gladly acknowledge the debt of my own government to Fabianism."
Download the full transcript for the speech including the quote here:
http://www.archivaldatabase.library.unisa.edu.au/detail/uuid:I421
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16 July 2012: Footage from the broadcast of the People's Forum on the Carbon Tax, where Australian Labor Party Prime Minister Julia Gillard is asked about her Fabian Society membership and its influence on the recently established carbon tax.
Further coverage - http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/breaking/14247538/gillard-tells-perth-fo...
Former Australian PM Bob Hawke (also a Labor Party Leader & Fabian Society member) is quoted in the question as saying:
"I gladly acknowledge the debt of my own government to Fabianism."
Download the full transcript for the speech including the quote here:
http://www.archivaldatabase.library.unisa.edu.au/detail/uuid:I421
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0 "Kill Kill Kill Kill Kill" Subliminal flashed at Sydney 2012 Vivid festival lightshow
Subliminal Vivid light show at Circular Quay in Sydney Australia, "kill FEASIBLE"
Is Sydney Home-growing "Terrorist's"....literally?
All over in 4 seconds flat.
Remember according to the info on the Youtube video,
this was captured purely by chance.
Brings back memories of the old John Carpenter film
THEY LIVE
Is Sydney Home-growing "Terrorist's"....literally?
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| ...nothing to do with the show |
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| Hopefully..nothing to do with the show |
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| kill FEASIBLE?...I think there's another show coming.. |
All over in 4 seconds flat.
Remember according to the info on the Youtube video,
this was captured purely by chance.
Brings back memories of the old John Carpenter film
THEY LIVE
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| Scene from "THEY LIVE" |
0 A Brief History of False Flag Attacks: Or Why Government Loves State Sponsored Terror
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
Infowars
False flag attacks occur when government engages in covert operations designed to deceive the public in such a way that the operations seem as if they are being carried out by other entities.
False flag terrorism is a favorite
political tactic used by governments worldwide.
They influence
elections, guide national and international policy, and are cynically
used to formulate propaganda and shape public opinion as nations go to
war.
Nero and the Great Fire of Rome
The Roman consul and historian Cassius Dio, his contemporary Suetonius and others say the Emperor Nero was responsible for the Great Fire of Rome in 64 AD.
Legend claims Nero had one-third of the
city torched as an excuse to build Domus Aurea, a 300 acre palatial
complex that included a towering statue of himself, the Colossus of
Nero.
Prior to the fire, the Roman Senate had rejected the emperor’s bid to level a third of the city to make way for a “Neropolis,” an urban renewal project.
The Roman historian Tacitus
wrote that when the population of Rome held Nero responsible for the
fire, he shifted blame on the Christians for “hating the human race” and
starting the fire.
The Spanish American War: Remember the Maine
By the late 1800s, the United States was
looking for an excuse to kick Spain out of Cuba. U.S. business was
heavily invested in sugar, tobacco and iron on the Caribbean island.
The U.S.S. Maine
was sent to Havana in January of 1898 to protect these business
interests after a local insurrection broke out. Three weeks later, early
on the morning of February 15, an explosion destroyed the forward third of the ship anchored in Havana’s harbor, killing more than 270 American sailors.
President McKinley blamed Spain after the U.S. Naval Court of Inquiry declared that a naval mine caused the explosion.
American newspapers blamed the Spanish despite a lack of evidence.
“You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war,” newspaper tycoon
William Randolph Hearst told Frederic Remington after the illustrator reported that the situation in Cuba did not warrant invasion.
A number of historians and researchers
later argued that the ship was blown up by the United States to provide a
false flag pretext to invade Cuba and expel Spain.
The United States occupied Cuba from
1898 until 1902, although an amendment to a joint resolution of Congress
forbid the U.S. to annex the country.
Wilson’s Pretext for War: The Sinking of the Lusitania
Nearly two thousand travelers, including one hundred Americans, were killed on May 7, 1915, when a German U-boat torpedoed the RMS Lusitania, a luxury Cunard Line British ocean liner.
Prior to the sinking, the German embassy
in Washington issued a warning. Newspapers in the United States refused
to print the warning or acknowledge the German claim that the ship
carried munitions.
Wilson’s government issued a flurry of diplomatic protests after the sinking and exploited the tragedy two years later as a pretext for America to enter the First World War.
Nearly a hundred years later, in 2008, divers discovered the Lusitania carried more than four million rounds of rifle ammunition.
“There were literally tons and tons of
stuff stored in unrefrigerated cargo holds that were dubiously marked
cheese, butter and oysters,” Gregg Bemis, an American businessman who owns the rights to the wreck and is funding its exploration, told The Daily Mail.
Hitler’s Fascist Dictatorship: The Reichstag Fire
In February of 1933, a month after
convincing Germany’s president that parliament must be eliminated,
Hitler and the Nazis instigated the Reichstag fire.
Hitler then urged president Hindenburg to issue an emergency decree
restricting personal liberty, including the right to free expression
and a free press, limitations on the rights of association and assembly,
warrantless searches of homes, property confiscation, and violations of
postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications “permissible beyond
the legal limits otherwise prescribed.”
The Nazis used the decree and cracked down on their political opponents . They worked behind the scenes to force through the Enabling Act, which legally allowed Hitler to obtain plenary powers and establish a dictatorship.
Gestapo Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring
would admit that “the people can always be brought to the bidding of
the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are
being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and
exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.”
Prelude to World War: The Gleiwitz Incident
Six years after the Reichstag Fire, the Nazis staged the Gleiwitz incident.
Nazi commandos raided a German radio station in Gleiwitz, Upper
Silesia, Germany. The raid was part of Operation Himmler, a series of
operations undertaken by the SS as Hitler set the stage for the invasion
of Poland and the start of the Second World War.
SS operatives dressed in Polish uniforms
attacked the radio station, broadcast an anti-German message in Polish,
and left behind the body of a German Silesian known for sympathizing
with the Poles. The corpse was then offered to the press as evidence
that the Poles had attacked the radio station.
Israeli False Flag Terror: The Lavon Affair
In 1954, the Israelis activated a terrorist cell
in response to the United States making friends with the Egyptian
government and its pan-Arab leader, Gamal Abdel Nasser. The Israelis
were worried Nasser would nationalize the Suez Canal and continue
Egypt’s blockade of Israeli shipping through the canal.
Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion decided a false flag terrorist attack
on American interests in Egypt would sour the new relationship. He
recruited and dispatched a terror cell that pretended to be Egyptian
terrorists.
The plan, however, contained a fatal
flaw. Israel’s top secret cell, Unit 131, was infiltrated by Egyptian
intelligence. After a member of the cell was arrested and interrogated,
he revealed the plot and this led to more arrests. Israeli agents were
subjected to a public trial revealing details of the plan to firebomb
the U.S. Information Agency’s libraries, a British-owned Metro-Goldwyn
Mayer theatre, a railway terminal, the central post office, and other
targets.
In order to deflect blame, the Israeli
government tried to frame its own Defense Minister, Pinhas Lavon, but
the true nature of the plot was eventually made public.
Operation Northwoods: Targeting American Citizens
In the covert war against the communist
regime in Cuba under the CIA’s Operation Mongoose, the U.S. Joint Chiefs
of Staff unanimously proposed state-sponsored acts of terrorism in side the United States.
The plan included shooting down hijacked American airplanes,
the sinking of U.S. ships, and the shooting of Americans on the streets
of Washington, D.C. The outrageous plan even included a staged NASA
disaster that would claim the life of astronaut John Glenn.
Reeling under the embarrassing failure
of the CIA’s botched Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, president Kennedy
rejected the plan in March of 1962. A few months later, Kennedy denied
the plan’s author, General Lyman Lemnitzer, a second term as the
nation’s highest ranking military officer.
In November of 1963, Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
Gulf of Tonkin: Phantom Attack on the U.S, Military
On August 4, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson went on national television and told the nation that North Vietnam had attacked U.S. ships.
“Repeated acts of violence against the
armed forces of the United States must be met not only with alert
defense, but with a positive reply. That reply is being given as I speak
tonight,” Johnson declared.
Congress soon passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution,
which provided Johnson with pre-approved authority to conduct military
operations against North Vietnam. By 1969, over 500,000 troops were
fighting in Southeast Asia.
Johnson and his Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, had bamboozled Congress and the American people.
In fact, North Vietnam had not attacked the USS Maddox, as the Pentagon
claimed, and the “unequivocal proof” of an “unprovoked” second attack
against the U.S. warship was a ruse.
State Sponsored Terror Blamed on the Left
Following the Second World War, the CIA and Britain’s MI6 collaborated through NATO on Operation Gladio, an effort to create a “stay behind army” to fight communism in the event of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe.
Gladio quickly transcended its original mission and became a covert terror network consisting of rightwing militias, organized crime elements, agents provocateurs and secret military units. The so-called stay behind armies were active in France, Belgium, Denmark, The Netherlands, Norway, Germany, and Switzerland.
Gladio’s “Strategy of Tension”
was designed to portray leftist political groups in Europe as
terrorists and frighten the populace into voting for authoritarian
governments. In order to carry out this goal, Gladio operatives
conducted a number of deadly terrorists attacks that were blamed on
leftists and Marxists.
In August of 1980, Gladio operatives bombed a train station in Bologna,
killing 85 people. Initially blamed on the Red Brigades, it was later
discovered that fascist elements within the Italian secret police and Licio Gelli,
the head of the P2 Masonic Lodge, were responsible for the terror
attack. Other fascist groups, including Avanguardia Nazionale and Ordine
Nuovo, were mobilized and engaged in terror.
Operation Gladio ultimately claimed the lives of hundreds of people across Europe.
According to Vincenzo Vinciguerra,
a Gladio terrorist serving a life-sentence for murdering policemen, the
reason for Gladio was simple. It was designed “to force these people,
the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security.
This is the political logic that lies behind all the massacres and the
bombings which remain unpunished, because the state cannot convict
itself or declare itself responsible for what happened.”
0 Stratfor emails reveal secret, widespread TrapWire surveillance system
Former senior intelligence officials have created a detailed
surveillance system more accurate than modern facial recognition
technology — and have installed it across the US under the radar of most
Americans, according to emails hacked by Anonymous.
Every few seconds, data picked up at surveillance points in major
cities and landmarks across the United States are recorded digitally on
the spot, then encrypted and instantaneously delivered to a fortified
central database center at an undisclosed location to be aggregated with
other intelligence.
It’s part of a program called TrapWire and it's the
brainchild of the Abraxas, a Northern Virginia company staffed with
elite from America’s intelligence community. The employee roster at
Arbaxas reads like a who’s who of agents once with the Pentagon, CIA and other
government entities according to their public LinkedIn profiles, and
the corporation's ties are assumed to go deeper than even documented.
The
details on Abraxas and, to an even greater extent TrapWire, are scarce,
however, and not without reason. For a program touted as a tool to
thwart terrorism and monitor activity meant to be under wraps, its
understandable that Abraxas would want the program’s public presence to
be relatively limited. But thanks to last year’s hack of the Strategic
Forecasting intelligence agency, or Stratfor, all of that is quickly
changing.
Hacktivists aligned with the loose-knit Anonymous collective took credit for hacking
Stratfor on Christmas Eve, 2011, in turn collecting what they claimed
to be more than five million emails from within the company. WikiLeaks
began releasing
those emails as the Global Intelligence Files (GIF) earlier this year
and, of those, several discussing the implementing of TrapWire in public
spaces across the country were circulated on the Web this week after
security researcher Justin Ferguson
brought attention to the matter.
At the same time, however, WikiLeaks
was relentlessly assaulted by a barrage of distributed denial-of-service
(DDoS) attacks, crippling
the whistleblower site and its mirrors, significantly cutting short the
number of people who would otherwise have unfettered access to the
emails.
On Wednesday, an administrator for the WikiLeaks Twitter
account wrote that the site suspected that the motivation for the
attacks could be that particularly sensitive Stratfor emails were about
to be exposed.
A hacker group called AntiLeaks soon after took credit
for the assaults on WikiLeaks and mirrors of their content, equating
the offensive as a protest against editor Julian Assange, “the head of a new breed of terrorist.” As those Stratfor files on TrapWire make their rounds online, though, talk of terrorism is only just beginning.
Mr.
Ferguson and others have mirrored what are believed to be most
recently-released Global Intelligence Files on external sites, but the
original documents uploaded to WikiLeaks have been at times unavailable
this week due to the continuing DDoS attacks.
Late Thursday and early
Friday this week, the GIF mirrors continues to go offline due to what is
presumably more DDoS assaults. Australian activist Asher Wolf wrote
on Twitter that the DDoS attacks flooding the servers of WikiLeaks
supporter sites were reported to be dropping upwards of 40 gigabits of
traffic per second. On Friday, WikiLeaks tweeted that their own site was sustaining attacks of 10 Gb/second, adding, "Whoever is running it controls thousands of machines or is able to simulate them."
According to a press release (pdf) dated June 6, 2012, TrapWire is “designed to provide a simple yet powerful means of collecting and recording suspicious activity reports.” A system of interconnected nodes spot anything considered suspect and then input it into the system to be "analyzed
and compared with data entered from other areas within a network for
the purpose of identifying patterns of behavior that are indicative of
pre-attack planning.”
In a 2009 email included in the Anonymous leak, Stratfor Vice President for Intelligence Fred Burton is alleged to write, “TrapWire
is a technology solution predicated upon behavior patterns in red zones
to identify surveillance.
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| Abraxas is a primordial Gnostic creator god |
It helps you connect the dots over time and
distance.” Burton formerly served with the US Diplomatic Security
Service, and Abraxas’ staff includes other security experts with
experience in and out of the Armed Forces.
What is believed to be a
partnering agreement included in the Stratfor files from August 13,
2009 indicates that they signed a contract with Abraxas to provide them
with analysis and reports of their TrapWire system (pdf).
“Suspicious
activity reports from all facilities on the TrapWire network are
aggregated in a central database and run through a rules engine that
searches for patterns indicative of terrorist surveillance operations
and other attack preparations,” Crime and Justice International
magazine explains in a 2006 article on the program, one of the few
publically circulated on the Abraxas product (pdf). “Any
patterns detected – links among individuals, vehicles or activities –
will be reported back to each affected facility. This information can
also be shared with law enforcement organizations, enabling them to
begin investigations into the suspected surveillance cell.”
In a 2005 interview with The Entrepreneur Center, Abraxas founder Richard “Hollis” Helms said his signature product
“can collect information about people and vehicles that is more
accurate than facial recognition, draw patterns, and do threat
assessments of areas that may be under observation from terrorists.” He calls it “a
proprietary technology designed to protect critical national
infrastructure from a terrorist attack by detecting the pre-attack
activities of the terrorist and enabling law enforcement to investigate
and engage the terrorist long before an attack is executed,” and that, “The
beauty of it is that we can protect an infinite number of facilities
just as efficiently as we can one and we push information out to local
law authorities automatically.”
An internal email from early 2011 included in the Global Intelligence Files has Stratfor’s Burton allegedly saying the program can be used to “[walk] back and track the suspects from the get go w/facial recognition software.”
Since
its inception, TrapWire has been implemented in most major American
cities at selected high value targets (HVTs) and has appeared abroad as
well. The iWatch monitoring system adopted by the Los Angeles Police Department (pdf) works in conjunction with TrapWire, as does the District of Columbia and the "See Something, Say Something" program conducted by law enforcement in New York City, which had 500 surveillance cameras linked to the system in 2010. Private properties including Las Vegas, Nevada casinos have subscribed to the system. The State of Texas reportedly spent half a million dollars with an additional annual licensing fee of $150,000 to employ TrapWire, and the Pentagon and other military facilities have allegedly signed on as well.
In one email from 2010 leaked by Anonymous, Stratfor’s Fred Burton allegedly writes, “God Bless America. Now they have EVERY major HVT in CONUS, the UK, Canada, Vegas, Los Angeles, NYC as clients.” Files on USASpending.gov
reveal that the US Department of Homeland Security and Department of
Defense together awarded Abraxas and TrapWire more than one million
dollars in only the past eleven months.
News of the widespread and
largely secretive installation of TrapWire comes amidst a federal
witch-hunt to crack down on leaks escaping Washington and at attempt to
prosecute whistleblowers. Thomas Drake, a former agent with the NSA, has
recently spoken openly about the government’s Trailblazer Project that
was used to monitor private communication, and was charged under the
Espionage Act for coming forth. Separately, former NSA tech director
William Binney and others once with the agency have made claims in
recent weeks that the feds have dossiers on every American, an
allegation NSA Chief Keith Alexander dismissed during a speech at
Def-Con last month in Vegas.
0 Anonymous Declares War on Ukraine Over Demonoid Gift-Wrap Shutdown
Ukraine’s government is currently feeling the wrath of Anonymous,
after it decided it’d be a great idea to take out one of the biggest
torrent trackers as a present for the US. OpDemonoid is Anonymous’ way of saying, haven’t you learnt anything, Ukraine?
As the collective itself points out, this isn’t the first time
Anonymous has had a go at Ukraine over censorship, and probably won’t be
the last. The current targets seem to be Ukraine’s TV, copyright and
anti-piracy organisations, which are getting buffeted by DDoS attacks.
Good ol’Anonymous — always the champion of anti-censorship, with a good
dose of, err, censorship.Source:http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/08/anonymous-declares-war-on-ukraine-over-demonoid-gift-wrap-shutdown/
0 We Will Not Go Down (Song for Gaza) - Michael Heart - OFFICIAL VIDEO
WE WILL NOT GO DOWN (Song for Gaza)
(Composed by Michael Heart)
Copyright 2009
(Composed by Michael Heart)
Copyright 2009
A blinding flash of white light
Lit up the sky over Gaza tonight
People running for cover
Not knowing whether they’re dead or alive
Lit up the sky over Gaza tonight
People running for cover
Not knowing whether they’re dead or alive
They came with their tanks and their planes
With ravaging fiery flames
And nothing remains
Just a voice rising up in the smoky haze
With ravaging fiery flames
And nothing remains
Just a voice rising up in the smoky haze
We will not go down
In the night, without a fight
You can burn up our mosques and our homes and our schools
But our spirit will never die
We will not go down
In Gaza tonight
In the night, without a fight
You can burn up our mosques and our homes and our schools
But our spirit will never die
We will not go down
In Gaza tonight
Women and children alike
Murdered and massacred night after night
While the so-called leaders of countries afar
Debated on who’s wrong or right
Murdered and massacred night after night
While the so-called leaders of countries afar
Debated on who’s wrong or right
But their powerless words were in vain
And the bombs fell down like acid rain
But through the tears and the blood and the pain
You can still hear that voice through the smoky haze
And the bombs fell down like acid rain
But through the tears and the blood and the pain
You can still hear that voice through the smoky haze
We will not go down
In the night, without a fight
You can burn up our mosques and our homes and our schools
But our spirit will never die
We will not go down
In Gaza tonight
In the night, without a fight
You can burn up our mosques and our homes and our schools
But our spirit will never die
We will not go down
In Gaza tonight
0 Iran TV airs confessions in murder of scientists
Iranian state television on Sunday broadcast purported
confessions by more than a dozen suspects in connection with the killing
of five nuclear scientists since 2010.
The broadcast showed some of the suspects re-enacting the assassinations in different districts of the capital Tehran. The 14 suspects shown on TV included eight men and six women.
The TV showed pictures from a military garrison it said was a training camp outside Tel Aviv in Israel. It said the suspects took courses there, including how to place magnetic bombs on cars _ the method used in the killing of the scientists.
Iran says the attacks are part of a covert campaign by Israel and the West to sabotage its nuclear program, which the U.S. and its allies suspect is aimed at producing nuclear weapons. Iran denies that.
Iran's intelligence chief, Heidar Moslehi, had promised recently to provide detailed TV pictures about the case.
Iran has blamed Israel's Mossad as well as the CIA and Britain's MI6 for the assassinations, with support from some of Iran's neighbors. The U.S. and Britain and denied involvement in the slayings. Israel has not commented.
The TV said closed circuit cameras in a Tehran street recorded one of the operations, providing clues for Iran's intelligence agencies to identify and arrest the suspects.
One of the suspects, Behzad Abdoli, claimed that he received training in Israel, along with several others.
"I entered Turkey and then was taken to Cyprus by ship. From there, I entered Israel and (then) Tel Aviv ... They (Israelis) said that this group is being supported financially by the U.S. and Israel," he said.
Another suspect, Arash Kheradkish, said he received training in attaching magnetic bombs to moving cars.
"There was a motorcycle racing complex (in Tel Aviv) where we received training. We were told we needed to improve our skills so that we would be able to attach magnetized bombs to moving cars ... We were given time bombs that we had to push the start button when we attached it," he said. "At the end of the training course, members (of the group) were given money. They arranged our return (to Iran)."
The broadcast said Jamali Fashi and Arash Kheradkish got the highest grades during training in Tel Aviv and were chosen to lead the operations.
Maziar Ebrahimi, another suspect, said there were three groups involved in the bombings: Two on a motorbike, a car driving in front to slow the target car and a third support team waiting nearby to help if necessary.
"The assassination control room was in Tel Aviv, but it was receiving the orders from Washington and London," the TV report said.
The TV report did not say if the 14 suspects have already stood trial or when they would be tried.
In May, Iran hanged Majid Jamali Fashi, 24, who was sentenced to death for the 2010 killing of Tehran University physics professor Masoud Ali Mohammadi. Fashi, who said in televised confessions that he was recruited by Mossad, was convicted last August.
At least five Iranian nuclear scientists, including a manager at the Natanz enrichment facility, have been killed since 2010.
Officials say that campaign includes the abduction of Iranian scientists, the sale of faulty equipment and the planting of a destructive computer worm known as Stuxnet, which briefly brought Iran's uranium enrichment activity to a halt in 2010.
The broadcast said Iran reserves the right to pursue the case through legal channels at international bodies.
Source:http://www.lompocrecord.com/news/world/iran-tv-airs-confessions-in-murder-of-scientists/article_36874d5b-eb45-55d2-85c1-3c28b02cfee5.html
Further reading :http://www.thefrontierpost.com/news/5861/
0 New NASA study links current extreme summer events to climate change
NASA are at it again....
The relentless weather-gone-crazy type of heat that has blistered the United States and other parts of the world in recent years is so rare that it can't be anything but man-made global warming, says a new statistical analysis
from a top government scientist.
The research by a man often called the "godfather of global warming"
says that the likelihood of such temperatures occurring from the 1950s
through the 1980s was rarer than 1 in 300. Now, the odds are closer to 1
in 10, according to the study by NASA scientist James Hansen. He says
that statistically what's happening is not random or normal, but pure
and simple climate change.
"This is not some scientific theory. We are now experiencing scientific
fact," Hansen told The Associated Press in an interview.
Hansen is a scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in
New York and a professor at Columbia University. But he is also a
strident activist who has called for government action to curb
greenhouse gases for years. While his study was published online
Saturday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, it is
unlikely to sway opinion among the remaining climate change skeptics.
However, several climate scientists praised the new work.
In a blunt departure from most climate research, Hansen's study — based
on statistics, not the more typical climate modeling — blames these
three heat waves purely on global warming:
—Last year's devastating Texas-Oklahoma drought.
—The 2010 heat waves in Russia and the Middle East, which led to
thousands of deaths.
—The 2003 European heat wave blamed for tens of thousands of deaths,
especially among the elderly in France.
The analysis was written before the current drought and record-breaking
temperatures that have seared much of the United States this year. But
Hansen believes this too is another prime example of global warming at
its worst.
from a top government scientist.
The research by a man often called the "godfather of global warming"
says that the likelihood of such temperatures occurring from the 1950s
through the 1980s was rarer than 1 in 300. Now, the odds are closer to 1
in 10, according to the study by NASA scientist James Hansen. He says
that statistically what's happening is not random or normal, but pure
and simple climate change.
"This is not some scientific theory. We are now experiencing scientific
fact," Hansen told The Associated Press in an interview.
Hansen is a scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in
New York and a professor at Columbia University. But he is also a
strident activist who has called for government action to curb
greenhouse gases for years. While his study was published online
Saturday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, it is
unlikely to sway opinion among the remaining climate change skeptics.
However, several climate scientists praised the new work.
In a blunt departure from most climate research, Hansen's study — based
on statistics, not the more typical climate modeling — blames these
three heat waves purely on global warming:
—Last year's devastating Texas-Oklahoma drought.
—The 2010 heat waves in Russia and the Middle East, which led to
thousands of deaths.
—The 2003 European heat wave blamed for tens of thousands of deaths,
especially among the elderly in France.
The analysis was written before the current drought and record-breaking
temperatures that have seared much of the United States this year. But
Hansen believes this too is another prime example of global warming at
its worst.
0 Western media bias muddies waters in Syrian conflict
Russia Today telling it like it REALLY is....
0 Welcome to the future, Virtual supermarkets come to Birmingham [+video]
We recently published an article about Tesco opening a virtual supermarket in Korea, now Ocado is trialling the concept in the UK.
The revolutionary virtual shopping wall has been trialled in London and Bristol and now in Birmingham’s Bullring.
Using its popular Ocado on the Go app, customers can purchase any of
the items on display in the virtual window simply by scanning them with
their smartphone.
Jason Gissing, Ocado Co-Founder, said: “We could not be more excited
about bringing our virtual window shopping experience to the Bullring.
Birmingham has long been Britain’s Second City, and with so many of our
dedicated customers living in the area it makes perfect sense to take
our virtual store to their doorstep.”
The trial store will be in the Bullring until August 15.
Ocado first hit the high street last August at the One New Change
shopping centre in central London, followed by a similar installation at
Bristol’s Cabot Circus in November 2011. It was the first time that
Ocado, a strictly online business, had migrated from the internet to
bricks and mortar.
Ocado introduced the world’s first supermarket shopping mobile
application on iPhone in 2009 adding Blackberry and Windows Phone 7
handsets in 2011.
To check out Ocado’s virtual shopping wall for yourself, head down to
the Bullring shopping centre, just don’t forget your smartphone!
Source: The Information Daily
0 Iran’s UN Envoy Says Israel behind Bus Blast in Bulgaria
Iran’s UN envoy Mohammad Khazaee said on Wednesday that it was Israel
that plotted and carried out a terrorist attack on an Israeli tourist
bus in Bulgaria last week.
On July 18, a suicide bomber entered a bus with 40 Israeli tourists
at a parking lot of the airport in the resort town of Burgas and blew
himself up killing five Israelis and a Bulgarian driver and wounding
over 30 people.
“Such terrorist operation could only be planned and carried out by
the same regime whose short history is full of state terrorism
operations and assassinations aimed implicating others for narrow
political gains,” Khazaee said at a UN Security Council debates on the
Middle East.
Soon after the terrorist attack Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu condemned the blast as “an Iranian terror attack” and promised
to retaliate with tough measures.
“It's amazing that just a few minutes after the terrorist attack,
Israeli officials announced that Iran was behind it,” Khazaee said
adding that Iran would never engage “in such a despicable attempt on ...
innocent people.”
According to earlier Bulgarian media reports, the suicide bomber could be a former inmate of the U.S. Guantanamo prison in Cuba, identified as identified 33-year-old Swedish citizen of Algerian origin Mehdi Ghezali.
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0 Does the UK currency feature a hidden subliminal message?
Does the UK currency have a hidden subliminal image?
This post is not something I've researched much, have much knowledge on or want to cover in any depth. But I felt I needed to post something about what I "think" I've found all the same.
The premise is based largely on the content of a very interesting and well put together blog I stumbled across awhile ago that can be found here:
This movie also covers the every aspect of the subject
Anyway, while handing over some of the "pretty paper" we in the UK call cash, the following image just suddenly stuck out plain as day...and I've honestly no idea why.
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| Click here For Highlighted Reveal |
So has the Queen always had "SeX" in her hair?
0 Searching for the truth in Army private's death
Army Pvt. Thomas Lavrey should be alive and getting ready to leave
the service. Instead the 21-year-old is back home in Machias, buried in
the local cemetery.
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| Dale Lavrey pulls weeds beside the grave of his son, |
Army Pvt. John-Brian Hughes is in Fort Leavenworth prison, charged with murdering Lavrey.
In the weeks before he was accused of plunging a knife into Lavrey’s
neck at Fort Riley, Kansas, the 25-year-old spoke of mysterious people
following him and his phone being tapped, but the Army ignored his pleas
for mental health assistance, a relative said.
Now two families, one in Winchester, Va., and the other in Machias,
are dealing with two faces of the tragedy and growing angrier by the day
at the Army for failing to heed the warning signs of a soldier – with
an affinity for knives – who was about to go off the deep end.
“I can’t tell you how much I feel for the Lavrey family. It is
breaking my heart that their son was lost. This should have never
happened,” said Brian Hughes, the father of the accused soldier. “We
trusted our kids to the same government."
There is mutual sympathy from the Lavreys, who first learned of their
son’s slaying in May through an anonymous phone call apparently made by
another soldier at Fort Riley, home to the Army’s famed Big Red One –
1st Infantry Division.
“I am sure that Mr. Hughes did not raise his son to be a murderer. We
buried our son, and he lost his son, too,” Dale Lavrey said just
moments before making the short drive earlier this week to visit his
son’s grave at Maplegrove Cemetery.
Lavrey says there is no question the Army did not take appropriate action that could have prevented the killing.
“I think this guy Hughes should have been on 24-hour surveillance. He
had been seeking counseling since the beginning of April when the Army
had taken his knife collection away from him,” Lavrey said of
information he received from Fort Riley’s Criminal Investigation
Division. “Somebody slipped.”
Brian Hughes said his son sought help but was denied.
“… He had a psychological exam on April 19 and following the exam,
the Army sent someone to his home off base and confiscated his knife
collection. It kills me that they took it seriously enough to go and get
his knife collection,” Hughes said of his son who served in the Iraq
War and in Kuwait. “The reason for the psychological exam was to begin
the process of finding him an unfit soldier and forcing him out.”
As his son’s mental condition deteriorated in recent months, Hughes
said his family called Fort Riley to try to convince base officials to
help John-Brian.
“On May 5, my son told us his phone was being tapped,” Hughes said.
“Then he told his sister on May 7 that he was being followed for a
couple of weeks. I was getting text messages from him on how he was
collecting evidence to protect himself from them. He wouldn’t tell me
who ‘them’ was.
“He was communicating in riddles. He said he’d explain things to me
when he could, if he ever understood them himself. He was suffering from
paranoid delusions,” the 48-year-old father said. “My brother is a
sergeant in the Army, and he called Fort Riley on May 12 to try and get
help.”
That was the day before Lavrey was stabbed to death.
“When my brother called, he was told there was nothing they could do,
but if John-Brian wanted, he could check himself into a hospital. He
was paranoid, and he wasn’t going to have himself locked up,” Hughes
said of his son. “After they’d confiscated his knives in April, he had
gone to psychiatric services on base and requested help and was told no.
He was told he was just looking for attention.” Major Joey Sullinger,
public affairs officer for the 1st Infantry Division, said base
investigators cannot comment on the homicide because the probe is
ongoing. However, Sullinger did say that soldiers who request mental
health services receive it. There are 13,500 soldiers at Fort Riley.
“Fort Riley has 214 behavioral health professionals available to
soldiers and their families,” Sullinger said. “Our behavioral health
professionals are integrated down into the lowest level of Army
structures to ensure all soldiers have access to help.”
But with official details scant on the slaying, relatives of the two
soldiers, who were assigned to the same base motor pool and were
acquaintances, have struggled to put together a fragmented account of
what happened from communicating with other soldiers.
On Saturday night, May 12, Lavrey and Hughes had been out shooting
pool. The two spent the night at the off-base home of another soldier.
Then on Sunday morning, May 13, Mother’s Day, Lavrey and Hughes went
to Fort Riley to Lavrey’s quarters and at approximately 10 a.m., Hughes
allegedly stabbed Lavrey. He then showed up at the motor pool to work,
according to Brian Hughes, who contacted his son’s military friends on
his Facebook page.
Hughes then stole a Humvee from the motor pool and headed toward a friend’s residence off base.
The Humvee, Brian Hughes said, broke down and a noncommissioned
officer who had apparently gone looking for Hughes located him walking
along a road and drove him back to the base. Hughes then went into a
base store and out the back door.
Military police were summoned, and he was located inside the store an
hour later, the father said. A knapsack in his son’s possession
contained paperwork stolen from the desks of two motor pool supervisors.
But it wasn’t until about 10 a.m. Monday, May 14, that Lavrey’s body
was discovered in his off-base housing, according to Dale Lavrey, who
says he is outraged that word of his son’s death first came to the
family by way of an anonymous phone call from someone at the base.
“We knew something was wrong because Tom hadn’t called his mom on
Mother’s Day, and he always does. I got an anonymous call from someone
at 4 p.m. Monday telling me he regretted to say my son was deceased. He
didn’t know how, but he knew the Army hadn’t contacted us.
“I started calling the base and was told nothing had happened. I
finally said you have 30 minutes to find him and put him on the phone.”
The desperate demand by the distraught father was never fulfilled.
“From the time they say they found Tom, almost 36 hours had passed
before they actually pulled in our driveway to tell us at 9 p.m.
Monday.”
Brian Hughes says he received a text message from his son several hours after he allegedly killed Lavrey.
“The text came between noon and 1 p.m. Sunday, and he said the amount
of disrespect everyone had for him in the unit was too much. He wanted
to get out of the Army. He very well may have had a complete break with
reality and not known he had done it, the killing hours earlier, and he
still may not know he did it,” the father said.
Since the killing, Brian Hughes said he has had one three-minute phone call with his son and a one-page letter from him.
“I really don’t think he understands what is going on based on the
phone call and letter. In the call, he said, ‘Hi, I’m breathing. So I’m
alive. Everything is fine.’ I told him to keep his head low,” Brian
Hughes said.
Army officials, according to Brian Hughes, refused to let his son,
the second oldest of five children, attend his confinement hearing and a
hearing on the charges of murder, resisting arrest and larceny.
“I’ve been told the military attorney assigned to his case won’t be
seeing him until the second week of July, if scheduling permits, and
that is freaking me out. We’ve requested John-Brian receive mental
health treatment, and he has also asked for it, but it has been denied.
It’s like being held in a Third World country. I’m unemployed because of
a chronic back injury, so I can’t afford to hire a private attorney,
which I was told would cost $20,000,” Brian Hughes said.
The only thing the father says he is certain of is that his son, until now, was not a violent individual.
“When he was 17, I saw him swing at a window when he got mad at me
and that was the only time I ever saw him behave violently. There is
mental illness in the family. His birth mother had bipolar tendencies,
but he has only seen her three times since he was three years old,”
Brian Hughes said.
John-Brian Hughes, he said, was the complete opposite of violent or disturbed.
“I just learned that he was secretly married to a medic in his
company who left the military, but had a child and needed health
insurance. That’s the kind of person John-Brian is. He married her so
she would have health insurance for her kid.”
Now, Brian Hughes says, he has no choice but to accuse the military
of failing to take care of a soldier who had become mentally sick.
“I can’t see any way not to blame the Army. I tried to work it out in
my head. Everyone who knows John-Brian knows this isn’t him. It’s just
not in his nature.”
Dale Lavrey, 45, says that from the start the Army misled his son,
the third oldest of four children, who had grown up in Holland and later
moved to West Seneca and Machias before enlisting in 2010.
“He enlisted after obtaining his GED at 18 years old. He was in
search of a career. He told me he couldn’t wait to get out because all
the Army ever did was lie to him. They promised him training and
certification in heating and cooling and stuck him with base burial
duty. He hated it.
“He did two years burial duty, and the whole time he was trying to
get switched and finally in January he got switched to the motor pool.
He actually liked that but wanted to get out. He planned to leave the
Army in September.”
And of the continuing military investigation, Dale Lavrey says he has no faith in it.
“As far as I’m concerned, everything the Army told us so far with the investigation has been a lie.”
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