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Martyr Ian David Long and the Reflective Beauty of Outlaw Mass Murder
November 9, 2018 mass murder, mental health, psychology, social commentaryBorderline Bar & Grill mass shooting, catharsis, child abuse, Ian David Long, Ian Long, mental illness, military, reflection, Thousand Oaks massacre, WarThe Seer of Forbidden Truth
Ian David Long, Your Tortured Victim-Creation and amerikkkan Martyr
I am a huge fan of outlaw mass murder, for many different reasons, and it delights Me to bear witness to a steady increase, in recent decades and years, to this beautifully reflective individual act of catharsis by tortured victim-creations of 20th and 21st century human society, culture, and government, all across planet earth.
For those of us who are sane and capable of both recognizing and embracing the Forbidden Truths of human existence, the 00000000.01%, the deranged and perverse reaction of you humans to these events, demonizing guns and judging these Martyrs to be mentally ill and evil, does not merely justify each act, but elevates each act a noble and honorable message of Truth, delivered in the best possible way, to a species that is only capable of worshiping death, delusion, and hypocrisy.
Every outlaw mass murderer is a writer, a director, a teacher, a Seer, a Shaman, a psychologist, a doctor, a healer. You pathetic creatures do not heal, because you are incapable of it, and yet the outlaw mass murderer is trying to heal you. Your rejection of his efforts, delights Me.
Each and every time, you prove by your collective response that the outlaw mass murderer did the right thing. In a world where Truth is forever dead, in a world where life is hated and death is worshiped, in a world where the most mentally ill rule and determine and control the fate of the less mentally ill, in a world where the ritualistic destruction of all child minds is mandated by law and by public policy mandate of every existing society and government, in a world where every voice of Truth is silenced, snuffed out, ridiculed and rejected, in a world where universal harm, suffering, trauma, and victimization for all is deliberately imposed and inflicted, in a world where nothing can ever be seen, understood, known for what it is, just the facts, just the realities, so obvious and clear and undeniable, these few men and women who stand up and reflect themselves upon the world with independently inspired rage, hate, vengeance, and the infliction of as much external harm as they can, in vibrant and dynamic form, deserve the pure and unconditional admiration of their fellow victims, those of us who are genuinely enlightened to the True nature of the human condition.
Always I will stand up for Truth and for all who express it. It is the only way a human-born can honor Himself. Truth, so rare, so often hidden away, and always rejected and condemned when it is presented. The gift of Truth, I love it as I love Myself.
And so a new voice, a new messenger, receives my time and focus today. 28 year old Ian David Long, tortured victim of child abuse, a professional murderer taught to hate an imaginary enemy, sent thousands of miles away by his greatest enemy, his own society and government, brainwashed and propagandized and indoctrinated to dehumanize complete strangers, given deadly weapons and ordered to try to massacre these complete strangers with the promise of riches and rewards and parades and praise, decreed a moral hero for agreeing to participate in the Insane War Ritual as created and sponsored by his genocide-based society and government, has stood up, sacrificed his very opportunity to try to gain the gift of existence, in exchange for 5 minutes of freedom of mind, 5 minutes of independence of rage and hate, 5 minutes of revenge, payback for 28 years of injustice that began while he was still womb-trapped.
Less than 48 hours ago, Martyr Ian opened fire inside of a bar in Thousand Oaks, California, successfully harvesting 12 humans, and wounding 25 more. And immediately afterward, he Self-murdered, giving up on Himself, knowing that Truth is forever dead to humanity, knowing he could and would never be respected and honored and thanked and recognized as a leader of a human mind revolution that could put an end to the insanities of war, of alcohol consumption, of government and parenthood and universal child abuse. He left the universe as he entered the universe: a dead thing incapable of becoming alive, trapped within a species that is collectively dead in mind, in spirit, in consciousness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_Oaks_shooting
Outlaw mass murder is a beautiful thing, not because it works, but because it doesn't work. Every success is a failure, within a system that makes it impossible to define what failure is. this Forbidden Truth is one of the most precious and profound of them all. Within the pitch blackness of human consciousness, Ian David Long illuminated Himself and all of the Forbidden Truths, inside of the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, California, amerikkka, 48 hours ago.
Thank you Ian, for standing up and shining brightly.
"I hope people call me insane… (laughing emojis).. wouldn't that just be a big ball of irony? Yeah.. I'm insane, but the only thing you people do after these shootings is 'hopes and prayers'.. or 'keep you in my thoughts'… every time… and wonder why these keep happening…"—Ian David Long, Facebook post, moments before opening fire.
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I know self-love gives you the motivation to be immortal. And I agree unconditional self-love is the best kind of love. But is that enough motivation for you to exist eternally knowing how ugly and perverted the world humans have created? And what do you derive pleasure from aside from foot fetish and mass murder?
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The Forbidden Truths of death do more than merely render life pointless. They render life false and fake, a personal illusion and delusion universally embraced by the Unwashed Masses, too weak, broken, terrified, and Truth-hating to face up to the fact that they are merely pretending to be alive, in every real-time moment of now.
Self-love as created by Me, within My superior and untouchable mind, ensures that nothing external of Self can or will ever be allowed to impact My Self-perceptions, both internally and/or externally. All external factors and impositions are recognized and understood, but also dismembered and destroyed, insofar as their capacity to negatively impact what I know Myself to deserve, things like eternal existence.
I create pleasure for Myself in everything I am, and everything I choose to feel, think, and do, absent the slave labor genocide that the terrorism of government successfully inflicts upon Me.
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Brilliant ideas and obvious solutions to problems cannot be allowed to be held hostage by human inferiority. Because humans are incapable of choosing to destroy their shackles and cages, does not translate to the shackles and cages being acceptable, much less necessary.
Anarchy should not replace government. It should dissolve government, illuminate government as a deranged and ludicrous mistake of the collective consciousness of the species. But such illumination of mind is impossible among those who are dead to Truth. When a disease successfully masquerades as a cure, the disease itself must be eradicated, BEFORE the cure can be implemented.Every problem humanity faces in perceiving a positive future absent government, is rooted within the fact that humanity functions in current, real-time, within the slave shackle of government.
Do you exist at this moment? No! And government is the primary reason why, as in mandates universal death for all. Nothing bad that might happen absent government, up to and including species extinction, negates the fact that government must end in order for the possibility of human existence to be "born", to begin.
If humanity cannot thrive absent government, let it be so! End the charade now. Humanity has and continues to devolve under the genocide that is government. Every day, the dolution of anarchy becomes more impossible for humans to imagine, to contemplate, much less to demand and to attain. government is the cancer, sucking all human potential from the species, day by day, as it strengthens its death-grip.
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Q: Getting LiDAR point cloud point spacing using PDAL I am trying to use PDAL (in Python) to extract metadata from a LiDAR point cloud (.las).  I am using the "pdal info" command and applying different flags (e.g. -metadata, -stats) to get additional information on the dataset, but I would like to know if it is possible to obtain the point spacing of a LAS point cloud using PDAL?
I initially thought I had the correct information in the scale_x, scale_y, scale_z values returned via "pdal info -metadata", but upon reading more about PDAL my understanding now is that these are scaling factors and not the actual point spacing.
Is point spacing actually retrievable via PDAL?

A: pdal info will report summary statistics (source):
pdal info --boundary /Users/me/test/data/las/autzen_trim.las

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Atlantic and Pacific Railroad
"Santa Fe Pacific Railroad" redirects here. For the holding company from the failed SF-SP merger, see Santa Fe Pacific Corporation.
For other uses, see Atlantic and Pacific Railroad (disambiguation).
Map of the railroad in 1883
Missouri to Oklahoma; New Mexico to California
Dates of operation
Frisco; Santa Fe
Track gauge
4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad was a U.S. railroad that owned or operated two disjointed segments, one connecting St. Louis, Missouri with Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the other connecting Albuquerque, New Mexico with Southern California. It was incorporated by the U.S. Congress in 1866 as a transcontinental railroad connecting Springfield, Missouri and Van Buren, Arkansas with California. The central portion was never constructed, and the two halves later became parts of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway and Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway systems, now both merged into the BNSF Railway.
The A&P's earliest predecessor was the Pacific Railroad, incorporated by the Missouri General Assembly in 1849 to connect St. Louis and a point south of Kansas City across the center of the state. In response to an 1852 federal law granting public lands to Missouri to aid in constructing two cross-state railroads,[1] the state approved an amendment to the 1849 Pacific Railroad law in December 1852, adding a Southwest Branch that would receive the grants. The new branch, defined by state law to lie south of the Osage River, began at Franklin, Missouri,(now Pacific) on the main line and headed west-southwesterly across the state. Construction on 71 miles (114 km) from Franklin to Dillon was completed in 1860, and a further 6 miles (9.7 km) to Rolla were opened in 1861. The company graded 12 miles (19 km) more to Arlington, but after it defaulted on bonds that had been issued for the branch, the state seized the road from Franklin to Rolla and incomplete roadbed to Arlington in March 1866. The property was sold in June for $1.3 million to explorer and politician John C. Frémont, who reorganized it as the Southwest Pacific Railroad in September. (The main line of the Pacific Railroad was not sold, and would later become the Missouri Pacific Railroad.)[2][3]
In July 1866, Congress passed a law incorporating the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad under control of Frémont and associates. The company was given the power to build near the 35th parallel from Springfield, Missouri west to the Pacific, with a branch from Van Buren, Arkansas. In exchange for its completion by 1878, the railroad would receive land grants along its route. The same conditions were applied to the Southern Pacific Railroad of California, which could build a branch to connect to the A&P near the eastern border of that state.[4] The A&P purchased the Southwest Pacific in January 1867, and that year rails were laid on the grade to Arlington. That company, too, defaulted on its payments, and the state of Missouri again seized the property in June 1867, selling it to a new South Pacific Railroad in July 1868. Ownership of the A&P was also transferred to the new owners, which included Clinton B. Fisk of St. Louis. Another 164 miles (264 km) to Pierce City and 39 miles (63 km) of grading to Seneca on the state line were completed in 1870, when, in October, the South Pacific sold its property to the A&P. That company laid rails to Neosho that year and to Seneca, and beyond to Vinita, Oklahoma, in 1871, and in June 1872 it leased the Pacific (later Missouri Pacific) Railroad, which operated a line to Kansas City and branches, including several into Kansas. The A&P's only branch, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to a mine near Granby, Missouri, was built in 1875.[2]
But this incarnation had similar financial problems; its Missouri division (Franklin to Seneca) was placed under receivership in November 1875, and the Pacific Railroad lease was canceled. The owners of the A&P incorporated the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway in September 1876, and immediately acquired the property of the Missouri division, and a lease on the Central division (Seneca to Vinita). Extensions beyond Vinita for 64 miles (103 km) to Tulsa (1882), 4 miles (6.4 km) to Red Fork (1885), and 10 miles (16 km) to Sapulpa (1886) were included in the lease. The SL&SF also constructed a direct line into St. Louis in 1883, ending its dependence on the Missouri Pacific for access to that city.[2]
Western division $1000 bond issued 1880
In January 1880, the SL&SF came to an agreement with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, which had recently entered New Mexico from the north, whereby the two companies would jointly control the A&P. The SL&SF would continue to operate the Central division, and a new Western division would begin on the AT&SF at Isleta, New Mexico and head west to meet the Southern Pacific at Needles, California. Construction began that year, and reached Kingman, Arizona in 1882. The SP began building a branch from Mojave, California that same year, east to Needles, where the two met on August 9, 1883. The A&P, then essentially an operating subsidiary of the AT&SF, leased the line from the SP in August 1884, and in November 1885 the AT&SF-owned California Southern Railroad completed its line over Cajon Pass to the SP's Needles branch at Barstow, giving the AT&SF access to the coast.[5] In addition to its lease of the SP to Mojave, the A&P operated via trackage rights over the AT&SF from Isleta to Albuquerque.[2][6]
Atlantic and Pacific Railroad cars near Winslow, Arizona, ca. 1890
The AT&SF gained control of the SL&SF in 1890, but both companies entered receivership in the December after the Panic of 1893, and the A&P followed in January 1894. That road's Western division was sold to the newly created AT&SF subsidiary Santa Fe Pacific Railroad in June 1897, and the remaining Central division was sold under foreclosure to the reorganized SL&SF, which was again independent of the AT&SF, in December 1897, ending the A&P's existence.[2] Through the Santa Fe Pacific, the AT&SF acquired trackage rights in January 1899 over the SP's Tehachapi Pass line, giving it access to the Central Valley of California and San Francisco Bay Area.[7] The Santa Fe Pacific left the SP at Kern Junction, where the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway - another AT&SF subsidiary - began, and operated into Bakersfield via SF&SJV trackage. The AT&SF bought the railroad property of the Santa Fe Pacific in July 1902, and its non-operating subsidiary California, Arizona and Santa Fe Railway bought the leased Southern Pacific line between Mojave and Needles in December 1911, but the Santa Fe Pacific Railroad continued to own its land grants from the A&P,[6] and in fact still exists as a subsidiary of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation, successor to the AT&SF.[8] The gap across Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico was eventually filled in 1904, when the Arkansas Valley and Western Railway, an SL&SF subsidiary, completed its line from Tulsa to Avard, Oklahoma, on the AT&SF's line through the Texas Panhandle.[2] The line was joined under one company in 1995, when the AT&SF merged with SL&SF successor Burlington Northern Railroad to form the BNSF Railway, and remains a main line.[9]
^ Pub.L. 32–45, 10 Stat. 8, enacted June 10, 1852
^ a b c d e f Interstate Commerce Commission, 41 Val. Rep. 139 (1933): St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company
^ John Bell Sanborn, Congressional Grants of Land in Aid of Railways, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1899, pp. 115-126
^ Pub.L. 39–278, 14 Stat. 292, enacted July 27, 1866
^ Tenth Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of California for the Year Ending December 31, 1889, pp. 11-15
^ a b Interstate Commerce Commission, 127 I. C. C. 1 (1927): Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company
^ Donald Duke and Stan Kistler, Santa Fe: Steel Rails Through California, 1963, p. 51
^ BNSF Railway, Class I Railroad Annual Report To The Surface Transportation Board For the Year Ending December 31, 2007
^ Robert Wegner, Map of the Month: BNSF Predecessors, Trains, September 2003, p. 52
White, Richard (2011). Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-06126-0.
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21st Death Anniversary Of Renowned Actor Lala Sudhir Today
The 21st death anniversary of a renowned Pakistani film actor, director and producer Sudhir or Lala Sudhir was observed on Friday, January 19.
Sudhir's real name was Shah Zaman Khan and he was born in 1921 in Lahore and died on 19 January 1997.
He was awarded by Nigar Awards in 1970, 1974, 1981 and Best Actor Award for film Lottery as well as Special Award for 30 years of excellence.
Sudhir was a highly respected film personality. He is the only actor of early Pakistani cinema whose film career has been preserved.
پاکستانی فلم انڈسٹری کے معروف نام لالہ سدھیر کی 26 ویں برسی#AbbTakk pic.twitter.com/LRHuaZWvux
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He is known as the first action hero of Pakistani cinema. His film roles symbolized valour and bravery.
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September 30, 2019 – 12:07
Re Energy in Ontario: Where do we go from here? (September 13)
While the author applauds the Ontario government for taking a step in the right direction by eliminating coal, the article is light on the recognition of nuclear's critical role in this initiative and its role in Canada and Ontario's clean energy future.
On April 15, 2014, Ontario burned its last piece of coal, marking a transformational day for the province as it becomes the first coal-free jurisdiction in North America.
Closing coal-fired power plants represents one of the largest greenhouse gas reduction initiatives in North America. The closure has eliminated more than 30 megatonnes of annual GHG emissions, equivalent to taking seven million vehicles off our roads.
This transformational change in Ontario was accomplished through the strength of Ontario's nuclear sector which provided 90 percent of the incremental electricity needed to phase out coal.
Thankfully, today, the people of Ontario have cleaner air from cleaner energy.
Ontario's nuclear advantage was critical in helping Ontario achieve this policy objective. Today, Nuclear power continues to play a critical role in meeting the energy and air quality needs of the province, accounting for roughly 60 per cent of Ontario's electricity supply annually.
Due to Ontario's nuclear strength over the past decade, greenhouse gas emissions in Ontario's electricity sector have been reduced by more than 80 per cent. Over 95 per cent of electricity generated in Ontario comes from non-greenhouse gas emitting resources.
The coal phase-out was realized on the back of Ontario's nuclear sector and the benefits extend far beyond those mentioned in the article. According to a 2005 Ministry of Energy report, phasing out coal avoids 25,000 emergency room visits, 20,000 hospital admissions, 8.1 million minor illness cases and provides a financial benefit of $2.6 billion annually or $70 billion through 2040.
With such a reliable supply of carbon-free energy being provided by Ontario's nuclear fleet, the future is bright for the health of Ontario residents. Serving as an example, Ontario undertook a multi-year effort that decreased the average Ontarian's environmental footprint that resulted in a financial benefit to the province and represents a model for the rest of Canada.
Decisions made on the energy fuel source must balance both the needs of today and future generations, without ignoring the correlation between air emissions, climate and human health.
The role of nuclear power in Canada goes far beyond being a clean and reliable source of energy. It has an important role to play in medicine, food safety, research and innovation and supports thousands of long- term, high-tech and well-paid jobs.
Leveraging Ontario's nuclear advantage supports both our economy and the global transition to a low-carbon future. Thanks to the success of Ontario's coal phase-out, we are not starting from zero but are already leaders. We must continue to build on this success by ensuring our investments in these key areas of our energy infrastructure reach their full potential for Ontario and for Canada.
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New Brunswick environmentalist does a 180, now supports nuclear
The growing movement of environmentalists supporting nuclear came to Canada in March.
CBC News reported that New Brunswick environmentalist Gordon Dalzell has dropped his opposition to nuclear power and now sees its role in the fight against climate change.
"The world is really at a disastrous tipping point and we need to really seriously consider nuclear power as a viable option, because we know how serious it is," said Dalzell, who CBC described as Saint John, New Brunswick's "best known environmentalist."
Dalzell told CBC News he no longer believes energy efficiency, wind and solar alone can contain the growth of emissions as developing countries rise out of energy poverty.
In other countries, a large number of prominent environmentalists have come over to the pro-nuclear side due to the urgency of tackling climate change. This includes people like former California gubernatorial candidate Michael Shellenberger, author Gwyneth Cravens, Kirsty Gogan, executive director of Energy For Humanity, Ben Heard, director of Bright New World, and Carol Browner, former director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy.
In Canada, fewer environmentalists have joined the pro-nuclear movement, which begs the question why?
Is it a refusal to recognize the benefits of nuclear energy, which includes a large amount of power with a small environmental footprint, safer new technologies and, most importantly, carbon-free electricity generation that addresses climate change?
Environmentalists have interpreted a recent United Nations report as suggesting that there is only a 12-year window for governments to take action and avoid some of the worst effects of climate change.
"We do not have much time," Green Party Leader Elizabeth May recently stated. "If we miss the goal of reducing emissions globally by 45 per cent in 12 years, that one last chance is lost. Forever."
Assuming we only have 12 years left, then why can't more people in the environmental movement have open minds about nuclear? They don't have to necessarily be supportive, just be open to viewing it as one of the tools, along with all other clean energy technologies, available to tackle climate change.
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World nuclear output reached new high in 2018
The latest International Energy Agency (IEA) numbers are out and nuclear power continued to grow in 2018, despite concerns about reactor closures in the U.S. and elsewhere.
In its March "Global Energy & CO2 Status Report," the IEA said overall global energy consumption grew by 2.3 per cent due to "a robust global economy as well as higher heating and cooling needs in some parts of the world."
The increase in energy consumption meant CO2 emissions rose 1.7 per cent last year, a new record high.
Gas accounted for 47 per cent of the new energy growth and nuclear represented seven per cent of new growth.
The growth in nuclear was based largely on new capacity in China and the restart of four reactors in Japan, according to the IEA.
In related news, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported that nuclear output reached a peak in 2018, surpassing the previous peak set in 2010.
This happened despite the fact that seven reactors have been taken out of service since 2010 and only one new reactor has been added to the grid. The increase was due to reactor upgrades that improved efficiency and reactors shortening the time they are out of operation for maintenance.The IEA has been more vocal in recent months about the importance of nuclear energy.
In February, the IEA held a workshop on the role of nuclear power in the clean energy system, which will lead to a report on the issue, and IEA Executive Director Dr. Fatih Birol spoke on the margins of the Canadian Nuclear Association's annual conference in Ottawa.
"Nuclear energy plays an important role in both energy security and sustainability in today's energy mix," Birol said at a recent IEA workshop.
"However, without appropriate policy attention, its contribution will shrink, creating challenges for meeting our energy policy goals in the future. As an all-fuels and all-technologies organization, the IEA monitors the development of nuclear energy and its potential role in the clean energy transitions."
The IEA has an important role in making policymakers understand the scope of the challenge the world faces in providing clean and reliable electricity as transportation electrifies and more and more people in the developing world become electricity consumers.
Governments need to act pragmatically and, like the IEA, realize the role all technologies can play in the energy system of the future.
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Three reasons to think about nuclear on Earth Day
Monday, April 22 marks Earth Day.
The first Earth Day in 1970 is considered by some the birth of the modern environmental movement.
Nearly a half century later, the day has become an international event.
This year's Earth Day theme is Protect Our Species, focusing on how human activity contributes to the extinction of species, whether that be climate change, deforestation, pollution or a long list of other things.
Nuclear technology and research has an important role in protecting the environment. Here are three ways nuclear can help protect our species.
#1 Stopping the spread of disease among animals
Nuclear techniques are used to diagnose livestock diseases and improve livestock growth and resistance to disease. Radioimmunoassay methods are essential in stopping the spread of animal diseases, such as rinderpest. Thanks to the role played by nuclear technology, rinderpest is now an animal disease of the past, having been completely eradicated worldwide.
Seventy countries use disease diagnostic and monitoring tests to assist their animal disease prevention, control and eradication programs.
#2 Studying how toxins move through marine life
Radiotracers track the effects of acidification on ocean chemistry and marine life. Nuclear techniques monitor the oceans' shifting chemical balance caused by ocean acidification – vital information to protect the marine environment.
#3 Assessing animal migration
A nuclear technique known as stable isotopes has helped uncover migratory routes, trophic levels, and the geographic origins of migratory animals. It can be used on land as well as in the ocean and has revolutionized how researchers study animal movement.
Nuclear technology is involved in many areas of research and technology and the advances play an important role in protecting marine and wildlife.
If you're interested in learning more about the benefits of nuclear, please read "The Role of Nuclear in the World."
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Inside the return of Terry Rozier: Defensive weapon
By Brian Robb
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The Celtics did what they were supposed to do in a first-round sweep of the Indiana Pacers on Sunday, making themselves the first team to secure a spot in the Conference Semifinals. It's hard to take too much away from a series when a team was, talent-wise, arguably the worst among the 16 that had qualified in the postseason, but there were some pretty big questions the Celtics still were seeking out in Round 1, particularly when it comes to filling the void that Marcus Smart left after going down with a torn oblique.
Before Smart's injury, Terry Rozier looked like a player who was on the verge of being the odd man out in a tightened playoff rotation following an underwhelming regular season. Brad Stevens stuck with Rozier all season despite the Celtics' offense and defense suffering when he was on the floor. His questionable shot selection and struggles finishing around the rim weighed down the offense when he was on the court and a former strength (his defense) did not translate in year four as Boston's defense was better all year when he was on the bench.
Yet, when Smart went down, there was no question about what Rozier's role would be in this series. He would get set minutes as the first guard off the bench and those would be his to lose. Despite his regular season struggles, he had the playoff track record and athleticism advantage over a guy like Brad Wanamaker, making him the clear cut preference of the coaching staff. That group stuck with him all year to keep his confidence up for a situation like this.
Despite a strong Game 4 (11 points on 4-of-6 shooting), Rozier did not exactly impress on offense against the Pacers. He shot just 33 percent from 3-point range and turned the ball over far more than usual (two per game), an issue that popped up team-wide against the Pacers pressure defense. The good news was that nearly all of Rozier's shots were 3-pointers (15 of 24), which meant he was primarily operating on the floor from an area of strength. That and an improvement in his assist rate were positive steps forward, although the C's offense struggled (98.7 offensive rating) when he was on the court.
Those scoring struggles did not matter as much, though, because of what Rozier was contributing to on the defensive end of the floor against Indy. In his 75 minutes of action, the Celtics were a defensive juggernaut, holding Indiana to just 84.3 points per 100 possessions. That mark gives Rozier the lowest defensive rating out of any player in the postseason and a 20 point improvement from his defensive rating mark in the regular season.
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Pakistan is Sure NATO Attack Engineered By US
US and Pakistan enter the danger zone
By M K Bhadrakumar
The air strike by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) at the Pakistani military post at Salala in the Mohmand Agency on the Afghan-Pakistan border Friday night is destined to become a milestone in the chronicle of the Afghan war.
Within hours of the incident, Pakistan's relations with the US began nose-diving and it continues to plunge. NATO breached the "red line".
What is absolutely stunning about the statement issued by Pakistan's Defence Committee of the Cabinet (DDC), which met Saturday at Islamabad under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Yousuf Gilani is that it did not bother to call for an inquiry by the US or NATO into the air strike that resulted in the death of 28 Pakistani soldiers. . . (more)
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/MK29Df02.html
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2005-6 Pakistan and Iran Earthquakes: National Reconnaissance Office Struggled To Keep Up
The increasingly restricted view that Naomi Klein provided about the role of man in the making of disasters – whether they be natural or deliberate of some sort or another – had already experienced unprecedented feedback by Senator Jay Rockefeller and a few other Democratic colleagues on its super secret Intelligence Committee.The previous December they had objected to yet another National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Misty satellite being in the works, action which he had twice tried to stop, and called "totally unjustified and very, very wasteful and dangerous to the national security." What he was referring to – though no one had yet claimed SIGINT satellites "very, very… dangerous" – was so sensitive that the NRO had called upon the Justice Department to look into the prosecution of any alleged leaker.
Klein's failure to investigate the ramifications of this development, much less write about it – given what happened during the 2005 hurricane season – is simply mystifying.
For more, see this link:
http://www.democracynow.org/2004/12/16/senate_democrats_protest_top_secret_spy
Of course, given this essential news blackout about covert possibilities, the NRO had been able to move against the growing problems in Pakistan whose Balochistan, Federally Administrated Tribal Areas (FATA), North-West Frontier Province, Swat Valley and Pakistan-administered Kashmir were becoming increasingly Taliban and Al-Qaeda dominated despite what Washington had dictated to strong-man President Pervez Musharraf. He had staged a coup in 1999 against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif over the conduct of the war with India over Kashmir, and received $10.5 billion in aid from the West, once he had capitulated to threats of being attacked unless he didn't join the so-called war on terror. While he supplied three airbases for the conduct of Operation Enduring Freedom, he never really went after the Taliban because of his own strategic interests and needs, causing so much consternation in Washington that it finally decided to fix the problem as best it could.
About the situation around 2005, Ahmed Rashid has written in a 2009 issue of The New York Review of Books, "Pakistan on the Brink," the target area had become an absolute powder keg, thanks to the inaction of the Musharraf regime though somehow making no mention of the earthquake then. Maulana Muhamed had so used his FM radio station with inflammatory messages in the Swat valley that Al-Qaeda and the Taliban built up several more stations and an army for him. In FATA, the Pashtun tribal leaders had organized their own militias, and plans for the liberation of Pakistan, slitting the throats of some 300 pro-government ones in the process. In the meantime, the Afghan Taliban, thanks to the inaction of the relevant Pakistani authorities and the assistance from FATA and Balochistan, revived their insurgency in Afghanistan. And extremist Punjabi groups joined the mix after Pakistan's relations with India over Kashmir cooled down.
Pakistan, like most of the countries between China and Morocco, has its own system of qanats, called karezes. These are the underground systems of water collection which rely upon a central well under the surface to supply entrance to a collecting chamber at the lowest ground level, so that fields can be irrigated, and populations supplied with the basic essentials. They can be vast distances in length with tunnels along the way for more collections, and proper ventilation, While Iran was thought to be the source of Pakistan's systems – what the NRO had taken advantage of in making its 1990 and 2003 earthquakes – actually the design of its karezes are thought to have come from Afghanistan. While pipes have replaced tunnels in many Pakistani kerezes, making them less manipulable from outside forces, delay-action dams to collect more water have made them more unstable if so attacked.
http://pakistaniat.com/2006/09/20/karez-balochistan-pakistan-irrigation/
Again, Professor Zhoughao Shou predicted the Paskistani earthquake, as he had those off the coast of Aceh in November-December 2004, but no one in a position of authority took them seriously. In the December 2006 issue of the "New Concepts in Global Tectonics" Newsletter, he laid out his findings about recent serious earthquakes in "Precursor of the Largest Earthquake of the Last Forty Years," pp. 3-12. His critics believed that earthquakes always started deep underground, thanks to tectonic plates crashing together, and that there were never visible precursors of them. Shou continued to say that his vapor theory about cloud formation over earthquake epicenters, and their unexpected movement – contrary to usual weather patterns – demonstrated otherwise.
After a discussion of Shou's claims, the newsletter concluded: "This work demonstrates that the vapor theory does not give false warnings. Shou's recent investigation shows that all earthquakes of magnitude 7 or above in the world from June 1993 to October 2005 have a vapor precursor. In contrast, government seismologists worldwide have not yet made a precise and reliable prediction." This seems to say more about their character than that of various earthquakes.
Still, Shou made no attempt to explain the cause of the cloud formations, and many of them could well be from plates rubbing together, volcanic action, etc. The Pakistani one appeared just too convenient politically, and suspiciously connected to the Misty satellite passing overhead every 90 minutes to be of natural origin. The next to last passage overhead caused a minor earthquake, and after all the inhabitants around Muzaffarabad had gone back to bed after their morning tea, as it was Ramadam, the devastating one occurred 90 minutes later, killing 86,000 people, and rendering another 500,000 homeless.
When the Musharraf government acted most positively to offers of assistance, Washington was uncharacteristically most supportive of disaster relief occurring anywhere along the "axis of evil". It airlifted 1,200 military personnel, 162 cargo lifts of equipment, and 1,900 tons of supplies. With the opening up of the Taliban-dominated area to American forces, the Agency for International Development Administrator Andrew Natsios announced to a November Reconstruction Conference that it was providing the Paskistanis with $300 million in aid, the Pentagon was throwing in another $110 million, and private charities would be adding another $100 million.
Despite all the hoopla about this assistance of save the living, and subsequent aid to help them progress, Pakistan was in even worse shape than Afghanistan afterwards, thanks in part to the continuing silence by those in the media and in politics who knew about its real causes but have failed to speak out, as Rashid has concluded:
"In Pakistan there is no such broad national identity or unity. Many young Balochs today are fiercely determined to create an independent Balochistan. The ethnic identities of the people in the other provinces have become a driving force for disunity. The gap between the rich and poor has never been greater….There is confusion about what actually constitutes a threat to the state and what is needed for nation-building." (p. 16)
While the NRO had pulled off the man-made earthquake around Muzaffarabad, Pakistan on October 8, 2005 without a hitch, the Bush administration still had to be worried about unexpected, damaging blowback, how to exploit the new openings, how to provide a few fall guys for what the real covert culprits had done, how to get rid of them in an orderly, unthreatening fashion, find suitable, accommodating replacements for them, and provide new cover for the most powerful space weapons, so that more mayhem could be conducted with the least suspicions by the media and the public about what was really going on. In sum, it was time to make for a clean slate on the covert front so that more beneficial disaster capitalism could occur.
As soon as the Reconstruction Conference on Pakistan in November 2005 showed that the United States was most pleased with Mushrarraf's settlement of its laser-caused earthquake – opening up its territories bordering on Afghanistan to American covert operations – the Bush administration replaced acting Air Force Secretary Peter Geren, the Pentagon's all-purpose fixer, by Michael Wynne. He was another Pentagon insider – former acting Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics – who was responsible for the development, testing and purchase of all new weapons systems, especially high-powered laser devices which the Air Force was taking the running of from Dr. Donald Kerr's NRO. This was just part of the Pentagon's game of musical chairs to keep the media and the public in the dark as Geren immediately became the Army's Undersecretary, and then its Secretary when the current one was made a fall guy for the failures of veterans at Walter Reed Hospital.
With Geren conveniently out of the way, whistle-blower Russell Tice then claimed that the National Security Agency (NSA) – the NRO's official superior – was mining the private actions of millions of Americans, what President Bush had claimed only concerned a small number of Americans in a focused way. The same day that The New York Times published Tice's anonymous contentions, he told ABC he was the source, as this link explains:
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=1491889
Of course, this touched off a running firestorm about what NSA was doing, one which is still continuing, leaving the NRO securely high-and-dry about what it had been engaged in. One could hardly have had much doubt about what NSA was doing under Director Michael Hayden despite the surprises expressed by NYT reporter James Risen, and author James Bamford in Body of Secrets: How America's NSA and Britain's GCHQ Eavesdrop on the World, given Bush's views of the President's war powers. While Risen had been Tice's messenger, Bamford had been given a complete snowjob about what NSA had been experiencing, and doing when it came to its eavesdropping, especially when it came to signal intelligence (SIGINT), when he visited the Director. (See p.451ff.)
Hayden – with the help of former House Intelligence Committee chairman and now DCI Porter Goss, the Committee's former staff director John Millis, former NSA Director and now Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell and others – had given a most pessimistic appraisal of its SIGINT capability aka Echelon while dragging the USS Jimmy Carter needlessly into the process, acting as if it was essentially to be involved in tapping fiber-optic cables, and as if the USS Parche, the Navy's most decorated sub in this regard, was no longer in commission to do it. Bamford's sources gave the totally false impression that NSA was in no position to keep up with threats being facilitated by the use of personal computers, cell phones, the Internet, e-mails and fiber optics – a process further complicated by the delayed commissioning of the Carter. (p. 465)
In giving this most restricted account of NSA's muscle, Bamford restricted the sub's SIGINT capability beyond recognition, acting as if it were only an underwater messenger of what others were saying rather than a platform for striking back in all kinds of ways from its Multi-Mission Platform. There was no mention of its being a sub with a completely different mission, one where it could leave behind munitions, not just mines, to explode when it was convenient and safe, and SIGINT capability to convert messages – apparently from air guns and laser acoustic weapons though they were not mentioned – which would give the recipient more than he or it expected. In doing so, Bamford used an unnamed Los Angeles Times source rather than what Rear Admiral J. P. Davis had written in "USS Jimmy Carter (SSN23): Expanding Future SSN Missions" in the fall 1999 issue of Undersea Warfare:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/1999/ussjimmycarter.htm [Link revised.]
With Pakistan completely split open because of the earthquake, the Pentagon's 'Special Operations' teams (SOTs) took full advantage of the new opportunities – what they had previously been mainly doing in Iraq, Afghanistan and around Saudi Arabia where Major General Stanley McChrystal, who had become Commanding General, Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in September 2003, saw fit. McChrystal was a former 'notorious psychopath' Ranger who was working the 'dark side' missions that Vice President Dick Cheney had said were required after the 9/11 attacks. McChrystal embodied the tactics which characterized the covert growth of America's hidden empire – organizing teams to carry out extra-judicial killings, systematic torture of prisoners, bombing of communities to make them more cooperative, and search and destroy missions.
"The SOT's," Professor James Petras recently wrote about Washington's continuing covert wars, "specialize in establishing death squads and recruiting and training paramilitary forces to terrorize communities, neighborhoods and social movements opposing US clients regimes. The SOT's 'counter-terrorism' is terrorism in reverse, focusing on socio-economic groups between US proxies and the armed resistance. McChrystal's SOT's targeted local and national insurgent leaders in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan through commando raids and air strikes."
These operations in Pakistan were well underway when General McChrystal in February 2006 became Commander, JSOC. It had already attempted to kill Ayman al-Zawahiri by an air-strike in Damadola, eliminating senior commanders Abu Khabab al-Masri and Iman Asad allegedly in the process, and attacking the Danda Saidgai training camp in Northwest Waziristan. Al-Qaeda and the Taliban responded by assassinating the US consul in Karachi, and by the end of the year, given the escalating 'dirty war', controlled not only the province but also South Waziristan. It's much easier to expand wars rather than end them.
Encouraged by early results in Pakistan, Michael Wynne's Air Force – now the operator of the NRO's heavy, laser satellites – was authorized to give Iran, it seems, another dose, targeting the strategic area equidistant between Baghdad and Tehran in the Shia heartland on March 31, 2006. Encouraged by the agreement the Security Council had just reached that Iran should never obtain nuclear weapons, Washington hit the only area in Iran not known for having earthquakes, and did so during another nighttime operation which would have killed thousands of people, like earlier at Bam, instead of only 70 if it had not been for the action by its Unexpected Disaster Committee – as if normally disasters are expected! Once the first earthquake occurred early during the night of the 30th, it roused the population from its beds, assuming that more would occur, and two more did just after midnight local time.
Of course, by this time relations between Washington and Tehran had so soured that it did not even ask for help, as it had after the Bam earthquake. And President Bush had geopolitical matters so much on his mind that he said this twice about the earthquakes: "We obviously have our differences with the Iranian government but we do care about the suffering of the Iranian people. Secretary of State Condi Rice uttered similar "deep sympathy" for the suffering of the Iranian people, offering to supply aid, but none was forthcoming according to Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman. Iranian-American relations had descended to such a low point that hardly any niceties were in order.
The reason for the icy relations is not hard to determine if one reads the details about the earthquakes, and the damage they wrought. They occurred in two separate places – in the mountainous area noted for its agricultural operations, the epicenter well removed from the alleged fault line which official seismologists say caused it, and in the area around the cities of Boroujerd and Doroud. The agricultural area relies heavily upon its qanat (kanat in arabic) systems for providing the necessary water for its fields of grain and fruit orchards The earthquakes were surprisingly close to the surface, only going down about seven kilometers.
Then almost all the killing and damage occurred in the mountains where the first 4.7 earthquake hit, resulting the the vast majority of the 70 human deaths, and 1,000 large livestock and 6,000 small livestock ones – killed when their barns and sheds collapsed. Most noticeable was the dozens of dead sheep and goats found in the fields, apparently killed by the lasers beams when they heated up the kilometers of kanats in the process. This is why they have always been used in the night – what the NRO shoulder patches were bragging about it owning – so as not to commit most suspicious human deaths rather than simply ones in their beds. Great destruction and damage was also done to deep wells, water storage areas, and 4,500 meters of kanats.
With the Bush administration now hopeful that it had finally turned the corner on Iraqi violence after the ouster of Saddam Hussein – what SOD Rumsfeld may have planned from the beginning with his 'shock and awe' campaign in the hope that its post-liberation mayhem would kill off the necessary Sunni and Shia troublemakers – he now prepared his departure from the Pentagon. While a few generals and admirals were finally expressing their displeasure about what had happened during his preventive wars – what Rumsfeld even acknowledged – he wrote a secret memo on April 6th, calling upon his minions to "keep elevating the threat…".
While the ignorant might think that he was referring to more 9/11 style attacks, he added this to make sure that there was no confusion about what he meant, but not in the places threatened: "Talk about Somalia, the Philippines, etc. Make the American people realize that they are surrounded in the world by violent extremists." ("Rumsfeld 'kept up fear of terror attacks'," The Daily Telegraph, March 11, 2007) In doing so, he deliberately ignored what Iran, Pakistan and North Korea were apparently aiming for with their nuclear programs, and what the Pentagon was doing its utmost to prevent. It all sounded like his swan song from the Pentagon, reminiscent of his Anchor Memo when he took office with the intention of fixing it despite all the governmental obstacles.
While Rumsfeld withheld announcing his resignation until the day of the 2006 Congressional elections, though it so leaked to the press so that the voters would know he was leaving – hoping that the long-awaited act would bolster Republican chances at the polls but it didn't, causing the Bush administration to lose control of Congress – it immediately nominated everyone's choice, former DCI Robert Gates, to be his successor, and he was confirmed in record time. Gates had been former President Bush's replacement of DCI William Webster, and achieved the kind of coordination between the Agency and the Bureau – especially in handling the Iran-Contra cover-up which cost him the job the first time after Reagan had nominated him to replace William Casey – which the gigantic Pentagon so sorely needed now. (For more on this, see Mark Riebling, Wedge: The Secret War Between the FBI and CIA, p. 381ff.)
Gates' first victim, after a prudent pause, was DCI Porter Goss in May 2006 who he knew all too well after his long career in the Agency. Goss avoided analyzing intelligence too much, as his dismissing the leading analysts in the Agency showed when he took over, and was too careless in his private life – what had led to his forced retirement when he came down with venereal disease after visiting, as many high-flying bachelors in Washington did, the prostitution ring aka "Capitol Couples" that Hana and Karl Koecher were running for the Czechoslovak security and intelligence service. "Hana, blonde, attractive and ten years younger than her husband," Christopher Andrew wrote in The Sword and the Shield, "later boasted that she had had sex with numerous CIA personnel, Pentagon officials, reporters from major newspapers and a US Senator." (p. 200)
Three days later, after it was learned that Goss' Executive Director, Kyle 'Dusty' Foggo, had been having sex parties with Hana, he too was gone, though the Agency denied that there was any connection between the resignations. Foggo had been instrumental in arranging the heating up of Hurricane Katrina, and slowing the response to it, and had had a corrupt relationship, involving former acting Air Force Secretary Geren, in kickbacks Boeing was giving out. Of course, the cause of his resignation was just the cover story as this had been known for at least a quarter century, and it claimed that Foggo had had to go because he was sharing her with Soviet spy, Felix Bloch, rather than with Goss too.
Little wonder that NSA director Major General Michael Hayden then followed Goss as DCI. Hayden knew where most eavesdropping secrets were buried, and how best to keep them covered up. John Negroponte, the new Director of National Intelligence and former US Ambassador to Iraq, knew most about the personnel problems at CIA, and arranged the necessary changes.
Steven Kappes, the former DDO who had resigned because of Goss' Chief of Staff Pat Murray so politicizing the Agency, was brought back as the new Deputy Director – Negroponte having been informed by Mary Margaret Graham, an Assistant Deputy Director of Counterintelligence, of all the womanizing and politicizing there. This had been particularly difficult for Negroponte, the former American Ambassador to Honduras, because Foggo had been a close associate involved in its search and destroy missions, organized from the embassy. Most important, Robert Richer, the number 2 man in the DO who resigned suddenly during Hurricane Katrina because of the DCI's isolated decision-making, had to find a new place, becoming CEO of Cofer Black's Total Intelligence Solutions in 2007.
The most important decisions then were made by Negroponte, and his replacement at National Intelligence, Mike McConnell. The plan was to make sure that everyone believed that the Pentagon was apparently not planning a new generation of space-based surveillance satellites, and the ones it already had were being destroyed. At the same time, NRO Director Donald Kerr left, having transferred the last vestiges of its heavy satellite, SIGINT operations to the Air Force, and by replacing the aggressive shoulder patch – showing one of its four orbiting satellites hitting back at unsuspecting targets, and bragging about its owning the night – with a most innocent one, showing just two orbits of satellites, circling the globe. Kerr was replaced by Scott Large.
Negroponte was most eager to tell the press, especially U. S. News and World Report, about the "managerial nightmare" he had in getting rid of the $25 billion, over-budget, and five-year behind Future Imagery Architecture System – what planned to establish in space dual purpose imagery and SIGINT satellites to do whatever was required. Poor quality control in the satellites, and technical problems with their operations raised questions about their ever being completed. Negroponte moved decisively to end the program, getting rid of half of the classified project – apparently the SIGINT half as the Air Force still had the Misty satellites which could perform the necessary send-back messages if necessary.
No sooner had McConnell been installed as Negroponte's replacement as National Intelligence Director than he announced that he had closed down the production of the satellite spy program, and was in the process of finding out who was responsible for the hopeless boondoggle, seeing to his dismissal. McConnell, in stopping the production of more Misty satellites, said nothing about stopping the use of ones still in service. And he was apparently looking for Air Force Secretary MIchael Wynne who had been pushing their production, though McConnell conveniently postponed his search and Wynn's firing until he was no longer needed. For more on this, see this link:
http://www.infowars.com/articles/bb/satellite_spy_chief_scraps_satellite_program.htm
In this context, Naomi Klein's latest, comprehensive survey of disaster capitalism, The Shock Doctrine, appeared, and covert planners were most relieved to see that it had grown very little in its basic character, and in its coverage. The role of satellites, especially laser-equipped ones and submarines in their making, and their possible use on countries like Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, and those around the Indian Ocean were never even alluded to. In fact, they, outside of Sri Lanka, were never even seriously mentioned in the whole process. Actually, she hardly said anything new about the subject since her damage-limitation story on the Katrina disaster.
If anything, according to her, shock doctrine was wearing off rather than increasing.
Tags: Acquisition Technology and Logistics, Afghanistan, Balochistan, death squads, earthquakes man-made, Honduras, Iran, karezes, Katrina, MISTY, Naomi Klein, National Reconnaissance Office, Negroponte, NRO, Pakistan, Porter Goss, qanats, Rumsfeld, Shock Doctrine, Signit satellite, spooks, Trowbridge Ford, Trowbridge H. Ford, Turkey, weather modification, Zhoughao Shou
Pakistan 'gave China access' to downed US helicopter
We sort of thought that all along … F.C.
Financial Times reports that Chinese military engineers took photographs and samples from wreckage in Abbottabad
Pakistan let Chinese military engineers photograph and take samples from the US helicopter that was left behind when American special forces killed Osama bin Laden, it has been reported.
If true, the claim would underline the deterioration in US-Pakistani relations since the raid in May in Abbottabad, outside Islamabad in which the al-Qaida leader died.
Members of the Chinese military were allowed to survey the wreckage of the hi-tech helicopter and take samples of its "stealth" skin, which allowed it to enter Pakistan undetected by radar, the Financial Times reported, quoting US sources.
"The US now has information that Pakistan, particularly the ISI [Pakistan's intelligence agency], gave access to the Chinese military to the downed helicopter in Abbottabad," an intelligence figure was quoted as saying. . . (more)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/15/pakistan-china-access-us-helicopter
Tags: Abbottabad, China military, ISI, OBL, Osama bin Forgotten, Pakistan, US helicopter down in Pakistan, US raid on Pakistan
U.S. Air Force, NATO, the U.S. House of Representatives Computer Security Team (P-TECH) FROM PAKISTAN
[snip] . . . . . Soon after Ptech was founded, it went to work selling sophisticated computer software to a select number of customers that included: the U.S. Air Force, NATO, the U.S. House of Representatives, MITRE Corporation (a company that specializes in defense, intelligence, and homeland security systems), the Naval Air Systems Command, the Federal Aviation Administration, and America's biggest banks.
In 2002, the U.S. government raided Ptech's offices as part of Operation Green Quest, its effort to crack down on financiers of Al Qaeda. The complete dossier of Ptech is too long to go into here, but I will name some of the other people involved. . . . .
http://www.deepcapture.com/the-miscreants-global-bust-out-chapter-15-ali-nazerali-in-aruba-and-an-al-qaeda-financial-weapon-called-ptech/
NOTE: Google's YouTube has removed most videos about P-Tech & 9-11. Some is here (Under Indira Singh's testimony) http://web.archive.org/web/20100224031309/http://www.911truth.org/page.php?page=911truth_media#911om
Video on P-Tech
Tags: 9-11, computer trapdoor, FAA, Indira Singh, ISI, MITRE, national security, Operation Green Quest, P-Tech, Pakistan, Ptech, spooks, USAF
Bin-Forgotten "Assassination" Raid a TEST for Pakistan Air-Defenses??
Was the fake Bin Laden "kill" an attack to test response from Pakistan military in prep for bigger Pakistan invasion by Israel-US-UK forces??
see next post (vid) –
Tags: al-cia-duh, Bin Forgotten, Bin Laden, Iran war, ISI, israel aggression, OBL, oil wars, Osama, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, south asia invasion, UK military, US military, war in Pakistan
IS USA ON WAR FOOTING WITH CHINA RIGHT NOW????
RE – Pakistan vs USA dust up –
Above Video is over an hour long. If you have slow connection etc. you will get the general idea in first 10 min. of the video.
Alexander Higgins had this earlier –
3 Separate Government Buildings Bombed In China City of Fuzhou
Deadly blasts in eastern China
Three explosions at government offices in the city of Fuzhou kill two and injure six, state media reports.
Explosions are reported at three government buildings in an eastern Chinese city, possibly caused by explosions in cars, according to state media.
The blasts killed two people and injured six, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
The nearly simultaneous blasts happened in Fuzhou city, Jiangxi province, on Thursday morning, the official Xinhua news agency reported. It did not give details of the cause or casualties. . . .
LINK – http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/05/26/3-separate-government-buildings-bombed-china-city-fuzhou-22998/
UPDATE May 30
China drops the Gwadar hot potato
[snip]. . . . According to APP, Mukhtar said Pakistan appreciated that the Chinese government agrees to run the port, but would be more grateful "if a naval base is constructed at the site of Gwadar for Pakistan." [1]
His remarks set off alarm bells around the world, as pundits dusted off the "string of pearls" analogy describing China's alleged efforts to create a network of military-ready ports, and raised the specter of the Chinese dragon bathing his vermilion claws in the milk-warm waters of the Indian Ocean. . . .
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/ME28Ad01.html
Tags: 1914 China, China, China Pakistan relations, China US Pakistan, China warns US on Pakistan, Chinese ultimatum, Gwadar, hands off Pakistan, Pakistan, WWIII
JUST UPDATED: Our Fake-bin-Laden Story news page
A bunch of items added today – F.C.
https://flyingcuttlefish.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/on-the-fake-bin-laden-story-and-mass-mind-fuck-going-on-now/
Tags: Bin Forgotten, fake terrorism, GWOT, ISI, media lies, MSM, OBL, Osama, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, phoney news


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Whitby Gazette crowned 'Yorkshire's Best Weekly Newspaper'
The Whitby Gazette team collect the award for 'Best Weekly Newspaper' at the O2 Media Awards for Yorkshire and the Humber.
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Your Whitby Gazette has been crowned the best weekly newspaper in Yorkshire and the Humber at a glamorous awards night in Leeds.
The title scooped the top gong for its dynamic package of news and pictures in an event attended by more than 200 journalists and media executives and hosted by BBC TV presenter Louise Minchin.
Gazette reporter Sam Jones was shortlisted for the 'Young Journalist' category.
The judges were impressed with the Gazette's handling of the big stories including the town centre floods, the Magpie blazes and its spotlights on the more unusual news features about the area such as the ceremony of the Penny Hedge, the museum exhibit of the week page and how Whitby set the date of Easter.
They were also impressed with the Gazette's introduction of a memorial award following the deaths of two young men on a boat in the harbour, the 'Why I Love Whitby' spotlight and the improved sports and nostalgia coverage.
Gazette reporter Sam Jones made it a great double for the paper - he was highly-commended in the Young Journalist category for the range of his coverage, including the Magpie drama and his wide range of news and features each week.
Fellow reporter Duncan Atkins, said he was delighted to see the paper's first major independent award.
Editor Ed Asquith said: "Thank you to our readers and contributors for supporting the Gazette so strongly and consistently; we have been among the best performing papers in Yorkshire for some time, and to be named the best weekly newspaper in the region is another feather in the cap for Whitby.
"We put a lot of effort into bringing you the most comprehensive news, community, features and sport coverage that we can each week, and daily online, and it is great to share the success with you."
The Gazette's sister papers, last year's winner The Scarborough News and also the Bridlington Free Press were also shortlisted in the same top title category.
Broadcasters Selina Scott and Alistair Stewart announced award winners alongside members of the Yorkshire public who had featured in the media through the year.
Guests also included Jenny Newby and Lee Riley, the Hull based stars of Channel 4's hit show Gogglebox and Laura Norton and Isabel Hodgins of ITV's Emmerdale.
The O2 Media Awards are the biggest regional media awards in the UK. "The O2 Awards celebrate the very best of media talent across Yorkshire and this year the standard has been exceptional," said Nicola Green, Director of Communications and Reputation at O2.
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I'll be riding the bike to work at 5 am every day this week.
Well, living in Florida I wouldn't expect anything less.
Come to think of it, isn't 74 rather chilly?
LOL, 72º is the switch to short or sleeveless shirt before the sun comes up.
It's a bit warmer here on LI, 23 degrees but still too much snow to ride. I was riding in December but January passed by without a ride. We had around 2' of snow last Tuesday and I have a drift over 4' high blocking in my bike so I don't think I'll be riding any time soon.
Hate to rub it in but my buddies and I did a little over a hundred miles in the desert Saturday on our dirt bikes. Yesterday would of been great for another ride but had to watch the Patriots win #4. This coming weekend is looking to be in the mid 60's again so plans are in the works for another motorcycle trip, just not sure it it'll be street, dirt, or dual purpose bikes. Either way, some fuel will be burned up.
I'm on LI as well, on the North Shore. Today started with an ice storm and now has turned into heavy snow dumping another 8 inches on top of the two feet we got last week. I'm going to put skis on the Shadow soon.


Diving with sharks is a very dangerous job. However, most divers use tanks that surround them with metal bars that the sharks cannot get through. These two divers didn't have to be so much worried about the shark gobbling them up as much as they had to be worried about something else.
Shark poop. That's right, the shark pooped on the divers. Though we can't hear any reactions because they're under water, we can only assume they were TOTALLY GROSSED OUT! And to make matters worse there's not much they could do to escape the poop but just wait it out. Sheesh.


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Axis Of Oversteer: You like old Porsches?
How about old RSR's on a slightly damp track? I have to say though, Putz Motorsports would not cut it in New York City.
I definitely love the sound of these fabulous cars !!
Absolutely superb sound... and superb driving skills - especially when you consider how damp the track is.
Really great stuff!!! Never seen a car drive around the outside of the carousel before, didn't lose much time... I would have thought it would be super slippery.