It was late 2010, 13 years after the handover, when the HKSAR government announced that the historic Government Hill in Central - the century-old heart of the administration - would be sold in part to a developer for commercial development. The new government headquarters had already been moved to Admiralty, and the administration framed the sale as a "Conserving Central" initiative, claiming that a balance would be struck by preserving the East and Main Wings of the former Central Government Offices (CGO) and redeveloping the West Wing into a 40-storey offices and shopping mall.
Seeing the absurdity of such proposal and the danger of losing an important piece of history, a group of concerned citizens set up the Government Hill Concern Group to campaign for the preservation of the West Wing and Government Hill as a whole. In addition to engaging the public and lobbying for support, members of the group combed through the archives in search of details about the area.
We came across a name - Michael Wright - the Chief Architect of the Public Works Department who oversaw the development of the three wings of CGO from late 1940s to 1950s. It was a monumental post-war project to build a new government headquarters, and Mr Wright was the person in charge. He later became Director of Public Works …. that's all we knew about him then - his name was as remote as one from a history book.
No one could imagine that not long after we would meet Michael Wright in person, and that he would become one of our strongest supporters.
Around mid 2011, someone told me (during a casual conversation) that Michael Wright was still healthy, at age 99, and lived in London. We were thrilled to hear this news! One of our Concern Group's members, Mrs Rachel Cartland, is a retired civil servant and she immediately helped us locate Mr Wright. Before long, Rachel was already chatting with him on the phone and we thought we should pay him a visit.
Lawrence Tse was a PhD student in London at that time and he volunteered to visit Michael. The two of them would become good friends ever since. In their first meeting, Lawrence told Michael about the threat that Government Hill was facing and Michael agreed to do a video interview for us. He did an excellent job in explaining how the CGO compound was designed and how the three wings served as an integrated whole. He talked about interesting details of the site, such as the local granite used in the building facade, the West Wing elevators that brought people from Queen's Road Central to Lower Albert Road, and how members of the public would use them as short-cut to go to the Peak Tram station! It was fun listening to this gentleman talking about things that happened before our time - not just about West Wing but also about how the government was run in those days - they are still so relevant to us now as we are trying to understand our city and preserve our unique history.
The Concern Group set up an exhibition in January 2012 and showed Michael's video*. News that "99-year-old 'Father of Government Hill' spoke up against the demolition of West Wing" caught public attention. This helped us gain further support from the community. The campaign gained momentum from then on - in June 2012, the International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) issued a Heritage Alert on West Wing and called for its protection. It was the first-ever Heritage Alert on modern architecture issued to Hong Kong and China.
In December 2012, the government abandoned the redevelopment plan and gave the CGO its deserved grading. The three wings are now Grade 1 historic buildings and would be refurbished into offices for the Department of Justice. The Concern Group continues to fight for the removal of fences surrounding the CGO that were put up after 1997. We believe that Government Hill should be a place for the people, not a gated compound.
One happy result of our campaign is that we make a new friend - Michael - who becomes an inspiration to us all. We now know that not only he was in charge of building the CGO, he was the person who led the development of public housing and many infrastructure projects in Hong Kong. He was the one who advocated for private bathroom and kitchen in every unit of the housing estate - a standard which is known as the "Wright Principle". During our subsequent visits, Michael shared with us many of his stories about our city, his childhood adventures, his war-time experiences, as well as his thoughts on how to build a better environment for Hong Kong people. He also enjoyed listening to us about what's going on in Hong Kong now, and showed his warm concern.
Last September, we shared the joy of Michael's 105th birthday while admiring the card he received from the Queen. It was such an honour for us to get to know this man, a humble and humane person who contributed so much to the development of Hong Kong. Through Michael we have re-established a link to our city's past, and by listening to how he dealt with the housing problems in his time, we reflect on our current crises in which the present government seems clueless in finding a solution. There is so much to learn from Michael - we thank him for everything he did for Hong Kong, as well as the lessons that he generously shared with us in the last few years.
Thank you, Mr Wright, it is our pleasure meeting and knowing you!


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How US is Twisting EU's Arm, Trying to Throw Wrench Into Nord Stream 2
By trying to bring an end to the Russo-European Nord Stream 2 project, the US is pursuing its own economic interests rather than taking care of Europe's energy... 25.05.2018, Sputnik International
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By trying to bring an end to the Russo-European Nord Stream 2 project, the US is pursuing its own economic interests rather than taking care of Europe's energy security. Washington is seeking to boost sales of its own expensive liquefied natural gas to Europe, thus undermining the Old Continent's competitiveness.
Washington is making every effort to disrupt the implementation of the Russian-led Nord Stream 2 Project aimed at providing the EU with 55 billion cubic meters of Russian natural gas per year, through a pipeline across the Baltic Sea to Germany.
While testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on May 23, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stated the US would "continue to push [for] Nord Stream 2 to be ended," which the US sees as a threat to the EU's "energy security."
For his part, the US ambassador to the EU, Adam Shub, has urged "all EU member states to join the chorus of nations on both sides of the Atlantic to oppose Nord Stream 2 and support the future of Ukraine gas transit."
We urge all EU member states to join the chorus of nations on both sides of the Atlantic to oppose #NordStream2 and support the future of #Ukraine gas transit#GasGateway pic.twitter.com/cXAXnxQImO
— Adam Shub (@USAmbEU) 25 мая 2018 г.
According to Shub, for Russia "gas is not simply a commodity to be traded — it is a foreign policy tool and a weapon."
For #Russia it's clear that gas is not simply a commodity to be traded — it is a foreign policy tool and a weapon#GasGateway pic.twitter.com/aGsdqvzyMv
Earlier, on May 17, The Wall Street Journal reported that US President Donald Trump allegedly told German Chancellor Angela Merkel that the US would start talks with the EU on a new trade deal if Berlin ceased implementing the Nord Stream 2 project.
In response to signals from Washington, the Russian Embassy in the US tweeted Wednesday that the White House is seeking to "impose its own uncompetitive LNG [liquefied natural gas] on Europe," referring to the US's longstanding struggle against Russian-Europe gas pipelines since the time of Ronald Reagan.
Ronald Reagan opposed the building of a Soviet gas pipeline in t/ 80s. Now the administration is defending that pipeline because it runs through Ukraine. By attacking the @NordStream2 Washington imposes its own uncompetitive LNG on Europe.
👉 https://t.co/uK9VgBhV0Z pic.twitter.com/fz3eVXMDwY
— Russia in USA 🇷🇺 (@RusEmbUSA) 24 мая 2018 г.
Four Implacable Enemies of Nord Stream 2
According to Russian economic observer Maxim Rubchenko, there are four countries strongly opposing Nord Stream 2: the US, the UK, Ukraine and Poland. Each of them is pursuing their own political and economic interests.
Weaponizing Hydrocarbons: It Was Obama's Idea to Flood EU With US LNG
31 March 2018, 07:35 GMT
The US is seeking to boost its LNG sales in Europe. According to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), the country is building up its liquefaction capacities in the face of growing gas demands both in Europe and Asia.
"US LNG exports will exceed 3 billion cubic feet per day in 2018 and over 12 billion cubic feet per day by 2035. LNG exports are expected to support up to 452,000 new jobs and add $73 billion to the US economy by 2040," the Institute for Energy Research (IER) predicted in October 2017.
The problem is that US LNG is 20 percent more expensive than Russian pipeline gas, the observer underscored. As Oilprice.com noted last June, American LNG is "$1-2 above northwestern European benchmark gas prices, which does make it uncompetitive."
The UK supports Washington's efforts to throw a wrench in the Nord Stream 2 endeavor. London's rationale is clear, Rubchenko notes: It is striving to maintain control over continental Europe after the much-discussed Brexit and replace Germany as Europe's flagship.
LNG Allies CEO Doubts Trump Will Sanction Nord Stream 2
21 May 2018, 15:15 GMT
Additionally, British Petroleum has already signed an agreement to buy LNG from America's Venture Global for the next 20 years.
As for Poland, it is apparently demonstrating loyalty to the US amid Warsaw's political frictions with Brussels and at the same time is trying to promote its own Baltic Pipe.
Kiev's concerns are crystal clear: it fears that Nord Stream 2 will spell an end to gas transit through Ukraine. Although Vladimir Putin emphasized that gas would continue to flow through Ukraine after Nord Stream 2 becomes operational, Ukraine and its American partners want the endeavor to be nipped in the bud.
We categorically reject any notion that #NordStream2 would be acceptable were #Russia to 'guarantee' a minimal volume of gas transit via #Ukraine#GasGateway pic.twitter.com/ESW0nxsCiy
"We categorically reject any notion that Nord Stream 2 would be acceptable were Russia to 'guarantee' a minimal volume of gas transit via Ukraine," Shub tweeted May 25.
We continue to work with European partners to make it clear that stopping #NordStream2 is vital to the security of #Ukraine and the Baltic Sea Region.#GasGateway pic.twitter.com/BOnvExWkQP
— US Mission to the EU (@US2EU) 25 мая 2018 г.
'There is No Alternative to Nord Stream 2'
Germany is not interested in abandoning the beneficial project especially in the wake of the imposition of tariffs on aluminum and steel imports by Trump in March 2018 and the US administration's recent investigation into car and truck imports that may lead to new taxes.
Nord Stream 2 Going Full Throttle Despite Ukraine's Protests, US Threats
9 April 2018, 15:54 GMT
According to some estimates, after the launch of the pipeline, European consumers will be able to save about 8 billion euros annually by reducing the cost of transporting hydrocarbons from Russia. On the other hand, switching to expensive US LNG may undermine the competitiveness of European industries.
Earlier the White House threatened EU companies involved in the Nord Stream 2 endeavor with sanctions under the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA).
However, Rubchenko believes that Washington will not punish European businesses: Instead, the Trump administration is likely to pressure Denmark and Sweden into prohibiting construction works for the Russia-led project. Thus, Pompeo spoke by phone with Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström on May 17, discussing the "danger that Nord Stream 2 poses to European energy security," among other issues.
#Gas entering #EU internal market via #NordStream2 will be very competitive: it will compete on price and reliability with #LNG and other piped gas to meet EU need for increased gas imports over coming decades – compensating for declining European gas production #SecurityOfSupply pic.twitter.com/6Pv5KToPKZ
— Nord Stream 2 Corp. (@NordStream2) 23 апреля 2018 г.
"Europe does not have an alternative [to Nord Stream 2], it is impossible to substitute these volumes [of gas] from other sources," said Gerhard Schroeder, a former chancellor of Germany and chairman at Nord Stream AG, at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on May 25. "In Brussels, one should adopt a rational approach to the project. There are no arguments against Nord Stream 2, they are all invented. There are certain private interests behind this resistance."
Just Business? US Prepares to Hit Nord Stream 2 Gas Pipeline With Sanctions
Schroeder further noted that the US is trying to throw sand in the gears of the endeavor to prop up US LNG sales in the Old Continent "regardless of whether its standards meet Europe's gas processing facilities." He expressed hope that EU member states would resist Washington's pressure and protect Nord Stream 2.
Earlier, German Foreign Minister Heiko Josef Maas highlighted that the implementation of the Russia-led endeavor would not lead to Europe's dependence on Russian gas.
"We have the opportunity to receive liquefied natural gas in Europe and in Germany," he said while delivering a speech in Helsinki. "So there is diversification, and we will not be bound to Russia."
He reiterated Berlin's notion that Nord Stream 2 is a purely commercial initiative, adding that French and British companies are also involved in its implementation. At the same time the foreign minister admitted that he understands why the project had been politicized.
"The political dimension was attached to [the project] because [after the construction of the Nord Stream 2] the flow of gas through Ukraine will not be the same. Ukraine is losing revenue from transit, which they need to continue to rebuild the country," Maas said, referring to Putin's promise to preserve the flow of gas through Ukraine in case it makes economic sense.
While Shub is calling upon "EU member states who view dependence on Russian gas as a national security threat," Shroeder and other proponents of Nord Stream 2 underscore that the pipeline will not only meet Europe's growing needs in hydrocarbons, but also create new jobs in Europe.
"The total economic benefit of current Nord Stream 2 commitments will be over 5.15 billion euros, creating 31,000 full-time-equivalent jobs and adding 2.25 billion euros in GDP in a five-year period," the project's official site reads, citing a labor market and economic impact study published in October 2017 by management consultancy Arthur D. Little.
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Today, I was able to share the beautiful art of Nuno Felting with 9 fantastic gals. I've dreamt of using our Eichler atrium for classes like this for 2 years now, but I had not had a chance to put it use. It was fantastic! My husband seriously out did himself when he set up our atrium as a crafting studio that could handle wet felting.
Nuno Felting was invented/discovered by a woman named Polly Stirling in the early 1990's. One takes bits of fluffy wool, coaxes it through a piece of gauzy woven fabric (most often silk) and then uses hot water and agitation to make a beautiful light weight piece of fabric!
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We made felted flowers first so they could get the feel of the whole "felting" thing.
Emily and her sweet Nuno Felted Flower Piece!
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When will we get Dinorah Lacostt npc for our clothing dyes?
The tickets are on the cash shop but theres no npc to turn them in.
BTW, Gym passes are good to use.
What are sold on the cash shop?
This is not clasic 2003 ro its more like 2007 or 2008 the origenel unboded map like payon is not in RE:START the old stat system pre Comodo id not in RE:START this is just a clasic sever with a new name.
It is not anywhere like 2003 the date is off by alot baced on what the game mechanics where like in 2003 you could solo kill a boss at lvl 60. monsters stats where diffrent. the pay to win did not come to ro intell far after 2003.
And the P2W has started in pRo ROPH.
Which you'll have a change to get more trash except the rare ones.
Should have known these "consumables and constumes and no OP only sell items obtainable in-game" won't last long. Hope WP doesn't follow their path.
Edited by zilahmonsan, 28 June 2017 - 03:02 PM.
We all know the current servers are P2W but they specifically mentioned this in their FAQ.
Q: Will the service be offered as free-to-play or pay-to-play?
Servers are offered as free-to-play or as we like to call it, Free to Win(F2W), wherein all key-items could be obtained in game.
Already ran out of funds. I wonder which monster drops Archangel wing, flapping angel wing, Gryphon hat, and the candy thing.
Edited by zilahmonsan, 28 June 2017 - 03:23 PM.
All of the servers have ways of earning cash shop points in the game, that's what it means. Of course people spending money will have a higher chance, even then, none of those items are crazy.
Yeah, for now. But since they are selling items obtainable in-game, I didn't know archangel wing and flapping angel wing are obtainable in-game.


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Serryah
Senate Member
Walter said:
Progs love banning stuff and hate free speech.
Tighty Righties like half-truths and lies and hate being held accountable for their words.
jinentonix said:
ya know, there's nothing like 2 mass shootings in 2 days to take the focus off the jeffrey epstein case, the gross mishandling of the people at the border, ratcliff being removed from the pick for dni (director of national intelligence), trump rallys, china's trade war (fill in the blank here)
in fact, looking at recent history it seems there tends to be a mass shooting or so right around the times when a high ranking republican or the party itself has some serious 'splainin' to do. Not every time, but enough times to make me wonder considering the leftists have a long history of having the attitude of the ends justifying the means, no matter the costs.
The alt-right have proven conclusively they have no problem murdering millions of their own people. There are about 70 million gun owners in the us holding onto around 300 million firearms and an estimated 1 trillion rounds of ammo. Now you know why the rightists are so uppity about firearms. You can't force your odious, dehumanizing ideology on the masses when they are well armed and willing to use said arms if necessary.
fify.
Craig Zobel breaks silence on 'The Hunt' film release drama
WENN - World Entertainment News Network
The Hunt: Private Hunting Experience (Spot)
Craig Zobel, the director of "The Hunt", agreed to pull the release of the controversial film following the tragedies in Texas and Ohio, even though he still thinks the action thriller deserves to be seen.
The film, which centres upon a sporting manhunt as a well-off group tracks down and kills 12 strangers, was deemed too explosive for the current climate following seven days of mass shootings in America earlier this month.
Zobel insists he never set out to make a film that might incite violence, but he understood why the release of the movie had to be pulled.
"Our ambition was to poke at both sides of the aisle equally" he told Variety. "We seek to entertain and unify, not enrage and divide. It is up to the viewers to decide what their takeaway will be.
"I wanted to make a fun, action thriller that satirized this moment in our culture, where we jump to assume we know someone's beliefs because of which 'team' we think they're on … and then start shouting at them. This rush to judgment is one of the most relevant problems of our time.
"I was devastated by going to sleep to El Paso and waking up to Dayton (shootings). These types of moments happen far too often. In the wake of these horrific events, we immediately considered what it meant for the timing of our film. Once inaccurate assumptions about the content and intent of the movie began to take hold, I supported the decision to move the film off its release date."
Studio chiefs at Universal immediately paused the marketing campaign for the satirical horror movie after more than 30 people were killed in two separate mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, and they then decided to shelve the release altogether out of consideration for the victims and survivors.
"While Universal Pictures had already paused the marketing campaign for 'The Hunt', after thoughtful consideration, the studio has decided to cancel our plans to release the film," a statement from Universal read. "We stand by our filmmakers and will continue to distribute films in partnership with bold and visionary creators, like those associated with this satirical social thriller, but we understand that now is not the right time to release this film."
The Hunt was due to hit U.S. cinemas on Sept. 27.
http://variety.com/2019/film/news/the-hunt-universal-craig-zobel-1203299514
http://torontosun.com/entertainment/movies/craig-zobel-breaks-silence-on-the-hunt-film-release-drama
TX Shooter Was Banned From Buying A Gun. He Broke The Law And Obtained One, Anyway.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/5136...nned-buying-gun-he-broke-amanda-prestigiacomo
Need more gun laws.
AnnaEmber
Kootenays BC
With an attitude towards guns such as some Americans have, lax vetting of those that want to get guns, proliferation of guns and ease to get them, societal pressures, financial stress, etc., it's not hard to figure that people would want to shoot people.
Hoid
need to get whoever sold him that gun in jail
Twin_Moose
Twin Moose Creek
Announced on the news they think they found the seller of the weapon
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Twin_Moose said:
B00Mer said:
I don't know the law in Texas is there anything there to charge him with besides the social media lynching?
Accessory but not in the "socks match the tie" Trudeau version were you and your buddy Butts dodge the law.
Curious Cdn
Walmart?
so you want to know if it is illegal to sell firearms to someone who is not able to pass a background check?
What is your gut feeling?
Hoid said:
The socks do match the tie. I'm sure of it.
What is the law? Here you can only sell to a person with a PAL legally
They will sell you a firearm at a, swap meet with just your Texas license..
You're suppose to get clearance, but it's not always done
Yeah, Texas is a seriously fukced up place, isn't it?
Danbones
Ever since it has been taken over by nut bar democrats...it has changed for the worse.
Texas: Republican powerhouse could shift to Democrats as demographics change
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/12/texas-diversity-fuels-democratic-hopes-purple-state
Yup, soon to be a whacked out nut farm like Commiefornia has become.
Serryah said:
You are definitely describing the trump derangement syndrome types we are all suffering through here as well as anyone who would support the bushes.
The answer is to actually do politics based on issues and proper solutions, not parties, and to be a centrist, not an totalitarian ideologue.
Danbones said:
Yes all those people fleeing the mess they made of California want to emulate their success in Texas .
Texas grand jury indicts accused Walmart shooter: Reports
September 12, 2019 3:16 PM EDT
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A Texas grand jury on Thursday indicted the man accused of killing 22 people and wounding 26 others in a shooting last month at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, who had told authorities he was targeting Mexicans, a local prosecutor said.
Patrick Crusius, 21, was indicted for capital murder and will face the death penalty if he is convicted, El Paso County District Attorney Jaime Esparza said in a statement.
"The District Attorney's Office will continue to work hard to ensure that justice is done and is committed to assisting the victims through the judicial process," Esparza said.
Crusius is accused of driving 11 hours from his hometown of Allen, Texas, near Dallas, to El Paso on Aug. 3 and firing at shoppers with an AK47 rifle inside a Walmart store, after which he surrendered to officers who confronted him outside the store.
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Crusius confessed while surrendering and told police he was targeting Mexicans, according to an El Paso police affidavit released days after the shooting.
Most of those killed were Hispanic.
A four-page statement believed to have been written by the suspect and posted on 8chan, an online message board often used by extremists, called the Walmart attack "a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas."
After the indictment against Crusius was announced, Texas Governor Greg Abbott released a 14-page report detailing several recommendations on how to stop mass shootings in the state.
"Solving the problems that have led to these horrific events will take more than governmental action," Abbott, a Republican, said in a statement. "It will require parents, families, churches, law enforcement, community groups, schools and others working together to fortify the social fabric of our society."
The Texas killings were followed just 13 hours later by a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, where a gunman wearing body armor and a mask killed nine people in less than a minute and wounded 27 others in the city's downtown historic district before he was shot dead by police.
The two massacres have reverberated across the political arena, with Democratic presidential candidates calling for stricter gun laws and accusing President Donald Trump of stoking anti-immigrant tensions.
The indictment against Crusius will not be available to the public until it has been filed by the District Clerk's Office. By law, the clerk's office has 10 days to file the indictment, a spokeswoman for Esparza said.
http://torontosun.com/news/crime/texas-grand-jury-indicts-accused-walmart-shooter-reports


"The English water retail market opened on 1st April. Business customers in England are now able to choose their retailer. A similar market has operated in Scotland since 2008, the Welsh market is limited to larger businesses and there will be no market in NI. The English market is worth around £2.5b with 1.2m customers, making it the largest water market in the world.
The water sector has been split into wholesale and retail. With retailers buying off wholesalers and selling onto business customers (customers don't have to change their pipes!). The idea is that competition will drive down retail costs, improve customer service, and promote innovation. Customers should be able to get a lower unit price for water and wastewater, they should be able to get more accurate billing, and they should be able to reduce their water consumption and their wastewater and drainage. This is an ambitious aim.
What we has seen so far is that some companies like Thames and Southern have withdrawn from retail in order to focus on their core water and wastewater business; the majority of other incumbent companies have merged their retail arms or entered into joint ventures; many Scottish retailers have come South in force, block buying books of customers and winning new deals; and then there have been a few small new entrants with a range of strategies, from mass acquisition, to the facilitation of self-serve, to the promotion of water efficiency.
So how is it likely to pan out? The retail margin in Scotland was in double figures but in England the upper end is 6% with deals for larger users averaging around 4%, and some retailers pitching as low as 2.5% (sorry quick correction – I gather that some retailers are pitching at less 1.5%). The general response to this low margin has been to go for scale, and some retailers have been aiming to acquire as many clients as possible. And the way things seem to be heading we will end up with a handful of big companies and some niche players, like we see in the energy sector. In my view this is worrying, a few large companies with massive customer numbers, combined with a race to the bottom in terms of margins will not lead to good customer service nor to innovation.


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From the many intriguing accounts we will hear from the members of the original Disclosure Project, those of retired Sergeant Clifford Stone may be some of the most memorable and the most bizarre. Mr. Stone seems to have had experiences which were more unique than any others we have heard about taking place here on the Earth's surface. These accounts quite literally represent the merging of the worlds of the familiar and the completely foreign.
We hear from Stone, stories of crash retrieval and of communications with E.T. lifeforms from a perspective of professional expertise. As amazing as these accounts may seem, they seem to represent a world that was considered normal by Mr. Stone and his colleagues.
In this episode, we hear further testimonies from Mr. Stone which introduce us to an entirely new paradigm of existence in black operations, and which offer an alternate view of the world around us. As the story continues, we learn of yet more of the true history of our world which has been hidden behind the catered experience of typical society, and reveals the fact that with regard to learning the truth behind the secrecy, we have quite a bit of ground to cover.
David Wilcock - Hi there. I'm David Wilcock. And you're watching another episode of Cosmic Disclosure with my co-host, Corey Goode. Hey, Corey. How you doing, buddy?
Corey Goode - Doing well. Thank you.
DW - Alright. Now we are gonna be talking more about Clifford Stone who was recruited by the military because of his empathic abilities and his ability to interface with extraterrestrials. This guy is totally amazing. I hope you've seen the previous episodes because these UFO crashes don't happen all the time. But they do happen. And he is one of the bona fide insiders who's been out there, I think, about 20 years by now talking about his personal close encounters with crashed extraterrestrial wreckage. Now let's listen to another one of his fascinating, personal eyewitness accounts.
Clifford Stone - The next significant event was that they went ahead and they wanted me to go with them to, once again, Fort Belvoir, Virginia. And I know it was Fort Belvoir because they had one of the entities, one of our visitors, that was left behind. And he was being held as a guest at this location in a wooded area. So I went there. And when I got there, he was sitting there. And they had guards all around the place. And as soon as I went in, he looked up at me. And when he looked up at me—you know, no one else could hear what— Just like I say, I can hear it like you and I talking. But I can also feel it. He said, "I am afraid." And I could feel the fear. And I could also see, you know, his concern about seeing his family again.
And I said, "You know, there's no one gonna hurt you." But you know, he had that fear. So I went ahead and I said, "Well, what can I do?" He says, "My people are coming to get me. And if they come here, they're not gonna try to hurt no one. But because of the technology to extract me from inside this building, many of your kind will die and be injured." And I went ahead and said, "What can I do to avoid that? Should I tell them?" He says, "No, they already know that that is a possibility. The ones that are here that know, know that." So I went ahead and said, "OK, what can I do?" He says, "Try to help me get outside." So I went ahead and had a friend of mine bring over some wire cutters and place them out by the fenced-in area because the building had a fence around it.
And I went ahead and told the colonel, "Look, he's got to tell me something. But he says he will not do it because there is a little demonstration that goes along with it while any of the military is in here. I need the building completely cleared. And it's got to be just him and I." Reluctantly, the guy I always called the colonel, he cleared them. Once again, this alien was—and I can't call it a typical Grey. But the skin was a little lighter than a typical Grey. The facial features was about the same. The head was not totally round but, you know, [s-long?] shape is the best way to put it. But he still had a definitive jaw and everything, the large eyes, but it had, like, a yellowish tint to it, if that makes any sense.
But you know, when he looked up at me, I thought everything he was feeling. If you missed your child—if you had a person you miss, you gotta understand they missed their family also. It's the same way. But you feel it from their perspective. And it's hard to put into words. But you feel it. Then, your own emotions come into play. And at the same time, you know that this low creature is willing to give up its life because it doesn't want to see us be hurt or destroyed because they're coming to get him. They cleared the place. And I went ahead and told him to follow me. And we started to go out.
Then, as we started to go down the hallway, I started to hear other people yelling, "Halt, halt, halt." And it got to the point where they were saying halt or we will shoot. So I make him get in front of me. So he's in front of me. And we get out there. And I go ahead and I clip the fence as quickly and as fast as I could. He goes on out. Then, this craft comes over. And as the craft comes over, it was just like this bright light just shining down on the ground. And like, when it goes off, he's no longer there. He's rescued. But I can remember I was waiting to die that night because I heard people locking and loading their weapons. And I figured it's only a question of time before they are. I'm gonna get shot in the back because they're gonna identify me as being a traitor. And the colonel was very upset with me.
When I called the colonel, he was very upset with me. And he just told me, "The next time, let us know what you're gonna do." But I told him, "You know, how do you keep guests under armed guards and call them guests?" And the whole situation is, I will never understand that. He was left behind by his own. We knew of a landing. And we immediately put a pounce operation where we immediately went to the area and was gonna try to extract as much of the useful data we could get, even up to and including the craft, if possible. And I never liked that type of scenario.
I never fully understood it because the situation is, were we gonna try to take a craft by force? And they do have the means to defend themselves. But they don't want to do that. And that was one of the biggest concerns I had was, what happens when we try to do that? But what happens is we come up on a craft, and the visitors already have a rescue ship within the vicinity. Then, we go into what's called a holding pattern. We don't approach the ship. And on several occasions, they took their people, and left the craft there intact.
So when we got there, we had a craft. The whole craft. But the people wasn't there. But then again—this is gonna sound crazy—they felt that we were so immature in a galactic sense of the word that we could back-engineer little bits and pieces of it, but we would never, ever be able to back-engineer the whole craft, Well I think we have back-engineered enough to where we have certain technology where we tell people we can't do things. I have no inside knowledge whether we have bases on the moon or whether we have bases on Mars and Venus. But with that being said, I have no inside knowledge that that officially has occurred and that's officially happened.
I know from the knowledge I have gained, the documentation that's there for anyone to read, the technology has existed all the way to, at least, the mid-50s, and probably long before that. Let me give you an example. Take a 2016 car. Take it back to 1776. And I have to use 1776 because there's a little understanding of technology at that time. We will understand how the lights on that car work. We won't be able to back-engineer them, but we'll understand how. We will understand how the fuel works. But yet, we are not going to have the technical capability to process oil out of the ground to make gasoline. We are going to be able to understand what plastic that's involved there, what it's all about, but we're never gonna be able to replicate it. So this is where they're coming from.
To be honest, while listening to these accounts, I find myself at a loss for words. Upon hearing the detail and depth within Mr. Stone's experiences, I only find it possible to sit and ponder the profound implications they hold.
Not only do we learn from these accounts of the multiplicity of experiences which may have been presented to Corey Goode and other intuitive empaths, but we see the varying degrees of interactions like these which seem to combine the duties of a border patrol officer, a linguistic interpreter , and a sort of interplanetary ambassador.
DW - Is that kind of sanitized, Big Brother-type of lingo fairly common when they're holding someone prisoner?
CG - Yeah. If you go somewhere—let's say you're delivering a message—and it's a group that are not friendly with the people you're bringing a message from, it's very often for you to be their guest in a room with no "door knobs" while they figure out how they're gonna respond.
DW - Now something that really kind of strikes me almost like the scene in a movie—it's very cinematic—was this being described to him that there would be some sort of event that would take place that would either hurt or kill many of the people in that base if he were to be extracted with their technology from inside the base. And then, when he did see the extraction, it was some kind of bright beam of white light. I know it's just speculation. But could you speculate as to what possibly are some of the technologies that might exist that could cause loss of life if someone was extracted from inside a building like that because, you know, we think of Star Trek, like a transport beam, that they can just beam you out from anywhere. And it's the same thing.
CG - And they can do that. I was a little confused about maybe that being was telling him that as a catalyst to get him moving. There could be technology that does that. But the technology I had seen and heard about was not gonna cause damage inside of a building that it wouldn't cause outside of a building.
DW - Well here's one thing that I've wondered about. Could it be possible that this particular group of ETs is using some kind of torsion field beam that would basically be like a matter disruptor so that if you're in the field of the beam that, perhaps, the molecular bonds loosen up or something? And that could cause, potentially, electrical lines to cross over, and then to set on fire larger areas of the building and cause an explosion or something like that. Are there beam technologies that could lead to those kinds of explosive events, perhaps?
CG - What you're describing about is there are torsion weapons to do that kind of thing. Now I just can't see how them laying down light to change the being's molecular structure into that of the light and then pulling the light up, I don't see how that necessarily is going to cause a large loss of life. Maybe some damage to the building, at most. But then again, this could be a technology that this group used that I haven't heard of. Or it could have been the being using that as a catalyst to get Sergeant Stone to help him escape.
DW - Why do you think the being might want to escape, instead of just being beamed out from inside the building?
CG - Well, I don't know. There could be some sort of shielding in the building.
CG - Yeah, it depends. If they put certain types of shielding in the building, it disperses a lot of stuff or makes it hard to see who or what's inside.
DW - Right. So the being might say that it's gonna hurt people inside to appeal to Clifford's emotions. When in fact, the being itself might end up going through, like, a meat grinder if it was tried to be beamed out of that field that they've created inside that base.
CG - Or the beam couldn't reach him at all. They could not be rescued at all, unless they were brought outside of this—whatever would buffer it.
DW - Are you aware of there being such containment fields at these military bases that would disrupt those kinds of technology so they wouldn't work inside?
CG - Yes, but they're usually somewhat like bunkers. I've never heard of a building sitting on top of the ground with barbed wire fence around it shielded in such a manner. But that doesn't mean that they don't exist.
Once again, I find myself at a loss for words. One thought which does come to mind is that if this transportation device was in fact torsion-based, and the possibility of shielding was the actual issue, this might give us a clue into the nature of the situation.
For those familiar with the Wisdom Teachings series, the episodes on torsion physics might come to mind in this case. These waves were found by Dr. Nikolai Kozyrev to be a universal propagation of energy independent of electromagnetic energy. These waves were found to travel faster than light and to be able to penetrate any material with the exception of two. These were aluminum and PVC. For reasons not completely understood by Dr. Kozyrev, these materials effectively blocked the propagation of torsion energy, though when it came to any other material, the waves would pass through no matter how strong or rigid the material was.
Given the fact that we do not know the exact nature of the situation, Corey Goode's suggestion does raise a few interesting questions. What was the technology used by these beings to extract their operative off of the surface of the planet? Was it possible to interfere with this technology with any particular material within this building, or was this just a strategic move by this being to ensure his own safe passage off of the planet? Whatever the answer, we may have to wait and see.
DW - Right. So there could be some willful deception going on on behalf of the being just to ensure his safe passage where he did deceive in order to be able to get into the safe transport area.
DW - There was no real loss of life that might have occurred.
CG - That's a possibility.
DW - Right. OK, now when he's describing the phenology of this being, the description is that it had a paler skin than most Greys. It was whitish. But then, he also described that it had a yellowish hue. Now when we were watching this together and we weren't filming this, you mentioned something about their diet.
CG - Yeah. The different Greys— Their skin would change color if they were not getting the right diet when they were in captivity.
CG - I don't know how long. It didn't sound like this being was in captivity that long, though.
DW - How would the skin change color?
CG - It becomes paler, paler, and then, almost white.
DW - Wow. And do you know what it is that they're missing that we can't give them? What would they eat if they were here?
CG - It's like us suffering from malnutrition. And I don't know what they eat. I've since read things on the internet about them absorbing things into their skin. You know, there were dozens of different types of beings that looked like Greys. So they don't all have the same biology.
DW - OK. Now I guess the other thing we should cover here is his very interesting statements about taking a car from 2016 back to 1776.
CG - As long as Benjamin Franklin wasn't there. You know, he probably could have reverse-engineered a lot of it.
DW - How do you feel about the idea that the ETs didn't think that we'd be able to do very much with their stuff and, therefore, allowed it to come down here?
CG - Well by this time, there has already been an ongoing trade with a lot of these different beings. And we had developed technology equal to theirs.
DW - But Clifford's obviously, not on a need-to-know basis for that kind of intel.
CG - Right. So you know, one of the things militarily we do if we have a concept, or a secret helicopter, or craft that we can't extract, we will bomb it. You know, destroy it. With them not destroying the craft left behind, I am speculating that they didn't see a need to because we've already developed, on one level, some of this technology.
DW - Do you think that these beings might be, again, trying to steer our evolution and deliberately gift us this stuff so that we're gonna get to where we need to be faster?
CG - It could be. I mean, that definitely occurred. But it would have occurred earlier in history, I believe.
DW - OK, now one last thing is that he mentions a pounce team. And that term I've seen online in various declassified names of project codes. And I've seen a reference to a Project Pounce. I'm wondering if you know anything about that.
CG - Just like you, I remember reading that, that it was a program of mainly, I believe, it was Army mainly. But they'll pull mixed services anytime they can to respond to satellites coming down, secret craft coming down, craft from foreign nations coming down, or unknowns coming down.
DW - These pounce teams now have these gigantic, C-5 Galaxy airplanes. And the plane will land at the nearest airfield. And then, there's all these—they can hold, like, half a million or a million pounds, I guess, of content inside. Then, all these trucks come blasting out of the plane. And they immediately declare a perimeter around the area.
CG - That's a pounce operation.
DW - That's a pounce operation. OK, so now what we're gonna do is have another really fascinating video for you, this time, of an encounter that Clifford had with UFOs and extraterrestrials in Vietnam. This is very fascinating stuff and gives you even more of a glimpse into the world that Clifford was brought into.
CS - Just a couple of months before I went to Vietnam, we had the situation with—they told us that they needed us to go to a foreign country because we had aircraft down and that that craft was a B-52. They had reason to suspect, which now I know it wouldn't be a reason to suspect. If it had it, they'd know it. But they had reason to expect that there may be nuclear devices on that B-52. Well, I'm getting ahead myself there too because what happened was we were all going to a field training exercise, allegedly. But we were handpicked. It wasn't the whole unit. They went ahead and we actually drove down to, I think, it was South Carolina. We went to an air base there. We got on a plane, a commercial airliner. And they were supposed to be flying us in to Florida. And Florida was where we were going to have a training exercise.
And you know, no one was about to say anything, period. I knew this guy from a couple of other occasions that I was with him. But you know, I didn't know would he really be willing to shoot somebody or not? But it got as quiet as any—you could have heard a pin drop. The engines were a loud roar when the plane took off, louder than I've ever heard any other jet take off before because it was so silent. Anyhow, we flew and I don't know—14, 15 hours, 16 hours. And a couple hours before we landed, that's when they told us, "OK, we're going into a country in which this B-52 has gone down.
The natives there, the people, the populace," whatever you want to say, "they're not friendly towards the US government. We have to get in there. Check for survivors. And check to see if there is any danger of any bleed-off from the radioactive material that's on that craft. And we also have to provide for an extraction." So we figured, "OK, fine." So when we land, I remember when we were going in for a landing, it's dark. It's night. We looked down. And I remember seeing these fires on the ground. No lights, just fires. But then, when you get to the airport, naturally, you have the red and blue lights and all that. But as we went in, you know, we were still several thousand miles high. And I thought, this is really strange. This is not Florida.
You don't see that kind of thing in Florida. And I'm going ahead and I'm thinking, this is crazy. But we land, and when we land, they go ahead and let us out. And once we get out, I'm sure some people there knew because there were signs there. And they were in Vietnamese. Well, I'd never been to Vietnam. I didn't know it was Vietnamese. All I knew is we were in a foreign country. For all I know, it could have been a South American country, whatever. I wasn't putting two and two together yet. And I didn't see any oriental-looking people there. It was just us. But they went ahead and took us out of the airplane.
There were two choppers waiting for us. We got in the two choppers. UH-1s. Huey Slicks. And they flew us. And I don't know how long we flew. It seemed like a couple of hours. But I know for a fact we went to Cambodia. And I'm pretty sure the area of Cambodia we went to is the Parrot's Beak area. And there was this little stream that flowed by the area where we were let out at. And that was what we were calling our staging area. So from there, we'd go on into the jungle to where the craft went down.
And you know, of course, you anticipate seeing smoke. You anticipate seeing debris because, naturally, the craft would have had to been blown all to heck. But when we went in, no one asked for any Geiger counter readings or nothing. But we come up on this clearing. In there in the clearing is this B-52, almost totally intact, except for the damage that was caused to it by natural enemy fire. And I always say I don't know for a fact because I don't have no inside knowledge. But I still believe it was surfaced air missiles that hit this aircraft, and probably more than one.
The people on the inside had died of the wounds they received as a result of the shrapnel from the hits on the aircraft. We go ahead. We're looking at this. And I always thought a B-52 was much, much bigger. And don't get me wrong, it wasn't a small craft. It was a big craft. But I always thought it was much bigger. So I start to walk around it. And I walk around through the tail section. When I get around to the tail section, I go around to the other side. And I hear this, like something in the bush. So I turn around, grab a hold of my M16. I don't bring it up yet. But I grab a hold of it. Then, I look and this—a typical Grey—and once again, I would have to say about 3, 3 ½, foot tall. Comes out, then several others come out with him.
Then, I remember to this day what was said. And it was said, "Clifford, what are you doing here? You are not supposed to be here." And I remember I still think I may have been the first to fire. I don't know. But I brought up my M16, fired, and started to yell VC. And you know when you get real humble? When you know you're hitting something with rounds from that M16, and it's having no effect. You get real humble because the whole situation is you now realize any other weapon you have on you is useless. And you are now at the mercy of whatever it is you were just trying to shoot. So the whole situation is that we started to fall back.
By this time, other people were shooting. Like I said, I may have been the first one to fire. And why did I even say, "VC, VC?" They didn't tell us we were in Vietnam. They didn't tell us anything. Only thing is, you know, there was mention made of the little people. I knew what the little people meant. But as we pulled back, we got all the way back to the river crossing. And they followed us to a short distance. But most of the people stopped shooting because I think, within all of our minds, we realized shooting is no good. It's not going to hurt them. And they're not really trying to do anything to us yet.
And the question is, if they have weapons, they might try to use their weapons. We got across that little crossing. And when we got back there, immediately we were told, well, those were the local natives we saw there. We were thinking, what kind of scam are these guys trying to pull? These entities, no, no, no. They're not people. They're not local natives. And I already knew from other experiences. But when we get back there, the guy that I always called the colonel says, "I need a volunteer because we have to go back there." And I'm looking around. And the other people are like, well, I'm not going. I'm not going. And I darn sure didn't want to go. But then, I kept thinking and thinking.
So I started going one by one. The other soldiers that were there with me grabbed their M16, and they followed suit. They followed me. We got back there. When we got back, we extracted the bodies. We called in to have them lifted out. Then, we were told that there was an engineer team coming in. That they would be going ahead, and I think they called it piecing. I may be calling it wrong. But piecing because they were gonna cut the aircraft up. They cut it into five portions. They cut the tail section off. And then, they had the fuselage. Then, they had what we call CH-54s.
"Flying cranes" is what they called them. They came in, and they picked up piece by piece. Then, we went back to the area that we called the staging area. The helicopters came in, picked us up, and flew us back. We got back on the aircraft that we came in on. And we left. And we came back to the United States.
Upon hearing this account, there were a number of questions that came to my mind. Why would Sergeant Stone choose to open fire at Greys who were trying to telepathically communicate with him? Why did he shoot as opposed to speaking back to them? I realize that there were a number of factors that contributed to this misunderstanding, but the situation does not make complete sense to me.
It seemed that Stone may have put the pieces of this situation together after the fact. However, in the heat of the moment, he may have missed a few details. As he described, he saw these beings, he heard them in his mind, and yet he responded by shouting, "VC!" I can't say for sure why a person would react this way to such a situation, but again, I can understand the reaction.
It would be understandable that upon being surprised, Stone might react to protect himself and his team. However, he did hear his name, and given his skills, it may have been more productive to attempt to answer back before opening fire-though this is all from my own second-hand perspective in hindsight.
It seems that the role of an intuitive empath may combine that of both a soldier as well as a communicator, and I can imagine that the combination of these roles might be difficult to navigate at time. It is possible that if an area is secure by perimeter and the situation under control, then telepathic interfacing can occur. However, if a situation is unpredictable or out of control, a more military response may apply. Without the knowledge of the actual role, or further details of the situation, it is difficult to say whether I or anyone else might have reacted the same. Either way, this situation seems to go far beyond bizarre.
DW - Corey, let's start with something simple first before we get into the tough stuff. And that is, some people who are skeptically-inclined might say come on. This colonel is gonna frickin' shoot somebody's brains out because he questions whether they're flying to Florida when he says it looks like Oakland, California? Is it true that the military would consider an operation to be so secret that you're flying somewhere, and if you even try to figure out where you're going that they will blow your brains out?
CG - Yeah. Yeah, they do that to soldiers. They do it to civilian contractors. I mean, that's SOP.
DW - So why would they not want these guys to know where they're going?
CG - Going back to "Loose Lips Sink Ships." And if they don't know information, they can't reveal information. It's part of the compartmentalization.
DW - So if he said that he's part of this Project Pounce, then keeping it compartmentalized means that he doesn't have any information that he could leak to any enemies of the United States if he got captured or tortured or something? Is that part of the idea?
CG - Or decided to go to the media.
DW - Right. OK, so he ends up in Vietnam. And this is in the theater of war in 1968. Now this is where the thing gets really, really bizarre. He's going around what appears to be a crashed craft of American manufacture during an active war, in the theater of war, in Vietnam. He goes around the corner, and he sees a group of Greys. And then, the Greys tell him, they call him by name, and they say that he's not supposed to be there. What the heck is going on here, dude?
DW - I guess I'm not really getting to the core of this, which is what the heck are these Greys doing in an American War? Why would they care? Why would they be right near a ship that has just crashed with all these dead people inside?
CG - Well, this is a phenomenon that's gone on in just about every war and skirmish.
CG - Yeah. The non-terrestrials that have human beings that they consider assets, they will often protect them. Or if something happens related to them, go and investigate.
DW - So you're saying then that, perhaps, some of the people on the B-52 were high-level assets that these Greys considered vital for them, as well as for America?
CG - I'm speculating. But also, B-52 can carry some interesting things for the few modifications.
CG - So they may have had something else inside that B-52.
DW - So in other words, there could have been some extraterrestrial material or technology that was on that ship. And it appears to have been shot down by enemy fire.
DW - I want to get right to the core of another key question, which is, to your knowledge, has there been direct collusion between entities like the United States and extraterrestrials like Greys to fight a war together like Vietnam?
CG - Well, yes. They don't fight the war with us. But they have agreements with different non-terrestrials on what kind of a role they will play observationally or any other number of possibilities. They have agreements with certain non-terrestrials before they go to war, during war, but they're not normally fighting with them in the war.
DW - Now we've heard that both Truman and Eisenhower signed these treaties with Greys, including the TAU-IX Treaty, which apparently was about abductions. Is it possible that part of what these treaties with the Greys would include is that if US government allowed them to abduct a certain amount of American citizens that, in exchange for that, that they might give certain things like logistical support for war efforts?
CG - Well, at that time, we really didn't need their logistical support because we had a lot of this technology developed on our own, even in the late 60s.
CG - Technologies for observing the enemy. You know, a higher level of tactical support abilities.
Upon hearing this account, I am curious to know just how many species are working with military assets here on the surface. It also makes me curious to know what this bomber had on board that would cause the response we hear about in Clifford Stone's account. Was there some sort of high technology on board, and if so, what might it have been used for?
My first guess may have been some sort of shielding technology or some type of protection. However, if that was the case, it did not seem to be completely effective. It may have been for tracking the location of potential enemies, or for simple telemetry of the bomber in flight. On the other hand, there may not have been any foreign technology at all. These beings may have simply been interested in a possible asset who was on board. For what reason, we cannot say, but one thing we can observe is that these beings did not seem interested in interfering in the war so much as they were in observing it.
DW - So if the treaty has been signed, why do you think these ETs would care at all about what's happening to us in a war? I'm still trying to get to the core of what might be going on there.
CG - Well, I don't think we're ever gonna know what was going on there. All we're gonna do is be able to throw out a lot of speculation. There's any number of reasons why they were on-scene there. The reasons I just described to you are just a few.
DW - OK, another thing that I think everybody's gonna want your take on before we end this episode is, how do you shoot at beings with M16s and not hit them? What the heck was going on there? They didn't seem to have the slightest concern about those weapons.
CG - The common-era weapons that we have or the era of weapons that we have, kinetic weapons, even high-energy weapons, they have defenses against.
DW - Now you also mentioned that Project Pounce also takes care of broken arrow.
DW - Would you explain for our viewers what that is?
CG - Well, a broken arrow situation is when a nuclear weapon has either crashed or we've lost it in some sort of an incident. A broken arrow means a nuclear weapon or device that is no longer in our possession.
CG - That's right up there. The highest thing, the quickest thing, that they'll respond to, as well. If these special access groups are told we have a broken arrow situation, they are in the plane, and they are out there immediately. And you have the veil of secrecy that comes along with that situation.
DW - Alright. Well thank you, Corey. And I thank you for watching. This is really fascinating stuff. And we are bringing you the cutting edge of Cosmic Disclosure here on Gaia. Thanks again for watching, and we'll see you next time.
Aside from the above commentary, I am at a loss for words. If I do have anything to offer, it would be more questions than answers. How many different types of beings did Sergeant Stone encounter during his tour? Is he still in contact with any of these beings? Do any beings stop by and pay him a visit as they did when he was younger? These stories and others tend to make me curious to know what the retirement is like for an individual after having such an other-worldly experience within black ops and the Armed forces.
From last week's episode, David Wilcock mentioned that Clifford Stone's son may have been killed as a result of Stone coming forward with his testimony. Both this as well as many other factors tend to reveal the nature of the program for which he worked.
It does not seem that such a term of service would be very preferable to many of us. Considering what we have heard from others such as Corey Goode, this program can present some of the harshest and most uncomfortable situations a person might have, and even though they may think the experience astounding, the aftereffects seem to counteract any previously enjoyable experiences. Either way, it seems as though we as a planet have much to learn beyond that which we have been allowed to know by corporate media.
These accounts provide us a glimpse of the entire story behind the global secrecy of E.T life. They help us look forward to the day when we can freely and openly learn about all that has been taking place around us for decades now. We would then be able to know and to interact with other races in a peaceful and productive way free from the violent and self-interested influence of the Military-Industrial Complex, and accompanied by an agreement of mutual safety and benefit for all parties both here on the surface and elsewhere.


Boss DD500 firmware update - ever going to happen?
Discussion in 'Effects, Pedals, Strings & Things' started by Bass in Zurich, May 4, 2016.
It's been out a while now. I'm beginning to think they won't ever updated it. Such a shame as it clearly needs a couple of tweaks to notch it up a level.
Surely Boss, in the new modern age of Line 6, Fractal, Source Audio etc, you could do this..
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Isn't Boss/Roland kind of known for making ****** manuals and never updating their firmware?
I'm gonna vote no, but sort of hope to be proven wrong!
Yeah, but I was kind of hoping that with the DD500 being the first real answer to strymon etc that they would follow suit with the digital side too.
We're never getting an update, so you might as well forget that. There's still a tiny glimmer that they could release some type of editor/librarian, but all hope of that is quickly disappearing as well.
I'm not holding my breath. No revenue in firmware updates, so little motivation for them to do so. Add to that the risk of supporting bricked units and so on.
I wish this would happen...would love to see PS-3 Mode 7 instead of the current Shimmer algorithm. But I just don't think Boss rolls that way. Some companies' philosophy is just 'standing by the product they've delivered.' They may feel offering firmware updates opens up a can of worms. Newer companies like Source Audio, Strymon and Neunaber have quite different philosophies.
Question: Does Boss, or any of these big pedal companies, even bother to keep supporting their products? Or just leave them as it is. Essentially "if it aint broke don't fix it"
Moog, though not a big company by any means, is great about updating their firmware.
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Strymon been doing a lot of updating for their software that nobody knows about?
No...I'm sure everyone here knows about Strymon's TL firmware updates. Strymon added changes to preset naming and spillover within a year of release or less, if I remember correctly. Not loads of updates, but more than Boss (0). That was all I was trying to say. But they have not revised their algorithms or firmware to the point that Source or Neunaber seem to have.
A new one every week. So far I think the product I want from them needs a hardware update.
As well as Eventide. Strymon's firmware updates are simply the result of a product being rushed out the door and the company issuing an addendum after user complaint. Better than Boss so far, yes, but I wouldn't list them with companies that actually provide their users with substantive update to content and function for years.
I guess I don't know enough about their process to draw that conclusion definitively. Sounds like you have some passion around the issue It would be great if there were algorithm updates for the Timeline for sure.


These questions were posed to a panel of experts at the December 12 Idea Forum called "Keeping Canada's energy sector globally competitive." Panel members included Aaron Engen, Managing Director and Co‐Head of the Power & Energy Infrastructure Group at BMO Capital Markets; John McManus, Senior Advisor of OMERS Infrastructure/OMERS Private Markets; and Steve Baker, President of Union Gas.
The event was organized by the Ivey Energy Policy and Management Centre and moderated by Martha Hall Findlay, Canada West Foundation President and CEO.
Engen kicked off the event with an overview of the issues Canada faces in staying competitive. He noted there is a common view worldwide of its competitiveness: Canada is a poor place to do large scale energy infrastructure development.
But for Baker, the heart of the issue is a lack of dialogue and education.
Baker said Canada will continue to struggle with energy infrastructure development until this changes. There are opportunities to lower emissions and use energy more efficiently, but policy positions of moving to zero have large implications to society and our existing way of life that are rarely discussed, he said.
McManus spoke from his own experience with OMERS. He pointed out that the capital is available for investments, but what isn't available are the large-scale opportunities. There's hesitation about taking development risks, but once a project is approved, deploying capital and taking construction risks can be easier.
Moving forward, Canada needs to have a regulatory process that isn't politicized, Engen said, complete with firm yet reasonable timelines, predictable outcomes, and government policy stability.
Baker encouraged the audience to strive to become a lower emissions society – not necessarily a zero carbon society – and to understand that the two are dramatically different.
She pointed out that the production of oil in Canada is becoming increasingly greenhouse gas emission competitive. Stopping a pipeline does not reduce greenhouse gas emissions globally, she told the audience. Consumption does.


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MARCUS Harness says that the Brewers are determined to get back on track on track and put another unbeaten run together after Saturday's narrow defeat to Fleetwood Town.
Harness was a constant bright spark for the Brewers against Fleetwood, with the Academy graduate proving a constant threat to the Cod Army's clean sheet.
Prior to the 1-0 defeat, Albion had not been beaten in six League One games and had just managed an impressive point and clean sheet on the road against high-flying Barnsley.
Harness admits that they defeat is frustrating for Nigel Clough's men, but the Brewers are focussed on putting another run of results together, starting with next weekend's clash with Walsall at the Pirelli Stadium.
He said: "It's disappointing. The lads are all gutted in there, but we've had a good run and not lost in a long time. We'll be looking to get something like that going again, and hopefully we can get three points next week to make the last few weeks not a bad run of games.
"We have just been concentrating on that if we don't win, we don't lose. That's what we've been trying to do. The draws add up, so we were looking to just keep it going. Unfortunately, that hasn't happened.
"We've got another chance next week. We can't get too down, we just have to be ready for next week and get the three points."
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Oct. 31: Obama's Electoral College 'Firewall' Holding in Polls
Nov. 1, 2012 , at 10:16 AM
On Oct. 11, this blog posed the question of whether President Obama's "firewall" in battleground states was all that it was cracked up to be.
At that point, Mr. Obama still technically held the lead in the FiveThirtyEight forecast in enough states to give him 270 electoral votes. But Colorado, Florida and Virginia had turned red in our map, meaning that our forecast suggested that Mitt Romney had better-than-even odds of winning them. Iowa was just on the verge of doing so. And Mr. Obama's lead was down to just a percentage point or so in Ohio, which would have collapsed his firewall at its foundation.
Theories that the decline in Mr. Obama's polls that followed the first presidential debate in Denver would somehow skip the swing states were not looking good — as dubious as the idea that tornadoes "skip" houses.
Instead, at that point, Mr. Obama's position in the FiveThirtyEight forecast had declined for seven consecutive days. If he stopped the bleeding there, he might still be the Electoral College favorite, albeit a narrow one. But it wasn't clear where the bottom was.
It turned out, however, that the worst was almost over for him. Mr. Obama had one more terrible day in the polls, on Friday, Oct. 12, when Mr. Romney's chances of winning the Electoral College rose to almost 40 percent in the forecast. But that was when Mr. Romney's momentum stopped.
Since then, Mr. Obama's standing has rebounded slightly. His position in the national polls has stabilized; although the national polls continue to tell a different story about the race than the state polls do; it can no longer be said that they have Mr. Obama behind. (More about that in a moment.)
Meanwhile, Mr. Obama continues to hold the lead in the vast majority of polls in Iowa, Nevada, Ohio and Wisconsin, the states that represent his path of least resistance toward winning the Electoral College. This was particularly apparent on Wednesday, a day when there were a remarkable number of polls, 27, released in the battleground states.
There were 12 polls published on Wednesday among Iowa, Nevada, Ohio and Wisconsin. Mr. Obama held the lead in 11 of the 12 surveys; the exception was a survey by the University of Iowa, which had Mr. Obama down by about one point there, but also had a very small sample size (about 300 likely voters). On average, Mr. Obama led in the polls of these states by 3.9 percentage points.
None of this ought to have been surprising, exactly, if you have been attentive to the polls rather than the pundits. It was a pretty good day of surveys for Mr. Obama but not a great one: for the most part, the polls were coming in close to FiveThirtyEight forecasts in each state, give or take a modest outlier here and there.
Rather, the polls in these states confirmed what we already knew: that Mr. Obama remains the favorite in the Electoral College.
Mr. Obama is not a sure thing, by any means. It is a close race. His chances of holding onto his Electoral College lead and converting it into another term are equivalent to the chances of an N.F.L. team winning when it leads by a field goal with three minutes left to play in the fourth quarter. There are plenty of things that could go wrong, and sometimes they will.
But it turns out that an N.F.L. team that leads by a field goal with three minutes left to go winds up winning the game 79 percent of the time. Those were Mr. Obama's chances in the FiveThirtyEight forecast as of Wednesday: 79 percent.
Not coincidentally, these are also about Mr. Obama's chances of winning Ohio, according to the forecast.
Regular readers will have seen the chart below once or twice before. It sorts the competitive states in order of Mr. Obama's current projected margin of victory or defeat in each one, keeping a running tally of the number of electoral votes that Mr. Obama is accumulating.
Ohio remains the tipping-point state in the forecast, the one that puts him over the top to 270 electoral votes. There, Mr. Obama leads by 2.6 percentage points, which should convert to a victory about 80 percent of the time given the historical accuracy of polls at this late stage of the race.
Mr. Romney's chances of winning the Electoral College without Ohio — a prospect we had defended as being plausible before — are looking more tenuous based on the most recent polling.
If Mr. Obama wins Ohio, and all the states above it on the chart, he'd have 281 electoral votes, meaning that he has 11 to spare. That means he could shed New Hampshire from his list, along with either Iowa or Nevada (although not both).
Of these two states, Nevada appears to be the slightly safer one for Mr. Obama; there, Mr. Obama leads by 3.5 percentage points in the forecast, as opposed to 2.9 percentage points in Iowa. The polling has also been somewhat more consistent in Nevada than in Iowa, another factor that the forecast considers in evaluating the probability of an upset.
One fortunate aspect of these two particular states, from Mr. Obama's view, is that they are not very similar to one another demographically.
Iowa is quite rural. Nevada occupies a huge geographical territory, but its population is very urban, mostly living in Las Vegas and its suburbs.
Iowa is overwhelmingly white, and has a lot of moderate and middle-income, but highly educated, voters. Nevada certainly has an independent streak, but winning there usually depends more upon building a 50 percent coalition among diverse groups and then turning it out to vote. Iowa has a pretty good economy, all things considered; Nevada's is still terrible.
Since Mr. Obama only needs to carry one of these states, it helps him that they form a diverse portfolio. If Mr. Obama's turnout operation is strong, then Nevada should be one of the states where he benefits the most. If, instead, Mr. Obama has little "ground game" advantage, but he holds his own among independent and undecided voters, perhaps persuading them that the economy has improved enough to merit his re-election, Iowa may fall for
Mr. Romney could also circumvent his need to win Ohio by carrying Wisconsin, but that is looking tough for him. In Ohio, Mr. Romney is behind by two or three percentage points, on average, in the polls. In Wisconsin, Mr. Romney's better polls have him down by two or three points, while his worst ones have him six to eight points instead. There's still enough upside to winning Wisconsin that Mr. Romney should not give up on it, in my view, but his chances are down to 12 percent in the forecast, and most of those cases involve outcomes where he has already won Ohio anyway.
The more debatable cases are Pennsylvania, Michigan and Minnesota. Mr. Romney is the clear underdog in each one. But his campaign has so much money that it probably doesn't hurt Mr. Romney much to spend a little bit of it there to maximize whatever residual chances he might have in case the polls are wrong. (Arguably, it was a poor strategic decision for Mr. Romney to make a half-hearted effort to compete in these states.)
Still, for Mr. Romney to win Michigan, Minnesota, or Pennsylvania, the polls would have to be much further off than they are in Ohio.
It doesn't help Mr. Romney, either, that all of these states are in the same part of the country as Iowa, Ohio, and Wisconsin, meaning that they are unlikely to leapfrog them and become the tipping-point state on Tuesday. If, hypothetically, Mr. Romney's polling were a bit better in culturally and geographically disparate states, like Oregon, New Jersey or New Mexico, they might represent better targets.
If Mr. Obama were to lose Ohio (but hold the other states), the tipping-point would then become Colorado. There, Mr. Obama holds a much more tenuous lead, about one percentage point in our forecast, which converts to about a 60 percent chance of winning. But at least it's a lead rather than a deficit, whereas Mr. Romney's non-Ohio paths would require him to win states where he is now three or four percentage points behind.
Mr. Obama also remains about a 60 percent favorite in Virginia. Another option would be Florida, although it is a resource-intensive state and we give him about a 40 percent chance of winning there.
While state polls dominated the news on Wednesday, there were also a handful of national polls out, even as others have been suspended in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
On average, Mr. Obama led by just over one percentage point in these national polls, although it is an odd distribution, with two polls showing him up by four or five points, several showing a tied race, and one (the Rasmussen Reports tracking poll) putting him two points down.
The FiveThirtyEight model calculates a national poll average, using a more sophisticated method than the simple average I've taken in the chart. (The model doesn't "forget" about the Gallup poll, for example, just because it has been suspended for a couple of days.)
We don't usually print this number, because it would sow confusion: our estimate of the national popular vote, which we do publish, instead represents a combination of national polls and the implied standing of the candidates based on state polls.
But, for what it's worth, our national poll average shows Mr. Obama up by about half a percentage point right now. This is within the range of other Web sites: Real Clear Politics has an exactly tied race in its national poll average; HuffPost Pollster has Mr. Obama down by three-tenths of a point; Talking Points Memo has Mr. Obama ahead by about one percentage point.
Again: we don't take the average of the national polls to be tantamount to a forecast of the national popular vote, since state polls, if considered carefully, can provide considerable information about the national race as well.
Suppose, however, that Mr. Obama were to tie Mr. Romney in the popular vote on Tuesday. The way that the forecast model works, this would require subtracting some from Mr. Obama in each state in order for the arithmetic to add up.
Even under these conditions, Mr. Obama would still be a favorite in the forecast. In fact, he'd be about a 70 percent favorite to win the Electoral College conditional upon the national popular vote being tied, according to our simulations.
A tie in the national popular vote is a tolerable condition for Mr. Obama, in other words. His position is robust enough in states like Ohio that he has some slack. With a lead of about 2.5 percentage points in the tipping-point states, Mr. Obama could underperform his state polls by a point or two and still win.
Conversely, Mr. Romney has few chances to win unless the state polls are systematically wrong.
I don't mean for this to sound dismissive; the polling error could quite easily be correlated across the different states, and the national polls are one reason to be suspicious of the state polls.
But we're at the point now where Mr. Obama may be a modest favorite even if the national polls are right. Two weeks ago, when Mr. Obama appeared to trail Mr. Romney by a point or so in the national polls, that would not have been the case.
Is it possible that Mr. Obama has benefited, politically, from his handling of Hurricane Sandy? He has gotten high marks for it so far, according to the tracking poll run by The Washington Post and ABC News.
Our database contains roughly a dozen polls that conducted the bulk of their interviews on Tuesday or Wednesday, after Hurricane Sandy became the dominant news story. Most of these are state polls, and most were conducted in states that were isolated from the major effects of the storm.
Our analysis of the trend lines in the polls suggest that they have been a somewhat above-average group for Mr. Obama, perhaps suggesting a percentage point or so of improvement for him.
The model is not yet pricing in very much of this into its forecast, as trends like that can occur fairly easily because of statistical noise. But if the storm has a discernible effect in the polls, it seems more likely to help Mr. Obama than to hurt him based on what we've seen so far.
This is something to monitor as more national polls come back online. I think describing the race as a "toss-up" reflects an uninformed interpretation of the evidence, but there is surely room to debate how much of a favorite Mr. Obama is. However, Mr. Romney is not in a position to tolerate any movement in Mr. Obama's favor given how close we are to the finish line.
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