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Q: error: cannot find symbol, won't find my bean I was given code that I have to make do something else.  When I go to compile my servlet, it doesn't recognize my bean.  I've deleted, recompiled, and tried from all different directories.  I have no clue why this isn't working.
import BH.*;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.util.function.*;
import static java.util.Arrays.asList;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.util.concurrent.locks.ReentrantLock;
import java.util.Random;
public class sessionServlet extends HttpServlet {
    private    List<String[]>   the_sessions;
    private    DateFormat df;
    public static ReentrantLock thelock = new ReentrantLock();

    public void init() throws ServletException  {
        the_sessions=new ArrayList<String[]>();
        df=DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(DateFormat.LONG,DateFormat.LONG);
    }
    protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res)
    throws ServletException, IOException
    {
        if ((!(req.getParameter("task")==null))&&(req.getParameter("task").trim().equals("deploy"))) {
            PrintWriter out = res.getWriter();
            out.println("");
            out.println("");
            out.println("

sessionServlet Deployed

");
            out.println("");
            out.println("");
            return;
        }
        Consumer <String> forwardTo =(s) ->ForwardTo(s,req,res);
        boolean is_first_visit=true;
        String[] this_session=new String[3];
        String manager = req.getParameter("manager");
        for (String [] a_session :the_sessions) {
            if (a_session[0].equals(manager)) {  //Found an active session
                is_first_visit=false;
                this_session=a_session;
                break;
            }
        }
        if ((req.getParameter("task")==null)&&(!is_first_visit)) {
            the_sessions.remove(this_session);
            is_first_visit=true; // just used http://hoare.cs.umsl.edu/servlet/js_test/sessionServlet
        }
        req.setAttribute("thesessioncount",the_sessions.size());
        if (is_first_visit) {
            if (the_sessions.size()==10) {
                forwardTo.accept("noSessions.jsp");  //No Available Sessions
                return;
            }
            String randomStr = getRandomString();
            String[] new_session = {randomStr,df.format(new Date()),"need a name"};
            the_sessions.add(new_session);
            this_session=new_session;
            req.setAttribute("manager",randomStr);
            forwardTo.accept("startSession.jsp");
            return;
        }
        String the_name="";
        String the_pw="";

        if (this_session[2].equals("need a name")) { //No name given yet
            the_name=req.getParameter("whoisit");
            the_pw=req.getParameter("passwd");

            if ((the_name==null)||(the_name.trim().length()==0)||checkPW(the_name,the_pw)) {       //checkPW returns false if correct
                the_sessions.remove(this_session);
                req.setAttribute("thesessioncount",the_sessions.size());
                forwardTo.accept("startSession.jsp");
                return;  // didn't enter a name in startSession
            }
        }
        this_session[2]=the_name.trim();
        req.setAttribute("thename", this_session[2]);
        if (tooLong(this_session[1],df.format(new Date()))) {  //Has the session timed out?
            the_sessions.remove(this_session);
            forwardTo.accept("Expired.jsp");
            return;
        } else {
            this_session[1]=df.format(new Date()); //reset the last session activity time
            NotesBean thesenotes=new NotesBean();

            if(req.getParameter("task").trim().equals("9")){
                the_sessions.remove(this_session);
                forwardTo.accept("exit.jsp");
                return;
            }

            thelock.lock();
            if (!req.getParameter("task").trim().equals("0")) {                                                   //add ACC here, also show/update posts
                thesenotes.setAll(req.getParameter("java_source"),Integer.parseInt(req.getParameter("version")));
                if (req.getParameter("task").trim().equals("2")) {
                    thesenotes.setNotes(req.getParameter("notes"),req.getParameter("java_source"),Integer.parseInt(req.getParameter("version")));
                }
            }
            req.setAttribute("thesessioncount",the_sessions.size());
            req.setAttribute("theBean",thesenotes);
            req.setAttribute("manager",manager);
            //req.setAttribute("theURL", "http://www.umsl.edu/~siegelj/turing.jpg");
            forwardTo.accept("getNotes.jsp");
            thelock.unlock();
            return;
        }
    }//end doGet

    boolean tooLong(String now,String then){
        //Check amount of time that passed
        return false;
    }
    boolean checkPW(String name,String password){
        AccountBean theAccount = new AccountBean();
        theAccount.setAccount(name);

        if(theAccount.isPassword(password))
            return false;

        return true;
    }

    public void log(String s){
        FileWriter fileWriter = null;
        try {
            String content =s+" at :"+new Date(System.currentTimeMillis()).toString()+"\n";
            File theLogFile = new File("C:/Tomcat/webapps/js_test/session.log");
            fileWriter = new FileWriter(theLogFile,true);
            fileWriter.write(content);
        } catch (IOException ex) {
        } finally {
            try {
                fileWriter.close();
            } catch (IOException ex) {

            }
        }

    }

    void ForwardTo(String s,HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res)
    {
        RequestDispatcher rd= req.getRequestDispatcher(s);
        try {
            rd.forward(req, res);
        } catch (IOException|ServletException is) {
            log(" req from "+s+" not forwarded at ");
            try {
                throw is;
            } catch (Exception e) {
            }
        }
    }

    public void destroy()
    {
        log("The instance was destroyed");
    }
    public String getRandomString(){
        byte[] randbyte=new byte[10];
        Random rand  = new Random(System.currentTimeMillis());
        for (int idx = 0; idx <10; ++idx) {
            int randomInt = rand.nextInt(26); //0<=randomInt<26
            //System.out.println(randomInt);
            randbyte[idx]=(byte)(randomInt+65);
        }
        try {
            String rs=new String(randbyte, "UTF-8");
            //System.out.println(rs);
            return rs;
        } catch (Exception e) {
            //System.out.println("bad string");
            return "bad";
        }
    }

}

AccountBean.java
package mybeans;
import   BH.*;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.ListIterator;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import static java.util.Arrays.asList;
import java.sql.*;

public class AccountBean implements java.io.Serializable {
    static final String JDBC_DRIVER = "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver";
    static final String DB_URL = "jdbc:mysql://localhost/cs4010";
    static final String USER = "cs4010";
    static final String PASS = "cs4010";

    private String account="";
    private String password="";

    public AccountBean(){

    }

        public void setAccount(String a)
    {
        account = a;
    }

    public String getAccount()
    {
        return account;
    }

    public void setPassword(String p)
    {
        password = p;
    }

    public String getPassword(){
        return password;
    }

    public void createAccount()
    {
        try {
            Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
            Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection(DB_URL,USER,PASS);
            Statement stmt = conn.createStatement();
         //     System.out.println("here: "+Bytes_Hex.String2HexString(n));
            String this_query="INSERT INTO ries_userpass (username, password) VALUES ("+account+","+password+");";
       //     System.out.println(this_query);
            stmt.executeUpdate(this_query);
            stmt.close();
            conn.close();
        } catch (Exception e) {

        }
        return ;
    }

    public boolean isPassword(String p)            //make this to use
    {
        try {
            Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
            Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection(DB_URL,USER,PASS);
            Statement stmt = conn.createStatement();
            String this_query=" SELECT * from ries_userpass WHERE username="+account+";";
            ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery(this_query);

            while (rs.next()) {
                password=Bytes_Hex.HexString2String(rs.getString("posts"));

                if(password.equals(p))
                {
                    rs.close();
                    stmt.close();
                    conn.close();
                    return true;
                }
            }

            rs.close();
            stmt.close();
            conn.close();
        }
        catch (Exception e) {
            return false;
        }

        return false;
    }
}

A: add this statement import mybeans.*;, since you are using AccountBean but you are not importing that class package;
import BH.*;
import mybeans.*;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.util.function.*;
import static java.util.Arrays.asList;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.util.concurrent.locks.ReentrantLock;
import java.util.Random;
public class sessionServlet extends HttpServlet {
    private    List<String[]>   the_sessions;
    private    DateFormat df;
    public static ReentrantLock thelock = new ReentrantLock();

    public void init() throws ServletException  {
        the_sessions=new ArrayList<String[]>();
        df=DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(DateFormat.LONG,DateFormat.LONG);
    }
    protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res)
    throws ServletException, IOException
    {
        if ((!(req.getParameter("task")==null))&&(req.getParameter("task").trim().equals("deploy"))) {
            PrintWriter out = res.getWriter();
            out.println("");
            out.println("");
            out.println("

sessionServlet Deployed

");
            out.println("");
            out.println("");
            return;
        }
        Consumer <String> forwardTo =(s) ->ForwardTo(s,req,res);
        boolean is_first_visit=true;
        String[] this_session=new String[3];
        String manager = req.getParameter("manager");
        for (String [] a_session :the_sessions) {
            if (a_session[0].equals(manager)) {  //Found an active session
                is_first_visit=false;
                this_session=a_session;
                break;
            }
        }
        if ((req.getParameter("task")==null)&&(!is_first_visit)) {
            the_sessions.remove(this_session);
            is_first_visit=true; // just used http://hoare.cs.umsl.edu/servlet/js_test/sessionServlet
        }
        req.setAttribute("thesessioncount",the_sessions.size());
        if (is_first_visit) {
            if (the_sessions.size()==10) {
                forwardTo.accept("noSessions.jsp");  //No Available Sessions
                return;
            }
            String randomStr = getRandomString();
            String[] new_session = {randomStr,df.format(new Date()),"need a name"};
            the_sessions.add(new_session);
            this_session=new_session;
            req.setAttribute("manager",randomStr);
            forwardTo.accept("startSession.jsp");
            return;
        }
        String the_name="";
        String the_pw="";

        if (this_session[2].equals("need a name")) { //No name given yet
            the_name=req.getParameter("whoisit");
            the_pw=req.getParameter("passwd");

            if ((the_name==null)||(the_name.trim().length()==0)||checkPW(the_name,the_pw)) {       //checkPW returns false if correct
                the_sessions.remove(this_session);
                req.setAttribute("thesessioncount",the_sessions.size());
                forwardTo.accept("startSession.jsp");
                return;  // didn't enter a name in startSession
            }
        }
        this_session[2]=the_name.trim();
        req.setAttribute("thename", this_session[2]);
        if (tooLong(this_session[1],df.format(new Date()))) {  //Has the session timed out?
            the_sessions.remove(this_session);
            forwardTo.accept("Expired.jsp");
            return;
        } else {
            this_session[1]=df.format(new Date()); //reset the last session activity time
            NotesBean thesenotes=new NotesBean();

            if(req.getParameter("task").trim().equals("9")){
                the_sessions.remove(this_session);
                forwardTo.accept("exit.jsp");
                return;
            }

            thelock.lock();
            if (!req.getParameter("task").trim().equals("0")) {                                                   //add ACC here, also show/update posts
                thesenotes.setAll(req.getParameter("java_source"),Integer.parseInt(req.getParameter("version")));
                if (req.getParameter("task").trim().equals("2")) {
                    thesenotes.setNotes(req.getParameter("notes"),req.getParameter("java_source"),Integer.parseInt(req.getParameter("version")));
                }
            }
            req.setAttribute("thesessioncount",the_sessions.size());
            req.setAttribute("theBean",thesenotes);
            req.setAttribute("manager",manager);
            //req.setAttribute("theURL", "http://www.umsl.edu/~siegelj/turing.jpg");
            forwardTo.accept("getNotes.jsp");
            thelock.unlock();
            return;
        }
    }//end doGet

    boolean tooLong(String now,String then){
        //Check amount of time that passed
        return false;
    }
    boolean checkPW(String name,String password){
        AccountBean theAccount = new AccountBean();
        theAccount.setAccount(name);

        if(theAccount.isPassword(password))
            return false;

        return true;
    }

    public void log(String s){
        FileWriter fileWriter = null;
        try {
            String content =s+" at :"+new Date(System.currentTimeMillis()).toString()+"\n";
            File theLogFile = new File("C:/Tomcat/webapps/js_test/session.log");
            fileWriter = new FileWriter(theLogFile,true);
            fileWriter.write(content);
        } catch (IOException ex) {
        } finally {
            try {
                fileWriter.close();
            } catch (IOException ex) {

            }
        }

    }

    void ForwardTo(String s,HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res)
    {
        RequestDispatcher rd= req.getRequestDispatcher(s);
        try {
            rd.forward(req, res);
        } catch (IOException|ServletException is) {
            log(" req from "+s+" not forwarded at ");
            try {
                throw is;
            } catch (Exception e) {
            }
        }
    }

    public void destroy()
    {
        log("The instance was destroyed");
    }
    public String getRandomString(){
        byte[] randbyte=new byte[10];
        Random rand  = new Random(System.currentTimeMillis());
        for (int idx = 0; idx <10; ++idx) {
            int randomInt = rand.nextInt(26); //0<=randomInt<26
            //System.out.println(randomInt);
            randbyte[idx]=(byte)(randomInt+65);
        }
        try {
            String rs=new String(randbyte, "UTF-8");
            //System.out.println(rs);
            return rs;
        } catch (Exception e) {
            //System.out.println("bad string");
            return "bad";
        }
    }

}


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Huawei launches 'massive' Ascend Mate2
Huawei Consumer Business Group CEO Richard Yu holds up the Ascend Mate 2 4G smartphone at a news conference during the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. (Julie Jacobson, AP)
Tablets killing PCs, but cost a factor - Gartner
Sony, HTC, Samsung win mobile awards
Huawei vows to catch up with Samsung, Apple
Huawei launches ultra-thin smartphone
Huawei to launch new smartphone
Huawei shows fastest smartphone
Las Vegas - Huawei, China's largest cellphone manufacturer, is releasing a phone that can be thought of as the in-flight refuelling system of the mobile world: It can be used to recharge other phones.
The Ascend Mate2 has a 15.5cm screen, slightly bigger than the already enormous Samsung Galaxy Note 3. It's almost the size of a tablet, giving rise to the term "phablet". It's the successor to a phone of the same size launched last year.
The first Ascend Mate was not sold in the US, but Huawei CEO Richard Yu, speaking at a press conference in Las Vegas ahead of the opening of the International Consumer Electronics Show, said the Mate2 would reach US shores.
He didn't say when or what it would cost. The phone is compatible with all US networks, but he didn't say which carriers would sell it.
The huge size of the Ascend Mate provides space for a large battery, with roughly three times the amount of energy stored in an iPhone battery.
Huawei claims it will last for 3.5 days of "normal" usage, or half that for heavy usage. Through a USB port, this battery can be used to charge smaller phones.
Huawei Technologies was the third-largest cellphone manufacturer in the world in the third quarter of last year, according to research group IDC.
However, it has few products on the US market, and is little known there.
Huawei 's attempts to sell network equipment to US phone companies have been stymied by concerns that the company's products could contain "back doors" that allow for spying on US communications; an accusation the company denies.
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Posts tagged "Iran"
The Totally Unplumbed Depth Of Fake News.
Quite recently there was a failure during the launch of a Russian Soyuz rocket on its way to the International Space Station, the two men in the rocket were obliged to make a sharp exit before the rocket crashed back to earth killing them all. Being a bit of a cynic I wrote an article suggesting that the Russians would have to get a move on to collect the "crew" from wherever they were being hidden during the time they were supposed to be spending aboard the ISS, to get them into their space suits and fly them off to some place on the Steppes where they could be "rescued".
It turned out to be an extremely rushed job and time did not allow time for the men to don their space-suits and indeed unlike the return of the mission with the British spaceman Tim Peake aboard, the retro-rockets did not slow the fall of the rocket and unlike that of Peake it had toppled onto its side giving the distinct impression that it had been rolled off the low-loader lorry which was parked right behind it.
The return of Peake was equally bizarre as the Sky News man who had watched three men descend from the capsule he had failed to film them and indeed there was a crew man missing from the group the third man obviously had more important things to do.
These two incidents occurred after the 1986 Challenger tragedy.
Sadly even back in 1986 things were not quite as they appeared to be:
In view of all this nonsense how are we supposed to make sense of events which turn out to be questionable and yet the media appears to be completely convinced by the original tale and never do they take another look? For example in a recent report on Sky News an expert Tim Marshall assured us that any claim of an attack against White people was absurd, when a simple youtube search would deliver clips such as this.
It is now being disclosed that there was a drill taking place in the vicinity of the recent shooting in New Zealand, which has lead to allegations of a cover-up and frantic efforts are being made to prevent a wide-scale viewing of the livestreamed film of the event because of certain anomalies, in the film which suggest that it was edited before it was "filmed" live but of course it would be a waste of time expecting the "professionals" to take up the investigation.
RT aired a strange notion, suggesting that the 666 symbol has now become a White Supremacist signal, I find it hard to believe that they do not know the true origin of this sign from the dark-side.
The so-called White Supremacist in New Zealand is apparently part of the fight-back against what he and many others perceive to be an invasion of White lands by Muslims, even as these Muslims are themselves involved in a similar struggle against an invasion of Jews in the Middle East which has been under way for more than seventy years and yet these Muslims fail to understand that they are now doing the same thing to us, while expecting us to fund their invasion and house and feed them when they arrive, even as they are promising to dispossess us of our homelands.
I have been a staunch supporter of the Muslim cause for the past ten years because I was so disgusted by the destruction of Iraq and Afghanistan, followed by the Christmas-Time bombing of Gaza and the horrific use of white phosphorus against civilians, that by the time they targeted Muammar Gadaffi in Libya, I no longer believed that the West was fit to live, never mind left free to go on to Syria while gagging to go against Iran and now Venezuela.
All of these" wars are not White people's wars, they are all part of the maniacal schemes of that other strange tribe which has insinuated agents into all of the powerful Western countries and whom have long controlled the Muslims and have managed to use both to demolish the entire Middle East and force the people to seek shelter elsewhere, leaving the entirety of their homelands in the hands of the Jews. This is a state of affairs which makes it clear that Muslims are every bit as responsible for the destruction of the Muslim homelands as are the Whites, yet it is the Muslims whom are invading White lands while it is the Jews whom are invading and stealing Arabia. There is something wrong with this situation, in which the Muslims appear to be little better than the Jews.
March 19, 2019 | Categories: Political Opinion | Tags: Depth of Fake News, Fake News, Fake Sky News, Fake Space Flights, Gadaffi, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Venezuela | Leave a comment
The British View Of Mass Slaughter: You Brought It On Yourself.
January 26, 2018 | Categories: Political Opinion | Tags: British Mass Slaughter, Iran, Raqqa, Syria | Leave a comment
The Hundred Year War Rolls On And On.
Despite all of the strange, belligerent talk and the seeming nonsense, with which he sometimes bores us, I have maintained my faith in Donald Trump. However, when he tweeted that the people of Iran, whom he claimed had taken enough of the bad management of the Mullahs and that the United States, was keeping an eye open for the sort of government bad behaviour, similar to that which had already lead to the destruction of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, I did experience a slight shiver of doubt.
A reaction which was most probably experienced by the Iranian people, whom are surrounded by those others, whom have already experienced the end result of being 'saved' by NATO. Iran has recently helped to save Syria from the imposition of a Puppet Government, favorable to Israel.
Israel appears to be prepared to destroy every country in the region, however many lives their greedy aims may cost, while still constantly reminding us of those poor Jews whom suffered as a result of another War inspired by Jews themselves.
This obscene hypocrisy, which is fully supported by all of those 'Israel Firsters', in Western Christian countries, whom casually send in the bombers, to slaughter innocent people, while building Museums in the name of Jews who suffered during a war, which they had declared, while choosing to ignore the under-handed cynicism of the Jews attack on the USS Liberty, during yet another conflict which was initiated by the Jews.
I am constantly accused of bias towards the Jews, bias which I am absolutely certain is no greater than my deep-seated bias against the British. I try very hard not to be over biased in my bias against anyone. To me claims of bias seem to be an excuse, used mainly by the guilty, to avoid their blatant guilt.
One would have thought that to be hailed as a member of God's Chosen People, would be an honour, but no, it is only an honour theoretically and should that honour be imposed on, for example, Winston Churchill, there are instant cries of derision from all sides, suggesting there to be a problem with being a Jew.
The whole business is weird, to say the least, when all else fails, the final slur against Hitler, is to claim he was a Jew and yet when the same claim is made about Churchill it is denied, why?
The same thing applies to Joseph Stalin, or should I say, Joseph David Djugashvili, a Jew name which is endowed with the Biblical forenames, Joseph and David.
The Americans' claim never to have had a Jew President, when in reality it is hard to find one who was not a Jew. Franklin Roosevelt, was a Jew on both sides of his family. His real Family name is Rosenvelt a full-blooded Jew name as is that of his Mother Delano, which is of Spanish Jew origin.
The obvious reason for these disputed claims of origin, is to conceal the fact that World War Two, was not only declared against Germany, by International Jewry in 1933, it was also fronted by a whole gaggle of Jews. It was quite simply a Jew war of attrition against Germany. All of it financed by Christians, with money borrowed from Jew Bankers, a debt which is to this day still being repaid.
During The Great War, the Jew Winston Churchill, was castigated for the catastrophic death toll of the Anzacs during the Battle of Gallipoli, which was caused by Churchill's inept and ridiculous decision to send those brave men into such an ambush.
If only that was so. Sadly in reality, the aim of the Jew/Zionists was to destroy three Empires, the Russian, the Austro Hungarian and the Ottoman Empires, the Ottoman Empire being of the greatest importance to the Jews, because they were determined to win control of the Middle East which was, at the time, controlled by the Ottoman Empire.
The stand-off at Gallipoli was to distract a large part of the Ottoman Army, to weaken it on other fronts, while waiting for the Americans to arrive, to lend a hand in the destruction in Europe, along with thousands of Jews who would head straight to Russia to kick off the culling of Christians.
So the tragic losses of the Anzacs was a 'Price Worth Paying' to enable the inhabitants of Chatham House, to post the Balfour Declaration to Baron Rothschild, which ceded Palestine into his hands. The British 'gave' Palestine away. Just like that!
British control of World War Two was bizarrely given to this 'incapable' man, Churchill, who just a couple of decades before had been responsible, through his 'inability' for the massacre of thousands of men, in a defeat of such huge proportions that he was sent into exile, only to be recalled and to become, Britain's favourite man of all time. Ask yourself how could that be possible?
Are we now expected to believe, that the Quest for the seizure of Palestine, control of Russia and the building of a 'Greater Israel' has nothing to do with the destruction which is taking place all across the Middle East, with Israel, right in the centre, untouched by the chaos, apart from suffering from having a few stones, thrown at armed soldiers, by children, is totally unconnected to events during, The Great War, World War Two, the Jew invasion of Palestine and several wars, in the region of Israel, carried out by Israel, in order to grab more land, or is it more likely that we have been in a non-stop Jew inspired war, ever since 1914?
While the people of Israel, and their mouth-pieces in the European Union and in the Government of the USA, are calling for all Western Countries to open their doors of immigration, to those fleeing victims of Israeli inspired wars in the Middle East, a British Politician was forced to apologise, on bended knee, for the hurt she caused to those tender souls in Israel, by suggesting that the Middle East problem could be better solved by sending the Jews to Texas, where they would find plenty of room. British Jews positively hounded the MP for her Hate Speech.
Sometimes all you can do is shake your head in bewilderment. These folk do not give a shit about the feelings of anyone other than themselves.
January 2, 2018 | Categories: Political Opinion | Tags: Anti-Semitism, Gallipoli, Greater Israel, Iran, Palestine, The Anzacs, The Hundred Year War | Leave a comment
One Mans Terrorist Is Another Man's Member Of Parliament.
It is the thirtieth anniversary of the attempt to rid the world of the government of Margaret Thatcher. The Irish Republican Army, planted bombs in the Brighton Hotel, in which she and members of her staff were lodged during the Conservative Party Conference. This was cold-blooded terrorism, so we are told.
During a debate on Murnaghan, the "Flagship" Sky News Sunday morning political farce, a guest suggested that the IRA at least made efforts to limit casualties, by warning the Police of bomb attacks, with coded messages. This annoyed Murnaghan, an "Irishman," who interjected with "Let's not glamorise them, they were terrorists after all."
Another guest added, "Unlike the Muslim terrorists, whose aim is to kill as many innocent people as possible, like on 911 and 7-7," he then mentioned a few other foiled plots, all of which were based on rubbish, so apart from the two "False Flag" attacks, which have never been properly investigated, in order to protect the guilty, there is no evidence of any serious Muslim terrorism. Murnaghan made no comment.
The next segment included a Tory MP, who announced outright that he believes that the UK should have been bombing Syria into submission, from the word go. Another guest posed the question, "Why was the UK refusing to recognise the State of Palestine?" Murnaghan whined about Palestinian terrorism and the plight of those poor Israelis who might find themselves isolated on their settlements, built on stolen land, should the real borders be accepted by the International Community, whatever that is. This we are told, is NOT cold-blooded terrorism. Where's the harm in a few buckets of blood running down a foreign street?
Perhaps Murnaghan should have a quiet word with his colleague, Sam Kiley, the shaven headed merchant of disinformation on Sky News, who recently informed us that David Cameron's remark about reserving the right to put "Boots on the ground" in Syria, should circumstances demand, without a debate in Parliament, to be perfectly justified, should there be a brutal genocidal attack against civilians, for example. Murnaghan could ask Kiley why the continuing genocide by Israel against the civilians in Gaza and the West Bank, did not qualify for the same sort of intervention, why were Khazar Jews not considered as terrorists? Note that any mention of Assad includes the word "brutal."
The problem with all of these murderous escapades, in which the British have been involved, it has never been clear as the whether there is a definite political aim in view or whether they amount to no more than a policy of International Genocide.
It has been made perfectly clear that there was a mountain of lies generated by the US and UK, along with their "cuddly coalition" to destroy Iraq. Part of this destruction involved the cooperation of the newly installed Islamic government in Iran, the very same Iran which was involved in the "Iran/Contra Affair," with that US "Mob" The Central Intelligence Agency.
This cooperation with Iran, clearly shows the US arming of both sides in the war between Iran and Iraq, with the support of Israel, which like the US, now considers Iran as their mortal enemy and yet it was the Secular state of Iraq, with its mixed race population, which lived peacefully together, which was destroyed, without a moments care for the fate of the millions of innocent deaths which ensued.
The one sure thing about this war with Iran, is the fact that it depleted Saddam Hussein's Military capabilities. It was adequate to enter Kuwait, with the OK of the US, to sort out a problem of "slant drilling" and pumping of Iraqi oil but of course the rest of the Iraqi military machine was annihilated, with illegal weapons, during the retreat home. We then, on top of had all that, the Sanctions, which led to the deaths of at least one million innocent souls, including five hundred thousand children.
So when "Our Boys" went in with "Shock and Awe" they were attacking a basically defenceless country and did they go to town? It was nothing more than a "Demolition Derby." What the Coalition achieved in Iraq was a "Crime Against Humanity," based on lies and a desire to control all of the oil and gas in the Middle East. It was of course presented as "humanitarian."
The same lies applied to the invasion and destruction of Afghanistan and Libya. Having created exactly what they had aimed for in Libya, chaos, the British are still complimenting themselves on their courageous act of altruism and swear that the Libyan people are now, despite their current, difficulties, far better off than under Gadaffi.
In Syria, where the British had long been planning to replace the Assad family with their chosen puppets, the initial murders were carried out by aid terrorists, under the control of the SAS, with Stuart Ramsey and Sky News on hand to film The Revolution.
The British would do well to remember that the following video clip, show exactly what the Jewish leaders of the main political Parties in the UK are doing with your taxes. The Jew Cameron has just announced a three-year war, using these same murdering filth, to unseat a man, Assad, who is guilty of no crime, apart from the lies which are told against him by the Jewish controlled governments, who are lined up against him and who have already seen to the complete destruction of the country and the displacement of millions of people.
All of the current exploits of the US and UK could have come straight out of the notebook of Lewis Carroll. The British are training PKK terrorists to fight against ISIL; which was set up by the CIA, who we are being told are fighting rebels which have already been armed and trained by the British to fight Assad in Syria, a continuing war of which we hear very little these days, while the British are bombing sand dunes in the desert, pretending to destroy ISIL, who they are of course, continuing to support, while Turkey, which considers the PKK to be terrorists, is lining up dozens of tanks on the Syrian border but refusing to help the Peshmerger's, while the US, like the British are dropping a few innocuous bombs, which do nothing to help the fighters on the ground, while in reality, this whole bunch of scum, are scratching around desperately seeking an excuse to destroy Syria.
I was interested in the initial excuse for the attack on this brutal dictator Assad. What I found was that all of his so-called Crimes Against Humanity, were allegedly committed during this ongoing struggle with the International Murdering Scum, now called ISIL. I can find no provable account of any atrocities against his own people prior to this struggle. There has been no mention of the fact that Syria was a prosperous country, with a contented population, nor of the fact that before the British initiated onslaught, he had already handed over more power to the elected Parliament. He was in fact an example of Plato's idea of the "best we can hope for" a considerate dictator.
Much can be said of that other unfortunate, Gadaffi in Libya. The United Nations listed Libya above the UK in literacy, it was the country with the highest standard of living in Africa. They had free education, at hoe and abroad, a free health service, with the most modern facilities and there were no homeless people in Libya.
When the "Arab Spring" kicked off, particularly in Egypt, from the tone of the reporting on the BBC and Sky News, it soon became clear that there was more to this than was being explained on the "News." The Muslim Brotherhood was in talks with Al Baradei in London, while the Generals were in Virginia, holding talks with the CIA.
When the street attacks started in Benghazi, it soon became clear that the British had been involved in "uprising" in Libya from the word go. Men were arrested in the desert, who were said to be UK "Diplomats" and there was evidence of SAS on the ground.
This takes our tale all the way back to the Iran/Contra Affair. Press TV, "The Voice of the Voiceless" immediately started the character assassination of Gadaffi and his regime, while Little Willy Hague, was telling us he had humanitarianism in his genes. To me it was clear that the real target of the Arab Spring was Libya. In my posts I begged Press TV not to denigrate Gadaffi, because to justify an attack on Libya would open the floodgates and it would soon be the turn of others.
Sadly, my fears were well founded, Libya is gone and it will never come back. Press TV and its team of British reporters, Nick Jones and Johnny Miller, were somewhat more extreme in their reporting than either Sky News or indeed the BBC, which begs the question, What is the real role of Iran in the mayhem in the Middle East?
We are well aware that the Mullahs were cosseted in Paris, waiting for the CIA to carry out the coup d'etat in Tehran. displacing the Shah, who was himself put in power after the overthrow of the Mosedeque regime. They also provided the excuse to hike up the price of fuel in Europe, to the delight of the Oil Barons and they now appear to be well placed to benefit from the sanctions which have been placed on Russia, by providing an alternative to Russian Gas and Oil.
All of the other enemies of Israel, Assad, Hussein, Gadaffi, Hezbollah, Hamas, have already been taken care of, why not Iran. Why wait until they have a bomb, if that is their aim?
The same sort of allegations have been made against Adolf Hitler, another victim of British duplicity, like Gadaffi, he pulled his people out of poverty, transforming them into the most prosperous country in Europe, while the rest of the Continent was still wallowing in poverty and unemployment as a result of the sort of banking fraud, from which we are once more suffering.
Hitler and Germany were the excuse to unleash a World War, which generated so much debt, that the bankers were kept in comfort in their palaces, sipping Champagne and chomping Caviare, for the following sixty years, drowning in usury and other financial frauds.
As with Assad, the claims against Hitler, were to do with things which allegedly took place after the start of the war, there is not a shred of evidence that he was guilty of any crime prior to that. Nevertheless most people believe that the war was declared to save those poor mistreated Jews.
Right now, the British public is being deluged with spokesmen who are insisting that the UK should start an offensive in Syria, to save the Kurds, while Turkey which is at war with these same Kurds sits on the border watching them die. Why should the British be more responsible for the fate of these people than is Turkey? Could it be that Turkey is waiting for an excuse to go straight for the throat of Assad, which they have been planning for years and are the British involved in this underhanded deal?
One thing is certain in this continuing state of war, there will be no shortage of refugees swarming into Europe, all of whom will be in need of a job. Traditionally these folk are offered the jobs which people of European origin do not want to do. Well there are not too many jobs like that these days and there is of course the other problem, the mass slaughter of Christians in the Middle East.
Saudi Arabia has long been involved in the creation of religious intolerance. The Wahhabi version of Islam originated in the Gulf States and has been despatched across the region provoking problems between Sunni and Shiite, which has now spread its wings to include Christians. That was of course always part of the plan, which is why so any Muslims have been invited into Europe, by those government which are in fact under the control of Khazar Jews and they are numerous.
The UK is already suffering from the empty promises of politicians, intent on retaining their soft job in Parliament. All of the promises made during the recent referendum in Scotland, promises which helped them win the vote, have already been forgotten by Cameron and his liars.
The British voter should not vote for one single politician who has been elected in past elections. There is no such job as "Politician" and there is no need of Political Parties. This is a form of control. Anybody who was not on board for the recent vote on re-entering the war in Iraq, immediately lost their job, that is the truth of British Democracy and the Party system.
Vote only for those with a single issue manifesto, you will soon find that they are quite capable of cooperating on those measures which are in the interest of the country? They can operate on a system of short term officials in Parliament. The system is not set in stone it can be changed for the better. Surely you can do without all of that "traditional" jeering and sneering in Parliament.
October 12, 2014 | Categories: Political Opinion | Tags: Assad, CIA, Hitler, Iran, ISIL, Khazar Jews, Muammar Gadaffi, PKK, Saddam Hussein, SAS, Turkey | 2 Comments
Press TV And The Murder Of Gadaffi.
Having watched this clip from the Press TV News, during the taking down and total destruction of the most liberal country of the Maghreb, where the citizens enjoyed a greater part of the wealth, which was created by Libyan oil, than do the citizens of any other country, apart maybe, from Venezuela, it is difficult to discern any objection or presentation of the other side of the story, not only from Press TV but also from Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran.
During the destruction of Libya, by the combined forces of NATO, this was the continual tone of Press TV's reporting. They in fact benefited from the services of two British reporters, Nick Jones and Johnny Miller, both of whom were embedded with the "Rebels," from where they would have had the benefit of a seat in the balcony, in order to observe the inaccuracies, in the reporting of the struggle. Both of them consistently reported rubbish.
It was at this time that I was forced to remind myself, that while all of the so-called "Neo-Con" talk was of an attack against Iran, yet it was now Iran which was giving support for an attack against Libya. The same Iran which is now shoulder to shoulder with Assad in Syria, despite the fact that Saudi Arabia, which was involved in the taking of Libya, is now paying for the Terrorists at work in Syria and hovering over all of the shenanigans, is Israel.
So what is the Government, which was installed by the same CIA, which dethroned Mossedegh, in order to install the Shah, whom they then removed from power and replaced with the Ayatollahs, involved with?
Through yet another British contributor, everybody's darling, George Galloway, Press TV maintains a vicarious connection with Chatham House, the headquarters of the Milner Group, which is of course a group which was funded by Rothschild and Lord Milner, whom assisted Balfour in the writing of the famous Declaration, which made possible the theft of Palestine.
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Galloway, the Champion of the People of Palestine, whom has regular contact with the aforementioned Chatham House, declaring that when in need of an expert, to where do you go? Well apparently, to Chatham House. George claimed in response to a caller on his "Comment" show, that he did not know whether Rothschild had any influence on the Balfour Declaration. What strange bed-fellows for Press TV, which claims, as does Galloway, to be a supporter of the Palestinian cause.
The World is in the process of being carved into commercial zones. Certain States have been designated as European, which is why there is such a tussle going on as to which Soviet Style Block, the old USSR controlled States, must, belong and those which will pass, along with Russia, into yet another grouping, which has not yet been announced.
Russia is being presented as a "Mad Dog" obstacle to the aims of the "Elite." This is farce, on a grand scale. Russia is still the Jewel in the Crown, of the push to install a world-wide Bolshevik Government. Part of this drive is to install Jerusalem as the Capital of the World, which will of course be under Jewish control.
Putin does exactly as he is told. Medvedev, the Jewish Prime Minister, is never far from the action. Rothschild recently ordered the release of oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
The convenient excuse being, that his mother was ill. So much for Putin. He of course released a few more of the low-level prisoners, which he had kept on reserve, Pussy Riot and the Greenpeace Protesters, the excuse for all this was suggested to be a means of ingratiating himself, before the world, which, we are being told, would have boycotted the Winter Olympics, had these people remained in gaol.
As is the way with despots, Putin quickly ordered a 7-7 style attack or two, as an excuse to beef up the security of the Sochi Games and as is usual with these things, we were being told the names of the "Suicide Bombers," almost before the dust had settled. A sure sign of Government involvement. The accused were of course, Muslims. The leader of whom had graciously, announced his desire to disrupt the Sochi Games. How convenient.
So Press TV and Iran, find themselves in lock step with Putin and Rothschild, whom of course, famously installed Central Banks in Iraq and Libya, immediately after they had been destroyed and the resources stolen, never to be recovered.
Iran has recently announced that it will be supplying electricity to Pakistan, which may well be a hint as to which "Zone," Iran is destined to join in any future reorganisation of the Middle East.
It has become depressingly clear in recent times, that all of the so-called Alternative News outlets, have been crammed with exactly the same "talking heads," to the point where the agenda, not only on TV but also on radio transmissions, is in fact controlled.
The "News," as shown on the above clip, from Press TV, was in fact indistinguishable from that of Sky News, Russia Today or any other outlet. Wherever you look, nowadays you will find Gordon Duff, Webster Tarpley, Patrick Henningsen, Kevin Barrett and many more, all of them, more or less spreading the same version of events.
When it comes to Hitler and the Nazi's, they are one and all, prepared to propagate a version of the tale, without the slightest piece of "real," evidence to support their claims. If they are not aware that some of the claims have been discredited, how can one put any trust in the information which they present on current matters, if they appear to accept, so readily, the controlled version of events, during WW2?
It is also noticeable that Iran's President mentions a form of New World Order. Iran recently hosted a gathering of the Non Aligned Movement, which also mentioned a New World Order. The meeting was attended by Ban Ki Moon, whom is himself no more than a front man for the "Mob," so should he be present, it is with "permission," it is most certainly not a spontaneous decision.
So things become ever more opaque, it is almost impossible to catch a glimpse of reality. While in the middle of all of this muddle we have Fukushima, which is still being ignored by the UN.
January 1, 2014 | Categories: Comment | Tags: Fukushima, Gadaffi, Iran, Libya, Patrick Henningsen, Press TV, Putin, Volgograd | Leave a comment
All The Way Back To The Gemstone File.
There are massive efforts being made, to give the impression of some sort of problem between Israel and the United States. The recent difference, which was provoked by the alleged agreement with Iran, over the production of radio-active materials, which is in fact meaningless, was used by Netanyahu, as an excuse to fire off a tirade of baloney, against those whom had pretended, to be holding long and arduous discussions, before arriving at this decision.
Another spokesman for Israel, explained in an earnest manner, that should Iran be allowed to continue with its efforts to manufacture a nuclear bomb, it would spark off an arms race in the Middle East. When asked about Israel's bomb, he claimed that Israel's possession had not provoked a response in the region. I could hardly believe what I had heard. So why was Iran trying to make a bomb? What had Gadaffi been up too? Why did Israel bomb Syria's Atomic Power Station? Had they forgotten about Saddam Hussein? Did Israel worry about the proliferation on Atomic Weapons in Africa, when they passed a bomb to their apartheid compatriots in South Africa? The man from Sky did not pursue the issue.
The Royal Families, in the Gulf region, are almost certain to be in possession of whatever it takes to destroy the remaining free Arab States in the Region.
As for Iran, why have all those Friends of Israel, suddenly decided to take the pressure off? Nothing has changed. Iran has already announced that the new deal, will change nothing. They now have the right to carry on as before. So why have those whom love Israel, with a love which knows no limits, out of the blue, decided to commit themselves to a position which gives the impression that they are no longer in the thrall of Israel?
Who has instructed Obama to snub Israel? Why are all of these things taking place around the anniversary of the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
A long, long time ago, I came across a magazine which had published parts of the Gemstone File. (I have tried to clean up part of it and it is posted in a Page, which can be accessed from my Home Page.) It was some sort of underground magazine, which I believe was published by Larry Flynt, whom was himself crippled, after an assassination attempt.
At the time, it all seemed very interesting but vaguely unlikely. The idea that Aristotle Socrates Onassis, was the most powerful man in the world, seemed laughable. That is, until your own research unearths the Onassis connection to Churchill, Roosevelt, Bernard Baruch and bootlegger Joseph Kennedy.
Baruch and Morganthau, were the main protagonists, during the war against Germany. Churchill was financed by Baruch, who settled all of his gambling debts and made sure his little sexual experiments remained hidden, while Onassis, of course, supplied the heroin.
Back in the day, the Kennedy assassination was so mixed up and confused as to be indecipherable. Everybody was implicated, the CIA, Mafia, Castro, the Federal Reserve Bankers, and recently Israel, because Kennedy was said to be on the point of interfering with their Atomic Bomb.
Then the penny drops. The most important point which was never actually clearly expounded in the Gemstone Files, at least not in the parts which I had managed to dig out, was the simple fact that they were all Jews.
Onassis was a high ranking Illuminati, his brother-in-law, Stavrov Niarchos is a Bilderberger, who was married to one of Henry Ford's daughters, was a friend of Bernard Baruch and worked closely with Rockefeller. There is also evidence that Stavros and Onassis spent time in Italy with the Duke of Edinburgh and Baron Rothschild, shooting birds.
When one mentions the Mafia, despite the fact that we have long been led to believe that the Mafia was Italian, all of the main players, Meyer Lansky, Jack Ruby and of course Onassis himself were Jews. When Rothschild, Rockefeller and the City of London appear on the scene, well everything falls into place. So it appears that it was one homogeneous group of killers, which included the Bush family and the controlled, soon to be President LBJ and the future Presidents, Nixon and Reagan.
This is more or less the same group which still has the whole world by the genitals. So why has it been decided to change the stance which was taken against Iran? Is Israel being lined up to make a pre-emptive strike against Iran? Has it been decided that there is no point in trying to find evidence of non-existent bomb-making equipment in Iran, so the attack is going to be launched before the lack of such evidence is made clear?
There was an interesting side issue in the British faction of the team today, when an MP, the author of a book, decrying the decision not to allow an inquest or any proper inquiry into the strange death of Dr David Kelly. In some inexplicable tryst, the entire British Parliament, adopted the position of the Blair Government, without question, such is the strength of the collusion between the so-called Opposition and the government. The decision not to hold an inquiry was illegal, yet Parliament, the Police and Judiciary went along with the decision. So much for the much vaunted British Democracy.
Whatever is going on, the whole of the planet seems to have fallen into some kind of Limbo. The Obamacare computer is still malfunctioning, the British Parliament is still trying to pretend that things are going well in the UK, while the wheels are actually coming off the scooter.
The British government is preparing to make a move against, what they call "Pay Day Loan Banks" of which the starving British are obliged to make use, in order to eat and to heat their homes. The reason being that they supposedly charge a rate of interest which is causing an increase in house-hold debt. A recent report suggested that there is hardly a family left in the UK, which is not in some sort of debt.
An inquiry has been called into the selection of a man whom makes use of "Crack" and "Rent-boys," as the Chairman of a small bank, namely the Co-op Bank. The Bank has recently been taken over by a couple of Hedge Funds, which in effect, means it has been gobbled up by the "Big Boys." Nobody appears to have lost any money, however the Politicians appear to have need of a show of action against someone, anyone but not against those bankers who robbed us blind, created a world-wide depression, fixed the Libor Rate, which generated so much money for them that politicians do even have the courage to give us access to the sums.
These "Big Boys," whom force the price of a home through the roof, gaining an ever-increasing amount of interest, from gullible home-buyers, whom can be caught in the negative equity trap, which the bankers lay-out in front of them, through which, should they run into financial trouble, find that the banks are allowed to hang on to, maybe ten years of interest payments, foreclose on the house, and still demand payment of the difference between the current value of the home and the value of the loan, which was manufactured out of thin air. Why does the government not put a stop to this sort of debt slavery?
As if things were not bad enough, the British can now look forward to a Civil War, which is already under way in several towns and cities across the UK. Wonderful thing multiculturalism.
November 27, 2013 | Categories: Comment, Political Opinion | Tags: Aristotle Onassis, Gadaffi, Iran, JFK, Larry Flynt, Rothschild, Saddam Hussein, Sharia i London, Syria, The Gemstone File | 11 Comments
The Writing is on the Wall for Europe.
The main components of European industry, have all been safely exported to the Far East. The Bankers and their Chief Executive Officers, whom manage the major industries, have prepared Europe for a major catastrophe.
There is not one European Country which is making the slightest effort to increase employment, they are content to stand back making noises, pretending to be using austerity to put us all back on our feet, preparing us for the good times which will follow on as a result.
This is garbage. Austerity will rob the people to pay the bankers, leaving us in a worse state than ever. Selling State assets will not solve any problem, it will simply create problems for the future. Asset stripping destroys jobs and is a quick fix which can only be used once. When there is nothing left to privatize, what will we all do then?
The politicians whom are now telling us that they are working day and night to "jump-start" the economy are the very politicians whom watched our industries, using our money to pay for the voyage, install overseas, with a guarantee that any loss of profits would be made good for ten years, using our money. They now pretend to be surprised at the rise in unemployment.
Suddenly, as if by magic, students in Western countries, find themselves paying for their education. Where did that come from? How could it be that every country takes the same measures at the same time? They told us that these students, with the help of their degree, would quickly find a highly paid job, making it possible to repay their debt in double-quick time. What jobs? This debt will be on their backs for life.
In this sort of climate, the first step a caring government would take, would be to call for a moratorium on mortgage payments. Nobody should be evicted from their home because they have lost their job. Next step, take control of all the food which is produced within their borders. The Irish can tell you all you need to know about food being shipped overseas, while the people whom produced the food are starving.
These things are obvious, after all this is why we elected them, to take care of things like this. So why do we now find them allowing our foodstuffs to be gambled on the commodity exchange. Why are the money-men being allowed to bump up the price of food, by buying it in advance from the producer cheaply and then pushing the price up on the Stock Markets?
I think we can safely state, that whomever these people are serving, it is certainly not us.
So here we are, wondering what to do next. All around us we can see the middle-classes being destroyed, while in China and India in particular, we can see the emergence of a huge middle class.
The advance of this middle-class will not of course be encumbered with a Carbon Tax and other such rubbish, which would tend to keep them, like us, poor and unable to continue the life-style to which we have become accustomed.
Africa will also be unable to set-up industries, which would be able to transform their massive resources into quality products for sale on the world markets. They,unlike Asia, will have stringent restrictions placed on their CO2 emissions to the point that they are unlikely to be allowed to burn cow-shit to cook their food.
So it would appear that in China and India and other BRIC countries, which just happen to be the areas where the multi-nationals, using our money, have installed their production centres, are to be the only Carbon restriction free zones on the planet. What a coincidence. While Africa will as usual be robbed of its resources to make sure that the Bankers and their Industries will stay in profit.
Are you beginning to see the future? A future where even rolls of toilet paper are imported from China. Soon we will be using old newspapers, as did folk during the war years, so I am told.
People are talking a lot these days about the build-up to the Great War. A dream like period, of summer days, punctuated by the sound of bat and ball and the clapping of hands, on the village greens of England. The skies were blue and the days were always sunny, however the clouds were just over the horizon.
Daily life has once again assumed that quality of going no-where. The British Prime Minister has just reshuffled his Cabinet. A spokes-woman, Teresa May, whom apparently once posed for sexy pictures, assured us that despite all of the changes, things would carry on as before. She did not explain how a change has come to mean no change. Oh well!
In the US, where they are in the middle of an election, the same thing would appear to have taken hold. This is the candidates.
That is what they look like, now listen to what they sound like.
So there you have it. In the UK and the States, whatever happens nothing will change. In France the French have just woken up to the fact that François Hollande, is Nicolas Sarkozy minus the super-model.
In reality nothing has ever changed but never has it been so noticeable as now. We are going nowhere. We are being held in abeyance, who knows for what. We can only pray that it is not for another war.
The UK, US, Israel, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, France and various other NATO countries are screaming for a war with Iran. Nobody in their right mind should be showing such eagerness to kill and maim thousands of people. In France, the voters whom are too decent to vote for the Front National, have in quick succession voted for two Jewish warmongers, both of whom were groomed by US handlers for this job.
At least Jacques Chirac, for all of his other peccadilloes, refused to join NATO and played no part in the illegal war against Iraq. Sarkozy, on the other hand could hardly restrain himself from carrying out a single-handed assault against Gadaffi. Hollande has been willing to invade Syria from day one of his gaining power.
Little Willie Hague, is always eager to kill. The rest of the British humanitarians will back him to the hilt.
There does not appear to be an after the slaughter plan. What do these mad-men imagine is going to happen when the first attack is made against Iran? Are they counting on the European Industrial Base being destroyed, as they destroyed Germany's factories, deliberately, during the war which they forced on to Hitler, in the manner they are now forcing this one on to Iran?
We have already been hearing talk of Biological weapons. Could this be a precursor to a "False Flag" attack? World Wars always seem to include a pandemic of dubious origin. Vaccinated GIs brought the Spanish flu into the Great War, killing more people than did the war itself.
I can find no figures or any indication of the source of the Typhus epidemic, which swept across Eastern Europe, wiping out unknown numbers of vulnerable starving people. The death toll of this epidemic would certainly have included many Jews. My friends family died of typhus in a work camp.
NATO has sprinkled Al Qaeda units all across the Middle East, making it possible to infer that some of these groups may manage to get their hands on the type of weapons, which are capable of doing exactly what NATO would like done, in a deniable way, of course.
September 4, 2012 | Categories: Comment, Political Opinion, The Shadow Government | Tags: David Cameron, François Hollande, France, Gadaffi, Germany, Hitler, Iran, NATO, Sarkozy, William Hague | Leave a comment
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Aureolaria, with the common name false foxgloves, is a genus of 8 species, native to North America.

Aureolaria plants are hemiparasitic, which is a character that in part describes the family Orobanchaceae.

Until recently the genus was aligned with members of the family Scrophulariaceae.  As a result of numerous molecular phylogenetic studies based on various chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) loci, it was shown to be more closely related to members of the Orobanchaceae.

Species
Aureolaria flava
Aureolaria grandiflora
Aureolaria greggii
Aureolaria levigata
Aureolaria patula
Aureolaria pectinata
Aureolaria pedicularia
Aureolaria virginica

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Flora of North America
Orobanchaceae genera
Parasitic plants
Taxa named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque

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Full Album Stream: Pain Tank – '97,901,726 Confirmed Kills'
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Full Album Stream: Enslaved (Italy) – Mayhem
Rescued from obscurity by a Russian archivist, check out the recently unearthed complete recordings of Italy's Enslaved, a death/thrash band from the late '80s.
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Sink your fangs into the morbid majesty of Of Sleep and Death, the furious new LP from Austrian black metal nightbringers Transilvania.
If you're gonna have a hero, it might as well be Motörhead, I suppose.
- Lemmy Kilmister, Motörhead (Issue #67)


When Massive Attack released its first album Blue Lines in 1991, the powers-that-be requested that the Bristol trio drop the "Attack" surname in light of the Gulf War. The action was fitting artistically as well, as "attack" isn't the word that best describes the pioneering trip-hop band's approach. "Massive" is more like it, especially considering the long list of musicians influenced or aided by Massive Attack: Portishead's Geoff Barrow, Tricky, producer Nellee Hooper (of Björk, Madonna, U2, and Soul II Soul fame), Neneh Cherry, and an uncountable number of new groups owe a large debt to Massive Attack's revolutionary merging of dub, reggae, hip-hop, soul, and ambient music. It's been four years since the band's Protection, and the stakes are high for the new Mezzanine: After all, as the progenitor of a genre, Massive Attack must hold its own against a legion of imitators just to save face. Fortunately, Mezzanine does just that. Enlisting the vocal support of Cocteau Twins' Elizabeth Fraser and reggae star Horace Andy, among others, Mezzanine is much darker than either of the group's previous offerings. Smooth without being slick and laid-back without being boring, tracks like "Teardrop" and "Group Four" may not be the stuff of bedroom revolution anymore, but nobody makes menacing mood music quite like Massive Attack. Only the awkward presence of a distorted guitar on a few tracks seems out of place, as overt aggression is generally anathema to Massive Attack's sound, but overall, Mezzanine is a welcome return and a new challenge to would-be contenders and copycats.


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10. 26. 15 by Joseph Libunao
/Hard Science
Physicists Finally Confirm a 50-year Old Theorem
/ Hard Science/ Bells Theorem/ John Bells Theorem/ Local Causality
Local Causality
In physics, local causality is based on two assumptions. The first is Albert Einstein's principle of relativistic causality, which states that no causal influences travels faster than the speed of light (This is related to the "local" part). The second, named after the philosopher Hans Reichenbach, states that if you could know all the causes of a potential event, you would know everything that is relevant for predicting whether it will occur or not.
On the other hand, John Bell's theorem is a mathematical proof that certain predictions of quantum mechanics are incompatible with local causality. There have been decades of experiments looking for the very particular predictions of quantum mechanics that Bell discovered, but none have successfully ruled out a locally causal explanation of the observations—until now.
The experiment used three laboratories, one at either end and one in the middle. Those at the ends create an entangled state between a photon and an electron, keeping their electron in a diamond lattice and sending their photon to the laboratory in the middle. Those two then randomly choose a setting and measure their electron while the middle performs a joint measurement on the two photons.
The experiment was technically demanding and only just managed to convincingly rule out local causality. In principle, the results could be applied to enable certain very secure forms of secret key distribution. Furthermore it proves that either causal influences propagate faster than light, or the notion about what the word "cause" signifies is wrong.
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Falling In
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Bangs and Bounces
Scientists Say Stuff Might Have Been Happening Before the Big Bang
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SAN FRANCISCO — September 6, 2018 — Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ:OKTA), the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise, today announced new or expanded deployments with 21st Century Fox, Cisco Meraki, City of Phoenix, Orlando Magic, Pret A Manger, State of Georgia and Vox Media.
In Q2, Okta grew its total customers to more than 5,150 organizations. The company announced that new Q2 FY2019 customers Cisco Meraki, City of Phoenix, Eagleview Technologies, First National Bank of Omaha, Orlando Magic, Pret A Manger, The Bleacher Report and Vox Media selected the Okta Identity Cloud to securely connect their people and technology. In addition, Unisys, the global information technology company, selected Okta to provide identity management for the State of Georgia. The company also announced successful and expanded deployments with 21st Century Fox and BOK Financial.
Okta's customer wins come amidst continued momentum for the company, including the recent acquisition of ScaleFT, the Zero Trust security company, which will provide organizations with a framework to protect sensitive data without compromising on experience. Okta recently unveiled new offices in Washington, D.C., Paris and Stockholm, and doubled its footprint in San Jose, Calif. Okta was also recognized by Gartner Inc. as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Access Management, Worldwide, 2018. For the second year in a row and for both years of the report's existence, Okta placed highest on the ability to execute axis.
At Oktane18 earlier this year, Okta announced several product innovations, including ThreatInsight, which will leverage a new set of contextual access management features to enable organizations to replace the use of passwords with stronger authentication for employees, partners and customers; and Sign In with Okta, giving developers an alternative to SAML and simplifying single sign-on for IT admins. Okta also announced strategic partnerships with VMware and Workplace by Facebook.


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Libice nad Doubravou telt 851 inwoners (2006).

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package org.broadleafcommerce.cms.structure.service;

import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
import org.broadleafcommerce.common.rule.AbstractRuleProcessor;
import org.broadleafcommerce.common.structure.dto.StructuredContentDTO;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;

import java.util.Map;

/**
 * By default, this rule processor combines all of the rules from
 * {@link org.broadleafcommerce.cms.structure.domain.StructuredContent#getStructuredContentMatchRules()}
 * into a single MVEL expression.
 *
 * @author bpolster.
 *
 */
@Service("blContentDefaultRuleProcessor")
public class StructuredContentDefaultRuleProcessor extends AbstractRuleProcessor<StructuredContentDTO> {
    private static final Log LOG = LogFactory.getLog(StructuredContentDefaultRuleProcessor.class);

    /**
     * Returns true if all of the rules associated with the passed in StructuredContent
     * item match based on the passed in vars.
     *
     * Also returns true if no rules are present for the passed in item.
     *
     * @param sc - a structured content item to test
     * @param vars - a map of objects used by the rule MVEL expressions
     * @return the result of the rule checks
     */
    public boolean checkForMatch(StructuredContentDTO sc, Map<String, Object> vars) {
        String ruleExpression = sc.getRuleExpression();

        if (ruleExpression != null) {
            if (LOG.isTraceEnabled())  {
                LOG.trace("Processing content rule for StructuredContent with id " + sc.getId() +".   Value = " + ruleExpression);
            }
            boolean result = executeExpression(ruleExpression, vars);
            if (! result) {
                if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
                    LOG.debug("Content failed to pass rule and will not be included for StructuredContent with id " + sc.getId() +".   Value = " + ruleExpression);
                }
            }

            return result;
        } else {
            // If no rule found, then consider this a match.
            return true;
        }
    }
}

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That very night, another wizard crept upon the oldest brother as he lay, wine-sodden upon his bed. 就在那天晚上,老大喝得酩酊大醉后,另一个?#36164;?#36433;手蹑脚地来到他床边.
There were once three brothers who were traveling along a lonely, winding road at twilight. 从前,在一个黎明时分,有三兄弟在一条僻静的羊肠小道上?#19979;?
The resemblance of this action to the creation of a Horcrux has been noted by many writers.许多作家都注意到这?#20013;?#20026;跟制造魂器有类似之处.
Before they could reach it, however, they came to a stream that ran round the hilltop, barring their way.可是,没?#20154;?#20204;来到泉边,?#20174;?#21040;了一条小溪.这条溪流环绕山顶,挡住了他们的去路.


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package eu.amidst.core.learning;

import eu.amidst.core.Main;
import eu.amidst.core.datastream.DataInstance;
import eu.amidst.core.datastream.DataStream;
import eu.amidst.core.exponentialfamily.EF_BayesianNetwork;
import eu.amidst.core.io.BayesianNetworkLoader;
import eu.amidst.core.learning.parametric.ParallelMaximumLikelihood;
import eu.amidst.core.models.BayesianNetwork;
import eu.amidst.core.utils.BayesianNetworkSampler;
import eu.amidst.core.variables.Variable;
import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.Test;

import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * Created by ana@cs.aau.dk on 22/01/15.
 *
 */
public class MLNormalsTest {

    //TODO: Test more than 1 parent

    @Test
    public void testingML_NormalNormal1Parent() throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException  {

        BayesianNetwork testnet = BayesianNetworkLoader.loadFromFile("../networks/simulated/Normal_1NormalParents.bn");
        if (Main.VERBOSE) System.out.println("\nNormal_withOneNormalParent network \n ");

        //Sampling
        BayesianNetworkSampler sampler = new BayesianNetworkSampler(testnet);
        sampler.setSeed(0);
        DataStream<DataInstance> data = sampler.sampleToDataStream(10000);

        //Parameter Learning
        ParallelMaximumLikelihood parallelMaximumLikelihood = new ParallelMaximumLikelihood();
        parallelMaximumLikelihood.setWindowsSize(1000);
        parallelMaximumLikelihood.setParallelMode(true);
        parallelMaximumLikelihood.setLaplace(false);
        parallelMaximumLikelihood.setDAG(testnet.getDAG());
        parallelMaximumLikelihood.initLearning();
        parallelMaximumLikelihood.updateModel(data);
        BayesianNetwork bnet = parallelMaximumLikelihood.getLearntBayesianNetwork();

        EF_BayesianNetwork ef_testnet = new EF_BayesianNetwork(testnet);

        EF_BayesianNetwork ef_bnet = new EF_BayesianNetwork(bnet);

        Assert.assertTrue(ef_bnet.equal_efBN(ef_testnet, 0.05));
    }

    @Test
    public void testingML_GaussiansTwoParents() throws  IOException, ClassNotFoundException {

        BayesianNetwork testnet = BayesianNetworkLoader.loadFromFile("../networks/simulated/Normal_NormalParents.bn");
        if (Main.VERBOSE) System.out.println("\nNormal_withTwoNormalParents network \n ");

        //Sampling
        BayesianNetworkSampler sampler = new BayesianNetworkSampler(testnet);
        sampler.setSeed(0);
        DataStream<DataInstance> data = sampler.sampleToDataStream(10000);

        //Parameter Learning
        ParallelMaximumLikelihood parallelMaximumLikelihood = new ParallelMaximumLikelihood();
        parallelMaximumLikelihood.setWindowsSize(1000);
        parallelMaximumLikelihood.setParallelMode(true);
        parallelMaximumLikelihood.setLaplace(false);
        parallelMaximumLikelihood.setDAG(testnet.getDAG());
        parallelMaximumLikelihood.initLearning();
        parallelMaximumLikelihood.updateModel(data);
        BayesianNetwork bnet = parallelMaximumLikelihood.getLearntBayesianNetwork();

        //Check the probability distributions of each node
        for (Variable var : testnet.getVariables()) {
            if (Main.VERBOSE) System.out.println("\n------ Variable " + var.getName() + " ------");
            if (Main.VERBOSE) System.out.println("\nTrue distribution:\n"+ testnet.getConditionalDistribution(var));
            if (Main.VERBOSE) System.out.println("\nLearned distribution:\n"+ bnet.getConditionalDistribution(var));
            Assert.assertTrue(bnet.getConditionalDistribution(var).equalDist(testnet.getConditionalDistribution(var), 0.05));
        }

        //Or check directly if the true and learned networks are equals
        Assert.assertTrue(bnet.equalBNs(testnet, 0.05));
    }

}


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GLFWAPI double glfwGetTime(void)
{
    _GLFW_REQUIRE_INIT_OR_RETURN(0.0);
    return _glfwPlatformGetTime();
}

GLFWAPI void glfwSetTime(double time)
{
    _GLFW_REQUIRE_INIT();
    _glfwPlatformSetTime(time);
}


BMW South Africa announced recently that it has signed a deal that will see it using the first commercially viable biogas-electricity project in the country, to power the Rosslyn plant.
The deal involves a power purchasing agreement with energy company Bio2Watt (Pty) Ltd. According to BMW SA, when the project comes on stream in the first quarter of 2015, between 25% and 30% of the plant's energy requirement will be generated from renewable sources.
Power will be supplied from the 4.4 megawatts (MW) installed capacity Bronkhorstspruit Biogas Plant, located on the premises of one of South Africa's largest feedlots (Beefcor) which provides the project with key fuel supplies, grid access and sufficient water supplied by Beefcor's storm water collection dams. Converting organic waste into electrical energy primarily for digester heating purposes, is a well proven technology which has gained further traction worldwide as the swing to renewable energy alternatives gains momentum and becomes price competitive with base forms of energy generation.
BMW believes that the pending South African legislation - in the form of a comprehensive Waste Management Act, which effectively bans organic waste from landfills by 2015 - adds impetus to this renewable energy initiative. According to Sean Thomas CEO of Bio2Watt, the act will boost the conversion of organic waste material (cow manure, food and abattoir waste, fruit and vegetable waste, dairy waste, etc.) into electricity through anaerobic digestion.
He adds that the project has received tremendous support from various stakeholders including BMW South Africa as the electricity off-taker, Eskom and the City of Tshwane as enablers of the grid connection. Tshwane are also a key supplier of organic waste, diverting the bulk of its organic waste away from landfills, to be processed directly in the biogas plant. Other supporters are the Dutch sustainable development agency, NL Agency for development funding and other private investors, including Norfund, ChloroPhil representing a private family, Bosch Holdings and the Bertha Foundation as equity providers.


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Vice-president (2006-2007, 2013, 2017)
Member of Consultative Group (2007-2008)
OHCHR presence: OHCHR Headquarters
National Mechanisms for Implementation, Reporting, and Follow-up (NMIRF): Ad hoc
Fifteenth anniversary of the responsibility to protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, as enshrined in the World Summit Outcome of 2005; Child, early and forced marriage in humanitarian settings; Contribution to the implementation of the joint commitment to effectively addressing and countering the world drug problem with regard to human rights; Promoting the Voluntary Technical Assistance Trust Fund to Support the Participation of Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States in the work of the Human Rights Council; Terms of reference for the Voluntary Technical Assistance Trust Fund to Support the Participation of Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States in the Work of the Human Rights Council; The right to privacy in the digital age; Human rights and the environment; Human rights and transitional justice; Cultural rights and the protection of cultural heritage; Human rights education and training; The promotion and protection of human rights in the context of peaceful protests; The question of the death penalty; Strengthening efforts to prevent and eliminate child, early and forced marriage; Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence; World Programme for Human Rights Education; Safety of journalists; United Nations declaration on human rights education and training; Contribution of the Human Rights Council to the special session of the General Assembly on the world drug problem of 2016; High-level panel discussion to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the adoption of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action; Consequences of child, early and forced marriage; Equal pay; High-level panel discussion on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Voluntary Technical Assistance Trust Fund to Support the Participation of Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States in the Work of the Human Rights Council; The human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment.
Since it first became a member of the Council in 2006, Switzerland has either voted in favour of or has joined consensus on every resolution tabled under item 4 (situations that require the Council's attention), and country-specific resolutions under item 2. For item 7 resolutions (human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories), Switzerland usually votes in favour or (somewhat less frequently) abstains. It has never voted against an item 7 resolution. For thematic resolutions dealing with civil and political rights, Switzerland has mainly joined consensus. Resolutions that it usually (or always) votes against include: OIC resolutions on defamation of religions; Cuba's resolutions on right to peace; some African Group resolutions on racism and the Durban Review Conference; and African Group resolutions on complementary standards to CERD. It has abstained on certain item 9 resolutions, and on Cuba's text on the right to peace. It has voted in favour of resolutions on: arms transfers; the question of the death penalty; human rights, democracy and rule of law; sexual orientation; torture; and religious discrimination. For thematic resolutions dealing with economic, social and cultural rights, Switzerland has joined consensus on a majority of texts. Resolutions that it tends to vote against include: Cuban resolutions on the effects of foreign debt; Cuban resolutions on international solidarity; and NAM resolutions on unilateral coercive measures. Switzerland votes in favour of NAM resolutions on the right to development.
IE on African descent, 2018
Received Sub-Committee visit
1st cycle
2nd cycle: 137 / 192
Specific voluntary pledges: 24
Switzerland presented voluntary obligations and commitments in support for its candidature for membership for the period 2016-2018 in February 2015.
Key pledges include: Develop a national ad hoc mechanism to coordinate the preparation of periodic reports and to follow-up on the implementation of recommendations; Implement, in good faith, accepted UPR recommendations; Consider the establishment of a NHRI; Elaborate a national strategy to implement the UN Guiding Principles on business and human rights; Keep under review the possibility of withdrawing Switzerland's reservations under certain conventions; Step up efforts to ratify CED and CRC-OP-IC; Continue efforts towards: the universal abolition of the death penalty; universal recognition of the right to water and sanitation; ending discrimination, including of people based on their sexual orientation; Maintain strong commitment to the prevention torture and to human rights in the context of peaceful protests; Convene a high-level meeting in 2016 to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the Council; Enhance the participation of NGOs and NHRIs in the work of the Council; and Support the work of OHCHR, including financially.
An analysis of steps taken by Switzerland in fulfilment of its international pledges shows that it has participated actively in Council debates (e.g. 69% of interactive dialogues, 57% of panels), and has maintained its financial support for OHCHR. Switzerland ratified the CED (2016) and the CRC-OP-IC, as pledged. Switzerland maintains a strong commitment to the prevention of torture, and received its first visit from the Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture on 2019.


We were saddened to hear of the death of a great scientist and sustainability leader, Dr. Stephen Schneider.
As others have chronicled, he was a brilliant champion for rigorous and decision-maker-oriented climate science. True to Science and true to Relevance.
Here at Climate Interactive, his guidance as one of the members of the scientific review committee for C-ROADS has shaped and will continue to shape our simulations and how we use them. Look at the shaded blue areas on the Climate Scoreboard (showing the uncertainty range) and you can see his counsel. And, ironically, Tom Fiddaman at Ventana is just starting to build new structure for handing uncertainty in C-ROADS — the world will continue to benefit from his guidance.


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Earth, Sea and Sky
Sea and Air Transport
Story: Shipwrecks
Māori shipwreck stories
Perils of the sea: 19th century
Graveyard harbours
20th-century shipwrecks
The Rainbow Warrior and Mikhail Lermontov
Underwater history
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Kaipara Harbour charts (1st of 3)
Fire on the Cospatrick
The Surat beached near the Catlins River
The Burning of the Boyd
Wreck of the Orpheus
Wreck of the Tararua
Wreck of the Wairarapa
The 19th century saw New Zealand's most frequent and lethal maritime disasters. Drowning was so common in early colonial times that it was known as 'the New Zealand death'. 1
Alongside the unpredictable climate, other factors contributed to the poor maritime safety record:
The coastline was poorly charted. For example, when the Sophia Pate tried to enter Kaipara Harbour in 1841, the captain had three charts, each indicating a different channel to follow. He chose one, and the brig became stuck on a sand bank, resulting in the loss of 21 lives.
Until the 1860s, navigation aids such as lights and lighthouses were almost non-existent.
Ports were makeshift affairs. They were sometimes at river mouths with unpredictable sand or shingle bars, or exposed to storms in the open ocean.
Sailing ships were more difficult to manage than the later powered vessels that appeared from the mid-1870s.
Early colonial ships were wooden, which made them vulnerable to rocks and fire. The greatest maritime disaster in New Zealand history, if not in her waters, was the fire on the Cospatrick, which was bringing immigrants to New Zealand in 1874. A total of 470 people died, and only three survived.
Skippers were not always well trained, and some had a habit of drunkenness. On New Year's Day 1874, for example, while the immigrant ship Surat was leaking alarmingly, the intoxicated skipper threatened the 271 passengers with a revolver to prevent them hailing a passing ship. In this case, the ship beached, and no lives were lost.
Smaller boats, especially harbour craft, did not always carry lifeboats.
In the early years of European migration, Māori attacked some European ships in revenge for the newcomers' flouting of local custom. The most famous of these attacks was on the Boyd in 1809 in Whangaroa Harbour. The crew were killed, and the ship was stripped and burned in return for bad treatment of a local chief during the voyage.
Some early New Zealand shipwrecks
The first New Zealand shipwreck recorded by Europeans was that of the sealing supply vessel Endeavour in 1795 in Fiordland's Dusky Sound. The boat made it into harbour after crossing the Tasman Sea in a storm, but it was damaged and had to be run ashore.
HMS Orpheus
The greatest wreck in New Zealand waters was that of HMS Orpheus on 7 February 1863 at the Manukau Bar, Auckland. Bringing naval stores across from Sydney, the captain entered the wrong channel when approaching the harbour. The ship stuck fast on a sandbar, and breaking waves destroyed her. Of the 259 naval officers and men aboard, 189 died, including the captain.
Fiery Star
On 19 April 1865 a cargo of wool on the Fiery Star caught fire. The clipper was 240 kilometres north-west of the Chatham Islands, en route to London from Brisbane. After four days, the captain and 77 passengers took to lifeboats. They were never seen again. The chief officer and 17 crew members battled the fire on board for almost three weeks, until they were rescued 24 kilometres from the Coromandel coast. Half an hour later, the ship sank.
General Grant
On 14 May 1866 the General Grant, sailing from Melbourne to London, hit cliffs on the west coast of the main island in the Auckland Islands and sank. Of the 83 people on board, only 15 survived. After nine months on Auckland Island, four members of the crew set out in a small boat for Bluff – a 290-mile journey – to get help, but they were never seen again. Another person died on the island. The 10 remaining castaways were rescued by the brig Amherst after having survived 18 months on the subantarctic islands.
Shipwrecks with large loss of life were widely reported in the colonial press. A story that captured public interest was Hūria Mātenga's rescue of the crew of the Delaware, which ran onto rocks at Whakapuaka near Nelson in September 1863. Hūria first swam into the raging sea to pick up a lead thrown by the ship's captain, and then she entered the surf again to help the crew ashore. Also helping with the rescue were her husband Hemi and three other men. All were saved and Hūria Mātenga became a national heroine.
The second greatest maritime tragedy in New Zealand waters occurred on 29–30 April 1881, when the steamer Tararua struck a reef at Waipapa Point, Southland, about a kilometre from shore. The ship was sailing from Port Chalmers to Melbourne. In all, 131 passengers and crew died, including 12 women and 14 children. Most were washed overboard and drowned while the rescuers were held back by high seas.
On 29 October 1894 the steamer Wairarapa, travelling in thick fog from Sydney to Auckland, slammed against cliffs on Great Barrier Island, about 90 kilometres north-east of Auckland. Although some lifeboats were launched, the seas swept other people to their death. In all, 101 of the 186 passengers and 20 of the 65 crew were lost.
There were several other 19th-century wrecks with significant loss of life:
The Maria broke up on rocks near Wellington on 23 July 1851, with the loss of 26 lives.
The paddle steamer City of Dunedin sank in Cook Strait in May 1865; 39 people died.
On 14 February 1869, 20 people died when the fully rigged St Vincent was wrecked in Palliser Bay.
The steamer Taiaroa struck rocks at the mouth of the Clarence River on 11 April 1886, and 34 people drowned.
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Gerard Hutching, 'Shipwrecks - Perils of the sea: 19th century', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/shipwrecks/page-2 (accessed 20 January 2020)
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Today's June new home sales report from the Census Bureau showed more of the bouncing along the bottom that we've seen throughout the housing sector. The June pace of new single family home sales was 312 thousand, compared to a revised 315 thousand for May. Sales have hovered in this range since the expiration of the homebuyer tax credit in April 2010. The inventory of new homes for sale continued its steady decline to 164 thousand, the lowest level on record (beginning in 1963).


31 teams, and 30 are going home losers.
The weather outside might belie the situation, but the 2017 18 NHL predictions mean one thing: hockey season is almost there.
Pittsburgh's entry wants to win its third-straight Stanley Cup at the end of this coming season. The last two came without winning the Metropolitan Division title. Those belonged to the Washington Capitals, for all the good it did them. Is Washington even the team to beat in the division? Clearly not, since the team that whacked them in the playoffs twice is there.
You know, there are three other divisions, and we even have a brand new team in the National Hockey League. Las Vegas, you got your team, now Quebec City keeps lobbying to get theirs back. Just show Gary Bettman the money, or as you call it, l'argent.
Revivalist Nordiques or not, there are 31 teams fighting this year, literally, for the same thing. Hoisting Lord Stanley's Cup is the thing of dreams for a young hockey player. In Canada, it carries a certain religiosity, like the grail sought by Indiana Jones. Many have put on the sweaters and skates, but few had their names engraved.
Before any team, American or Canadian, takes the Cup, they have to get to the playoffs first. That's where we come in, predicting the division winners and other playoff teams in the NHL this 2017-18 season. Who will get to the Stanley Cup Playoffs this year? And if we're wrong, this article never happened.
Keep track of how we're doing at our NHL playoff picture page, updated during each regular season.
Pittsburgh Penguins (division winner): They will probably be fine even if they don't win the division. Pittsburgh knows what they're doing when the playoffs begin.
Washington Capitals (top 3): At least the Caps won't blow a Presidents' Trophy season in this scenario. Getting to the playoffs isn't the problem. It's that they're Marty Schottenheimer's Chiefs when they arrive.
New York Rangers (top 3): On paper, this is a decent team, and Kevin Shattenkirk will help. They will go as far as Henrik Lundqvist gets them.
Columbus Blue Jackets (wild card): This is a team on the upswing, in a hard division in which to compete.
New York Islanders (5th): The Isles are a step or two behind the rest of the pack. John Tavares has to have a big year, but even that probably isn't enough.
Philadelphia Flyers (6th): Goaltending was a serious problem for Philly in 2016-17, and looks marginal this year. Yet, for the names they have, like Claude Giroux and Jakub Voracek, their offense lacked as well. On paper, the Flyers aren't on par with the top teams in the division.
Carolina Hurricanes (7th): While they continue to sort out their goaltending issues, it's wise to expect another lackluster season in Raleigh.
New Jersey Devils (8th): Probably better offensively this season, but that's a low bar to clear. New Jersey has a long way to go to catch up to everyone else.
At least 60, but no more than 105, postseason games await.


Do You Remember the 70s, 80s and 90s?: Did you hear me on the radio?
The DoYouRemember.co.uk blog with general chat about all things from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s plus news about new features and developments on the website.
Did you hear me on the radio?
This morning I was invited to do another radio interview for BBC Three Counties Radio. They had been talking about Hai Karate perfume and talc on the show and were getting all misty-eyed so I was called in to help them reminisce about all things 80s.
We also talked about Weebles toys, the Evel Knievel Stunt Bike, the Secret Chocolate bar and Cadbury's Wispas amongst other things.
Did any of you hear me? I think it went out to Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire at about 9.40am. You can catch it again on the BBC player if you're really interested.


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