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PCNs: August, 2007
Well, Michael Moore got a chance, and I think a good one, at Jiuliani's failures for FDNY infrastructure. Hillary got the first strike, with insight into the EPA's assessment of clear air in the days following 911 in NYC. They have to pick and peck, and 911 Truthers don't have a voice in America at this point. I can see it being shut out. People still have to distance themselves from 911 to have a voice. When there isn't a major network or newspaper that wants to talk about it, what's the use? I'd say the use is for me to be talking about it as opposed to some of the loons out there who haven't shaved for two weeks working on it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AzmTe2_bRY (1 minute video) - Mark |
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The stuff rolls downhill Monday, August 6, 2007 10:34 AM | T.O.C. | ||
I've tried to show who some of the people are who support a unilateral military strike on Iran. There are pro-Israelis and evangelicals. There are also those who are convinced that if we don't stay in Iraq, then, then, oh my God, we'll all die. Of course, there are still so many people that think we're fighting al qaeda in Iraq instead of on US soil - the impetus of the immoral masses. These are people who choose to take the lives of other civilians in the waging of their own war. I find it morally upstanding to invite al qaeda to my backyard, and damned American, too. The immoral masses are armored in fear. I am not afraid. Al qaeda gives me something to fight... Here! It isn't my job to kill Iraqi women and children simply because I have no courage and cower in fear as an American. I am not in need of the US military for my "living in a state of fear". I am not asking for a dictatorship in the event of a domestic attack; I want a grenade launcher. What is "patriotic fear"? Our constitution helps us to protect ourselves with the right to bear arms - out of political necessity. That right is part of a system of checks and balances giving the democratic body the ability to overthrow its own government with arms; a policy of George Washington himself. That means millions of automatic rifles today. And then there are the terrorists, and the people who support them. http://wtc7.net/events/sdgj07/index.html "The war in Iraq was conceived by 25 neoconservatives, most of
them Jewish, who are pushing President Bush to change the course of
history." -Ari Shavit Ha'aretz News Service (Israel) April 5,
2003 The terrorists have been identified. They are in places like Washington and Jerusalem. Who are the people supporting them? 1) The Federal Government of the United States These are people who lose their jobs and their livelihoods if they choose to face American media as whistleblowers. No one in their right mind would face the mainstream media (and be defrocked) as conspiracy kooks, as laughing stocks, only to lose their government jobs. This is millions of Americans. 2) The Media Any journalist, reporter or researcher in this capacity will lose their job if they try to run against the grain as a conspiracy kook or of it's ilk. 3) The Civil Engineering Sector These are professionals capable of seeing the errors in the official story of 9/11, particularly regarding the WTC building collapses. By supporting the official story, these people support terrorists. They can lose their jobs, their careers, and their government grant money. 4) Everybody else who just doesn't want to be a kook, or who doesn't want to sacrifice their public image or their career, to go down in history as a laughing stock. If you are in civil engineering, you owe it to yourself to check out ae911truth.org. What each person also owes to their self is a look into the future - into the crystal ball. Will 9/11 truth come to pass? If it does, the heroes will be the ones who stood with it, mostly. Won't they? A person may believe that the truth will come to pass. There are political realities to figure. Don't be a radical; that won't be good for your resume. Hence the subject line, "the shit rolls downhill". Everybody wants to do the right thing, to the best of their career's survival, and this can jeopardize one's career. Perhaps someone should write a book on what it means to persist in such an authoritarian society! So I would say don't overdo anything, but be true to yourself, as always. Go with your instincts for survival the best you can, and trust those instincts like you would trust the author of anyone's destiny. You have your own livelihood to consider, as well as the livelihood of the world you live in. Cheers - Mark p.s. I know it's wierd to have an underground movement that represents at least 50% of the population. I gotta say, this "shit rolls downhill" phenomenon runs pretty deep! ;-) |
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How often does this happen (now)? Monday, August 6, 2007 10:50 PM | T.O.C. | ||
Sunday August 05, 2007 9:42pm "Goose Creek - Two men are being held in the Berkeley County Detention Center after police find explosive making devices in their car. The quantity of explosive making materials in that vehicle is unclear. The FBI (website) reports that there is no known link to terrorism. The Berkeley County Sheriff's Office believes that among materials in the car's trunk were a bomb and bomb making materials that include chemicals, fuses, and igniters. The men 21-year-old Yousef Megahed and 24-year-old Ahmed Mohamed were pulled over Saturday evening during a routine traffic stop near Myers Road and Highway 176. Few details about the suspects are known at this time. They are believed to be students at a Florida college. They are of Middle Eastern descent and are not US citizens. Neither man has been charged, but charges are expected Monday. A press conference will be held in Berkeley County on Monday morning. Possession of unlawful explosives is among the potential charges. Officials are not at this time releasing any additional information. The Berkeley County Sheriff's office may confirm what exactly was found in that trunk during Monday's press conference. Stay tuned to ABC News 4 and www.abcnews4.com for details as they become available. " |
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Giuliani's Bunk History - terrorism czar Sunday, August 12, 2007 10:19 PM |
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Rudy was not a good guy in hosting terrorism. http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0732,barrett,77463,6.html/full "... Though Giuliani told the Conservative Political Action conference in March that he "prosecuted a lot of crime—a little bit of terrorism, but mostly organized crime," he actually worked only one major terrorism case as U.S. Attorney, indicting 10 arms dealers for selling $2.5 billion worth of anti-tank missiles, bombs, and fighter jets to Iran in 1986. The judge in the case ruled that a sale to Iran violated terrorist statutes because its government had been tied to 87 terrorist incidents. Giuliani has never mentioned the case, perhaps because he personally filed papers terminating it in his last month as U.S. Attorney: A critical witness had died, and a judge tossed out 46 of the 55 counts because of errors by Giuliani's office. "Then, as mayor of New York," Giuliani's July speech continued, "I got elected right after the 1993 Islamic terrorist attack . . . I set up emergency plans for all the different possible attacks we could have. We had drills and exercises preparing us for sarin gas and anthrax, dirty bombs." "In fact, Giuliani was oblivious to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing throughout his mayoralty. A month after the attack, candidate Giuliani met for the first time with Bill Bratton, who would ultimately become his police commissioner. The lengthy taped meeting was one of several policy sessions he had with unofficial advisers. The bombing never came up; neither did terrorism. When Giuliani was elected a few months later, he immediately launched a search for a new police commissioner. Three members of the screening panel that Giuliani named to conduct the search, and four of the candidates interviewed for the job, said later that the bombing and terrorism were never mentioned—even when the new mayor got involved with the interviews himself. When Giuliani needed an emergency management director a couple of years later, two candidates for the job and the city official who spearheaded that search said that the bombing and future terrorist threats weren't on Giuliani's radar. The only time Giuliani invoked the 1993 bombing publicly was at his inauguration in 1994, when he referred to the way the building's occupants evacuated themselves as a metaphor for personal responsibility, ignoring the bombing itself as a terrorist harbinger. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White and the four assistants who prosecuted the 1993 bombing said they were never asked to brief Giuliani about terrorism, though all of the assistants knew Giuliani personally and had actually been hired by him when he was the U.S. Attorney. White's office, located just a couple hundred yards from City Hall, indicted bin Laden three years before 9/11, but Giuliani recounted in his own book, Leadership, that "shortly after 9/11, Judith [Nathan] got me a copy of Yossef Bodansky's Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America," which had warned of "spectacular terrorist strikes in Washington and/or New York" in 1999. As an example of how he "mastered a subject," Giuliani wrote that he soon "covered" Bodansky's prophetic work "in highlighter and notes." "The 1995 sarin-gas drill that Giuliani cited in his July speech was also prophetic, anticipating many of the breakdowns that hampered the city's 9/11 response. The drill was such a disaster that a follow-up exercise was cancelled to avoid embarrassment. More than a hundred of the first responders rushed in so recklessly that they were "killed" by exposure to the gas. Radio communications were described in the city's own report as "abysmal," with police and fire "operating on different frequencies." The command posts were located much too close to the incident. All three failings would be identified years later in official reviews of the 9/11 response. "Giuliani went on, in this stump speech, to list other examples of his mayoral experience confronting terrorism. There was the time, he says, "we had what we thought was a sarin gas attack." And there were also the 50th anniversary commemoration of the United Nations and the 2000 millennium celebration to contend with, times, he said, "when we had a lot of warnings and had to do a tremendous amount to prepare." And let's not forget, he pointed out, the 1997 NYPD arrest of two terrorists who "were going to blow up a subway station." Giuliani used this thwarted attack as proof of the city's readiness: "A very, very alert young police officer saw those guys," he said. "They looked suspicious, [so he] reported them to the desk sergeant. The police department executed a warrant and shot one of the men as he was about to hit a toggle switch." "Each of the claims in Giuliani's self-serving account is inaccurate. The supposed "sarin attack" was simply the discovery of an empty canister marked "sarin" in the home of a harmless Queens recluse. It was sitting next to an identical container labeled "compressed air" with a smiley-face logo. Jerry Hauer, the city's emergency management director at the time, was in London, on the phone with Giuliani constantly. Hauer finds it ironic that Giuliani is still talking about the incident, since they both thought it was "comically" mishandled then. "The police went there without any suits on and touched all the containers without proper clothing. They turned it into a major crime scene, with a hundred cops lining the street. Rudy at one point said to me, 'Here we have the mayor, the fire commissioner, the chief of the police department, and one of my deputy mayors standing on the front lawn of this house. Shouldn't we be across the street in case this stuff ignites?'" This overhyped emergency led to a misdemeanor arrest subsequently dismissed by the district attorney. "Similarly, the security concerns during the 1995 U.N. anniversary focused on Cuba and China and didn't involve Arab terrorist threats. The millennium target, well established at subsequent trials, was the Los Angeles International Airport, not New York. While there's no doubt the Clinton administration did put the country and city on terrorist alert for Y2K and other reasons, it was an arrest on the Washington/Canadian border that busted up a West Coast plot. "The subway bombing, meanwhile, wasn't stymied by the NYPD. An Egyptian friend of the bomber—living with him in the apartment where the pipe bomb was being built—told two Long Island Rail Road police officers about it. When the NYPD subsequently raided the apartment, they shot two Palestinians who were there—one of whom, hit five times and gravely wounded, was later acquitted at trial. No one had tried to set off the bomb at the time of the arrest, though news stories reported that; the bomber had reached for an officer's gun, according to the trial testimony. The news stories also initially suggested a link to Hamas, though the lone bomber was actually an amateur fanatic with no money and no network. As conservative a source as Bill Gertz of The Washington Times wrote that FBI counterterrorism investigators were "concerned that the initial alarmist statements about the case made by Mayor Rudy Giuliani"—apparently a reference to leaks about Hamas and the toggle switch—"will prove embarrassing." "Giuliani's terrorism biography is bunk. As mayor, his laser-beam focus was street thugs, and as a prosecutor, it was the mob, Wall Street, and crooked politicians. He can't reach back to those years and rewrite such well-known chapters of his life. ..." Cheers - Mark |
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Coop Assembly: just published Tuesday, August 21, 2007 8:26 AM | T.O.C. | ||
Since I've been deliberating on this for so long (it's not true) it's nice to have a draft to share! Cheers! A copy of the original doc is attached. |
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Wikiscanner Catches Government Editing the Wikipedia
Friday, August 24, 2007 12:44 AM | T.O.C. | ||
"THE Prime Minister is 're-editing' history by having public servants make changes to entries in the internet encylopedia Wikipedia, Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd said today. "I notice the Prime Minister is engaging public servants to change Wikipedia," Mr Rudd said on Channel 7 today. "My own personal staff, I'm sure, look through Wikipedia to make factual changes, no excuses about that, but using public service departments to make sure the truth is delivered according to Howard?" Staff in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet have reportedly made 126 edits to Wikipedia, on subjects ranging from the children overboard affair to Treasurer Peter Costello. "On Wikipedia anything can appear," Mr Rudd said. "It is entirely legitimate for your personal political staff to make changes of a factual nature, but to engage public servants to go out there and re-edit history, it strikes me as odd to say the least," Mr Rudd said. A new website - Wikiscanner - which traces the digital fingerprints of people who make changes to entries in the online encyclopedia, identifies the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet as the source of the edits. Wikiscanner also identifies Department of Defence employees as the most prolific Wikipedia contributors in Australia. Wikipedia is promoted as the "free encyclopedia that anyone can edit". The Department of Defence said yesterday it would ban defence staff from accessing the encyclopedia. Defence computers were found to have made more than 5000 edits to Wikipedia entries, including articles on the "9/11 truth movement", the Australian Defence Force Academy and the Vietnam War-era Pentagon Papers." |
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Former Chief of NIST's Fire Science Division Calls for Independent
Review of WTC Investigation
Friday, August 24, 2007 3:41 PM |
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"James Quintiere, Ph.D., former Chief of the Fire Science Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has called for an independent review of NIST’s investigation into the collapses of the World Trade Center Towers on 9/11. ... “In my opinion, the WTC investigation by NIST falls short of expectations by not definitively finding cause, by not sufficiently linking recommendations of specificity to cause, by not fully invoking all of their authority to seek facts in the investigation, and by the guidance of government lawyers to deter rather than develop fact finding. "I have over 35 years of fire research in my experience. I worked in the fire program at NIST for 19 years, leaving as a division chief. I have been at the University of Maryland since. I am a founding member and past-Chair of the International Association for Fire Safety Science—the principal world forum for fire research. ... "All of these have been submitted to NIST, but never acknowledged or answered. I will list some of these. 1. Why is not the design process of assigning fire protection to the WTC towers fully called out for fault? ... 2. Why were not alternative collapse hypotheses investigated and discussed as NIST had stated repeatedly that they would do? ... 3. Spoliation of a fire scene is a basis for destroying a legal case in an investigation. Most of the steel was discarded, although the key elements of the core steel were demographically labeled. A careful reading of the NIST report shows that they have no evidence that the temperatures they predict as necessary for failure are corroborated by findings of the little steel debris they have. Why hasn't NIST declared that this spoliation of the steel was a gross error? 4. NIST used computer models that they said have never been used in such an application before and are the state of the art. For this they should be commended for their skill. But the validation of these modeling results is in question. Others have computed aspects with different conclusions on the cause mechanism of the collapse. Moreover, it is common in fire investigation to compute a time-line and compare it to known events. NIST has not done that. 5. Testing by NIST has been inconclusive. Although they have done fire tests of the scale of several work stations, a replicate test of at least & [sic] of a WTC floor would have been of considerable value. Why was this not done? ... 6. The critical collapse of WTC 7 is relegated to a secondary role, as its findings will not be complete for yet another year. It was clear at the last NIST Advisory Panel meeting in September [2005] that this date may not be realistic, as NIST has not demonstrated progress here. Why has NIST dragged on this important investigation?" [The full text of Dr. Quintiere’s statement to the Science Committee can be found at http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/science/hsy24133.000/hsy24133_0f.htm ] ..." |
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A 6 pound dog should not drink more than 1 beer a year
Saturday, August 25, 2007 9:59 PM | T.O.C. | ||
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September Forecast
Tuesday, August 28, 2007 11:24 AM | T.O.C. | ||
I recall the extravagant investment options made from 9/6-9/10/2001, in the days just before 9/11. Doesn't mean much, except for the fact that the SEC doesn't say who it is. Somebody made a lot of money off of that disaster, so it would be nice to know who it was. Btw: some of that cash was never picked up. That could have been known bad guys, or bad guys not of the bad guys inner circle (or even dead bad guys). Have you ever noticed how "bad guys" seems like when people take matters into their own hands? It seems so ironic when you want to be a good guy. Personally, I don't think a domestic terror attack is necessary to make these stock options valuable. I think a strike upon Iran would suffice in sending our economy into the shitter. But for whatever reason it is, people with billions of dollars think our economy is going to tank, significantly, between now and September 21st. I know that in the next few weeks we will be seeing reports from US intelligence agencies saying that Iran is our biggest problem in Iraq. They will say that Iran won't stop their nuclear weapons program, and that the Iranian government is providing support for the Iraqi insurgency. They will also say that Syria is supporting the bad guys. I've seen some briefings of these reports. The White House is in the process of writing general Petreyas's Iraq Progress report, and we'll be seeing that, and I can only imagine it will say the same thing. At this time it is legally possible, by way of presidential emergency powers, to conduct an all-out strike upon Iran. Congress won't be needed. There are those who believe that these investments of late indicate a large domestic terror attack, also because the sympathy or support of the American people for efforts in the Middle East have waned so severely. There could be an all-out aerial strike, or of the pre-emptive deployment of hundreds of tactical nukes (upon Iran). New US airbases in Romania and Bulgaria are poised to assist, and there are 4 or 5 carrier groups within a day or two of the Persian Gulf. Lately, domestic airbases are looking more like mother Hubbard's cupboard. What can Iran do in response? There are things they can do, but I don't think it would be in their best interest to conduct terrorist activities here in the US. Their people are already here, but it wouldn't make sense for them to use them. I think Iran will be banking on the world's sympathy for Iran. I also don't think the Iranian government is involved with sending people into Iraq - I think those are Iranian radicals. If the neocons think they're going out in a ball of flames, I think they're right; they will never be forgiven. I think they know this is their last chance before they lose the White House (short of martial law). We don't have troops to send in to follow. Not sure how this is going to go. There are at least 150,000 Turkish troops, some US special forces and some Israeli special forces massed in Turkey. I don't guess the Israelis want their shit to stink on this one, either. I've heard the word "draft" used here and there - some warnings to that effect, to get US boots on the ground in Iran to follow. The only thing that makes sense to me for the Turks is to try to control the Kurdish region of Iraq (who will fight back), leaving Iran on the ground unattended. I think we'll bomb Iran because they created their own oil trading currency; the "Iranian Oil Bourse". There are people predicting martial law here in the US, a draft amd the use of domestic detention camps for opposition. The laws are in place, and it could legally happen, but when I think of how the American people would respond, including its military personnel, I find it hard to imagine that response. It "blows my mind". One thing that occurs to me, and that is that short of a draft, the White House won't have the manpower to control everything. (although they do have the newly formed DHS and its personnel). We have to bear in mind that over the past 6 years, we've been playing "Inflation Cycle", act I (by William Shakespeare). It's really not a telling story until you get to act II, "the Reckoning", that this cycle shows its true colors. It's like a rubber band being pulled wayyyyyyy back, and then released (in two acts). We've been printing paper like its going out of style for the past 18 months, and sooner or later there will have to be a reckoning. So, maybe somone simply knew our economy was going to tank? Hell, I knew that. I'll be putting up some eBay auctions, to help clean out some of mom's old stuff. There might be a few more mushrooms out there in September to pick. And I will be writing technology papers preparing for coding up the "Co-op Assembly". I also think I should put some focus into the girls moving into their new school and getting adjusted there - building relations with teachers, guidance counselor, etc. We'll see how that goes. Cheers - Mark --- Howard wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > There are 65,000 contracts @ $750.00 for > the SPX 700 calls for open interest. That controls > 6.5 million shares at $750 = $4.5 Billion. Not a > single trade. But quite a bit of $$ on a contract > that is 700 points away from current value. No one > would buy that deep "in the money" calls. No reason > to. So if they were sold looks like someone betting > on massive dislocation. Lots of very strange option > activity that I haven't seen before. > > The entity or individual offering these > sales can only make money if the market drops > 30%-50% within the next four weeks. If the market > does not drop, the entity or invidual involved > stands to lose over $1 billion just for engaging in > these contracts! Clearly, someone knows something > big is going to happen BEFORE the options expire on > Sept. 21. > > THEORIES: > The following theories are being discussed > widely within the stock and options markets today > regarding the enormous and very unusual activity > reported above and two stories below. Those theories > are: > 1) A massive terrorist attack is going to > take place before Sept. 21 to tank the markets, OR; > 2) China, reeling over losing $10 Billion > in bad loans to the sub-prime mortgage collapse > presently taking place, is going to dump US currency > and tank all of Capitalism with a Communist > fianncial revolution. > > Either scenario is bad and the clock is > ticking. The drop-dead date of these contracts is > September 21. Whatever is going to happen MUST take > place between now and then or the folks involved in > these contracts will lose over $1 billion for having > engaged in this activity. > > > "$1.78 Billion Bet that Stock Markets will crash > by third week in September > Anonymous Stock Trader Sells 10K Contracts on > EVERY S&P/Y "Strike" > Shorts Stocks "in the money" effectively selling > all his SPY holdings for cash up front without > pressuring the market downward > This is an enormous and dangerous stock option > activity. If it goes right, the guy makes about $2 > Billion. If he's wrong, his out of pocket costs for > buying these options will exceed $700 Million!!! > > The entity who sold these contracts can only > make money if the stock market totally crashes by > the third week in September. > > Bear in mind that the last time anyone conducted > such large and unusual stock option trades (like > this one) was in the weeks before the attacks of > September 11. > > Back then, they bought huge numbers of PUTS on > airline stocks in the same airlines whose planes > were involved in the September 11 attacks. Despite > knowing who made these trades, the Securities and > Exchange Commission NEVER revealed who made the > unusual trades and no one was ever publicly > identified as being responsible for the trades which > made upwards of $50 million when the attacks > happened. > > The fact that this latest activity by a single > entity gambles on a complete collapse of the entire > market by the third week in September, seems to > indicate someone knows something really huge is in > the works and they intend to profit almost $2 > Billion within the next four weeks from whatever > happens! This is really worrisome." |
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Investment Considerations
Tuesday, August 28, 2007 12:19 PM | T.O.C. | ||
Anything but money. Move the money into something else - anything else (that is not inflated). Precious metals is a long-time favorite, as well as Blue Chip stocks. Unfortunately, the Asians have greatly inflated precious metals in recent years with their new-found spending powers. Any suggestions are appreciated! Federal Reserve notes have an historic bail-out capability. It is my belief that war will increase the value of money temporarily as well, but that it needs to be recognized that such an effect does not go on forever. You might want to pick up on the value of cash for a little while if a war breaks out. Got any ideas about what is going to take off in the stock market next? Alternative Energies, for example. War machines. Halliburton contracts. Oil (commodities). Any uninflated goods and services. Any new markets or technologies on the rise. In the second half of an inflation cycle, find stability (or even growth) wherever you can. It's a scramble! Most people in the first half of an inflation cycle make money no matter what they do. In the second half, they lose money, it seems, wherever they turn. A new war can add a boost to the first half, but the first half at this point has been heavily exercised. At some point, the "rubber band" has to snap. Manipulation of MSM (mainstream media) has no doubt helped the first half of this cycle, considerably, in extending it, and keeping it in play. It's stretched pretty good right now, seems to me. Seems to me like it's time to snap. Cheers - Mark! |
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