You say you want a revolution
Well you know, we all want to change the world
Lennon/McCartney
Is the revolution coming soon?
Seems to be some signs out there.
Stand Up for the Fight
Stand Up for Freedom
Stand Up for Peace and Love
Stand Up for Your Rights
You say you want a revolution
Well write for your Rights
Write every Company that supports war
and tell them to withdraw their support
You know we the common people, have the right
We the People are no longer Sheeple
We have the right to stop purchasing
The money we spend supports the war machine
Start slow to achieve much, personally boycott
Yes folks, boycott the profiteering products
Boycott the big Chain Stores, the Take-a-ways
The Oil Companies, I know most need fuel
Support the independent business people
Support the local shop keepers
Support the local farmers, the primary producers
Support ourselves by supporting our community
Build networks of local products, gain knowledge
Start small, remember Rome wasn't built ........
Assist each other in these times of greed
Combine our efforts to enrich our environment
There are already networks in place for various endeavors
Infiltrate, educate, listen and learn
Save our own earth space by sharing others
Compassion for our neighbor will spread
Before we will know what happened
Our Planet will be saved
Saved by the common people
With Love not War
chela
Friday, October 22, 2010
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Warning
October 14, 2010
A Warning… and why it matters.
Clif High describes himself as a ‘Radical Linguist’. He’s multi-lingual
and also proficient in several computer programming languages. Around 1997 he
began analyzing language patterns scavenged from the internet by his ‘web
bots’ or spiders. He found that people’s language patterns changed in
response to certain emotional impacts. He analyzed this by putting certain
emotional subjects into various ‘buckets’ that he gave generalized and
sometimes whimsical names to, in order to group various subjects for analysis.
Then he found that people’s emotional language actually began to change IN
ADVANCE of certain events that impacted them. It seems that people are
subconsciously prescient to a degree, and this subconscious knowledge leaks out
in the language they choose to use.
In a nutshell, that is how the ‘predictive linguistics’ of the web bots
project works. Scavenging data is purely mechanical. But the interpretation is
human labor, software, and knowledge intensive by Clif and assistants. His
‘hit rate’ exceeds pure chance by something better than 50%. It’s not
perfect, and it becomes more and more ‘foggy’ as one tries to elicit fine
details out of a subject.
It does not predict actual events, but the emotional ‘headline’ response to
those events, with certain keywords or phrases attached to them. So yes, it’s
kinda ’squishy’…. but still stunning when it gets a ‘hit’ and you see
the actual language anticipated that is later used to describe an event.
Sometimes, some strong language pops out everywhere and grabs his attention and
can be used as a ‘temporal marker’ to verify a chain of possible events
upcoming.
In July of 2001, Clif found a large ‘emotional tipping point’ coming in a
matter of months. It had keyword associations of ‘military’ and
‘accident’, among others. It had an intense emotional impact lasting about
four hours, and lingering emotional release lasting several days. He wasn’t
sure what it was, until Sept. 11, 2001. The event lasted several hours, and the
lingering effect of grounded airlines lasted for several days. It changed life
as we know it.
In trying to financially support the bandwidth for the web bots, Clif offered
the technology to the government. They were not interested then. He found a
foreign investor who paid him to keep it running, and this foreign investor made
large sums of money by using the information the project supplied. That has
since ended.
In one scan of the net, the web bots made it into a Chinese server that was
doing the same kind of work, so Clif knows that the Chinese are actively doing
this kind of project also. There are also indications that the US government has
taken the idea and quietly started using it, also.
In predictive linguistics, it seems that the further in advance they sense
something coming, the bigger the event, or emotional impact is. For a year or
two now, Clif has been looking at the largest ‘emotional tipping point’ he
has ever analyzed. This one is predicted for Nov. 8-12 approximately. It has an
intense emotional impact over four full days, and a cascading emotional release
period well into March 2011. This event is predicted to have 10 to 100 times the
impact of 9/11 in changing our lives forever after. Clif says it will start in
the US and spread globally.
What could it be? Much speculation and an array of various clues and aspects
from the ‘time monks’, but there is much, much happening in the world
tensions, as you may have noticed in recent months. Nuclear war? Global
Financial collapse? False Flag attack on the US? All the above?
Clif was in the process of a short-term analysis this month, attempting to
resolve what was coming as we get closer. His previous reports have been
antagonistic to TPTB [the powers that be], and it seems they do not want this
information released. Yesterday the ISP for Clif’s website shut him down
without explanation, and not for financial reasons. It seems apparent the
government is trying to silence him.
This is great reason to fear what is coming. It is also highly suspicious that
the President will be on his longest overseas trip and out of the country when
this timeframe ‘goes hot’. They know something is coming. You should know,
too, and that is why I wrote this. Caveat Emptor. Something wicked, this way
comes.
A Warning… and why it matters.
Clif High describes himself as a ‘Radical Linguist’. He’s multi-lingual
and also proficient in several computer programming languages. Around 1997 he
began analyzing language patterns scavenged from the internet by his ‘web
bots’ or spiders. He found that people’s language patterns changed in
response to certain emotional impacts. He analyzed this by putting certain
emotional subjects into various ‘buckets’ that he gave generalized and
sometimes whimsical names to, in order to group various subjects for analysis.
Then he found that people’s emotional language actually began to change IN
ADVANCE of certain events that impacted them. It seems that people are
subconsciously prescient to a degree, and this subconscious knowledge leaks out
in the language they choose to use.
In a nutshell, that is how the ‘predictive linguistics’ of the web bots
project works. Scavenging data is purely mechanical. But the interpretation is
human labor, software, and knowledge intensive by Clif and assistants. His
‘hit rate’ exceeds pure chance by something better than 50%. It’s not
perfect, and it becomes more and more ‘foggy’ as one tries to elicit fine
details out of a subject.
It does not predict actual events, but the emotional ‘headline’ response to
those events, with certain keywords or phrases attached to them. So yes, it’s
kinda ’squishy’…. but still stunning when it gets a ‘hit’ and you see
the actual language anticipated that is later used to describe an event.
Sometimes, some strong language pops out everywhere and grabs his attention and
can be used as a ‘temporal marker’ to verify a chain of possible events
upcoming.
In July of 2001, Clif found a large ‘emotional tipping point’ coming in a
matter of months. It had keyword associations of ‘military’ and
‘accident’, among others. It had an intense emotional impact lasting about
four hours, and lingering emotional release lasting several days. He wasn’t
sure what it was, until Sept. 11, 2001. The event lasted several hours, and the
lingering effect of grounded airlines lasted for several days. It changed life
as we know it.
In trying to financially support the bandwidth for the web bots, Clif offered
the technology to the government. They were not interested then. He found a
foreign investor who paid him to keep it running, and this foreign investor made
large sums of money by using the information the project supplied. That has
since ended.
In one scan of the net, the web bots made it into a Chinese server that was
doing the same kind of work, so Clif knows that the Chinese are actively doing
this kind of project also. There are also indications that the US government has
taken the idea and quietly started using it, also.
In predictive linguistics, it seems that the further in advance they sense
something coming, the bigger the event, or emotional impact is. For a year or
two now, Clif has been looking at the largest ‘emotional tipping point’ he
has ever analyzed. This one is predicted for Nov. 8-12 approximately. It has an
intense emotional impact over four full days, and a cascading emotional release
period well into March 2011. This event is predicted to have 10 to 100 times the
impact of 9/11 in changing our lives forever after. Clif says it will start in
the US and spread globally.
What could it be? Much speculation and an array of various clues and aspects
from the ‘time monks’, but there is much, much happening in the world
tensions, as you may have noticed in recent months. Nuclear war? Global
Financial collapse? False Flag attack on the US? All the above?
Clif was in the process of a short-term analysis this month, attempting to
resolve what was coming as we get closer. His previous reports have been
antagonistic to TPTB [the powers that be], and it seems they do not want this
information released. Yesterday the ISP for Clif’s website shut him down
without explanation, and not for financial reasons. It seems apparent the
government is trying to silence him.
This is great reason to fear what is coming. It is also highly suspicious that
the President will be on his longest overseas trip and out of the country when
this timeframe ‘goes hot’. They know something is coming. You should know,
too, and that is why I wrote this. Caveat Emptor. Something wicked, this way
comes.
Professor Emiritus Hal Lewis Resigns
Professor Emiritus Hal Lewis Resigns from American Physical Society
The following is a letter to the American Physical Society released to the public by Professor Emiritus of physics Hal Lewis of the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Sent: Friday, 08 October 2010 17:19 Hal Lewis
From: Hal Lewis, University of California, Santa Barbara
To: Curtis G. Callan, Jr., Princeton University, President of the American Physical Society
6 October 2010
Dear Curt:
When I first joined the American Physical Society sixty-seven years ago it was much smaller, much gentler, and as yet uncorrupted by the money flood (a threat against which Dwight Eisenhower warned a half-century ago).
Indeed, the choice of physics as a profession was then a guarantor of a life of poverty and abstinence—it was World War II that changed all that. The prospect of worldly gain drove few physicists. As recently as thirty-five years ago, when I chaired the first APS study of a contentious social/scientific issue, The Reactor Safety Study, though there were zealots aplenty on the outside there was no hint of inordinate pressure on us as physicists. We were therefore able to produce what I believe was and is an honest appraisal of the situation at that time. We were further enabled by the presence of an oversight committee consisting of Pief Panofsky, Vicki Weisskopf, and Hans Bethe, all towering physicists beyond reproach. I was proud of what we did in a charged atmosphere. In the end the oversight committee, in its report to the APS President, noted the complete independence in which we did the job, and predicted that the report would be attacked from both sides. What greater tribute could there be?
How different it is now. The giants no longer walk the earth, and the money flood has become the raison d’être of much physics research, the vital sustenance of much more, and it provides the support for untold numbers of professional jobs. For reasons that will soon become clear my former pride at being an APS Fellow all these years has been turned into shame, and I am forced, with no pleasure at all, to offer you my resignation from the Society.
It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist. Anyone who has the faintest doubt that this is so should force himself to read the ClimateGate documents, which lay it bare. (Montford’s book organizes the facts very well.) I don’t believe that any real physicist, nay scientist, can read that stuff without revulsion. I would almost make that revulsion a definition of the word scientist.
So what has the APS, as an organization, done in the face of this challenge? It has accepted the corruption as the norm, and gone along with it. For example:
1. About a year ago a few of us sent an e-mail on the subject to a fraction of the membership. APS ignored the issues, but the then President immediately launched a hostile investigation of where we got the e-mail addresses. In its better days, APS used to encourage discussion of important issues, and indeed the Constitution cites that as its principal purpose. No more. Everything that has been done in the last year has been designed to silence debate
2. The appallingly tendentious APS statement on Climate Change was apparently written in a hurry by a few people over lunch, and is certainly not representative of the talents of APS members as I have long known them. So a few of us petitioned the Council to reconsider it. One of the outstanding marks of (in)distinction in the Statement was the poison word incontrovertible, which describes few items in physics, certainly not this one. In response APS appointed a secret committee that never met, never troubled to speak to any skeptics, yet endorsed the Statement in its entirety. (They did admit that the tone was a bit strong, but amazingly kept the poison word incontrovertible to describe the evidence, a position supported by no one.) In the end, the Council kept the original statement, word for word, but approved a far longer “explanatory” screed, admitting that there were uncertainties, but brushing them aside to give blanket approval to the original. The original Statement, which still stands as the APS position, also contains what I consider pompous and asinine advice to all world governments, as if the APS were master of the universe. It is not, and I am embarrassed that our leaders seem to think it is. This is not fun and games, these are serious matters involving vast fractions of our national substance, and the reputation of the Society as a scientific society is at stake.
3. In the interim the ClimateGate scandal broke into the news, and the machinations of the principal alarmists were revealed to the world. It was a fraud on a scale I have never seen, and I lack the words to describe its enormity. Effect on the APS position: none. None at all. This is not science; other forces are at work.
4. So a few of us tried to bring science into the act (that is, after all, the alleged and historic purpose of APS), and collected the necessary 200+ signatures to bring to the Council a proposal for a Topical Group on Climate Science, thinking that open discussion of the scientific issues, in the best tradition of physics, would be beneficial to all, and also a contribution to the nation. I might note that it was not easy to collect the signatures, since you denied us the use of the APS membership list. We conformed in every way with the requirements of the APS Constitution, and described in great detail what we had in mind—simply to bring the subject into the open.
5. To our amazement, Constitution be damned, you declined to accept our petition, but instead used your own control of the mailing list to run a poll on the members’ interest in a TG on Climate and the Environment. You did ask the members if they would sign a petition to form a TG on your yet-to-be-defined subject, but provided no petition, and got lots of affirmative responses. (If you had asked about sex you would have gotten more expressions of interest.) There was of course no such petition or proposal, and you have now dropped the Environment part, so the whole matter is moot. (Any lawyer will tell you that you cannot collect signatures on a vague petition, and then fill in whatever you like.) The entire purpose of this exercise was to avoid your constitutional responsibility to take our petition to the Council.
6. As of now you have formed still another secret and stacked committee to organize your own TG, simply ignoring our lawful petition.
APS management has gamed the problem from the beginning, to suppress serious conversation about the merits of the climate change claims. Do you wonder that I have lost confidence in the organization?
I do feel the need to add one note, and this is conjecture, since it is always risky to discuss other people’s motives. This scheming at APS HQ is so bizarre that there cannot be a simple explanation for it. Some have held that the physicists of today are not as smart as they used to be, but I don’t think that is an issue. I think it is the money, exactly what Eisenhower warned about a half-century ago. There are indeed trillions of dollars involved, to say nothing of the fame and glory (and frequent trips to exotic islands) that go with being a member of the club. Your own Physics Department (of which you are chairman) would lose millions a year if the global warming bubble burst. When Penn State absolved Mike Mann of wrongdoing, and the University of East Anglia did the same for Phil Jones, they cannot have been unaware of the financial penalty for doing otherwise. As the old saying goes, you don’t have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing. Since I am no philosopher, I’m not going to explore at just which point enlightened self-interest crosses the line into corruption, but a careful reading of the ClimateGate releases makes it clear that this is not an academic question.
I want no part of it, so please accept my resignation. APS no longer represents me, but I hope we are still friends.
Hal
Harold Lewis is Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, former Chairman; Former member Defense Science Board, chmn of Technology panel; Chairman DSB study on Nuclear Winter; Former member Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards; Former member, President’s Nuclear Safety Oversight Committee; Chairman APS study on Nuclear Reactor Safety Chairman Risk Assessment Review Group; Co-founder and former Chairman of JASON; Former member USAF Scientific Advisory Board; Served in US Navy in WW II; books: Technological Risk (about, surprise, technological risk) and Why Flip a Coin (about decision making)
telegraph.co.uk
The following is a letter to the American Physical Society released to the public by Professor Emiritus of physics Hal Lewis of the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Sent: Friday, 08 October 2010 17:19 Hal Lewis
From: Hal Lewis, University of California, Santa Barbara
To: Curtis G. Callan, Jr., Princeton University, President of the American Physical Society
6 October 2010
Dear Curt:
When I first joined the American Physical Society sixty-seven years ago it was much smaller, much gentler, and as yet uncorrupted by the money flood (a threat against which Dwight Eisenhower warned a half-century ago).
Indeed, the choice of physics as a profession was then a guarantor of a life of poverty and abstinence—it was World War II that changed all that. The prospect of worldly gain drove few physicists. As recently as thirty-five years ago, when I chaired the first APS study of a contentious social/scientific issue, The Reactor Safety Study, though there were zealots aplenty on the outside there was no hint of inordinate pressure on us as physicists. We were therefore able to produce what I believe was and is an honest appraisal of the situation at that time. We were further enabled by the presence of an oversight committee consisting of Pief Panofsky, Vicki Weisskopf, and Hans Bethe, all towering physicists beyond reproach. I was proud of what we did in a charged atmosphere. In the end the oversight committee, in its report to the APS President, noted the complete independence in which we did the job, and predicted that the report would be attacked from both sides. What greater tribute could there be?
How different it is now. The giants no longer walk the earth, and the money flood has become the raison d’être of much physics research, the vital sustenance of much more, and it provides the support for untold numbers of professional jobs. For reasons that will soon become clear my former pride at being an APS Fellow all these years has been turned into shame, and I am forced, with no pleasure at all, to offer you my resignation from the Society.
It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist. Anyone who has the faintest doubt that this is so should force himself to read the ClimateGate documents, which lay it bare. (Montford’s book organizes the facts very well.) I don’t believe that any real physicist, nay scientist, can read that stuff without revulsion. I would almost make that revulsion a definition of the word scientist.
So what has the APS, as an organization, done in the face of this challenge? It has accepted the corruption as the norm, and gone along with it. For example:
1. About a year ago a few of us sent an e-mail on the subject to a fraction of the membership. APS ignored the issues, but the then President immediately launched a hostile investigation of where we got the e-mail addresses. In its better days, APS used to encourage discussion of important issues, and indeed the Constitution cites that as its principal purpose. No more. Everything that has been done in the last year has been designed to silence debate
2. The appallingly tendentious APS statement on Climate Change was apparently written in a hurry by a few people over lunch, and is certainly not representative of the talents of APS members as I have long known them. So a few of us petitioned the Council to reconsider it. One of the outstanding marks of (in)distinction in the Statement was the poison word incontrovertible, which describes few items in physics, certainly not this one. In response APS appointed a secret committee that never met, never troubled to speak to any skeptics, yet endorsed the Statement in its entirety. (They did admit that the tone was a bit strong, but amazingly kept the poison word incontrovertible to describe the evidence, a position supported by no one.) In the end, the Council kept the original statement, word for word, but approved a far longer “explanatory” screed, admitting that there were uncertainties, but brushing them aside to give blanket approval to the original. The original Statement, which still stands as the APS position, also contains what I consider pompous and asinine advice to all world governments, as if the APS were master of the universe. It is not, and I am embarrassed that our leaders seem to think it is. This is not fun and games, these are serious matters involving vast fractions of our national substance, and the reputation of the Society as a scientific society is at stake.
3. In the interim the ClimateGate scandal broke into the news, and the machinations of the principal alarmists were revealed to the world. It was a fraud on a scale I have never seen, and I lack the words to describe its enormity. Effect on the APS position: none. None at all. This is not science; other forces are at work.
4. So a few of us tried to bring science into the act (that is, after all, the alleged and historic purpose of APS), and collected the necessary 200+ signatures to bring to the Council a proposal for a Topical Group on Climate Science, thinking that open discussion of the scientific issues, in the best tradition of physics, would be beneficial to all, and also a contribution to the nation. I might note that it was not easy to collect the signatures, since you denied us the use of the APS membership list. We conformed in every way with the requirements of the APS Constitution, and described in great detail what we had in mind—simply to bring the subject into the open.
5. To our amazement, Constitution be damned, you declined to accept our petition, but instead used your own control of the mailing list to run a poll on the members’ interest in a TG on Climate and the Environment. You did ask the members if they would sign a petition to form a TG on your yet-to-be-defined subject, but provided no petition, and got lots of affirmative responses. (If you had asked about sex you would have gotten more expressions of interest.) There was of course no such petition or proposal, and you have now dropped the Environment part, so the whole matter is moot. (Any lawyer will tell you that you cannot collect signatures on a vague petition, and then fill in whatever you like.) The entire purpose of this exercise was to avoid your constitutional responsibility to take our petition to the Council.
6. As of now you have formed still another secret and stacked committee to organize your own TG, simply ignoring our lawful petition.
APS management has gamed the problem from the beginning, to suppress serious conversation about the merits of the climate change claims. Do you wonder that I have lost confidence in the organization?
I do feel the need to add one note, and this is conjecture, since it is always risky to discuss other people’s motives. This scheming at APS HQ is so bizarre that there cannot be a simple explanation for it. Some have held that the physicists of today are not as smart as they used to be, but I don’t think that is an issue. I think it is the money, exactly what Eisenhower warned about a half-century ago. There are indeed trillions of dollars involved, to say nothing of the fame and glory (and frequent trips to exotic islands) that go with being a member of the club. Your own Physics Department (of which you are chairman) would lose millions a year if the global warming bubble burst. When Penn State absolved Mike Mann of wrongdoing, and the University of East Anglia did the same for Phil Jones, they cannot have been unaware of the financial penalty for doing otherwise. As the old saying goes, you don’t have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing. Since I am no philosopher, I’m not going to explore at just which point enlightened self-interest crosses the line into corruption, but a careful reading of the ClimateGate releases makes it clear that this is not an academic question.
I want no part of it, so please accept my resignation. APS no longer represents me, but I hope we are still friends.
Hal
Harold Lewis is Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, former Chairman; Former member Defense Science Board, chmn of Technology panel; Chairman DSB study on Nuclear Winter; Former member Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards; Former member, President’s Nuclear Safety Oversight Committee; Chairman APS study on Nuclear Reactor Safety Chairman Risk Assessment Review Group; Co-founder and former Chairman of JASON; Former member USAF Scientific Advisory Board; Served in US Navy in WW II; books: Technological Risk (about, surprise, technological risk) and Why Flip a Coin (about decision making)
Wikileaks
WikiLeaks communications infrastructure is currently under attack. Project BO move to coms channel S. Activate Reston5.
Israel army bans social networking sites
Well I suppose this will keep occurring. The US Military has banned soldiers from certain sites. watching, watching
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
The Internet War
Nadim Kobeissi has stated very honestly and openly better than all my rantings.
On one side, WikiLeaks has assembled the brightest and most dedicated hacker-activists in an effort to turn the Internet into a bastion of transparency and information freedom.
On the other side, the United States has combined its Department of Defense, Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Security Agency in an attempt to clamp down on the Internet with censorship and encryption-banning laws.
Both parties, however, have fully realized the importance of the Internet and the outcome of their battle will change the face of the world.
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On one side, WikiLeaks has assembled the brightest and most dedicated hacker-activists in an effort to turn the Internet into a bastion of transparency and information freedom.
On the other side, the United States has combined its Department of Defense, Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Security Agency in an attempt to clamp down on the Internet with censorship and encryption-banning laws.
Both parties, however, have fully realized the importance of the Internet and the outcome of their battle will change the face of the world.
Julian Assange - Wikileaks
It reads like an espionage novel.
If I had the time I would put all the pieces together and write a best seller
Julian Assange is like a movie star trying against all odds to conquer the darkside.
Well guess what he is fighting the darkside, he is just like you and me except for one difference.
Julian Assange is actually doing something to change the dark to Light.
I fear for him because he is pursuing the big boys and they do not like having a rouge human speaking the truth.
Maybe there have been some errors by the team in the management of wikileaks accountability but this would not be the first time an organisation has grown faster than expected. And I would assume the wikileaks team are mostly techies and not much
experience of admin/accounts.
Then are there really spies in the team? Are the US and Australian Governments waiting like a cat watching it's prey, waiting to jump as soon as there is a loophole for them to grab J and close down wikileaks?
The NON sex scandal was the biggest sham and those girls/women really should hang their heads in shame. Sex is a beautiful and personal experience not to be used for bringing people's reputation down.
Now the swedish government has refused J the chance to live and work in Sweden, I always thought Sweden was a strong country standing against the corruption in the world but she is no different when pressured sweden has crumbled. Freezing wikileaks funds. Another shame.
So world people let us unite to stand behind wikileaks/Julian Assange and the truth.
Lets unite to stand against the criminal governments and change the way of the world.
Lets unite to stop killing our planet, stop fossil fuels.
Enough I wanted a rant to get things off my chest but I just feel worse now, is there a John Doe out there. I am going for a walk and listen to the birds :-)
If I had the time I would put all the pieces together and write a best seller
Julian Assange is like a movie star trying against all odds to conquer the darkside.
Well guess what he is fighting the darkside, he is just like you and me except for one difference.
Julian Assange is actually doing something to change the dark to Light.
I fear for him because he is pursuing the big boys and they do not like having a rouge human speaking the truth.
Maybe there have been some errors by the team in the management of wikileaks accountability but this would not be the first time an organisation has grown faster than expected. And I would assume the wikileaks team are mostly techies and not much
experience of admin/accounts.
Then are there really spies in the team? Are the US and Australian Governments waiting like a cat watching it's prey, waiting to jump as soon as there is a loophole for them to grab J and close down wikileaks?
The NON sex scandal was the biggest sham and those girls/women really should hang their heads in shame. Sex is a beautiful and personal experience not to be used for bringing people's reputation down.
Now the swedish government has refused J the chance to live and work in Sweden, I always thought Sweden was a strong country standing against the corruption in the world but she is no different when pressured sweden has crumbled. Freezing wikileaks funds. Another shame.
So world people let us unite to stand behind wikileaks/Julian Assange and the truth.
Lets unite to stand against the criminal governments and change the way of the world.
Lets unite to stop killing our planet, stop fossil fuels.
Enough I wanted a rant to get things off my chest but I just feel worse now, is there a John Doe out there. I am going for a walk and listen to the birds :-)
Australia's airport porn checks
Australia's airport porn checks cause problems. Daft puritan laws of our time
19 Oct 2010 10:00 | by Nick Farrell
techeye.net
Comment: Such a shame I have no plans to visit the fascist state of Australia.
Chela: ouch that hurt. Australia is down the drain unless we stand up are we really a fascist nation?
19 Oct 2010 10:00 | by Nick Farrell
Comment: Such a shame I have no plans to visit the fascist state of Australia.
Chela: ouch that hurt. Australia is down the drain unless we stand up are we really a fascist nation?
Truth
it hurts, sometimes it helps
and at other times it enlightens
facing the truth is what we must do
if we do not take this step of truth
we will live forever in darkness
nothing will ever seem right
the dark shadows will stay over our lives
But when we can look at ourselves, and others
and speak the truth, the light will shine
the doors will open, the internal garden will bloom
life will be good and we will be well
Life and truth need courage
we must find our own strength
when we do our lives will be beautiful and serene
Live in Light and the Dark can never come in
Afghanistan Military Presence
Is Australia's involvement in Afghanistan the right thing? My personal opinion is NO.
Was Australia's involvement in Iraq the right thing? I could go on with other wars we have followed big brother into over the decades.
Our politicians do not listen to the general public (hey that's us)so I am afraid we will continue to pay for this wrong deed with our soldiers lives and our countries cash.
I know that is brutal but it is my truth.
Why does Australia want to play a role in the control of these other nations by the American War Machine, it is the seeder of wars and hate.
For the first time in my life I am ashamed to be Australian.
Ashamed we cannot stand up and be open minded and say NO to War.
Julia Gillard said:We won't abandon Afghans: Julia Gillard (hey Madam PM it is not the Afghams they DO NOT want us there - it is your puppet masters - um who is that?)
JULIA Gillard has declared Australians could remain in Afghanistan for at least a decade, vowing not to abandon the war-torn nation to terrorists and chaos.
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John Richardson has called it an act of treason:
The Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard, & the Leader of the Opposition, Tony Abbott, both stood up in our nation's Parliament today & boldly, deliberately & directly lied to the Australian people about the need for Australia to maintain its military presence in Afghanistan.
yourdemocracy.net.au
Was Australia's involvement in Iraq the right thing? I could go on with other wars we have followed big brother into over the decades.
Our politicians do not listen to the general public (hey that's us)so I am afraid we will continue to pay for this wrong deed with our soldiers lives and our countries cash.
I know that is brutal but it is my truth.
Why does Australia want to play a role in the control of these other nations by the American War Machine, it is the seeder of wars and hate.
For the first time in my life I am ashamed to be Australian.
Ashamed we cannot stand up and be open minded and say NO to War.
Julia Gillard said:We won't abandon Afghans: Julia Gillard (hey Madam PM it is not the Afghams they DO NOT want us there - it is your puppet masters - um who is that?)
JULIA Gillard has declared Australians could remain in Afghanistan for at least a decade, vowing not to abandon the war-torn nation to terrorists and chaos.
John Richardson has called it an act of treason:
The Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard, & the Leader of the Opposition, Tony Abbott, both stood up in our nation's Parliament today & boldly, deliberately & directly lied to the Australian people about the need for Australia to maintain its military presence in Afghanistan.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Give Peace a Chance
Title: John Lennon - Give Peace A Chance lyrics
Ev'rybody's talking about
Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism
This-ism, that-ism
Isn't it the most
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance
Ev'rybody's talking about
Ministers, Sinisters, Banisters and canisters,
Bishops and Fishops and Rabbis and Pop eyes,
And bye bye, bye byes.
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance
Let me tell you now
Ev'rybody's talking about
Revolution, Evolution, Mastication, Flagelolation, Regulations.
Integrations, Meditations, United Nations, Congratulations
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance
Oh Let's stick to it
Ev'rybody's talking about
John and Yoko, Timmy Leary, Rosemary, Tommy smothers, Bob Dylan,
Tommy Cooper, Derek Tayor, Norman Mailer, Alan Ginsberg, Hare Krishna,
Hare Krishna
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance
BP Oil Spill overflows to WH
October 8, 2010
White House 'muzzled own scientists over oil spill fears' By David Usborne, US Editor
The White House was facing allegations yesterday that it had muzzled its own scientists in the early days and weeks of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill so that the public would be ignorant of the potential scale of the environmental disaster that was unfolding.
A paper written for the National Commission established by President Barack Obama to investigate what happened suggests that officials at the White House stood in the way of scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) when they were preparing to release details of a worst-case scenario for the blow-out including a top-end estimate of the rate of flow of oil into the sea.
In a second report also written for the Commission, investigators say that "for the first 10 days of the spill, it appears that a sense of over-optimism affected responders".
As the spill worsened BP came under wide criticism for allegedly attempting to downplay the scale of the leak. The findings of the National Commission indicate that the government in Washington was playing a similar game.
In the days immediately after the explosion, both Washington and BP said they were assuming a leak rate of between 1,000 and 5,000 barrels a day. But in the weeks after the leak rate was revised upwards in several increments and by early August stood at 62,000 barrels a day.
The paper says that the "decision to withhold worst-case discharge figures" may have been made at a high level, suggesting that the President himself may have been involved.
Robert Gibbs, spokesman for President Obama, said the White House had always offered "the most accurate and timely information" on the amount of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico as soon as it became available.
But the Commission paper claims that the White House's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) declined to give scientists at NOAA authorisation when they "wanted to make public some of its long-term, worst-case discharge models".
An OMB spokesman, Kenneth Baer, acknowledged that authorisation had been withheld, but said it was because of concerns about the models scientists were using and not about flow rates or what the public should or shouldn't know. "The issue was the modelling, the science and the assumptions they were using to come up with their analysis. Not public relations or presentation. We offered them suggestions of ways to improve it and they happily accepted it," he said.
After the explosion that killed 11 rig workers, Washington took several days before declaring an emergency.
The Independent
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White House 'muzzled own scientists over oil spill fears' By David Usborne, US Editor
The White House was facing allegations yesterday that it had muzzled its own scientists in the early days and weeks of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill so that the public would be ignorant of the potential scale of the environmental disaster that was unfolding.
A paper written for the National Commission established by President Barack Obama to investigate what happened suggests that officials at the White House stood in the way of scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) when they were preparing to release details of a worst-case scenario for the blow-out including a top-end estimate of the rate of flow of oil into the sea.
In a second report also written for the Commission, investigators say that "for the first 10 days of the spill, it appears that a sense of over-optimism affected responders".
As the spill worsened BP came under wide criticism for allegedly attempting to downplay the scale of the leak. The findings of the National Commission indicate that the government in Washington was playing a similar game.
In the days immediately after the explosion, both Washington and BP said they were assuming a leak rate of between 1,000 and 5,000 barrels a day. But in the weeks after the leak rate was revised upwards in several increments and by early August stood at 62,000 barrels a day.
The paper says that the "decision to withhold worst-case discharge figures" may have been made at a high level, suggesting that the President himself may have been involved.
Robert Gibbs, spokesman for President Obama, said the White House had always offered "the most accurate and timely information" on the amount of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico as soon as it became available.
But the Commission paper claims that the White House's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) declined to give scientists at NOAA authorisation when they "wanted to make public some of its long-term, worst-case discharge models".
An OMB spokesman, Kenneth Baer, acknowledged that authorisation had been withheld, but said it was because of concerns about the models scientists were using and not about flow rates or what the public should or shouldn't know. "The issue was the modelling, the science and the assumptions they were using to come up with their analysis. Not public relations or presentation. We offered them suggestions of ways to improve it and they happily accepted it," he said.
After the explosion that killed 11 rig workers, Washington took several days before declaring an emergency.
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Julian Assange Wikileaks Editor- (finally a word to wired.com)
WikiLeaks - On Monday 18th October 2010, @wikileaks said:
Where do all these claims about WikiLeaks doing something on Iraq today (Monday) come from? A single tabloid blog at Wired Magazine!
That's right. Over 700 articles, newspapers all over the world, and newswires fooled by a tabloid blog--and each other.
Of course you won't see this blog cited, generally, in the mainstream press articles, because that would lessen the credibility of these articles back to where the belong -- unsubstantiated, and indeed, false claims made by a source that is not credible. What is journalism coming to?
But, Wired's blog is not just any source that lacks credibility. It is a known opponent and spreader of all sorts of misinformation about WikiLeaks. This dramatically ramped up since we demanded an investigation into what role they played in the arrest of the alleged journalistic source, US intelligence analyst, Bradley Manning:
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/06/18/wikileaks
We condemned Wired magazine for that conduct and the magazine has been oppositional ever since. The two blogs concerned, "Threat Level" and "Danger Room", while having produced some good journalism over the years, mostly now ship puff pieces about the latest "cool weapons system" and other "war tech toys" as befits their names -- "Threat Level" and "Danger Room".
These two blogs, and in particular editor Kevin Poulsen, have been responsible for a tremendous amount of other completely false information WikiLeaks.
A post today on "Danger Room" begins with:
"We’re still waiting for WikiLeaks to make good on its pledge to reveal hundreds of thousands of U.S. military documents on the Iraq war."
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/10/doc-of-the-day-wikileaks-didnt-blow-u-s-afghan-intel-sources/?utm_source=co2hog#ixzz12iu8RVBO
Another fabrication.
WikiLeaks does not speak about upcoming releases dates, indeed, with very rare exceptions we do not communicate any specific information about upcoming releases, since that simply provides fodder for abusive organizations to get their spin machines ready.
Julian Assange
Editor-in-chief
Where do all these claims about WikiLeaks doing something on Iraq today (Monday) come from? A single tabloid blog at Wired Magazine!
That's right. Over 700 articles, newspapers all over the world, and newswires fooled by a tabloid blog--and each other.
Of course you won't see this blog cited, generally, in the mainstream press articles, because that would lessen the credibility of these articles back to where the belong -- unsubstantiated, and indeed, false claims made by a source that is not credible. What is journalism coming to?
But, Wired's blog is not just any source that lacks credibility. It is a known opponent and spreader of all sorts of misinformation about WikiLeaks. This dramatically ramped up since we demanded an investigation into what role they played in the arrest of the alleged journalistic source, US intelligence analyst, Bradley Manning:
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/06/18/wikileaks
We condemned Wired magazine for that conduct and the magazine has been oppositional ever since. The two blogs concerned, "Threat Level" and "Danger Room", while having produced some good journalism over the years, mostly now ship puff pieces about the latest "cool weapons system" and other "war tech toys" as befits their names -- "Threat Level" and "Danger Room".
These two blogs, and in particular editor Kevin Poulsen, have been responsible for a tremendous amount of other completely false information WikiLeaks.
A post today on "Danger Room" begins with:
"We’re still waiting for WikiLeaks to make good on its pledge to reveal hundreds of thousands of U.S. military documents on the Iraq war."
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/10/doc-of-the-day-wikileaks-didnt-blow-u-s-afghan-intel-sources/?utm_source=co2hog#ixzz12iu8RVBO
Another fabrication.
WikiLeaks does not speak about upcoming releases dates, indeed, with very rare exceptions we do not communicate any specific information about upcoming releases, since that simply provides fodder for abusive organizations to get their spin machines ready.
Julian Assange
Editor-in-chief
Wikileaks
(AP) The founder of Wikileaks was denied a Swedish residency permit on Monday and said his whistleblowing website had been cut off by a company that handled many of its donations.
Julian Assange blamed the financial cutoff on the U.S. government, which denied any involvement. The U.S. did tell reporters that it was bracing for the potential disclosure by Wikileaks of hundreds of thousands of secret Iraq war documents, and asked media companies not to publish them.
The Pentagon said the group had as many as 400,000 documents from a military database on operations in Iraq but Assange downplayed expectations that a leak was imminent. In a Twitter post, Assange said information were coming from "a single tabloid blog" that had put out a "tremendous amount" of false information about his site.
In Sweden, the national immigration authority delivered a setback to Assange's efforts to gain protection from its generous media freedom laws by announcing that it had rejected his request for residency.
Migration Board spokeswoman Gunilla Wikstrom declined to explain why Assange's application had been denied, saying the reason was confidential.
Allegations of rape and sexual molestation have been made by two Swedish women against Assange, who has denied them. Prosecutors have not yet decided whether to file charges in the case, which became public nearly two months ago.
Speaking generally, Wikstrom said only crimes that have been proven would affect the Migration Board's decision, which Assange has three weeks to appeal.
Assange did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the residency issue.
But he released correspondence from London-based Moneybookers.com, which pulled the plug on its relationship with WikiLeaks over the summer, shortly after the website published a massive trove of U.S. intelligence documents relating to the war in Afghanistan, an unprecedented leak that infuriated the Pentagon and energized opponents of the war in Afghanistan.
When Assange queried the decision, Moneybookers replied to say that his site had been added to "blacklists in Australia and watch lists in the USA," according to an August 13 e-mail exchange.
It was not clear which blacklists or watchlists Moneybookers was referring to. The organization declined to elaborate on its correspondence, saying that it always follows the law - and that it had never been asked directly by any government to stop dealing with WikiLeaks.
It noted that it sometimes dropped clients "as part of our rigorous, continuous risk management checks." It offered no details on the nature of those checks.
Australian officials denied that they'd blacklisted the site, while Marti Adams, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Treasury department, said that WikiLeaks was not targeted by any of the department's sanctions programs.
Assange made clear he blamed Washington for pressuring the site to close down his account.
"Craven behavior in relation to the U.S. government is unlikely to be seen sympathetically," he said in an August 16 e-mail to one of the site's administrators.
The blacklisting allegations - which Assange said he was only publicizing now due to his heavy workload over the past two months - illustrate the problems WikiLeaks has faced as it tries to raise money online in the teeth of the U.S. government's anger. WikiLeaks has in the past shut its website down due to lack of funds.
It has been down "for scheduled maintenance" for the past two weeks.
Other WikiLeaks Coverage
Pentagon to Media: Don't Publish WikiLeaks Docs
WikiLeaks May Release 400,000 Iraq War Documents
DOD's Gates: Little Harm from WikiLeaks Release
WikiLeaks Sparks Army Change? Spy Rules Updated
WikiLeaks in Disarray, Says Former No. 2 Staffer
cbsnews.com
Julian Assange blamed the financial cutoff on the U.S. government, which denied any involvement. The U.S. did tell reporters that it was bracing for the potential disclosure by Wikileaks of hundreds of thousands of secret Iraq war documents, and asked media companies not to publish them.
The Pentagon said the group had as many as 400,000 documents from a military database on operations in Iraq but Assange downplayed expectations that a leak was imminent. In a Twitter post, Assange said information were coming from "a single tabloid blog" that had put out a "tremendous amount" of false information about his site.
In Sweden, the national immigration authority delivered a setback to Assange's efforts to gain protection from its generous media freedom laws by announcing that it had rejected his request for residency.
Migration Board spokeswoman Gunilla Wikstrom declined to explain why Assange's application had been denied, saying the reason was confidential.
Allegations of rape and sexual molestation have been made by two Swedish women against Assange, who has denied them. Prosecutors have not yet decided whether to file charges in the case, which became public nearly two months ago.
Speaking generally, Wikstrom said only crimes that have been proven would affect the Migration Board's decision, which Assange has three weeks to appeal.
Assange did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the residency issue.
But he released correspondence from London-based Moneybookers.com, which pulled the plug on its relationship with WikiLeaks over the summer, shortly after the website published a massive trove of U.S. intelligence documents relating to the war in Afghanistan, an unprecedented leak that infuriated the Pentagon and energized opponents of the war in Afghanistan.
When Assange queried the decision, Moneybookers replied to say that his site had been added to "blacklists in Australia and watch lists in the USA," according to an August 13 e-mail exchange.
It was not clear which blacklists or watchlists Moneybookers was referring to. The organization declined to elaborate on its correspondence, saying that it always follows the law - and that it had never been asked directly by any government to stop dealing with WikiLeaks.
It noted that it sometimes dropped clients "as part of our rigorous, continuous risk management checks." It offered no details on the nature of those checks.
Australian officials denied that they'd blacklisted the site, while Marti Adams, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Treasury department, said that WikiLeaks was not targeted by any of the department's sanctions programs.
Assange made clear he blamed Washington for pressuring the site to close down his account.
"Craven behavior in relation to the U.S. government is unlikely to be seen sympathetically," he said in an August 16 e-mail to one of the site's administrators.
The blacklisting allegations - which Assange said he was only publicizing now due to his heavy workload over the past two months - illustrate the problems WikiLeaks has faced as it tries to raise money online in the teeth of the U.S. government's anger. WikiLeaks has in the past shut its website down due to lack of funds.
It has been down "for scheduled maintenance" for the past two weeks.
Other WikiLeaks Coverage
Pentagon to Media: Don't Publish WikiLeaks Docs
WikiLeaks May Release 400,000 Iraq War Documents
DOD's Gates: Little Harm from WikiLeaks Release
WikiLeaks Sparks Army Change? Spy Rules Updated
WikiLeaks in Disarray, Says Former No. 2 Staffer
Bittorrent tracker websites down
I know this is not funny but I am lmao
Ex-employee brings down several Bittorrent trackers
Flicks the switch on way out, By Lawrence Latif
A DISGRUNTLED FORMER EMPLOYEE has done what the big media mafiaa have failed to do by shuttering several Bittorrent tracker websites.
While the various music recording label and Hollywood movie representatives have spent millions on hiring lawyers and lobbying politicians to take down what they call "the pirates", the actions of a former employee at the web host Reality Check Network have seemingly done far more damage. The outfit hosts numerous Bittorrent tracker websites on its servers and at 11AM BST it suffered what it called a "malicious attack" on its network.
Later the firm said that it wasn't a "network based" attack but rather an old school instance of sabotage by corrupting the master boot records (MBR) of servers, conducted by a ex-employee who had "intimate knowledge" of the network and systems.
Essentially the MBR holds information about where the operating system resides and is read after the system completes BIOS execution at start-up. A corrupted MBR typically doesn't result in a loss of data, however repairing it is a fiddly and time consuming task.
At press time, Reality Check Network's website is still down.
The attack goes to illustrate, once again, the while the Bittorrent protocol might be decentralised, the job of serving up torrent pointers is still very much a centralised operation. While outfits like The Pirate Bay can afford to have redundancy in place, even it has been forced offline, albeit for minutes, from attacks by 'anti-piracy' groups. Smaller torrent trackers such as those hosted on the Reality Check Network are often much smaller operations without the contingency in place to withstand attacks.
Who knows, maybe the big media mafiaa will extend an offer of employment to this disgruntled ex-employee. After all the chap managed to succeed where it has failed miserably, though only because he was an insider.
theinquirer.net
Ex-employee brings down several Bittorrent trackers
Flicks the switch on way out, By Lawrence Latif
A DISGRUNTLED FORMER EMPLOYEE has done what the big media mafiaa have failed to do by shuttering several Bittorrent tracker websites.
While the various music recording label and Hollywood movie representatives have spent millions on hiring lawyers and lobbying politicians to take down what they call "the pirates", the actions of a former employee at the web host Reality Check Network have seemingly done far more damage. The outfit hosts numerous Bittorrent tracker websites on its servers and at 11AM BST it suffered what it called a "malicious attack" on its network.
Later the firm said that it wasn't a "network based" attack but rather an old school instance of sabotage by corrupting the master boot records (MBR) of servers, conducted by a ex-employee who had "intimate knowledge" of the network and systems.
Essentially the MBR holds information about where the operating system resides and is read after the system completes BIOS execution at start-up. A corrupted MBR typically doesn't result in a loss of data, however repairing it is a fiddly and time consuming task.
At press time, Reality Check Network's website is still down.
The attack goes to illustrate, once again, the while the Bittorrent protocol might be decentralised, the job of serving up torrent pointers is still very much a centralised operation. While outfits like The Pirate Bay can afford to have redundancy in place, even it has been forced offline, albeit for minutes, from attacks by 'anti-piracy' groups. Smaller torrent trackers such as those hosted on the Reality Check Network are often much smaller operations without the contingency in place to withstand attacks.
Who knows, maybe the big media mafiaa will extend an offer of employment to this disgruntled ex-employee. After all the chap managed to succeed where it has failed miserably, though only because he was an insider.
Julian Assange - Wikileaks
Assange denied Swedish residence and work permit.
Wikileaks grundare Julian Assange får inte uppehålls- och arbetstillstånd i Sverige.
Det uppger Gunilla Wikström på Migrationsverket.
– Vi fattade beslutet att avslå hans ansökan. Han har fått besked i dag på mail, säger hon till Aftonbladet
Frontfiguren för den uppmärksammade sajten Wikileaks, australiern Julian Assange, ansökte tidigare i år om uppehållstillstånd i Sverige.
aftonbladet.se
Swedish to English translation
Wikileaks founders Julian Assange may not be a residence and work permit in Sweden.
It says Gunilla Wikström at the Board.
- We took the decision to reject his application. He has received notice today in mail, "she told Aftonbladet
Frontman for the acclaimed website Wikileaks, Australian Julian Assange, filed earlier this year for a residence permit in Sweden.
One of the reasons as stated is that Assange planning to have a Swedish utgivarbevis, which would give him better protection of sources for the site.
Today, however, decided the Migration Board decides not to give Assange a residence permit, but do not want to go into details of the case.
Notified of rape
Assange visited Sweden last summer to lecture on Wikileaks recent publication of thousands of secret documents from the war in Afghanistan. He then applied also for a Swedish residence permit.
But the lectures were overshadowed once the media reporting a rape complaint against Julian Assange. The notification was the start of a long circus that reported in the world and still not completed.
The request was lifted
An on-call prosecutor asked originally Assange in his absence, the suspect in a rape and a case of sexual molestation. The request was lifted up by an ordinary prosecutor after just one day.
When the prosecutor Eva Finné examined the case, she decided to close enrollment on the rape and only initiate investigations in a case of molestation.
Later, however, decided the prosecutor Marianne New to the preliminary investigation of rape should be resumed. Moreover, as the case classified as harassment redefined as sexual coercion and sexual assault.
Basics secret
The investigation is still ongoing and now has the Migration Board rejected his application, said Gunilla Wikstrom who are decision makers at the Migration Board's work unit in Norrköping.
- There is not much more to say more than that we rejected his application.
Can you say anything about the grounds for refusal?
- No, there is secrecy around the grounds for such a decision.
According to Gunilla Wikstrom has Assange decision has been sent both by mail and by regular mail. She can not answer whether he is in the country.
Translated by Google
Wikileaks grundare Julian Assange får inte uppehålls- och arbetstillstånd i Sverige.
Det uppger Gunilla Wikström på Migrationsverket.
– Vi fattade beslutet att avslå hans ansökan. Han har fått besked i dag på mail, säger hon till Aftonbladet
Frontfiguren för den uppmärksammade sajten Wikileaks, australiern Julian Assange, ansökte tidigare i år om uppehållstillstånd i Sverige.
Swedish to English translation
Wikileaks founders Julian Assange may not be a residence and work permit in Sweden.
It says Gunilla Wikström at the Board.
- We took the decision to reject his application. He has received notice today in mail, "she told Aftonbladet
Frontman for the acclaimed website Wikileaks, Australian Julian Assange, filed earlier this year for a residence permit in Sweden.
One of the reasons as stated is that Assange planning to have a Swedish utgivarbevis, which would give him better protection of sources for the site.
Today, however, decided the Migration Board decides not to give Assange a residence permit, but do not want to go into details of the case.
Notified of rape
Assange visited Sweden last summer to lecture on Wikileaks recent publication of thousands of secret documents from the war in Afghanistan. He then applied also for a Swedish residence permit.
But the lectures were overshadowed once the media reporting a rape complaint against Julian Assange. The notification was the start of a long circus that reported in the world and still not completed.
The request was lifted
An on-call prosecutor asked originally Assange in his absence, the suspect in a rape and a case of sexual molestation. The request was lifted up by an ordinary prosecutor after just one day.
When the prosecutor Eva Finné examined the case, she decided to close enrollment on the rape and only initiate investigations in a case of molestation.
Later, however, decided the prosecutor Marianne New to the preliminary investigation of rape should be resumed. Moreover, as the case classified as harassment redefined as sexual coercion and sexual assault.
Basics secret
The investigation is still ongoing and now has the Migration Board rejected his application, said Gunilla Wikstrom who are decision makers at the Migration Board's work unit in Norrköping.
- There is not much more to say more than that we rejected his application.
Can you say anything about the grounds for refusal?
- No, there is secrecy around the grounds for such a decision.
According to Gunilla Wikstrom has Assange decision has been sent both by mail and by regular mail. She can not answer whether he is in the country.
Translated by Google
Income Inequality
I remember when people were optimistic. Live was good ah well.......
Income Inequality: Too Big to Ignore, By ROBERT H. FRANK
PEOPLE often remember the past with exaggerated fondness. Sometimes, however, important aspects of life really were better in the old days.
During the three decades after World War II, for example, incomes in the United States rose rapidly and at about the same rate — almost 3 percent a year — for people at all income levels. America had an economically vibrant middle class. Roads and bridges were well maintained, and impressive new infrastructure was being built. People were optimistic.
nytimes
Income Inequality: Too Big to Ignore, By ROBERT H. FRANK
PEOPLE often remember the past with exaggerated fondness. Sometimes, however, important aspects of life really were better in the old days.
During the three decades after World War II, for example, incomes in the United States rose rapidly and at about the same rate — almost 3 percent a year — for people at all income levels. America had an economically vibrant middle class. Roads and bridges were well maintained, and impressive new infrastructure was being built. People were optimistic.
Monday, October 18, 2010
Blackwater
and Monsanto now...... boy oh boy
Blackwater's Black Ops - Jeremy Scahill | September 15, 2010
One of the most incendiary details in the documents is that Blackwater, through Total Intelligence, sought to become the "intel arm" of Monsanto, offering to provide operatives to infiltrate activist groups organizing against the multinational biotech firm.
thenation
Blackwater's Black Ops - Jeremy Scahill | September 15, 2010
One of the most incendiary details in the documents is that Blackwater, through Total Intelligence, sought to become the "intel arm" of Monsanto, offering to provide operatives to infiltrate activist groups organizing against the multinational biotech firm.
Wikileaks
Pentagon found no compromise of intelligence sources from WikiLeaks posting of Afghan war logs. By Robert Burns (CP)
goggle news
The whistleblowing group WikiLeaks claims that it has had its funding blocked and that it is the victim of financial warfare by the US government.
Moneybookers, a British-registered internet payment company that collects WikiLeaks donations, emailed the organisation to say it had closed down its account because it had been put on an official US watchlist and on an Australian government blacklist.
guardian.co.uk
The whistleblowing group WikiLeaks claims that it has had its funding blocked and that it is the victim of financial warfare by the US government.
Moneybookers, a British-registered internet payment company that collects WikiLeaks donations, emailed the organisation to say it had closed down its account because it had been put on an official US watchlist and on an Australian government blacklist.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Afghan War Debate
Media Release 15 October 2010
Bearing witness to the truth and the lies of the Afghan War
Veterans, ex-service people, concerned families and friends of serving soldiers and opponents of the Afghan war generally, will be occupying the lawns of Parliament House when the debate about the nine-year-long occupation of Afghanistan by Australian forces begins next Tuesday 19 October
The Speak Out will be hosted by Stand Fast, the national association representing veterans and ex service people opposed to the Afghan and Iraq Wars.
It will assemble at noon and go through to 2 pm when the debate begins in the Lower House
"We are inviting elected representatives of both Houses to come and address us before they enter the House for the debate," said Stand Fast SpeakOut organiser Graeme Dunstan.
"We want to bear witness to their truth. Or their ongoing lies, as the case may be."
"In particular we challenge Prime Minister Gillard to come defend her widow-making determination to "stay the course in Afghanistan" in front of ex-soldiers.
"Easy for her to say. Bloody lethal for soldiers to do," said Dunstan. "And futile."
Further information
Hamish Chitts, founder Stand Faststand-fast
Graeme Dunstan, Peacebus.compeacebus
Bearing witness to the truth and the lies of the Afghan War
Veterans, ex-service people, concerned families and friends of serving soldiers and opponents of the Afghan war generally, will be occupying the lawns of Parliament House when the debate about the nine-year-long occupation of Afghanistan by Australian forces begins next Tuesday 19 October
The Speak Out will be hosted by Stand Fast, the national association representing veterans and ex service people opposed to the Afghan and Iraq Wars.
It will assemble at noon and go through to 2 pm when the debate begins in the Lower House
"We are inviting elected representatives of both Houses to come and address us before they enter the House for the debate," said Stand Fast SpeakOut organiser Graeme Dunstan.
"We want to bear witness to their truth. Or their ongoing lies, as the case may be."
"In particular we challenge Prime Minister Gillard to come defend her widow-making determination to "stay the course in Afghanistan" in front of ex-soldiers.
"Easy for her to say. Bloody lethal for soldiers to do," said Dunstan. "And futile."
Further information
Hamish Chitts, founder Stand Fast
Graeme Dunstan, Peacebus.com
Operation Payback
Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), in retaliation for an earlier attack sanctioned by the industry body on The Pirate Bay and other file-sharing sites. ... anonymous hits back.
Waiting
what are we waiting for
time is marching by
seize the moment
activate the data held
discern the truth
stop waiting, activate
Read More there is no more today
time is marching by
seize the moment
activate the data held
discern the truth
stop waiting, activate
Human Data
used for all sorts of reasons, more puzzle pieces?
Defense Contractors from Dante's Circles of Hell: Sequel to Human Terrain System I?
by John Stanton
There is no questioning the validity of the need for a military biased geospatial cultural analysis program that assists US warfighters in their efforts to pacify local populations or improve the speed and accuracy of the kill chain. That effort does not require the use of PhD's from colleges and universities. Further, it seems outlandish to pay $250,000 for an inexperienced (5 months training usually truncated) social scientist to operate in a combat zone.
Why push all that cash to contractors when the talent to divine the cultural landscape exists within the military itself. If after a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan (and more on the way in Pakistan, Iran, Mexico-well, Hell, everywhere), the political and military leadership hasn't figured out the human terrain they wish to control, then the questions become: Are the President and SECDEF and their subordinates that incompetent? Are the hundreds of military-university human terrain/behavioral analysis efforts simply jobs programs and a way for the military and intelligence functions to tunnel into academia (just as they have done with the new breed of war journalists in the MSM or places like Wired)?
cryptome.org
check out the links interesting
The Contractors
joshuaproject.net
Defense Contractors from Dante's Circles of Hell: Sequel to Human Terrain System I?
by John Stanton
There is no questioning the validity of the need for a military biased geospatial cultural analysis program that assists US warfighters in their efforts to pacify local populations or improve the speed and accuracy of the kill chain. That effort does not require the use of PhD's from colleges and universities. Further, it seems outlandish to pay $250,000 for an inexperienced (5 months training usually truncated) social scientist to operate in a combat zone.
Why push all that cash to contractors when the talent to divine the cultural landscape exists within the military itself. If after a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan (and more on the way in Pakistan, Iran, Mexico-well, Hell, everywhere), the political and military leadership hasn't figured out the human terrain they wish to control, then the questions become: Are the President and SECDEF and their subordinates that incompetent? Are the hundreds of military-university human terrain/behavioral analysis efforts simply jobs programs and a way for the military and intelligence functions to tunnel into academia (just as they have done with the new breed of war journalists in the MSM or places like Wired)?
check out the links interesting
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Cyberwar
Is it in full swing?
As succeeding presidential administrations and leaders in the Pentagon devote increasing resources to defending U.S. computer networks and planning for potential cyber warfare, some observers are questioning whether the cyber threat has been overstated.........June 16, 2010
Yes, communications technologies are used by both the good guys and the bad guys. But the good guys far outnumber the bad guys, and it's far more valuable to make sure they're secure than it is to cripple them on the off chance it might help catch a bad guy. It's like the FBI demanding that no automobiles drive above 50 mph, so they can more easily pursue getaway cars. It might or might not work -- but, regardless, the cost to society of the resulting slowdown would be enormous...........October 15, 2010
Stuxnet has two ways to update itself. It checks back to two control servers, one in Malaysia and the other in Denmark, but also uses a peer-to-peer update system: When two Stuxnet infections encounter each other, they compare versions and make sure they both have the most recent one. It also has a kill date of June 24, 2012. On that date, the worm will stop spreading and delete itself.
We don't know who wrote Stuxnet. We don't know why. We don't know what the target is, or if Stuxnet reached it. But you can see why there is so much speculation that it was created by a government.
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As succeeding presidential administrations and leaders in the Pentagon devote increasing resources to defending U.S. computer networks and planning for potential cyber warfare, some observers are questioning whether the cyber threat has been overstated.........June 16, 2010
Yes, communications technologies are used by both the good guys and the bad guys. But the good guys far outnumber the bad guys, and it's far more valuable to make sure they're secure than it is to cripple them on the off chance it might help catch a bad guy. It's like the FBI demanding that no automobiles drive above 50 mph, so they can more easily pursue getaway cars. It might or might not work -- but, regardless, the cost to society of the resulting slowdown would be enormous...........October 15, 2010
Stuxnet has two ways to update itself. It checks back to two control servers, one in Malaysia and the other in Denmark, but also uses a peer-to-peer update system: When two Stuxnet infections encounter each other, they compare versions and make sure they both have the most recent one. It also has a kill date of June 24, 2012. On that date, the worm will stop spreading and delete itself.
We don't know who wrote Stuxnet. We don't know why. We don't know what the target is, or if Stuxnet reached it. But you can see why there is so much speculation that it was created by a government.
Asylum seekers to be released from detention
Is this real, what a move twice today I have been speechless! I await more information?
In a major policy shift, the Federal Government is preparing to announce plans to release hundreds of asylum seekers from detention and allow them to live in the community while their applications for asylum are being assessed.
The West Australian newspaper is today reporting that under the new plan, asylum seekers who are not considered a security risk will be eligible for release, with priority given to families with children.
It means hundreds of asylum seekers, including about 700 children, who are currently in detention centres are likely to be released.
Greens Senator for South Australia Sarah Hanson-Young has been working with the Federal Government to bring about this major policy change.
Senator Hanson-Young has held talks with Immigration Minister Chris Bowen, who she says is moving quickly on the issue. She says a deal to release the detainees is close.
"It's not a done deal yet but it is definitely a very, very important acknowledgement from this Government," she told Saturday AM.
"I spoke with the Minister about this in his first week and stressed that we can't keep going down this awful, awful path back to the days under the John Howard government when we had young people sewing their lips together, young children swallowing bottles of shampoo all because of the dreadful impact that immigration detention was having on their mental health."
She says there are 742 children currently in immigration detention, a figure that includes children who have come with their family and children who are unaccompanied.
Senator Hanson-Young says issues of employment and education are still yet to be worked out.
"Children who are of school age will need to be going to school. That's one of the things that I'm quite strong on," she said.
Read More auntyabc.au
In a major policy shift, the Federal Government is preparing to announce plans to release hundreds of asylum seekers from detention and allow them to live in the community while their applications for asylum are being assessed.
The West Australian newspaper is today reporting that under the new plan, asylum seekers who are not considered a security risk will be eligible for release, with priority given to families with children.
It means hundreds of asylum seekers, including about 700 children, who are currently in detention centres are likely to be released.
Greens Senator for South Australia Sarah Hanson-Young has been working with the Federal Government to bring about this major policy change.
Senator Hanson-Young has held talks with Immigration Minister Chris Bowen, who she says is moving quickly on the issue. She says a deal to release the detainees is close.
"It's not a done deal yet but it is definitely a very, very important acknowledgement from this Government," she told Saturday AM.
"I spoke with the Minister about this in his first week and stressed that we can't keep going down this awful, awful path back to the days under the John Howard government when we had young people sewing their lips together, young children swallowing bottles of shampoo all because of the dreadful impact that immigration detention was having on their mental health."
She says there are 742 children currently in immigration detention, a figure that includes children who have come with their family and children who are unaccompanied.
Senator Hanson-Young says issues of employment and education are still yet to be worked out.
"Children who are of school age will need to be going to school. That's one of the things that I'm quite strong on," she said.
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Thursday, 14 October 2010
Women and their partners don't deserve to be treated like criminals for their reproductive choices, but that's exactly what happened in Queensland this week when a young couple were put on criminal trial after being charged for having an abortion. Why? Because Queensland politicians have failed to alter laws which deem abortion a criminal act. We have a tv ad ready to go. Can you help us tell our politicians to reform these offensive laws? Click here to check out the ad and chip in - we can't let another woman be treated like a criminal.
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Thursday, 14 October 2010
Women and their partners don't deserve to be treated like criminals for their reproductive choices, but that's exactly what happened in Queensland this week when a young couple were put on criminal trial after being charged for having an abortion. Why? Because Queensland politicians have failed to alter laws which deem abortion a criminal act. We have a tv ad ready to go. Can you help us tell our politicians to reform these offensive laws? Click here to check out the ad and chip in - we can't let another woman be treated like a criminal.
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debunk
Today I have realised I unload or debunk here at this blog.
Filing away information that I think is pertinent for this time/space?
:-)
city de-stress complete ............
Filing away information that I think is pertinent for this time/space?
:-)
city de-stress complete ............
Thursday, October 14, 2010
News
A few links I thought worth a look. Puzzle pieces?
Probe launched into 500 missing Nato vehicles
By Saleem Shahid
QUETTA: Pakistan Customs has launched a probe into disappearance of 500 oil tankers and containers carrying supplies for Nato troops in Afghanistan.
www.dawn.com
Pakistan accuses the White House of exaggerating Al Qaeda terror threat
By Daily Mail Reporter
The U.S. has been accused by a top Pakistani diplomat of exaggerating the terror threat from Al Qaeda for political ends.
Intelligence officials also suggested the White House has tried to 'stitch together' rumours of attacks to ramp up security fears.
The U.S. warned last weekend of an increased risk of terrorist attacks in Europe and possibly an assault on transport infrastructure.
dailymail.co.uk
China's Pipelineistan 'War'
by Tom Engelhardt and Pepe Escobar
Future historians may well agree that the twenty-first century Silk Road first opened for business on December 14, 2009. That was the day a crucial stretch of pipeline officially went into operation linking the fabulously energy-rich state of Turkmenistan (via Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan) to Xinjiang Province in China's far west. Hyperbole did not deter the spectacularly named Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, Turkmenistan's president, from bragging, "This project has not only commercial or economic value. It is also political. China, through its wise and farsighted policy, has become one of the key guarantors of global security."
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Probe launched into 500 missing Nato vehicles
By Saleem Shahid
QUETTA: Pakistan Customs has launched a probe into disappearance of 500 oil tankers and containers carrying supplies for Nato troops in Afghanistan.
Pakistan accuses the White House of exaggerating Al Qaeda terror threat
By Daily Mail Reporter
The U.S. has been accused by a top Pakistani diplomat of exaggerating the terror threat from Al Qaeda for political ends.
Intelligence officials also suggested the White House has tried to 'stitch together' rumours of attacks to ramp up security fears.
The U.S. warned last weekend of an increased risk of terrorist attacks in Europe and possibly an assault on transport infrastructure.
China's Pipelineistan 'War'
by Tom Engelhardt and Pepe Escobar
Future historians may well agree that the twenty-first century Silk Road first opened for business on December 14, 2009. That was the day a crucial stretch of pipeline officially went into operation linking the fabulously energy-rich state of Turkmenistan (via Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan) to Xinjiang Province in China's far west. Hyperbole did not deter the spectacularly named Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, Turkmenistan's president, from bragging, "This project has not only commercial or economic value. It is also political. China, through its wise and farsighted policy, has become one of the key guarantors of global security."
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
UK aid worker
11 October 2010 Last updated at 17:37 GMT
UK aid worker may have been killed by rescuers' grenade
David Cameron: "Linda may not have died at the hands of her captors, as originally believed"
British aid worker Linda Norgrove may have been accidentally killed by US forces during a rescue mission in Afghanistan, David Cameron has said.
International forces originally said she died on Friday when one of her captors detonated a suicide vest.
But the prime minister said new details had come to light suggesting her death may have resulted from a US grenade.
Mr Cameron said he had spoken to her family about the "deeply distressing" news.
Continue reading the main story
It had been thought that she was killed by her abductors just as US forces reached the compound in which she was being held.
But Mr Cameron said Gen David Petraeus, the top allied commander in Afghanistan, had telephoned him on Monday morning to say she could have died as a result of a grenade detonated by the taskforce during the assault.
Linda Norgrove Linda Norgrove was seized in the province of Kunar on 26 September
He said the general had told him US forces were deeply dismayed at the outcome.
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UK aid worker may have been killed by rescuers' grenade
David Cameron: "Linda may not have died at the hands of her captors, as originally believed"
British aid worker Linda Norgrove may have been accidentally killed by US forces during a rescue mission in Afghanistan, David Cameron has said.
International forces originally said she died on Friday when one of her captors detonated a suicide vest.
But the prime minister said new details had come to light suggesting her death may have resulted from a US grenade.
Mr Cameron said he had spoken to her family about the "deeply distressing" news.
Continue reading the main story
It had been thought that she was killed by her abductors just as US forces reached the compound in which she was being held.
But Mr Cameron said Gen David Petraeus, the top allied commander in Afghanistan, had telephoned him on Monday morning to say she could have died as a result of a grenade detonated by the taskforce during the assault.
Linda Norgrove Linda Norgrove was seized in the province of Kunar on 26 September
He said the general had told him US forces were deeply dismayed at the outcome.
Wikileaks
WikiLeaks moves servers to nuclear bunker
Going underground
11 October, 2010
Whistle-blowing web site WikiLeaks is moving its servers into an underground nuclear bunker.
The government-bating outfit, which is currently attracted the ire of the US Military by publishing thousands of embarrassing documents relating toi its various oil conflicts across the globe, is moving some of its servers into Cold-War era nuclear shelter which has been converted into a data facility worthy of a Bond villain.
A Bond villain/thriller to say the least. brewing? chela
Assange, who spends much of his life hopping from country to country trying to avoid secret service agents from the manifold countries his organisation has miffed (not to mention the growing number of women accusing him of various sexual misadventures), could do with a bit of respite in an assassin-proof penthouse apartment.
WikiLeaks has promised to release another 15,000 documents related to the 'war' in Afghanistan once the dossier has been doctored to protect collaborators.
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"The resemblance to a James Bond setting is purely intentional." roflmao
Have a look
Going underground
11 October, 2010
Whistle-blowing web site WikiLeaks is moving its servers into an underground nuclear bunker.
The government-bating outfit, which is currently attracted the ire of the US Military by publishing thousands of embarrassing documents relating toi its various oil conflicts across the globe, is moving some of its servers into Cold-War era nuclear shelter which has been converted into a data facility worthy of a Bond villain.
A Bond villain/thriller to say the least. brewing? chela
Assange, who spends much of his life hopping from country to country trying to avoid secret service agents from the manifold countries his organisation has miffed (not to mention the growing number of women accusing him of various sexual misadventures), could do with a bit of respite in an assassin-proof penthouse apartment.
WikiLeaks has promised to release another 15,000 documents related to the 'war' in Afghanistan once the dossier has been doctored to protect collaborators.
"The resemblance to a James Bond setting is purely intentional." roflmao
Monday, October 11, 2010
The Secret Big-Money Takeover of America
The Secret Big-Money Takeover of America
By Robert Reich
October 08, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- Not only is income and wealth in America more concentrated in fewer hands than it’s been in 80 years, but those hands are buying our democracy as never before – and they’re doing it behind closed doors.
Hundreds of millions of secret dollars are pouring into congressional and state races in this election cycle. The Koch brothers (whose personal fortunes grew by $5 billion last year) appear to be behind some of it, Karl Rove has rounded up other multi-millionaires to fund right-wing candidates, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is funneling corporate dollars from around the world into congressional races, and Rupert Murdoch is evidently spending heavily.
No one knows for sure where this flood of money is coming from because it’s all secret.
ICH
By Robert Reich
October 08, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- Not only is income and wealth in America more concentrated in fewer hands than it’s been in 80 years, but those hands are buying our democracy as never before – and they’re doing it behind closed doors.
Hundreds of millions of secret dollars are pouring into congressional and state races in this election cycle. The Koch brothers (whose personal fortunes grew by $5 billion last year) appear to be behind some of it, Karl Rove has rounded up other multi-millionaires to fund right-wing candidates, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is funneling corporate dollars from around the world into congressional races, and Rupert Murdoch is evidently spending heavily.
No one knows for sure where this flood of money is coming from because it’s all secret.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Wikileaks,The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation
bingo!
NRK is the first media company in the world to publish information from the latest batch of classified documents from the war in Afghanistan, aquired by the whistleblower organisation Wikileaks.
Wikileaks has not yet released the 15.000 documents to the public, but NRK has decided to publish articles based on information from the documents today, having gained access to them over a week ago.
One of the specific cases NRK has looked into, is the terror attack on Kabul's Serena Hotel of January 14th, 2008. Norway's minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Jonas Gahr Støre, was targeted, but escaped from injury. A Norwegian journalist was among the nine people killed in the incident.
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3 days now
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NRK is the first media company in the world to publish information from the latest batch of classified documents from the war in Afghanistan, aquired by the whistleblower organisation Wikileaks.
Wikileaks has not yet released the 15.000 documents to the public, but NRK has decided to publish articles based on information from the documents today, having gained access to them over a week ago.
One of the specific cases NRK has looked into, is the terror attack on Kabul's Serena Hotel of January 14th, 2008. Norway's minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Jonas Gahr Støre, was targeted, but escaped from injury. A Norwegian journalist was among the nine people killed in the incident.
Bees
The demise of the bee population has been a major concern for some years now, oh what have we done ...............................
Read MoreNY Times
What a scientist didn’t tell the New York Times about his study on bee deaths
Posted by sakerfa on October 11th, 2010
(CNN) – Few ecological disasters have been as confounding as the massive and devastating die-off of the world’s honeybees. The phenomenon of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) — in which disoriented honeybees die far from their hives — has kept scientists, beekeepers, and regulators desperately seeking the cause. After all, the honeybee, nature’s ultimate utility player, pollinates a third of all the food we eat and contributes an estimated $15 billion in annual agriculture revenue to the U.S. economy.
The long list of possible suspects has included pests, viruses, fungi, and also pesticides, particularly so-called neonicotinoids, a class of neurotoxins that kills insects by attacking their nervous systems. For years, their leading manufacturer, Bayer Crop Science, a subsidiary of the German pharmaceutical giant Bayer AG (BAYRY), has tangled with regulators and fended off lawsuits from angry beekeepers who allege that the pesticides have disoriented and ultimately killed their bees. The company has countered that, when used correctly, the pesticides pose little risk.
A cheer must have gone up at Bayer on Thursday when a front-page New York Times article, under the headline “Scientists and Soldiers Solve a Bee Mystery,” described how a newly released study pinpoints a different cause for the die-off: “a fungus tag-teaming with a virus.” The study, written in collaboration with Army scientists at the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center outside Baltimore, analyzed the proteins of afflicted bees using a new Army software system. The Bayer pesticides, however, go unmentioned.
What the Times article did not explore — nor did the study disclose — was the relationship between the study’s lead author, Montana bee researcher Dr. Jerry Bromenshenk, and Bayer Crop Science. In recent years Bromenshenk has received a significant research grant from Bayer to study bee pollination. Indeed, before receiving the Bayer funding, Bromenshenk was lined up on the opposite side: He had signed on to serve as an expert witness for beekeepers who brought a class-action lawsuit against Bayer in 2003. He then dropped out and received the grant.
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What a scientist didn’t tell the New York Times about his study on bee deaths
Posted by sakerfa on October 11th, 2010
(CNN) – Few ecological disasters have been as confounding as the massive and devastating die-off of the world’s honeybees. The phenomenon of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) — in which disoriented honeybees die far from their hives — has kept scientists, beekeepers, and regulators desperately seeking the cause. After all, the honeybee, nature’s ultimate utility player, pollinates a third of all the food we eat and contributes an estimated $15 billion in annual agriculture revenue to the U.S. economy.
The long list of possible suspects has included pests, viruses, fungi, and also pesticides, particularly so-called neonicotinoids, a class of neurotoxins that kills insects by attacking their nervous systems. For years, their leading manufacturer, Bayer Crop Science, a subsidiary of the German pharmaceutical giant Bayer AG (BAYRY), has tangled with regulators and fended off lawsuits from angry beekeepers who allege that the pesticides have disoriented and ultimately killed their bees. The company has countered that, when used correctly, the pesticides pose little risk.
A cheer must have gone up at Bayer on Thursday when a front-page New York Times article, under the headline “Scientists and Soldiers Solve a Bee Mystery,” described how a newly released study pinpoints a different cause for the die-off: “a fungus tag-teaming with a virus.” The study, written in collaboration with Army scientists at the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center outside Baltimore, analyzed the proteins of afflicted bees using a new Army software system. The Bayer pesticides, however, go unmentioned.
What the Times article did not explore — nor did the study disclose — was the relationship between the study’s lead author, Montana bee researcher Dr. Jerry Bromenshenk, and Bayer Crop Science. In recent years Bromenshenk has received a significant research grant from Bayer to study bee pollination. Indeed, before receiving the Bayer funding, Bromenshenk was lined up on the opposite side: He had signed on to serve as an expert witness for beekeepers who brought a class-action lawsuit against Bayer in 2003. He then dropped out and received the grant.
Large crevice
Large crevice confuses residents
by Beth Jones Posted: 10.06.2010 at 10:41 PM
A large crevice, stretching almost two football fields, suddenly appeared in the woods near Birch Creek
MENOMINEE TOWNSHIP -- It's a geological phenomenon that has both authorities and Menominee Township residents scratching their heads. A large crevice, stretching almost two football fields, suddenly appeared in the woods near Birch Creek earlier this week.
"I don't know really. It just looks like a giant crack in the ground," said young spectator and local resident, Ashley Armbrust. "I don't know what happened."
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by Beth Jones Posted: 10.06.2010 at 10:41 PM
A large crevice, stretching almost two football fields, suddenly appeared in the woods near Birch Creek
MENOMINEE TOWNSHIP -- It's a geological phenomenon that has both authorities and Menominee Township residents scratching their heads. A large crevice, stretching almost two football fields, suddenly appeared in the woods near Birch Creek earlier this week.
"I don't know really. It just looks like a giant crack in the ground," said young spectator and local resident, Ashley Armbrust. "I don't know what happened."
Saturday, October 09, 2010
Nobel peace prize
Nobel peace prize goes to Liu Xiaobo
China's best-known dissident, who is serving 11 years in prison, is probably unaware he has won prize
China's best-known dissident today won the prestigious Nobel peace prize from the prison cell where he is serving 11 years for incitement to subvert state power.
The Norwegian Nobel committee praised Liu Xiaobo for his "long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China. The ... committee has long believed that there is a close connection between human rights and peace."
As the news was announced, transmission of both BBC news and CNN television channels was interrupted in China.
guardian.co.uk
Nobel laureate's wife forced to leave Beijing
IANS, Oct 9, 2010, 11.19am IST
BEIJING: Chinese police have forced the wife of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo to leave Beijing and are believed to have taken her to the northeastern city of Jinzhou, where her husband is imprisoned, reports said on Saturday.
"(The police) are sitting there waiting for me to get my things together," US-based Radio Free Asia quoted Liu's wife, Liu Xia, as saying late on Friday.
Liu Xia told the broadcaster that the police said they planned to take her to Jinzhou but she was worried that she could be held under house arrest at another place outside Beijing.
"They said I could see him (Liu Xiaobo) tomorrow," Liu Xia was quoted as saying.
Read more: Nobel laureate's wife forced to leave Beijing - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/6718007.cms?prtpage=1#ixzz11u9UtFAO
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China's best-known dissident, who is serving 11 years in prison, is probably unaware he has won prize
China's best-known dissident today won the prestigious Nobel peace prize from the prison cell where he is serving 11 years for incitement to subvert state power.
The Norwegian Nobel committee praised Liu Xiaobo for his "long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China. The ... committee has long believed that there is a close connection between human rights and peace."
As the news was announced, transmission of both BBC news and CNN television channels was interrupted in China.
Nobel laureate's wife forced to leave Beijing
IANS, Oct 9, 2010, 11.19am IST
BEIJING: Chinese police have forced the wife of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo to leave Beijing and are believed to have taken her to the northeastern city of Jinzhou, where her husband is imprisoned, reports said on Saturday.
"(The police) are sitting there waiting for me to get my things together," US-based Radio Free Asia quoted Liu's wife, Liu Xia, as saying late on Friday.
Liu Xia told the broadcaster that the police said they planned to take her to Jinzhou but she was worried that she could be held under house arrest at another place outside Beijing.
"They said I could see him (Liu Xiaobo) tomorrow," Liu Xia was quoted as saying.
Read more: Nobel laureate's wife forced to leave Beijing - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/6718007.cms?prtpage=1#ixzz11u9UtFAO
Sydney War Rally
War on Afghanistan: a crime against humanity
Sydney protest rally to mark the ninth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Afghanistan, held on October 8, 2010. Organised by Sydney Stop The War Coalition. Photos by Peter Boyle.
linked with great respect for the people on the streets - namaste
Anti-GM-crop
Interesting development.....................
Anti-GM-crop petition tops million signatures 1
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by Agence France-Presnse
6 Oct 2010 12:37 PM
BRUSSELS -- More than one million signatures have been gathered in a legal bid to "freeze" genetically modified (GM) crop cultivation in the European Union.
Environmental campaigners Greenpeace and Avaaz announced that the target for their online petition had been met. They are seeking to use a new citizen charter created under the European Union's Lisbon Treaty to put authorizations on hold.
A Brussels official said Wednesday the complaint would be passed to "political" advisers. However, the leading expert on the European parliament committee handling questions surrounding GM farming, German Green lawmaker Gerald Hafner, said there could be a legal challenge.
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Anti-GM-crop petition tops million signatures 1
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by Agence France-Presnse
6 Oct 2010 12:37 PM
BRUSSELS -- More than one million signatures have been gathered in a legal bid to "freeze" genetically modified (GM) crop cultivation in the European Union.
Environmental campaigners Greenpeace and Avaaz announced that the target for their online petition had been met. They are seeking to use a new citizen charter created under the European Union's Lisbon Treaty to put authorizations on hold.
A Brussels official said Wednesday the complaint would be passed to "political" advisers. However, the leading expert on the European parliament committee handling questions surrounding GM farming, German Green lawmaker Gerald Hafner, said there could be a legal challenge.
Friday, October 08, 2010
The World's Most Secure Data Center
Andy Greenberg, 10.07.10, 12:00 PM EDT
Forbes Magazine dated October 25, 2010
The Swedish carrier Bahnhof offers its clientele bombproof bits.
If the whistleblower organization Wikileaks wanted to bolster its image as a league of invulnerable digital superheroes, it's found the right subterranean lair. Swedish broadband carrier Bahnhof confirms that some Wikileaks servers are now hosted in its Pionen data center, converted from an underground Cold War-era nuclear bunker in downtown Stockholm. The server farm, carved out of a 100-foot-tall granite hill, has a single entrance, protected by 20-inch-thick steel doors. Bahnhof Chairman Jon Karlung says the facility sends a message to clients: Your data are safe from all intrusions, physical or legal. "The resemblance to a James Bond setting is purely intentional."
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Forbes Magazine dated October 25, 2010
The Swedish carrier Bahnhof offers its clientele bombproof bits.
If the whistleblower organization Wikileaks wanted to bolster its image as a league of invulnerable digital superheroes, it's found the right subterranean lair. Swedish broadband carrier Bahnhof confirms that some Wikileaks servers are now hosted in its Pionen data center, converted from an underground Cold War-era nuclear bunker in downtown Stockholm. The server farm, carved out of a 100-foot-tall granite hill, has a single entrance, protected by 20-inch-thick steel doors. Bahnhof Chairman Jon Karlung says the facility sends a message to clients: Your data are safe from all intrusions, physical or legal. "The resemblance to a James Bond setting is purely intentional."
How it will happen LHC update
FI
The first hints that the LHC is seriously damaging life on Earth will come from an increase on earthquake and volcano activity. This is due to the fact that the LHC is creating a powerful gravito-magnetic field, a ‘ring’ of charged, massive particles that can interact with the magnetic fields of the magma and Earth’s center.
Disturbances on the Earth’s magnetic field by the magnets of the LHC and specially the charged positive c-speed flow of protons can come through 3 different processes:
- The possibility that the 27 kilometers continuous ring of charged protons can interact with self-similar charged flows in the magma or earth’s center, creating a powerful electro-magnetic effect, displacing magma and causing earthquakes and volcano activity. It is a fact that the first day that the charged, proton ring was created in 2008 it caused 4 significant Earthquakes, the first one in Iran, seconds after it was powered up.
The proton, charged ring could act as a new pole of a magnetic field with Earth’s inner fields.
cerntruth
a bit more information: astonishing documents leaked out of CERN
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The first hints that the LHC is seriously damaging life on Earth will come from an increase on earthquake and volcano activity. This is due to the fact that the LHC is creating a powerful gravito-magnetic field, a ‘ring’ of charged, massive particles that can interact with the magnetic fields of the magma and Earth’s center.
Disturbances on the Earth’s magnetic field by the magnets of the LHC and specially the charged positive c-speed flow of protons can come through 3 different processes:
- The possibility that the 27 kilometers continuous ring of charged protons can interact with self-similar charged flows in the magma or earth’s center, creating a powerful electro-magnetic effect, displacing magma and causing earthquakes and volcano activity. It is a fact that the first day that the charged, proton ring was created in 2008 it caused 4 significant Earthquakes, the first one in Iran, seconds after it was powered up.
The proton, charged ring could act as a new pole of a magnetic field with Earth’s inner fields.
a bit more information: astonishing documents leaked out of CERN
Thursday, October 07, 2010
Hungary Toxic Sludge update
Hungary sludge flood called 'ecological disaster'
By BELA SZANDELSZKY, Associated Press Writer Bela Szandelszky, Associated Press Writer Tue Oct 5, 7:49 pm ET
DEVECSER, Hungary – Hungary declared a state of emergency in three counties Tuesday after a flood of toxic red sludge from an alumina plant engulfed several towns and burned people through their clothes. One official called it "an ecological disaster" that may threaten the Danube and other key rivers.
The toll rose to four dead, six missing and at least 120 people injured after a reservoir failed Monday at the Ajkai Timfoldgyar plant in Ajka, a town 100 miles (160 kilometer) southwest of Budapest, the capital.
Several hundred tons of plaster were being poured into the Marcal River to bind the toxic sludge and prevent it from flowing on, the National Disaster Management Directorate said.
So far, about 35.3 million cubic feet (1 million cubic meters) of sludge has leaked from the reservoir, affecting an estimated 15.4 square miles (40 square kilometers), Environmental Affairs State Secretary Zoltan Illes told the state news wire MTI.
Illes called the flood an "ecological catastrophe" and said the sludge could reach the Raba and Danube rivers. He suspended activity at the plant and ordered the company to repair the damaged reservoir.
The disaster agency said 390 residents had to be temporarily relocated and 110 were rescued from the flooded towns, including Kolontal, Devecser and Somlovasarhely. Firefighters and soldiers swept through the region Tuesday carrying out cleanup tasks with bulldozers.
The sludge, a waste product in aluminum production, contains heavy metals and is toxic if ingested. Many of the injured sustained burns as the sludge seeped through their clothes, and two faced life-threatening conditions. Two women, a young man and a 3-year-old child were killed in the flooding.
The injured were being monitored because the chemical burns caused by the sludge could take days to emerge and what may seem like superficial injuries could later cause damage to deeper tissue, Dr. Peter Jakabos of Gyor hospital, where several of the injured were taken, told state television.
In Devecser, the sludge in Tunde Erdelyi's house was still five feet (1.5 meters) high Tuesday and rescue workers had to use an ax to cut through her living room door to let the red liquid flow out.
"When I heard the rumble of the flood, all the time I had was to jump out the window and run to higher ground," said a tearful Erdelyi, still shocked by the events but grateful that the family rabbit and cat were safe.
Robert Kis, Erdelyi's husband, said his uncle had been taken to Budapest by helicopter after the sludge "burned him to the bone." The toxic flood overturned Erdelyi's car and pushed it 30 yards (meters) to the back of the garden while her husband's van was lifted up onto a fence.
Erdelyi, a seamstress, was hoping the flood spared the shop in town where she worked, her family's main source of income.
In neighboring Kolontal, the town closest to the aluminum plant, 61-year old widow Erzsebet Veingartner was in her kitchen when the sludge flood hit Monday afternoon.
"I looked outside and all I saw was the stream swelling like a huge wave," said Veingartner, who lives on a monthly disability pension of 70,000 forints ($350). "Thank God I had the presence of mind to turn off the gas and run up to the attic."
Veingartner, devastated by her losses, looked out at her backyard still covered by some three yards (meters) of red sludge.
"I have a winter's worth of firewood in the basement and it's all useless now," she said. "I lost all my chickens, my ducks, my Rottweiler, and my potato patch. My late husband's tools and machinery were in the shed and it's all gone."
Local environmentalists say they have tried to call the government's attention to the risks of red sludge for years, pointing to a 2003 report in which they estimated the waste at 30 million tons.
"Accumulated during decades ... red sludge is, by volume, the largest amount of toxic waste in Hungary," the Clear Air Action Group said, adding that producing one ton of alumina resulted in two tons of toxic waste.
MAL Rt., the Hungarian Aluminum Production and Trade Company that owns the Ajka plant, said that according to European Union standards, the red sludge was not considered toxic waste. The company also denied that it should have taken more precautions to shore up the reservoir.
"According to the current evaluation, company management could not have noticed the signs of the natural catastrophe nor done anything to prevent it even while carefully respecting technological procedures," MAL said in a statement.
yahoonews
Associated Press writer Pablo Gorondi in Budapest contributed to this report.
By BELA SZANDELSZKY, Associated Press Writer Bela Szandelszky, Associated Press Writer Tue Oct 5, 7:49 pm ET
DEVECSER, Hungary – Hungary declared a state of emergency in three counties Tuesday after a flood of toxic red sludge from an alumina plant engulfed several towns and burned people through their clothes. One official called it "an ecological disaster" that may threaten the Danube and other key rivers.
The toll rose to four dead, six missing and at least 120 people injured after a reservoir failed Monday at the Ajkai Timfoldgyar plant in Ajka, a town 100 miles (160 kilometer) southwest of Budapest, the capital.
Several hundred tons of plaster were being poured into the Marcal River to bind the toxic sludge and prevent it from flowing on, the National Disaster Management Directorate said.
So far, about 35.3 million cubic feet (1 million cubic meters) of sludge has leaked from the reservoir, affecting an estimated 15.4 square miles (40 square kilometers), Environmental Affairs State Secretary Zoltan Illes told the state news wire MTI.
Illes called the flood an "ecological catastrophe" and said the sludge could reach the Raba and Danube rivers. He suspended activity at the plant and ordered the company to repair the damaged reservoir.
The disaster agency said 390 residents had to be temporarily relocated and 110 were rescued from the flooded towns, including Kolontal, Devecser and Somlovasarhely. Firefighters and soldiers swept through the region Tuesday carrying out cleanup tasks with bulldozers.
The sludge, a waste product in aluminum production, contains heavy metals and is toxic if ingested. Many of the injured sustained burns as the sludge seeped through their clothes, and two faced life-threatening conditions. Two women, a young man and a 3-year-old child were killed in the flooding.
The injured were being monitored because the chemical burns caused by the sludge could take days to emerge and what may seem like superficial injuries could later cause damage to deeper tissue, Dr. Peter Jakabos of Gyor hospital, where several of the injured were taken, told state television.
In Devecser, the sludge in Tunde Erdelyi's house was still five feet (1.5 meters) high Tuesday and rescue workers had to use an ax to cut through her living room door to let the red liquid flow out.
"When I heard the rumble of the flood, all the time I had was to jump out the window and run to higher ground," said a tearful Erdelyi, still shocked by the events but grateful that the family rabbit and cat were safe.
Robert Kis, Erdelyi's husband, said his uncle had been taken to Budapest by helicopter after the sludge "burned him to the bone." The toxic flood overturned Erdelyi's car and pushed it 30 yards (meters) to the back of the garden while her husband's van was lifted up onto a fence.
Erdelyi, a seamstress, was hoping the flood spared the shop in town where she worked, her family's main source of income.
In neighboring Kolontal, the town closest to the aluminum plant, 61-year old widow Erzsebet Veingartner was in her kitchen when the sludge flood hit Monday afternoon.
"I looked outside and all I saw was the stream swelling like a huge wave," said Veingartner, who lives on a monthly disability pension of 70,000 forints ($350). "Thank God I had the presence of mind to turn off the gas and run up to the attic."
Veingartner, devastated by her losses, looked out at her backyard still covered by some three yards (meters) of red sludge.
"I have a winter's worth of firewood in the basement and it's all useless now," she said. "I lost all my chickens, my ducks, my Rottweiler, and my potato patch. My late husband's tools and machinery were in the shed and it's all gone."
Local environmentalists say they have tried to call the government's attention to the risks of red sludge for years, pointing to a 2003 report in which they estimated the waste at 30 million tons.
"Accumulated during decades ... red sludge is, by volume, the largest amount of toxic waste in Hungary," the Clear Air Action Group said, adding that producing one ton of alumina resulted in two tons of toxic waste.
MAL Rt., the Hungarian Aluminum Production and Trade Company that owns the Ajka plant, said that according to European Union standards, the red sludge was not considered toxic waste. The company also denied that it should have taken more precautions to shore up the reservoir.
"According to the current evaluation, company management could not have noticed the signs of the natural catastrophe nor done anything to prevent it even while carefully respecting technological procedures," MAL said in a statement.
Associated Press writer Pablo Gorondi in Budapest contributed to this report.
Wednesday, October 06, 2010
Afghanistan Wartime Photos Pt 4
Afghanistan Wartime Women September 2010
Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard (R) meets Corporal Craig Turnball and his explosives detection dog during her visit to Multinational Base Tarin Kowt in southern Afghanistan October 2, 2010. Gillard made a surprise visit to Afghanistan, her first overseas trip as Prime Minister. Picture taken October 2, 2010. Reuters
Pictures
Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard (R) meets Corporal Craig Turnball and his explosives detection dog during her visit to Multinational Base Tarin Kowt in southern Afghanistan October 2, 2010. Gillard made a surprise visit to Afghanistan, her first overseas trip as Prime Minister. Picture taken October 2, 2010. Reuters
WikiLeaks editor–in–chief Julian Assange
I am wondering where all this is going - I have supported Assange and will continue to do so until I think it is fruitless. The whole saga has become just that a saga and just get on with the work at hand - whistleblowing - Peace
October 04, 2010
WikiLeaks chief lashes out at media during debate
By Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — WikiLeaks editor–in–chief Julian Assange lashed out at the mainstream media during a debate at a London university Thursday, fighting back at a string of unfavorable stories that have appeared since his organization's publication of a cache of U.S. intelligence documents.
Assange's group has reportedly suffered infighting and the former computer hacker–turned–online whistle blower also faces allegations of sexual misconduct in Sweden, where some of the organization's infrastructure is based.
As WikiLeaks fell behind on its promised release of a new tranche of 15,000 U.S. intelligence reports, one former group spokesman was quoted this week as saying that the organization was becoming consumed by its confrontation with the Pentagon.
Daniel Domscheit–Berg, a German who said he recently quit as Wikileaks' spokesman over Assange's management style, told Der Speigel he had encountered problems with what he described as the Australian's obsession with attacking the U.S. government.
At the debate at London's City University, Assange disputed that Domscheit–Berg had quit, claiming he was suspended — but he refused to give details. He denied there had been a dispute over his management. "It was about a different issue," Assange said.
Assange repeated claims that his organization is sitting on a mass of classified information from countries from all over the world, but declined to confirm his publication schedule.
He accused the Wall Street Journal of participating in what he described as a "scam" to discredit WikiLeaks by publicizing the details of its e–mail exchanges with human rights groups, which reportedly expressed disquiet over the naming of informants in the Afghanistan intelligence reports it posted to the web.
Critics claim WikiLeaks may have endangered the lives of Afghan civilians and military personnel by failing to censor the files.
Assange attacked The Huffington Post website for investigating his organization's financing, and criticized Wired magazine — which recently published a report that claimed WikiLeaks was suffering from an internal power struggle that had led to the ouster of key staffers.
He also rejected claims that his group was obsessed with attacking the American military, but said "We have to deal with that country, if we are to deal — even partially — with the problem of secrecy in the world."
The WikiLeaks chief made only an oblique reference to his legal troubles in Sweden, where prosecutors are probing complaints against Assange filed by two women in August. Assange has denied the allegations, saying they are part of a smear campaign. Asked about his future plans in the Scandinavian country, Assange dodged the question, wistfully describing Sweden as a fascinating place.
Associated Press Writer Sylvia Hui contributed to this report.
Online:
WikiLeaks: http://wikileaks.org/
Index on Censorship: http://www.indexoncensorship.org/
October 04, 2010
WikiLeaks chief lashes out at media during debate
By Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — WikiLeaks editor–in–chief Julian Assange lashed out at the mainstream media during a debate at a London university Thursday, fighting back at a string of unfavorable stories that have appeared since his organization's publication of a cache of U.S. intelligence documents.
Assange's group has reportedly suffered infighting and the former computer hacker–turned–online whistle blower also faces allegations of sexual misconduct in Sweden, where some of the organization's infrastructure is based.
As WikiLeaks fell behind on its promised release of a new tranche of 15,000 U.S. intelligence reports, one former group spokesman was quoted this week as saying that the organization was becoming consumed by its confrontation with the Pentagon.
Daniel Domscheit–Berg, a German who said he recently quit as Wikileaks' spokesman over Assange's management style, told Der Speigel he had encountered problems with what he described as the Australian's obsession with attacking the U.S. government.
At the debate at London's City University, Assange disputed that Domscheit–Berg had quit, claiming he was suspended — but he refused to give details. He denied there had been a dispute over his management. "It was about a different issue," Assange said.
Assange repeated claims that his organization is sitting on a mass of classified information from countries from all over the world, but declined to confirm his publication schedule.
He accused the Wall Street Journal of participating in what he described as a "scam" to discredit WikiLeaks by publicizing the details of its e–mail exchanges with human rights groups, which reportedly expressed disquiet over the naming of informants in the Afghanistan intelligence reports it posted to the web.
Critics claim WikiLeaks may have endangered the lives of Afghan civilians and military personnel by failing to censor the files.
Assange attacked The Huffington Post website for investigating his organization's financing, and criticized Wired magazine — which recently published a report that claimed WikiLeaks was suffering from an internal power struggle that had led to the ouster of key staffers.
He also rejected claims that his group was obsessed with attacking the American military, but said "We have to deal with that country, if we are to deal — even partially — with the problem of secrecy in the world."
The WikiLeaks chief made only an oblique reference to his legal troubles in Sweden, where prosecutors are probing complaints against Assange filed by two women in August. Assange has denied the allegations, saying they are part of a smear campaign. Asked about his future plans in the Scandinavian country, Assange dodged the question, wistfully describing Sweden as a fascinating place.
Associated Press Writer Sylvia Hui contributed to this report.
Online:
WikiLeaks: http://wikileaks.org/
Index on Censorship: http://www.indexoncensorship.org/
Hungary Toxic Sludge
The Planet Earth continues to suffer........
Hungary battles to stem torrent of toxic sludge
The spill flooded homes, roads and fields with toxic waste
Emergency services in Hungary are trying to stop a torrent of toxic red sludge flowing into major waterways, including the River Danube.
A state of emergency has been declared in three western counties after the chemical waste burst from a reservoir at an alumina plant.
So far at least four people have died and 120 injured. Six more are missing.
At least seven villages and towns are affected including Devecser, where the torrent stood 2m (6.5ft) deep.
The flood swept cars from roads and damaged bridges and houses, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of residents.
BBC News
Hungary battles to stem torrent of toxic sludge
The spill flooded homes, roads and fields with toxic waste
Emergency services in Hungary are trying to stop a torrent of toxic red sludge flowing into major waterways, including the River Danube.
A state of emergency has been declared in three western counties after the chemical waste burst from a reservoir at an alumina plant.
So far at least four people have died and 120 injured. Six more are missing.
At least seven villages and towns are affected including Devecser, where the torrent stood 2m (6.5ft) deep.
The flood swept cars from roads and damaged bridges and houses, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of residents.
Economic Growth
Australia's economic growth comes at expense of workers' wages and conditions: report
by John McCarthy
THE blowout in the cost of living could be directly blamed on companies and governments shifting financial responsibilities and risks on to workers, according a report released by unions.
The report, by the Sydney University Workplace Research Centre, found that while Australia had massive economic growth over the past 40 years, wages had been constrained, costs had eaten up a greater percentage of income and more than two million jobs were now part-time or casual.
According to Australian Council of Trade Unions president Ged Kearney, for the first time in Australia's history, less than 50 per cent of the workforce was classified as being in permanent full-time employment.
She said the economic growth had come at the cost of workers' wages and conditions.
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by John McCarthy
THE blowout in the cost of living could be directly blamed on companies and governments shifting financial responsibilities and risks on to workers, according a report released by unions.
The report, by the Sydney University Workplace Research Centre, found that while Australia had massive economic growth over the past 40 years, wages had been constrained, costs had eaten up a greater percentage of income and more than two million jobs were now part-time or casual.
According to Australian Council of Trade Unions president Ged Kearney, for the first time in Australia's history, less than 50 per cent of the workforce was classified as being in permanent full-time employment.
She said the economic growth had come at the cost of workers' wages and conditions.
The Power of Profanity
Have you ever wondered why swearing seems to be your immediate reaction to pain?
In June 2009, researchers at the Keele University in England sought to determine why the automatic response for so many people in pain is to blurt out swears.
The question at hand was, does simply expressing pain (in a shout, yelp, or cry) make you feel better, or, is it the specific words you choose to yell that helps to lessen pain? Do curse words contain a hidden power that has the ability to help decrease pain?
exploringthemind
In June 2009, researchers at the Keele University in England sought to determine why the automatic response for so many people in pain is to blurt out swears.
The question at hand was, does simply expressing pain (in a shout, yelp, or cry) make you feel better, or, is it the specific words you choose to yell that helps to lessen pain? Do curse words contain a hidden power that has the ability to help decrease pain?
Staying Peaceful
it means being selfish in a way
staying strong and full of faith
the world and its people have changed
for fifty odd years I have seen many things but
the decline of the human race
is in my eyes the core event
when will we learn we are not the supreme
the people of the world, are destroying the world
we should be the keepers of the world
living in harmony with beast and plant
nurturing and caring for our planet
Think about it................imagine!
Tuesday, October 05, 2010
Corporatism
Corporatism: The Cyborg Amongst Us
By by Aetius Romulous
October 04, 2010 "Information Clearing House"
Another very good read ...................
In a world of fragile mortal beings, the corporation is a cyborg.
A corporation is nothing more than a legal construct, a packet of documents and papers that conforms to law (or more properly, has law conform to it). The corporation is a "virtual person" - a cyborg. It has been unchanged in its essential form since the first corporations were designed in the early 17th century. Its purpose was - as it is today - to concentrate the capital of individuals, provide that concentration with legal protections and rights under law and legislation, and to then use that concentrated capital to create profits from projects beyond the scope and reach of individual mortal men.
ICH
By by Aetius Romulous
October 04, 2010 "Information Clearing House"
Another very good read ...................
In a world of fragile mortal beings, the corporation is a cyborg.
A corporation is nothing more than a legal construct, a packet of documents and papers that conforms to law (or more properly, has law conform to it). The corporation is a "virtual person" - a cyborg. It has been unchanged in its essential form since the first corporations were designed in the early 17th century. Its purpose was - as it is today - to concentrate the capital of individuals, provide that concentration with legal protections and rights under law and legislation, and to then use that concentrated capital to create profits from projects beyond the scope and reach of individual mortal men.
Tyranny’s Last Stand
The Tipping Point is Here
By Michael Edwards
October 04, 2010 "Information Clearing House"
This is a very good read........
Malcolm Gladwell’s provocative book The Tipping Point, he gives many examples of how seemingly small, insignificant decisions can radiate to cause an eventual wave of change that overtakes the prevailing modes of behavior. He clearly extrapolates how the silent leaders of society — not the ones on TV, or the ones we appoint — set trends through their singular ability to recognize an underlying need, or change of direction. It can be as simple as a clothing style, a type of cuisine, a new travel destination .,. or the need to change the world’s political course. I believe there are signs that The Tipping Point for free humanity has been reached; from here on out, there will be an open dialogue between the forces of tyranny and the forces of freedom.
ICH
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activistpost
By Michael Edwards
October 04, 2010 "Information Clearing House"
This is a very good read........
Malcolm Gladwell’s provocative book The Tipping Point, he gives many examples of how seemingly small, insignificant decisions can radiate to cause an eventual wave of change that overtakes the prevailing modes of behavior. He clearly extrapolates how the silent leaders of society — not the ones on TV, or the ones we appoint — set trends through their singular ability to recognize an underlying need, or change of direction. It can be as simple as a clothing style, a type of cuisine, a new travel destination .,. or the need to change the world’s political course. I believe there are signs that The Tipping Point for free humanity has been reached; from here on out, there will be an open dialogue between the forces of tyranny and the forces of freedom.
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Monday, October 04, 2010
Blackwater Mercenaries
7:00 AM
I was under the impression the USA as stated by Hilary Clinton were going to stop using these private war mongering companies. Seems new contracts have been issued (so that is just more lies to add to the mix)
So looks like the Afgans have taken this matter in hand and resolve it themselves.
Blackwater 'dissolved' in Afghanistan
Afghanistan has officially banned eight foreign security firms, including American contractor Xe Services LLC, formerly known as Blackwater.
Afghan officials say the private contractors have been dissolved and their weapons collected.
"The process of dissolving eight private security companies and collecting their weapons has been carried out successfully," Waheed Omer, the spokesman for President Hamid Karzai said on Sunday.
The announcement comes a day after Washington granted Blackwater a fresh five-year contract to operate in Afghanistan.
The firm also signed another contract worth USD 100 million with the CIA two months ago.
The company uses subsidiaries to win contracts.
The deals have been signed despite Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's campaign promise to keep Blackwater and other private contractors away from federal contracts.
The company has been struggling with a trail of legal cases and civil lawsuits, including one for killing 17 Iraqi civilians during a Baghdad shootout in 2007.
Karzai had earlier accused foreign security contractors in the country of operating as militias, saying that these firms are only worsening the security situation in Afghanistan.
The move spotlights misconduct of US mercenaries, who are contracted to protect the western embassies and companies in central and remote regions of Afghanistan.
Most of the mercenaries are believed to have close ties with Afghan warlords. They are also accused of contributing to the rising number of civilian casualties in the country.
JR/AKM/MMN
Press TV
1:45PM
Update new link for further information, incredible what is happening I must stop looking.
Anyway the link
But from Wired
I was under the impression the USA as stated by Hilary Clinton were going to stop using these private war mongering companies. Seems new contracts have been issued (so that is just more lies to add to the mix)
So looks like the Afgans have taken this matter in hand and resolve it themselves.
Blackwater 'dissolved' in Afghanistan
Afghanistan has officially banned eight foreign security firms, including American contractor Xe Services LLC, formerly known as Blackwater.
Afghan officials say the private contractors have been dissolved and their weapons collected.
"The process of dissolving eight private security companies and collecting their weapons has been carried out successfully," Waheed Omer, the spokesman for President Hamid Karzai said on Sunday.
The announcement comes a day after Washington granted Blackwater a fresh five-year contract to operate in Afghanistan.
The firm also signed another contract worth USD 100 million with the CIA two months ago.
The company uses subsidiaries to win contracts.
The deals have been signed despite Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's campaign promise to keep Blackwater and other private contractors away from federal contracts.
The company has been struggling with a trail of legal cases and civil lawsuits, including one for killing 17 Iraqi civilians during a Baghdad shootout in 2007.
Karzai had earlier accused foreign security contractors in the country of operating as militias, saying that these firms are only worsening the security situation in Afghanistan.
The move spotlights misconduct of US mercenaries, who are contracted to protect the western embassies and companies in central and remote regions of Afghanistan.
Most of the mercenaries are believed to have close ties with Afghan warlords. They are also accused of contributing to the rising number of civilian casualties in the country.
JR/AKM/MMN
1:45PM
Update new link for further information, incredible what is happening I must stop looking.
Anyway the link
Sophistry and the Right by Jon Faulkner
Without being entirely dismissive of the progressive response to the right's ascendancy it is painfully obvious that words, no matter how eloquent or apt, fall far short when arguing the progressive ideology. Republican sophists use rhetorical argument, albeit absence truth, to great success to refute the progressive left.
Good read chaps...........
CommonDreams
Good read chaps...........
Monsanto Roundup
Please STOP using these sort of products. I know how easy it is to use poison, fast, efficient but these chemicals are killing us, the animals and the planet.
Make it fun to weed. There are plenty of benefits: fresh air, exercise, family togetherness - THINK please.
Study Shows Monsanto Roundup Herbicide Link to Birth Defects
by F. William Engdahl
A major new scientific study has confirmed growing conviction that the world’s most widely used chemical herbicide, Monsanto Corporation’s Roundup is toxic and a danger to human as well as animal organisms. The latest scientific research carried out by a multinational scientific team headed by Professor Andrés Carrasco, head of the Laboratory of Molecular Embryology at the University of Buenos Aires Medical School and member of Argentina’s National Council of Scientific and Technical Research, presents alarming demonstration that Monsanto and the GMO agribusiness industry have systematically lied about the safety of their Roundup. Roundup in far lower concentrations than used in agriculture is linked to birth defects. The health implications are huge. All major GMO crops on the market today are genetically manipulated to “tolerate” the herbicide Roundup.
Glyphosate was patented by Monsanto in the 1970’s well before GMO was commercialized, as a so-called broad-spectrum weed killer. It is typically sprayed and absorbed through the leaves, or used as a forestry herbicide. It was initially patented and sold by Monsanto under the trade name Roundup, which also contains non-disclosed added chemicals the company refuses to divulge for “trade secret” reasons. As of 2005, 87% of all US soybean fields were planted with glyphosate-resistant varieties of GMO soybeans and sprayed with Roundup.
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Make it fun to weed. There are plenty of benefits: fresh air, exercise, family togetherness - THINK please.
Study Shows Monsanto Roundup Herbicide Link to Birth Defects
by F. William Engdahl
A major new scientific study has confirmed growing conviction that the world’s most widely used chemical herbicide, Monsanto Corporation’s Roundup is toxic and a danger to human as well as animal organisms. The latest scientific research carried out by a multinational scientific team headed by Professor Andrés Carrasco, head of the Laboratory of Molecular Embryology at the University of Buenos Aires Medical School and member of Argentina’s National Council of Scientific and Technical Research, presents alarming demonstration that Monsanto and the GMO agribusiness industry have systematically lied about the safety of their Roundup. Roundup in far lower concentrations than used in agriculture is linked to birth defects. The health implications are huge. All major GMO crops on the market today are genetically manipulated to “tolerate” the herbicide Roundup.
Glyphosate was patented by Monsanto in the 1970’s well before GMO was commercialized, as a so-called broad-spectrum weed killer. It is typically sprayed and absorbed through the leaves, or used as a forestry herbicide. It was initially patented and sold by Monsanto under the trade name Roundup, which also contains non-disclosed added chemicals the company refuses to divulge for “trade secret” reasons. As of 2005, 87% of all US soybean fields were planted with glyphosate-resistant varieties of GMO soybeans and sprayed with Roundup.
New Climate Change Guide
When will people open their eyes, anyway this is a start.......
Royal Society issues new climate change guide that admits there are 'uncertainties' about the science.
By Niall Firth
Last updated at 12:37 PM on 30th September 2010
The UK’s leading scientific body has been forced to rewrite its guide on climate change and admit that it is not known how much warmer the Earth will become.
The Royal Society has updated its guide after 43 of its members complained that the previous version failed to take into account the opinion of climate change sceptics.
Now the new guide, called ‘Climate change: a summary of the science’, admits that there are some ‘uncertainties’ regarding the science behind climate change.
And it says that it impossible to know for sure how the Earth's climate will change in the future nor what the possible effects may be.
Sunday, October 03, 2010
UK defence chiefs silent on Afghan civilian deaths revealed by WikiLeaks
Freedom of information request into 21 incidents where UK forces shot Afghan civilians rejected by MoD officials
By Rob Evans and David Leigh
The Ministry of Defence yesterday refused to disclose any details of its investigations into the shooting of innocent civilians by troops in Afghanistan. This follows the disclosure in the Guardian of the existence of 21 separate such cases which have apparently been covered up.
The cases emerged following the publication by WikiLeaks, the whistleblowing website, of thousands of classified US military field reports. These included accounts of units of the Coldstream Guards and Royal Marines firing on civilians.
In one case, on 21 October 2007, US soldiers in Kabul reported that a gunner on top of an unidentified UK vehicle wounded three civilian interpreters in a private security company vehicle. The notes stated: "Investigation is controlled by the British. We are not able to get the complete story."
On another occasion, on 12 March 2008, British troops in Helmand province called in an airstrike, which resulted in the deaths of two women and two children, and injured another child.
MoD officials responded to a freedom of information request by the Guardian yesterday by admitting that they possessed information on the civilian casualties, but claimed it would involve too much work to search their electronic archive.
An anonymous official at the British military headquarters, Northwood, rejected the FOI request on the grounds that "we would need to undertake … separate searches, one for each incident you have detailed, of our electronic archive system, each of which will take up to five days".
The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, appeared in London last night to deny that his global band of activists was in trouble, following reports of resignations and splits.
Assange denied that WikiLeaks' representative in Germany was suspended for criticising him.
Daniel Berg, who says he has now resigned from the project, told German news magazine Der Spiegel that Assange had unilaterally taken the decision to suspend him and had "reacted to the smallest criticism by accusing me of being disobedient and disloyal".
But Assange dismissed this as "absolute lies". "He was suspended a month ago for other reasons," said the site's founder, without giving details.
Assange, a 39-year-old Australian, shot to global prominence earlier this year when the website obtained 90,000 leaked US military files detailing operations in Afghanistan, and made them available to the Guardian, along with the New York Times and Der Spiegel.
Since then, Assange, a former hacker, has had a bumpy ride. The Pentagon claimed WikiLeaks could not guarantee Afghan informants' safety from reprisals.
On Thursday at London's City University, Assange told an audience at an event by press freedom group Index on Censorship that there was no evidence anyone had actually suffered any reprisals, and that the site had edited out large numbers of names in order to prevent such a development.
He was unwilling to be drawn on the details of sexual assault claims, which still leave him facing possible prosecution in Stockholm. Details were leaked, apparently by Swedish police, of a complaint following consensual sexual encounters two women had with him on successive nights.
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Original Source The Guardian, October 2, 2010
By Rob Evans and David Leigh
The Ministry of Defence yesterday refused to disclose any details of its investigations into the shooting of innocent civilians by troops in Afghanistan. This follows the disclosure in the Guardian of the existence of 21 separate such cases which have apparently been covered up.
The cases emerged following the publication by WikiLeaks, the whistleblowing website, of thousands of classified US military field reports. These included accounts of units of the Coldstream Guards and Royal Marines firing on civilians.
In one case, on 21 October 2007, US soldiers in Kabul reported that a gunner on top of an unidentified UK vehicle wounded three civilian interpreters in a private security company vehicle. The notes stated: "Investigation is controlled by the British. We are not able to get the complete story."
On another occasion, on 12 March 2008, British troops in Helmand province called in an airstrike, which resulted in the deaths of two women and two children, and injured another child.
MoD officials responded to a freedom of information request by the Guardian yesterday by admitting that they possessed information on the civilian casualties, but claimed it would involve too much work to search their electronic archive.
An anonymous official at the British military headquarters, Northwood, rejected the FOI request on the grounds that "we would need to undertake … separate searches, one for each incident you have detailed, of our electronic archive system, each of which will take up to five days".
The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, appeared in London last night to deny that his global band of activists was in trouble, following reports of resignations and splits.
Assange denied that WikiLeaks' representative in Germany was suspended for criticising him.
Daniel Berg, who says he has now resigned from the project, told German news magazine Der Spiegel that Assange had unilaterally taken the decision to suspend him and had "reacted to the smallest criticism by accusing me of being disobedient and disloyal".
But Assange dismissed this as "absolute lies". "He was suspended a month ago for other reasons," said the site's founder, without giving details.
Assange, a 39-year-old Australian, shot to global prominence earlier this year when the website obtained 90,000 leaked US military files detailing operations in Afghanistan, and made them available to the Guardian, along with the New York Times and Der Spiegel.
Since then, Assange, a former hacker, has had a bumpy ride. The Pentagon claimed WikiLeaks could not guarantee Afghan informants' safety from reprisals.
On Thursday at London's City University, Assange told an audience at an event by press freedom group Index on Censorship that there was no evidence anyone had actually suffered any reprisals, and that the site had edited out large numbers of names in order to prevent such a development.
He was unwilling to be drawn on the details of sexual assault claims, which still leave him facing possible prosecution in Stockholm. Details were leaked, apparently by Swedish police, of a complaint following consensual sexual encounters two women had with him on successive nights.
Original Source The Guardian, October 2, 2010
They wouldn't would they - charge WikiLeaks?
Australia's Attorney-General has flagged charging WikiLeaks members for their involvement in releasing confidential US military documents.
Speaking at the launch of an international cyber security exercise earlier this week, Attorney-General Robert McClelland expressed his disapproval of WikiLeaks's July release of tens of thousands of secret US documents relating to the war in Afghanistan. He said the release of the documents, 77,000 in total, had put lives at risk and he criticised WikiLeaks for making such a decision ''from the comfort of an office.'' ''Anything that puts those people - who are serving their country and protecting our security - at risk is entirely reprehensible, whether it's done for notoriety, or whether it's done for commercial interests,'' he said.
But he would not comment on allegations by a WikiLeaks insider that Australian intelligence agencies had been monitoring WikiLeaks's founder Julian Assange while he was in Australia, or whether they shared intelligence about him with agencies from the US, Britain and Sweden.
''It's not the sort of thing that I would comment on, but … we do co-operate in respect to a number of matters internationally,'' he said.
While Australia's top electronic intelligence agency, the Defence Signals Directorate, confirmed to The Age that it has not monitored Mr Assange, neither ASIO, ASIS nor the federal police would comment. ''For reasons of security and confidentiality, ASIO does not comment on individuals or groups with whom ASIO has or has not had contact with,'' the agency said.
The new claims come less than three weeks before the expected release by WikiLeaks of another massive tranche - four times as big as the Afghan logs released two months ago - of secret US government documents, this time about the war in Iraq. The release is expected to involve almost 400,000 new documents.
Speaking at the launch of an international cyber security exercise earlier this week, Attorney-General Robert McClelland expressed his disapproval of WikiLeaks's July release of tens of thousands of secret US documents relating to the war in Afghanistan. He said the release of the documents, 77,000 in total, had put lives at risk and he criticised WikiLeaks for making such a decision ''from the comfort of an office.'' ''Anything that puts those people - who are serving their country and protecting our security - at risk is entirely reprehensible, whether it's done for notoriety, or whether it's done for commercial interests,'' he said.
But he would not comment on allegations by a WikiLeaks insider that Australian intelligence agencies had been monitoring WikiLeaks's founder Julian Assange while he was in Australia, or whether they shared intelligence about him with agencies from the US, Britain and Sweden.
''It's not the sort of thing that I would comment on, but … we do co-operate in respect to a number of matters internationally,'' he said.
While Australia's top electronic intelligence agency, the Defence Signals Directorate, confirmed to The Age that it has not monitored Mr Assange, neither ASIO, ASIS nor the federal police would comment. ''For reasons of security and confidentiality, ASIO does not comment on individuals or groups with whom ASIO has or has not had contact with,'' the agency said.
The new claims come less than three weeks before the expected release by WikiLeaks of another massive tranche - four times as big as the Afghan logs released two months ago - of secret US government documents, this time about the war in Iraq. The release is expected to involve almost 400,000 new documents.
The Earth Planet
A Planet is a Celestial Body.
Ah what a beautiful picture that paints in my minds eye, the word celestial conjures an image of Angels floating in the heavenly skies.
Mystical Creatures; dragons, unicorns, heavenly creatures, water creatures, all drifting around the universe, the clouds and the stars, strumming harps, watching over their human charges here on the Earth Plane.
Our Planet Earth
The Earth we humans live on is a planet, orbiting around the Sun, on a tilted axis. Interacting with the Moon creating the seasons; summer, winter, the tides, day and night.
Our Earth takes 365 earth days to orbit the sun, what an amazing creation. Looking at pictures taken from space, Mother Earth is so stunning.
The Blue Marble is a famous photograph of the Earth taken on 7 December 1972 by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft. The picture on top of this blog.
We should think of Mother Earth as a living entity, sustaining all life forms throughout the ages. Without our planet there is no us, Mother Earth is the reason we are here. In my inner visual perception, we as humans, the thinking animals (I wonder about that sometimes) were placed here to nurture a life of love and peace among all cultures and be the caretakers of all the creatures and plants of nature. She (Mother Earth) is nature, she is all of us.
All life began from a tiny cell, a micro-organism somewhere out in the galaxy, the big bang, the cell of Mother Earth was born and evolved into this beautiful planet we call home.
The Spiritual Plan for Earth
The magnetic field around Earth protects her and us from radiation that is harmful to all life.
The atmosphere also serves as a shield to protect her and her inhabitants.
Everything in her original design was perfect, enough water, enough sunshine, enough of everything that we humans, as creatures of the earth needed to
live our lives in health, peace and harmony. Most of the planets indigenous races know the spirit of Mother Earth, know that she breathes, is alive,
supporting a vast regime of eco-systems and without this living mass under our feet we would be no more.
The trees and plants cleanse the air we breath in and out to keep us alive, everything was put into place at the creation of Mother Earth for us, her children.
The following quote has made me think:
In Buddhist wisdom: there is no separateness and therefore nothing exists that does not have the nature of all other things within it. That means that if we humans have within our being, besides our physical principle, a life force, intelligence, desire principle, and the ability to become at one with the divine, this must also be true for every other thing within the universe, including Mother Earth. As streams of vitality flow through every cell of our body, so must this be true for the earth, the solar system, or the infinitesimal world of the atom. Of course, every single entity within infinitude has its own place, stage of evolution, grade of consciousness, and innate characteristics, and though identical in essence, no two beings, whether men or planets, are identical in manifestation. From Sunrise magazine, February/March 2005; copyright. Theosophic Perspectives.
What now for Mother Earth?
Global warming is real. ... if something isn't done, now, to reverse the effects of global warming. ...
Atmospheric conditions have been significantly altered by the presence of human life, by our inventions to make our lives easier, which has damaged the ecological balance. The severity of these changes to the earth's surface and atmosphere by man tampering with the natural forces has changed the balance of nature. There are naturally occurring events, caused by the weather, but the destruction caused by mankind is now leading us into not just Global Warming but a Great Earth Change. Can a tiny change to the Earth's orbit wipe out life? Perhaps all this is part of the Divine Plan?
I have a deep belief in the healing ability of the Mother Earth spirit, if we as humans could find that spirit inside our own consciousness and work hand in hand, living a holistic lifestyle perhaps the healing might begin to happen. Look deeply inside to your higher levels of consciousness and what they can do for you and our Mother Earth. Once you get the picture that consciousness is what it's all about, you get most of the picture about what's going on.
If only we could convince everyone to live in peace and harmony, to send our planet healing and love energies each day, to raise our collective consciousness to a positive level, just maybe we could reduce or reverse the earth changes. First we must convince ourselves, then our loved ones, our neighbors and friends, spread the word. Strange things can occur when things are spoken with love and compassion for each other and who knows we could even start to make our governments understand that war and killing it not going to save us, only Love and Peace will.
Start today, make an effort of healing for Mother Earth and notice how it effects you, then encompass all, you will be blessed.
Thank you.
Ah what a beautiful picture that paints in my minds eye, the word celestial conjures an image of Angels floating in the heavenly skies.
Mystical Creatures; dragons, unicorns, heavenly creatures, water creatures, all drifting around the universe, the clouds and the stars, strumming harps, watching over their human charges here on the Earth Plane.
Our Planet Earth
The Earth we humans live on is a planet, orbiting around the Sun, on a tilted axis. Interacting with the Moon creating the seasons; summer, winter, the tides, day and night.
Our Earth takes 365 earth days to orbit the sun, what an amazing creation. Looking at pictures taken from space, Mother Earth is so stunning.
The Blue Marble is a famous photograph of the Earth taken on 7 December 1972 by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft. The picture on top of this blog.
We should think of Mother Earth as a living entity, sustaining all life forms throughout the ages. Without our planet there is no us, Mother Earth is the reason we are here. In my inner visual perception, we as humans, the thinking animals (I wonder about that sometimes) were placed here to nurture a life of love and peace among all cultures and be the caretakers of all the creatures and plants of nature. She (Mother Earth) is nature, she is all of us.
All life began from a tiny cell, a micro-organism somewhere out in the galaxy, the big bang, the cell of Mother Earth was born and evolved into this beautiful planet we call home.
The Spiritual Plan for Earth
The magnetic field around Earth protects her and us from radiation that is harmful to all life.
The atmosphere also serves as a shield to protect her and her inhabitants.
Everything in her original design was perfect, enough water, enough sunshine, enough of everything that we humans, as creatures of the earth needed to
live our lives in health, peace and harmony. Most of the planets indigenous races know the spirit of Mother Earth, know that she breathes, is alive,
supporting a vast regime of eco-systems and without this living mass under our feet we would be no more.
The trees and plants cleanse the air we breath in and out to keep us alive, everything was put into place at the creation of Mother Earth for us, her children.
The following quote has made me think:
In Buddhist wisdom: there is no separateness and therefore nothing exists that does not have the nature of all other things within it. That means that if we humans have within our being, besides our physical principle, a life force, intelligence, desire principle, and the ability to become at one with the divine, this must also be true for every other thing within the universe, including Mother Earth. As streams of vitality flow through every cell of our body, so must this be true for the earth, the solar system, or the infinitesimal world of the atom. Of course, every single entity within infinitude has its own place, stage of evolution, grade of consciousness, and innate characteristics, and though identical in essence, no two beings, whether men or planets, are identical in manifestation. From Sunrise magazine, February/March 2005; copyright. Theosophic Perspectives.
What now for Mother Earth?
Global warming is real. ... if something isn't done, now, to reverse the effects of global warming. ...
Atmospheric conditions have been significantly altered by the presence of human life, by our inventions to make our lives easier, which has damaged the ecological balance. The severity of these changes to the earth's surface and atmosphere by man tampering with the natural forces has changed the balance of nature. There are naturally occurring events, caused by the weather, but the destruction caused by mankind is now leading us into not just Global Warming but a Great Earth Change. Can a tiny change to the Earth's orbit wipe out life? Perhaps all this is part of the Divine Plan?
I have a deep belief in the healing ability of the Mother Earth spirit, if we as humans could find that spirit inside our own consciousness and work hand in hand, living a holistic lifestyle perhaps the healing might begin to happen. Look deeply inside to your higher levels of consciousness and what they can do for you and our Mother Earth. Once you get the picture that consciousness is what it's all about, you get most of the picture about what's going on.
If only we could convince everyone to live in peace and harmony, to send our planet healing and love energies each day, to raise our collective consciousness to a positive level, just maybe we could reduce or reverse the earth changes. First we must convince ourselves, then our loved ones, our neighbors and friends, spread the word. Strange things can occur when things are spoken with love and compassion for each other and who knows we could even start to make our governments understand that war and killing it not going to save us, only Love and Peace will.
Start today, make an effort of healing for Mother Earth and notice how it effects you, then encompass all, you will be blessed.
Thank you.
Earth Changes
Musings by me............ Don't be put off with the spiritual reference, it is just my way, may not be yours. We Are One with the Planet.
I feel the transition accelerated. The pace of the vibration is increasing?
Like a change in velocity quote wiki: The rate of change of velocity is acceleration – how an object's speed or direction changes over time, and how it is changing at a particular point in time.
Wiki Velocity
There is work to be done we all know as individuals on a personal/spiritual level. A request will come from inside our consciousness, activated from ancient dna coding and our life force energy deep in our root directory :-) to open the spiritual mind and to reference the ancient knowledge we all hold in our charka energy, the flow of vibrational life.
This energy can be tuned to access alternate universes or realms. To change our mellectual? structure, our etheric body which possessing a fluid-crystal structure, sub-divided in different levels of density, with density proportional to the density of any physical substance.
quote wiki again: The etheric body, ether-body, æther body, a name given by neo-theosophy to a supposed vital body propounded in esoteric philosophies as the first or lowest layer in the "human energy field" or aura.
[1] It is said to be in immediate contact with the physical body, to sustain it and connect it with "higher" bodies.
This vital body imo is our consciousness/life force/spirit, who we really are spirits of the universe.
The ones on earth who are now openly connected to this energy force will need to guide the ones who have no understanding, they will be frightened. Think about that, we have had our whole lives to adjust and tune ourselves to this way of thinking but most people will be connected to the cosmic vibration instantly, as an old friend used to say "like a slap in the guts with a wet flounder" (um sorry, but it is one of my memories) :-)
When? is indeterminable, impossible to fix or measure, unable to be predicted, calculated, or deduced at this time/space 2010. The galaxy is slow moving, it must run the structures set in place by the creator unless there is a catastrophic event brought on by external intervention, complete failure of a system from which recovery is impossible. (human created devastation - ykwim)
We should look to indigenous ways and heed the (here in oz "The Dreaming") people native to countries will have their root deep in themselves and the earth we stand on, where ever we live we are one with the mother node earth.
Remember the changes are happening not just on earth but the universe/milky way galaxy others? is also transferring vibrations to a higher frequency. Time is changing and we long with it.
Pass our wisdoms/knowledge to the young who are not in a state of sleep for who knows how long we are here for right now.
We are holders of this ancient knowledge deep inside, every life force holds it!
I feel the transition accelerated. The pace of the vibration is increasing?
Like a change in velocity quote wiki: The rate of change of velocity is acceleration – how an object's speed or direction changes over time, and how it is changing at a particular point in time.
There is work to be done we all know as individuals on a personal/spiritual level. A request will come from inside our consciousness, activated from ancient dna coding and our life force energy deep in our root directory :-) to open the spiritual mind and to reference the ancient knowledge we all hold in our charka energy, the flow of vibrational life.
This energy can be tuned to access alternate universes or realms. To change our mellectual? structure, our etheric body which possessing a fluid-crystal structure, sub-divided in different levels of density, with density proportional to the density of any physical substance.
quote wiki again: The etheric body, ether-body, æther body, a name given by neo-theosophy to a supposed vital body propounded in esoteric philosophies as the first or lowest layer in the "human energy field" or aura.
[1] It is said to be in immediate contact with the physical body, to sustain it and connect it with "higher" bodies.
This vital body imo is our consciousness/life force/spirit, who we really are spirits of the universe.
The ones on earth who are now openly connected to this energy force will need to guide the ones who have no understanding, they will be frightened. Think about that, we have had our whole lives to adjust and tune ourselves to this way of thinking but most people will be connected to the cosmic vibration instantly, as an old friend used to say "like a slap in the guts with a wet flounder" (um sorry, but it is one of my memories) :-)
When? is indeterminable, impossible to fix or measure, unable to be predicted, calculated, or deduced at this time/space 2010. The galaxy is slow moving, it must run the structures set in place by the creator unless there is a catastrophic event brought on by external intervention, complete failure of a system from which recovery is impossible. (human created devastation - ykwim)
We should look to indigenous ways and heed the (here in oz "The Dreaming") people native to countries will have their root deep in themselves and the earth we stand on, where ever we live we are one with the mother node earth.
Remember the changes are happening not just on earth but the universe/milky way galaxy others? is also transferring vibrations to a higher frequency. Time is changing and we long with it.
Pass our wisdoms/knowledge to the young who are not in a state of sleep for who knows how long we are here for right now.
We are holders of this ancient knowledge deep inside, every life force holds it!
Changes
We are living in times of great change.
Everything we have known about our planet in terms of weather is not what it used to be, are we are experiencing another age generated from the galaxy?
I cannot help wonder where these changes are leading us; to the demise of or the birthing of a new paradigm, a new way of life on planet earth!
From my birth year to 2009 this graph shows that a picture is worth a thousand words.
I do not want to make a list it would be too long for a blog.
But let's contemplate on the data available (just check google - the great filing cabinet), can we continue to bury our heads in the sand, live in denial. I suppose it is a personal choice but I for one want to investigate and be aware and ready for the changes.
With this section on my blog I will endeavor to point myself in the right direction to satisfy my damn curiosity and my seemingly never ending pursuit of truth.
Everything we have known about our planet in terms of weather is not what it used to be, are we are experiencing another age generated from the galaxy?
I cannot help wonder where these changes are leading us; to the demise of or the birthing of a new paradigm, a new way of life on planet earth!
From my birth year to 2009 this graph shows that a picture is worth a thousand words.
I do not want to make a list it would be too long for a blog.
But let's contemplate on the data available (just check google - the great filing cabinet), can we continue to bury our heads in the sand, live in denial. I suppose it is a personal choice but I for one want to investigate and be aware and ready for the changes.
With this section on my blog I will endeavor to point myself in the right direction to satisfy my damn curiosity and my seemingly never ending pursuit of truth.
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