Source: rumormillnewsradio.com, hawkscafe, captainsherlock.com
Hawkins/McConnell Interview with Rayelan Allan on Rumor Mill News
March 17, 2010 – Part 2 (Hour 2)
Note: This transcript begins exactly 3:01 minutes into this segment of the interview.
David Hawkins: What I thought I may do today with Field and you is hypothesize that we’re going into a war game and the second hour, where I’ll play the part of the people who took control of the skies over the United States on nine-one-one, and Field can tell us whether he’d like to be ah, a fighter pilot with the Happy Hooligans trying to make sense out of this mess, or perhaps better yet, he could play two roles, a fighter pilot in the war game, and ah, for example pick one of the planes.
Perhaps I could suggest flight seventy-seven where Chic Burlingame was flying, wherever he was flying, and was turned around and was flown towards the Pentagon and in theory took out the Pentagon. And perhaps we could identify who would have the command and control facilities to jump into the air traffic control system of the United States Air Force and Federal Aviation Administration on nine-one-one and jump out again without leaving a trace.
Rayelan Allan: That would be very interesting to find out.
David: So I’ll take on Field head-to-head and I’ll show that I can actually have Field, whether he likes it or not, when he’s playing the role of either the jet fighter pilot, or the large commercial jet pilot, I can take him for lunch and he can do nothing about it.
Field McConnell: Well, you can take me to lunch and I’ll give you the bill.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010
U.S. Fleet Forces to Commence Solid Curtain/Citadel Shield '10
Source: Navy.mil
From U.S. Fleet Forces Command Public Affairs
NORFOLK, Va. (NNS) -- Navy shore installations and activities in the continental United States, Hawaii and Guam will participate in Exercise Solid Curtain-Citadel Shield '10 (SC/CS-10), an annual security training exercise coordinated by U.S. Fleet Forces Command (USFF) from March 22-26.
The week long security exercise is the largest anti-terrorism/force protection (AT/FP) exercise conducted nationwide. It is designed to enhance the training and readiness of Naval Security Force personnel to respond to threats to installations and units, leveraging all processes security forces would implement in the event of an actual emergency.
"Instead of having numerous smaller exercises, Exercise Solid Curtain/Citadel Shield is a single, large, integrated exercise that accurately emulates what may happen in the real world," said Capt. Sam A. McCormick, USFF director for Fleet Anti-Terrorism.
From U.S. Fleet Forces Command Public Affairs
NORFOLK, Va. (NNS) -- Navy shore installations and activities in the continental United States, Hawaii and Guam will participate in Exercise Solid Curtain-Citadel Shield '10 (SC/CS-10), an annual security training exercise coordinated by U.S. Fleet Forces Command (USFF) from March 22-26.
The week long security exercise is the largest anti-terrorism/force protection (AT/FP) exercise conducted nationwide. It is designed to enhance the training and readiness of Naval Security Force personnel to respond to threats to installations and units, leveraging all processes security forces would implement in the event of an actual emergency.
"Instead of having numerous smaller exercises, Exercise Solid Curtain/Citadel Shield is a single, large, integrated exercise that accurately emulates what may happen in the real world," said Capt. Sam A. McCormick, USFF director for Fleet Anti-Terrorism.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
9/11 commission was ordered to scale down investigation
Source: Russia Today
Investigate but not too deeply, that is the message inside documents from senior officials with the Bush administration to the 9/11 commission as they searched for answers after the attacks. Russ Baker, the author of Family of Secrets, says that the government doesn't want full disclosure on this issue and that people who investigate may be crossing the line.
Investigate but not too deeply, that is the message inside documents from senior officials with the Bush administration to the 9/11 commission as they searched for answers after the attacks. Russ Baker, the author of Family of Secrets, says that the government doesn't want full disclosure on this issue and that people who investigate may be crossing the line.
Body scans eventually mandatory, TSA official says
Source: heraldnet.com
16 March 2010—CHICAGO—All airline passengers in the U.S. will eventually be required to undergo a full-body scan before boarding planes, just as metal detectors became a standard and accepted part of the screening process at airports decades ago, the federal transportation security chief in Chicago said Monday.
As a body-scanning machine was used to screen passengers for the first time on Monday at O’Hare International Airport, federal and city officials said they expect the airport will receive more body-imaging technology later this year to help address one of the biggest terrorism threats to commercial aviation, suicide bombers on planes.
The Transportation Security Administration plans to send hundreds of the scanners, which cost between $130,000 and $170,000 each, to all major U.S. airports. The scanners use low-dose X-ray to go underneath clothing and display weapons, explosives and other objects that might be hidden on the body, above the skin.
So far, 21 airports are equipped with the units and nine more are slated to receive the scanners soon, officials said. The security agency plans to deploy 450 body scanners to an undetermined number of airports this year.
Kathleen Petrowsky, the TSA director at O’Hare, said she anticipates the body scans — now optional for passengers — will become mandatory in the future to guard against improvised explosive devices being smuggled onto airliners.
Currently, passengers have the option to submit to a physical pat-down and wanding by a TSA officer using a metal detector.
At 19 airports that received the scanners more than a year ago, the devices are now used as a primary means of screening, whereas before they were utilized only to clear up discrepancies when a passenger set off a metal detector or failed a pat-down.
“We expect at some point all passengers will receive a body scan,” Petrowsky said.
16 March 2010—CHICAGO—All airline passengers in the U.S. will eventually be required to undergo a full-body scan before boarding planes, just as metal detectors became a standard and accepted part of the screening process at airports decades ago, the federal transportation security chief in Chicago said Monday.
As a body-scanning machine was used to screen passengers for the first time on Monday at O’Hare International Airport, federal and city officials said they expect the airport will receive more body-imaging technology later this year to help address one of the biggest terrorism threats to commercial aviation, suicide bombers on planes.
The Transportation Security Administration plans to send hundreds of the scanners, which cost between $130,000 and $170,000 each, to all major U.S. airports. The scanners use low-dose X-ray to go underneath clothing and display weapons, explosives and other objects that might be hidden on the body, above the skin.
So far, 21 airports are equipped with the units and nine more are slated to receive the scanners soon, officials said. The security agency plans to deploy 450 body scanners to an undetermined number of airports this year.
Kathleen Petrowsky, the TSA director at O’Hare, said she anticipates the body scans — now optional for passengers — will become mandatory in the future to guard against improvised explosive devices being smuggled onto airliners.
Currently, passengers have the option to submit to a physical pat-down and wanding by a TSA officer using a metal detector.
At 19 airports that received the scanners more than a year ago, the devices are now used as a primary means of screening, whereas before they were utilized only to clear up discrepancies when a passenger set off a metal detector or failed a pat-down.
“We expect at some point all passengers will receive a body scan,” Petrowsky said.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
European fraudsters steal $7B in carbon credit scam
Source: cbc.ca
Fraud within Europe's carbon credit trading system has cost taxpayers more than $7 billion in the last 18 months, European police said Friday.
Officials at Europol, the body in charge of co-ordinating police forces inside the European Union, say fraudulent activity on the EU's Emission Trading System was first suspected in late 2008 when police noticed the volume of trades in certain countries would mysteriously spike.
"It is estimated that in some countries, up to 90 per cent of the whole market volume was caused by fraudulent activities," Europol said.
Since late 2008, the total value of fraudulent activity is believed to be in excess of five billion euros ($7.7 billion Cdn) from bogus trades in European unit allowances, or EUAs, the credits that companies in some countries buy to offset their greenhouse gas output. continue reading
Fraud within Europe's carbon credit trading system has cost taxpayers more than $7 billion in the last 18 months, European police said Friday.
Officials at Europol, the body in charge of co-ordinating police forces inside the European Union, say fraudulent activity on the EU's Emission Trading System was first suspected in late 2008 when police noticed the volume of trades in certain countries would mysteriously spike.
"It is estimated that in some countries, up to 90 per cent of the whole market volume was caused by fraudulent activities," Europol said.
Since late 2008, the total value of fraudulent activity is believed to be in excess of five billion euros ($7.7 billion Cdn) from bogus trades in European unit allowances, or EUAs, the credits that companies in some countries buy to offset their greenhouse gas output. continue reading
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Calling all 9/11 Whistleblowers: WikiLeaks
Source: wikileaks.org
This is an invitation for whistle blowers to release information related to 9/11 through WikiLeaks. Iceland is setting this up in Iceland and is moving towards a completely free press. Documents on inside information can be posted through WikiLeaks. Documents can also be posted for examination.
This is an invitation for whistle blowers to release information related to 9/11 through WikiLeaks. Iceland is setting this up in Iceland and is moving towards a completely free press. Documents on inside information can be posted through WikiLeaks. Documents can also be posted for examination.
Field McConnell & David Hawkins: Transcript—10 March 2010 Hour 2
Source: rumormillnewsradio.com, hawkscafe, captainsherlock.com
Hawkins/McConnell Interview with Rayelan Allan on Rumor Mill News
March 10, 2010 – Part 2 (Hour 2)
Note: This transcript begins at precisely the 15:04 minute point into the interview.
Rayelan Allan: And ah, David is back. And David is on the line, wonderful. Welcome, David.
David Hawkins: Oh, hello Rayelan, hello Field, nice to be back. Yeah, I just got in from the hospital, yup.
Rayelan: Ahh…
Field McConnell: We hope that your trip was successful.
David: Yes, pretty good. Quite good news and ah, Maren, Lady Eagle is responding to treatment.
Rayelan: Oh, how wonderful. And I want to thank all of our ah, oh my gosh, reiki practitioners who are continually doing ah, you know, reiki, absent, you know, long distance reiki treatments on her.
David: Yeah, and I’d like to say thanks in her behalf and mine and all of the good wished and so on. I think it’s a good ah, real drive towards her recovery, but you know, we’re not out of the woods yet.
Rayelan: I know, but it is wonderful that she is doing better. All of us are very happy for her and you.
David: Thank you.
Rayelan: And you – Field and I were talking about why is this Durius Guppy on the front page of Abel Danger and do you know why?
David: Oh, absolutely. Darius Gumpy – Guppy, is one of Bullingdon Club eighty-seven members who um, the Bullingdon Club is an interesting group. It’s over two-hundred years old so it was formed just after the war of independence, which Americans think they won, but I’m now I’m now studying the history a little better. I don’t think you guys did win actually. [concurred, the British are still rampaging around the world, that should be obvious by now]
Hawkins/McConnell Interview with Rayelan Allan on Rumor Mill News
March 10, 2010 – Part 2 (Hour 2)
Note: This transcript begins at precisely the 15:04 minute point into the interview.
Rayelan Allan: And ah, David is back. And David is on the line, wonderful. Welcome, David.
David Hawkins: Oh, hello Rayelan, hello Field, nice to be back. Yeah, I just got in from the hospital, yup.
Rayelan: Ahh…
Field McConnell: We hope that your trip was successful.
David: Yes, pretty good. Quite good news and ah, Maren, Lady Eagle is responding to treatment.
Rayelan: Oh, how wonderful. And I want to thank all of our ah, oh my gosh, reiki practitioners who are continually doing ah, you know, reiki, absent, you know, long distance reiki treatments on her.
David: Yeah, and I’d like to say thanks in her behalf and mine and all of the good wished and so on. I think it’s a good ah, real drive towards her recovery, but you know, we’re not out of the woods yet.
Rayelan: I know, but it is wonderful that she is doing better. All of us are very happy for her and you.
David: Thank you.
Rayelan: And you – Field and I were talking about why is this Durius Guppy on the front page of Abel Danger and do you know why?
David: Oh, absolutely. Darius Gumpy – Guppy, is one of Bullingdon Club eighty-seven members who um, the Bullingdon Club is an interesting group. It’s over two-hundred years old so it was formed just after the war of independence, which Americans think they won, but I’m now I’m now studying the history a little better. I don’t think you guys did win actually. [concurred, the British are still rampaging around the world, that should be obvious by now]
Saturday, March 13, 2010
New York City Settles with 9/11 Heroes for up to $657.5 million
Source: DAVID B. CARUSO, AP examiner.com
11 March 2010—After years of fighting in court, lawyers representing the city, construction companies and more than 10,000 ground zero rescue and recovery workers have agreed to a settlement that could pay up to $657.5 million to responders sickened by dust from the destroyed World Trade Center.
The settlement was announced Thursday evening by the WTC Captive Insurance Co., a special entity established to indemnify the city and its contractors against potential legal action as they moved to clean up the site after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
The deal, which still must be approved by a judge and the workers themselves, would make the city and other companies represented by the insurer liable for a minimum of $575 million, with more money available to the sick if certain conditions are met.
Most if not all of the money would come out of a $1 billion grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg called the settlement "a fair and reasonable resolution to a complex set of circumstances."
"The resolution of the World Trade Center litigation will allow the first responders and workers to be compensated for injuries suffered following their work at Ground Zero," he said in a statement.
11 March 2010—After years of fighting in court, lawyers representing the city, construction companies and more than 10,000 ground zero rescue and recovery workers have agreed to a settlement that could pay up to $657.5 million to responders sickened by dust from the destroyed World Trade Center.
The settlement was announced Thursday evening by the WTC Captive Insurance Co., a special entity established to indemnify the city and its contractors against potential legal action as they moved to clean up the site after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
The deal, which still must be approved by a judge and the workers themselves, would make the city and other companies represented by the insurer liable for a minimum of $575 million, with more money available to the sick if certain conditions are met.
Most if not all of the money would come out of a $1 billion grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg called the settlement "a fair and reasonable resolution to a complex set of circumstances."
"The resolution of the World Trade Center litigation will allow the first responders and workers to be compensated for injuries suffered following their work at Ground Zero," he said in a statement.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Merging Virtual Reality with Real Life
Source: YOCHI J. DREAZEN And JIM CARLTON wsj.com
Are virtual scenes like these being inserted into TV news as real events?
In This Afghanistan, Bombs Don't Kill
A Company Uses Hollywood-Style Sets and Special Effects to Help Soldiers Prepare for War; Real Amputees Play Roles
10 March 2010—SAN DIEGO—It was a sunny California afternoon, and an Afghan war scene raged on the expansive grounds here of a little-known company called Strategic Operations Inc.
A rocket-propelled grenade whistled out of a second-story window and smashed into the wall of an Afghan house, sending shrapnel flying. An Afghan police pickup truck exploded, kicking up a column of mottled smoke. Insurgents exchanged machine-gun fire with U.S. troops.
The battle seemed dangerous, but that was just an illusion. The mayhem was all for show, part of Strategic Operations' elaborate use of Hollywood-style special effects to replicate the look and feel of the war in Afghanistan to help train U.S. forces preparing to deploy there.
Business is booming for Strategic Operations, which has found an unusual way of profiting from the U.S. escalation of the Afghan war. Many of the reinforcements President Barack Obama is dispatching to Afghanistan are likely to spend time on a Strategic Operations set.
Are virtual scenes like these being inserted into TV news as real events?
In This Afghanistan, Bombs Don't Kill
A Company Uses Hollywood-Style Sets and Special Effects to Help Soldiers Prepare for War; Real Amputees Play Roles
10 March 2010—SAN DIEGO—It was a sunny California afternoon, and an Afghan war scene raged on the expansive grounds here of a little-known company called Strategic Operations Inc.
A rocket-propelled grenade whistled out of a second-story window and smashed into the wall of an Afghan house, sending shrapnel flying. An Afghan police pickup truck exploded, kicking up a column of mottled smoke. Insurgents exchanged machine-gun fire with U.S. troops.
The battle seemed dangerous, but that was just an illusion. The mayhem was all for show, part of Strategic Operations' elaborate use of Hollywood-style special effects to replicate the look and feel of the war in Afghanistan to help train U.S. forces preparing to deploy there.
Business is booming for Strategic Operations, which has found an unusual way of profiting from the U.S. escalation of the Afghan war. Many of the reinforcements President Barack Obama is dispatching to Afghanistan are likely to spend time on a Strategic Operations set.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Field McConnell & David Hawkins: Transcript—3 March 2010 Hour 1
Source: rumormillnewsradio.com, hawkscafe, captainsherlock.com
Hawkins/McConnell Interview with Rayelan Allan on Rumor Mill News
March 3, 2010 – Part 1 (Hour 1)
David Hawkins: I think ah, let’s go to also the Captain Sherlock site.
Rayelan Allan: Okay.
David: Ahm, so if people – that’s one word, captainsherlock dot com.
Rayelan: Okay, captainsherlock dot com, this might be an easier way for people to find it?
David: Ya, and then I think ah, because we made a major break that I want to talk about today, I want to get people to visit the Hawks Café and perhaps join the Yahoo Group.
Rayelan: Right.
David: And you know, I apologize for a lot of very dense technical information, but it is the basic source of our case against the self-styled Global Guardians where we will ahm, put them in court with a civil claim and possibly of them going into court with a civil claim is, they’ll end up on death row.
Rayelan: Oh my God, wouldn’t that be wonderful. And ah, would this be ah, would this be in civilian court, or is this in military court?
David: Well ah, ahm, let’s just go to the applications. So captainsherlock dot com. If people could open up there and they will see the eight icons which represent the five books that we’ve have written and various others. And on the bottom row on the right ahm, you’ll see the icon that says, “Visit Hawks Cafe.”
Rayelan: Right, that’s correct.
David: Okay, and if people put their mouse on the ‘Visit Hawks Café’, and remember, the captainsherlock dot com site, they’ll see a menu with five items in it, Hawks Café home page?
Rayelan: Yes.
David: And the Hawks Café Yahoo Group? The ‘Hawks Café verses the Global Guardians nine-one-one. And that’s the civil lawsuit that Field McConnell filed in Fargo, North Dakota on the first of May two-thousand and seven, and that lists about a hundred plus defendants in a civil case for the wrongful deaths associated with nine-one-one. And just in case people think that we’re particularly partisan ah, George Bush Senior is named there and the two Clinton’s and Field’s sister.
Hawkins/McConnell Interview with Rayelan Allan on Rumor Mill News
March 3, 2010 – Part 1 (Hour 1)
David Hawkins: I think ah, let’s go to also the Captain Sherlock site.
Rayelan Allan: Okay.
David: Ahm, so if people – that’s one word, captainsherlock dot com.
Rayelan: Okay, captainsherlock dot com, this might be an easier way for people to find it?
David: Ya, and then I think ah, because we made a major break that I want to talk about today, I want to get people to visit the Hawks Café and perhaps join the Yahoo Group.
Rayelan: Right.
David: And you know, I apologize for a lot of very dense technical information, but it is the basic source of our case against the self-styled Global Guardians where we will ahm, put them in court with a civil claim and possibly of them going into court with a civil claim is, they’ll end up on death row.
Rayelan: Oh my God, wouldn’t that be wonderful. And ah, would this be ah, would this be in civilian court, or is this in military court?
David: Well ah, ahm, let’s just go to the applications. So captainsherlock dot com. If people could open up there and they will see the eight icons which represent the five books that we’ve have written and various others. And on the bottom row on the right ahm, you’ll see the icon that says, “Visit Hawks Cafe.”
Rayelan: Right, that’s correct.
David: Okay, and if people put their mouse on the ‘Visit Hawks Café’, and remember, the captainsherlock dot com site, they’ll see a menu with five items in it, Hawks Café home page?
Rayelan: Yes.
David: And the Hawks Café Yahoo Group? The ‘Hawks Café verses the Global Guardians nine-one-one. And that’s the civil lawsuit that Field McConnell filed in Fargo, North Dakota on the first of May two-thousand and seven, and that lists about a hundred plus defendants in a civil case for the wrongful deaths associated with nine-one-one. And just in case people think that we’re particularly partisan ah, George Bush Senior is named there and the two Clinton’s and Field’s sister.
Monday, March 8, 2010
The Climate Industry Wall of Money
Source: joannenova.com.au
When it comes to spending in the climate change debate, Big Oil’s supposed evil influence has been vastly outdone by Big Government, and even those taxpayer billions are trumped by Big-Banking.
Follow the money
Money for Skeptics: Greenpeace has searched for funding for man-made global warming skeptics and found $23 million dollars paid by Exxon over ten years (which has stopped).
But in the end, everyone spends more on carbon friendly initiatives than on skeptics—even Exxon: (how about $100 million for Stanford’s Global Climate and Energy Project and $600 million for Biofuels research).
Money for the Climate Industry: The US government spent $79 billion on climate research and technology since 1989—to be sure, this funding paid for things like satellites and studies, but it’s 3,500 times as much as anything offered to skeptics. It buys a bandwagon of support, a repetitive rain of press releases, and includes PR departments of institutions like NOAA, NASA, the Climate Change Science Program and the Climate Change Technology Program. The $79 billion figure does not include money from other western governments, private industry, and is not adjusted for inflation. In other words, it could be…a lot bigger.
There is no question that there are vastly more financial rewards for people who promote a carbon-made catastrophe than for those who point out the flaws in the theory.
Ultimately the big problem is that there are no grants for scientists to demonstrate that carbon has little effect. There are no Institutes of Natural Climate Change, but plenty that are devoted to UnNatural Forces.
When it comes to spending in the climate change debate, Big Oil’s supposed evil influence has been vastly outdone by Big Government, and even those taxpayer billions are trumped by Big-Banking.
Follow the money
Money for Skeptics: Greenpeace has searched for funding for man-made global warming skeptics and found $23 million dollars paid by Exxon over ten years (which has stopped).But in the end, everyone spends more on carbon friendly initiatives than on skeptics—even Exxon: (how about $100 million for Stanford’s Global Climate and Energy Project and $600 million for Biofuels research).
Money for the Climate Industry: The US government spent $79 billion on climate research and technology since 1989—to be sure, this funding paid for things like satellites and studies, but it’s 3,500 times as much as anything offered to skeptics. It buys a bandwagon of support, a repetitive rain of press releases, and includes PR departments of institutions like NOAA, NASA, the Climate Change Science Program and the Climate Change Technology Program. The $79 billion figure does not include money from other western governments, private industry, and is not adjusted for inflation. In other words, it could be…a lot bigger.
There is no question that there are vastly more financial rewards for people who promote a carbon-made catastrophe than for those who point out the flaws in the theory.
Ultimately the big problem is that there are no grants for scientists to demonstrate that carbon has little effect. There are no Institutes of Natural Climate Change, but plenty that are devoted to UnNatural Forces.
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Warmists overwhelmed by fear, panic and deranged hatred as their 'science' collapses
Source: JAMES DELINGPOLE telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole
5 March 2010—A sharp-eyed viewer has noticed that when I was debating George Monbiot on TV yesterday and I mentioned that his cherished “peer-reviewed science” had been discredited by Climategate he bared his teeth like a cornered cur. Says my body language expert John Lish:
“It was a quite aggressive and defensive gesture which was noticeable when he was attempting to dismiss you (talking about peer review). A definite body-language sign of being rattled. He’s definitely uncomfortable about what’s occurring and others will have spotted that as well.”
Monbiot isn’t the only one. Consider the paranoid tone of this email from climate-fear-promoter Paul Ehrlich, during an exchange with fellow members at the National Academy of Scientists on how best to deal with the Denier threat: (Hat tip: Marc Morano)
“Most of our colleagues don’t seem to grasp that we’re not in a gentlepersons’ debate, we’re in a street fight against well-funded, merciless enemies who play by entirely different rules.”
All this is a roundabout way of answering one of my editors’ kind suggestions that I respond to this morning’s front page story in which some desperate scientists at the embarrassing, useless and parti pris Met Office have apparently attempted to repair their creaky, wheel-less AGW bandwagon with a hurried new botch job report. Sorry, but I don’t think many of us are going to fall for this nonsense any more.
Monbiot tried it on yesterday with his free two and half minute propaganda broadcast generously funded by the BBC’s The Daily Politics show in which he rehashed all his old arguments (man’s selfishness, rising sea-levels, plight of the poor, wind farms, blah di blah di blah) as though Climategate, Glaciergate, Pachaurigate, Amazongate, Africagate et al had never happened. Now the MET office is having a go.
Sorry chaps, it won’t wash. The debate has moved on. It’s not about “the science” any more. (Not that it ever was). It’s about economics. Politics. Money. The taxpayer versus Big Government.
5 March 2010—A sharp-eyed viewer has noticed that when I was debating George Monbiot on TV yesterday and I mentioned that his cherished “peer-reviewed science” had been discredited by Climategate he bared his teeth like a cornered cur. Says my body language expert John Lish:
“It was a quite aggressive and defensive gesture which was noticeable when he was attempting to dismiss you (talking about peer review). A definite body-language sign of being rattled. He’s definitely uncomfortable about what’s occurring and others will have spotted that as well.”
Monbiot isn’t the only one. Consider the paranoid tone of this email from climate-fear-promoter Paul Ehrlich, during an exchange with fellow members at the National Academy of Scientists on how best to deal with the Denier threat: (Hat tip: Marc Morano)
“Most of our colleagues don’t seem to grasp that we’re not in a gentlepersons’ debate, we’re in a street fight against well-funded, merciless enemies who play by entirely different rules.”
All this is a roundabout way of answering one of my editors’ kind suggestions that I respond to this morning’s front page story in which some desperate scientists at the embarrassing, useless and parti pris Met Office have apparently attempted to repair their creaky, wheel-less AGW bandwagon with a hurried new botch job report. Sorry, but I don’t think many of us are going to fall for this nonsense any more.
Monbiot tried it on yesterday with his free two and half minute propaganda broadcast generously funded by the BBC’s The Daily Politics show in which he rehashed all his old arguments (man’s selfishness, rising sea-levels, plight of the poor, wind farms, blah di blah di blah) as though Climategate, Glaciergate, Pachaurigate, Amazongate, Africagate et al had never happened. Now the MET office is having a go.
Sorry chaps, it won’t wash. The debate has moved on. It’s not about “the science” any more. (Not that it ever was). It’s about economics. Politics. Money. The taxpayer versus Big Government.
Northwest Airlines Flight 253 would have landed safely even if ‘underpants’ bomb had blown up
Source: dailymail.co.uk
A bomb on board a U.S. Christmas Day flight would have failed to bring the plane down even if it had been detonated successfully, a new test explosion suggests.
Photo: A slight bump can be seen on the fuselage above the wing after replica explosives to those allegedly smuggled on Flight 253 were detonated in a test.
A controlled blast on a Boeing 747, using the same explosives that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is accused of smuggling on board, failed to burst the fuselage. It means, had the bomb exploded on December 25, Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit would have successfully landed .
However, experts said the alleged Islamist terrorist and the passenger next to him would have died, while other passengers would have suffered ruptured ear drums.
The controlled experiment was carried out for the BBC Two documentary How safe are our Skies? Detroit Flight 253.
Dr John Wyatt, an international terrorism and explosives adviser to the UN, replicated the conditions on board the Detroit flight on a decommissioned Boeing 747 at an aircraft graveyard in Gloucestershire.
Captain J Joseph, an air accident investigator, and Dr Wyatt both concluded that the quantity of explosive used was nowhere near enough needed to rupture the skin of a passenger plane.
Dr Wyatt told the BBC: ‘If it was a more rigid material then we might have seen a crack or breakthrough but this is actually quite a flexible material. ‘I was extremely impressed by the aircraft structure. It can sustain quite a hefty thump.’
Captain Joseph said: ‘We noticed the aircraft had lost some rivets but no flight controls were compromised and certainly no fuel tanks were breached. ‘I’m very confident that the flight crew could have taken this aeroplane without any incident at all and get it on the ground safely.’ However, the experts said that the death of the suspected bomber and the passenger beside him would have been traumatic for passengers.
Captain Joseph said the noise and the smoke would have been awful, ‘not to mention the parts of the bodies that were disintegrated as part of the explosion’. But Captain Joseph said the experiment could help to put air travellers at ease: ‘I think this should be a confidence-builder for passengers.
‘After seeing... how well the aircraft maintained its structural integrity, and obviously the pilot’s capacity to fly the aircraft, it should give them a great deal of confidence.’
For security reasons, they could not go into specific details of blast damage inside the cabin of the test Boeing 747.
Kip Hawley, the former head of the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said: ‘We can be sure that al Qaeda and others have taken lessons from their failed attempt and this programme allows the public to be privy to some of those lessons.
‘The point that today’s airframes are more resilient than many imagine is a critical point.
‘Governments do very sophisticated testing similar to what Dr Wyatt demonstrated and those results inform security measures you see in airports today.
‘Specifically, it was that kind of testing that led to the decision to allow 100ml of any liquid, carried in a sealed one-litre baggie, to be brought through security.’
Dr Wyatt’s test results are to be shared with governments and aviation security experts around the world.
A bomb on board a U.S. Christmas Day flight would have failed to bring the plane down even if it had been detonated successfully, a new test explosion suggests.
A controlled blast on a Boeing 747, using the same explosives that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is accused of smuggling on board, failed to burst the fuselage. It means, had the bomb exploded on December 25, Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit would have successfully landed .
However, experts said the alleged Islamist terrorist and the passenger next to him would have died, while other passengers would have suffered ruptured ear drums.
The controlled experiment was carried out for the BBC Two documentary How safe are our Skies? Detroit Flight 253.
Dr John Wyatt, an international terrorism and explosives adviser to the UN, replicated the conditions on board the Detroit flight on a decommissioned Boeing 747 at an aircraft graveyard in Gloucestershire.
Captain J Joseph, an air accident investigator, and Dr Wyatt both concluded that the quantity of explosive used was nowhere near enough needed to rupture the skin of a passenger plane.
Dr Wyatt told the BBC: ‘If it was a more rigid material then we might have seen a crack or breakthrough but this is actually quite a flexible material. ‘I was extremely impressed by the aircraft structure. It can sustain quite a hefty thump.’
Captain Joseph said: ‘We noticed the aircraft had lost some rivets but no flight controls were compromised and certainly no fuel tanks were breached. ‘I’m very confident that the flight crew could have taken this aeroplane without any incident at all and get it on the ground safely.’ However, the experts said that the death of the suspected bomber and the passenger beside him would have been traumatic for passengers.
Captain Joseph said the noise and the smoke would have been awful, ‘not to mention the parts of the bodies that were disintegrated as part of the explosion’. But Captain Joseph said the experiment could help to put air travellers at ease: ‘I think this should be a confidence-builder for passengers.
‘After seeing... how well the aircraft maintained its structural integrity, and obviously the pilot’s capacity to fly the aircraft, it should give them a great deal of confidence.’
For security reasons, they could not go into specific details of blast damage inside the cabin of the test Boeing 747.
Kip Hawley, the former head of the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said: ‘We can be sure that al Qaeda and others have taken lessons from their failed attempt and this programme allows the public to be privy to some of those lessons.
‘The point that today’s airframes are more resilient than many imagine is a critical point.
‘Governments do very sophisticated testing similar to what Dr Wyatt demonstrated and those results inform security measures you see in airports today.
‘Specifically, it was that kind of testing that led to the decision to allow 100ml of any liquid, carried in a sealed one-litre baggie, to be brought through security.’
Dr Wyatt’s test results are to be shared with governments and aviation security experts around the world.
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Century of Self: A Study in Mind Control
Source: ADAM CURTIS bbc.co.uk
Sigmund Freud believed that individuals were not driven by rational thought but by primitive unconscious desires and feelings. Freud’s nephew Edward Bernays believed that this meant that it was too dangerous to let the masses ever have control over their own lives. Consumerism was a way of giving people the illusion of control while allowing a responsible elite to managing society.
Bernays invented the public relations profession in the 1920s and was one of the main architects of the modern techniques of mass-consumer persuasion, using every trick in the book, from celebrity endorsement and outrageous PR stunts, to eroticizing the motorcar. He showed American corporations how they could make people want things they didn't need by systematically linking mass-produced goods to their unconscious desires.
Bernay’s most notorious coup was breaking the taboo on women smoking by persuading them that cigarettes were a symbol of independence and freedom. But Bernays was convinced that this was more than just a way of selling consumer goods. It was a new political idea of how to control the masses. By satisfying the inner irrational desires that his uncle had identified, people could be made happy and thus docile.
It was the start of the all-consuming self which has come to dominate today’s world.
Episode One: Happiness Machines
Episode Two: The Engineering of Consent
Episode Three: There is a Policeman Inside All Our Head—He Must Be Destroyed
Episode Four: Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering
Sigmund Freud believed that individuals were not driven by rational thought but by primitive unconscious desires and feelings. Freud’s nephew Edward Bernays believed that this meant that it was too dangerous to let the masses ever have control over their own lives. Consumerism was a way of giving people the illusion of control while allowing a responsible elite to managing society.
Bernays invented the public relations profession in the 1920s and was one of the main architects of the modern techniques of mass-consumer persuasion, using every trick in the book, from celebrity endorsement and outrageous PR stunts, to eroticizing the motorcar. He showed American corporations how they could make people want things they didn't need by systematically linking mass-produced goods to their unconscious desires.
Bernay’s most notorious coup was breaking the taboo on women smoking by persuading them that cigarettes were a symbol of independence and freedom. But Bernays was convinced that this was more than just a way of selling consumer goods. It was a new political idea of how to control the masses. By satisfying the inner irrational desires that his uncle had identified, people could be made happy and thus docile.
It was the start of the all-consuming self which has come to dominate today’s world.
Episode One: Happiness Machines
Episode Two: The Engineering of Consent
Episode Three: There is a Policeman Inside All Our Head—He Must Be Destroyed
Episode Four: Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering
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