New Zealand Earthquake: The Worlds Largest Liquefaction Ever, According to Japanese Scientist
New Zealand Earthquake: The Worlds Largest Liquefaction Ever, According to Japanese Scientist
ImatvapI
March 8th, 2011
Secret FBI, CIA Documents and Sex Video Tapes Found At Egypt’s Terror Police Headquarters
Secret FBI, CIA Documents and Sex Video Tapes Found At Egypt’s Terror Police Headquarters
Egyptian secret police HQ
Jesus Diaz
gizmodo.com
Mar 7, 2011
This mountain of shredded paper taking over several rooms was found inside the Egyptian Secret Police’s headquarters in Cairo last Saturday. About 2,500 angry demonstrators invaded the building in what Egyptians are now calling their Bastille Day, finding documents and tapes that may soon send shockwaves around the world.
Inside the dark quarters of Mubarak’s terror police, an enraged population liberated prisoners still in their isolation cells, which were no larger than phone booths. In the process, they found torture devices, mountains of shredded documents, dozens of computers stripped from their hard drives and a stash of video tapes showing famous people—from actors to politicians, both Egyptians and from other countries—having sex. The videos were recorded by the secret police in hotel rooms. Nobody knows who stars in them yet, but I’m sure we will know about it very soon. Read more…
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Homeland Security Says It Has Every Right To Spy On Peaceful Protest Groups
What First Amendment?
Steve Watson
Infowars.com
March 8, 2011
The Department Of Homeland Security has concluded that it is perfectly reasonable for it to spy on dozens of peaceful advocacy groups and monitor scores of lawful protests and political rallies in the name of national security.
The ACLU details the DHS’ response to a complaint the group filed with the DHS’s Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (OCRCL).
The ACLU demanded an investigation into whether DHS officials abused their authority by improperly collecting and disseminating information regarding political demonstrations, following revelations that Homeland Security’s Federal Protective Service (FPS) had been engaging in such activity dating back to 2006.
The OCRCL has refused to disclose the memorandum detailing its investigative findings, however it sent a letter to the ACLU last week reaffirming that it sees no wrongdoing in the actions whatsoever, while admitting that there was no adequate differentiation between civil activist and violent extremist organizations.
“We strongly disagree with the OCRCL’s finding that FPS acted within its authority to compile and disseminate a list tracking the political activities of advocacy groups.” The ACLU states on its website.
“No agency or department in government has the right to monitor the peaceful and lawful political activities and speech of Americans.” the statement continues.
“Protection from this type of government monitoring is exactly the reason why the First and Fourth Amendments were adopted… The government must immediately stop any ongoing programs or activities that monitor lawful political speech and advocacy of American citizens.” it concludes.
Of course, asking the DHS to investigate itself on these matters is the equivalent of asking Charles Manson to chair his own parole hearing. The ACLU could not have expected any different result.
The federal government now openly admits that it spies on Americans and compiles lists of subversives if they choose to engage in their Constitutional rights.
Welcome to the new America.
Related Reading: DoD Training Manual Describes Protest As “Low-Level Terrorism”
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Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones’ Infowars.net, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham in England.
TSA Worker Arrested for Impersonating a Police Officer
Steve Watson
Infowars.com
March 8, 2011
The actions of a TSA worker who was pulled over during a routine traffic stop betray the general attitude of the TSA in recent month, that the agency is above the law and makes its own rules.
The New Jersey Star Ledger reports that Michael Mazzone, 27, of Roselle Park, a lead transportation security officer employed by the TSA since 2006, is due in Superior Court in Elizabeth on Friday after being arrested in January on a charge of “pretending to hold a position as a sworn law enforcement officer.”
After being stopped for failing to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk, Mazzone told a patrolman who had pulled him over that he was a cop, too, but wasn’t carrying his badge, according to the Roselle Park Police Department.
Specifically, Mazzone claimed to be a “customs inspector”, a position which entails carrying a firearm and the power to make arrests.
Of course, TSA workers can do neither, they are merely hired federal government hands, that now spend most of their time down the pants of everyday Americans trying to travel freely around the country.
“I wouldn’t say it’s a particular affront,” said Detective Sgt. Manuel Jimenez, a spokesman for the Roselle Park Police Department.”But you’re pretending to be somebody who has particular expertise or authority and you’re lying about it.”
The TSA says it is conducting its own inquiry into the incident and will make a decision on Mazzone’s position after the court case is completed.
In recent weeks we have reported on the full scale epidemic of TSA criminality that is now gaining widespread media attention.
At the same airport Mazzone works in, Newark Liberty International, there have been a spate of incidents involving TSA workers stealing money and valuables from luggage, as well as routine security failures, involving handguns being taken through security lines.
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Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones’ Infowars.net, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham in England.
A research and educational institute has found young evangelicals are moving to the left politically -- many of their convictions are supporting more liberal public policies. A number of books and reports find evangelicals under the age of 30 have a strong desire to help the poor, and are concerned about the environment as well as other social justice issues.
Ryan Messmore of The Heritage Foundation tells OneNewsNow, "What we found is that a lot of young evangelicals have a good passion about caring for people in need and we want to say 'Amen' to that passion. The problem is that that passion is often directed in bad policy initiatives and approaches."
Messmore says many young evangelicals interpret God's call to help those in need as providing more government assistance and redistribution of wealth from the rich to the poor.
"What we're trying to argue is that if you really care about poverty, if you really understand what poverty is, it's not just material in nature," he says. "It's not just a lack of money or finances that the government can come along and meet. Given who we are as human beings, we have a wide range of needs -- and a true approach to helping people in need takes into account all of those approaches."
The Heritage Foundation attempts to help young evangelicals see that families, churches, and local neighborhood initiatives are more effective in addressing the real needs of the people rather than the government.
Socialism 'unbiblical'
Historian James Rose says socialism is an "unbiblical" idea of man and government that has become very popular with many Americans.
Rose, founder of the American Christian History Institute, says many Americans are welcoming European-type socialism as a model for the United States. Rose points to the biblical story of Israel when the nation cried out for a king to rule over them instead of God. When God responded to their request, he told them their king would "take" from them all that they had -- an early example of socialism, Rose suggests. (Listen to audio report)
"Socialism is a false, deceitful view of man and government. It seeks to do things to people while it undermines individual responsibility and private capital," he explains.
"This view of man and government appears to offer safety and security and to supply our needs and wants, [but in fact] it makes the individual more and more dependent on public policy and less and less able to be independent and self-governing."
The Institute's president explains that socialism "thrives" when people are afraid and insecure. He points out that the consequences of the system are more government control, less independence, more public property, less private property, more taxes and fees, and less saving. In contrast, Rose says that the character of self-government is productivity, diligence, and more local care with less national control.
A group which opposes the spread of radical Islam says WMAL in Washington, DC, has caved to the demands of an Islamic supremacist organization, making it the first "sharia-compliant" radio station in America.
Former Congressman Fred Grandy (R-Iowa) told Accuracy in Media that he was recently forced to walk away from his popular morning drive-time talk show after WMAL's management insisted that he avoid discussions about radical Islam. The station management also banned Grandy's wife Catherine (known on the air as the outspoken "Mrs. Fred") from appearing on any future broadcasts.
The station denies those charges, saying Grandy resigned of his own accord and adding that it was not contacted by any organization seeking to restrict Grandy's broadcasts.
But James Lafferty, chairman of the Virginia Anti-Sharia Task Force, claims he heard from "two very good sources" that the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) played a part in Grandy's leaving. He contends the station caved to browbeating from that pro-Muslim group.
"It is America's first Sharia-compliant station -- and [the station's decision is] not being driven by advertising or anything else," he says. "It's CAIR pressuring the management of the station, who in turn turned around and tried to pressure Fred Grandy."
According to Lafferty, Grandy is a "man of character" who chose not to yield to that sort of pressure. "And this, in fact, proves the point that he's been making on the show about the ominous efforts of CAIR and groups like CAIR to change America," he adds.
Lafferty reports his group has launched "Call out WMAL Days" to encourage people to tell management they will not listen to WMAL until Grandy and his wife return. They plan a protest outside the station's studios on March 9.
For the most part, is Islam "getting a pass"
from the American mainstream media these days?
Operator of Tustin Company Charged with Stealing $285,000 from Group of Roman Catholic Nuns
SANTA ANA, CA—A Tustin woman surrendered this morning to FBI
agents after being indicted last week on wire fraud charges alleging she defrauded a
group of nuns out of more than a quarter-million dollars.
Linda Rose Gagnon, 57, is scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon on three
counts of wire fraud in United States District Court.
A federal grand jury indicted Gagnon last Wednesday in a scheme to defraud the
U.S. Province of the Religious of Jesus and Mary, Inc. (RJM), a congregation of Roman
Catholic Sisters. The indictment alleges that the fraud took place after Gagnon visited a
Rhode Island convent where some of the RJM sisters reside.
Gagnon operated the Tustin-based Rose Enterprises, Inc., a company that she
claimed assisted clients with delinquent mortgages and other real estate transactions.
After learning that RJM was interested in purchasing a property in San Diego, Gagnon
offered to assist in the transaction. Armed with a bogus letter that appeared to be from
a California attorney, Gagnon convinced the nuns to wire $285,000 from their
retirement account to be used in the purchase of the property.
Instead of using the money to purchase the property for the nuns, the indictment
alleges that Gagnon stole the money and used the money to pay for personal
expenses, including pet sitting, lingerie, car payments, and purchases at retail outlets.
An indictment contains allegations that a defendant has committed a crime.
Every defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
If she is convicted of the three wire fraud counts in the indictment, Gagnon would
face a statutory maximum sentence of 60 years in federal prison.
The investigation in this case was conducted by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation.
CONTACT: Assistant United States Attorney Robert J. Keenan
(714) 338-3597
March 7, 2011
We're in Siberia, shivering. It's November, November 11, 2003, and two boys, Kolya and Maksim Muravyev, are ice fishing along the Lena River, where it's 13 below zero. All of a sudden, up in the sky, they see what looks like a flamingo. "We thought it was a swan or a stork," Kolya says, a flamingo being so preposterously improbable.
It was large, and made ever lower circles in the sky. It seemed to be losing energy until finally it fell and lay quietly on the snow. The two boys ran over, called their father, Vasily, who picked up the bird and took it home. It was still alive. "[This is the ] first time I see a bird like this," he told a TV reporter.
They fed the flamingo fish and buckwheat saturated in water (not normally flamingo food) and pretty soon it was up, active and knocking around the Muravyev's apartment. Here it is, head in a feeding bucket.
And here it is again, posing in front of the television. (It appeared on several news programs, that's where we got the quotes from above.)
The Muravyevs have a dog. Dogs and flamingos don't cohabit easily in living rooms, so the flamingo was eventually moved to a local greenhouse and then to the zoo in nearby Krasnoyarsk.
That should be the end of the story. Except that one year later, also in November and also in Siberia, it happened again. Another flamingo flew out of the sky, landed by another Siberian river, was also brought to the greenhouse, then sent to the zoo and the locals began to wonder, "Where are these birds coming from? What are they doing here?"
This tale appears in Ian Frazier's new and wonderful travelogue, Travels in Siberia and when I read it, I called up my buddy (and sleuth-on-tap) Ezra Block and said, "Let's see if we can solve this puzzle."
Flamingos Aren't Always Warm
Ezra checked and discovered that while we normally associate flamingos with tropical lagoons, they are not always warm weather birds. Marita Davison, who studies flamingos at Cornell University, says she regularly sees Bolivian flamingos up in the Andes Mountains. And at that high up — 16,000 feet — the lakes freeze around their feet. She sent us this video of flamingos stuck in ice. There are two on the right trying to get free.
"It's really an amazing sight to see," she told us. "They'll just wait for it to thaw and then go on [with] their business." So, we asked her, were you surprised to hear about flamingos in Siberia?
She was. First of all, Siberia in November is much colder than Bolivia. Then she pointed out, flamingos are social animals. They always travel in flocks. To have two single flamingos drop from the sky suggests that there were more flamingos up there, that the two who fell were part of larger groups. (Meaning, there could be flocks of Siberian flamingos flying over Siberia! )
Where did they come from? There are Asian flamingos. The nearest live and nest in Kazakhstan, so perhaps those birds came from there. It's a long way, as you see here:
So what brought them so far north and east? Davison isn't sure, but she has a notion. (We discussed it on NPR's Morning Edition. Push the "listen" button on this page to hear her theory.)
Checking the library, she discovered that 100 years ago scientists also reported multiple sightings of flamingos, again deep in Siberia, and again it was November.
November is the month when flamingos normally fly south from their nests in Kazakhstan to Iran. So, she thought, maybe this is an example of "reverse migration", a behavior known in migrating birds but not – thus far — in flamingos.
Here's the idea. Suppose a bird is wired to fly one direction every fall and for some reason the wiring screws up so the animal goes 180 degrees the wrong way, exactly the opposite direction. This happens to a few birds in migrant populations every year. When she looked on a map, she noticed that the village of Vernemarkovo in Siberia, where the first bird landed, was roughly the opposite distance and the opposite direction from the flamingo's normal winter quarters in Iran.
Stephanie d'Otreppe/NPR
So maybe what happened is a bunch of birds in 2003 and 2004 got turned around on their way to Iran, and flew exactly where they didn't want to go. By this logic, they weren't the first flamingos in Siberia and they won't be the last.
So this may not be a global warming story or a one-in-a-billion story or a winter miracle. It may be just a statistically predictable case of faulty wiring that brightened up the winter for two sets of boys in Siberia.
As for the birds, they got names: Phila and Phima, and a warm place to live at the Krasnayarsk Zoo, which they shared with a bunch of (imported) zoo flamingos. Until one of them got sick. We called the zoo and a spokesman told us that one of the birds died "after a long illness". One imagines the surviving flamingo quietly dreaming of warm nights in Persia, sipping pond-scum, their favorite food. The flamingos we know don't care much for borscht.
Ian Frasier, while researching his "Travels in Siberia" (2010, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux) recorded an interview with Marina Tabakova, who took care of both flamingos at the Winter Garden in Severobaikalsk in Siberia. He generously allowed us to use his recordings.
The NY Times reports that in a "major reversal," the Archdiocese of Philadelphia announced that it had placed 21 priests on administrative leave from active ministry in connection with credible charges that they had sexually abused minors.
According to the Times: "The announcement Tuesday was a major embarrassment for Cardinal Rigali, who, in response to the grand jury report, had initially said that there were no priests in active ministry 'who have an admitted or established allegation of sexual abuse of a minor against them.'"
The suspensions follow an initial examination of files "looking at both the substance of allegations and the process by which those allegations were reviewed," according to the archdiocese, which said a "thorough independent investigation" will follow the suspensions.
Cardinal Rigali said, "I want to be clear: These administrative leaves are interim measures. They are not in any way final determinations or judgments.
"I know that for many people their trust in the Church has been shaken," Cardinal Rigali said. "I pray that the efforts of the Archdiocese to address these cases of concern and to re-evaluate our way of handling allegations will help rebuild that trust in truth and justice."
Cardinal Rigali said, "These have been difficult weeks since the release of the Grand Jury Report: difficult most of all for victims of sexual abuse, but also for all Catholics and for everyone in our community.
"As we strive to move forward today," Cardinal Rigali added, "I wish to express again my sorrow for the sexual abuse of minors committed by any members of the Church, especially clergy. I am truly sorry for the harm done to the victims of sexual abuse, as well as to the members of our community who suffer as a result of this great evil and crime."
The Grand Jury Report identified 37 cases of concern. In addition to the 21 announced today, three priests were placed on administrative leave after the report was released in February. Five others would have been subject to administrative leave. One who was already on leave and two who are incapacitated have not been in active ministry. Two others no longer serve in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and, as both are members of a Religious Order, the Archdiocese has notified the Superiors of their Religious Orders and the Bishops of the Dioceses where they are residing.
The remaining eight priests will not be subject to administrative leave. According to the archdiocese, the initial independent examination of these cases found no further investigation is warranted. The cases of those on administrative leave involve a range from allegations of sexual abuse of a minor to boundary issues with minors.
Cardinal Rigali stated, "Since 2005, the Archdiocese has worked very hard and we believed that we were on the right path, making significant progress in the protection of children and in the investigation and handling of abuse allegations. In fact, the present investigation of sexual abuse began as a result of reports from the Archdiocese to the District Attorney's Office. The 2011 Grand Jury Report, however, presented us with serious concerns that demand a decisive response."
The Global Threat of Gendercide
Historian Niall Ferguson reminds us that Ernest Hemingway once penned a collection of short stories entitled Men Without Women. The stories are haunting, demonstrating the brutality that comes to men without the presence of women — and especially without the companionship of wives.
He recalls the Hemingway collection in order to underline what is at stake in the growing global threat of missing girls and women. The global gender gap in favor of males is a reversion of the natural pattern. How did it happen? By the widespread practice of aborting and killing baby girls — what is rightly called “gendercide.”
As Ferguson explains, “The mystery is partly explicable in terms of economics. In many Asian societies, girls are less well looked after than boys because they are economically undervalued.”
Years ago, economist Amartya Sen put the number of missing girls and women at 100 million worldwide. As Ferguson argues, that number is surely far larger now.
Consider the scale of the problem:
In China today, according to American Enterprise Institute demographer Nicholas Eberstadt, there are about 123 male children for every 100 females up to the age of 4, a far higher imbalance than 50 years ago, when the figure was 106. In Jiangxi, Guangdong, Hainan, and Anhui provinces, baby boys outnumber baby girls by 30 percent or more. This means that by the time today’s Chinese newborns reach adulthood, there will be a chronic shortage of potential spouses. According to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, one in five young men will be brideless. Within the age group 20 to 39, there will be 22 million more men than women. Imagine 10 cities the size of Houston populated exclusively by young males.
Ten cities the size of Houston? This staggers the imagination.
Ferguson warns that this gender imbalance has led in the past to outbreaks of expansionism and imperialism. Others have more directly warned of militarism and violence from China’s young men who have no prospects of marriage and a normal family life. These young men are described as China’s “broken branches.” There are millions of these young men in India, as well.
We must look beyond these warnings and see the even larger horror — the tragedy of young girls, aborted and murdered just because they are girls. This, among other vital reasons, is why even the earliest Christians understood abortion to be such a horrific evil. Given the reality of human sinfulness, we now compound abortion with infanticide and gendercide. Is this of interest only to historians and economists?
Niall Ferguson, “Men Without Women: The Ominous Rise of Asia’s Bachelor Generation,” Newsweek, March 14, 2011 (posted March 6, 2011).
