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The ordeal of Fatima Bouchar, detailed by Ian Cobain in the Guardian, exemplifies the vile essence of the 'Terror War' being conducted by United States and its abject satellite, Great Britain, against large swathes of the world's population (including, increasingly, their own people). It is a case of brutal torture against an innocent, defenseless pregnant woman, whose only "crime" was to be married to a man who belonged to an organization which had long been supported by the US and UK — until the geopolitics of oil made the group expendable. It is a tale of cowardice and cruelty, of hypocrisy and corruption, of deliberate atrocity that exacerbates the extremism it purports to combat. It is the emblem of an evil system ordered, countenanced, championed and protected at the very highest levels of the two governments — a system that is very much still in operation today.
Bouchar was married to Abdel Hakim Belhaj, a member of a group seeking to overthrow Moamar Gadafy in Libya. For 10 years, members of the group had been given asylum in Britain and other countries. According to credible reports, they were being supported by British intelligence in their efforts to oust the Libyan dictator. Then Gadafy began negotiating his deal with George W. Bush and Tony Blair to open up Libyan oil fields to the West. Suddenly, his enemies became enemies of the West; as in Afghanistan, stalwart "freedom fighters" were transformed into "terrorists" overnight, when the agenda of the West's corporate overlords demanded it. (The same process would be reversed in 2011, after Gadafy had proved less servile than expected.)
At that point, Bouchar and her husband suddenly became bargaining chips in the backroom deal being greased in Washington, London and Tripoli. As proved by secret files and messages unearthed in Libya after Gadafy's fall, Bouchar and Belhaj were offered to Gadafy as a gift from the British, a sweetener to pave the way for his first meeting with Tony Blair — and for the oil deals that swiftly followed.
Here is what happened to the couple in 2004 when they were detained in Thailand — site of one of America's innumerable secret prisons — as they tried to fly to the "friendly" confines of the UK. They were kidnapped by American agents at the behest of British intelligence. As Cobain writes:
Just when Fatima Bouchar thought it couldn't get any worse, the Americans forced her to lie on a stretcher and began wrapping tape around her feet. They moved upwards, she says, along her legs, winding the tape around and around, binding her to the stretcher. They taped her stomach, her arms and then her chest. She was bound tight, unable to move.
Bouchar says there were three Americans: two tall, thin men and an equally tall woman. Mostly they were silent. She never saw their faces: they dressed in black and always wore black balaclavas. Bouchar was terrified. They didn't stop at her chest – she says they also wound the tape around her head, covering her eyes. Then they put a hood and earmuffs on her. She was unable to move, to hear or to see. "My left eye was closed when the tape was applied," she says, speaking about her ordeal for the first time. "But my right eye was open, and it stayed open throughout the journey. It was agony." The journey would last around 17 hours. …
Belhaj says he was blindfolded, hooded, forced to wear ear defenders, and hung from hooks in his cell wall for what seemed to be hours. He says he was severely beaten. The ear defenders were removed only for him to be blasted with loud music, he says, or when he was interrogated by his US captors.
Bouchar says that when she was dragged away from her husband she feared he was going to be killed. "I thought: 'This is it.' I thought I would never see my husband again … They took me into a cell, and they chained my left wrist to the wall and both my ankles to the floor. I could sit down but I couldn't move. There was a camera in the room, and every time I tried to move they rushed in. But there was no real communication. I wasn't questioned." Bouchar found it difficult to comprehend how she could be treated in this way: she was four-and-a-half months pregnant. "They knew I was pregnant," she says. "It was obvious." She says she was given water while chained up, but no food whatsoever. She was chained to the wall for five days. At the end of this period she was taped to the stretcher and put aboard the aircraft, unaware of where she was going or whether her husband was on board. At one point the aircraft landed, remained on the ground for a short period and then took off again. Only when it landed a second time did she hear a man grunting with pain, and realise her husband was nearby. …
Two weeks after the couple were rendered to Libya, Tony Blair paid his first visit to the country, embracing Gaddafi and declaring that Libya had recognised "a common cause, with us, in the fight against al-Qaida extremism and terrorism". At the same time, in London, the Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell announced that it had signed a £110 million deal for gas exploration rights off the Libyan coast. …
As we noted here recently, these torture-renditions are by no means at an end. They thrive under the leadership of Barack Obama and David Cameron just as vigoously as they did under Bush and Blair. As Bill Blum put it last week:
Shortly after Obama's inauguration, both he and Leon Panetta, the new Director of the CIA, explicitly stated that "rendition" was not being ended. As the Los Angeles Times reported: "Under executive orders issued by Obama recently, the CIA still has authority to carry out what are known as renditions, secret abductions and transfers of prisoners to countries that cooperate with the United States." …
After Panetta was questioned by a Senate panel, the New York Times wrote that he had "left open the possibility that the agency could seek permission to use interrogation methods more aggressive than the limited menu that President Obama authorized under new rules … Mr. Panetta also said the agency would continue the Bush administration practice of 'rendition' — picking terrorism suspects off the street and sending them to a third country."
Here, at least, is a promise that Obama has kept.
But why do these tortures go on? (As noted in that previous post, Obama has in no way "ended torture" by American officials; even the official guidelines he has openly approved allow techniques that are torture in every sense of the word.) What is the point of these atrocities? In the vast majority of cases, "terrorist suspects" are the smallest of small fry, even in the eyes of their captors; they are tortured merely to extract some crumb of information from them, some tidbit that might somehow fit into the "mosaic" — the conceptual tool used by our intelligence services to weave gigantic, world-threatening conspiracies which can only be thwarted by ever more vast expenditures and arbitrary power for our intelligence services. As is well known, this interrogation strategy produces mountains of useless crap, which our intelligence "experts" then mold into whatever shape our politicians (and their paymasters) require. It is worse than useless; it is demonstrably counterproductive. It does not enhance "national security." It doesn't even do anything in particular to advance the agendas of our corporate and political overlords, because it throws up too much dust and chaos to be of practical use in plotting their future moves.
So why does it happen? Why are innocent pregnant women wrapped in tape, why are children abducted, why are innocent people strung up in "stress positions," why are captives beaten, bombarded with brain-scrambling noise, stripped naked and sexually humiliated, drugged, deprived of sleep, threatened with murder — and sometimes murdered in fact? Why is this being done by official representatives of the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom?
Why? Because — and let us be absolutely clear about this — because these people want to torture others. They like it, they enjoy it. There is clearly a zest, a psychosexual rush at work. Like child abusers, they enjoy their full, unchallengeable physical power over the bodies of their defenseless victims. They get off on it. They are the moral equivalent of pedophiles, and in any remotely healthy society, they would be treated as such.
And of course we are not talking solely of those doing the hands-on torture. Their bosses are of exactly the same ilk. I refer here to our great and good, our high and mighty, the minsters of state, the cabinet members, the military chieftains, the lords and legislators, the prime ministers, the presidents. All of them are eager participants in this extreme perversity. They love the fact that they can order human beings to be tortured — to be beaten, trussed up, stripped and probed, drugged, driven crazy. They love how tough it makes them feel. They love how powerful it makes them feel. There should be no mistake about this. Torture is being carried out because our leaders want it to be, because they like it. There are no reluctant torturers — neither at highest levels nor among the factotums actually doing the deed.
There are no reluctant torturers. This point is important to remember. No one is forced to carry out torture. This is one of the great absolving myths that societies tell themselves when, at some point, their filthy crimes are belched forth and cannot be denied. (This generally happens when their government collapses, either from military defeat or internal rot.) For example, almost no German soldier was ever punished or prosecuted for refusing to take part in Nazi atrocities. The historical record is filled with instances where individual German soldiers or officers refused to join an "aktion" against civilians. They were not court-martialed, imprisoned or killed; they were simply left out of the operation, assigned other duties or transferred to other units. The idea that the soldiers who carried out atrocities did so on pain of death from their tyrannical overlords is just a myth. They did it because they actively wanted to do it — or saw no reason not to do it.
Now it is also a fact that very few of those who participated in these atrocities would have done so if their leaders had not created the structure and circumstances for the atrocities to occur. The same is true of the Anglo-American torture system in operation today. Over the past 10 years, US and UK soldiers and operatives have been formed into death squads carrying out secret killings in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere around the world. They've kidnapped unarmed people (or often just bought them, like slaves, from profiteering locals), and sent them to secret prisons in the American gulag or to torture chambers in cooperative countries — including, at various times, Gadafy's Libya and Assad's Syria. They have murdered, beaten, sexually abused and psychologically tortured thousands upon thousands of people, very few of whom ever posed even the slightest threat to the United States or Great Britain.
But again, very few of the low-ranking perpetrators of these atrocities would have carried them out if the bipartisan leadership of their countries — the world's most "advanced" democracies, the self-proclaimed defenders of law, decency, freedom and human rights — had not very deliberately created the circumstances and the structure for the commission of these crimes. This does not absolve the individual perpetrator from the responsibility for his or her own actions, of course. They were not forced to do something against their conscience. They were not even conscripted into service; they entered it freely. But once presented with the atrocity-bearing situation created by their leaders, they either embraced or accepted the opportunity, with varying degrees of eagerness or indifference. The taint runs throughout the whole system.
This is the reality of our age. What Americans and Britons once refused to do to Adolf Hitler's minions — torture, abuse, and deprive them of legal rights — they now do routinely, continually and without shame to people whom they know to be either completely innocent or — even in the torturers' own estimation — to be peripheral, unimportant and unthreatening. They are torturing people because they want to do it, because they like to do it.
And the entire political class of both Britain and the United States acquiesce in this. They accept it. They do not denounce the perpetrators and orchestrators and orderers of torture as evil. They do not condemn them and shun them as they would child abusers and murderers. They thunder and bluster over small straws of difference and policy nuances, but they swallow whole the steaming, blood-soaked viscera of Terror War torture. Instead, they prosecute officials and soldiers who try to tell the truth about torture and other atrocities of the Terror War, as Jesselyn Raddack reports here. War crime is now completely normalized in American politics and American society. It's what we do. It's what we are. And we don't care.
Yet everywhere you look — even in the oh-so-fervent, "we're the good guys," liberal progressive humanitarian blogosphere — you will see incessant, obsessive coverage of all the minute ins and outs of the political circus: the primaries, the polls, the money, the momentum, the players. Every day — every hour — they read the tea leaves and poke through the entrails, hoping to divine what needs to be done so that "our side" wins. Our torturers. Our renditioners. Our abusers of innocent pregnant women. Our beaters and batterers and chainers and killers. We want our man, not their man, to commit the atrocities.
This obscene dynamic is now the essence of the American political process. It is rotten to the core, rotten at the top, rotten to the roots. As we've noted here many, many times before, Henry David Thoreau gave the only possible response that anyone who aspires to a measure of honor can give to the obscenity that engulfs us:
"How does it become a man to behave toward this American government to-day? I answer that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it."


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The myisamchk utility gets information about
your database tables or checks, repairs, or optimizes them.
myisamchk works with
tables (tables that have
and .MYI
for storing data and indexes).
You can also use the CHECK TABLE
and REPAIR TABLE
statements to
check and repair MyISAM
tables. See
Section 126.96.36.199, "CHECK TABLE Statement", and
Section 22.214.171.124, "REPAIR TABLE Statement".
The use of myisamchk with partitioned tables is not supported.
It is best to make a backup of a table before performing a table repair operation; under some circumstances the operation might cause data loss. Possible causes include but are not limited to file system errors.
Invoke myisamchk like this:
myisamchk [options] tbl_name ...
The options
specify what you want
myisamchk to do. They are described in the
following sections. You can also get a list of options by
invoking myisamchk --help.
With no options, myisamchk simply checks your table as the default operation. To get more information or to tell myisamchk to take corrective action, specify options as described in the following discussion.
is the database table you
want to check or repair. If you run myisamchk
somewhere other than in the database directory, you must specify
the path to the database directory, because
myisamchk has no idea where the database is
located. In fact, myisamchk does not actually
care whether the files you are working on are located in a
database directory. You can copy the files that correspond to a
database table into some other location and perform recovery
operations on them there.
You can name several tables on the myisamchk
command line if you wish. You can also specify a table by naming
its index file (the file with the .MYI
suffix). This enables you to specify all tables in a directory
by using the pattern *.MYI
. For example, if
you are in a database directory, you can check all the
tables in that directory like this:
myisamchk *.MYI
If you are not in the database directory, you can check all the tables there by specifying the path to the directory:
myisamchk /path/to/database_dir/*.MYI
You can even check all tables in all databases by specifying a wildcard with the path to the MySQL data directory:
myisamchk /path/to/datadir/*/*.MYI
The recommended way to quickly check all
tables is:
myisamchk --silent --fast /path/to/datadir/*/*.MYI
If you want to check all MyISAM
tables and
repair any that are corrupted, you can use the following
myisamchk --silent --force --fast --update-state \
--key_buffer_size=64M --myisam_sort_buffer_size=64M \
--read_buffer_size=1M --write_buffer_size=1M \
This command assumes that you have more than 64MB free. For more information about memory allocation with myisamchk, see Section 184.108.40.206, "myisamchk Memory Usage".
For additional information about using myisamchk, see Section 9.6, "MyISAM Table Maintenance and Crash Recovery".
You must ensure that no other program is using the tables while you are running myisamchk. The most effective means of doing so is to shut down the MySQL server while running myisamchk, or to lock all tables that myisamchk is being used on.
Otherwise, when you run myisamchk, it may display the following error message:
warning: clients are using or haven't closed the table properly
This means that you are trying to check a table that has been
updated by another program (such as the
mysqld server) that hasn't yet closed the
file or that has died without closing the file properly, which
can sometimes lead to the corruption of one or more
If mysqld is running, you must force it to
flush any table modifications that are still buffered in
memory by using FLUSH TABLES
You should then ensure that no one is using the tables while
you are running myisamchk
However, the easiest way to avoid this problem is to use
instead of
myisamchk to check tables. See
Section 18.104.22.168, "CHECK TABLE Statement".
myisamchk supports the following options,
which can be specified on the command line or in the
group of an option file. For
information about option files used by MySQL programs, see
Section 126.96.36.199, "Using Option Files".
Table 6.20 myisamchk Options
Option Name | Description |
--analyze | Analyze the distribution of key values |
--backup | Make a backup of the .MYD file as file_name-time.BAK |
--block-search | Find the record that a block at the given offset belongs to |
--character-sets-dir | Directory where character sets can be found |
--check | Check the table for errors |
--check-only-changed | Check only tables that have changed since the last check |
--correct-checksum | Correct the checksum information for the table |
--data-file-length | Maximum length of the data file (when re-creating data file when it is full) |
--debug | Write debugging log |
--decode_bits | Decode_bits |
--defaults-extra-file | Read named option file in addition to usual option files |
--defaults-file | Read only named option file |
--defaults-group-suffix | Option group suffix value |
--description | Print some descriptive information about the table |
--extend-check | Do very thorough table check or repair that tries to recover every possible row from the data file |
--fast | Check only tables that haven't been closed properly |
--force | Do a repair operation automatically if myisamchk finds any errors in the table |
--force | Overwrite old temporary files. For use with the -r or -o option |
--ft_max_word_len | Maximum word length for FULLTEXT indexes |
--ft_min_word_len | Minimum word length for FULLTEXT indexes |
--ft_stopword_file | Use stopwords from this file instead of built-in list |
--HELP | Display help message and exit |
--help | Display help message and exit |
--information | Print informational statistics about the table that is checked |
--key_buffer_size | Size of buffer used for index blocks for MyISAM tables |
--keys-used | A bit-value that indicates which indexes to update |
--max-record-length | Skip rows larger than the given length if myisamchk cannot allocate memory to hold them |
--medium-check | Do a check that is faster than an --extend-check operation |
--myisam_block_size | Block size to be used for MyISAM index pages |
--myisam_sort_buffer_size | The buffer that is allocated when sorting the index when doing a REPAIR or when creating indexes with CREATE INDEX or ALTER TABLE |
--no-defaults | Read no option files |
--parallel-recover | Uses the same technique as -r and -n, but creates all the keys in parallel, using different threads (beta) |
--print-defaults | Print default options |
--quick | Achieve a faster repair by not modifying the data file |
--read_buffer_size | Each thread that does a sequential scan allocates a buffer of this size for each table it scans |
--read-only | Do not mark the table as checked |
--recover | Do a repair that can fix almost any problem except unique keys that aren't unique |
--safe-recover | Do a repair using an old recovery method that reads through all rows in order and updates all index trees based on the rows found |
--set-auto-increment | Force AUTO_INCREMENT numbering for new records to start at the given value |
--set-collation | Specify the collation to use for sorting table indexes |
--silent | Silent mode |
--sort_buffer_size | The buffer that is allocated when sorting the index when doing a REPAIR or when creating indexes with CREATE INDEX or ALTER TABLE |
--sort-index | Sort the index tree blocks in high-low order |
--sort_key_blocks | sort_key_blocks |
--sort-records | Sort records according to a particular index |
--sort-recover | Force myisamchk to use sorting to resolve the keys even if the temporary files would be very large |
--stats_method | Specifies how MyISAM index statistics collection code should treat NULLs |
--tmpdir | Directory to be used for storing temporary files |
--unpack | Unpack a table that was packed with myisampack |
--update-state | Store information in the .MYI file to indicate when the table was checked and whether the table crashed |
--verbose | Verbose mode |
--version | Display version information and exit |
--wait | Wait for locked table to be unlocked, instead of terminating |
--write_buffer_size | Write buffer size |


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One lucky diver! Photo Credit David Armstrong |
Eric Nibald, 41, a diver who fishes for abalones, was flown to hospital with injuries to his head, body and left arm from the attack off Cape Howe, near Eden, 250 miles south of Sydney.
The shark grabbed Mr Nibald by the head, crushing his face mask and breaking his nose, said Dominic Alders, a fellow diver who saw the attack. "He was actually bitten by the head down - the shark swallowed him whole, I thought he was a goner."
Mr Alders followed the massive shark to shallower water where it became disoriented and beached itself on a shallow sand bar where Alders went for help.
Amazingly Mr Nibald was not dead but trapped in the gulper sharks expansive throat pouch unable to move and running out of air from his dive tank. He later told rescue workers that hours later and almost out of air he was able to free one arm and poked the shark in the stomach. The animal regurgitated the diver just when rescue services arrived.
Mr Nibald was pulled from the water and rushed to hospital, suffering from blood loss and shock.
"Gulper sharks are a rare deep water species with a notorious reputation for snagging unwary divers," said Dr Sarah Gomes with the Sydney Aquarium.
The massive shark was dragged to shore by rescue services teams and will be sent to the Sydney Aquarium for study later this week.
Shark attacks are relatively common in Australian waters, with an average of 15 a year. Just over one attack a year proves fatal.


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There is a worldwide conspiracy being orchestrated by an extremely powerful and influential group of genetically-related individuals (at least at the highest echelons) which include many of the world's wealthiest people, top political leaders, and corporate elite, as well as members of the so-called Black Nobility of Europe (dominated by the British Crown) whose goal is to create a One World (fascist) Government, stripped of nationalistic and regional boundaries, that is obedient to their agenda. Their intention is to effect complete and total control over every human being on the planet and to dramatically reduce the world's population by 6.5 Billion people to 500 million. While the name New World Order is a term frequently used today when referring to this group, it's more useful to identify the principal organizations, institutions, and individuals who make up this vast interlocking spiderweb of elite conspirators.
The Illuminati is the oldest term commonly used to refer to the 13 bloodline families (and their offshoots) that make up a major portion of this controlling elite. Most members of the Illuminati are also members in the highest ranks of numerous secretive and occult societies which in many cases extend straight back into the ancient world. The upper levels of the tightly compartmentalized (need-to-know-basis) Illuminati structural pyramid include planning committees and organizations that the public has little or no knowledge of. The upper levels of the Illuminati pyramid include secretive committees with names such as: the Council of 3, the Council of 5, the Council of 7, the Council of 9, the Council of 13, the Council of 33, the Grand Druid Council, the Committee of 300 (also called the "Olympians") and the Committee of 500 among others.
In 1992, Dr John Coleman published Conspirators' Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300. With laudable scholarship and meticulous research, Dr Coleman identifies the players and carefully details the Illuminati agenda of worldwide domination and control. On page 161 of the Conspirators Hierarchy, Dr Coleman accurately summarizes the intent and purpose of the Committee of 300 as follows:
"A One World Government and one-unit monetary system, under permanent non-elected hereditary oligarchists who self-select from among their numbers in the form of a feudal system as it was in the Middle Ages. In this One World entity, population will be limited by restrictions on the number of children per family, diseases, wars, famines, until 1 billion people who are useful to the ruling class, in areas which will be strictly and clearly defined, remain as the total world population.
There will be no middle class, only rulers and the servants. All laws will be uniform under a legal system of world courts practicing the same unified code of laws, backed up by a One World Government police force and a One World unified military to enforce laws in all former countries where no national boundaries shall exist. The system will be on the basis of a welfare state; those who are obedient and subservient to the One World Government will be rewarded with the means to live; those who are rebellious will simple be starved to death or be declared outlaws, thus a target for anyone who wishes to kill them. Privately owned firearms or weapons of any kind will be prohibited."The sheer magnitude and complex web of deceit surrounding the individuals and organizations involved in this conspiracy is mind boggling, even for the most astute among us. Most people react with disbelief and skepticism towards the topic, unaware that they have been conditioned (brainwashed) to react with skepticism by institutional and media influences that were created by the Mother of All mind control organizations: The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations in London. Author and de-programmer Fritz Springmeier (The Top 13 Illuminati Bloodlines ) says that most people have built in "slides" that short circuit the mind's critical examination process when it comes to certain sensitive topics. "Slides", Springmeier reports, is a CIA term for a conditioned type of response which dead ends a person's thinking and terminates debate or examination of the topic at hand. For example, the mention of the word "conspiracy" often solicits a slide response with many people. (Springmeier has co-authored three books on trauma-based programming which detail how the Illuminati employs highly tuned and extrememly sophisticated Mind Control (MC) training programs that begin the programming process while the intended victim is still within the womb. Mind Control is a much greater problem than most people realize. According to Cisco Wheeler, a former Illuminati mind control programmer, there are 10 million people who have been programmed as mind controlled slaves using trauma-based MC programs with names like Monarch and MK Ultra. The newer, non-trauma, electronic means of MC programming that grew out of the Montauk Project, may include millions more. Al Bielek, who played a principle role in the development of the Montauk Project, said that there likely 10 million victims of Montauk style mind control programming worldwide, the majority located in the USA. He also said that there are covert Montauk Programming 'Centers' in every major city in the U.S. )
What most Americans believe to be "Public Opinion" is in reality carefully crafted and scripted propaganda designed to elicit a desired behavioral response from the public. Public opinion polls are really taken with the intent of gauging the public's acceptance of the Illuminati's planned programs. A strong showing in the polls tells the Illuminati that the programing is "taking", while a poor showing tells the NWO manipulators that they have to recast or "tweak" the programming until the desired response is achieved. While the thrust and content of the propaganda is decided at Tavistock, implementation of the propaganda is executed in the United States by well over 200 'think tanks' such as the Rand Corporation and the Brookings Institute which are overseen and directed by the top NWO mind control organization in the United States, the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in Menlo Park, California.
The NWO global conspirators manifest their agenda through the skillful manipulation of human emotions, especially fear. In the past centuries, they have repeatedly utilized a contrivance that NWO researcher and author David Icke has characterized in his latest book, The Biggest Secret, as Problem, Reaction, and Solution.
The technique is as follows: Illuminati strategists create the Problem- by funding , assembling, and training an "opposition" group to stimulate turmoil in an established political power (sovereign country, region, continent, etc.) that they wish to impinge upon and thus create opposing factions in a conflict that the Illuminati themselves maneuvered into existence. In recent decades, so called "opposition" groups are usually identified in the media as 'freedom fighters' or 'liberators' (recently the KLA-Kosovo Liberation Army).
At the same time, the leader of the established political power where the conflict is being orchestrated is demonized and, on cue, referred to as 'another Hitler' (take your pick: Saddam Hussein, Milosevic, Kadaffi, etc.). The 'freedom fighters' are not infrequently assembled from a local criminal element (i.e. KLA, drug traffickers). In the spirit of true Machiavellian deceit, the same NWO strategists are equally involved in covertly arming and advising the leader of the established power as well (the Illuminati always profits from any armed conflict by loaning money, arming, and supplying all parties involved in a war).
The conflict is drawn to the world stage by the controlled media outlets with a barrage of photos and video tape reports of horrific and bloody atrocities suffered by innocent civilians. The cry goes up "Something has to be done!" And that is the desired Reaction (note: the same technique is presently being used to bring about gun control in the United States).
The NWO puppeteers then provide the Solution by sending in UN 'Peace Keepers' (Bosnia) or a UN 'Coalition Force' (Gulf War) or NATO Bombers and then ground troops (Kosovo). Once installed, the 'peace keepers' never leave (Bosnia, Kosovo). The idea is to have NWO controlled ground troops in all major countries or strategic areas where significant resistance to the New World Order takeover is likely to be encountered.
East Timor, Indosnesia. (9/14/99) Virtually , the same strategy used to occupy Kosovo with UN/NATO troops was applied by the NWO manipulators to take military control of East Timor. Once again, the same morality play is trotted out for public consumption: the local evil and demonic Indonesian Army trained militias responsible for the slaughter of innocent civilians following the August 30 vote for Independence (from Indonesian control), must be stopped at all costs. This time, Australia (to keep up the appearance of an 'international' humantarian effort) will lead the charge with 'peacekeeping' troops. Of course, it didn't take long for Madeline Albright to announce that US 'support assets' will be part of the "UN Peacekeeping Team". In a front page story in the LA Times (9/13/99), Mike Jendrzejczyk of Human Rights Watch (an Illuminati front group) in Washington DC said that it's "crucial" that "peacekeepers have the authority to disarm militia forces and any Indonesian soldiers actively working with them". ]
The local, sovereign military force is either defeated (i.e. Yugoslavia) or, as in the case of the United States itself, replaced by foreign UN "Partnership For Peace" (PFP) troops who take over the jobs of US soldiers who have been sent overseas on 'peacekeeping' missions. In addition to being killed in ground conflicts on foreign soil, US military forces will likely be reduced in the next few years through disease induced attrition (i.e. from mandatory Anthrax Vaccinations required of all US military personnel). These vaccinations will, in all probability, eventually produce the symptoms of the so-called Gulf War Illness, which was acquired by a certain percentage of Gulf War soldiers who were given a "special" anthrax vaccine (intended by the Illuminati/CIA as a test run to ascertain how quickly (and fatally) the disease would progress with a substantial population of healthy young men and women).
The corporate portion of the NWO pyramid seems to be dominated first and foremost by Jewish Cabalist international bankers and the big pharmaceutical cartels, as well as other major multinational corporations. The Royal Family of England, namely Queen Elizabeth II and the House of Windsor, (who are, in fact, descendants of the German arm of European Royalty -the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha family-changed the name to Windsor in 1914 ), are high level players, along with the British oligarchy which controls the upper strata of the Illuminati. The decision making Illuminati nerve centers of this effort are in the London (especially the City of London), Basel Switzerland, and Brussels (NATO headquarters).
The United Nations, along with all the agencies working under the UN umbrella, such as the World Health Organization (WHO), are full time players in this scheme. Similarly, NATO is a military tool of the NWO.
The leaders of all major industrial countries like the United States, England, Germany, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, etc. (E.g. members of the "G7/G8" ) are active and fully cooperative participants in this conspiracy. In this century, the degree of control exerted by the Illuminati has advanced to the point that only certain hand-picked individuals, who are groomed and selected by the Illuminati are even eligible to become the prime minister or president of countries like England, Germany, or The United States. It didn't matter whether Bill Clinton or Bob Dole won the Presidency in 1996, the results would have been the same (except maybe for Zipper Gate ). Both men are playing on the same team for the same ball club. Anyone who isn't a team player is taken out: i.e.President Kennedy, Ali Bhutto (Pakistan) and Aldo Moro (Italy). More recently, Admiral Borda and William Colby were also killed because they were either unwilling to go along with the conspiracy to destroy America, weren't cooperating in some capacity, or were attempting to expose/ thwart the Takeover agenda.
Most of the major wars, political upheavals, and economic depression/recessions of the past 100 years (and earlier) were carefully planned and instigated by the machinations of these elites. They include The Spanish-American War (1898), World War I and World War II; the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917; The Great Depression of 1929 - 1939; the Rise of Nazi Germany; the Korean War; the Vietnam War; the 1989-91"fall" of Soviet Communism, the 1991 Gulf War; and the recent War in Kosovo. Even the French Revolution of 1788 was an orchestrated into existence by the Barvaian Illuminati and the House of Rothchild.
In America, the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) was created in 1979 under Presidential Memorandum 32 authored for President Carter by Prof. Samuel P. Huntington, a Harvard professor and former FEMA Advisory Board chairman. Huntington wrote the Seminal Peace for the Trilateral Commission in the mid 70's, in which he criticized democracy and economic development as outdated ideas. As co-author of another report prepared for the Trilateral Commissiosn, The Crisis of Democracy, Huntington wrote:"We have come to recognize that there are potential desirable limits to economic growth. There are also potentially desirable limits to the indefinite extension of political democracy. A government which lacks authority will have little ability short of cataclysmic crisis to impose on its people the sacrifices which may be necessary."
Huntington's ideas were rewritten into National Security Decision Directive #47 (NSDD47), which was enacted in July 1982 by President Reagan. Treated as a passing footnote by the media, this law identified legitimate areas to be upgraded to maintain national defense, but it also laid the groundwork for Emergency Mobilization Preparedness, a plan under which existing socio/economic regulations or other legal constraints would be waived in the event of a national emergency. This plan was further strengthened in Public Law 101-647, signed by President Bush in November 1990.What it boils down to is this: in the event that the President declares a national emergency, for any reason (from major earthquakes to increased international tensions or economic /financial crisis of any stripe), FEMA can then, at their discretion, implement Executive Orders 10995 through 11005. These Executive Orders permit a takeover by FEMA of local, state, and national governments and the suspension of constitutional guarantees. FEMA will have the authority to exert any sort of control that it deems necessary upon the American public. A trained National Police Force, formally referred to by the name of Multi Jurisdictional Task Force (MJTF), wearing black uniforms and composed of:
1. specially selected US military personnel
2. foreign military units carrying United Nations ID cards, and
3. specially trained existing police groups from larger metropolitan American cities.These members of the MJTF will implement and enforce martial law under the direction and controlof FEMA. The President and Congress are out of the loop.
FEMA is the Trojan Horse by which the New World Order will implement overt, police-state control over the American populace.
War on Drugs
The "War on Drugs" is a cruel joke. The US government, specifically the CIA, is the biggest 'drug lord' on the planet. Drug money is used to pay for innumerable 'black projects', including the construction of huge underground cities housing both humans and aliens working with the secret US government.The instigation of a trumped-up war as a cover for amassing fortunes can be dated back to at least the 12th Century when only a core group of nine members of an Illuminati group called the Knights Templar, the military arm of an Illuminati secret society known as the Priory of Sion, kicked off the The Crusades that lasted for over a century and a half. A rift later developed between the Templars and the Priory of Sion when Jerusalem was lost to Saracen Turks in 1187. In 1307, the king of France, Philippe the Fair (a Merovingian Illuminati), coveted the wealth and was jealous of the Templars' power. The French king, being a puppet of the Priory of Sion, set out to arrest all the Templars in France on October 13. While many Templars were seized and tortured, including their Grand Master, Jacques de Molay, many other Templars (who had been tipped off) escaped. They eventually resurfaced in Portugal, in Malta (as the Knights of Malta) and later in Scotland as The Scottish Rites of Free Masonry.
The acquisition and consolidation of ever greater wealth, natural resources, total political power, and control over others are the motivating forces which drives the decisions of the Illuminati. The toll in human suffering and the loss of innocent lives are non issues for these individuals, who are aligned with very dark and malevolent 4th dimensional aliens. The dominant group of 4th dimentional malevolent aliens controlling and manipulating the human Iluminati are known as Draconians or Drakos Reptilians. Not all alien reptilians are of a negative spiritual orientation.
Mind Control
Recent revelations from deprogrammed Illuminati (government) mind controlled individuals such as Arizona Wilder (The Biggest Secret), Cisco Wheeler ( The Illuminati Formula to Create an Undetectable Total Mind Control Slave), Cathy O'Brien (Trance Formation of America), and Brice Taylor (Thanks for the Memories) leave NO DOUBT that the upper levels of the Illuminati engage in Satanic rituals which usually include the killing of young children, the drinking of human blood and the consuming of flesh and human organs.The details of the Illuminati conspiracy are brilliantly laid out in the books of David Icke (Tales from the Time Loop, Children of the Matrix, Alice in Wonderland and the World Trace Center Disaster, The Biggest Secret, The Truth Shall Set You Free, and I am Me, I am Free; and in three books by Dr. John Coleman (Conspirators' Hierarchy: The Story of The Committee of 300; One World Order: Socialist Dictatorship; and Diplomacy by Deception
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December 7, 2016
Participants for AMFA: Bret Oestreich – National Director Earl Clark – Chairman and Region I Director Jason Munson – Airline Representative, Local 14 Mark Dahl – Airline Representative, Local 32
Participants for Alaska Airlines: Greg Mays – VP Labor Relations Kurt Kinder – VP Maintenance & Engineering Bob Hartnett – Director, Labor Relations Ground Sonia Alvarado – Manager, Labor Services M&E Megan Koering – Sr Financial Planning Analyst
The Negotiating Committee is providing this update to the AMFA Membership at Alaska Airlines (ASA). This is the only official authorized source of negotiating communications by the Committee.
On December 1 and 2, 2016, AMFA and Alaska Airlines met to continue negotiations at the Courtyard Marriott in Anchorage, Alaska. We started the first day at 9:00 am with the Company giving an update on their draft of the new Maintenance & Engineering (M&E) expense report policy and where they are at with publishing it. We should see it next year so that stations can budget for the change. The Company then gave an update on the Commuter Pass Policy for M&E. The Company said that they are waiting for changes to the pass policy to come out before they do anything. The AMFA Committee is reviewing to see if we need to put this in our Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA).
We moved on to Article 28, Shift Differential and tentatively agreed (TA'd) the entire Article. The change is an increase in second shift differential to $0.60 from $0.51 an hour, third shift to $0.75 from $0.58 an hour, and relief shift going to $0.80 from $0.61an hour.
Before lunch we TA'd changes to Letter of Agreement (LOA) # 12, Vacation Buy Back Program. Changes include language to allow employees to request to receive pay in lieu of taking vacation up to two times per year during the period of December 1 to September 15, under the following guidelines. The employee can cumulatively "cash out" a maximum equal to the amount of vacation taken in the previous calendar year and current vacation bid year (year to date of request) combined. Hours cashed out during the year will not be used to calculate available lines for vacation bidding as outlined in paragraph C of Article 13. The parties will meet to assess the process for its effectiveness and to consider any mutually agreed to changes for the following year. For the purposes of this LOA, "cash out" is defined as either a lump sum payment or a contribution to the employee's 401(k), which will be 401(k) Company match-able. The Committee does not see this as an improvement to our retirement, no matter what the Company says.
After lunch we passed our latest economic counter proposal to the Company. We remained with our previous Schedule A Scale proposal for Aircraft Technicians to receive a 20% increase on day of signing with 3% increases on the out years of the Agreement. We continue to accept the Company's proposal for increases of our License Premiums to $2.00 for first license and $3.00 for the second license, for a total of $5.00 an hour. We maintained our last offer for Schedule A increases for Tech Helper/Janitor Step 1 to $15.00 per hour, for Steps 2-11 3.75% increases to each subsequent Step. Article 23, Annual Wage Review stays intact with a 3% minimum wage increase. We kept the same heath care proposal as passed to the Company in November, which is a cap percentage of 7% of the 2016 rates that we are currently paying. We made a change to our retirement proposal in the defined benefit plan that would change the wording from best five (5) consecutive years of service to the best five (5) years of service for calculating retirement pay.
In this pass we also withdrew Article 2, Scope that we had proposed. We withdrew our proposal for Scope knowing that we would renew LOA #9, Job Protection.
We also proposed to remove our participation in the PBP Plan in its entirety. We proposed to go back to a true profit sharing plan and to go back to the Variable Pay Plan (VPP) that we were in prior to the 2005 CBA; VPP is a way to share in the success of Alaska Airlines, and under this plan members will receive a lump sum distribution equal to 1% of their pay for each percentage point above 5% of Alaska's pretax margin, up to a pretax margin of 20% (or a maximum of 15% of gross earnings).
After reading our proposal to the Company, they took a long break. We then moved on to talking about what the Company has been responding to in the water cooler on Alaskasworld and how upsetting it has been to some of our Technicians. The first day ended.
On December 2, we started the day with the Company telling us that they were not ready to give us a counter economic proposal at this time and would be ready to give us their counter at our next session in January. We then moved on to discussing LOA # 13, Medical Plan Collaboration to cut cost and establish a Wellness Plan. We told the Company how disappointed we were in the program. The Wellness Plan started out with good intentions, but nothing has happened in the last two (2) years to help reduce our insurance costs. We discussed options with the Company of removing the entire letter, but decided to table this for now until we can have Keith Abernathy, MD Human Capital Operations, at the table for further discussions.
We then moved onto LOA # 9, Job Security and agreed to TA the letter. We accepted additions to the language that the Company will not subcontract any aircraft maintenance to McGee Air Services, Inc. We also added the additional stations of Orange County (SNA) and Sacramento (SMF) to the list of protected cities of Anchorage, Juneau, Seattle, Portland, Oakland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Las Vegas, San Diego, and San Jose. We back dated the protection date to October 18, 2016.
We ended the day talking about part-time Technician Helpers and how it could take them up to one year to finish the 1080 hours probation period; if you are part-time, you can't bid to a Technician slot even if they have an A&P license and they cannot use sick leave for one year. We feel this is unfair, but the contract is clear on hours not days.
Our Committee would like to thank the observers that took the time to attend. Remember to check your Local's website for the most up-to-date information on times and locations of negotiations: www.amfa14.org and www.amfa32.com. If you have any questions, please contact your Airline Representative or attend your next monthly membership meeting for a question and answer period.
If you plan to attend a future negotiation session, please contact your Airline Representative to RSVP, by RSVP'ing you are guaranteed a seat if the room is full.
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Upcoming Negotiation Dates – Upcoming meeting location, accommodation, and time are yet to be determined.
At the end of writing this update the Company has informed AMFA that they would like to schedule another negotiating session on Friday, December 9, 2016, in a location to be determined in the Seattle area – AMFA has agreed.
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I almost feel guilty about my GALLON + of ice I crunch on a day. I take a gallon ziploc bag to work with me (filled) and run out by the time I drive home.
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Type of Science and God
The human anatomy is created of terrestrial spirits which are accountable for matters just like its own growth and visual appeal. If humans have shown anything, it's they can ruin anything. Sometimes people don't need to use their brain, don't need to think a good deal, and prefer to trust in lies.
» So, cosmology goes quite a way toward establishing the occurrence of Creator, » Strobel stated. Science is God-inspired, and it's lots of fun. So, trusting' science is truly a logically ridiculous action to do. On the other hand, it can neither prove nor disprove the existence of god, gods or any sort of creator. Modern-day science arose close to the conclusion of the medieval period.
Science would rather ask additional questions from research that has been done. As it finds out more, we'll learn more about that. Needless to say, not all sciences are made equal. It proved the concept of sacred spirals. The great thing about science is it is for everybody who's ready to look to the Universe itself to learn more info about it. Science and religion have long been regarded as polar opposites in conflict with each other. Science and religion go together.
How to Get Started with Science and God?
When it has to do with personal wellness, I would believe my doctor over my pastor about what things to do. Everything consists of energy. In reality, there's nothing that the energy doesn't know. The minute energy goes out of our entire body, we're dead. If you understand how to harness the energy, it's possible to practically do anything. You haven't fully expressed your power for a voter till you get a scientific literacy in topics that matter for future political problems.
There's nothing random about all the automated functions around my entire body. Evidently, the creation isn't perfect. Migration from 1 universe to another isn't physically feasible for you.
The Appeal of Science and God
In case you have any further questions or inquiries, please speak to us, we'll do our very best to assist you. The solution is actually quite easy. Perhaps 1 explanation for those throngs at the Creation Museum is there are so few politically correct alternatives for people that question the evolutionary metanarrative, which often excludes God. Certainly not, as it would offer no understanding whatsoever.
The planet we're living on is not a safe location. «The universe started to exist. It began to exist. It is just too orderly. There isn't any way that the universe might have been that lucky to create the elements required to spring forth life. On the flip side, the presence of a God providing free will to humans requires the occurrence of science.
The truth is, even the atheist scientist employs faithindeed, needs faith to be able to do science. Fact of the problem is that there's a double standard here as well. To really comprehend what's being conveyed. Maybe some things ought to be left unexplained. Yes, but nevertheless, it won't ever get here. Nothing can only donothing. It's possible for you to join regardless of what your beliefs are.
Science and God and Science and God – The Perfect Combination
Defending yourself by attacking basically means you're trying to injure the other person the exact way they're trying to injure you. When the kids get up in the early hours, they're likely to get morning singing, he explained. Love is a procedure and a mind-set. People generally speaking don't integrate the spirit soul and body as they should. 1 life is equivalent to a grade. Consider how you see the world. Reality has a means of winning out in the long run.
A materialistic world view has a significant issue with information since it appears that it can't be reduced to physics and chemistry, yet it's at the core of the universe. So as to make my point clear nttdonline.net/what-are-generally-controlling-adjectives/ from the beginning, I have to make some definitions. Mir Shahmir It is a rather delicate point. The metaphysical claims of atheist scientists are among the key challenges facing young people and grownups alike today. In a nutshell, there's absolutely no agreement on the problem even among scientists.
Our principles aren't a faith. Our belief isn't a belief. Faith is necessary for science. The significance of the term faith was redefined in a devious approach to mean belief where there's no evidence. Your religion might never set you on the incorrect side of history, and I think it's incredibly important to mention that.
Folks want to be smarter than God, however they cannot be. «It can not have anything to say either way about whether there's a God. The main reason why God doesn't appear in evolutionary narratives is because it is a science. He is the ultimate scientist. If you'd like to talk any further allow me to know, God Bless!


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What Is a Required Minimum Distribution?
A required minimum distribution (RMD) is the annual amount that generally must be withdrawn from a traditional IRA or a qualified retirement plan (such as a 401(k), 403(b), and self-employed plans) starting no later than April 1 of the year after the year the account owner reaches the age of 73 (for individuals who reach age 72 after December 31, 2022). If you attained age 72 in 2022 or earlier, you are already required to take RMDs. The RMD age will rise to 75 in 2033. Some employer plans may allow still-employed account owners to delay distributions until they stop working, even if they are older than 73.
RMDs are designed to ensure that owners of tax-deferred retirement accounts do not defer taxes on their retirement accounts indefinitely. You are allowed to begin taking penalty-free distributions from tax-deferred retirement accounts after age 59½, but you must begin taking them after reaching age 73. If you delay your first distribution to April 1 following the year in which you turn 73, you must take another distribution for that year. Annual RMDs must be taken each subsequent year no later than December 31.
The RMD amount depends on your age, the value of the account(s), and your life expectancy. You can use the IRS Uniform Lifetime Table (or the Joint and Last Survivor Table, in certain circumstances) to determine your life expectancy. To calculate your RMD, divide the value of your account balance at the end of the previous year by the number of years you're expected to live, based on the numbers in the IRS table. You must calculate RMDs for each account that you own. If you do not take the required minimum distribution, a penalty of 25% will be assessed on the RMD amount that should have been taken, dropping to 10% if timely corrected by making up the missed RMD. "Timely" means corrected generally in 2 years (unless the penalty is assessed earlier). Of course, you can always withdraw more than the required minimum amount or even withdraw the entire balance as a lump sum.
Remember that distributions from tax-deferred retirement plans are subject to ordinary income tax. Waiting until the April 1 deadline in the year after reaching age 73 is a one-time option and requires that you take two RMDs in the same tax year. If these distributions are large, this method could push you into a higher tax bracket. It may be wise to plan ahead for RMDs to determine the best time to begin taking them.
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Get Personalized, Printable Pass-Along Cards on Mormon.org
Contributed By By Sonja Carlson, Church News staff writer
Article Highlights
- Church members who have a mormon.org account can now print off personalized pass-along cards.
- Personalized pass-along cards allow for an exchange of information and a greater chance something will come out of the exchange.
- Another way to share the gospel is by sharing mormon.org profiles on social media sites.
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Church members who have accounts with mormon.org can now print off pass-along cards personalized with their profile information to hand out to people with whom they wish to share the gospel.
"Personalized printed pass-along cards in English and Spanish were added to the site in November 2013," said Ron Wilson, senior manager of Internet and advertising for the Church.
Members and missionaries alike are now using either the feature or something similar to spread the gospel.
In a recent blog post on ldsmediatalk.com, Larry Richman, director of product awareness and evaluation for the Church, explained how to create the cards.
Users can simply log into their profile and click "Share This Profile" and "Print Card," Brother Richman said in his post.
The Canada Halifax Mission is working to implement a "personalized pass-along card movement" with the tool.
The mission had been working on the movement even before mormon.org launched the personalized pass-along card feature and had been using the "I'm a Mormon" pass-along cards the Church offers.
"We don't have a big mission, but in the last three months we've given out 40,000 'I'm a Mormon' pass-along cards," said Canada Halifax Mission President Brian Leavitt.
The mission plans on extending the movement to include the mormon.org personalized pass-along card feature.
President Leavitt said that giving someone a personalized pass-along card leaves room for an exchange of information (such as email addresses) and a greater chance that something will come out of such an exchange.
Lee Lovell, ward mission leader for the South Bay Young Single Adult Ward in the Torrance California Stake, presented a similar idea to his ward.
"I was looking at the 'I'm a Mormon' cards one day and thought it would be awesome to get one custom printed with my name on it," he said. "That is when I thought of the idea. It is simple: print a simple message on an address label that links to a person's profile and stick it on the back of the card. This way, members of our ward can have a simple and non-pushy way of leaving a pass-along card. There is also space for a phone number if the member chooses to leave it."
Brother Wilson said that the new, personalized mormon.org pass-along cards offer members a simple way to share their beliefs.
"A member could print a card and then share it with a friend," he said. "What could be more simple than handing the card to a friend with the following approach: 'I've shared some personal thoughts on a website and I value your opinion; would you check it out and let me know what you think?'"
Brother Wilson said other ways to utilize mormon.org for missionary work include sharing profiles with social media and blog buttons, which can also be found at mormon.org/profile.


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Monday: rest day. But I did stop on the way to work to steal me some sunshine. And a yoga pose.
Reverse warrior |
I didn't get a selfie, though because they were just too observant! I thought maybe I'd get one in the locker room, but all the pool noodlers were in there, getting ready for class. I did overhear this: when asked by another noodler how she was feeling since she got out of the hospital, a lady replied that her "stupid doctor" put her on some heart medication but she's not taking it because she's "mad at him". Don't you love that kind of logic? I wonder how that's working out for her.
There was some yoga, after all that.
Twisted high lunge |
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This one's for the downhills |
Friday: rest day.
Saturday: I had 4 miles on the plan and that's what I set out to do before work. It was a perfect morning for a run. 45 degrees, no wind, bright sunshine--oh my! Spring, where have you been? I took it easy, my legs felt good, and nope, no foot pain. I even picked up a penny for good luck. Could this be happening? 4.31m/8:39m/m
Warrior 2 |
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Good luck to everyone running Boston tomorrow!!!
I'm also linking up with Erin at Her Heartland Soul for her Weekend Snapshot. Got a few of those in this post...


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Migraine headache triggers crazy typing
At the onset of what he later learned was a migraine headache, David Friedman subconsciously typed in tongues on his laptop.
Again, my fingers were typing nonsense. Could I have made the same mistake twice? No, I was definitely starting out in the correct position. I watched my fingers move as I typed. Nothing looked wrong. The sensation was just as familiar as any other time I typed. My fingers moved with the same confidence, as though they knew exactly where they were going to reach the letters they needed to hit. And yet: gibberish on the screen.
Don't miss the cliffhanger in the final paragraphs.


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Black History Tour
June 16 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
In order to honor the park's commitment to emphasizing black history every month, our Black History Tour is now offered every Sunday. Join us this Sunday as we will be highlighting the struggles, triumphs, and the history of Black Dallas. On this tour we will take a look at the Miller Cabin, Gano Farmstead, Dentist Office, and others in order to explore the individual stories of how Black History has shaped Dallas History. Find out more here.


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Steve Bannon recently called Trump's firing of James Comey the biggest political mistake in modern political history. But it was more than that. It was outright obstruction of justice – another impeachable offense to add to the impeachable offenses Trump has already committed (violation of the Constitution's "emolument's clause," failure to faithfully execute the laws, and abuse of power).
Obstruction of justice was among the articles of impeachment drafted against both Presidents Nixon and Clinton. The parallel between Nixon and Trump is almost exact. White House tapes revealed Nixon giving instructions to pressure the acting FBI director into halting the Watergate investigation.
It's worth recalling that two weeks after Trump told Comey privately "I need loyalty. I expect loyalty," he had another private meeting with Comey in the Oval Office. After shooing out his advisers – all of whom had top security clearance – Trump said to Comey, according to Comey's memo written shortly after the meeting,"I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go."
Then on May 9, Trump fired Comey. In a subsequent interview with NBC Trump said he planned to fire Comey "regardless of [the] recommendation" of the Attorney and Deputy Attorney General, partly because of "this Russia thing." Trump also revealed in the interview that he had had several conversations with Comey about the Russia investigation, and had asked Comey if he was under investigation.
The federal crime of obstruction of justice applies to "[w]hoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication influences, obstructs, or impedes or endeavors to influence, obstruct, or impede the due and proper administration of the law" in a proceeding or investigation by a government department or agency or Congress.
As in Nixon's case, a decision to support an "inquiry of impeachment" resolution in the House – to start an impeachment investigation – doesn't depend on sufficient evidence to convict a person of obstruction of justice, but simply probable cause to believe a president may have obstructed justice.
There's already more than enough evidence of probable cause to begin that impeachment inquiry of Donald Trump.
This article was originally posted on Robert Reich's blog.


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- COUNTED CROSS STITCH PATTERN Charted for 14 count fabric and DMC Cotton Floss. Finished size is 10 inches (140 Stitches) by 14 inches (196 Stitches).
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Halloween, or Hallowe'en (a contraction of All Hallows-Evening),also known as All Halloween, All Hallows' Eve, or All Saints' Eve, is a celebration observed in a number of countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day.
It begins the three-day observance of All hallow tide, the time in the liturgical year dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the faithful departed. According to BBC Online, it is "widely believed" that many Halloween traditions originated from the ancient Celtic harvest festival Samhain, and that this Gaelic observance was Christianized by the early Church. Samhain and other such festival had pagan roots. Some, however, support the view that Halloween began independently of Samhain and has solely Christian roots. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating (or the related guising), attending Halloween costume parties, decorating, carving pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing and divination games, playing pranks, visiting haunted attractions, telling scary stories and watching horror films.


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"My photographs have been described as fanciful, curious, imaginative, unusual, and a little creepy. They are influenced by myriad dreams and desires of what life could be, if only… They are commentaries on the human condition, influenced by a perspective that honors and embraces the assets, and deficits, we all share as human beings, seasoned with a bit of quirk and irony."
Hugh Kretschmer is a Los Angeles native who grew up in a family of artists, discovering photography at 13 under the guidance of his father, who was a photo-instrumentation engineer for McDonnell Douglas during the Mercury through Apollo missions. Recognized repeatedly throughout his 22 year career for his work's enduring (and endearing) use of metaphor and hand crafted, trick-the-eye elements. Kretschmer has achieved singular success as an editorial and advertising photographer, who creates imagery that applies to both art and commerce. He is represented by Renee Rhyner & Co. in North America, and Trayler and Trayler in Europe for his commercial work, and by Fathom Gallery in Los Angeles for fine art.


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Finding love can be difficult, especially if you have trouble talking to the opposite sex dating.
Thanks to a free dating site, you can meet someone who will act as your perfect match. In most of the free dating sites, usually the service matches users based on their profiles. It is a sensible choice because you will no longer waste time looking for someone that you might like.
A lot of people are passionate about online dating topic.
Maybe you have other thoughts about internet dating, because it is very different from the traditional ways you've grown accustomed to. Love is the most exciting feeling that you may have and if you find the perfect person, you will surely find satisfaction.Many songs and movie revolves around love.
People crave acceptance and love. That feeling gives people a kind of physical connection. At present divorce a hot topic, and yet a lot of people still end up getting married. This only shows that they still believe in love. You have to visit a free dating site today if you are interested in developing relationships and find romance.Before you consider free online dating, you should know what you want in a partner.
Not everyone who uses online dating sites are looking for long term relationships. In fact, there are those who simply want to meet new friends. To find a date, you must be open and receptive. You will never know what will happen when you start to communicate with anyone.
If you're ready to use paid services, you should consider free internet dating.With so many online dating sites to choose from, choose a pair that will work for you. After selecting the sites, you can now sign up.
This is very important because you need a profile. You have to create a profile that is interesting, attractive, and most of all, honest. You should put only the facts, especially if the free dating site generates the matches automatically. This is because if you give false information, you will end up with the wrong battles.Depending on the free dating site where you registered, you can look into the profiles of other users or you will only be entitled to see your potential matches.
It would not be a good idea to put something or cause dirt on your profile. Always remember that people all over the world can see it. The profile photo must be decent and attractive enough to get the attention of the opposite sexdating.Begin to be a proactive person today.
Living a healthy lifestyle is important. It reflects on your body and your attitude. It is high time that you change your unhealthy ways. Find a free dating site today and sign up. You do not have to be a computer geek to be able to participate in online dating. With a little knowledge and a lot of passion, you can find your dream mat.
Finding love can be difficult, especially if you have trouble talking to the opposite sex dating.
Thanks to a free dating site, you can meet someone who will act as your perfect match. In most of the free dating sites, usually the service matches users based on their profiles.


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In five years the annual Homer Relay for Life has become one of the town's bigger cancer fundraisers. The overnight event starts at 5 p.m. Friday at the Homer High School parking lot with a survivor and caregiver reception.
While raising money for the American Cancer Society is the big goal, Relay for Life also celebrates survivors of cancers, honors their caregivers and remembers those who fought hard and lost.
"For me, the best part is the whole fighting back," said Kelly Cooper, leader, of Team Cooper and the PanCan Warriors. "We fought and lost. It's easy to stay sad and angry. I like for us to look forward and see other people are surviving."
Cooper's husband Jim died in January 2011 of pancreatic cancer. This is the second year her team, composed of family and a core group of high school students, has been in Relay for Life.
The relay in the title is a 22-hour walk around the Homer High School parking lot, but it's also a big party and campout. Teams set up tents, decorated in this year's circus theme of "hope big, dream big under the Big Top" and wearing the purple, the universal color for all cancers. They also have been raising money through other events over the past two months, including car washes and spaghetti feeds.
As of press time Relay for Life had raised $50,000 of its $80,000 goal, said co-chair Tammy Ackerman.
Relay for Life opening ceremonies start at 6:15 p.m. The relay itself starts with a survivor recognition lap and a caregiver and survivor lap. Ackerman said about 50 survivors will probably attend with about that many caregivers.
"It's amazing who you see wearing purple on the survivor lap you didn't know," Ackerman said of how many people in Homer have endured cancer. Joining humans on the survivor walk also will be dogs who have survived cancer.
A somber moment is the lighting of the luminaries at 11:15 p.m. People can purchase luminaries — paper bag and sand candle lanterns — to honor family and friends lost to cancer. Relay for Life includes small fundraisers like that throughout the night, from a silent auction to food and drink sales. Some teams are made of survivors and families, while others are from offices and businesses.
To keep spirits up throughout the night and early morning, there is music from Shamwari marimba, the Eight Mile Band, Karaoke with Dax and from midnight to 2 a.m. a 1970s themed "Flower Power" prom. At sunrise about 5:30 a.m. there's also a Bed Head Hair contest.
Team Cooper also will be livening up its hairstyles with a special fundraiser: for every $50 raised, a member will dye his or her hair purple. One team member, high school student Caleb Lunsford, has been raising money — $200 so far — by letting people throw pies at him. Cooper said she's been impressed by the hard work of the teen members of her team.
"It's just amazing to have a bunch of high school student who are so compassionate," she said.
People wanting to donate can drop in anytime, Ackerman said.
"Drop in during the relay, walk a couple of laps, chat with people who have been affected," she said.
Money raised goes to the American Cancer Society, but it comes back to Homer in the forms of programs that help local cancer patients such as transportation to and housing at advance cancer treatment centers and wigs and clothing for breast cancer patients. The American Cancer Society also supports research programs which can benefit Homer people seeking treatment at Lower 48 hospitals, particularly for rare cancers and new clinical trials, Ackerman said.
For her family, Cooper will keep the relay going beyond Saturday with Purple Stride on June 15 in Washington, D.C., an event for pancreatic cancer awareness. Cooper said she plans to lobby the Alaska congressional delegation for support of the Recalcitrant Cancer Act, which targets cancers those of the stomach, colon and pancreas. Cooper's daughter, Veronica Wheiters, also is the Alaska representative for the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network.
Cooper said the survivors walk in itself can be inspirational, particularly for people recently diagnosed with cancer.
"The people who are on that track, you had no idea they had fought and won," she said. "People who are dealing with it, they see that optimism and joy. It helps them fight better."
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Potassium Chloride (KCl) is a metalhalide salt composed of potassium and chloride. It is odorless and has a white or colorless vitreous crystal apprearance. The solid dissolves readily in water and its solutions have a salt-like taste. Potassium Chloride (KCl) is used in medicine, scientific applications, and food processing. It occurs naturally as the mineral sylvite and in combination with sodium chloride as sylvinite.
Potassium Chloride (KCl) is also used for making fertilizer, since the growth of plants is limited by their potassium intake. It is used in water as a completion fluid in petroleum and natural gas operations, as well as being an alternative to sodium chloride in household water softener units.
Potassium Chloride (KCl) is used in some de-icing products that are designed to be safer for pets and plants, though these are inferior in melting quality to calcium chloride. Potassium Chloride (KCl) can be found in various brands of bottled water as well as in bulk quantities for fossil fuel drilling purposes.
Interesting fact - Potassium Chloride (KCl) was once used as a fire extinguishing agent, used in portable and wheeled fire extinguishers. Known as Super-K dry chemical, it was more effective than sodium bicarbonate based dry chemicals and was compatible with protein foam. This agent fell out of favor with the introduction of potassium bicarbonate (Purple-K) dry chemical in the late 1960s, which was much less corrosive and more effective.
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Marine bacteria's mealtime dash is a swimming success
By Denise Brehm
MIT Civil & Environmental Engineering
Goldfish in an aquarium are able to dash after food flakes at mealtime, reaching them before they sink or are eaten by other fish. Researchers at MIT recently proved that marine bacteria, the smallest creatures in the ocean, behave in a similar fashion at mealtime, using their swimming skills to reach tiny food patches that appear randomly in the ocean blue.
The behavior of bacteria at these small scales could have global implications, possibly even impacting the oceans' health during climate change.
Scientists in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering demonstrated for the first time in lab experiments that the 2-micron-long, rod-shaped marine bacterium P. haloplanktis is able to locate and exploit nutrient patches extremely rapidly, thanks to its keen swimming abilities. Food sources for these microorganisms come as dissolved nutrients and often appear as localized patches that, if not eaten, are rapidly dissipated by physical processes like diffusion. Foraging, then, becomes a race against time for a bacterium. A rapid response gives it a strong advantage over competitors and may allow it to take up nutrients before they undergo chemical changes.
A paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences online Early Edition the week of March 10 describes the research. Roman Stocker, the Doherty Assistant Professor of Ocean Utilization at MIT and lead author on the paper, will present the work on March 12 at the meeting of the American Institute of Physics in New Orleans.
"Our experiments have shown that marine bacteria are able to home in very rapidly on short-lived nutrient patches in the ocean," said Stocker. "This suggests that P. haloplanktis' performance is finely tuned to the oceanic nutrient landscape. If you are a bacterium, the ocean looks like a desert to you, where food mostly comes in small patches that are rare and ephemeral. When you encounter one, you want to use it rapidly." Co-authors on the paper are postdoctoral associate Justin Seymour, graduate student Dana Hunt and Associate Professor Martin Polz all of MIT, and Assistant Professor Azadeh Samadani of Brandeis University.
The researchers were able to prove the behavior of P. haloplanktis by recreating a microcosm of the bacteria's ocean environment using new technology called microfluidics. Microfluidics consists of patterns of minute channels engraved in a clear rubbery material and sealed with a glass slide. The researchers injected bacteria and nutrients into the microchannels at specific locations and, using video-microscopy, recorded the bacteria as they foraged on two simulated food sources: a lysing algal cell that creates a sudden explosion of dissolved nutrients, and the small nutrient plume trailing behind particles that sink in the ocean.
The question of whether the bacteria could or couldn't put their swimming skills to use in this race against time has generated considerable interest in the scientific community over the past decade, because there's a great deal riding on P. haloplanktis' and their relatives' ability to reach these nutrients and recycle them for other animals in the food web.
Scientists who study Earth's carbon cycle know that accounting for all the organic matter in the marine food web is critical, including the matter that exists in these tiny, discrete nutrient patches bacteria feed on. In fact, the carbon in those patches is so important that some scientists believe marine bacteria's capacity to utilize it will determine whether the oceans become a carbon sink or source during global warming.
Until 25 years ago, scientists weren't really aware of the microbial loop, the processing of organic material among the smallest creatures in the ocean: bacteria, phytoplankton, nanozooplankton, viruses, etc. Now they know that the roughly 1 million bacteria per milliliter of ocean play a pivotal role in the microbial loop; by recycling that organic matter, they pass it on to larger animals and prevent it from dropping out of the marine food web.But quantifying the importance of bacteria in the microbial loop has been difficult, because creating a realistic microenvironment wasn't possible until recently.
"You can hope to study an organism's behavior only in the context of its environment. The habitat of a bacterium, on the other hand, is extremely small, on the order of microns to millimeters," said Stocker. "This has made the study of microbial behavior a formidable technical challenge to date. We have been able to create realistic environmental landscapes for studying marine bacteria in the lab by using microfluidic technology."
P. haloplanktis is a rapid swimmer, propelling itself by a single rotating flagellum in bursts of speed up to 500 body lengths per second. (The fastest land animal, the cheetah, travels at bursts of speed up to 30 body lengths per second.) During experiments, Stocker and team observed that the bacteria used their rapid motility to very effectively swim toward and follow their food sources. That directed movement in response to a chemical gradient (in this case, nutrients) is known as chemotaxis.
"It will be important to see how widespread the use of rapid chemotaxis is in the ocean," said Stocker. "We expect this to depend on the environment; in algal blooms, for example, nutrient patches and plumes will be abundant, and speedy bacteria will be favored. Whenever this is the case, nutrients get recycled much more rapidly, making the food web more productive and potentially affecting the rates at which carbon is cycled in the ocean."
The National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy's Genomes to Life Program, the Woods Hole Center for Ocean and Human Health, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation funded this research.


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You know how the longer you take to speak to a friend you've not been in contact with for a while, the harder it gets? Months or years pass, and then it's too late. A blog can be a bit like that too. I've wanted to post something here many times over the last 18 months, but I've not really known how to get things started again. So much has happened, and very little of it terribly pleasant, but I think if I just post pretty much anything here, it'll make it much easier for me to post again.
So. First of all, I'm still alive. There were a few times in 2014 when I wasn't sure I'd make it to 2015, but here I am, so that's good.
As folks noticed in 2013, my videos became further and further spaced apart. My energy levels were dropping, and the pain was getting pretty intense, and then, in late August, the doctors gave me some spectacularly unpleasant news which had the effect of sending me into a rather dark place of despondency. My kidneys weren't just unwell. They appeared to be dying.
By early 2014, after a biopsy, they turned out to be necrotic. It's a rare form of kidney necrosis that is poorly understood, and the only treatments are rather experimental and unproven. In the meantime, my kidney cells are dying off, one by one, sending me, alongside the side-effects of the many medications I have to take now, into a world of weird things I never knew my body could do.
I might write more about those experiences at some point. I don't have a sense of privacy about such things at this point, but it does get pretty gross, and I am conscious that folks come here to hear about gaming or science, rather than to hear me moan about grisly body-fluid-related tales.
At any rate, I don't feel better than when I stopped blogging. I actually feel rather worse, but you do get used to it after a while, and there is a limit to how long you can sit around struggling with your sense of mortality before it gets a bit boring.
Oh, in other news, I got a cat!! I'm pretty much house-bound at this point, so little Tinkerbell keeps me company. I got her from the RSPCA, and due to her allergies, she has to remain indoors, so we're perfect for eachother. I'm immunosuppressed, so it's good she can't be bringing any exciting new germs into the house. She's a little bundle of joy who takes very good care of me.
There. With this first post of 2015, I hope my own mental log-jam that has been stopping me from getting on with things here has at least been weakened, if not entirely demolished. I'll try not to wait another 18 months before the next one.


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Welcome to Civil War Virtual Tours!
The American Civil War has captured the interest and imagination of scholars, students, and everyday people for generations, both in the United States and abroad. One of the things that draws people to study the war is that fact that many of the battlefields are well preserved and easily accessible. From generals to privates, the gripping struggles of a nation played out in the woods, fields, and homes of ordinary Americans. These hallowed grounds continue to connect modern Americans with their past, and the war that shaped a nation. Many of those interested in the Civil War live hundreds or thousands of miles away from the nearest battlefield. Some of the most enthusiastic students live abroad. Such distances make it extremely difficult for them to travel and visit battlefields they have read about for years. Come take a visual tour of battlefields of the American Civil War. Inside you will find:
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