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November 03, 2006, 04:15:32 PM »
Documentary Portrays Islamic Extremists' Call to Arms Against the Free World
Friday , November 03, 2006
We often hear that 9/11 was a wake-up call for Americans. But have Americans really woken up to the truth of how much radical Islamists want us dead, and the lengths to which they are willing to go to fulfill their mission?
According to a shocking new documentary called ?Obsession,? the free world is still unprepared to face the unwavering commitment of those who have pledged their lives to our destruction. The film states that we suffer not so much from complacency, but from the na?ve disbelief that we remain targets of thousands, perhaps millions of radical Muslims around the world.
The film takes the position that there is no middle ground for radical Islamists -- or Islamic fascists, to use the phrase invoked by President Bush. ?Obsession? is filled with fiery speeches, from the Middle East to the streets of London and New York, in which Islamic extremists offer a stark choice for the world: either convert to a Taliban-like form of Islam or face death.
This is not a point for debate or something we can negotiate our way out of.
Of course, the vast majority of the world?s 1.1 billion Muslims, they say, would never personally engage in terrorism. But what of those who do? How do they develop their following and spread their message?
FOXNews.com has obtained permission to show segments of the DVD. Click HERE to watch Part I. Click HERE to watch Part II.
We see in ?Obsession? how closely the Hitler youth bear resemblance to the young Islamic fundamentalists training with Hezbollah, Hamas and other terrorist groups. Of course, Nazi Germany did not train children in the use of suicide belts, as the Islamic fascists do. But manipulating the pliant minds of youth toward fanatical hatred employs the same techniques.
The film contradicts those who say that Muslim extremism is prompted by our actions in the Middle East, pointing out that anti-Western propaganda, school curricula and other indoctrination of Islamic youth has been going on for quite some time. Like Nazi Germany, with whom radical Islamists had a deep affinity before and during World War II, the first step of indoctrination is to dehumanize Jews and Christians by comparing them with pigs and dogs. What we too easily dismiss as infantile stereotypes, particularly regarding the Jews and their supposed domination of America, can sink in if repeated often enough.
Again, the film contends that it?s our own sophistication, and our na?ve belief that we?re too likable to be hated, that plays into the enemy?s hand. Muslim extremists often say one thing to the Western media and a very different thing to their own followers. (In one segment, a Muslim condemns 9/11 publicly and then praises the ?Magnificent 19? at a 9/11 anniversary ?party.?) Our vision is often blinded by our own political correctness, which is used by extremists to their advantage. Instead of focusing on their deceptions and their ultimate intent on our destruction, we obsess on question like ?Why do they hate us.?
Unlike our confrontation with Nazi Germany, the current crisis may be worse for two reasons: First, Adolph Hitler, for all his charisma, did not rely on the power of pure religious faith to compel his followers. Islamic fascism is more similar to the fascists in Imperial Japan, who fortified their political positions with the compulsion of a leader who was deemed by loyalists to be a god. Second, this war has no defined national barriers. In fact, the 9/11 hijackers relied on the services and training facilities of the U.S. to become expert in their deadly arts.
Thus, it may well be that today?s fascists are a far greater threat to the free world than the fascists of yesteryear. But there is still time to prevent them from gaining any more ground, if we begin to take the threat more seriously.
As ?Obsession? points out, there are many Muslims on whom we can rely for support. Without the support of Muslim leaders to direct the attention of Muslims to the lies and distortions of the Islamic Fascist propagandists, we stand little chance of winning the war against terror without a conflagration on the scale of a world war.
This is a frightening conclusion, but one that ?Obsession? concludes we ignore at our own peril. The film begins and ends with a familiar refrain, first coined by the English admirer of the American Revolution, Edmund Burke: ?All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that enough good men do nothing.?
How determined to kill you is radical Islam? This weekend, FOX News Channel examines the full scope of the threat to the United States, with the help of documentarian Wayne Kopping. This hour-long program exposes the stunning and explicit threats made against the West made by Islamic leaders. It features interviews with former terrorists, shocking Islamic news video never before broadcast in America, and undercover footage taken inside suicide bomber initiations and secret jihadist meetings.
The special will air Saturday night at 8 p.m. ET, and will be repeated Sunday at 1 a.m. ET, 5 a.m. ET, 4 p.m. ET and 10 p.m. ET.
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I just saw it from beginning to end today. Excellent presentation and as the following review suggests, I will be buying the DVD.
The review does discuss an important point I think when it discusses the intimidation factor in the Muslim world. Our strategy needs to find a way to make connection with these people.
Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West
By Patrick Poole
FrontPageMagazine.com | July 28, 2006
If there?s a documentary that you need to purchase and invite all of your friends and neighbors over to watch, it?s Obsession: Radical Islam?s War against the West, a new film from HonestReporting.com. This follows up on their previous documentary, Relentless: The Struggle for Peace in the Middle East, an equally excellent film that chronicled the long history of failed international diplomacy concerning the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
But Obsession, their most recent effort, couldn?t be more timely, as it seeks to help its viewers better understand the religious, social, and political forces at work behind the current events in the Middle East. This movie is shocking, but in a way that avoids gratuitous scenes of dismembered body parts and heavy-handed polemics, which would seem to be temptation for anyone dealing with the (pardon the pun) explosive subject of radical Islam. The movie progresses at a quick pace and keeps your attention for its full 73 minutes.
The power of Obsession is its clarity and balance. From the very outset, the producers make it clear that the focus of the film is not to impute the violence of radical Islamists to most Muslims. The movie immediately qualifies that Islam itself and its overwhelming majority of peaceful, law-abiding adherents worldwide are not in view. In fact, in the first segment of the movie, Daniel Pipes makes a very important point:
The Islamists hate everything other than what they are themselves. They killed, for example, over 100,000 Algerians who disagreed with their brand of Islam. These are [their] fellow Muslims.
The message is hard to overstate: not only are Westerners being killed by the violence fueled by the virulent and toxic ideology of radical Islam, but so are Muslims who reject that ideology. In a recent article for the Weekly Standard, Olivier Guitta discussed the ongoing violence in Algeria, with dozens of Muslims being killed monthly by Islamist groups. One would only have to read the daily body count of the dozens ? sometimes hundreds ? of Muslims killed in Iraq by insurgents every day to get a sickening sense of the slaughter being driven by an ideology that has no reservations about killing its own.
The overriding theme of the film is that radical Islam is a greater threat than most everyone in the West will really admit, and that the West is in denial that. The first few minutes of the movie poses a challenge to any viewer who would dismiss or diminish that threat, recounting a litany of terror attacks against the West or Westerners. As the attacks of 9/11, Madrid, Bali, Istanbul, Beslan, London, and others are quickly revisited, it is hard to avoid coming to terms with the scale of the conflict; and that the West, regardless of what a particular country?s political leanings, has been put in the crosshairs of this extremist worldview. Regardless of what the West is willing to admit, war has been declared on us by a determined enemy prepared to fight to the death to advance their ideology to every corner of the planet. And our very existence is an obstacle to that goal.
The second and third segments of the movie identify the critical elements of the radical Islamic worldview. Rooted in pretended grievances against the West mixed with rabidly anti-American sentiments, framed by bizarre conspiracy theories (many shared with the fringe constituency of the moonbat Left in the West) and outright paranoia, radical Islam has transformed its mother-religion by synthesizing these elements through the filter of Western revolutionary thought to create an ideological system for actuating Sorelian apocalyptic violence.
To help dissect this ideology, the film enlists the help of several former adherents, including Walid Shoebat, a former PLO terrorist, and Nonie Darwish, the daughter of a high-level Egyptian Fedayeen unit commander who was killed by Israeli forces. They help explain the culture of jihad that is the heart of a program of indoctrination that many Muslims in the Middle East encounter at a very early age. Adherents of radical Islam are taught to intentionally equivocate on their usage of particular terms for apologetic purposes, like ?jihad,? when talking to Westerners. While many imams will preach about jihad, when questioned about it, they describe it as an internal, subjective struggle with oneself. As Shoebat notes, however, the ?dual usage? terminology cannot mask the unavoidable consequences of such language:
People think about it, yes, jihad does mean self-struggle, struggle within. But so does Mein Kampf. Mein Kampf means ?my struggle.? But what struggle? Nazism had a struggle against what? What did the Jews do to tangle with Nazi Germany? Jihad is being used in the Middle East with struggle with the Jewish people, struggle with the West.
This deconstructive terminology and methodology are the practical elements for concealing from unwitting Westerners the culture of hatred that is engendered by the religious, educational, government and media institutions where radical Islam dominates. Beginning with an antithetical view that divides the whole of humanity into camps of Dar al-Islam (the House of Islam) and Dar al-Harb (the House of War), and through a process of dehumanizing and demonizing the West, added to an inflated sense of the cultural superiority of Islam, radical Islamic ideology not only justifies violence against their designated enemies, it makes violence a religious, moral and social obligation.
This culture of hatred has a counterpart in the West ? the culture of self-loathing and morbid introspectionism that is endemic to Western academia, media and ?progressive? politics. Questions that dominate their discourse are very familiar: ?Why do they hate us? and ?How are we to blame? automatically assume that the guilt for the violence and hatred of radical Islam should be placed entirely on the West, portraying the rage as a rational response to ?Western occupiers.?
The most effective element to Obsession is that it allows radical Islam to speak for itself. Using a number of clips recorded and translated by MEMRI and Palestinian Media Watch, along with clips taken directly from a number of Middle Eastern television networks, there is no way to avoid the violent messages and images that are all part of the theatre of radical Islam. Seeing thousands of Hezbollah fighters chanting ?Death to America? in Lebanon, hearing an Iraqi cleric preaching a Friday sermon about cutting the heads off the infidels, or watching a three and a half year-old Palestinian girl questioned on a children?s TV program about how Jews are apes and pigs, more than adequately communicates how widespread and how dangerous this worldview has become.
A point clearly made in Obsession is that radical Islamic ideology is fueling a global jihad movement. Caroline Glick, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy, states:
Every single country is dealing with this on one level or another. You see that the Thais are dealing with it, the Philippinos are dealing with it, the Europeans are dealing with it in Madrid, the Russians are dealing with it in Chechnya, the British are dealing with it in London and Manchester. And of course you see it in the Middle East, whether it is in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, and of course, Israel and Saudi Arabia. And then you go to Africa, and you see that jihadis are operating from Djibouti to South Africa. All of these areas that we refer to as separate wars, the Palestinian war in Israel, the Iraq war ? they see all of these not as specific wars but as fronts in a global jihad.
But according for former federal prosecutor John Loftus, who was directly involved in many high-level terrorism cases for the U.S. government, many political and cultural leaders in the West have deliberately chosen to ignore the overwhelming evidence of the global jihad movement operating amongst us:
The infiltration of radical Islam is so deep, it?s shocking. And everyone is in denial about it. The minute you say this is an extremist group, all of a sudden it?s ?Oh, you?re not being politically correct.?
As the movie demonstrates through statements made by radical Islamic leaders, the Islamists make no bones about their willingness to turn the values of our pluralistic society against us. They don?t believe in our pluralistic values and they want to destroy those values, but they readily admit that they are useful tools to make it easier for them to undermine the West and accomplish their goal of global domination.
What is disconcerting is that the Western media is very receptive to the duplicity offered by radical Islamic leaders. The media?s lack of attention to this issue transcends mere negligence. In the movie, for example, we see a 2002 interview with British Al-Muhajiroun leader Anjem Choudary, who denounces the 9/11 attacks as acts of terrorism. And yet in September 2003 he is recorded at an Al-Muhajiroun event praising the ?Magnificent 19? ? that is, the 9/11 hijackers.
Western governments are complicit in this duplicity, as well. Al-Muhajiroun disbanded in 2004 before the British government could designate it a terrorist organization, but Choudary reappeared representing a new organization, Al Gurabaa, which was also designated a terrorist organization just this month. An article in the Guardian this past weekend states that Choudary and his associates are redirecting their efforts to dozens of other radical organizations, but the Blair administration is reluctant to deal decisively with Choudary and his cultural combatants.
What the treatment of Choudary demonstrates is the lengths to which Western governments (the Bush administration would just as easily qualify here, as well) will go to avoid confronting the domestic threat from radical Islam by allowing well-known organizations and personalities advancing an extremist worldview to operate openly and without hindrance, despite any direct ties they might have to terror organizations. In America, one example will more than suffice to prove this point: the Council for American-Islamic Relations.
The final segments of Obsession draw a historical parallel between the failure by the West to confront the threat from Nazism in the 1930s and the current failure to come to terms with the global threat from radical Islam. We have many Neville Chamberlain?s today proclaiming ?Peace in Our Time? and arguing for appeasement of radical Islam?s demands. But capitulation didn?t work for Chamberlain, and it is unlikely to prove more successful today.
As historian, Sir Martin Gilbert, Winston Churchill?s official biographer, notes during the documentary, the real problem is with those who fail to recognize the problem, and those that do, yet who choose to do nothing:
In the 1930s, the danger of Nazism was there, it was in everything Hitler wrote and said, and everything Nazi authorities did. In the corruption in a whole generation of German youth through the propaganda of Nazism in schools. But people thought, ?Well, this is a German problem, it is a limited problem. We have our own problems, we have our unemployment.? And I think the same is true today. They don?t connect the dots. They don?t connect the acts together. They don?t see that Islamic fundamentalism is a global network and a global problem?People don?t want to feel that this is part of a single threat, because if you come to that conclusion, and I?m sure it is the true conclusion, then you have to do something about it.
The intent of Obsession is to challenge viewers in the 21st Century to begin to do something in the face of as grave a threat as Nazism posed to the world in the 20th Century. The movie both begins and ends with a quote from 18th Century British parliamentarian, Edmund Burke: ?The only thing needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.?
Since the rise of radical Islam in the 1970s and 80s, the West has really done little to respond to the escalating threat. In the 1990s, the Clinton Administration and the Republican-led Congress were perfect examples of ?do-nothing? government in response to the repeated terrorist acts against our country during that decade. The 9/11 attacks were the result of that failed ?do-nothing? policy. As with Nazi Germany, all the signs were there: Osama bin Laden had already openly declared war on the United States and launched several attacks, and radical Islamic terrorists had already tried to bring down the World Trade Center. What more evidence did we need? And yet America slept and continued to do nothing.
Since 9/11, America has finally responded. It eradicated al-Qaeda?s Taliban haven in Afghanistan and took down Saddam Hussein?s regime, which had been one of the most active sponsors of state-supported terrorism directed at the West. But still that is far from enough. In many respects, we are still following many of the same ?do-nothing? policies of the past three decades. Regardless of any successes in Afghanistan and Iraq, the threat is not only growing internationally, but inside the United States as well, without any response whatsoever.
There are additional observations and elaborations I could make based on the film about how the Western media distorts what?s really going on; how radical Islam perceives its conflict with the West as a religious war; how institutionalized the extremist worldview is within the Islamic world; and how the culture of death and violence is taught in their schools, preached in their mosques, supported by their leaders, and broadcast by their media; but I?ll let the movie speak for itself on those points.
The last comment I would make, however, is that this movie puts the current conflict between Israel, Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria and Iran in context. What Obsession establishes beyond any reasonable doubt is that the conflict between Israel and radical Islam is a proxy war by Islamic extremists against the West. In recent days, critics of all stripes put the blame on America?s foreign policy towards Israel, but what exactly is it that they have a problem with? When we leaned on Israel to withdraw from Gaza and the West Bank, did the attitude of radical Islam worldwide suddenly change? No. What then is their real problem with our policies towards Israel? Their real beef with America is that we have cooperated in Israel?s continued existence.
As George Santayana once said, those who forget the past will be condemned to repeat it. In a cosmic historical twist, the Jews in Israel are faced again with extinction for the religious and cultural values they represent, and the West is forced to consider what to do. During the 1930s, the West did nothing, and the world was inflamed with war and tens of millions of innocents died at the hands of Nazism. As Nazism spread and the concentration camps were filled (and emptied), denying that there was a conflict became a moot issue and those who choose to do nothing became irrelevant. And this time, the threat is not confined to nation-state. The battlefield for radical Islam is the entire world.
Whether you are a skeptic or a believer in the global threat of radical Islam, Obsession is a film everyone needs to see. It should be shown in churches, mosques and synagogues; Lion?s Club meetings and Kiwanis lunches; corporate board rooms and cafeterias; public libraries and legislative offices. And the reason it needs to be seen is for no other reason that in light of the immediate danger posed by radical Islam, each one of us is going to have to decide, what will we do? This will not be a battle in which anyone will be able to sit on the sidelines. The silent witness of the 3,000 Americans killed on 9/11 bears testimony to that. The obsession of radical Islam to destroy the West and to impose their ideology globally will not allow anyone to remain untouched. The question stands: what will you do?
You can view a trailer or purchase a DVD of Obsession: Radical Islam?s War against the West by going to the movie?s website.
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I have been receiving letters from readers telling how depressed and exhausted they are and at the same time are having magical mystical experiences. Polarity is in full force.
Here's some heartening messages from Barbara Marciniak Family of Light
The Prince of Wales - "less than 100 months to act" to save the planet from irreversible damage due to climate change.
Stuart and friends - the golden light of grace and what they see in their worlds. ... and how they see 'the end of days'.
The New Agriculture ..the sensible thing to do is to grow the most nutritious and highest quality food possible.
Hilarious! Despondex for the treatment of the annoyingly cheerful.
Wilber and Cohen:
So you would have to forget who you were; you'd have to get lost — convincingly get lost — or it's not a game and it's no fun at all! So you get lost, and then slowly you reawaken.
Mike Adams: When I saw this next YouTube movie, I finally came to realize that the human species is probably not going to make it.
Bruno's Sculpture Garden Sadly the family home and the gallery have been destroyed. The sculpture garden has sustained severe damage, but hopefully a good portion of the sculptures will be able to be salvaged.
Global Research: After reading about the droughts in two major agricultural countries, China and Argentina, I decided to research the extent other food producing nations were also experiencing droughts.
According to the Brahman legend there was a time when all humans were Gods, but they so abused their Divinity that Brahman the chief God decided to take it away from them and hide 'It' where they would never again find it. Where to hide 'It' became the big question. When the Lesser Gods were called in to consider this question they said-" We will bury humans divinity deep in the Earth ". But Brahman said ~" NO not that, for humans will dig deep into the Earth and find 'It' "
And then they said "We will then sink the Divinity into the deepest ocean". But again Brahman replied-" NO not there. For humans will search out the ocean bed and will find 'It' " And then the Lesser Gods said ~" We will take It to the top of the highest mountain and there hide It ". But again Brahman replied ~" NO for humans will eventually climb every high mountain on Earth. They will be sure someday to find It and take it up again for themselves".
Then the lesser Gods gave up and they concluded ~" We do not know where to hide It. For it seems that there is no place on the Earth or in the sea that humans will not eventually reach ". And then Brahman said ~" Here is what we will do with 'human Divinity' ~ We will hide It deep down within themselves for they will never think to look for It there!"
Ever since then the legend concludes ~ Humans have been going up and down the Earth climbing, digging, diving, exploring, searching for something that is ALREADY in themselves. Two thousand years ago a man named Jesus found 'IT' and shared It's secret. But in the movement that sprang up in his name, the 'DIVINITY of Humans' has been the best kept secret of the ages.
How to Create Your Own Personal Economic Stimulus Plan (satire) ... full article
Friday, February 13, 2009 by: Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Step 1: Write a 1,000 page shopping list of all the stuff you want to buy.
Just type up a list of everything you've ever wanted to spend money on, but couldn't afford to: Cars, luxury clothing, jewelry, a big new house with a swimming pool, fancy art on the wall, exotic vacations, your own private jet... the sky's the limit!
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Peak Oil...What about Peak Gold?
Over the years, I'm sure you have heard a lot about "peak oil" - a condition whereby the remaining reserves of oil become harder to find, harder to extract and of lower quality. This results in declining production, even in the face of rising demand. But you probably haven't heard much about "peak gold", where a very similar scenario is playing out.


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On April 21, 1933, the Macon, $2.5 million in the making, left Akron, Ohio on its maiden voyage. The entire craft, 785 feet long, was approximately ten feet longer than the Graf Zeppelin.
Known officially as ZRS-5, the Macon was more modern and slightly faster than its sister ship, the Akron, ZRS-4, with a top speed of about 69.4 knots or 80 miles per hour.
To the bewilderment of some, the craft was named the Macon, after the largest city in the Georgia district of Rep. Carl Vinson, chairman of the House committee on Naval Affairs. To those on the East Coast, the naming was considered a politically prudent move.
The rigid airship was the product of the Goodyear-Zeppelin Co., a business jointly owned by the Zeppelin Company of Germany and the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company.
Unlike the blimps made by Goodyear today, the Macon had a structured duraluminum hull with three interior keels. The intent of the strong spine was to prevent a hull collapse that occurred with the Shenandoah when it was in a massive storm in the central United States. From the outside it looked and functioned much like a large blimp But on the inside, the ship was an open cavern of girders, cables and catwalks with few places where the crewmen could not go.
Before 1925, many lighter-than-air craft operated on hydrogen. But the flammability of the gas proved to be very dangerous, as would be demonstrated on May 6, 1937, in Lakehurst when fire would kill 36 people aboard the German zeppelin Hindenburg.
The Macon and Akron were kept aloft by non-flammable helium contained in 12 large gelatin-latex cells inside the craft. The ship carried a large supply of additional helium and navigators were able to set the craft's altitude by releasing or increasing the gas and ballast.
Inside the hull, the ship had eight large 560-horsepower gasoline powered Maybach reversible engines driving outside propellers, one of the craft's few noisy operations. The propellers could be rotated down or backwards to control the ship during take-off and landings.
The Macon had accommodations for 100 officers and men, including sleeping berths, a large mess room, a galley, and observation platforms at the nose and tail.
Although rigid airships were never used commercially in the United States, the key advantage to such a mode of transportation was said to be its smooth, silent motion and its speed in long-distance journeys. In short, people did not get seasick on dirigibles.
With nearly as much fanfare as marked the arrival of the Akron, the Macon cruised into the skies over Mountain View and Sunnyvale on Oct. 16, 1933, and docked without difficulty at its new home.
"The new 785-foot air giant...was free from the oil smudges that marred the Akron's appearance on its arrival here and seemed as silvery as if she had just taken to the air," noted a Palo Alto Times story.
During the next 16 months, the Macon, became a familiar and popular sight on the Peninsula, and never failed to draw large crowds whenever it took off or landed.
But there was much to be expected of this airship. A considerable amount had been spent on the construction of the Macon and Akron, and the country was in the middle of the Great Depression. People in and out of the military wanted results.
Almost immediately after arriving in Mountain View, the Macon was sent on maneuvers in the Pacific, but it was an inauspicious debut. During a mock battle, the ship was "shot down" twice in the first eight hours.
In 1934, Lt. Commander Herbert Wiley, one of three survivors of the Akron crash, took command of the Macon. Determined to prove the Macon's value, he quickly developed and improved the ship's long-range detection and scouting system.
To put the system to the test, the Macon left Moffett Field in July 1934 in an attempt to locate the cruiser Houston that was carrying President Roosevelt through the Panama Canal en route to Honolulu. Using only newspaper accounts of the president's departure time as a guide, the Macon raced 3,500 miles in 3� days to a spot in the vast Pacific Ocean where Wiley had determined they could find the Houston. They did.
Aboard the cruiser, crewmen were shocked to see two scouting airplanes, the Sparrowhawks, come out of nowhere and circle the ship. Minutes later the Macon dramatically descended from the clouded sky and dispatched a plane that dropped bundles of the previous day's newspaper from San Francisco, as well as postage stamps for the President's collection, (almost) onto the Houston.
The Fleet's admirals were not amused. Said Admiral Stanley, chief of naval operations, "We considered it a publicity stunt and that he (Wiley) had no business doing it." The president, however, was tickled. The stunt showed that the Macon was capable of the kind of scouting for which it was intended.
Men on the Flying Trapeze
Unlike other dirigibles of the time, the Macon was so massive that it also carried its own aircraft - five Sparrowhawk planes which were stored in the aircraft's hangar deck. The airplanes were released via a trapeze and a harness which lowered the planes through a T-shaped hangar opening in the Macon's underside.
Retrieving the planes, however was a much more difficult process. Like a performing air stunt, the pilots had to equal their speed to that of the ship and "catch" the trapeze with a hook at the top of the plane. The harness would then be attached to the fuselage, and the aircraft would be raised into the hangar deck.
Despite the difficulty of the maneuver, the pilots, known as the "Men on the Flying Trapeze" had a flawless record on both the Akron and Macon.
The ship also came equipped with another scouting oddity known as the "spy" car. A cable would lower the amusing-looking compartment from the airship to a point below cloud cover up to 1,000 feet. A crewman inside the spy car would then telephone back to the main control room relaying navigational information. The car acted as a sort of reverse periscope.
The Macon was built to be the chief scouts of the Pacific Fleet, providing long-range reconnaissance. In addition to providing protection for the "airship of the sky," the Sparrowhawks and the "spy" car were the ships' main eyes.
The Macon scouted for the Pacific Fleet eight times in all. But when the airship left Moffett Field on Feb. 11, 1935, to go on maneuvers off the coast of Southern California, repairs had not been completed to two tail fins that had been damaged several months earlier. Because of the need for the ship and the pressure to prove its value, Navy officials had decided to do the repair work piecemeal. Largely because of that decision, this would be the ship's 54th and final flight.
The next day, as the ship was returning from its successful mission, it encountered storm winds off Point Sur, south of Monterey. Suddenly, a crosswind struck the ship with such force that the upper fins of the previously damaged tail were completely severed, sending shards of metal into the rear gas cells.
In the control car, the steering wheel went slack and the navigators felt the tail drop. Wiley ordered the dumping of ballast and fuel. Crewmen hurried about the ship discharging everything they could to lighten the tail. Off-duty personnel were ordered to the nose to help bring that end down. But the ship was doomed. After rising to nearly 5,000 feet, the Macon began to fall.
Moments later the ship settled gently into the water, and the crew, clad in life jackets and equipped with life rafts - features that had not been available to many of those aboard the Akron - jumped into the water safely. Ships were quickly on the scene to pull the men out. A radioman was killed when he jumped from the falling ship, and another man was lost when he apparently tried to retrieve his belongings. But in all, 81 of the 83 aboard the Macon survived the crash, including "lucky" Wiley.
A commission set up to determine the cause of the ship's demise concluded that the blame belonged not to the crew, but to the Navy's refusal to repair the Macon's tail damage before it was sent on its ill-fated mission.
The disastrous record of airships put the pressure on President Roosevelt to abandon the costly lighter-than-air program. The president responded by setting up a second commission, this one headed by Stanford Professor William F. Durand, to look into the future of airships. The panel found that dirigibles had been used for purposes for which they were not intended and that they had not been given a fair opportunity to prove their value to the military. The commission concluded that these lighter-than-air craft should be given another chance.
They were not.
The Macon was the nation's last rigid airship.
While much attention was on Moffett Field's future at the turn of the decade, a small team of explorers was interested only in its past. Within days of the 1935 crash of the Macon off the California Coast near Point Sur, efforts were made to find the wreckage, but to no avail. In 1989, the Macon Expeditionary Group headed by Richard Sands of San Francisco, a former Navy pilot, renewed efforts to find the remains. Among those involved was David Packard, founder of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, and Gordon Wiley, son of the Macon's skipper, Herbert V. Wiley.
Early efforts were unsuccessful. Their break came when Wiley's sister, Marie Wiley Ross, found a restaurant in Moss Landing north of Monterey that displayed a piece of metal the owners claimed came from the Macon. Ross immediately recognized its unique shape as having come from her fathers ship.
After some difficulty, the group was able to find the fisherman who had pulled up the two-foot piece of metal in his nets. Fortunately, he had kept meticulous fishing records.
"He told us that he had lost a whole lot of rigging at the one spot," Sands told the Peninsula Times Tribune in 1990. "He knew something was down there. He knew it was the Macon."
Armed with the new coordinates, a three-man crew of the Navy deep submersible, Sea Cliff, went in search of the Macon on June 24, 1990. Within 15 minutes, the search was over.
The explorers found the twisted remains of the world's largest aircraft on a sandy perch about 1,450 feet deep and about two miles south of the site of previous searches.
Among the twisted girders and gangways that comprised the skeleton-like interior of the rigid airship, the crew also found the remains of three of the Macon's Sparrowhawk fighter airplanes, their insignias still clearly visible.
The final resting place of the Macon was no longer in doubt. But, in the days ahead, the future of its home base would be.


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On tap this week from Fair Shares …
Herbs en Route Bay Leaves (Farmington, MO)
Hale Farms Sungold Tomatoes, Banana Peppers, and Cubanelle Peppers (Farmington, MO)
Dry Dock Farm Sunflower Sprouts (Silex, MO)
Bellews Creek Farm Garlic (Hillsboro, MO)
Weigel Orchard Peaches (Golden Eagle, IL)
Yellow Wood Sugar Baby Watermelon (Hermann, MO)
Pilgrim Acres Chicken (Foristell, MO)
Mangia Italiano Rigatoni (St. Louis, MO)
Companion Bakery Bread Baguette (St. Louis, MO)
Tessa's Peanut Butter (St. Louis, MO)
And as usual, after picking up my share, I headed to the Maplewood Farmers' Market to catch up with friends and chat with all the vendors that I now consider friends! I also picked up some chorizo from Karlios at Hinkebein Hills Farm, some green tomatoes from Walker at The Root Cellar (Columbia, MO), some baby bell peppers from one of the new Amish vendors at the market, and some yummy cookies from Agi at 4 Seasons Baked Goods (St. Louis, MO).
As I'm heading to San Francisco this afternoon for Slow Food Nation, I froze the bell peppers and peaches last night. The sungold tomatoes, watermelon, and bread will be a gift to my parents for watching my cats while I'm gone (thanks, Mom and Dad!) … and Walker is pretty sure the green tomatoes will still be green when I get back on Sunday!
A full report on how the freezing process went … and of course, Slow Food Nation … when I return!


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NetSky.AC worm was found on May 3rd, 2004. Nearly 95% of the code in NetSky.AB is present in NetSky.AC.
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You may also refer to the Knowledge Base on the F-Secure Community site for further assistance.
If the infection is in a local network, please follow the instructions on this webpage:
The worm's file is a packed PE executable 36864 bytes long.
Upon execution NetSky.AC copies itself as 'wserver.exe' file to Windows folder and adds a startup key for this file into System Registry:
[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] "wserver" = "%WinDir%\wserver.exe"
where %WinDir% represents Windows folder name.
And created a mutex name "SkyNet-Sasser" ro ensure only one instance of the worm is running.
The worm scans all hard drives from C: to Z: to harvest e-mail addresses. The worm looks for e-mail addresses in files with the following extensions:
.eml .txt .php .cfg .mbx .mdx .asp .wab .doc .vbs .rtf .uin .shtm .cgi .dhtm .adb .tbb .dbx .pl .htm .html .sht .oft .msg .ods .stm .xls .jsp .wsh .xml .mht .mmf .nch .ppt
Netsky.AC worm ignores e-mail addresses that contain any of the following strings:
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Dear user of (name) We have received several abuses: - Hundreds of infected e-Mails have been sent from your mail account by the new (Virus name) worm - Spam email has been relayed by the backdoor that the virus has created The malicious file uses your mail account to distribute itself. The backdoor that the worm opens allows remote attackers to gain the control of your computer. This new worm is spreading rapidly around the world now and it is a serios new threat that hits users. Due to this, we are providing you to remove the infection on your computer and to stop the spreading of the malware with a special desinfection tool attached to this mail. If you have problems with the virus removal file, please contact our support team at (Anti-Virus Vendor e-mail) Note that we do not accept html email messages. (Anti-Virus Team)
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This post is a part of an ongoing series entitled MIP {Man In Progress}. After my 25th Birthday I decided to improve three aspects of my life, one of those aspects was my physical well-being. My philosophy is that a writer's work and his life are irrevocably intertwined and in order to improve one, we inevitably have to improve the other.
On December 7, 2010 at 8:00 a.m., a conference room in Washington D.C. is crowded with women awaiting their next lecturer. At once, the crowd grows silent as Arianna Huffington, a writer, a media titan, and the founder of The Huffington Post–the second most viewed news site on the Internet–takes the stage and begins to share with the rest of the women in the room the secret to her phenomenal, meteoric success.
What is her secret?
One word.
Five years earlier, on a similar winter morning, I am sitting in an auditorium filled with dozens of other college students. We're all waiting for Dr. Dement to appear. Dr. Dement, if you didn't know, is the guy who discovered R.E.M. sleep. He also runs the most sought after and visited sleep clinic in the world.
I am taking his class, "Sleep & Dreams," not out of my own personal interest, but to fulfill a mandatory degree requirement. At the moment, I am completely unaware of how Dr. Dement's class is about to change the way I look at sleep forever.
At once, the auditorium grows silent as Dr. Dement saunters onto the stage. The Doctor is followed by an entourage of teaching assistants, making The Doctor look like the rock-star-version of a college professor.
As if it couldn't get more surreal, when Dr. Dement finally takes center stage, the entire auditorium cheers him on. I even hear several people in the audience whistle and holler.
Gradually, the cheering dies down as Dr. Dement starts the class.
After The Doctor reviews some of the points he made the week before, he continues the day's lecture in a somber tone. He begins by addressing the dangers of sleep deprivation. A stream of images is now projected on a giant screen behind him. First, he mentions the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster of 1986 and how, after an intensive investigation, it was discovered that the shuttle's malfunction was largely due to lack of sleep. The managers who were overseeing the shuttle's launch were too tired to catch their deadly mistakes. Then, Dr. Dement mentions the famous Exxon Valdez Oil Spill of 1989 and reveals that it, too, was caused by lack of sleep. In that case, it was the overworked and exhausted crew that eventually piloted the oil tanker straight into disaster. The giant screen behind The Doctor now displays the aftermath of several car accidents. The Doctor proceeds to explain how dozens of families have lost loved ones in these types of crashes. What caused these crashes? Not alcohol, not drugs, not even cell phone use–it was lack of sleep, he says.
Leaving this tremendous food for thought in each student's head, The Doctor ends his class by leading the whole auditorium in shouting his sacred mantra: "DROWSINESS IS RED ALERT!"
A mantra that reminds us all that if we ever find ourselves driving too hard and too fast, and our eyes are closing in on us, that we should pull over in a safe area close by, park our car and go to sleep.
At last, Dr. Dement, the rock star professor, saunters off the stage as his entourage of teaching assistants scrambles after him and an auditorium full of college students cheers him on.
On a similar winter morning in December 2010, I am opening my laptop and starting the work of finishing the first draft of my novel.
But I find myself staring at the blank screen for what seems like two hours. I have nothing, absolutely nothing going through my mind. It's no use. My brain is just not there. It's gone. It checked out. I can't even summon the effort to write. I look around the room. All is fuzzy. My eyes close for a moment, but they don't open again. At last, a heavy warmth surrounds me, and my forehead falls onto the cool desk, while my arms wrap around my head like a blanket.
I fall asleep.
I don't write a single word the rest of the day.
I am certain that at that moment, the living ghost of Dr. Dement was hovering over me, whispering something like: "Drowsiness… is… red… ALERT!"
Today, a month later, I am finally moved to action. I realize that if I want to nurture my creativity and live a more vibrant life, I HAVE to get a good night's sleep.
Today, I am asking you, dear reader, to take the same pledge with me:
When life drives you hard and fast, and you feel your eyes closing in on you, I want you to promise me you will pull over, find a safe area close by, park yourself and go to sleep.
Not only will you have some sweet dreams, but you might even safe a life.
Your own.
much love,
Here are some tips to help you get better sleep:
The average person needs about 7-8 hours a night to stay fully alert and refreshed all day. (UPDATE: There was some confusion about the recommended amount of time, some people thought you should sleep 9 hours, unfortunately, recent research found that sleeping longer than 7.5 or 8 hours MAY actually be BAD for you. Read this to learn more.)
Sleep at the same time every night, and wake up at the same time in the morning, even on the weekends. If you are not consistent, you'll get less sleep than you need and you'll risk building up a whole lot of "sleep debt." An increased amount of sleep debt can lead to serious health problems down the line.
Easiest way to make this happen is to wear a night mask. Read this to find out why sleeping in the dark is so important.
Alcohol, caffeine, and even some teas will keep you up at night. Try to avoid them.
If you're like me, you know that having to go pee right at the moment you are falling into a deep sleep is the most annoying thing EVER. Avoid this by not drinking anything right before you go to bed.
John Kabit-Zinn delights in noting that sleeping is one of the few things that humans do that requires us to exert the least amount of effort. Sleep requires that we do nothing. In a world where we always feel required to do something, this non-doing drives us crazy.
But, ironically, the only way to fall asleep is to stop trying to fall asleep.
A bedtime routine helps send a signal to your body that you are getting ready for sleep.
Try taking a hot bath, or reading an inspiring book right before you go to bed.
WARNING: Surfing the Internet and watching TV right before bed is not recommended. These activities actually over-stimulate your brain and this will likely disturb your sleep.
Turns out the temperature in our bedroom affects the way we sleep, too. A simple way to address this issue is to wear socks at night to help keep your feet warm. You can also make sure your heater or AC remains at the same temperature all night. About 70° degrees is what is often recommended.
If you are a light sleeper, I recommend buying some earplugs to help shut out all the noise made by rowdy neighbors and roommates.
Regular exercise is probably the easiest, quickest way to get better sleep.
If EVERYTHING on this list does not help you, you may have a serious sleeping condition. Talk to your doctor about treatment.
What do you do to make sure you get good night's sleep? Do you also find that lack of sleep gets in the way of your writing?
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It's a battle of the boyfriends!
Kaley Cuoco was on set of The Big Bang Theory Tuesday, so her boyfriend, Karl Cook, decided to visit her. Cuoco's ex, Johnny Galecki, was also on set, obviously, given that he's her co-star! Some might think that the dynamic between Cuoco's current boyfriend and her ex could be awkward, but it turns out it's anything but!
Cuoco shared pictures of her workday on Instagram, and it looks like Galecki and Cook are BFFs. In one photo, Galecki and Cook are very cozy with each other. "Ummmmmm then this happened [monkey emoji] @sanctionedjohnnygalecki get off my man! [laughing emoji] @mrtankcook," she captioned the picture.
The Wedding Ringer actress also shared an image of her giving her beloved a kiss on the cheek. "Can you tell I ❤when this guy comes to visit me at work?! @mrtankcook," she wrote.
Cook and Cuoco first sparked romance rumors last March, but didn't make their red carpet debut until September when they attended the Longines Masters Los Angeles Gala together. Only a few months after that did a source tell E! News exclusively that Cuoco was "head over heels in love" with her equestrian boyfriend.
"They seem to be in a good spot right now. She is always traveling with him. It's not as much her schedule but more so his. She never knows when she's going to be in town because she goes whenever and wherever he goes," the source said at the time, adding, "She is super smitten."
Prior to Cook, Cuoco was married to tennis player Ryan Sweeting.
Cuoco told Women's Health that after their split, she wondered if she would ever love or marry again.
"Then I knocked into Karl—literally, we bumped arms at a horse show," she said. "And we each said, 'Oh, I'm sorry'—and everything changed. I looked at him, and he looked at me..."


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Vulnerability analysis, also known as vulnerability assessment, is a process that defines, identifies, and classifies the security holes (vulnerabilities) in a computer, network, or communications infrastructure. In addition, vulnerability analysis can forecast the effectiveness of proposed countermeasures and evaluate their actual effectiveness after they are put into use.
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If security holes are found as a result of vulnerability analysis, a vulnerability disclosure may be required. The person or organization that discovers the vulnerability, or a responsible industry body such as the Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT), may make the disclosure. If the vulnerability is not classified as a high level threat, the vendor may be given a certain amount of time to fix the problem before the vulnerability is disclosed publicly.
The third stage of vulnerability analysis (identifying potential threats) is sometimes performed by a white hat using ethical hacking techniques. Using this method to assess vulnerabilities, security experts deliberately probe a network or system to discover its weaknesses. This process provides guidelines for the development of countermeasures to prevent a genuine attack.
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4th Annual U.S.-Afghan Business Matchmaking Conference
October 21, 2008
Afghan-American Chamber of Commerce (AACC) to host its 4th Annual U.S.-Afghan Business Matchmaking Conference on October 21, 2008 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, Washington, D.C. Conference attendees will be able to discuss business opportunities with Afghan Ministers and others covering key sectors of the new Afghan economy such as, Energy, Power and Mineral Development, , Urban and Infrastructure Development, Agriculture and Food Processing; to hear U.S. Government and Business experts discuss economic / development programs and private sector investment and partnering opportunities; and to meet and develop business and investment relationships with a delegation of Afghan and Dubai based businesspersons working in the region. An Informational Trade Fair held in conjunction with the conference facilitates the exchange of information on businesses working in Afghanistan or providing goods and services to Afghanistan. Conference registration includes many networking extras. For more information on registration and sponsorship, please refer to the AACC website: www.a-acc.org or call AACC offices 703-442-5005.
Second Afghanistan International Carpet Fair -- Kabul, Afghanistan
October 26 - 28, 2008
The Export Promotion Agency of Afghanistan will host the Second Afghanistan International Carpet Fair in Kabul, Afghanistan at the Serena Hotel from October 26 – 28, 2008.
The International Trade Administration of the Department of Commerce is organizing a U.S. rug/carpet business trade mission to the International Carpet Fair. The trade mission will assist U.S. businesses with exploring trade and investment opportunities in Afghanistan's rug sector. Afghanistan Investment & Reconstruction Task Force Director Susan Hamrock Mann will lead the delegation of U.S.-based companies who have expressed interested in pursuing business in Afghanistan's rug sector.
The mission will include participation in the Carpet Fair, matchmaking, and a potential site visit to a rug production facility. The mission will reaffirm the U.S. Government's support towards bilateral relations and seek to expand opportunities for U.S. companies in Afghanistan.
To learn more about the 2nd Afghanistan International Carpet Fair Trade Mission, please contact the Afghanistan Investment and Reconstruction Task Force at (202) 482-1812 or visit the Federal Register notice at: http://frwebgate3.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate.cgi?WAISdocID=0685161515+0+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve.
For additional information for U.S. companies regarding doing business in Afghanistan, call the Afghanistan Investment and Reconstruction Task Force Hotline at (202) 482 – 1812.
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OPIC Investment Conference: Access to Opportunity in The Middle East
May 5–7, 2008 - Dead Sea, Jordan
As a supportive tool for private sectors looking for investment opportunities in emerging markets, including Iraq and Afghanistan, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) will hold an international investment conference on May 5 – 7, 2008 at the Kempinski Hotel Ishtar, Dead Sea, Jordan. This is an excellent opportunity to explore investment prospects in the region presented by leading investment experts, U.S. businesses currently investing in the Middle East, financial institutions operating in the region and U.S. government officials. This conference also serves as an opportunity to learn more about the formation of joint ventures and partnerships between U.S. and local businesses and gain support for new investments. Speakers will focus on access to credit housing, infrastructure, and investment opportunities in tourism, information technology, franchising and energy. For more information, please visit the event website.
Afghanistan International Carpet Fair
August 26-28, 2007 – Kabul, Afghanistan
This fair will bring together Afghan carpet producers and exporters with international buyers and investors. This event will be sponsored by the Export Promotion Agency of Afghanistan. For further details please contact: Mr. Yahya Akhlaqi.
Private Sector Roundtable Discussion with Afghan Minister of Rural Rehabilitation and Development:
April 21, 2008 – Washington, DC
On April 21, 2008, the Afghan Minister of Rural Rehabilitation and Development, H.E. Minister Ehsan Zia will speak at a roundtable discussion at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Minister Zia will give a presentation on the new " Afghan Rural Enterprise Development Program," which presents potential on investment opportunities in rural Afghanistan, and will be giving an industry briefing to companies interested in investing in this sector. The event is scheduled to take place from 2:00 p.m. – 3 p.m. This event is open to businesses interested in investing in Afghanistan's rural sector or supplying it with products ranging from the agro-business sector to housing and construction. For more information please contact the AIRTF at firstname.lastname@example.com or call our hotline at (202) 482-1812. Event Announcement
Spotlight on Afghanistan's Minerals at the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) Conference
March 3-4, 2008 – Toronto, Canada
The Afghan Ministry of Mining (MoM), the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and the U.S. Department of Commerce's Afghanistan Investment and Reconstruction Task Force (AIRTF) showcased Afghanistan's Mineral resources at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) Conference and Trade Show in Toronto, March 3-4. Of particular highlight was the announcement that MoM will be tendering for the world-class Hajigak iron deposit in the next 6 months. Mr. Stephen G. Peters, USGS, and Adam Choppin, AIRTF, also presented to the PDAC/CAMESE Exhibitors Innovation Forum on Monday, March 3 on Afghanistan's mineral resources and business climate.
Afghan Inspirations: Rug Renaissance, Coveted Traditions
January 28–February 1, 2008 Las Vegas, Nevada
A delegation of 10 Afghan rug businesses exhibited their products at the 2008 Las Vegas Market at the World Center Market in Las Vegas, Nevada. The market is a semiannual event devoted to furniture, decorative accessories, lighting, area rugs, and home textiles.
The Afghan delegation participated in a special exhibit at the show, "Afghan Inspirations: Rug Renaissance, Coveted Traditions," created by the U.S. Department of Commerce's Afghanistan Investment and Reconstruction Task Force in conjunction with the Afghan Ministry of Commerce's Export Promotion Agency of Afghanistan, the Afghan Embassy in Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Afghanistan was long recognized as a global leader in the production of hand-woven carpets, using centuries old weaving techniques passed down through generations. The country's resources, including its domestic supply of wool and natural dyes, helped to make the Afghan hand-woven rug a national treasure.
Afghanistan is now reasserting its revered carpet industry, which is proving to be a key element in the country's economic reconstruction. Under the Generalized System of Preferences trade program, Afghan rugs can be imported into the United States duty free.
This was the third U.S. visit by Afghan rug producers sponsored by the Afghanistan Investment and Reconstruction Task Force. Previous visits were to the AmericasMart in Atlanta, Georgia, in January 2007 and a multicity tour in July 2006. For more information on the Las Vegas Market and the exhibit of Afghan rugs, contact our office at: firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Our Date Night series is designed to bring food lovers together for an evening of romance. In this class you'll work alongside your date as our instructor teaches you how to indulge in the flavors of Tuscany in the spring.
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