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On 11 September 11, 2010 The Sydney 9/11 truth movement gathered outside the ANZAC War Memorial in Sydney's Hyde Park.
A statement was read by David Andresen, BSc(ENG) civil
Civil Engineering UNSW Australia
Sydney, NSW -- Australia
signatory, http://www.ae911truth.org petition
For more information please visit www.911oz.com.
Yahoo News | 7 September 2010
Former US Senator Mike Gravel (D-AK) and Richard Gage, AIA, Founder of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth Discuss Scientific Findings
National Press Club, Washington DC, 2:00 pm, Thursday, September 9, 2010
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Thursday September 9, 2010, Gravel and Gage will host a central press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, presenting hard evidence that all three WTC skyscrapers on September 11, 2001, in NYC were destroyed by explosive controlled demolition.
Senator Gravel notes, "Critically important evidence has come forward after the original government building reports were completed."
This press conference will be webcast at AE911Truth.org and hosted concurrently in cities throughout the world.* Following the conference, there will be a mock debate during which public statements made by government investigators and other defenders of the official account will be presented and responded to in multimedia format. "They refuse to debate us in person," says Gage, "so we will let their public statements represent them."
Gage will release a media-friendly summary of his organization's findings, which are based on forensic evidence as well as video and eyewitness testimony that were omitted from official reports. He will show evidence that the WTC Twin Towers were not destroyed by jet plane impacts or fires, but by pre-set explosives and incendiaries. The non-profit organization, Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, will also call for a grand jury investigation of government report lead engineers Shyam Sunder and John Gross of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. "They were in a position to know the evidence we have been presenting," says Gage.
Also speaking will be Florida State Professor Lance deHaven-Smith, who coined the academic term State Crimes Against Democracy (SCAD). Prof. deHaven-Smith has appeared on Good Morning America, the Today Show, NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, CBS Nightly News with Dan Rather, and other national TV/radio shows.
The DC press conference will be accessible via webcast AE911Truth.org, 2:00 pm September 9, 2010.
* For information on satellite press conferences in your area, contact CongressionalOutreachTeam [at] ae911truth.org.
To arrange print/broadcast interviews, with Richard Gage, AIA, contact Tania at 510-292-4710, or via email at 1000 [at] ae911truth.org.
CONTACT: David Slesinger 410-499-5403
SOURCE Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth
Categories: [ 9/11 Truth Movement, Julian Assange, Wikileaks ]
'An allegation has been reported all around the world', Assange says of the continuing Swedish legal circus. 'It's at present on six million websites. In fact one in twenty websites mentioning the word rape also mentioned my name.'
- http://rixstep.com/1/20100908,01.shtml
This remains the case even though the leaked "rape" charge was almost immediately withdrawn, and no formal charges have been laid, and despite the disingenuous attempts of crooked journalists to dispel valid and justified suspicion that this is all a product of the CIA dirty tricks department.
The propensity of the global mainstream media to act in lock-step to publish baseless slander is something which must be confronted and exposed. It is tangible proof that there is a conspiracy of the powerful running things, shaping opinion and subverting democracy and the rule of law.
We look forward to your comments and thank you for listening (:
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When: Saturday 11 September 2010 | 11:00 AM
Where: War Memorial, Hyde Park, Sydney
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Hi Folks,
Please join us next Saturday in protest and solidarity with the victims of 9/11.
They are the voiceless, thrown into the dustbin of history for the "greater good": 3,000 in New York, a million in Iraq, and an unknown number still to come in Afghanistan and other battlefields yet to be announced.
Ultimately they are you and me, because 9/11 was the starters' gun for an endless war against an enemy which does not exist, and which will potentially target anybody who stands in it's way. It is a deranged, psychopathic attempt on the part of a degenerate elite to create "Chaos" as a stepping stone to a new "Order", one which they are willing to kill millions to attain.
You know it, and I know it, but we absolutely have to make the effort to communicate this and try to stop it, or as Niels Harrit said, "live in shame".
Please bring banners, DVDs and flyers and please be pro-active.
I don't have time to coordinate details - so trust your own judgement and bring materials which you think are relevant.
Any questions please call me on 0415 059675.
Best regards,
Hereward Fenton
Radio Host and 'Conspiracy Theorist' Taps into Dark National Mood to Build Media Empire
Dan Harris | 2 Sep 2010
To Alex Jones, the world is a very dark place.
"Good old Uncle Sam will stage attacks ... that's how they keep the slaves in line," the libertarian radio host says during a rant on his show. "We have to wake up and face the fact that we have a criminal government."
Jones, who sits at the helm of an independent media empire, is arguably the nation's premiere purveyor of what could be called paranoia porn.
"World government means world tyranny run by a scientific dictatorship of control freaks that want to carry out forced population reduction," he explained.
The criminal government is just one of many conspiracy theories Jones espouses -- although he thinks that term belittles his reporting. He also believes that the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center were an inside job, that President Barack Obama is an "unconstitutional criminal" and that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) runs concentration camps.
"They [FEMA] have designation sports stadiums," he said matter-of-factly, "They have designated fields, they have designated closed down prisoner of war camps for the American people during a civil uprising."
You can count on Jones to push the envelope. Take his stance on the government poisoning the water. "I have all the other government documents where the government proposes -- or government think tanks propose -- poisoning the water to dumb down the population to make them more easy to manage," Jones said.
People who monitor hate groups say they're extremely worried about Jones' growing influence. His six-day-a-week radio show and webcast reach an estimated one million people a day. On YouTube and elsewhere, Jones estimates 200 million people have seen his various documentaries, like "The Fall of the Republic," "Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement" and "The Obama Deception."
In 2002, Richard McAslin, allegedly a Jones listener, snuck into a men's club in California that Jones has called, "a haven for the global elite," carrying a rifle, a handgun, a cross-bow and a sword. Last summer, another Jones fan -- a mother of three on Long Island, N.Y., named Nancy Genovese -- was arrested for allegedly taking pictures of an Air National Guard base with firearms in her car. The charges were later dropped.
Jones' critics say that by floating his highly-charged ideas at a time when the nation is already very angry and anxious, he's upping the odds for unbalanced people to do stupid things.
"I've got to report the information I see and what I believe is happening," he said. "I have a responsibility to put out."
When asked if he's worried about possibly-deranged people who listen to his show taking violent action, he went on the defensive.
"I knew when you guys called that this would be the crux of your interview and that's fine because the government is going to stage more terror attacks like it did in 1995, like it did in 2001 and try to blame it on the American people," he said.
This newly released video is a longer version of a well known newscast clip which shows a very relaxed scene only moments before the catastrophic collapse of the south tower. This clip proves that there were no warning signs before the tower collapsed and should put to rest claims that the collapse was in any way expected.
Another crucial fact we can deduce from the video is that there was a massive explosion before the tower started to collapse. Remember, light travels way faster that sound, yet the rumbling we hear actually precedes the collapse, meaning that there was a highly energetic event taking place before any external visual signs.
In short, this video shows that the south tower was blown up - there is no other way of describing it.
Indeed, the words "a huge explosion now raining debris on all of us..." are the last thing we hear from the presenter before he turns tail and runs.
Douglas Kenrick | 31 August 2010
What was the emotional timeline of September 11, 2010? A fascinating study of this topic was released yesterday in Psychological Science, authored by Mitja Back, Albrecht Kupfer, and Boris Egloff of Johannes Gutenberg University. The authors analyzed 6.4 million words from messages sent on 85,000 different pagers on September 11. The messages are anonymous and apparently available publicly on the internet. They sorted the messages into 5-min blocks, according to the time they were sent, and analyzed 216 time blocks. They started with messages sent at 6:45 a.m. (2 hours before the first attack) and analyzed those through the 18 hours after the attack. Using software developed by Jamie Pennebaker and his colleagues, the authors counted the percentage of words in each block related to (a) sadness (crying, grief), (b) anxiety (worried, fearful), and (c) anger (hate, annoyed).
Here's a graph of their results.
There's something quite interesting about those results. You'd expect an act of "terror" to elicit mostly feelings of anxiety and fear, yet as the day wore on, and the news sunk in, the reaction was primarily anger, and although people's anxiety didn't increase, their anger did.
We don't want to conclude that terror isn't part of the reaction to acts of terrorism. The authors cite other research suggesting that the attacks on September 11th did certainly elicit lots of stress. But the anger reaction tells us another, and perhaps more important, part of the story. This finding is consistent with decades of research on conflict and aggression in the laboratory: When you attack someone, it reliably elicits a counterattack.
These findings also show the folly of terrorism: The most likely reaction is a desire to counterattack. In the case of those attacks, they have certainly cost more Arab than American lives over the long haul.
Of course, the same goes for our counterattacks, every time our bombs have killed civilians, it has triggered more outrage and anger, and continued to feed back into the cycle of violence.
You don't need these new data to show that, but they are interesting in showing just how quick the reaction is; the bilateral support for Bush's decisions to start two wars in alleged response to those attacks, demonstrates that such wrath doesn't get replaced by a considered rational analysis too quickly.
Back, M. D., Kufner, A. C. P., & Egloff, B. (2010). The emotional timeline of September 11, 2001. Psychological Science.
Pennebaker J.W., Francis M.E., Booth R.J. (2001). Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC): LIWC 2001. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum
1 September 2010
After the first World Trade Center tower is hit, Barry Jennings, a City Housing Authority worker, and Michael Hess, New York's corporation counsel, head up to the emergency command center of the Mayor's Office of Emergency Management (OEM), which is on the 23rd floor of WTC 7. Testimony from Barry Jennings and Michael Hess has rarely been confirmed, until now. This video was just released via a FOIA (freedom of information act request) and New World Order Report has obtained and released it on the internet.
Take a look for yourself. Michael Hess, clearly visible, is stuck in the building. This corroborates the story they told that on the way down trying to evacuate the building, an explosion occurred inside of the building which trapped them. The stairway, where the explosion occurred, blew out the last floors in the stairwell. Barry Jennings gave an exclusive interview with Loose Change creator Dylan Avery where Barry stated that when he was finally found by firefighters, they stepped over dead bodies in the lobby on their way out. After the video publicly aired, Barry Jennings mysteriously died just before the BBC aired a piece about World Trade Center Building 7.
28 August 2010
David Long, Eyewitness to the 9/11/2001 Attacks from Truth Action Ottawa on Vimeo.
On May 8, 2009, members of Truth Action Ottawa interviewed Mr. David Long, who was in downtown Manhattan the morning of September 11, 2001. Mr. Long recounts everything he saw and heard that morning, including multiple streams of molten metal pouring from the buildings before they fell, and the sounds of multiple explosions as the buildings came down.
Leonard Clampett,
I wish you could point out in one sentence or two why you think my explanation is wrong regarding increased contrail activity that precedes approaching weather fronts.
Copying and pasting heaps of loosely related paragraphs is very unconvincing.
On the good side, I see that you now seem to acknowledge that supersaturation in the atmosphere exists. Several pages earlier, you wrote: "Firstly let me iterate that there is no such thing supersaturation in the free atmosphere at any altitude." So some advancement there.
However, you picked the wrong sort of supersaturation. Persistent contrails depend on supersaturation with respect to ice instead of supersaturation with respect to water. This occurs at much lower levels of relative humidity (with respect to water); it can happen below 70% already and is in no way limited to the vicinity of thunderstorms.
We have been through this before, you know. That's why I'm repeating the quotes and their reference from scientic papers that I already gave you on that previous page:
From The dependence of contrail formation on the weather pattern and altitude in the North Atlantic:
Aircraft flying through cold ice-supersaturated air produce persistent contrails which contribute to the climate impact of aviation[/url]
From Cirrus, contrails, and ice supersaturated regions in high pressure systems at northern mid latitudes:
The radiosonde data showed that the upper troposphere was very often supersaturated with respect to ice.
From Formation, properties and climatic effects of contrails:
Condensation trails (contrails) are aircraft induced cirrus clouds, which may persist and grow to large cirrus cover in ice-supersaturated air
From Properties of Ice-Supersaturated Layers Based on Radiosonde Data Analysis:
While supersaturation with respect to ice is not required to form a contrail, it is necessary for the contrail to persist for long times.
From Contrail formation in aircraft wakes
[...] contrails form when the air surrounding the particles becomes supersaturated with respect to ice.
From Aviation and the Global Atmosphere:
Each of these freezing mechanisms requires that the atmosphere be highly supersaturated with respect to the vapor pressure of ice before crystals can form.
By Josh on 2014 10 24 - 04:59:59
From the entry 'Contrails dissipate quickly whereas chemtrails linger?'.
I believe you are simply out of your depth trying to impress others with knowledge you allege to have gleaned from glider flying instructors, and, as you write, the University of North Carolina you have "linked" to, or you are a mis-informationist, a shill, a useful tool to others. Either way you are simply misguided. Your quoting of terms you have read in textbooks does you no service. Your claims about supersaturation demonstrate your lack of knowledge. You need to understand supersaturation in regard to meteorology is mainly associated with thunderheads, hail and freezing conditions way beyond the normal. Have you ever seen a cumulonimbus topping out at 60,000 feet? I can say without fear of intelligent contradiction that you have never, in a glider, experienced a micro-burst at low level because you would, or should, never have been making an approach to land in such conditions. Supersaturation can result from the internal violence associated with the updrafts inherent in a low level thunderstorm. Being a glider pilot does not mean you have sat and passed any of the senior level meteorology examinations as I have done in both Australia and Canada. To be a private glider pilot you only need to have passed the meteorology examination for a private pilot to demonstrate you have sufficient knowledge of basic meteorology to hopefully fly safely. Did you know that urine can become supersaturated and cause kidney stones? No massive changes of freezing level temperatures there, I can assure you. No doubt you will respond with some inane theory, but if it makes you feel superior please do so. I hope you are not passing on your inanities to young glider pilots around the bar at the gliding club whilst expanding you ego at their expense. Because meteorology is more of an art than a science, using science to compose theories, I can set you an examination with particular details regarding a place, and no matter whether you answer yes or no to the question posed, I cannot mark you wrong if you back up your answer with logical reasoning. e.g. "Will there be fog in the morning at place A given the following forecast ambient conditions?" Nobody can be 100% sure of the answer and must wait and see if the forecast proves correct.
Simple physics regarding clouds from Wikipedia for your assistance. There is much more from other sources but I do not have the time to train you.
1. To cause a chemical solution to be more highly concentrated than is normally possible under given conditions of temperature and pressure.
2. To cause a vapor to exceed the normal saturation vapor pressure at a given temperature.
Cloud physics is the study of the physical processes that lead to the formation, growth and precipitation of clouds. Clouds consist of microscopic droplets of liquid water (warm clouds), tiny crystals of ice (cold clouds), or both (mixed phase clouds). Cloud droplets initially form by the condensation of water vapor onto condensation nuclei when the supersaturation of air exceeds a critical value according to Köhler theory. Cloud condensation nuclei are necessary for cloud droplets formation because of the Kelvin effect, which describes the change in saturation vapor pressure due to a curved surface. At small radii, the amount of supersaturation needed for condensation to occur is so large, that it does not happen naturally. Raoult's Law describes how the vapor pressure is dependent on the amount of solute in a solution. At high concentrations, when the cloud droplets are small, the supersaturation required is smaller than without the presence of a nucleus.
In warm clouds, larger cloud droplets fall at a higher terminal velocity because the drag force on smaller droplets is larger than on large droplets. The large droplet can then collide with small droplet and combine to form even larger drops. When the drops become large enough so that the acceleration due to gravity is much larger than the acceleration due to drag, the drops can fall to the earth as precipitation. The collision and coalescence is not as important in mixed phase clouds where the Bergeron process dominates. Other important processes that form precipitation are riming, when a supercooled liquid drop collides with a solid snowflake, and aggregation, when two solid snowflakes collide and combine. The precise mechanics of how a cloud forms and grows is not completely understood, but scientists have developed theories explaining the structure of clouds by studying the microphysics of individual droplets. Advances in weather radar and satellite technology have also allowed the precise study of clouds on a large scale.
History of cloud physics
The history of cloud microphysics developed in the 19th century and is described in several publications. Otto von Guericke originated the idea that clouds were composed of water bubbles. In 1847 Agustus Waller used spider web to examine droplets under the microscope. These observations were confirmed by William Henry Dines in 1880 and Richard Assmann in 1884.
Rising packets of moist air
As water evaporates from an area of the earth surface, the air over that area becomes moist. Moist air is lighter than the surrounding dry air, creating an unstable situation. When enough moist air has accumulated, all the moist air rises as a single packet, without mixing with the surrounding air. As more moist air forms along the surface, the process repeats, resulting in a series of discrete packets of moist air rising to form clouds.
The amount of water that can exist as vapor in a given volume increases with the temperature. When the amount of water vapor is in equilibrium above a flat surface of water the level of vapor pressure is called saturation and the relative humidity is 100%. At this equilibrium there are equal numbers of molecules evaporating from the water as there are condensing back into the water. If the relative humidity becomes greater than 100%, it is called supersaturated. Supersaturation occurs in the absence of condensation nuclei, for example the flat surface of water.
Since the saturation vapor pressure is proportional to temperature, cold air has a lower saturation point than warm air. The difference between these values is the basis for the formation of clouds. When saturated air cools, it can no longer contain the same amount of water vapor. If the conditions are right, the excess water will condense out of the air until the lower saturation point is reached. Another possibility is that the water stays in vapor form, even though it is beyond the saturation point, resulting in supersaturation.
Supersaturation of more than 1–2% relative to water is rarely seen in the atmosphere, since cloud condensation nuclei are usually present. Much higher degrees of supersaturation are possible in clean air, and are the basis of the cloud chamber.
Water droplets commonly remain as liquid water and do not freeze, even well below 0 °C (32 °F), because of the high surface tension of each microdroplet, which prevents them from expanding to form larger ice crystals. Without ice nuclei supercooled water droplets can exist down to about −40 °C (−40 °F), at which point they will spontaneously freeze.
Main article: Coalescence (meteorology)
One theory explaining how the behavior of individual droplets leads to the formation of clouds is the collision-coalescence process. Droplets suspended in the air will interact with each other, either by colliding and bouncing off each other or by combining to form a larger droplet. Eventually, the droplets become large enough that they fall to the earth as precipitation. The collision-coalescence process does not make up a significant part of cloud formation as water droplets have a relatively high surface tension. In addition, the occurrence of collision-coalescence is closely related to entrainment-mixing processes.[7]
Bergeron process
Main article: Bergeron process
The primary mechanism for the formation of ice clouds was discovered by Tor Bergeron. The Bergeron process notes that the saturation vapor pressure of water, or how much water vapor a given volume can hold, depends on what the vapor is interacting with. Specifically, the saturation vapor pressure with respect to ice is lower than the saturation vapor pressure with respect to water. Water vapor interacting with a water droplet may be saturated, at 100% relative humidity, when interacting with a water droplet, but the same amount of water vapor would be supersaturated when interacting with an ice particle. The water vapor will attempt to return to equilibrium, so the extra water vapor will condense into ice on the surface of the particle. These ice particles end up as the nuclei of larger ice crystals. This process only happens at temperatures between 0 °C (32 °F) and −40 °C (−40 °F). Below −40 °C (−40 °F), liquid water will spontaneously nucleate, and freeze. The surface tension of the water allows the droplet to stay liquid well below its normal freezing point. When this happens, it is now supercooled liquid water. The Bergeron process relies on supercooled liquid water interacting with ice nuclei to form larger particles. If there are few ice nuclei compared to the amount of SLW, droplets will be unable to form. A process whereby scientists seed a cloud with artificial ice nuclei to encourage precipitation is known as cloud seeding. This can help cause precipitation in clouds that otherwise may not rain. Cloud seeding adds excess artificial ice nuclei which shifts the balance so that there are many nuclei compared to the amount of supercooled liquid water. An over-seeded cloud will form many particles, but each will be very small. This can be done as a preventative measure for areas that are at risk for hail storms.
Dynamic phase hypothesis
The second critical point in the formation of clouds is their dependence on updrafts. As particles group together to form water droplets, they will quickly be pulled down to earth by the force of gravity. The droplets would quickly dissipate and the cloud will never form. However, if warm air interacts with cold air, an updraft can form. Warm air is less dense than colder air, so the warm air rises. The air traveling upward buffers the falling droplets, and can keep them in the air much longer than they would otherwise stay. In addition, the air cools as it rises, so any moisture in the updraft will then condense into liquid form, adding to the amount of water available for precipitation. Violent updrafts can reach speeds of up to 180 miles per hour (290 km/h).[9] A frozen ice nucleus can pick up 0.5 inches (1.3 cm) in size traveling through one of these updrafts and can cycle through several updrafts before finally becoming so heavy that it falls to the ground. Cutting a hailstone in half shows onion-like layers of ice, indicating distinct times when it passed through a layer of super-cooled water. Hailstones have been found with diameters of up to 7 inches (18 cm).[10]
Cloud Classification
Main article: List of cloud types
Clouds are classified according to the height at which they are found, and their shape or appearance. There are three basic categories based on physical structure and process of formation. Cirriform clouds are high, thin and wispy, and are seen most extensively along the leading edges of organized weather disturbances. Stratiform clouds appear as extensive sheet-like layers, ranging from thin to moderately thick with some vertical development. They are mostly the product of large scale lift of stable air. Cumuliform clouds are formed mostly into localized heaps, rolls and/or ripples ranging from very small cloudlets of limited convection in slightly unstable air to very large towering free convective buildups when the airmass is very unstable. Clouds of limited convection that show a mix of cumuliform and stratiform characteristics are often grouped into a fourth category, stratocumuliform.
These categories are cross-classified by high, middle, low, and vertical altitude ranges into ten genus types. All cirriform clouds are classified as high and therefore constitute a single cloud genus cirrus. Stratiform and stratocumuliform clouds in the topmost region of the troposphere have the prefix cirro- added to their names yielding the genera cirrostratus and cirrocumulus. Similar clouds found at intermediate heights carry the prefix alto- resulting in the genus names altostratus and altocumulus. No height-related prefixes are used for the low altitudes, so clouds of these two physical categories based around 2 kilometres or lower are known simply as stratus and stratocumulus.
Vertically developed nimbostratus (deep stratiform), cumulus, and cumulonimbus may form anywhere from near surface to intermediates heights of around 3 kilometres and therefore, like the low clouds, have no height related prefixes. However, those capable of producing heavy precipitation or stormy weather carry a nimbo- or -nimbus designation. Of the vertically developed clouds, the cumulonimbus type is the largest and can virtually span the entire troposphere from a few hundred metres above the ground up to the tropopause. It is the cloud responsible for thunderstorms. Its complex structure often combining a cirriform top and stratocumuliform accessory clouds with an overall cumuliform structure sometimes result in this genus type being separated into a fifth physical cumulonimbiform category. This leaves the cumulus genus with its simple heaped structure as the sole purely cumuliform physical category type. Small cumulus is usually considered a low cloud genus, while taller cumulus is more often grouped with cumulonimbiform and deep stratiform genus types as vertical or multilevel.
The cloud chamber, also known as the Wilson chamber, is a particle detector used for detecting ionizing radiation.
File:Home Made Cloud Chamber.webmPlay media
A Home Made Cloud Chamber
Image taken in the Pic du Midi at 2877m in a Phywe PJ45 cloud chamber (size of surface is 45 x 45 cm). This rare picture shows in a single shot the 4 particles that we can detect in a cloud chamber : proton, electron, muon (probably) and alpha
In its most basic form, a cloud chamber is a sealed environment containing a supersaturated vapor of water or alcohol. When a charged particle (for example, an alpha or beta particle) interacts with the mixture, the fluid is ionized. The resulting ions act as condensation nuclei, around which a mist will form (because the mixture is on the point of condensation). The high energies of alpha and beta particles mean that a trail is left, due to many ions being produced along the path of the charged particle. These tracks have distinctive shapes (for example, an alpha particle's track is broad and shows more evidence of deflection by collisions, while an electron's is thinner and straight). When any uniform magnetic field is applied across the cloud chamber, positively and negatively charged particles will curve in opposite directions, according to the Lorentz force law with two particles of opposite charge.
Cloud chambers played a prominent role in the experimental particle physics from 1920s to the 1950s, until the advent of the bubble chamber. In particular, the discoveries of the positron in 1932, the Muon in 1936, both by Carl Anderson (awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1936), and the kaon in 1947 were made using cloud chambers as detectors. Anderson detected the positron and muon in cosmic rays.
By Leonard Clampett on 2014 10 23 - 10:18:01
From the entry 'Contrails dissipate quickly whereas chemtrails linger?'.
Geoengineering is Real: British Academic Reveals Size and Scope of Operation
"The term 'Chemtrails' is not a conspiracy theory either. The name can be traced back to the US Congress itself. House Bill 2977, Space Preservation Act 2001, Page 5, line 15, under the heading of "exotic weapons"."
By Andrew Adams on 2014 10 22 - 14:17:07
From the entry 'Contrails dissipate quickly whereas chemtrails linger?'.
Engineered Drought Catastrophe, Target California
So Josh, your argument against chemtrails on all points. There is nothing to debate.
By Leonard Clampett on 2014 10 22 - 13:15:51
From the entry 'Contrails dissipate quickly whereas chemtrails linger?'.
I think Brendon is a good bloke. Truely an Aussie who wants the best for his beloved country. A guy who has discovered like many people that Australia has been usurped by the parasitic Jew. This of course is nothing new as the Jews in history have been booted out of 88 different countries. Including the Uk. Which ofcourse is the snakes head, after stupid cromwell let them back in. So the city of London is the crown, oh (Not) the queen but Jew Rothschild who owns the banks. Most people I know don,t realise this, that our own RBA (Reserve Bank) is a private Rotschild bank. Rhodes schlolar is a indoctrinated Rothschild pupil. Your polititians are selected (Before) elected. Many a blood high pressure has been rectified after the truth is known. After all if you are on the field of battle, you must know your enemy. Well Done Brendon. This Aussie is proud of you ! !
By Daveeed on 2014 10 19 - 18:34:02
From the entry 'Meet Brendon O'Connell, Australia's first political prisoner'.
Susan Lindauer is a person deserved of recognition. Her book, "Extreme Prejudice" was a revolution for me in the understanding of the devious machinations of the US government, the real lack of decent values, the total disregard of truth and the falseness of so-called patriotism.
Their treatment of this lady will forever be a disgrace, not quite bordering on other acts of perfidy such as the USS Ulysses, the 29 standing ovations in the US Joint Houses for the world's latter day fascist, Netanyahu, or the elation displayed in the Congress on the announcement of the (first) war in Iraq, based on lies. All acts from which for me there is no recovery, ever.
So her treatment is up there with those acts, the treatment of Scott Ritter and Edward Snowden, the establishment of Guantanamo Bay and the acts therein and the now effective loss of all respect for a country that was founded on real values. What fine people they were as well. A long time ago.
Right now we have another decent American, a scarcity these days, in Michael Mori who through his actions made people aware of how low the US had sunk in the manufacturing of evidence against people whose crimes may have been naivety, but not terrorism. The real terrorists were then and still are in Washington with a new junior chapter in Canberra, trying desperately to mix it with the big boys and in their own little way, through the mouth of the feckless "Friend of Israel", Julie Bishop, trying desperately to make Russia an enemy of the world through her lies on the Malaysian Airliner shoot down.
All part of the role that this naive country is engaged in for political purposes. But with a country populated by insouciant people, or is that sheeple, does anyone really give a damn. Football season has just finished. Get your priorities right.
On with the seat belts. There's much worse to come yet.
Full marks, Susan Lindauer. You have made a serious contribution to those who think that ALL people have rights.
By Rex Williams on 2014 10 09 - 09:17:36
From the entry 'Climbing the mountain of lies to better see World War III'.
I thought after researching the nwo and having a passion for the truth I knew how the world was being run…Then, by accident I stumbled upon
and I realised I had only scratched the surface to the lies we have been raised to believe.
Also, check out the archives page
I was shocked, so if you want the rest of the story…
By sick of all the lies on 2014 10 01 - 14:30:26
From the entry 'A review of violence and intolerance in Islamic and other societies'.
Leonard Clampett,
can you point out where anyone around here wrote or somehow conveyed the opinion "that governments can, and will, do no wrong"? The fact that contrails can persist and spread doesn't have the slightest impact on the morality of governments ...
Do you doubt the basic mechanism of cloud formation that I summarized exists? Then please explain where I got it wrong - or the University of North Carolina that I linked to - or all my flight teachers and the text books for the exam - or all the guide books about clouds.
Be specific, don't just say "misinformation" without giving any reason. By all means, show some actual "scrutiny", along with references.
Of course I could have introduced dry and saturated lapse rate, condensation nuclei and many more sophisticated details, but that does not alter the principal mechanism of rising, cooling and increasing RH.
By the way, your credentials are not helping, I'm afraid - at least as long as you display a basic misunderstanding of central processes like combustion or supersaturation (which you claim doesn't even exist).
By Josh on 2014 09 27 - 07:31:30
From the entry 'Contrails dissipate quickly whereas chemtrails linger?'.
Thanks mate, greatly appreciated.
By Hereward Fenton on 2014 09 24 - 22:27:31
From the entry 'Introducing Professor Garth L Nicolson: pioneering researcher on mycoplasmas'.
I know you don't buy it, but the whole thing seems very much manufactured. Even the footage and the stories.
Anyways, great work as always. Keep on this topic. I believe it is the defining moment for the future of the middle east.
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By Shaun on 2014 09 24 - 17:53:41
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Squabbles overshadow U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade summit
The atmosphere at the summit was cool, a sign of the strains that separate the leaders of Canada, Mexico and the U.S. and that have slowed momentum to modernize the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year.
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President Obama met Wednesday with his Mexican and Canadian counterparts but little tangible came out of the Three Amigos summit, a further sign that the world's largest trading bloc is on autopilot, hobbled by spats among members.
Indeed, Obama spent his first moments of an abbreviated eight-hour stay focused on a public statement about turmoil in distant Ukraine, a country with which U.S. annual trade doesn't equal even two days' worth of business with Mexico.
In one sign of consensus, Obama, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto agreed to harmonize a "trusted traveler" program, synchronizing a handful of different programs to speed border crossings around the hemisphere.
But the overall atmosphere in Toluca, Mexico's fifth-largest city, was cool, a sign of the strains that separate the leaders and have slowed momentum to modernize the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year.
A bilateral spat between Mexico and Canada, and anger in Ottawa over U.S. indecision on whether to build the Keystone XL pipeline from western Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast did not appear to get resolved at the summit. Obama and Harper said the two discussed Keystone, which would carry oil made from tar sands, but Obama insisted his administration must await further determinations about the potential impact of the pipeline on climate change.
"We only have one planet," Obama said.
NAFTA, the world's largest trade bloc, comprises 470 million people from Canada's Yukon to the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. The bloc represents nearly 30 percent of global economic output.
But leaders face pressures from special interests in each country, and Obama, speaking in the late afternoon next to Harper and Peña Nieto, said the leaders need help from voters to "deepen what are already incredible ties between our three nations."
Issues surrounding NAFTA dwarf the economic impact of other global issues facing any of the three nations, yet more dramatic world events tend to overshadow efforts to strengthen the North American alliance.
More than 8 million U.S. jobs depend on trade with Canada, and an additional 6 million on trade with Mexico. Trade among the three nations tops $1 trillion a year.
Experts say the NAFTA alliance has drifted with a lack of strategic vision. "Twenty years later, it's hard for us to talk to each other and reach agreement," said Laura Macdonald, a political scientist who specializes in the region at Carleton University in Ottawa.
Rather than re-debate NAFTA, Obama pressed Peña Nieto and Harper to speak with one voice as they negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a proposed trade accord that includes 12 countries around the Pacific Rim.
Obama dismissed a suggestion that he can't get the accord through his own party in Congress.
"We'll get this passed if it's a good agreement," he said.
Minutes before he disembarked from Air Force One, Obama signed a new executive order to reduce bureaucratic barriers and speed up imports and exports, a move intended to help businesses strengthen supply chains across borders.
The move signaled that Obama would not cede to opposition, much of it within his own Democratic Party, to his trade agenda.
"We are in a fundamentally different place than we were even five years ago," said Eric Farnsworth, vice president of the Council of the Americas, a Washington, D.C.-based business group that promotes free trade, democracy and open markets in the hemisphere.
Farnsworth said faltering political intentions have hindered efforts to develop the NAFTA region "in a comprehensive and strategic manner."
Mexico is irked at Canada over visa requirements that have seen its tourism to Canada drop by about 50 percent since 2008, to about 130,000 Mexicans a year. In contrast, 1.9 million Canadians visit Mexico annually.
Mexican diplomats say Canada requires 10 times more information from Mexican citizens to grant a visa than the U.S. government requires.
Harper is irritated with Obama for U.S. delays on deciding whether to proceed with the Keystone XL pipeline designed to carry oil made from tar sands in the province of Alberta through the Midwest to refineries along the Gulf Coast.
Macdonald said the pipeline project "is the most important foreign-policy objective of the Harper government" in its quest to become an energy superpower.
Also irritating U.S.-Canada relations are delays in replacing the aged Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, the single busiest international land border crossing in North America in terms of trade volume.
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The initial promise of the NAFTA trade bloc led to the moniker the Three Amigos for the leaders of the countries, taken from a 1986 comedy Western starring Steve Martin, Chevy Chase and Martin Short.
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Arsenal are yet to win a league fixture in 2013 going into tonight's rearranged clash with the Hammers, something Allardyce believes is down in no small part to the club not replacing Van Persie when he joined Manchester United.
"When you sell your best players, which is not normally expected of Arsenal, then it is always difficult to replace them," Allardyce said. "There is no doubt that the players that have come in are very, very good players, but are they better than the ones they have sold?
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"That's all our frustrations in terms of those who have the best strikers generally, in the end, continue to get the best results."
Arsenal come into the match - which was moved from Boxing Day due to the threat of a tube strike - on the back of a disappointing 2-1 defeat at Chelsea on Sunday.
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5:10 PM — Senior Republican Senator, Larry Craig, is considering resigning, party officials said Friday, the Associated Press has reported.The rumours of Craig's resignation came after days of public and private pressure stemming from his arrest in June in a police undercover operation at an airport men's room.
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5:10 PM — A pair of American bishops have joined Kenya's conservative Anglican Church after the U.S. Episcopal Church consecrated an openly gay bishop.William Murdoch of Massachusetts and Bill Atwood of Texas were consecrated at All Saints Cathedral in Nairobu by Kenya's Archbishop Benjamin Nzimbi.Although they will answer to the Kenyan Church, they will continue to serve in the U.S.
Bishop claims floods are punishment for gay rights 6
11:01 AM — The Rt Rev Graham Dow, the Bishop of Carlisle, has shocked the liberal wing of the Church of England by suggesting that the floods that have caused chaos and death across the UK were caused by God after he was provoked by the introduction of gay equality."This is a strong and definite judgment because the world has been arrogant in going its own way," he said. "We are reaping the consequences of our moral degradation, as well as the environmental damage that we have caused."
30th June 2007
Deputy Labour Leader called from Gay Pride to Cobra Meeting 5
11:50 PM — The Prime Minister Gordon Brown has today held an emergency meeting of the Cobra cabinet committee as a result of the attacks on Glasgow Airport.Harriet Harman, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the House of Commons was summoned from London Pride to head towards Whitehall.
Pride QA: Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London 2
12:01 AM — Ken, tell us about your first Pride.The very first lesbian and gay march I did, it was in the late 1970s and Tom Robinson was the lead speaker at Trafalgar Square.It was the first time I spoke on the plinth at Trafalgar Square.It was miserable grey day, late winter, early autumn. A grim, grim day.
29th June 2007
PM reshuffles his gay rights team
11:44 PM — Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister, has completed his government reshuffle, promoting the Junior Equalities Minister responsible for gay rights, Meg Munn to become Junior Minister at the Foreign Office.Her replacement has not yet been chosen from the new ministerial team at the Department of Communities and Local Government.Yesterday he moved Ruth Kelly to become Secretary of State for Transport.
Gay MP promoted to Health Minister 1
11:44 PM — Ben Bradshaw, an openly gay MP, has been promoted to become Minister of State at the Department of Health.It is a step up the ministerial ladder from his previous role at the Department of the Environment.Mr Bradshaw was also appointed as Minister for the South West as part of the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown's focus on regions within England.
Brown appoints his first lesbian minister
11:32 PM — Angela Eagle has been appointed as a minister in the British government.New Prime Minister Gordon Brown has made her Exchequer Secretary, a junior Treasury position.Her twin sister Maria, already a minister under Tony Blair, moves from the Northern Ireland Office to the Ministry of Justice.
Comment: Time to be a green gay
6:06 PM — A couple of months ago, Roseanne - of former 'Barr' and 'Show' fame - upset some of the gays across the pond with something she said on her radio show.During a cosy chat with a lesbian activist one afternoon, Rosie suggested that considering the magnitude of the issues the planet now faces, maybe it was time for us all to put our individual causes temporarily to one side, and stand together against the unprecedented crises' that threaten to overwhelm us all.
"Minister for gays" sorry she can't come to Pride
5:15 PM — Hazel Blears has said she is sorry she will not be able to attend tomorrow's Pride events in London this year after her appointment yesterday as Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government.The new minister overseeing equality and gay rights issues has a previous engagement.It has been confirmed that the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and Minister for Women, Harriet Harman, will address revellers in Trafalgar Square.
Pride should go ahead as planned say police 5
4:15 PM — The organisers of Pride London met with the Metropolitan police this afternoon and were reassured that as things stand the parade and other events will be going ahead tomorrow as planned.Early this morning a car bomb left outside a nightclub failed to detonate. The club, Tiger, Tiger, is on Haymarket, a street which is part of the route for tomorrow's parade.This afternoon the police have closed Hyde Park and Park Lane while they investigate another suspicious vehicle.


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Obama Knew The Crashers? He Met Them Before
In case you missed it this weekend…
Is there more to this story? The Anchoress thinks so. Gateway Pundit has more details about how the Crashers are buddies with Obama's buddy terrorist-loving Rashid Khalidi.
Anyway, American Power has more. I just wanted you guys to know that there might be more story behind the fame-grabbing meme–which is for sure true.
At the very least, this is more evidence of an amateurish administration.
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Be a sportsman first then a cricketer
Cricket's reputation rests on sportsmanship and players must respect tradition
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- Virat Kohli
The ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) brought to light major differences of opinion among India's top cricketers.
The Virat Kohli-Gautam Gambhir ugly on-field spat and Shantakumaran Sreesanth's disclosure, after nearly five years since the slapgate incident, that Harbhajan Singh is a back stabber exposes the lack of camaraderie and appreciation for each other despite being part of Team India and spending most of their time playing and practising together.
Such incidents also reveal how money and power can spoil players and transform them into unsporting sportsmen. Cricket earned its reputation and glamour through acts of sportsmanship by players, and it is unfortunate that some of today's cricketers are tarnishing the game's image.
What attracted me most to cricket is the manner in which players kept up the spirit of the game. Rarely do we see in other sports players applauding an opponent for a spectacular performance like in cricket.
Every century or a deadly bowling spell is often applauded. This is a tradition that has been passed on from one generation to another. When a bunch of players, despite being talented, destroy these ethics, they should ask themselves whether they are worthy of being called cricketers.
Kohli is being seen as India's future captain, and if he continues to expose his lack of control over his emotions, it will do him more harm than good. Being aggressive is understandable, being arrogant isn't.
Cricketers who walk off abusing a bowler after being dismissed should take time to watch video footage of players such as the late ex-England skipper Tony Greig, who once applauded India off-spinner Erapalli Prasanna for getting him out with a beautiful delivery. I was also witness to Australia's Adam Gilchrist's walking off right after being given not out by umpire Rudi Koertzen in the 2003 World Cup semi-final against Sri Lanka in Port Elizabeth.
To accept a decision and walk off, especially when he was just getting into his stride, speaks volumes of Gilchrist's sportsmanship.
Whatever heights Kohli, Gambhir, Sreesanth or Harbhajan may reach as players, they must be aware that they will never be remembered as sportsmen but only for their knocks or deadly spells. To leave an indelible mark, one has to play the game in its spirit.
All successful cricketers candidly admit that they owe a lot to the game. The least they can do is not to indulge in public acts of shame even if they have nothing to offer back to the game.
Sporting acts should begin from school cricket, and coaches as well as parents should instil sporting qualities in every youngster. Skills can be learned but sportsmanship has to be imbibed.
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Director Brian Salerno spoke to attendees at the 2014 Offshore technology Conference about technology and the role of the regulator: his remarks, as prepared for delivery, are set out below:
"So we are here at OTC, surrounded by extraordinary displays of technology…showcasing capabilities that far exceed what was possible only a few short years ago, and underscoring the fact that the oil gas industry is one of the most innovative and complex on the planet. It is truly awe inspiring, and as a regulator, somewhat daunting to realize that this also poses a challenge for us (regulators).
Your industry sets a very aggressive pace, you are the source of new ideas and technology. The challenge for those of us who are regulators is to keep pace with you, and to understand the safety and environmental implications of this technology, so that offshore resources can be developed without incident.
This then gets to the fundamental question of the role of the regulator, vis a vis the industry, and how we can collaborate in a meaningful way, all the while remaining true to our obligation to act first and foremost in the public interest.
I am a firm believer that we have overlapping goals. Offshore safety, protection of the environment from the potential ill-effects of industrial activity, developing offshore resources, all of these not only reflect public needs and expectations, that also represent good business practices. We have all seen how catastrophic events can adversely impact the environment, causing the public to lose confidence not only in the industry's commitment to safety but also in the regulator's ability to oversee offshore operations to ensure these activities are carried out responsibly. How then do we collectively and appropriately approach the ongoing imperative of integrating new technology into an already complex operating and regulatory environment?
I think to maximize the constructive relationship between the regulator and the industry; we need to concentrate on three things: 1) Technology itself, 2) the human element, and 3) what I believe ties the two together, an understanding of risk and how to effectively manage it.
Focus on Technology
Technology is appropriately the place to start, not only because of where we are gathered, but also because it is the object of so many of our regulatory requirements.
Traditionally, we have approached our duties by establishing standards in the regulations, and then relying on them as the basis for approving permit applications, and verifying compliance through on-site inspections. And as you know, many of the standards incorporated into our regulations are themselves based upon industry standards, the development of which includes BSEE participation. We still rely on that basic approach, but regulations have always had a tough time keeping up with technological change. For that matter, industry standards are having a tough time keeping up as well. And that has become even more of a problem as the pace of technological innovation and change has accelerated.
We are addressing this in a number of ways…
Technology Center
Our sense within BSEE is that we still need to do more, to up our game in technology assessment, work more closely with Original Equipment Manufacturers, participate more fully with standards-setting bodies, and strengthen our ability to assess novel and emerging technologies.
Earlier this week, I announced our intention to establish a Technology Center within BSEE to achieve these goals. The Center will not replace the regulatory processes already in place at the regional level. Permit reviews and Deepwater Operations Plans will remain a function of our region and district offices. But it will add depth and capacity to the bureau, so that as industry continues to innovate and develop new capabilities, we will be keeping pace with you. It will support all of our region offices and will complement the work of the Ocean Energy Safety Institute .
I will have more to say about this in the weeks and months ahead, but it is important enough, that I wanted to share it with you here. We intend to establish the Technology Center here in Houston, but we still need to finalize details on a location and staffing.
Focus on the Human Element
Technology is important, but so too is the human element. It takes people to operate, interpret, and make critical decisions as they employ technology. People establish the processes used to keep systems and operations safe, and only trained, committed people will ensure the integrity of complex processes.
I have recently begun to look into the characteristics of High Reliability Organizations. These are the organizations where failure is never an acceptable outcome. Think of Navy submarines, or nuclear power plants, or the space program.
These highly technical operations place a high premium on training, on redundant systems, and on absolute adherence to established processes. There is no cutting corners.
I would argue that your industry falls into much the same 'no-failure-acceptable' category, with the level of technology now employed. If used correctly, technology can make things much safer.. If misused or taken for granted, it can result in catastrophic loss.
In many ways, we began leading the industry toward becoming a high reliability organization or HRO with SEMS -- the performance-focused Safety and Environmental Management System for integrating and managing offshore operations. It was a significant step in the right direction. It introduced some of the elements of the safety-case approach, while at the same time resting on a standard baseline of regulatory compliance. It requires a more focused look at systems and how people fit into the work process. And it established obligations to speak up when unsafe conditions are observed, or when processes are not being followed.
We have much more work to do with SEMS. Although it set us on the right path, none of us should be satisfied that the goal of a widespread safety culture within the industry has been achieved. Some companies may still think they can cut corners or regard SEMS as just a plan on a shelf. As we have seen, in some tragic cases, lives have been lost – needlessly – for failure to follow established safety processes.
I am grateful to those who have taken SEMS and the need for a comprehensive safety culture to heart and because of the good work that I have seen, I am hopeful that -- working together -- we can collectively set an expectation of safety excellence throughout the industry. As we have seen in HRO's - this goal is within our grasp.
By the way, when we talk about the human element, I did want to note the youth-focused event sponsored by the OTC. These young people are our future. I applaud the efforts to get them interested in the important and meaningful work they may aspire to as they make career choices. Of course, we will be competing for their talents, as we compete for talent today – but that is OK! The important thing is to get them interested, and keep them engaged.
We are doing much the same thing within DOI and BSEE, with a formal effort to get them excited about this wonderful world of opportunity through engineering and the sciences. As part of Secretary Jewell's Youth Initiative to develop the next generation of lifelong conservation stewards and ensure our own skilled and diverse workforce pipeline, Interior will provide 100,000 work and training opportunities to young people within our bureaus and through public-private partnerships.
Focus on Risk
You have heard me use the word safety throughout my talk, and that is indeed my primary goal as a regulator, and as I mentioned, I believe it is a shared goal. We will continue to press forward on that theme, which brings me to the third area I wanted to address in the relationship between the regulator and the regulated… and that is: risk.
Or more precisely, managing risk, as an integral component of a safety culture. It must be the lens through which we view the interaction between technology and the human element, it also is the foundation of how we regulate and enforce standards.
A lot has been written about risk, and I am sure you are all familiar with risk management theories. Although BSEE has begun to employ risk criteria in some areas, I believe we can employ risk tools to a far greater extent and to greater effect for safety.
For example…
So: Technology, Human Factors, and Risk Management – those are three areas which I believe will define the nature of how we interact in the coming years. In many ways, these have always been the case, but with increased complexity, the stakes are much higher.
One final thought. I have offered a perspective from BSEE, but we all know that you have multiple regulators. From the regulator's perspective, it makes sense to harmonize similar regulatory objectives, so that industry is not forced to adjudicate between two or more regulators on any given topic. I will say that the degree of harmonization has not always been what you might have hoped, or what we as regulators would feel is optimal. But the good news is that we are making federal consistency a priority within government that should result in greater clarity, consistency and predictability for all involved.
This level of coordination is important between BSEE and agencies like the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Agency, and EPA, but it is especially important on a daily basis between BSEE and the Coast Guard. As we encounter new technology that poses many gray areas in our respective regulations, and as we deal with safety management and risk, it is imperative that we convey a consistent expectation to the regulated community. Having capped my 36-year career in the Coast Guard as the Deputy Commandant for Operations, I understand how important this is. For that reason, I want to turn the microphone over to [Coast Guard] RDML Servidio, who I have known for many years. I can attest that he is as passionate about this as we are in BSEE.
I look forward to hearing your thoughts in the Q&A and during the remainder of the conference!
Thank you."
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