fort calhoun: fukushima in slow motion

A pictured subtitle, whether nuclear waste is a threat, captures sense of low regard for viewers. Theoretical Physicist Michio Kaku, on the other hand, provides some insight into the dangers at both Los Alamos and Fort Calhoun, NE in a recent interview. It's a good thing that Los Alamos doesn't store nuclear bombs there, but a bad thing there are barrels of nuclear waste on site. Kaku provides best insight into potential tragedy at flooded Fort Calhoun nuclear plant, "...like Fukushima in slow motion." It only "takes 36 hours for water to boil off" once water pumps fail, says Kaku. The physicist put threshold for flooding pumps at an additional two feet, at that point, "it would be Fukushima 2.0." Will this year be remembered as the very tense nuclear summer of 2011?

annunaki agenda: perfect slave project

A semi-retired southeast Texas obstetrician, Dr Jack Pruett, heard Zecharia Sitchin on the radio, five years ago, and never looked back as related on a recent Coast to Coast AM show. Dr Pruett, who delivered over 5,000 babies and worked with Dr Ron Paul, submerged himself into ancient near East and Biblical studies. The result is a new book, "The Grandest Deception," and by no means a regurgitation of Sitchin's work, the conclusions are more controversial. The author believes the human race remains a project, and concludes, the Annunaki are molding human genome until perfectly obedient and subservient slaves are obtained. The human race only has value in our service to them, observes Pruett. The individual is of little value in the Annunaki view, because of our short life spans. A human individual life is too brief compared to the long-lived Annunaki to appreciate us. There are more controversial views on Jesus and the New World Order. The present writer respects an author, who expresses an honest opinion, but wonders where subversion of religion will lead?

major donald keyhoe: early pioneer of ufology

Major Donald Keyhoe, already an established writer, turned UFO researcher when editor Kevin Purdy of True magazine asked him to investigate early sightings in 1949. The Thomas F Mantell incident, a Kentucky Air National Guard pilot, who crashed to his death on January 7, 1948 in a Mustang P51 while in pursuit of a UFO, was among cases Keyhoe asked to examine. Mantell is assumed to have blacked out while in a steep climb. The observed UFO was reported from several vantage points: a control tower at Fort Knox, a Kentucky State Patrolman and observers at an Army air field in Ohio. The two surviving P51 pilots, also in pursuit, saw an object but called it later small and indistinct. The loss of life made UFO phenomena a much more serious issue after Mantell's reported death. The article written by Keyhoe sold well and expanded into the 1950 book (link to a freely available .pdf formatted version), "The Flying Saucers are Real," which sold over half a million copies.


Keyhoe followed with a subsequent book, Flying Saucers from Outer Space and involved in NICAP through fifties and sixties. A link to a 1958 Michael Wallace interview where Keyhoe discusses UFOs and contactees, also, the curious censorship of an earlier interview on Armstrong Circle Theater, which Keyhoe blamed on the Air Force. Is Keyhoe a disinfo agent? Keyhoe, a writer with military background, declared UFOs are from outer space. The present writer finds timeline of sightings that followed World War II closely, where Nazi UFO technology was possibly developed - an apparent continuity of interest!

electronic frontier foundation: know your rights

It's a sign of the times, but, you may want to know your digital rights before the suits knock at your door. The Electronic Frontier Foundation website provides a Q&A section with helpful tips. The best tips are the same whenever dealing with law enforcement: 1) don't consent to a search 2) don't answer questions and 3) ask for a lawyer. A printable pdf file of the Q&A is available here. You can take an EFF quiz here to check your digital rights IQ!

hacker hijacks xbox, sends swat to home

from kprc: It looked like the scene out of a video game; and indeed an Xbox was behind a SWAT team invading a suburban Florida home. The SWAT invasion turned out to be a hoax, but police aren’t laughing. The family at the butt of the joke, on the other hand, can't tell their tale without a bit of a smile. "I come out of my room and they've got their guns pointed at me and stuff," said Hunter Gelinas. "I open my door and I had the whole SWAT team down in the front door. I was like, 'Oh my God, I'm going to die.'"

It turned out that a hacker had gotten access to Hunter's Xbox and put in a call to police. His mother, Daleann Gelinas, said that the hacker used "a handicapped line, saying that Hunter had been stabbed and the parents and other people being held hostage at the house." Neighbors watched in awe as police poured down their street. "They all had their guns up like they were ready in case anyone was going to fire on them," said neighbor Sam Murphy. "When I heard it was a hoax, it kind of made more sense because I figured with this neighborhood, nothing ever really happens here."

Officers took electronics and the hacked Xbox in a search for the Canadian hacker who has yet to be identified. Experts said that the hoax reveals frightening flaws in online security. "There is nothing there to stop them. Once they gain accessibility to the machine, they can do whatever they want as long as they have the capability and knowledge to do it," said computer expert Neil Wexell. Wexell said that the easiest way to prevent hackers from gaining access is to keep gaming systems offline when not in use.

hacker gary mckinnon update

Blogger Grant Lawrence reminds us in recent Alternet post, "Mckinnon has said consistently in numerous interviews that the US has advanced Space Fleets that are capable of star travel. He has never backed down from his assertions. Maybe Mckinnon has not said all he knows." A reader should ask what lies behind intense efforts to extradite McKinnon? Lawrence asks in a similar vein, "But what is making the US government so adamant about bringing Mckinnon to justice in the US?" Lawrence is led to a conclusion, the facts of the case would lead many of us, "maybe it is because Gary Mckinnon spilled the beans on what he saw and he shouldn’t have... Secret technologies are evidently supposed to be secret no matter how it would benefit humanity."


A 2006 Wired article, "'UFO Hacker' Tells What He Found," shows McKinnon freely providing details of his hacking adventure, "A NASA photographic expert said that there was a Building 8 at Johnson Space Center where they regularly airbrushed out images of UFOs from the high-resolution satellite imaging. I logged on to NASA and was able to access this department. They had huge, high-resolution images stored in their picture files. They had filtered and unfiltered, or processed and unprocessed, files. My dialup 56K connection was very slow trying to download one of these picture files. As this was happening, I had remote control of their desktop, and by adjusting it to 4-bit color and low screen resolution, I was able to briefly see one of these pictures. It was a silvery, cigar-shaped object with geodesic spheres on either side. There were no visible seams or riveting. There was no reference to the size of the object and the picture was taken presumably by a satellite looking down on it. The object didn't look manmade or anything like what we have created. Because I was using a Java application, I could only get a screenshot of the picture -- it did not go into my temporary internet files. At my crowning moment, someone at NASA discovered what I was doing and I was disconnected."

Is there more than McKinnon has revealed? It's the only sufficient explanation for the sustained pressure on the hacker, over the years, a constant reminder to remain quiet. You may view a previous blog entry on McKinnon's plight here. A recent update at Free Gary McKinnon shows news release of continued effort by US to extradite him. The present writer wonders, what else does McKinnon know and possibly holding back for his own safety?

al-qaida online jihadism overlooked

A Danger Room article reports Obama's counterterrorism crew missing big picture by focusing on physical war theaters and ignoring internet."As the United States attacks al-Qaida’s physical safe havens, the terrorist response is to congregate in online spaces, where they can’t be blown up by a Hellfire missile or shot by a SEAL." The article does find a more concerted effort by US desktop warriors. "Even if the new White House counterterrorism strategy treats the internet like an afterthought, the operational elements of American counterterrorism are more focused. U.S. Central Command is setting up online stings and infiltrating jihadi message boards." It's doubtful, anything online is ignored by intelligence even those in executive branch.

John Brennan, Deputy National Security (DNS) Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, sets the table for imperial agenda and lends piece an air of propaganda. The DNS advisor and assistant to the President, "... called Anwar al-Awlaki, the U.S. citizen now affiliated with al-Qaida’s Yemen branch 'very, very dangerous.' How’d he get that way? Through e-mailing with Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan and would-be Christmas bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. (Well, probably e-mailing; both men say they communicated with one another)."

It's difficult to stomach Brennan's view as Anwar al-Awlaki has taken in a Pentagon lunch with officials, suggestive of intelligence ties. Passenger and attorney Kurt Haskell had a front seat to the tale of The Underwear Bomber and the Sharp Dressed Man. Haskell believes the well-dressed man was US government, who aided "the terrorist" bypass of check-in. Webster Tarpley, political analyst, casts doubt in his fine article, "Major Hasan of Fort Hood: A Patsy In A Drill Gone Live?" on al-Awlaki, al-Qaida and Major Hasan as little more then dupes and patsies in an intelligence-organized foreign(-looking) troupe of actors.

The Danger Room article concludes there are good and bad ways to confront online jihadism, "...but to ignore it might be the biggest unforced error of all." You can determine if White House is overlooking threat and more about al-Qaida in publication, "National Strategy for Counterterrorism," if you can handle it? The only good news is al-Qaida cited more than domestic groups as key threat!