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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Jew Fails To Pull Off The Old Fake "Hate Crime" Scam

Jewish man arrested for swastikas, anti-Semitic calls


NEW YORK | Mon Jan 16, 2012 6:17pm EST
(Reuters) - A Jewish man was under arrest on hate-crime charges on Monday, accused of making anti-Semitic telephone calls to his mother and other elderly women and putting swastikas on apartment doors, police said.
A family business dispute drove David Haddad, 56, of Manhattan, who is Jewish, to make threatening phone calls to his mother, 80, and two other women, ages 87 and 78, a police source said.
"He threatened to kill the other individual on the phone as well as her relatives," said a police spokesman. "He said basically that all Jews should die and go to hell."
Haddad, who was charged with aggravated harassment as a hate crime, also was accused of taping notes with anti-Semitic symbols including swastikas on five apartment doors and in the hallway of a building in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan.
Haddad lives in Chelsea but police declined to say whether he targeted his own building.
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Meet The Jew Who Is Behind Newt Gingrich

Behind Gingrich's Rise, Billionaire Pal Sheldon Adelson


Before Newt Gingrich dominated the South Carolina primary, a so-called super PAC supporting him spent millions of dollars savaging Mitt Romney in negative ads and fliers.
A driving force behind that super PAC is Sheldon Adelson (photo), a Las Vegas casino tycoon who has translated his deep friendship with Gingrich into a financial bonanza to buoy his candidacy. Adelson gave the PAC, Winning Our Future, $5 million just before the South Carolina primary, and this week, his wife gave the group another $5 million. 

The Adelsons make Mitt Romney look like Tom Joad. Adelson, the eighth-richest American, is worth more than $20 billion. He built the iconic Venetian hotel (and another in Macao to match) and has given to a host of Jewish causes — in addition to funding a nonprofit group that led to Gingrich's presidential run.
Adelson met Gingrich when he was the speaker of the House, and they bonded over their dedication to support Israel as Congress debated passing a bill that would encourage the American Embassy in Tel Aviv to be moved to Jerusalem, the capital. Since then they've been friends, with obvious benefits.
"He admires and likes Newt for his intellect and his creativity, and those are two traits that are very strong with Sheldon himself," said Robert List, a former governor of Nevada who was Adelson's legal counsel when he acquired the historic Sands Hotel. "It's no surprise that he's liked Newt from the beginning."
In October, Adelson attended a fundraiser for Gingrich at a Las Vegas restaurant owned by George Harris, a former political consultant who worked for the casino baron for years and ate lunch with him every day. They raised $60,000 for Gingrich.
Next week, Gingrich is due back at the restaurant, and so is Adelson, Harris said. Nevada's Republican caucus is Feb. 4.
"Sheldon Adelson — if he said he's going to do something, he does it," Harris said. "He's a humongous supporter of Newt. They're friends. They're buddies. It's a true relationship."
The money that the Adelsons have given to Winning Our Future is double what the super PAC has already spent to support Gingrich, which is just over $5 million as of Wednesday. It's unclear how much money the group has ready to spend, because super PACs aren't required to report how much they've raised until the end of January — after the four first primary contests.
Lifted by the donation from Adelson's wife, Winning Our Future is placing a big bet on the Florida primary, spending $6 million to run a TV ad that demonizes the health care plan that Romney led in Massachusetts.
The plan is awfully similar to what happened in South Carolina, where Romney's lead over the other candidates shrank by the day as the pro-Gingrich super PAC crowded the airwaves with anti-Romney commercials. Now the PAC is spending much more in Florida, though the Adelsons are said to have asked that the ads be positive.
"He wants to advance Newt's cause," List said. "He'll do what he can to help."
Gingrich was seen as a serious candidate only recently, months after Adelson first attended that Las Vegas fundraiser for him in October. The headlines were about Romney, and Gingrich was being called a long-shot. In some ways, Adelson's friends saw a parallel to a meeting with his senior staff when he was describing his vision to build a "new Las Vegas strip" in Macao.
"At that time, it was just a dream, and huge, involving billions and billions and billions of dollars," List said. "People were sitting around the table saying, 'Do you really think this could happen?' You know? And it did."
In an alternate universe, if Gingrich had never befriended Adelson years ago, the super PAC supporting the former speaker would probably have a significantly diminished effect. Perhaps South Carolina would have gone Romney's way, all but crowning him the nominee before January is over. Or maybe Gingrich's victory would have just been smaller.
Either way, Adelson reportedly doesn't expect anything in return from Gingrich. "Sheldon doesn't need anything from anybody," Harris said.
And those who know Adelson well say that despite his loyalty to Gingrich, he'll be quick to reopen his checkbook for Romney if the ex-governor wins the Republican nomination.
"I don't think there's any doubt that he would support Romney, absolutely not one doubt in the entire world," said Fred Zeidman, a Romney fundraiser who speaks often with Adelson and who was the chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council (the Adelsons have donated profusely to the museum). "This is all about beating Barack Obama."

Monday, January 30, 2012

ACTA: Worse Than SOPA and PIPA

ACTA: Worse Than SOPA and PIPA

by Stephen Lendman

January 28, 2012

Internet freedom's on the line. SOPA and PIPA threatened Net Neutrality and free expression. So does ACTA. More on it below.

For now, the largest online protest in Internet history got Congress to abandon SOPA and PIPA but not permanently. Expect resurrection in modified form. Language may change but not intent. ACTA's worse.

Launched on October 23, 2007, America, the EU, Switzerland and Japan began secretly negotiating a new intellectual property enforcement treaty - the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).

Other nations got involved, including Canada, Australia, South Korea, New Zealand, Mexico, Jordan, Singapore, and the UAE. Ostensibly for counterfeit goods protection, it's about fast-tracking Internet distribution and information technology rules at the expense of Net Neutrality, privacy, and personal freedoms.

It establishes unrestricted supranational global trade rules. In the process, it tramples on national sovereignty and personal freedoms. Moreover, negotiations were secret until WikiLeaks reported in May 2008:

"If adopted, (ACTA) would impose a strong, top-down enforcement regime, with new cooperation requirements upon (ISPs), including perfunctionary disclosure of customer information."

"The proposal also bans 'anti-circumvention measures which may affect online anonymity systems and would likely outlaw multi-region CD/DVD players. The proposal also specifies a plan to encourage developing nations to accept the legal regime." Those opting out face retaliatory measures.

On April 22, 2010, Electronic Frontier Foundation writer Gwen Hinze headlined, "Preliminary Analysis of the Officially Released ACTA Text," saying:

"The text (leaves no doubt) that ACTA is not just about counterfeiting." It's far more. It covers copyrights, patents, and other intellectual property forms, including the Internet.

It's also about the ability of users to "communicate, collaborate and create" freely. In addition, it imposes obligations (on) Internet intermediaries (and), requir(es) them to police" cyberspace and its users. As a result, it raises serious questions about open affordable access, free expression, personal privacy, and "fair use rights."

On May 27, 2011, the Foundation for Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) said the European Commission published a final ACTA text with few changes from its last known version. Since introduced, major media scoundrels reported little about its destructive provisions.

Last October, Washington, Australia, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Korea signed ACTA. US deputy trade representative Mariam Sapiro hailed the occasion, saying:

"As with many of the challenges we face in today's global economy, no government can single-handedly eliminate the problem of global counterfeiting and piracy. Signing this agreement is therefore an act of shared leadership and determination in the international fight against intellectual property theft."

Public Knowledge attorney Rashmi Rangnath called the deal the Obama administration's "attempt to foist US law on other countries."

It also broke another candidate Obama promise to "(s)upporte the principle of network neutrality to preserve the benefits of open competition on the Internet."

In fact, doing so lawlessly circumvented Congress. On October 1, 2011, Obama acted by "executive agreement." He falsely claimed ACTA's not a treaty requiring Senate approval. Constitutional issues remain unresolved.

By law, executive agreements apply only to sole presidential authority issues. Treaties must be ratified by a two-thirds Senate supermajority. As a result, a circulating petition demands Senate consideration. By February 21, 25,000 are needed. So far, thousands are recorded. Dozens of legal scholars support it.

So far, the administration's stonewalling. It's circumventing the law like it always does and breaking a campaign pledge in the process. Post-SOPA/PIPA, Obama diktat authority rammed it through illegally.

In contrast, the Mexican Senate rejected it in a non-binding resolution. On January 26, Poland's Japan ambassador, Jadwiga Rodowicz-Czechowska, signed it. It's yet to pass parliament.

Public anger raged across the country against it. The hacktivist group Anonymous targeted signatory countries' official web sites. It threatened to reveal sensitive information about officials in countries passing it.

Anti-ACTA sentiment affected Poland's parliament. Opposition MPs wore masks to reflect their refusal to back it. Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk said he'll submit the treaty to parliament and sign it provided "the government is sure Polish law guarantees freedom on the Internet...."

On January 26, infojustice.org headlined, "EU Signs ACTA, But Treaty Remains in Doubt," saying:

The European Parliament (EP) has final say. Consideration begins late February or early March. Committee voting follows in April or May. In June, Parliament decides.

After SOPA and PIPA's derailing, expect a close vote.

On January 23, 2012, FFII headlined, "EP (European Parliament) legal service consistently overlooks known issues with ACTA," saying:

In a letter to members of the European Parliament, FFII said:

"The legal service fails to see major issues with damages, injunctions and provisional, border and criminal measures. The legal service consistently overlooks known issues." Clearly, "ACTA goes beyond current EU law, the acquis."

According to FFII's Ante Wessels:

"ACTA will negatively impact innovation, start up companies, mass digitization projects, access to medicines and Internet governance. ACTA threatens the rule of law and fundamental rights."

FFII asked Parliament to reject ACTA. Issues cited included:

(1) Violating EU law.

(2) Unjustifiably discriminating. Threatens access to generic drugs and local foods.

(3) Criminalizes "everyday computer use." Liability extends to private individuals, newspapers, web sites, office workers forwarding files or documents, and whistleblowers revealing information in the public interest.

(4) Civil measures also apply to the digital environment. ACTA pressures ISPs to preemptively censor online communications. It also "incites privatized enforcement outside the rule of law."

"The ARTICLE 19 organization" said ACTA's "fundamentally flawed from a freedom of expression and information perspective. If enacted, it will greatly endanger the free-flow of information and the free exchange of ideas, particularly on the internet."

(5) Endangering public health by restricting access to medicines. It cracks down on generic drugs, makes food patents more extreme, enforces global standards on seed patents, empowers agribusiness, and threatens small farms and food independence.

(6) Global pricing and cultural life issues aren't addressed.

(7) Violates Article 21 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU), stating:

"The Union's action on the international scene shall be guided by the principles (of) democracy, the rule of law, the universality and indivisibility of human rights and fundamental freedoms...."

Negotiations were conducted secretly. Civil society, public interest groups, and legislatures were entirely shut out. Major decisions were made extralegally. They violate established laws and fundamental freedoms.

On December 27, 2011, the Electronic Frontier Foundation said:

ACTA threatens personal and digital freedoms. It creates an extralegal "global IP enforcement institution to oversee its implementation." It turns ISPs into enforcers.

The agreement requires signatories "promote cooperative efforts within the business community" on issues regarding copyright and trademark infringement.
As a result, Internet access, censoring, and lost freedom may result.

"ACTA suffocates collaborative creativity and innovation, and less explicitly, but just as gravely, threatens free speech through provisions that may lead to Internet access restrictions for the 'sake' of combating 'imminent violation' of intellectual property laws."

Worst of all, secret negotiations facilitate similarly drafted future international agreements, benefitting powerful interests at the expense of personal freedoms. For ACTA, heavy-handed Washington pressure forced through draconian provisions.

Civil society organizations are outraged. In addition, some nations exposed gross political treachery in back-room dealmaking. For example, Brazil called ACTA "illegitimate." The Dutch Parliament refused to consider it. India strongly opposes it. So do other emerging economies saying it stifles their development.

Other nations are undecided. They all have until May 2013 to vote up or down. As a result, Washington's exerting immense pressure to bring opponents on board.

EFF calls back room dealmaking "an affront to a democratic world order." It's committed to work with other anti-ACTA groups to defeat ACTA.

The Inquisitr calls the agreement worse than SOPA and PIPA. It "takes a fairly bland idea - the right of companies to profit from their own intellectual property - and turns it into a governmental power grab and an excuse to weaken" Internet privacy.

La Quadrature du Net (Internet & Libertes) says ACTA "has absolutely no democratic legitimacy." Unelected bureaucrats drafted it. It urges mass actions to defeat it.

A Final Comment

ACTA potentially criminalizes almost anything online. It lets government and corporate predators censor, shut down sites, and prosecute owners if they object to posted content. Imagine the effect on free thought and opinion.

Criticize government or corporate lawlessness and be silenced behind bars. That's why stopping ACTA is crucial. SOPA and PIPA outrage was round one. ACTA's the main event.

A truth emergency exists. So far, it's mostly below the radar. Exposing it widely is crucial. Now's the time to act before it's too late.

Internet freedom's on the chopping block for elimination unless mass public outrages stops it. EFF cites other plurilateral deals like the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). It's more draconian than ACTA.

Secret negotiations again drafted it. Bureaucrats alone were involved. Civil society, public interest groups, and lawmakers had no say.

Internet freedom's on the line. The stakes are immense. Jefferson understood by saying that:

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."

Now's the time to assure it doesn't happen. Spread the word! Mobilize! Agitate! Involve Congress! Stop this monster! It's our Internet! Get in the fight to save it!


Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.


Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.

Emirates 'has security links with Israel'


Emirates 'has security links with Israel'

UPI

January 29, 2012

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (UPI) -- The United Arab Emirates, an economic giant and rising military power in the Persian Gulf, is reported to have discreet ties with private security companies in Israel to protect its oil fields and borders.

The Intelligence Online Web site reports that the country's Critical National Infrastructure Authority has had business dealings with several Israeli firms since it was established in 2007, even though the emirates has no diplomatic relations with the Jewish state.

"Trade between the two countries, principally in the area of security, amounted to nearly $300 million last year," Intelligence Online reported Jan. 12.

CNIA is based in Abu Dhabi, the main oil-rich emirate in the federation. It's the capital of the United Arab Emirates and handles the federation's military and security affairs.

"The Israeli businessman most active in Abu Dhabi is Mati Kochavi, owner of the Swiss-registered company AGT, which sold the emirates surveillance cameras, electronic fences and sensors to monitor strategic infrastructure and oil fields."

That contract was reportedly worth $800 million.

But these ties may be threatened because of a dispute between Abu Dhabi and Israel's Aeronautics Defense Systems, founded in 1997 and which has been involved in several international arms scandals in recent years.

This centers on a 2011 deal between CNIA and ADS under which the Israeli outfit would sell the infrastructure authority combat-capable unmanned aerial vehicles like those used against Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip.

But the deal turned sour when it was found that ADS had failed to secure approval from the Israeli Defense Ministry's military sales division, known as SIBAT, to export the UAVs to an Arab state. The dispute has "infuriated the emirate, which had paid a $70 million advance on the contract," Intelligence Online reported.

"Fearing irreparable consequences for its relations with Abu Dhabi, the Israeli Defense Ministry is trying to come up with a solution."

Intelligence Online said Israel's ImageSat satellite operator has had a Satellite Operating Partner contract since 2006 with the emirates' Space Reconnaissance Center to provide it with program access to the Israeli firm's Eros B commercial satellite launched in April 2006.

The emirates is developing its own satellite program, with an eye to acquiring surveillance craft capable of spying on gulf rival Iran.

ADS is headed by Avi Leumi, a former officer in Israel's Military Intelligence who has secured contracts with Russia and Azerbaijan, a Muslim state and former Soviet republic on Iran's northern border where Israel has established deep intelligence and military ties over the last decade.

Intelligence Online reported several defense and security concerns such as France's CS Systems, which supplied the emirates' military command and control system, and the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co. "are hoping to benefit from the Israeli group's woes."

EADS, with headquarters in Leiden, the Netherlands, comprises Aerospatiale-Matra of France, DaimlerChrysler Aerospace of Germany and Construcciones Aeronauticas of Spain.

The emirates' judicious ties to Israel's security industry, which operates in close proximity to the country's secretive security establishment, have emerged despite decades of Arab-Israeli hostility.

Kovachi's AGT, like many of Israel's private security companies, employs retired military generals and other senior officers who have access to the Defense Ministry. Among Kovachi's consultants is Maj. Gen. Amos Malka, who headed Israel's Military Intelligence from 1998-2001.

Since the 1993-94 Oslo peace accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, Israel has established discreet diplomatic and trade ties with several gulf monarchies.

They have also found a common adversary in Iran, whose expansionist policies and contentious nuclear program are viewed as a major threat by the Arab states in the gulf and by Israel.

The Jewish state's circumspect ties to the emirates were badly jolted when Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a senior leader of the Hamas Palestinian groups in the Gaza Strip, was assassinated in Dubai, part of the United Arab Emirates, Jan. 19, 2010. Dubai police blamed Israel for the killing.

Bahrain, Oman and Qatar have all been reported in recent years to have conducted secret talks with Israel. Indeed, their intelligence chiefs have reportedly met several times to discuss the Iranian threat.

Last May, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu reportedly met secretly with Qatar's premier, Sheik Hamas bin Jassim bin Jabor al-Thani, in London and discussed the possibility of buying Qatari natural gas.

HOLLAND-the Islamists break through to the power!

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Islamists dying for power in Holland

30.01.2012 12:36
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For the first time in the history of Europe, Islamic organization can participate in the elections. Party For Muslim Netherlands  wants to get into parliament in 2015. The Netherlands could become the first country on the continent where the Islamists will participate in the legislature. The far-right sentiment is increasing in the country as well.

The party program leaves no doubt about its nature. Let's start with the fact that only Muslims can be members of the organization. Its aims are to fight against abortion, homosexuality, abuse of religion and religious texts and all kinds of discrimination. It proposed to prohibit all kinds of drugs, including recreational. The main authority in the Netherlands should be the Shura (Islamic council).  
There are also no doubts with regard to foreign policy. Activists of the Party for Muslim Netherlands insist on the cessation of support for Israel, withdrawal of Dutch troops from Afghanistan and Iraq, an early admission of Turkey into the EU. Party members are promoting their ideas through the members of city councils of Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Many Muslims live in the major cities of Holland, so Party for Muslim Netherlands has enough voters.

Some of the demands of the organization are shared by the conservative Dutch (there are still some of those). Many residents of the country do not like the open sale of marijuana, gay marriage, and "red light" neighborhoods - in short, everything that made modern Netherlands famous. However, the topic of discrimination and harassment of religious texts is quite slippery. The indigenous people are unlikely to be thrilled with the idea of life under Sharia law under the authority of the Shura.

What are the chances that the Islamists will get into the parliament? The threshold for getting into the States General of the Netherlands is five percent. The number of adherents of Islam is approximately one million people (out of 16), or over six percent. It is not a given that all followers of Islam will vote for the Party For Muslim Netherlands. But even participation in the election of such an organization is a significant event. Never before has Islamist party "stormed" the parliament of a European country. And then, everything is possible: the birth rate in Muslim families is high. The time may soon come when the Islamists break through to the power.

What made one of the oldest democracies in the world talk about creating an Islamic Shura? The first meetings between Muslims and the Dutch occurred at the turn of 16th - 17th centuries. Then they began the conquest of vast Indonesia - a predominantly Muslim country. Some of its inhabitants were transported to South America, the Dutch colony of Suriname. After the Second World War, Indonesia gained independence. In the early 1960s, followers of Islam have appeared in Holland.
Fifty years ago, Europe was faced with a shortage of unskilled labor force. Many countries have decided to attract immigrants from Asia and Africa, and Holland was no exception. In 1970s, hundreds of thousands of Suriname residents, including Muslim immigrants from Indonesia, moved to the former colonial power. Later, Kurds, Afghans, Albanians, Bosnian Muslims, and immigrants from other Arab countries came to the Netherlands.

In the mid-1970s, the government began to subsidize the construction of mosques and prayer houses. As a result, there are over 400 mosques with minarets in the Netherlands today. Against the background of the fact that Christian churches are getting closed and emptied, the growing number of mosques is particularly impressive. Besides, immigrants from the mid-1970s have the right to establish schools with instruction in their native language. It is not hard to guess what was often taught in these schools. In recent years the autonomy of these schools was limited. However, nearly 30 private Islamic schools are still operating.

For many years the government encouraged the creation of Islamic organizations. In the 1990s, the Islamic Council of the Netherlands was created that included three largest Muslim communities in the country - Moroccan, Turkish and Indonesian-Surinamese. Then there were three other organizations. They are fighting for leadership of the flock. There are mosques not controlled by any one of them, and often these are the places that conduct radical Islamist propaganda.

In 2003, the Government of the Netherlands allowed the activities of the European Arab League. The head of the Dutch branch Jamil Jawad immediately declared that Israel must be destroyed. He demanded that the Netherlands recognizes the constitutional status of the Arabic and Turkish languages and Muslim holidays. In 2008, a native of Morocco, Ahmed Aboutaleb, became the mayor of Rotterdam. Although he did not participate in any Islamist propaganda, indigenous Dutch got scared.

They have good reasons to be frightened. In 2004, a native of Morocco born in Holland murdered filmmaker Theo van Gogh, who was filming a movie about the plight of women in the Muslim world. Two years earlier the leader of the "List Pim Fortayna" party Pim Fortayn, advocating for a total ban on immigration from Muslim countries, was murdered. Although the crime was committed by a native Dutch, its shadow still fell on the Muslim community.
In the upcoming in three years parliamentary elections the main opponent of Islamists will be the Party for Freedom, led by Geert Wilders. The Party received nine seats in the States-General for the first time in 2006. Four years later, over 15 percent of the Dutch voted for it, and today it has 24 seats in the parliament. In many respects it was the law proposed by this party that banned headscarves in schools.

Wilders was not particularly shy talking about the Muslims. There are moderate Muslims and many Muslims in the West are law-abiding citizens. But there is no such thing as "moderate Islam. "Islam is a totalitarian ideology. I would have kicked the Prophet Muhammad from the country, if he had lived in our time." "I say - stop Muslim immigration immediately. If we do not stop immigration because of political correctness, we will lose Europe." This attitude finds increasingly more supporters.

The Muslim community (and others) more than once tried to bring Wilders to trial. First time it happened in 2008 for his film "Fitna", where the politician compared Islam to Nazism, and the Koran with "Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler. There was no appropriate article in the Criminal Code. A year later, a new process was started where Wilders was accused of inciting ethnic hatred. The trial continued for 18 months, but eventually he was acquitted.
"Multiculturalism has failed. The Dutch no longer feel at home in their own country," said last year a far more moderate Vice-Premier of Netherlands Maxime Verhagen. The existence of an openly Islamist party on the political sky of Holland once again confirms this. If it gets even three percent of the vote and does not get into the Parliament, it will be a great success and the most serious warning to the Dutch society.

Certainly, the participation of the Party For Muslim Netherlands in the election will add votes for Wilders and his Party for Freedom. Other parties also began voicing "right" statements. The prospect of living under the authority of the Shura does not appeal to either conservatives or liberals, or socialists, or "green." Strictly speaking, this process is already underway. Some immigrants from Muslim countries, too, are unwilling to live under sharia law. Hundreds of thousands of them have been fully integrated into the Dutch society.
One way or another, but the specter Islam is looming over the Dutch. 
Vadim Trukhachev
Pravda.Ru 

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Strange Noises


Strange Noises: Are they UFOs, thunder, HAARP or a hoax?

Thu Jan 19 2012 12:01

Strange Noises: Are they UFOs, thunder, HAARP or a hoax?
The online community have been spooked by a series of videos uploaded to YouTube and other video sharing websites which appear to show loud noises rumbling apparently from beneath the ground.

People from a wide ranges of cities and countries have uploaded videos.

While some appear to be relatively obvious hoaxes, others remain unexplained and ideas as to what the noises might be range from the mundane to the arguably ridiculous.

Some people on social networking sites, online forums and video sharing sites have suggested the strange noises might be the work of HAARP or High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program. HAARP is a US-based research project that studies the ionosphere - a part of the Earth's upper atmosphere - and it has regularly been the subject of conspiracy theorists' discussions.

Other people have proposed the sounds might be being caused by cloaked UFOs or Fracking, a controversial method for extracting natural gas from the ground. 
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I was awoken by a sound like a train passing by my house. This is strange as where I live there are no train tracks. I looked out the window and saw nothing. The sound seemed to come from the sky. The loud "train"noise went away, but in the background I could still hear sounds that sounded like whale noises and metallic bangs. I tried recording the sound and the two first times I failed (apparently, I never recorded anything). During this thime I heard the train noise TWO more times. One of these times it was so loud I had to cover my ears. No airplanes where visible at the time. It was dark outside (00:10 at night something).
The third time I tried recording the whale noises had almost faded completly, but I managed to get one (perhaps three if you count the third sound clip) sound on tape. I also managed to get one "train" noise but it was not as loud as the others had been (I'm not bothering to post it).Minutes later i heard two large bangs followed by a low rumbling noise, so I wipped out my recorder and caught this. NOTICE THE TWO LOUD "BREATHING SOUNDS" SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FIRST AUDIO CLIP.

It sounds a bit like a train, although It cannot be a train nor an airplan because:
-The sounds followed eachother with only a few seconds (perhaps twenty) in between.
-There are no traintracks here (atleast nowhere near my house)
-No airplanes where visible in the sky.

I have had a similar experience a few months ago. But then I heard the high pitched ringing noise. It lasted for about three minutes.
I did get alot more audio than what I have posted so far. I'll try to digitaly enhance them because currently not all strange noises that I captured can be heard.
I acctually dropped my recorder down a three meter building whilst trying to place it on the window sill, so the fact that it can still record is somewhat of a miracle.


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(29-1-2012) Early Monday morning around midnight, Costa Ricans from Herida, in the Central Valley, all the way to Perez Zeledon and Dominical, heard was sounded oddly similar to ocean waves. Not natural ocean waves mind you, more metallic in nature.
Costa Rica news outlets were quick to dismiss the strange noise as nothing more than reverberation from fireworks at the final night of the Zapote Fair. It is important to note however that, Zapote is located in the Central Valley near downtown San Jose in the middle of the country. Perez Zeledon is over one of the most treacherous high mountain ranges in the country by 3 hour drive time. Highly unlikely any fireworks going off in Zapote would be heard this far south, some 150kms away.
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Rumble in the sky over Samarahan

Posted on January 15, 2012, Sunday

HERE IT IS: (From left) Harith, Ferdauz and Mahmud listen to a recording made by Harith when the incidents happened.

KOTA SAMARAHAN: Unexplained chilling sounds, which filled the air of Samarahan in the wee hours of Jan 11 and 12, have residents there puzzled and perturbed until today.
One of the theories being thrown into the pan is that it could be a by-product of the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Programme (HAARP) undertaken by the United States, while others believed it were from processing machines hard at work at an oil palm factory owned by Felcra in Kampung Endap.
But the fact remains that until today the mysterious sounds, which some say resembled loud snoring sounds, remain veiled.
Teacher Mohd Ferdauz Jemain, who lives at Kampung Meranek, was one of those who heard the unexplained phenomenon on Jan 11.
“It was around 2 am when I was awoken by a strange sound. It was a loud hushing sound, and quite similar to someone snoring.
“I immediately got out of bed and went outside of my house to see what was happening. The feeling was a chilling one. I could not establish where the sound was coming from … it was as if something coming from the sky.
“Frightened, I quickly dashed inside, but stayed awake till daylight as I would not sleep any longer. If I am not mistaken, the sound persisted until about 5am.”
To prove that he was not spinning a tale, Ferdauz said he had recorded the phenomenon on his mobile phone, and he played it for thesundaypost reporter yesterday.
He added that the matter became a hot topic of discussion in Samarahan that day, and some of the residents even documented their experience on Facebook.
“Villagers in Meranek, Pinang, Sindang, Tambirat and even those living at Desa Ilmu housing estate have also heard those eerie sounds.”
Several residents suggested that it could have come from the oil palm factory in Kampung Endap, but resident Harith Amin, who had worked at that factory previously, brushed it off as nonsense.
“The factory has been there for the last eight years, and I am sure it was not sounds produced by the machines there. In addition to that, no oil palm processing machines could produce sounds which could be heard 8km away,” said Harith, who also made a recording of what he had witnessed. To verify Harith’s theory, Ferdauz decided that should the phenomenon occur again the next day, he would make a dash for the factory.
Ferdauz: “I worked at a school in Sebuyau, so I wake up very early to go to school. True enough, the strange sounds happened the next day, and I quickly made a stop in front of the factory. No sounds came out from there (factory).”
Ferdauz claimed that he also saw strange pattern in the skies in the early morning of Jan 12.
“The clouds appeared to be in straight lines, and well formed. I have never seen anything like it, but whatever it is, I am sure there must be a scientific explanation for it.
“But later that day, an earthquake hit Sumatera in neighbouring Indonesia with a magnitude of 7.3 on the Richter scale. I am not sure whether both incidents are related in some ways.”
The incidents only occurred for two nights – Jan 11 and 12.
Meanwhile, Kampung Meranek’s JKKK chairperson Mahmud Pawi, who claimed that he also heard the sounds together with his family, said hoped that the authorities concerned could shed light on the matter.
“When I woke up that morning (Jan 11), I had goose bumps just listening to the sounds. I quickly woke up my entire family and we sat at the veranda trying to figure out what it was and where it was coming from.
“We hope that someone can step forward and enlighten us with an explanation.”
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MODERN COSMOLOGY-Volume 17

MODERN COSMOLOGY

November 2011 issue of Journal of Cosmology, Volume 17
Editors: Rudy E. Schild and Carl H. Gibson

THE STRUCTURES OF THE UNIVERSE AND THE STRUCTURE OF BLACK HOLES

It has become an article of faith for the cosmology community that the formation of gravitational structures can only be described by the cold dark matter hierachical clustering paradigm. Observations of microlensing and twinkling frequencies by a galaxy, on the line of sight to the quasar, show the point mass objects that dominate the galaxy mass must be Earth mass planets, not stars, Schild (1996). This interpretation by Schild, that the missing mass of galaxies to this day must be planets, confirms the independent Gibson (1996) prediction from basic fluid physics; that is, hydrogravitational dynamics (HGD), that the dominant mass of galaxies is planets in dense Jeans mass clumps (Proto-Globular-starClusters, PGCs), in which all stars form by mergers of these (necessarily) primordial-gas planets. In this issue we suggest that HGD cosmology is supported by all observations and that LCDMHC is falsified. Both the accelerated expansion rate of the universe and the antigravity dark energy explanation are falsified. However, these falsifications have so far been rejected, most recently by the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. Faith in concordance cosmology is based on obsolete 19th century fluid mechanics, and is blind to many contradictions by modern observations. Modern cosmology requires modern fluid mechanics. Oceanic field tests of relevant stratified turbulence and fossil turbulence wave processes are now available.

This volume is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Darryl Jay Leiter (1937 - 2011). His final research work about revisions to the structure of black holes is completed and published below in "Farewell to Black Hole Horizons and Singularities."
 
CONTENTS

I. COSMOLOGY
 

2. Towards a synthesis of two cosmologies: the steady-state flickering Universe - Francis M. Sanchez, Valery A. Kotov, & Christian Bizouard, 7225-7237.

3. Non-singular Cyclical Cosmology Without Phantom Menace - Yi-Fu Cai & Emmanuel N. Saridakis, 7238-7254.




7. Gravitational Stability for a Vacuum Cosmic Space Crystalline Model -J. Montemayor-Varela, J. Morones-Ibarra, A Morales-Mori, A. Mendez-Allende, A. Montmayer-Varela, M. del Castillo-Mussot, G. Vazquez, 7313-7330.


9. Is Dark Energy Falsifiable? - C. H. Gibson & R. E. Schild, 7345-7358.



12. Cosmology of Continuum Creation and Annihilation - Nikiforos Ierokomos, 7384-7411.

13. Farewell to Black Hole Horizons and Singularities - C. Corda, D. Leiter, H. Mosquera Cuesta, S. Robertson, R. Schild, 7412-7423.



II. HISTORICAL

15. The Stability of a Spherical Nebula, James H. Jeans, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A, Vol. 199, 1-53, 1902. 7430-7484.

This paper provides the fluid mechanical basis of the LambdaCDMHC cosmological model. It neglects viscosity, diffusivity, density (the "Jeans' swindle"), and turbulence. The Jeans length scale V_S x tau_g is presented as the only important length scale of self gravitational instability, where V_S is the speed of sound, tau_g is the gravitational free fall time ~(rho G)^-1/2, rho is density and G is Newton's gravitational constant. Photon kinematic viscosity triggers fragmentation of the plasma at supercluster mass during the plasma epoch starting at 10^12 seconds and ending with galaxy mass at 10^13 seconds (300,000 years) at the transition to gas. Primordial gas viscosity decreases by a factor of 10^13 from that of the plasma, triggering rapid fragmentation of Jeans mass (million solar) clumps of Schwarz viscous scale Earth-mass (millionth solar) gas planets.

16. Turbulence in the Ocean, Atmosphere, Galaxy, and Universe, Carl H. Gibson, Appl. Mech. Rev. 49, no. 5, May 1996, 299-315. 7485-7523.

Oversimplifications of the Jeans 1902 theory are corrected by HydroGravitational Dynamics (HGD) cosmology. The dark matter of galaxies is identified as Earth mass planets in Jeans mass (proto-globular-star-cluster PGC) clumps. A series of hydrodynamic "Schwarz" scales are derived to describe the self-gravitational fragmentation process as it occurs in the expanding universe. Fossils of big bang turbulence are amplified and stretched by the expansion of space (see CMB evidence in papers of Sreenivasan and Bershadskii). Turbulence is defined based on inertial vortex forces, so it must cascade from small scales to various possible larger fossilization scales, contrary to (now obsolete) standard turbulence models.

17. Microlensing Variability of the Gravitationally Lensed Quasar Q0957 + 561 A,B, Rudolph E. Schild, The Astrophysical Journal, 464:124-130, June 10, 1996. 7524-7530.

Twinkling frequencies of the subtracted time delayed A,B images of the quasar show the dominant point mass objects of the lensing galaxy are not stars but small planetary mass objects, interpreted by Schild as the inner-halo missing mass of the lensing galaxy.

18. Clumps of hydrogenous planetoids as the dark matter of galaxies, Carl H. Gibson and Rudolph E. Schild, arXiv:astro-ph/9908335v2. Submitted to ApJ in 1996. 7531-7552.

Many versions of this initial HGD preprint have been rejected during 1996-date by the astronomical and astrophysical literature (ApJ, AJ, PASP, A&A, MNRAS etc.) because HGD rejects the standard (linear and collisionless) LambdaCDMHC fluid mechanics (Jeans 1902) model. Linear perturbation stability analysis cannot be used to accurately describe turbulence or self-gravitational processes. Both self-gravity and turbulence are absolutely unstable non-linear physical processes and become extremely intermittent in space and time.

19. Quasar-microlensing versus star-microlensing evidence of small-planetary-mass objects as the dominant inner-halo galactic dark matter, Carl H. Gibson and Rudolph E. Schild, arXiv:astro-ph/9904362v3. Submitted to ApJ in 1996. 7553-7589.

Several star microlensing consortia (MACHO, OGLE, EROS etc.) fail to detect small-planetary-mass objects as the dominant inner-halo galactic dark matter because they assume the objects are not in clumps but are uniformly distributed. Preprints such as this example have been repeatedly rejected by the astronomical and astrophysical literature simply because HGD cosmology rejects the standard (now termed Concordance Cosmology) LambdaCDMHC model.

III. DARK ENERGY FALSIFICATION, SUPERMASSIVE AND ROTATING BLACK HOLES, MECHOS

20. Model for common growth of supermassive black holes, bulges and globular star clusters: ripping off Jeans clusters, Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen, (accepted Europhysics Letters 2011). 7590-7596.

21. Falsification of dark energy by fluid mechanics, Carl H. Gibson (preprint submitted to Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2011). 7597-7603.

22. Why No Energy Can Be Extracted From Rotating Kerr Black Holes, Abhas Mitra, K. D. Krori, 7604-7611.

IV. OCEANOGRAPHIC FIELD TESTS OF STRATIFIED TURBULENCE AND FOSSIL TURBULENCE PROCESSES