2/13/2008 - MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AFPN) -- A retired general had been waiting on a call for some time; 55 years to be exact. Retired Lt. Gen. Charles G. Cleveland answered his home phone in January that turned out to be one of the most important calls of his life. "That's how I found out the Air Force was officially recognizing me as an ace," General Cleveland said. "Right there on the phone."
But while the notification of his new-found status was brief and unceremonious, General Cleveland's journey to reach this point was a very long one.
It started in South Korea in 1952. A war was waging and then-Lieutenant Cleveland was an F-86 Sabre pilot with the 334th Fighter Interceptor Squadron at Kimpo Air Base. He was a skilled pilot and within eight weeks had already scored four kills -- each a Russian-made MiG-15. "Each of those dogfights is burned in my brain," the West Point graduate said. "I can remember every minute of those battles like it happened yesterday."
Then on Sept. 21, 1952, Lieutenant Cleveland's flight once again found themselves in aerial combat with a group of MiGs. Lieutenant Cleveland negotiated his way behind one and let loose with the plane's six side-mounted .50-caliber machine guns. Some of his rounds hit the MiG and within seconds the enemy plane sprouted a trail of smoke and began to descend rapidly. That was the last image General Cleveland ever had of the MiG.
"At that moment we were being attacked by two other MiGs," the general said. "So my wingman had to call a break so we wouldn't get all shot up ourselves." Because the general didn't see the MiG crash or the pilot eject, he claimed a "probable" kill when he returned to the base. His wingman, then-Lt. Don Pascoe, insisted he claim a kill, but the general just didn't feel right about it. "There were rules for claiming a kill," he said. "You either had to see a fire that wouldn't go out, a plane crash or the pilot eject. Since I hadn't seen any of those happen, I just felt the right thing to do was claim a probable." Soon after this event, the general returned home. He left South Korea with four kills, two probables and four damaged -- a record "any pilot would be proud of," General Cleveland said.
And there the story ended. Almost.
Years later, General Cleveland attended a meeting of the American Fighter Aces Association and met retired Lieutenant Dolph Overton. The two were classmates at West Point and served in South Korea at the same time. When Lieutenant Overton heard the general's story about the probable kill, he decided to take it upon himself to prove the general had indeed shot down that MiG. He searched thousands of records and spoke to dozens of people. Among them were Lieutenant Pascoe and retired Maj. Gen. Frederick C. Blesse, a double ace who was also General Cleveland's operations officer at Kimpo AB. They too thought General Cleveland should be awarded his fifth kill. So, with as many facts as he could put together, Lieutenant Overton submitted a package to the Air Force Board for Military Corrections.
The answer was a resounding no. The board cited personal accounts could not be used as factual evidence and the records would remain unchanged.
With renewed energy, Lieutenant Overton kept pressing the issue and in 2003 he made an astounding discovery. The Russians had released detailed flight records from the Korean War and copies were in the National Archives. He compared the Russian records to General Cleveland's accounts and found a description of a downed MiG that seemed to match the story. He called General Cleveland and said he'd found his missing MiG.
"I had no idea what he was doing," General Cleveland said. "When we first met he told me he was going to prove I shot that MiG down, but I was like, 'Yeah, right.' But, by God, he really did go out and do it." With this new information, Generals Cleveland and Blesse and Lieutenant Overton went before the records correction board in person. This time, the answer was yes, as General Cleveland found out through a phone call in January.
"It's a great feeling to have the Air Force recognize me as an ace," he said. "And it's a real honor to be included with that great group of men who make up the rest of the aces."
Even more special is the fact that this recognition puts a stamp on his service in South Korea, a time the general names among the best in his life. "I love the Air Force, I love flying and I love this country," he said. "I just hope I'm the last fighter ace ... because in order for there to be more, there has to be more fighting."
The phone rang again at his home. As the general leaned over to answer it, he smiled and said, "I hope they haven't changed their mind."
And, theres an outside chance that General Cleveland will enter the history books as our last fighter ace. The days of titanic dogfights are largely past; the Vietnam War produced only five aces (three Air Force, two Navy). In recent years, only a handful of pilots have earned multiple kills, with most adversaries electing not to challenge our control of the skies. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Cesar Rodriguez, an F-15 pilot, shot down two Iraqi jets during Operation Desert Storm, and Serbian MiG during the allied air campaign against Serbia in 1999.
An F-16 pilot, Captain Robert Wright matched Rodriguezs total in a single day (28 February 1994), shooting down three Serb attack jets as they bombed a Muslim facility in Bosnia. Theres some belief that Wright might have downed all six aircraft in the Serb flight, had AWACS been quicker in authorizing him to fire, and if the F-16 pilot had not been required to read a warning to the enemy pilots before launching his missiles.
As air combat victories become increasingly rareand pilots from World War II and Korea pass onthe number of living aces continues to decline. With confirmation of his fifth kill, General Cleveland becomes a belated member of a very elite--but dwindling--fraternity.
See also this.
The latest JFK tale tells of a tall, handsome, illegitimate Camelot kid now well into his 40s, living a life of seclusion in cold Canada. A call by the Herald to Sen. Edward Kennedys Washington, D.C. office yesterday was met with nobody is available now.
Yet the New York Post reports the Bay States senior senator is trying to prevent Vanity Fair magazine from publishing the story of the alleged love child of the assassinated president.
The Post proclaims Vanity Fairs David Friend has been working on the article for more than a year and even sent photographer Harry Benson to Vancouver to capture the alleged offspring of John F. Kennedy. The Post reports the would-be legendary lad is a handsome man in his late 40s - whose first name is Jack and who bears a strong resemblance to the 35th president cut down in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.
A friend of the Vancouver man told the Post a courtesty call to the senator resulted in the head of the Kennedy clan calling in his mighty clout. The story, however, may not be spiked. Vanity Fair spokeswoman Beth Kseniak told the Post the magazine is still pursuing the story - holding out for DNA proof to possibly back up the historic allegation.
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oh jeesh. Let's hope not. The last thing the world needs is another tall, handsome spawn of the Kennedy clan to create more tragedy for us to endure while waiting in line at the grocery store.
RIYADH - A UN expert on womens rights said on Wednesday she had heard accounts of serious discrimination against women and abuses by religious police during a visit to ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia.
No, reeeeeeaaaallly?
There also appears to be no timeframe for lifting a ban on womens driving, Yakin Erturk, the United Nations special rapporteur on violence against women, told reporters at the end of a 10-day visit to the Muslim kingdom.
Erturk said that while some Saudi women she met during her visit at the governments invitation expressed satisfaction with their lives, others have raised concerns of serious levels of discriminatory practices against women that compromise their rights and dignity as full human beings. Others related the domestic abuse they systematically encounter with little prospect of redress.
Erturk said that progress had been made in womens access to education, but there has been no comparable increase in their participation in the labour force, mainly due to sex segregation in the workplace, and they are particularly excluded from decision-making positions.
That sorta happens in societies like the Saooodis. By any chance did you drop by Yemen? Or Egypt? Or Syria?
She said many of her interlocutors complained about the behaviour of the religious police, or Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice who are commonly known as Muttawa and enforce a strict Islamic moral code. The Muttawa are said to be responsible for serious human rights abuses in harassing, threatening and arresting women who deviate from accepted norms, the UN official said, citing an incident reported during her visit in which they arrested a businesswoman for sitting in a coffee shop with a male colleague in Riyadh.
It's what hard boyz do in a theocratic dictatorship. Can't let people dress for themselves. Next thing you know they'd start thinking for themselves, and then what would you have? Huh?
Erturk said she had not met any officials from the religious police during her visit, which followed a report by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women which stated that women in the kingdom were the victims of systematic and pervasive discrimination across all aspects of social life.
I'm not surprised. Hard boyz from the committee meet with a mere woman? You might as well as them to meet with a camel ...
Women in Saudi Arabia, which applies a rigorous doctrine of Islam known as Wahhabism, face a host of constraints, including the driving ban. They are forced to cover from head to toe in public, and cannot mix with men other than relatives or travel without written permission from their male guardian.
Pretty much treated as brood mares, yup ...
Erturk, who met officials and human rights groups, said she had raised the driving ban during her talks but did not feel there was a specific timeframe for solving the issue.
Never is with the U.N., is there ...
What matters in enabling women to drive is that this would give them freedom to move and work, she said.
Which is why, as you noticed earlier, the ban hasn't been lifted as of yet ...
Erturk, who will report to the UN Human Rights Council, said recently adopted judicial reforms which foresee the establishment of family courts, together with a draft law on domestic violence, were promising initiatives, but more needed to be done to combat violence against women. This includes adoption of a legal framework based on international human rights standards that would cover violence and family matters, establishment of a national machinery for women to intervene in cases of violence, and positive action policies and plans to empower women.
You might want to try this in Sweden first, see if the immigrants there accept it ...
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Hmmm. That seems somewhat in conflict with the Archbishop of Canterbury!?!
I have a solution to solve this problem of terrorism that the world seems to have and the problem of our national debt! I really think that the US needs to just completely blockade the middle east and send every religious extremist over there; Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Hindu fundamentalists, basically the Osamas, Fayeds, Robertsons, Dobsons, of the world. Place each of them in separate parts of the Middle East and arm each group ie. Sunnis, She its, extremist Catholics and Protestants ext. Then heres the fun part, arm every single one of them with as many weapons as humanly possible! Heres the part where we pay off the national debt, put this shit on primetime cable!!!!!! It would get more ratings then the Superbowl, American Idol, the Daytona 500 all combined! Then use the money generated from advertising to pay off the national debt! Shit this would make so much money that the gov't could probably eliminate taxes!
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Oh yea, and don't forget mericas most amusing citizens, Violent Criminals, Drug dealers, Sex offenders, rapists, and my personal favorite, maniacs and psychopaths! Drop them into the newly blocked Middle East! Spice things up a little bit!
A group of conservative Kuwaiti lawmakers who control a sizable bloc in the parliament are looking to amend the country's legislation to prevent any commemoration of Valentine's Day, parliamentarians said Wednesday.
They're really good politicians. They've taken care of any problems facing the country and now they don't have anything better to do.
The Islamists believe such imported holidays are corrupting young Muslims and stripping this small oil-rich Gulf state of its Arab and Muslim identity. "We are now studying the necessary amendments that would ban celebrations contradicting Sharia (Islamic Law)," said parliamentarian Jamaan al-Hirbish, part of panel examining "alien phenomena" being embraced by Kuwaitis.
Everybody knows that love and affection, even liking somebody, is against the dictates of shariah.
Despite its Western origins, Valentine's Day appears to have been embraced by Kuwaitis and red balloons can be found all over restaurants, flower shops and stores selling chocolates. Newspapers are filled with advertisements for jewelry and cakes in the shape of hearts.
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Remember in other cultures you don't celebrate your chattel property. Ok, your prized race horse maybe.
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OK, THAT'S IT! You outlaw St. Valentine's Day, and the next time yer sorry a$$ is in a sling, like with yer neighbor Sammy a few years ago, don't come whining to us.
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Maybe yes, maybe no. We'll see.
A Georgian billionaire who had spoken of his fears of assassination died of natural causes, according to the initial results of a post-mortem examination. Badri Patarkatsishvili, 52, collapsed at his country mansion outside Leatherhead, Surrey, on Tuesday night. His family reported that he suffered a heart attack.
A Surrey Police spokeswoman said the interim results of a post-mortem examination carried out on Wednesday night showed he died of natural causes.
An inquest will open on Friday. The spokeswoman said: "Following initial inquiries and the post-mortem carried out last night, Surrey Police can confirm that at this stage there is no indication that the sudden death of Badri Patarkatsishvili was from anything other than natural causes. "Of course, natural causes for enemies of Vlad include lots of stuff that ain't natural."
Thallium is a natural substance. Honest.
"However, extensive toxicology testing is yet to be carried out. This will take a number of weeks. "The Surrey coroner will formally open the inquest tomorrow morning at Woking Coroners Court at 9.30am."
Mr Patarkatsishvili had voiced concerns for his safety, believing his life was at risk. His sudden death raised fears of another "Alexander Litvinenko-style" murder. However, officers had already said that there is no suggestion any radioactive substances were involved. Sky News home affairs correspondent Mark White said: "The police want to leave no stone uncovered. "In the light of Litvinenko's death in 2006 they are treating it very seriously and want to investigate properly to rule out foul play or to find out whether he was the subject of a hit."
Mr Patarkatsishvili - Georgia's richest man, with an estimated £6bn fortune - spoke recently of his fears after one alleged plot against him was uncovered in London. Mr Patarkatsishvili amassed his wealth during the privatisation of state industries in Russia during the 1990s. He helped to finance the Rose Revolution that swept President Mikhail Saakashvili to power in Georgia in 2003, but subsequently fell out with him. He backed mass street protests against the government in Tbilisi last November. In December he told the Sunday Times he did not feel safe returning to his home country.
The paper published extracts of a tape recording of a conversation said to have taken place between an official from the Georgian interior ministry and a possible hitman. The two men allegedly discussed two options for making Mr Patarkatsishvili "disappear completely".
China's Foreign Ministry spokesman dismissed U.S. allegations of Chinese spying as "Cold War thinking" and said the arrests of four Chinese nationals on espionage charges were "groundless."
"We hope and we require the United States to stop (this) groundless accusation, which does not help the mutual trust, relationship and friendship between the two countries," said Liu Jianchao. "This is not the first time ... It is time for this to end." Yeah, doing things to harm mutual trust is a bad thing. Don't you agree?
A U.S. Justice Department official said Monday Chinese espionage was approaching "Cold War levels" after a Defense Department weapons system analyst and three Chinese nationals were arrested and charged in two espionage-related cases.
In a case brought by federal prosecutors in Virginia, a civilian analyst for the Defense Security Cooperation Agency is accused of selling to two Chinese associates classified information detailing U.S. weapons sales to Taiwan.
In a separate case, California prosecutors arrested and charged a long-time employee and contractor for Boeing and Rockwell of providing to Beijing secrets dealing with the Space Shuttle and several other sensitive military aircraft and rocket programs.
Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Wainstein, in a news conference announcing the arrests and charges, twice cited congressional testimony that concluded "aggressive" Chinese government espionage program have reached levels not seen since the Cold War with the Soviet Union.
"It's a threat to our national security and to our economic position in the world, a threat that is posed by the relentless efforts of foreign intelligence services to penetrate our security systems and steal our most sensitive military technology and information," Wainstein said. So why do you keep hiring them, dumbass?
In the Virginia case, officials charge that Gregg Bergersen, 51, of Alexandria, Virginia, sold highly classified information to Tai Shen Kuo, 58, a naturalized citizen who resides in New Orleans. Kuo then allegedly handed the information to Yu Xin Kang, 33, a lawful resident alien also living in New Orleans. Kang in turn allegedly gave the information to a spy for the Chinese government.
Meanwhile, in Santa Ana, California, a long-time defense industry employee and contractor was scheduled to appear in court for allegedly providing military secrets to Beijing.
"A document says he did it out of loyalty to the 'motherland'," said U.S. Attorney Thomas O'Brien. Well, let's see what that loyalty buys you now.
O'Brien said Dongfan "Greg" Chung, 72, of Orange, California, a naturalized U.S. citizen, had worked for Rockwell, Boeing and a Boeing contractor for more than 30 years. Duh. Too PC to say 'no' even back in '72? Looks like he got his citizenship after the requisite five years and went right to 'work'.
"Chung made multiple trips to the PRC (People's Republic of China) to deliver lectures on technology involving the space shuttle and other programs, and during those trips he met with officials and agents of the PRC government," O'Brien said. Chung also allegedly provided information on the C-17 military transport and the Delta IV rocket.
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Yup. 30 years. Just because they carry a U.S. passport - they're still Chinese and will always be Chinese. It's not just a nationality, it's a race and a culture.
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Umm, no. Lots of Chinese in America are Americans, by birth or by naturalization, and they're Americans first.
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Steverino - Gromster has it right. The Chi Comms will approach ABCs who's family has been here for a 100 years. The prey on the familiy ties, cultural ties, and racism. Don't underestimate them. They know who togo after and do it.
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Might be time for some of these folks to be "shot while trying to escape"...
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ION, INDEPENDENT.UK > HOW THE SPOOKS TOOK OVER THE NEWS. "PSYOPS" = "INFORMATION OPERATIONS" now an intergarl part of standard military organization tables.
ALso, PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT OP-ED > TOTAL SPYING: INSTITUTIONALIZED [legal]SPYING ON AMERICANS. By Amers for, in the name of, and against fellow Americans???
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Mathis also tried to place the downsizing in context. "The newsroom size right now is the highest that it's been in our history. We have 1,332 newsroom employees. As you know, we have not been reducing our staff. It's been quite the opposite. We've been increasing the number of newsroom staff.
Chinese leader Mao Zedong proposed sending 10 million Chinese women to the United States, in talks with top envoy Henry Kissinger in 1973, according to documents released Tuesday. The powerful chairman of the Chinese Communist Party said he believed such emigration could kickstart bilateral trade but could also "harm" the United States with a population explosion similar to China, according to documents released Tuesday by the State Department on US-China ties between 1973 to 1976.
In a long conversation that stretched way past midnight at Mao's residence on February 17, 1973, the cigar-chomping Chinese leader referred to the dismal trade between the two countries, saying China was a "very poor country" and "what we have in excess is women."
He first suggested sending "thousands" of women but as an afterthought proposed "10 million," drawing laughter at the meeting, also attended by Chinese premier Zhou Enlai.
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Followed by 10 million Chinese mother-in-laws. If that isn't terror, I don't know what is.
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Chinese leader Mao Zedong proposed sending 10 million Chinese women to the United States, in talks with top envoy Henry Kissinger in 1973, according to documents released Tuesday.
Details? Updates, Henry, if you've seen this post, please call me at your earliest.
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..but could also "harm" the United States with a population explosion similar to China,
Hmmm. No. In a largely middle class society that doesn't struggle to exist, there's no need for dozens of children in a family because infant mortality and female birth complications are not an issue. Further, a culture which values its little princesses as much as its male offsprings is usually happy with ones or twos in the standard family unit. If Mao went to any American military installation in the period he would have found that even in the below average income environment a racially mixed family housing area that was 'American' in that perspective, as the GI has a tendency to marry just about any member of the opposite gender regardless of descriptive attributes.
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if Kissinger took this offer there prob wouldn't be 10 million mexican women over here now. There would also be twice as many dry cleaners and 7-11s
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1973 would have been the Cultural Revolution.
All those female Red Guard leaders who followed his bitch of a "wife". (Remember the Gang of 4 included his wife "Jiang Qing")
Some of her famous saying: Sex with any man is no different than a drink of water. Wikipedia on Jiang Qing
I filed this under WOT. Please move it if it's in the wrong place, but it seems pretty close to a good fit to me.
It's non-WoT for now unless al-Qaeda did it. Common thuggery on our border is a stretch for WoT.
U.S. border officers found a wire between two fences along the U.S.-Mexican border that, when stretched taut, could have seriously harmed or even decapitated Border Patrol agents, Congress was told Wednesday.
"It was configured in a way so that, if it was pulled, it would take off the head of a Border Patrol agent riding in an open car," Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said at a House budget hearing.
The wire was discovered Saturday when authorities monitoring a surveillance camera saw two people on the north side of the border east of the San Ysidro Port of Entry, in the San Diego sector. Border Patrol agents sent to the area found a thick metal wire tied to a secondary fence. The wire stretched across the border road and led into Mexico through a hole in the primary fence, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Would US BP agents have any legitimate reason to ride through here?
When pulled tight, the wire would be about 4 feet high -- about neck level for an agent riding on an all-terrain vehicle, CBP said.
Officials said they suspected that drug or illegal immigrant smugglers were involved. No arrests were made on either side of the border. The wire was removed, and no injuries or damage took place, CBP said. No harm, no foul. Right? Seems to me a fence would make this kind of thing a non-issue. Or landmines.
U.S. officials say the Pentagon is planning to shoot down a broken spy satellite expected to hit the Earth in early March. The Associated Press has learned that the option preferred by the Bush administration will be to fire a missile from a U.S. Navy cruiser, and shoot down the satellite before it enters Earth's atmosphere. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the options will not be publicly discussed until a Pentagon briefing later Thursday.
The satellite is outfitted with thrusters, small engines used to position it in space, that contain the toxic rocket fuel hydrazine. Hydrazine can cause harm to anyone who contacts it. Short-term exposure to hydrazine could cause coughing, irritated throat and lungs, convulsions, tremors or seizures, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Long-term exposure could damage the liver, kidney and reproductive organs.
The satellite, known by its military designation US 193, was launched in December 2006. It lost power and its central computer failed almost immediately afterward, leaving it uncontrollable. It carried a sophisticated and secret imaging sensor.
U.S. officials do not want this equipment to fall into the wrong hands. "The Chinese and the Russians spend an enormous amount of time trying to steal American technology," said John Pike, a defense and intelligence expert. "To have our most sophisticated radar intelligence satellite have big pieces of it fall into their hands would not be our preferred outcome."
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In 16th and 17th century Europe, thousands were executed for what was called "weather cooking," where religious and political institutions blamed witches - mostly women - for poor growing periods or storms.
Today, we blame contemporary capitalistic based societies who refuse to bend their knee at the alter of inevitable global socialism. Kiss my moral authority you cretins! /sarcasm off
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I'm amazed anyone has to say this. Since it was determined Mars has been warming up it seems a somewhat obvious answer. The arguement is really about "man-made" global warming and if global warming of a degree or so is really a problem or something that may already have peaked (back in 1998).
Of course it's a religion so you gotta have faith.
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first off my smartass comment, it took astrophycist too come up with this? Wouldn't this go right along with the theory that when the sun starts too burn out it would start too expand hence making earth and mars alot hotter.
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Paul, hot air rises, the Sun is up. It doesn't get any clearer than that. Before we gog here the Sun was a luke warm ball of fun and we've turned it into a freaking inferno.
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religious and political institutions blamed witches See? If she would just concede the primary to Obama then the climate would normalize (whatever to hell normal is).
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But-t-t DAY AFTER TOMORROW told the entire world "SOLAR OUTPUT IS NORMAL" ergo Mankind and only Mankind - you know, the USA - was the SOLE CAUSE of Warming???
SO, IS THE SUN "NORMAL/OKAY"? OR DOES OWG MADONNA'S, ETC. DADDY HAVE TO PSYCHOKINETICALLY DIVERT PLANET X, ETC. INTO THE SUN TO REFURBISH ITS NUCLEAR REACTIONS???
Lest we fergit, NET article > IS THE SUN RUNNING OUT OF IRON?
NEW YORK NBC News is apologizing again this time for Jane Fonda. The 70-year-old actress used a vulgar slang term on the "Today" show Thursday while talking about the play "The Vagina Monologues." Fonda is appearing in a 10th-anniversary performance.
Fonda said she was asked to perform a monologue with a slang term for vagina as the title and Fonda used the term itself on the air. No..not the "V-word" like the graphic on the Today Show says either.
About 10 minutes later, co-host Meredith Vieira told viewers that "Today" and Fonda apologized for the remark. NBC has recently apologized for comments made by Chris Matthews and David Shuster. How dare those chauvinist cads mock the Hillary on live TV!
Inferno is a "sonic barrier," a long metallic speakerbar that generates a sound made of four frequencies between 2 and 5 kilohertz. The sound itself is 125dB, which is the typical sound made by an alarm, but according to Danger Room's Sharon Weinberger, it's "the most unbearable, gut-wrenching noise I've ever heard in my life." It was a very quick exposure but Sharon says that it was a lot worse than the Pentagon pain ray. We talked with Dr. Maurice Goldman, managing director for the company in the US, about the uses and cost of these devices.
"Being a guinea pig for a sonic ray was truly a whole lot worse than being a guinea pig for the pain ray. I would happily volunteer again to be hit by the Pentagon's pain ray. It was fun, like being Bugs Bunny dancing around when Elmer Fudd tries to shoot him. I never, ever again want to be hit by the Inferno" says Sharon, but while the sensation was unbearable, she actually didn't experiment the extreme reactions that this sound will cause if you are exposed to it for a longer time: vertigo, nausea, and pain in the chest.
The device is designed to work with security systems, making people leave a protected area immediately. Their site shows many different models, which can be installed inside or outside shops and cargo vans. Dr. Goldman told us that they "don't do home applications because of the potential headaches that this may bring from law enforcement agencies and customers." Apparently, "only homes that have special requirements, like a strong room" can be elegible to install one of these alarms. Too bad, because he pointed out that the cost of a typical system is only $1,800, which is affordable enough for me to want one.
If you are wondering if this is really a good deterrent against thieves, have no doubts about it. Apparently, Inferno is so effective that Swedish manufacturer Indusec just landed a contract with the Russian government to install the sound bars in nuclear weapon depots using the Inferno Mini (above) which is the same you can install in your own shop. Meanwhile, big companies like UK-based chemist super-chain Boots, are also installing the devices all through all their shops.
The good thing about Inferno is that, although it will stop anyone from entering an area, they won't injure them (or you.) According to a study on the Inferno by the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, only if you experiment repeated exposures to this kind of noise or if the sound pressure is more than 130dB, your ears could be damaged. Inferno, the paper concludes, doesn't have any risk of hearing loss since it's just 125dB.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
RIYADH - A UN expert on womens rights said on Wednesday she had heard accounts of serious discrimination against women and abuses by religious police during a visit to ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia.
China's Foreign Ministry spokesman dismissed U.S. allegations of Chinese spying as "Cold War thinking" and said the arrests of four Chinese nationals on espionage charges were "groundless."
