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  • Opposition to a strike in Syria is mounting.   11 years 39 weeks ago
    Palindromedary ~ That was a

    Palindromedary ~ That was a great article you posted. Here are some more clips from it.

    THE HUMAN RADIATION EXPERIMENTS

    How scientists secretly used US citizens as guinea pigs
    during the Cold War

    Quote Dr. Cantwell M.D.:Current Secret Biomedical Experimentation

    The US has the world’s largest arsenal of chemical and biological weapons. However, few people are aware of the covert biowarfare experiments conducted by various government agencies, particularly the military and the CIA.

    For example, in August 1977 the CIA admitted to no less than 149 subprojects, including experiments to determine the effects of different drugs on human behaviour; work on lie-detectors, hypnosis, and electric shock; and the surreptitious delivery of drug-related materials. Forty-four colleges and universities were involved, along with fifteen research foundations, twelve hospitals or clinics, and three penal institutions. In the infamous MKULTRA mind-altering experiments, the victims were lured to hotel rooms for sexual encounters with prostitutes and were then drugged and monitored by CIA agents.

    Military biowarfare attacks against unsuspecting Americans in the 1950s and 60s are a documented reality. The most notorious was a six-day US military bioattack on San Francisco in which clouds of potentially harmful bacteria were sprayed over the city. Twelve people developed pneumonia due to these infectious microbes, and one elderly man died from the bioattack.

    In other secret attacks, bacteria were sprayed into New York City subway tunnels; into crowds at a Washington, D.C. airport; and onto highways in Pennsylvania. Biowarfare testing also took place in military bases in Virginia, in Key West, Florida, and off the coasts of California and Hawaii.

    Quote Dr. Cantwell M.D.:To this day there are no adequate safeguards to protect people from secret government experimentation. Since the mid-1970s we have witnessed the spectacular rise of genetic engineering and molecular biology, as well as the concomitant outbreak of new and mysterious diseases like AIDS, chronic fatigue syndrome, the peculiar “Four Corners” lung disease discovered on Navajo land, and the appearance of unprecedented “emerging” viruses never before seen on the planet.

    Investigators linking the possible origin of these diseases to the dangerous engineering of new microbes are often dismissed as paranoids and crackpots. The mysterious Persian Gulf War syndrome is yet another recent illness clouded in military and biologic secrecy, with the origin and cause still debated and the medical records of sick veterans often “lost” or otherwise unavailable. Not surprisingly, the same government institutions that funded the radiation experiments now largely control the research, the funding, and the cover stories pertaining to all these new diseases and viruses.

    Quote Dr. Cantwell M.D.:How can we stop these nuclear and biological horrors, which have condemned thousands of innocent people to disease and death? Why must decades of government-sanctioned medical abuse be kept secret and covered-up by scientists and physicians who claim to be concerned about the health of the public?

    One way to prevent abuse might be to bring the physician-scientist perpetrators of these experiments to justice in a court of law. However, unless the public is aroused, this is unlikely to happen.

    Writing in the Columbia Journalism Review, Geoffrey Sea notes: “A startling fact about the experiments is that, despite the documentation of hundreds of cases of unethical conduct resulting in lasting damage to thousands of people, not a single physician or nurse, scientist or technician, policy maker or administrator has yet come forward to admit wrongdoing.”

    For over twenty years the law allowed the US Department of Defense (DoD) to use Americans as “guinea pigs.” This law (the US code annotated Title 50, Chapter 32, Section 1520, dated 30 July, 1977) remained on the books until it was repealed under public pressure in 1998. The new and revised bill prohibits the DoD from conducting tests and experiments on humans, but allows “exceptions.” One of the exceptions is that a test or experiment can be carried out for “any peaceful purpose that is related to a medical, therapeutic, pharmaceutical, agricultural, industrial, or research activity.” Thus, the 1998 law has obvious loopholes which allow secret testing to continue. For details on the restrictions (and exceptions) for human testing for chemical and biological agents, consult the Gulf War Vets website at http//www.gulfwarvets.com/1520a.htm.

    Unethical and dangerous experimentation undoubtedly continues in secret up to the present time, ostensibly under the guise of “national security.” Thus, it would seem prudent for patients to think twice before signing-up for government-sponsored medical studies, particularly at leading medical institutions. Enlightened patients might also view doctors (and scientists) with a healthy dose of skepticism, and a touch of paranoia.

    As weird as all this sounds, it could save your life!

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    http://www.whale.to/a/cantwell9.html

  • Opposition to a strike in Syria is mounting.   11 years 39 weeks ago
    There's a new US $100 bill

    There's a new US $100 bill with new counterfeiting detection added.
    3-D Security Ribbon:
    Tilt the note back and forth while focusing on the blue ribbon. You will see the bells change
    to 100s as they move. The ribbon is woven into the paper, not printed on it.

    Bell in the Inkwell:
    Tilt the note to see the color-shifting bell in the copper inkwell change from copper to green.

    http://cryptome.org/2013/09/new-100-note.pdf

  • Opposition to a strike in Syria is mounting.   11 years 39 weeks ago
    Palindromedary ~ Thank you

    Palindromedary ~ Thank you for those most helpful links. I think between the two of us we've made a sound argument. Thanks again!

  • Opposition to a strike in Syria is mounting.   11 years 39 weeks ago
    Quote: Report: China Sends
    Report: China Sends Warships To Coast of Syria by Joseph Watson Sept 5, 2013

    Quote Article:The Global Times, a newspaper described by Foreign Policy Magazine as “hyper nationalistic” and an “angry Chinese government mouthpiece, also published an editorial yesterday which slammed Obama for failing to prove that last month’s chemical weapons attack was the work of the Syrian government, charging that Washington’s “geopolitical interests” in the region were behind the military build-up.

    The editorial, which also complains of the total lack of media coverage in America concerning reports that Syrian rebels admitted responsibility for last month’s chemical weapons attack, accuses the White House of “ignoring logic as it beats war drums.”

    Quote Article:Five U.S. destroyers and an amphibious ship are currently positioned in the eastern Mediterranean awaiting strike orders. The USS Nimitz and three other warships are also stationed in the nearby Red Sea.

    Quote Article:Yesterday it was reported that Russia was sending three more ships – two destroyers and a missile cruiser – to the eastern Mediterranean to bolster its forces which already include three other warships dispatched over the last two weeks.

    Quote Article:According to the Russian news outlet Telegrafist.org, the People’s Liberation Army dispatched the Jinggangshan amphibious dock landing ship and the vessel was seen passing through the Red Sea towards the Suez Canal, the waterway in Egypt that leads to the Mediterranean Sea and waters off the coast of Israel, Lebanon and Syria.

    According to the report, the ship has not been sent to engage in any aggressive actions but is merely there to “observe” the actions of Russian and US warships. However, the Jinggangshan is equipped for combat, has conventional armaments and secondary cannons, and was utilized as part of a “show of force” in maneuvers aimed at defending the South China Sea earlier this year.

    The report states that additional PLA warships have also been sent to the region but that their identity is unknown.

    Exclusive: Syrians in Ghouta Claim Saudi Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack by Dave Gavlak and Yahya Ababneh August 29, 2013

    Quote Article:Dale Gavlak assisted in the research and writing process of this article, but was not on the ground in Syria. Reporter Yahya Ababneh, with whom the report was written in collaboration, was the correspondent on the ground in Ghouta who spoke directly with the rebels, their family members, victims of the chemical weapons attacks and local residents.

    Gavlak is a MintPress News Middle East correspondent who has been freelancing for the AP as a Amman, Jordan correspondent for nearly a decade. This report is not an Associated Press article; rather it is exclusive to MintPress News.

    Quote Article:The U.S., Britain, and France as well as the Arab League have accused the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for carrying out the chemical weapons attack, which mainly targeted civilians. U.S. warships are stationed in the Mediterranean Sea to launch military strikes against Syria in punishment for carrying out a massive chemical weapons attack. The U.S. and others are not interested in examining any contrary evidence, with U.S Secretary of State John Kerry sayingMonday that Assad’s guilt was “a judgment … already clear to the world.”

    However, from numerous interviews with doctors, Ghouta residents, rebel fighters and their families, a different picture emerges. Many believe that certain rebels received chemical weapons via the Saudi intelligence chief, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, and were responsible for carrying out the dealing gas attack.

    http://www.infowars.com/report-china-sends-warships-to-coast-of-syria/

    http://www.mintpressnews.com/witnesses-of-gas-attack-say-saudis-supplied-rebels-with-chemical-weapons/168135/

  • Opposition to a strike in Syria is mounting.   11 years 39 weeks ago
    In fact, Hitler's Eugenics

    In fact, Hitler's Eugenics movement sprang from the one already in progress in the US.

    http://www.waragainsttheweak.com/

  • Opposition to a strike in Syria is mounting.   11 years 39 weeks ago
    article wrote:Some of the
    Quote article:Some of the classified government experiments included:

    * Exposing more than 100 Alaskan villagers to radioactive iodine during the 1960s.

    * Feeding 49 retarded and institutionalised teenagers radioactive iron and calcium in their cereal during the years 1946-1954.

    * Exposing about 800 pregnant women in the late 1940s to radioactive iron to determine the effect on the fetus.

    * Injecting 7 newborns (six were Black) with radioactive iodine.

    * Exposing the testicles of more than 100 prisoners to cancer-causing doses of radiation. This experimentation continued into the early 1970s.

    * Exposing almost 200 cancer patients to high levels of radiation from cesium and cobalt. The AEC finally stopped this experiment in 1974.

    * Administering radioactive material to psychiatric patients in San Francisco and to prisoners in San Quentin.

    * Administering massive doses of full body radiation to cancer patients hospitalised at the General Hospital in Cincinnati, Baylor College in Houston, Memorial Sloan-Kettering in New York City, and the US Naval Hospital in Bethesda, during the 1950s and 1960s. The experiment provided data to the military concerning how a nuclear attack might affect its troops.

    * Exposing 29 patients, some with rheumatoid arthritis, to total body irradiation (100-300 rad dose) to obtain data for the military. This was conducted at the University of California Hospital in San Francisco.

    http://www.whale.to/a/cantwell9.html

  • Opposition to a strike in Syria is mounting.   11 years 39 weeks ago
    article wrote:In the nuclear
    Quote article:In the nuclear arms race, government doctors and scientists brainwashed the public into believing low dose radiation was not harmful. Some officials even tried to convince people that “a little radiation is good for you.” Totally ignored was the knowledge that the radiation from nuclear fallout could lead to an increased risk of cancer, heart disease, neurological disorders, immune system disease, reproductive abnormalities, sterility, birth defects, and genetic mutations which could be passed on from generation to generation. The full extent of this radiation damage to the American public during the Cold War years will never be known.

    A secret AEC document, dated 17 April 1947, reveals that physicians were aware of these radiation hazards but simply ignored them. Under the title “Medical Experiments in Humans,” the memorandum read: “It is desired that no document be released which refers to experiments with humans that might have an adverse effect on public opinion or result in legal suits. Documents covering such field work should be classified ‘Secret’.”
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    Only recently, with the forced release of Top Secret documents, have details been revealed about the unethical and inhumane radiation studies conducted during the Cold War years from 1944 to 1974. The initial story broke in November 1993 in a series of articles in the Albuquerque Tribune which identified the names of 18 Americans secretly injected with plutonium, a key ingredient of the atomic bomb and one of the most toxic substances known to man.

    http://www.whale.to/a/cantwell9.html

  • Opposition to a strike in Syria is mounting.   11 years 39 weeks ago
    DAnneMarc: Thanks for those

    DAnneMarc: Thanks for those links...I have actually, over the years, read a lot of books and articles about MKULTRA and Manchurian Candidate mind control project conducted by our government on many, many unwitting victims around the world and in the US.

    Here's another one where victims in Canada have actually successfully sued the CIA...this artcle was from 2007:

    Quote article:CIA's Bourne identity plot

    MORE than 250 people who claim they are “brainwashing” victims of America’s Central Intelligence Agency are set to win a multimillion-dollar legal battle for compensation.

    As in the new follow-up film The Bourne Ultimatum, they claim that they were guinea pigs in a series of bizarre experiments to erase their memories and reprogramme them.

    Nine have already each received $67,000 (£33,500) compensation from the spy agency, which has admitted setting-up an operation codenamed MK-Ultra during the Cold War.

    Many of the chilling details of the top-secret operation have come to light in an investigation by former US State Depart­ment officer John Marks for his book The Search For The Man­churian Candidate.

    In CIA-speak, a “Manchurian Candid­ate” is the name given to an unwitting assassin who is mentally “programmed” to kill. The phrase refers to the 1964 movie of the same name starring Frank Sinatra as a brainwashed US prisoner-of-war.

    Using documents released under America’s Freedom of Information laws, Marks ascertained that the CIA recruited renowned Scottish psychiatrist Donald Cameron to mastermind MK-Ultra.

    Cameron, an ex-president of the World Psychiatric Association, chose Montreal’s Allen Memorial Institute to conduct potentially lethal experiments on non-US citizens.

    Documents reveal he used thousands of unwitting as well as voluntary subjects to test paralytic drugs, hallucinogens including LSD and electro-convulsive therapy at 30 to 40 times normal power. Cameron, who died in 1967, also put many “guinea pigs” into comas for months on end while playing tapes of repetitive statements in a bid to discover if he could erase memories, then rebuild them with new information.

    During an agonising legal battle which has raged since 1988, when the CIA paid nine of Cameron’s Canadian victims $67,000 each, Canada’s government has stone­walled hundreds of claims.

    Up to last week, it had paid $100,000 (£49,700) each to 77 victims whose cases were so extreme that they were reduced to permanent childlike states.

    http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/12781/CIA-s-Bourne-identity-plot
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    I think that not enough people in the US are very much aware of how sinister and criminal our "hallowed" institutions have been. Institutions that we have all been brainwashed into believing protect us from evils are actually the very institutions that are evil and doing harmful things against us.

    Perhaps if they all realized these things they wouldn't be so willing to accept our government's 9/11 conspiracy theory....and see the evidence that points to powerful elements within our government that actually planned, engineered, and carried out what happened on 9/11.
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    I don't think, however, that the scenes of students being sprayed with pepper spray...especially if you noticed that none of them seemed to be very much affected by it at the time...maybe later right after the video stopped...maybe they were all choking and rubbing their eyes...or whatever...but in the video..they just sat there with no immediate reaction even after they got sprayed.

    But it sure doesn't compare to the videos of the Syrian chemical scenes of people either lying dead or sprawled out and twitching. Most people will not be convinced that the pepper spray on the students was anywhere close to what happened in Syria. The pepper spraying of the students was, of course, a terrible and criminal thing for sure. It would have been way more of a horrible thing if that pepper spray was Sarin gas. I know how bad tear gas is from my experience in the military...while in training...we had to go into a room full of tear gas with masks on...then ordered to remove our masks for a few seconds..that was enough to convince me that it is a form of torture..but it doesn't kill you.

    Maybe all those protestors being sprayed by pepper spray, while on camera..had their eyes closed tight and were holding their breath. And since the video lasted only a few seconds it didn't catch the scenes when the protestors began to breathe again..which might have shown on video a more realistic picture. Or, perhaps they did have that on video but cut out the part where the protestors may have been displaying signs of extreme discomfort. That may very well be the case. Keep the viewers thinking that it was no big deal. I don't know. That's what our news media has done in it's "coverage" of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan...cut out the bad parts to keep the viewers from knowing the truth.

  • Opposition to a strike in Syria is mounting.   11 years 39 weeks ago
    Palindromedary ~ That use of

    Palindromedary ~ That use of military grade pepper spray on students WAS just as bad as Sarin gas. It was public torture of dissidents. Children at that. Oh, wouldn't we love to have footage of Assad spraying that highly potent extract of the Ghost Pepper in the eyes of his own people's children. You want to see some real outrage? It's one thing to see a bunch of corpses lying around; and, it is quite another thing to see a bunch of unarmed kids being tortured on camera. It's so much easier to get upset at "the other guy's" government when you don't have to do anything about it yourself.

    Besides what about other uses of diabolical chemical warfare by the USA. What about the Tuskegee syphilis experiment?

    Quote Wikipedia:The Tuskegee syphilis experiment[1] was an infamous clinical study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the U.S. Public Health Service to study the natural progression of untreated syphilis in rural African American men who thought they were receiving free health care from the U.S. government.[1]

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment

    How about the Guatemala syphilis experiment?

    Quote Wikipedia:The syphilis experiments in Guatemala were United States-led human experiments conducted in Guatemala from 1946 to 1948, during the administration of President Trumanand President Juan José Arévalo with the cooperation of some Guatemalan health ministries and officials.[1] Doctors infected soldiers, prostitutes, prisoners and mental patientswith syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases, without the informed consent of the subjects, and treated most subjects with antibiotics. This resulted in at least 83 deaths.[2] In October 2010, the U.S. formally apologized to Guatemala for conducting these experiments.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala_syphilis_experiment

    Oh and lets not forget the infamous project MKUltra where we used powerful psychoactive drugs on college students to see what affect they had.

    Quote wikipedia:Project MKUltra is the code name of a U.S. government covert human research operation experimenting in the behavioral engineering of humans (mind control) through the CIA's Scientific Intelligence Division. The program began in the early 1950s, was officially sanctioned in 1953, was reduced in scope in 1964, further curtailed in 1967 and officially halted in 1973.[1] The program engaged in many illegal activities;[2][3][4] in particular it used unwitting U.S. and Canadian citizens as its test subjects, which led to controversy regarding its legitimacy.[2](p74)[5][6][7] MKUltra involved the use of many methodologies to manipulate people's mental states and alter brain functions, including the surreptitious administration of drugs (especially LSD) and other chemicals,hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, verbal and sexual abuse, as well as various forms of torture.[8]

    The scope of Project MKUltra was broad, with research undertaken at 80 institutions, including 44 colleges and universities, as well as hospitals, prisons and pharmaceutical companies.[9] The CIA operated through these institutions using front organizations, although sometimes top officials at these institutions were aware of the CIA's involvement.[10] As the Supreme Court later noted, MKULTRA was:

    "concerned with "the research and development of chemical, biological, and radiological materials capable of employment in clandestine operations to control human behavior." The program consisted of some 149 subprojects which the Agency contracted out to various universities, research foundations, and similar institutions. At least 80 institutions and 185 private researchers participated. Because the Agency funded MKULTRA indirectly, many of the participating individuals were unaware that they were dealing with the Agency."[11]

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra

    How about allowing the sale and distribution of a drug linked to the annual deaths of over 350,000 people. A product with over 70 known carcinogens including, Arsenic, Formaldehyde, Lead, Benzene, and Vinyl Chloride.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cigarette_smoke_carcinogens

    This is just the publicly known cases. The tip of the iceberg. The government and members responsible have never had to owe up to what they have done. There has never been an official international investigation. Certianly some day there will be; however, till then we are all kept in the dark about how our own government experiments and conducts covert warfare against its own citizens.

    PS This list doesn't even include the fluoridation of water or chem trails. Not enough is know about these topics to make any solid statements yet.

  • Opposition to a strike in Syria is mounting.   11 years 39 weeks ago
    blueshaman: Jack Nicholson

    blueshaman: Jack Nicholson and Dennis Hopper...two of my favorite actors! Thanks for that link. And you're right Nicholson summed it up quite well. Or, did Janis Joplin sum it up too? "Freedom's just another word for nothing else to loose?" As I'm not a very deep thinker, I'm not sure exactly what that means. As for me, I'd rather have everything than nothing and pretend it's freedom. Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet...what a character, eh? Jack Nicholson in The Shining...wow! Great movies. Great Actors!

    I can't believe that I've never actually watched the whole Easy Rider movie...guess I should sometime.

  • Opposition to a strike in Syria is mounting.   11 years 39 weeks ago
    Jack Nicholson summed it

    Jack Nicholson summed it up:

    http://www.movieclips.com/i2KU-easy-rider-movie-you-represent-freedom/

  • Opposition to a strike in Syria is mounting.   11 years 39 weeks ago
    ALEC & Your Communications:

    ALEC & Your Communications: Part 1: How AT&T, ALEC and the Other Communications Companies Created Model State Legislation to Harm You

    Quote Huffington Post:On July 13, 2011, Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) released a massive collection of leaked documents from the American Legislative Exchange Council, (ALEC) --- hundreds of model bills and resolutions that were previously voted on by ALEC corporate members and ALEC member politicians behind closed doors.

    The group has created a model bill for every occasion - from blocking municipalities' ability to offer competitive services even when the incumbent is a no show, or blocking net neutrality, where the companies can interfere in some way with the customers' broadband and Internet service. Many of these pieces of legislation have been around for six years or more.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-kushnick/alec-your-communications-_b...

  • Opposition to a strike in Syria is mounting.   11 years 39 weeks ago
    And it's not just AT&T...it's

    And it's not just AT&T...it's also Verizon as well. They're both trying to monopolize under the guise of replacing the nations copper wire to fiber optics. Fiber optics would be great if they were truly fiber optics all the way to each and every house...but 99% what they call successfully transitioned to Fiber Optics is a lie because the 50-60 year old copper lines still go to the premises and not fiber optics.
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    Quote Bruce Kushnick..Huffington Post:
    AT&T and the telcos keep talking about free markets and competition, when, in fact, one of the goals of this transition is to close down the rights of all competitors currently using the networks. In fact, AT&T's plan has been to get the government to protect their business by writing laws to block competitors.

    In August, 2012, AT&T wrote that the FCC should eliminate any requirements or obligations on AT&T and the local phone companies and remove the rights of competitors to rent the networks at wholesale rates.
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    AT&T's own words clearly show that this plot is deep and disturbing as it a massive state and federal campaign to shut down America's utilities. And it's clear that neither the FCC nor the state commissions are capable of protecting the public interest.
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    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-kushnick/att-alec-fcc-part-2-the-a_b...

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    And after they make those changes, if you have a power outage, you will lose your ability to use your phones to call 911 during that power outage unless you have some kind of power back up or a cell phone.

  • Opposition to a strike in Syria is mounting.   11 years 39 weeks ago
    Huffington Post article of
    Quote Huffington Post article of 1/23/13--ATT U-verse Is a Copper-Based PSTN Service: Lawmakers and the Media Were Duped.: "... according to multiple sources, 90 percent or more of U-verse households are copper-based -- PSTN-based wire service. U-verse is only fiber-to-the-home when there is "new construction," and considering the current housing slowdown throughout America over the last few years, U-verse, then, is copper-based.

    AT&T has essentially deceived every state and federal regulator, lawmaker, the press and even the public.
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    Call for Immediate Stoppage of ALL 'Closing of the PSTN' Proceedings and an investigation of AT&T and ALEC for Deceptive Practices.

    The implications of this verbal bait-and switch are enormous and need to be investigated at the FCC, Congress and in every state where AT&T received deregulation claiming that the laws should be changed because of innovation and the next generation of the Internet, including using VOIP.

    It is now clear that the PSTN can handle VOIP; the transition isn't to fiber optics but to remain on copper and U-verse is based on the very networks AT&T claims are too old and need to be retired.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-kushnick/att-uverse-copper_b_2522703...
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    Most of the problems that most people experience with the current PSTN (which AT&T renamed to POTS (plain old telephone system) ) copper based system is on the copper-based local loop lines and connections to the SAI (Serving Area Interface)...ie: the grey metal boxes on the sidewalk down the street from you. That SAI usually contains a DSLAM (Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplier) and a number of Aggregator cards (each of which normally have about 24 ports for each local-loop, twisted pair, copper wires that run to each house). The normal fiber optic configuration will run a fiber optics line to these boxes...unless they only run them to the CO (central office) and run copper wire to the SAI boxes on the sidewalk which increases the possibility of slower speeds and noise.

  • Opposition to a strike in Syria is mounting.   11 years 39 weeks ago
    DAnneMarc: That's

    DAnneMarc: That's true...you're correct! Only thing is that while one could call pepper spray or tear gas chemical weapons, of a sort, they are not really lethal. So when I included those in the quote I was a bit tempted to leave them out because it might detract from the real horrors of lethal chemical weapons. Yeah, I know they have some really bad weapons of crowd control...like ear piercing high frequency audio guns and even microwave guns that cause excruciating pain but don't usually kill people. Might give them cancer in a few years...who knows?

  • Opposition to a strike in Syria is mounting.   11 years 39 weeks ago
    Palindromedary ~ Good one!

    Palindromedary ~ Good one! However you forgot that infamous recent story about using military grade pepper spray against protesting student by campus police. That was one of the worst cases of chemical warfare used against civilians domestically in recent history that got a lot of media coverage and public response. Yet how soon we forget.

  • Opposition to a strike in Syria is mounting.   11 years 39 weeks ago
    Just how murderously corrupt

    Just how murderously corrupt can a nation get? A couple of days ago, Flopot posted a link to an article that showed how the mega-criminals, who dress themselves up in legitimate sounding institutions..like "Wachovia" end up stealing big time from all of us...never mind it assisted, indirectly perhaps, in the murder of 30,000 people (a mere pittance compared to what the US military did in the Middle East, of course). And they are so big and powerful they have Congress wrapped around their little fingers....or maybe...other little appendages as well...no offense Congressman Anthony Weiner (and no pun intended..well..maybe!). None of them actually go to jail...and in fact go on to live lavish lives of the rich and famous...despite the fact that the organizations get slapped for a relatively tiny fine ($160 million total*) compared to the amount that was laundered ($378.4 billion)...which is usually paid for out of tax payers or savers pockets anyway. And then the "corporation" gets sold to another big corporation...like Wells Fargo. The top execs, of the now defunct criminal corporation, are living quite well on all the profits of laundering criminal drug money that they made off with. What a racket!

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    *"Yet the total fine was less than 2% of the bank's $12.3bn profit for 2009."

  • The flame for justice remains...   11 years 39 weeks ago
    That's funny, Mark Saulys!

    That's funny, Mark Saulys! But so true! #60

  • Opposition to a strike in Syria is mounting.   11 years 39 weeks ago
    It's odd that the US news

    It's odd that the US news media is, just today, showing all kinds of very shocking and disturbing videos and photos of the chemical attack/(accident?*) in Syria.

    I guess when it serves their interests, they have no qualms about "protecting" Americans from seeing such things! They sure didn't show any of those videos (unless they were highly vignetted) of the horror that our military did in the Middle East. And the US military murdered way, way more than all of the people who have died in Syria.

    Watching and comparing what the US main stream news media showed compared to what Al Jazeera, LinkTV, FSTV, and RT showed one would think everyone was just having a picnic over there in the Middle East. The US media didn't show "very disturbing" scenes then; but now, they seem it is in their interests to do so. Even though the media repeatedly said that these scenes show that Sarin chemicals was used it didn't show who used them. Yeah, right, very unbiased, huh? The fact that the idea has already been pounded into American's minds that Assad did these things it is most likely that many people, after seeing such horrors on their TV sets, will just switch off any critical thinking and automatically accept the US government's claims that Assad did it. Many, who have only been exposed to main stream media news, will already have been brain washed and really have no ability to critically think about the alternative evidence.
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    * There is some evidence that it may have been just an accident of mishandling, by the rebels, of trying to store the chemical weapons they just acquired.

  • Should the U.S. take military action in Syria?   11 years 39 weeks ago
    With the Brits backing away

    With the Brits backing away from "the fun", will there be an effort to rename English muffins to American muffins?, English toffee to Freedom toffee?, Scotch whiskey to Liberty whiskey? How about you pool players putting more Yankee on the cue ball? WWDD. What Would Dumbya Do??????

  • Congress is rushing to go to war.   11 years 39 weeks ago
    Very excellent

    Very excellent article...thanks Flopot...very revealing!

    Quote TheGuardian article: How a big US bank laundered billions from Mexico's murderous drug gangs:"For the time period of 1 May 2004 through 31 May 2007, Wachovia processed at least $$373.6bn in CDCs (casas de cambio--houses of change or money*), $4.7bn in bulk cash" – a total of more than $378.3bn, a sum that dwarfs the budgets debated by US state and UK local authorities to provide services to citizens.
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    "The regulatory authorities do not have to spend any more time on it, and they don't have to push it as far as a criminal trial. They just issue criminal proceedings, and settle. The law enforcement people do what they are supposed to do, but what's the point? All those people dealing with all that money from drug-trafficking and murder, and no one goes to jail?"
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    ....a lot of the law enforcement people were disappointed to see a settlement" between the administration and Wachovia. "But I know there were external circumstances that worked to Wachovia's benefit, not least that the US banking system was on the edge of collapse."
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    "If you look at the career ladders of law enforcement, there's no incentive to go after the big money.
    ....they want to get the traffickers and seize their assets. But this is like treating a sick plant by cutting off a few branches – it just grows new ones. Going after the big money is cutting down the plant – it's a harder door to knock on, it's a longer haul, and it won't get you the short-term riches."
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    "The connection between organised crime and financial institutions started in the late 1970s, early 1980s," he says, "when the mafia became globalised."
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    Wachovia does not appear to be the end of the line. In August 2010, it emerged in quarterly disclosures by HSBC that the US justice department was seeking to fine it for anti-money laundering compliance problems reported to include dealings with Mexico.
    ---
    ... if you don't see the correlation between the money laundering by banks and the 30,000 people killed in Mexico, you're missing the point."
    ---
    "New York and London," says Woods, "have become the world's two biggest laundries of criminal and drug money, and offshore tax havens. Not the Cayman Islands, not the Isle of Man or Jersey. The big laundering is right through the City of London and Wall Street.
    ---
    "After the Wachovia case, no one in the regulatory community has sat down with me and asked, 'What happened?' or 'What can we do to avoid this happening to other banks?' They are not interested. They are the same people who attack the whistleblowers and this is a position the [British] Financial Services Authority at least has adopted on legal advice: it has been advised that the confidentiality of banking and bankers takes primacy over the public information disclosure act. That is how the priorities work: secrecy first, public interest second.

    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-drug-gangs
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    *my addition

  • Opposition to a strike in Syria is mounting.   11 years 39 weeks ago
    "Perhaps the weight of an

    "Perhaps the weight of an international push back, combined with the vocal opposition of Americans, will keep our nation from triggering a potential world war. "

    It would not be our nation that would trigger a potential world war, it would be one man, Obama.

    Whatever the reality of his personal agenda, it does reflect the American people and with the oft spoken of risk of a potential world wide conflagration, based upon his plan to bomb Syria, how does whatever he perceives as the positive consequences of his military strike on Syria, outweigh that risk of a worldwide inferno?

  • Opposition to a strike in Syria is mounting.   11 years 39 weeks ago
    Flopot: lots of very good

    Flopot: lots of very good points! And very well said!
    Vegasman: Very good points, as well! Well said!

  • Opposition to a strike in Syria is mounting.   11 years 39 weeks ago
    The only thing we have to do,

    The only thing we have to do, is to look at our history, we helped Osama bin Laden to fight the Russians in Afghanistan, we helped Saddam Hussein fight Iran, today where are we with these people we helped. And now they are our enemies. Are the rebels fighting against Syria’s Bashar al-Assad government any different. These people have been fight each other over there for hundreds of years. The small air strike, what will it do, not a God damn thing, with the possibility of collateral damage, the young children and elderly will be the victims, so do you really want to get involved in another war. I think the two wars we’ve been in the past 10 years is good enough, it’s something to think about. Call your United States senators, call your U.S. House of Representatives and tell them War, No more, No More Trouble.

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  • Opposition to a strike in Syria is mounting.   11 years 39 weeks ago
    @edayres Please do not be

    @edayres

    Please do not be brow beaten into supporting another phoney humanitarian intervention by your corporate Media and lying politicians. Some of the most active liberals on the planet support fake wars on humanitarian intervention. Tony Blair, New Labour, the Guardian Newspaper and the BBC (all bastions of so-called liberalism) helped sell the WMD lies to get us into that conflict. Being a liberal does not make you immune to supporting wars of aggression - quite the opposite it seems.

    You need to know when you are being played. The evidence from other sources outside of the MSM strongly points to rebel involvement in the gas attacks. Firstly, Kerry's evidence is no more credible than Colin Powell's risible Iraqi WMD evidence - "intercepted communications" by Western intelligence agencies. From the very countries that have wanted regime change in Syria for over a decade now. Kerry also has twitter feeds and youtube videos, posted the day before the attack supposedly took place. Very dubious.

    Secondly, it is totally illogical for Assad to use chemical weapons when he knows it will open the door for Western intervention, especially when his forces are winning on the ground. And why drop some chemical weapons on Damascus just as the UN inspectors arrive? Thirdly, why is the US so keen to support Al Qaeda and affiliated groups in Syria - the very forces the War on Terror is supposed to be fighting against? These Islamist forces have now taken over an ancient Christian site in Syria, the Pope has called out against intervention but you don't see our supposedly Christian leaders complaining about that. Damaging Assad's forces will unleash Al Qaeda in Syria.

    Fourthly, how does killing even more Syrian civilians with Tomahawks send out a message about killing Syrian civilians? Another idiotic justification for war. Fifthly, why run the risk of igniting a regional war as Syria, Iran, Israel, Turkey, Jordan and others start fighting each other? Sixthly, why is Russia and China's asking for credible evidence "blocking" the UN Security Council? Why is asking for a proper UN mandate blocking anything? Is the UN supposed to be a rubber stamp for wars of aggression. Seventhly, the wars of intervention have really worked in the past haven't they ;-) Libya is a militia and Islamist hellhole; Iraq is on the brink of breaking up. Eigthly, if the US and the West gave a darn about chemical weapons then why do they still use them? Why did they help supply such weapons to Saddam? Why did they not intervene when Saddam used them.

    I could go on about the dubious start of the Syrian conflict and the snipers who killed protesters and civilians alike in order to destabilize the country. About how the US, UK, Israel and Saudi Arabia armed and sent in Islamist fighters to continue the destabilization. The US and Saudi Arabia wants regime change in Syria - simple as that.

    But your liberal conscience is suddenly pricked when Obama says we gotta save the Syrian children, no matter that the evidence points to Islamists being responsible; that 100,000 people have already been killed in the fighting. No, you think we should react based on a very convenient attack that screams at all of us - REMEMBER IRAQ. In my opinion, you are suffering from double-think and cannot fathom that Obama and Kerry are lying. Well they are. I'm sorry.

    PS if you want links to reports, interviews and videos to back up my arguments I'll supply them.

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