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Friday, September 10, 2010
Defining terrorism and empaty
Russ Allbery > Other Writing
Terrorism and War
Written January 27, 2006
I have little direct evidence about the atrocities in the Spanish civil war. I know that some were committed by the Republicans, and far more (they are still continuing) by the Fascists. But what impressed me then, and has impressed me ever since, is that atrocities are believed in or disbelieved in solely on grounds of political predilection. Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence. Recently I drew up a table of atrocities during the period between 1918 and the present; there was never a year when atrocities were not occurring somewhere or other, and there was hardly a single case when the Left and the Right believed in the same stories simultaneously.
— George Orwell, "Looking Back on the Spanish War"
In the US moral perspective and in US political discussions there are two basic kinds of armed conflict: war and terrorism. There's a lot of grey area in the middle, but that's not the part that interests me. The part that interests me is the distinction.
The distinction isn't about methods, forces, reasons for fighting, or the legitimacy of the organizations sponsoring the fighting. These all come up in discussions, but they aren't the metrics by which the fighting swings from clearly war to clearly terrorism. The difference is, concisely, who the targets are. If you target enemy combatants, it's war. If you target civilian populations, it's terrorism. (There are some exceptions in world wars and around collateral damage, but the essence still holds.)
There are many reasons for this, and it is certainly not a phenomenon limited to the US. This definition is idealized in chivalry, reinforced by cultural stories and peer pressure, and is so basic to the way that we think about physical conflict that it's an unexamined set of assumptions deep in our cultural outlook. Children are told to pick on someone their own size, you never shoot someone in the back, you only fight people who are prepared to fight you, you fight the other guy's fighters and not their families, and so on. This attitude runs so deep that it's considered basic morality.
These rules serve a practical purpose: allowing a society to fight wars without being destroyed by them. This is an important goal if you have a lot of wars, and there have been times in history where there were a lot of wars. Unless you have some rules that create limited warfare, the losers would be devastated by the winners, both sides would be severely damaged by the war, peace would be far harder, and everything would look much uglier. Rules of limited warfare kept the women and children safe to create more citizens, kept the food supplies behind the lines protected, and protected the government, bureaucracy, and social system from being destroyed by the war. It also had the significant effect of keeping the rulers safe by saying that assassination is against the rules. Those rulers were, of course, the same people who worked out what the rules were. (I don't, by this, mean to imply that there aren't benefits for nearly everyone in this set of rules. There are. But it's worth keeping in mind that cultural rules often can be traced to how they help the powerful.)
However, the rules of limited warfare also do something else. They put the full burden of the war on armies following army rules, which in practice means that they ensure that the side with the best army wins. This is built into the language we use to talk about the proper way of conducting war: a fair fight. By definition, a fair fight means the side with the best army wins. These rules of limited, civilized warfare are like the Marquis of Queensbury rules in boxing: they're designed to ensure the best boxer wins, with no funny business and no recourse to anything other than boxing skill.
So far, so good. In a world of mostly balanced powers (which has been the case through most of history), you win some and you lose some, wars stay under control because of the rules, and most of the pain is born by the soldiers who presumably volunteered or got unlucky or are nasty foreign mercenaries we don't care about anyway. The sides with the best armies win, and since good armies are built by powerful economies with high technology and lots of natural resources, the US always has good armies, so we nearly always win when everyone follows the rules. It's a great system for us.
Now, let's look at the other side.
Suppose that you're a citizen of some tiny little country in the bad part of nowhere with few resources to speak of, lots of starving people, and a bad economy. Specifically, suppose you're Palestinian. And you're in a conflict with Israel, which has most of the modern technology and resources that the US can throw at wars, and which is simply always going to beat you in a fair fight. Always. They're better boxers and always will be better boxers. You have no real hope of finding any allies that can do for you what the US does for Israel in terms of support in an outright shooting war.
Note that I am not saying a single word about the morality of either side of this. I'm just presuming that there's a war, which there is. Take a step back from who's right and who's wrong for just a moment.
What would you think about these rules of limited warfare which, if followed, guarantee that you will always lose? And what would you think about a system of morality that says that you're evil incarnate if you don't follow those rules, and lose, whenever you fight? When someone tells you that you have to follow these rules, are you going to hear a measured and reasoned analysis of the morality involved, or are you going to feel you're told you're required to lose? That, basically, you're being handed a pile of high-sounding moral rhetoric that reduces to "Israel is a better boxer and therefore they deserve to win because the fight should be fair?" In other words, this elaborate morality that we've constructed around war sounds, to the other side, very much like "might makes right."
It is quite common in the US for people to wring their hands and claim they just don't understand why anyone would support terrorism. Those people have never thought about the other side. There's a word for not having to think about other people's problems. That word is "privileged."
People in the US have a tiny percentage of the population fight all their wars for them, have the luxury to set up elaborate rules around wars so that they are rarely ever personally hurt, and have the best armies. All those rules about the correct way to fight wars ensure that we'll win the wars without having to fight ourselves. Everything that any of us say about war, myself included, is from that position of privilege. The rules favor us. That doesn't mean the rules are necessarily wrong in some moral sense. It does mean that it's not horribly surprising that the people whom the rules do not favor aren't as fond of them.
Terrorism is the way you fight when you can't win wars in a fair fight. It's fighting dirty. It's like kidnapping the wife of the other boxer and holding her hostage to win the boxing match. It's not fair, it's against all the rules, it's not limited warfare, and it directly threatens the privilege of those of us whom the rules of war protect, like the other boxer's wife. It makes war more dangerous and destabilizing because all those behind-the-lines resources, social structures, and people in power are now potentially at risk. In other words, it means that if the terrorists get really lucky, the side with the best army may take more damage than it should in a fair fight, and might be unable to maintain control they would otherwise be assured.
Of course we hate terrorism. Terrorism means that war isn't something that only happens to other people. Terrorism destroys the outsourcing of war to soldiers and destroys our imagined sense of neutrality where we're not actually fighting since all we're doing is providing money. Terrorism makes us targets and means war isn't something that happens to other people.
But, again, look at the other side. Terrorism is a way that you can fight when you would otherwise lose. Terrorism is bad, nasty, dirty option, but it's an option other than surrender. Fighting wars while following all the rules is equivalent to giving up if you're so far overpowered that you have no shot in a fair fight of armies. It's a horrible, powerless feeling when you're in a war and you know that, no matter how brave you are, no matter how much you try, the force calculation says that you're inevitably going to lose. Terrorism gives you options. Terrorism provides you with some sense of power and control over what you can do.
Now, all of the above assumes that there simply is an armed conflict and there's no way to avoid it. Obviously, the best path is to not fight at all, to find some other means of resolving disagreements. Historically, and for obvious reasons, the side that is guaranteed to win in a fair fight has not been particularly fond of giving concessions to the side that would lose, but it's happened. There's a whole path of peace that I'm not talking about in this essay.
But, looking only at the fighting and not the morality of the positions for a moment, think about this, and you'll understand why Hamas wins elections. Think about it some more, and you'll understand why simply condemning terrorist groups as immoral, evil, inhuman monsters doesn't solve a problem. We're condemning people's desire to find an option other than surrender without providing an alternative. Think about how you'd feel if you were told that you had to follow a set of rules that guaranteed you could not personally defend anything you cared about in a fight, and think about that in a context where you didn't believe that any of the alternative mechanisms of justice would ever rule effectively in your favor. Imagine that the other side would always still have a well-funded army that was allowed to fight according to the rules that ensure they win.
Think about it some more, and you might see that as long as there are only two alternatives, terrorism or losing a war by the rules, what we are telling the Palestinians is that their only acceptable solution is surrender.
Try to look beyond your personal privilege, look past the protection those rules offer you personally, and wonder why anyone would believe they would just quietly accept those terms.
The only real solution is another option, which is certainly not news and is what everyone else has been saying for years. But while we're struggling to find that other option, what message are we really sending by villifying terrorism in the way that we are? In the giant echo chamber of Western media, it's preaching to the choir and making all of us feel better about our privileged position, reinforcing our shared morality and cultural assumptions. To the people who can't win in a fair fight, it's saying to them that if they ever, for whatever reason, get into an armed conflict, they're simply screwed. The longer we insistently say, with the full force of our moral superiority, that being pounded into the dirt by a superior army time and time again is the right and just way the world should work, the less likely they are to listen to anything we have to say ever again. Even if we find another option.
Some food for thought.
Russ Allbery > Other Writing
Terrorism and War
Written January 27, 2006
I have little direct evidence about the atrocities in the Spanish civil war. I know that some were committed by the Republicans, and far more (they are still continuing) by the Fascists. But what impressed me then, and has impressed me ever since, is that atrocities are believed in or disbelieved in solely on grounds of political predilection. Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence. Recently I drew up a table of atrocities during the period between 1918 and the present; there was never a year when atrocities were not occurring somewhere or other, and there was hardly a single case when the Left and the Right believed in the same stories simultaneously.
— George Orwell, "Looking Back on the Spanish War"
In the US moral perspective and in US political discussions there are two basic kinds of armed conflict: war and terrorism. There's a lot of grey area in the middle, but that's not the part that interests me. The part that interests me is the distinction.
The distinction isn't about methods, forces, reasons for fighting, or the legitimacy of the organizations sponsoring the fighting. These all come up in discussions, but they aren't the metrics by which the fighting swings from clearly war to clearly terrorism. The difference is, concisely, who the targets are. If you target enemy combatants, it's war. If you target civilian populations, it's terrorism. (There are some exceptions in world wars and around collateral damage, but the essence still holds.)
There are many reasons for this, and it is certainly not a phenomenon limited to the US. This definition is idealized in chivalry, reinforced by cultural stories and peer pressure, and is so basic to the way that we think about physical conflict that it's an unexamined set of assumptions deep in our cultural outlook. Children are told to pick on someone their own size, you never shoot someone in the back, you only fight people who are prepared to fight you, you fight the other guy's fighters and not their families, and so on. This attitude runs so deep that it's considered basic morality.
These rules serve a practical purpose: allowing a society to fight wars without being destroyed by them. This is an important goal if you have a lot of wars, and there have been times in history where there were a lot of wars. Unless you have some rules that create limited warfare, the losers would be devastated by the winners, both sides would be severely damaged by the war, peace would be far harder, and everything would look much uglier. Rules of limited warfare kept the women and children safe to create more citizens, kept the food supplies behind the lines protected, and protected the government, bureaucracy, and social system from being destroyed by the war. It also had the significant effect of keeping the rulers safe by saying that assassination is against the rules. Those rulers were, of course, the same people who worked out what the rules were. (I don't, by this, mean to imply that there aren't benefits for nearly everyone in this set of rules. There are. But it's worth keeping in mind that cultural rules often can be traced to how they help the powerful.)
However, the rules of limited warfare also do something else. They put the full burden of the war on armies following army rules, which in practice means that they ensure that the side with the best army wins. This is built into the language we use to talk about the proper way of conducting war: a fair fight. By definition, a fair fight means the side with the best army wins. These rules of limited, civilized warfare are like the Marquis of Queensbury rules in boxing: they're designed to ensure the best boxer wins, with no funny business and no recourse to anything other than boxing skill.
So far, so good. In a world of mostly balanced powers (which has been the case through most of history), you win some and you lose some, wars stay under control because of the rules, and most of the pain is born by the soldiers who presumably volunteered or got unlucky or are nasty foreign mercenaries we don't care about anyway. The sides with the best armies win, and since good armies are built by powerful economies with high technology and lots of natural resources, the US always has good armies, so we nearly always win when everyone follows the rules. It's a great system for us.
Now, let's look at the other side.
Suppose that you're a citizen of some tiny little country in the bad part of nowhere with few resources to speak of, lots of starving people, and a bad economy. Specifically, suppose you're Palestinian. And you're in a conflict with Israel, which has most of the modern technology and resources that the US can throw at wars, and which is simply always going to beat you in a fair fight. Always. They're better boxers and always will be better boxers. You have no real hope of finding any allies that can do for you what the US does for Israel in terms of support in an outright shooting war.
Note that I am not saying a single word about the morality of either side of this. I'm just presuming that there's a war, which there is. Take a step back from who's right and who's wrong for just a moment.
What would you think about these rules of limited warfare which, if followed, guarantee that you will always lose? And what would you think about a system of morality that says that you're evil incarnate if you don't follow those rules, and lose, whenever you fight? When someone tells you that you have to follow these rules, are you going to hear a measured and reasoned analysis of the morality involved, or are you going to feel you're told you're required to lose? That, basically, you're being handed a pile of high-sounding moral rhetoric that reduces to "Israel is a better boxer and therefore they deserve to win because the fight should be fair?" In other words, this elaborate morality that we've constructed around war sounds, to the other side, very much like "might makes right."
It is quite common in the US for people to wring their hands and claim they just don't understand why anyone would support terrorism. Those people have never thought about the other side. There's a word for not having to think about other people's problems. That word is "privileged."
People in the US have a tiny percentage of the population fight all their wars for them, have the luxury to set up elaborate rules around wars so that they are rarely ever personally hurt, and have the best armies. All those rules about the correct way to fight wars ensure that we'll win the wars without having to fight ourselves. Everything that any of us say about war, myself included, is from that position of privilege. The rules favor us. That doesn't mean the rules are necessarily wrong in some moral sense. It does mean that it's not horribly surprising that the people whom the rules do not favor aren't as fond of them.
Terrorism is the way you fight when you can't win wars in a fair fight. It's fighting dirty. It's like kidnapping the wife of the other boxer and holding her hostage to win the boxing match. It's not fair, it's against all the rules, it's not limited warfare, and it directly threatens the privilege of those of us whom the rules of war protect, like the other boxer's wife. It makes war more dangerous and destabilizing because all those behind-the-lines resources, social structures, and people in power are now potentially at risk. In other words, it means that if the terrorists get really lucky, the side with the best army may take more damage than it should in a fair fight, and might be unable to maintain control they would otherwise be assured.
Of course we hate terrorism. Terrorism means that war isn't something that only happens to other people. Terrorism destroys the outsourcing of war to soldiers and destroys our imagined sense of neutrality where we're not actually fighting since all we're doing is providing money. Terrorism makes us targets and means war isn't something that happens to other people.
But, again, look at the other side. Terrorism is a way that you can fight when you would otherwise lose. Terrorism is bad, nasty, dirty option, but it's an option other than surrender. Fighting wars while following all the rules is equivalent to giving up if you're so far overpowered that you have no shot in a fair fight of armies. It's a horrible, powerless feeling when you're in a war and you know that, no matter how brave you are, no matter how much you try, the force calculation says that you're inevitably going to lose. Terrorism gives you options. Terrorism provides you with some sense of power and control over what you can do.
Now, all of the above assumes that there simply is an armed conflict and there's no way to avoid it. Obviously, the best path is to not fight at all, to find some other means of resolving disagreements. Historically, and for obvious reasons, the side that is guaranteed to win in a fair fight has not been particularly fond of giving concessions to the side that would lose, but it's happened. There's a whole path of peace that I'm not talking about in this essay.
But, looking only at the fighting and not the morality of the positions for a moment, think about this, and you'll understand why Hamas wins elections. Think about it some more, and you'll understand why simply condemning terrorist groups as immoral, evil, inhuman monsters doesn't solve a problem. We're condemning people's desire to find an option other than surrender without providing an alternative. Think about how you'd feel if you were told that you had to follow a set of rules that guaranteed you could not personally defend anything you cared about in a fight, and think about that in a context where you didn't believe that any of the alternative mechanisms of justice would ever rule effectively in your favor. Imagine that the other side would always still have a well-funded army that was allowed to fight according to the rules that ensure they win.
Think about it some more, and you might see that as long as there are only two alternatives, terrorism or losing a war by the rules, what we are telling the Palestinians is that their only acceptable solution is surrender.
Try to look beyond your personal privilege, look past the protection those rules offer you personally, and wonder why anyone would believe they would just quietly accept those terms.
The only real solution is another option, which is certainly not news and is what everyone else has been saying for years. But while we're struggling to find that other option, what message are we really sending by villifying terrorism in the way that we are? In the giant echo chamber of Western media, it's preaching to the choir and making all of us feel better about our privileged position, reinforcing our shared morality and cultural assumptions. To the people who can't win in a fair fight, it's saying to them that if they ever, for whatever reason, get into an armed conflict, they're simply screwed. The longer we insistently say, with the full force of our moral superiority, that being pounded into the dirt by a superior army time and time again is the right and just way the world should work, the less likely they are to listen to anything we have to say ever again. Even if we find another option.
Some food for thought.
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Vincent (Starry Starry Night) - Don McLean (legendado)youtube
Rush Limbaugh blames Oklahoma City bombing on Bill Clinton video
EXCERPT:
Right or wrong, the Oklahoma City bombing has become something of a political football ever since the terrorist attack occurred. Every anniversary a debate emerges as to who was to blame for the attack, and how it could have been prevented.
Last week, former President Bill Clinton lightly brushed upon the subject in a speech before the Center for American Progress. Without specifically mentioning the Oklahoma City bombing, Clinton warned about the danger of right-wing rhetoric in possibly promoting violence. Clinton specifically mentioned Rush Limbaugh's more extreme rants against the Obama administration.
Kagan, Ruby Ridge, coverup
EXCERPT:
By 1995, it was the alleged FBI coverup following the shootings that became the consuming issue.
Dispute btw Hatch and Specter — when to finish up? latter wants to get into coverup," state handwritten notes in Kagan's files.
Hudson dept. store demolition
EXCERPT:
Mark Loizeaux, President of CDI, called Hudson’s the greatest dynamic structural control challenge the company had ever faced. CDI had to sever the steel in the columns and create a delay system which could simultaneously control the failure of the building’s 12 different structural configurations, while trying to keep the hundreds of thousands of tons of debris within the 420 ft by 220 ft footprint of the structure. CDI needed structural data to complete its design. Under CDI direction, Homrich/NASDI’s 21 man crew needed three months to investigate the complex and four months to complete preparations for CDI’s implosion design. During that period, the lower two basements of the structure were filled with engineered fill and the perimeter basement walls bermed to 1st basement level with soil to support perimeter walls which would surely have failed under soil and hydrostatic loads once the horizontal support of the Hudson’s internal structure was removed by the implosion.
Controlled Demolition, Inc.: J.L. Hudsons Department Store GUINNESS WORLD RECORD!! youtube
WTC and the Loizeaux family
EXCERPT:
The ties of Controlled Demolition, Inc. with the DoD are very old. In November 1978 through January 1979 CDI used both conventional and implosion methods to destroy former Soviet military's Large Phased Array Radar Facility in Skrunda, Latvia, under the direction of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Transatlantic Programs Center. Already in the 50s the father of the Loizeauz Brothers, Jack Loizeaux, "was blasting tree stumps for the U.S. Forestry Service in Georgia." He later would found Controlled Demolition. http://www.implosionworld.com/history3.htm About the vertically, rather than falling over collapse of the Twin Towers, his son Mark Loizeaux once answered: "I don't have a clue".
LPAR Facility in Russia and Controlled Demolition
EXCERPT:
The second tallest building in Latvia and twenty-four other structures were carefully demolished at a large phase array radar (LPAR) facility in the middle of an active Russian military base in Skrunda, Latvia. When finished, the nearly-completed, over-the-horizon system was to become the mainstay of Russia’s central European early warning system for nuclear attack. The complex was demolished as a result of President Clinton’s commitment to help the Latvian government comply with a treaty involving the withdrawal of Russian troops.
Demolition access to the WTC towers
EXCERPT:
Sheirer now works at Giuliani’s firm, Giuliani Partners, along with Pasquale J. (Pat) D’Amuro, the FBI agent who ran the PENTTBOM investigation and stole evidence from Ground Zero (see below),
Pasquale J. D'Amuro
EXCERPT:
Mr. D'Amuro is Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Giuliani Security & Safety LLC, a division of Giuliani Partners LLC dedicated to security consulting. Before joining Giuliani Security & Safety, Mr. D'Amuro served as the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York FBI Office, where he had begun his FBI career in 1979. Mr. D'Amuro has worked on a wide array of criminal investigations, including white collar crimes, major property crimes, violent crime, and organized crime. In addition, much of Mr. D'Amuro's twenty-six-year career was devoted to counterterrorism, in which he is an internationally recognized expert
Neil Bush and money used inappropriately for 3 states education
EXCERPT:
Bush Brother’s Firm Faces Inquiry Over Purchases
By MARILYN W. THOMPSON
Published: November 7, 2007
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 — The inspector general of the Department of Education has said he will examine whether federal money was inappropriately used by three states to buy educational products from a company owned by Neil Bush, the president’s brother.
Neil Bush and Crest Investment Company
EXCERPT:
Neil disclosed this employment during a divorce deposition on March 3, 2003. He testified that he was co-chairman of the Houston-based, Crest Investment Corporation, which invests in energy and other ventures, and said he received $15,000 every three months for a average 3 or 4 hours of work a week doing "miscellaneous consulting services." "Such as?" his ex-wife's Attorney asked, "Such as answering phone calls when Jamal Daniel, the other co-chairman, called and asked for advice," Neil answered.
Crest's co-chairman, Daniel, sits on the advisory board of New Bridge Strategies, a firm set up in March 2003, just in time to cash in on the Iraq reconstruction contracts, by a group of businessmen with close ties to the Bush family, and both Bush administrations. The firm's chairman is Joe Allbaugh, who was W's campaign director in the 2000, and who was appointed Director of FEMA once Bush took office.
In addition to paying him for "consulting.........
Middle East: Bush's Brother Helped New Bridge Strategies Businessmen
EXCERPT:
On several occasions, the two have attempted to exploit their association with the president's brother to help win business and investors.
Three people contacted by the FT have seen letters written by Neil Bush recommending business ventures promoted by Mr Howland, Mr Daniel and his family in the Middle East. Mr Daniel has also had his photograph taken with the elder Mr Bush. Such letters and photographs can be valuable props when doing business in the Middle East.
Mr Daniel's Houston investment fund, Crest Investment Corporation, employs Neil Bush as co-chairman. Crest Investment also helped fund Neil Bush's Ignite!, an educational software company. Mr Daniel sometimes introduces himself as a founding backer of Mr Bush's company, a Middle-Eastern businessman who has met him said, and has persuaded the families of prominent leaders in the region to invest.
Guiliani, the mob and FreshKill landfill
EXCERPT:
But it is his current position that makes the investigation such a sensitive matter for the Giuliani administration. The Mayor's Office of Operations is in the midst of developing a plan with the Department of Sanitation to close the Staten Island landfill by 2001 and export as many as 12,900 tons of garbage a day to other states. The plan has spawned a feud between the Mayor and officials in Virginia and four other mid-Atlantic states.
Fresh Kills Landfill
EXCERPT:
At the peak of its operation, the contents of twenty barges - each carrying 650 tons of garbage - were added to the site every day.[3]There is speculation that it could be regarded as being the largest man-made structure on Earth,[3] with the site's volume eventually exceeding the Great Wall of China.[3] In 2001 its peak was 25 meters taller than the Statue of Liberty.[3] Under local pressure and with support of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the landfill site was closed on March 22, 2001. However, after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, the landfill was temporarily reopened to receive and process much of the debris from the destruction. The debris was never removed and is buried in a 40 acre portion of the landfill. The New York City Medical Examiner has stated in a written affidavit that he is "virtually certain" the debris contains human remains [4].
Originally the land that the landfill was located on was a salt of intertidal marsh. The subsoil was made up of clay, with sand and silt as the top layer of soil. The land was originally farmland, and still contained large amount of wildlife within the four mounds of the landfill. There were tidal wetlands, forests, and freshwater wetlands.[5]
From the landfill, many chemicals were leached into the environment. Chemicals were released into the air from the barges during loading and unloading with garbage trucks, local ground water leaching, and chemical dust from cement trucks. The Fresh Kills Landfill was unlined and leached thousands of pounds of heavy metals and toxic chemicals into nearby waterways. The residents nearby on Staten Island were also very familiar to the odors emitted from the landfill. The landfill cost the city one billion dollars to shut down. Federal law mandates that the city must continue to monitor and maintain the site for thirty years after the last dumping occurred.[citation needed]
Decades of delay in landfill cleanup promps lawsuit by Staten Islanders
EXCERPT:
Though far smaller than the borough's infamous Fresh Kills landfill, the Brookfield site poses nearly as great a threat to the environment as its 3,000-acre counterpart, because of the toxic combination of cyanide, lead, arsenic, and other contaminants leaking from the landfill.
The federal investigation found that somewhere between 10,000 gallons a week to 50,000 gallons a day of hazardous waste were dumped illegally at the site during its last six years of operation. The oil, sludge, metal plating, lacquers and solvents, which came from manufacturers throughout the region, remain buried on the site and feed the 95,000 gallons of contaminated water which leak from the site each day into groundwater and the Richmond Creek.
There are nearly 10,000 people living within a quarter-mile of the landfill. In addition, four schools and one church -- the Tanglewood Nursery School, P.S. 37, P.S. 32, St. Patrick's School, and St. Patrick's church -- are within a quarter mile of the landfill.
Bloomberg's biggest scandal the Deutsche Bank fire should be his downfall
EXCERPT:
Ever since Beddia and Graffagnino succumbed to smoke on the 14th floor of the city's most toxic building, just 118 feet from where 343 of their brothers perished six years earlier. Even Bloomberg's Department of Investigations (DOI) found last month, in a report barely noticed by the press, that it was a case of death by official dereliction.
Deutsche fire
EXCERPT:
The deadly fire came after years of Community Board 1 and other local residents and activists warning that the building was unsafe. The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, which owns the building, hired an asbestos decontamination subcontractor who had no experience and alleged mob ties. A series of accidents led up to the fire, and each time the community raised an alarm. Each time, they were ignored.
Kerik (Guiliani's bud)
EXCERPT:
Bribery. Accepted $255,000 worth of renovations to his apartment in an upscale section of the Bronx from a mob-connected construction company, Interstate Industrial Corporation, that sought his help in winning city contracts. Kerik was Commissioner of the New York City Department of Corrections at the time. He already admitted to charges from city prosecutors that the payments constituted an illegal gift.
Guiliani and Kerik and the mob
EXCERPT:
The City investigation was prompted by a $30 million contract sought by the DiTommaso brothers’ business to assist in the closing of the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, an illegal Mob-controlled landfill that was only closed after the election of former Mafia Prosecutor Rudolph Giuliani as Mayor of New York. The City as a result of their investigation canceled the $30 million contract.
The Federal investigation of the DiTommaso brothers concerned their purchase of a Staten Island waste station controlled by Edward Garafola, who is married to the sister of former Gambino Family Underboss Sammy "The Bull" Gravano. Garafola was indicted in March 2000 along with Lawrence Ray, an executive of the DiTommaso brothers’ Interstate Industrial Corporation, and Daniel Persico, nephew of Colombo Family Godfather Carmine "The Snake" Persico, on Federal charges involving a $40 million stock ‘pump and dump’ scam. Interstate Industrial Corporation was also denied a contract by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission in 2000 to perform work on an Atlantic City gambling casino.
Pump and dump stock scams
EXCERPT:
Enron
As late as April 2001, before the company's collapse, Enron executives participated in an elaborate scheme of pump-and-dump[4] in addition to other illegal practices that fooled the most experienced analysts on Wall Street. Studies of the anonymous messages posted on the Yahoo board dedicated to Enron revealed predictive messages that the company was basically a house of cards, and that investors should bail out while the stock was good.[5] Enron had falsely reported profits which inflated the stock price, and then covered the real numbers by using questionable accounting practices. 29 Enron executives sold overvalued stock for more than 1 billion prior to the company going bankrupt.[6]
A poor man's Bernie Madoff screws Haitian Americans
EXCERPT:
And 46-year-old Tampa-based Mike Muzio, a bankrupt cigar bar entrepreneur on probation for grand larceny in New York state, specialized in the "pump" half of what prosecutors call a "pump and dump" operation. He bought a shell company called International Business Ventures Group in order to trade worthless stock with Homepals.
Homepals Investment Club LLC
EXCERPT:
Homepals Investment Club, LLC
Posted: 2009-10-08 by
I gave this company money that promised to double it in 90 days. I didn't realize it was a Ponzi Scheme til it was too late. The first time I invested, they came through, but the second time I got screwed and the company closed their doors. Now I've lost all of my initial principle money and interest money. This was just after George Theodule got caught last year around August 2009 for doing the same thing to numerous Haitians.
Has anyone else out there been scammed by these people? The officers were Ronnie Bass, Brian Taglieri, and Abner Albre. All three of these guys have disappeared with my money and others. Before they left, Brian wanted me to convert my principle and interest to a new company called International Business Ventures in the form of shares, but I refused. The full story is here: International business ventures group inc-IBVR
The SEC has also filed a lawsuit: Complaints pdf
The case is ongoing as far as I can see. I was told that a court hearing is this November 3rd. I can't afford an attorney, but I have filed a complaint with the State Attorney so my status is in limbo. Is anyone else out there also a victim or know someone who has experienced the same situation and do you have any pertinent information to add to this?
Thank you to anyone who responds.
Rush Limbaugh blames Oklahoma City bombing on Bill Clinton video
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Right or wrong, the Oklahoma City bombing has become something of a political football ever since the terrorist attack occurred. Every anniversary a debate emerges as to who was to blame for the attack, and how it could have been prevented.
Last week, former President Bill Clinton lightly brushed upon the subject in a speech before the Center for American Progress. Without specifically mentioning the Oklahoma City bombing, Clinton warned about the danger of right-wing rhetoric in possibly promoting violence. Clinton specifically mentioned Rush Limbaugh's more extreme rants against the Obama administration.
Kagan, Ruby Ridge, coverup
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By 1995, it was the alleged FBI coverup following the shootings that became the consuming issue.
Dispute btw Hatch and Specter — when to finish up? latter wants to get into coverup," state handwritten notes in Kagan's files.
Hudson dept. store demolition
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Mark Loizeaux, President of CDI, called Hudson’s the greatest dynamic structural control challenge the company had ever faced. CDI had to sever the steel in the columns and create a delay system which could simultaneously control the failure of the building’s 12 different structural configurations, while trying to keep the hundreds of thousands of tons of debris within the 420 ft by 220 ft footprint of the structure. CDI needed structural data to complete its design. Under CDI direction, Homrich/NASDI’s 21 man crew needed three months to investigate the complex and four months to complete preparations for CDI’s implosion design. During that period, the lower two basements of the structure were filled with engineered fill and the perimeter basement walls bermed to 1st basement level with soil to support perimeter walls which would surely have failed under soil and hydrostatic loads once the horizontal support of the Hudson’s internal structure was removed by the implosion.
Controlled Demolition, Inc.: J.L. Hudsons Department Store GUINNESS WORLD RECORD!! youtube
WTC and the Loizeaux family
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The ties of Controlled Demolition, Inc. with the DoD are very old. In November 1978 through January 1979 CDI used both conventional and implosion methods to destroy former Soviet military's Large Phased Array Radar Facility in Skrunda, Latvia, under the direction of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Transatlantic Programs Center. Already in the 50s the father of the Loizeauz Brothers, Jack Loizeaux, "was blasting tree stumps for the U.S. Forestry Service in Georgia." He later would found Controlled Demolition. http://www.implosionworld.com/history3.htm About the vertically, rather than falling over collapse of the Twin Towers, his son Mark Loizeaux once answered: "I don't have a clue".
LPAR Facility in Russia and Controlled Demolition
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The second tallest building in Latvia and twenty-four other structures were carefully demolished at a large phase array radar (LPAR) facility in the middle of an active Russian military base in Skrunda, Latvia. When finished, the nearly-completed, over-the-horizon system was to become the mainstay of Russia’s central European early warning system for nuclear attack. The complex was demolished as a result of President Clinton’s commitment to help the Latvian government comply with a treaty involving the withdrawal of Russian troops.
Demolition access to the WTC towers
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Sheirer now works at Giuliani’s firm, Giuliani Partners, along with Pasquale J. (Pat) D’Amuro, the FBI agent who ran the PENTTBOM investigation and stole evidence from Ground Zero (see below),
Pasquale J. D'Amuro
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Mr. D'Amuro is Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Giuliani Security & Safety LLC, a division of Giuliani Partners LLC dedicated to security consulting. Before joining Giuliani Security & Safety, Mr. D'Amuro served as the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York FBI Office, where he had begun his FBI career in 1979. Mr. D'Amuro has worked on a wide array of criminal investigations, including white collar crimes, major property crimes, violent crime, and organized crime. In addition, much of Mr. D'Amuro's twenty-six-year career was devoted to counterterrorism, in which he is an internationally recognized expert
Neil Bush and money used inappropriately for 3 states education
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Bush Brother’s Firm Faces Inquiry Over Purchases
By MARILYN W. THOMPSON
Published: November 7, 2007
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 — The inspector general of the Department of Education has said he will examine whether federal money was inappropriately used by three states to buy educational products from a company owned by Neil Bush, the president’s brother.
Neil Bush and Crest Investment Company
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Neil disclosed this employment during a divorce deposition on March 3, 2003. He testified that he was co-chairman of the Houston-based, Crest Investment Corporation, which invests in energy and other ventures, and said he received $15,000 every three months for a average 3 or 4 hours of work a week doing "miscellaneous consulting services." "Such as?" his ex-wife's Attorney asked, "Such as answering phone calls when Jamal Daniel, the other co-chairman, called and asked for advice," Neil answered.
Crest's co-chairman, Daniel, sits on the advisory board of New Bridge Strategies, a firm set up in March 2003, just in time to cash in on the Iraq reconstruction contracts, by a group of businessmen with close ties to the Bush family, and both Bush administrations. The firm's chairman is Joe Allbaugh, who was W's campaign director in the 2000, and who was appointed Director of FEMA once Bush took office.
In addition to paying him for "consulting.........
Middle East: Bush's Brother Helped New Bridge Strategies Businessmen
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On several occasions, the two have attempted to exploit their association with the president's brother to help win business and investors.
Three people contacted by the FT have seen letters written by Neil Bush recommending business ventures promoted by Mr Howland, Mr Daniel and his family in the Middle East. Mr Daniel has also had his photograph taken with the elder Mr Bush. Such letters and photographs can be valuable props when doing business in the Middle East.
Mr Daniel's Houston investment fund, Crest Investment Corporation, employs Neil Bush as co-chairman. Crest Investment also helped fund Neil Bush's Ignite!, an educational software company. Mr Daniel sometimes introduces himself as a founding backer of Mr Bush's company, a Middle-Eastern businessman who has met him said, and has persuaded the families of prominent leaders in the region to invest.
Guiliani, the mob and FreshKill landfill
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But it is his current position that makes the investigation such a sensitive matter for the Giuliani administration. The Mayor's Office of Operations is in the midst of developing a plan with the Department of Sanitation to close the Staten Island landfill by 2001 and export as many as 12,900 tons of garbage a day to other states. The plan has spawned a feud between the Mayor and officials in Virginia and four other mid-Atlantic states.
Fresh Kills Landfill
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At the peak of its operation, the contents of twenty barges - each carrying 650 tons of garbage - were added to the site every day.[3]There is speculation that it could be regarded as being the largest man-made structure on Earth,[3] with the site's volume eventually exceeding the Great Wall of China.[3] In 2001 its peak was 25 meters taller than the Statue of Liberty.[3] Under local pressure and with support of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the landfill site was closed on March 22, 2001. However, after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, the landfill was temporarily reopened to receive and process much of the debris from the destruction. The debris was never removed and is buried in a 40 acre portion of the landfill. The New York City Medical Examiner has stated in a written affidavit that he is "virtually certain" the debris contains human remains [4].
Originally the land that the landfill was located on was a salt of intertidal marsh. The subsoil was made up of clay, with sand and silt as the top layer of soil. The land was originally farmland, and still contained large amount of wildlife within the four mounds of the landfill. There were tidal wetlands, forests, and freshwater wetlands.[5]
From the landfill, many chemicals were leached into the environment. Chemicals were released into the air from the barges during loading and unloading with garbage trucks, local ground water leaching, and chemical dust from cement trucks. The Fresh Kills Landfill was unlined and leached thousands of pounds of heavy metals and toxic chemicals into nearby waterways. The residents nearby on Staten Island were also very familiar to the odors emitted from the landfill. The landfill cost the city one billion dollars to shut down. Federal law mandates that the city must continue to monitor and maintain the site for thirty years after the last dumping occurred.[citation needed]
Decades of delay in landfill cleanup promps lawsuit by Staten Islanders
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Though far smaller than the borough's infamous Fresh Kills landfill, the Brookfield site poses nearly as great a threat to the environment as its 3,000-acre counterpart, because of the toxic combination of cyanide, lead, arsenic, and other contaminants leaking from the landfill.
The federal investigation found that somewhere between 10,000 gallons a week to 50,000 gallons a day of hazardous waste were dumped illegally at the site during its last six years of operation. The oil, sludge, metal plating, lacquers and solvents, which came from manufacturers throughout the region, remain buried on the site and feed the 95,000 gallons of contaminated water which leak from the site each day into groundwater and the Richmond Creek.
There are nearly 10,000 people living within a quarter-mile of the landfill. In addition, four schools and one church -- the Tanglewood Nursery School, P.S. 37, P.S. 32, St. Patrick's School, and St. Patrick's church -- are within a quarter mile of the landfill.
Bloomberg's biggest scandal the Deutsche Bank fire should be his downfall
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Ever since Beddia and Graffagnino succumbed to smoke on the 14th floor of the city's most toxic building, just 118 feet from where 343 of their brothers perished six years earlier. Even Bloomberg's Department of Investigations (DOI) found last month, in a report barely noticed by the press, that it was a case of death by official dereliction.
Deutsche fire
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The deadly fire came after years of Community Board 1 and other local residents and activists warning that the building was unsafe. The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, which owns the building, hired an asbestos decontamination subcontractor who had no experience and alleged mob ties. A series of accidents led up to the fire, and each time the community raised an alarm. Each time, they were ignored.
Kerik (Guiliani's bud)
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Bribery. Accepted $255,000 worth of renovations to his apartment in an upscale section of the Bronx from a mob-connected construction company, Interstate Industrial Corporation, that sought his help in winning city contracts. Kerik was Commissioner of the New York City Department of Corrections at the time. He already admitted to charges from city prosecutors that the payments constituted an illegal gift.
Guiliani and Kerik and the mob
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The City investigation was prompted by a $30 million contract sought by the DiTommaso brothers’ business to assist in the closing of the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, an illegal Mob-controlled landfill that was only closed after the election of former Mafia Prosecutor Rudolph Giuliani as Mayor of New York. The City as a result of their investigation canceled the $30 million contract.
The Federal investigation of the DiTommaso brothers concerned their purchase of a Staten Island waste station controlled by Edward Garafola, who is married to the sister of former Gambino Family Underboss Sammy "The Bull" Gravano. Garafola was indicted in March 2000 along with Lawrence Ray, an executive of the DiTommaso brothers’ Interstate Industrial Corporation, and Daniel Persico, nephew of Colombo Family Godfather Carmine "The Snake" Persico, on Federal charges involving a $40 million stock ‘pump and dump’ scam. Interstate Industrial Corporation was also denied a contract by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission in 2000 to perform work on an Atlantic City gambling casino.
Pump and dump stock scams
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Enron
As late as April 2001, before the company's collapse, Enron executives participated in an elaborate scheme of pump-and-dump[4] in addition to other illegal practices that fooled the most experienced analysts on Wall Street. Studies of the anonymous messages posted on the Yahoo board dedicated to Enron revealed predictive messages that the company was basically a house of cards, and that investors should bail out while the stock was good.[5] Enron had falsely reported profits which inflated the stock price, and then covered the real numbers by using questionable accounting practices. 29 Enron executives sold overvalued stock for more than 1 billion prior to the company going bankrupt.[6]
A poor man's Bernie Madoff screws Haitian Americans
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And 46-year-old Tampa-based Mike Muzio, a bankrupt cigar bar entrepreneur on probation for grand larceny in New York state, specialized in the "pump" half of what prosecutors call a "pump and dump" operation. He bought a shell company called International Business Ventures Group in order to trade worthless stock with Homepals.
Homepals Investment Club LLC
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Homepals Investment Club, LLC
Posted: 2009-10-08 by
I gave this company money that promised to double it in 90 days. I didn't realize it was a Ponzi Scheme til it was too late. The first time I invested, they came through, but the second time I got screwed and the company closed their doors. Now I've lost all of my initial principle money and interest money. This was just after George Theodule got caught last year around August 2009 for doing the same thing to numerous Haitians.
Has anyone else out there been scammed by these people? The officers were Ronnie Bass, Brian Taglieri, and Abner Albre. All three of these guys have disappeared with my money and others. Before they left, Brian wanted me to convert my principle and interest to a new company called International Business Ventures in the form of shares, but I refused. The full story is here: International business ventures group inc-IBVR
The SEC has also filed a lawsuit: Complaints pdf
The case is ongoing as far as I can see. I was told that a court hearing is this November 3rd. I can't afford an attorney, but I have filed a complaint with the State Attorney so my status is in limbo. Is anyone else out there also a victim or know someone who has experienced the same situation and do you have any pertinent information to add to this?
Thank you to anyone who responds.
Trying to understand Narcissism
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Narcissists are very disappointing as gift-givers. This is not a trivial consideration in personal relationships. I've seen narcissistic people sweetly solicit someone's preferences ("Go ahead -- tell me what you really want"), make a show of paying attention to the answer ("Don't you think I'm nice?"), and then deliver something other than what was asked for -- and feel abused and unappreciated when someone else gets gratitude for fulfilling the very request that the narcissist evoked in the first place. I've seen this happen often, where narcissists will go out of their way to stir up other people's expectations and then go out of their way to disappoint those expectations. It seems like a lot of pointless work to me.
First, narcissists lack empathy, so they don't know what you want or like and, evidently, they don't care either; second, they think their opinions are better and more important than anyone else's, so they'll give you what they think you ought to want, regardless of what you may have said when asked what you wanted for your birthday; third, they're stingy and will give as gifts stuff that's just lying around their house, such as possessions that they no longer have any use for, or -- in really choice instances -- return to you something that was yours in the first place. In fact, as a practical matter, the surest way NOT to get what you want from a narcissist is to ask for it; your chances are better if you just keep quiet, because every now and then the narcissist will hit on the right thing by random accident. ^
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Narcissists are very disappointing as gift-givers. This is not a trivial consideration in personal relationships. I've seen narcissistic people sweetly solicit someone's preferences ("Go ahead -- tell me what you really want"), make a show of paying attention to the answer ("Don't you think I'm nice?"), and then deliver something other than what was asked for -- and feel abused and unappreciated when someone else gets gratitude for fulfilling the very request that the narcissist evoked in the first place. I've seen this happen often, where narcissists will go out of their way to stir up other people's expectations and then go out of their way to disappoint those expectations. It seems like a lot of pointless work to me.
First, narcissists lack empathy, so they don't know what you want or like and, evidently, they don't care either; second, they think their opinions are better and more important than anyone else's, so they'll give you what they think you ought to want, regardless of what you may have said when asked what you wanted for your birthday; third, they're stingy and will give as gifts stuff that's just lying around their house, such as possessions that they no longer have any use for, or -- in really choice instances -- return to you something that was yours in the first place. In fact, as a practical matter, the surest way NOT to get what you want from a narcissist is to ask for it; your chances are better if you just keep quiet, because every now and then the narcissist will hit on the right thing by random accident. ^
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over youtube
THE SATANIC BLOODLINES
Introduction
1. 1. The Astor Bloodline
2. 2. The Bundy Bloodline
3.3. The Collins Bloodline
4.4. The DuPont Bloodline
5.5. The Freeman Bloodline
6 6. The Kennedy Bloodline
7 7. The Li Bloodline
8.8. The Onassis Bloodline
9 9. The Reynolds bloodline
110. The Rockefeller Bloodline
11. The Rothschild Bloodline
12. The Russell Bloodline
13. The Van Duyn Bloodline
[ Merovingian] (European Royal Families)
Water wars corruption collusion scandal
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Laurance Rockefeller is named on the Board of Trustees of the NRDC. His family and the tax exempt Rockefeller Foundation have created and financed countless UN agencies and programs. The Rockefeller Foundation has gifted grants to the UN Population Council, which has its roots in eugenics, the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) and the UN World Bank. Read the transcript from Senator Norm Dodds’ interview with G. Edward Griffin for more information on the traitorous Rockefeller and Ford Foundations (http://www.realityzone.com/hiddenagenda2.html).
The Robert Redford Building houses the NRDC office in Los Angeles, and he is on the NRDC Board of Trustees. Robert Redford incessantly promotes man made global warming (which is based on corrupt science from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Control), as well as Sustainable Development which, through the UN Global Biodiversity Assessment report, advocates erasing humans from 50% of the landscape and massive depopulation. Further, he is on the Global Council on Awakening Arts and Entertainment, which is closely related to the Club of Budapest, a branch of the Club of Rome, an organization famous for writing that they would use pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages and famine to unite them, and then named humanity as the enemy (2).
The Solution supported for this manufactured crisis is the Peripheral Canal. The ‘scientific’ report for the Peripheral Canal was funded by Sephen Bechtel and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation (3)
The Bechtel Corporation is well known for privatizing a major water source in poverty stricken Bolivia after it had defaulted on a World Bank loan, and then they reportedly raised the water utility rates by over 50%. You can read a long history of their crimes and shoddy workmanship here..........
Robert Redform film Hollywood
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He is notably cynical, however, about Al Gore's recent award of a Nobel Peace Prize. "He's making a lot of money, he's having a belle époque, a heroic moment," he says. "It must have been really hard for Gore to suffer all that [losing the presidential election], so he found another thing to come back with: the environment.
Laurance Rockefeller wikipedia
Laurance Spelman Rockefeller (May 26, 1910 – July 11, 2004) was a venture capitalist, financier, philanthropist, a major conservationist and a prominent third-generation member of the Rockefeller family. He was the fourth child of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and brother to John D. III, Nelson, Winthrop and David.
Crop circle wikipedia
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Rockefeller study
In 1999, researcher Colin Andrews received funding from Laurence Rockefeller to conduct a two-year investigation into crop circles. His team concluded that 80% of all crop formations that appeared in England throughout 1999 and 2000 were unquestionably man-made and instigated by business and media interests. However the team could not account for the nature of the remaining 20%, which were termed "genuine". Andrews stated that he had encountered such "unexplainable" patterns 20 years earlier.[15]
Andrews's figures have been disputed by CSICOP who argue that his criteria for distinguishing between man-made circles and non-man-made circles were insufficient, as no official standard exists for determining the nature of a crop circle. Furthermore, these circles were in England, where the hoax is most operative.[citation needed]
Funding from L. Rockefeller has also led to the creation of the BLT Research team,[16] a group of scientists and researches focused on providing thorough scientific documentation regarding all aspects of crop circle phenomena.
Crop Circles and the key to the World Order
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This article takes up the challenge formed by the reality of crop circles from an unknown origin. After discussing the psychology of repression and denial and an analysis of the phenomenon there is a conclusion stating that to arrive at a mondial concept of time-management is fundamental to the idea of a practical key to the world culture we could offer the alien intelligences we are dealing with.
Pat Delgado
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Posted Noon 23 May 2009.
Colin Andrews
Pat Delgado, famous for being the person who started serious research into what
became known as crop circles, passed away at 8.30 AM (U.K.) today in Winchester
Hospital, Hampshire, England.
Pat was a very young 90 years of age, when cancer struck and took a very rapid
toll in recent weeks.
He was a compassionate sensitive human being, an excellent engineer and
reputable healer. He was a dear friend and my co-author who was largely
responsible for one of the happiest periods of my life.
I send my deepest and most sincere condolences to Norah his Wife, Jan his
Daughter and Guy his Grandson, who showed such love and caring and did all
they could in such distressing circumstances. My love to you all.
Colin.
Tripura Sundari wikipedia
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Tripurasundari" redirects here. For Nepalese village, see Tripurasundari (village).
"Lalita" redirects here. For the gopi, related to Krishna worship, see Lalita (gopi).
Tripura Sundari (lit. "Beauty of Three Worlds"), also called Shodashi, Lalita (lit. "She Who Plays"[1]) and Rajarajeshvari, is one of the group of ten goddesses of Hindu belief, collectively called mahavidyas.
The goddess Tripura Sundari in her aspect as Shodasi is represented as a sixteen-year-old girl, and is believed to embody sixteen types of desire. The Shodasi Tantra, a treatise on the Tantra, describes Tripura Sundari as "Beauty Of Three Worlds". She is described as being of dusky color, and is depicted in an intimate position with an aspect of Shiva. The couple are shown on a bed, a throne, or a pedestal resting on the significant male gods of Hinduism like Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, and Indra.
The Indian state of Tripura derives its name from the goddess Tripura Sundari. Her main temple, the Tripura Sundari temple is also located on top of the hills near Radhakishorepur village, a little distance away from Udaipur town. Kashmiri Pandits have a collection of five ancient hymns, collectively known as Panchastavi, that were composed ages ago in praise of Tripura Sundari. These ancient hymns still remain very popular among this community.
Tripura sundari or Lalita is the goddess associated with Sri Vidya. The panchadashakshari mantra is the most guarded secrets of Sri Vidya, Usually a Guru gives it to the highly deserving disciple. As it is said in Lalita sahasranama, 'Na shathaya na dushtaya na vishwasaya karhichith sri mathra bhakti yuktaya sri vidya raja vediney' means, that this divine knowledge or vidya should not be taught or given to a person who is wicked, depraved or unfaithful. It should only be taught to a deserving person as this is the King of all Vidyas. Lalita holds five flowery arrows, noose, goad and bow. The noose represents attachment, the goad represents repulsion, the sugarcane bow represents the mind and the flowery arrows are the five sense objects.
Shodashakshari-Panchadashakshari-mantras
Shodashakshari Mantra: This is one of the famous and powerful mantra, and its secrets are unexplainable it has 16 letters.
This mantra is –
Ka Ye E La Hrim Ha Sa Ka Ha La Hrim Sa Ka La Hrim Shrim
Panchadashakshari Mantra: This also very powerful mantra, and it has 15 letters; and it is also called Shri Vidya Mantra.
It is –
Ka Ye E La Hrim Ha Sa Ka Ha La Hrim Sa Ka La Hrim
Note: The difference between Shodashakshari & Panchadashakshari, Mantra is of Shrim only. These mantras are the most powerful, miraculous, mysterious and unexplainable. Only a fortunate disciple gets diksha of these mantras from a Guru, and these mantras starts opening the secrets of the life and beyond the life.
These mantras are tested and have been used by number Gurus and Masters of India. A mantra actually becomes a mantra when it is given the by the Guru, and a Guru tells a proper guideline and procedure.
Sri Yantra wikipedia
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The Sri Chakra or Shri Yantra is a yantra formed by nine interlocking triangles that surround and radiate out from the central (bindu) point, the junction point between the physical universe and its unmanifest source. It represents the Hindu goddess Sri Lakshmi, the goddess of abundance on all levels, in abstract geometric form. It also represents the goddess in her form of Tripura Sundari, "the beauty of the three worlds". Four of the triangles point upwards, representing Shiva or the Masculine. Five of these triangles point downwards, representing Shakti or the Feminine. Thus the Sri Yantra also represents the union of Masculine and Feminine Divine. Because it is composed of nine triangles, it is known as the Navayoni Chakra.[1]
Together the nine triangles are interlaced in such a way as to form 43 smaller triangles in a web symbolic of the entire cosmos or a womb symbolic of creation. Together they express Advaita or non-duality. This is surrounded by a lotus of eight petals, a lotus of sixteen petals, and an earth square resembling a temple with four doors.[1]
The Shri Chakra is also known as the nava chakra because it can also be seen as having nine levels. "Nava" means "nine" in Sanskrit. Each level corresponds to a mudra, a yogini, and a specific form of the deity Tripura Sundari along with her mantra. These levels starting from the outside or bottom layer are:[1]
Please be aware that two of my children were born in Dos Palos, Ca. (Dos = 2 and Palos = trees) and that my paternal grand mother's name was Olive Akerland (I thought of the Akerland as in Acre Land and most often thought that the name was representative of Palestine as I know that Palestine is known the world over for it's olive trees.)
Palo
tree (botany)
Pollen Path
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At the time, I was reading the Bible for basically the first time, although I had read a few verses over the years. Right after reading about the above mentioned concepts, I came to Revelation 11:9 and 11:11, which speak of the two olive trees/lampstands that lie dead for "three days and a half," and then stand up on their feet when a breath of life from God enters them.
The verses were not only "coincidental"
Dharmic and dreams
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At this point, spiritual maturity has been fully achieved. Further incarnations on the Dharmic Wheel are then unnecessary. The transformed Spirit of Light moves to the Center, symbolized by Bel, for further development in a different sphere of reality.
At the time I read this article, some incredible things were happening with me. See:
Humanity On The Pollen Path
It is a story of dreams and coincidences that came like puzzle pieces into a meaning. A central part of the article speaks of a coincidence involving the Sri Yantra pattern that appeared grooved into a dry lake bed in Oregon in 1990. It was huge, with 13.3 miles of lines.
bifurcation
Bifurcation means the splitting of a main body into two parts.
Bifurcation or Bifurcated may refer to:
Bifurcation (law), the division of issues in a trial for example the division of a page into two parts.
Bifurcation theory, the study of bifurcation in dynamical systems
River bifurcation, the forking of a river into its tributaries
Tongue bifurcation (disambiguation), different modifications or formations of the tongue
False dilemma or bifurcation, in which two alternative statements are held to be the only possible options when there are more options
Bifurcation of an incompressible flow, modeled by squeeze mapping the fluid flow
Bifurcated bonding, in which a single hydrogen atom participates in two hydrogen bonds.
Bifurcation in cybernetic systems: when a system switches from one stable state to another minor fluctuations may play a crucial role in deciding the outcome.
Dharmic wheel crop patterns
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One of the most important crop formations of 1992, appeared just north of Silbury Hill, Wiltshire (SU.094690) on the night of August 17th . It was called the "Charm Bracelet."
Anthropologist and crop circle researcher, Michael Green, wrote a brilliant article about the formation, calling it a "Dharmic Wheel." The title of the article was, "An Archaeological Approach." The meaning of the formation has similarities to the huge Sri Yantra pattern that appeared in a dry lake bed in Oregon in 1990.
Michael Green was the Chairman of the International Centre of Crop Circle Studies. In 1992 he was preparing a study of the crop circle phenomenon as symbols of spiritual development under the title, "The Celtic Zodiac." His chapter, "The Rings of Time" in The Crop Circle Enigma elaborates on the Dharmic Wheel.
Myths and Legends around the world pdf
Macmillan Reference USA
an imprint of the Gale Group
A mythology resource
encompassing all traditions
Myths and Legends of the World
Jack Wickersham, Editor in Chief
A mythology resource
encompassing all traditions
A wide perspective on cultures around the world
Classes in history, social studies, literature and drama are often our first
encounter with mythical figures and legends of other cultures. Until
now, most references focused on particular countries or regions — such as
classical Greece, or themes, such as angels or nature myths — rather than
encompassing mythologies from all parts of the world. Myths and Legends of
the World covers North and South America, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific
Islands as well as the more familiar stories from Europe and the Middle East
with comprehensive coverage of the deities, characters, objects, myths and
legends students are most likely to find in their studies.
Whether researching a specific mythical figure, a given motif, an ethnic
group or an unfamiliar term, users will find the encyclopedia is easily accessible.
Illustrated in full color throughout with more than 200 drawings and
photos, the set also offers sidebars and extensive backmatter, including
genealogy trees that illustrate the relationships between deities, and a subject
index that helps to identify similar themes across cultures.
Features:
• Full-color design throughout
• 500 A-to-Z articles written by scholars for a student audience
• More than 200 color illustrations
• Coverage of time periods and cultures from around the world...............
The implications are in this story, that the realm of Donn is underwater. This would denote the House of Donn as "the land beneath the waves" and other euphemisms for OtherWorld. These lands or cities beneath the waves, where lives the spirits of the departed, are known throughout Celtic lands [27].
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THE SATANIC BLOODLINES
Introduction
1. 1. The Astor Bloodline
2. 2. The Bundy Bloodline
3.3. The Collins Bloodline
4.4. The DuPont Bloodline
5.5. The Freeman Bloodline
6 6. The Kennedy Bloodline
7 7. The Li Bloodline
8.8. The Onassis Bloodline
9 9. The Reynolds bloodline
110. The Rockefeller Bloodline
11. The Rothschild Bloodline
12. The Russell Bloodline
13. The Van Duyn Bloodline
[ Merovingian] (European Royal Families)
Water wars corruption collusion scandal
EXCERPT:
Laurance Rockefeller is named on the Board of Trustees of the NRDC. His family and the tax exempt Rockefeller Foundation have created and financed countless UN agencies and programs. The Rockefeller Foundation has gifted grants to the UN Population Council, which has its roots in eugenics, the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) and the UN World Bank. Read the transcript from Senator Norm Dodds’ interview with G. Edward Griffin for more information on the traitorous Rockefeller and Ford Foundations (http://www.realityzone.com/hiddenagenda2.html).
The Robert Redford Building houses the NRDC office in Los Angeles, and he is on the NRDC Board of Trustees. Robert Redford incessantly promotes man made global warming (which is based on corrupt science from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Control), as well as Sustainable Development which, through the UN Global Biodiversity Assessment report, advocates erasing humans from 50% of the landscape and massive depopulation. Further, he is on the Global Council on Awakening Arts and Entertainment, which is closely related to the Club of Budapest, a branch of the Club of Rome, an organization famous for writing that they would use pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages and famine to unite them, and then named humanity as the enemy (2).
The Solution supported for this manufactured crisis is the Peripheral Canal. The ‘scientific’ report for the Peripheral Canal was funded by Sephen Bechtel and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation (3)
The Bechtel Corporation is well known for privatizing a major water source in poverty stricken Bolivia after it had defaulted on a World Bank loan, and then they reportedly raised the water utility rates by over 50%. You can read a long history of their crimes and shoddy workmanship here..........
Robert Redform film Hollywood
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He is notably cynical, however, about Al Gore's recent award of a Nobel Peace Prize. "He's making a lot of money, he's having a belle époque, a heroic moment," he says. "It must have been really hard for Gore to suffer all that [losing the presidential election], so he found another thing to come back with: the environment.
Laurance Rockefeller wikipedia
Laurance Spelman Rockefeller (May 26, 1910 – July 11, 2004) was a venture capitalist, financier, philanthropist, a major conservationist and a prominent third-generation member of the Rockefeller family. He was the fourth child of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and brother to John D. III, Nelson, Winthrop and David.
Crop circle wikipedia
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Rockefeller study
In 1999, researcher Colin Andrews received funding from Laurence Rockefeller to conduct a two-year investigation into crop circles. His team concluded that 80% of all crop formations that appeared in England throughout 1999 and 2000 were unquestionably man-made and instigated by business and media interests. However the team could not account for the nature of the remaining 20%, which were termed "genuine". Andrews stated that he had encountered such "unexplainable" patterns 20 years earlier.[15]
Andrews's figures have been disputed by CSICOP who argue that his criteria for distinguishing between man-made circles and non-man-made circles were insufficient, as no official standard exists for determining the nature of a crop circle. Furthermore, these circles were in England, where the hoax is most operative.[citation needed]
Funding from L. Rockefeller has also led to the creation of the BLT Research team,[16] a group of scientists and researches focused on providing thorough scientific documentation regarding all aspects of crop circle phenomena.
Crop Circles and the key to the World Order
EXCERPT:
This article takes up the challenge formed by the reality of crop circles from an unknown origin. After discussing the psychology of repression and denial and an analysis of the phenomenon there is a conclusion stating that to arrive at a mondial concept of time-management is fundamental to the idea of a practical key to the world culture we could offer the alien intelligences we are dealing with.
Pat Delgado
EXCERPT:
Posted Noon 23 May 2009.
Colin Andrews
Pat Delgado, famous for being the person who started serious research into what
became known as crop circles, passed away at 8.30 AM (U.K.) today in Winchester
Hospital, Hampshire, England.
Pat was a very young 90 years of age, when cancer struck and took a very rapid
toll in recent weeks.
He was a compassionate sensitive human being, an excellent engineer and
reputable healer. He was a dear friend and my co-author who was largely
responsible for one of the happiest periods of my life.
I send my deepest and most sincere condolences to Norah his Wife, Jan his
Daughter and Guy his Grandson, who showed such love and caring and did all
they could in such distressing circumstances. My love to you all.
Colin.
Tripura Sundari wikipedia
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Tripurasundari" redirects here. For Nepalese village, see Tripurasundari (village).
"Lalita" redirects here. For the gopi, related to Krishna worship, see Lalita (gopi).
Tripura Sundari (lit. "Beauty of Three Worlds"), also called Shodashi, Lalita (lit. "She Who Plays"[1]) and Rajarajeshvari, is one of the group of ten goddesses of Hindu belief, collectively called mahavidyas.
The goddess Tripura Sundari in her aspect as Shodasi is represented as a sixteen-year-old girl, and is believed to embody sixteen types of desire. The Shodasi Tantra, a treatise on the Tantra, describes Tripura Sundari as "Beauty Of Three Worlds". She is described as being of dusky color, and is depicted in an intimate position with an aspect of Shiva. The couple are shown on a bed, a throne, or a pedestal resting on the significant male gods of Hinduism like Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, and Indra.
The Indian state of Tripura derives its name from the goddess Tripura Sundari. Her main temple, the Tripura Sundari temple is also located on top of the hills near Radhakishorepur village, a little distance away from Udaipur town. Kashmiri Pandits have a collection of five ancient hymns, collectively known as Panchastavi, that were composed ages ago in praise of Tripura Sundari. These ancient hymns still remain very popular among this community.
Tripura sundari or Lalita is the goddess associated with Sri Vidya. The panchadashakshari mantra is the most guarded secrets of Sri Vidya, Usually a Guru gives it to the highly deserving disciple. As it is said in Lalita sahasranama, 'Na shathaya na dushtaya na vishwasaya karhichith sri mathra bhakti yuktaya sri vidya raja vediney' means, that this divine knowledge or vidya should not be taught or given to a person who is wicked, depraved or unfaithful. It should only be taught to a deserving person as this is the King of all Vidyas. Lalita holds five flowery arrows, noose, goad and bow. The noose represents attachment, the goad represents repulsion, the sugarcane bow represents the mind and the flowery arrows are the five sense objects.
Shodashakshari-Panchadashakshari-mantras
Shodashakshari Mantra: This is one of the famous and powerful mantra, and its secrets are unexplainable it has 16 letters.
This mantra is –
Ka Ye E La Hrim Ha Sa Ka Ha La Hrim Sa Ka La Hrim Shrim
Panchadashakshari Mantra: This also very powerful mantra, and it has 15 letters; and it is also called Shri Vidya Mantra.
It is –
Ka Ye E La Hrim Ha Sa Ka Ha La Hrim Sa Ka La Hrim
Note: The difference between Shodashakshari & Panchadashakshari, Mantra is of Shrim only. These mantras are the most powerful, miraculous, mysterious and unexplainable. Only a fortunate disciple gets diksha of these mantras from a Guru, and these mantras starts opening the secrets of the life and beyond the life.
These mantras are tested and have been used by number Gurus and Masters of India. A mantra actually becomes a mantra when it is given the by the Guru, and a Guru tells a proper guideline and procedure.
Sri Yantra wikipedia
EXCERPT:
The Sri Chakra or Shri Yantra is a yantra formed by nine interlocking triangles that surround and radiate out from the central (bindu) point, the junction point between the physical universe and its unmanifest source. It represents the Hindu goddess Sri Lakshmi, the goddess of abundance on all levels, in abstract geometric form. It also represents the goddess in her form of Tripura Sundari, "the beauty of the three worlds". Four of the triangles point upwards, representing Shiva or the Masculine. Five of these triangles point downwards, representing Shakti or the Feminine. Thus the Sri Yantra also represents the union of Masculine and Feminine Divine. Because it is composed of nine triangles, it is known as the Navayoni Chakra.[1]
Together the nine triangles are interlaced in such a way as to form 43 smaller triangles in a web symbolic of the entire cosmos or a womb symbolic of creation. Together they express Advaita or non-duality. This is surrounded by a lotus of eight petals, a lotus of sixteen petals, and an earth square resembling a temple with four doors.[1]
The Shri Chakra is also known as the nava chakra because it can also be seen as having nine levels. "Nava" means "nine" in Sanskrit. Each level corresponds to a mudra, a yogini, and a specific form of the deity Tripura Sundari along with her mantra. These levels starting from the outside or bottom layer are:[1]
Please be aware that two of my children were born in Dos Palos, Ca. (Dos = 2 and Palos = trees) and that my paternal grand mother's name was Olive Akerland (I thought of the Akerland as in Acre Land and most often thought that the name was representative of Palestine as I know that Palestine is known the world over for it's olive trees.)
Palo
tree (botany)
Pollen Path
EXCERPT:
At the time, I was reading the Bible for basically the first time, although I had read a few verses over the years. Right after reading about the above mentioned concepts, I came to Revelation 11:9 and 11:11, which speak of the two olive trees/lampstands that lie dead for "three days and a half," and then stand up on their feet when a breath of life from God enters them.
The verses were not only "coincidental"
Dharmic and dreams
EXCERPT:
At this point, spiritual maturity has been fully achieved. Further incarnations on the Dharmic Wheel are then unnecessary. The transformed Spirit of Light moves to the Center, symbolized by Bel, for further development in a different sphere of reality.
At the time I read this article, some incredible things were happening with me. See:
Humanity On The Pollen Path
It is a story of dreams and coincidences that came like puzzle pieces into a meaning. A central part of the article speaks of a coincidence involving the Sri Yantra pattern that appeared grooved into a dry lake bed in Oregon in 1990. It was huge, with 13.3 miles of lines.
bifurcation
Bifurcation means the splitting of a main body into two parts.
Bifurcation or Bifurcated may refer to:
Bifurcation (law), the division of issues in a trial for example the division of a page into two parts.
Bifurcation theory, the study of bifurcation in dynamical systems
River bifurcation, the forking of a river into its tributaries
Tongue bifurcation (disambiguation), different modifications or formations of the tongue
False dilemma or bifurcation, in which two alternative statements are held to be the only possible options when there are more options
Bifurcation of an incompressible flow, modeled by squeeze mapping the fluid flow
Bifurcated bonding, in which a single hydrogen atom participates in two hydrogen bonds.
Bifurcation in cybernetic systems: when a system switches from one stable state to another minor fluctuations may play a crucial role in deciding the outcome.
Dharmic wheel crop patterns
EXCERPT:
One of the most important crop formations of 1992, appeared just north of Silbury Hill, Wiltshire (SU.094690) on the night of August 17th . It was called the "Charm Bracelet."
Anthropologist and crop circle researcher, Michael Green, wrote a brilliant article about the formation, calling it a "Dharmic Wheel." The title of the article was, "An Archaeological Approach." The meaning of the formation has similarities to the huge Sri Yantra pattern that appeared in a dry lake bed in Oregon in 1990.
Michael Green was the Chairman of the International Centre of Crop Circle Studies. In 1992 he was preparing a study of the crop circle phenomenon as symbols of spiritual development under the title, "The Celtic Zodiac." His chapter, "The Rings of Time" in The Crop Circle Enigma elaborates on the Dharmic Wheel.
Myths and Legends around the world pdf
Macmillan Reference USA
an imprint of the Gale Group
A mythology resource
encompassing all traditions
Myths and Legends of the World
Jack Wickersham, Editor in Chief
A mythology resource
encompassing all traditions
A wide perspective on cultures around the world
Classes in history, social studies, literature and drama are often our first
encounter with mythical figures and legends of other cultures. Until
now, most references focused on particular countries or regions — such as
classical Greece, or themes, such as angels or nature myths — rather than
encompassing mythologies from all parts of the world. Myths and Legends of
the World covers North and South America, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific
Islands as well as the more familiar stories from Europe and the Middle East
with comprehensive coverage of the deities, characters, objects, myths and
legends students are most likely to find in their studies.
Whether researching a specific mythical figure, a given motif, an ethnic
group or an unfamiliar term, users will find the encyclopedia is easily accessible.
Illustrated in full color throughout with more than 200 drawings and
photos, the set also offers sidebars and extensive backmatter, including
genealogy trees that illustrate the relationships between deities, and a subject
index that helps to identify similar themes across cultures.
Features:
• Full-color design throughout
• 500 A-to-Z articles written by scholars for a student audience
• More than 200 color illustrations
• Coverage of time periods and cultures from around the world...............
The implications are in this story, that the realm of Donn is underwater. This would denote the House of Donn as "the land beneath the waves" and other euphemisms for OtherWorld. These lands or cities beneath the waves, where lives the spirits of the departed, are known throughout Celtic lands [27].
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Thursday, September 2, 2010
Alon
Alon started off as a young and dynamic fuel company, opening its first filling station in Israel in 1993. Today Alon is a multi-billion holding company operating in the energy and retail sectors under leading brand names in Israel and the U.S.
Alon in Hebrew means oak tree. It takes an oak tree a hundred years to grow. Alon did it in ten.
Alon in the US
EXCERPT:
Leading Refiner in the US
In 2000, Alon purchased the Down Stream assets of TotalFina in the US and established Alon USA (a public company listed on the NYSE in which Alon holds approx. 75%). From 2001 Alon USA holds 100% of Southwest Convenience Stores (SCS) – the largest 7-Eleven licensee in North America. Alon USA’s Big Spring refinery, terminal and pipelines have over 1,000 retail stations that are located primarily in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Louisiana, and Arkansas. In 2006 and 2008 Alon USA seized two unique opportunities to leverage its knowledge and experience and purchased three additional refineries in California and Louisiana, thus tripling its refining capacity
Who benefits from the occupation
קבוצת אלון
Alon Group is a holding company which has several companies involved in the occupation.
Alon Group owns Dor Alon, a petrol company, which has a monopoly over the supply of petroleum to the Gaza strip. Dor Alon also has several gas stations and convenience stores in different Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
Alon Group owns Blue Square, a retail chain which has branches and offices in multiple settlements throughout the West Bank.
Involved in:
Services to the SettlementsPalestinian Captive Market
Major shareholders: Bielsol (David Wiessman and the Biran Family 39%, Kibbutzim 35%, Africa Israel 26%.
Subsidiaries: Alon USA (NYSE: ALJ), Dor Alon (TASE: DRAL). Alon Group owns 72% of Blue Square (Ribua Kahol) (NYSE and TASE: BSI).
Alon USA (NYSE: ALJ) owns 4 Oil Refineries, and the FINA brand name for gas stations and over 170 7-Eleven convenience stores throught the US.
The Alon Group is the franchisee of KFC and Pizza Hut in Israel, and holds 49% of the shares of Diners Club Israel.
Alon Group and the Big Spring Refinery
EXCERPT:
ALON USA acquired ownership of the Big Spring, Texas refinery in August 2000, when ALON Israel Oil Company Ltd. purchased the U.S. fuels marketing and refining assets of Atofina Petrochemicals, Inc. (FINA). The 70,000-barrels-per-day Big Spring refinery delivers products to our customers from Ft. Smith, Arkansas to Phoenix, Arizona via owned/operated and third-party pipelines.
Alon started off as a young and dynamic fuel company, opening its first filling station in Israel in 1993. Today Alon is a multi-billion holding company operating in the energy and retail sectors under leading brand names in Israel and the U.S.
Alon in Hebrew means oak tree. It takes an oak tree a hundred years to grow. Alon did it in ten.
Alon in the US
EXCERPT:
Leading Refiner in the US
In 2000, Alon purchased the Down Stream assets of TotalFina in the US and established Alon USA (a public company listed on the NYSE in which Alon holds approx. 75%). From 2001 Alon USA holds 100% of Southwest Convenience Stores (SCS) – the largest 7-Eleven licensee in North America. Alon USA’s Big Spring refinery, terminal and pipelines have over 1,000 retail stations that are located primarily in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Louisiana, and Arkansas. In 2006 and 2008 Alon USA seized two unique opportunities to leverage its knowledge and experience and purchased three additional refineries in California and Louisiana, thus tripling its refining capacity
Who benefits from the occupation
קבוצת אלון
Alon Group is a holding company which has several companies involved in the occupation.
Alon Group owns Dor Alon, a petrol company, which has a monopoly over the supply of petroleum to the Gaza strip. Dor Alon also has several gas stations and convenience stores in different Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
Alon Group owns Blue Square, a retail chain which has branches and offices in multiple settlements throughout the West Bank.
Involved in:
Services to the SettlementsPalestinian Captive Market
Major shareholders: Bielsol (David Wiessman and the Biran Family 39%, Kibbutzim 35%, Africa Israel 26%.
Subsidiaries: Alon USA (NYSE: ALJ), Dor Alon (TASE: DRAL). Alon Group owns 72% of Blue Square (Ribua Kahol) (NYSE and TASE: BSI).
Alon USA (NYSE: ALJ) owns 4 Oil Refineries, and the FINA brand name for gas stations and over 170 7-Eleven convenience stores throught the US.
The Alon Group is the franchisee of KFC and Pizza Hut in Israel, and holds 49% of the shares of Diners Club Israel.
Alon Group and the Big Spring Refinery
EXCERPT:
ALON USA acquired ownership of the Big Spring, Texas refinery in August 2000, when ALON Israel Oil Company Ltd. purchased the U.S. fuels marketing and refining assets of Atofina Petrochemicals, Inc. (FINA). The 70,000-barrels-per-day Big Spring refinery delivers products to our customers from Ft. Smith, Arkansas to Phoenix, Arizona via owned/operated and third-party pipelines.
Benjamin Roden wikipedia
EXCERPT:
Doctrines
One of the doctrines of the Seventh-day Adventists is that on October 22, 1844, God, the Father, and Jesus moved from the throne from which they ruled the universe to the judgment throne in the Most Holy Place of the heavenly Sanctuary in order to fulfill the antitypical Day of Atonement wherein they were to go through the books of records in order to judge the people's deeds to determine their rewards or punishments[citation needed]. They teach that this investigative work was to begin with those who were already dead in order to decide who was to come up in the resurrection of the saints, and those who were to later come up in the resurrection of the wicked. They also teach that eventually the judgment would pass on to those who were living in order to determine who would be translated without seeing death at Christ's second coming, and those would be destroyed by the brightness of His coming. Roden told the Adventist and Davidian churches that the judgment has passed from the dead to the living on 20 October 1955[citation needed].
Benjamin Roden assumed control of the group, and renamed it the General Association of Davidian Seventh-Day Adventists. He proclaimed himself to be King David's successor. After his death in 1978, his wife, Lois Roden took control. She had been receiving visions that God is both male and female, and that the third person of the trinity (the Holy Spirit) is female[dubious – discuss], and our heavenly Mother. She later taught that there is a fourth member of the Godhead, a Daughter (the Holy Ghost), and that Christ and the Holy Ghost are the "two anointed ones" (Messiahs - Christs) of Zechariah 4:14[1], and that the Holy Ghost will appear in Her feminine form prior to Jesus' second coming[2]. A power struggle developed between Lois and her son George.
Vernon Howell joined the Branch Davidians in 1981 and was quickly in good graces with Lois[citation needed], the head of the church. She died in 1986 and Howell was left in control. By 1990 he had changed his name to David Koresh and had settled with more than a hundred followers in a compound called Mount Carmel, ten miles outside of Waco, Texas. Federal agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) tried to execute a warrant for Koresh's arrest on February 28, 1993, as part of an investigation into allegations of illegal weapons and child abuse. A shoot-out ensued that left ten dead: four BATF agents and six Branch Davidians. Koresh and his followers remained in their compound and a confused state of negotiations went on for 51 days, ending on April 19, 1993 when the compound burned to the ground, killing Koresh and 74 followers, including 21 children.
EXCERPT:
Doctrines
One of the doctrines of the Seventh-day Adventists is that on October 22, 1844, God, the Father, and Jesus moved from the throne from which they ruled the universe to the judgment throne in the Most Holy Place of the heavenly Sanctuary in order to fulfill the antitypical Day of Atonement wherein they were to go through the books of records in order to judge the people's deeds to determine their rewards or punishments[citation needed]. They teach that this investigative work was to begin with those who were already dead in order to decide who was to come up in the resurrection of the saints, and those who were to later come up in the resurrection of the wicked. They also teach that eventually the judgment would pass on to those who were living in order to determine who would be translated without seeing death at Christ's second coming, and those would be destroyed by the brightness of His coming. Roden told the Adventist and Davidian churches that the judgment has passed from the dead to the living on 20 October 1955[citation needed].
Benjamin Roden assumed control of the group, and renamed it the General Association of Davidian Seventh-Day Adventists. He proclaimed himself to be King David's successor. After his death in 1978, his wife, Lois Roden took control. She had been receiving visions that God is both male and female, and that the third person of the trinity (the Holy Spirit) is female[dubious – discuss], and our heavenly Mother. She later taught that there is a fourth member of the Godhead, a Daughter (the Holy Ghost), and that Christ and the Holy Ghost are the "two anointed ones" (Messiahs - Christs) of Zechariah 4:14[1], and that the Holy Ghost will appear in Her feminine form prior to Jesus' second coming[2]. A power struggle developed between Lois and her son George.
Vernon Howell joined the Branch Davidians in 1981 and was quickly in good graces with Lois[citation needed], the head of the church. She died in 1986 and Howell was left in control. By 1990 he had changed his name to David Koresh and had settled with more than a hundred followers in a compound called Mount Carmel, ten miles outside of Waco, Texas. Federal agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) tried to execute a warrant for Koresh's arrest on February 28, 1993, as part of an investigation into allegations of illegal weapons and child abuse. A shoot-out ensued that left ten dead: four BATF agents and six Branch Davidians. Koresh and his followers remained in their compound and a confused state of negotiations went on for 51 days, ending on April 19, 1993 when the compound burned to the ground, killing Koresh and 74 followers, including 21 children.
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