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| 07-18-04
| Randall Mikkelsen
Posted on 07/18/2004 6:57:48 PM PDT by JustPiper
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To: All
CHICOMS GETTING EVEN MORE BRAZEN
20 July 2004 1615 hrs
Chinese hackers attack Taiwan military news agency ahead of drill
TAIPEI :
Suspected Chinese hackers have launched an offensive against the website of Taiwan's Military News Agency ahead of practice freeway landings by fighter jets on the island, the defense ministry said.
The attack took place on Monday night and the agency affiliated with the ministry was forced to close down its website, the ministry said.
The hackers replaced the agency's homepage with a slogan that said 'Reunification with Taiwan in 2021', it said.
An identical attack occurred a month ago when suspected Chinese hackers attacked the site of Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian's pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party.
Hong Kong's pro-Beijing Wen Wei Po daily last week quoted Chinese military sources as warning Taiwan must re-enter the Chinese fold or face military action within the next 20 years.
In response to Taiwan's recent "pro-independence provocation," Beijing gave what was believed to be the first ultimatum to reclaim sovereignty over the island, it said.
Unnamed military sources were quoted as saying former Chinese president and Central Military Commission chairman Jiang Zemin had recently discussed a timetable regarding using force to achieve Taiwan's reunification in a speech at a military conference in Beijing.
The fresh Internet attack came two days before Taiwanese air force is due to practice emergency landings on a freeway as part of measures against an attack by China, the defense ministry said.
Two French-made Mirage 2000-5s are set to land, refuel and load ammunition on the road in Tainan, southern Taiwan.
The exercise is designed to "review the air force's capability in using freeways for emergency landings and logistic support in case of war," defense ministry spokesman Huang Suey-sheng told reporters.
Since Chen's re-election in March, China has ratcheted up its rhetoric, reiterating its long-standing vow to take Taiwan by force should Chen move the island towards formal independence.
Beijing has considered Taiwan part of its territory awaiting reunification since the two sides split at the end of a civil war in 1949.
www.channelnewsasia.com/s...83/1/.html
To: Myrddin
Updated: 20:45 UTC 22 July (4:45 pm EDT, 22 July)
A middle latitude auroral activity WARNING is in effect at the present time due to favorable solar wind conditions following the arrival of a mild solar wind shock at 10:38 UTC (6:38 am EDT) today. Activity has been steadily becoming increasingly favorable for producing periods of moderate to strong auroral storm activity.
AURORA:
http://www.sec.noaa.gov/pmap/index.html
WATCH:
http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/july_sol.html
3,042
posted on
07/23/2004 1:01:31 PM PDT
by
milkncookies
(Hillary to Berger: Is there something in your pants or are you just happy to see me?)
To: milkncookies
Hmmmmm Rogue waves or deliberate? (tinfoil)
'Rogue waves' reported by mariners get scientific backing
PARIS (AFP) - European satellites have given confirmation to terrified mariners who describe seeing freak waves as tall as 10-storey buildings, the European Space Agency (ESA) said.
"Rogue waves" have been the anecdotal cause behind scores of sinkings of vessels as large as container ships and supertankers over the past two decades.
But evidence to support this has been sketchy, and many marine scientists have clung to statistical models that say monstrous deviations from the normal sea state only occur once every thousand years.
Testing this promise, ESA tasked two of its Earth-scanning satellites, ERS-1 and ERS-2, to monitor the oceans with their radar.
The radars send back "imagettes" -- a picture of the sea surface in a rectangle measuring 10 by five kilometers (six by 2.5 miles) that is taken every 200 kms (120 miles).
Around 30,000 separate "imagettes" were taken by the two satellites in a three-week project, MaxWave, that was carried out in 2001.
Even though the research period was brief, the satellites identified more than 10 individual giant waves around the globe that measured more than 25 metres (81.25 feet) in height, ESA said in a press release.
The waves exist "in higher numbers than anyone expected," said Wolfgang Rosenthal, senior scientist with the GKSS Research Centre in Geesthacht, Germany, who pored over the data.
"The next step is to analyse if they can be forecasted," he said.
Ironically, the research coincided with two "rogue wave" incidents in which two tourist cruisers, the Bremen and the Caledonian Star, had their bridge windows smashed by 30-metre (100-feet) monsters in the South Atlantic.
The Bremen was left drifting without navigation or propulsion for two hours after the hit.
In 1995, the British cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II encountered a 29-metre (94.25-feet) wall of water during a hurricane in the North Atlantic.
Its captain, Ronald Warwick, likened it to "the White Cliffs of Dover."
In the next phase of research, a project called Wave Atlas will use two years of "imagettes" to create a worldwide atlas of rogue wave events and carry out statistical analyses, ESA said.
The goal is to find out how these strange, cataclysmic phenomena may be generated by ocean eddies and currents or by the collision of weather fronts, and which regions of the seas may be most at risk.
Finding out could help ship architects and the designers of oil rigs and their operators to skirt the menace.
story.news.yahoo.com/news...cience_sea
To: jerseygirl
Yes, I recall that. Just reading the Drudge report about the HUGE waves- no explanation given- and then reading that report about new weaponry...created a bit of curiosity I read the article that Drudge was talking about. First it basically independently documented the monster waves reported by sailors. Secondly it began to provide insight to their formation. Leading theory is wave amplification from multiple sources. If two waves intersect they will generally cancel or build up arithmatically, so if they come in the correct frequency they could pile up into a very large, albet temporary, wave. Constructive interference is the scientific term. You encounter it alot with your radio but probably don't notice it, except for the apparent change in volume.
3,044
posted on
07/23/2004 1:03:55 PM PDT
by
Godzilla
(Bush/Cheney 04 - because my life does depend upon it.)
To: jerseygirl
They were always saying "water,water,water" months ago... Given the near zero probability that they could pull off some kind of a 'tidalwave bomb', other interpretations of water related AQ comments are more likely, such as a sea borne attack or bringing in the nuke by sea.
3,045
posted on
07/23/2004 1:07:22 PM PDT
by
Godzilla
(Bush/Cheney 04 - because my life does depend upon it.)
To: Godzilla; All
Check this out- from Sean Osborne Lomax on the Final Phase Forum---this is his assessment of current developments:
Re: Message from the Supreme Leaders of Iran!
What the above means is war with Iran and its Trans-Asian Axis allies.
It means WWIV.
To: All
3,047
posted on
07/23/2004 1:08:15 PM PDT
by
tmp02
To: jerseygirl
Check this out- from Sean Osborne Lomax on the Final Phase Forum Could you provide me a link or url, Thanks
3,048
posted on
07/23/2004 1:11:40 PM PDT
by
Godzilla
(Bush/Cheney 04 - because my life does depend upon it.)
To: tmp02
possibly at large sports events. Yankees are in Boston for a 3 game series staring tonight.
To: 4thygipper
3,050
posted on
07/23/2004 1:15:55 PM PDT
by
Cindy
To: All
2004 Democratic National Convention -- Official Program
6:00pm - Opening flag burning ceremony.
6:05pm - Pledge of Allegiance to the United Nations
6:10pm - Secular words by Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton
6:30pm - Anti-war concert by Barbra Streisand.
6:45pm - Ted Kennedy proposes a toast.
7:00pm - Tribute theme to France.
7:10pm - Collect offerings for al-Zawahri defense fund.
7:30pm - Tribute theme to Germany.
7:45pm - Anti-war rally moderated by Michael Moore.
8:25pm - Ted Kennedy proposes a toast.
8:30pm - Terrorist appeasement workshop.
9:00pm - Gay marriage ceremony for male and female couples.
9:30pm - CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN urge defeat of President Bush.
10:00pm - Posting the Iraqi Colors by Sean Penn and Tim Robbins
10:10pm - Reenactment of Kerry's fake medal toss.
10:20pm - Cameo by Howard Dean 'Yeeeahhhhhhhh!'
10:30pm - Abortion demonstration by N.A.R.A.L.
10:40pm - Ted Kennedy proposes a toast.
10:50pm - Special thanks to the New York Times &Washington Post.
11:00pm - Multiple gay marriage ceremony for threesomes and groups.
11:15PM - Maximizing Welfare workshop.
11:30pm - Saddam Legal Defense Fund pep rally.
11:50PM - Ted Kennedy proposes a toast.
12:00pm - Nomination of Democratic candidate.
3,051
posted on
07/23/2004 1:19:08 PM PDT
by
milkncookies
(Hillary to Berger: Is there something in your pants or are you just happy to see me?)
To: Godzilla
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To: British chick
3,053
posted on
07/23/2004 1:21:49 PM PDT
by
Cindy
To: CJ Wolf
3,054
posted on
07/23/2004 1:22:41 PM PDT
by
Cindy
To: Godzilla
3,055
posted on
07/23/2004 1:23:16 PM PDT
by
knak
To: CJ Wolf
Congratulations to you CJ and blessings, too.
3,056
posted on
07/23/2004 1:23:57 PM PDT
by
Cindy
To: milkncookies
I saw that yesterday and I thought I almost died laughing.
To: All
Here is something else interesting I came across:
From Jill's information--it does appear there is an AQ threat to Ft. Knox. Alot of their pictures show gold- I had assumed that meant for the ME's to invest in gold for the coming hard times. Here is the wording- what do you think?
"An American castle he exaggerated it in the American State Of Kentucky
An area of hundred and ten thousands acre of the land occupies at a distance of thirty five mile from a town
Louis is a villa,, and she is considered a military the United States armour and economically
Since she includes a number of the military training centers in addition to all of the gold reserves
And that its value reaches six hundred billion dollar and he is under an intense guarding
And its consideration has taken place the American economic armour since years 1918 ã
Could Ft Knox plausibly be a target? Nuke our gold reserves?
To: knak
Nuke the whales - save the Medfly.
3,059
posted on
07/23/2004 1:25:33 PM PDT
by
Godzilla
(Bush/Cheney 04 - because my life does depend upon it.)
To: milkncookies
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