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Posted on 05/17/2004 12:36:39 AM PDT by JustPiper
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I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat"
BREAKING NEWS
Iraqi governing council leader among those killed by Baghdad car bomb, Iraqi officials say. Details soon.
Breaking News Alert BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) U.S. military colonel says four Iraqis killed, two U.S. soldiers injured, in car bomb at entrance to coalition headquarters in Baghdad.
(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...
I'm not a huge conspiracy person - but this I know: Those who want to be in the dark, those who want to do their own will and hate the thought of surrender to God's will - naturally feel a bond. Although the Islamic jihadis THINK or imagine they are doing God's will (and probably a number of them use that only as a front) we know they are not. Not that Allah isn't a name for the one supreme person - but they have no idea who He is or what will please Him.
That said, there are no doubt powerful people and/or agents in world affairs, that we don't necessarily know. Some we do know. Whether the jihadis or the homo-nazis and femi-nazis or socialists or their minions in the Democratic Party (and many some in the GOP) are more in charge, who's to say?
They are all being moved by what is known in the Vedas as "maya", or illusion. Their knowledge has been stolen by illusion, because they don't want God as their master, but their own will. The more an individual will becomes separated from God's, the more twisted it becomes. Such people graviate together in a kinship of hatred, but since they can't love anyone, they will eventually turn on each other as well.
Olympics: Greece Prepares for 'Dirty Bomb' Threat
May 25, 2004 — By Angeliki Koutantou
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece began deploying U.S.-supplied radiation detectors at strategic points across the country to prevent a radioactive "dirty bomb" attack during this summer's Athens Olympics, officials said on Tuesday.
Greece is hosting the first summer Games since the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States and has put together the largest security plan in Olympic history, with a price tag of around one billion euros ($1.21 billion).
A series of minor bombing attacks over the past weeks, which the Greek government called "isolated domestic events," has raised security concerns for the hosts and countries planning to send their teams to the Games.
A "dirty bomb" is a device using an explosive like dynamite that is laced with radioactive material. When the explosive is ignited it disperses the radioactive material over a wide area.
Experts say that a dirty bomb would not necessarily cause much physical damage but would be devastating due to the panic and chaos it would create.
To help prevent such an attack, the United States and seven other countries, along with the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), have been providing the Greek government with technology, expertise and intelligence.
The IAEA said that radiation detectors had been installed at borders and other entry points in Greece, while mobile detection devices will be deployed elsewhere. Hand-held radiation monitors are being distributed among the thousands of security and customs officials policing the Games.
"The equipment is being deployed to detect radioactive materials that might be used as a weapon by terrorists in a radiological dispersal device, a so-called dirty bomb," the IAEA said in a statement.
There has never been a dirty bomb attack, but atomic experts have warned it is only a matter of time before one occurs. "This equipment will...(help prevent) exposure to radioactive materials that can be released either by accident or through criminal intent," U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham said at a ceremony for the arrival of U.S. detection devices.
The detectors will be installed at 32 points of entry across the country, including seven airports, 12 seaports as well as 13 border crossings and customs offices.
Greece will deploy about 45,000 armed guards in the capital, three times the amount used in the Sydney 2000 Games, in addition air and sea patrols provided by NATO.
"The Athens Games will be the safest ever organized," Public Order Minister George Voulgarakis said.
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/reuters20040525_233.html
Here is a news release from the Dept. of Energy announcing the May 25 underground nuclear subcritical test, code named "Armando," at the Nevada Test Site.
Armando, a Los Alamos National Laboratory subcritical experiment, will be conducted at the Nevada Test Site U1a Complex located 85 miles northwest of Las Vegas. The U1a Complex is designed to contain these experiments in a safe and secure environment in an underground laboratory of horizontal tunnels with small excavated experiment alcoves mined at the base of a vertical shaft, approximately 960 feet beneath the surface.
Nevada Site Office News
News Media Contact: For Immediate Release:
Explosion ruptures gas pipeline
From correspondents in Karachi, Pakistan
May 26, 2004
A POWERFUL blast ripped open a gas pipeline in southern Pakistan today, disrupting gas supplies, police said. No injuries were reported.
It wasn't clear what caused the blast and no one claimed responsibility.
Police official Ameer Ali said they were still investigating the explosion at the village of Thari Mirwah, about 400 kilometres northeast of Karachi.
He said the experts of state-owned gas pipeline company Sui Southern Gas Pipelines Ltd had reached the site to assess the damage and repair the pipeline.
"It could have been a bomb blast, it could be the result of some technical fault," Mr Ali said.
A spokesman for the company, Inayat Ullah, also refused to say what caused the blast, the second in Sindh province in a month.
"Our experts are examining the pipeline. We cannot say anything about it at this stage," he said.
Mr Ullah said they would take two or three days to repair the pipeline.
Attacks on the pipeline are common, but arrests are rarely made. Authorities have blamed previous attacks on tribesmen who want more royalties for gas extracted from their locality.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,9666413%255E1702,00.html
They're in the San Fernando Valley, in Los Angeles... I think they were put up by the LA Dept of Health, but I'll have to drive by them again to be sure.
There are more than usual low flying helicopters here today. How's it in the City?
Be back in a few hours.
Last Friday it was very intense after the rail alerts went out. Yesterday and today things seem a lot calmer.
And here's a link to their FAQ... PDF. It includes a list of what supplies to have on hand.
Low cloud deck?
Thanks for the link cgk! First I've seen of this. How are people out there reacting to these billboards?
I'm not even sure if there IS a reaction. The first time I saw one I was at a stoplight, and was actually quite creeped out, like "okay... what do they know that they aren't telling us sheep?". I looked at the cars around me, and noone even noticed it, though it was right ahead of us. I don't watch the local news, but I do read the local paper every day from cover to cover, nothing at all. I've only found mention of them in weblogs.
Amen!
Thanks, I missed it the first tome I read it.
Typical.
tome = time
Fumes Cause Evacuation at Airport Mail Facility (Indianapolis)
Two workers at the airport mail center had to be decontaminated and treated after coming into contact with an unknown chemical substance Tuesday morning.
http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1894173&nav=0Ra7NOv4
Contaminated water supply leaves 9 dead, 1,600 ill in Pakistan
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20040525-0318-pakistan-contaminatedwater.html
Bomb Explodes in Pakistan Port City, Killing Two, AP Reports
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000080&sid=a7oAxrzIetPM&refer=asia
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