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Story goes something like this.
My plans went through, and then some. I started the drive back, breaking the trip into three days--San Luis Potosi, Monterrey, Austin. I didn't have quite enough money to make it back, but the friend from before who owed me money was going to be putting some in my bank account in a day or two that would be enough to make it back.
I make it to San Luis Potosi without problem, and am staying with a couchsurfer in town. I'm her first ever guest on the site. We have dinner with her friends at a local taco place, have the conversation in mostly Spanish with sprinklings of English sentences here and there on both our parts. (I'm missing the food now as I think back on it... Oh, those delicious cheap tacos...)
I check my internet presence that evening. Here at advrider.com, I've got a response from an Irish biker who is enjoying the story, and says he happens to be in San Luis Potosi on business, and would love to take me out for a beer--see above. I message him: Alas, I will be leaving tomorrow morning, trying to get back to Austin ASAP, and it's a long ride to Monterrey. But maybe I'll catch him in Ireland, since I have some distant family there.
I have planned to leave the next day, but I need that deposit. It's Sunday. Friend will deposit it tomorrow...
...Oh wait. We're on the phone, and realize it's Columbus day. Which is, yes I checked, a bank holiday. Looks like I'll be staying an extra day in SLP after all.
I message him and say I'll be available for that beer after all. So we get on the phone and realize that we're pretty close to each other, and he picks me up.
We got out for beers and have a GREAT evening. Awesome guy. We talk bikes all night, and it was just... A good time. Swapping stories. Sharing the love of travel, dirtbikes, trails, languages, and bikes. Turns out he actually had an FJ1200 for a while.
At the end of the night he tells me his family in Ireland runs a bike shop, and has 30 bikes at any given time--and if I'm ever in Ireland, I'll have a bike to ride.
Quality people. That just made my week.
So with a spring in my step the next morning, I pack up and head out. It's Tuesday. I skype my friend who is supposed to be making the deposit, says he has a meeting in the morning, but after that he'll go make the deposit. He's in the West Coast, so he's two hours behind me, on top of that.
So I start driving. Fill up my tank around noon when I leave. He should have made the deposit just recently, or be about to make it any minute. Card declined. Pay with cash. Drive for 100 miles. Fill up again. Card declined, use cash... Getting a little nervous. Drive another 100 miles. Fill up. Card declined. Use literally the last of my cash. Something is wrong, he should have made the deposit by now.
So here I am, in the middle of the Mexican desert, without enough money to make it to my host for the night, and with nothing around for miles. I walk into the gas station, and knowing the answer will be 'no', ask if there's wifi by some miracle at this gas station in the middle of the desert.
'No', he tells me. 'Oh, momento, como internet? Pienso que si, momento.'
By some act of God, I have found the only gas station in Mexico with internet. So I sit down, pull out my laptop, and start trying to call the guy and figure out why he hasn't put money in yet. Definitely a little panicky.
No response. For like an hour. I call his son, who is with him, and his son says he left for the meeting hours ago, hasn't made it back, should have been back by now. He tries to call him. Nothing. We both start getting nervous that maybe something happened to him, car accident or something.
Then, 1.5 hours after I sat down here, I get a call. It's the guy.
He's at the bank making the deposit. Apparently the meeting went overtime, which meant he had to rush to his next meeting with an investor that couldn't wait, which then went overtime, and so he hasn't been able to get to a bank until now. He had to go to his bank first to withdraw, and then to my bank to deposit.
He puts the money in. I breathe a sigh of relief and get on the bike. After having conversation in Spanish about motorcycles with the gas station workers, who are admiring my bike's sheer size (ha, Mexico and its small bikes...).
What with the delays, I don't make it to Monterrey until late at night. I get fantastically lost in Monterrey again (most confusing roadways I have ever encountered), and so don't make it to my host (same one as last time, enthusiastically invited me back when he saw I was passing his city again on Couch Surfing) until like 9 or 10 pm, exhausted.
I spend an extra day in Monterrey resting, meeting another couchsurfer for coffee that I missed last time. Pack up and get ready to head out the next day. Leave later than intended, 2pm or so.
In the interest of minimizing the damage of a mugging, if it would happen, I have been keeping my wallet in my luggage and just keeping small change or no change, debit card, and driver's license in my front pocket. So I set out of Monterrey and fill up my tank and my spare 2 gal tank. I buy two half-liter glass bottles of Mexican Coke-a-Cola as a souvenir. And I hit the toll road, heading north for Nuevo Leon. About 60 miles down the toll road, I finally hit the toll booth--but not until I've pulled out my camera on the way and filmed some of the beautiful landscape. So I pull up to the toll booth, and reach into my pocket for my debit card.
Huh. That's strange. Where is it?
Other pocket? No... Jacket pocket? No... Daypack backpack? Hmm....
No... Big backpack?
Umm... Well, this is strange.
And then it hits me. It must have slipped out of my pocket when I pulled my camera out at some point in the last 60 miles.
Crap. No cash, given yesterday's turn of events. About 4 gallons of gas between my tank and spare gas can. Another 300 miles ahead of me, more or less. And stopped at a $15 USD toll booth, 50 miles from the US border with no way to pay.
You've got to be kidding me. The toll booth operator tells me I should talk to the boss who runs the toll booth. I pull over and find him, and start trying my best in Spanish to explain my situation. When he seems inflexible about the immutable fact that one must pay to cross, I do the only thing I can think of: offer my camera as collateral if he will loan me much less than it is worth, and give me his address and phone number, and I will call him and coordinate and pay him back when I get back to the states.
He says he would feel too guilty taking that, and starts to tell me that I should just go through the truck-pass lane of the toll booth, and get my toll fine 'in the mail' (wink). I am not sure I am quite understanding him, but after a couple minutes I realize that yes, he is telling me to basically break the law and he'll turn a blind eye. Thanking him, I continue on my way.
As I make it to the border, it is getting dark. I have paperwork to fill out to get my motorcycle out of the country--oh yeah, and they have to return my $200 deposit that I left with them to temporarily import the vehicle to Mexico! I'm saved, right? Just as I get into Nuevo Leon, I spend my last 2 or 3 dollars putting about a gallon of gas into the tank, and empty my spare into the tank. Cutting it close here.
I do the paperwork. This time, they give me trouble for the two digits half scratched out on the VIN sticker by the rubbing of the clutch and throttle cable housings over the last 30 years. Even though half the number is visible, and it lines up with the number stamped into the frame and engine, the guard insists on taking multiple pictures of all three, calling out his superiors, and making the process take about 30 extra minutes.
Oh, and since I made the deposit on a card it has to be returned to a card. Period. No exceptions. I tell them the card is gone, and they ask if I have any other cards. I don't. They ask if I have any family in the states with cards I could have the money sent to. Are you serious? You can't just give me cash? Rules are rules, they say.
Wow. Just, wow.
I tell them to just put it on my card, I'll get it sorted when I get to the states.
I cross over back to the US. There's a $2 toll to cross the bridge into the states. I don't have it... Then remember I have some change at the bottom of my daypack. I check. If I combine pesos and US coins, I have just enough to cross. The lady at the booth gives me a funny look and a pitiful laugh, and lets me cross.
I drive over to the same Denny's I went to the first time I had trouble, and get online. I call my family and explain the situation, still in reasonably good spirits based on the humour of the situation alone.
Here's my options:
1. There's an Esperanto speaker in Nuevo Laredo that might help me. He should either be able to loan me $30 (enough gas money to make it back to Austin) or let me stay for the night so I can make a withdrawl from the bank in the morning.
2. I can whip out the ol' hammock again and go back to my same secluded spot behind the jack in the box on the edge of town.
3. A Western Union transfer might be possible at the nearest HEB (Texas based grocer).
4. I can beg.
I call the Esperanto speaker. He's living with his girlfriend now, so he says he needs to check with her, but it should be fine for me to stay over.
He calls back. She's weirded out by the idea and thinks I sound weird, so she's not comfortable with that and says I should go to the homeless shelter...
...wtf? Seriously? Hospitality in this country is depressing. If it weren't for couchsurfing to restore my faith in humanity, I think that might have been a death blow.
Loaning me some money, I can leave collateral? Says he literally just overdrafted his account, he won't have money until tomorrow morning.
You've got to be kidding me.
I go to HEB and check on Western Union. They closed at 6pm or so, so that's not an option.
Well. It's either sleep it off or beg.
I decide I want to make it home tonight, fate be damned. I go to the nearest gas station, and start telling random people my story, asking if they could give me $25, and I can pay them back if they give me their address or phone number.
Most people brush me off. I find that the white people are actually the worst, in this regard. The three people who help me are all poor. Finally, I have about $20 and I remembered some more coins somewhere tucked away, putting me close to $23.
I start the long ride home. It's cold at night on these lonely roads. A lot of the way I'm chattering, even though I'm now riding with a wool sweater I bought outside Mexico City that's fairly heavy--don't know what I'd be doing without it.
Around 2am, I finally make it home. I eat ravenously, since I haven't had money for food all day. And I sleep, blissfully.
(That was two weeks ago. Next chapter coming soon.)
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2nd and Seven – Mr. Smith
Goes to Norman – The name Reggie Smith may only be familiar
to baseball fans who followed the LA Dodgers back in the 1970s,
but in Norman, there's only one Reggie Smith. The true
sophomore stepped into the Sooner secondary last year at strong
safety and made his way on to Freshman All-America teams by
season's end. The sky is the absolute limit for Smith who has
the Sooner faithful buzzing. What makes Smith so special is
that he could play any position in the secondary and eventually
be a first team All-American. The Sooners have had their share
of big-time DBs and Smith is definitely the next to wear the
3rd and Three – Linebacker U?
– In a similar manner to the way the Dallas Cowboys were
anointed America's Team, Penn State 'earned' it's moniker -
Linebacker U. For as good as the linebackers have been in Happy
Valley, the Sooner faithful could generate a convincing argument
for being Linebacker U, especially over the past 20 years.
Think of the backers that we've seen come through Norman since
1986. Brian Bosworth. Rocky Calmus. Lance Mitchell. Teddy
Lehman. Torrance Marshall. Four Butkus Awards in that group.
Then, there's this year's duo – Rufus Alexander and Zach Latimer
– arguably, the best linebacker duo in the nation. The latter
was named first team All-Big XII and is the leader of the
defense. Latimer was second on the team in tackles behind
Alexander. The Oklahoma linemen do a tremendous job of freeing
up Latimer and Alexander to get to the ball and make tackles,
which they do well. But, in the mold of their predecessors,
these two can affect the game in so many ways, they're physical
and nasty and they'll lead this defense throughout 2006.
4th and One – And, don't
think we forgot AD – There's a word for the way he runs.
Adrian Peterson, that is. Violent. Explosive. Purposeful.
Punishing. Beautiful. Okay, so maybe there are a few words
that help describe his running style. But, the word we're
looking for here is valuable. So, maybe it doesn't describe how
he runs, but it does describe #28 as an Oklahoma Sooner. There
might not be a more valuable football player to his respective
team than Peterson. Sure, there are so many great players in
college football, but Peterson? His passionate running style
filters through this team. Watch what happens when Peterson
runs over a defender on his way for six. Every single member of
this team feeds off of what two eight does with the ball in his
hands. When he was injured last year, that swagger and
confidence was minimized. They did win a few games in his
absence, but this is a completely different team, in so many
respects, when AD carries it 20+ times in a game. Oh yeah, one
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Bernard A. Weisberger: The current situation is evidence of the crashing failure of liberal America to stand up for its forgotten principles of some sixty years ago, and its decision to chain itself to a Democratic Party now under the leadership of "centrists" or "moderates" who in fact occupy the terrain once held by the vanished race of liberal Republicans.
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The 112th Congress: A Lot of Nothing
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Bachmann-Romney Overdrive
Going Beyond Wisconsin: Thinking About Strategy Months Later
Bill Fletcher: Nationally, the Republicans are advancing their 'final offensive' against unions and, in the words of noted columnist, Harold Meyerson, seek to repeal the 20th century.
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Randy Shaw: He didn't tweet a photo of his "package" to an unsuspecting woman, but California Governor Jerry Brown's veto of the state's budget did much worse harm to Democrats and the public by setting the stage for massive education and public service cuts.
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ALLEN PARK, Mich. -- Detroit Lions bad boy Ndamukong Suhs reputation has gotten as nasty off the field as it is on it. Just last week: Suh was accused of sideswiping another vehicle near the Lions' practice facility, berating the other driver and leaving the scene of the accident (police closed the case without any arrests or tickets being issued). He got sued, along with his sister, for allegedly not returning a 100,000 security deposit on a home in Birmingham, Mich., that they had rented. He also was criticized by an anonymous NFL general manager who said Suh belonged on the All-Hype team in a Pro Football Weekly article. That was all followed Saturday by a controversial tweet from his sister, Ngum, who is closely involved with Suhs business affairs. The tweet read: Thank u Jesus! Only 2.5 more years! Suh, a defensive tackle, is contractually committed to two more seasons with the Lions after this year. Many observers interpreted his sisters message to mean that he woul...
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Submitted by John Bursill
Story by Naomi Breeze
Below is a moving and powerful story by one of the hardest working and most determined 9/11 Truth Advocates I know, Naomi Breeze. She has guts and determination in spades and will not be stopped in her quest to get justice for the victims of the 9/11 attacks that include ten Australians!
Solo Truth Action in Newcastle, Australia on the 14 of May 2010
Story by Naomi Breeze
After stumbling across 9/11 Truth on the internet about three years ago I contacted John Bursill of 9/11 Truth Australia and have been a passionate 9/11 Truther ever since. I feel privileged to have been involved with two successful conferences in Sydney, Australia and am honoured to have met some of my 9/11 Truth heroes.
I attended a talk in my hometown of Newcastle on 14 May 2010 by ex-Fire Fighter, ex-Chief Dan Daly, about 9/11 and how it changed his life. The talk was organised by a Catholic Church Chaplain through his Passionist Family Group and cost $5.00. The Chaplain is a personal friend of Dan and was in New York on September 11, 2001.
Some background on Dan: http://www.chiefdaly.com/
Dan Daly was promoted to Fire Captain with Engine 52 in 2001. The service was to take place on September 12, 2001. On September 11, 2001 his rig was one of the last to arrive at the Twin Towers. He and his crew arrived from the Bronx just as WTC 7 collapsed. He… Continue reading
David Ray Griffin
At 5:21 PM on 9/11, Building 7 of the World Trade Center collapsed, even though it had not been hit by a plane — a fact that is important because of the widespread acceptance of the idea, in spite of its scientific absurdity, that the Twin Towers collapsed because of the combined effect of the impact of the airliners plus the ensuing jet-fuel-fed fires. The collapse of World Trade Center 7 (WTC 7) thereby challenges the official account of the destruction of the World Trade Center, according to which it was accomplished by al-Qaeda hijackers, even if one accepts the government's scientifically impossible account of the Twin Towers. This fact was recently emphasized in the title of a review article based on my 2009 book, The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7, 1 by National Medal of Science-winner Lynn Margulis: "Two Hit, Three Down — The Biggest Lie." 2
The collapse of WTC 7 created an extraordinary problem for the official account of 9/11 for several reasons.
One reason is that, because of the collapse of WTC 7, the official account of 9/11 includes the dubious claim that, for the first time in the known universe, a steel-frame high-rise building was brought down by fire, and science looks askance at claims of unprecedented occurrences regarding physical phenomena. New York Times writer James Glanz, who himself has a Ph.D. in physics, wrote: "[E]xperts… Continue reading
An Open Letter to Terry Allen, Noam Chomsky, Alexander Cockburn, David Corn, Chris Hayes, George Monbiot, Matthew Rothschild, and Matt Taibbi1
by David Ray Griffin2
July 6, 2010
According to several left-leaning critics of the 9/11 Truth Movement, some of its central claims, especially about the destruction of the World Trade Center, show its members to be scientifically challenged. In the opinion of some of these critics, moreover, claims made by members of this movement are sometimes unscientific in the strongest possible sense, implying an acceptance of magic and miracles.
After documenting this charge in Part I of this essay, I show in Part II that the exact opposite is the case: that the official account of the destruction of the World Trade Center implies miracles (I give nine examples), and that the 9/11 Truth Movement, in developing an alternative hypothesis, has done so in line with the assumption that the laws of nature did not take a holiday on 9/11. In Part III, I ask these left-leaning critics some questions evoked by the fact that it is they, not members of the 9/11 Truth Movement, who have endorsed a conspiracy theory replete with miracle stories as well as other absurdities.
I. The Charge that 9/11 Truth Theories Rest on Unscientific, Even Magical, Beliefs
Several left-leaning critics of the 9/11 Truth Movement, besides showing contempt for its members, charge them with relying on claims that are contradicted by good science and, in some cases, reflect a belief… Continue reading
Story by John Bursill
July 19, 2010
On Saturday the 17th of July Professor Niels Harrit of the University of Copenhagen in Denmark gave a lecture called "Did Explosives Bring Down the Towers on 9/11?" to a capacity crowd of concerned citizens. This Sydney audience was generated purely from fliers handed out by diligent activists and one radio interview.
Although a handful of independent journalists did attend and a small press conference was held, not one Australian mainstream media outlet was represented. It is now more clear than ever that a culture of silence surrounds the science of 9/11 which proves beyond any reasonable doubt that the Twin Towers and Building 7 were brought down using explosives and incendiary devices.
The Australian 9/11 Truth Movement would like to thank all that made this event possible and their generous donations which for the first time actually covered the costs! A special thanks must also go to the Sydney WeAreChange chapter who acted as the arms and legs to get this show on the road!
Besides being a man of great knowledge, Niels Harrit is an absolute gem of a man who works hard for the 9/11 cause. Dr Harrit has given in excess of 100 lectures to the public, both in Denmark and abroad. He is a modern day scientific hero in a world of intellectual cowards and self serving academics.
International relationships within the 9/11 Truth Movement continue to build by these events, strengthening all our resolves to pursue… Continue reading
Written by Shawn Hamilton
Friday, 13 August 2010
Ed.: Published originally at examiner.com; Aug 3, 2010
A highly anticipated debate between two members of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth and two physicists is scheduled for August 21, 2010. The debate will air on the popular late night talk show Coast to Coast AM with host Ian Punnett between 10pm – 2am Pacific time.
Richard Gage, AIA, founder of Architects and Engineers for 9-11 Truth and an architect for over twenty years, has delivered over 150 presentations in 17 countries, including Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and throughout the United States. He will be joined by Danish scientist, Niels Harrit, Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen — a chemist and university teacher with expertise in organic chemistry, photochemistry, fluorescence, and nanotechnology.
Harrit co-authored a peer-reviewed paper along with Dr. Steven Jones and several others, documenting their discovery of a highly energetic, nano-engineered form of thermite in World Trade Center dust. In its ordinary form, thermite, a mixture of iron oxide and aluminum powder, burns extremely hot — around 4500° F. — sufficiently hot to melt iron, which melts at around 2700° F.
Gage and Harrit will present evidence that the three World Trade Center skyscrapers were explosively demolished on September 11, 2001.
"We hope that this milestone debate at this prestigious venue will give us an opportunity to lay out the explosive evidence that has alarmed over 1,000 technical and building professionals into demanding a new WTC… Continue reading
Sydney's Sept 11 Protest Calls for End of Afghan War!
August 24, 2010
By John Bursill
John Bursill's Blog at visibility911.com/
So why should we believe that "9/11 Truth" can stop the war in Afghanistan and bring the "War on Terrorism" to an end?
I will lay out below the non-conspiratorial reasons why it is vitally important that we continue to demand accountability from our governments, on why it is they went to war on our behalf in 2001. I will also argue why I am correct to strongly assert that the pursuit of 9/11 truth and a criminal investigation of those events is the only practical path to peace today. Details of an upcoming Sydney "9/11 Truth for Peace" Protest on September 11th, 2010 are at the bottom of this article.
On the 11th of September 2001 the world entered a very dark chapter of its history! We were promised a 100 years of war in this "New American Century" fighting "the terrorists" wherever the American Empire deemed they were, and at the time of their choosing. We were told that this "New Pear Harbor" event carried out on 9/11 by the CIA born Al-Qaeda was a fair and reasonable reason to carry out a preemptive strike against their supporters the Taliban, by the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan.
The vast majority of the world's population and its governments rallied behind the US determined to fight Islamic terrorism together world wide. Although some more skeptical… Continue reading
August 31, 2010
911blogger.com, James Gourley's blog
The International Center for 9/11 Studies has secured the release of hundreds of hours of video footage and tens of thousands of photographs used by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for its investigation of the collapse of the World Trade Center Twin Towers and Building 7. This material is being released to the Center under the Freedom of Information Act, in response to a lawsuit the Center filed against NIST.
The Center filed a FOIA Request with NIST on January 26, 2009, seeking production of "all of the photographs and videos collected, reviewed, cited or in any other way used by NIST during its investigation of the World Trade Center building collapses." Following several unsuccessful attempts to get NIST to even acknowledge receipt of the Request, the Center was forced to file a lawsuit on May 28, 2009. Shortly after the lawsuit was filed, the Request was assigned a reference number, and NIST began periodically releasing batches of responsive records. To date, the Center has received over 300 DVDs and several external hard disk drives that contain responsive records – more than 3 terabytes of data so far – and NIST has indicated that additional records will be released in the future.
We are currently looking at the best ways to distribute these materials to interested researchers and journalists around the world. It has taken NIST more than 8 months so far to produce a partial archive of photographs and… Continue reading
PR Newswire
September 7, 2010
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7
Former US Senator Mike Gravel (D-AK) and Richard Gage, AIA, Founder of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth Discuss Scientific Findings
National Press Club, Washington DC, 2:00 pm, Thursday, September 9, 2010
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — On Thursday September 9, 2010, Gravel and Gage will host a central press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, presenting hard evidence that all three WTC skyscrapers on September 11, 2001, in NYC were destroyed by explosive controlled demolition.
Senator Gravel notes, "Critically important evidence has come forward after the original government building reports were completed."
This press conference will be webcast at AE911Truth.org and hosted concurrently in cities throughout the world.* Following the conference, there will be a mock debate during which public statements made by government investigators and other defenders of the official account will be presented and responded to in multimedia format. "They refuse to debate us in person," says Gage, "so we will let their public statements represent them."
Gage will release a media-friendly summary of his organization's findings, which are based on forensic evidence as well as video and eyewitness testimony that were omitted from official reports. He will show evidence that the WTC Twin Towers were not destroyed by jet plane impacts or fires, but by pre-set explosives and incendiaries. The non-profit organization, Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, will also call for a grand jury investigation of government report lead engineers Shyam Sunder and… Continue reading
Richard Gage, AIA, and Gregg Roberts
Monday, 04 October 2010
This is the actual 10-minute statement read by Richard Gage, AIA, to the media at the AE911Truth press conference at the National Press Club in Washington DC on September 9, 2010.
Good afternoon, my name is Richard Gage, AIA. I'm a member of the American Institute of Architects; I've been a licensed architect for 22 years; And I'm the founder of the non-profit organization, Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth (AE911Truth).
As a group, we now have more than 1,270 architect and engineer petition signers. Collectively, we have more than 25,000 years of building and technical experience. This press conference is being given by our petition signers and supporters today in 65 [it turned out to be 67] locations around the world, including 30 states and 4 countries.
Today, we're here to inform you that we have uncovered evidence that the official investigations into what happened to the World Trade Center skyscrapers on 9/11 were deeply flawed, or worse. The scientific forensic facts we have discovered have very troubling implications.
For example, a technologically advanced, highly energetic material has been discovered in World Trade Center dust from the 9/11 catastrophe.
This follows the discovery, by the United States Geological Survey and others, of high concentrations of unusual previously molten iron-rich microspheres in the WTC dust. These microspheres can only have been formed during the destruction of the World Trade Center at temperatures far higher than can… Continue reading
November 2, 2010
A 30 second television spot featuring 9/11 family members and promoting awareness of the destruction of World Trade Center Building 7 has begun airing in New York City. The ad is sponsored by buildingwhat.org and highlights the fact that over 1200 architects and engineers have called for an independent investigation into the events of 9/11.
World Trade Center 7 was the third skyscraper to be completely destroyed on September 11, 2001 — despite not having been hit by an airplane.
The ad began airing on election day and will run through November 10 on 13 channels, including CNN, MSNBC and VH1. NYCCAN, the group who created the ad, estimate that it will be seen by nearly 900,000 viewers. The group plans to commission an opinion poll after the run of the ad and send the results to every City Council member.
"We've been educating the City Council about Building 7 and the need for a new investigation for the past six months," said Bob McIlvaine, father of Bobby McIlvaine and one of the 9/11 family members who appear in the ad. "We are asking them now to do something about it."
Manny Badillo, another family member who appears in the spot, said "For the next two weeks, we the people will see, many for the first time, the demise of the Salomon Brothers building on the day of my uncle's murder. What you witness allows critical thought about details of the crime that we have… Continue reading
Unearths Striking Video/Photo WTC Evidence
by Eli Rika
November 6, 2010
Over the last century, the most astounding historical discoveries of man-made artifacts have often been accomplished by well-funded, highly experienced researchers. From the excavation of King Tut's tomb to the sighting of the sunken Titanic, stunning finds have required immense financial and human resources, as well as the leadership by distinguished. So, how did a mountain of never-before-seen footage used in NIST's World Trade Center investigations get exposed to the light of day last month? Was it the work of a billionaire adventurer? Not quite. You can thank an upstart non-profit, the International Center for 9/11 Studies, whose efforts have at last borne fruit.
The International Center for 9/11 Studies was founded in 2008 by Director James Gourley, a Texas lawyer who began questioning the events of 9/11 after watching a presentation given by David Ray Griffin on C-SPAN.
"I was just floored by what I was hearing," Gourley explained, "and I've been looking into 9/11 ever since then."
In order to encourage a better understanding of the 9/11 attacks and promote scientific study of these tragic events, Gourley assembled a small team of trusted colleagues, which includes physics instructor David Chandler, activist Dr. Graeme MacQueen, and Justin Keogh, the Center's Chief Technical Officer. The Center has partnered with other key researchers in the past, including physicist Steven Jones and chemist Niels Harrit.
Since its inception, the Center has contributed to groundbreaking work… Continue reading
by Jeremy R. Hammond
March 7, 2011
Face to Face with Dr. Niels Harrit: "There is no doubt that this building was taken down in a controlled demolition…" from I.C.T.V. Victoria on Vimeo.
Dr. Niels Harrit is a retired associate professor of chemistry at the University of Copenhagen and one among an international team of scientists who published a paper in The Open Chemical Physics Journal on the discovery of nano-thermite
in the dust from the World Trade Center collapses on September 11, 2001. He has recently finished a lecture tour of Canadian universities, where he spoke on the subject.
In this interview on the cable program Face to Face with Jack Etkin, Dr. Harrit discusses this finding and its implications. Dr. Harrit notes that World Trade Center building 7 (WTC 7), a 47-story steel-framed skyscraper that was not hit by one of the planes on 9/11, collapsed symmetrically into its own footprint, and that the official explanation for this is that it was due to fire. However, the finding of nano-thermite in the dust, along with other available evidence, leads inescapably to another conclusion. "There is no doubt that this building was taken down in a controlled demolition," says Dr. Harrit. "I consider this to be [a] mainstream scientific conclusion. There's no way around this conclusion. There are so many observations that are only compatible with a controlled demolition."
"Science is based on observation and experience," says Dr. Harrit in the interview. Point out that it… Continue reading
Represented by the Center for 9/11 Justice
NEW YORK, March 23, 2011 —
/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A December 2010 poll conducted by the prestigious Emnid Institute, and reported in the German magazine "Welt der Wunder," revealed that 89.5% of German respondents do not believe the official story of 9/11.
The issue is heating up in America as well, and will soon be heard in court.
Top Secret Military Specialist April Gallop saw disturbing things up close that have not been reported in the media.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, she was ordered by her supervisor to go directly to work at the Pentagon, before dropping off her ten-week-old son Elisha at day care.
Amazingly, the infant was given immediate security clearance upon arrival.
The instant Gallop turned on her computer an enormous explosion blew her out of her chair, knocking her momentarily unconscious.
Escaping through the hole reportedly made by Flight 77, she saw no signs of an aircraft — no seats, luggage, metal, or human remains. Her watch (and other clocks nearby) had stopped at 9:30-9:31 a.m., seven minutes before the Pentagon was allegedly struck at 9:38 a.m.
The 9/11 Commission reported that "by no later than 9:18 a.m., FAA centers in Indianapolis, Cleveland, and Washington were aware that Flight 77 was missing and that two aircraft had struck the World Trade Center."
Why then were there no anti-aircraft defenses, Gallop asks, or alarm warnings inside the Pentagon?
Gallop was briefed by officials not to tell her story… Continue reading
March 30, 2011
Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth (ae911truth.org)
These videos are raw footage of AE911Truth's exclusive interviews with two of the world class experts appearing in Architects and Engineer's upcoming hard hitting documentary "9/11: Explosive Evidence – Experts Speak Out":
by Rady Ananda
April 29, 2011
Rather than judicially review significant evidence in the events of September
11, 2001, on April 27, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's
dismissal of an Army Specialist's complaint against former Vice President
Dick Cheney, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and former Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Richard Myers.
One of Plaintiff April Gallop's attorneys, William Veale, didn't
know whether to relate the decision to "Kafka, Orwell, Carroll, or Huxley,"
referring to the absurdity and dearth of reason emanating from the court regarding
the deadliest attack on U.S. soil the nation has ever faced.
"The Court's decision, analogous to reviewing an Indictment in
a liquor store hold-up without mentioning the guy walking in with a gun, refuses
to acknowledge even the existence of the three defendants much less what they
were doing that morning or saying about it afterwards," Veale added.
Of the three judges on the panel, John Mercer Walker, Jr. is first cousin of
former President George H.W. Bush and first cousin once removed of George W.
Bush, who used 9/11 to manipulate public emotion to support passage of the unconstitutional
PATRIOT Acts and waging illegal wars of aggression in the Middle East. According
to Wikipedia, Walker shares a grandfather with the 41st president, George Herbert
Walker, whose daughter married Prescott Bush. A motion to force Judge Walker's
removal from the case was denied, despite a clear conflict of interest.
The lawsuit, prepared by… Continue reading
May 10, 2011
Dr. Steven Jones
Blog at 911blogger.com
Here I field questions that come to me fairly often, to help get the facts out and to counter misrepresentations and misunderstandings. I expect to make edits for a while and welcome comments.
1. Can nanothermites (also called superthermites) be explosive?
The definition of "explosive" can lead to endless debates. Is a flash of light required? Is a loud sound required? How loud? What rate of energy generation is required for a material to be called an explosive? Where is the line between low explosives and high explosives? Rather than getting mired into ad nauseum debates, I will use the term "explosive" in conjunction with superthermites/nanothermites IF the national defense laboratories which developed these materials use the term. Here we go.
"Researchers can greatly increase the power of weapons by adding materials known as superthermites that combine nanometals such as nanoaluminum with metal oxides such as iron oxide, according to Steven Son, a project leader in the Explosives Science and Technology group at Los Alamos. "The advantage (of using nanometals) is in how fast you can get their energy out," Son says. Son says that the chemical reactions of superthermites are faster and therefore release greater amounts of energy more rapidly… Son, who has been working on nanoenergetics for more than three years, says that scientists can engineer nanoaluminum powders with different particle sizes to vary the energy release rates. This enables the material to be used in many applications, including underwater explosive devices… However, researchers aren't permitted to discuss what practical military applications may come from this research." (Gartner, John (2005).…Continue reading
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Siena Research Institute Poll Commissioned by "Remember Building 7″
Campaign Shows Significant Skepticism of Official Account
June 8, 2011
NEW YORK CITY, NY — Amid its June 6th launch of 425 advertising spots
on New York television, Remember Building 7 — an advocacy campaign calling
for a new investigation into the collapse of a third skyscraper on 9/11 —
has released findings from a new poll it commissioned on what New Yorkers believe
about that day.
The May polling of 643 New Yorkers (including respondents in all of New York
City's five boroughs) by the independent Siena Research Institute shows
meaningful levels of doubt and concern regarding the truth about what happened
that day, with only 60 percent of New Yorkers ready to "move on",
and 48 percent in favor of the Manhattan District Attorney or New York City
Council opening a new investigation into the collapse of World Trade Center
Building 7.
The poll finds:
1 in 3 New Yorkers were unaware of Building 7's collapse (the
skyscraper was not hit by an airplane; it collapsed seven hours after the Twin
Towers), only 25 percent have ever seen video footage of the collapse, and 86
percent were unable to name the building;
Of those aware of Building 7's collapse, 24 percent believe it
was a controlled demolition that brought the building down, 23… Continue reading
by Kevin Ryan
In the last few years, a series of peer-reviewed scientific articles has been published that establish the presence of thermitic materials at the World Trade Center (WTC). [A-D]
Although we know that nanothermite has been found in the WTC dust, we do not know what purpose it served in the deceptive demolition of the WTC buildings. It could be that the nanothermite was used simply to drive fires in the impact zones and elevator areas — fires which would otherwise have gone out too early or not been present at all — and thereby create the deception that jet fuel-induced fires could wreak the havoc seen. Nanothermite might also have been used to produce the explosions necessary to destroy the structural integrity of the buildings.
Nanothermite, also called superthermite, is the common name for a subset of metastable intermolecular composites (MICs) characterized by a highly exothermic reaction after ignition. Nanothermites contain an oxidizer and a reducing agent that are intimately mixed on the nanometer scale. Such nano-energetics are produced for various applications including propellants, explosives, and pyrotechnics.
There are various ways to make nanothermites. They can be made as solid mixtures of aluminum and metal oxides which are typically produced using techniques like dynamic vapor phase condensation and arrested reactive milling. These mixtures are much like typical thermite mixtures, but with the components introduced on a much smaller scale. Alternatively, nanothermites can be made in a liquid solution that later gels, capturing the reactive components in… Continue reading


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Originally Posted by Ian Grant
Heather, Photocolor has been around for a long time, the company who originally made it were the successors to Johnsons Photochemicals, Pip Pippard was the chemist.
Now I think they are made by Paterson. But for many years they were predominant in the UK market for their C41, RA4 and E6 kits.
It's available online at Retro, but maybe its not currently manufactured, Paterson have only just resumed B&W chemistry after their outsource manufacturer stopped making photo-chemicals in the UK.
Paterwson no longer produce RA4 or C41 developers. I e mailed them to ask and that's what they told me.
As Jeff has confirmed, Paterson no longer does RA4 or C41 kits. Their supplier, Champion I think, moved, I believe, to Spain and there seemed to be a problem with the quantities Champion would have required Paterson to buy per consignment. Paterson's sales might have left it with stock on the shelves too long.
Pity. It was easy stuff to use and relatively cheap.
I couldn't find any mention of Photocolor on the Retro site. It seems to only deal in Tetenal kit. Most of the off the shelf kits for the low volume user have C41 blix not separate bleach and fix. Again a pity. Morco for one does the Kodak kit which has separate bleach and fix but not in small quantities.
If anyone were to find old Paterson photocolor C41 or RA4 stock for sale, he should be wary as it has to be quite old stock now.
I started doing my own C41 earlier this year. It's really easy, and my results have been good. I use the Tetenal 5 litre kit, which uses a blix, but that hasn't caused any problems yet - possibly because I don't run it to exhaustion.
I decided to get a jobo processor off e*bay, as I wanted better temperature control and auto rotation, but you don't actually need one.
It's much cheaper than having it processed commercially, and the results are just as good.
You can also take the executive decision not to charge for pushing and pulling films
Lens caps and cable releases can become invisible at will. :D
Fotospeed, unlike Paterson's chemicals, are still around; I think I bought mine from Firstcall, but I've seen them in other online shops.
Don't have much to say as I've only just started dev and printing my own colour too (and most of that cross-processed...) and have been using Tetenal C41 and Fotospeed RA4 although I will probably buy Kodak C41 chems when the Tetenal runs out - I just wanted something simple for my first few rolls.
I already have a Jobo CPE2, so keeping the C41 at 38C is fairly straightforward. Without such equipment, a tempering bath of hot water is required to hold the working chems - possibly in an insulated container such as a picnic cooler.
Have fun, Bob.
Originally Posted by Photo Engineer
This is why Kodak, Fuji and Agfa never released a blix for any color film product.
So, these companies recommended a C41 process which was prewet, color developer, bleach, wash, fix, wash and stabilzer.
Agfa offered within their AP70 process chemistry range (compatible with C-41) a so called `AP 70 Kit´, which used a bleach-fix.
[Aside from 37,8°C a process temperature of 30°C was advised without limitations.]
Agfa did not advise a prewet (if you mean wetting the film before employing the coulour-developer) for their CN processes, nor have I seen any hint at that in any other datasheet.
Originally Posted by AgX
Agfa offered within their AP70 process chemistry range (compatible with C-41) a so called `AP 70 Kit´, which used a bleach-fix.
[Aside from 37,8°C a process temperature of 30°C was advised without limitations.]
Agfa did not advise a prewet (if you mean wetting the film before employing the coulour-developer) for their CN processes, nor have I seen any hint at that in any other datasheet.
I am sure that they could devise one just as we did at Kodak, but the keeping quality of a film blix is very low. It would probably be close to a one shot blix if it removed all of the silver.
OTOH, it may only have worked on Agfa films. IDK.
Here is a good blix process for C41.
Develop in C41 developer
Stop in 2% acetic acid + 10 g/l sodium sulfite (clearing stop) for 2 minutes
Wash 2 minutes
Blix in 50 g/l Potassium Ferricyanide + 200 ml /l of 60% ammonium hypo for about 5 minutes then throw this solution away.
Wash 10 minutes
This is all at 100F.
That should work, as the Ferricyanide/hypo blix was one of the earliest and least stable and would never survive a deep tank replenished process.
BTW, I have not tried this with current films so I do not warrant the process. I have not done this since about 1970 or thereabouts.
Tetenal state for their `fast blix´ (4min in contrast to Agfa's 10min blix) a shelf life of the working solution of 2-4 weeks.
Well, they don't state whether this is for fresh or used blix.
But what about that `prewet´ thing, PE?
Either way, at a useful pH and at a high enough concentration to blix modern C41 films from Kodak and Fuji, the lifetime of the hypo will be rather short. A good blix for fillm, using hypo, will need ammonium salts and will begin to go bad the minute the two parts are mixed. One part is an oxidant and the other is a reductant.
BTW, Kodak RA blix mixed at 2x concentration and then brought down to pH of about 4.5 (it turns orange like orange juice from the original blood red color) will make a passable blix for C41 film, but is only stable for hours.
I would like to add that I spent nearly 50% of my time for over 5 years on the subject of blixing C41 films and have a patent on the topic with 2 of my co-workers. I also designed the current paper blix which is esssentially unchanged from my original formula of 10/1966.
I know about your work on blixes and your knowledge is highly appreciated.
I just referred to the fact that other companies offered blix processes. Whereas that very Agfa chemistry was seemingly intended for amateur use, the Tetenal chemistry is intented for rather large volumes of working solution too, especially allowing repeated runs with blix solution.
From that I conclude that it works. The quality of such a blix-process may be another issue…
And again:
You referred to the use of a pre-wet. There is no hint at such in any type of C-41 datasheet I got.
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ALLEN - After a tumultuous couple days off the ice, the IceRays didn't find a respite on it.
The Allen Americans dispatched Corpus Christi 6-3 on Friday night at the Allen Event Center.
Despite the loss, the IceRays (16-18-6, 38 points) remained two points behind Amarillo and Rio Grande Valley for the final playoff spot in the Central Hockey League's Southern Conference.
Corpus Christi got off to a fast start, but Allen scored five of the game's six goals to control matters for much of the final two periods.
Kyle Peto's early power-play goal gave the IceRays a 1-0 lead, but Allen erased that with two quick goals late in the first period.
First at 18:45, Mick Berge redirected a crossing pass past IceRays goalie Kris Tebbs, who was seeing his first action since Dec. 27.
Just 23 seconds later, Jordie Benn's slap shot from the left point beat a screened Tebbs.
The Americans scored a fluke goal early in the second period. At 2:29, Chris Kaufman's harmless shot from the right point went in off the left arm of IceRays defenseman Jason Tessier when he tried to glove the puck down.
R.G. Flath's rebound goal at 9:05 drew the IceRays back within a goal, but Americans captain Jarret Lukin responded at 13:14 to restore Allen's two-goal lead.
Lukin made it 5-2 early in the third period after an IceRays defensive-zone turnover.
The IceRays' Chad Woollard countered with a power-play goal a little more than a minute later, his CHL-best 23rd tally, but Corpus Christi drew no closer.
Allen's Nino Musitelli then finished the scoring at the 15:09 mark.
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Allen 2 2 2 — 6
FIRST PERIOD 1, CC, Peto 4 (Tessier, Woollard), 4:26 (pp); 2, Aln, Berge 2 (Benn, Musitelli), 18:45 (pp); 3, Aln, Benn 7 (Gaudet), 19:08. Penalties Graham, Aln (hooking), 3:32; Wooddisse, Aln (tripping), 3:32; Richards, CC (cross-checking), 3:35; Smyth, CC (roughing), 14:36; Fairbarn, Aln (slashing), 15:36; Peto, CC (tripping), 17:27.
SECOND PERIOD 4, Aln, Kaufman 5 (Lukin, Whelan), 2:29; 5, CC, Flath 7 (Powell, MacLean), 9:05; 6, Aln, Lukin 7 (Straub, Yellow Horn), 13:14. Penalty Garbutt, CC (tripping), 6:12.
THIRD PERIOD 7, Aln, Lukin 8 (Yellow Horn, Whelan), 2:46; 8, CC, Woollard 23 (Peto, Costello), 3:54 (pp); 9, Aln, Musitelli 13 (Berge, Graham), 15:09. Penalties O'Nabigon, Aln (slashing), 3:23; MacLean, CC (hooking), 5:21; Garbutt, CC (high-sticking), 10:34; Bench, CC, served by Costello (abuse of officials), 10:34.
Shots on goal — Corpus Christi 11-8-7-26; Allen 11-12-8-31. Goalies — Corpus Christi, Tebbs 2-4-3 (31 shots-25 saves); Allen, Whitley 20-7-2 (26-23). Power-play opportunities — Corpus Christi 2 of 4; Allen 1 of 7. Referee Tudor Floru. Linesmen Randy Sappo, Anthony Rivera. A — 3,697. T — 2:19.
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NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE: GULLIBLE TREATMENT OF TRUMPED UP "STUDY" ON FETAL PAIN ISSUE SHOULD EMBARRASS J.A.M.A. AND SOME JOURNALISTS This is an update from the National Right to Life Committee, 202-626-8825, issued Thursday, August 25, 2005, at 4 PM EDT. For further updates on this subject, watch http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/fetal_pain/index.html This memo offers a number of points of information regarding the article "Fetal Pain: A Systematic Multidisciplinary Review of the Evidence," published in the August 24 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Any of the material below, if not otherwise attributed, can be attributed to NRLC Legislative Director Douglas Johnson (firstname.lastname@example.com), who prepared this memorandum. BASIC OBJECTIONS 1. The JAMA article was produced by pro-abortion activists. There is no new laboratory research reported in the article -- it is merely a commentary on a selection of existing medical literature. The authors purport to show that there is no good evidence that human fetuses feel pain before 29 weeks (during the seventh month). The authors' conclusion (which was predetermined by their political agenda -- see below) is disputed by experts with far more extensive credentials in pain research than any of the authors. These independent authorities say that there is substantial evidence from multiple lines of research that unborn humans can perceive pain during the fifth and sixth months (i.e., by 20 weeks gestational age), and perhaps somewhat earlier. 2. For example, Dr. Kanwaljeet S. Anand, a pain researcher who holds tenured chairs in pediatrics, anesthesiology, pharmacology, and neurobiology at the University of Arkansas, said in a document accepted as expert by a federal court, "It is my opinion that the human fetus possesses the ability to experience pain from 20 weeks of gestation, if not earlier, and that pain perceived by a fetus is possibly more intense than that perceived by newborns or older children." Read Dr. Anand's complete statement entered in federal court, summarizing the scientific evidence, here. In a USA Today article (August 25), Dr. Anand predicted that JAMA's publication of the article would "inflame a lot of scientists who are . . . far more knowledgeable in this area than the authors appear to be." 3. A similar review published in September 1999 in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (the leading ob-gyn journal in the UK) concluded: "Given the anatomical evidence, it is possible that the fetus can feel pain from 20 weeks and is caused distress by interventions from as early as 15 or 16 weeks." (Article available in PDF format here.) 4. The JAMA authors arrive at their "conclusion" through a highly tendentious methodology that could, for the most part, also be used to argue that there is no proof that animals really feel pain and no proof that premature newborn humans really feel pain (although the authors do not address those subjects). There are innumerable state and federal laws intended to reduce the suffering of animals, even though it is impossible to "prove" that their "experience" of pain is subjectively the same as that of the lawmakers who have enacted these regulations. THE EVIDENCE FROM PREMATURELY BORN INFANTS 5. Infants born as early as 23 or 24 weeks now commonly survive long term in neonatal intensive care units. Neonatologists confirm that they react negatively to painful stimuli -- for example, by grimacing, withdrawing, and whimpering. When they must receive surgical procedures, they are given drugs to prevent pain. Yet, the JAMA authors assert that there is no credible evidence of fetal pain until 29 weeks - - which is five or six weeks later. If these babies feel pain in the incubator, then they also feel pain in the womb. If the newborn at 23 weeks demonstrates aversion to pain and needs protection from pain, the same is true of the 24-week (or 25-week, 26-week, 27-week, or 28-week) unborn child. 6. As Dr. Paul Ranalli, a neurologist at the University of Toronto, commented on the paper: "Across the nation, Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) are full of bravely struggling preemies . . . The only difference between a child in the womb at this stage, or one born and cared for in an incubator, is how they receive oxygen -- either through the umbilical cord or through the lungs. There is no difference in their nervous systems. Their article sets back humane pediatric medicine 20 years, back to a time when doctors still believed babies could not feel pain." In testimony before a congressional committee in 1996, Dr. Jean A. Wright, then a pediatric pain specialist at Emory University, said: "Preterm infants who are born and delivered at 23 weeks of gestation show very highly specific and well-coordinated physiologic and behavioral responses to pain which is just like older infants." (Even the paper notes in passing, "Normal EEG patterns have been characterized for neonates as young as 24 weeks' postconceptual age.") THE VIOLENCE OF ABORTION METHODS USED 7. The gross trauma inflicted on the unborn human by abortion methods used in the fifth and sixth months far exceed anything that would be done to a premature newborn at the same stage of development. The most common abortion method, the so-called "D&E," involves tearing arms and legs off of the unanesthetized unborn child, then crushing the skull. (Click here to see a series of professional medical school illustrations of this method.) Thousands of times annually, the partial-birth abortion method is used, which involves mostly delivering the living premature infant, feet first, and then puncturing the skull with scissors or a pointed metal tube (to see medically accurate illustrations of this method, click here). To review material presented to Congress by leading anesthesiologists and other medical experts with varying positions on legal abortion, click here. THE ORIGINS OF THE PAPER 8. The so-called "study" was produced by pro-abortion activists and a well-known practitioner of late abortions -- but, with a few notable exceptions, that readily available information was omitted or greatly minimized by mainstream media outlets that initially covered story on August 23 and 24, including ABC World News Tonight, the Associated Press, and the New York Times. 9. The lead author of the article, Susan J. Lee, who is now a medical student, was previously employed as a lawyer by NARAL, the pro-abortion political advocacy organization (Knight Ridder, August 24). 10. One of Lee's four co-authors, Dr. Eleanor A. Drey, is the director of the largest abortion clinic in San Francisco (San Francisco Chronicle, March 31, 2004, and Knight Ridder, August 24, 2005). According to Dr. Drey, the abortion facility that she runs performs about 600 abortions a year between the 20th and 23rd weeks of pregnancy (i.e., in the fifth and sixth months). (San Francisco Chronicle, March 31, 2004) Drey is a prominent critic of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, and a self-described activist. (In a laudatory profile in the newsletter of Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health, September 2004, it was noted that "much of Dr. Drey's research centers on repeat and second-trimester procedures . . .," and quotes Drey as saying, "I am very lucky because I get to train residents and medical students, and I really do feel that it's a type of activism.") Drey is also on the staff of the Center for Reproductive Health Research and Policy (CRHRP) at the University of California, San Francisco -- a pro-abortion propaganda and training center. Much of this information was available through even a very cursory Google search, and some of it was provided to journalists who contacted NRLC about the embargoed JAMA paper on August 22-23, but few saw fit to mention these connections in their initial reports. 11. However, one reporter (Knight Ridder's Marie McCullough) did contact JAMA editor-in-chief Catherine D. DeAngelis regarding the ties of Lee and Drey. McCullough reported that DeAngelis "said she was unaware of this, and acknowledged it might create an appearance of bias that could hurt the journal's credibility. 'This is the first I've heard about it,' she said. 'We ask them to reveal any conflict of interest. I would have published' the disclosure if it had been made." (Knight Ridder, August 24, 2005) A day later, DeAngelis told USA Today that the affiliations of Drey and Lee "aren't relevant," but again said that the ties should have been disclosed. If she really thought the affiliations were not relevant, why would she say that they should have been disclosed? If a review of the same issue by doctors employed by pro- life advocacy groups had been submitted or published, would those affiliations have been ignored by journalists? 12. Dr. David Grimes, a vice-president of Family Health International, has been relied on by CNN, the New York Times, and some other media as a purported expert to defend the paper. Dr. Grimes has made pro-abortion advocacy a central element of his career for decades. (During the time he worked for the CDC in the 1980s, his off-hours work at a local late-abortion facility sparked protests from some pro-life activists. In 1987, a year after he left the CDC, Grimes testified that he had already performed more than 10,000 abortions, 10 to 20 percent of those after the first trimester.) In addition, Grimes was previously the chief of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the San Francisco General Hospital -- the very same institution where author Drey directs the abortion clinic. THE FINDINGS OF A FEDERAL COURT 13. In 2004, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York received extensive testimony regarding fetal pain from experts on both sides, including doctors who perform many late abortions, as part of a legal challenge to the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act. Although the subsequent opinion struck down the ban as inconsistent with a 2000 U.S. Supreme Court ruling (this is being appealed), the court made certain formal "findings of fact," among these: "The Court finds that the testimony at trial and before Congress establishes that D&X [partial-birth abortion] is a gruesome, brutal, barbaric, and uncivilized medical procedure. Dr. Anand's testimony, which went unrebutted by Plaintiffs, is credible evidence that D&X abortions subject fetuses to severe pain. Notwithstanding this evidence, some of Plaintiffs' experts testified that fetal pain does not concern them, and that some do not convey to their patients that their fetuses may undergo severe pain during a D&X." (This illustrates that abortionists will not raise the question of pain, at any stage of pregnancy, unless they are required to do so.) UNBORN CHILD PAIN AWARENESS ACT (S. 51, H.R. 356) 14. The obvious purpose of the authors of the JAMA paper was to damage the prospects for the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act (S. 51, H.R. 356). This bill would require that abortion providers give women seeking abortions after 20 weeks after fertilization (22 weeks gestation) certain basic information on the substantial evidence that their unborn children may experience pain while being aborted, and advise them regarding any available methods to reduce or eliminate such pain. The bill explicitly states that the abortion provider may offer his or her own opinions and advice regarding the question, including discussion of any risks to the mother of methods of reducing the pain of the unborn child. The authors, in their final paragraph, explicitly oppose any requirement that abortionists raise the pain issue in any fashion, at least during the fifth and sixth months. 15. It is noteworthy, however, that in January, 2005, NARAL President Nancy Keenan issued a statement that NARAL "does not intend to oppose" the bill, because "pro-choice Americans have always believed that women deserve access to all the information relevant to their reproductive health decisions." (A complete reproduction of the NARAL statement is available here.) 16. Spokepersons for some groups of abortion providers say that they object to the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act because it would require that abortionists recite a "script" advising women who are seeking abortions after 22 weeks gestational age (20 weeks from fertilization) that there is "substantial evidence" that abortion will inflict pain (the bill also explicitly says that the abortionist may also offer whatever opinions he or she wishes regarding the issue and the risks of any optional pain relieving methods). But in truth, abortion providers, like the authors of the paper, object not just to a "script" but to any requirement whatever that women be provided with any information on the subject. They have also objected to laws enacted in Arkansas and Georgia that require only the provision of printed information prepared by the state health agencies, and to a Minnesota law that merely requires that the abortionist tell the woman "whether or not an anesthetic or analgesic would eliminate or alleviate organic pain to the unborn child caused by the particular method of abortion to be employed and the particular medical benefits and risks associated with the particular anesthetic or analgesic." Apparently, the abortionists are taking the paternalistic stance that women are incapable of evaluating such information and giving it whatever weight they think it deserves. ADMINISTERING ANESTHESIA OR ANALGESICS 17. The authors of the JAMA paper say that "no established protocols exist for administering anesthesia or analgesia directly to the fetus for minimally invasive fetal procedures or abortions." (p. 952) Yet, some abortions are performed by administering toxins into the amniotic sac (or even directly into the fetal heart) with a needle, precisely guided by ultrasound. Moreover, in cases of women carrying multiple unborn humans, abortionists sometimes engage in "selective reduction," in which some of the fetuses are killed by stabbing them directly in their hearts with a needle guided by ultrasound. One suspects, therefore, that any current lack of methods of safely administering pain-reducing drugs to a fetus in utero relate more the fact that abortionists just don't care about fetal pain and have not developed such methods, rather than to any insurmountable technical obstacles. In any case, under the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act, a woman considering an abortion after 20 weeks gestational age would be given information on the current state of the art, including the abortionist's own assessment of any risks, to evaluate as she sees fit. 18. Paul Ranalli, a neurologist at the University of Toronto, reports, "Experts from Britain and France have proposed safe and effective fetal anesthesia protocols. (Ranalli cites the 1997 Working Party Report on Fetal Pain by the UK's Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and "La douleur du foetus," Mahieu-Caputo D, Dommergues M et al, Presse Med 2000; 29:663-9, recommending Sulfentanyl 1 ug/kg and Pentothal 10 ug/kg.) Ranalli also writes that the JAMA paper itself "includes experimental animal evidence that suggests an effective intra-amniotic needle injection could spare the fetus pain, without the need to give the mother any additional anesthetic" (citing material on JAMA p. 952, column 1). NUMBERS OF ABORTION AT ISSUE 19. According to the JAMA paper, relying on a CDC report, about 1.4 percent of the abortions performed in the U.S. are performed at or after 21 weeks gestational age. If so, that would be over 18,000 abortions annually nationwide -- hardly inconsequential to anyone concerned with inflicting pain on a sentient young human. (Note: That figure omits abortions performed at 20 weeks gestational age.) It is worth noting that the CDC reports are very incomplete. Indeed, the report itself makes it clear that the CDC received no abortion reports from California -- so none of the 600 abortions performed annually at 20-23 weeks in Dr. Drey's abortion clinic are reflected in the CDC figures.
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Bowling ball Tolbert keeps Chargers rolling
Tolbert had a solid career at Coastal Carolina, rushing for 748 yards and nine touchdowns as a senior to finish with 1,670 yards and 21 touchdowns.
Fullback Jacob Hester also is impressed with Tolbert. Hester came to San Diego at the same time as Tolbert but in a much different way. The Chargers traded up in the third round of that year's draft to take Hester out of LSU.
"The thing with Mike, he had such a great college career and he's so athletic," Hester said. "I think he had a little bit of a chip on his shoulder that he felt like he got passed up by a lot of teams. I think so as well. I've seen his college highlight film and it's pretty unreal. Every time I watched it, it was a 200-yard game.
"I think people just see him as a bowling ball, and they don't see how athletic he really is," Hester said.
Tolbert has had three significant fumbles this year, including at the Oakland 1-yard line early in a 35-27 loss to the Raiders on Oct. 10. He seems to have cured himself of the bad habit. Despite bruising his right hand against the Colts, he intends to play against the Raiders Sunday as the Chargers (6-5) try to win their fifth straight game.
Even when Mathews returns, Tolbert will get his share of carries.
"I'm whatever Norv Turner wants me to be on Sunday," Tolbert said. "Whether it be on special teams or fullback if Jacob's not in at the time, or Ryan's down, as the case has been, I'm ready to go wherever, whenever, just to help the Chargers win."
While Tolbert's not a pure fullback, Turner said he is a complete player.
"Obviously the last two weeks, he's been kind of where we start," Turner said. "He's pounding it and our offensive line, I think they're enjoying it."
Left tackle Marcus McNeill likes getting Tolbert to the end zone to watch him dance.
"Best in the league," McNeill said. "It was the dougie, but then he turned it into the flex. You've got to get up on your dance lingo to kind of know what I'm talking about. It's kind of like taking the mashed potato to the funky chicken.
"We're going to keep him coming," McNeill said. "Our team has the No. 1 offense, No. 1 defense, No. 1 handslaps, No. 1 touchdown dance. All categories."
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