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Bill Noxid
July 16, 2012
"Whatever happens today, you can't put this genie back in the bottle." – oxfordgirl
I remember watching these words real-time on June 12th 2009, and knowing just how undeniably true they were. Something was about to happen that was going to change the nature of reality and perception on this planet in ways that only a handful of us on Earth could even conceive. The next generation of mind control was about to manifest itself in a faraway land, and I knew as well as the creators themselves did, that the era of Virtual Reality 2.0 was about to begin…
For ages they prepared for this event. Months and months of planning, preparation, and testing went into the grand illusion that was about to 'spring' to life. On June 12th 2009 it wasn't even blip in American consciousness yet, but Iran was about to hold a Presidential Election and this small band of rebel technologists planned on turning in their favor. The methods and means they intended to use in this endeavor where nothing short of astonishing. Through perception management, disinformation, video manipulation, manufactured false reality, cyber warfare, and remote managed civil disobedience, this band was fully prepared to and intent on – taking over a country.
The final and central piece of this operation was a communications platform you all know very well and use every day. The global, open, instantaneous communications network that Twitter has become would be the vehicle to control the operation and deliver propaganda to the media and the public. Video, graphics, website design, and disinformation were all prepared months in advance, as were the tools to enlist the unwitting cooperation of the masses. Once set in motion this elaborate plan to gain the support of people worldwide was intended to grow organically through appealing to and manipulating the genuine and humanitarian desires and instincts of the people, while using them as cover for their true intentions. To this very moment, it has continued to do just that.
This experimental grand delusion operation was the prototype and foundation of a great many things that today, three years later, are accepted globally as reality. Everything you know and believe about Arab Spring, everything you know and believe about the Occupy Movement, and everything to know and believe about Anonymous came from and is rooted in this operation. Every single bit of these manufactured realities from the "V" for Victory sign, the Guy Fawkes masks, the adaptation of "Allah Akbar" chants, the "World is Watching" mantra, the "We Are Legion" slogan, the "Expect Us" warning, the organized global civil disobedience, and now ubiquitous cyber war, all stems from this one operation like the base of a oak tree. There is no more separation between any of these things or any of these operations masquerading as 'spontaneous grassroots uprisings' than there is between the trunk of a tree and its many varied branches.
To understand the #iranElection operation is to understand the whole. As the manufactured "Arab Spring" has marched across the Middle East toppling governments in Tunisia, Yemen, Egypt, and Libya, and as operations continue in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Bahrain, Myanmar, and many others, the original goal of the #IranElection prototype (destabilization and regime change) has manifest over and over with exponentially increasing destruction, death, and deception. The Occupy, Anarchy, and Anonymous subdivisions of this operation have caused untold destruction and divisions across Europe and the United States as this operation methodically turns governments against their people and people against their governments, just as they turn Sunni against Shia and Shia against Sunni across the Middle East. This global remote control puppetry continues to train myriad divisions of false flag terrorist groups responsible for unspeakable acts as the usual suspects are scapegoated without any validation whatsoever, as mainstream media remains little more than the propaganda wing of the operation – offering no critical analysis of the ongoing fraud.
It is well past time that the people of this planet awaken to this delusion, the puppeteers, and the ever evolving false-reality construct. Once one understands the foundation of this operation and the origination of its familiar tactics, the mystery, anonymity, and confusion about these so-called 'leaderless' uprisings evaporates – leaving just the original operatives and their consistent and obvious motives. If you're prepared to understand the reality of this 3 year false reality campaign, continue down the rabbit hole.
Arab Spring Exposed
By Bill Noxid
What's it going to take for people to wake from this ongoing delusion? Hopefully the answer to that question, is this document. After three years of obvious remote control revolution, this ongoing Arab Spring charade continues to be given the illusion of credibility by Mainstream Media, while every day it becomes more patently obvious that these operations are anything but "Spontaneous Grassroots Uprisings."
I'll start with this fair waning. This document is long and complicated. This is also a live document and I will be adding to it. None of that is avoidable, because the operation itself is complicated. I'll make it as simple and as understandable as possible, but you will be required to pay attention. Anyone looking for or accustomed to sound bite solutions will have to develop (at least temporarily) an actual attention span, because what's at stake is your ability to understand anything at all about the world you live in. If you take the time to actually read and understand this document, a great many bewildering things about this planet will suddenly become clear. If you try to skim, or breeze through it like every other article you encounter, you will remain part of the division of planetary puppets who have no knowledge or understanding of where the issues they support come from and who they actually serve.
The Dawn of Arab Spring
Three years ago, a brand new phenomenon flew out of the clear blue sky. Without any warning (for most), a (manufactured) wave of 'social consciousness' hit Maninstream Media like a ton of bricks. After ten years of global war crime based on false-flag delusion that no amount of public outrage, organization, and protest was even able to get so much as acknowledgement from MSM for, and after ten years of Diebold stolen elections that remain to this day a hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil reality, MSM and global media in general was suddenly singularly focused – on an obscure election in Iran. In a country that had just elected its First Black President in History and in doing so exposed the reality of a country founded on 500 years of Slavery, suddenly an election in Iran was all Mainstream Media and the Twittersphere could talk about.
With a global economy in complete shambles from decades of international financial criminality, a jobless rate higher than at any point in recent history, rampant and blatant racist obstruction from the Republican Tea Party Klan, and 101 other imperative domestic issues, the people of this country were suddenly driven (more aptly, herded) to believe by MSM and all 'Social Media' that the most important thing on anyone's mind (and twitter feed) in the United States (and Worldwide) was the results of an election in Iran, and the plight of a small group of 'Iranian students' protesting the election results – literally before the election itself had even come to an end.
I'm not exaggerating any of that even in the slightest. On June 12th 2009, an election was held in Iran in which Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was running against three challengers, one of which was Mir-Hossein Mousavi. By June 13th, Mir-Hossein Mousavi and his supposed student supporters had claimed the election was rigged, had declared on their own that Mir-Hossein Mousavi was the true winner of the election, had declared the 'rigged election' a Coup d'état against the people of Iran, and were globally calling for International assistance of every kind in 'dethroning the dictator' Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Rest assured. Prior to 12 June 2009, most people in the United States couldn't tell you who Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was (if they had ever heard of him at all), much less Mir-Hossein Mousavi, yet on June 13th, #iranelection hastag was suddenly trending on twitter, and seemingly massive (virtual) support for Mir-Hossein Mousavi and the 'plight' of these 'students' was all the buzz… or at least that's what we all were all led to believe.
This blisteringly quick sequence of events did not spontaneously manifest itself out of sudden global concern for Iranian students and their election in less than 24 hours, it was accomplished by means of a group of well-placed technology and media professionals manufacturing perception, and developing the prototype operation of what would soon become Arab Spring. In this document I will prove that step by step – starting with the preposterous events of the first day that I just briefly described.
It may be hard to grasp when viewing the totality of this global operation and its influence, but the core group is very small. In the beginning there was just a handful of them doing all the work and wearing all the hats. During the #iranelection prototype they didn't have the armies of the indoctrinated to perpetuate the illusion of massive support for the #iranelection cause, so it was exhausting work for all of them… particularly the lead people. The objective was to create the illusion of massive public support for the Iranian students, have that support broadcast and legitimized by Mainstream Media, have that 'virtual support' translated into Governmental support for intervention, and thus achieve the goal of multinational intervention in Iran and the elimination of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Certainly one could draw conclusions about who is responsible for this operation based on that information alone, but it's entirely unnecessary to do so. The reality will become undeniably clear all by itself… very shortly.
What they didn't have in initial numbers, they more than made up for in preparation, placement, and automation. It quickly became obvious that the platform for this operation extended well beyond twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. The rapid dissemination of false reality about the Iran election itself, and of domestic interest and support for some kind of international action almost instantaneously though MSM exposed how a well-connected Mainstream Media network had already existed… since that was and is the only explanation for such immediate Mainstream Media response, without any vetting of information at all. Within a day, the surrogates all over domestic and international news were speaking and supporting all of the false realities generated by this small group of individuals.
In the technology and social media environments, they were conveniently placed where they could assist, promote, and influence products and people that were beneficial to the operation (in this example, at @mashable). As I explain in End of the Myth of Spontaneous Grassroots, many of the applications for twitter and other social media applications were developed to support the needs of this operation – again some knowingly, some unknowingly.
As the operation developed during the initial #iranelection prototype and the beginnings of the Arab Spring, the infiltration and / or co-opting of other groups and causes (human rights, etc.) became equally clear, and will be explained in detail later. For now we'll start with the foundations and very first steps of the operation, so you can see clearly where the false reality of "Arab Spring" we live in today originated.
Iran Election Day 1
Although an enormous amount of preparation went into this operation before the day of the election (automated systems to gather and RT tweets, massive amounts of 'socks' [fake accounts to simulate a social media population]), this was the first attempt at doing it live. Because of this, the best examples of this operation in its rawest form are from 2009. When the operation was in its earliest phases some glaring an unmistakable errors in judgment exposed the realities of this operation early on, and if we had any real media on this planet, it would have put an end to the illusion then and there. As I soon came to see clearly however, whatever media there was that wasn't actually involved in the deception were evidently quite easily duped themselves, or at very least were willing to go along. What's my evidence of this? Three years of global charade and you'll find more truth of it in this single document than you will all of Mainstream Media.
Take note that I chose the clips I use in this document very carefully, and all of them for several interrelated reasons. Take another look at the tweet I began with:
I chose this tweet example for several reasons:
1. After the #iranelection began to gather people, got them all to change their icons to the same color, got them all to change their time zones to Tehran time (all of which is to conceal the operatives own identities and involvement while adding to the simulated population), it becomes considerably more difficult to see the original operators clearly. However, at the very beginning of the #iranelection prototype, you get to see them by themselves. You get to see very clearly the origins of story lines we've all heard ad-infinitum over the last three years.
2. One characteristic of this operation that remains glaring, is that quite often the statements that come from these psyoperatives are so completely out of touch or outrageous, that they would be more suited to coming out of the mouth of a visitor from another planet. Take this example from 'Somephpguy.' To say in 2009, five minutes after the election of the First Black President of the United states, "stfu about Obama" because you want the 'real' issue to be plight of a band of rebels in Iran, reaches stellar heights of obliviousness to American awareness and sensitivities, and not only identifies oneself as "out of touch" but also "not talking about American interests." There are plenty of 'hard working white' Americans who have long lists of issues they'd rather discuss other than Obama… Pushing (as an imperative above all things) installing Mir-Hossein Mousavi to the Presidency of Iran isn't on any of those lists. Thus doing exactly that on June 12th 2009, identifies these operatives beyond any doubt.
3. Much of the core symbolism and terminology at the root of this psyop is available in just this one tweet. The "V" sign that is ubiquitous throughout Arab Spring is demonstrated here – before any of it ever happened. The basic and raw calls of "People are dying" (prey on humanitarian instinct, elicit guilt response), "help them communicate" (build the anonymous proxy networks), "organize relief" (fund and aid the operation), and "resist" (fight whatever authority interferes with the operation, and sacrifice yourself for the cause), are all fundamental characteristics of these 'Spontaneous Grassroots Uprisings' from Arab Spring to Occupy… and again – here it is in one tweet.
4. This "Somephpguy" account is prime example of any one of their 'socks.' These are the "anonymous" accounts with which they can say or do anything without being identified, and represents the beginning of a modus operandi we all now know very well. Often they will be left dormant when they've served their usefulness, but some have been changed over to their real name. This is one of those instances, and is part of the reason I chose the second tweet to Casey. Somephpguy is essercode… Same account with the name changed. When this tweet was originally sent, it was sent from "Somephpguy," but the tweet still exists with the name changed.
5. Finally, the most obvious and identifying characteristic is the one and only tag this, and a great many of this user's tweets were addressed to. #iranelection, the home base for this operation. It demonstrates (as will be further illustrated shortly) how this account was one of the 'sources' of operation instructions, support, and disinformation, at the very earliest point of the prototype structure.
Since I have a trove of this data to choose from, I select each example in this manner. Each one has multiple layers of meaning (and I didn't mention all of the layers in the last example either), so use them to develop your ability to recognize those levels. In time you will find there are a variety of identifiable patterns. Now with this basic understanding of what you're looking at, we'll move on to the initial tweets of the operation, and the building of delusion.
The Building of Delusion
I'm going to go through several interrelated accounts. Remember, all of these accounts are operators that suddenly and fervently began promoting #iranelection on day one in an enormous and coordinated effort. Many of the accounts were created only days before (or even days after) the June 12th election itself. In each instance I'll illustrate when the account was created and when it entered the operation. The pattern and development will become undeniably clear, and I will make it as easy to follow as possible.
The first account I'll start with is IranRiggedElect.
This very overtly named account was created on June 12th 2009… the very day of the election. Before the election could even conceivably be considered over, much less any possibility that any votes could have been tallied, "IranRiggedElect" already existed on Twitter and immediately began laying the foundation of the prepared delusion.
In the very first two tweets from this account, it declares that it's "Following Iran's presidential election results," then in the very next tweet less than a half an hour later, declares that "The presidential election in Iran has turned into a coups d'état." This is the literal begining of the Disinformation Psyop, and the first completely unverified, yet globally accepted fallacy of the Arab Spring.
The next two tweets, coming less than two minutes later, attempt to establish – out of the clear blue sky – that the Iranian Government is blocking SMS messages. Here we have the third and fourth tweet referencing something that doesn't make any sense at all, unless it's in the context of the operation.
Why would this user immediately be trying to establish that the Iranian Government is blocking low tech SMS (Simple Message Service)? There are only two relevant reasons for this being their top concern (or top disinformation point).
1. Concern about the ability of 'rebel forces' to communicate inside Iran and interference with their Command and Control ability remotely. If this is actual communication, it's indication of the Iranian Government's awareness of the operation, and of their efforts to disrupt it.
2. Vilification of Iranian Government and creating the immediate impression that the Iran Government is "stifling freedom and communication of its people." This is useful in the effort to get people to build the anonymous proxy networks that they need to circumvent Iranian Government efforts to prevent their operation communications.
Mind you, these are the VERY FIRST tweets from this user, establishing the entire purpose and direction of the account, and without the knowledge and understanding of the actual operation, these tweets make no sense at all. Also bear in mind that this is on the day of the election. Other than the operatives themselves, no one in the United States even knows what #iranelection is yet.
The next tweets quickly attempt to establish a series of false reality talking points, without any links or references for validation at all. Simply matter-of-fact-ish statements of the election being rigged, and Mir-Hossein Mousavi declaring himself the winner.
By the 13th tweet, this account has 'established' entirely by itself, that the election was a fraud, Mir-Hossein Mousavi is the real new President of Iran, and that the "Coups d'etat is OFFICIAL." All of this in less than 24 hours from the beginning of the actual election.
The theme of the delusion centers around the 'Anonymous Iranian Student' myth. Although in reality this account wasn't even created until the 17th, it jumps directly into the psyop from the very first tweet to jzellis, and builds on the delusion from there. There are also a variety of other extremely telling characteristics of this so-called "Iranian student." Their inability to spell their own leader's name, the immediate association and vilification of "brown skinned" forces as 'alien' and 'evil,' the manufactured Hezbollah / Hamas / Basiji jumble, etc.
It is from this baseless false reality, that ALL of #iranelection and ALL of Arab Spring is fabricated from. It is this non-reality that was then globally propagated – as I will show here – that turned #iranelection into the Arab Spring Grand Delusion we all are subjected to now.
Propagating Delusion
There are innumerous examples of the established Twitter operatives that were already in place to validate and propagate this delusion, but one is a particularly good and popular example… oxfordgirl. This user has been exposed in numerous other instances for numerous other reasons, yet still remains one of the operations most popular users. The evidence of this users association on the first day of the prototype operation however, is undeniable.
On the very first day, oxfordgirl launched into a prepared script that was a hundred tweets long. The yarn she spun, and the images she fabricated were baseless psyop propaganda… demonstrating knowledge and an agenda that can only come from the operation.
In this set of tweets we have the early establishment of several other psyop tactics and sound bites we've all had drilled into our heads. The now brain-melting mantra "the whole world is watching" is being used here before ANYONE in the world knew what #iranelection was. In fact oxfordgirl herself wasn't even tweeting the tag right yet. Another example of psyop modus operandi by proclaiming events are happening that haven't – at all – happened. Here we see the immediate false vilification of the Iranian Government, long before the election was even over & long before there were any "protests" to speak of anyway for "mowing down youths." It's this same wholesale fabricated nonsense that has defined all of Arab Spring, and these rumor (operation) based accusations of "dictator violence" that have precursored every covert invasion on the Arab Spring trail – including the accusations against the Syrian government right now.
Cyberwar Development
I need to keep making this point clear, because it is how you can identify these people – without question – as original operatives. All of this is still occurring ON THE SAME DAY of the election. No amount of spontaneous grassroots lip-service propaganda explains away this global instantaneous unity, coordination, and technical ability… and we haven't even scratched the surface yet. Just wait until we get into later in the first week of the operation.
Below the psyop herding of social consciousness and fabrication of false reality, was the actual cyberwar campaign against Iran. People were duped into treating it like some kind of game, but the coordinated cyber-attacks on Iran under the pretense of "helping the Iranian Students" was in fact deliberate act-of-war. These attacks have likewise become characteristic of all Arab Spring & Occupy operations and have for example, recently taken down both the C.I.A. Website, and the Bahrain Interior Ministry Police website.
With this next account, LazyManKH, we see the foundations of these cyberwar tactics in their prototype stage.
One account of course, epitomizes and exemplifies the cyber war above all others… the AustinHeap account. Those familiar with #iranelection will remember this name as the creator of Haystack – the flagship of the prototype that was intended to be the final answer to the proxy server problem for the operation. It was sold – even to our own government – as a "free speech in oppressive environments" solution, when in reality it was intended as the tip of the spear for this covert operation.
Although the individual behind this account was obviously busy throughout the operation, this obscure "whut happened" message is the first reference to Iran Election in this stream. The next message goes directly to the operation priority – making sure that Mainstream Media is not focused on the operation and vehicle itself (Twitter), and is instead focused on and promoting the disinformation the operation is generating.
After those two messages, the account turns into an open repository of covert operations technical information. All of the real proxy information and DDoS / cyber-attack information originates from here, and is the birth and foundation of all of the operations we see today.
There you have it 120 tweets. In this account example we see the literal creation of #iranelection prototype, the origin of Arab Spring, the Origin of Occupy, the origin of Anonymous, and the origin of all associated tactics, methods, and psyop disinformation talking points – in one-single-place. From this source information one can easily identify all of the Arab Spring / Occupy Operations as merely being offshoots and evolutions of this central operation. The operators of this global psyop remain the same no matter how many socks they've built, no matter how large the network they've constructed, and no matter how many useful idiots they've enlisted to unwittingly do their dirty work for them, and sacrifice their lives 'for the cause.'
In the next part of this document, I'll delve into the details of this operation. Beneath the psyop deceptions of 'free speech' and 'peaceful protest' lies sinister covert destabilization and disinformation tactics. In three years the remote control terrorism that has marched across the Middle East has killed and maimed hundreds of thousands of people, and currently threatens millions more in Syria and Bahrain, while they attempt to ignite Egypt yet again. Each one of the Arab Spring Operations has been built on the same formula of lies, deceit, cyberwar, fabricated evidence, and terrorism that is so clearly demonstrated here in the #iranelection prototype, and with each operation, the horrific violence, racism, and ethnic cleansing shrouded in false-flag martyrs and massacres increases exponentially.
I will detail how this organized terrorism has been accomplished, from the dissemination of declassified U.S. Covert Operations Training Manuals (to shift blame on U.S. Agencies, mask their own involvement, and as an excellent source of material for training remote control terrorist cells in civil disobedience and destabilization operations), to the false-flag martyr operations that have assassinated untold numbers of individuals (including those massacred in Houla), starting with the Greenthumbnails posterchild of false-flag assassination operations – Neda Agha Soltan.
I'll close this rather lengthy first section by saying this… I've had all the false-flag terrorism I'm going to take, and there isn't a way for me to get past this. Every single day I watch a new floor added to the Monument to Deception, and every day I'm brutally reminded of what happened in my city over a decade ago, and that all the false reality, war crime, death, and destruction of the last decade stems from that one single false-flag operation. As I've said many times before, this country and planet should not have moved forward one iota without bringing the real terrorists to justice, yet instead this planet embarked down the racist fairytale path of "brown people in caves with box-cutters" turning three of the most well-constructed buildings on the planet into a fine powder that is unquestionably part of every New Yorkers' physical body now. That preposterous box-cutter story makes as much sense as the Arab Spring farce does – which isn't coincidence in any fashion.
It's time for the people on this planet (especially Americans) to wake up to who is actually lying to them, who is actually terrorizing them, and who is creating the artificial issues, divisions, causes, charities, NGOs, HROs, etc., that you pour your time and money into… See how much of that propaganda sounds like what you've seen here. I'm very clear about who is on who's side, who is lying to who, who's scapegoating who for what, and the fact that it has been going on – for a very long time.
Who benefits from all of this disaster, the endless pitting of brown against brown, and the endless bombing them into 'peace?' Who benefits from Islamophobia and the fact that all you have to do is slap "dictator" on a brown leader, and the rest of the world will believe any preposterous accusation that 'conveniently' materializes? Who benefits from the United States and NATO being seen as the source of these Arab Spring invasions, while the actual handlers manufacture a new conflict every day?
Like I said, I look at the answer every day… If you live in New York, so do you. Just look up. Last month it became the tallest building in New York, and it does nothing but scream who benefits. This Arab Spring operation here is nothing more or less than an extension / continuation of this ongoing delusion, as evidenced by the reality that there STILL aren't any 'organic' terrorists. From what I've learned in three years of being forced to study this open and glaring charade, I no longer believe any of these so called terror groups that are presented for us to fear are any more 'real' than the Basiji / Hezbollah / Hamas invention that was claimed to be beating Iranian Students before the election was even over. From what I've witnessed in #Bahrain in the last two months, all terrorism on this planet is Puppet Theater, and the puppeteers have gotten quite adept at it. Certainly this stands to reason after decades of practice and with the technology gifts like twitter and the internet, but these same valuable resources make the operation equally glaringly obvious. It also exposes the much bigger and more sinister pattern of manipulating and manufacturing social opinion to all who are remotely paying attention.
As you might expect, I'm not one for 'begging,' for anything… particularly for people to stand up for their own lives. After a couple of months of personally engaging this psyop in #Bahrain, I'm continually amazed at how few people are actually willing to engage in the real fight (excluding those already on the #Opwatch team of course). Fear is not an acceptable excuse anymore. Anybody think this global terrorism is going to just 'go away?' What's your plan, wait it out? If you happened to miss what the aftermath of Arab Spring is in Libya, sit tight… If they have their way, you'll get to experience it first-hand. 150,000 people died in that horrendous false-flag operation (sub-division of this operation), and Black Africans are being macheted and lynched in a documented ethnic cleansing spree. This operation intentionally creates and foments sectarian conflicts to pit brown against brown, and astoundingly, it keeps working.
Don't think any other country is safe from this operation either. Like I said, this same group is at the root of Occupy & Anonymous. Think any of those Molotov throwing cyberwar waging anarchists in London or Greece are being trained by a different covert operation? Think the Molotov throwing cyberwar waging terrorists in #Bahrain or #Syria are being trained by a different covert operation? Think the Molotov making cyberwar waging OccuAnarchists in Chicago are being trained by a different covert operation? Of course not… don't be ridiculous… it's all the same thing.
The only choice you have is whether you're in this fight, or victim of it. This isn't the movies, this is Life on Earth… and I know plenty about both. You're a puppet on a string whether you understand that or not. The only question is if you're going to wake from the Matrix, and have the courage to stand up for yourself. Think they didn't try the same psyop terror tactics on me that they have silenced you all with for three years? You would be gravely mistaken, and this 230+ pages demonstrates I've documented every bit of it. In fact, that's one of the reasons they don't do it to me anymore… it only results in in them exposing themselves, and documents like this one… and this, and this, and this.
I can't possibly be the only person on the Planet willing and capable of fighting for Reality. I can only assume I just haven't reached the real warriors yet. As everybody on all sides now knows, if I have to fight this global psyop terrorism operation by myself, then that's precisely what I'm going to do… What are you going to say you were doing while I was in the fight for the Planet? This band of terrorists has unlimited resources (human and otherwise). The puppets line up to sacrifice themselves for theatrical delusion, and on this side of Reality… there's Me. These people think they are top of the food chain… I represent the Actual Intelligent Universe.
I need all of the Free Thinking Warrior Spirits that haven't been destroyed by a decade of false-flag war and three years of psyop terrorism. I need a bigger team to get half of what needs to be done, done. To make an analogy, consider all of the previous articles and videos I've created leading up to this document as 'appetizers,' and consider this document the 'first course' of the meal. Expect this to be a seven course meal, and we're all going to be at the table for a long time. If I have to do it all myself, it's going to be a very, very long time.
Consider this your Call to Planetary Service… to All within the Sound of My Voice. Want to fight delusion on this planet? Want to fight terrorism? Want to fight for 'Change?' I'm the one you want to be in the fight with. I need a lot fewer people and a lot less resources to propagate truth than they need to create and prop up delusion, and you can bet you're already contributing to their cause whether you're aware of it or not. If you think there's a way to 'spread truth' without facing this operation, you're much better off spitting in the wind.
Need proof of that reality? Every Union and worker organization in Wisconsin fought for a year against the Legacy Slavers and their foot soldier, and it didn't get on the news until after they had lost. Let five people gather around a burning garbage can with an Occupy sign, and these people will have it on the evening news… Time to wake up.
No amount of 'organizing' is going to help Progressives, Democrats, Obama, or Humans in general, if you don't know who and what you're dealing with. Want to know how to deal with global psyop disinformation & terrorism, and how to get the media's attention on actual causes instead?… You need to Talk to Me.
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Some theorems have many proofs. Examples include the Pythagorean Theorem and the Law of Quadratic Reciprocity. I was wondering if one could formalize the relationship between these proofs. Sure, they all eventually prove the theorem, but some may look more like one another while others may be very different, i.e. if the theorem is proved by means of different ideas. But after one has decided that two proofs are not the same, could we decide how much they differ from each other?
I think such a formalisation could be useful because I imagine it being used to create some kind of a "genealogy" of proofs. Such a genealogy could perhaps be visualised in some kind of a "tree of proofs". I suspect such a visualisation could deepen our understanding of mathematics.

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The interior of the Sinai peninsula is a stark, unforgiving place. Beneath a strikingly blue sky lie parched mountains, rocky outcrops and great expanses of barren sand, interspersed with isolated oases and crisscrossed by medieval pilgrimage routes. It is, in the truest sense, a landscape of biblical proportions.
In the south of this region, just a few hours' drive from the booming tourist resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, rises the magnificent 2285m Mount Sinai, venerated by Christians, Muslims and Jews alike as the site of God's unveiling of the Ten Commandments. Although there is some doubt about whether this red-and-grey granite peak is actually the site mentioned in the Bible, it is undeniably awe-inspiring – particularly the views from the summit, reached via 3750 knee-crunching "Steps of Repentance", or the easier but longer "camel path". Despite the crowds of pilgrims, travellers and Bedouin guides (and their camels), a night camped out here under a star-filled sky allows you to wake up to one of the most beautiful sunrises imaginable.
Almost as atmospheric – and considerably more comfortable – is a stay at the guesthouse in the grounds of the imposing St Catherine's Monastery, which stands at the foot of Mount Sinai. Dating back to 337 BC, this active Greek Orthodox monastery looks more like a fortress than a place of religious devotion. Behind its forbidding walls is what is reputed to be the burning bush from which God spoke to Moses, as well as a library containing innumerable priceless texts and manuscripts, including fragments of the world's oldest Bible, the 1600-year-old Codex Sinaiticus.
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If you're going to be far away from your loved one this Valentine's Day, you could send them real flowers, which will smell good but will inevitably wilt after a few days, or you could send them these beautiful newsprint flowers from itunube, which won't smell like anything in particular but will last forever.
Well, only as long as the Earth lasts, I suppose. And, better yet, they will remind your loved one that you're a little bit different from the average guy, that you think outside of the box, or have a decent sense of design or appreciation for quirk, or at least that you read Gizmodo, though come to think of it sending her these beautiful newsprint flowers might set the bar a little too high for future romantic holidays, perhaps creating the expectation that every single time going forward you'll come up with something that will serve as a nod to tradition while unmistakably offering a fresh take on it. But they're like $US12 if you're OK with all that pressure. [itunbe via It's Nice That]


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Release Label: Coldharbour Recordings
Release Code: CLHR050
Release Date: July 28th 2008
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The fifth single release from Markus Schulz's album Progression, and the fiftieth release on Coldharbour Recordings, would be regarded by many as the most eagerly anticipated of them all.
When news broke that Markus had been working alongside Andy Moor in a production capacity, many regarded it as a match made in heaven. They were not disappointed, as Daydream dominated dancefloors across Ibiza and all the major summer festivals in 2007.
Daydream holds some memories of personal reflection, particularly for Andy Moor. The track was dedicated to his late uncle Douglas Hall, who sadly died of illness last year. Daydream will forever be dedicated to his memory, and therefore many people can claim a common rapport to the track in moments of sadness and sympathy.
With the remix package finally completed, it looks set to be the biggest release on Coldharbour Recordings to date.
The original mix is nicely complimented by an effort from two of Coldharbour's rising stars, Benya, and Ormatie. Already receiving support from Matt Darey, the talented Dane produces yet another masterpiece in manipulating melody in his own unique style, and is sure to have a great appeal among regular Global DJ Broadcast listeners. Russian Ormatie's take will resonate with the more down-tempo and progressive minded of listeners, ideal for any afterhours set.
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Lastly, but by no means least, Norwegian duo Lemon & Einar K provide two interpretations of Daydream. So impressed was Markus of their track Anticipation, he asked them to produce a Progressive Mix and an Uplifting Mix. The Progressive Mix has already been supported hugely by Andy Moor himself, with plays on his live sets and podcast.
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"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning." That was the opinion of Benjamin Franklin, who was not only an early American statesman with a passion for self-improvement, but also a successful inventor and innovative entrepreneur.
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Looking ahead, we will continue to improve and to make Office 365 the productivity suite of choice for customers such as Hendrick Automotive Group, Duke University, King County, Washington and the Miami-Dade County School District. We are committed to continuous improvement because we know that our customers value performance over promises. For as Old Ben also said, "Well done is better than well said."
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Office 365: 5 Factors That Swayed One Enterprise – With 4,500 users at 72 dealerships in 12 states, Hendrick Automotive Group chose Office 365 to meet its diverse needs. Robert Taylor, IT director for Hendrick, explains why.
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Happy Birthday, Office 365 – Industry expert Paul Thurrott looks back at the first year of Office 365, declares it the best productivity product on the market, and rounds up a year's worth of positive news about the cloud-based service.
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ATLANTA — Nearly 10 percent of Georgia state legislators are late filing or paying their state taxes, and state Sen. Robert Brown is apparently among them.
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Martin Woody Marshall, The Telegraph – Georgia State Sen. Robert Brown.
He told Atlanta station WXIA-TV that he had not filed his income taxes at least in the past two years, according to a report on the station's Web site. He volunteered the information while arguing against a change in Senate rules that would make it easier for the body to take action against, or even expel, members who don't pay their taxes.
That effort came in response to the discovery late last week that 19 legislators had failed to pay income taxes, some for several years. Those legislators have not been identified, due to Georgia Department of Revenue and federal Internal Revenue Service privacy policies. But a list, without names, was prepared and given to the chairmen of the House and Senate ethics committees, at their request, Revenue Commissioner Bart Graham said.
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Archaeology and medieval history is something I've been interested in for years, but never really knew how to get involved with any projects and I was put off applying for a history degree by my careers adviser when I was in college. 'Why do you want to do a history degree when your A level subjects are sociology, law and English? Best you apply for an English degree somewhere'. Rather disheartened by this negative response I decided that education wasn't for me and I joined the world of full time employment. I tried my hand at many different careers, from care assistant and pharmacy technician to burger van and mushroom picker, but I never felt satisfied with the work, so as my 30th birthday was fast approaching I took the plunge and enrolled at Neath Port Talbot college to do an Access to Humanities course. It was brilliant. The lecturers were all very supportive and encouraged us all to go down which ever route we felt was right for ourselves.
As a result of going back to college I have ended up studying Archaeology and Medieval History at Cardiff University. Part of the course requires you to undertake work placement in an archaeological environment. I chose to do post excavation as it's what I would love to do with my degree eventually, I find it fascinating how small fragments of pottery or bone can be dated and analysed to give us a better understanding of how our ancestors lived. I think that in post excavation more time can be taken to look at the finds and details from site that may have been missed in the field.
This week we have been labelling pottery, a very tedious but vital task and one which provides the opportunity to cross fit pottery from different contexts to try and piece together complete vessels. Each tiny sherd of pottery must be labelled with the site code and context number just in case a little bit gets misplaced. It was pretty dull but then Alice (Cardiff PhD student and Cosmeston finds co-ordinator) did a workshop on how to identify the pieces that we were labelling. Suddenly the bits of pottery began to mean something more to me. I can now tell the region that each piece would have been made in and how the complete item may have looked, which is making the essential job much more interesting. Post excavation is a long meticulous process but very rewarding as I know I am helping to preserve the archaeology for future generations to appreciate.


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The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess - Wii
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In The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, an evil darkness enshrouds the land of Hyrule, a young farm boy named Link must awaken the hero and the animal within. When Link travels to the Twilight Realm, he transforms into a wolf and must scour the land with the help of a mysterious girl named Midna. Besides his trusty sword and shield, Link will use his bow and arrows by aiming with the Wii Remote controller, fight while on horseback and use a wealth of other items, both new and old. The Wii Remote and Nunchuk controllers are used for a variety of game activities from fishing to projectile-weapon aiming.
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This game has spent four years in the making by some of the most successful game developers in history. It should be no surprise that this game has some of the highest expectations on the planet. Furthermore, anything less than an outstanding game would be a complete failure.
Ok so the game starts out as Link riding Epona across the landscape and I honestly couldn't help myself but saying "this is just like Ocarina start." You will start your quest in a small village near Hyrule, but as you progress further and further through the game you will make your way to different temples and cities. You might even remember these as you once played, quite some time ago. It really does resemble Ocarina but you are cast away into Twilight.
Ok so the gameplay of the Wii remote is legendary, but, this game is different from other Zelda games as you will change to a wolf and have a new set of abilities. There are some state of the art cut scenes that will have you jumping out of your seat. Don't throw the Wii remote through the TV. You will even meet Zelda which has been imprisoned by the Twilight. You are introduced to Midna which is character in which you will have a lot of questions that you want answers for.
All the great elements that made the Zelda games epic are back but the controls are what make this game work well, you can use a variety of different weapons such as swords and slingshots. However, since it is a Wii game you might think that it won't always pick up your sword slashes or arrows, you couldn't be more wrong because it works brilliantly. I don't recall one time where it didn't work as planned and I have played it for more than 75 hours.
The ability to transform into a wolf is amazing and you can find treasure chest and hidden items with the heighten senses of smell from the wolf. Follow the scents of your foes with the wolf form and not to mention you can use Midna to warp all around the map later in the game. As if all this isn't enough you can even fish and it is better than any fishing game I have bought on Wii.
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Paris, 18 Feb 2004
A super-massive black hole has ripped apart a star and consumed a portion of it, according to data from ESA's XMM-Newton and NASA's Chandra X-ray observatories. These results are the best evidence yet that such a phenomenon, long predicted by theory, does actually happen.
Astronomers believe that a doomed star came too close to a giant black hole after a close encounter with another star threw it off course. As it neared the enormous gravity of the black hole, the star was stretched by tidal forces until it was torn apart. This discovery provides crucial information on how these black holes grow and affect the surrounding stars and gas.
"Stars can survive being stretched a small amount, as they are in binary star systems, but this star was stretched beyond its breaking point," said Dr Stefanie Komossa of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Germany, who led the international team of researchers. "This unlucky star just wandered into the wrong neighbourhood."
While other observations have hinted that stars are destroyed by black holes (events known as 'stellar tidal disruptions'), these new results are the first strong evidence.
Observations with XMM-Newton and Chandra, combined with earlier images from the German Roentgensatellite (ROSAT), detected a powerful X-ray outburst from the centre of the galaxy RXJ1242-11.
This outburst, one of the most extreme ever detected in a galaxy, was caused by gas from the destroyed star that was heated to millions of degrees before being swallowed by the black hole. The energy liberated in this process is equivalent to that of a supernova. "Now, with all of the data in hand, we have the smoking gun proof that this spectacular event has occurred," said co-author Prof. Guenther Hasinger, also of MPE.
The black hole in the centre of RX J1242-11 is estimated to have a mass about 100 million times that of the Sun. By contrast, the destroyed star probably had a mass about equal to that of the Sun, making it a lopsided battle of gravity. "This is the ultimate 'David versus Goliath' battle, but here David loses," said Hasinger.
The astronomers estimated that about one hundredth of the mass of the star was ultimately consumed, or accreted, by the black hole. This small amount is consistent with predictions that the momentum and energy of the accretion process will cause most of the destroyed star's gas to be flung away from the black hole.
The force that disrupted the star in RXJ1242-11 is an extreme example of the tidal force caused by differences in gravity acting on the front and back of an object. The tidal force from the Moon causes tides in the oceans on Earth, and tidal force from Jupiter pulled Comet Shoemaker-Levy apart before it plunged into the giant planet.
The odds that stellar tidal disruption will happen in a typical galaxy are long, about one in ten thousand. If it happened at the centre of the Milky Way, the resulting X-ray source would be about 50 000 times more powerful than the strongest X-ray source in our galaxy. However, such an event would not pose a threat to Earth because of the intervening distance of 25 000 light years.
Other dramatic flares have been seen from galaxies, but this is the first to have been studied with the high spectral resolution of XMM-Newton and the high spatial resolution of Chandra. Both instruments have made a critical advance. Chandra showed that the RXJ1242-11 event occurred in the centre of a galaxy, where the black hole lurks. The XMM-Newton spectrum revealed the fingerprints expected for the surroundings of a black hole, and allowed other possible astronomical explanations to be ruled out.
Evidence already exists for super-massive black holes in many galaxies, but looking for tidal disruptions represents a completely independent way to search for black holes. Observations like these are urgently needed to determine how quickly black holes can grow by swallowing neighbouring stars.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Patrick Fitzgerald has prosecuted mobsters, terrorists, a White House aide and two Illinois governors.
On Thursday, the former top prosecutor got a crack at Socrates. Yes, that Socrates, the Greek philosopher.
Fitzgerald, one of the nation's highest profile federal prosecutors until he recently entered private practice, represented Athens in a do-over of the 399 B.C. trial of Socrates on charges of corrupting the ancient city's youth and disrespecting its gods.
Socrates' legal counsel at the mock trial in Chicago — part of a fundraising event for the National Hellenic Museum — was no slouch himself.
It was Dan Webb, a high-priced lawyer who defended former Gov. George Ryan in a corruption case brought by Fitzgerald. Ryan eventually lost at a trial prosecuted by assistant attorneys working for Fitzgerald.
The result Thursday night? Jurors — an audience of around 1,000 people — found Socrates guilty by a narrow vote. They spared the philosopher death by hemlock, however, and called for a fine instead.
As U.S. Attorney in Chicago, Fitzgerald gained a reputation for getting defendants to plead out before trial. But he told The Associated Press by phone hours before Thursday's event that a last-minute plea deal with Socrates was out of reach.
"Socrates," he explained, "does not seem to be much of a compromiser."
In the 24 centuries since Socrates' trial and execution by poison hemlock, the prevailing sentiment has been that Athens railroaded the 70-year-old gadfly, who was fond of questioning bedrock Athenian assumptions about the world.
Fitzgerald, though, complained that the only extensive account of the trial is from Plato, a student and booster of Socrates.
"I don't think Athenians ever got a fair shake. Plato only gave one side of the story," he said.
Impiety was seen as an egregious crime in ancient Greece, Fitzgerald's co-counsel told jurors Thursday night, because it was thought that an individual's disrespect of the gods could invite their wrath in the form of plagues that would devastate the entire city.
"He dissed Zeus ... He called the Moon dirt," said Pat Collins, another former prosecutor representing Athens. "Messing with the gods brings real harm ... The gods have a memory, and they carry a grudge"
One judge presiding over the retrial was Richard Posner, who sits on the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Socrates was "a crank" who "encouraged the brats of Athens," he said, but wasn't a threat to society.
In that vein, another of the presiding judges said he could only see fit to impose a minimal fine in light of the jury's decision Thursday night.
"I'd fine him two bucks and let it go at that," said William Bauer, another federal judge.
The retrial wasn't meant to be a reenactment and so participating attorneys and judges weren't required to don togas or other period garb, Fitzgerald said gratefully earlier in the day.
"There are crimes against nature, too," he laughed. "That would be a crime against nature if we showed up in a togas."
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As superstorm Sandy subsided Tuesday morning, Maine emergency officials and residents began to assess the damage while travelers dealt with continued fallout from the storm.
As of 10:15 a.m., power outages in Maine totaled 88,581, including 84,978 Central Maine Power customers and 3,603 Bangor Hydro Electric Co. customers.
Bangor Hydro warned that some people might not get their electricity back until Wednesday, the Associated Press reported.
For Michael Gordon of Wells, the damage – and his mortality – were apparent. Gordon was in the bedroom of his Canterbury Road home around 1 a.m. Tuesday when the branch of a pine tree punctured the ceiling, narrowly missing him.
"I'm laying in bed and I could hear the cracking. I rolled out of bed just as the branch came through," Gordon said. "The sheetrock was blowing all over me." Water, too, poured through the opening in the ceiling, soaking the floor.
The Wells Fire Department called CMP crews to the house to remove the pine tree because it had fallen across power lines connected to the house.
The branch remains impaled through the roof of the house and the bedroom carpet is strewn with pieces of wood and tufts of fiberglass insulation.
Gordon's front yard is still covered with pieces of the tree and the twisted remnants of his flagpole.
In the Portland area, flights from the Portland International Jetport were still canceled on Tuesday morning, though there are no problems specifically in Portland.
"The jetport itself, we're in fine shape," said Bob Rothbart, who works in the airport's communications center. "The runways, everything is open, but like everything else on the East Coast, the airlines took their airplanes and sent them to safe places."
Regularly scheduled flights are not expected to resume until about 11:25 a.m. and even then there could be major delays well into the afternoon. Travelers are urged to contact their airline for flight-specific information.
The Amtrak Downeaster has canceled all trains for Tuesday. An official said the railroad will monitor conditions to determine when service can resume. Plans to celebrate the inaugural run to Freeport and Brunswick on Thursday are unaffected.
York emergency dispatchers reported several roads closed because of trees downing wires, with extensive power outages.
"We were on a generator all night but we just got power back here," said Nathaniel Higgins, at the York dispatch center.
Emergency management officials in York County said that besides some road closures and power outages, there was little damage.
"Overall, we got out of it pretty lucky, all things considered," said Steve Harding, spokesman for the York County Emergency Management Agency.
In Cumberland County, Anne-Marie Brett, deputy director of the Cumberland County Emergency Management Agency, said that as day broke people would get a better idea of the extent of the storm damage, though it appeared minimal.
"We've had no major reports overnight of any extreme problems," Brett said.
"There's lots of notification of some wires down, some trees down, but very few complete road closures so that in a way is good for us," Brett said. "We have seen the number of outages go down over night and now they're starting to come up which is to be expected."
County and state emergency management directors planned to hold a conference call at 9 a.m. to assess damage throughout the state and determine the extent of damage.
The worst of superstorm Sandy brought 25-foot waves, winds over 60 mph overnight and a blackout that affected tens of thousands of people.
A gust of 76 mph was recorded Monday night at a home weather station in Bath, according to the National Weather Service in Gray. That exceeded the forecasted high wind speed of 60 mph.
The predicted rainfall of 1 to 3 inches in southern Maine never came. Only 0.56 inches had fallen in Portland as of 11 p.m.
"Basically, the rainfall was not the story. It was the wind," said Mike Kistner, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
He said the wind was expected to start subsiding by Tuesday morning. The day's forecast calls for light showers and windy conditions.
People walking on Old Orchard Beach said they were surprised how little debris washed up on the sand. Near the Pier, Irwin Merrill of Westbrook used a metal detector and shovel to search piles of seaweed.
"It's just a lot of seaweed so far," he said.
Scott and Jennifer Provencher of Old Orchard Beach walked the beach with their children, 5-year-old Riley and Vivienne, 2. Riley hopped on top of a log to pose for photos as waves crashed under the Pier behind him.
Jennifer Provencher said she was surprised there wasn't more debris, but was grateful power stayed on throughout the storm.
At Higgins Beach in Scarborough, sightseers and dog-walkers enjoyed the high surf just after sunrise. The storm tossed seaweed and driftwood up on Bayview Avenue and a seawall was partly eroded at one end of Higgins Beach, but there was little damage otherwise.
The storm's biggest impact was on electrical service. As of 10:15 a.m., power outages in Maine totaled 88,581, including 84,978 Central Maine Power customers and 3,603 Bangor Hydro Electric Co. customers. There were extensive outages in York County and areas of Cumberland County, particularly Gorham and Windham.
The city of Portland fared the storm without major problems, Nicole Clegg, the city's spokeswoman, said on Tuesday.
She said there was flooding in the Bayside neighborhood along Marginal Way at high tide around midnight, but it was not severe. The storm also knocked down a couple of utility poles on Washington Avenue Ext. and Riverside Drive, she said.
State police and Cumberland County emergency dispatchers reported no storm-related injuries overnight.
"We actually lucked out I think," said Erin Pelletier, a dispatcher with the Cumberland County Regional Communications Center. "None of the main roads are closed. It's just the side streets that didn't take priority."
Crews worked through the night to reopen major commuter routes like River Road in Windham, which had been closed for downed trees and wires, she said.
"The storm has been pretty much what we expected," said McAleer, who was at the Emergency Operations Center in Augusta on Monday night with staffers from other state and federal agencies. "There have been no surprises yet, but I won't relax until noon (Tuesday)."
At Camp Ellis Tuesday morning, Mike Otazo stood alone at the end of Lower Beach Road as the sun rose Tuesday morning over Camp Ellis.
After a windy night in his house near the ocean, he was curious to see what daylight would reveal.
"I wanted to wake up and see a hurricane sunrise," he said.
Otazo never lost power in this seaside neighborhood in Saco, but he said the wind was "unbelievable."
"It sounded like my windows were going to bust out," he said.
There was some sand and seaweed left behind on Lower Beach Road by water that splashed over the sea wall, but nothing out of the ordinary after a big storm, Otazo said. A sign lay twisted at the end of the street.
On Main Avenue, Camp Ellis resident Linnea Olsen walked her two dogs, a cup of coffee in hand. She said she could hear the ocean from her home Monday night, which is unusual.
"It was roaring pretty hard," she said. "I think we were very, very fortunate we were spared."
Early Tuesday, roads to Camp Ellis were still barricaded to vehicle traffic. Piles of sand covered the intersection of Main and North avenues, but there was no visible flooding or damage. By 10 a.m, the roads had reopened.
On the beach at end of Fairhaven avenue in Saco, a giant protective sand bag ruptured, allowing water to flow up the street and some of the boulders providing protection from the surf washed away.
A few miles inland in Buxton, Timberline Country Store was open and running on a generator in an area of town that has been without power since Monday evening. A steady stream of people stopped in for coffee and breakfast sandwiches on their way to work before dawn.
Gov. Paul LePage declared a state of emergency on Monday that authorized state agencies to use all available resources and personnel to cope with the emergency.
Even as state officials said they were in contact with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, LePage declined support from its Incident Management Assistance Team, a group of senior-level professionals who provide expertise in operations, logistics, planning and recovery.
LePage's spokeswoman, Adrienne Bennett, said that support was declined because other states don't have fully operational emergency operation centers and will need the support more than Maine, although she couldn't identify the states.
Jeremy Damren, spokesman for the Maine Emergency Management Agency, said all New England states have emergency operation centers. Maine's center has members of state agencies who offer resources for state, county and local officials as requested in emergencies.
They usually work with county emergency directors, Damren said.
Robert McAleer, director of the Maine Emergency Management Agency. said the state emergency agency was in contact with FEMA and would ask for assistance if the need arises, but he didn't anticipate it.
At a news conference on Monday, LePage emphasized the importance of not touching downed power lines or operating generators inside buildings.
"Basically, it's using a lot of common sense," he said.
The powerful storm affected everything from public transportation to boat traffic in Portland Harbor to the state's clam digging industry.
The Coast Guard closed the Port of Portland to boat traffic around 5 p.m. Monday. That forced Casco Bay Lines to suspend service, with its last ferry leaving Portland at 5:45 p.m. for the outer islands such as Long Island and Great Diamond.
Service had resumed by Tuesday morning.
The Amtrak Downeaster canceled Monday's afternoon and evening train service from Boston and Portland. It also canceled all of Tuesday's runs from Boston and Portland.
Amtrak trains are canceled because of power outages in New Hampshire, said Patricia Quinn, executive director of the Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority. Without power, crossing lights and barriers don;t work, so trains have to go slow and conductors have to manually flag them through the road crossings, she said.
"We didn't want to have people get on and four hours from now we'll get you to Boston," Quinn said. "At this point in time we just don't think we can be reliable at all," she said.
"If power comes on during the course of the day, we may run later in the day, but we didn't want people to plan on us not be able to rely on us," Quinn said.
At the Portland Jetport, Candy and Don Gagnon of Gardiner, were on their way to Fort Myers, Florida for a vacation. They arrived two and half hours early, because they feared the jetport would be mobbed with people.
"We thought it might be crazy," Don Gagnon said. "It looks like a ghost town."
With no lines, and few airline staff even, there was little urgency. "Now we're going to go read," he said.
Paul Bradbury, director of the Portland International Jetport, said Monday the final flights, to Atlanta and Chicago, took off early Monday and no other flights would take place for the rest of the day. Most flights from 5:30 to 7 a.m. Tuesday had already been canceled.
"The aircraft will not be where they need to be, as the mid-Atlantic area is expected to have disruptions," Bradbury said.
He said a large percentage of air traffic in and out of Portland connects with airports in New York City and Washington, D.C., two of the areas hit hardest by Sandy.
Power lines and trees fell on roads throughout southern Maine, causing traffic delays, but no storm-related injuries were reported.
The state Department of Marine Resources closed clam flats along the coast as of midnight Monday, citing stormwater runoff from heavy rains that could pollute flats. State officials will evaluate the situation Tuesday before deciding whether to reopen clam flats.
Coastal areas were hit particularly hard.
The town of Wells advised residents to evacuate homes and businesses in coastal and low-lying areas east of Route 1.
Town Manager Jon Carter said the evacuation was "extremely voluntary." Most people, he said, were choosing to stay.
"We're just trying to make people cognizant of the storm. If they are uncomfortable, they should think about beginning to move to a safer location," Carter said. "Most people are watching TV. When the power goes out, they'll lose their security blanket pretty quickly and things may change."
At Camp Ellis in Saco, the Kopenga family prepared to evacuate to stay with relatives in Biddeford. "I'm not taking any chances," said Denise Kopenga.
Dana and Marie Vigue decided to ride out the storm in the home they bought just two months ago. "Every once in a while, the house shakes," said Marie Vigue.
Waves crashed over stone and sand barriers and workers put down sandbags to prevent flooding in driveways.
Sightseers in Saco and Old Orchard Beach pulled their coats over their heads to shield themselves from stinging sand that the wind hurled at them.
"The noon high tide wasn't too damaging. To be honest, we had more trouble with (onlooker) traffic than nature," said Saco Police Chief Brad Paul. "Our shorefront people are pretty tough and they did a good job of preparing themselves."
The Brunswick, a bar in Old Orchard Beach, is usually closed on Mondays, but opened under pressure from regulars, said owner Tom LeCasse. About a dozen people sat around the bar Monday afternoon, watching the ocean and talking about storms of the past.
"I'm just hoping the awning doesn't come off," said Shannon Trudeau as The Brunswick's awning strained in the wind.
John Glass, Old Orchard Beach's fire chief, said The Pier, near the town's amusement park and downtown, was holding up well despite taking a pounding.
With the weather deteriorating as the day went on, many schools announced early closures.
Portland schools let students leave an hour earlier than usual. There was no word late Monday night on whether students would return to classes Tuesday.
The University of Southern Maine, the University of New England, Southern Maine Community College and Saint Joseph's College all canceled classes and activities for Monday afternoon and evening.
Robert Caswell, spokesman for USM, said the decision on when classes resume would have to be made Tuesday morning.
At the Freeport Irving station Monday morning, Leslie Shea filled gas jugs to fuel her generator. "All my kids are excited about not having school," she said.
Shea said her home on Desert Road loses power routinely in storms, and the family was without power for more than two weeks after the ice storm of 1998. "That's why we got the generator," Shea said.
Kate Beatty eyed the generators at Ace Hardware in Yarmouth.
"We've been meaning to get one anyway. No time like the present," Beatty said. "Hopefully, we won't need it. Hopefully, we can return it unused."
Jennifer Favreau, manager of Lowe's on Brighton Avenue in Portland, said the store had been busy with people looking for flashlights, batteries, tarps and water. The store was sold out of generators and Favreau did not know when more would be in stock.
Sandy even disrupted political campaigns in Maine, eight days before Election Day.
The Maine Democratic Party canceled campaign work and events for Monday evening. The party's campaign office in York lost power in the afternoon, and party leaders decided to cancel get-out-the-vote events around the state so volunteers would not have to travel to central phone banks, said spokeswoman Lizzy Reinholt.
WCSH-TV went ahead with its U.S. Senate candidates debate at 7 p.m. as scheduled. WMTW, however, postponed its televised debate scheduled for Tuesday evening. It will be held Friday.
Staff writers David Hench, Gillian Graham and Jessica Hall contributed to this report.
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We didn't mean to have two posts up this morning on the new retro muscle car from Dodge, but after we reported the somewhat old and obvious news that the Challenger would be coming in an SRT model, we're also hearing some rumblings from the Netherlands. Apparently, and this is coming via a Dutch site with a funny sounding name, Europe not only won't be receiving any SRT versions of the Challenger, they won't be receiving any R/T or any base models. On top of the denial of muscle to Europe, they're also reporting the new owners of "The New Chrysler" won't be making very many of the muscle car for the North American market either. At least that's what we're gathering from the following Babelfish-translated quote:
"the dead Challenger do not come to Europe. In the business plan the manufacturer has taken into account purely a limited sale on the American market.
It is for the European liefhebbers of the model hope that new owner Cerberus returns on the decision of previous Chrysler-top and the modern interpretation of dead muscle adapts car for supply on the European market."
While we try to figure out what a "liefhebber" is, you sit and ponder why Cerberus is putting a stranglehold on the number of vehicles sold of an enthusiast-driven product like the Challenger? And what will become of our Muscle Car Wars we've been waiting so patiently for? [autotelegraaf.nl]


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|JSC2011-E-062012 (8 July 2011) --- With rehearsals and simulations all behind them now, a room full of flight controllers readies for the launch of STS-135, the final mission for the Space Shuttle Program, in the shuttle flight control room in the Johnson Space Center's Mission Control Center. A few hundred miles away, a four-person flight crew inside the cabin of space shuttle Atlantis on Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center was also prepping for the launch. Photo credit: NASA
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A survey of medicinal plants used by folk medicinal practitioners for treatment of gastrointestinal disorders in randomly selected areas of four districts of Bangladesh
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