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Audio Tape May Reveal Secrets Of JFK's Assassination: "Audio Tape May Reveal Secrets
Of JFK's Assassination
By Andrew Buncombe
The Independent - UK
8-5-4

WASHINGTON -- One of America's most enduring and bitterly debated controversies whether Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin who killed President Kennedy more than 40 years ago could finally be resolved.

Scientists are to produce a digital copy of the only known audio recording of the assassination to allow researchers to analyse the sound of the gun-shots captured on the recording.

The original, preserved on an analogue tape, has not been played since the early 80s because it is so fragile. The recording was made through the microphone of a motorcycle policeman's radio and captured on a portable tape recorder back at headquarters.

The Warren Commission concluded in 1964 that Oswald acted alone, firing three shots from the Texas Book Depository building.

But a Congressional investigation in 1979 concluded that an analysis of the recording revealed four shots were fired, including three from the book depository and one from another location. This gave rise to all manner of theories, most famously that there was a second gunman on the infamous grassy knoll on the edge of the plaza.

Experts will use a digital optical camera to replicate the sounds by scanning the grooves of the tape. The sound could then be cleaned up, peeling away layers of static as well as the sound of the motorcycle engine.

Leslie Waffen, an archivist with the National Archives, which holds the tape told the New York Times: 'This is big. That's why we called the experts in.' "

Ashcroft Orders Libraries To Destroy
Copies Of Laws
Federal Statutes On Asset Forfeiture May Not Be Published,

In another move towards federal tyranny, the Attorney General John Ashcroft has ordered the American Library Association to destroy all copies of the federal laws on asset forfeiture and to deny access to those laws to the general public.

The unprecedented move, in which US citizens would be unable to read or know the text of the laws they are expected to obey, was another stage in the growing power of President George W Bush.

The American Library Association has refused the request of the "Justice" Department to destroy copies of the law, and made the following statement:

Statement regarding DOJ request for removal of government publications by depository libraries

The following statement has been issued by President-Elect Michael Gorman, representing President Carol Brey-Casiano, who is currently in Guatemala representing the Association:

July 30, 2004

Statement from ALA President-Elect Michael Gorman:

Last week, the American Library Association learned that the Department of Justice asked the Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents to instruct depository libraries to destroy five publications the Department has deemed not "appropriate for external use." The Department of Justice has called for these five these public documents, two of which are texts of federal statutes, to be removed from depository libraries and destroyed, making their content available only to those with access to a law office or law library.

The topics addressed in the named documents include information on how citizens can retrieve items that may have been confiscated by the government during an investigation.

The documents to be removed and destroyed include: Civil and Criminal Forfeiture Procedure; Select Criminal Forfeiture Forms; Select Federal Asset Forfeiture Statutes; Asset forfeiture and money laundering resource directory; and Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000 (CAFRA).

ALA has submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the withdrawn materials in order to obtain an official response from the Department of Justice regarding this unusual action, and why the Department has requested that documents that have been available to the public for as long as four years be removed from depository library collections. ALA is committed to ensuring that public documents remain available to the public and will do its best to bring about a satisfactory resolution of this matter.

Librarians should note that, according to policy 72, written authorization from the Superintendent of Documents is required to remove any documents. To this date no such written authorization in hard copy has been issued.

Keith Michael Fiels
Executive Director
American Library Association
(800) 545-2433 ext.1392

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"Israel May Be Compelled to Pre-empt" by Rachel�Neuwirth: " Iran is moving rapidly to become a nuclear power. The Iranian mullahs have publicly promised to use nuclear weapons to exterminate Israel even if Israel were to achieve peace with the Palestinians. They also claim that Iran, with 70 million people, could absorb and survive any response from Israel while Israel, with only 5.5 million Jews, is vulnerable to devastating losses if only a few of Iran�s missiles got through.
Each time these Iranian threats were announced, the U.S. administration failed to issue any statement in opposition. (When Saddam Hussein earlier vowed to �burn half of Israel� the US administration also remained silent.) The Iranian mullahs could not fail to notice the significant American silence and to draw conclusions. They can also note that Israel is outside NATO and has no mutual defense treaty with the United States. If Iran attacks Israel they need not fear any U.S. response.
All of Israel�s past experiences with America and the United Nations underscore the reality of Israel�s isolation and vulnerability. Some examples:
At its birth Israel totally accepted the United Nations partition resolution. The Arabs rejected that resolution and attacked the new state, attempting to destroy it at birth. The U.N. failed to help Israel and America imposed a regional arms embargo, which only affected Israel because the Arabs were already well-armed. Israel survived only due to its own sacrifice and would have perished if it depended upon the United Nations and the United States. There was no subsequent punishment or even criticism for Arab aggression.
In 1967 Egypt and Syria were openly poised to launch an unprovoked attack to ''drive the Jews into the sea'' as Gamal Abdul Nasser vowed. There was no strong U.S. warning "

Canada To Probe Use Of Its Passport In NZ Affair: "
The Canadian Foreign Ministry confirmed Saturday that an investigation has begun into why Mossad agent Uriel Kelman, currently jailed in Auckland, used a Canadian passport to gain entry into New Zealand, in violation of an Israeli promise to refrain from using Canadian passports for illegal purposes.

Kelman and fellow Israeli Elisha Cara were imprisoned for six months earlier this month for attempting to fraudulently obtain a New Zealand passport.

A report on the Canadian investigation was first published in the New Zealand Herald.

New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark announced after the Auckland court's verdict two weeks ago, that Kelman and Cara had operated 'on behalf of the intelligence services of Israel.'

The use of Canadian passports by Mossad agents came to light in 1997, following a failed attempt to assassinate Hamas leader Khaled Meshal in Jordan.

In the wake of the incident, Canada demanded that Israel cease using its passports, and the Israeli government gave its commitment to refrain from using the documents for illegal purposes.

The Canadian investigation will focus on why Kelman used the passport and for what purpose. A spokesman for the Canadian government said that Kelman, who is a Canadian national, had used his own passport and not a forged one.

Kelman used the passport in 1999 to enter New Zealand. "

Fireball Hits Mountainside In Wales, UK - News Blackout: "Fireball Hits Mountainside
In Wales, UK - News Blackout
From Phil
8-2-4

We are presently receiving info from eyewitnesses on the ground. So far, there appears to be a complete news blackout.

Email #1

A huge fireball lit up the night sky over Cardiff in Wales UK on Friday night.

Four hours later, at 2:45 am Saturday 31st July 2004 a second object impacted a remote hillside near Cwmaman in Aberdere, Wales.

Witnesses say the impact lit up the sky and a huge explosion shook all the houses in the area.

Three fires were seen burning on the hillside and it was soon covered with police and firemen with torches.

Despite an obvious large presence of the local authorities who cordoned off the area, subsequent enquiries to the police and the fire brigade have been met with denial of any events that night. Police claim that there is no record on their computer of anything happening that night. The mystery deepens.

More info to follow in due course!

#2

I have just received a report back from friends who tried to reach the cordoned-off area at the impact site.

They said...

'The event happened at the very top of the hill.

Late tonight 9.15pm Sunday, we were close to the spot, but it is a bit inaccessible. There were sounds of very heavy equipment moving about very close. Sounded like bulldozers? No further info from other sources yet.

Will give you a bell after 8.00 tomorrow (Mon)'

The lack of info from Police, Fire Dept or press is puzzling!

If I get more info, I will relay it to you as soon as possible.

Many thanks, Phil.

#3

Sorry, I forgot to answer yo"

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Weapons Freeze, Microwave Enemies: "Weapons Freeze,
Microwave Enemies
Associated Press
8-3-4

A few months from now, Peter Anthony Schlesinger hopes to zap a laser beam at a couple of chickens or other animals in a cage a few dozen yards away. If all goes as planned, the chickens will be frozen in mid-cluck, their leg and wing muscles paralyzed by an electrical charge created by the beam, even as their heart and lungs function normally.

Among those most interested in the outcome will be officials at the Pentagon, who helped fund Schlesinger's work and are looking at this type of device to do a lot more than just zap the cluck out of a chicken. Devices like these, known as directed-energy weapons, could be used to fight wars in coming years.

'When you can do things at the speed of light, all sorts of new capabilities are there,' said Delores Etter, a former undersecretary of defense for science and technology and an advocate of directed-energy weapons.

Directed energy could bring numerous advantages to the battlefield in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, where U.S. troops have had to deal with hostile but unarmed crowds as well as dangerous insurgents.

Aside from paralyzing potential attackers or noncombatants like a long-range stun gun, directed-energy weapons could fry the electronics of missiles and roadside bombs, developers say, or even disable a vehicle in a high-speed chase.

The most ambitious program is the Air Force's Airborne Laser, a plan to mount a laser on a modified Boeing 747 and use it to shoot down missiles.

At the same Air Force Research Laboratory in New Mexico, researchers working with Raytheon have developed a weapon called the Active Denial System, which repels adversaries by heating the water molecules in their skin with microwave energy.

The Screen-Age - Our Brains
In Our Laptops
By Christine Boese
CNN Headline News
8-3-4

(CNN) -- When I taught at a university, I worked with the wireless laptop programs that are replacing computer labs on campuses.

Once students began carrying laptops everywhere and using them in class, an interesting dependency developed. There were times in class when I asked a question and students would glance helplessly at the machines, as if to say, "The answer isn't in my carbon-based brain, but I know I got it right here, on silicon."

Or, if the answer wasn't stored in their notes on the hard drive, it became a contest in which students would search the Net madly to compete for extra credit points.

It was always a sad day for the ones who showed up with a dead battery and no power cord, a busted keyboard or loose wireless card. They watched the rest of the class in a flurry of activity, frustrated and feeling like half of their brains -- more than half for some students -- was missing. Marshall McLuhan -- the prophet

Amazingly, the late media theorist Marshall McLuhan saw this coming in the 1960s. Many things he predicted about television did not appear until the appearance of the Internet and portable computers: so-called "ubiquitous computing."

McLuhan believed our senses become extended outside of our bodies. He suggested that a book was an extension of your eye and a car, an extension of your foot. He would say the Internet is an extension of our central nervous systems.

If we think of ourselves as somehow projected outside our bodies, one's sense of self becomes increasingly fragmented. My math brain lives partly inside a calculator.

My consciousness isn't just split between gray matter and a hard drive or two. Now part of it lives on the Internet and seems to stay there all the time. While I may feel a bit diffuse, mostly I observe changes in what McLuhan called our "sense ratios," like a goldfish changing from one kind of aquarium to another. We adapt. We gain some things, lose others.

Internet researcher Sherry Turkle in her book "Life on the Screen " interviews college students about their online lives. She is interested in their ability to multi-task in ways some older people cannot. She describes students as bombarded with media from multiple sources on a typical night of studying in the dorm. How young people live

A student may have a textbook open. The television is on with sound off (perhaps with the CNN Headline News modular screen). They've got music on headphones. On a laptop hooked in to the Internet there's a homework window, along with e-mail and instant messaging in the background. The Web has become an essential part of checking facts and figures for the homework (not to mention plagiarizing with copy and paste). On top of that, the student may field phone calls or talk with a roommate.

One of the most striking observations in Turkle's findings was a quote from one multi-tasking student who preferred the online world to the face-to-face world. "Real life," he said, "is just one more window."

College students are the leading edge in adapting to this new goldfish bowl, these new multi-tasking sense ratios. Some of us will hold on to the old ways by our fingernails, afraid of losing a coherent self. Others will plunge into the new collective nerve center, our various selves loosely joined in a partial free-fall at all times.




The Screen-Age - Our Brains In Our Laptops

A couple of years ago, when the Mars Global Surveyor was circling the Red Planet and beaming snapshots back to Earth, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke lectured remotely to an audience gathered at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Speaking from his home in Sri Lanka, Clarke informed the crowd that the images he'd downloaded from NASA's Web site showed something growing on the planet's surface. "I'm quite serious when I say I have a really good look at these new Mars images," Clarke said. "Something is actually moving and changing with the seasons that suggests, at least, vegetation."


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Clearly, Clarke is no wild eccentric; he invented the concept of satellite broadcasting and was knighted by the Queen of England. What caught his eye is a genuine enigma: a forest of large round blobs with branchlike structures that visibly expand and shrink over the seasons, which Clarke said looked like "banyan trees." Though most space scientists attribute these "dark dune spots" to Martian frost, a group of researchers at the Institute of Advanced Study in Budapest concurs with Clarke, calling the photos evidence of "probable Martian surface organisms." Clarke finds further signs of life in the images taken earlier this year by the rovers Spirit and Opportunity. "I've seen the latest microphotos, and some of them look very biological to me," he wrote by email. "But I'm not competent to decide."

Clarke isn't the only one playing armchair exobiologist these days. When Spirit began transmitting in January, space fans downloaded 35 terabytes of visual data from NASA's servers in less than a week. And they're not just loading up on screensavers. They're putting their image-processing software to the test, hunting for signs of life, past and present. Since the 1960s, when NASA probes sent back the first shots of Mars, amateurs have filled their files with curiosities. Their conclusions: worms, trees, UFOs, pyramids, subway stations, giant fungi, fossils, buried cities, and, of course, the famous face. According to EBTX.com, a Web site devoted to "figuring out the universe" and run by 56-year-old "E.B. from Texas," amateur investigators don't look for the sorts of general principles that attract most scientists. "We look to the anomalous features," says E.B.

Given that Mars is an alien planet, it's hardly surprising that fringe researchers are turning up details that don't quite fit. For its part, NASA has learned to sidestep such controversies. "I think it's great that we're releasing raw images, warts and all," says an extremely tactful Joy Crisp, project scientist for the Mars Exploration Rover Mission at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab. "Everyone can make their own interpretation - artists, kids doing science projects, folks with different mindsets. Everyone can be an explorer." Or, as E.B. suggests, "experience the thrill of discovery (or self-delusion) for yourself."

Mars began its career as a cosmic Rorschach blot in 1877, when the Italian astronomer Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli stared through a 9-inch Merz refracting telescope and declared that the spidery lines he saw etched on the planet's surface were "canali." What he meant was channels, but the English-speaking press, still hopped up on the recent opening of the Suez Canal, settled on the sexier term canals. In the US, the amateur astronomer Percival Lowell widely publicized his conviction that the splotches and lines revealed by his observatory's 24-inch telescope suggested vegetation and alien-made waterworks.

In 1964, a NASA probe took the first pictures of the planet's surface, shattering Lowell's visions of Martian gondoliers. But with every increase in camera resolution, some new oddity emerges from the Mars pixels. In 1976, when a Viking probe passed over a region named Cydonia, the orbiting craft took a fuzzy picture of a huge mountainous structure below. In a subsequent press release, NASA announced that this mound "resembles a human head formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth." The space agency was probably just trying to stir up public interest. Yet as anyone who has ever scanned the racks in a supermarket checkout aisle knows, it stirred up a hornet's nest.

Hornet number one is a fellow named Richard Hoagland, a science writer who subsequently built a small empire atop the "face on Mars." Besides the face, Hoagland identified several other "artificial" structures in Cydonia and connected them all in an elaborate numerological network. On NASA's next mission in April 1998, the agency felt obligated to steer the Mars Global Surveyor over Cydonia to photograph the face on two separate occasions. What the images revealed - to most eyeballs, anyway - was a pile of rubble.

This didn't stop Hoagland, a passionate man who continues to present his theories of Martian civilization to the likes of Art Bell on the fringe-dwelling Coast to Coast AM radio show, not to mention his own Star Trek-flavored EnterpriseMission.com. His claims are regularly attacked in withering geek style by Phil Plait, NASA education resource director at Sonoma State University in Northern California, who describes himself as the "go-to guy for astronomical debunking." Plait runs BadAstronomy.com, which metes out the drubbings that NASA is too politic to deal with itself. After an article about the Hoagland versus Plait feud appeared on Space.com in March, Plait's site was overwhelmed with millions of hits. "I love getting angry email from my sysadmin," he chuckles.

Though Plait has no respect for Hoagland, whose evidence he regards as "crap," most of the people he goes after are "not necessarily fraudulent evil bastard liars," but merely deluded. Plait spent five years processing Hubble images at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and he knows how tricky astronomical images can be, even for trained scientists. One of the main problems with the anomaly crowd, he says, is pareidolia: misperceiving a vague but suggestive shape as something definitive. "It's very clear that human brains are designed to pick out patterns," says Plait. "If you can't pick out the tiger hiding in the grass, you are lunch; you don't reproduce." On the other hand, if you think the burn mark on your tortilla is actually the mother of God, you are probably suffering from pareidolia.










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