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spooky mulder

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 22:47:30 GMT

hmm, you know, I've been looking at the "footprints" function on xanga, and it's alarming how many people from washington d.c. are looking at my blog.

oh and happy new year :) it's late. or is it? hello lunar new year! and then persian new year in march!

rock band!

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:55:37 GMT

rock band!

a prediction!

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:40:22 GMT

Dec 24, 2007 2:00-ish AM.

watch the skis!

yeah yeah i'll stop

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 18:09:39 GMT

Ok ok 1 last post haha i'm bored on my birthday day at work.

Notes:
1. The amount of security and planning to move one nuclear weapon in the U.S. is the same as moving the President.
2. The air force has never been grounded for "procedural review" in history.
3. Something's up on Sept 14.

Military admits bomber mistakenly flew nukes across country

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A B-52 bomber mistakenly carried six nuclear warheads on air-launched cruise missiles on a flight from North Dakota to Louisiana last week, prompting a major investigation, military officials have confirmed.

The plane took the cruise missiles last Thursday from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale Air Force Base for decommissioning, but the warheads should have been removed from the missiles before they were attached to the B-52, according to military officials. The crew was unaware that they were carrying nuclear weapons, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the extraordinary sensitivity and security surrounding the case. The mistake was discovered after the plane's six-hour flight to Louisiana.

Lt. Col. Ed Thomas said that while the military does not publicly discuss nuclear weapons procedures, in this case the Air Force decided to acknowledge the incident in order to reassure the public.

"The public was never in any danger," Thomas said. But officials also said the incident was a major breach of security rules surrounding nuclear weapons. One Air Force official said that he could not recall anything similar happening. The Air Force announced that all flights of fighters and bombers in the United States will be halted on Sept. 14 to allow for a review of procedures. --From Pentagon Correspondent Barbara Starr (Posted 11:56 a.m.)

EDIT (9/20/07):

6 of the personell involved in the flight have died in random accidents (like driving a rental car into the woods in the middle of the night and running into a tree) in the past few weeks:

Sept 10: http://www.komotv.com/news/local/9679367.html
Sept 12: http://www.kfyrtv.com/News_Stories.asp?news=10465
Sept 15: http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070915/BREAKINGNEWS/70915012

post-nerdus!

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:33:34 GMT

Alright, I decided that because I'm so horrible with words, that I will switch from blogs to photo blog, writing to posting pics, and xanga to something else. In conclusion, adios xanga, ahlo photoblog!. I'll post the link somewhere.

It'll be great! You know full of stuff like...trips to Tucson? The local Albertsons? A great adventure indeed!

an-udder article. get it? ya?

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:12:11 GMT

ok it has nothing to do with udders or cows, but hear me out peoples!

old article though. For those of you near Glendale, there's an empty but well guarded detention/internment camp in the area run by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency, aka the people who messed up with Katrina)

Homeland Security Contracts for Vast New Detention Camps

http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=eed74d9d44c30493706fe03f4c9b3a77

New America Media, Feb 08, 2006

BERKELEY, Calif.--A Halliburton subsidiary has just received a $385 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security to provide "temporary detention and processing capabilities."

The contract -- announced Jan. 24 by the engineering and construction firm KBR -- calls for preparing for "an emergency influx of immigrants, or to support the rapid development of new programs" in the event of other emergencies, such as "a natural disaster." The release offered no details about where Halliburton was to build these facilities, or when.

To date, some newspapers have worried that open-ended provisions in the contract could lead to cost overruns, such as have occurred with KBR in Iraq. A Homeland Security spokesperson has responded that this is a "contingency contract" and that conceivably no centers might be built. But almost no paper so far has discussed the possibility that detention centers could be used to detain American citizens if the Bush administration were to declare martial law.

For those who follow covert government operations abroad and at home, the contract evoked ominous memories of Oliver North's controversial Rex-84 "readiness exercise" in 1984. This called for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to round up and detain 400,000 imaginary "refugees," in the context of "uncontrolled population movements" over the Mexican border into the United States. North's activities raised civil liberties concerns in both Congress and the Justice Department. The concerns persist.

"Almost certainly this is preparation for a roundup after the next 9/11 for Mid-Easterners, Muslims and possibly dissenters," says Daniel Ellsberg, a former military analyst who in 1971 released the Pentagon Papers, the U.S. military's account of its activities in Vietnam. "They've already done this on a smaller scale, with the 'special registration' detentions of immigrant men from Muslim countries, and with Guantanamo."

Plans for detention facilities or camps have a long history, going back to fears in the 1970s of a national uprising by black militants. As Alonzo Chardy reported in the Miami Herald on July 5, 1987, an executive order for continuity of government (COG) had been drafted in 1982 by FEMA head Louis Giuffrida. The order called for "suspension of the Constitution" and "declaration of martial law." The martial law portions of the plan were outlined in a memo by Giuffrida's deputy, John Brinkerhoff.

In 1985, President Reagan signed National Security Decision Directive 188, one of a series of directives that authorized continued planning for COG by a private parallel government.

Two books, James Mann's "Rise of the Vulcans" and James Bamford's "A Pretext for War," have revealed that in the 1980s this parallel structure, operating outside normal government channels, included the then-head of G. D. Searle and Co., Donald Rumsfeld, and then-Congressman from Wyoming Dick Cheney.

After 9/11, new martial law plans began to surface similar to those of FEMA in the 1980s. In January 2002 the Pentagon submitted a proposal for deploying troops on American streets. One month later John Brinkerhoff, the author of the 1982 FEMA memo, published an article arguing for the legality of using U.S. troops for purposes of domestic security.

Then in April 2002, Defense Dept. officials implemented a plan for domestic U.S. military operations by creating a new U.S. Northern Command (CINC-NORTHCOM) for the continental United States. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called this "the most sweeping set of changes since the unified command system was set up in 1946."

The NORTHCOM commander, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced, is responsible for "homeland defense and also serves as head of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).... He will command U.S. forces that operate within the United States in support of civil authorities. The command will provide civil support not only in response to attacks, but for natural disasters."

John Brinkerhoff later commented on PBS that, "The United States itself is now for the first time since the War of 1812 a theater of war. That means that we should apply, in my view, the same kind of command structure in the United States that we apply in other theaters of war."

Then in response to Hurricane Katrina in Sept. 2005, according to the Washington Post, White House senior adviser Karl Rove told the governor of Louisiana, Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, that she should explore legal options to impose martial law "or as close as we can get." The White House tried vigorously, but ultimately failed, to compel Gov. Blanco to yield control of the state National Guard.

Also in September, NORTHCOM conducted its highly classified Granite Shadow exercise in Washington. As William Arkin reported in the Washington Post, "Granite Shadow is yet another new Top Secret and compartmented operation related to the military's extra-legal powers regarding weapons of mass destruction. It allows for emergency military operations in the United States without civilian supervision or control."

It is clear that the Bush administration is thinking seriously about martial law.
Many critics have alleged that FEMA's spectacular failure to respond to Katrina followed from a deliberate White House policy: of paring back FEMA, and instead strengthening the military for responses to disasters.

A multimillion program for detention facilities will greatly increase NORTHCOM's ability to respond to any domestic disorders.

oh noes! my people! why!

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:20:08 GMT

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/report_iran_less_than_10

WASHINGTON, DC—According to an alarming new Department of Defense report combining civilian, military, and calendric evidence, Iran may be as few as nine years away from the year 2016.

"Every day they get one day closer," Defense Secretary Robert Gates said during a White House press conference Tuesday. "At the rate they're going, they will reach 2016 at the same time as the United States—and given their geographic position relative to the international date line, possibly even sooner."

The report recommended that the U.S. engage in bellicose international posturing, careless brinksmanship, and an eventual overwhelming series of nuclear strikes in order to prevent Iran from reaching this milestone.

woo almost out of tuscon! i'm coming back! wooo

oh and this too

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 21:37:18 GMT

"What is pi?"
A mathematician: "pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter."
A computer programmer: "pi is 3.141592653589 in double precision."
A physicist: "pi is 3.14159 plus or minus 0.000005."
An engineer: "pi is about 22/7."
A nutritionist: "Pie is a healthy and delicious dessert!"

Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 21:27:11 GMT

still in tuscon?? geepers!

quote-of-the-sorta-day-even-though-its-not-really-that-frequent-mostly-when-
I-come-across-a-quote-sometime-when-I'm-bored-at-work:

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own commonsense."

--Buddha (563BC-483BC)

desert the desert

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 06:05:36 GMT

blah tuscon tommorow til thursday. BLAH!

why cant they send me somewhere cool like seattle, new york, chicago,...or el segundo :-p

obiwankaynobi's Xanga

spooky mulder

rock band!

a prediction!

yeah yeah i'll stop

post-nerdus!

an-udder article. get it? ya?

Homeland Security Contracts for Vast New Detention Camps

oh noes! my people! why!

Report: Iran Less Than 10 Years Away From 2016

oh and this too

Wednesday, August 08, 2007

desert the desert