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Red Ink and Rewrites TooSome history, some photos, some regrets. Talking about Newsvine - U.S. was 'hell bent' on Iraq war, U.K. envoy saysI thought I read that the US was paid to conduct the invasion of Iraq the first time, i.e. $80 billion (if we had RFID then we wouldn't have lost $1.5 billion in material left and lost on the beach then, perhaps since, like the often mistaken urban legend, "tore down the 3rd Ave. El sold it to the Japanese and they fired it back at us" used against us there and elsewhere from the first Iraq invasion operation, according to the award given to the inventor by the DOD, their facts not mine. By the way the El train stayed up on 3rd Ave. in the Bronx until the Cold War. A Japanese architect designed the WTC and "Twin Towers" the first to use nut-and-bolt construction instead of rivets. It seems confusing that as we entered Afghanizstan just after the events of 9/11/01, after which then PM Tony Blair warned we were going to lose some of our rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, long after the failure of diplomacy over the shared oil field under the "line in the sand" between Kuwait and Iraq, and Iraq had turned into the state of "billigerent" for the invasion when Kuwait failed to appear at negotiations. It would be hard to argue we weren't "hell bent" the call of patriotism was/is very strong, and participation in the first coalition had cost practically "nothing" in funds, at least as I recall it. In fact we have had much to lose, though as Nathan Hale, his statue in 1999 moved to the front of City Hall Park in NYC, when I was excavating in the "first almshouse cemetery" in it, was known to have voiced a regret of having only one life to lose for his country, it is still a fact that we do, and we should examine closely those that would give it away. Newsvine - U.S. was 'hell bent' on Iraq war, U.K. envoy says Facebook | Links on "CREDO Mobile"Facebook | Links on "CREDO Mobile" Actor Ed Asner is 80 today. He and others have tried to establish a Cabinet-level "Department of Peace". I was there for May Day and in NYC on Madison Ave. when the Vietnamese doctor and nurse came to protest the bombing of their hospital, called "Madison Avenue's War" because it was never officially declared by the US Congress. Was draftable, and it was phased out and Marine Corps JROTC in Newfield High School said to be its replacement, "all volunteer". Z | DVD | The A.V. ClubPosted using ShareThis Ed Koch Doesn't Appreciate John Liu's Snubbing of Mayor BloombergWe, I think we, were robo-called by former Mayor Koch to vote for Mayor Bloomburg just about 1/2 hour before his debate with Mr. Thompson on Channel 1, the local NYC station, started by the former employees of the last "news massacre" in TV City. After all the other ads for the hospital Ed Koch was in, praising his second chance that the heart surgery brought, I found it clear who he supported for the "second hardest job in America" and "I should know" but he didn't make a point that he had served the city for twelve (12) years himself, before the voted on "term limits". However I found myself in sympathy with the problems of the over 100,000 Hispanic run stores in NYC, and wondered why the law recently up before the City Council, to stop the "under-the-table" cash for leases, was not discussed by either candidate, though that's up to a debate moderator isn't it? Read the Article at HuffingtonPost Martians in New Jersey: Remembering the War of the Worlds I worked archaeology testing nearby in Penns Neck, NJ, part of a proposed Route 1 interchange for Princeton, NJ. The road to Grovers Mills was closed then as the bridge was being replaced. The RCA Sarnoff research center, a co-developer of "successful television" and a General in WWII in charge of "ionospheric" transmissions, i.e., large acreage of wires stretched about tree top level in New Jersey nearby, and on Long Island, NY, (Rocky Point, NY ~4500 acres given to NY state for $1 for parkland), to transmit radio and perhaps images to Europe at night were in place nearby or proposed. I remember the "strange shaped water tower" in Grovers Mills, on a tripod that was apparently shot at with a shotgun after the radio show. I purchased a PCjr internal modem slot interface for a faster external modem nearby after the bridge was finished and the job done. We found one Orient Fishtail projectile point in the gas-line pipe trench in the research center's front yard. So I think perhaps, the "Martians" chose their landing site carefully that Halloween. Happy landings! Read the Article at HuffingtonPost Brian Williams From Afghanistan: How Kabul Changed Overnight, What The Troops Think, & Why He Had To GoAs I recall it, having archaeologically "salvaged" the "Swamp Angel" gun platform, used in the first incendiary bombardment of civilians, the "foreign" citizens of Charleston, South Carolina, in 1863, a EPA re-remediation of nickel and cadmium for batteries in NIKE missile defenses once in use around the world, recovered for the US Army Corps of Engineers in a Marathon Battery National Priority Site in part in "Foundry Cove" filled swampland in Cold Spring, NY next to Constitution Island across the Hudson River from the West Point Military Academy, I was shown a device in our exploration of archaeological recording that allowed a TV camera to be raised over the US embassy compound, which were the only pictures often from our operations there in Iraq, narrated however, quite skillfully for children by television journalist, Peter Jennings.
Edwin Newman read a letter at the UN Chapel, back before the invasion of Iraq and the looting of one of Western civilization's most important museums, at a eulogy for a former NBC and lastly CBS news producer, George Murray, who had directed "Huntley and Brinkley" in the early years and went on to win awards in television news. In it he apologized to the reporters "embedded" in Vietnam who were trying to create a report on the common soldiers view, that they had been canceled by "higher ups" it was reported to me, a cousin. Those 9/11 passports found, create a scenario, where "The whole World is watching" (Medium Cool). Military Reverses Ban On Afghanistan Soldier Death PhotosBack in 2001, after 9/11, I was working on the archaeology survey of West Point Academy, on parts that had to be cleaned up due to damages to large trees by Hurricane Floyd. I had previously worked on the archaeology of the EPA National Priority site across the river in Cold Spring, NY in the 1990s, where the West Point Foundry was located, and cannon founding, proofing and test firing went on at the west side from the east side of the river. Anthrax I recall had appeared in the mails, later to have been found to be from the US Army, and a jetliner crashed into Queens, NY bound for the Dominican Republic, killing all on-board. Security at the Point was more thorough than usual and entrances blocked by large vehicles. Listening to the TV in the small motel the crew stayed in nearby, after work in the former Raritan River flooded Bridgewater, NJ and some testing at a Picatinney Arsenal former rocket assembly facility, I was interested in the report that we were going into Afghanistan, according to Japanese news reporting, to clean-up the airfields that the Russians had left behind, in what my Dad called "Russia's Vietnam". Well eight years later I've yet to see a report on airfields other than that the largest one in Asia is being built there according to DW-TV. Some policy huh? Airfields.  Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
As I recall, a Panamerican employee found one Orient Fishtail type projectile point there, broken, perhaps from the shovel, in a hillock. Many were found with burials and grave goods in 1956 on Long Island at the 'Sugar Loaf Hill Site" near the native Shinnecock Reservation and the point is found elsewhere, (Fischetti Site I volunteered on West Meadow, and others). They characterize"...the Orient culture of Long Island and seems to constitute a horizon marker for the Late Archaic-Early Woodland transitional zone in eastern and southern New York." ("The Stony Brook Site And..." NYS Museum Bulletin 372, Jan. 1959, reprint 1965, Albany, NY.) Forget GQ's top 50, this is CQ! - First Read - msnbc.com Forget GQ's top 50, this is CQ! - First Read - msnbc.com
George B. Cortelyou who held Cabinet posts under Pres. McKinley and after climbing down and a series of buckboard rides through the Adirondacks at night to the North Creek, NY railhead, President Theodore Roosevelt. An article in the National Archives journal states he was the first "White House Press Secretary" when he invited the press in to tell about McKinley's condition, he was expected to recover from the shot at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, NY, which maybe was meant for Mr. Cortelyou, he had averted an economic depression by making the price of a loaf of bread from 5 cents to 10 as Sec. of the Treasury. Appointed Postmaster General, under Roosevelt, it would not stop there and well look at the cost of a postage stamp now! Once a shorthand teacher in NYC and early CEO of ConEdison, while Chairman of the Republican Party he must have kept all his own dictation in shorthand because no one seems to have heard or written about him, and as an introducer of conservation measures in the US, I think him one of the important overlooked "50". Posted using ShareThis Note: his mother Rose Seery had a sister Ellen Seery who was married to Peter A. Myers, whose son, my grandfather, was Joseph Myers. My dad, George, was the youngest of eleven of Joseph and Margaret (nee Gregory) Myers. Apparently grandpa Joseph was a Reform Democrat and did not get along with the Chairman! Soviet space shuttle could bail out NASA: commentsOctober 10, 2009, 22:35 Seems a bit speculative to restart Buran when both the ESA (Europe) and JAXA (Japan) have already sent unmanned cargo carriers to the ISS recently, both which might carry crew and return from orbit it's been stated. At one time the Shuttle program or "Orbiter" as it was known on the early personal computer games, which was considered very accurate, was to be a split civilian (NASA, Cape Canaveral) and military (US Air Force, Vandenberg) program, which due to costs and objections to the militarization of space was reduced to the five shuttles for NASA mostly or, as I remember it, the whole program was going to go down in the flames of argument. The "Orbiter" simulation, though not implemented, had laser weapons aboard. Much of the arguments went on as objections to the American participation in the International Space Station were worked out. Still, it would be good to find someway to control and service all that stuff out there in orbit. RT Russia Today: Soviet space shuttle could bail out NASA Call to Abolish Public Advocate’s Office Stirs UneaseI think we’d lose respect from other nations who consider the “ombudsman” part of their government a key to getting things done. After all we did not necessarily invent the structure of city government but it has been handed down through generations who have kept it despite changes in politics. The fundamental right to “redress” is provided by it, for example, going back to the so-called “Leisler’s Rebellion” (http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h564.html). He was later found “not guilty” of turning over the City to the overwhelming British Navy and outnumbered in the Dutch fort, whose well was dry. Though hung, he was exonerated and they dug up his body from a paupers grave and paraded through the city streets. He had been hanged on the edge of the swamp that became the acres of tanning vats of the Roosevelt family. Fortunes were made there, but public investigation and mapping moved them further and further out of the city, to control disease, and not by official city planning. Call to Abolish Public Advocate’s Office Stirs Unease Dispelling the Myths Behind ColumbusOK it was taught that the world was considered "flat" perhaps as in off the edge of a piece of parchment there might be monsters of the sea. I also read that Columbus did his homework, Masons of Bristol, England report his query regarding lands sighted by fishing west. His father, a pilot hired by the Italians might have been Danish! The survival of Spanish-Jewish tradition in the "New World" perhaps shows they had left already before Columbus! Botanical descriptions of maize in early Arabic treatises and perhaps are depicted where the Chinese "discoverer" of North America died, in India, in difficult to date sculpture that was described by an archaeologist working on the origins of turquoise trade from mines in the American Southwest found in the Aztec culture in prehistoric Mexico. Columbus named the east point of land in Cuba, "Cape Maysi" (Maisi), near Guantanamo. It is where in 1871, "Wanderer" sank in a storm, built in Setauket, NY outfitted for slave-running in 1858 by a cotton broker, boarded by a British anti-slavery blockade off Africa where it was thought "too luxurious" and landed on Jekyll Island, Georgia in 1859 with a cargo of slaves, a third of which perished in the "Middle Passage" and perhaps precipitated the American Civil War, as it became a "chess piece" and later mail packet for the Union, it was used in the early fruit trade in the Caribbean. Surely Americans don't want to blame slavery on Columbus yet? Read the Article at HuffingtonPost Sin and SexOne of the last states to require mandatory vehicle insurance (a matter of choice whether to be protected on their roads, and at the time the cheapest law school in the country) perhaps it's more a question of product liability before the court there and whether its residents would have any recourse in cases of product mis-representation or breakage with other states. If its illegal I don't have to go chasing the manufacturer from state to state to foreign origin in cases of liability, i.e., shock, injury, etc. In my opinion however, it seems all too repressive to actually prosecute someone for it, in a state that should be known more for its Vulcan industry, i.e., iron and steel manufacture. Read the Article at HuffingtonPost Sunday RoundupWhy is this about Justin Timberlake? He was the dancer who bumped into or got too close to the performer, Janet Jackson that caused the "malfunction" of a costume that, seems to me designed to be removed quickly to get to another scene in another costume, perhaps, at least we might give that theory some possibility.
General Colin Powell's son was the director of the FCC who resigned and was replaced by people who doubled fines the minute they got into the new "saddle" like horse thieves they seem to be. Though perhaps in some circles "wonderful publicity" (Andy Warhol: there's no such thing as bad publicity. (?)) to have some "stage craft" malfunction turned into "warlock" and "witch" is dangerous collective thinking in my opinion. He's already apologized I recall, Justin Timberlake that is.
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Newsvine - 10 Worst Computer Viruses of All TimeI remember the first virus, a "Blackjack" variety, pretty nasty, perhaps an "archetype" of others that followed, was on a 5 1/4" factory shipped disk from the Rolleimetric factory in Braunschweig, Germany where the German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Investigation is located, by way of Prometric Technologies in Canada, 1990. A close-range photogrammetry system, then on Intel 386/387 CPUs, uses a "documented" camera and lens and software to bring aerial mapping metrology to earth, so to speak, for the close measurement of a number of scenarios, i.e., aircraft and car crashes, the native American leader, "Crazy Horse" sculpture, geologically unstable formations, "as-built" buildings, etc., either from the ground or helicopter. The small firm, Grossman and Associates, I worked in, he a writer of the yearly Encyclopedia Britannica entry on archaeology in the Western Hemisphere, used it to record a number of sites, for example, the archaeology of Mead Hall at Drew University, the recovered US Civil War R.P. Parrott rifled cannon gun-platform ("Swamp Angel") and the "workers houses" both at the historic "West Point Foundry" in an EPA ordered remediation of the Marathon Battery National Priority Site in Cold Spring NY. Today, many of those online info services he queried have been replaced by the proverbial "Ariel" in Shakespeare's "The Tempest" who would span the distance of the world in seconds, the Internet. I use the German Avira AntiVir software but I have had since 1983, a fair share of problems some I'm not sure if it would take a forensic analysis of why the disks crashed and locked, suspected CMOS viri, perhaps (Wikipedia "CMOS" entry). Newsvine - 10 Worst Computer Viruses of All Time “William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe” is Good HistoryOne case I was on the periphery of, that William Kunstler was involved in, was the charge of "racism" in the school district I attended by a Blackfoot native American who was a former personnel director at Maimonides Hospital, who in a commuter accident, however, that put her in a wheelchair, in the early 1970s. Her youngest daughter wrote about her discovery of her native roots for a former English teacher I once had who reportedly commented on her paper "I have an uncle who is a Wamponoag and he says the Indians got what they deserved" to which the mother responded as a charge of "racism" against the school, which William Kunstler also became involved in. She later, with the assistance of Running Bear, returned to the Blackfoot reservation and it seems access for the handicapped also got a little better in the nation. I had worked at a Zum Zum in the Smithaven Mall with two of her daughters. My favorite case he handled was the native American who unknowingly courted an East German spy. They were going to hang him during the end of the "Cold War" stationed as he was in what was West Germany today the unified country of Germany. US NPS Archeology E-Gram
Interesting problem in US parks, this one the very old Maine border and Cape Cod, Massachusetts, another Skagway, Alaska and Seattle, Washington, (gold arrived) part of the "new" Klondike Gold-rush Historic Park, and both part of the histories of the US-Canada border we share, though on opposite sides of North America and in different oceans. Friesland Day - New Island Festival - September 12 Friesland Day - New Island Festival September 12 - Governors Island
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Made in Friesland - 400 years of friendship with America Tell Secretary Clinton: Ban Blackwater As a taxpayer, and as a former employee of Berger, Inc., which is trying to provide a number of services to Iraq, and whose father's oncologist, Dr. LaPera, filmed the effects of the first coalition war to show the serious health effects of bombing to water supplies for Iraq's children, in a country, one of the poorest in the world in "water" and as an anthropologist, I strongly urge you to end all State Department contracts with Blackwater. Let more humanitarian efforts rule the day. Tell Secretary Clinton: Ban Blackwater On The MediaPosted by: George Myers August 27, 2009 - 12:50PM I had a cousin, George Murray, who worked for the "other side" though the disclosure of a Vietnam spy inside the Don Hewitt organization, an assistant to Morey Safer, might blur distinctions. He was an Army Captain in Korea that worked making films for the DOD after serving in NYC, landed a job in the film-editing room at NBC, and when the director for "Huntley & Brinkley" was out sick, filled in and became their regular director and later award winning producer for NBC according to noted author and television journalist Edwin Newman. A short contract was not renewed and his last work in TV was producing the coverage for CBS of both parties Presidential conventions of 1976. George Murray died while in Mexico City, with his wife, an Avon executive, and Mr. Newman, at his eulogy in the U.N. Chapel, reread a letter he had to send to reporters in then South Vietnam, working at risk and peril, gathering the "soldier's view" of what became known as the "Vietnam debacle" their work had been canceled by "higher ups". Also called "Madison Avenue's war", since it was never declared by Congress, the entire CBS company (and others?) was sued for its news department's report by General Westmoreland, over allegations of "body count" manipulations in a post "debacle" news retrospective, command then held by the general. It was quite an "irony" that the spy had eluded detection by Don Hewitt, whose excellent reports at "60 Minutes" helped define a new generation of news reporting. Future planetary exploration: Call for New MSL Landing Site ProposalsFuture planetary exploration: Call for New MSL Landing Site Proposals Re: In Defense of Ryan O'NealWikipedia: Candi Barr "The movie rights to Barr's early life story was purchased by producer Mardi Rustam in 1982. In 1984, Texas Monthly listed Barr among such luminaries as Lady Bird Johnson as one of history's "perfect Texans." In March 1988, it was announced that Ryan O'Neal would direct Farrah Fawcett in a biopic about Barr based on a script by George Axelrod, who wrote the Broadway play Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, but the movie was never produced." Read the Article at HuffingtonPost MAKS 2009 - Moscow Air Show - RTMAKS 2009 has kicked off - RT
According to "American Heritage" then President Abraham Lincoln allowed the Russian fleet to over-winter in New York City and San Francisco. A dastardly plan was afoot by European nations to takeover Russia while its fleet was icebound in the winter.
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