http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Alfred Fri, 24 May 2013 17:42:23 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Alfred Sun, 12 May 2013 12:39:12 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=da8_1368376406 Detroit Iron The HAARP antenna array. BY NOAH SHACHTMAN 05.10.13 2:02 PM In the history of U.S. military research, there's never been a project with such a combination of big science, high sleaze, and pure conspiratorial strangeness. Yet somehow, some way, the story of the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, or HAARP, just got sleazier and stranger - all thanks to an elderly physicist named Alfred Wong. Wong was an early proponent of HAARP, who used the facility in his studies of the ionosphere, the electrically-charged portion of the atmosphere. He also was something of a serial con man, according to a federal plea agreement provided to Danger Room. (.pdf) On Thursday, Wong agreed to pay nearly $1.7 million in damages for falsely billing Darpa and the Interior Department. He also plead guilty to a host of fraud charges. HAARP was originally pitched back in the Cold War as a way for plasma physicists to study the ionosphere by blasting it with radio frequency emissions. If you build this series of RF antennas in remote Alaska, the scientists told the Pentagon, HAARP wound not only advance our understanding of this crucial field. It could also be used to fry incoming Soviet missiles and spy on underground bunkers. One physicist working for the Arco oil-and-gas conglomerate even suggested that HAARP could be used to weaponize hurricanes - that is, if Arco's natural gas fields were used to power the thing. But the Pentagon was only partially interested. So instead the scientists - including a UCLA physics professor Alfred Wong - sought out Ted Stevens, an Alaska senator with a legendary soft spot for pet projects. "He provided some congressional money, some pork money," one of the scientists later told me for a 2009 WIRED magazine story . "It was much less than the bridge to nowhere." With Stevens' help, HAARP was eventually built, and physicists began doing some rather fascinating research there. But when those early ideas about HAARP's potential military uses came out - hoo boy, the tinfoil hat crowd went berserk, and stayed that way for a very long time. Everything from the Haiti earthquake to Hurricane Katrina was blamed on HAARP's dark weather-manipulated powers. People swore that the Alaskan antenna array was controlling their minds. A Russian military journal warned that blasting the ionosphere would cause the planet to " capsize ." Leading the charge was a one-time gemologist, miner, school supervisor, Chickaloon tribal administrator, and mind-control lecturer named Nick Begich, who just happened to be the brother of Stevens' eventual successor, Sen. Mark Begich. Through it all, Wong continued to do research at HAARP and at a neighboring facility called the High Power Auroral Stimulation Observatory, or HIPAS. And over the years, he claimed that he had no idea where people got those crazy notions about HAARP. (Although he occasionally floated ideas himself about hacking the planet and controlling the climate.) Wong swore he had no idea why Sen. Stevens, after their meeting together, kept insisting that HAARP would be able to harness the aurora borealis to bring a new, unlimited source of power to the planet. "There's a current flowing up there that you can modulate, and make some waves," Wong told theWashington Post in 1991. " have never claimed it was a way of taking energy to the ground." Perhaps Wong was telling the truth then. But it appears he has been less than forthright in his dealings with the government more recently. On Thursday, Wong plead guilty to federal fraud charges for submitting bogus invoices to U.S. government agencies. The now-retired professor used a number of different companies - including Van Nuys-based Non-linear Ion Dynamics (NID) and Beverly Hills' Alfred Wong Technologies - to score millions in government research contracts over the last decade. But what Wong did after scoring those contracts was somewhat less than ethical, according to his plea agreement . Darpa paid Wong's Non-linear Ion Dynamics, or NID, less than a million dollars to conduct "basic research into the feasibility of a nano technology battery based upon radiation emitted from a radioactive isotope," the plea agreement notes. In 2005, Wong claimed that Alfred Wong Technologies had sold some equipment related to this research to NID. He then billed the Pentagon for $160,000 in reimbursement. The problem was, "none of the items listed in the two invoices were manufactured by AWT," according to the plea deal. "AWT had no employees other than defendant, no manufacturing facilities, and expended no funds in the fabrication of these items." Oops. Wong wasn't done. Through a third front company, the International Foundation for Science, Health, and the Environment ("IFSHE"), he received a $25 million dollar Department of Interior contract to manage HIPAS, the ionospheric research facility neighboring HAARP in Alaska. Again, Wong claimed that one of his companies had sold equipment to another. Again, it was bogus. "In fact, expenditure was for furniture at IFSHE/NID headquarters in Van Nuys, California," the plea agreement notes. He also used the contract money to fund personal trips to Paris. Perhaps Wong's guilty plea will be the final spasm of HAARP-related weirdness. Perhaps now the facility will cease being Alaska's equivalent of Area 51 , and just be another unassuming government funded research effort. Then, again, the facility has recently been blamed for Hurricane Sandy and pegged as an earthquake weapon to be used in a " false flag " attack on North Korea. http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/05/haarp-fraud/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=da8_1368376406 Detroit Iron HAARP: OK, He Didn't Cause Hurricane Katrina. But He Is Guilty of Fraud. Alfred Wong, HAARP, International Foundation for Science, Health, and the Environment ("IFSHE"), Sun, 12 May 2013 05:45:02 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b95_1368351158 AntiPropagaanda Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism and the Spread of Sunni Theofascism Amb. Curtin Winsor, Ph.D. The United States has largely eliminated the infrastructure and operational leadership of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network over the past five years. However, its ideological offspring continue to proliferate across the globe. American efforts to combat this contagion are hamstrung by the fact that its ideological and financial epicenter is Saudi Arabia, where an ostensibly pro-Western royal family governs through a centuries-old alliance with the fanatical Wahhabi Islamic sect. In addition to indoctrinating its own citizens with this extremist creed, the Saudi government has lavishly financed the propagation of Wahhabism throughout the world, sweeping away moderate interpretations of Islam even within the borders of the United States itself. The Bush administration has done little to halt this ideological onslaught beyond quietly (and unsuccessfully) urging the Saudi royal family to desist. This lack of resolve is rooted in American dependence on Saudi oil production, fears of instability in the kingdom, wishful thinking about democracy promotion as an antidote to religious extremism, and preoccupation with confronting Iran. Background Wahhabism is derived from the teachings of Muhammad ibn abd al-Wahhab, an eighteenth century religious zealot from the Arabian interior. Like most Sunni Islamic fundamentalist movements, the Wahhabis advocated the fusion of state power and religion through the reestablishment of the Caliphate, the form of government adopted by the Prophet Muhammad's successors during the age of Muslim expansion. What sets Wahhabism apart from other Sunni Islamist movements is its historical obsession with purging Sufis, Shiites, and other Muslims who do not conform to its twisted interpretation of Islamic scripture. In 1744, Ibn Abd al-Wahhab forged an historic alliance with the Al-Saud clan and sanctified its drive to vanquish its rivals. In return, the Al-Saud supported campaigns by Wahhabi zealots to cleanse the land of "unbelievers." In 1801, Saudi-Wahhabi warriors crossed into present day Iraq and sacked the Shiite holy city of Karbala, killing over 4,000 people. After the Saudis conquered Mecca and Medina in the 1920s, they destroyed such "idolatrous" shrines as the Jannat al-Baqi cemetary, where four of the twelve Shiite imams were buried (on the grounds that grave markers are bida'a, or objectionable innovations). In return for endorsing the royal family's authority in political, security, and economic spheres after the establishment of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932, Wahhabi clerics were granted control over state religious and educational institutions and allowed to enforce their rigid interpretation of sharia (Islamic law). Wahhabism was largely confined to the Arabian peninsula until the 1960s, when the Saudi monarchy gave refuge to radical members of the Muslim Brotherhood fleeing persecution in Nasser's Egypt. A cross-fertilization of sorts occurred between the atavistic but isolated Wahhabi creed of the Saudi religious establishment and the Salafi jihadist teachings of Sayyid Qutb, who denounced secular Arab rulers as unbelievers and legitimate targets of holy war ( jihad ). "It was the synthesis of the twain-Wahhabi social and cultural conservatism, and Qutbist political radicalism- that produced the militant variety of Wahhabist political Islam that eventually (produced) al-Qaeda." The terms Islamofascism and theofascism have been frequently misused by Westerners to refer to virtually all forms of radical Islamism, but they are fitting appellations for Wahhabism today. The sect's rejection of individual liberties, disparagement and reduction of women's rights and status, disregard for the intrinsic value of human life, and encouragement of violence against unbelievers, are unparalleled among Islamic fundamentalist movements. Former CIA Director R. James Woolsey has used the term "Sunni theocratic totalitarianism," a term that highlights both the movement's "will to power" over the most minute aspects of Muslim daily life and its global ambitions. He also notes that its adherents do not raise the banner of Islam in pursuit of specific national, political, or territorial gains. Al-Qaeda's second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri has sharply rebuked the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas and Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood for participating in national elections. During the 1970s, Wahhabi clerics encouraged the spread of this revolutionary and atavistic ideological synthesis into Saudi universities and mosques, because it was seen as a barrier to the threat of cultural Westernization and spread of corruption that accompanied the 1970s oil boom. Consequently, the royal family and their religious establishment looked for a cause with which to deflect the growing zealotry from Wahhabist theofascism, a danger highlighted by the seizure of the Grand Mosque at Mecca by heavily armed Islamic Studies students in 1979. The diversion that the royal family seized upon was the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The Saudis financed a large-scale program of assistance to the Afghan mujahideen , in coordination with the Pakistan's Inter Service Intelligence agency (ISI) and the CIA, while funding radicalized madrassas to disseminate neo-Wahhabi ideology and literature in the sprawling Afghan refugee camps of Pakistan. They also dispatched thousands of volunteer jihadis from Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries to fight alongside the mujahideen. These so-called "Arab Afghans" dispersed to far-flung areas of the world after the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1988. They pursued further victories against "unbelievers" in the name of Islam, and they were accompanied by militant Wahhabi preachers. These elements would form the backbone of al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda was initially headquartered in Sudan, but returned to Afghanistan in 1996, following the seizure of Kabul by the Taliban. This was a new Afghan force, recruited in Wahhabi madrassas and, trained by the Pakistanis. Its goal was the establishment of a model Wahhabi state in Afghanistan. The Saudi royal family revoked bin Laden's Saudi citizenship (in response to heavy American pressure), but did little to interfere with Wahhabi "charities" in the Kingdom and abroad. These entities raised money for al-Qaeda, while the religious onslaught of Wahhabism continued to receive government sponsorship and funding. Osama bin Laden is widely believed to have reached an agreement with Prince Turki al-Faisal, then-chief of Saudi National Security and Intelligence in the mid 1990s, whereby al-Qaeda would not target the Kingdom, and the Kingdom would not interfere with al-Qaeda's fundraising or seek bin Laden's extradition. In fact, Al-Qaeda abstained completely from attacks on Saudi targets within the Kingdom prior to 9/11. Terrorist attacks and clashes between Saudi police and Islamist militants have erupted erupting periodically since May 2003, after the Saudi Government began cracking down on underground cells in the Kingdom (under pressure from Washington). However, it appears that most Al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist groups still respect this quid pro quo Hundreds of members of the Saudi royal family jet around the world without fear of assassination. The country's vulnerable petroleum industry has only once been targeted by terrorists, and then in a less that serious manner. In return, and notwithstanding its limited cooperation with Washington in restricting terrorist financing, the Saudi monarchy has maintained its commitment to propagating Wahhabism at home and abroad, providing the terrorist underground with a growing flood of eager recruits. Wahhabi Indoctrination "Man . . . requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill educated, he is the most savage of earthly creatures." Plato It is estimated that well over one-third of Saudi Arabia's public school curriculum is devoted to Wahhabi teachings. Passages from Saudi textbooks quoted in the American media after 9/11 generated much controversy. One textbook, for example, informed ninth grade students that Judgment Day will not come "until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them," while another stated that it is "compulsory" for Muslims "to consider the infidels their enemy." Embarrassed by the revelations, the Saudi government purported to launch a comprehensive review of its educational curricula and pledged that all such references would be removed. Last year, however, Freedom House published an exhaustive report on the new curriculum, concluding that it "continues to propagate an ideology of hate toward the 'unbeliever,' which include Christians, Jews, Shiites, Sufis, Sunni Muslims who do not follow Wahhabi doctrine, Hindus, atheists and others." Some analysts dismiss the relevance of this indoctrination on the grounds that "conforming to an ultra-conservative, anti-pluralistic faith does not necessarily make you a violent individual," but this reasoning is fallacious. If only one percent of the 5 million Saudi students exposed to these teachings resort to violence, this would produce 50,000 jihadis. Not surprisingly, bin Laden himself denounced foreign interference in Saudi school curricula in an April 2006 audiotape. Moreover, these teachings are reinforced by Wahhabi clerics in Saudi Arabia, who advocate jihad against enemies of "true" Islam - outside the kingdom." Incitement to violence against Shiites is particularly common. In December 2006, a high-ranking cleric close to the Saudi royal family, Abdul Rahman al-Barak, denounced Shiites as an "evil sect . . . more dangerous than Jews and Christians." In November of 2004, twenty-six clerics, most of whom held positions as lecturers of Islamic studies at various Saudi state-funded universities, issued a call for jihad against American forces in Iraq. Two Saudi officials denounced the fatwa in interviews with the Western media, but no retraction was made in Arabic to local media outlets. Months later, a Saudi dissident group released a videotape showing the Chief Justice of Saudi Arabia's Supreme Judicial Council, Saleh bin Muhammad al-Luhaidan, advising young Saudis at a government mosque on how to infiltrate Iraq and fight US troops, as well as assuring them that Saudi security forces would not punish them after their return. While Luhaidan publicly retracted his statements, videotapes of prominent Saudi clerics exhorting the public to wage jihad in Iraq and elsewhere continue to surface. Exporting Hatred While Saudi citizens remain the vanguard of Islamic theofascism around the world, the growth potential for this ideology lies outside the Kingdom. The Saudis have spent at least $87 billion propagating Wahhabism abroad during the past two decades, and the scale of financing is believed to have increased in the past two years as oil prices have skyrocketed. The bulk of this funding goes to the construction and operating expenses of mosques, madrassas, and other religious institutions that preach Wahhabism. It also supports the training of imams; domination of mass media and publishing outlets; distribution of Wahhabi textbooks and other literature; and endowments to universities (in exchange for influence over the appointment of Islamic scholars). By comparison, the Communist Party of the USSR and its Comintern spent just over $7 billion propagating its ideology worldwide between 1921 and 1991. Wahhabism has made less headway in the former Soviet Republics of Central Asia, despite the fact that decades of Communist rule had weakened their traditional Islamic institutions. Several successor governments, especially the Uzbekis, have cracked down harshly on militant Islamist groups, while encouraging educational systems in the Hanafi tradition that promote tolerant and peaceful Islam. Africa is also a critical area of Wahhabi expansion, as it offers a multitude of "failed states" and communal cleavages ripe for exploitation, most notably in the Sudan and Nigeria. In all of these areas, the central dynamic is the same - it is the overwhelming wealth of Saudi Arabia that enables the Wahhabi sect to proselytize on a global scale, not the intrinsic appeal of its teachings. Throughout the world, moderates echo the assessment of Somali journalist Bashir Gothar, who writes that his country's tolerant Sufi-infused Islamic culture has been: "swept aside by a new brand of Islam that is being pushed down the throat of our people - Wahhabism. Anywhere one looks, one finds that alien, perverted version of Islam." Wahhabism in the West Wahhabi proselytizing is not limited to the Islamic world. The Saudis have financed the growth of thousands of Wahhabi mosques, madrassas, and other religious institutions in Western countries that have fast-growing Muslim minorities during the past three decades. Wahhabi penetration is deepest in the social welfare states of Western Europe, where chronically high unemployment has created large pools of able-bodied young Muslim men who have "become permanent wards of the state at the cost of their basic human dignity." This is a perfect storm of alienation and idleness, ripe for terrorist recruitment. The perpetrators of the 2005 London subway attacks were native-born Britons of Pakistani descent, recruited locally and trained in the use of explosives during visits to Pakistan. The Dutch Moroccan who murdered Dutch filmmaker Theodor Van Gogh in 2004 (for producing a film critical of Islam) was also a product of Wahhabi indoctrination. The Wahhabis have had less traction in the United States, which lacks the masses of unassimilated young people that exist in Europe. US welfare laws no longer allow able-bodied young men to have indefinite periods of government subsidized unemployment and immigrants (both Muslim and non-Muslim) tend to find a more stable niche in American society. Nevertheless, Wahhabi penetration of US mainstream Islamic institutions is substantial. A 2005 Freedom House Report examined over 200 books and other publications distributed in 15 prominent Saudi-funded American mosques. One such publication, bearing the imprint of the Saudi embassy and distributed by the King Fahd Mosque in Los Angeles, contained the following injunctions for Muslims living in America: Be dissociated from the infidels, hate them for their religion, leave them, never rely on them for support, do not admire them, and always oppose them in every way according to Islamic law. hoever helps unbelievers against Muslims, regardless of what type of support he lends to them, he is an unbeliever himself. Never greet the Christian or Jew first. Never congratulate the infidel on his holiday. Never befriend an infidel unless it is to convert him. Never imitate the infidel. Never work for an infidel. Do not wear a graduation gown because this imitates the infidel. Although Saudi-funded religious institutions have been careful not to incite or explicitly endorse violence since 9/11, they unapologetically promote distrust toward non-Muslims and self-segregation. In effect, they are trying to reproduce in America the kind of social conditions that have fueled radicalization and terrorist recruitment in Europe. While the Saudi ambassador in Washington said last year that his government was undertaking a "very intense review" of all missionary activities in the United States, it is clear that the Saudis are concerned primarily with avoiding bad publicity, not abandoning their drive to dominate Islamic institutions in America. Causes of American Inaction The Bush administration has been reluctant to put serious pressure on the Saudis to stop propagating Wahhabism, despite the enormous threat to American security posed by Sunni theofascism. There are several reasons for this. The first is American dependence on the kingdom's abundant oil reserves, which enable to the Saudis to maintain roughly 3 million b/d in spare production capacity. This spare capacity has been called the "energy equivalent of nuclear weapons," because it puts the Saudis in a unique position to compensate for disruptions in supplies from other producers and discourage price gouging - a service provided to the United States (and other industrialized nations) in exchange for protection. However, the argument that a firm public stance against Saudi propagation of religious hatred might lead the kingdom to retaliate economically is spurious. Saudi Arabia's use of the oil weapon would alienate the entire industrialized world, while threatening the relative economic prosperity that preserves stability in the kingdom. Some politicians and writers have voiced concern that pushing the Saudi royal family to curtail the Wahhabis could lead to terrorist attacks on the country's vulnerable petroleum infrastructure or lead to the collapse of the monarchy, which would produce an even worse outcome - a Saudi state controlled exclusively by religious fanatics. While these are serious risks, it must be borne in mind that most Wahhabi radicals view the monarchy (and its oil fields) as a golden goose. It is only by disguising Saudi Arabia as a 'friendly nation' that they have been able to go as far as they have in spreading their atavistic perversion of Islam. Such concerns reveal a tendency to imagine or spin the Saudi royal family as fundamentally pro-Western. Prince Bandar bin Sultan, who served as ambassador to the United States from 1983 to 2005, has played an important role in masking Saudi - Wahhabi realities. His personal charm, Washington Post journalist David Ignatius writes, "many American leaders and even presidents to forget that he represented a secretive, repressive Muslim kingdom that survived because it had made a pact with 'puritanical' Wahhabi clerics who despised America." Bandar was also instrumental in the growth of what Daniel Pipes has called a "culture of corruption" that renders the executive branch of the American government "incapable of dealing with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the farsighted and disinterested manner that US foreign policy requires." Pipes points to a "revolving door syndrome" afflicting senior diplomats and policymakers who deal with the Saudis in their official capacities. Very often, they have enjoyed lucrative post-government careers working as consultants for Saudi businessmen and companies, or running Saudi-financed nongovernmental organizations. "If the reputation then builds that the Saudis take care of friends when they leave office," Bandar once reportedly told a close associate: "you'd be surprised how much better friends you have who are just coming into office." Unable or unwilling to combat the spread of Sunni theofascism at its main source (Saudi Arabia), the Bush administration launched a democracy promotion campaign intended to eradicate political conditions receptive to its global spread. However, rather than building stable and less oppressive systems resistant to religious extremism in Afghanistan and Iraq, the accumulating shortfalls of American intervention in both countries have made them magnets for jihadist recruitment. The Question of Iran The Bush Administration's reluctance to challenge the Saudis after 9/11 initially encountered impassioned objections from conservative and liberal commentators alike, but the outrage has tapered off as attention has became increasingly focused on Shiite Iran and its nuclear program which is hipped by Israel. In the view of the administration, the Iranian threat to American national security not only supercedes the threat of Sunni theofascism, but supercedes it to such a degree that a more accommodating policy toward Saudi Arabia is warranted. However, while the prospect of militant Shiite clerics in possession of nuclear weapons is understandably disconcerting to many Americans, the Iranian threat is mitigated by several important factors. For all of the shrill and unsettling words of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, his government's foreign policy is driven more by Iranian nationalism than Shiite Islamism (this is evident, for example, in Tehran's support for the predominantly Christian nation of Armenia in its dispute with Shiite Azerbaijan). This is not surprising, as Iran (known as Persia prior to the twentieth century) has existed in one form or another since biblical times, while it embraced Shiite Islam just 500 years ago. While Ahmadinejad exploits Iranian nationalism to win public support in his confrontation with the West, it can easily turn against him if he were to embark on a global adventure. Wahhabi clerics may support the Saudi royal family as a necessary evil in order to protect their global proselytizing mission, but they recognize no Saudi Arabian "nation" whose interests take precedence over their agenda. Such is not the case in Iran. Furthermore, Shiite Islamism does not exhibit theofascist tendencies. Radical clerics in Iran have been responsible for horrendous abuses of power, but they do not regard non-Shiite Muslims as "unbelievers" who must be systematically purged. Basically in Islam Christians and Jews are considered as belivers and in Quran are referred to as "the people of book". Even within the Shiite world, there is no prospect of a Wahhabi-style Iranian takeover of religious discourse because unlike the Sunnis, Shiite Islam is rigidly hierarchical. Iraqi and Lebanese Shiites gladly accept Iranian financial and military support, but they are fiercely loyal to their own clerical establishments. An even greater fallacy is the widespread belief in Washington that a strong relationship with Saudi Arabia is an asset in confronting Iran. On the contrary, coddling the Saudis makes it more difficult for the United States to deal with Iran. The Bush administration's refusal to hold Saudi leaders accountable for their incitement of Wahhabi jihadists (who have murdered far more Shiites than Americans, mostly in Iraq and Pakistan) is a source of deep resentment in the Shiite world. It is no surprise that the only two major public demonstrations against Al-Qaeda in the Islamic world after the 9/11 attacks were both organized by Shiites (in Tehran and Karachi, Pakistan). It is interesting to note that the recent escalation of US - Iranian tensions has made the Saudis less accommodating about Iraq than ever before. Reports that the Saudi Government is threatening to openly fund and arm Sunni insurgent groups if American forces withdraw from Iraq are a case in point. In effect, the Saudis are signaling to the Bush administration that they will thwart any American plan to cede control of Iraq to its Shiite-dominated, democratically-elected government, while signaling to the Sunni insurgents in Iraq that they can reject American efforts to broker a political settlement and not be left to face the consequences alone. Iran has no history of direct aggression against its neighbors, and unlike Saddam's Sunni-dominated Iraq, they have never used weapons of mass destruction during invasions of neighbors or against their own people. The strongest argument for this approach lies with the extent that Iran craves recognition of its actual status as the historically authentic nation state in the Middle East. Iran has long aspired to be and probably will be the region's predominant Islamic regional power. On the other hand Iranians are the most pro American and pro west people in the middle-east, although the recent Israeli pushed American forced sanctions are damaging this view. The Road Ahead Washington will eventually have to face the reality that derailing Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons (and, more broadly, its emergence as the predominant Islamic regional power) may be impossible over the long-term, and possible in the short term only at the expense of fatally undermining efforts to contain the spread of Sunni theofascism. The United States would do better to find a mutually acceptable means of working with this reality, rather sustaining a deadlocked confrontation by conditioning its willingness to normalize relations with Tehran on the abandonment of its nuclear aspirations. US - Iranian engagement will greatly enhance American leverage over the Saudis, as well as check the threat of Sunni theofascist terrorism in Iraq and, to a lesser extent, Afghanistan. Saudi officials have urged the Bush administration not to talk with Iran because they know that a reduction in US - Iranian tensions will draw more attention to their unbridled export of Wahhabism. Reducing American dependence on Saudi oil must also be part of any comprehensive strategy for addressing the threat of Sunni theofascism. Although President Bush has expressed commitment to developing alternative energy sources, the surplus production capacity of the Saudis enables them to lower prices as necessary to ensure that this will not be cost effective for a long time. Barring radical breakthroughs in fuel technologies, an optimistic forecast would have bio fuels (ethanol, synthetic diesel and bio oil) making up to 30% of US petroleum equivalent needs by 2030. For the short to medium term future, only conservation can significantly alter American petroleum dependency. Without the billions of dollars in Saudi funds, the ideological, political, and psychological edifice of Wahhabi theofascism will begin to crumble, particularly if a concerted effort is made by the Bush administration to promote moderate Islamic institutions (a recent study by the RAND Corporation offers some insightful recommendations). Ultimately, the devil is not in the details - it is the administration's broad lack of resolve in confronting the threat of theofascism, not the lack of viable methods of combating it, that imperils American security. REFERENCES See Mohammed Ayoob, "Political Islam: Image and Reality," World Policy Journal, Vol. 11, No. 3, Fall 2004. 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See Freedom House, The Talibanization of Nigeria: Radical Islam, Extremist Sharia Law, and Religious Freedom, March 2002. "Against the Saudization of Somaliland," Addis Tribune (Ethiopia), 21 November 2003. http://www.addistribune.com/Archives/2003/11/21-11-03/Against.htm In March 2002, the official Saudi magazine Ain al-Yaqeen estimated that the Saudi royal family in countries where Muslims were a minority has funded 210 Islamic centers, 1,500 mosques, 202 colleges, and 2,000 madrassas. The number of all Saudi Government and charitably funded institutions beyond Saudi Arabia is much higher. Cited in "Inside the Kingdom," Time, 7 September 2003. Alex Alexiev, "France at the Brink", The San Diego Union Tribune, 20 November 2005. See also: Alex Alexiev, Europe's Islamist Future is Now, The Center for Security Policy, 13 June 2005. Other publications examined include textbooks from the Saudi Ministry of Education and collections of religious edicts by state-sanctioned clerics in the kingdom. See Freedom House, Saudi Publications on Hate Ideology Fill American Mosques, January 2005. Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, "Wahhabism in the Big House: The Teaching of Jihad in American Penitentiaries," The Weekly Standard, 26 September 2005. "Terrorist Recruitment in Prisons and The Recent Arrests Related to Guantanamo Bay Detainees," Testimony of John S. Pistole, Assistant Director, Counterterrorism Division, FBI, before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology, and Homeland Security, 14 October 2003. Testimony of Dr. J. Michael Waller before the US Senate Judiciary Committee's Terrorism Subcommittee, 14 October 2003. Frank Gaffney, A Troubling Influence, Front Page Magazine.com, 9 December 2003. Glenn Simpson, "Suspect Lessons: A Muslim School Used by Military Has Troubling Ties," The Wall Street Journal, 3 December 2003. "For Conservative Muslims, Goal of Isolation a Challenge; 9/11 Put Strict Adherents on the Defensive," The Washington Post, 5 September 2006. Edward L. Morse and James Richard, "The Battle for Energy Dominance," Foreign Affairs, March/April 2002. David Ignatius, "The Operator," The Washington Post, 5 November 2006, p.7. Daniel Pipes, "The Scandal of U.S.-Saudi Relations," The National Interest, Winter 2002/2003. "Oil for Security Fueled Close Ties; But Major Differences Led to Tensions," The Washington Post, 11 February 2002. In November 2006, Nawaf Obaid, a close advisor to Prince Turki, warned in a Washington Post op-ed that a phased American withdrawal from Iraq will result in "massive Saudi intervention," with options including "funding, arms and logistical support" to Sunni insurgents. "As the economic powerhouse of the Middle East, the birthplace of Islam and the de facto leader of the world's Sunni community (which comprises 85 percent of all Muslims), Saudi Arabia has both the means and the religious responsibility to intervene." See Nawaf Obaid, "Stepping Into Iraq: Saudi Arabia Will Protect Sunnis if the U.S. Leaves," The Washington Post, 29 November 2006. Outlook on Renewable Energy in America, Volume II: Joint Summary Report, American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE), March 2007. The Rand Corporation, Building Moderate Muslim Networks, 2007. Curtin Winsor, Jr. is a former United States Ambassador to Costa Rica. He graduated from Brown University in 1961 with a degree in English literature, and then received a Masters in Latin American studies in 1964 and a Ph.D. in international studies in 1971 from the School of International Service at American University in Washington, D.C. He worked as an adviser to President Ronald Reagan and Sen. Robert Dole, as well as for the U.S. Foreign Service. * This article had previously been published in the Mideast Monitor. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b95_1368351158 AntiPropagaanda Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism &quot;A Must Read&quot; al-Qaeda, Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, Terrorism, America, Israel, Tue, 07 May 2013 07:54:19 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3ba_1367926790 Richard_Dorkins Read a comment response to me earlier today: That Hezbollah ever killed American soldiers and civilians is only spouted by Zionists. Hezbollah is a resistance movement dedicated to defending Lebanon and to supporting the right of return of Palestinians - who incidentally are mostly Sunni and Christian, not Shia like Hezbollah. Delusions of grandeur from a terrorist supporter . historically inaccurate to the point of disbelief. I dont care about your fantasies, or of the pending equalisations of &quot;America did this&quot; or &quot;America did that.&quot; Hezbollah have committed attrocities, they are terrorists and at best oppression-fighters (because freedom-fighter would assume they fight for freedom, rather than as clearly stated a religious theocracy). Hezbollah has hijacked planes, they have kidnapped israelis and americans, they have been responsible for a number of suicide attacks. But the comment clearly states that they never hurt a hair of an American. How is this possible when if hezbollah was responsible for the two explosions in Beirut on October 23, 1983 that killed 241 American Marines and 56 French servicemen sleeping in their barracks. Can't pull the wool over the eyes of any man or woman with access to google. Are these made up names? Carlson, Randall A. ....... USA .... MAJ .... 09/25/1982 .. CT .. Trumbull, CT Reagan, David L. .......... USMC ... CPL .... 09/30/1982 .. VA .. Virginia Beach, VA Maxwell, Ben H. ........... USA .... SSGT ... 04/18/1983 .. VA .. Appomattox, VA McMaugh, Robert V. ........ USMC ... CPL .... 04/18/1983 .. VA .. Manassas, VA Salazar, Mark E. .......... USA .... SSGT ... 04/18/1983 .. CA .. Pasadena, CA Twine, Richard ............ USA .... SFC .... 04/18/1983 .. UK .. Salop, UK Losey, Donald George ...... USMC ... 2LT .... 08/29/1983 .. NC .. Winston Salem, NC Ortega, Alexander M. ...... USMC ... SSGT ... 08/29/1983 .. NY .. Rochester, NY Clark, Randy W. ........... USMC ... LCPL ... 09/06/1983 .. WI .. Minong, WI Valle, Pedro J. ........... USMC ... CPL .... 09/06/1983 .. RP .. San Juan, RP Soifert, Alan H. .......... USMC ... SGT .... 10/14/1983 .. NH .. Nashua, NH Ohler, Michael J. ......... USMC ... CAPT ... 10/16/1983 .. NY .. Huntington, NY Abbott, Terry W. .......... USMC ... CPL .... 10/23/1983 .. OH .. New Richmond, OH Alexander, Clemon S. ...... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. FL .. Monticello, FL Allman, John R. ........... USMC ... PFC .... 10/23/1983 .. NM .. Carlsbad ... NM Arnold, Moses J. Jr. ...... USMC ... CPL .... 10/23/1983 .. PA .. Philadelphia, PA Bailey, Charles K. ........ USMC ... PFC .... 10/23/1983 .. MD .. Berlin, MD Baker, Nicholas ........... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. VA .. Alexandria, VA Banks, Johansen ........... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. MI .. Detroit, MI Barrett, Richard E. ....... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. VA .. Tappahanock, VA Bates, Ronny K. ........... USN .... HM1 .... 10/23/1983 .. SC .. Aiken, SC Battle, David L. .......... USMC ... 1stSGT . 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Hubert, NC Baynard, James R. ......... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. VA .. Richmond, VA Beamon, Jesse W. .......... USN .... HN ..... 10/23/1983 .. FL .. Haines City, FL Belmer, Alvin. ............ USMC ... GYSGT .. 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Jacksonville, NC Bland, Stephen ............ USMC ... PFC .... 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Midway Park, NC Blankenship, Richard L. ... USMC ... SGT .... 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Hubert, NC Blocker, John W. .......... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. FL .. Yulee, FL Boccia, Joseph J. Jr. ..... USMC ... CAPT ... 10/23/1983 .. NY .. Northport, NY Bohannon, Leon Jr. ........ USMC ... CPL .... 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Jacksonville, NC Bohnet, John R. Jr. ....... USMC ... SSGT ... 10/23/1983 .. TN .. Memphis, TN Bonk, John J. Jr. ......... USMC ... CPL .... 10/23/1983 .. PA .. Philadelphia, PA Boulos, Jeffrey L. ........ USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. NY .. Islip, NY Bousum, David R. .......... USMC ... CPL .... 10/23/1983 .. MI .. Fife Lake, MI Boyett, John N. ........... USMC ... 1stLT .. 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Camp Lejeune, NC Brown, Anthony ............ USMC ... CPL .... 10/23/1983 .. MI .. Detroit, MI Brown, David W. ........... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. TX .. Conroe, TX Buchanan, Bobby S. Jr. .... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Midway Park, NC Buckmaster, John B. ....... USMC ... CPL .... 10/23/1983 .. OH .. Vandalia, OH Burley, William F. ........ USMC ... PFC .... 10/23/1983 .. NJ .. Linden, NJ Cain, Jimmy R. ............ USN .... HN ..... 10/23/1983 .. AL .. Birmington, AL Callahan, Paul L. ......... USMC ... CPL .... 10/23/1983 .. OH .. Lorain, OH Camara, Mecot E. .......... USMC ... SGT .... 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Jacksonville, NC Campus, Bradley J. ........ USMC ... PFC .... 10/23/1983 .. MA .. Lynn, MA Ceasar, Johnnie D. ........ USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. TX .. El Campo, TX Cole, Marc L. ............. USMC ... PFC .... 10/23/1983 .. OH .. Ludlow Falls, OH Coleman, Marcus A. ........ USA .... SP4 .... 10/23/1983 .. TX .. Dallas, TX Comas, Juan M. ............ USMC ... PFC .... 10/23/1983 .. FL .. Hialeah, FL Conley, Robert A .......... USMC ... SGT .... 10/23/1983 .. FL .. Orlando, FL Cook, Charles D. .......... USMC ... CPL .... 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Advance, NC Cooper, Curtis J. ......... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. PA .. North Wales, PA Copeland, Johnny L. ....... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Burlington, NC Corcoran, Bert D. ......... USMC ... CPL .... 10/23/1983 .. NY .. Katonah, NY Cosner, David L. .......... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. WV .. Elkins, WV Coulman, Kevin P. ......... USMC ... SGT .... 10/23/1983 .. NY .. Seminary, NY Croft, Brett A. ........... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. FL .. Lakeland, FL Crudale, Rick R. .......... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. RI .. Warwick, RI Custard, Kevin P. ......... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. MN .. Virginia, MN Cyzick, Russell E. ........ USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. WV .. Star City, WV Davis, Andrew L. .......... USMC ... MAJ .... 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Jacksonville, NC Decker, Sidney James ...... USMC ... PFC .... 10/23/1983 .. KY .. Clarkson, KY Devlin, Michael J. ........ USMC ... PFC .... 10/23/1983 .. MA .. Westwood, MA Dibenedetto, Thomas A. .... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. CT .. Mansfield Center, CT Dorsey, Nathaniel G. ...... USMC ... PVT .... 10/23/1983 .. MD .. Baltimore, MD Douglass, Frederick B. .... USMC ... SGTMAJ . 10/23/1983 .. MA .. Cataumet, MA Dunnigan, Timothy J. ...... USMC ... CPL .... 10/23/1983 .. WV .. Princeton, WV Earle, Bryan L. ........... USN .... HN ..... 10/23/1983 .. OH .. Painsville, OH Edwards, Roy L. ........... USMC ... MSGT ... 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Camp Lejeune, NC Elliot, William D. Jr. .... USN .... HM3 .... 10/23/1983 .. PA .. Lancaster, PA Ellison, Jesse ............ USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. WI .. Soldiers Grove, WI Estes, Danny R. ........... USMC ... PFC .... 10/23/1983 .. IN .. Gary, IN Estler, Sean F. ........... USMC ... PFC .... 10/23/1983 .. NJ .. Kenall Park, NJ Faulk, James E. ........... USN .... HM3 .... 10/23/1983 .. FL .. Panama City, FL Fluegel, Richard A. ....... USMC ... PFC .... 10/23/1983 .. PA .. Erie, PA Forrester, Steven M. ...... USMC ... CPL .... 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Jacksonville, NC Foster, William B. Jr. .... USN .... HM3 .... 10/23/1983 .. VA .. Richmond, VA Fulcher, Michael D ........ USMC ... CPL .... 10/23/1983 .. VA .. Madison Heights, VA Fuller, Benjamin E ........ USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. GA .. Duluth, GA Fulton, Michael S. ........ USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. TX .. Ft. Worth, TX Gaines, William Jr. ....... USMC ... CPL .... 10/23/1983 .. FL .. Port Charlotte, FL Gallagher, Sean R. ........ USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. MA .. N. Andover, MA Gander, David B. .......... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. WI .. Milwaulkee, WI Gangur, George M. ......... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. OH .. Cleveland, OH Gann, Leland E. ........... USMC ... SSGT ... 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Camp Lejeune, NC Garcia, Randall J. ........ USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. CA .. Modesto, CA Garcia, Ronald J. ......... USMC ... SSGT ... 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Jacksonville, NC Gay, David D. ............. USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Harrisburg, IL Ghumm, Harold D. .......... USMC ... SSGT ... 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Jacksonville, NC Gibbs, Warner Jr. ......... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. VA .. Portsmouth, VA Giblin, Timothy R. ........ USMC ... CPL .... 10/23/1983 .. RI .. N. Providence, RI Gorchinski, Michael W. .... USN .... ETC .... 10/23/1983 .. IN .. Evansville, IN Gordon, Richard J. ........ USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. MA .. Somerville, MA Gratton, Harold F. ........ USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. NY .. Conoes, NY Greaser, Robert B. ........ USMC ... SGT .... 10/23/1983 .. PA .. Lansdale, PA Green, Davin M. ........... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. MD .. Baltimore, MD Hairston, Thomas A. ....... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. PA .. Philadelphia, PA Haltiwanger, Freddie Jr. .. USMC ... SGT .... 10/23/1983 .. SC .. Little Mountain, SC Hamilton, Virgil D. ....... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. KY .. Dayton, OH Hanton, Gilbert ........... USMC ... SGT .... 10/23/1983 .. DC .. Washington, DC Hart, William ............. USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Jacksonville, NC Haskell, Michael S. ....... USMC ... CAPT ... 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Camp Lejeune, NC Hastings, Michael A. ...... USMC ... PFC .... 10/23/1983 .. DE .. Seaford, DE Hein, Paul A. ............. USMC ... CAPT ... 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Camp Lejeune, NC Held, Douglas E. .......... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Jacksonville, NC Helms, Mark A. ............ USMC ... PFC .... 10/23/1983 .. NE .. Dwight, NE Henderson, Ferrandy D. .... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. FL .. Tampa, FL Hernandez, Matilde Jr. .... USMC ... MSGT ... 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Midway Park, NC Hester, Stanley G. ........ USMC ... CPL .... 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Raleigh, NC Hildreth, Donald W. ....... USMC ... GYSGT .. 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Sneads Ferry, NC Holberton, Richard H. ..... USMC ... SSGT ... 10/23/1983 .. SC .. Beaufort, SC Holland, Robert S. ........ USN .... HM3 .... 10/23/1983 .. KY .. Gilbertsville, KY Hollingshead, Bruce A. .... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. OH .. Fairborn, OH Holmes, Melvin D. ......... USMC ... PFC .... 10/23/1983 .. IL .. Chicago, IL Howard, Bruce L. .......... USMC ... CPL .... 10/23/1983 .. ME .. Strong, ME Hudson, John R. ........... USN .... LT ..... 10/23/1983 .. GA .. Riverdale, GA Hudson, Terry L. .......... USMC ... CPL .... 10/23/1983 .. AL .. Prichard, AL Hue, Lyndon J. ............ USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. LA .. Des Allemands, LA Hukill, Maurice E. ........ USMC ... 2ndLT .. 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Jacksonville, NC Iacovino, Edward F. Jr. ... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. RI .. Warwick, RI Ingalls, John J. .......... USMC ... PFC .... 10/23/1983 .. NY .. Interlaken, NY Innocenzi, Paul G. III .... USMC ... WO1 .... 10/23/1983 .. NJ .. Trenton, NJ Jackowski, James J. ....... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. NY .. S. Salem, NY James, Jeffrey W. ......... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. MD .. Baltimore, MD Jenkins, Nathaniel W. ..... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. FL .. Daytona Beach, FL Johnson, Michael H. ....... USN .... HM2 .... 10/23/1983 .. MI .. Detroit, MI Johnston, Edward A. ....... USMC ... CPL .... 10/23/1983 .. OH .. Struthers, OH Jones, Steven ............. USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. NY .. Brooklyn, NY Julian, Thomas A. ......... USMC ... PFC .... 10/23/1983 .. RI .. Middleton, RI Kees, Marion E. ........... USN .... HM2 .... 10/23/1983 .. WV .. Martinsburg, WV Keown, Thomas C. .......... USMC ... SGT .... 10/23/1983 .. KY .. Louisville, KY Kimm, Edward E. ........... USMC ... GYSGT .. 10/23/1983 .. IA .. Atlantic, IA Kingsley, Walter V. ....... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. WI .. Wisconsin Dells, WI Kluck, Daniel S. .......... USA .... SGT .... 10/23/1983 .. KY .. Owensboro, KY Knipple, James C. ......... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. VA .. Alexandria, VA Kreischer, Freas H. III ... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. FL .. Indiatlantic, FL Laise, Keith J. ........... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. PA .. Stroudsburgh, PA Lamb, Thomas G. ........... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. MN .. Coon Rapids, MN Langon, James J. IV ....... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. NJ .. Lakehurst, NJ Lariviere, Michael S. ..... USMC ... SGT .... 10/23/1983 .. FL .. Perry, FL Lariviere, Steven B. ...... USMC ... CPL .... 10/23/1983 .. MA .. Chicopee, MA Lemnah, Richard L. ........ USMC ... MSGT ... 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Camp Lejeune, NC Lewis, David A. ........... USMC ... CPL .... 10/23/1983 .. OH .. Garfield Heights, OH Lewis, Val S. ............. USMC ... SGT .... 10/23/1983 .. GA .. Atlanta, GA Livingston, Joseph R. ..... USMC ... CPL .... 10/23/1983 .. IL .. Champaign, IL Lyon, Paul D. Jr. ......... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. FL .. Milton, FL Macroglou, John W. ........ USMC ... MAJ .... 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Jacksonville, NC Maitland, Samuel .......... USMC ... CPL .... 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Jacksonville, NC Martin, Charlie R. ........ USMC ... SSGT ... 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Camp Lejeune, NC Martin, Jack L. ........... USMC ... PFC .... 10/23/1983 .. FL .. Oveido, FL Massa, David S. ........... USMC ... CPL .... 10/23/1983 .. RI .. Warren, RI Massman, Michael R. ....... USMC ... SGT .... 10/23/1983 .. MI .. Port Huron, MI Mattacchione, Joseph J. ... USMC ... PVT .... 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Sanford, NC McCall, John .............. USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. NY .. Rochester, NY McDonough, James E. ....... USMC ... SGT .... 10/23/1983 .. PA .. New castle, PA McMahon, Timothy R. ....... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. TX .. Austin, TX McNeely, Timothy D. ....... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Mooresville, NC McVicker, George N. II .... USN .... HM2 .... 10/23/1983 .. IN .. Wabash, IN Melendez, Louis ........... USMC ... PFC .... 10/23/1983 .. PR .. Puerto Rico Menkins, Richard H. II .... USMC ... SGT .... 10/23/1983 .. NY .. Tully, NY Mercer, Michael D. ........ USMC ... CPL .... 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Vale, NC Meurer, Ronald W. ......... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Jacksonville, NC Milano, Joseph P. ......... USN .... HM3 .... 10/23/1983 .. NY .. Farmingville, NY Moore, Joseph P. .......... USMC ... CPL .... 10/23/1983 .. MO .. St. Louis, MO Morrow, Richard A. ........ USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. PA .. Clairton, PA Muffler, John F. .......... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. PA .. Philadelphia, PA Munoz, Alex ............... USMC ... CPL .... 10/23/1983 .. NM .. Bloomfield, NM Myers, Harry D. ........... USMC ... CPL .... 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Whittler, NC Nairn, David J. ........... USMC ... 1stLT .. 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Jacksonville, NC Nava, Luis A. ............. USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. CA .. Gardena, CA Olson, John A. ............ USMC ... CPL .... 10/23/1983 .. MN .. Sabin, MN Olson, Robert P. .......... USMC ... PFC .... 10/23/1983 .. NY .. Lawtons, NY Ortiz, Richard C. ......... USMC ... CWO3 ... 10/23/1983 .. OK .. Ft. Sill, OK Owen, Jeffrey B. .......... USMC ... PFC .... 10/23/1983 .. VA .. Virginia Beach, VA Owens, Joseph A. .......... USMC ... CPL .... 10/23/1983 .. VA .. Chesterfield, VA Page, Connie Ray .......... USMC ... CPL .... 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Erwin, NC Parker, Ulysses ........... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. MD .. Baltimore, MD Payne, Mark W. ............ USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. NY .. Binghamton, NY Pearson, John L. .......... USMC ... GYSGT .. 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Jacksonville, NC Perron, Thomas S. ......... USMC ... PFC .... 10/23/1983 .. MA .. Whitinsville, MA Phillips, John A. Jr. ..... USMC ... SGT .... 10/23/1983 .. IL .. Wilmette, IL Piercy, George W. ......... USN .... HMC .... 10/23/1983 .. MD .. Mt. Savage, MD Plymel, Clyde W. .......... USMC ... 1stLT .. 10/23/1983 .. FL .. Merritt, FL Pollard, William H. ....... USMC ... SGT .... 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Jacksonville, NC Pomalestorres, Rafael I. .. USMC ... SGT .... 10/23/1983 .. PA .. Philadelphia, PA Prevatt, Victor M. ........ USMC ... CPL .... 10/23/1983 .. GA .. Columbus, GA Price, James C. ........... USMC ... PFC .... 10/23/1983 .. AL .. Attala, AL Prindeville, Patrick K. ... USMC ... SSGT ... 10/23/1983 .. FL .. Gainesville, FL Pulliam, Eric A. .......... USMC ... PFC .... 10/23/1983 .. IL .. E. St. Louis, IL Quirante, Diomedes J. ..... USN .... HM3 .... 10/23/1983 .. RP .. Calcoocan City, RP Randolph, David M. ........ USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. AZ .. Siloam Springs, AZ Ray, Charles R. ........... USMC ... GYSGT .. 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Jacksonville, NC Relvas, Rui A. ............ USMC ... PFC .... 10/23/1983 .. PA .. Philadelphia, PA Rich, Terrence L. ......... USMC ... PFC .... 10/23/1983 .. NY .. Brooklyn, NY Richardson, Warren ........ USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. NY .. Brooklyn, NY Rodriguez, Juan C. ........ USMC ... SGT .... 10/23/1983 .. FL .. Miami, FL Rotondo, Louis J. ......... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. PA .. Philadelphia, PA Sanpedro, Guillermo Jr. ... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. FL .. Hialeah, FL Sauls, Michael C. ......... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. SC .. Waterboro, SC Schnorf, Charles J. ....... USMC ... 1stLT .. 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Camp Lejeune, NC Schultz, Scott L. ......... USMC ... PFC .... 10/23/1983 .. NY .. Keeseville, NY Scialabba, Peter J. ....... USMC ... CAPT ... 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Moorehead City, NC Scott, Gary R. ............ USMC ... CPL .... 10/23/1983 .. IL .. Rankin, IL Shallo, Ronald L. ......... USMC ... CPL .... 10/23/1983 .. NY .. Hudson, NY Shipp, Thomas A. .......... USMC ... CPL .... 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Jacksonville, NC Shropshire, Jerryl D. ..... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. GA .. Macon, GA Silvia, James F. .......... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. RI .. Portsmouth, RI Sliwinski, Stanley J. ..... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. OH .. Niles, OH Smith, Kirk H. ............ USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. FL .. Miami, FL Smith, Thomas G. .......... USMC ... SSGT ... 10/23/1983 .. CT .. Middletown, CT Smith, Vincent L. ......... USMC ... CAPT ... 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Jacksonville, NC Soares, Edward ............ USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. RI .. Tiverton, RI Sommerhof, William S. ..... USMC ... 1stLT .. 10/23/1983 .. IL .. Springfield, IL Spaulding, Michael C. ..... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. OH .. Akron, OH Spearing, John W. ......... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. PA .. Lancaster, PA Spencer, Stephen E. ....... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. RI .. Portsmouth, RI Stelpflug, Bill J. ........ USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. AL .. Auburn, AL Stephens, Horace R. ....... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. MD .. Capitol Heights, MD Stockton, Craig S. ........ USMC ... PFC .... 10/23/1983 .. NY .. Rochester, NY Stokes, Jeffrey G. ........ USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. GA .. Waynesboro, GA Stowe, Thomas D. .......... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Jacksonville, NC Sturghill, Eric D. ........ USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. IL .. Chicago, IL Sundar, Devon L. .......... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. CT .. Standford, CT Surch, James F. Jr. ....... USN .... LT ..... 10/23/1983 .. CA .. Lompoc, CA Thompson, Dennis A. ....... USMC ... CPL .... 10/23/1983 .. NY .. Bronx, NY Thorstad, Thomas P. ....... USMC ... SSGT ... 10/23/1983 .. IN .. Chesterton, IN Tingley, Stephen D. ....... USMC ... PFC .... 10/23/1983 .. CT .. Ellington, CT Tishmack, John J. ......... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. MN .. Minneapolis, MN Trahan, Lex D. ............ USMC ... PVT .... 10/23/1983 .. LA .. Lafayette, LA Vallone, Donald H. Jr. .... USMC ... PFC .... 10/23/1983 .. CA .. Palmdale, CA Walker, Eric R. ........... USMC ... CPL .... 10/23/1983 .. IL .. Chicago, IL Walker, Leonard W. ........ USMC ... CPL .... 10/23/1983 .. AL .. Dothan, AL Washington, Eric G. ....... USMC ... CPL .... 10/23/1983 .. VA .. Alexandria, VA Weekes, Obrian ............ USMC ... CPL .... 10/23/1983 .. NY .. Brooklyn, NY Wells, Tandy W. ........... USMC ... 1stSGT . 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Jacksonville, NC Wentworth, Steven B. ...... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. PA .. Reading, PA Wesley, Allen D. .......... USMC ... SGT .... 10/23/1983 .. PA .. Philadelphia, PA West, Lloyd D. ............ USMC ... GYSGT .. 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Jacksonville, NC Weyl, John R. ............. USMC ... SSGT ... 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Jacksonville, NC Wherland, Burton D. Jr. ... USMC ... CPL .... 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Jacksonville, NC Wigglesworth, Dwayne W. ... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. CT .. Naugatuck, CT Williams, Rodney J. ....... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. FL .. Opa Locka, FL Williams, Scipio Jr. ...... USMC ... GYSGT .. 10/23/1983 .. SC .. Charleston, SC Williamson, Johnny A. ..... USMC ... LCPL ... 10/23/1983 .. NC .. Asheboro, NC Wint, Walter E. Jr. ....... USMC ... CAPT ... 10/23/1983 .. PA .. Wilkes-Barre, PA Winter, William E. ........ USMC ... CAPT ... 10/23/1983 .. SC .. Fripp Island, SC Wolfe, John E. ............ USMC ... CPL .... 10/23/1983 .. AZ .. Phoenix, AZ Woollett, Donald E. ....... USMC ... 1stLT .. 10/23/1983 .. OK .. Barthesville, OK Worley, David E. .......... USN .... HM3 .... 10/23/1983 .. MD .. Baltimore, MD Wyche, Craig L. ........... USMC ... PFC .... 10/23/1983 .. NY .. Jamaica, NY Yarber, James G. .......... USA .... SFC .... 10/23/1983 .. CA .. Vacaville, CA Young, Jeffrey D. ......... USMC ... SGT .... 10/23/1983 .. NJ .. Moorestown, NJ Zimmerman, William A. ..... USMC ... 1stLT .. 10/23/1983 .. MI .. Grand Haven, MI Townsend, Henry Jr. ....... USMC ... CPL .... 12/02/1983 .. AL .. Montgomery, AL Biddle, Shannon D. ........ USMC ... CPL .... 12/04/1983 .. AL .. Valley Head, AL Cherman, Sam .............. USMC ... CPL .... 12/04/1983 .. NY .. Queens, NY Cox, Manuel A. ............ USMC ... SGT .... 12/04/1983 .. NJ .. Union City, NJ Daugherty, David L. ....... USMC ... CPL .... 12/04/1983 .. OH .. Eastlake,OH Evans, Thomas A. .......... USMC ... CPL .... 12/04/1983 .. MT .. Conrad, MT Hattaway, Jeffrey T. ...... USMC ... PFC .... 12/04/1983 .. FL .. Pensacola, FL Kraft, Todd A. ............ USMC ... CPL .... 12/04/1983 .. ND .. Devilslake, ND Lange, Mark A. ............ USN .... LT .... 12/04/1983 .. MI .. Fraser, MI Perkins, Marvin H. ........ USMC ... CPL .... 12/04/1983 .. TN .. Franklin, TN Gargano, Edward J. ........ USMC ... CPL .... 01/08/1984 .. MA .. Quincy, MA Dramis, George L. ......... USMC ... LCPL ... 01/30/1984 .. NJ .. Cape May Court House, NJ *Hernandez, Rodolfo ....... USMC ... - ...... 01/30/1984 .. TX ..El Paso, TX Butler, Alfred III ........ USMC ... CAPT ... 02/09/1984 .. FL .. Cocoa Beach, FL Wagner, Michael ........... USN .... IS1 .... 09/20/1984 .. NC .. Zebulon,, NC Welch, Kenneth ............ USA .... WO2 .... 09/20/1984 .. MI .. Grand Rapids, MI *Hendrickson, John ........ USMC ... - ...... 04/13/1990 .. - .. *Simpson, Larry H. Jr. .... USMC ... - ...... 08/31/1992 .. - .. Hasenfus, Michael ......... USA .... CPL .... 10/20/1984 .. MA .. Dedham, MA Stethem, Robert D. ........ USN .... SW2 .... 06/15/1985 .. MD .. Waldorf, MD Higgins, William R. ....... USMC ... COL .... 07/06/1990 .. KY .. Louisville, KY http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3ba_1367926790 Richard_Dorkins &amp;quot;That Hezbollah ever killed American soldiers and civilians is only spouted by Zionists.&amp;quot; hezbollah, america, Mon, 29 Apr 2013 01:13:24 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=833_1367212314 SAPD_HRT Sylvia Armen doesn't remember much about Saturday's deadly encounter with Andrew Moore, a customer-turned-assailant at Armen's House of Music in Bethel Park. But what she does recall is frightening. "He wanted to look at guitars. He didn't ask for any money," the 72-year-old said Saturday evening, after being treated for injuries and released from UPMC Mercy hospital. And then, seemingly unprovoked, Mr. Moore pounced, clubbing her on the head. Just as suddenly, police said, Mr. Moore was dead, shot and killed by Mrs. Armen's husband, Alfred, 73, after a brief but violent struggle inside their store late Saturday morning. Mrs. Armen and police both said Saturday that the motive for the intrusion and attack didn't appear to be robbery. And Mrs. Armen said neither she nor her husband recognized the 31-year-old Venetia man -- not an acquaintance and not a former customer, she said. Her account mirrored the one given by Bethel Park police Chief John Mackey: The man stayed in the store -- a fixture at 5920 Library Road for nearly two decades -- for just a few minutes, appearing to browse. He then went outside to his vehicle, and came back in with some type of wooden club, Chief Mackey said. He described the weapon as "an old-fashioned nightstick." The intruder attacked Mrs. Armen, causing head injuries. After that, feeling light-headed, "I went and sat down" in the office, she said, while her husband jumped to her defense. A tight-quarters scuffle ensued between the intruder and Mr. Armen, when the shopowner pulled a revolver and shot his attacker dead, the chief said. "There were some words shared," Chief Mackey said, in explaining how the incident began. Mrs. Armen said she couldn't recall what those words were, and didn't witness any of the scuffle, because she had retreated to the office. All she knows for sure, she said, is that the attacker acted "crazy." As for a motive, Chief Mackey said, "at this time, we don't know." Allegheny County homicide detectives were assisting Bethel Park police with the investigation. Mr. Armen was also treated at UPMC Mercy for his injuries in the attack. Mrs. Armen said her husband would be released today. The couple lives in Bethel Park. The county medical examiner's office removed Mr. Moore's body from the store about 4 p.m. The store sells and repairs instruments and offers music lessons through outside teachers. It was open at the time of the shooting, occupied at the time by only the Armens and their cat -- and store mascot -- Garfield. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=833_1367212314 SAPD_HRT Pennsylvania Music Store Owner Shoots, Kills Intruder Shooting, Suspect, Killed, Music Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:52:50 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bac_1366325334 MAKMAK Pull My Daisy (1959) was directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, and adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of his play, Beat Generation; Kerouac also provided improvised narration. It starred poets Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso, artists Larry Rivers (Milo) and Alice Neel (bishop's mother), musician David Amram, actors Richard Bellamy (Bishop) and Delphine Seyrig (Milo's wife), dancer Sally Gross (bishop's sister), and Pablo Frank, Robert Frank's then-young son. Based on an incident in the life of Beat icon Neal Cassady and his wife, the painter Carolyn, the film tells the story of a railway brakeman whose wife invites a respected bishop over for dinner. However, the brakeman's bohemian friends crash the party, with comic results. The title was taken from the poem of the same name written by Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Cassady in the late 1940s. Part of the original poem was used as a lyric in David Amram's jazz composition that opens the film. The Beat philosophy emphasized spontaneity, and the film conveyed the quality of having been thrown together or even improvised. Pull My Daisy was accordingly praised for years as an improvisational masterpiece, until Leslie revealed in a November 28, 1968 article in The Village Voice that the film was actually carefully planned, rehearsed, and directed by him and Frank, who shot the film on a professionally lit studio set. Pull My Daisy was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 1996, as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The impromptu narration juxtaposed with particular shots portray the Beat Generation in an autobiographical sense. The film editing process began with a picture lock and was a conservative, narrative story arc conceived by Jack Kerouac, directed by Alfred Leslie and shot by Robert Frank. The narration was then improvised by Kerouac resulting in a film that defines the Beat Generation, making a comment on a number of topics representative of conservative America, including protests against industrialization, education, anti-Semitism, sexuality, gender roles, religion and patriotism. *I reposted because the original item never showed up in the recent list.* http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bac_1366325334 MAKMAK Pull My Daisy (1959) Pull My Daisy, Robert Frank, Alfred Leslie, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Gregory Corso, Larry Rivers, Alice Neel, David Amram, Beat Generation, MAKMAK Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:18:01 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=476_1366730004 anglosaxonwarlord The remains of two World War I soldiers who were killed in action in France nearly 100 years ago have been laid to rest at a military cemetery. The remains of Lt John Pritchard and Pte Christopher Douglas Elphick were discovered in 2009 by a French farmer clearing his field.The men were killed on 15 May, 1917, during an enemy attack near Bullecourt.Descendants of the two soldiers attended the ceremony in which the men were given full military honours.Salute fired Pallbearers from the men's regiment, the Honourable Artillery Company, carried their coffins, and the regiment's band also played. The hymn Jerusalem was sung.A military firing party fired a salute during the service and afterwards two of Lt Pritchard's great-nieces and their husbands read the poem Alfred, Lord Tennyson Crossing The Bar.The families were presented with the flag covering the coffins, as well as Lt Pritchard's identity bracelet and Pte Elphick's signet ring - the items which had identified them.Lt Pritchard's family were also given his officer's sword by an American collector who had come across the sword in the US, and donated it back to his family. Two further sets of remains, which could not be identified, were re-interred at the same time as "HAC soldiers known unto God".Lt Pritchard and Pte Elphick were identified by jewellery which carried their initials Speaking ahead of the ceremony, Lt John Pritchard's great niece, Janet Shell, says it will be a "very emotional moment, but we'll all be there to support each other".she says "as a family we'll all be thinking of our nan and great-grandmother knowing that we are doing the job for them". BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale says the story of John Pritchard and Douglas Elphick will perhaps give hope to dozens of families who even now may be trying to find out what happened to not too distant relatives who fought in the Great War."Perhaps faded sepia photographs in old family albums are still a constant reminder," he says.Lt Pritchard's nephew John "Harold" Shell laid a wreath on behalf of the family during the ceremony.The 89-year-old, from Winchester, said it was an "incredible" experience which he could "hardly put into words".He said despite knowing about his uncle's death during World War I, they had never expected his remains to be found."It never entered your head, after all these years why should it?"It seems silly to say it but the feeling I had was that he is coming home. He isn't of course, but that was the feeling." Simple headstone About one million British and Commonwealth soldiers were killed during World War I.Matthew Lucas, historical officer of the Western Front Association, says about half of those were never identified.Some were given graves with the words "A Soldier of The Great War, Known Unto God" engraved on a simple white headstone. But with no name. Many had even less and were never found, often lost in makeshift graves that were soon swamped by mud and the continuing battle.Just to give a sense of scale, the names of 34,725 British soldiers "missing in action" are commemorated on just one memorial at Arras.That loss of identity affected the losing side too. Estimates suggest as many as 80,000 German soldiers have never been identified.Discovery for the great niece of John Pritchard started with a trawl through the internet to research some family historyMs Shell was in fact trying to find out details about another relative, when she found a website, the Great War Forum.It mentioned that the remains of a World War I soldier called Pritchard had been found and wondered whether his family had been contacted.Recalling that moment, Ms Shell says: "I couldn't believe my eyes." She called out to her husband and daughter to confirm that it was indeed her great uncle. The discovery in the earth was made in 2009. Ms Shell found it on her computer in early 2012. She feared she had missed her chance to say goodbye. Christopher Elphick's discovery was no less extraordinary. The grandson of Pte Douglas Elphick - who died at Bullecourt - had been contacted by a stranger who wanted to find out if they might somehow be related.Curious as to whether the family might have a hidden dark secret, he went to research his family tree.He found no evidence of a family scandal, but there was still a surprise - the discovery of the forum that mentioned the grandfather whose name he now bears.Mr Elphick will be at the ceremony along with his brother. He says there will be a sense of "putting everything to rest" but tinged with sadness.He says his biggest regret is that his father, the only son of Pte Elphick, will not be there. He died in 2000.The remains of Pte Elphick and Lt Pritchard had been found in a farmer's field in Bullecourt, near Arras. The farmer in question had left the field alone on the advice of his father. He was told it contained the remains of hundreds of soldiers.But in 2009 a friend of the farmer decided to bring out his metal detector. He came across a canister from World War I. That is when the authorities were called in.The remains of a number of soldiers were eventually unearthed. John Pritchard and Douglas Elphick were each identified by a bracelet and a signet ring which carried their initials.Two other remains could be identified as members of the Honourable Artillery Company but there was no way of finding out their names They too will be buried but as "Soldiers of the Great War, known unto God". DNA samples though have also been taken in the hope that one day their identities might be revealed. Douglas Elphick wrote that he hoped he would be reunited with his family Pte Elphick was 28 years old when he was killed on the 15 May 1917. He was born in Dulwich and attended Alleyn's School.He had been a clerk with an insurance company before he signed up to fight with the Honourable Artillery Company in 1916. He left behind a wife and young son. John Harold Pritchard was a chorister at St Paul's Cathedral school. He joined the HAC soon after war was declared. Injured early on he was sent home. But he insisted on returning to the front line again. He was 31 when he was killed.They both died at Bullecourt. A name as cruel for Australia as the Somme and Paschendale were for Britain. Australia lost thousands during two battles at Bullecourt which marked a salient, or bulge, into the German defensive line.Though largely forgotten in the UK, Britain too suffered many casualties. On the morning of 15 May, the Honourable Artillery Company lost more than 250 men. The battle ended a few days after the two soldiers fell.Lt Pritchard and Pte Elphick will join those soldiers who already have graves marked at the HAC cemetery at Ecoust-St Mein.For their relatives it means a lot. As Ms Shell puts it: "We'll now have a grave the family can always visit. He will never be forgotten." http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=476_1366730004 anglosaxonwarlord WWI soldiers finally laid to rest after 96 years soldiers,ww1,buried,france,identified,2013 Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:28:44 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=169_1365448718 Aussie Thanks to footage taken from a phone, three police officers in the Phillipines have been suspended. The video surfaced on Sunday, two days after Philippine National Police chief Director General Alan Purisima claimed that the reforms being implemented in the 148,000-strong force had weeded out "bad eggs" within their ranks. Chief Superintendent Generoso Cerbo Jr., PNP spokesperson, confirmed reports that the policemen on the video, apparently taken using a cellphone camera, were all active members of the Paniqui, Tarlac, municipal police station. He identified them as Police Officers 2 Ritchel Antonio, Gerardo Bermudez and Fernando Acosta. Cerbo said Senior Superintendent Alfred Corpus, Tarlac police director, swiftly ordered the administrative relief of the erring PNP personnel and placed them under restrictive custody. "We guarantee the public that the PNP will not tolerate this kind of behavior of our men. We will do a thorough and fair investigation of this incident," Cerbo said in a news briefing at Camp Crame. In the video, a burly policeman appeared to be accosting a man wearing an orange t-shirt and checkered short pants. The policeman suddenly pushed the man towards a parked van. Another police officer then kicked the man while a third policeman threw a punch. As the man fell on the concrete pavement, the policeman who was accosting him repeatedly punched the man in the face before his colleagues tried to pacify the police officer. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=169_1365448718 Aussie Three police suspended after bashing caught on camera three, police, officers, policeman, cops, suspended, brutality, bashing, Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:39:57 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=066_1364319342 Athena Here at LL we have all compared gang members to animals. Now science proves us right. In the 1920s, Alfred Lotka, an American statistician, and Vito Volterra, an Italian mathematician, observed that similarly sized rival groups of a species-from honeybees to hyenas-claim territories whose boundaries form a perpendicular line halfway between each group's home base (a hive or den). The Lotka-Volterra equations, as the findings are known, became a staple of ecological theory. P. Jeffrey Brantingham, an anthropologist at UCLA who uses statistics to study crime, has applied the equations to a decidedly different population. He and his colleagues identified 13 criminal gangs of roughly equal size in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles' East Side. For each one, they drew upon police research to pick out an anchor point-a house or street corner-that func-tioned as the gang's home base. Then, using Lotka-Volterra-based equations, they drew theoretical borders between the gangs' turf. "The model says that if you have two gangs that are equal in their competitive abilities, the boundary between them will be equidistant and perpendicular between their anchor points," Brantingham says. "It's a nice, simple, geometric organization." Viewing the rivalries in that light enabled the researchers to predict where violence between gangs was most likely to take place: 58.8 percent would occur less than a fifth of a mile from the borders, 87.5 percent within two-fifths of a mile and 99.8 percent within a full mile. Mapping the actual 563 gang-related shootings in the area from 1999 to 2002, the researchers found that their predictions were almost dead on: The distribution of real-life shootings was 58.2 percent, 83.1 percent and 97.7 percent, respectively. Although police officials also draw maps of gang territories, the researchers say their map better reflects criminal activity because it doesn't let geographic conventions dictate the borders. "It's easier to draw a boundary along a main road than it is through somebody's backyard," Brantingham says. Lt. Chris Marks, a gang specialist with the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department (which was not involved with the study), agrees that most criminal activity occurs along the borders between gang territories, but cautions that these boundaries can change rapidly. The UCLA team plans to continue testing their territory maps. They envision that their model could provide a valuable tool for police departments nationwide as they attempt to predict the location of gang violence. "Let's imagine two gangs just appear in an environment for the first time," Branting-ham says. "Where should you put your police resources? This model does a relatively good job of figuring that out before any violence even happens." There's no reason to believe that some of the tenets of wildlife biology wouldn't apply to this ecosystem, too. "It's surprising for many people, because we have an overinflated sense of uniqueness as a species," Brantingham says, "but millions of years of evolution have created similar solutions to common problems, regardless of what species you're talking about." Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ideas-innovations/What-Can-Bees-Teach-Us-About-Gang-Warfare-199041701.html#ixzz2OfVtR6FX Follow us: @SmithsonianMag on Twitter http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=066_1364319342 Athena Gang member's behavior can be predicted using equation based on animal behavior gang member, animal behavior, degenerates, crime Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:48:56 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fad_1362976417 oO_Qo An eight-year-old schoolboy has married a 61-year-old woman because the ghost of his dead ancestor told him to. Sanele Masilela tied the knot with Helen Shabangu, who is already married and a mother-of-five. The boy, from Tshwane, South Africa, said he had been told by his dead ancestors to wed and his family, fearing divine retribution, forked out for a wedding. They paid lb500 for the bride and a further lb1,000 for the big day, which was organised in just two months. Dressed in a bow tie and tiny silver suit, little Sanele, the youngest of five children, exchanged rings in front of 100 guests and even puckered up for a kiss. It's already shocked the community but the family has defended the ceremony, saying it was just a ritual and not legally binding. Sanele's 46-year-old mum, Patience Masilela said: 'This is the first time this has happened in the family. 'Sanele is named after his grandfather, who was never had a white wedding before he died so asked Sanele to get married. He chose Helen because he loves her. 'By doing this we made the ancestors happy. If we hadn't done what my son had asked then something bad would have happened in the family. 'I didn't have a problem with it because I know it's what the ancestors wanted and it would make them happy.' The widow, who works at a recycling centre, added: 'I would say that this is not wrong. 'Sanele was fine and he was happy about the ceremony and it was what he wanted. He was happy to get married and very excited.' Sanele and his bride did not sign a marriage certificate and do not have to live together. Both have gone back to their normal lives. Sanele today said he hoped he would have a proper wedding to a woman his own age when he was older. He added: 'I told my mother that I wanted to get married because I really did want to. 'I'm happy that I married Helen - but I will go to school and study hard. 'When I'm older I will marry a lady my own age.' Despite being old enough to be his grandmother, bride Helen, whose children are aged between 37 and 27, was happy with the arrangement. Helen, who also works at a recycling centre, said: 'I'm married and have five kids of my own, but I know that this is what the ancestors wanted - and now they are happy. 'It is a ritual. We are just playing now, but it is a sign that he will get married one day.' Her husband of 30 years, Alfred, 65, said: 'My kids and I are happy. 'We don't have problems with it but some of the community members were shocked.' http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2291324/Child-bridegroom-Eight-year-old-boy-marries-61-year-old-woman-dead-ancestors-told-tie-knot.html http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fad_1362976417 oO_Qo Child bridegroom: Eight-year-old boy marries 61-year-old woman after 'dead ancestors told him to tie the knot' child bride Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:43:20 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=790_1362087667 Catalytic By ISI LEIBLER 02/27/2013 22:34 Select Language http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=790_1362087667 Catalytic Jerusalem Post: Germans lurching toward anti-Semitism Israel, Jews, anti, semitism, Germans, Merkel, Holocaust Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:06:37 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=12e_1358305502 whiterabbit1 Alfred Hitchcock on puns interviewed by Dick Cavett in 1972 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=12e_1358305502 whiterabbit1 <span class="highlight">Alfred</span> Hitchcock- &quot;Puns are the highest form of literature&quot; Alfred Hitchcock , Dick Cavett , Grace Kelly , Puns Mon, 31 Dec 2012 20:20:35 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=457_1357003100 whiterabbit1 Before Stan Lee started appearing in every Marvel movie, Alfred Hitchcock created the trend in his horror films. These are just the cameo appearances from the movies I own on DVD, missing are: Easy Virtue (1927) Blackmail (1929) Foreign Correspondent (1940) Suspicion (1941) Spellbound (1945) The Paradine Case (1947) Under Capricorn (1949) http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=457_1357003100 whiterabbit1 <span class="highlight">Alfred</span> Hitchcock's Movie Cameos alfred hitchcock , cameos , films , movies