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Doug Nintzel, a spokesman for the Arizona Department of Transportation, said nine of 11 unsecured concrete girders tumbled down, some landing in the Central Arizona Project canal.
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I recently saw Rush Hour 3 and noted three peculiarities. These may simply be political statements. Without spoiling the film for those who haven't seen it, i'll be as vague as possible.
About 10 minutes into the movie, detective James Carter (Chris Tucker) is interrogating a suspected member of the Triad criminal gang. He holds a gun to the suspect's temple (after some comedic language translations). For about two seconds you can see that the serial/model number for the gun ends in '911'. I am certainly no expert on handguns, but this seemed odd.
About half-way through, a French taxi driver laments to Carter and Inspector Lee (Jackie Chan) that he "will never get to experience what it is like to be an American ... to kill someone for no reason at all."
Later Lee's evil 'brother' Kenji (Hiroyuki Sanada), starts a fight with him. He proclaims that he will kill Lee "by Ling chi ... death by a thousand cuts ... careful to avoid any major arteries so that he will die a slow, painful death." Shortly thereafter the ludicrous nature of that dramatic dialog is revealed.
...
Quoting: CyberRBT
Also, Rush Hour 3 began filming on July 4, 2006 (American Independence Day). And, it was released on August 10 (between the 9th and the 11th). [link to en.wikipedia.org]
2007-08-12
9th body pulled from Mississippi 11 days after the I-35w bridge collapse.
* The frame in the Zapruder Film in which John F. Kennedy's head is fatally shot.
* The area code for Detroit, Michigan, hence the number is used by the area's rappers as a shorthand.
* 313 is the license plate number of Donald Duck's car.
* The Empire High School baseball team uses 313 to represent their team. The 3 stands for an E, for Empire, and the 13 stands for a B, for baseball.
* The board number of the infamous GameFAQs UK regional board
Major 'bump' rips mine, stalls efforts to reach trapped miners
By Ben Winslow and Pat Reavy
Deseret Morning News
Published: Aug. 17, 2007 12:19 a.m. MDT
HUNTINGTON — Three rescuers were killed and six others injured when a major mountain "bump" hit inside the Crandall Canyon Mine, stalling an already frantic effort to reach six trapped miners.
The three men killed were Crandall Canyon miners trying to reach six of their co-workers now trapped for 12 consecutive days about 2,000 feet below ground.
"It is a devastating blow to what has already been a tragic situation," Price Mayor Joe Piccolo said.
Two of the injured were personnel of the Mine Safety and Health Administration, assisting in the rescue effort.
"Everything from some chest injuries to cuts and scrapes," said MSHA spokesman Rich Kulczewski. Authorities immediately suspended the underground rescue operations, which by Thursday had advanced a little more than 800 of the 2000 feet that are needed to go.
At 6:35 p.m. Thursday, an underground "bump" — seismic activity — hit inside the mine.
"It was very similar to the other bumps that we've had," Kulczewski said.
About 7 p.m., an ambulance raced up the canyon toward the mine. Four other ambulances arrived a short time later. They were followed by federal authorities, mine officials and police officers, who sped up the road toward the mine, looking grim-faced.
The rescue efforts inside the Crandall Canyon Mine have been dangerous and difficult. Pressure-shifting "bumps" inside the mine have created problems for rescuers trying to drill through debris to reach the chamber where the six men are believed trapped.
On Thursday morning, a shake partially buried a continuous mining machine, delaying the underground efforts. The University of Utah's seismograph stations reported a pair of seismic events early Thursday near the Crandall Canyon Mine. One was recorded at 12:40 a.m., registering 1.3 on the Richter scale. Another at 10:40 a.m. registered 1.5 in magnitude.
Mine owner Bob Murray has said the seismic activity has made the underground rescue efforts "disappointingly slow."
"The mountain is still alive, and the mountain is not allowing us to advance as rapidly as we would like to," he told reporters earlier Thursday.
The San Clemente church in the main plaza of the gritty fishing port of Pisco was perhaps the single deadliest spot in the magnitude-8 earthquake, which devastated cities and hamlets of adobe and brick across Peru's southern desert.
Hundreds had gathered in the pews of the San Clemente church Wednesday — the day Roman Catholics celebrate the Virgin Mary's rise into heaven — for a special mass marking one month since the death of a Pisco man.
The church ceiling began to break apart as the shaking began and lasted for an agonizing two minutes, burying 200 people, according to the town's mayor. On Thursday, only two stone columns and the church's dome rose from a giant pile of stone, bricks, wood and dust.
Pope Saint Clement I, the bishop of Rome from roughly 88 to 98. He is also called Clement of Rome and Clemens Romanus, is considered to be the fourth pope, after Anacletus, according to Catholic tradition. However, many sources also cite him as the second pope and successor to Peter, as the order of the popes is highly disputed. He is also considered one of the Apostolic Fathers.
He is commemorated on November 23 in the Roman Catholic Church
The Roman Church claimed that Clement was ordained by St. Peter
[link to en.wikipedia.org]
San Clemente is a city in Orange County, California, United States. As of 2005, the city population was 65,338. San Clemente is the southernmost city in the county, six miles south of San Juan Capistrano. Its location makes it the only city in Orange County closer to San Diego than to Los Angeles.
The north entrance to Camp Pendleton U.S. Marine Corps Base is in San Clemente.
Chainsaw explosion sets man afire, sparks blaze
By GENE ZALESKI
Friday, August 17, 2007
The owner of the Charleston Highway Citgo Express Lane was working with a chainsaw Wednesday afternoon when the machine caught fire, causing severe burns on his body and sparking a blaze that consumed an adjacent warehouse, according to officials.
Chad Funchess was reportedly attempting to start up the chainsaw to cut down a hanging limb near the former Memories T-shirt design shop, located at Broughton Street and Charleston Highway, when the machine malfunctioned.
The chainsaw quickly sparked a fire that engulfed the main warehouse and what appeared to be a shed attached to the building. The warehouse reportedly serves as a storage site for the service station and contained lubricating oils and canned goods.
Funchess, who may also have suffered smoke inhalation, was flown to the Augusta Burn Center. His exact status Wednesday evening was unknown.
Funchess is a volunteer firefighter for the West Middle Fire Department and his father, David, serves on the Orangeburg County Fire Commission.
A volunteer firefighter from the Four Holes Fire Department who helped battle the blaze was transported to the Regional Medical Center for heat exhaustion. He was treated and released shortly afterward.
Orangeburg Department of Public Safety Capt. Mike Adams said, “The information we received was he was working on a chainsaw and the chainsaw blew up. That set him on fire and then the building on fire.”
Prince of Orange is a title of nobility, originally associated with the Principality of Orange, now in southern France.
It is carried by members of the House of Orange-Nassau, as heirs to the crown of the Netherlands, and is also seen carried by the pretenders by members of the House of Hohenzollern. It is currently carried by
Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands (Orange-Nassau)
and the pretender
Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia (Hohenzollern).
We all have heard of the Patriot Acts I and II, but did you know ...
2003-11-21 General Franks Doubts Constitution Will Survive WMD Attack
General Tommy Franks says that if the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.
[link to www.newsmax.com]
[link to en.wikipedia.org]
2005-02-14 U.S. Army is Authorized to Create Civilian Prison Labor Camps on Military Installations
The camps are allowed if the request comes from the Federal Bureau of Prisons or state corrections facilities under leasing requirements defined by federal law. The Army prison camp policy is defined in Army Regulation 210-35, entitled "Installations: Civilian Inmate Labor Camps," signed Feb. 14, 2005, by Sandra R. Riley, then-administrative assistant to the secretary of the Army.
[link to www.army.mil]
[link to www.worldnetdaily.com]
2006-05-24 FEMA Plan To Use Pastors as Pacifiers in Preparation For Martial Law
The federal government is recruiting clergy to aid the authorities in "quelling dissent," in the event of martial law. (update on 2007-08-16)
[link to www.americanchronicle.com]
[link to www.ed.gov]
You can download an actual 33-page document near the bottom of this page:
[link to www.prisonplanet.com]
2006-09-06 Insurrection Act Amendments
Under this act, the President may deploy armed forces within the United States as a police force during a natural disaster, epidemic, serious public health emergency, terrorist attack, or other condition, when the President determines that the authorities of the state are incapable of maintaining public order.
[link to en.wikipedia.org]
2006-10-17 John Warner Defense Authorization Act
This act officially allows the President to override all state and local authority and station troops anywhere in America as well as relinquishes the National Guard of control without the consent of the Governor or local authorities in order to "suppress public disorder". The law also facilitates militarized police round-ups and detention of protesters, so called "illegal aliens," "potential terrorists" and other "undesirables" for detention in facilities currently under construction by Halliburton.
[link to www.govtrack.us]
[link to en.wikipedia.org]
[link to www.bellaonline.com]
2007-05-09 NSPD-51 (National Security Presidential Directive 51)
When the President declares a "Catastrophic Emergency", the executive office will usurp the power of the legislative and judicial brances (Congress and the Supreme Court) in order to provide a continuity of government (COG) and thereby protect the constitution and ensure our freedoms. When the President determines a catastrophic emergency has occurred, he can take over all federal, state, and local government functions and direct all private sector activities.
[link to www.whitehouse.gov]
[link to worldnetdaily.com]
2007-08-03 Bush Orders Congress to Stay in Session To Pass Spy Bill
The president, who has the power under the Constitution to keep Congress in session, said lawmakers 'cannot leave for their August recess this weekend as planned unless they pass a bill that will give our intelligence community the tools they need to protect the United States'.
[link to rawstory.com]
[link to seattletimes.nwsource.com]
2007-08-05 Congress yields to pass Bush spying bill
The Congress yielded to President Bush on Saturday and approved legislation to temporarily expand (six months) the government's power to conduct electronic surveillance without a court order.
[link to today.reuters.com]
[link to news.zdnet.com]
2007-08-16 Federal ID Plan Raises Privacy Concerns
Americans may need passports to board domestic flights or to picnic in a national park next year if they live in one of the states defying the federal Real ID Act.
[link to edition.cnn.com]
Manhole explosion, gas leak shakes up Greenburgh block
By NICOLE NEROULIAS
THE JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: August 17, 2007)
GREENBURGH - Eiler Lane residents were assured of their homes' safety after a sewer manhole explosion leaked carbon monoxide gas onto their block yesterday in the East Irvington section of town.
The Irvington Fire Department recorded an elevated level of carbon monoxide around the uncovered manhole after the 7:30 a.m. explosion, but levels were close to normal by 9 a.m., Fire Chief Ken Mastropietro said.
The Westchester County Board of Health checked the area before Greenburgh police reopened the street between Taxter Road and Shaw Lane shortly after 10 a.m.
The cause of the explosion was a natural gas leak, Greenburgh Police Chief John Kapica said.
Con Edison responded to the incident, but officials quickly determined that the gas was leaking from the sewage system, not the utility company's equipment.
"It's not gas or electric related," said Dan Lyons, a Con Edison spokesman. "The (carbon monoxide) reading is coming from the manhole. It smells like gas, but it's sewer gas."
Residents said they heard three explosions between 7:20 and 7:30 a.m., with the final one blowing off the manhole cover.
Rob Triestman, 37, who lives at 67 Eiler Lane, said residents came out of their homes after the second explosion and called police when they saw the slightly dislodged manhole.
"We saw a spark, and then it flew up 15 feet into the air," he said. "We ran."
He remained outside when the fire department arrived, comforting his trembling bulldog, Oliver.
Across the street at 50 Eiler Lane, three children excitedly recounted their eventful morning as they kept an eye on the flashing emergency vehicles.
"When we woke up, we thought it was thunder," said Samantha Nadasi, 8. "We came out when we felt the big rumble."
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The tropical weather season revved up Thursday as the Atlantic's first hurricane formed and quickly strengthened, and as Tropical Storm Erin's remnants soaked rain-weary Texas, snarling rush-hour traffic and killing at least two people.
Even as they fetched dozens of stranded drivers, authorities in Houston and San Antonio looked over their shoulders at Hurricane Dean, a Category 2 storm building in the Atlantic as it neared islands in the eastern Caribbean. Hurricane warnings were issued for some islands, and a tropical storm warning was issued for the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
The thunderstorms from Erin brought 7 inches of rain to parts of San Antonio and Houston, where one person died and another was injured when the waterlogged roof of a storage unit outside a grocery store collapsed, Fire Chief Omero Longoria said. The National Hurricane Center said 10 inches of rain was possible in some areas.
In San Antonio, a man was swept away after apparently getting out of his vehicle in floodwater, a police spokeswoman said. Three people died in a head-on collision on a rainy highway in Comal County, but Department of Public Safety Trooper Rick Alvarez said the cause of the crash was still under investigation.
Houston-based Transocean Inc., which operates the largest deepwater drilling rig fleet in U.S. waters in the Gulf of Mexico, said Thursday it had evacuated 11 non-essential workers late Wednesday as a precaution. About 125 people remain on board the moored, semisubmersible rig about 160 miles southeast of New Orleans.
Hurricane specialists expect this year's Atlantic hurricane season — June 1 to Nov. 30 — to be busier than average, with as many as 16 tropical storms, nine of them strengthening into hurricanes. Ten tropical storms developed in the Atlantic last year, but only two made landfall in the United States.
Prince of Orange is a title of nobility, originally associated with the Principality of Orange, now in southern France.
It is carried by members of the House of Orange-Nassau, as heirs to the crown of the Netherlands, and is also seen carried by the pretenders by members of the House of Hohenzollern. It is currently carried by
Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands (Orange-Nassau)
and the pretender
Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia (Hohenzollern).
Two parts make up the central area of Kingston: the historic but troubled Downtown, and New Kingston.
Other attractions include the nearby Hellshire and Lime Cay beaches, the National Gallery of Jamaica, the ruins of Port Royal, and Devon House, a mansion with adjoining park that once belonged to Jamaica's first black millionaire.
Grand Cayman is the largest of the three Cayman Islands at about 196 km² and contains the capital George Town.
The island is a high-lying reef of "ironshore" (limestone fringes with numerous marine fossils), with a highest elevation of roughly 24 meters above sea level. There is no natural fresh water (lakes, rivers, etc) on the island, so any fresh water needs must be met by catchments or desalination of seawater. The lack of rivers does however account for the exceptional clarity of the sea.
Anonymous Coward User ID: 239052 Canada 8/17/2007 1:53 PM
BLACKsburg, Va. (VA Tech massacre)
GREENsburg, KS. (Tornado wiped out whole town)
ORANGEburg, SC. (chainsaw explosion)
Houston deluge..NASA
Mineola, L.I. gas station explosion - Nassau County, NY
Quoting: 24K 283988
Surely the repetition of information contained in all these place names we've tracked must be beyond simple coincidence.
What might it mean? or what sort of strange planetary alchemy is at work?
24K User ID: 284077 United States 8/17/2007 2:10 PM
BLACKsburg, Va. (VA Tech massacre)
GREENsburg, KS. (Tornado wiped out whole town)
ORANGEburg, SC. (chainsaw explosion)
Houston deluge..NASA
Mineola, L.I. gas station explosion - Nassau County, NY
Surely the repetition of information contained in all these place names we've tracked must be beyond simple coincidence.
What might it mean? or what sort of strange planetary alchemy is at work?
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 239052
Remember that right after Va. Tech, that Queen Elizabeth went to Virginia for a visit, then one of her stops was to visit NASA..
I'm afraid for anything that has a 2,4 (24) and 9/11 in it...
There are no coincidences.
Too much happening all at once.
What is black, green and orange? A flag? Whose?
The recent finding of the curious red 'star' with tail by Nasa (many recent references to Nassau)..
Still thinking.
Anonymous Coward User ID: 284145 United States 8/17/2007 5:07 PM
BLACKsburg, Va. (VA Tech massacre)
GREENsburg, KS. (Tornado wiped out whole town)
ORANGEburg, SC. (chainsaw explosion)
Houston deluge..NASA
Mineola, L.I. gas station explosion - Nassau County, NY
Surely the repetition of information contained in all these place names we've tracked must be beyond simple coincidence.
What might it mean? or what sort of strange planetary alchemy is at work?
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 239052
4 Shadows reveal a truth
Anonymous Coward User ID: 270409 United States 8/17/2007 5:07 PM
Remember that right after Va. Tech, that Queen Elizabeth went to Virginia for a visit, then one of her stops was to visit NASA..
Quoting: 24K 284077
I was visiting a friend in Alexandria, VA...
... I took the Washington/Baltimore Parkway... probably used that road 30+ times over the last 10 years... and never noticed the last three exits before I-95 -- they are:
NSA
Ft. Meade
NASA
Wow -- even my wife noticed this.
All evil within an exit of each other.
24K User ID: 284249 United States 8/17/2007 8:22 PM
BLACKsburg, Va. (VA Tech massacre)
GREENsburg, KS. (Tornado wiped out whole town)
ORANGEburg, SC. (chainsaw explosion)
Houston deluge..NASA
Mineola, L.I. gas station explosion - Nassau County, NY
Surely the repetition of information contained in all these place names we've tracked must be beyond simple coincidence.
What might it mean? or what sort of strange planetary alchemy is at work?
Remember that right after Va. Tech, that Queen Elizabeth went to Virginia for a visit, then one of her stops was to visit NASA..
I'm afraid for anything that has a 2,4 (24) and 9/11 in it...
There are no coincidences.
Too much happening all at once.
What is black, green and orange? A flag? Whose?
Quoting: 24K 284077
A stretch, but I found this after a lot of looking...
The official flag of the Cherokee Nation was raised for the first time on September 30, 1979. The seal is surrounded by seven stars, each with a point in line with the seven points of the center star. The seven stars and the seven points of each star symbolize the 7 clans of the Cherokees. The orange flag is bordered by a black and green rope along the outer edge.
-and-
Cherokee Historical Firsts
* 1828 The Cherokee Phoenix was the first newspaper and the only bilingual newspaper.
I'm not sure about the flag color idea. Something about that doesn't quite feel right.
I have a feeling that using a visual aid, like the plotting of points, (like we did at the beginning of this Journey) on a globe or world map might yield some informative results.
24K User ID: 284249 United States 8/17/2007 8:56 PM
Albert Pike was Confederate Commissioner to the Indian Nations.
"Albert Pike, a Freemason and friend of John Ross, was appointed Confederate Commissioner to the Indian Nations in May 15, 1861. [58] On May 17, 1861 Chief John Ross declared the.."
"One of the purposes of my dissertation is to ascertain an understanding of the origin and the role of these "Blue Lodges." The term "Blue Lodge" is used by Freemasons to denote the first three degrees of Freemasonry. Freemasonic records detail the strength and growth of the lodges among the Five Nations. It is also important to note that Albert Pike, Confederate Liaison to the Five Civilized Tribes during the Civil War is an important figure in Masonic history."
"Albert Pike is one of the most interesting figures in this entire story. Fluent in the classical languages including Sanskrit, he was also a gifted linguist in Native American languages. After being discredited following his stint as Commissioner, he retired to become a leading scholar on Freemasonry and the occult."
I'm not sure about the flag color idea. Something about that doesn't quite feel right.
I have a feeling that using a visual aid, like the plotting of points, (like we did at the beginning of this Journey) on a globe or world map might yield some informative results.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 239052
I admit I'm grasping at straws with the flag thing. But, before I looked into this, I had no idea that some of the Indian tribes were involved with Albert Pike!! I never knew of that connection.
As far as plotting points, there are so many of them by now. Although I will say I have been especially struck *lately* by the 'combination' of the 2,4's with 9/11's in the articles.
In that regard, we have NYC, Minneapolis, Utah (mine) and Houston. Looks like another "diamond"....
Anonymous Coward User ID: 239052 Canada 8/17/2007 9:16 PM
* The frame in the Zapruder Film in which John F. Kennedy's head is fatally shot.
* The area code for Detroit, Michigan, hence the number is used by the area's rappers as a shorthand.
* 313 is the license plate number of Donald Duck's car.
* The Empire High School baseball team uses 313 to represent their team. The 3 stands for an E, for Empire, and the 13 stands for a B, for baseball.
* The board number of the infamous GameFAQs UK regional board
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