ADAM AIR KI-574 AND AIR FRANCE 447 : TWO OF A KIND, "BOJINKA 2"!?

We posted several times on the mysterious ADAM AIR crash in 2007:

WAS THE INDONESIAN JETLINER BLOWN UP BY JIHADOTERRORISTS IN A TEST?

IC-WALES: Indonesian jetliner ‘no distress signals sent'

A plane missing over Indonesia with 102 people on board did not send out distress signals or report mechanical problems before disappearing, a top aviation official said today, as search teams intensified their hunt for the Boeing 737.

SO/SD:

An hour after Adam Air Flight KI-574 took off on New Year's Day with 102 passengers and crew for what should have been a short hop between islands, the pilot reported heavy winds. Then, the plane disappeared, seemingly into thin air.

HERALD (UK):

"We know nothing, whether it disintegrated in midair, flew into a storm or there were technical problems," said Nicholas Ionides, managing editor for Flight International Magazine in Asia.

A top aviation official said the Adam Air plane that left Java island on Monday for Manado on Sulawesi island did not issue distress signals or complain of mechanical problems. The statements contradicted earlier reports and capped days of confusion.

If this was not a equipment malfunction, or weather related, then it MAYBE it was an act of JIHADOTERROR?

AND HERE FOLLOWED UP HERE AND HERE AND HERE.

WIKI HAS THIS:

The final report, released on 25 March 2008, concluded that the pilots lost control of the aircraft after they became preoccupied with troubleshooting the inertial reference system and inadvertently disconnected the autopilot.^[1]

IOW: PILOT ERROR.

BUT MAYBE IT WASN'T. MAYBE IT WAS A BOMB: AL QAEDA HAS LONG WANTED TO BLOW UP JETS OVER THE OCEAN, MANY OF THEM ON ONE DAY - USA TODAY:

Document shows how al-Qaeda tested airports ahead of failed jet bombing plot

Two top al-Qaeda operatives smuggled explosive ingredients onto flights from Manila and Hong Kong in 1994 as part of a test run for a failed plot to blow up 12 U.S.-bound airliners, according to a confidential document obtained by The Associated Press.

Captured terror suspect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's key role in the al-Qaeda plot to simultaneously bomb the commercial planes flying out of Asia — in a 1995 plan called "Project Bojinka" — was one of several admissions that he made, the U.S. Defense Department said.

Defense Department officials released a transcript of Mohammed's confessions, detailing his claims of roles in 31 terror plots worldwide, during a hearing at Guantanamo Bay prison.

LATimes:

Brazilian authorities said military aircraft early today located several more pieces of debris floating in the Atlantic near where an ill-fated Air France flight is believed to have crashed with 228 people aboard.

The debris detected by aircraft radar included a 23-foot section that officials said may be part of Flight 447 that disappeared late Sunday after flying through turbulence and sending out an automatic alert of an electrical failure. ...

.. Matthieu Dumazeau, an Air France pilot who flies a Boeing 747 from Paris to Rio de Janeiro about once a month, also came to pay his respects. He said he has never had a problem flying over the region of the Atlantic where the Flight 447 is believed to have crashed, and was baffled at how such a secure plane could have gone down.

"It is very strange, because there had to be a really long string of events to have caused this, and it went down so fast," Dumazeau said. "That scares me."

There are several reports the last two days about bomb threats received by Air France in brazil the days before this "event":

Air France received bomb threat days before 447 crash

Air France received a bomb threat for a previous flight from South America to Paris just days before Air France flight 447 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean.

Air France flight 447 disappeared over the Atlantic on Monday en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 people on board are presumed to have been killed.

This report comes from ABC News:

Also today, ABC News has confirmed that Air France received a bomb threat over the phone concerning a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Paris days before Air France flight 447 disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean Sunday night.

I am very suspicious. I feel that jihadists may have figured out how to smuggle a "disabling device" on to jets in order to bring them down over the ocean.

UPDATE: A WITNESS SAW A FLASH OF LIGHT.

BLEG: Adam Air Flight 574

DOES ANYBODY ELSE REMEMBER THE ADAM AIR JET WHICH CRASHED OVER THE JAVA SEA FOR NO APPARENT REASON, KILLING ALL 102 ON BOARD?

REPRISE: IC-WALES: Indonesian jetliner ‘no distress signals sent'

A plane missing over Indonesia with 102 people on board did not send out distress signals or report mechanical problems before disappearing, a top aviation official said today, as search teams intensified their hunt for the Boeing 737.

WELL: The flight recorders were retrieved from the ocean on JANUARY 25, 2007.

OR JUST LAST WEEK:

Adam Air black box retrieved by salvage team
Jakarta Post, Indonesia - Aug 28, 2007
A multi-national salvage team has retrieved the black box of the Adam Air airliner that crashed in waters off Sulawesi at the start of the year en route ...

THEN TWO WEEKS AGO THIS:

Adam Air black box legible, team says
Jakarta Post, Indonesia - Sep 11, 2007
JAKARTA: The Adam Air black box recovered from the Majene Sea off West Sulawesi after an aircraft accident this year has been opened and can be read, ...

• WHY THE NEWS BLACKOUT ON WHAT THE BLACK-BOXES CONTAIN?
• DO THEY PROVE IT WAS WEATHER?
• IS IT RELATED TO THE EQUIPMENT - (IT WAS A 737)?
• BAD MAINTENANCE?
• OR A BOMB?

FIVE PREVIOUS POSTS HERE.

THERE WAS AN AL QAEDA ARREST ANNOUNCED IN BRAZIL DAYS JUST BEFORE THE CRASH OF AIR FRANCE 447

Astute Bloggers - May 26th, 2009:

• Al Qaeda member arrested in Brazil
  

Astute Bloggers - June 3, 2009:

• ADAM AIR KI-574 AND AIR FRANCE 447 : TWO OF A KIND, "BOJINKA 2"!?
  

PERHAPS THE AIR FRANCE AND ADAM AIR EVENTS WERE REALLY AL QAEDA PRACTICE-RUNS FOR "BOJINKA 2" - (IN WHICH A DOZEN JETS ARE ATTACKED SIMULTANEOUSLY WHILE OVER THE OCEAN)

More here and here.

UPDATE #2: AS OF 6/4 - AND CONTRARY TO EARLIER REPORTS, NONE OF THE DEBRIS FOUND SO FAR IS FROM THE JET.

UPDATE: AN AIR FRANCE PILOT THINKS IT COULD HAVE BEEN A BOMB

UPDATE #3:

A Spanish newspaper said a transatlantic airline pilot reported seeing a bright flash of white light at the same time the Air France flight disappeared. "Suddenly we saw in the distance a strong, intense flash of white light that took a downward, vertical trajectory and disappeared in six seconds,"

,,,The plane sent no mayday signals before crashing, only automatic messages showing electrical faults and a loss of pressure shortly after it entered a zone of stormy weather.

....Portguese newspaper Estado de Sao Paulo, citing a source close to Air France, published what it said was the final sequence of messages, showing how the plane rapidly lost its key flight functions. It said they began at 0210 GMT showing the automatic pilot had been removed. The same minute there were multiple electricity failures. At 0214 GMT a final message was sent showing the planing was plunging towards the sea. There was no confirmation of this from Air France.

I THINK THIS WAS AN ATTACK...

WAS THE INDONESIAN JETLINER BLOWN UP BY JIHADOTERRORISTS IN A TEST?

IC-WALES: Indonesian jetliner ‘no distress signals sent'

A plane missing over Indonesia with 102 people on board did not send out distress signals or report mechanical problems before disappearing, a top aviation official said today, as search teams intensified their hunt for the Boeing 737.

SO/SD:

An hour after Adam Air Flight KI-574 took off on New Year's Day with 102 passengers and crew for what should have been a short hop between islands, the pilot reported heavy winds. Then, the plane disappeared, seemingly into thin air.

HERALD (UK):

"We know nothing, whether it disintegrated in midair, flew into a storm or there were technical problems," said Nicholas Ionides, managing editor for Flight International Magazine in Asia. A top aviation official said the Adam Air plane that left Java island on Monday for Manado on Sulawesi island did not issue distress signals or complain of mechanical problems. The statements contradicted earlier reports and capped days of confusion.

If this was not a equipment malfunction, or weather related, then it MAYBE it was an act of JIHADOTERROR? But... if it was an act of jihadoterror, why would jihadoterrorists choose to attack a jetliner within Indonesia, and why wouldn't they take "credit"?

Well, maybe it was a TEST? Maybe the jihadoterrorists have developed a new way to smuggle explosives on board, and maybe this was a test? That would explain why they have NOT taken "credit": they don't want to tip off the authorities.

Black Adam movie's screenplay builds on left-wing metaphors

Overrated wrestler-turned-actor Dwayne Johnson's new Black Adam movie, last time I looked, fell to 40 percent on Rotten Tomatoes' approval ratings. But that aside, when I looked at the reviews so far, Vanity Fair had quite an eye-opener for the political metaphors turning up in screenplay, which surely were to be as expected as what turned up in Wonder Woman 1984. First:

Kahndaq, you see, is a stand-in for not-Iraq/not-Afghanistan under longtime occupation by not-America, but a band of villainous swine called Intergang who plunder the nation’s resources and make the people wait at long checkpoints. They also zoom around on sci-fi skiffs that glow blue (just like Eternium!) and really want that crown.

Soon Adrianna summons the trapped hero, Teth-Adam, who is the gargantuan Johnson wearing a superhero suit and a scowl. Bullets and missiles and grenades can’t stop him, and a mere touch of his hand can turn someone into a skeleton. He goes on a wild PG-13-style kill spree, flinging bodies thousands of yards in the air and ripping off limbs, but without any blood, terror, or agony. [...]

Ah, so that's there excuse for the violence: they didn't add any blood spilling out of severed limbs. Sorry, but doesn't make it any more acceptable, and children shouldn't have to be subject to this kind of mayhem any more than what you see in a Mortal Kombat game. Whether the film lacks terror and agony, however, doesn't really matter when disgust and insult could sum up the proceedings much better. According to the UK Independent, the filmmakers had to remove at least 5 scenes to avoid an R-rating, which confirms just how blatant their vision truly is. And as for the hints given in the above regarding the leftist metaphors, here's that part of it from VF:

There’s not really much to stew on with Black Adam once you’ve left the theater, except to be somewhat amazed at how the story comments-but-doesn’t-comment on the actual political situation in the Middle East. An early checkpoint sequence is clearly meant to mirror the struggles of everyday people crossing from the Palestinian Territories into Israel, and Adrianna’s fed-up line about world powers not doing much for the people after a decades-long presence could be about Iraq or Afghanistan or both. And while there is much reverent talk of Khandaq’s indigenous cultural heritage, there are no Muslim signifiers center stage throughout the picture. Indeed, the Hollywood staple of the muezzin call to prayer is nowhere on the soundtrack, probably a first for a movie set in this part of the world, even when it’s a fictional country. One must marvel at how this massive international project goes out of its way to be even remotely apolitical, taking its cue, perhaps, from the famously politically-unaffiliated Dwayne Johnson. It takes a special kind of movie where the most interesting thing is what’s not in there. During its two-hour runtime, you won’t be asked to exert yourself, either with backstory or political reads. Viewers can just sit back in their cushioned seats, silence all brain functions, and enjoy the CG fireworks.

Oh my, why am I not shocked they could resort to these kind of metaphors, building as they do upon anti-Israel propaganda to boot, with Intergang as the stand-ins? And that's something that'll have to be considered by all concerned when it comes to past and present movies based on DC properties: they may have more leftist metaphors, stealthed or out in the open, than we think. The Marvel movies too, lest we forget. One more reason they're not aging any better than the overload of special effects accompanying the "actors". I hesitate to think what'd a screenplay containing a metaphor for opposing war with Iran's brutal regime would be like, because it's not impossible for these obsessed ideologues to go that far too.

Interesting how the reviewer here seems disappointed specifically because there's little or no serious allusions to Islam, as though this movie couldn't be bad enough. The filmmakers, who should be ashamed of themselves, are already doing enough harm with the metaphors they've injected as it is. The following reviewer from Buzzfeed seems disappointed for similar reasons, and is much more blatant:

It’s too bad that Black Adam ultimately punts on most of the big questions it attempts to raise, because the movie does have something sorely lacking in much of its peers: a willingness, however slight, to engage with the world around it. It’s hard to miss the similarities between Kahndaq, a Middle Eastern country occupied by white military personnel, and a variety of real-world analogs, ranging from the American occupation of Iraq to the ongoing occupation of Palestine. [...]

It’s pretty jarring to see a major superhero movie that even gestures at treating America as the bad guys in anything beyond a “there are a few bad apples in the military” sense. After all, the genre entered its modern era with 2008’s Iron Man, where a weapons contractor is kidnapped by terrorists and escapes captivity in Afghanistan. Black Adam isn’t the movie that’s going to continue exploring that territory, but it’s refreshing to see it try.

So here, the writer is much more hostile to Israel in the sense he won't even mention the country, replacing it as he does with the Roman era name for Israel that's been distorted in modern times for the sake of delegitimizing Israel's claim to Judea/Samaria, by fabricating the lie that there was ever an Islamic/Arabic country there? Now that's even sicker, as is the strong hint his opinions on the USA are extraordinarily hostile too. (Interestingly, the Boston Herald says movie co-star Mohammed Amer is a "Palestinian-American". Could such casting have been intentional, coinciding with the filmmakers' politics?)

I also noticed this review by NPR's terrible writer Glen Weldon, who surprisingly enough actually panned the movie, but, he really screwed up on just who reintroduced Black Adam:

In the early 2000s, writers Geoff Johns and David S. Goyer — with art by Stephen Sadowski and many others — introduced to the comics pages a new version of Black Adam. The character had been around since the 1940s as a supervillain who dogged the family of superheroes that, like him, had been given powers by the wizard Shazam. As such, he came factory-installed with the basic supervillain-threats package: I'll destroy you, I'll rule the world, etc.

Man, is this sloppy, but to be fully expected from such a charlatan who's not a comics fan, no matter how much he insists otherwise. Black Adam was first reintroduced to the DCU proper in 1994, in Jerry Ordway's GN, The Power of Shazam, which later led to an ongoing monthly series for Billy Batson that ran at least a few years. And reprehensible Weldon would rather rob Ordway of the credit, and bestow it upon some of the least deserving of DC's overrated modern writers, Johns and Goyer, instead. As disappointing as I find Ordway's leftism these days, this is still too much. So shame on far-left Weldon for this deception as well.

Now, one more review I checked is from Midwest Film Journal, and in addition to panning the movie, they also make an eyebrow raising note regarding a certain 2013 movie whose star is brought back in this new movie as a special guest for Teth-Adam to clash with:

Man of Steel, which launched the whole misbegotten DCEU in 2013, introduced the world to a darker and more “grounded” take on these heroes. It had its flaws but feels like a masterpiece compared to Black Adam. The two have some very direct points of comparison, too, as supposed launching points for future films. Zack Snyder’s Steel, for example, featured a breathlessly cool prologue on Krypton whereas Adam features an extended sequence narrated by an annoying child. In Snyder’s film, the violence of two Kryptonians battling is destructive and purposely reminiscent (however wrongheadedly so) of 9/11. Here, Adam’s supposed brutal fighting is nowhere near as destructive and, 10 years later, considerably worse-looking. Steel’s fights still inspire awe; Adam‘s are nauseating at best.

Of course, Adam also invites comparison because it delivers on what “fans” have been supposedly clamoring for — the return of Henry Cavill to the role of Superman, a half-decade after his experience filming Justice League turned him off the role and turned Warners off of the franchise he headlined. Bringing Cavill in for a post-credits tease is a Hail Mary by a studio desperate to garner interest in a movie that they clearly know has no interest to any sort of general audience. It’s kind of pathetic, particularly because there’s a blatant joke about Superman being an empty role early on in this film. I’m a fan of Cavill in that role, but there’s no part of me that thinks he deserves to be thrown into more shitty iterations of the character, if Black Adam is any indication of where it will go from here.

Well, like I said, if this new DC movie could be so blatant in its political metaphors, chances are there'd be earlier ones going that route too, and looks like Man of Steel had one that was bound to be troubling. If Batman vs. Superman could boast a scene alluding to protests against illegal immigrants in real life that was insulting to the intellect, we can't be shocked if any 9-11 metaphors Snyder's Man of Steel attached to its screenplay could be just as tasteless. That's why I for one am not pleading for Cavill to resume the role, even in a stand-alone movie for Superman proper, because what if more blatant leftist metaphors seep in? This whole "franchise" of the past decade was decidedly never worth looking forward to in the first place, and the dark angle didn't help matters.

So now, if the above descriptions say anything, I have far less reason to admire Johnson, whom I recall was among several far-leftists who created controversy for the sake of attacking podcaster Joe Rogan over distorted reasons (and Johnson himself wrote extremely crude comments years earlier). And recalling Rogan was just as critical of Hollywood for romanticizing violence as Bill Maher was, he might want to take issue with the Black Adam movie next, because physical/sexual violence has tragically been glorified in Hollywood too over past decades, and this new film is no improvement with its portrayal of Teth-Adam. A most shameless embarrassment it decidedly is, and I wish WB would stop making superhero movies already if this is what it's all coming down to.

ADAM AIR CRASH: 6 WEEKS AFTER BLACK BOXES RECOVERED, STILL NO EXPLANATION

On New Year's Day a 737 in Indonesia's ADAM AIR fleet crashed in mid-flight, without warning, in bad but totally navigable weather. (Previous posts HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE.) THE PILOT NEVER ISSUED A MAYDAY.

The "black boxes: were recovered (from the bottom of the Makassar Strait) on January 25. There is still no report of what information they contain.

Today, an Indonesian jet burst into flames after a "hard-landing." UPDATE: 20 DEAD. Indonesia is ordering that all old 737's be re-checked.

I don't know about today's incident, but think the New Year's Day crash was NOT accidental. I think that there's a possibility that the flight recorders will show nothing, and that the jet came down as a result of a sudden catastrophic failure which was itself the result of jihadoterror. I feel that jihadists might have successfully tested a procedure in Indonesia which they intend to employ here in the West. I think that the enemy is constantly probing our defenses, and that today's arrest of man in boarding a flight at LAX - who had electronic stuff up his rectum - is another example of this.

WHY ISN'T A SINGLE MSM OUTLET FOLLOWING UP ON THIS? Because the so-called professional news media is pathetic!)

WAS INTELLIGENCE ABOUT TODAY'S ATTEMPTED AIRLINE-BOMBING WHAT REALLY CLOSED THE CHUNNEL AND NYC'S PENN STATION?

ON WEDNESDAY WE ASKED:

WEATHER? ELECTRICAL PROBLEMS? OR, TERROR THREATS?

FIRST THE CHUNNEL SHUT DOWN - DUE TO "WINTRY WEATHER".

NOW PENN STATION - DUE TO "ELECTRICAL PROBLEMS".

COINCIDENCE!? OR TERROR THREAT?

ARE WE BEING TOLD THE TRUTH!?

NOBODY ELSE ASKED THESE QUESTIONS.

AND TODAY, THERE WAS AN ATTEMPTED ATTACK ON A JETLINER, OUT OF EUROPE.

[MORE HERE.]

*******CONGRESSMAN KING:

. . . it was a fairly sophisticated device. I would say we dropped the ball on this one."

*******MORE FROM KING:

Of the device used on Friday, he said, “It appears to be different from explosive devices that have been used before. That is perhaps why it escaped detection. Maybe that is why it made it through.”

MIGHT IT BE CONNECTED TO THE CHUNNEL CLOSING OR TO THE CLOSING OF NYC'S PENN STATION?

WERE THESE CLOSING BECAUSE OF SOME SKETCHY INTELLIGENCE ABOUT AN IMPENDING ATTACK ON MASS TRANSIT? AND WAS TODAY'S EVENT THE ACTUAL ATTEMPTED ATTACK?

WE NEED THE MSM TO ASK THE QUESTIONS SO WE GET SOME ANSWERS...

ALSO: HOW WERE THESE CHEMICALS SMUGGLED ON-BOARD?

COULD THESE CHEMICALS HAVE BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CATASTROPHIC "CRAHSES" OF ADAM AIR FLIGHT KI 574 AND/OR AIR FRANCE 447?

A STRANGE COVERUP

Indonesia is a Muslim country so perhaps it figures

We read:

"Airport workers caused consternation yesterday by cutting off the tail of the wrecked Garuda passenger jet lying in a twisted, melted mess at the end of Yogyakarta runway, and painting out its company logo and registration number.

The dawn cover-up followed a similar attempt at concealing the identity of a crashed Adam Air Boeing 737 just two weeks ago, after what was described as a "hard landing" at Surabaya airport, in east Java, Indonesia. All passengers escaped from that incident unharmed, but the jet broke in two.

Indonesian air safety officials - including Transport Minister Hatta Radjasa - are facing tough questions about whether the country is serious about improving its appalling record.

Source

Note however that the flight recorder from Garuda flight 200 has arrived in Australia, so that should inhibit further coverups.

A comment from "The Times":

"Unpredictability, improvisation and casualness can be charming when you are travelling on a flexible schedule by boat or bus and train. But when it comes to aeroplanes, what you want most of all is for everything to be done by the book. In Indonesia, you sometimes get the impression that the book has been mislaid"

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LOST INDONESIAN AIRLINER MAY HAVE BEEN FOUND

And, if so, it is, apparently, under water, and scattered in three major places in a several-mile radius, which would indicate that it exploded, or broke up midair for some reason:

MAKASSAR, Indonesia (AP) -- An Indonesian navy ship has detected metal on the ocean floor that might be the wreckage of a jetliner that disappeared one week ago with 102 people on board, a top commander said Monday. A more sophisticated U.S. Navy ocean mapping ship assisting in the search for the Boeing 737 was heading to waters off Sulawesi Island's western coast to do a more detailed survey, said Gatot Sudijanto, a commodore in the Indonesian navy.

"If that metal turns out to be what we are looking for, then thanks be to God," he said, adding that it was found in three locations within a several-mile radius.

The Adam Air plane left Java island for the North Sulawesi provincial capital of Manado on New Year's Day, but experienced 180 mph winds and storms halfway through the two-hour flight, forcing it to change course at least twice, officials said.

The pilot never issued a mayday or reported technical problems.
[Umph added.]

Air navigation can be difficult in Indonesia, which has been called the world's largest archipelago, because there are gaps in the communications systems.

UPDATE: INDONESIAN JET DISAPPEARANCE... it's still missing!

According to this report from the BBC, THEY STILL HAVEN'T FOUND THE WRECKAGE. NOW, THE USA IS GOING TO HELP TRY TO LOCATE IT.

More and more this is looking to me like the result of a jihadoterrorist mid-air explosion over water.

An explosion over water would explain the suddenness of the disappearance and the lack of any debris - or evidence of exactly how it was done.

As I posted before, perhaps the jihadis did this in Indonesia as a test for future attacks in the West. This would also explain why they have NOT taken "credit."

UPDATE - from THE SCOTSMAN:

A PLANE with 102 people aboard that disappeared in high winds over Indonesian waters twice changed course, an official said, as authorities widened the search for the Boeing 737. A US National Transportation Safety Board team arrived to help investigate the apparent crash of Adam Air Flight KI-574, which disappeared from radar screens on Monday near the Sulawesi coastal town of Majene without issuing a mayday. "Whatever happened to the plane, it was likely rapid and catastrophic," said Patrick Smith, a US-based pilot and aviation commentator, pointing to a possible massive structural failure due to metal fatigue or an onboard explosion.

YUP: EXPLOSION. Just like I said... Stay tuned...

FIRST PEICE OF MISSING INDONESIAN JET DISCOVERED.

BBC:

A section of a missing Indonesian plane has been discovered by a fisherman just off the west coast of Sulwesi island, search officials have said. A piece of the Adam Air Boeing 737's tailfin was discovered in the Makassar Strait. ... A search and rescue official said the serial number on the tail section matched that of the missing plane. ... the plane vanished with no emergency distress call.

NOW... WILL THEY FIND ENOUGH OF IT TO DETERMINE THE CAUSE? OR TO RULE OUT TERROR?

FERN HILL BY DYLAN THOMAS - IMAGE BY MARC CHAGALL

Fern Hill

  by Dylan Thomas

Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,
     The night above the dingle starry,
          Time let me hail and climb
     Golden in the heydays of his eyes,
And honoured among wagons I was prince of the apple towns
And once below a time I lordly had the trees and leaves
          Trail with daisies and barley
     Down the rivers of the windfall light.

And as I was green and carefree, famous among the barns
About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home,
     In the sun that is young once only,
          Time let me play and be
     Golden in the mercy of his means,
And green and golden I was huntsman and herdsman, the calves
Sang to my horn, the foxes on the hills barked clear and cold,
          And the sabbath rang slowly
     In the pebbles of the holy streams.

All the sun long it was running, it was lovely, the hay
Fields high as the house, the tunes from the chimneys, it was air
     And playing, lovely and watery
          And fire green as grass.
     And nightly under the simple stars
As I rode to sleep the owls were bearing the farm away,
All the moon long I heard, blessed among stables, the nightjars
     Flying with the ricks, and the horses
          Flashing into the dark.

And then to awake, and the farm, like a wanderer white
With the dew, come back, the cock on his shoulder: it was all
     Shining, it was Adam and maiden,
          The sky gathered again
     And the sun grew round that very day.
So it must have been after the birth of the simple light
In the first, spinning place, the spellbound horses walking warm
     Out of the whinnying green stable
          On to the fields of praise.

And honoured among foxes and pheasants by the gay house
Under the new made clouds and happy as the heart was long,
     In the sun born over and over,
          I ran my heedless ways,
     My wishes raced through the house high hay
And nothing I cared, at my sky blue trades, that time allows
In all his tuneful turning so few and such morning songs
     Before the children green and golden
          Follow him out of grace,

Nothing I cared, in the lamb white days, that time would take me
Up to the swallow thronged loft by the shadow of my hand,
     In the moon that is always rising,
          Nor that riding to sleep
     I should hear him fly with the high fields
And wake to the farm forever fled from the childless land.
Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means,
          Time held me green and dying
     Though I sang in my chains like the sea.

BBC: REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE: IT'S THE SUN, STUPID!

Recent cold winters that brought chaos to the UK and other places in northern Europe may have their roots in the Sun's varying ultraviolet emissions.

The latest satellite data shows the UV output is far more changeable than scientists had previously thought.

A UK scientific team now shows in Nature Geoscience journal how these changes lead to warmer winters in some places and colder winters in others.

The researchers emphasise there is no impact on global warming.

You might be able to say 'this winter is more likely to be warm' or 'more likely to be cold' with more accuracy”

The Sun has recently been in a quiet phase of its regular 11-year cycle, which co-incided with three years in which the UK, along with other places in northern Europe and parts of the US, experienced cold conditions unusual in the recent record.

But unusually warm weather was felt both further south, around the Mediterranean Sea, and further north in Canada and Greenland.

"The key point is that this effect is a change in the circulation, moving air from one place to another, which is why some places get cold and others get warm," said Adam Scaife, one of the researchers on the paper, who heads the UK Met Office's Seasonal to Decadal Prediction team.

DONTCHYA JES LUV THAT THEY SAY REGIONAL WARMING AND COOLING HAS "NO EFFECT" ON GLOBAL CLIMATE!

BTW: ARCTIC ICE MELT - (OFTEN CITED AS PROOF OF AGW)- IS WIND RELATED. DUE TO THE SUN'S VARIATIONS AND LA NINA/EL NINO.

IT AIN'T THE CO2.

Free speech... even for Marines

We read:

"A U.S. Marine Corps reservist won't be charged for ignoring police requests and wading into a protest to rescue an American Flag. Ray Adam Modisette, 20, said he was reacting to a war protester who was stuffing an American flag down her pants.

Modisette of Shawnee was arrested Friday afternoon on a complaint of interfering with official police process. Modisette was leaving Tinker Air Force Base in his car Friday when he saw the protester with the flag. He said he turned around and headed for the crowd to get the flag. He was handcuffed after ignoring several requests by officers to move away from the small group of demonstrators from Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan.

If desecrating Old Glory is protected speech, then so is rescuing it.

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Washington Post: Wikileaks takes new approach in latest release of documents

Laura Rozen / The Politico: The big leak — Some 92,000 secret U.S. military documents …

Josh Mull / The Huffington Post: Rethink Afghanistan: ISI and Pakistan Army Kill Americans

Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard: WikiLeaks Unloads Classified Docs Showing Pakistan's Duplicity

Josh Rogin / Josh Rogin's blog: Pakistani envoy rejects Wikileaks Afghan war information

Andrew J. Bacevich / The New Republic: Leakistan: The New Insurgency — Based on initial press reports …

Tunku Varadarajan / Blogs and Stories: Pakistan's Shameful Double Dealing

Josh Duboff / New York Magazine: Trove of Secret Military Documents Offers Grim Picture of Afghan War

Charles Lemos / MyDD: WikiLeaks Document Drop, The Pentagon Papers of the Afghan War

GottaLaff / The Political Carnival: News alert: Secret Archive Gives Grim View of Afghan War

ZIP / Weasel Zippers: WikiLeaks Releases Huge Batch of Classified U.S Intel Documents …

SusanAnne Hiller / Right Wing News: Hillary in a Bind: Pakistan Aiding Taliban

DRJ / Patterico's Pontifications: Wikileaks Documents Indicate Pakistan Supports the Taliban (Updated)

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wikileaks.org:

Afghan War Diary, 2004-2010 — 25th July 2010 5:00 PM EST WikiLeaks has released a document set called the Afghan War Diary (AWD), an extraordinary compendium of over 91,000 reports covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010. — The reports, while written by soldiers …

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Swaraaj Chauhan / The Moderate Voice: Afghan War Logs: WikiLeaks Releases 90,000 Secret US Military Files

Steve Clemons / The Huffington Post: Mr. Obama's Vietnam: The New Pentagon Papers

South Asia: Pakistan denies Wikileaks reports it ‘aided Taliban’

The Atlantic Online: Assessing WikiLeaks's Raw Data

Blake Hounshell / FP Passport: Is Wikileaks growing up? — Wikileaks, the controversial website …

unbossed.com: The New Pentagon Papers — The nearly 92,000 secret documents …

Curt Hopkins / ReadWriteWeb: Wikileaks Releases 91,000 Afghanistan War Documents Online

Tdog / The Talking Dog: Game changer? — A huge cache of classified military documents …

Dave Gilson / Mother Jones: WikiLeaks' Afghanistan Bombshell

Samuel Axon / Mashable!: WikiLeaks Releases Afghan War Reports in Unprecedented Leak

Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain: Brilliant: U.S. Gives Pakistan $1 Billion; Pakistan Helps Our Enemies Kill Us

Kevin Poulsen / Threat Level: Wikileaks Releases Stunning Afghan War Logs — Is Iraq Next?

Ken Layne / Wonkette: Wikileaks Shows Afghanistan War Even Worse Than You Thought

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Guardian:

Massive leak of secret files exposes the real war in Afghanistan — • Hundreds of civilians killed by coalition troops — • Covert unit hunts leaders for ‘kill or capture’ — • Steep rise in Taliban bomb attacks on Nato — • Read the Guardian's full war logs investigation

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Eric Schmitt / New York Times: In Disclosing Secret Documents, WikiLeaks Seeks ‘Transparency’

Washington Post: Leaked files lay bare war in Afghanistan

James Joyner / Outside the Beltway: WikiLeaks Publishes 90,000 Stolen Classified Documents

Peter Hutchison / Telegraph: Afghan war logs: key findings

Andrew Zarowny / Right Pundits: WikiLeaks Releases Classified Afghanistan War Logs

The Politico: White House condemns Afghan leaks

Kevin Drum / Mother Jones: The Afghanistan Document Dump

The Daily Beast / Blogs and Stories: The 7 Most Shocking Secrets From the WikiLeaks Files

Jane Jamison / UNCOVERAGE.net: The Afghanistan Papers

Steve Schippert / Commentary: Wikileaks Hath Spoken

Reuters: Documents allege Pakistan secretly backed Taliban

Juan / Informed Comment: Wikileaks on Hiding the War; and, American Security? Rethinking Afghanistan Pt. 6

Glenn Thrush / Ben Smith's Blog: Jones: WikiLeaks “irresponsible,” hid story

Adrian Chen / Gawker: Wikileaks Releases Nearly 100,000 Internal Military Documents From Afghanistan

Neil D / Harry's Place: Shock news: War is Hell

Will Bunch / Philly.com: The Afghanistan Papers — Somehow, and this is just an informed guess …

Michael Scherer / Swampland: The Wikileaks Afghan Document Dump

Truthdig: WikiLeaks Reveals 6 Years of Afghanistan War Secrets

Jimstaro / Docudharma: Wikileaks Strikes Again: Afghanistan Docs!!!

Steve Schippert / ThreatsWatch: ThreatsWatch.Org - RapidRecon: White House Sparks Fury With Wikileaks Statement

Jeff / The American MAXIM: WikiLeaks strikes it big

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New York Times:

Inside the Fog of War: Reports From the Ground in Afghanistan — This article was written and reported by C.J. Chivers, Carlotta Gall, Andrew W. Lehren, Mark Mazzetti, Jane Perlez, and Eric Schmitt, with contributions from Jacob Harris and Alan McLean.

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Discussion: Firedoglake, Guardian, Newshoggers.com, NO QUARTER, Blogs and Stories, Swampland, Politics Daily and Lawyers, Guns & Money

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Attaturk / Firedoglake: A Show Me State of Mind

Simon Tisdall / Guardian: Afghanistan war logs: Iran's covert operations in Afghanistan

Steve Hynd / Newshoggers.com: The War Logs: The Largest Pentagon Leak Ever

Larry Johnson / NO QUARTER: Afghanistan Hysteria

Leslie H. Gelb / Blogs and Stories: What the WikiLeaks Documents Really Reveal

Michael Crowley / Swampland: What the Wikileak Means for the Afghanistan War

Politics Daily: Massive Leak of Documents Shows Faltering Afghan War, Duplicity by Pakistan

Charli Carpenter / Lawyers, Guns & Money: Leaked Documents Show Afghan War Is Bloody Uphill Battle.

Mike Allen / The Politico:

W.H. condemns ‘irresponsible’ leaks, dismisses stories — The White House responded swiftly and sharply to publication Sunday evening of more than 91,000 secret documents painting a bleak picture of the Afghanistan war, calling the leak “irresponsible” and saying that the source …

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Declan Walsh / Guardian: Afghanistan war logs: Clandestine aid for Taliban bears Pakistan's fingerprints

Jay Rosen / PressThink: The Afghanistan War Logs Released by Wikileaks, the World's …

Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online: WikiLeaks May Have Just Changed the Media, Too

Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit: HMM. PAYBACK? Wikileaks leaker prosecuted — and now …

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Spencer Ackerman / Danger Room:

WikiLeaks Drops 90,000 War Docs; Fingers Pakistan as Insurgent Ally — Turns out “Collateral Murder” was just a warmup. WikiLeaks just published a trove of over 90,000 mostly-classified U.S. military documents that details a strengthening Afghan insurgency with deep ties to Pakistani intelligence.

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Discussion: CNN, The Huffington Post, Guardian, South Asia, The Atlantic Online, Salon, Mother Jones, No More Mister Nice Blog and Zandar Versus The Stupid

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CNN: Tens of thousands of alleged Afghan war documents go online

Steve Clemons / The Huffington Post: Seymour Hersh, the Afghanistan War WikiLeaks, and Getting the Real Story

Guardian: LIVE: Wikileaks founder discusses Afghan war logs

South Asia: ‘Hidden US Afghan war details’ revealed by Wikileaks

James Fallows / The Atlantic Online: On the AfPak / Wikileaks Documents

Justin Elliott / Salon: Afghan war logs highlight civilian killings by U.S. forces

Adam Weinstein / Mother Jones: WikiLeaks' Afghan Documents and Me

Steve M. / No More Mister Nice Blog: THE NAIVE BELIEF THAT IT'S NO LONGER GROUNDHOG DAY

Zandar / Zandar Versus The Stupid: Last Call — WikiLeaks has put up tens of thousands of leaked …

New York Times:

Piecing Together the Reports, and Deciding What to Publish — The articles published today are based on thousands of United States military incident and intelligence reports — records of engagements, mishaps, intelligence on enemy activity and other events from the war in Afghanistan — that were made public on Sunday on the Internet.

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Roy Greenslade / Guardian: Why Wikileaks, and the newspapers, were right to publish

Steve / Sweetness & Light: NYT Crows At Publishing WikiLeaks Info

Glynnis MacNicol / Mediaite: Biggest Leak In US Military History: WikiLeaks Posts Thousands …

Donald Douglas / Theo Spark: WikiLeaks and the Afghanistan War Logs

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David Leigh / Guardian:
Afghanistan war logs: Secret CIA paramilitaries' role in civilian deaths

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Discussion: South Asia

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David Loyn / South Asia: Afghan civilian killings probed

Nick Davies / Guardian:
Afghanistan war logs: Task Force 373 - special forces hunting top Taliban

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Discussion: Telegraph and Spiegel Online

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Andy Bloxham / Telegraph: Afghan war logs: the secret special forces hit squads hunting Taliban leaders

Spiegel Online: Explosive Leaks Provide Image of War from Those Fighting It

msnbc.com: White House: Afghan war leaks put lives ‘at risk’

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Siun / Firedoglake:
Wikileaks' Release of Secret Afghan War Archives

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Discussion: Guardian, New York Times and South Asia, more at Mediagazer »

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Nick Davies / Guardian: Afghanistan war logs: Story behind biggest leak in intelligence history

New York Times: The War Logs: Reaction to Disclosure of Military Documents on Afghan War

South Asia: US hits out at Afghan war leaks

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Declan Walsh / Guardian:
Afghanistan war logs: White House attacks Pakistan over Taliban aid

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Allahpundit / Hot Air: Quotes of the day — The secret documents, released on the Internet …

Jay Currie: Warlogs, Journo-list, Climategate

Bridget Johnson / The Hill:
Jones lashes out at Wikileaks for putting lives at risk with Afghanistan files

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Discussion: Salon, Ben Smith's Blog and Telegraph

AND YOU CAN DAMNSUREBETCHYA THAT OUR ENEMIES ARE EXAMINING EVERY SINGLE DOCUMENT -

ALL OF OUR ENEMIES: THE JIHADISTS; IRAN; CHINA; RUSSIA; AND SO ON.

IS IT A COINCIDENCE THAT THIS ANTI-WAR LEAK OCCURRED ON OBAMA'S WATCH?

I THINK NOT; HERE'S WHY:

OBAMA HAS STAFFED HIS ADMINISTRATION WITH MORE ANTI-WAR DOVES THAN ANY OTHER IN HISTORY -

AND I BETCHYA THAT ONE/SOME OF THEM WERE PROBABLY INSTRUMENTAL IN THIS.

I THINK WE NEED A CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION AND A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR.