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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13052342818075125666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2471283927852878995.post-88608830760870095642014-11-02T12:24:00.003-08:002018-08-26T17:39:20.707-07:00China probe flies around the moon and back for the first time since 1970's - www.ofINTEREST.net<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IBGyoyUR6aY/VFaJGvltjYI/AAAAAAAABZs/CMgJQRZf56M/s1600/DESTINATION_MOON_of_interest530x200_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IBGyoyUR6aY/VFaJGvltjYI/AAAAAAAABZs/CMgJQRZf56M/s1600/DESTINATION_MOON_of_interest530x200_.jpg" height="120" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Via</b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-62B3hEp_yg4/VFaSChsHQdI/AAAAAAAABaY/Jsy92VN7HEs/s1600/afp-gif_new.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-62B3hEp_yg4/VFaSChsHQdI/AAAAAAAABaY/Jsy92VN7HEs/s1600/afp-gif_new.gif" /></a></div><h2 class="content__headline js-score" itemprop="headline"><a href="http://ofinterestnet.blogspot.com/2014/11/china-probe-flies-around-moon-and-back.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">China probe flies around moon and back in first such mission since 1970s</span></a></h2>Chang’e 5-T1, aka ‘Xiaofei’, arrives back on Earth as space programme works towards a 2017 land-and-return mission<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iZtpwE4ZNOY/VFaSloICysI/AAAAAAAABag/I0NkK4R5YuY/s1600/Chinese%2Bresearchers%2Bexamine%2Bthe%2Bscorched%2BChang%E2%80%99e%2B5-T1%2Breturn%2Bcapsule.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iZtpwE4ZNOY/VFaSloICysI/AAAAAAAABag/I0NkK4R5YuY/s1600/Chinese%2Bresearchers%2Bexamine%2Bthe%2Bscorched%2BChang%E2%80%99e%2B5-T1%2Breturn%2Bcapsule.jpeg" height="192" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chinese researchers examine the scorched Chang’e 5-T1 return capsule after it landed successfully in Inner Mongolia having travelled around the moon and back. Photograph: Xinhua</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="content__article-body from-content-api js-article__body" data-test-id="article-review-body" itemprop="articleBody"><div style="text-align: left;"><a class=" u-underline" data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/china">China</a> has completed its first return mission to the moon with the successful re-entry and landing on Earth of an unmanned probe, state media reported.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The probe, Chang’e 5-T1, landed safely in northern China’s Inner Mongolia region, state news agency Xinhua said, citing the Beijing Aerospace Control Centre.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Xinhua said the probe, dubbed “Xiaofei” (little flyer) on social media, took “some incredible pictures” of the Earth and the moon. It is the first trip around the moon and back since US and Russian flights of the 1970s, 40 years ago.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Prior to re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere the unnamed probe had been travelling at 11.2 kilometres per second (25,000 miles per hour), a speed that can generate temperatures of more than 1,500C (2,700F), the news agency reported.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">To slow it down scientists let the craft “bounce” off Earth’s atmosphere before re-entering again and landing.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The probe’s mission was to travel to the moon, fly around it and head back to Earth, said the the state science and technology agency, Sastind. The module went 413,000km from Earth at its furthest point.</div><div style="text-align: left;">The mission was launched to test technology to be used in the Chang’e-5, China’s fourth lunar probe, which aims to gather and return samples from the surface in 2017.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The military-run space project has plans for a permanent orbiting station by 2020 and eventually to send a human to the moon.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">China currently has a robotic rover, Yutu (Jade Rabbit), on the moon. It landed on 14 December 2013 and completed parts of its mission before grinding to a halt on 25 January 2014 due to equipment failure.</div></div><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>& Via</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bZOcbkVpZ7g/VFaMnUGqjQI/AAAAAAAABaQ/ouK-4Muqdps/s1600/upi_logo.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bZOcbkVpZ7g/VFaMnUGqjQI/AAAAAAAABaQ/ouK-4Muqdps/s1600/upi_logo.png" /></a></div></div><h2 class="st_headline " style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://ofinterestnet.blogspot.com/2014/11/china-probe-flies-around-moon-and-back.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">China goes to the moon and back for the first time</span></a></h2><div style="text-align: center;"><h3> <span style="font-size: small;">China plans to land on the moon by 2017</span></h3></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YCgTuiQNACc/VFaMnDyaEwI/AAAAAAAABaE/ggQxHV5yE5Q/s1600/The%2BMoon.%2BUPI-Ismael%2BMohamad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YCgTuiQNACc/VFaMnDyaEwI/AAAAAAAABaE/ggQxHV5yE5Q/s1600/The%2BMoon.%2BUPI-Ismael%2BMohamad.jpg" height="214" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Moon. UPI/Ismael Mohamad.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="story_dl">BEIJING, Nov. 1 (UPI) --</span> China has successfully completed it's first mission to the moon and back and plans to land on the moon by 2017.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">An unmanned spacecraft flew around the moon and then returned by landing in the grasslands of Mongolia, according to <a class="tpstyle" href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-11/01/c_133757831.htm" target="_blank">state news agency Xinhua</a>. The unmanned craft traveled at roughly 25,000 miles per hour on its return trip before it entered Earth's atmosphere and reached temperatures of almost 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">China is now the third country to go to the moon and back, after Russia and the United States.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">China's State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (SASTIND) claims their Chang'e-5 unmanned probe will land on the moon in 2017 to collect samples from the surface.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">China plans to eventually land a man on the moon, something that hasn't been done in about 42 years. The country plans to build its own space station by 2020.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>& Via</b> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DFZwPntYRhw/VFaYZFk-9kI/AAAAAAAABbE/gzW2QBGdZgw/s1600/Enjoy%2BSpace%2B-%2BChina%2Bgoes%2Baround%2Bthe%2BMoon.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DFZwPntYRhw/VFaYZFk-9kI/AAAAAAAABbE/gzW2QBGdZgw/s1600/Enjoy%2BSpace%2B-%2BChina%2Bgoes%2Baround%2Bthe%2BMoon.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.enjoyspace.com/en/news/china-goes-around-the-moon" target="_blank">China goes around the Moon</a></span></h3><div class="chapeau"><span class="chapeau">On 24 October, China launched Chang'E-5-T1. The unmanned spacecraft is set to fly around the Moon then release a capsule that will return to Earth at the end of the month in order to test this phase for a future mission to return samples.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-23lF_tF1kU8/VFaZkO-KGKI/AAAAAAAABbI/9yc97nDm9KQ/s1600/Launch%2Bof%2Bthe%2BChang%27E-5-T1%2Bmission%2Bon%2Btop%2Ba%2BCZ-3C%2Brocket%2Bfrom%2BXichang%2Bbase%2Bin%2BChina%2Bon%2B24%2BOctober.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-23lF_tF1kU8/VFaZkO-KGKI/AAAAAAAABbI/9yc97nDm9KQ/s1600/Launch%2Bof%2Bthe%2BChang'E-5-T1%2Bmission%2Bon%2Btop%2Ba%2BCZ-3C%2Brocket%2Bfrom%2BXichang%2Bbase%2Bin%2BChina%2Bon%2B24%2BOctober.jpg" height="308" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="legende">Launch of the Chang'E-5-T1 mission on top a CZ-3C rocket from Xichang base in China on 24 October.<br /><span class="credit_photo">Credit: CNSA</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div> The Chinese lunar programme continues to progress in stages. After sending 2 spacecraft around the Moon, on 14 December 2013, the Chinese space agency, CNSA (China National Space Administration) landed its Chang'E-3 lander in the Mare Imbrium on our natural satellite. The spacecraft was carrying the Yutu rover that surveyed the lunar surface until it was immobilised due to a malfunction in January 2014.<br /><br />The next exploration mission planned in the programme is Chang'E-4 which must also complete an automatic landing, expected in 2015. Despite its name, ChangíE-5-T1 is still part of the chronology of the Chinese programme, this flight is in fact a partial technological test for the Chang'E-5 mission (without the T1) which in 2017 should take samples from the Moon's surface and bring them back to Earth. Chang'E-5-T1 aims to test the capsule that will bring the samples back to our planet. A CZ-3C rocket sent the spacecraft to the Moon, taking-off from the Xichang Space Centre in the early hours of 24 October (local time). <br /><br />Chang'E-5-T1 consists of a carrier spacecraft fitted with solar panels and derived from the DFH-3 platform shared by several Chinese satellites and which was also used for the Chang’E-1 and 2 missions. However, this time, there was also a return capsule. Chang’E-5-T1 will not land on the Moon or collect any samples. The spacecraft will go around our natural satellite by 27/28 October then, when it is close to Earth, it will release the capsule so that it re-enters our atmosphere and lands underneath parachutes on the ground. This landing should take place on 31 October or 1 November.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ibPN529B1qg/VFaZkhLWxsI/AAAAAAAABbY/kzYHqHQPisw/s1600/The%2Breturn%2Bcapsule%2Bthat%2Bwill%2Bbe%2Btested%2Bduring%2Bthe%2BChang%27E-5-T1%2Bmission.%2BIt%2Bis%2Bsimilar%2Bto%2Bthe%2BShenzhou%2Bmanned%2C%2Bthree-seater%2Bspacecraft%2C%2Bbut%2Bsmaller.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ibPN529B1qg/VFaZkhLWxsI/AAAAAAAABbY/kzYHqHQPisw/s1600/The%2Breturn%2Bcapsule%2Bthat%2Bwill%2Bbe%2Btested%2Bduring%2Bthe%2BChang'E-5-T1%2Bmission.%2BIt%2Bis%2Bsimilar%2Bto%2Bthe%2BShenzhou%2Bmanned%2C%2Bthree-seater%2Bspacecraft%2C%2Bbut%2Bsmaller.jpg" height="192" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="legende">The return capsule that will be tested during the Chang'E-5-T1 mission. It is similar to the Shenzhou manned, three-seater spacecraft, but smaller.<br /><span class="credit_photo">Credit : CAST</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Thus the CNSA is testing the re-entry phase in real conditions, i.e. at a speed similar to that of a return from the Moon, which is faster than from Earth's orbit.<br /><br />The third stage of the rocket which launched Chang'E-5-T1 is carrying a small European experiment called 4M. Developed by the company Lux Space, this is a radio transmitter which will emit a signal for radio amateurs. Given that the third stage is also heading to the Moon, this is an opportunity for the radio amateur community to follow a signal intended for them as the transmitter travels to our natural satellite. The name 4M stands for Manfred Memorial Moon Mission in honour of Manfred Fuchs, founder of the OHB company (satellite manufacturer) who died early this year.<br />The 4M website: <a href="http://moon.luxspace.lu/" target="_blank">http://moon.luxspace.lu</a><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GJ4GoCCgvuw/VFaZkS6dVrI/AAAAAAAABbM/AuRAz3b9L_c/s1600/Mission%2Bcontrol%2Bbased%2Bin%2BBeijing%2Bduring%2Bthe%2Blaunch%2Bof%2BChang%27E-5-T1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GJ4GoCCgvuw/VFaZkS6dVrI/AAAAAAAABbM/AuRAz3b9L_c/s1600/Mission%2Bcontrol%2Bbased%2Bin%2BBeijing%2Bduring%2Bthe%2Blaunch%2Bof%2BChang'E-5-T1.jpg" height="225" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="legende">Mission control based in Beijing during the launch of Chang'E-5-T1.<br /><span class="credit_photo">Credit: CNSA</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /><br /><b>& Earlier Via</b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eI2ZGbVZ6Vo/VFbECVq_DXI/AAAAAAAABbo/0pCNjMnbPXE/s1600/dailymail_uk_mail_online_logo_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eI2ZGbVZ6Vo/VFbECVq_DXI/AAAAAAAABbo/0pCNjMnbPXE/s1600/dailymail_uk_mail_online_logo_.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><h3><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2806273/China-s-eight-day-mission-fly-moon-Earth-blasts-off.html" target="_blank">China's eight-day mission to fly around the moon and back to Earth blasts off</a></span></h3><ul class="mol-bullets-with-font"><li class=""><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>China sent a mission to the moon from the southwestern Xichang satellite launch centre this morning</b><b>The spacecraft will fly around the moon on an eight-day mission</b><b>It is intended to be a precursor to a mission to the lunar surface in 2017</b><b>This will return samples back to Earth - only the third nation to do so after the US and Russia</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 17px;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">China also has plans to land people on the moon, possibly beyond 2020</span></span> </b></span></li></ul><div class="byline-section" style="text-align: left;"><span class="article-timestamp article-timestamp-published" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">By <a class="author" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Jonathan+O%27Callaghan+for+MailOnline" rel="nofollow">Jonathan O'Callaghan for MailOnline</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="article-timestamp article-timestamp-published"><span class="article-timestamp-label">Published:</span> 05:36 EST, 24 October 2014 </span> | </span><span class="article-timestamp article-timestamp-updated"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <span class="article-timestamp-label">Updated:</span> 08:22 EST, 24 October 2014</span></span></div><br /><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">China has launched an experimental spacecraft to fly around the moon and back to Earth.</span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The eight-day mission is seen as a test-run for the country's first unmanned return trip to the lunar surface, which will take place in 2017.</span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">And if China successfully manages to bring samples back from the moon, they will be only the third nation to carry out such a mission after the US and Russia.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="mol-style-bold">Scroll down for video</span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ujDyPszSz6M/VFbFMwRhDZI/AAAAAAAABb4/o6MlbOHkupw/s1600/China%2Bsent%2Ba%2Bmission%2Bto%2Bthe%2Bmoon%2Bfrom%2Bthe%2Bsouthwestern%2BXichang%2Bsatellite%2Blaunch%2Bcentre%2Bthis%2Bmorning.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ujDyPszSz6M/VFbFMwRhDZI/AAAAAAAABb4/o6MlbOHkupw/s1600/China%2Bsent%2Ba%2Bmission%2Bto%2Bthe%2Bmoon%2Bfrom%2Bthe%2Bsouthwestern%2BXichang%2Bsatellite%2Blaunch%2Bcentre%2Bthis%2Bmorning.jpg" height="205" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">China sent a mission to the moon from the southwestern Xichang satellite launch centre this morning (shown). The spacecraft will fly around the moon on an eight-day mission. It is intended to be a precursor to a mission to the lunar surface in 2017</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The spacecraft lifted off from the southwestern Xichang satellite launch centre early this morning.</span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">It separated from its carrier rocket and entered Earth orbit shortly after, the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (Sastind) reported, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.</span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">'The first stage of the first return journey test in China's moon probe programme has been successful,' Sastind said after the launch, from the Xichang space base in the southwestern province of Sichuan.</span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The module will be 257,000 miles (413,000 km) from Earth at its furthest point on the eight-day mission.</span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The official Xinhua news agency said it would re-enter the atmosphere at 11.2 kilometres per second (25,000 mph) before slowing down - a process that generates extremely high temperatures - and it will land in northern China's Inner Mongolia region. </span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">China's lunar exploration program, named Chang'e after a mythical goddess, has already launched a pair of orbiting lunar probes and last year landed a craft on the moon with a rover onboard.</span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">China has also hinted at a possible crewed mission to the moon at a future date if officials decide to combine the human spaceflight and lunar exploration programs.</span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Xinhua said the latest mission is to 'obtain experimental data and validate re-entry technologies such as guidance, navigation and control, heat shield and trajectory design' for the future moonlander christened Chang'e 5.</span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">It will return to Earth using a Soviet-designed method in which it will first bounce off Earth's atmosphere in order to slow it down to allow it to enter the atmosphere without burning up.</span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="wocc"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">HOW IT WILL LAND ON EARTH</span></span></div><div class="wocc"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></span><br /><div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The module will be 257,000 miles (413,000 km) from Earth at its furthest point on the eight-day mission.</b></span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font"><br /></div><div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The official Xinhua news agency said it would re-enter the atmosphere at 11.2 kilometres per second (25,000 mph) before slowing down - a process that generates extremely high temperatures - and it will land in northern China's Inner Mongolia region.</b></span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font"><br /></div><div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>It will return to Earth using a Soviet-designed method in which it will first bounce off Earth's atmosphere in order to slow it down to allow it to enter the atmosphere without burning up. </b></span></span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">China's military-backed space program is a source of massive national pride, especially its series of successful manned missions that have placed up to three astronauts at a time in an experimental orbiting space station called Tiangong 1.</span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">It sent its first astronaut into space in 2003, becoming the third nation after Russia and the US to achieve manned space travel independently.</span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">China has powered ahead in a series of methodically timed steps, independent of the American programme, which is now in its sixth decade of putting people into space and has long-term plans to go to an asteroid and Mars.</span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Alongside the manned program, China is developing the Long March 5 heavy-lift rocket needed to launch a more permanent space station to be called Tiangong 2.</span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EHO4gd4pLkI/VFbFMgMH89I/AAAAAAAABbw/jvNcWUlkTP0/s1600/China%27s%2Bspace%2Bprogramme%2Bhas%2Bbeen%2Bpicking%2Bup%2Bspeed%2Bover%2Bthe%2Blast%2Bdecade.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EHO4gd4pLkI/VFbFMgMH89I/AAAAAAAABbw/jvNcWUlkTP0/s1600/China's%2Bspace%2Bprogramme%2Bhas%2Bbeen%2Bpicking%2Bup%2Bspeed%2Bover%2Bthe%2Blast%2Bdecade.jpg" height="208" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">China's space programme has been picking up speed over the last decade. They have already sent a handful of astronauts into Earth orbit including Liu Yang, left, Jing Haipeng, right, and Liu Wang pictured here in June 2012 on their way to the launch pad</td></tr></tbody></table></span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xJ31ULXkpi4/VFbFM0S6h2I/AAAAAAAABcY/44K6XRYIij4/s1600/Last%2Byear%2BChina%2Bsuccessfully%2Blanded%2Band%2Boperated%2Ba%2Brover%2Bon%2Bthe%2Bmoon%2Bcalled%2BJade%2BRabbit%2C%2Bshown.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xJ31ULXkpi4/VFbFM0S6h2I/AAAAAAAABcY/44K6XRYIij4/s1600/Last%2Byear%2BChina%2Bsuccessfully%2Blanded%2Band%2Boperated%2Ba%2Brover%2Bon%2Bthe%2Bmoon%2Bcalled%2BJade%2BRabbit%2C%2Bshown.jpg" height="208" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Last year China successfully landed and operated a rover on the moon called Jade Rabbit, shown. However, it ultimately succumbed to the bitterly cold lunar nights. China's next mission to the lunar surface in 2017 will lift return samples to Earth</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="mol-para-with-font"><br /></div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span class="mol-style-bold"></span></span><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Related:</b><br /><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://ofinterestnet.blogspot.ro/2014/08/gaofen-1-chinas-first-high-resolution.html" target="_blank">Gaofen-1, China's first high-resolution satellite captured 10 incredible images: Must see!</a></span></h2></div>Diversities Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05401472087128725547noreply@blogger.com0Beijing, Beijing, China39.90403 116.4075259999999638.352877 113.82573899999996 41.455183 118.98931299999997tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2471283927852878995.post-13289627824298148682014-11-02T12:24:00.002-08:002014-11-02T16:14:16.056-08:00China probe flies around the moon and back for the first time since 1970's - www.ofINTEREST.net<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Chang’e 5-T1, aka ‘Xiaofei’, arrives back on Earth as space programme works towards a 2017 land-and-return mission<br />
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re-entry and landing on Earth of an unmanned probe, state media
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The probe, Chang’e 5-T1, landed safely in northern China’s Inner
Mongolia region, state news agency Xinhua said, citing the Beijing
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Xinhua said the probe, dubbed “Xiaofei” (little flyer) on social
media, took “some incredible pictures” of the Earth and the moon. It is
the first trip around the moon and back since US and Russian flights of
the 1970s, 40 years ago.</div>
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Prior to re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere the unnamed probe had
been travelling at 11.2 kilometres per second (25,000 miles per hour), a
speed that can generate temperatures of more than 1,500C (2,700F), the
news agency reported.</div>
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To slow it down scientists let the craft “bounce” off Earth’s atmosphere before re-entering again and landing.</div>
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The probe’s mission was to travel to the moon, fly around it and head
back to Earth, said the the state science and technology agency,
Sastind. The module went 413,000km from Earth at its furthest point.</div>
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The mission was launched to test technology to be used in the
Chang’e-5, China’s fourth lunar probe, which aims to gather and return
samples from the surface in 2017.</div>
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The military-run space project has plans for a permanent orbiting station by 2020 and eventually to send a human to the moon.</div>
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China currently has a robotic rover, Yutu (Jade Rabbit), on the moon.
It landed on 14 December 2013 and completed parts of its mission before
grinding to a halt on 25 January 2014 due to equipment failure.</div>
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<span class="story_dl">BEIJING, Nov. 1 (UPI) --</span> China has successfully completed it's first mission to the moon and back and plans to land on the moon by 2017.<br />
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An unmanned spacecraft flew around the moon and then returned by landing in the grasslands of Mongolia, according to <a class="tpstyle" href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-11/01/c_133757831.htm" target="_blank">state news agency Xinhua</a>.
The unmanned craft traveled at roughly 25,000 miles per hour on its
return trip before it entered Earth's atmosphere and reached
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China is now the third country to go to the moon and back, after Russia and the United States.<br />
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State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National
Defense (SASTIND) claims their Chang'e-5 unmanned probe will land on the
moon in 2017 to collect samples from the surface.</div>
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eventually land a man on the moon, something that hasn't been done in
about 42 years. The country plans to build its own space station by
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="legende">Launch of the Chang'E-5-T1 mission on top a CZ-3C rocket from Xichang base in China on 24 October.<br /><span class="credit_photo">Credit: CNSA</span></span></td></tr>
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The Chinese lunar programme continues to progress in stages. After
sending 2 spacecraft around the Moon, on 14 December 2013, the Chinese
space agency, CNSA (China National Space Administration) landed its
Chang'E-3 lander in the Mare Imbrium on our natural satellite. The
spacecraft was carrying the Yutu rover that surveyed the lunar surface
until it was immobilised due to a malfunction in January 2014.<br />
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next exploration mission planned in the programme is Chang'E-4 which
must also complete an automatic landing, expected in 2015. Despite its
name, ChangíE-5-T1 is still part of the chronology of the Chinese
programme, this flight is in fact a partial technological test for the
Chang'E-5 mission (without the T1) which in 2017 should take samples
from the Moon's surface and bring them back to Earth. Chang'E-5-T1 aims
to test the capsule that will bring the samples back to our planet. A
CZ-3C rocket sent the spacecraft to the Moon, taking-off from the
Xichang Space Centre in the early hours of 24 October (local time). <br />
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Chang'E-5-T1 consists of a carrier spacecraft fitted with solar panels
and derived from the DFH-3 platform shared by several Chinese satellites
and which was also used for the Chang’E-1 and 2 missions. However, this
time, there was also a return capsule. Chang’E-5-T1 will not land on
the Moon or collect any samples. The spacecraft will go around our
natural satellite by 27/28 October then, when it is close to Earth, it
will release the capsule so that it re-enters our atmosphere and lands
underneath parachutes on the ground. This landing should take place on
31 October or 1 November.<br />
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Thus the CNSA is testing the re-entry phase in real conditions, i.e. at a
speed similar to that of a return from the Moon, which is faster than
from Earth's orbit.<br />
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The third stage of the rocket which launched
Chang'E-5-T1 is carrying a small European experiment called 4M.
Developed by the company Lux Space, this is a radio transmitter which
will emit a signal for radio amateurs. Given that the third stage is
also heading to the Moon, this is an opportunity for the radio amateur
community to follow a signal intended for them as the transmitter
travels to our natural satellite. The name 4M stands for Manfred
Memorial Moon Mission in honour of Manfred Fuchs, founder of the OHB
company (satellite manufacturer) who died early this year.<br />
The 4M website: <a href="http://moon.luxspace.lu/" target="_blank">http://moon.luxspace.lu</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2806273/China-s-eight-day-mission-fly-moon-Earth-blasts-off.html" target="_blank">China's eight-day mission to fly around the moon and back to Earth blasts off</a></span></h3>
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<li class=""><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>China sent a mission to the moon from the southwestern Xichang satellite launch centre this morning</b>
<b>The spacecraft will fly around the moon on an eight-day mission</b>
<b>It is intended to be a precursor to a mission to the lunar surface in 2017</b>
<b>This will return samples back to Earth - only the third nation to do so after the US and Russia</b>
</span></span><span style="font-size: 17px;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">China also has plans to land people on the moon, possibly beyond 2020</span></span> </b></span></li>
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<span class="article-timestamp article-timestamp-published" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">By
<a class="author" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Jonathan+O%27Callaghan+for+MailOnline" rel="nofollow">Jonathan O'Callaghan for MailOnline</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="article-timestamp article-timestamp-published"><span class="article-timestamp-label">Published:</span>
05:36 EST, 24 October 2014
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08:22 EST, 24 October 2014</span>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">China has launched an experimental spacecraft to fly around the moon and back to Earth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
eight-day mission is seen as a test-run for the country's first
unmanned return trip to the lunar surface, which will take place in
2017.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">And
if China successfully manages to bring samples back from the moon, they
will be only the third nation to carry out such a mission after the US
and Russia.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">China sent a mission to the moon from the southwestern Xichang satellite
launch centre this morning (shown). The spacecraft will fly around the
moon on an eight-day mission. It is intended to be a precursor to a
mission to the lunar surface in 2017</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The spacecraft lifted off from the southwestern Xichang satellite launch centre early this morning.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">It
separated from its carrier rocket and entered Earth orbit shortly
after, the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for
National Defense (Sastind) reported, according to the official Xinhua
News Agency.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">'The
first stage of the first return journey test in China's moon probe
programme has been successful,' Sastind said after the launch, from the
Xichang space base in the southwestern province of Sichuan.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The module will be 257,000 miles (413,000 km) from Earth at its furthest point on the eight-day mission.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
official Xinhua news agency said it would re-enter the atmosphere at
11.2 kilometres per second (25,000 mph) before slowing down - a process
that generates extremely high temperatures - and it will land in
northern China's Inner Mongolia region. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">China's
lunar exploration program, named Chang'e after a mythical goddess, has
already launched a pair of orbiting lunar probes and last year landed a
craft on the moon with a rover onboard.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">China
has also hinted at a possible crewed mission to the moon at a future
date if officials decide to combine the human spaceflight and lunar
exploration programs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Xinhua said
the latest mission is to 'obtain experimental data and validate re-entry
technologies such as guidance, navigation and control, heat shield and
trajectory design' for the future moonlander christened Chang'e 5.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">It
will return to Earth using a Soviet-designed method in which it will
first bounce off Earth's atmosphere in order to slow it down to allow it
to enter the atmosphere without burning up.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">HOW IT WILL LAND ON EARTH</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The module will be 257,000 miles (413,000 km) from Earth at its furthest point on the eight-day mission.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The
official Xinhua news agency said it would re-enter the atmosphere at
11.2 kilometres per second (25,000 mph) before slowing down - a process
that generates extremely high temperatures - and it will land in
northern China's Inner Mongolia region.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>It
will return to Earth using a Soviet-designed method in which it will
first bounce off Earth's atmosphere in order to slow it down to allow it
to enter the atmosphere without burning up. </b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">China's
military-backed space program is a source of massive national pride,
especially its series of successful manned missions that have placed up
to three astronauts at a time in an experimental orbiting space station
called Tiangong 1.</span></span></div>
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<div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">It
sent its first astronaut into space in 2003, becoming the third nation
after Russia and the US to achieve manned space travel independently.</span></span></div>
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<div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">China
has powered ahead in a series of methodically timed steps, independent
of the American programme, which is now in its sixth decade of putting
people into space and has long-term plans to go to an asteroid and Mars.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Alongside
the manned program, China is developing the Long March 5 heavy-lift
rocket needed to launch a more permanent space station to be called
Tiangong 2.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">China's space programme has been picking up speed over the last decade.
They have already sent a handful of astronauts into Earth orbit
including Liu Yang, left, Jing Haipeng, right, and Liu Wang pictured
here in June 2012 on their way to the launch pad</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xJ31ULXkpi4/VFbFM0S6h2I/AAAAAAAABcY/44K6XRYIij4/s1600/Last%2Byear%2BChina%2Bsuccessfully%2Blanded%2Band%2Boperated%2Ba%2Brover%2Bon%2Bthe%2Bmoon%2Bcalled%2BJade%2BRabbit%2C%2Bshown.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xJ31ULXkpi4/VFbFM0S6h2I/AAAAAAAABcY/44K6XRYIij4/s1600/Last%2Byear%2BChina%2Bsuccessfully%2Blanded%2Band%2Boperated%2Ba%2Brover%2Bon%2Bthe%2Bmoon%2Bcalled%2BJade%2BRabbit%2C%2Bshown.jpg" height="208" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Last year China successfully landed and operated a rover on the moon
called Jade Rabbit, shown. However, it ultimately succumbed to the
bitterly cold lunar nights. China's next mission to the lunar surface in
2017 will lift return samples to Earth</td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13052342818075125666noreply@blogger.com0Beijing, Beijing, China39.90403 116.4075259999999638.352877 113.82573899999996 41.455183 118.98931299999997tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2471283927852878995.post-38149760412876799482014-10-27T16:10:00.001-07:002018-08-26T17:39:20.806-07:00British Captive John Cantlie Reports from Kobani in IS Video [ Pics / Videos ] - www.ofINTEREST.net<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-F7XoHhkrXYI/VE-nHP_64dI/AAAAAAAAB3s/C96IfJH0hJY/s1600/TERROR-questionMark_of_interest530x200_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-F7XoHhkrXYI/VE-nHP_64dI/AAAAAAAAB3s/C96IfJH0hJY/s1600/TERROR-questionMark_of_interest530x200_.jpg" height="120" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">What does the Islamic State want?</div><div style="text-align: center;">Why aren't those of profit/gain and/or control willing to listen?</div><div style="text-align: center;">Who are the Islamic State? No really, who are they?</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">Please ask these questions and more, and don't <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><b>STOP</b></span></span> till you get to the real TRUTH! </div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Mikhael Love</i>, <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>IIO</b></span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><h2 itemprop="name"><a href="https://news.siteintelgroup.com/Jihadist-News/british-captive-john-cantlie-reports-from-kobani-in-is-video.html" itemprop="url">British Captive John Cantlie Reports from Kobani in IS Video</a></h2></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span itemprop="articleBody"></span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-En6tSFiHRBo/VE7SIpzERLI/AAAAAAAABXU/ud4Bz2Yo3lI/s1600/John_Cantlie_in_Kobani.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-En6tSFiHRBo/VE7SIpzERLI/AAAAAAAABXU/ud4Bz2Yo3lI/s1600/John_Cantlie_in_Kobani.jpg" height="180" width="320" /></a></div><span itemprop="articleBody"></span><br /><b>The Islamic State (IS) released a video featuring British captive John Cantlie reporting from Kobani about the group’s control over the city despite Western media broadcasting the contrary.</b><br /><br /><b> The 5 minute, 32 second video, entitled, “Inside 'Ayn al-Islam,” was produced by the IS’ al-I’tisaam Media Foundation, and was distributed on Twitter on October 27, 2014. Cantlie, dressed in a black outfit, stands atop a building in Kobani and speaks on what he sees below him and in the distance, and claims that the IS has essentially secured victory in the city. </b><br /><br /><b>He stated:</b><br /><br /><b>“Kobani is now being reinforced by Iraqi Kurds who are coming in through Turkey, while the mujahideen are being resupplied by the hopeless United States Air Forces, who parachuted two crates of weapons and ammunition straight into the outstretched arms of the mujahideen. Now the battle for Kobani is coming to an end. The mujahideen are just mopping up now, street to street, and building to building. You can occasionally hear erratic gunfire in the background as a result of those operations. But contrary to what the Western media would have you believe, it is not an all-out battle here now. It is nearly over. As you can hear, it is very quiet, just the occasional gunfire.</b><br /><br /><b>“Two-hundred thousand inhabitants of the city have been displaced because of the fighting that came here. You can see the refugee camps over my right shoulder over there in Turkey, where the inhabitants now are. But contrary to media reports, the fighting in Kobani is nearly over</b><br /><b>“Urban warfare is as about as nasty and tough as it gets, and it’s something of a specialty of the mujahideen.”</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwD3oPR5Pz39u1h0d95B8ANshQUzWl2f5hi_T7pnk_cx0jvghtywt4A_nD_xwfMSw2xDm4FfXHn1PvyYpYnIQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span itemprop="articleBody"><b>Following is a transcript of the video:</b></span></div><br /><span itemprop="articleBody"><b> </b></span><span itemprop="articleBody"><br /> 0:00<br /> In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful<br />Inside 'Ayn al-Islam<br /> 0:20<br /> [Aerial footage from "drone of the Islamic State Army"]<br /> 0:40<br /> [John Cantlie]<br /><br /> Hello, I'm John Cantlie, and today we're in the city of Kobani on the Syrian-Turkish border. That is in fact Turkey right behind me, and we are here in the heart of the so-called PKK safe zone, which is now controlled entirely by the Islamic State. For a month now, the soldiers of the Islamic State have been besieging this key Kurdish city and, despite continual American airstrikes, which have so far cost nearly half a billion dollars in total, the mujahideen have pushed deep in the heart of the city. They now control the eastern and southern sectors.<br /><br /> Now, the Western media, and I can't see any of their journalists here in the city of Kobani, have been saying recently that the Islamic State are on the retreat. In the last 48 hours, hundreds of Islamic State militants have been reportedly killed in airstrikes, said the IB Times, on the 16th of October. We now we've killed several hundred of them, said John Kirby, the Pentagon official. The Islamic State is retreating from the Syrian city of Kobani, said the BBC on October the 17th, while Patrick Coburn said in The Independent that despite suffering serious losses, the Islamic State was continuing its assault on the city.<br /><br /> Now this is all quite a turn-around from earlier in the month, when U.S. officials were saying, and I quote: "The strategically unimportant city of Kobani was going to fall into mujahideen hands in just a matter of time. It's going to be difficult with just airpower to prevent the Islamic State from taking the town, said U.S. National Security Advisor Tony Blinken on the 10th of October.<br /><br /> Now, good ole John Kerry doesn't seem to think the mujahideen are retreating. He called Kobani a "horrible example of the unwillingness of people to help those who are fighting the Islamic State". Now that's a dig at Kurd-hating Turkish President Erdogan.<br /><br /> But the point is, from where I'm standing right now, I can see large swathes of the city, and I can even see the Turkish flag behind me, and all I've seen here in the city of Kobani is mujahideen. There are no YPG, PKK, or Peshmerga in sight. Just a large number of Islamic State mujahideen, and they are definitely not on the run. Without any safe access, there are no journalists here in the city. So the media are getting their information from Kurdish commanders and White House press secretaries, neither of whom have the slightest intention of telling the truth of what is happening here on the ground. Now, airstrikes did prevent some groups of mujahideen from using their tanks and heavy armor as they would have liked, so they are entering the city and using light weapons instead, going house to house.<br /><br /> Now America is very keen for Kobani to become a symbol - a symbol of victory of the coalition that is working together to defeat the Islamic State. But they now and the mujahideen also know that even with all their airpower and all their proxy troops on the ground, even this is not enough to defeat the Islamic State here in Kobani and elsewhere.<br /><br /> Kobani is now being reinforced by Iraqi Kurds who are coming in through Turkey, while the mujahideen are being resupplied by the hopeless United States Air Forces, who parachuted two crates of weapons and ammunition straight into the outstretched arms of the mujahideen. Now the battle for Kobani is coming to an end. The mujahideen are just mopping up now, street to street, and building to building. You can occasionally hear erratic gunfire in the background as a result of those operations. But contrary to what the Western media would have you believe, it is not an all-out battle here now. It is nearly over. As you can hear, it is very quiet, just the occasional gunfire.<br /><br /> Two-hundred thousand inhabitants of the city have been displaced because of the fighting that came here. You can see the refugee camps over my right shoulder over there in Turkey, where the inhabitants now are. But contrary to media reports, the fighting in Kobani is nearly over<br /> Urban warfare is as about as nasty and tough as it gets, and it’s something of a specialty of the mujahideen.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>&</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">From on or about 25 October, 2014<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LaTCQ_AMYOE/VE7OcC5fkGI/AAAAAAAABW4/QLN48gbTa38/s1600/JohnCantlie_smiling.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LaTCQ_AMYOE/VE7OcC5fkGI/AAAAAAAABW4/QLN48gbTa38/s1600/JohnCantlie_smiling.jpg" height="179" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="width: 624px;">John Cantlie speaks for around six minutes in the new video </span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><h2 itemprop="name"><a href="https://news.siteintelgroup.com/Jihadist-News/british-captive-john-cantlie-speaks-on-experience-with-fellow-hostages-voices-displeasure-for-u-s-britain-not-negotiating-with-is.html" itemprop="url">British Captive John Cantlie Speaks on Experience with Fellow Hostages, Voices Displeasure for U.S, Britain Not Negotiating with IS</a></h2><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cBdszVZ9U3Y/VE7PjI0LiRI/AAAAAAAABXI/ossGuj_eP0A/s1600/john-cantlie5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cBdszVZ9U3Y/VE7PjI0LiRI/AAAAAAAABXI/ossGuj_eP0A/s1600/john-cantlie5.jpg" height="175" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span itemprop="articleBody"></span></div>In the fifth episode of the Islamic State’s (IS) video series “Lend Me Your Ears,” British captive John Cantlie discussed his experience with fellow prisoners from America and Europe, including fighters waterboarding them, and the “uncomfortable truth” about the U.S. and Britain not negotiating for their release.<br /><br />The 6 minute, 30 second video was produced by the IS’ al-Furqan Media Foundation, and was distributed on Twitter on October 25, 2014. Cantlie said that the IS began a “long-term” operation to capture Westerners entering Syria in 2013 and then tried negotiating with their home countries for their release. Here, he pointed out that nationals from Denmark, Germany, and Spain were released through negotiations, but the Americans and Britons were “stonewalled” by their respective governments.<br /><br />Cantlie read selections from alleged emails from prisoners’ families and the IS where the families complained about the U.S. government not helping. Cantlie remarked: “Now the recurring elements in these emails is that the U.S. government was simply doing absolutely nothing to help the families involved in this negotiation. The mujahideen told us our governments didn't care about us and we didn't believe them. They told us we were worthless and we didn't believe them. We were told we'd start to die and we didn't believe that either. The human mind has an incredibly tough capacity to self-defense in difficult situations. But it was all true. Our governments had chose not to negotiate with the Islamic State through our families and friends. And while everyone else fulfilled the conditions for release, for us, there was no deal.”<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwUjI92SMw4N0e47yHRtV0-WPnnUDNlnREylGCrdZwNPKaz7OasIICqZ4J23cWYZR6cRSKbgb5aTFBbSRcjNQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span itemprop="articleBody"><b>Following is a transcript of the video:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span itemprop="articleBody"></span><span itemprop="articleBody"> Lend Me Your Ears</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span itemprop="articleBody">Messages from the British Detainee John Cantlie</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span itemprop="articleBody">Episode 5</span><span itemprop="articleBody"></span></div><span itemprop="articleBody"><br /> Hello, I'm John Cantlie, the British citizen abandoned by my own government, and a prisoner of the Islamic State for nearly two years.</span><br /><span itemprop="articleBody"><br /> In this program I'm going to reveal to you some uncomfortable truths that have so far resulted in the executions of my former cellmates. Only the American and British prisoners were left behind after months of negotiations that saw 16 other citizens from six European countries go home. How was this allowed to happen?</span><br /><span itemprop="articleBody"><br /> We have to go back to 2013 when the Islamic State launched a long-term operation to capture Westerns entering Syria, and they began the next phase of the operation: negotiating for our release with our governments through families and friends. Now, unless we tried something stupid like escaping or doing something we shouldn't, we were treated well by the Islamic State. Some of us who tried to escape were waterboarded by our captors, as Muslim prisoners are waterboarded by their American captors.</span><br /><span itemprop="articleBody"><br /> Our strange little community of prisoners had its share of problems, but apart from the odd fight, we lived together in relative harmony through uncertain times. We read books, played recreational games, and gave lectures on our specialist subjects. It wasn't a bad life.</span><br /><span itemprop="articleBody"><br /> The first to leave was my friend, Spanish journalist Marcus Marjuneris in February 2014. The mujahideen then made their first strong move by shooting one of our number, a Russian with no clean origin or story behind him. The message was clear: don't mess around when it comes to negotiations. The Europeans fell into line. Two more Spanish journalists left, then four French at the end of April, their representatives having fulfilled the conditions for their release.</span><br /><span itemprop="articleBody"><br /> But it was clear something was different for the British and Americans. While there was dialogue for everyone else, the British and Americans were stonewalled. It was completely silent. Nothing. Now we knew our countries claim to be non-negotiating when it came to situations like this, but often knew examples when they had negotiated either under the table or through a third party. Due to the size and complexity of this situation, and the number of other countries involved, we believed our governments would get us out in the end. So we waited patiently while everyone else went home to their loved ones.</span><br /><span itemprop="articleBody"><br /> Finally, we had movement in May. We made a video, wrote letters, and made a voice-recording. For us, the Islamic State were asking for the release of Muslim prisoners and their transfer to the Caliphate. It sounded very complicated, but we were the biggest group from the biggest countries. There had to be a negotiation going on. But by the time the last two Europeans left, my friends Dan from Denmark - another non-negotiating country - and Tony from Germany, it was clear to us we were in very big trouble.</span><br /><span itemprop="articleBody"><br /> Now I have here a selection of emails between the Islamic State and families back home. I don't have much on the British, so I assume there was even less discussion going on for them, so this is really all about the Americans and you'll see that really the government was doing nothing, absolutely nothing, to help families involved. I have a message here from one of the American prisoners on the 11th of June 2014:</span><br /><span itemprop="articleBody"><br /> "I would secure your sister Dr. Aafia Siddique's release if I could. It sounds like you care about her freedom. You have surely seen the news. Our government is a mess. They will not help."</span><br /><span itemprop="articleBody"><br /> There's another email here from the family of one of the American prisoners on the 17th of July 2014:</span><br /><span itemprop="articleBody"><br /> "Our government is not being helpful. We have begged them so many times already. Everyone has buried their heads in the sand. We feel we are caught in the middle between you and the U.S. government, and we are being punished. We have reached out to our government, but they have been non-responsive for some time now."</span><br /><span itemprop="articleBody"><br /> The person then goes on to say:</span><br /><span itemprop="articleBody"><br /> "We don't expect that we will get any help from our government at all, and we feel foolish for believing them."</span><br /><span itemprop="articleBody"><br /> There's a message from the family of one of the American prisoners on the 24th of July 2014:</span><br /><span itemprop="articleBody"><br /> "We are contacting people everyday. You've given us a huge mountain to climb, and we feel like a pawn in this political battle that we've been forced into. I'm taking everything you have said seriously, and I'm working as fast as I can. I need more time."</span><br /><span itemprop="articleBody"><br /> Now the recurring elements in these emails is that the U.S. government was simply doing absolutely nothing to help the families involved in this negotiation. The mujahideen told us our governments didn't care about us and we didn't believe them. They told us we were worthless and we didn't believe them. We were told we'd start to die and we didn't believe that either. The human mind has an incredibly tough capacity to self-defense in difficult situations. But it was all true. Our governments had chose not to negotiate with the Islamic State through our families and friends. And while everyone else fulfilled the conditions for release, for us, there was no deal.</span><br /><span itemprop="articleBody"><br /> Join me in the next program as we learn about a failed rescue that tried to get us out, and you'll hear about how one soldier was worth five prisoners and we were worth none.</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PA_xSdl7Md8/VE7OcCI4ZFI/AAAAAAAABW0/C5iLUQ3yhxA/s1600/JohnCantlie_wearing_purple.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PA_xSdl7Md8/VE7OcCI4ZFI/AAAAAAAABW0/C5iLUQ3yhxA/s1600/JohnCantlie_wearing_purple.jpg" height="179" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="width: 624px;">John Cantlie was kidnapped in Syria in 2012</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div itemprop="name"></div><div itemprop="name"></div><div itemprop="name"></div></div>Diversities Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05401472087128725547noreply@blogger.com0Kobani, Syria36.6959872 38.40083570000001635.880094199999995 37.109942200000013 37.5118802 39.691729200000019tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2471283927852878995.post-56109482497527993262014-10-27T16:10:00.000-07:002014-10-28T07:54:52.367-07:00British Captive John Cantlie Reports from Kobani in IS Video [ Pics / Videos ] - www.ofINTEREST.net<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>The Islamic State (IS) released a
video featuring British captive John Cantlie reporting from Kobani
about the group’s control over the city despite Western media
broadcasting the contrary.</b><br />
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<b> The 5 minute, 32 second video, entitled, “Inside 'Ayn
al-Islam,” was produced by the IS’ al-I’tisaam Media Foundation, and was
distributed on Twitter on October 27, 2014. Cantlie, dressed in a black
outfit, stands atop a building in Kobani and speaks on what he sees
below him and in the distance, and claims that the IS has essentially
secured victory in the city. </b><br />
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<b>“Kobani is now being reinforced by Iraqi Kurds who are coming
in through Turkey, while the mujahideen are being resupplied by the
hopeless United States Air Forces, who parachuted two crates of weapons
and ammunition straight into the outstretched arms of the mujahideen.
Now the battle for Kobani is coming to an end. The mujahideen are just
mopping up now, street to street, and building to building. You can
occasionally hear erratic gunfire in the background as a result of those
operations. But contrary to what the Western media would have you
believe, it is not an all-out battle here now. It is nearly over. As you
can hear, it is very quiet, just the occasional gunfire.</b><br />
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<b>“Two-hundred thousand inhabitants of the city have been
displaced because of the fighting that came here. You can see the
refugee camps over my right shoulder over there in Turkey, where the
inhabitants now are. But contrary to media reports, the fighting in
Kobani is nearly over</b><br />
<b>“Urban warfare is as about as nasty and tough as it gets, and it’s something of a specialty of the mujahideen.”</b><br />
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In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful<br />Inside 'Ayn al-Islam<br />
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[Aerial footage from "drone of the Islamic State Army"]<br />
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[John Cantlie]<br />
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Hello, I'm John Cantlie, and today we're in the city of Kobani on the
Syrian-Turkish border. That is in fact Turkey right behind me, and we
are here in the heart of the so-called PKK safe zone, which is now
controlled entirely by the Islamic State. For a month now, the soldiers
of the Islamic State have been besieging this key Kurdish city and,
despite continual American airstrikes, which have so far cost nearly
half a billion dollars in total, the mujahideen have pushed deep in the
heart of the city. They now control the eastern and southern sectors.<br />
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Now, the Western media, and I can't see any of their journalists here
in the city of Kobani, have been saying recently that the Islamic State
are on the retreat. In the last 48 hours, hundreds of Islamic State
militants have been reportedly killed in airstrikes, said the IB Times,
on the 16th of October. We now we've killed several hundred of them,
said John Kirby, the Pentagon official. The Islamic State is retreating
from the Syrian city of Kobani, said the BBC on October the 17th, while
Patrick Coburn said in The Independent that despite suffering serious
losses, the Islamic State was continuing its assault on the city.<br />
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Now this is all quite a turn-around from earlier in the month, when
U.S. officials were saying, and I quote: "The strategically unimportant
city of Kobani was going to fall into mujahideen hands in just a matter
of time. It's going to be difficult with just airpower to prevent the
Islamic State from taking the town, said U.S. National Security Advisor
Tony Blinken on the 10th of October.<br />
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Now, good ole John Kerry doesn't seem to think the mujahideen are
retreating. He called Kobani a "horrible example of the unwillingness of
people to help those who are fighting the Islamic State". Now that's a
dig at Kurd-hating Turkish President Erdogan.<br />
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But the point is, from where I'm standing right now, I can see large
swathes of the city, and I can even see the Turkish flag behind me, and
all I've seen here in the city of Kobani is mujahideen. There are no
YPG, PKK, or Peshmerga in sight. Just a large number of Islamic State
mujahideen, and they are definitely not on the run. Without any safe
access, there are no journalists here in the city. So the media are
getting their information from Kurdish commanders and White House press
secretaries, neither of whom have the slightest intention of telling the
truth of what is happening here on the ground. Now, airstrikes did
prevent some groups of mujahideen from using their tanks and heavy armor
as they would have liked, so they are entering the city and using light
weapons instead, going house to house.<br />
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Now America is very keen for Kobani to become a symbol - a symbol of
victory of the coalition that is working together to defeat the Islamic
State. But they now and the mujahideen also know that even with all
their airpower and all their proxy troops on the ground, even this is
not enough to defeat the Islamic State here in Kobani and elsewhere.<br />
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Kobani is now being reinforced by Iraqi Kurds who are coming in
through Turkey, while the mujahideen are being resupplied by the
hopeless United States Air Forces, who parachuted two crates of weapons
and ammunition straight into the outstretched arms of the mujahideen.
Now the battle for Kobani is coming to an end. The mujahideen are just
mopping up now, street to street, and building to building. You can
occasionally hear erratic gunfire in the background as a result of those
operations. But contrary to what the Western media would have you
believe, it is not an all-out battle here now. It is nearly over. As you
can hear, it is very quiet, just the occasional gunfire.<br />
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Two-hundred thousand inhabitants of the city have been displaced
because of the fighting that came here. You can see the refugee camps
over my right shoulder over there in Turkey, where the inhabitants now
are. But contrary to media reports, the fighting in Kobani is nearly
over<br />
Urban warfare is as about as nasty and tough as it gets, and it’s something of a specialty of the mujahideen.</span></div>
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In the fifth episode of the Islamic
State’s (IS) video series “Lend Me Your Ears,” British captive John
Cantlie discussed his experience with fellow prisoners from America and
Europe, including fighters waterboarding them, and the “uncomfortable
truth” about the U.S. and Britain not negotiating for their release.<br />
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The 6 minute, 30 second video was produced by the IS’ al-Furqan Media
Foundation, and was distributed on Twitter on October 25, 2014. Cantlie
said that the IS began a “long-term” operation to capture Westerners
entering Syria in 2013 and then tried negotiating with their home
countries for their release. Here, he pointed out that nationals from
Denmark, Germany, and Spain were released through negotiations, but the
Americans and Britons were “stonewalled” by their respective
governments.<br />
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Cantlie read selections from alleged emails from prisoners’ families
and the IS where the families complained about the U.S. government not
helping. Cantlie remarked: “Now the recurring elements in these emails
is that the U.S. government was simply doing absolutely nothing to help
the families involved in this negotiation. The mujahideen told us our
governments didn't care about us and we didn't believe them. They told
us we were worthless and we didn't believe them. We were told we'd start
to die and we didn't believe that either. The human mind has an
incredibly tough capacity to self-defense in difficult situations. But
it was all true. Our governments had chose not to negotiate with the
Islamic State through our families and friends. And while everyone else
fulfilled the conditions for release, for us, there was no deal.”<br />
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Hello, I'm John Cantlie, the British citizen abandoned by my own
government, and a prisoner of the Islamic State for nearly two years.</span><br />
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In this program I'm going to reveal to you some uncomfortable truths
that have so far resulted in the executions of my former cellmates. Only
the American and British prisoners were left behind after months of
negotiations that saw 16 other citizens from six European countries go
home. How was this allowed to happen?</span><br />
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We have to go back to 2013 when the Islamic State launched a
long-term operation to capture Westerns entering Syria, and they began
the next phase of the operation: negotiating for our release with our
governments through families and friends. Now, unless we tried something
stupid like escaping or doing something we shouldn't, we were treated
well by the Islamic State. Some of us who tried to escape were
waterboarded by our captors, as Muslim prisoners are waterboarded by
their American captors.</span><br />
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Our strange little community of prisoners had its share of problems,
but apart from the odd fight, we lived together in relative harmony
through uncertain times. We read books, played recreational games, and
gave lectures on our specialist subjects. It wasn't a bad life.</span><br />
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The first to leave was my friend, Spanish journalist Marcus
Marjuneris in February 2014. The mujahideen then made their first strong
move by shooting one of our number, a Russian with no clean origin or
story behind him. The message was clear: don't mess around when it comes
to negotiations. The Europeans fell into line. Two more Spanish
journalists left, then four French at the end of April, their
representatives having fulfilled the conditions for their release.</span><br />
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But it was clear something was different for the British and
Americans. While there was dialogue for everyone else, the British and
Americans were stonewalled. It was completely silent. Nothing. Now we
knew our countries claim to be non-negotiating when it came to
situations like this, but often knew examples when they had negotiated
either under the table or through a third party. Due to the size and
complexity of this situation, and the number of other countries
involved, we believed our governments would get us out in the end. So we
waited patiently while everyone else went home to their loved ones.</span><br />
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Finally, we had movement in May. We made a video, wrote letters, and
made a voice-recording. For us, the Islamic State were asking for the
release of Muslim prisoners and their transfer to the Caliphate. It
sounded very complicated, but we were the biggest group from the biggest
countries. There had to be a negotiation going on. But by the time the
last two Europeans left, my friends Dan from Denmark - another
non-negotiating country - and Tony from Germany, it was clear to us we
were in very big trouble.</span><br />
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Now I have here a selection of emails between the Islamic State and
families back home. I don't have much on the British, so I assume there
was even less discussion going on for them, so this is really all about
the Americans and you'll see that really the government was doing
nothing, absolutely nothing, to help families involved. I have a message
here from one of the American prisoners on the 11th of June 2014:</span><br />
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"I would secure your sister Dr. Aafia Siddique's release if I could.
It sounds like you care about her freedom. You have surely seen the
news. Our government is a mess. They will not help."</span><br />
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There's another email here from the family of one of the American prisoners on the 17th of July 2014:</span><br />
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"Our government is not being helpful. We have begged them so many
times already. Everyone has buried their heads in the sand. We feel we
are caught in the middle between you and the U.S. government, and we are
being punished. We have reached out to our government, but they have
been non-responsive for some time now."</span><br />
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The person then goes on to say:</span><br />
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"We don't expect that we will get any help from our government at all, and we feel foolish for believing them."</span><br />
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There's a message from the family of one of the American prisoners on the 24th of July 2014:</span><br />
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"We are contacting people everyday. You've given us a huge mountain
to climb, and we feel like a pawn in this political battle that we've
been forced into. I'm taking everything you have said seriously, and I'm
working as fast as I can. I need more time."</span><br />
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Now the recurring elements in these emails is that the U.S.
government was simply doing absolutely nothing to help the families
involved in this negotiation. The mujahideen told us our governments
didn't care about us and we didn't believe them. They told us we were
worthless and we didn't believe them. We were told we'd start to die and
we didn't believe that either. The human mind has an incredibly tough
capacity to self-defense in difficult situations. But it was all true.
Our governments had chose not to negotiate with the Islamic State
through our families and friends. And while everyone else fulfilled the
conditions for release, for us, there was no deal.</span><br />
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Join me in the next program as we learn about a failed rescue that
tried to get us out, and you'll hear about how one soldier was worth
five prisoners and we were worth none.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13052342818075125666noreply@blogger.com0Kobani, Syria36.6959872 38.40083570000001635.880094199999995 37.109942200000013 37.5118802 39.691729200000019tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2471283927852878995.post-44984269468662566492014-09-29T05:24:00.002-07:002018-08-26T17:39:20.899-07:00Borneo's Mount Kinabalu, Flesh Eating, Giant Red Leech Swallows huge Blue Earthworm like Spaghetti [ VIDEO-Pics ] - www.ofINTEREST.net<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tgcQ4eeokys/VClH2zRU5LI/AAAAAAAABVc/cr4r20UhcHs/s1600/Wildlife_of_interest530x200_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tgcQ4eeokys/VClH2zRU5LI/AAAAAAAABVc/cr4r20UhcHs/s1600/Wildlife_of_interest530x200_.jpg" height="120" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><h2><a href="http://ofinterestnet.blogspot.com/2014/09/borneos-mount-kinabalu-flesh-eating.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Borneo's Mount Kinabalu, Flesh Eating, Giant Red Leech Devourers huge Blue Earthworm like Spaghetti</span></a></h2></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gmbGiTaqXr8/VClIOB-ysJI/AAAAAAAABVk/Q5-z2xUC06U/s1600/MonsterLeechDevouringWorm.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gmbGiTaqXr8/VClIOB-ysJI/AAAAAAAABVk/Q5-z2xUC06U/s1600/MonsterLeechDevouringWorm.gif" height="158" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">For the first time, <a href="http://www.bbc.com/" target="_blank">BBC</a> filmmakers in the forests of Borneo's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Kinabalu" target="_blank">Mount Kinabalu</a> have documented the so-repulsive-it's-captivating behavior of a large, red, worm-guzzling predator as part of their upcoming new series <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p027f9q0" target="_blank">"Wonders of the Monsoon"</a>. While the predator remains unclassified by science, the animal is known to the area's tribespeople, fittingly, as the "Giant Red Leech." <br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GLdayvkPU2s/VClOMa0CG6I/AAAAAAAABV0/US9hIoKcxhs/s1600/Leech_3052497b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GLdayvkPU2s/VClOMa0CG6I/AAAAAAAABV0/US9hIoKcxhs/s1600/Leech_3052497b.jpg" height="199" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="artImageExtras"><div class="ingCaptionCredit"><span class="caption">A huge 1m leech has been filmed for the first time swallowing a giant earthworm in the forests of Borneo</span> <span class="credit">Photo: BBC</span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="text-align: center;"><blockquote data-textannotation-id="2882f175c936c5120211816e2dd59353"><div data-textannotation-id="1ecdf08bf603703fccb6d0f702e0357a" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8;">The Giant Red Leech is one of the biggest in the world. The specimen captured on camera was around 30cm long but experts believe they could grow larger.</span></div></blockquote><blockquote data-textannotation-id="2882f175c936c5120211816e2dd59353"><div data-textannotation-id="bd94d58309ca86ab624bb2033c742e0e" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8;">They have grown so big that they no longer simply suck blood but now actively hunt giant blue worms and suck them down like spaghetti. The worm it is eating is a whopping 78cm.</span></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote data-textannotation-id="2882f175c936c5120211816e2dd59353"><div data-textannotation-id="8117ccf7674bbae098efc7d470b483a3"><span style="color: #b6d7a8;">The new footage shows the leech detecting a worm's trail and following the scent like a sniffer dog.</span></div></blockquote></div><blockquote data-textannotation-id="2882f175c936c5120211816e2dd59353"><div data-textannotation-id="54cdb7b6936fd02827b14a9dc8ae916c" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8;">When it encounters its prey it quickly latches on and moves its lips up and down the iridescent blue body.</span></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote data-textannotation-id="2882f175c936c5120211816e2dd59353"><span style="color: #b6d7a8;">"It was either searching for an end to grab, or was working out whether it was too big to eat" said documentary director Paul Williams. </span></blockquote></div><blockquote data-textannotation-id="2882f175c936c5120211816e2dd59353"><div data-textannotation-id="5e0966534d27f90ee89498d98a769cad" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8;">"When it found an end it started to suck. It was incredible."</span></div></blockquote><div data-textannotation-id="83c6f70d81284fb630ec81d856982dee" style="text-align: left;">That this ambitious leech is roughly half the length of the worm it's eating only makes the footage more impressive. </div><div data-textannotation-id="83c6f70d81284fb630ec81d856982dee" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div data-textannotation-id="c6a8f8908ec6e8a539a679207e1c815f" style="text-align: left;">A big thanks to Paul Williams and the Giant Red Leech for this fascinating footage – and for ruining spaghetti for everyone, forever.</div><div data-textannotation-id="c6a8f8908ec6e8a539a679207e1c815f" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div data-textannotation-id="c6a8f8908ec6e8a539a679207e1c815f" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dySJ2QoIQlafwA-GGPhOcVDoAmxclEUTd1QfV2pIATGlX3zj3Tj74W_FmlsXjPHN88Zq6ijayJX6tcQJoH8HA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div itemprop="alternativeHeadline description"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Video is via BBC documentary <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p027f9q0" target="_blank">Wonders of the Monsoon</a></span></div><div data-textannotation-id="c6a8f8908ec6e8a539a679207e1c815f" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div data-textannotation-id="c6a8f8908ec6e8a539a679207e1c815f" style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p027f9q0" target="_blank"><b>Wonders of the Monsoon</b></a> will air on BBC 2 at 8pm on Sunday October 5th:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Series producer Paul Bradshaw said: “This is natural history set in the planet's most glorious and dramatic theatre - the lands of the monsoon. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">“It's an incredibly rich mixture of extraordinary creatures, great and small, with some of the planet’s most colourful and ancient cultures, all bound together through the story of this rampaging weather system.” </div><br /><br /></div><div data-textannotation-id="c6a8f8908ec6e8a539a679207e1c815f" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div data-textannotation-id="e387857ef3e23a6357d780e96d6736de" style="text-align: center;"><b>RELATED:</b> </div><div data-textannotation-id="e387857ef3e23a6357d780e96d6736de" style="text-align: center;">Compare the end-on technique of the Giant Red Leech with the side-bite employed by this Japanese Mountain Leech:</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxPt7N0B3afnDv1Xv59DELVHx9sWrV4mrQhnDsBmbLAsfQN6b4TIz250xxStUAidPXb3QRy8pEKe9RofPu6IA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /><b>MORE RELATED:</b><br /><br />The ant pictured below comes from entomologist, blogger and insect photographer <a data-ls-seen="1" href="http://myrmecos.net/about-alex-wild-2/" target="_blank">Alex Wild</a>. The remarkable image of a trapjaw ant, torn asunder to reveal the wriggling, 8-inch parasitic worm living inside. (The ant, by comparison, measures about half an inch long.) <br /><b></b><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1J39Qb7EyNk/VClT8B6D03I/AAAAAAAABWE/HFOxAO-8NfE/s1600/Antbig.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1J39Qb7EyNk/VClT8B6D03I/AAAAAAAABWE/HFOxAO-8NfE/s1600/Antbig.jpg" height="213" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Infected Ant via Alex Wild </b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b></b></div><div class="field field-name-field-file-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><br /></div><div class="field field-name-field-file-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"></div><div style="text-align: left;">In the jungles of Belize last January, entomologist Alex Wild noticed something odd about the trap-jaw ants passing through his outdoor insect photography class: They all had shrunken heads and swollen abdomens. A day after making the observation, Wild and his students came upon an ant with a worm bursting out of its side. Parasites were at work. Nematode worms enter the ants as larvae and grow inside the ants' body cavity, siphoning off nutrients and distorting their hosts' natural anatomy. When the eight-inch-long nematodes are ready to mate a few weeks later, they push their way out of their half-inch-long hosts, killing them.</div><h3>INFECTED</h3><div style="text-align: left;">In the abdomen of a trap-jaw ant, a parasitic nematode lives off nutrients from the surrounding fluids and changes the morphology of its host.</div><h3>HEALTHY</h3><div style="text-align: left;">The jaws of a parasite-free worker can snap shut on prey in just 1/10,000 of a second—the fastest known mechanical action in nature.</div><br /><b>Fun fact:</b><br /> when they're not bursting at the seams with squirming parasites, trapjaw ants are capable of clamping their mandibles shut somewhere in the range of 35 to 64 meters per second (~78–145 miles per hour). The average duration of a trap-jaw clamp is just 0.13 milliseconds, <a data-ls-seen="1" href="http://io9.com/holy-crap-this-ants-jaws-are-like-a-freaking-bear-tra-482576112">making it among the fastest predatory strikes in the animal kingdom</a>.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dz7GRdXnfQYCBK_8mRGwvdxImwo_na57cKIJsADQH46OISCk6G5l90VPMWLvTx1w2ow9MC5rwrPlrq1bP1hsA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="yt" id="watch-headline-title" style="padding-bottom: 8px;"><span class="watch-title " dir="ltr" id="eow-title" style="vertical-align: top;" title="Trap-jaw ant, Odontomachus brunneus"><b>Trap-jaw ant, Odontomachus brunneus</b></span></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">In 2006, a team led by UC Berkeley biologist Sheila Patek used high-speed videography to determine that <a data-ls-seen="1" href="http://www.pnas.org/content/103/34/12787.abstract" target="_blank">a trap-jaw's mandibles can accelerate at 100,000 times the force of gravity</a>, and exert a force powerful enough to send its body soaring through the air in a defensive maneuver known as an "escape jump" (seen above). Below is another example of a <i>different</i> evasive maneuver (called a "bounce defense jump") with a more horizontal trajectory, from the same study:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxd_BrMI9J3b0Q8SXer5Xe0-xNNzp2EHtjZtWPpEd4_gH3ukA1b0E8vLSDO0Prx_F7c1QISdemzUFDvnuVnIg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><span style="font-size: x-small;">This video shows a trap-jaw ant (Odontomachus bauri) that fired its jaws against a hard surface and launched itself into the air (filmed at 3000 frames per second, played back at 30 frames per second).</span><br /><br /></div></div>Diversities Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05401472087128725547noreply@blogger.com0Kota Kinabalu Terminal Bas (Pusat) Bandaraya, Jalan Centre Point, 88000 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia5.9726360000000014 116.06767309999998-19.5493985 74.75907909999998 31.4946705 157.37626709999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2471283927852878995.post-53853980982923943372014-09-29T05:24:00.001-07:002014-09-29T18:44:05.362-07:00Borneo's Mount Kinabalu, Flesh Eating, Giant Red Leech Swallows huge Blue Earthworm like Spaghetti [ VIDEO-Pics ] - www.ofINTEREST.net<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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For the first time, <a href="http://www.bbc.com/" target="_blank">BBC</a> filmmakers in the forests of Borneo's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Kinabalu" target="_blank">Mount Kinabalu</a> have documented the so-repulsive-it's-captivating behavior of a
large, red, worm-guzzling predator as part of their upcoming new series <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p027f9q0" target="_blank">"Wonders of the Monsoon"</a>. While the predator remains unclassified by
science, the animal is known to the area's tribespeople, fittingly, as the "Giant Red Leech." <br />
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Red Leech is one of the biggest in the world. The specimen captured on
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have grown so big that they no longer simply suck blood but now
actively hunt giant blue worms and suck them down like spaghetti. The
worm it is eating is a whopping 78cm.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">The new footage shows the leech detecting a worm's trail and following the scent like a sniffer dog.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">When it encounters its prey it quickly latches on and moves its lips up and down the iridescent blue body.</span></div>
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That this ambitious leech is roughly half the length of the worm it's eating only makes the footage more impressive. </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Video is via BBC documentary <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p027f9q0" target="_blank">Wonders of the Monsoon</a></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p027f9q0" target="_blank"><b>Wonders of the Monsoon</b></a> will air on BBC 2 at 8pm on Sunday October 5th:<br />
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Series producer Paul Bradshaw said: “This is natural history set in the
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“It's an incredibly rich mixture of extraordinary creatures, great and small,
with some of the planet’s most colourful and ancient cultures, all bound
together through the story of this rampaging weather system.”
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Compare the end-on technique of the Giant Red Leech with the side-bite employed by this Japanese Mountain Leech:</div>
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The ant pictured below comes from entomologist, blogger and insect photographer <a data-ls-seen="1" href="http://myrmecos.net/about-alex-wild-2/" target="_blank">Alex Wild</a>. The remarkable image of a trapjaw ant, torn asunder to reveal
the wriggling, 8-inch parasitic worm living inside. (The ant, by
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In the jungles of Belize last January,
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passing through his outdoor insect photography class: They all had
shrunken heads and swollen abdomens. A day after making the observation,
Wild and his students came upon an ant with a worm bursting out of its
side. Parasites were at work. Nematode worms enter the ants as larvae
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In the abdomen of a trap-jaw ant, a parasitic nematode lives off
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The jaws of a parasite-free worker can snap shut on prey in just
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In 2006, a team led by UC Berkeley biologist Sheila Patek used high-speed videography to determine that <a data-ls-seen="1" href="http://www.pnas.org/content/103/34/12787.abstract" target="_blank">a trap-jaw's mandibles can accelerate at 100,000 times the force of gravity</a>,
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13052342818075125666noreply@blogger.com0Kota Kinabalu Terminal Bas (Pusat) Bandaraya, Jalan Centre Point, 88000 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia5.9726360000000014 116.06767309999998-19.5493985 74.75907909999998 31.4946705 157.37626709999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2471283927852878995.post-64069496397867272552014-09-16T09:48:00.001-07:002018-08-26T17:39:20.977-07:00MISSING: Hannah Elizabeth Graham, 18 student from England since Friday, 12th Sept. 2014 from about University of Virginia, Charlottesville campus [ VIDEO/Pics ] - www.ofINTEREST.net<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CdGQfsbetWY/VBhhLpdupkI/AAAAAAAABUI/qGlEcnfO38A/s1600/Missing_of_interest530x200_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CdGQfsbetWY/VBhhLpdupkI/AAAAAAAABUI/qGlEcnfO38A/s1600/Missing_of_interest530x200_.jpg" height="120" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Via</b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qjU4pKTCwhI/VBhpv5k30tI/AAAAAAAABU0/x2kOeA5tU_8/s1600/dailymail_uk_mail_online_logo_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qjU4pKTCwhI/VBhpv5k30tI/AAAAAAAABU0/x2kOeA5tU_8/s1600/dailymail_uk_mail_online_logo_.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><h2><a href="http://ofinterestnet.blogspot.nl/2014/09/missing-hannah-elizabeth-graham-18.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Police searching for missing UVA student, 18, release last known footage of girl as it's revealed she texted friends at 01:20 am to say she was lost on way to party near her own house</span></span></a> </h2><ul class="article-summary news mol-bullets-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><li class=""><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Hannah Elizabeth Graham, 18, was reported missing on Sunday on campus</b></span></span></li><li class=""><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Texted friends at 01:20 am on Saturday to say she was lost on the way to meet them</b></span></span></li><li class=""><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>But according to Charlottesville police, she failed to arrive for the party</b></span></span></li><li class=""><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Surveillance shows her running along a corridor the night she went missing</b><b> </b></span></span></li><li class=""><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Family and friends have not heard from the second year student since </b></span></span></li><li class=""><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Her parents are from England but she lives in America on a Green Card</b></span></span></li></ul><div class="author-section" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">By <a class="author" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=James+Nye" rel="nofollow">James Nye</a>and <a class="author" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Wills+Robinson+for+MailOnline" rel="nofollow">Wills Robinson for MailOnline</a></span></span></div><div class="byline-section" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="article-timestamp article-timestamp-published"> </span></span></span><span class="article-timestamp article-timestamp-updated"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="article-timestamp-label">Updated:</span> 07:54 EST, 16 September 2014</span></span> </span></div><div class="byline-section"><span class="article-timestamp article-timestamp-updated"><br /></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Police have released CCTV images of a University of Virginia student on the night she disappeared after failing to show up for a party after texting to say she was lost near her own home.</span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Authorities are desperately searching for Hannah Elizabeth Graham who was reported missing near the Charlottesville campus on Sunday.</span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The 18-year-old texted her friends at 1.20am on Saturday to say she was lost on the way to a party near to her home at the Camden Plaza Apartments but never arrived. </span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The same friends told police she had been drinking beforehand and last night surveillance images were released by police showing her running inside her apartment block at 9.30pm on the night she went missing.</span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">At the request of the family her address is not being made public.</span></span></div><div class="byline-section"><br /></div><div class="byline-section"><span class="article-timestamp article-timestamp-updated"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7EYQPs9jQLo/VBhhF7o1GiI/AAAAAAAABS8/O1fjsXdvepU/s1600/1-Police_released_new_surver.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7EYQPs9jQLo/VBhhF7o1GiI/AAAAAAAABS8/O1fjsXdvepU/s1600/1-Police_released_new_surver.JPG" height="320" width="193" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZwK0YyZOB1k/VBhhH1-EwiI/AAAAAAAABTU/8Xkr7ZcQ6y4/s1600/2-Police_released_new_surver.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZwK0YyZOB1k/VBhhH1-EwiI/AAAAAAAABTU/8Xkr7ZcQ6y4/s1600/2-Police_released_new_surver.JPG" height="320" width="193" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Last known pictures: Police have released this CCTV footage of Hannah Elizabeth Graham, 18, on the night she disappeared after failing to show up for a party </td></tr></tbody></table><div class="byline-section"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Fya4-Uw2uDQ/VBhhIPRwftI/AAAAAAAABTY/aXgn51Z4bSE/s1600/3-Police_released_new_surver.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Fya4-Uw2uDQ/VBhhIPRwftI/AAAAAAAABTY/aXgn51Z4bSE/s1600/3-Police_released_new_surver.JPG" height="320" width="280" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IycqxR1cU3o/VBhhI8fc7DI/AAAAAAAABTg/dVv82prWLtM/s1600/4-Police_released_new_surver.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IycqxR1cU3o/VBhhI8fc7DI/AAAAAAAABTg/dVv82prWLtM/s1600/4-Police_released_new_surver.JPG" height="320" width="280" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Search: University of Virginia officials have launched a huge hunt for the missing second year student in nearby woodland. Her parents are from England and she lives in the US on a Green Card </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="byline-section"><span class="article-timestamp article-timestamp-updated"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-L1nJXjIpw2k/VBhhJuOzjhI/AAAAAAAABTo/6euXCEmOUiY/s1600/5-Police_released_new_surver.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-L1nJXjIpw2k/VBhhJuOzjhI/AAAAAAAABTo/6euXCEmOUiY/s1600/5-Police_released_new_surver.JPG" height="230" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Search: Hannah was last heard from in the vicinity of 224 14th Street in Charlottesville, just north of the UVA campus</td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div class="byline-section"><br /></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Friends and family have not heard anything from the second year student, whose parents are from England, since and police have launched a desperate search for her in wooded areas. </span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">It shows what she was wearing on the night she disappeared. Police have said she was 'fairly well intoxicated', according to <a class="" href="http://wtvr.com/2014/09/15/police-release-new-pictures-of-missing-u-va-student-hannah-elizabeth-graham/" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">CBS6</a>.</span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Her friend, Sophia Lamrissi-Garcia, who was partying with Hannah at one of her sorority events, told the station she had considered getting a cab home, but decided she would walk instead. </span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="byline-section"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">"At that point in the night you think you’re doing the right thing walking alone but it’s not always the right decision to make", Sophia added</span></span>.</span><span class="article-timestamp article-timestamp-updated"> </span></div></div><div class="byline-section"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Her neighbor, Sam Blum said that he is devastated and worried about her disappearance.</span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">'I saw her on Thursday…she seemed really happy,' said Blum to WTVR. 'Downtown Charlottesville, I wouldn’t expect that.'</span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The search area for Hannah is being focused around 14th Street Northwest to Wertland Street, including the railroad tracks, near to the UVA campus.</span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">That was where she sent her last text to friends explaining she was lost.</span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">UVA President Teresa Sullivan released a statement Monday afternoon saying the university is both concerned and cooperating fully.</span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" id="ext-gen173" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">'The members of the University of Virginia community are united in our deep concern for a UVa student who is missing and has not been in touch with her family or friends since early Saturday morning,' said Sullivan according to the Roanoke Dispatch.</span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" id="ext-gen173" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Students who didn't know Hannah said they were worried about what it means for campus security,</span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">"I think it's real tragic when anything like this happens," said Brannon Johnson, 4th year at the university to the Roanoke Dispatch.</span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">"It definitely questions everything in terms of safety and how everyone is going to react and move around grounds for sure."</span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">"It kind of hit home that something like this can really happen," said Madison Baril, 1st year at the university.</span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">'Before it was kind of more like stories and warnings, but now it's a real person that's gone.</span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">"If you are with a group of girls, make sure you leave with a group of girls," said Baril. 'Find friends don't wander off with people you just met.'</span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" id="ext-gen173" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Z5Fy23uvFp0/VBhhG94Aq1I/AAAAAAAABTI/YZt-cdrI2wg/s1600/12-Police_released_new_surver.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Z5Fy23uvFp0/VBhhG94Aq1I/AAAAAAAABTI/YZt-cdrI2wg/s1600/12-Police_released_new_surver.JPG" height="320" width="178" /></a></span></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eFigfdaUTJo/VBhhHjSQbUI/AAAAAAAABTQ/1fvHFOw9idE/s1600/13-Police_released_new_surver.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eFigfdaUTJo/VBhhHjSQbUI/AAAAAAAABTQ/1fvHFOw9idE/s1600/13-Police_released_new_surver.JPG" height="320" width="178" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hannah, who is not a US citizen is 5'11" with blue eyes and light brown hair. She is said to live off campus</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hannah, who is not a US citizen is 5'11" with blue eyes and light brown hair. She lives off campus, is from Northern Virginia and resides in the US using a Green Card.</span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="ext-gen164" style="font-size: small;">"As some of you may have heard, Hannah Graham is missing. She was last seen leaving Camden Plaza around 11:50 late Friday night and last heard from a little after 1am, Saturday," one post shared on Facebook states. </span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">'On Sunday, her friends and family realized that none of them had seen or had contact with her since Friday night and a call was placed to the Emergency Communications Center by her friends, reporting her missing,' said Lt. Ronnie Roberts, of the Charlottesville Police Department to the Daily Progress.</span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Police detectives responded immediately and have been working to find Hannah since learning of her disappearance. A search using a bloodhound was conducted Sunday evening, but that search did not turn up anything useful."</span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="mol-style-bold">Anyone with information is asked to call Charlottesville Police Department at 970-3280 or Crimestoppers at 977-4000. </span></span></span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" id="ext-gen163"><br /></div><div class="item" data-track-module="am-external-links^external-links" id="external-source-links">Read more: </div><div class="item" data-track-module="am-external-links^external-links" id="external-source-links"><a class="js-tl" href="http://wtvr.com/2014/09/15/police-release-new-pictures-of-missing-u-va-student-hannah-elizabeth-graham/" rel="" target="_blank">Police release new pictures of missing UVa student Hannah Graham | WTVR.com</a></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" id="ext-gen173" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="byline-section"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><span class="article-timestamp article-timestamp-updated"></span> </div></div>Diversities Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05401472087128725547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2471283927852878995.post-78526254241767184922014-09-16T09:48:00.000-07:002014-09-16T16:51:20.179-07:00MISSING: Hannah Elizabeth Graham, 18 student from England since Friday, 12th Sept. 2014 from about University of Virginia, Charlottesville campus [ VIDEO/Pics ] - www.ofINTEREST.net<div style="text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://ofinterestnet.blogspot.nl/2014/09/missing-hannah-elizabeth-graham-18.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Police searching for missing UVA student, 18, release last known footage of girl as it's revealed she texted friends at 01:20 am to say she was lost on way to party near her own house</span></span></a> </h2>
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<li class=""><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Hannah Elizabeth Graham, 18, was reported missing on Sunday on campus</b></span></span></li>
<li class=""><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Texted friends at 01:20 am on Saturday to say she was lost on the way to meet them</b></span></span></li>
<li class=""><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>But according to Charlottesville police, she failed to arrive for the party</b></span></span></li>
<li class=""><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Surveillance shows her running along a corridor the night she went missing</b><b> </b></span></span></li>
<li class=""><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Family and friends have not heard from the second year student since </b></span></span></li>
<li class=""><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Her parents are from England but she lives in America on a Green Card</b></span></span></li>
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07:54 EST, 16 September 2014</span></span> </span></div>
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released CCTV images of a University of Virginia student on the night
she disappeared after failing to show up for a party after texting to
say she was lost near her own home.</span></span></div>
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are desperately searching for Hannah Elizabeth Graham who was reported
missing near the Charlottesville campus on Sunday.</span></span></div>
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18-year-old texted her friends at 1.20am on Saturday to say she was
lost on the way to a party near to her home at the Camden Plaza
Apartments but never arrived. </span></span></div>
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same friends told police she had been drinking beforehand and last
night surveillance images were released by police showing her running
inside her apartment block at 9.30pm on the night she went missing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">At the request of the family her address is not being made public.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Last known pictures: Police have released this CCTV footage of Hannah
Elizabeth Graham, 18, on the night she disappeared after failing to show
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the missing second year student in nearby woodland. Her parents are from
England and she lives in the US on a Green Card </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Search: Hannah was last heard from in the vicinity of 224 14th Street in Charlottesville, just north of the UVA campus</td></tr>
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family have not heard anything from the second year student, whose
parents are from England, since and police have launched a desperate
search for her in wooded areas. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">It shows what she was wearing on the night she disappeared. Police have said she was 'fairly well intoxicated', according to <a class="" href="http://wtvr.com/2014/09/15/police-release-new-pictures-of-missing-u-va-student-hannah-elizabeth-graham/" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">CBS6</a>.</span></span></div>
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friend, Sophia Lamrissi-Garcia, who was partying with Hannah at one of
her sorority events, told the station she had considered getting a cab
home, but decided she would walk instead. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">"At
that point in the night you think you’re doing the right thing walking
alone but it’s not always the right decision to make", Sophia added</span></span>.</span><span class="article-timestamp article-timestamp-updated"> </span></div>
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information from the public as they search for Hannah Elizabeth Graham</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Her neighbor, Sam Blum said that he is devastated and worried about her disappearance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">'I saw her on Thursday…she seemed really happy,' said Blum to WTVR. 'Downtown Charlottesville, I wouldn’t expect that.'</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
search area for Hannah is being focused around 14th Street Northwest to
Wertland Street, including the railroad tracks, near to the UVA campus.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">That was where she sent her last text to friends explaining she was lost.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">UVA
President Teresa Sullivan released a statement Monday afternoon saying
the university is both concerned and cooperating fully.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">'The
members of the University of Virginia community are united in our deep
concern for a UVa student who is missing and has not been in touch with
her family or friends since early Saturday morning,' said Sullivan
according to the Roanoke Dispatch.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Students who didn't know Hannah said they were worried about what it means for campus security,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">"I
think it's real tragic when anything like this happens," said Brannon
Johnson, 4th year at the university to the Roanoke Dispatch.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">"It definitely questions everything in terms of safety and how everyone is going to react and move around grounds for sure."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">"It kind of hit home that something like this can really happen," said Madison Baril, 1st year at the university.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">'Before it was kind of more like stories and warnings, but now it's a real person that's gone.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">"If
you are with a group of girls, make sure you leave with a group of
girls," said Baril. 'Find friends don't wander off with people you just
met.'</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hannah, who
is not a US citizen is 5'11" with blue eyes and light brown hair. She
lives off campus, is from Northern Virginia and resides in the US using a
Green Card.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="ext-gen164" style="font-size: small;">"As
some of you may have heard, Hannah Graham is missing. She was last seen
leaving Camden Plaza around 11:50 late Friday night and last heard from
a little after 1am, Saturday," one post shared on Facebook states. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">'On
Sunday, her friends and family realized that none of them had seen or
had contact with her since Friday night and a call was placed to the
Emergency Communications Center by her friends, reporting her missing,'
said Lt. Ronnie Roberts, of the Charlottesville Police Department to the
Daily Progress.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Police
detectives responded immediately and have been working to find Hannah
since learning of her disappearance. A search using a bloodhound was
conducted Sunday evening, but that search did not turn up anything
useful."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="mol-style-bold">Anyone with information is asked to call Charlottesville Police Department at 970-3280 or Crimestoppers at 977-4000. </span></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13052342818075125666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2471283927852878995.post-71515268717934910062014-09-14T10:50:00.003-07:002018-08-26T17:39:21.066-07:00David Cawthorne Haines, a Briton, purportedly Beheaded by Islamic State ( IS ) due to Corrupt U.S.A. & U.K. Policies related to GREED [ WARNING: FULL Graphic VIDEO / Pics ] - www.ofINTEREST.net<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-T622_wXdzJM/VBUJ38j7aJI/AAAAAAAABRc/VUWJrFALTes/s1600/TERROR_of_interest530x200_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-T622_wXdzJM/VBUJ38j7aJI/AAAAAAAABRc/VUWJrFALTes/s1600/TERROR_of_interest530x200_.jpg" height="120" width="320" /></a></div><h2><a href="http://ofinterestnet.blogspot.nl/2014/09/david-cawthorne-haines-briton.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">David Cawthorne Haines, a Briton, purportedly Beheaded by Islamic State (IS) due to Corrupt U.S.A. & U.K. Policies related to GREED [<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">WARNING</span></span>: FULL Graphic VIDEO / Pics]</span></a> </h2><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Mikhael Love</i>, <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>IIO</b></span></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fHHNiEMfcCM/VBUQ7A8XgbI/AAAAAAAABSI/Rr0rMHQFrhE/s1600/banner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fHHNiEMfcCM/VBUQ7A8XgbI/AAAAAAAABSI/Rr0rMHQFrhE/s1600/banner.jpg" height="106" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;">The Islamic State group has released what it says is the beheading of British aid worker David Haines - an act described by the British prime minister as "pure evil". Remember though, both the United States of America top dog & the UK's prime minister both have their heads and keep out of harms way. Slaves pay the price for their mistakes and lies.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FveBXdZyXO4/VBXReXkQpDI/AAAAAAAABxg/4xfIHC79l_o/s1600/ObamaAndPM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FveBXdZyXO4/VBXReXkQpDI/AAAAAAAABxg/4xfIHC79l_o/s1600/ObamaAndPM.jpg" height="211" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The video, released on the internet on late on Saturday, shows Haines, 44, being killed by in a desert location by a masked man. Haines, from Perth in Scotland, was abducted last year while working for the French aid agency Acted.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The US and the UK both seemingly have policies that they DO NOT pay off Terrorist, but in fact, for decades both make use a back-handed way of paying off dangerous, even murderous, criminals, that by any other description, are TERRORIST. This is done for some of the time tested reasons of Profit/Gain and/or Control.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Both men have come forth with declaring retaliation against IS. Sound familiar, but with different players (actors)?</div><br />The Department of State, aka State Department, has engaged in quite questionable practices and dealing with KNOWN very dangerous and even TERRORIST connected groups throughout the world. The State Dept. in the Benghazi ordeal intentionally put Americans in harms way all for Profit/ Gain and/or Control. Remember all of the finger pointing, lies, cover-ups and/or DECEPTION? They still refuse to come clean.<br /><br />With having first had dealings with coming to find out the hard way about Department of State CORRUPTION and the USA's willingness to destroy even it's own citizen, I implore others to not stand down, nor stay complacent with tales, demand TRUTH! <br /><br />Not to take away and/or express disrespect in any form or fashion with these purported beheadings, but my torture and first hand knowledge of Evil & Corruption at the hands of the USA, forced me on a sojourn that was designed by the State Department, and the Truth is a whole lot more unbelievable than fiction: <a href="http://www.houseless.org/2013/04/documentary-maker-lee-halpin-meets.html" target="_blank">Documentary-maker Lee Halpin meets death living Homeless in U.K. (Pics/VIDEO)</a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">For me, it's not about conspiracy, it's about Truth. Demand It! DO Not be their fool!</div><div style="text-align: left;"></div>Slaves aren't being told the whole Truth, let alone even a fraction of the Truth.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">There is definitely something more taking place behind these purported beheadings.</div></div><div style="text-align: left;">Perhaps the world should be looking back in history with looking how these wars are brought on. Who, why, what and for WHOM do these actually serve.</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">What is it that "Islamic State" actually wants?<br /><br /><b>Are Smoke and Mirrors being used? </b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vbrM5Te5LFM/VBX70OMv5XI/AAAAAAAABzw/9pieqEkS_e8/s1600/Smoke%2Bmirrors.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vbrM5Te5LFM/VBX70OMv5XI/AAAAAAAABzw/9pieqEkS_e8/s1600/Smoke%2Bmirrors.jpg" height="254" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br />What is it that the USA, UK & others might actually seeking to gain? </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Demand that even slaves are told the Truth! </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LIRu7onBymo/VBXRTUINysI/AAAAAAAABxM/ZX7DypcT1NM/s1600/david-cawthorne-haines.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LIRu7onBymo/VBXRTUINysI/AAAAAAAABxM/ZX7DypcT1NM/s1600/david-cawthorne-haines.jpg" height="224" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1d9m2uFMULY/VBXd_k4YAXI/AAAAAAAABzM/c-zbmPZMRGk/s1600/Image-of-David-Haines.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1d9m2uFMULY/VBXd_k4YAXI/AAAAAAAABzM/c-zbmPZMRGk/s1600/Image-of-David-Haines.jpg" height="208" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Image of David Cawthorne Haines</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ervI_KH6VHk/VBXReJm6z2I/AAAAAAAABxU/Gy5NcfuwmsE/s1600/DavidHainesWithChild.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ervI_KH6VHk/VBXReJm6z2I/AAAAAAAABxU/Gy5NcfuwmsE/s1600/DavidHainesWithChild.jpg" height="239" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">David Haines with their youngest child, <span id="ext-gen127" style="font-size: 1.2em;">Athea,</span> now age 4</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br />David Haines has a 17-year-old daughter with his first wife Louise, and a four-year-old daughter with Dragana who described him as a "fantastic man and father".<br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V1HMA5we4gw/VBXhAk3EgFI/AAAAAAAABzY/nJqZSrQe3I8/s1600/Wife_of_David_Haines_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V1HMA5we4gw/VBXhAk3EgFI/AAAAAAAABzY/nJqZSrQe3I8/s1600/Wife_of_David_Haines_.jpg" height="308" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The video was released hours after Mr Haines's family made a direct plea to his captors to contact them. His second wife, Dragana Prodanovic Haines (pictured with him), previously said she cried for her husband daily</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VuXnT7iK1_Y/VBXhgkYVfDI/AAAAAAAABzg/dpYWdH8Sye0/s1600/Their%2BHome%2BInCroatia_634x458.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VuXnT7iK1_Y/VBXhgkYVfDI/AAAAAAAABzg/dpYWdH8Sye0/s1600/Their%2BHome%2BInCroatia_634x458.jpg" height="231" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Home: The garden of the house where Mr Haines lived with his wife and four-year-old daughter in Sisak, Croatia</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lDM9HF4xbUs/VBUQ4JJbnjI/AAAAAAAABRs/l2j0Fv9TJkM/s1600/alan-henning-isis-hostage.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lDM9HF4xbUs/VBUQ4JJbnjI/AAAAAAAABRs/l2j0Fv9TJkM/s1600/alan-henning-isis-hostage.jpg" height="174" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In the video titled "A Message to the Allies of America, Alan Henning, a second British hostage is paraded before the camera with an ultimatum to the USA & it's allies</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TGCTXGDYMZo/VBXxZhvJDeI/AAAAAAAABSs/ZoBBweUT7z8/s1600/Henning_634x632.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TGCTXGDYMZo/VBXxZhvJDeI/AAAAAAAABSs/ZoBBweUT7z8/s1600/Henning_634x632.jpg" height="318" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'We will hunt them down': David Cameron has vowed justice against extremists who beheaded British aid worker David Haines and paraded another, Alan Henning (pictured in a Syrian refugee camp), in a video</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;">The release of the video comes after the purported beheading of Steven Sotloff and James Foley, both American journalists, in a similar manner. </div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://ofinterestnet.blogspot.fr/2014/09/breaking-islamic-state-is-releases.html" target="_blank"><img alt="http://ofinterestnet.blogspot.fr/2014/09/breaking-islamic-state-is-releases.html" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u7UdGvt92wo/VBXTg10TEnI/AAAAAAAAByo/EP_HuxpeQJU/s1600/19.08.14-Steven_Sotloff_End_of_Foley_video_.jpg" height="221" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Several small rebel groups in the Philippines have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group. Al Jazeera’s Jamela Alindogan reports from Manila.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="watch-title " dir="ltr" id="eow-title" title="Breakaway Philippine rebels align with IS"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="watch-title " dir="ltr" id="eow-title" title="Breakaway Philippine rebels align with IS">Below is a link to a video related to those groups.</span></span></span></span><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-f62Vpg19QoQ/VBXcfNCENUI/AAAAAAAABzA/pa_XhmExDwg/s1600/IS_Supporters%2B2014-09-14%2B14-16-53.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-f62Vpg19QoQ/VBXcfNCENUI/AAAAAAAABzA/pa_XhmExDwg/s1600/IS_Supporters%2B2014-09-14%2B14-16-53.png" height="168" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="watch-title " dir="ltr" id="eow-title" title="Breakaway Philippine rebels align with IS"> </span></span></div><h4 class="yt" id="watch-headline-title"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcZ4lUSLLpg" target="_blank"><span class="watch-title " dir="ltr" id="eow-title" title="Breakaway Philippine rebels align with IS">Breakaway Philippine rebels align with IS</span></a></span></h4><h4 class="yt" id="watch-headline-title"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="watch-title " dir="ltr" id="eow-title" title="Breakaway Philippine rebels align with IS"> </span></span></h4><div class="yt" id="watch-headline-title"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="watch-title " dir="ltr" id="eow-title" title="Breakaway Philippine rebels align with IS"><b><span style="font-size: large;">&, yes that's a BIG &</span></b></span></span></div><h2><a href="http://www.cryptogon.com/?p=44923" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to How the West Created the Islamic State">How the West Created the Islamic State</a></h2><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="watch-title " dir="ltr" id="eow-title" style="font-size: x-small;" title="Breakaway Philippine rebels align with IS"><b> </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">September 13th, 2014</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Via: <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/09/12/how-the-west-created-the-islamic-state/">Counterpunch</a>:</span></div><div class="yt" id="watch-headline-title"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>“This is an organisation that has an apocalyptic, end-of-days strategic vision which will eventually have to be defeated,” Gen Martin Dempsey, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a Pentagon press conference in August.</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Military action is necessary to halt the spread of the ISIS “cancer,” said President Obama. Yesterday he called for expanded airstrikes across Iraq and Syria, and new measures to arm and train Iraqi and Kurdish ground forces.<br /><br /> “The only way to defeat [IS] is to stand firm and to send a very straightforward message,” declared Prime Minister Cameron. “A country like ours will not be cowed by these barbaric killers.”<br /><br /> Missing from the chorus of outrage, however, has been any acknowledgement of the integral role of covert US and British regional military intelligence strategy in empowering and even directly sponsoring the very same virulent Islamist militants in Iraq, Syria and beyond, that went on to break away from al-Qaeda and form ‘ISIS’, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or now simply, the Islamic State (IS).<br /><br /> </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Since 2003, Anglo-American power has secretly and openly coordinated direct and indirect support for Islamist terrorist groups linked to al-Qaeda across the Middle East and North Africa. This ill-conceived patchwork geostrategy is a legacy of the persistent influence of neoconservative ideology, motivated by longstanding but often contradictory ambitions to dominate regional oil resources, defend an expansionist Israel, and in pursuit of these, re-draw the map of the Middle East.</i></div><div class="yt" id="watch-headline-title"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="watch-title " dir="ltr" id="eow-title" title="Breakaway Philippine rebels align with IS"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b></span><span class="watch-title " dir="ltr" id="eow-title" title="Breakaway Philippine rebels align with IS"> </span></span></div></div></div>Diversities Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05401472087128725547noreply@blogger.com0Syria34.802074999999988 38.9968149999999728.135342499999986 28.66966649999997 41.46880749999999 49.323963499999969tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2471283927852878995.post-54465258576431398842014-09-14T10:50:00.002-07:002014-09-14T15:12:35.502-07:00David Cawthorne Haines, a Briton, purportedly Beheaded by Islamic State ( IS ) due to Corrupt U.S.A. & U.K. Policies related to GREED [ WARNING: FULL Graphic VIDEO / Pics ] - www.ofINTEREST.net<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Islamic State group has released what it says is the beheading of
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The video, released on the internet on late on Saturday, shows
Haines, 44, being killed by in a desert location by a masked man.
Haines, from Perth in Scotland, was abducted last year while working for
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The US and the UK both seemingly have policies that they DO NOT pay off Terrorist, but in fact, for decades both make use a back-handed way of paying off dangerous, even murderous, criminals, that by any other description, are TERRORIST. This is done for some of the time tested reasons of Profit/Gain and/or Control.<br />
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Both men have come forth with declaring retaliation against IS. Sound familiar, but with different players (actors)?</div>
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The Department of State, aka State Department, has engaged in quite questionable practices and dealing with KNOWN very dangerous and even TERRORIST connected groups throughout the world. The State Dept. in the Benghazi ordeal intentionally put Americans in harms way all for Profit/ Gain and/or Control. Remember all of the finger pointing, lies, cover-ups and/or DECEPTION? They still refuse to come clean.<br />
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With having first had dealings with coming to find out the hard way about Department of State CORRUPTION and the USA's willingness to destroy even it's own citizen, I implore others to not stand down, nor stay complacent with tales, demand TRUTH! <br />
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Not to take away and/or express disrespect in any form or fashion with these purported beheadings, but my torture and first hand knowledge of Evil & Corruption at the hands of the USA, forced me on a sojourn that was designed by the State Department, and the Truth is a whole lot more unbelievable than fiction: <a href="http://www.houseless.org/2013/04/documentary-maker-lee-halpin-meets.html" target="_blank">Documentary-maker Lee Halpin meets death living Homeless in U.K. (Pics/VIDEO)</a><br />
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For me, it's not about conspiracy, it's about Truth. Demand It! DO Not be their fool!</div>
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Slaves aren't being told the whole Truth, let alone even a fraction of the Truth.<br />
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There is definitely something more taking place behind these purported beheadings.</div>
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Perhaps the world should be looking back in history with looking how these wars are brought on. Who, why, what and for WHOM do these actually serve.</div>
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What is it that "Islamic State" actually wants?<br />
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<b>Are Smoke and Mirrors being used? </b><br />
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David Haines has a 17-year-old daughter with his first wife Louise, and a
four-year-old daughter with Dragana who described him as a "fantastic
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Some fabulous coverage concerning David Haines can be found here:<br />
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<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2754934/ISIS-release-video-claiming-beheading-British-hostage-David-Haines.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">'We will hunt down the killers of this British hero': Cameron vows to bring Jihadi John to justice after he beheads David Haines and threatens that second British aid worker will be next</span></span></a></h3>
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<b>Related</b>, Details of the other 2 purportedly, senseless beheaded victims of CapiFacism: <br />
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://ofinterestnet.blogspot.fr/2014/09/breaking-islamic-state-is-releases.html" target="_blank"><b>BREAKING:</b> Islamic State (IS) Releases Video Showing Beheading of U.S. Journalist Steven Joel Sotloff [ VIDEO's / Pics ]</a></span></span></b></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://ofinterestnet.blogspot.com/2014/08/he-would-have-gone-first-that-is-who-he.html" target="_blank">UPDATED: "He would have gone first, that is who he is": Brave parents of James Foley match their son for dignity and courage [VIDEO's/Pics]</a></span></span></h4>
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://ofinterestnet.blogspot.com/2014/08/warning-graphic-james-wright-foley.html" target="_blank"><b>WARNING:</b> Graphic James Wright Foley BEHEADING Video by ISIS Authentic says US officials, Prompts Controversy [VIDEO/Pics]</a></span></span></b></h4>
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://ofinterestnet.blogspot.com/2014/08/full-text-of-last-email-islamic-state.html" target="_blank">Full text of the last email the Islamic State sent to the Foley family</a></span></span></b></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="watch-title " dir="ltr" id="eow-title" title="Breakaway Philippine rebels align with IS">The Islamic State group’s power is focused in Iraq and Syria, but there
are groups far beyond those borders who have aligned themselves with the
armed rebel group. Several small rebel groups in the Philippines have
pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group. Al Jazeera’s Jamela
Alindogan reports from Manila.</span></span><br />
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<i>“This is an organisation that has an apocalyptic, end-of-days
strategic vision which will eventually have to be defeated,” Gen Martin
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Military action is necessary to halt the spread of the ISIS “cancer,”
said President Obama. Yesterday he called for expanded airstrikes
across Iraq and Syria, and new measures to arm and train Iraqi and
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“The only way to defeat [IS] is to stand firm and to send a very
straightforward message,” declared Prime Minister Cameron. “A country
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Missing from the chorus of outrage, however, has been any
acknowledgement of the integral role of covert US and British regional
military intelligence strategy in empowering and even directly
sponsoring the very same virulent Islamist militants in Iraq, Syria and
beyond, that went on to break away from al-Qaeda and form ‘ISIS’, the
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<i>Since 2003, Anglo-American power has secretly and openly
coordinated direct and indirect support for Islamist terrorist groups
linked to al-Qaeda across the Middle East and North Africa. This
ill-conceived patchwork geostrategy is a legacy of the persistent
influence of neoconservative ideology, motivated by longstanding but
often contradictory ambitions to dominate regional oil resources, defend
an expansionist Israel, and in pursuit of these, re-draw the map of the
Middle East.</i></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13052342818075125666noreply@blogger.com0Syria34.802074999999988 38.9968149999999728.135342499999986 28.66966649999997 41.46880749999999 49.323963499999969tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2471283927852878995.post-9331277634638790932014-09-03T08:13:00.002-07:002018-08-26T17:39:21.160-07:00The Home Depot investigating possible massive data breach: Adds Security Pressure [ Pics/Related info ] - www.ofINTEREST.net<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aBmAnhcoTP0/VAcTz5dNp7I/AAAAAAAABKY/Lb5nM46weAs/s1600/DATA_BREACH_of_interest530x200_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aBmAnhcoTP0/VAcTz5dNp7I/AAAAAAAABKY/Lb5nM46weAs/s1600/DATA_BREACH_of_interest530x200_.jpg" height="120" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oc4tuRjIWC0/VAciEOk2PGI/AAAAAAAABLk/7bUVFa1qtVU/s1600/hacker_internet_web_attack.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oc4tuRjIWC0/VAciEOk2PGI/AAAAAAAABLk/7bUVFa1qtVU/s1600/hacker_internet_web_attack.jpg" height="214" width="320" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><h2 itemprop="headline"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://ofinterestnet.blogspot.de/2014/09/the-home-depot-investigating-possible.html" target="_blank">The Home Depot investigating possible massive data breach: Adds Security Pressure</a></span></h2><div class="article_title buffer" style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Mikahel Love,</span></span></i> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>IIO</b></span></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3RGGGsCuoG8/VAcu_KIh_VI/AAAAAAAABMg/j5_EP2UoEVg/s1600/HD_SignOnBuilding.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3RGGGsCuoG8/VAcu_KIh_VI/AAAAAAAABMg/j5_EP2UoEVg/s1600/HD_SignOnBuilding.jpg" height="188" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Summary: Reports are out that a new batch of stolen credit and debit cards hit the cybercrime underground on Tuesday, with multiple banks confirming that The Home Depot stores may be the source.</span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a class="web_ticker" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/HD:US" title="Get Quote">Home Depot Inc. (HD)</a>’s investigation of a suspected hacker attack is renewing pressure on retailers and credit-card providers to strengthen payment-system security. </span><span style="font-size: small;">Home Depot spokesperson <b>Paula Drake</b> confirmed that the company is investigating. “I can confirm we are looking into some unusual activity and we are working with our banking partners and law enforcement to investigate,” Drake said, reading from a prepared statement. “Protecting our customers’ information is something we take extremely seriously, and we are aggressively gathering facts at this point while working to protect customers. If we confirm that a breach has occurred, we will make sure customers are notified immediately. Right now, for security reasons, it would be inappropriate for us to speculate further – but we will provide further information as soon as possible.”</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The largest home-improvement chain said yesterday, 02 Sept. 2014, that it was working with banks and <a href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/law-enforcement/">law enforcement</a> on the possible incursion, following a report by <a href="http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/09/banks-credit-card-breach-at-home-depot/" target="_blank">KrebsOnSecurity</a> that a “massive” batch of stolen credit- and debit-card information was posted for sale online.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">There are signs that the perpetrators of this apparent breach may be the same group of Russian and Ukrainian hackers responsible for the data breaches at <b>Target</b>, <b>Sally Beauty</b> and <b>P.F. Chang’s</b>, among others. The banks contacted by Brian Krebs, reporter for <a href="http://krebsonsecurity.com/">KrebsOnSecurity.com</a>, all purchased their customers’ cards from the same underground store –<b> rescator[dot]cc</b> — which on Sept. 2 moved two massive new batches of stolen cards onto the market.</span></span><br /><br /><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="230" data-total-count="1873" id="story-continues-5" itemprop="articleBody"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">A number of banks are telling Krebs that the breach dates as far back as April and that all 2,200 Home Depot locations in the U.S. could be involved. By comparison, there are <a href="http://pressroom.target.com/corporate">1,795 Target locations</a> in the U.S.. </span></span>That could make a Home Depot breach even bigger than that of Target, which began in November and <a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/18/target-looking-into-security-breach/">was reported in December</a>.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="230" data-total-count="1873" id="story-continues-5" itemprop="articleBody"><br /></div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="257" data-total-count="2130" itemprop="articleBody">In that breach, Target said hackers had stolen credit or debit card information from about 40 million customers. The company also said criminals had stolen other pieces of personal information, like email and mailing addresses, from about <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/14/business/target-missed-signs-of-a-data-breach.html" title="About the breach.">70 million people</a>.</div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The number of customers affected by The Home Depot breaches amounts to more than one-third of the American population.</span></span> </span></span><br /><br />A recent Kaspersky Lab research examination of two command and control servers used by the <a href="http://threatpost.com/backoff-sinkhole-reveals-sorry-point-of-sale-security/107981">Backoff point-of-sale malware</a> revealed that a U.S.-based Mexican restaurant chain, a North American freight shipping company and a North American payroll association had also been breached.<br /><br />The breaches prompted a warning by <a href="http://threatpost.com/secret-service-warns-1000-businesses-hit-by-backoff-pos-malware/107914">the U.S. Secret Service last week warning of a spree of point-of-sale attacks</a> affecting more than 1,000 businesses. Backoff has experts concerned because it’s effective in swiping customer credit card data from businesses using a variety of exfiltration tools, including memory, or RAM scraping, techniques, keyloggers and injections into running processes.<br /><br />A report from US-CERT said attackers use Backoff to steal payment card information once they’ve breached a remote desktop or administration application, one that’s using weak or default credentials that tumble in a brute-force attack.<br /><br />Hackers then install Backoff on a point of sale device, injecting the code into a running process in order to scrape credit card numbers from memory before they’re encrypted on the device.<br /> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">“The criminals are getting smarter faster than the companies,” said Jaime Katz, an analyst at Morningstar Inc. in <a href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/chicago/">Chicago</a>. If the Home Depot breach is on the same scale as <a class="web_ticker" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/TGT:US" title="Get Quote">Target (TGT)</a>’s incident last year, “there is obviously significant concern,” she said.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Most recently, a group is said to have <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/russian-crime-ring-reportedly-nabbed-1-2-billion-online-credentials-7000032353/">stolen more than 1.2 billion Internet credentials</a> — including usernames and passwords — with more than 500 million email addresses. In that case, however, most of the IDs exploited were used for sending spam on social networks, rather than illegal spending and selling on the black market.</span></span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Home Depot also posted a <a href="https://corporate.homedepot.com/MediaCenter/Pages/Statement1.aspx" rel="external" title="Open Web Site">note to shoppers</a> on its website, urging them to monitor their accounts and report any suspicious activity. </span></span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Home Depot <a class="web_ticker" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/HD:US" title="Get Quote">shares</a> fell 2 percent to $91.15 on 02 Sept. 2014, marking the largest one-day decline in almost five months, after the company said it was looking into the possible breach. It also prompted credit-card companies such as Citigroup Inc. to step up efforts to protect customers.</span></span><br /><br /><div itemprop="articleBody" style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">In a separate statement Tuesday, 02.09.14, Goodwill said its customers' credit and debit card numbers had been stolen at more than 300 stores in 19 states and Washington, D.C. rom February 2013 through Aug. 14. Goodwill blamed the security lapse on an unidentified contractor's payment processing system. Reports about fraud linked to shoppers' cards have been "very limited," Goodwill said.</span></span></i></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The company had said in July that it was investigating the breach.</span></span></i></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="text-align: center;">List of affected Goodwill stores: <a href="http://www.goodwill.org/payment-card-notice">www.goodwill.org/payment-card-notice</a></div><br /><br /></div></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kvSBMhiepAk/VAch77P3uQI/AAAAAAAABK0/hXs7pxbjrNg/s1600/DataBreachesInUS_use_Screen%2BCapture-%2Bwww_bloomberg_com_infographics_2014-08-21_top-data-breaches_html.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TXzLGmpoyfI/VAch8D8ZyCI/AAAAAAAABK4/IkHhTbPdKrk/s1600/Cause_Screen%2BCapture-%2Bwww_bloomberg_com_infographics_2014-08-21_top-data-breaches_html.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TXzLGmpoyfI/VAch8D8ZyCI/AAAAAAAABK4/IkHhTbPdKrk/s1600/Cause_Screen%2BCapture-%2Bwww_bloomberg_com_infographics_2014-08-21_top-data-breaches_html.png" height="242" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">( click image to enlarge )</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><u>More <a href="http://www.homedepot.com/" target="_blank">Home Depot</a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b> </b></span></u><u><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">BREACHES</span></b>: </u><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VXlPxwOUfys/VAcqgCCBefI/AAAAAAAABME/YsTV4zbrMl0/s1600/HD_Worker.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VXlPxwOUfys/VAcqgCCBefI/AAAAAAAABME/YsTV4zbrMl0/s1600/HD_Worker.jpg" height="180" width="320" /></a></div><h2 class="itemprop="name""><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/138621/article.html" target="_blank">Theft of Home Depot laptop Puts 10,000 at Risk</a></span></h2><div class="article-byline" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">By <span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><a href="http://www.pcworld.com/author/Cara-Garretson/" itemprop="url" rel="author"><span itemprop="name">Cara Garretson</span></a></span>, NetworkWorld</span></span></div><div class="article-byline" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Oct 18, 2007 2:00 PM</span></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><section class="page"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.homedepot.com/" target="_blank">Home Depot</a> on Wednesday confirmed a company laptop was stolen that contains personal information about approximately 10,000 employees of the do-it-yourself retailing giant.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Several weeks ago, a Home Depot human-resources representative in Massachusetts took a laptop computer home to do some additional work and had the PC stolen from his vehicle parked in front of his house, according to a company official. The notebook stored personal information, including names, addresses and Social Security numbers of roughly 10,000 employees, she says. The data was not encrypted, but the system was password protected, she adds.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Once Home Depot investigated the theft and determined which employees' data was stored on the notebook, the company notified potential victims and is offering one year of credit monitoring for free, the official says.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">"We have no reason to believe the data was the target of this theft," says the official, adding that the company has received no evidence of identity theft as a result of the incident.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Home Depot is continuing to work with law enforcement on an investigation into the theft.</span></span></section></div><br /><br /><br /><u><b>RELATED:</b></u><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Via:</b></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://arstechnica.com/" target="_blank"><img alt="http://arstechnica.com/" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4gJ4InP-hzE/VAe720X-77I/AAAAAAAABOo/GsjcJ0h90xw/s1600/ARS_technica-logo.jpg" /></a></div><h2 class="heading" itemprop="headline"><a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/08/hackers-stole-security-check-info-on-at-least-25000-dhs-employees/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hackers stole security check info on at least 25,000 DHS employees</span></span></a></h2><h3 class="standalone-deck" itemprop="description"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Homeland Security tallies damage from breach at USIS, and it's not pretty.</span></span></span> </h3><div class="standalone-deck" itemprop="description" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">by <a href="http://arstechnica.com/author/sean-gallagher/" itemprop="url" rel="author"><span itemprop="name">Sean Gallagher</span></a> - <span class="date" data-time="1409413301">Aug 30, 2014 3:41 pm UTC</span> </span></span></span></div><div class="standalone-deck" itemprop="description"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1BXYmU12Kv0/VAe7ErCzLjI/AAAAAAAABOg/XfFpXW49dls/s1600/FEMA_-_40772_-_DHS_Flag_detail-640x425.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1BXYmU12Kv0/VAe7ErCzLjI/AAAAAAAABOg/XfFpXW49dls/s1600/FEMA_-_40772_-_DHS_Flag_detail-640x425.jpg" height="212" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Employees at the Department of Homeland Security may be feeling a bit less secure about their personal data.</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="standalone-deck" itemprop="description" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">On Aug. 2, Department of Homeland Security officials revealed that the agency's contractor for conducting security clearance background checks had been hacked, and an unknown number of DHS employees' personal data from those investigations had been stolen—potentially by a state-sponsored hacker. Now the DHS has a handle on how many records were stolen from contractor USIS: at least 25,000.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The <a href="http://www.wjla.com/articles/2014/08/security-breach-hit-25-000-federal-workers-106600.html">Associated Press cites</a> information from an unnamed DHS official, who spoke with the service under the condition of anonymity. "Homeland Security will soon begin notifying employees whose files were compromised and urge them to monitor their financial accounts," the Associated Press' Joce Sterman reported.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">USIS is, as the Washington Post reported, the largest contract provider of background investigations to the federal government. The attack on USIS comes after the March revelation that the US Office of Personnel Management had been <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/chinese-hackers-go-after-us-workers-personal-data/2014/07/10/92db92e8-0846-11e4-8a6a-19355c7e870a_story.html">attacked by hackers based in China</a>, potentially giving them access to the personal information of millions of government employees—though OPM offficials say that no personal data appeared to have been taken in the attack before it was detected.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The US Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT), which is part of DHS, is currently investigating the USIS breach, as are the FBI and other federal authorities. USIS was already under fire from Congress, and faces a federal whistleblower lawsuit over the alleged "dumping" of more than 600,000 background checks for security clearances—marking as complete checks that were only partially conducted. USIS was responsible for the background checks for Edward Snowden, and for <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/aaron-alexis-34-is-dead-gunman-in-navy-yard-shooting-authorities-say/2013/09/16/dcf431ce-1f07-11e3-8459-657e0c72fec8_story.html">Aron Alexis</a>—the man responsible for the shootings at the Navy Yard in Washington, DC last year.</span></span></div><div class="standalone-deck" itemprop="description"><br /></div><br /><br /><u><b>Continued Via</b></u><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ib_N1OEyTRU/VAe3WnL34DI/AAAAAAAABOE/55i4tej2J8Q/s1600/AP-logo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ib_N1OEyTRU/VAe3WnL34DI/AAAAAAAABOE/55i4tej2J8Q/s1600/AP-logo.jpg" /></a></div><h2><a href="http://www.wjla.com/articles/2014/08/security-breach-hit-25-000-federal-workers-106600.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Security breach hit 25,000 federal workers</span></a></h2><div class="article-info"><div class="byline" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">By The Associated Press, Joce Sterman</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">August 29, 2014 - 08:40 pm </span></span></div></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SdJGVicQMuQ/VAe51WrwlQI/AAAAAAAABOQ/v8PCTxcMyaA/s1600/usis_296.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SdJGVicQMuQ/VAe51WrwlQI/AAAAAAAABOQ/v8PCTxcMyaA/s1600/usis_296.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The estimate of Homeland Security workers affected by the breach at USIS may rise further. (WJLA)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">WASHINGTON (AP) - A Homeland Security Department official says a recent computer breach at a major government security clearance contracting firm may have affected the internal files of as many as 25,000 of the agency's workers.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div id="continue" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The official says the estimate of Homeland Security workers affected by the breach at USIS may rise further. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss details of an incident that is under active federal criminal investigation. Homeland Security will soon begin notifying employees whose files were compromised and urge them to monitor their financial accounts, the official said.</span></span></div><div id="continue" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">A USIS spokeswoman declined to comment. The company said earlier in a statement on its website that the cyberattack appeared to "have the markings of a state-sponsored attack."</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The FBI is investigating.</span></span></div><br /><br /><u><b>And Via:</b></u><br /><a href="http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Security Affairs</span></b></a><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CN6XLlAGT3Q/VAfBA8Wl3eI/AAAAAAAABO4/dp6L6xVm82s/s1600/HoodedHackerWith1and0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CN6XLlAGT3Q/VAfBA8Wl3eI/AAAAAAAABO4/dp6L6xVm82s/s1600/HoodedHackerWith1and0.jpg" height="238" width="320" /></a></div><h2><a href="http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/27499/cyber-crime/network-usis-compromised-cyber-attack.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">The network of USIS compromised by a cyber attack</span></a></h2><div class="author" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">by Pierluigi Paganini on August 12th, 2014</span></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-b_QJLeGU7oM/VAfBBF_nY0I/AAAAAAAABO8/gSb45GvBzCA/s1600/USIS-2-300x75.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-b_QJLeGU7oM/VAfBBF_nY0I/AAAAAAAABO8/gSb45GvBzCA/s1600/USIS-2-300x75.png" /></a></div><h3 style="color: black; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">Internal network of USIS was compromised by a cyber attack which has exposed Government Employees’ Data. Investigators speculate on a state-sponsored attack</span></h3><div style="color: black; text-align: left;">The USIS (<a href="http://www.usis.com/Default.aspx" style="color: #008cb2;">U.S. Investigations Services</a>), which provides background checks for the US government was recently hacked. This is the second <a href="http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/24717/security/ponemon-data-breach-study.html" target="_blank" title="Reading 2014 Ponemon Cost of Data Breach Study">data breach</a> in a few months that threaten US government. The USIS recently acknowledged that its network was violated by a cyber attack and experts that are investigating on the case believe that the authors of the attack could be a <a href="http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/18294/security/fireeye-nation-state-driven-cyber-attacks.html" target="_blank" title="FireEye World War C report – Nation-state driven cyber attacks">state-sponsored hacking team</a>.</div><blockquote><div style="color: black;"><i>“We are working closely with federal law enforcement authorities and have retailed an independent computer forensics investigations firm to determine the precise nature and extent of any unlawful entry into our network,” “Experts who have reviewed the facts gathered to date believe it has all the markings of a state-sponsored attack.” announced the USIS in a <a href="http://www.usis.com/Media-Release-Detail.aspx?dpid=151" style="color: #008cb2;">statement</a>. </i></div></blockquote><div style="color: black; text-align: left;">Early July, alleged Chinese hackers hacked the system of the <a href="http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/26525/hacking/chinese-hackers-hacked-us-systems.html" style="color: #008cb2;" target="_blank" title="Chinese hackers violated systems at the Office of Personnel Management">Office of Personnel Management</a><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="29ba5c80-c013-40d1-ad88-caef1d21fc90"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="8ec684f1-12bc-46ad-810b-c67eb99d420a"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="f893eb63-b2bf-4f2c-8637-79dbecc36a43"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="6e5965bf-91cf-4ca2-8b62-c1d7de117813"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="c32c3c15-1691-4002-a496-05b1b6d929ed"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="c4fcaa0e-4d12-46b1-b0b4-9a605d33a67b"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="8985903c-d2ab-4744-a56f-4ae9b5b2736e"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="850abe6c-9035-47f5-9aea-0b2c218a04e0"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="45c08135-b05c-46fb-8729-2bea81037557">(</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>OPM), for this reason the USIS is collaborating with the Bureau and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to track the authors of the attack and to estimate exactly the compromised data and the impact of the data breach.</div><div style="color: black; text-align: left;">Government offices and <a href="http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/19121/cyber-crime/hacking-subcontractors.html" target="_blank" title="Subcontractors are for hackers the weakest link in security chain">subcontractors</a> are privileged targets for cyber criminals and state-sponsored hackers, last years according to official documents of The U.S. Department of Energy in different breaches employees’ and contractors’ personal information <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="1c609eb3-7cd0-4080-9975-0016aabc896b"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="8ccd9e74-8415-40b2-816f-2ad47886c61a">was exposed</span></span>.<br /></div><div style="color: black;"><a href="http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/USIS.png"><img alt="USIS" class="aligncenter wp-image-27505" src="http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/USIS.png" height="166" title="The network of USIS compromised by a cyber attack" width="498" /></a></div><div style="color: black; text-align: left;"><br />The DHS spokesman Peter Boogaard reported <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="2fc5dfb5-2c91-41a3-b5d7-87d83ed32446"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="202e34ca-ed70-40c3-8c19-a488c552bf08"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="b3c10b58-b922-4c7a-b8e1-cb5e822bac11"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="12f48196-0e06-40b9-b5f8-37ee9f77604c"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="0ac8f007-b814-4548-8417-dde269249a4d"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="04090b0a-81cc-4ca5-b4a8-9c670f4b0cb4"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="4f4b1c2b-a63d-4092-a529-8da58604ccab"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="7b433920-8005-4ff1-8803-c42125747e5f"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="473f7e0c-7381-4a55-8ba3-2a606949b8ed">to</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> The Hill that groups of hackers are targeting some agency which maintains employees’ information, for this reason the DHS is suggesting to the employees to monitor their financial accounts for suspicious activity and is alerting them on possible spear phishing attacks that could be arranged in the next months to steal further data from Government Offices.<br /></div><div style="color: black; text-align: left;">According Boogaard data belonging to some DHS personnel may have been exposed, but at the time I<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="7632c748-b9dc-491b-ae7a-900231eb1bea"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="4393e5fd-e0d0-4ff5-ab99-e239bb4e727f"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="b23c8117-e697-4664-a215-f97d15ee8006"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="e50d57ef-7f43-40e3-b935-057c169bb247"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="1e44b072-b624-4025-864f-0e2b4d189e4e"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="3d70e8f4-103e-46af-8aa8-6d594ccdab97"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="35507c51-9058-420a-8b10-4a0f63565e60"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="259595c8-f801-4407-9396-ed288a54379f">‘m writing</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> there is no news on the number of employee records exposed.</div><blockquote><div style="color: black;"><i>“Our forensic analysis has concluded that some DHS personnel may have been affected, and DHS has notified its entire workforce” “We are committed to ensuring our employees’ privacy and are taking steps to protect it.” Peter Boogaard said.</i></div></blockquote><div style="color: black; text-align: left;">The journalists at <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/dhs-contractor-suffers-major-computer-breach-officials-say/2014/08/06/8ed131b4-1d89-11e4-ae54-0cfe1f974f8a_story.html" style="color: #008cb2;">The Washington Post</a> exclude a linked between the cyber attack on USIS and the data breach suffered in March 2014 by OPM.</div><blockquote><div style="color: black;"><i>“The intrusion is not believed to be related to a <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/chinese-hackers-go-after-us-workers-personal-data/2014/07/10/92db92e8-0846-11e4-8a6a-19355c7e870a_story.html" style="color: #2e6d9d;">March incident in which the OPM’s databases</a> were hacked, said officials, some of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the record.” states the Washington Post</i></div></blockquote><div style="color: black; text-align: left;">It’s clear that such attacks represent a serious threat <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="d3996573-e6fe-4354-853d-4c0b8e84d75d"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="e38e6125-b9a7-4e3d-94c5-b548c70f643b"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="445aceac-67ce-48d0-b13e-bcb6362ac3b7"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="ac74ae96-f35c-4ef0-9cb1-584efc43a678"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="560709e9-9769-49a2-95e9-9ab288e082d0"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="517d1811-164f-4720-8e0e-2c0dfd40524c"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="b67d510f-738c-4cf1-a94d-bca38f9ccb3f"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="2046a0d8-22f0-4dac-aecf-7af2ea376304"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="88dd1931-2219-40f9-9fbf-8bc176fe69b2">for</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> the US Government, stolen information could be used by bad actors to organize dangerous attacks to <a href="http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/22180/security/nist-critical-infrastructure.html" target="_blank" title="NIST has published cybersecurity framework for critical infrastructure">critical infrastructure</a> of the country.<br /></div><div style="color: black; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.carper.senate.gov/" style="color: #008cb2;"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="b50933c4-70ae-41a8-a44e-e57db740222d"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="f3381ad0-4462-4582-8b55-b5aa6459f0dc"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="04d73afc-45ef-4cd9-856f-52838a14e4b9"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="84402ac8-7441-43c5-8798-868cdea519ad"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="1591bd63-5f6c-427a-9201-7388edfd0f1d"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="7d18cbfb-d255-4598-8cb9-342d5cdf32f6"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="c81c6944-4a91-4b5a-8723-cbc887c4950f"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="dd4ed660-30e8-422c-acda-a623ac8f5fe8"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="e6791f3f-5d6d-4dbc-b94b-eaf86394ac08"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="26d8a946-867a-4d0c-8029-abecb29f806e">Sen</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>. Tom Carper</a>, chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, declared in a <a href="http://www.carper.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=7642576f-666c-4ebd-a490-59545bf9792b" style="color: #008cb2;">statement</a> that this kind of incidents demonstrates the importance of cyber security in Homeland security.</div><blockquote><div style="color: black;"><i>“This latest report of a cyber attack on the major government contractor USIS is deeply troubling and underscores the scary reality of how much of a target our sensitive information has become in cyberspace,” “It also shows how urgent it is that we reform our laws to better combat attacks from malicious actors.” he said. </i></div><div style="color: black;"><i>The USIS breach “is very troubling news,” “Americans’ personal information should always be secure, particularly when our national security is involved. An incident like this is simply unacceptable.” added said Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), a Homeland Security Committee member.</i></div></blockquote><div style="color: black; text-align: left;">It is necessary to improve security of high sensitive networks and maximize the information sharing between private companies and government entities to promptly identify cyber threats and <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="ac56f079-2da6-486f-a93e-74ba1be6e863"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="ff679ccc-4a96-41fb-8861-57b495f7027e"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="d6b11125-3c51-48e2-a52e-4a3657dfbc10"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="81560f4b-feb7-46f2-a261-21dad930909d"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="a40f4f5f-2f7c-48e2-9ce8-56838b5974c5"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="300b0714-c459-424b-bb5b-26dc72924fc0"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="9fe6c1b9-afe5-453f-b280-585f5de30d33">adopt</span></span></span></span></span></span></span> the necessary mitigation strategy.</div><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>And Via</b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZeNkMJPDFzQ/VAcn4hChEhI/AAAAAAAABL4/dSrUP_MlXx4/s1600/GlobalTech-logo.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZeNkMJPDFzQ/VAcn4hChEhI/AAAAAAAABL4/dSrUP_MlXx4/s1600/GlobalTech-logo.png" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><h2 class="article_title buffer"><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-21/china-s-hack-of-4-5-million-u-s-medical-records-this-chart-will-make-you-sick.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">China's Hack of 4.5 Million U.S. Medical Records? This Chart Will Make You Sick</span></a></h2><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="author" itemprop="author">By Jordan Robertson</span><span class="divider"></span><span class="date" style="display: inline-block;">Aug 21, 2014 7:26 PM ET</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5gb0bIm1G7g/VAcm8U-wFSI/AAAAAAAABLw/Bk19AmNT488/s1600/AsiansAroundMedical.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5gb0bIm1G7g/VAcm8U-wFSI/AAAAAAAABLw/Bk19AmNT488/s1600/AsiansAroundMedical.jpg" height="213" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Divya Shroff, associate chief of staff at the Veterans Administration Hospital, left, shows medical students the facility's electronic medical records system in Washington, D.C. - Photographer: Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Chinese hacking group that <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-21/chinese-hackers-vacuum-data-from-u-s-health-industry.html" rel="external">stole 4.5 million patient records</a> from a Tennessee hospital chain may have gained some bragging rights from the heist, but they haven't come close to entering the ranks of the biggest breaches of all time. In fact, they haven't even cracked the top 10.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-21/chinese-hackers-vacuum-data-from-u-s-health-industry.html" rel="external">attack</a> has gained notoriety for its methods, rather than its size — the hacking group has been prolific in attacking U.S. medical-device companies and drug makers. The <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/infographics/2014-08-21/top-data-breaches.html" rel="external">chart</a> below shows how the Chinese breach compares with others.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">\ </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The ranking provides little solace if you're one of the people whose personal information was stolen and used for identity theft. Yet, with security-software maker Symantec calling this the era of the "<a href="http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/istr-19-year-mega-breach" rel="external">mega-breach</a>" and some attacks hitting the nine digits, it's worth remembering that hackers have many, many other ways to obtain personal information. </span></span></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><u><b>MORE:</b></u><br /><h3><span style="font-size: large;">Who will be the NEXT Target? Those of Poverty?</span></h3><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mikahel Love,</span></span></i> <b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">IIO</span></b></span></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zGS1JM7mhqw/VAdrfFtxn7I/AAAAAAAABNY/uY3D7d62xZA/s1600/Food_Bank_Warehouse.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zGS1JM7mhqw/VAdrfFtxn7I/AAAAAAAABNY/uY3D7d62xZA/s1600/Food_Bank_Warehouse.jpg" height="212" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inside a warehouse of a thriving non-profit business that uses the poor for business</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: left;">It seems that businesses such as Home Depot, Target, Albertson's, Target, Michaels, <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/neiman-marcus-1-1-million-cards-compromised-7000025513/" target="_blank">Neiman Marcus</a>, Sally Beauty, <span class="itemprop="articleBody">P.F. Chang’s China Bistro</span> and SuperValu, as well as, some preferred banks appear to the targets, there resides a mountain of personal data including Social Security numbers, bank account info and even drivers license details held in insecure and vulnerable so-called non-profits: Food Banks and Food Pantries.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-A_4cR-fGuv4/VAdraPfXzvI/AAAAAAAABM4/oQyliUzUYA4/s1600/Food-Bank-of-the-Southern-Tier.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-A_4cR-fGuv4/VAdraPfXzvI/AAAAAAAABM4/oQyliUzUYA4/s1600/Food-Bank-of-the-Southern-Tier.jpg" height="206" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IE3WtWLZTXw/VAdrbEVFj3I/AAAAAAAABNE/md_LJlmht34/s1600/FoodPantryBanner.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IE3WtWLZTXw/VAdrbEVFj3I/AAAAAAAABNE/md_LJlmht34/s1600/FoodPantryBanner.jpg" height="82" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">These so-called non-profit businesses have been collecting personal details for some time now. With investigating into how secure those of poverty details are, we found that security seemed to be brushed off and/or at most, bare security features were being used.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H1FqyPC1iU8/VAdri4NY95I/AAAAAAAABNo/hGtf4cpqUqc/s1600/HungryWaitingInLine.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H1FqyPC1iU8/VAdri4NY95I/AAAAAAAABNo/hGtf4cpqUqc/s1600/HungryWaitingInLine.jpg" height="218" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Although, one wouldn't think that a person who must go to a Food Bank and/or Food Pantry for what to eat would have huge amounts of money and/or assets on hand to steal, there are a multitude of other reasons why identity theft takes place: elections; travel; committing a crime to implicate another ...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">It appears there exist hardly any security safe-guards in place to protect identity theft of those who <b>MUST</b> surrender personal details to eat: The abused and/or those of poverty in the U.S..</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Not one food pantry expressed any law in place that commanded them to make clients surrender their personal details as they would when applying for a loan, government assistance, etc.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Could it be that Food Pantries and Food Banks are a cloaked arm of government?</div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-M2bR3oeRpA0/VAcvVZ7Dr2I/AAAAAAAABMo/qL1dvXNY7CI/s1600/PlanA-PlanBpng.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-M2bR3oeRpA0/VAcvVZ7Dr2I/AAAAAAAABMo/qL1dvXNY7CI/s1600/PlanA-PlanBpng.png" height="320" width="270" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><u><b>DO NOT</b></u></span> rely upon governments and/or others to safe-guard your personal details. <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>YOU</b></span> must be vigilant. </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><u><b>More:</b></u><br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;">500</span></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-l45Mfh9uFbE/VAdczjyupiI/AAAAAAAAB1w/t4C8jk9cspY/s1600/500Passwords_not2Use.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-l45Mfh9uFbE/VAdczjyupiI/AAAAAAAAB1w/t4C8jk9cspY/s1600/500Passwords_not2Use.png" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>you shouldn't be using:</b></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mikhael Love,</span></i></span><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">IIO</span></span></span></b></span></div><br /><div id="yui_3_15_0_1_1409764966057_532" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">While it's not entirely sure how the recent theft of several celebrities’ private photos was carried out, the <a data-rapid_p="25" data-ylk="elm:itm;elmt:link;t1:a2;t2:article;t3:body;t8:6d37ef06-92e0-308b-99ae-e7a1fc3724ce;t9:18;itc:0;" href="http://news.yahoo.com/apparent-hollywood-hack-attack-nabs-stars-nude-pix-013137802.html" id="yui_3_15_0_1_1409764966057_911" target="_blank">leading theory places the blame on a vulnerability in iCloud</a>, Apple’s Internet storage system. </span></span></div><div id="yui_3_15_0_1_1409764966057_536" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div id="yui_3_15_0_1_1409764966057_536" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Specifically, one such theory goes, the hacker (or hackers) was able to nail down the iCloud passwords of the celeb victims and root around in their Apple storage lockers after gaining access. The responsible party <a data-rapid_p="26" data-ylk="elm:itm;elmt:link;t1:a2;t2:article;t3:body;t8:6d37ef06-92e0-308b-99ae-e7a1fc3724ce;t9:18;itc:0;" href="http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/01/find-my-iphone-exploit/" id="yui_3_15_0_1_1409764966057_1034" target="_blank">may have used a tool called iBrute</a>, <a data-rapid_p="27" data-ylk="elm:itm;elmt:link;t1:a2;t2:article;t3:body;t8:6d37ef06-92e0-308b-99ae-e7a1fc3724ce;t9:18;itc:0;" href="http://www.dailydot.com/technology/ibrute-password-list/" id="yui_3_15_0_1_1409764966057_1125" target="_blank">according to The Daily Dot</a>, which exploited a (since-fixed) iCloud bug that allowed a forced digital entry by guessing several common passwords until the correct one unlocked the front door. </span></span></div><div id="yui_3_15_0_1_1409764966057_542" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div id="yui_3_15_0_1_1409764966057_542" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">It hasn<span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1409764966057_1121">’</span>t been confirmed that iBrute was used; the tool’s creator sees no evidence that it was, but <a data-rapid_p="29" data-ylk="elm:itm;elmt:link;t1:a2;t2:article;t3:body;t8:6d37ef06-92e0-308b-99ae-e7a1fc3724ce;t9:18;itc:0;" href="http://thenextweb.com/apple/2014/09/01/this-could-be-the-apple-icloud-flaw-that-led-to-celebrity-photos-being-leaked/" id="yui_3_15_0_1_1409764966057_1131" target="_blank">concedes that it’s possible</a>. iBrute used 500 of the most common passwords that were leaked from a service called <a href="http://rockyou.com/" target="_blank">RockYou</a>, which leaked out 32 million usernames and passwords way back in 2009; the tool’s creators posted those passwords in a long list on <a data-rapid_p="30" data-ylk="elm:itm;elmt:link;t1:a2;t2:article;t3:body;t8:6d37ef06-92e0-308b-99ae-e7a1fc3724ce;t9:18;itc:0;" href="https://github.com/hackappcom/ibrute/blob/master/passlist.txt" id="yui_3_15_0_1_1409764966057_1127" target="_blank">the developer site GitHub</a>.</span></span></div><div id="yui_3_15_0_1_1409764966057_545" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div id="yui_3_15_0_1_1409764966057_545" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Listed below are 500 common passwords below. The passwords that iBrute worked with included one capital letter and one number, so old standbys like “password” and “iloveyou” do not appear here. </span></span></div><div id="yui_3_15_0_1_1409764966057_548" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div id="yui_3_15_0_1_1409764966057_548" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Even though these passwords are from 2009, the Great Celebrity Hack of 2014 serves as another reminder that if you use any of the following 500 passwords on any service, it’s way past time for a change.</span></span></div><div id="yui_3_15_0_1_1409764966057_551" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div id="yui_3_15_0_1_1409764966057_551" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Oh yes, and while you’re at it, you should make sure that <a data-rapid_p="31" data-ylk="elm:itm;elmt:link;t1:a2;t2:article;t3:body;t8:6d37ef06-92e0-308b-99ae-e7a1fc3724ce;t9:18;itc:0;" href="https://www.yahoo.com/tech/be-angry-about-the-icloud-hack-but-not-surprised-96459530239.html" id="yui_3_15_0_1_1409764966057_1126" target="_blank">you have two-factor authentication</a> enabled on any account that offers it, and make sure you’re using as strong a password as possible.</span></span> And remember, "Think SMART when developing a <span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>PASSWORD</b></span></span>!</div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JPcXAG1fIGE/VAdhASO1EpI/AAAAAAAAB2Q/oclBZVWBCRk/s1600/500_Passwords_Not_2_Use1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JPcXAG1fIGE/VAdhASO1EpI/AAAAAAAAB2Q/oclBZVWBCRk/s1600/500_Passwords_Not_2_Use1.jpg" height="320" width="247" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">( click image to enlarge )</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MnhqZvb4His/VAdhBLBR4JI/AAAAAAAAB2c/SP0pORutp0I/s1600/500_Passwords_Not_2_Use2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MnhqZvb4His/VAdhBLBR4JI/AAAAAAAAB2c/SP0pORutp0I/s1600/500_Passwords_Not_2_Use2.jpg" height="320" width="247" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">( click image to enlarge )</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-azvb_ySeTWA/VAdhAfYl2_I/AAAAAAAAB2U/n8b1RUM3VMo/s1600/500_Passwords_Not_2_Use3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-azvb_ySeTWA/VAdhAfYl2_I/AAAAAAAAB2U/n8b1RUM3VMo/s1600/500_Passwords_Not_2_Use3.jpg" height="320" width="247" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">( click image to enlarge )</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dPbirEkDy-Y/VAdj5Em6AII/AAAAAAAAB2o/ppyv_4reRs8/s1600/ThinkSmart-Password.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dPbirEkDy-Y/VAdj5Em6AII/AAAAAAAAB2o/ppyv_4reRs8/s1600/ThinkSmart-Password.png" height="320" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div>Diversities Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05401472087128725547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2471283927852878995.post-26643420322502952642014-09-03T08:13:00.001-07:002014-09-03T18:35:51.776-07:00The Home Depot investigating possible massive data breach: Adds Security Pressure [ Pics/Related info ] - www.ofINTEREST.net<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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and debit cards hit the cybercrime underground on Tuesday, with multiple
banks confirming that The Home Depot stores may be the source.</span></span><br />
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investigation of a suspected hacker attack is renewing pressure on
retailers and credit-card providers to strengthen payment-system
security. </span><span style="font-size: small;">Home Depot spokesperson <b>Paula Drake</b> confirmed that the company is investigating. “I can confirm we are looking into some unusual activity and we are
working with our banking partners and law enforcement to investigate,”
Drake said, reading from a prepared statement. “Protecting our
customers’ information is something we take extremely seriously, and we
are aggressively gathering facts at this point while working to protect
customers. If we confirm that a breach has occurred, we will make sure
customers are notified immediately. Right now, for security reasons, it
would be inappropriate for us to speculate further – but we will provide
further information as soon as possible.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The largest home-improvement chain said yesterday, 02 Sept. 2014, that it was working with banks and <a href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/law-enforcement/">law enforcement</a>
on the possible incursion, following a report by <a href="http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/09/banks-credit-card-breach-at-home-depot/" target="_blank">KrebsOnSecurity</a> that a
“massive” batch of stolen credit- and debit-card information was posted
for sale online.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">There are signs that the perpetrators of this apparent breach may be
the same group of Russian and Ukrainian hackers responsible for the data
breaches at <b>Target</b>, <b>Sally Beauty</b> and <b>P.F. Chang’s</b>, among others. The banks contacted by Brian Krebs, reporter for <a href="http://krebsonsecurity.com/">KrebsOnSecurity.com</a>, all purchased their customers’ cards from the same underground store –<b> rescator[dot]cc</b> — which on Sept. 2 moved two massive new batches of stolen cards onto the market.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">A number of banks are telling Krebs that the breach dates as far back as
April and that all 2,200 Home Depot locations in the U.S. could be
involved. By comparison, there are <a href="http://pressroom.target.com/corporate">1,795 Target locations</a> in the U.S.. </span></span>That could make a Home Depot breach even bigger
than that of Target, which began in November and <a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/18/target-looking-into-security-breach/">was reported in December</a>.</div>
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that breach, Target said hackers had stolen credit or debit card
information from about 40 million customers. The company also said
criminals had stolen other pieces of personal information, like email
and mailing addresses, from about <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/14/business/target-missed-signs-of-a-data-breach.html" title="About the breach.">70 million people</a>.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The number of customers affected by The Home Depot breaches amounts to more than one-third of the American population.</span></span> </span></span><br />
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A recent Kaspersky Lab research examination of two command and control servers used by the <a href="http://threatpost.com/backoff-sinkhole-reveals-sorry-point-of-sale-security/107981">Backoff point-of-sale malware</a>
revealed that a U.S.-based Mexican restaurant chain, a North American
freight shipping company and a North American payroll association had
also been breached.<br />
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The breaches prompted a warning by <a href="http://threatpost.com/secret-service-warns-1000-businesses-hit-by-backoff-pos-malware/107914">the U.S. Secret Service last week warning of a spree of point-of-sale attacks</a>
affecting more than 1,000 businesses. Backoff has experts concerned
because it’s effective in swiping customer credit card data from
businesses using a variety of exfiltration tools, including memory, or
RAM scraping, techniques, keyloggers and injections into running
processes.<br />
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A report from US-CERT said attackers use Backoff to steal payment
card information once they’ve breached a remote desktop or
administration application, one that’s using weak or default credentials
that tumble in a brute-force attack.<br />
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Hackers then install Backoff on a point of sale device, injecting the
code into a running process in order to scrape credit card numbers from
memory before they’re encrypted on the device.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">“The criminals are getting smarter faster than the companies,” said Jaime Katz, an analyst at Morningstar Inc. in <a href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/chicago/">Chicago</a>. If the Home Depot breach is on the same scale as <a class="web_ticker" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/TGT:US" title="Get Quote">Target (TGT)</a>’s incident last year, “there is obviously significant concern,” she said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Most recently, a group is said to have <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/russian-crime-ring-reportedly-nabbed-1-2-billion-online-credentials-7000032353/">stolen more than 1.2 billion Internet credentials</a>
— including usernames and passwords — with more than 500 million email
addresses. In that case, however, most of the IDs exploited were used
for sending spam on social networks, rather than illegal spending and
selling on the black market.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Home Depot also posted a <a href="https://corporate.homedepot.com/MediaCenter/Pages/Statement1.aspx" rel="external" title="Open Web Site">note to shoppers</a> on its website, urging them to monitor their accounts and report any suspicious activity. </span></span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Home Depot <a class="web_ticker" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/HD:US" title="Get Quote">shares</a>
fell 2 percent to $91.15 on 02 Sept. 2014, marking the largest one-day decline
in almost five months, after the company said it was looking into the
possible breach. It also prompted credit-card companies such as
Citigroup Inc. to step up efforts to protect customers.</span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">In a separate statement Tuesday, 02.09.14, Goodwill said its customers' credit and
debit card numbers had been stolen at more than 300 stores in 19 states
and Washington, D.C. rom February 2013 through Aug. 14. Goodwill blamed
the security lapse on an unidentified contractor's payment processing
system. Reports about fraud linked to shoppers' cards have been "very
limited," Goodwill said.</span></span></i></div>
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The company had said in July that it was investigating the breach.</span></span></i></div>
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List of affected Goodwill stores: <a href="http://www.goodwill.org/payment-card-notice">www.goodwill.org/payment-card-notice</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/138621/article.html" target="_blank">Theft of Home Depot laptop Puts 10,000 at Risk</a></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">By <span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><a href="http://www.pcworld.com/author/Cara-Garretson/" itemprop="url" rel="author"><span itemprop="name">Cara Garretson</span></a></span>, NetworkWorld</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Oct 18, 2007 2:00 PM</span></span></div>
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<section class="page"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.homedepot.com/" target="_blank">Home Depot</a>
on Wednesday confirmed a company laptop was stolen that contains
personal information about approximately 10,000 employees of the
do-it-yourself retailing giant.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Several weeks ago, a Home Depot
human-resources representative in Massachusetts took a laptop computer
home to do some additional work and had the PC stolen from his vehicle
parked in front of his house, according to a company official. The
notebook stored personal information, including names, addresses and
Social Security numbers of roughly 10,000 employees, she says. The data
was not encrypted, but the system was password protected, she adds.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Once
Home Depot investigated the theft and determined which employees' data
was stored on the notebook, the company notified potential victims and
is offering one year of credit monitoring for free, the official says.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">"We
have no reason to believe the data was the target of this theft," says
the official, adding that the company has received no evidence of
identity theft as a result of the incident.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Home Depot is continuing to work with law enforcement on an investigation into the theft.</span></span></section></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Via:</b></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://arstechnica.com/" target="_blank"><img alt="http://arstechnica.com/" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4gJ4InP-hzE/VAe720X-77I/AAAAAAAABOo/GsjcJ0h90xw/s1600/ARS_technica-logo.jpg" /></a></div>
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<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/08/hackers-stole-security-check-info-on-at-least-25000-dhs-employees/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hackers stole security check info on at least 25,000 DHS employees</span></span></a></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Homeland Security tallies damage from breach at USIS, and it's not pretty.</span></span></span> </h3>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">by <a href="http://arstechnica.com/author/sean-gallagher/" itemprop="url" rel="author"><span itemprop="name">Sean Gallagher</span></a>
- <span class="date" data-time="1409413301">Aug 30, 2014 3:41 pm UTC</span> </span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Employees at the Department of Homeland Security may be feeling a bit less secure about their personal data.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">On Aug. 2, Department of Homeland Security officials revealed that
the agency's contractor for conducting security clearance background
checks had been hacked, and an unknown number of DHS employees' personal
data from those investigations had been stolen—potentially by a
state-sponsored hacker. Now the DHS has a handle on how many records
were stolen from contractor USIS: at least 25,000.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The <a href="http://www.wjla.com/articles/2014/08/security-breach-hit-25-000-federal-workers-106600.html">Associated Press cites</a>
information from an unnamed DHS official, who spoke with the service
under the condition of anonymity. "Homeland Security will soon begin
notifying employees whose files were compromised and urge them to
monitor their financial accounts," the Associated Press' Joce Sterman
reported.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">USIS is, as the Washington Post reported, the largest contract
provider of background investigations to the federal government. The
attack on USIS comes after the March revelation that the US Office of
Personnel Management had been <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/chinese-hackers-go-after-us-workers-personal-data/2014/07/10/92db92e8-0846-11e4-8a6a-19355c7e870a_story.html">attacked by hackers based in China</a>,
potentially giving them access to the personal information of millions
of government employees—though OPM offficials say that no personal data
appeared to have been taken in the attack before it was detected.</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The US Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT), which is part of
DHS, is currently investigating the USIS breach, as are the FBI and
other federal authorities. USIS was already under fire from Congress,
and faces a federal whistleblower lawsuit over the alleged "dumping" of
more than 600,000 background checks for security clearances—marking as
complete checks that were only partially conducted. USIS was responsible
for the background checks for Edward Snowden, and for <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/aaron-alexis-34-is-dead-gunman-in-navy-yard-shooting-authorities-say/2013/09/16/dcf431ce-1f07-11e3-8459-657e0c72fec8_story.html">Aron Alexis</a>—the man responsible for the shootings at the Navy Yard in Washington, DC last year.</span></span></div>
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<h2>
<a href="http://www.wjla.com/articles/2014/08/security-breach-hit-25-000-federal-workers-106600.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Security breach hit 25,000 federal workers</span></a></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">By The Associated Press, Joce Sterman</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">August 29, 2014 - 08:40 pm
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The estimate of Homeland Security workers affected by the breach at USIS may rise further. (WJLA)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">WASHINGTON (AP) - A Homeland Security Department official says a recent
computer breach at a major government security clearance contracting
firm may have affected the internal files of as many as 25,000 of the
agency's workers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The official says the estimate of Homeland Security
workers affected by the breach at USIS may rise further. The official
spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss details of an
incident that is under active federal criminal investigation. Homeland
Security will soon begin notifying employees whose files were
compromised and urge them to monitor their financial accounts, the
official said.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">A USIS spokeswoman declined to comment. The company said earlier in a
statement on its website that the cyberattack appeared to "have the
markings of a state-sponsored attack."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The FBI is investigating.</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Security Affairs</span></b></a><br />
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<h2>
<a href="http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/27499/cyber-crime/network-usis-compromised-cyber-attack.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">The network of USIS compromised by a cyber attack</span></a></h2>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">by Pierluigi Paganini on August 12th, 2014</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-b_QJLeGU7oM/VAfBBF_nY0I/AAAAAAAABO8/gSb45GvBzCA/s1600/USIS-2-300x75.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-b_QJLeGU7oM/VAfBBF_nY0I/AAAAAAAABO8/gSb45GvBzCA/s1600/USIS-2-300x75.png" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Internal network of USIS was compromised by a
cyber attack which has exposed Government Employees’ Data.
Investigators speculate on a state-sponsored attack</span></h3>
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The USIS (<a href="http://www.usis.com/Default.aspx" style="color: #008cb2;">U.S. Investigations Services</a>), which provides background checks for the US government was recently hacked. This is the second <a href="http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/24717/security/ponemon-data-breach-study.html" target="_blank" title="Reading 2014 Ponemon Cost of Data Breach Study">data breach</a>
in a few months that threaten US government. The USIS recently
acknowledged that its network was violated by a cyber attack and experts
that are investigating on the case believe that the authors of the
attack could be a <a href="http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/18294/security/fireeye-nation-state-driven-cyber-attacks.html" target="_blank" title="FireEye World War C report – Nation-state driven cyber attacks">state-sponsored hacking team</a>.</div>
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<i>“We are working closely with federal law
enforcement authorities and have retailed an independent computer
forensics investigations firm to determine the precise nature and extent
of any unlawful entry into our network,” “Experts who have reviewed the
facts gathered to date believe it has all the markings of a
state-sponsored attack.” announced the USIS in a <a href="http://www.usis.com/Media-Release-Detail.aspx?dpid=151" style="color: #008cb2;">statement</a>. </i></div>
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Early July, alleged Chinese hackers hacked the system of the <a href="http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/26525/hacking/chinese-hackers-hacked-us-systems.html" style="color: #008cb2;" target="_blank" title="Chinese hackers violated systems at the Office of Personnel Management">Office of Personnel Management</a><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="29ba5c80-c013-40d1-ad88-caef1d21fc90"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="8ec684f1-12bc-46ad-810b-c67eb99d420a"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="f893eb63-b2bf-4f2c-8637-79dbecc36a43"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="6e5965bf-91cf-4ca2-8b62-c1d7de117813"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="c32c3c15-1691-4002-a496-05b1b6d929ed"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="c4fcaa0e-4d12-46b1-b0b4-9a605d33a67b"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="8985903c-d2ab-4744-a56f-4ae9b5b2736e"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="850abe6c-9035-47f5-9aea-0b2c218a04e0"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="45c08135-b05c-46fb-8729-2bea81037557">(</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>OPM),
for this reason the USIS is collaborating with the Bureau and
the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to track the authors of the
attack and to estimate exactly the compromised data and the impact of
the data breach.</div>
<div style="color: black; text-align: left;">
Government offices and <a href="http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/19121/cyber-crime/hacking-subcontractors.html" target="_blank" title="Subcontractors are for hackers the weakest link in security chain">subcontractors</a>
are privileged targets for cyber criminals and state-sponsored hackers,
last years according to official documents of The U.S. Department of
Energy in different breaches employees’ and contractors’ personal
information <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="1c609eb3-7cd0-4080-9975-0016aabc896b"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="8ccd9e74-8415-40b2-816f-2ad47886c61a">was exposed</span></span>.<br />
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<a href="http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/USIS.png"><img alt="USIS" class="aligncenter wp-image-27505" src="http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/USIS.png" height="166" title="The network of USIS compromised by a cyber attack" width="498" /></a></div>
<div style="color: black; text-align: left;">
<br />
The DHS spokesman Peter Boogaard reported <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="2fc5dfb5-2c91-41a3-b5d7-87d83ed32446"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="202e34ca-ed70-40c3-8c19-a488c552bf08"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="b3c10b58-b922-4c7a-b8e1-cb5e822bac11"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="12f48196-0e06-40b9-b5f8-37ee9f77604c"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="0ac8f007-b814-4548-8417-dde269249a4d"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="04090b0a-81cc-4ca5-b4a8-9c670f4b0cb4"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="4f4b1c2b-a63d-4092-a529-8da58604ccab"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="7b433920-8005-4ff1-8803-c42125747e5f"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="473f7e0c-7381-4a55-8ba3-2a606949b8ed">to</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> The
Hill that groups of hackers are targeting some agency which maintains
employees’ information, for this reason the DHS is suggesting to the
employees to monitor their financial accounts for suspicious activity
and is alerting them on possible spear phishing attacks that could be
arranged in the next months to steal further data from Government
Offices.<br />
</div>
<div style="color: black; text-align: left;">
According Boogaard data belonging to some DHS personnel may have been exposed, but at the time I<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="7632c748-b9dc-491b-ae7a-900231eb1bea"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="4393e5fd-e0d0-4ff5-ab99-e239bb4e727f"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="b23c8117-e697-4664-a215-f97d15ee8006"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="e50d57ef-7f43-40e3-b935-057c169bb247"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="1e44b072-b624-4025-864f-0e2b4d189e4e"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="3d70e8f4-103e-46af-8aa8-6d594ccdab97"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="35507c51-9058-420a-8b10-4a0f63565e60"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="259595c8-f801-4407-9396-ed288a54379f">‘m writing</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> there is no news on the number of employee records exposed.</div>
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<div style="color: black;">
<i>“Our forensic analysis has concluded that
some DHS personnel may have been affected, and DHS has notified its
entire workforce” “We are committed to ensuring our employees’ privacy
and are taking steps to protect it.” Peter Boogaard said.</i></div>
</blockquote>
<div style="color: black; text-align: left;">
The journalists at <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/dhs-contractor-suffers-major-computer-breach-officials-say/2014/08/06/8ed131b4-1d89-11e4-ae54-0cfe1f974f8a_story.html" style="color: #008cb2;">The Washington Post</a> exclude a linked between the cyber attack on USIS and the data breach suffered in March 2014 by OPM.</div>
<blockquote>
<div style="color: black;">
<i>“The intrusion is not believed to be related to a <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/chinese-hackers-go-after-us-workers-personal-data/2014/07/10/92db92e8-0846-11e4-8a6a-19355c7e870a_story.html" style="color: #2e6d9d;">March incident in which the OPM’s databases</a> were
hacked, said officials, some of whom spoke on the condition of
anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the record.”
states the Washington Post</i></div>
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<div style="color: black; text-align: left;">
It’s clear that such attacks represent a serious threat <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="d3996573-e6fe-4354-853d-4c0b8e84d75d"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="e38e6125-b9a7-4e3d-94c5-b548c70f643b"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="445aceac-67ce-48d0-b13e-bcb6362ac3b7"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="ac74ae96-f35c-4ef0-9cb1-584efc43a678"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="560709e9-9769-49a2-95e9-9ab288e082d0"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="517d1811-164f-4720-8e0e-2c0dfd40524c"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="b67d510f-738c-4cf1-a94d-bca38f9ccb3f"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="2046a0d8-22f0-4dac-aecf-7af2ea376304"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="88dd1931-2219-40f9-9fbf-8bc176fe69b2">for</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> the US Government, stolen information could be used by bad actors to organize dangerous attacks to <a href="http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/22180/security/nist-critical-infrastructure.html" target="_blank" title="NIST has published cybersecurity framework for critical infrastructure">critical infrastructure</a> of the country.<br />
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<div style="color: black; text-align: left;">
<a href="http://www.carper.senate.gov/" style="color: #008cb2;"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="b50933c4-70ae-41a8-a44e-e57db740222d"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="f3381ad0-4462-4582-8b55-b5aa6459f0dc"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="04d73afc-45ef-4cd9-856f-52838a14e4b9"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="84402ac8-7441-43c5-8798-868cdea519ad"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="1591bd63-5f6c-427a-9201-7388edfd0f1d"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="7d18cbfb-d255-4598-8cb9-342d5cdf32f6"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="c81c6944-4a91-4b5a-8723-cbc887c4950f"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="dd4ed660-30e8-422c-acda-a623ac8f5fe8"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="e6791f3f-5d6d-4dbc-b94b-eaf86394ac08"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="26d8a946-867a-4d0c-8029-abecb29f806e">Sen</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>. Tom Carper</a>, chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, declared in a <a href="http://www.carper.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=7642576f-666c-4ebd-a490-59545bf9792b" style="color: #008cb2;">statement</a> that this kind of incidents demonstrates the importance of cyber security in Homeland security.</div>
<blockquote>
<div style="color: black;">
<i>“This latest report of a cyber attack on
the major government contractor USIS is deeply troubling and underscores
the scary reality of how much of a target our sensitive information has
become in cyberspace,” “It also shows how urgent it is that we reform
our laws to better combat attacks from malicious actors.” he said. </i></div>
<div style="color: black;">
<i>The USIS breach “is very troubling news,”
“Americans’ personal information should always be secure, particularly
when our national security is involved. An incident like this is simply
unacceptable.” added said Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), a Homeland
Security Committee member.</i></div>
</blockquote>
<div style="color: black; text-align: left;">
It is necessary to improve security of high
sensitive networks and maximize the information sharing between private
companies and government entities to promptly identify cyber threats
and <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="ac56f079-2da6-486f-a93e-74ba1be6e863"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="ff679ccc-4a96-41fb-8861-57b495f7027e"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="d6b11125-3c51-48e2-a52e-4a3657dfbc10"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="81560f4b-feb7-46f2-a261-21dad930909d"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="a40f4f5f-2f7c-48e2-9ce8-56838b5974c5"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="300b0714-c459-424b-bb5b-26dc72924fc0"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="9fe6c1b9-afe5-453f-b280-585f5de30d33">adopt</span></span></span></span></span></span></span> the necessary mitigation strategy.</div>
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<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-21/china-s-hack-of-4-5-million-u-s-medical-records-this-chart-will-make-you-sick.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">China's Hack of 4.5 Million U.S. Medical Records? This Chart Will Make You Sick</span></a>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="author" itemprop="author">By Jordan Robertson</span>
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<span class="date" style="display: inline-block;">Aug 21, 2014 7:26 PM ET</span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Divya Shroff, associate chief of staff at the Veterans Administration
Hospital, left, shows medical students the facility's electronic medical
records system in Washington, D.C. - Photographer: Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Chinese hacking group that <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-21/chinese-hackers-vacuum-data-from-u-s-health-industry.html" rel="external">stole 4.5 million patient records</a>
from a Tennessee hospital chain may have gained some bragging rights
from the heist, but they haven't come close to entering the ranks of the
biggest breaches of all time. In fact, they haven't even cracked the
top 10.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-21/chinese-hackers-vacuum-data-from-u-s-health-industry.html" rel="external">attack</a>
has gained notoriety for its methods, rather than its size — the
hacking group has been prolific in attacking U.S. medical-device
companies and drug makers. The <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/infographics/2014-08-21/top-data-breaches.html" rel="external">chart</a> below shows how the Chinese breach compares with others.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
ranking provides little solace if you're one of the people whose
personal information was stolen and used for identity theft. Yet, with
security-software maker Symantec calling this the era of the "<a href="http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/istr-19-year-mega-breach" rel="external">mega-breach</a>"
and some attacks hitting the nine digits, it's worth remembering that
hackers have many, many other ways to obtain personal information. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Who will be the NEXT Target? Those of Poverty?</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mikahel Love,</span></span></i> <b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">IIO</span></b></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inside a warehouse of a thriving non-profit business that uses the poor for business</td></tr>
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It seems that businesses such as Home Depot, Target, Albertson's, Target, Michaels, <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/neiman-marcus-1-1-million-cards-compromised-7000025513/" target="_blank">Neiman Marcus</a>, Sally Beauty, <span class="itemprop="articleBody">P.F. Chang’s China Bistro</span>
and SuperValu, as well as, some preferred banks appear to the targets,
there resides a mountain of personal data including Social Security
numbers, bank account info and even drivers license details held in
insecure and vulnerable so-called non-profits: Food Banks and Food
Pantries.</div>
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<div style="text-align: left;">
These
so-called non-profit businesses have been collecting personal details
for some time now. With investigating into how secure those of poverty
details are, we found that security seemed to be brushed off and/or at
most, bare security features were being used.</div>
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<div style="text-align: left;">
Although,
one wouldn't think that a person who must go to a Food Bank and/or Food
Pantry for what to eat would have huge amounts of money and/or assets
on hand to steal, there are a multitude of other reasons why identity
theft takes place: elections; travel; committing a crime to implicate
another ...</div>
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<div style="text-align: left;">
It appears there exist hardly any security safe-guards in place to protect identity theft of those who <b>MUST</b> surrender personal details to eat: The abused and/or those of poverty in the U.S..</div>
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<div style="text-align: left;">
Not
one food pantry expressed any law in place that commanded them to make
clients surrender their personal details as they would when applying for
a loan, government assistance, etc.</div>
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<div style="text-align: left;">
Could it be that Food Pantries and Food Banks are a cloaked arm of government?</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-M2bR3oeRpA0/VAcvVZ7Dr2I/AAAAAAAABMo/qL1dvXNY7CI/s1600/PlanA-PlanBpng.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-M2bR3oeRpA0/VAcvVZ7Dr2I/AAAAAAAABMo/qL1dvXNY7CI/s1600/PlanA-PlanBpng.png" height="320" width="270" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><u><b>DO NOT</b></u></span> rely upon governments and/or others to safe-guard your personal details. <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>YOU</b></span> must be vigilant. </td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">500</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>you shouldn't be using:</b></span><br />
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mikhael Love,</span></i></span><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">IIO</span></span></span></b></span></div>
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<div id="yui_3_15_0_1_1409764966057_532" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">While it's not entirely sure how the recent theft of several celebrities’ private photos was carried out, the <a data-rapid_p="25" data-ylk="elm:itm;elmt:link;t1:a2;t2:article;t3:body;t8:6d37ef06-92e0-308b-99ae-e7a1fc3724ce;t9:18;itc:0;" href="http://news.yahoo.com/apparent-hollywood-hack-attack-nabs-stars-nude-pix-013137802.html" id="yui_3_15_0_1_1409764966057_911" target="_blank">leading theory places the blame on a vulnerability in iCloud</a>, Apple’s Internet storage system. </span></span></div>
<div id="yui_3_15_0_1_1409764966057_536" style="text-align: left;">
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<div id="yui_3_15_0_1_1409764966057_536" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Specifically, one such theory
goes, the hacker (or hackers) was able to nail down the iCloud passwords
of the celeb victims and root around in their Apple storage lockers
after gaining access. The responsible party <a data-rapid_p="26" data-ylk="elm:itm;elmt:link;t1:a2;t2:article;t3:body;t8:6d37ef06-92e0-308b-99ae-e7a1fc3724ce;t9:18;itc:0;" href="http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/01/find-my-iphone-exploit/" id="yui_3_15_0_1_1409764966057_1034" target="_blank">may have used a tool called iBrute</a>, <a data-rapid_p="27" data-ylk="elm:itm;elmt:link;t1:a2;t2:article;t3:body;t8:6d37ef06-92e0-308b-99ae-e7a1fc3724ce;t9:18;itc:0;" href="http://www.dailydot.com/technology/ibrute-password-list/" id="yui_3_15_0_1_1409764966057_1125" target="_blank">according to The Daily Dot</a>,
which exploited a (since-fixed) iCloud bug that allowed a forced
digital entry by guessing several common passwords until the correct one
unlocked the front door. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">It hasn<span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1409764966057_1121">’</span>t been confirmed that iBrute was used; the tool’s creator sees no evidence that it was, but <a data-rapid_p="29" data-ylk="elm:itm;elmt:link;t1:a2;t2:article;t3:body;t8:6d37ef06-92e0-308b-99ae-e7a1fc3724ce;t9:18;itc:0;" href="http://thenextweb.com/apple/2014/09/01/this-could-be-the-apple-icloud-flaw-that-led-to-celebrity-photos-being-leaked/" id="yui_3_15_0_1_1409764966057_1131" target="_blank">concedes that it’s possible</a>.
iBrute used 500 of the most common passwords that were leaked from a
service called <a href="http://rockyou.com/" target="_blank">RockYou</a>, which leaked out 32 million usernames and
passwords way back in 2009; the tool’s creators posted those passwords
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passwords below. The passwords that iBrute worked with included one
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Even though these passwords are
from 2009, the Great Celebrity Hack of 2014 serves as another reminder
that if you use any of the following 500 passwords on any service, it’s
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Oh yes, and while you’re at it, you should make sure that <a data-rapid_p="31" data-ylk="elm:itm;elmt:link;t1:a2;t2:article;t3:body;t8:6d37ef06-92e0-308b-99ae-e7a1fc3724ce;t9:18;itc:0;" href="https://www.yahoo.com/tech/be-angry-about-the-icloud-hack-but-not-surprised-96459530239.html" id="yui_3_15_0_1_1409764966057_1126" target="_blank">you have two-factor authentication</a> enabled on any account that offers it, and make sure you’re using as strong a password as possible.</span></span> And remember, "Think SMART when developing a <span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>PASSWORD</b></span></span>!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13052342818075125666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2471283927852878995.post-701434335353977772014-09-02T16:28:00.002-07:002018-08-26T17:39:21.261-07:00BREAKING: Islamic State (IS) Releases Video Showing Beheading of U.S. Journalist Steven Joel Sotloff [ VIDEO's / Pics ] - www.ofINTEREST.net<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xZM9A8WLMHo/VAY3IoDaEII/AAAAAAAABIk/QeqbtblnDZE/s1600/TERROR_of_interest530x200_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xZM9A8WLMHo/VAY3IoDaEII/AAAAAAAABIk/QeqbtblnDZE/s1600/TERROR_of_interest530x200_.jpg" height="120" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: red;">WARNING:</span> Graphic video content may not be suitable for <span style="font-size: small;">all ages.</span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DjTNoLgCY_I/VAZHUsxMAnI/AAAAAAAABJc/yrlF-3bzHik/s1600/stevensotloff-611x328.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DjTNoLgCY_I/VAZHUsxMAnI/AAAAAAAABJc/yrlF-3bzHik/s1600/stevensotloff-611x328.jpg" height="171" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Still pic from the James Wright Foley beheading video showing Steven Joel Sotloff being threatened. </td></tr></tbody></table><h2 class="title" href="http://mashable.com/2014/09/02/islamic-state-releases-video-showing-beheading-of-u-s-journalist-steven-sotloff/" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ofinterestnet.blogspot.com/2014/09/breaking-islamic-state-is-releases.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">BREAKING: Islamic State (IS) Releases Video Showing Beheading of U.S. Journalist Steven Joel Sotloff</span></span></a></h2><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Mikhael Love,</i> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>IIO</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-g4PskErkKvk/VAZHRNX_7bI/AAAAAAAABI8/o6-jbmnEwY4/s1600/StevenJoelSotloff-DailyCallerProfilePic.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-g4PskErkKvk/VAZHRNX_7bI/AAAAAAAABI8/o6-jbmnEwY4/s1600/StevenJoelSotloff-DailyCallerProfilePic.JPG" height="320" width="253" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">U.S. journalist Steven Joel Sotloff; Daily Caller profile pic.</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Islamic State (IS) released a video today, 02 Sept. 2014, purporting to show the beheading of American hostage Steven Joel Sotloff. This seems to of raised the stakes in its confrontation with Washington over U.S. air strikes on its fighters in Iraq</span><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Sotloff family was aware of the video Tuesday and was grieving, a family spokesman told the Associated Press. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fmSi8q0RjPs/VAZV8USevUI/AAAAAAAABJ8/XB9P3z7pfKc/s1600/steven-sotloff-journalist.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fmSi8q0RjPs/VAZV8USevUI/AAAAAAAABJ8/XB9P3z7pfKc/s1600/steven-sotloff-journalist.jpg" height="179" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">American journalist Steven Sotloff (center with black helmet) talks to Libyan rebels on the Al Dafniya front line in June 2011 in Misrata, Libya.</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="p1"><br /><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The video is similar to the one James Wright Foley was beheaded in and ends with threatening another captive, a Briton, David Cawthorne Haines. (<span style="font-size: small;">at the end of the accom<span style="font-size: small;">pan<span style="font-size: small;">ying video</span></span></span> <span style="font-size: small;">)</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p1"><br /></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1409696460742_2628"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">In Washington, the White House said it could not immediately confirm that Islamic State had released a video of Sotloff's beheading.</span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1409696460742_1364"><br /></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1409696460742_1364"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">“We have seen a video that purports to be the murder of U.S. citizen Steven Sotloff by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The intelligence community is working as quickly as possible to determine its authenticity," National Security Council spokesperson Bernadette Meehan said in a statement.</span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1409696460742_1385"><br /></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1409696460742_1385"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">"If genuine, we are appalled by the brutal murder of an innocent American journalist and we express our deepest condolences to his family and friends. We will provide more information when it is available.”</span></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6eHvGCoC_Sw/VAZV3C3VD0I/AAAAAAAABJ0/l1ZBkM194jc/s1600/Steven-Sotloff.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6eHvGCoC_Sw/VAZV3C3VD0I/AAAAAAAABJ0/l1ZBkM194jc/s1600/Steven-Sotloff.jpg" height="212" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VYRHBeMILRM/VAZV-BvFTAI/AAAAAAAABKE/TkRutEMYkHY/s1600/Steven_and_maskedMan-screenShot.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VYRHBeMILRM/VAZV-BvFTAI/AAAAAAAABKE/TkRutEMYkHY/s1600/Steven_and_maskedMan-screenShot.png" height="216" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1409696460742_2636"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The United States is taking the Islamic State insurgents far more seriously now than it did six months ago, when Obama told the New Yorker magazine that they were the "JV team," which is short for "junior varsity" and means they are not the best players on the field.</span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1409696460742_2636"><br /></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1409696460742_1380"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> On Aug. 24, al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front militants in Syria freed an American writer, Peter Theo Curtis, who had been missing since 2012, following what officials said were efforts by the Gulf Arab state of Qatar to secure his release.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The authenticity of the video, which took an unusually long time to reach ISIS forums, often the first sources for such videos, has yet to be confirmed. The video was titled “A second message to America,” and again started with footage of oratory from U.S. President Barack Obama, before cutting to a scripted anti-US monologue delivered by an emotionless Sotloff, draped in orange clothing (reminiscent of Guantanamo inmates) and on his knees in another arid hilltop landscape beside his executioner.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><br /><div class="p1"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">It appears from chatter on ISIS forums that the initial video release was an unintentional leak from within ISIS circles. An ISIS-affiliated <a href="https://twitter.com/AlBttar88" target="_blank">twitter account</a> (now suspended) published the video ahead of the prescribed time. Another ISIS-affiliated account, <a href="https://twitter.com/Khattabyaz" target="_blank">@Khattabyaz</a> pulled them up on their error, but at that point it was too late, and the video was in circulation. The group then apologised to its followers for the lack of discipline in a text missive on <a href="http://justpaste.it/gxlp" target="_blank">Justpaste</a>, saying:</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>“A clarification about the mistake was made by “Uyun al-Ummah” account, that has published the video before the official time.</i></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The user saw a tweet with the video and thought it was published officially. We tried to remove the video after we understood that his was published by mistake, and we are sorry to the followers of the Islamic State.”</i></span></span><br /><i> </i></div></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The accompanying 2 minute, 46 second video was produced by the group’s <a href="http://www.al-furqan.com/" target="_blank">al-Furqan Media Foundation</a>, and was uploaded on a file-sharing website on September 2, 2014. In the video, Sotloff describes himself as “paying the price” for the U.S. intervention in Iraq with his life, and telling U.S. President Barack Obama: “You've spent billions of U.S. tax payers dollars and we've lost thousands of our troops in our previous fighting against the Islamic State, so where is the people's interest in reigniting this war?” The same masked fighter who appeared in the video with James Wright Foley stands with Sotloff and states:</span></span></span></div><div class="p1"><br /></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1">“I'm back, Obama, and I'm back because of your arrogant foreign policy towards the Islamic State, because of your insistence on continuing your bombings and [unclear] on Mosul Dam, despite our serious warnings. You, Obama, have but to gain from your actions but another American citizen. So just as your missiles continue to strike our people, our knife will continue to strike the necks of your people...</span></span></span></div><div class="p1"><br /></div><div class="p1"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1">“We take this opportunity to warn those governments that enter this evil alliance of America against the Islamic State to back off and leave our people alone.”</span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1">The executioner once again warned that there would be further killings unless U.S. foreign policy changed, and specifically said that Briton David Cawthorne Haines, who was shown after a gruesome picture of the beheaded body of Sotloff. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nPrJrqWW30I/VAe1G_s8rWI/AAAAAAAABN4/lO5IEghx8Dc/s1600/Briton-David%2BCawthorne%2BHaines.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nPrJrqWW30I/VAe1G_s8rWI/AAAAAAAABN4/lO5IEghx8Dc/s1600/Briton-David%2BCawthorne%2BHaines.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Briton David Cawthorne Haines as he appears near the end of the American Steven Joel Sotloff beheading video</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">WARNING</span></span>:</b> The accompanying video of the <u><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">IS</span></b> beheading American Steven Joel Sotloff</u> might contain content that is not suitable for all ages. Proceed only if you are 18 years and older. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwjOO9i0qXsMMuGCx6qGjM8nGRymwmlHHWbUKPLIV2oIvCQtI5TiB4adMcTlVfSi1010vNETlPCMR4Xjf-ySQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>"A second message to America" </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><div class="p1" style="text-align: center;"><br /><span class="s1"><b>Following is a transcript of the video:</b></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: center;"><span class="s1">A Second Message to America</span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1">I am Steven Joel Sotloff. I'm sure you know exactly who I am by now and why I am appearing before you.</span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1">And now this time for my message:</span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1">Obama, your foreign policy of intervention in Iraq was supposed to be for the preservation of American lives and interests, so why is it that I am paying the price of your interference with my life. Am I not an American citizen? You've spent billions of U.S. tax payers dollars and we've lost </span><span class="s1">thousands of our troops in our previous fighting against the Islamic State, so where is the people's interest in reigniting this war?</span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1">Form what little I know about foreign policy, I remember a time you could not win an election without promising to bring our troops back home from Iraq and Afghanistan and to close down Guantanamo. Here you are now, Obama, nearing the end of your term, and having achieving none of the above, and deceivingly marching us the American people in the blazing fire.</span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1">[Executor]</span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1">I'm back, Obama, and I'm back because of your arrogant foreign policy towards the Islamic State, because of your insistence on continuing your bombings and [unclear] on Mosul Dam, despite our serious warnings. You, Obama, have but to gain from your actions but another American citizen. So just as your missiles continue to strike our people, our knife will continue to strike the necks of your people...</span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1">We take this opportunity to warn those governments that enter this evil alliance of America against the Islamic State to back off and leave our people alone.</span></div><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><h3 class="entry-title"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Steven Sotloff: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know</span></span></h3><i><u><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">1. Sotloff Is a Nationally Recognized Journalist</span></span></span></b></u></i><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Sotloff is a renowned journalist who has worked for TIME Magazine, among others, and been a guest on CNN and Fox News. He apparently filed his <a href="http://world.time.com/2012/11/26/libyas-new-crisis-a-wave-of-assassinations-targeting-its-top-cops/" target="_blank">last piece for TIME</a> on November 26, 2012. The piece was about <a href="http://world.time.com/2012/11/26/libyas-new-crisis-a-wave-of-assassinations-targeting-its-top-cops/" target="_blank">“Libya’s New Crisis.”</a></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span><br /><i><u><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">2. He Has Been Missing for 12 Months</span></span></span></b></u></i><br /><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">He had been missing, believed kidnapped since August 4, when he was taken in Aleppo, Syria. Sotloff, a Miami native, sent his <a href="https://twitter.com/stevensotloff/status/363565409477201921" target="_blank">last tweet</a> on August 3, 2013. His second to last tweet was more relevant to conflicts in the region: </span></span></span></b><br /><br /><i><u><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">3. He’s a UCF Graduate</span></span></span></u></i><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pub/steven-sotloff/4/529/503" target="_blank">According to his LinkedIn page,</a> Sotloff says that he is a graduate of he University of Central Florida. He refers to his job “Traveling Man.” <a href="https://twitter.com/stevensotloff" target="_blank">On his Twitter page,</a> Sotloff frequently tweeted about his beloved Miami Heat. <br /><br /><br /><i><u><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">4. Sotloff Was Based in Libya</span></span></span></b></u></i><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-l44mH774T2E/VAZkcpAcbrI/AAAAAAAABw4/YdXxQvRp8M8/s1600/3of5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-l44mH774T2E/VAZkcpAcbrI/AAAAAAAABw4/YdXxQvRp8M8/s1600/3of5.jpg" height="320" width="320" /></a></div><br /> His social media posts were largely about the locals and scenery he encountered while working in Libya.<br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-37QxgBW3EZQ/VAZi8qnkybI/AAAAAAAABws/bNy0XhLgorU/s1600/4of5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-37QxgBW3EZQ/VAZi8qnkybI/AAAAAAAABws/bNy0XhLgorU/s1600/4of5.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This photo was posted on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153035852980024&set=a.10152004900560024.878516.626080023&type=1&theater" target="_blank">Steve Sotloff’s Facebook page.</a></td></tr></tbody></table></span></span></span><br /><br /><i><u><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">5. The NSC Has Reacted to the Video</span></span></span></u></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dx-ZsRk9PEyMkU5P0oFbHimGlkAXyQ01h11bZD77FbTUht9LmxAH98ju7Vk13M65Zox51BqIfa_wmm1cEPKIQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>On Wednesday, 27 August 2014, Shirley Sotloff called on ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-declared Muslim Caliph, to "grant amnesty" to her 31-year-old son and freelance journalist. (Al Arabiya)<br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Related:</b></div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://ofinterestnet.blogspot.com/2014/08/he-would-have-gone-first-that-is-who-he.html">UPDATED: "He would have gone first, that is who he is": Brave parents of James Foley match their son for dignity and courage [VIDEO's/Pics]</a></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://ofinterestnet.blogspot.com/2014/08/warning-graphic-james-wright-foley.html">WARNING: Graphic James Wright Foley BEHEADING Video by ISIS Authentic says US officials, Prompts Controversy [VIDEO/Pics]</a></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://ofinterestnet.blogspot.com/2014/08/full-text-of-last-email-islamic-state.html">Full text of the last email the Islamic State sent to the Foley family</a></span></h3><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>Diversities Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05401472087128725547noreply@blogger.com0Syria34.802074999999988 38.9968149999999728.135342499999986 28.66966649999997 41.46880749999999 49.323963499999969tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2471283927852878995.post-18162620560404770442014-09-02T16:28:00.001-07:002015-02-03T19:09:58.499-08:00BREAKING: Islamic State (IS) Releases Video Showing Beheading of U.S. Journalist Steven Joel Sotloff [ VIDEO's / Pics ] - www.ofINTEREST.net<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Mikhael Love,</i> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>IIO</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Islamic State (IS) released a video today, 02 Sept. 2014, purporting to show the beheading of
American hostage Steven Joel Sotloff. This seems to of raised the stakes in its confrontation with Washington over U.S. air
strikes on its fighters in Iraq</span><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Sotloff family was aware of the video Tuesday and was grieving, a family spokesman told the Associated Press. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The video is similar to the one James Wright Foley was beheaded in and ends with threatening another captive, a Briton, David Cawthorne Haines. (<span style="font-size: small;">at the end of the accom<span style="font-size: small;">pan<span style="font-size: small;">ying video</span></span></span> <span style="font-size: small;">)</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">In Washington, the White House
said it could not immediately confirm that Islamic State had released a
video of Sotloff's beheading.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">“We have seen a video
that purports to be the murder of U.S. citizen Steven Sotloff by the
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The intelligence community is
working as quickly as possible to determine its authenticity," National
Security Council spokesperson Bernadette Meehan said in a statement.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">"If genuine, we are appalled by the brutal murder of an innocent
American journalist and we express our deepest condolences to his family
and friends. We will provide more information when it is available.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The United States is taking the
Islamic State insurgents far more seriously now than it did six months
ago, when Obama told the New Yorker magazine that they were the "JV
team," which is short for "junior varsity" and means they are not the
best players on the field.</span></span></div>
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On Aug. 24, al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front militants in Syria freed an
American writer, Peter Theo Curtis, who had been missing since 2012,
following what officials said were efforts by the Gulf Arab state of
Qatar to secure his release.</span></span><br />
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authenticity of the video, which took an unusually long time to reach
ISIS forums, often the first sources for such videos, has yet to be
confirmed. The video was titled “A second message to America,” and
again started with footage of oratory from U.S. President Barack Obama,
before cutting to a scripted anti-US monologue delivered by an
emotionless Sotloff, draped in orange clothing (reminiscent of
Guantanamo inmates) and on his knees in another arid hilltop landscape
beside his executioner.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">It appears from chatter on ISIS forums that the initial
video release was an unintentional leak from within ISIS circles. An
ISIS-affiliated <a href="https://twitter.com/AlBttar88" target="_blank">twitter account</a> (now suspended) published the video ahead of the prescribed time. Another ISIS-affiliated account, <a href="https://twitter.com/Khattabyaz" target="_blank">@Khattabyaz</a> pulled
them up on their error, but at that point it was too late, and the
video was in circulation. The group then apologised to its
followers for the lack of discipline in a text missive on <a href="http://justpaste.it/gxlp" target="_blank">Justpaste</a>, saying:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>“A clarification about the mistake was made by “Uyun al-Ummah” account, that has published the video before the official time.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The user saw a tweet with the video and thought it was
published officially. We tried to remove the video after we understood
that his was published by mistake, and we are sorry to the followers of
the Islamic State.”</i></span></span><br />
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The accompanying 2 minute, 46 second video
was produced by the group’s <a href="http://www.al-furqan.com/" target="_blank">al-Furqan Media Foundation</a>, and was uploaded
on a file-sharing website on September 2, 2014. In the video, Sotloff
describes himself as “paying the price” for the U.S. intervention in Iraq
with his life, and telling U.S. President Barack Obama: “You've spent
billions of U.S. tax payers dollars and we've lost thousands of our
troops in our previous fighting against the Islamic State, so where is
the people's interest in reigniting this war?” The same masked fighter
who appeared in the video with James Wright Foley stands with Sotloff
and states:</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1">“I'm back, Obama, and I'm back
because of your arrogant foreign policy towards the Islamic State,
because of your insistence on continuing your bombings and [unclear] on
Mosul Dam, despite our serious warnings. You, Obama, have but to gain
from your actions but another American citizen. So just as your missiles
continue to strike our people, our knife will continue to strike the
necks of your people...</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1">“We take this opportunity to warn
those governments that enter this evil alliance of America against the
Islamic State to back off and leave our people alone.”</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1">The executioner once again warned that there would be
further killings unless U.S. foreign policy changed, and specifically
said that Briton David Cawthorne Haines, who was shown after a
gruesome picture of the beheaded body of Sotloff. </span></span></span></div>
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<b>"A second message to America" </b></div>
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<span class="s1">A Second Message to America</span></div>
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<span class="s1">I am Steven Joel Sotloff. I'm sure you
know exactly who I am by now and why I am appearing before you.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">And now
this time for my message:</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Obama, your foreign policy of
intervention in Iraq was supposed to be for the preservation of American
lives and interests, so why is it that I am paying the price of your
interference with my life. Am I not an American citizen? You've spent
billions of U.S. tax payers dollars and we've lost </span><span class="s1">thousands
of our troops in our previous fighting against the Islamic State, so
where is the people's interest in reigniting this war?</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Form what little I know about foreign
policy, I remember a time you could not win an election without
promising to bring our troops back home from Iraq and Afghanistan and to
close down Guantanamo. Here you are now, Obama, nearing the end of your
term, and having achieving none of the above, and deceivingly marching
us the American people in the blazing fire.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">[Executor]</span></div>
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<span class="s1">I'm back, Obama, and I'm back because of
your arrogant foreign policy towards the Islamic State, because of your
insistence on continuing your bombings and [unclear] on Mosul Dam,
despite our serious warnings. You, Obama, have but to gain from your
actions but another American citizen. So just as your missiles continue
to strike our people, our knife will continue to strike the necks of
your people...</span></div>
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<span class="s1">We take this opportunity to warn those
governments that enter this evil alliance of America against the Islamic
State to back off and leave our people alone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Steven Sotloff: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know</span></span></h3>
<i><u><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">1. Sotloff Is a Nationally Recognized Journalist</span></span></span></b></u></i><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Sotloff is a renowned journalist who has worked for TIME Magazine, among
others, and been a guest on CNN and Fox News. He apparently filed his <a href="http://world.time.com/2012/11/26/libyas-new-crisis-a-wave-of-assassinations-targeting-its-top-cops/" target="_blank">last piece for TIME</a> on November 26, 2012. The piece was about <a href="http://world.time.com/2012/11/26/libyas-new-crisis-a-wave-of-assassinations-targeting-its-top-cops/" target="_blank">“Libya’s New Crisis.”</a></span></span></span><br />
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<i><u><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">2. He Has Been Missing for 12 Months</span></span></span></b></u></i><br />
<b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">He had been missing, believed kidnapped since August 4, when he was taken in Aleppo, Syria. Sotloff, a Miami native, sent his <a href="https://twitter.com/stevensotloff/status/363565409477201921" target="_blank">last tweet</a> on August 3, 2013. His second to last tweet was more relevant to conflicts in the region: </span></span></span></b><br />
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<i><u><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">3. He’s a UCF Graduate</span></span></span></u></i><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pub/steven-sotloff/4/529/503" target="_blank">According to his LinkedIn page,</a> Sotloff says that he is a graduate of he University of Central Florida. He refers to his job “Traveling Man.” <a href="https://twitter.com/stevensotloff" target="_blank">On his Twitter page,</a> Sotloff frequently tweeted about his beloved Miami Heat. <br />
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<i><u><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">4. Sotloff Was Based in Libya</span></span></span></b></u></i><br />
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His social media posts were largely about the locals and scenery he encountered while working in Libya.<br />
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<i><u><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">5. The NSC Has Reacted to the Video</span></span></span></u></i></div>
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On Wednesday, 27 August 2014, Shirley Sotloff called on ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13052342818075125666noreply@blogger.com0Syria34.802074999999988 38.9968149999999728.135342499999986 28.66966649999997 41.46880749999999 49.323963499999969tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2471283927852878995.post-46688857898857245952014-09-01T14:43:00.003-07:002018-08-26T17:39:21.350-07:00Minnesotan man builds the world's first 3D printed concrete castle in his own backyard, designing a kit that can print two-story houses [ VIDEO's/Pics ] - www.ofINTEREST.net<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a7kGswOW_cE/VATb7sg5RjI/AAAAAAAABDU/DBaEqsUfgDg/s1600/CONSTRUCTION_TECHNOLOGY_of_interest530x200_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a7kGswOW_cE/VATb7sg5RjI/AAAAAAAABDU/DBaEqsUfgDg/s1600/CONSTRUCTION_TECHNOLOGY_of_interest530x200_.jpg" height="120" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7T1tcNbzYFA/VATcsXIjfSI/AAAAAAAABD8/NbK3SCa7Ow0/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7T1tcNbzYFA/VATcsXIjfSI/AAAAAAAABD8/NbK3SCa7Ow0/s1600/1.jpg" height="180" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Via</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.3ders.org/index.html" target="_blank"><img alt="http://www.3ders.org/index.html" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CR1ijW5UQNk/VATcQguImbI/AAAAAAAABDw/jEtudFY1L5U/s1600/www.3ders-logo.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><h2 class="art-postheader" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ofinterestnet.blogspot.com/2014/09/minnesotan-man-builds-worlds-first-3d.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Minnesotan man builds the world's first 3D printed concrete castle in his own backyard, designing a kit that can print two-story houses</span></a></h2><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">In Minnesota, contractor <b><a href="http://www.totalkustom.com/home.html" target="_blank">Andrey Rudenko</a></b> is currently working on a project of gargantuan proportions that seems to be stretching and exploring the limits of 3D printing technology. Using a printer that was substantially modified and expanded, he has printed a concrete castle in his own backyard. And at 3 by 5 meters, this concrete structure is the world's first 3D printed concrete castle, and one of the largest objects that has, up till now, ever printed with 3D printing technology. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z9qKYuQRj64/VATcymaAqJI/AAAAAAAABEM/yBIhQN1_Tlo/s1600/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z9qKYuQRj64/VATcymaAqJI/AAAAAAAABEM/yBIhQN1_Tlo/s1600/2.jpg" height="274" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YKei95aNgaY/VATeciMTzkI/AAAAAAAABFI/XG9r3gEGUzA/s1600/3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YKei95aNgaY/VATeciMTzkI/AAAAAAAABFI/XG9r3gEGUzA/s1600/3.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rather than trying to build a machine that caters to theme parks and history enthusiasts, this project grew out of a desire to construct a 3D printer capable of constructing durable, realistic and inhabitable houses. He's already looking at various locations to realize this: "last winter in Minnesota, which was long and frigid, showed that it is crucial to have multiple areas in different countries for experimental printing since you can never predict which conditions will arise."</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">But Rudenko, who has a background in engineering and architecture, chose to firstly print his fantastical castle. This allows its creator to search for and experiment with the limits and possibilities this machine offers to construction companies. The castle's unique features and shapes offers many challenging opportunities to do this, and leave room for Rudenko to make minor adjustments to the machine. And of course, it's also a wonderful showpiece for his huge 3D printer.</span></span> </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gGtvKJ3rRSA/VATc4Qf0fmI/AAAAAAAABEc/tZ3pn958Z24/s1600/4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gGtvKJ3rRSA/VATc4Qf0fmI/AAAAAAAABEc/tZ3pn958Z24/s1600/4.jpg" height="320" width="240" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">As Rudenko told 3ders.org, this project follows years of preparation and planning:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">"I've been interested in this technology since I was in my teens. My concrete printing experiments started about 20 years ago, but at that point, advanced computers and software were not available for this type of technology. It wasn't until a couple years ago that I came across the RepRap project and started working on this machine again. It took about a year to build and develop special concrete mixes. Additional inspiration came from the naturally-laid layered sandstone I saw on a trip to Arizona a few years back. Ideally, I hope I can obtain the same natural look to my printed walls."</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PB52VZ6Y4cM/VATc350ToAI/AAAAAAAABEU/wlf13Ui0K2Y/s1600/5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PB52VZ6Y4cM/VATc350ToAI/AAAAAAAABEU/wlf13Ui0K2Y/s1600/5.jpg" height="180" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uybaZ0EfMTQ/VATfpCT-mjI/AAAAAAAABFs/aC3Opu_pmWQ/s1600/6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uybaZ0EfMTQ/VATfpCT-mjI/AAAAAAAABFs/aC3Opu_pmWQ/s1600/6.jpg" height="180" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0aS_PtUTYYg/VATfqrp_pJI/AAAAAAAABF0/jFHnZNLM6RI/s1600/7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0aS_PtUTYYg/VATfqrp_pJI/AAAAAAAABF0/jFHnZNLM6RI/s1600/7.jpg" height="180" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Furthermore, progress was also hampered because of the finances involved. Rudenko therefore ended up financing the printer independently, which led to many creative engineering solutions.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">"When I was starting out, potential sponsors were wary of providing funds since they did not think the technology would go this far. Once the castle structure is built and the capabilities of the printer are evident, I plan to conduct an auction of the ownership to the first house; since this will be the first functional 3D printed house ever built, I'm hoping there will be a lot of takers and this will become a valuable landmark."</span></span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zUMcnyo2SMU/VATgiPKulmI/AAAAAAAABGM/Ukg05g7aOxA/s1600/8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zUMcnyo2SMU/VATgiPKulmI/AAAAAAAABGM/Ukg05g7aOxA/s1600/8.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4xupZB2mUnw/VATgizwE8oI/AAAAAAAABGQ/Y8oK4iFX1KU/s1600/9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4xupZB2mUnw/VATgizwE8oI/AAAAAAAABGQ/Y8oK4iFX1KU/s1600/9.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">A project of this size obviously needs a printer of corresponding proportions, and Rudenko necessarily built his own machine. While he has received lots of very helpful feedback from the RepRap community, the actual construction was of his own design. This massive machine is driven by Arduino Mega 2560 board and software, which is not too different from some other 3D printers, but it requires special stepper drivers <span style="font-size: small;">"</span>For a big printer, I need special drivers that can handle the heavy weight of the machine as well as be compatible with the software/firmware. The best fit I found was from James Newton's Mass Mind.<span style="font-size: small;">"</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span> </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">'These drivers ended up being the only ones to work properly with Marlin Firmware (I sampled other drivers, which failed), and were powerful enough to move such a huge printer.' Rudenko added.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-N3NbMNSXa6g/VAThDTxMuxI/AAAAAAAABGc/wvocVgyk_CA/s1600/10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-N3NbMNSXa6g/VAThDTxMuxI/AAAAAAAABGc/wvocVgyk_CA/s1600/10.jpg" height="198" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iBnRxHYqOYE/VAThERoS3FI/AAAAAAAABGk/fK3KgO7F4bw/s1600/11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iBnRxHYqOYE/VAThERoS3FI/AAAAAAAABGk/fK3KgO7F4bw/s1600/11.jpg" height="179" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rj_F9mUyeHs/VAThF5OfHcI/AAAAAAAABGs/CbI6eBJ9d3Q/s1600/12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rj_F9mUyeHs/VAThF5OfHcI/AAAAAAAABGs/CbI6eBJ9d3Q/s1600/12.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KvCFSMoRkl4/VATiAEm288I/AAAAAAAABG4/tQQG9KNAu2E/s1600/13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KvCFSMoRkl4/VATiAEm288I/AAAAAAAABG4/tQQG9KNAu2E/s1600/13.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">This printer is therefore slightly different than the one developed by <b><a href="http://www.3ders.org/articles/20120119-Contour-Crafting-could-3D-print-a-house-in-24-hours.html" target="_blank">Behrokh Khoshnevis</a></b> at USC. "Design-wise, I'm creating a natural, free-layering of fine concrete and my goal is to have a nice-looking, natural texture, without the need for any additional finish, similar to rammed earth technology.' Rudenko is also seeking to develop a portable machine that even smaller construction companies can afford. 'The final price will be known once we build a few houses, but to the best of my knowledge, I currently see it as being priced at $30,000-50,000, though this will also vary depending on the parts and type of model."</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">When that time comes, Rudenko hopes to be able to deliver a number of different kits that individual customers and small companies can put together themselves. "Obviously I can't ship the whole machine, but I can ship an extruder, control box, some major parts, etc to help individuals put together their own version." Khoshnevis's printer, on the other hand, at least appears to be heavier and larger, and Rudenko expects that only large-scale construction companies will be able to afford it.</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4yJqQCr_8cc/VATiRcRaK7I/AAAAAAAABHA/d1CrMtBd6yU/s1600/14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4yJqQCr_8cc/VATiRcRaK7I/AAAAAAAABHA/d1CrMtBd6yU/s1600/14.jpg" height="180" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-I4zYH7p5B4A/VATiStePgSI/AAAAAAAABHI/ZKbZ49_4CkQ/s1600/15.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-I4zYH7p5B4A/VATiStePgSI/AAAAAAAABHI/ZKbZ49_4CkQ/s1600/15.jpg" height="180" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--4ApIEteCX4/VATiSQCJ1II/AAAAAAAABHE/3oV0Saoq_UA/s1600/16.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--4ApIEteCX4/VATiSQCJ1II/AAAAAAAABHE/3oV0Saoq_UA/s1600/16.jpg" height="180" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AGt4keOhelE/VATiTirWJaI/AAAAAAAABHU/GLx-xIJSjx0/s1600/17.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AGt4keOhelE/VATiTirWJaI/AAAAAAAABHU/GLx-xIJSjx0/s1600/17.jpg" height="180" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The building process of this 3D printed concrete castle is now complete, but it's also a learning process for Rudenko's future plans. He's currently printing approximately a layering of 50 centimeters per day, though the size and width of the layers vary throughout the construction. Regular layering is being printed at 30mm width by 10mm height, but Rudenko can print layers of virtually any size. "For special areas like crown moldings, I am reducing the height to 5 mm; I'm also reducing speed in delicate arias."</span></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0pPit-mni50/VATi8_HsezI/AAAAAAAABHg/jJXXHsXodZA/s1600/18.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0pPit-mni50/VATi8_HsezI/AAAAAAAABHg/jJXXHsXodZA/s1600/18.jpg" height="180" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of course, a construction of this size requires the right materials to sustain the sheer size and weight of the concrete. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rudenko said, <span style="font-size: small;">"</span>Layering cement was an extremely difficult task- it required extensive tuning of the printer on a programming level, as well as using exact quantities for the cement mix. While testing the printer, I ran into obstacles (such as the nightmare of the extruder clogging) and discovered even further abilities of the printer, like that it can print much more than 50cm a day as I originally thought.<span style="font-size: small;">"</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rudenko therefore resorted to including rebars in the bottom and top walls. 'They are needed during the pouring of a variety of cementitious filling materials inside the printed walls.<span style="font-size: small;">"</span> The cement used, however, is just a regular cement mix with a few additives. 'It is possible to use a special quick-setting concrete to speed up the process, but it will affect the cost, and I don't see much reason to build a house extremely fast at the expense of higher cost and lower quality."</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MyQ6DJYTk4g/VATi-QpiP0I/AAAAAAAABHo/4rwk7COza7g/s1600/19.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MyQ6DJYTk4g/VATi-QpiP0I/AAAAAAAABHo/4rwk7COza7g/s1600/19.jpg" height="180" width="320" /></a></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Instead, Rudenko is after quality and new possibilities. <span style="font-size: small;">"</span>The more important advances of this technology lie in its architectural possibilities and energy-efficiency. Architects have waited many years for this technology, and now that it's here, this opens up a whole window of possibilities; soon, we will see new kinds of architecture used to construct new structures.<span style="font-size: small;">"</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">This Minnesotan constructor is seeking to a part of this: <span style="font-size: small;">"</span>I plan to concentrate on the development of further 3D printing technology in construction and building a community/network of people worldwide interested in research and development of this technology, with the possibility of providing DYI kits as well as a full line of model construction printers."</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Qsm3jC4GIi0/VATi-dnZ-QI/AAAAAAAABHs/u2g4KtXSkq0/s1600/20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Qsm3jC4GIi0/VATi-dnZ-QI/AAAAAAAABHs/u2g4KtXSkq0/s1600/20.jpg" height="180" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">For now, however, printers that are suitable to construct homes and be commercially viable as well are still in the distant future. But Rudenko is optimistic about the possibilities for both his device as well as this industry. <span style="font-size: small;">"</span>My current standard is 10 millimeters in height by 30 millimeters in width, but countless other options are available with just the click of a button.<span style="font-size: small;">"</span> he said. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ID-KtD79HLA/VATk8sZ-zkI/AAAAAAAABIM/qZb-TBW9xFM/s1600/21.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ID-KtD79HLA/VATk8sZ-zkI/AAAAAAAABIM/qZb-TBW9xFM/s1600/21.jpg" height="219" width="320" /></a></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rudenko is in the process of redesigning the printer based on the lessons learned. His goal will be to have an upgraded printer that prints 24 hours a day until the project is finished.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">"</span>I'm also planning to print the structure in one piece; printing the castle turrets by themselves was a bad idea as they were extremely difficult to lift and place. Additionally, I've figured out how to print a roof; the only thing is that the material I'd print with would have to be used in warmer climates for now.<span style="font-size: small;">"</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fpSXQG8ZkU0/VATkN1MI9vI/AAAAAAAABH8/PhFTR4WTXpE/s1600/22.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fpSXQG8ZkU0/VATkN1MI9vI/AAAAAAAABH8/PhFTR4WTXpE/s1600/22.jpg" height="320" width="203" /></a></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rudenko's next project is a real full-scale livable house. <span style="font-size: small;">"</span>The amount of correspondence I am getting proves high demand and interest in this new technology. I want to make sure that for the next project, I have the right team doing the job to fully use all of the benefits of the 3D printing machine.<span style="font-size: small;">"</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">"I am open to offers from individuals or companies interested in owning the first house of this type built with the newest 3D printing technology and ready to provide abundant funds to completely cover the project and all its expenses. The interested party needs to own the lot/site and possess a permit for a house built by 3D Printing technology." Rudenko would also like to collaborate with the interested architects, designers, and software engineers experienced in 3D tools. And you can contact him via this <b><a href="http://www.3ders.org/articles/3dprint@totalkustom.com" target="_blank">email</a></b> for further questions. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-badCXMTL8rk/VATlqAmRt8I/AAAAAAAABIU/kFW6P2LqJ-w/s1600/23.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-badCXMTL8rk/VATlqAmRt8I/AAAAAAAABIU/kFW6P2LqJ-w/s1600/23.jpg" height="227" width="320" /></a></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">It has been two years since Rudenko first began toying with the idea of a 3D printer that was capable of constructing homes. 'I have previously been sure I could print homes, but having finished the castle, I now have proof that the technology is ready.' Rudenko said.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">"</span>The current prototype I am working on at the moment is just a small part of the line of printers I am designing. We are talking about the beginning of a new era in construction industry. There is still much to be done.<span style="font-size: small;">"</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><b>Watch a video of Andrey Rudenko's printing process here:</b><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dx915a4HojteHjI7PXOtjxkGNTvbKwD8dLSu7FoadqcQ4NMLEHVMUuVOx15t4J0JBjTaqrdYwh8CEduHjcg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> Related <span style="font-size: small;">VIDEO's here:</span></b></span></span></div><h4 class="yt" id="watch-headline-title" style="padding-bottom: 8px;"><span class="watch-title long-title " dir="ltr" id="eow-title" style="vertical-align: top;" title="Future of Construction Process: 3D Concrete Printing"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfbhdZKPHro" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Future of Construction Process: 3D Concrete Printing</span></span></a> </span></h4><h4 class="yt" id="watch-headline-title" style="padding-bottom: 8px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAoW1iA385w" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="watch-title long-title " dir="ltr" id="eow-title" style="vertical-align: top;" title="The World's First 3D Printed House Begins Construction">The World's First 3D Printed House Begins Construction</span></span></span></a></h4><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div>Diversities Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05401472087128725547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2471283927852878995.post-62994860459801940562014-09-01T14:43:00.002-07:002014-09-01T15:13:13.663-07:00Minnesotan man builds the world's first 3D printed concrete castle in his own backyard, designing a kit that can print two-story houses [ VIDEO's/Pics ] - www.ofINTEREST.net<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In Minnesota, contractor <b><a href="http://www.totalkustom.com/home.html" target="_blank">Andrey Rudenko</a></b>
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to be stretching and exploring the limits of 3D printing technology.
Using a printer that was substantially modified and expanded, he has
printed a concrete castle in his own backyard. And at 3 by 5 meters,
this concrete structure is the world's first 3D printed concrete castle,
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rather than trying to build a machine that caters to theme parks and
history enthusiasts, this project grew out of a desire to construct a 3D
printer capable of constructing durable, realistic and inhabitable
houses. He's already looking at various locations to realize this: "last
winter in Minnesota, which was long and frigid, showed that it is
crucial to have multiple areas in different countries for experimental
printing since you can never predict which conditions will arise."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">But Rudenko, who has a background in engineering and
architecture, chose to firstly print his fantastical castle. This allows
its creator to search for and experiment with the limits and
possibilities this machine offers to construction companies. The
castle's unique features and shapes offers many challenging
opportunities to do this, and leave room for Rudenko to make minor
adjustments to the machine. And of course, it's also a wonderful
showpiece for his huge 3D printer.</span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">As Rudenko told 3ders.org, this project follows years of preparation and planning:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">"I've been interested in this technology since I was in my
teens. My concrete printing experiments started about 20 years ago, but
at that point, advanced computers and software were not available for
this type of technology. It wasn't until a couple years ago that I came
across the RepRap project and started working on this machine again. It
took about a year to build and develop special concrete mixes.
Additional inspiration came from the naturally-laid layered sandstone I
saw on a trip to Arizona a few years back. Ideally, I hope I can obtain
the same natural look to my printed walls."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Furthermore, progress was also hampered because of the
finances involved. Rudenko therefore ended up financing the printer
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">"When I was starting out, potential sponsors were
wary of providing funds since they did not think the technology would go
this far. Once the castle structure is built and the capabilities of
the printer are evident, I plan to conduct an auction of the ownership
to the first house; since this will be the first functional 3D printed
house ever built, I'm hoping there will be a lot of takers and this will
become a valuable landmark."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">A project of this size obviously needs a printer of corresponding
proportions, and Rudenko necessarily built his own machine. While he has
received lots of very helpful feedback from the RepRap community, the
actual construction was of his own design. This massive machine is
driven by Arduino Mega 2560 board and software, which is not too
different from some other 3D printers, but it requires special stepper
drivers <span style="font-size: small;">"</span>For a big printer, I need special drivers that can handle the
heavy weight of the machine as well as be compatible with the
software/firmware. The best fit I found was from James Newton's Mass
Mind.<span style="font-size: small;">"</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">'These drivers ended up being the only ones to work properly
with Marlin Firmware (I sampled other drivers, which failed), and were
powerful enough to move such a huge printer.' Rudenko added.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">This printer is therefore slightly different than the one developed by <b><a href="http://www.3ders.org/articles/20120119-Contour-Crafting-could-3D-print-a-house-in-24-hours.html" target="_blank">Behrokh Khoshnevis</a></b>
at USC. "Design-wise, I'm creating a natural, free-layering of fine
concrete and my goal is to have a nice-looking, natural texture, without
the need for any additional finish, similar to rammed earth
technology.' Rudenko is also seeking to develop a portable machine that
even smaller construction companies can afford. 'The final price will be
known once we build a few houses, but to the best of my knowledge, I
currently see it as being priced at $30,000-50,000, though this will
also vary depending on the parts and type of model."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">When that time comes, Rudenko hopes to be able to deliver a
number of different kits that individual customers and small companies
can put together themselves. "Obviously I can't ship the whole machine,
but I can ship an extruder, control box, some major parts, etc to help
individuals put together their own version." Khoshnevis's printer, on
the other hand, at least appears to be heavier and larger, and Rudenko
expects that only large-scale construction companies will be able to
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The building process of this 3D printed concrete castle is now complete,
but it's also a learning process for Rudenko's future plans. He's
currently printing approximately a layering of 50 centimeters per day,
though the size and width of the layers vary throughout the
construction. Regular layering is being printed at 30mm width by 10mm
height, but Rudenko can print layers of virtually any size. "For special
areas like crown moldings, I am reducing the height to 5 mm; I'm also
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it required extensive tuning of the printer on a programming level, as
well as using exact quantities for the cement mix. While testing the
printer, I ran into obstacles (such as the nightmare of the extruder
clogging) and discovered even further abilities of the printer, like
that it can print much more than 50cm a day as I originally thought.<span style="font-size: small;">"</span></span></span></div>
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and top walls. 'They are needed during the pouring of a variety of
cementitious filling materials inside the printed walls.<span style="font-size: small;">"</span> The cement
used, however, is just a regular cement mix with a few additives. 'It is
possible to use a special quick-setting concrete to speed up the
process, but it will affect the cost, and I don't see much reason to
build a house extremely fast at the expense of higher cost and lower
quality."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Instead, Rudenko is after quality and new possibilities. <span style="font-size: small;">"</span>The more
important advances of this technology lie in its architectural
possibilities and energy-efficiency. Architects have waited many years
for this technology, and now that it's here, this opens up a whole
window of possibilities; soon, we will see new kinds of architecture
used to construct new structures.<span style="font-size: small;">"</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">This Minnesotan constructor is seeking to a part of
this: <span style="font-size: small;">"</span>I plan to concentrate on the development of further 3D printing
technology in construction and building a community/network of people
worldwide interested in research and development of this technology,
with the possibility of providing DYI kits as well as a full line of
model construction printers."</span></span></div>
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commercially viable as well are still in the distant future. But Rudenko
is optimistic about the possibilities for both his device as well as
this industry. <span style="font-size: small;">"</span>My current standard is 10 millimeters in height by 30
millimeters in width, but countless other options are available with
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rudenko is in the process of redesigning the printer based on the
lessons learned. His goal will be to have an upgraded printer that
prints 24 hours a day until the project is finished.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">"</span>I'm also planning to print the structure in one piece;
printing the castle turrets by themselves was a bad idea as they were
extremely difficult to lift and place. Additionally, I've figured out
how to print a roof; the only thing is that the material I'd print with
would have to be used in warmer climates for now.<span style="font-size: small;">"</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rudenko's next project is a real full-scale livable house. <span style="font-size: small;">"</span>The
amount of correspondence I am getting proves high demand and interest in
this new technology. I want to make sure that for the next project, I
have the right team doing the job to fully use all of the benefits of
the 3D printing machine.<span style="font-size: small;">"</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">"I am open to offers from individuals or companies interested
in owning the first house of this type built with the newest 3D printing
technology and ready to provide abundant funds to completely cover the
project and all its expenses. The interested party needs to own the
lot/site and possess a permit for a house built by 3D Printing
technology." Rudenko would also like to collaborate with the interested
architects, designers, and software engineers experienced in 3D tools.
And you can contact him via this <b><a href="http://www.3ders.org/articles/3dprint@totalkustom.com" target="_blank">email</a></b> for further questions. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">It has been two years since Rudenko first began toying with the idea
of a 3D printer that was capable of constructing homes. 'I have
previously been sure I could print homes, but having finished the
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">"</span>The current prototype I am working on at the moment is just a
small part of the line of printers I am designing. We are talking about
the beginning of a new era in construction industry. There is still much
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[ Pics ] - www.ofINTEREST.net<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wEEyvLMBFEg/U_5BdXd109I/AAAAAAAABBc/gVz5xNXllPU/s1600/TECHNOLOGY_of_interest530x200_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wEEyvLMBFEg/U_5BdXd109I/AAAAAAAABBc/gVz5xNXllPU/s1600/TECHNOLOGY_of_interest530x200_.jpg" height="120" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://ofinterestnet.blogspot.ro/2014/08/gaofen-1-chinas-first-high-resolution.html" target="_blank">Gaofen-1, China's first high-resolution satellite captured 10 incredible images: Must see!</a> </span></h2><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Mikhael Love,</i> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>IIO</b></span></span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V1Xn4YPTZ5o/U_5XBqmk5TI/AAAAAAAABCM/2EyPUO-iH2k/s1600/Image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V1Xn4YPTZ5o/U_5XBqmk5TI/AAAAAAAABCM/2EyPUO-iH2k/s1600/Image.jpg" height="136" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-full"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">China has released a set of ten impressive false color images of the country's landscape taken from its high-resolution <a href="http://gbtimes.com/tags/gaofen-1-satellite" rel="nofollow">Gaofen-1 satellite</a> which was launched on April 26, 2013, by the Long March-2D (Y18) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center..<br /><br />The satellite is part of the China High-resolution Earth Observation System (<a href="http://www.cheos.org.cn/" rel="nofollow">CHEOS</a>) program that will "substantially strengthen the nation's capabilities in disaster relief, surveying and environmental protection," according to SASTIND, which supervises the program. <br /><br />Gaofen-1, is the first of several that China plans to put up into space. The second satellite in the CHEOS series - Gaofen-2 - was August 19, 2014 from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the northern province of Shanxi. It is the country's most powerful imaging satellite so far, with a spatial resolution of 1 meter.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wPoEo5Nan-4/U_5OhVS9R3I/AAAAAAAABB0/ME2pMDWabsI/s1600/Z3B-350x138.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wPoEo5Nan-4/U_5OhVS9R3I/AAAAAAAABB0/ME2pMDWabsI/s1600/Z3B-350x138.jpg" height="126" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">China’s return to launch action continued with the Tuesday launch of a new high-resolution observation satellite. The Gaofen-2 (GF-2) was launched at 03:15 UTC by a Long March-4B (Chang Zheng-4B) rocket from the LC9 launch complex of the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center. Also on board was the Polish satellite BRITE-PL-2, also known as “Heweliusz”.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Three more satellites are to be put into orbit by 2016, and CHEOS will eventually include seven orbiting optical/microwave satellites. (<a href="http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2014/08/chinese-long-march-4b-gaofen-2-brite-pl-2/" target="_blank">more on the program</a>) <br /><br />The images show vegetation as bright red, clear bodies of water appear as dark blue, soil appear as grey. Some of the features in images have been described to as "jellyfish", "rings" and "muscles" by the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (SASTIND), which <a href="http://www.sastind.gov.cn/n112/n117/c388964/content.html" rel="nofollow">released the photos</a>. </div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Below</b>, take a look at the 10 remarkable images that the China National Space Administration published earlier in August 2014. They're in false color, so they simultaneously look both unusual and incredible, but as you might expect, vegetation will show up as red, clear bodies of water will show up as blue, and dirt will show up as shades of gray.</span></span></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-thNFIMQO1B4/U_5BJE0j4kI/AAAAAAAABAk/BV3dVq8m2iA/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-thNFIMQO1B4/U_5BJE0j4kI/AAAAAAAABAk/BV3dVq8m2iA/s1600/1.jpg" height="316" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Dried river valleys cut between mountains. The red and brown tones represent different types of vegetation. </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DDDTSVdBTZE/U_5BFutFxwI/AAAAAAAABAY/-27lzpFN29Y/s1600/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DDDTSVdBTZE/U_5BFutFxwI/AAAAAAAABAY/-27lzpFN29Y/s1600/2.jpg" height="320" width="286" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Mountains and a small body of water sit at the bottom of the desert depicted throughout the top of this image. </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JtGPKzRfczs/U_5BTRSP8SI/AAAAAAAABBA/KGIc_gLsK4o/s1600/3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JtGPKzRfczs/U_5BTRSP8SI/AAAAAAAABBA/KGIc_gLsK4o/s1600/3.jpg" height="320" width="286" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">There's a lot going on in this image of mountains near Changzhi. The pink on the left is farming. Snow is visible in the white region on the right. 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The blue and red patches are man-made reservoirs. The ear shape is a dried up lake that's been eroded by wind. </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="pgh-paragraph" id="paragraph1" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div data-textannotation-id="f144311892d34d5161cb0d52d06a2c32"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Zq3LYj0POjQ/U_5BcD3sZCI/AAAAAAAABBQ/ELRjuJq0Da8/s1600/7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Zq3LYj0POjQ/U_5BcD3sZCI/AAAAAAAABBQ/ELRjuJq0Da8/s1600/7.jpg" height="316" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">More dry lakes. 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What's beneath them - a stretch of mountains that have been carved by water - are, however, covered in green.</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vMgenSNSztw/U_5BIyczhkI/AAAAAAAABAg/goA8VNb38Vs/s1600/10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vMgenSNSztw/U_5BIyczhkI/AAAAAAAABAg/goA8VNb38Vs/s1600/10.jpg" height="316" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The ground on this plateau has been cut apart by erosion. 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China has released a set of ten impressive false color images of the country's landscape taken from its high-resolution <a href="http://gbtimes.com/tags/gaofen-1-satellite" rel="nofollow">Gaofen-1 satellite</a> which was launched on April 26, 2013, by the Long March-2D (Y18) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center..<br />
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The satellite is part of the China High-resolution Earth Observation System (<a href="http://www.cheos.org.cn/" rel="nofollow">CHEOS</a>) program
that will "substantially strengthen the nation's capabilities in
disaster relief, surveying and environmental protection," according to
SASTIND, which supervises the program. <br />
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Gaofen-1, is the
first of several that China plans to put up into space. The second satellite in the CHEOS series - Gaofen-2 - was
August 19, 2014 from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the northern
province of Shanxi. It is the country's most powerful imaging satellite
so far, with a spatial resolution of 1 meter.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">China’s return to launch action continued with the Tuesday launch of a
new high-resolution observation satellite. The Gaofen-2 (GF-2) was
launched at 03:15 UTC by a Long March-4B (Chang Zheng-4B) rocket from
the LC9 launch complex of the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center. Also on
board was the Polish satellite BRITE-PL-2, also known as “Heweliusz”.</td></tr>
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Three more satellites are to be put into orbit by 2016, and CHEOS
will eventually include seven orbiting optical/microwave satellites. (<a href="http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2014/08/chinese-long-march-4b-gaofen-2-brite-pl-2/" target="_blank">more on the program</a>) <br />
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The images show vegetation as bright red, clear bodies of water
appear as dark blue, soil appear as grey. Some of the features in images
have been described to as "jellyfish", "rings" and "muscles" by the
State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National
Defense (SASTIND), which <a href="http://www.sastind.gov.cn/n112/n117/c388964/content.html" rel="nofollow">released the photos</a>. </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Below</b>, take a look at the 10 remarkable
images that the China National Space Administration published earlier in
August 2014. They're in false color, so they simultaneously look both
unusual and incredible, but as you might expect, vegetation will
show up as red, clear bodies of water will show up as blue, and dirt will show up as
shades of gray.</span></span></div>
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Dried river valleys cut between
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Mountains and a small body of water sit
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There's a lot going on in this image of
mountains near Changzhi. The pink on the left is farming. Snow is
visible in the white region on the right. And vegetation, depicted in
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Farms along the beach of an estuary.
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Sand on the edge of Qinghai Lake.</div>
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A desert in western China. The blue and
red patches are man-made reservoirs. The ear shape is a dried up lake
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More dry lakes. A road can be seen
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The crop fields at the top of this
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The ground on this plateau has been cut
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13052342818075125666noreply@blogger.com0China35.86166 104.19539699999996-12.649049499999997 21.578209499999957 84.372369499999991 -173.18741550000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2471283927852878995.post-36324008323377405662014-08-23T13:37:00.001-07:002018-08-26T17:39:21.588-07:00Iceland volcano: Code Red warning issued for aviation; Subglacial eruption under way [ VIDEO's/Pics ]<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-deGjihTYx9I/U_jdAjFIh8I/AAAAAAAABV0/XiCrRoWAA3k/s1600/ENVIROMENT_of_interest530x200_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-deGjihTYx9I/U_jdAjFIh8I/AAAAAAAABV0/XiCrRoWAA3k/s1600/ENVIROMENT_of_interest530x200_.jpg" height="120" width="320" /></a></div><div class="eza-title" id="headline" itemprop="headline" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="eza-title" id="headline" itemprop="headline" style="text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Xpa0OAny170/U_jjsHhdAmI/AAAAAAAABWU/Dhsfn669zK0/s1600/WarningSign.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Xpa0OAny170/U_jjsHhdAmI/AAAAAAAABWU/Dhsfn669zK0/s1600/WarningSign.jpg" height="208" width="320" /></a></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--WgvOYOwBaU/U_jjskEzEfI/AAAAAAAABWk/4LPRvTXJdr8/s1600/WarningSignCloseup.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--WgvOYOwBaU/U_jjskEzEfI/AAAAAAAABWk/4LPRvTXJdr8/s1600/WarningSignCloseup.jpg" height="213" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aug. 19, 2014: A warning sign blocks the road to Bardarbunga volcano, some 12.5 miles away, in the north-west region of the Vatnajokull glacier.<span class="source" itemprop="name">REUTERS</span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="eza-title" id="headline" itemprop="headline" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="eza-title" id="headline" itemprop="headline" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Mikahel Love,</i> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>IIO</b></span></span></div><h2 class="eza-summary" id="summary" itemprop="description"></h2><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">A subglacial eruption is underway at the Bardarbunga volcano in Iceland. Seismic data indicates that lava from the volcano is melting ice beneath the Vatnajokull glacier. An eruption that could cause "significant emission of ash into the atmosphere."</span></h3><div itemprop="headline" style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="cN-headingPage" itemprop="name" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Iceland volcano raises aviation alert, may disrupt flights</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwiLToEE2qWuabNJF0OxtyAbTM7KDVRMO7QaLs9n9hKNuePAnakRKbhKY0TQaiIVahNEV4lYFqxlCcd3X_0QQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>No-fly zone around Iceland volcano</b></span></div><br /><div itemprop="description" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Iceland evacuates an area north of the country's Bardarbunga volcano, as the country's civil protection agency says it cannot rule out an eruption.</span> </div><br /><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="dateline"><b>REYKJAVIK, Iceland </b>– </span>Iceland raised its aviation alert to red Saturday as a subglacial eruption began at the restless Bardarbunga volcano, which has been rattled by thousands of earthquakes in the past week, the country's Meteorological Office said.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Iceland's Meteorological Office is reporting a surge in seismic activity at the restless Bardarbunga volcano, but sees no evidence yet of any eruptions.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Seismic data indicated that lava from the volcano was melting ice beneath the Vatnajokull glacier, Iceland's largest, Met Office vulcanologist Melissa Pfeffer said. </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">She said it was not clear when, or if, the eruption would melt through the ice -- which is between 100 to 400 meters (330 to 1,300 feet) thick -- and send steam and ash into the air.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The eruption led Iceland to raise its aviation alert level to red, indicating an eruption that could cause "significant emission of ash into the atmosphere." Red is the highest alert warning on a five-point scale.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Aviation authorities declared a no-fly zone around the volcano but did not shut Icelandic airspace.</span></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xS4XweHE3fk/U_lUhxKZHiI/AAAAAAAABuY/ODixRVVlxOY/s1600/Aviation_volcano_codes.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xS4XweHE3fk/U_lUhxKZHiI/AAAAAAAABuY/ODixRVVlxOY/s1600/Aviation_volcano_codes.png" height="320" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pfeffer said scientists were flying over the glacier Saturday to look for changes on its surface. Scientists were also monitoring a hydrological station downstream from the volcano for flooding -- a common result of volcanic eruptions in Iceland.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Authorities evacuated several hundred people earlier this week from the highlands north of the Vatnajokull glacier as a precaution. The remote area, 200 miles (320 kilometers) east of Reykjavik, is uninhabited but popular with hikers.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Iceland sits on a volcanic hot spot in the Atlantic's mid-oceanic ridge and eruptions occur frequently, triggered when the Earth's plates move and when magma from deep underground pushes its way to the surface.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">A 2010 eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajokul volcano produced an ash cloud that caused a week of international aviation chaos, with more than 100,000 flights cancelled. Aviation regulators since have reformed policies about flying through ash, so a new eruption would be unlikely to cause that much disruption. (<i> video and pics of the 2010 even </i><span style="font-size: small;"><i>at the end of this report</i> )</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pfeffer said the amount of ash produced would depend on the thickness of the ice.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">"The thicker the ice, the more water there is, the more explosive it will be and the more ash-rich the eruption will be," she said.</span></span></div><br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: center;">How to track the eruption</h3><div style="text-align: center;">The Icelandic Met Office <a href="http://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/articles/nr/2947">has been offering daily</a> — and sometimes more than daily — updates on the volcano. There are also frequent English-language updates <a href="http://www.mbl.is/frettir/knippi/3305/">from the Icelandic newspaper Morgunblaðið</a>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Volcano obsessives can find all the different livestreams <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoISDUAPNgc&feature=youtu.be">here</a>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">On top of that, there are plenty of volcano experts on Twitter who are watching the eruption closely — including <a href="https://twitter.com/subglacial">Dave McGarvie</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/gislio">Gisli Olafsson</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/eruptionsblog">Erik Klemetti</a>. Journalist <a href="https://twitter.com/alexwitze">Alexandra Witze</a> has been tracking Icelandic volcanoes for a long time and is definitely worth following. And <a href="https://twitter.com/volcan01010">John Stevenson</a> has done a lot of excellent work on the impacts of volcanic eruptions on aviation.</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Via</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MZl33k4X2j0/U_j3zQRd4aI/AAAAAAAABXA/BtRvc-U5AtU/s1600/AP-logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MZl33k4X2j0/U_j3zQRd4aI/AAAAAAAABXA/BtRvc-U5AtU/s1600/AP-logo.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span class="eza-dateline all_caps" id="dateline">Reykjavik, Iceland — </span><a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Iceland" rel="nofollow" target="_self" title="Title: Iceland">Iceland</a>'s Meteorological Office says a subglacial eruption is underway at the Bardarbunga volcano, which has been rattled by thousands of earthquakes over the past week.<br /><br />The office reports that a 4.5 magnitude earthquake occurred Saturday afternoon local time. On Friday, <a href="http://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/articles/nr/2947" target="_blank">the Met Office reported</a>:<br /><blockquote>One earthquake of magnitude 4.7 was measured in the Bárðarbunga caldera at 4 km depth yesterday evening at 23:50. This large event was at similar location as earthquakes of magnitude larger than three that were seen yesterday. Large events in Bárðarbunga are interpreted as adjustments of the caldera rim related to decompression in the caldera since the beginning of the unrest. The activity continues and an eruption can therefore not be ruled out.</blockquote>Vulcanologist Melissa Pfeffer said seismic data indicates that lava from the volcano is melting ice beneath the Vatnajokull glacier. She said it was not clear when, or if, the eruption would melt the ice and send steam and ash into the air.<br /> <br />Minutes earlier, Iceland raised its aviation alert for the volcano to the highest level of red on Saturday, indicating an eruption that could cause "significant emission of ash into the atmosphere." Red is the highest alert warning on a five-point scale.<br /><br />Scientists had planned to fly over the glacier later Saturday to look for changes on the surface but it was not clear if that would still take place.<br /><br />Authorities had evacuated several hundred people earlier this week from the highlands north of the Vatnajokull glacier as a precaution. The area is uninhabited but popular with hikers.<br /><br />Iceland sits on a volcanic hot spot in the Atlantic's mid-oceanic ridge and eruptions have occurred frequently, triggered when the Earth's plates move and when magma from deep underground pushes its way to the surface.<br /><br />A 2010 eruption of the <a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Eyjafjallajokull" rel="nofollow" target="_self" title="Title: Eyjafjallajokull">Eyjafjallajokul</a> volcano produced an ash cloud that caused a week of international aviation chaos, with more than 100,000 flights cancelled. Aviation regulators since have reformed policies about flying through ash, so a new eruption would be unlikely to cause that much disruption.<br /><br />Pfeffer said the amount of ash produced would depend on the thickness of the ice.<br /><br />"The thicker the ice, the more water there is, the more explosive it will be and the more ash-rich the eruption will be," she said.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2014/0819/Iceland-raises-alert-level-warning-of-possible-volcanic-eruption" target="_blank">Earlier this week, scientists said</a> there are two likely scenarios:<br /><br />One is an explosion outside the Vatnajokull glacier, leading to minor ash emissions and troubles locally. The second possibility is an eruption occurring inside the glacier. Seismologist Martin Hensch says the latter could lead to ash being sent high into the atmosphere.<br /><br />Met Office seismologist Martin Hensch said the risk of any disruptive ash cloud similar to the one in 2010 would depend on how high any ash would be thrown, how much there would be and how fine-grained it would be.<br /><br />Bardarbunga is Iceland's largest volcanic system, located under the ice cap of the Vatnajokull glacier in the southwest of Iceland. It is in a different range to Eyjafjallajokull.<br /><div itemprop="headline" style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /><br /><b>RELATED:</b><b> </b><br /><b><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/iceland-volcano-bardarbunga-volcano-remains-poised-to-erupt-1.2742591">Bardarbunga volcano poised to erupt</a></b><b> </b><br /><b><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/topic/Tag/Volcanoes">Volcano news and features</a></b><b> </b><br /><b><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/volcanoes-drop-hint-before-deadly-eruptions-study-1.1063506">Volcanoes drop hint before most dangerous eruptions</a></b><b> </b><br /><b><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/volcanic-ash-hazardous-to-planes-environment-1.889663">Volcanic ash: Hazardous to planes, environment</a></b><b> </b><br /><b><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/iceland-volcano-bardarbunga-rumbling-threatens-air-travel-1.2740584">Iceland volcano Bardarbunga threatens air travel</a></b><br /><b><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/1.1116994">The destructive power of volcanoes</a></b><br /><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><b>Video of a volcano in 25 March 2010 at Eyjafjallajoekull in southern Iceland continues to erupt under an ice sheet</b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxsJ2oYBNUQ1FOF452UVR3Wfxqel8QkqAMpqVLLVqtAmmSTsirH3c59KqSE7ZzLrm6j0WTXI7XiUYFL9DMANQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><b>RELATED: 2010 Pics of the region</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_THFG0uAl_c/U_jw7X1EXVI/AAAAAAAABWw/Ygq_r9gC8no/s1600/Eyjafjallaj-kull-erupts.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_THFG0uAl_c/U_jw7X1EXVI/AAAAAAAABWw/Ygq_r9gC8no/s1600/Eyjafjallaj-kull-erupts.jpg" height="192" width="320" /></a></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9E_ct1Lzoxo/U_jjrinKsEI/AAAAAAAABWY/IHdpfpaUXuk/s1600/Iceland%2BVolcano-Ash.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9E_ct1Lzoxo/U_jjrinKsEI/AAAAAAAABWY/IHdpfpaUXuk/s1600/Iceland%2BVolcano-Ash.jpg" height="180" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eyjafjallajökull's eruption in 2010 caused mayhem with travel plans around the world. Photograph: Arctic-Images/Getty Images</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9dsQZ5MdDYs/U_kDzczi32I/AAAAAAAABXw/ZQ0QSF8IbnY/s1600/15.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9dsQZ5MdDYs/U_kDzczi32I/AAAAAAAABXw/ZQ0QSF8IbnY/s1600/15.jpg" height="217" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="bpMore">Smoke and steam hang over the volcano under the Eyjafjalla glacier in Iceland, early Thursday April 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Brynjar Gaudi)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UYd6ewrlIL8/U_kB9tSgIjI/AAAAAAAABXk/48GDV-UIt_4/s1600/iceland-volcanoWithPeople.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UYd6ewrlIL8/U_kB9tSgIjI/AAAAAAAABXk/48GDV-UIt_4/s1600/iceland-volcanoWithPeople.jpg" height="197" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="bpMore">Tourists gather to watch lava spurt out of the site of a volcanic eruption at the Eyjafjallajökull volcano on March 27, 2010. Up to 800 people were evacuated in Iceland early on April 14, 2010 due to a volcano eruption under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in the south of the island, police and geophysicists said. (HALLDOR KOLBEINS/AFP/Getty Images)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tQ2GyyGAkWU/U_kGBYtzFrI/AAAAAAAABAI/MwUfUXJxzdw/s1600/iceland_volcano_april_4_2010_from_plane.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tQ2GyyGAkWU/U_kGBYtzFrI/AAAAAAAABAI/MwUfUXJxzdw/s1600/iceland_volcano_april_4_2010_from_plane.jpg" height="213" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">North view of the Eyjafjallajökull on 4 April 2010 from an altitude of 10.000 meters. This picture was taken minutes after taking off, heading east towards Copenhagen. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qEzfdoQkk4M/U_j5Q7TT-kI/AAAAAAAABXM/bwcv_OHzDxc/s1600/volcanic-plume.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qEzfdoQkk4M/U_j5Q7TT-kI/AAAAAAAABXM/bwcv_OHzDxc/s1600/volcanic-plume.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plane flies near to assess activity</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-X2pnE_u-up0/U_j5Q__o_dI/AAAAAAAABXY/QeRLVTp3Qoo/s1600/volcano-bardarbunga.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-X2pnE_u-up0/U_j5Q__o_dI/AAAAAAAABXY/QeRLVTp3Qoo/s1600/volcano-bardarbunga.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ash darkens sky</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div></div>Diversities Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05401472087128725547noreply@blogger.com0South, Iceland64.2661426 -18.815813862.4888411 -23.9793878 66.043444099999988 -13.6522398tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2471283927852878995.post-51447063750847613652014-08-23T13:37:00.000-07:002014-08-31T13:16:43.413-07:00Iceland volcano: Code Red warning issued for aviation; Subglacial eruption under way [ VIDEO's/Pics ]<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="dateline"><b>REYKJAVIK, Iceland </b>– </span>Iceland raised
its aviation alert to red Saturday as a subglacial eruption began at the
restless Bardarbunga volcano, which has been rattled by thousands of
earthquakes in the past week, the country's Meteorological Office said.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Iceland's
Meteorological Office is reporting a surge in seismic activity at the
restless Bardarbunga volcano, but sees no evidence yet of any eruptions.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Seismic data indicated that lava from the volcano was melting ice
beneath the Vatnajokull glacier, Iceland's largest, Met Office
vulcanologist Melissa Pfeffer said. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">She said it was not clear when, or if, the eruption would melt
through the ice -- which is between 100 to 400 meters (330 to 1,300
feet) thick -- and send steam and ash into the air.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The eruption led Iceland to raise its aviation alert level to red,
indicating an eruption that could cause "significant emission of ash
into the atmosphere." Red is the highest alert warning on a five-point
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Aviation authorities declared a no-fly zone around the volcano but did not shut Icelandic airspace.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pfeffer said scientists were flying over the glacier Saturday to look
for changes on its surface. Scientists were also monitoring a
hydrological station downstream from the volcano for flooding -- a
common result of volcanic eruptions in Iceland.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Authorities evacuated several hundred people earlier this week from
the highlands north of the Vatnajokull glacier as a precaution. The
remote area, 200 miles (320 kilometers) east of Reykjavik, is
uninhabited but popular with hikers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Iceland sits on a volcanic hot spot in the Atlantic's mid-oceanic
ridge and eruptions occur frequently, triggered when the Earth's plates
move and when magma from deep underground pushes its way to the surface.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">A 2010 eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajokul volcano produced an ash
cloud that caused a week of international aviation chaos, with more than
100,000 flights cancelled. Aviation regulators since have reformed
policies about flying through ash, so a new eruption would be unlikely
to cause that much disruption. (<i> video and pics of the 2010 even </i><span style="font-size: small;"><i>at the end of this report</i> )</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">"The thicker the ice, the more water there is, the more explosive it
will be and the more ash-rich the eruption will be," she said.</span></span></div>
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The Icelandic Met Office <a href="http://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/articles/nr/2947">has been offering daily</a> — and sometimes more than daily — updates on the volcano. There are also frequent English-language updates <a href="http://www.mbl.is/frettir/knippi/3305/">from the Icelandic newspaper Morgunblaðið</a>.</div>
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Volcano obsessives can find all the different livestreams <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoISDUAPNgc&feature=youtu.be">here</a>.</div>
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On top of that, there are plenty of volcano experts on Twitter who are watching the eruption closely — including <a href="https://twitter.com/subglacial">Dave McGarvie</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/gislio">Gisli Olafsson</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/eruptionsblog">Erik Klemetti</a>. Journalist <a href="https://twitter.com/alexwitze">Alexandra Witze</a> has been tracking Icelandic volcanoes for a long time and is definitely worth following. And <a href="https://twitter.com/volcan01010">John Stevenson</a> has done a lot of excellent work on the impacts of volcanic eruptions on aviation.</div>
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Reykjavik, Iceland — </span><a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Iceland" rel="nofollow" target="_self" title="Title: Iceland">Iceland</a>'s
Meteorological Office says a subglacial eruption is underway at the
Bardarbunga volcano, which has been rattled by thousands of earthquakes
over the past week.<br />
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The office reports that a 4.5 magnitude earthquake occurred Saturday afternoon local time. On Friday, <a href="http://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/articles/nr/2947" target="_blank">the Met Office reported</a>:<br />
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earthquake of magnitude 4.7 was measured in the Bárðarbunga caldera at 4
km depth yesterday evening at 23:50. This large event was at similar
location as earthquakes of magnitude larger than three that were seen
yesterday. Large events in Bárðarbunga are interpreted as adjustments of
the caldera rim related to decompression in the caldera since the
beginning of the unrest. The activity continues and an eruption can
therefore not be ruled out.</blockquote>
Vulcanologist Melissa
Pfeffer said seismic data indicates that lava from the volcano is
melting ice beneath the Vatnajokull glacier. She said it was not clear
when, or if, the eruption would melt the ice and send steam and ash into
the air.<br />
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Minutes earlier, Iceland raised its aviation alert for the
volcano to the highest level of red on Saturday, indicating an eruption
that could cause "significant emission of ash into the atmosphere." Red
is the highest alert warning on a five-point scale.<br />
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Scientists had planned to fly over the
glacier later Saturday to look for changes on the surface but it was not
clear if that would still take place.<br />
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Authorities had evacuated
several hundred people earlier this week from the highlands north of the
Vatnajokull glacier as a precaution. The area is uninhabited but
popular with hikers.<br />
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Iceland sits on a volcanic hot spot in the
Atlantic's mid-oceanic ridge and eruptions have occurred frequently,
triggered when the Earth's plates move and when magma from deep
underground pushes its way to the surface.<br />
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A 2010 eruption of the <a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Eyjafjallajokull" rel="nofollow" target="_self" title="Title: Eyjafjallajokull">Eyjafjallajokul</a>
volcano produced an ash cloud that caused a week of international
aviation chaos, with more than 100,000 flights cancelled. Aviation
regulators since have reformed policies about flying through ash, so a
new eruption would be unlikely to cause that much disruption.<br />
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Pfeffer said the amount of ash produced would depend on the thickness of the ice.<br />
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thicker the ice, the more water there is, the more explosive it will be
and the more ash-rich the eruption will be," she said.<br />
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<a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2014/0819/Iceland-raises-alert-level-warning-of-possible-volcanic-eruption" target="_blank">Earlier this week, scientists said</a> there are two likely scenarios:<br />
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One is an explosion outside the Vatnajokull glacier, leading to minor
ash emissions and troubles locally. The second possibility is an
eruption occurring inside the glacier. Seismologist Martin Hensch says
the latter could lead to ash being sent high into the atmosphere.<br />
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Met Office seismologist Martin Hensch said the risk of any disruptive
ash cloud similar to the one in 2010 would depend on how high any ash
would be thrown, how much there would be and how fine-grained it would
be.<br />
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Bardarbunga is Iceland's largest volcanic system, located under the
ice cap of the Vatnajokull glacier in the southwest of Iceland. It is in
a different range to Eyjafjallajokull.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eyjafjallajökull's eruption in 2010 caused mayhem with travel plans around the world. Photograph: Arctic-Images/Getty Images</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="bpMore">Smoke and steam hang over the volcano under the
Eyjafjalla glacier in Iceland, early Thursday April 15, 2010. (AP
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="bpMore">Tourists gather to watch lava spurt out of the site
of a volcanic eruption at the Eyjafjallajökull volcano on March 27,
2010. Up to 800 people were evacuated in Iceland early on April 14, 2010
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">North view of the Eyjafjallajökull on 4 April 2010 from an altitude of
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That was the last time till the VIDEO surfaced of his execution. Below is copy of the email they received the message to the American public.</span></span></h3><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Islamic State, which is now holding three American hostages in <a href="http://www.globalpost.com/internal/section-config/syria">Syria</a>, has since threatened to kill one of them, freelance reporter <a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/middle-east/syria/140819/reported-beheading-james-foley-not-yet-verified" target="_blank">Steven Sotloff</a>, if the US continues its bombing campaign in Iraq.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Foley family has agreed to release the email from Foley’s captors. GlobalPost has chosen to publish it in full in the interest of transparency and to fully tell Jim's story. We believe the text offers insight into the motivations and tactics of the Islamic State.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">In addition to the extreme views it espouses, the email contains factual inaccuracies. For example, the Foley family was not “given many chances to negotiate” for Jim’s release. After more than a year without contact, the Foleys received their first message from Jim’s captors on Nov. 26, 2013, asking for money, fast. After the militants had proved to the Foleys and investigators that they were in fact holding Jim, they made their sole demand for a ransom of 100 million euros (about $132 million) or the release of unspecified prisoners held by the <a href="http://www.globalpost.com/internal/section-config/united-states">United States</a>.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The next time the Foley family heard from the captors was on Aug. 12, 2014.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">James Wright F<span style="font-size: small;">oley's captures demanded payment or release of others to spare Mr. Wrights life. The State Department<span style="font-size: small;">'s position is that they don't pay off Terrorist and/or those strong arming, but they do! Their payment metho<span style="font-size: small;">d is unto those they are looking to set up in positions to help their financial cause and/or agenda(s).</span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">It's <span style="font-size: small;">sickening</span> that ISIL <span style="font-size: small;">doesn't</span> fit into <span style="font-size: small;">one of the State Department's list of those they <span style="font-size: small;">are <span style="font-size: small;">seeking</span> to set up in <span style="font-size: small;">business</span> to fuel their causes<span style="font-size: small;"> because not all of their causes are worthy of all <span style="font-size: small;">inhabitants</span> of the Earth.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">They received this email:</span></span></div><br /><hr /><br /><i>HOW LONG WILL THE SHEEP FOLLOW THE BLIND SHEPPARD?</i><br /><br /><i>A message to the American government and their sheep like citizens:</i><br /><br /><i>We have left you alone since your disgraceful defeat in Iraq. We did not interfere in your country or attack your citizens while they were safe in their homes despite our capability to do so!</i><br /><br /><i>As for the scum of your society who are held prisoner by us, THEY DARED TO ENTER THE LION’S DEN AND WHERE EATEN!</i><br /><br /><i>You were given many chances to negotiate the release of your people via cash transactions as other governments have accepted,</i><br /><i><br /> We have also offered prisoner exchanges to free the Muslims currently in your detention like our sister <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/21/world/middleeast/isis-pressed-for-ransom-before-killing-james-foley.html" target="_blank">Dr Afia Sidiqqi</a>, however you proved very quickly to us that this is NOT what you are interested in.</i><br /><br /><i>You have no motivation to deal with the Muslims except with the language of force, a language you were given in “Arabic translation” when you attempted to occupy the land of Iraq!</i><br /><i><br /> Now you return to bomb the Muslims of Iraq once again, this time resorting to Arial attacks and “proxy armies”, all the while cowardly shying away from a face-to-face confrontation!</i><br /><br /><i>Today our swords are unsheathed towards you, GOVERNMENT AND CITIZENS ALIKE! AND WE WILL NOT STOP UNTILL WE QUENCH OUR THIRST FOR YOUR BLOOD.</i><br /><br /><i>You do not spare our weak, elderly, women or children so we will NOT spare yours!</i><br /><br /><i>You and your citizens will pay the price of your bombings!</i><br /><br /><i>The first of which being the blood of the American citizen, James Foley!</i><br /><br /><i>He will be executed as a DIRECT result of your transgressions towards us!</i><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /><br /><b>Earlier Articles:</b><br /><h3 class="post-title entry-title"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://ofinterestnet.blogspot.com/2014/08/he-would-have-gone-first-that-is-who-he.html">UPDATED: "He would have gone first, that is who he is": Brave parents of James Foley match their son for dignity and courage [VIDEO's/Pics]</a></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title"><a href="http://ofinterestnet.blogspot.com/2014/08/warning-graphic-james-wright-foley.html"><span style="font-size: small;">WARNING: Graphic James Wright Foley BEHEADING Video by ISIS </span>Authentic says US officials, Prompts Controversy [VIDEO/Pics]</a></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title"> </h3></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Diversities Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05401472087128725547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2471283927852878995.post-82301332270571473362014-08-22T06:59:00.000-07:002014-08-22T07:02:02.215-07:00Full text of the last email the Islamic State sent to the Foley family - www.ofINTEREST.net<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://ofinterestnet.blogspot.com/2014/08/full-text-of-last-email-islamic-state.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Full text of the last email the Islamic State sent to the Foley family</span></a></h2>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Mikhael Love</i>, <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>IIO</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">James Foley's parents heard from their son's captors was on Aug. 12, 2014 via an email. That was the last time till the VIDEO surfaced of his execution. Below is copy of the email they received the message to the American public.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Islamic State, which is now holding three American hostages in <a href="http://www.globalpost.com/internal/section-config/syria">Syria</a>, has since threatened to kill one of them, freelance reporter <a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/middle-east/syria/140819/reported-beheading-james-foley-not-yet-verified" target="_blank">Steven Sotloff</a>, if the US continues its bombing campaign in Iraq.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Foley family has agreed to release the email from
Foley’s captors. GlobalPost has chosen to publish it in full in the
interest of transparency and to fully tell Jim's story. We believe the
text offers insight into the motivations and tactics of the Islamic
State.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">In addition to the extreme views it espouses, the email
contains factual inaccuracies. For example, the Foley family was not
“given many chances to negotiate” for Jim’s release. After more than a
year without contact, the Foleys received their first message from Jim’s
captors on Nov. 26, 2013, asking for money, fast. After the militants
had proved to the Foleys and investigators that they were in fact
holding Jim, they made their sole demand for a ransom of 100 million
euros (about $132 million) or the release of unspecified prisoners held
by the <a href="http://www.globalpost.com/internal/section-config/united-states">United States</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The next time the Foley family heard from the captors was on Aug. 12, 2014.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">James Wright F<span style="font-size: small;">oley's captures demanded payment or release of others to spare Mr. Wrights life. The State Department<span style="font-size: small;">'s position is that they don't pay off Terrorist and/or those strong arming, but they do! Their payment metho<span style="font-size: small;">d is unto those they are looking to set up in positions to help their financial cause and/or agenda(s).</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">It's <span style="font-size: small;">sickening</span> that ISIL <span style="font-size: small;">doesn't</span> fit into <span style="font-size: small;">one of the State Department's list of those they <span style="font-size: small;">are <span style="font-size: small;">seeking</span> to set up in <span style="font-size: small;">business</span> to fuel their causes<span style="font-size: small;"> because not all of their causes are worthy of all <span style="font-size: small;">inhabitants</span> of the Earth.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <br />
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<i>HOW LONG WILL THE SHEEP FOLLOW THE BLIND SHEPPARD?</i><br />
<br />
<i>A message to the American government and their sheep like citizens:</i><br />
<br />
<i>We have left you alone since your disgraceful defeat in
Iraq. We did not interfere in your country or attack your citizens while
they were safe in their homes despite our capability to do so!</i><br />
<br />
<i>As for the scum of your society who are held prisoner by us, THEY DARED TO ENTER THE LION’S DEN AND WHERE EATEN!</i><br />
<br />
<i>You were given many chances to negotiate the release of your people via cash transactions as other governments have accepted,</i><br />
<i><br />
We have also offered prisoner exchanges to free the Muslims currently in your detention like our sister <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/21/world/middleeast/isis-pressed-for-ransom-before-killing-james-foley.html" target="_blank">Dr Afia Sidiqqi</a>, however you proved very quickly to us that this is NOT what you are interested in.</i><br />
<br />
<i>You have no motivation to deal with the Muslims except
with the language of force, a language you were given in “Arabic
translation” when you attempted to occupy the land of Iraq!</i><br />
<i><br />
Now you return to bomb the Muslims of Iraq once again, this time
resorting to Arial attacks and “proxy armies”, all the while cowardly
shying away from a face-to-face confrontation!</i><br />
<br />
<i>Today our swords are unsheathed towards you, GOVERNMENT
AND CITIZENS ALIKE! AND WE WILL NOT STOP UNTILL WE QUENCH OUR THIRST FOR
YOUR BLOOD.</i><br />
<br />
<i>You do not spare our weak, elderly, women or children so we will NOT spare yours!</i><br />
<br />
<i>You and your citizens will pay the price of your bombings!</i><br />
<br />
<i>The first of which being the blood of the American citizen, James Foley!</i><br />
<br />
<i>He will be executed as a DIRECT result of your transgressions towards us!</i><br />
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<b>Earlier Articles:</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://ofinterestnet.blogspot.com/2014/08/he-would-have-gone-first-that-is-who-he.html">UPDATED:
"He would have gone first, that is who he is": Brave parents of James
Foley match their son for dignity and courage [VIDEO's/Pics]</a></span></h3>
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<a href="http://ofinterestnet.blogspot.com/2014/08/warning-graphic-james-wright-foley.html"><span style="font-size: small;">WARNING: Graphic James Wright Foley BEHEADING Video by ISIS </span>Authentic says US officials, Prompts Controversy [VIDEO/Pics]</a></h3>
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