A Call to (Considered) Action | SpaceRef - Your Space Reference

"Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to call upon the Congress of the United States to initiate, via the National Research Council or other appropriate body, a formal analysis of the circumstances presented by the close encounter between the Earth and asteroid 2004MN4 in April 2029, and the potential for a subsequent collision with Earth in 2036." Back in July, 1998, my family had heard that our cousin Lydia's husband had been selected to replace Steve Perry in the band "Journey" and heard that Steve Augeri and Journey had made a song for the film "Armageddon" which has many songs in it by popular modern artists. The song we knew was titled "Remember Me" and we waited through the whole picture for it. Surprize! It's on the CD but was cut from the film, I think for the John Denver tune, "Leaving, on a Jetplane". Oh well. I hope civilization can get this proposal off in time. Ain't no way off the planet by then, maybe an Outpost.

PROGRESSIVE FILMS - Hidden Internment

"HIDDEN INTERNMENT: The Art Shibayama Story Reveals the lesser-known history of the Japanese-Latin American internment through the life story of Art Shibayama who, at 13, was taken from Peru on March 22, 1944 and interned in Crystal City Texas for two years. Despite this internment, Art was denied redress equal to that provided to Japanese Americans. Working with the Campaign for Justice, Art continues to seek a just resolution through both the Organization of American States and through the legislative route." Once said something about this in a forum after a NY Times article and having courses with Marvin K. Opler (cross-cultural psychiatry) whose brother, Morris Opler also an anthropologist in the internments, brought three briefs for Japanese-American Constitutional rights, two of which were heard by the US Supreme Court. As I recall 15 different nations in South America were complicit with their deportation to the US.

BAGnewsNotes: Help from the Intern

"Sometimes it seems like just awhile ago I met the guy who attempted to drive across Africa with a surfboard on top of the Land Rover, trying to see the effects of 'Western Civilization' there and just yesterday denied access to the United Nations Library (without a Ph.D. or a note from one) while my VW was parked next to Idi Amin's embassy in NYC, yet I know that many changes have come to Africa, and perhaps many more deadly ones to sub-Saharan Africa (an anthropology professor (Stevenson) of mine wrote a book about that region, trying to list all the known peoples there) with predicted climate change since that time. We have 'blood for stones' with diamonds said to be exchanged by Al-Qaida, an untraceable source of funds, despite some of our politicos' opinions, in Africa. Where we have yet to explore solutions to problems there, I would hope that our American focus will not be knocked out of kilter by stressing 'terrorism' to an insidious effect, losing our standing on 'terrafirma'. I hope that the study of 'mass behavior in battle and captivity' does not become the US's solution to international problems, as a former US Ambassador to the UN wrote and published about (Jeane J. Kirkpatrick), back in 1968 about 'the Communist Soldier In The Korean War'. Posted by: George Myers | May 28, 2005 10:09 AM"

Fresh Intelligence : Radar Online

"Dubya's Double Trouble?" Was Radar Magazine now www.radaronline.com Scandalous report on George W. Bush now here: http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board2/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=384

The Huffington Post | The Blog

The Most Important Vote on the Iraq War You Never Heard About

BAGnewsNotes: Twice to the Pyramids

BAGnewsNotes: Twice to the Pyramids: "'Air Force Two is the air traffic control callsign of any U.S. Air Force aircraft carrying the Vice-President of the United States. Currently the Air Force Two aircraft in operation is a Boeing 757-200 (reg. 98-0002), carrying the current Vice- President Dick Cheney.' Is the 757 bigger than the 747? The F-101 Voodoo certainly was bigger, faster, and deadlier than the F-102 GWB flew, said why he had to go, six months before the end of his service for an MBA at Harvard U., the F-102 'obsolete' though I saw one Mass. Air Guard at 100 feet over the West Meadow Beach, NY one Fourth of July, so thought the F-14 test pilot, Mr. Gwynne. Maybe it's there to keep him out of the cockpit! (http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Air-Force-Two) Posted by: George Myers, Jr. | May 25, 2005 10:42 AM The 757 is not bigger than the 747.

BagNewsNotes

It, in light of the current Supreme Court consideration of jury "tampering" by presenting defendants in shackles (as Clinton associate Susan MacDougal was shown in the press) is certainly stigmatizing. Having just came in from writing on plastic bags and survey tape with a "Sharpie" while in archaeological survey of a property where West Point graduates had their reunions, also owned by "Mama Leone's" next to their property, I am inclined to use "Marks-A-Lot" instead, less toxic. Perhaps this has gone on a lot (they are old brands) and Yippie Abbie Hoffman used to wear the F word as such on his forehead perhaps as a counter to the same procedure used in Vietnam. Better "kara" (Turkish "black") marked then dead. "Ah fah la fah ka" Soupy Sales used to sing, "I love you" they say all over Turkey.

The Huffington Post | The News Wire

"That didn't sound like a retraction to me. It sounds more of an affirmation of his 'self-realization' citing a greater power directing him. Crossing the river between Quebec and Ontario, two Canadian provinces (once almost two countries, on the northern New York border) from the capital city Ottawa into Hull, one sees the emphasis and protection of the French language carried into the advertisements by 'American' businesses, going so far as to place the 'Big Mac' in the middle of a billboard of the 'Arch de Triumph' (ca. 1985). America owes quite a debt of gratitude to France for the support of our young republic. If 6000 of their troops hadn't marched from Rhode Island to New York and perhaps, convince Gen. Washington, to fight with them in Virginia against Gen. Cornwallis (instead of Admiral Cornwallis in NYC) we may have lost our cause, a declaration first signed in New York by William Floyd, on Long Island, where we also lost the first battle. Posted by: George Myers, Jr. at May 26, 2005 10:38 AM"

Hudson Valley and the Catskills

Just some news today from New York's "North River" (the Delaware was once considered the "South River") from where I had breakfast with a number of National Guard troops in the Clarion before work. Stewart ANG (Army National Guard I think) Airport is next door to where big green cargo carriers fly in and out of, (George Carlin: Why when we send something by truck its a "shipment" and when we send it by ship it's "cargo"?).

Front page of the Times Herald-Record:

5 overstrike 1 overstrike 3 Casinos Coming... Pataki waffles again (page 3)

Pictures at the bottom:
Maharishi's GARDEN Guru's group buys 818 acres in Goshen for organic veggies. Overlay photo shows over the farmland, a B&W tinted sepia photo of the Maharishi (rumored to be the inspiration for "Sexy Sadie" on the Beatles "White Album") meeting with George Harrison on his right and John Lennon on his left. Inside "Peace group has big plans for Black Dirt" The photo description of "On the Cover" box states "Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the Indian mystic who introduced the Beatles to Transcendental Meditation, sits with George Harrison, left, and John Lennon Dec. 18, 1967, at a UNICEF gala in Paris. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi founded the Global Country of World Peace, which recently purchased Black Dirt land in Goshen. The sale includes a work camp for about 300 workers. page 3 The land was sold by Gratz and Utter (Growers and Shippers of the Golden Harvest brand of onions, lettuce, greens, radishes, and carrots). "The group intends to grow organic vegetables in greenhouses and teach organic farming techniques to local and foreign students."

"Woodstock anniversary brouhaha under way" page 5.

I am going on my sixth week of work here in Orange County, working for Barry Greenhouse's "Greenhouse Consultants, Inc." on one large property next to the Talmudic study society at Kiryas Joel, NY, the other where in part West Point graduates used to have reunions, riding horses, etc., once also part of "Mama Leone's". The Talmudic society, Kiryas Joel, NY recently purchase the huge "STAR" facilities along the NY Thruway for $1000, gaining access to 300,000 gpd wells associated with the facility (unfortunately the facility is contaminated and also has a large mortgage) which would then allow them to hook up with the Catskill Aqueduct (being able to provide water if or when the public aqueduct is unavailable i.e., for repairs, etc., one of the criteria for hooking up. Sixteen miles of pipeline needed?) right here near Newburgh, NY which has been, as a result of the flooding rainstorms last month, has been pumping out the hydrants to remove discoloration, which ended yesterday.

Peace

Virtual Reality Again

Aerial photo "draped" onto landform in Woodbury, NY by World Wind 1.3.1 (NASA) near the National Register of Historic Places "Quaker Meetinghouse" I believe. At center, above the NY State Thruway, is the former Judge J.F. Barnard's "Grand View" farm currently being tested by Greenhouse Consultants and I. Small pond to the top (east) is part of the former, I am told, NYC Italian restaurant, "Mama Leone's" horse farm, also part of the planned development of "Legacy Ridge". West Point Military Academy property is to the top of the "picture" where, when I worked with Panamerican Consultants, a few years ago, we assessed Hurricane Floyd damaged areas for archaeology and a new road to the top of Bull Hill for telecommunications, near Camp Buckner. Though the toponym "Bull Hill" shows in this depiction, it is further away and a result of visualization, a flat plane of names put into a 3D view. Happens alot I imagine.  

Friday the 13th

Last Friday I was listening to Brian Flemming being interviewed over the Internet at The Infidel Guy radio show and thought to call in near the end of the show to tell them I had read that some Swiss had stated that they had found Judas' "gospel" (or dug it up from somewhere) and were going to publish it next Easter 2006. I said I had read about it a couple of weeks ago and thought to share it. I had been reading a sci-fi story "The Political Officer" by Charles Coleman Finlay c) 2002 (Fictionwise.com) ("A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" meets "Das Boot" meets "The Wrath of Khan") which had a few interesting names like "Jesusalem" (homebase) and Judas' Chariot, that had me thinking.

Recent "madonna" cover of "New Yorker"

Maybe it's allegorical, remember that painting, with the strange signature, x-rayed it revealed that, almost finished when the artist died, it was finished by the artist's daughter, it's authenticity, arguably a percentage, researched at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, on Long Island in New York where Irving Berlin wrote "Yip yip Yaphank" for Camp Upton in WWI (once with no weapons, in trenches with brooms, a site visited today where an atom smasher was to go) and later nearby German Youth camped in the 1930's? Peter Meyer or Myer researched it. The Jackson Pollack /Krasner place is held by Stony Brook University in trust and they also run the Lab, taking over from the Dept. of Energy. In summary, the test tube makes it about science not religion. Posted by: George Myers | May 15, 2005 02:01 PM I was once in an after-school supervised chemistry lab in high school for extra credit, a friend was researching esters. As I watched him shake a test tube over a Bunsen burner, without goggles, it almost exploded, sending the contents, a mixture of glycerin and nitric acid across the room where part of it burned a hole in my synthetic fabric ski jacket. Some went near or in my friend John's eye, and I took him to the empty nurse's office to wash out his eye. Apparently, he was just following the printed instructions. Filled the lab with smoke and taught the recent grad, student teaching assistant, a lesson I hope.

Daisy daisy give me an answer true...

Where's "Huntley and Brinkley" now that we need them? Come to think of it, as Ms. Richards of Texas used to exclaim, "Where's George?" My cousin George Murray directed them at NBC News, after a US Army Captain career in the Korean War led to film editing our service films, then film editting at NBC news. He later produced "NBC Nightly News from New York" during those Gemini and Saigon days. His last assignment with CBS produced the 1976 coverage of both Democratic and Republican conventions. He died in Mexico City, where his wife was an Avon fashion executive. Edwin Newman read a letter at his eulogy in the United Nations Chapel, a statement that "higher-ups" cancelled the many month investigation of US soldier's views of the Vietnam Conflict (not to be confused with the later lawsuit by General Westmoreland against the entire NBC network for its news coverage, perhaps the settlement funding current politicos). His sister Margaret Uhlmeyer of Huntington, NY passed away last week, may these public servants, apparently in "prayer" and "peace" get to the bottom of our reported 2002 pact with the "devils" we once knew, in spite of which, we built our country.

Walking through Judge J.F. Barnard's "Grand View" farm digging holes...

The Grable shot? My high school history teacher (in Greek his family were "assassins" he once said) was an atomic cannon-man, which he said was a deadly position, as when fired at the Eastern front would be over-run by their tanks coming across the borders. I had a picture, from online, of one of the behemoth white cannons which were towed at either end by huge truck cabs. One is pointed at the Eisenhower homestead from a park in Texas, a "roadside America" online posting. Well, we did sell 100 Grumman F-14 "Tomcats" to the Shah of Iran (I once celebrated the birthday of its test pilot, where TV told us the US would blow-up them all if the USSR went for the border during the hostage crisis as the air-to-air missiles are very important technology. Over 4000 Grumman employees had been in a compound in Iran training their pilots and support crew. It's said that the F-14 can track up to six targets and may have had electronic counter-measures, I didn't ask him however. Makes for interesting geo-politics.) The F-14 also had problems later worked out at Langley is it, similar to the film "Top Gun" and can flat spin out of the air which has been fixed. Maybe we could do a deal with them and get their investment in our air power back on the right track? (Posted at BagNewsNotes about an Economist mag cover)

Who's On First? Takeoff

Lou Costello had a gym in Paterson, NJ.

New York Folklore Society Newsletter

Strummin' on the old banjo...

Einstein-Image and Impact. AIP History Center exhibit.

Ever wonder how different the world would be if Albert Einstein hadn't posted his warning of fission experiments in Europe to FDR from New Suffolk, NY out on the north fork of Long Island, where the "Silent Service" started, Mr. Holland's opus, the modern submarine? I do.

Adventures with an Ice Pick

I once read this began as an iceman's accident in "From Shaman to Psychotherapist" but this is the real story I think. Very scary. Back in January 1971, my friends and I went to see an Off-Off Broadway play, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" nearby Washington Square. I've later learned, that Kirk Douglas (and/or son? later?) owned the rights to the production. Maybe they saw it too! My friend John Page thought it a good idea, visiting with girl schoolmates, he the Freshman, on a fencing scholarship at NYU. Liverwurst and munster! My employer's franchise, Zum Zum was on the Square, once to be "just around the corner" in Buffalo, NY too in 1973, according to the newspaper, but Hell "hath" (or Dunkel) like Bavarian fast food, "roast beef on weck" (or the rumor of horsemeat being served resulting in boycott) and The Anchor bar's chicken wings, I guess.

Bring 'em home

It reminds me of Peter Straub's book "The Throat" I was reading in Saratoga Springs, NY trying to magnetometer survey in 103F weather for the EPA a former "city gas" plant that produced as a by-product "coal tar" pretty nasty stuff (though made into aspirin and German fabric dye fortunes) and they wanted to know if it was going into the nearby springs (Old Red on Excelsior) or lake (through the drain system, also on a fault line said so also modern "Diablo Canyon" nuke plant in CA) in which the narrator, working with the body bags in Vietnam, years later solves an even earlier murder. Bag orders are monitored by peaceniks, water quality standards for arsenic were held back by the Administration, strangely, many veterans of the Civil War were buried with as much as forty pounds of arsenic (and Mozart too). Incidentally, the Native American Repatriation Act, signed by George HW Bush, requiring the return of native artifacts and burials, was perhaps started in response to the request by the Iroquois in New York State, that some of their veterans buried overseas be reburied here in their native land, which as I understand it was refused, having once met their council's "chief of chiefs" Leon Shenandoah and his successor Oren Lyons, a system Benjamin Franklin admired and suggested for our own in the mid 18th century. Posted at BAGnewsNotes "Producing the Boxes"