Postscript: Turkey now claims that Syria has shot at a second plane, which was “only” in Syrian airspace for 5 minutes.Note: The Turkish jet might not have been flying at its top speed. Even so, it is likely that Syria had no time to take other action.Culture,Truth, Division and End of Alt Media [video]
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July 1, 2012
Me rambling on about all of em
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‘Terrorist attack’ on Syrian TV headquarters kills seven
PressTV
June 27, 2012
Three staff members of the Al-Ikhbariya satellite television channel in Syria and four guards have been killed in a “terrorist attack” on the headquarters of the television in the capital Damascus.
The official Syrian news agency, SANA, said the assailants also ransacked the offices of the television station in the attack that was carried out during the early hours of Wednesday.
Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zohbi told SANA TV in a live interview that the “terrorist groups stormed the offices of Al-Ikhbariya, planted explosives in the studios and blew them up along with the equipment.”
SYRIA: Cold War II, Edging Closer to a “Hot War”? [video included]
Turkish Jet Flying 100 Meters above the Water 1 Mile from Syrian Coast
Washington’s Blog
June 26, 2012
Syria Had 2.5 Seconds to React to Turkish Jet Flying Only 100 Meters Above the Water Just One Mile from Syrian Land
Syria Had No Time to Take Any Other Action
The world is already in Cold War 2.0 in Syria. Now we are edging closer to a hot war.
Self-defense has been a recognized legal right for thousands of years.
But when empires wish to go to war against a country, self-defense is seen as a criminal causus belli. For example, Turkey admits that its fighter jet was in Syrian territory when it was shot down.
Indeed, the Turkish fighter jet was flying very low and very close to the Syrian shoreline:
“The plane disappeared and then reappeared in Syrian airspace, flying at 100 meters altitude and about 1-2kms (0.6-1.2 miles) from the Syrian coast,” Syrian Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi told a Damascus news conference.
“We had to react immediately, even if the plane was Syrian we would have shot it down,” he said. “The Syrian response was an act of defense of our sovereignty carried out by anti-aircraft machinegun which has a maximum range of 2.5 km.”
And yet Turkey is calling Syria the aggressor:
In a letter to the U.N. Security Council, Turkey condemned the “hostile act by the Syrian authorities against Turkey’s national security”, saying it posed “a serious threat to peace and security in the region”.
Specifically, the Turkish president:
Put the onus on Syria to explain why its army chose to shoot first, rather than try to establish radio contact, fire warning shots or even send up aircraft when the F4 crossed into Syrian territory.
However, the Turkish jet – a McDonnel Douglas F4 Phantom – had a top speed of 1,485 miles per hour.
If the Syrians spotted the jet one mile away, that means that they would have had 2.5 seconds to react (1,425 mph ÷ 60 minutes in an hour ÷ 60 seconds in a minute equals .4 miles per second; so it would take 2.5 seconds to travel 1 mile).
2.5 seconds is not long enough to try to establish radio contact, fire warning shots or send up aircraft. Therefore, Syria had only 2 choices: shoot the jet down, or let it fly over Syrian land.
This is allegedly footage shot with an iPhone of the actual shootdown of the Turkish jet:
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Here is a still from that video, purportedly showing the jet crashing into the ocean:
Postscript: Turkey now claims that Syria has shot at a second plane, which was “only” in Syrian airspace for 5 minutes.Note: The Turkish jet might not have been flying at its top speed. Even so, it is likely that Syria had no time to take other action. |
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Electronic Devices Mysteriously Stop Working Near Massive Baltic Sea Object [videos included]
by Jake Otero
Conscious Life News
June 25, 2012
In a video from NTD News, the team investigating the mysterious object found in the Baltic Sea explains that their electronic equipment mysteriously stopped functioning when they come within close proximity of the massive underwater object. Even stranger, the equipment started working again once the divers left the object’s immediate area. Like the other anomalies, this strange occurrence has raised even more questions concerning this fascinating mystery in the Baltic Sea.
Iran will strongly confront possible attacks: IRGC cmdr.
PressTV
June 24, 2012
The commander of the Aerospace Division of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the Islamic Republic will strongly confront any possible assault against the country.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran has no interest in wars with other countries, but we will strongly confront the enemies’ possible aggression and will give them a response that will make them regret the aggression,” Brigadier General Amir-Ali Hajizadeh said in a meeting with foreign military attaches in Tehran on Sunday.
Invasive species from Fukushima tsunami washing up on U.S. shores
by J.D. Heyes
Natural News
June 23, 2012
(NaturalNews) Japan’s tsunami-caused nuclear disaster at the Fukushima energy complex in March 2011, in which three atomic reactors were heavily damaged, continues to wreak havoc on ecosystems – in the U.S.
The latest danger emanating from the Fukushima complex to hit our shores came not in the form of irradiated tuna, but in the form of a boxcar-sized piece of floating dock which washed ashore along a sandy Oregon beach earlier this month. The find initially excited some beachcombers, reports said, but scientists quickly began to worry that such debris was quickly becoming a whole new way to transport invasive species – crabs, seaweed and other marine organisms – to U.S. waters, further harming West Coast marine environments, The Associated Press reported.
Worse, scientists and marine biologists suspect more species could be hitching a ride to our shores as more tsunami debris arrives in the coming months.
“We know extinctions occur with invasions,” John Chapman, assistant professor of fisheries and invasive species at Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center, told AP. “This is like arrows shot into the dark. Some of them could hit a mark.”
Mitten crabs, spartina, shellfish all cause problems here – though they came from far away
Indeed. While international trade has meant that marine invasion to the West Coast has been occurring since the late 1860s, the global economy has greatly accelerated the process. So much so that now, there are areas like San Francisco Bay which amount to a “global zoo” of invasive species, where as many as 500 plants and animals from waters afar have established in U.S. waters.
The species can attach themselves to the hulls of cargo ships and the water some vessels take on as ballast, but have also come from home aquariums that have been emptied into bays.
Not only have the species upset marine ecosystems, but there are staggering costs associated with the phenomenon as well, in tens of billions of dollars.
“Mitten crabs from China eat baby Dungeness crabs that are one of the region’s top commercial fisheries. Spartina, a ropey seaweed from Europe, chokes commercial oyster beds. Shellfish plug the cooling water intakes of power plants. Kelps and tiny shrimp-like creatures change the food web that fish, marine mammals and even humans depend on,” the AP reported.
If anything, the Fukushima disaster will only make matters worse, since the problem has been growing for years. A 2004 study published by the scientific journal Ecological Economic, for example, estimated then that some 400 threatened and endangered species in the U.S. were facing wipe-out due to invasive species.
That said, scientists admit it’s too early to tell how badly Japan’s tsunami debris will worsen the situation already here in the U.S.
“It may only introduce one thing,” Andrew Cohen, director of the Center for Research on Aquatic Bioinvasions in Richmond, Calif., said. “But if that thing turns out to be a big problem, we would rather it not happen. There could be an economic impact, an ecological impact, or even a human health impact.”
Johnny Clamseed
Reports said the dock that washed ashore in Oregon came from a fishing port located on Japan’s northern tip. It was strewn with a ton-and-a-half of mussels, seaweed, barnacles and starfish. AP reported that volunteers scraped it clean then buried it above the high water line and sterilized the rest with torches.
Some experts said, however, that despite the cleaning, there was no way to tell yet whether the scrap had released spores, larvae or anything else that could spawn and grow somewhere along the coast.
“That’s the ‘Johnny Clamseed’ approach,” James Carlton, professor of marine sciences at Williams College, said, a reference to John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, who introduced apple trees to parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and Indiana in the 19th century. “While that is theoretical, we don’t actually know if that kind of thing happens.”
Yet, scientists say they do know that the bigger the debris, the more likely it is bringing something along for the ride.
More debris continues to wash ashore along U.S. beaches – so much so that state officials are beginning to make appeals to Washington for help. This week, Washington state Gov. Chris Gregoire announced plans for her state to begin clean-up efforts but said federal help would be needed.
“We don’t have the resources at the state level to do what we’re going to have to do here,” she said.
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