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Bryant identified as the gunman?
In terms of the allegation that the witnesses have identified Bryant as the man they saw shooting at the PAHS, the most serious difficulties are raised by Jim Laycock in his statement. Laycock is of outstanding importance in this case, as he is the one and only witness who observed the gunman in the act and actually knew Bryant. In his police statement, Laycock—who, as noted earlier, got a good enough look at the man to be able to estimate his age ("low twenties")—said that he "did not recognise the male as Martin Bryant". He stated only that he saw "a blonde [sic] headed person" shoot Zoe Hall and take Glenn Pears captive.

Another witness, Yannis Kateros, said he had never seen the gunman before. Yet Kateros had lived at Port Arthur since 1991, and, according to Laycock, Bryant had visited the PAHS on about a dozen occasions in the five-year period between about 1991 and 1995.

At least two other witnesses have also stated that Bryant was not the gunman. These are PAHS Information Centre employee Wendy Scurr, who, according to one report, saw the gunman inside the centre immediately prior to the attack, and Vietnam War veteran John Godfrey, who was waiting outside the centre when the shooting commenced. Godfrey viewed the gunman twice. He saw him drive by and saw him put a bag into the boot of his car. "In my opinion the picture I saw in the newspapers was not the same person," he stated in his police statement taken on 7 June 1996. Wendy Scurr has changed her mind on the subject; she no longer believes that Bryant was the man she saw that day.

So when people tell me that everyone knows that Bryant "did it" because people saw him doing it, I tend to wonder which witnesses they can possibly be referring to. To my knowledge, the only witnesses who positively identified Bryant as the gunman were Linda White and Michael Wanders, both persons whose statements were taken a full month after the shooting, after they had been exposed to plenty of media coverage about the case.

On 27 May 1996, White viewed the 14 May police photoboard and decided: "Photograph no. 5 in this folder [i.e., Bryant] is the male who shot us near Port Arthur." However, White's only reason for selecting photo no. 5 seems to have been because of the fact that, in this photo, Bryant appeared to be wearing a top that was "very similar" to that worn by the gunman. "It could even be the same top," she said.

Unfortunately, White's statement is of no value whatsoever. An identification can scarcely be based upon an item of clothing, which can obviously be worn by another person. (Indeed, someone seeking to impersonate Bryant would have taken care to acquire an item of his clothing, or at least a very similar item.) What's more, no previous witness recalled the gunman wearing the same top as that worn by Bryant in photo no. five. White was clearly basing her identification entirely upon a photo she had seen in the media.

As for Michael Wanders, in his statement taken the same day as White's, he picked Bryant out from the police photoboard as "the person who shot at Linda and I on 28/4/96". Unfortunately, Wanders's identification is also of no value. On 28 April 1996, he told the police: "I would not be able to identify the person who shot at us." In his statement a month later, he admitted that he hadn't been able to "get a good enough look at the male to see how old he was or what he was wearing". His statement suggests that, really, all he had seen was a male with long blond hair. Yet, somehow, his original statement did not deter him from picking Bryant out from the police photoboard a month later as the man who had shot at him. It is hard to credit the positive identification of Bryant a month after the attack by a witness who, on the day of the attack itself, told the police explicitly that he would not be able to identify the gunman.

White's and Wanders's statements prove one thing: not that Bryant perpetrated the shootings, but that the laws prohibiting media organisations from publishing photos of accused persons before they have been tried are sensible ones which ought always to be rigorously enforced.

In view of the fact that no serious efforts were ever made to prevent the media from publishing photos of Bryant, the question has to be asked whether the police ever wanted the gunman properly identified, or whether they colluded with the media in the release of these photos in a deliberate effort to taint the pool of witness testimony. Certainly, they seem to have done their best to avoid placing Bryant together with eyewitnesses in the same room. Graham Collyer, who was on the same floor as Bryant in the Royal Hobart Hospital on the day his witness statement was taken, was never given the opportunity to look at him. On this occasion, a positive ID could have been obtained in a matter of minutes, if the police officers taking his statement had really wanted one.

In this regard, it is striking that none of the witnesses who showed a tendency not to identify Bryant as the gunman was given the opportunity to pick him out from the police identity board—not even NSW police officer Justin Noble, who said that he thought he could identify the man if shown a photo of him taken from the appropriate angle. The fact that Noble was never asked to view the police photoboard implies that Tasmania police anticipated a negative response.

A related issue is the uncertainty that surrounds the matter of the gunman's clothing. In no context of which I am aware did the allegations against Bryant ever raise the matter of the items of clothing that the gunman had been seen wearing. It is striking that there is no consistent evidence as to the colour of the gunman's clothing; one can only wonder whether witness statements were tampered with to prevent a clear picture from emerging, for fear that it would raise the question of whether there was any proof that Bryant had ever owned the items.

It is only when one realises that Bryant has never been positively identified as the PAHS shooter that one begins to understand why a court trial was never held. If a trial had been held, the authorities would have been in an extremely awkward position if some witnesses had either denied that Bryant was the man or expressed serious doubts about the identification. That a trial was avoided means that such problems were never permitted to arise. It is hard not to see why the legal strategy took the form of coercing Bryant into pleading guilty to all 72 charges against him—a process that took seven months—rather than risk the case going to trial.

The Port Arthur attack allegedly perpetrated by Martin Byrant was a really sophisticated
precision attack done by professionally trained military personnel.

According to his LinkedIn profile, James Holmes's father, Dr. Robert Holmes, who received a PhD in Statistics in 1981 from the University of California at Berkeley, worked for San Diego-based HNC Software, Inc. from 2000 to 2002. HNC, known as a "neural network" [connection to DARPA] company, and DARPA, beginning in 1998, have worked on developing "cortronic neural networks," which would allow machines to interpret aural and visual stimuli to think like humans. [was the Colorado shooting an experiment by DARPA while at the same time fulfilling the multi-tasking algorithm driven Colorado event to shut down the LIBOR scandal from being exposed in the senate by Robert Holmes?] The cortronic concept [connected to the defense industry] was developed by HNC Software's chief scientist and co-founder, Robert Hecht-Nielsen. HNC merged with the Minneapolis-based Fair Isaac Corporation (FICO), a computer analysis and decision-making company. Robert Holmes continues to work at FICO. [senior scientist]
http://reddirtreport.com/Story.aspx/23080

Robert Holmes [father of the alleged shooter in Colorado James Holmes]
Senior Lead Scientist at Fair Isaac Corporation
Greater San Diego Area Financial Services

Robert Holmes's Overview
Current
Senior Lead Scientist at Fair Isaac
Past
Senior Staff Scientist at HNC Software, Inc. [check above connections to same software corporation]

Education
University of California, Berkeley
Stanford University
University of California, Los Angeles

Connections
111 connections [check the diagram I included]

Robert Holmes' Summary:

My educational background is in Mathematics and Statistics. [a very brainy guy] My experience over the last 10 years at HNC and FICO has been in develping predictive models [using very advanced algorithms] for financial services; credit & fraud risk models,first and third party application fraud models and internet/online banking fraud models.

Management Experience: I am currently managing a team building Falcon Fraud Manager Credit card fraud models. I have also managed teams in the Telco and Identity Theft fraud areas.

Specialties:

Experience with a variety of programming languages: Perl, SAS, JAVA, C, C++ and shell scripting languages
Operating systems: UNIX, Linux and Windows

Robert Holmes' Experience:
Senior Lead Scientist
Fair Isaac Corporation
Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; FICO; Computer Software industry
2002 – Present (10 years)
Statistical Modeling / Data Mining: Developed statistical models for a variety of Fair Isaac products including Telco Fraud/Risk Manager, [used by banks] Falcon ID and Falcon Online Access. Also familiar with other FI products including Falcon Fraud Manager and Falcon Fraud Manager for Merchants. Currently managing a Falcon Fraud Manager Credit Team.

Senior Staff Scientist
HNC Software, Inc.
Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; HNCS; Computer Software industry
2000 – 2002 (2 years)

Robert Holmes' Education
University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D., Statistics
1976 – 1981

Stanford University
BS, Mathematics
1969 – 1973

University of California, Los Angeles
MA, MS, Mathematics, Biostatistics
Robert Holmes' Additional Information

FICO (NYSE:FICO) [the biblical Isaac; Isaac was fair] delivers superior predictive analytics [predictive analytics? like in predicting the outcome of a massacre in Colorado?] solutions that drive smarter decisions. The company's groundbreaking use of mathematics to predict consumer behavior has transformed entire industries and revolutionized the way risk is managed and products are marketed.

FICO's innovative solutions include the FICO® Score — the standard measure of consumer credit risk in the United States — along with industry-leading solutions for managing credit accounts, identifying and minimizing the impact of fraud, and customizing consumer offers with pinpoint accuracy. Most of the world's top banks, as well as leading insurers, retailers, pharmaceutical businesses and government agencies rely on FICO solutions to accelerate growth, control risk, boost profits and meet regulatory and competitive demands. FICO also helps millions of individuals manage their personal credit health through www.myFICO.com.

Founded in 1956, FICO introduced analytic solutions such as credit scoring that have made credit more widely available, not just in the United States but around the world. We have pioneered the development and application of critical technologies behind decision management. These include predictive analytics, business rules management and optimization. We use these technologies to help businesses improve the precision, consistency and agility of their complex, high–volume decisions.

Our products and services include:

Scores and related analytics, which deliver powerful predictions of consumer behavior [algorithms] to help businesses make faster, more profitable decisions. Among our analytic products is the FICO® Score, which drives billions of credit and marketing decisions a year, and is recognized as the standard measure of US consumer credit risk.

Applications for decision management, which automate, improve and connect decisions based on our proprietary analytic models and user-defined strategies. Each of these solutions is built with the analytics, data, decision strategies and process flow for a particular vertical industry and decision area, such as fraud control or credit account management.

Tools for decision management, which give businesses the ability to create their own decision management applications and models. Our tools include business rules management, model development and decision optimization.

Professional services. We use our deep decision area experience and technical expertise to help individual clients solve unique business challenges, and get more value from our tools and solutions.

FICO works with more than 5,000 businesses worldwide, [major banks] and our technology serves thousands more through our partnerships. We serve global markets through offices in 12 countries.

For insight into our many products and services, please read our product and services catalog.

For background on analytics, see our booklet Understanding Predictive Analytics. [these algorithms have predicting consumer behavior down to a very exacting science]

FICO clients include:

Nine of the top 10 companies in the Fortune 500

Two-thirds of the top 100 banks in the world

90 of the 100 largest financial institutions [banks connected to LIBOR; when banks are exposed they are like rats cornered and they kill to justify and maintain their authority] in the U.S., and all the 100 largest U.S. credit card issuers

More than 400 personal and commercial lines insurers in North America and Europe, including the top 10 US personal lines insurers

100+ retailers and general merchandisers, including one-third of the top 50 U.S. retailers

150+ healthcare and life sciences companies, including 7 of the world's top 10 pharmaceuticals companies

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Barclays renews Fair Isaac Falcon fraud contract

Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE: FIC), the leading provider of analytics and decision technology, announced today that UK-based Barclays Bank PLC ("Barclays") agreed to continue its successful utilization of Fair Isaac's industry-leading fraud management solution, Falcon Fraud Manager, to protect its credit, debit and corporate card portfolios from payment card fraud.

Company information for Barclays Bank

Barclays, Europe's largest card issuer with more than 19.5 million debit and credit cards, extended its commitment to Falcon as its exclusive fraud protection solution for an additional five years. The bank has been successfully using Falcon since 1997. Falcon currently protects more than 450 million payment card accounts worldwide, detecting a wide range of payment card fraud with the highest level of accuracy via sophisticated neural network models and other predictive technologies.

Barclays also extended its commitment to use Falcon as the exclusive fraud protection solution for its Monument credit card portfolio. In addition to Fair Isaac's fraud detection solution, the issuer is currently utilizing Fair Isaac's TRIAD adaptive control system for both customer and account management.
http://www.finextra.com/news/announcement.aspx?pressreleaseid=25

FICO study for lenders inadvertently creates blueprint for strategic defaults
BY BRODERICK PERKINS · DEADLINENEWS.COM © MAY 16, 2011
FINANCE, MORTGAGES · TAGGED: DISTRESSED, FORECLOSURE, MORTGAGE MELTDOWN, STRATEGIC DEFAULT · 3 COMMENTS

An early warning system to help lenders detect impending strategic defaults could serve as a blueprint for homeowners considering walking away from their mortgage and that could encourage more strategic defaults.

Strategic defaulters are homeowners who can afford to make mortgage payments, but proactively decide to stop making mortgage payments in order to induce foreclosure.

The strategy has grown in popularity in an uncertain economy with bleak employment prospects, particularly among short term homeowners who are “underwater,” owing more on their mortgages than their homes are worth.

An estimated 25 to 30 percent of all homeowners nationwide are underwater. Among underwater homeowners today, nearly twice as many (27 percent) as a year ago think it is okay to walk away from a mortgage, according to Fannie Mae.

The “Financial Trust Index”, from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Kellogg School of Management, estimated strategic defaults accounted for 30 percent of all defaults during the first quarter this year, but an earlier academic study reported defaults on purpose have amounted to 50 percent or more of all defaults in some hard hit areas during the recession’s darkest days.

What could encourage more strategic defaults is “Predicting Strategic Default,” by major credit scoring system architect FICO (Fair Isaac Corp.). It found that contrary to assumptions, strategic defaulters are far from being financially distressed before they decide to walk.

Their behavior puts greater emphasis on the “strategic” as they exhibit far more calculating credit behavior than do truly distressed consumers who can’t make the mortgage.

FICO defined strategic defaulters as borrowers who are underwater on their loans and fell 90 days behind on their mortgage, yet kept up with all their other debts. FICO found that strategic defaulters tend to be more credit management savvy, have higher credit scores, lower revolving balances, fewer instances of exceeding limits on their credit cards and exhibit lower retail credit card usage than others who default on their mortgage.

It’s the kind of resolute behavior necessary to prepare you for credit life after default.

After strategic default your credit score can drop 150 points or more and leave a black mark on your credit report for seven years, FICO says.

A credit score is a numerical rendition of information on your credit report. The FICO score ranges from about 350 to 850 — the higher the number the better your credit score and the better shot you have a the best credit rates and terms. [giving LIBOR connected banks some great strategy here to rig inter bank loans]

After any default, credit and insurance available to you will cost you more and the negative credit information will make it tough to even rent a home.

You could also experience a tax hit if the lender forgives the difference, or legal costs if the lender comes after you for any balance if the lender sells the foreclosed home for less than the amount due on the mortgage.

What’s more, Fannie Mae last year announced further punishment for strategic defaulters — you will be barred from Fannie Mae mortgages for seven years.

Ironically, the FICO study also makes it easier for Fannie Mae to prove you are a strategic defaulter.

Given the school of hard knocks you’ll enter in strategic default, cramming on credit behavior before you sign up isn’t a bad move.

FICO’s findings on strategic default behavior reveals:

• Compared to other defaulters, strategic defaulters have not been in their homes very long. To short-timers, a strategic default may be a no-brainer.

If you purchased your home at the height of the boom and suffered a big value hit, you may not recover to the full purchase price of hour home for years, if ever. Since you’ve paid into your investment for only a few years, you have less to lose than long-timers.

Without the burden of mortgage payments you’ll have time to stash away perhaps tens of thousands of dollars before the lender finally forecloses. Later, a cheaper rental will cut your housing costs and build in more savings.

• Strategic defaulters use credit wisely. Fewer than 10 percent of strategic defaulters maxed out their credit cards. More than 35 percent of non-strategic defaulters did likewise.

If you manage to keep existing credit accounts, you’ll have unused credit to fall back on.

• Strategic defaulters shop for new credit card lines before they stop paying their mortgage. In the days of waning equity and fears of job loss, some homeowners used the same strategy to tap home equity before it disappeared or they were out of work.

Stocking up on new credit before defaulting acknowledges credit will be tough to come by after default.

• Those who walk away from their homes and into foreclosure are able to make calculated credit moves because they have higher credit scores. The higher the credit score the more likely the default was strategic. Most strategic defaulters have credit scores above 620. Defaulters with a credit score of 700 or more are more than twice as likely to be strategic.

The higher the credit score before default, the higher the score will be after the 150-plus possible negative credit score hit that comes with foreclosure. For some, that could put access to credit within reach, after just a few years.

While the FICO report does provide a great deal of insight on strategic defaulters’ behavior, [algorithms calculate this behavior] you should understand the report was not designed to serve as a blueprint for you if you’ve been considering walking away.

While you may be able to cushion the financial blow with careful planning and a professional or two holding your hand during the ordeal, any default is risky business you’ll live with for some years to come.

http://www.deadlinenews.com/2011/05/16/fico-study-for-lenders-inadvertently-creates-blueprint-for-strategic-defaults/

Kevin Slavin - How Algorithms Shape Our World

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'Britain's Atlantis' found at bottom of North sea - a huge undersea world swallowed by the sea in 6500BC

'Britain's Atlantis' - a hidden underwater world swallowed by the North Sea - has been discovered by divers working with science teams from the University of St Andrews.

Doggerland, a huge area of dry land that stretched from Scotland to Denmark was slowly submerged by water between 18,000 BC and 5,500 BC.

Divers from oil companies have found remains of a 'drowned world' with a population of tens of thousands - which might once have been the 'real heartland' of Europe.

A team of climatologists, archaeologists and geophysicists has now mapped the area using new data from oil companies - and revealed the full extent of a 'lost land' once roamed by mammoths.

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Michelle Martin, 52, was jailed for complicity in the imprisonment and murder of the young victims of Belgian serial killer husband Marc Dutroux
Families of Dutroux's victims have branded the ruling by the Belgian court in Mons as 'an outrage'
Martin has been accepted at the Clarisses monastery in the city of Malonne - just 45 miles from the scene of her crimes
Psychiatrists have warned Martin could still present a danger to society

The 'remorseless' ex-wife of one of Europe's most reviled child killers is to be released from prison to spend the next ten years 'at prayer' in a convent.
Michelle Martin, 52, has served 16 years of 30-year jail term for complicity in the imprisonment and murder of the young victims of Belgian serial killer husband Marc Dutroux.
Families of Dutroux's victims have branded the ruling by the Belgian court in Mons as 'an outrage'.
Dutroux was arrested in 1996 and jailed for life in June 2004 for the kidnap, rape and torture of six young girls in the mid-1990s, four of whom died.Martin was also arrested in 1996 and later found guilty of helping Dutroux hold his victims prisoner.
She was also convicted of complicity in the death of two of the small girls, found starved to death in a cellar in the southern city of Charleroi.
The traumatic case is still fresh in the minds of many in Belgium, which is also reeling from a Catholic church child abuse scandal involving more than 500 victims.
Under Belgian law, convicts can appeal for early release after serving a third of their sentence.
Martin has repeatedly requested to be freed to live in a convent but until now nuns in France and Belgium had all refused to house her.
Now she has been accepted at the Clarisses monastery in the city of Malonne - just 45 miles from the scene of her crimes.
Horrified Jean-Denis Lejeune, father of Julie Lejeune, one of the two eight-year-olds found in Dutroux's cellar, said: 'No one has consulted us, and now she will be living as a virtually free woman just 60 kilometres away.
Legally we are powerless to do anything about this. The rights of the victims' families are being trampled all over by the law.'
The family of victim Eefje Lambrecks said they were strongly opposed to Martin's release because 'she had never voiced any sincere regrets'.
Psychiatrists have also warned officials that Martin could still present a danger to society, the Belgian media reported.
Martin must live under strict conditions while resident at the convent, including not attempting to contact any of the victims' families or friends, and not speaking to the media about her crimes.
She would only be allowed out of the confines of the convent under strict supervision of nuns and probation workers, officials said.
But in ten years time she will be eligible for full release into the community, the court ruled.
The Dutroux affair erupted in August, 1996, when police arrested the unemployed electrician following the abduction of 14-year-old girl Laetitia Delhez.
She was found alive two days later along with severely emaciated Sabine Dardenne, 12, in the basement of his house the Charleroi suburb of Marcinelle.
Then in August, 1998, the bodies of eight-year-olds Julie Lejeune and Melissa Russo were found buried in the garden of Dutroux's other home in the southern town of Sars La Buissiere.
A month later, the bodies of An Marchal and Eefje Lambrecks were found in another property owned by Dutroux.
Public anger increased when came to light that police had missed a string of clues that could have led to Dutroux being apprehended earlier.
It also emerged that he had been released from jail in 1992 after serving just three years of a 13-year sentence for the abduction and rape of five girls.
Nationwide fury boiled over and more than 300,000 people took to the streets of Brussels in October 1996 in a series of marches to protest at judicial incompetence.

At least 7 dead in Sikh temple shooting in Wisconsin, USA
BRENDAN O'BRIEN, REUTERS August 6, 2012 4:29am
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OAK CREEK, Wisconsin - A shooting during Sunday services at a Sikh temple left at least seven people dead, including a gunman, and at least three critically wounded, police and hospital officials said.

Four people were shot inside the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in suburban Milwaukee and three outside, including a gunman killed by a police officer, said Greenfield Police Chief Bradley Wentlandt.

"This is the best information we have, and this information may change," he told reporters outside the temple.

Smiran Kaleka, the niece of one of the wounded men, said an unknown number of gunmen walked into the kitchen of the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek about 10:30 a.m. CDT (1530 GMT) and started shooting. She said her mother had told her the shooters were white men.

Nalissa Wienke, a spokeswoman for Froedtert & Medical College Hospital, said three men had been brought in wounded and were in critical condition. One was in the operating room, she said.

The 20-year veteran officer who exchanged fire with the gunman was hit several times, Wentlandt said. He was taken to a hospital and is expected to survive.

Witnesses said hostages were being held inside the temple but police did not confirm this.

A man who said his father had been wounded in the incident reported that there had been multiple shooters of Caucasian descent, quoting people inside the temple. "It was a very coordinated thing," the man, identified as Amardeep Kaleka, told

police.

Police, ambulances and firefighters from Oak Creek and other localities were on the scene at the temple.

"How sick do you have to be to walk into a church and shoot it up?" said Smiran Kaleka.

The Sikh Temple of Wisconsin was founded in October 1997 with a community of 20 to 25 families, according to its website. It currently has 350 to 400 people in its congregation and has grown rapidly, the group says.

The congregation started in rental facilities in Milwaukee and established its first dedicated facility in 1999. It later bought 13 acres of land in Oak Creek and broke ground on the current temple in 2006.

Sikhism was founded in the 15th century in the Punjab, an area straddling the border between Pakistan and India, by Guru Nanak Dev and has had 10 successive gurus. The Punjab is the only area in the world with a majority Sikh population.

It is the fifth-largest organized religion in the world with more than 30 million followers. The Sikh place of worship is called a gurdwara and can be identified by tall flagpoles carrying the Sikh flag. The most revered site is the Golden Temple at Amritsar in India.

There are an estimated 250,000 to 500,000 Sikhs in the United States.

The Sikh faith includes belief in only one God and that the soul goes through cycles of rebirth and death before reaching human form. The goal of life is to lead an exemplary existence.

Sikhs who have made a public commitment to the faith by going through a special baptism are called members of the Khalsa. They adopt five symbols known as the Five Ks which include uncut hair and beard and a ceremonial dagger known as a kirpan. They also wear turbans.

In the United States, especially since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Sikhs have sometimes been confused publicly with Muslims, but they are not Muslim. In September 2001, an Arizona gas station owner, Balbir Singh Sodhi, was shot five times and killed by a man who was said to be seeking revenge on Muslims for the hijacked plane attacks on the United States.

Bhai Seeta Singh (Granthi/Gurdwara Priest)
Bhai Parkash Singh (Granthi/Gurdwara Priest)
Bhai Ranjit Singh (Raagee)
Satwant Singh Kaleka - President of the Gurdwara [father of Amardeep Kaleka]
Subegh Singh - Sangat member
Parmjit Kaur Toor - Sangat member

The following people are critically injured. Please pray for their recovery:

Bhai Punjab Singh - exteremly critical
Santokh Singh - He is in serious condition too

Current events just keep getting more and more bizarre to the point where it's almost too difficult to discern what is really going on. There are some ideas spinning around in my head about this:

1) The recent events of mass shootings and their "alternative media" interpretations. Note that the "alternative media" interpretation of events are supposedly coming to the "truth"
within hours of the event(s).

2) The possibility that American military black operations are conducting a mass media psychological operation to deceive the "alternative media" and put them way off course.

3) The implicit ET meme being injected into the culture to trigger a confused response.

4) Richard Dolan's concept of a "breakaway" civilization that may be hundreds or thousands of years beyond anything modern man could possibly recognize or comprehend. A civilization this advanced would be classified as a type 1 civilization moving into a type 2 or 3 civilization.

Cop critical after being shot nine times while trying to stop Sikh temple gunman

magine how advanced the social engineering is today?

Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department and Federal Reserve were blindsided and angered by the decision of a New York banking regulator to launch an explosive attack on Standard Chartered Plc over $250 billion in alleged money laundering transactions tied to Iran, sources familiar with the situation said.

By going it alone through the order he issued on Monday, the head of the recently created New York State Department of Financial Services, Benjamin Lawsky, also complicates talks between the Treasury and London-based Standard Chartered to settle claims over the transactions, several of the sources said.

His action, which included releasing embarrassing communications and details of the bank's alleged defiance of U.S. sanctions, is rewriting the playbook on how foreign banks settle cases involving the processing of shadowy funds tied to sanctioned countries. In the past, such cases have usually been settled through negotiated settlements with public shaming kept to a minimum.

In his order, Lawsky said the bank's dealings exposed the U.S. banking system to terrorists, drug traffickers and corrupt states.

But the upset expressed by some federal officials, who were given virtually no notice of the action, may provide ammunition for Standard Chartered to portray the allegations as coming from a relatively new and over-zealous regulator.

Given the content of the order, which described Standard Chartered as a "rogue institution" that "schemed" with the Iranian government and hid from law enforcement officials some 60,000 secret transactions over nearly 10 years, the bank may need to come up with a strong defense.

Lawsky did not respond to several requests for comment on Tuesday.

Embassy sparked own bomb scare

July 31, 2012

UPDATED: An almost eerie quiet descended on the area around the US Embassy in Oslo on Tuesday, as police dealt with what they feared was a bomb found under a nearby car. Now there may be some noise, after police indicated the bomb scare was sparked by the embassy itself.

Police blocked off all streets around the US Embassy. It's located across the street from the park around the Royal Palace and the Norwegian Nobel Institute.

A major emergency response to the bomb scare halted traffic in the middle of the day and forced local evacuations. Police cordoned off a wide area around the embassy and the adjacent Royal Palace after a “suspicious object” they feared was an explosive device was found under a nearby parked car.

Around two hours later, just before 1:30pm, police could call off the major operation they’d mounted after reporting that the “suspicious object” was not dangerous after all. Police operations leader Martin Todnem had confirmed earlier that a bomb squad was on the scene.

Johan Fredriksen of the Oslo Police District could later report that the object was a “practice bomb” used in drills that embassy staff apparently had forgotten to remove from one of their own vehicles. Fredriksen told Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) that unwitting embassy guards had reacted correctly to the object “and done a good job,” but the entire disruptive emergency operation “could have been avoided.”

Members of the king’s guards on duty at the Royal Palace just across the street from the embassy had already aided in the evacuation of a large, otherwise heavily trafficked area around the embassy. Normally busy streets from Bygdøy allé in the west to Stortingsgata in the east were cordoned off, as were Parkveien, Inkognito gate, Cort Adelers gate and several side streets leading down from the embassy.

Heavily armed police in protective gear were placed on all streets near the embassy, like here at the corner of Henrik Ibsens gate and Inkognito gate, while an area extending for 500 meters from the chancellery was evacuated.

Reporters were initially allowed to stand around a block away from the embassy but suddenly were pushed further up Henrik Ibsens gate, the major thoroughfare on which the embassy is located, towards Solli plass. Meanwhile, traffic backed up on both ends of Henrik Ibsens gate, not least after all bus and tram service along the street was halted.

Several ambulances were called out in case of an explosion and waited along with fire trucks and other emergency vehicles outside the cordoned-off area, also along Karl Johans gate. Heavily armed police wearing protective gear were placed on streets all around the embassy.

Details about the “suspicious object” were initially sketchy and some police claimed they didn’t even know where the vehicle under which it was placed was parked. NRK reported later that the object was “made up of components that are not dangerous but meant to resemble a bomb,” according to Fredriksen. The so-called “practice bomb” was attached to a car that “had been used for an internal exercise at the embassy,” Fredriksen said, and the object hadn’t been removed.

City officials were not pleased by the incident that caused major disruption in the capital. The bomb scare also came just over a year after a massive bomb exploded outside Norway’s government headquarters on the other side of the city center, killing eight persons and causing massive damage. The US Embassy, which is under constant guard, has been considered a major target for terrorists for years. A lengthy process of relocating the embassy for security reasons began nearly a decade ago and construction got underway earlier this year.

Police re-opened the area and traffic had resumed by 2pm.

Police probe new threat from Breivik supporter

August 14, 2012

Norway’s police intelligence unit PST is investigating who’s behind an e-mail sent to several Norwegian politicians and journalists on Monday. The writer, who claims to be part of Breivik’s alleged Knights Templar network, threatens to liquidate Norwegian leaders if Breivik isn’t acquitted.

The writer claims Breivik, who has confessed to carrying out last year’s terrorist attacks that killed 77 persons, sacrificed his own life in his battle against multi-culturalism. The writer claimed that members of Knights Templar won’t accept a verdict that would “ignore” Breivik by determining that he’s insane. The writer therefore demanded an acquittal of “our commander.”

While some terror experts doubted the e-mail’s legitimacy, PST “views this letter as a threat,” Anne Karoline Bakken Staff of PST told Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK). “We’re taking it very seriously, and we’re investigating it.”

The letter was sent the same day as the release of a report by the government-appointed July 22 Commission, which harshly criticized the emergency response to Breivik’s attacks.