From counterculture to cyberculture: the life and times of Stewart Brand -

Fred Turner's book looks at the influence Bucky Fuller had on a range of people, in particular Stewart Brand, who helped create first the hippie counterculture and the back to the land movement of the sixties and seventies, then later the cyberculture that grew up around the San Francisco bay area.

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Hmmmm. Due to a "technical glitch" Funny how often that happens now.

BBC

Trading on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) has been brought to a halt by technical difficulties.

The LSE said it had been affected by connectivity issues and at 1033 GMT had placed all orders for shares into an "auction call period". This allows traders to put orders to buy or sell shares into the system but without executing them. The LSE said it was looking into the problem but did not know how long it would take to resolve.

 Then we must wonder exactly what other events are transpiring, right? Oh this looks interesting...

 Shares in London Stock Exchange Group (LSE) were under pressure today amid fears that the state-owned Borse Dubai could sell its 22 per cent stake in the FTSE 100 company.

Concern was sparked after Dubai said yesterday that two of its flagship groups planned to delay repayments on billions of dollars of debt as part of a restructuring. The FTSE 100 dropped 99.84 points to 5,264.97.

And a year ago:

LINK

September 9, 2008

It should have been a great day on the London Stock Exchange. The U.S. government had announced on the Sunday before that it was coming to the rescue of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Trading would have been extremely brisk, but then, at 9:15 AM GMT, the Exchange's software failed due to "connectivity issues." Six-hours and 45-minutes later, the London Exchange, along with the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, which uses the LSE's trading platform TradElec, were finally back up.

That was no consolation to traders. As Reuters reported, "We have the biggest takeover in the history of the known world ... and then we can't trade. It's terrible," one trader said.

 A glitch in the Matrix, sure. We buy that, right?

*edit*

Yeah, so it certainly looks like this story has serious legs. Being talked about on MSM, front page of Drudge, and they are admitting these emails are genuine. Bumping this info for whomever finds our quiet little corner of the intarwebz.

LINK TO THE EMAILS

*end*

Well I always felt like I had to differ with the likes of Alex Jones when it came to global warming/climate change. I mean, all the evidence is out there, right? I've been hearing since the 80s how we are ruining the earth, (which I think we are, but that's a side issue) and how all this nasty CO2 is just killing the planet. The debate is much too big to go into here, but the way I see, it's a grey area. Meaning, you don't have to be black or white on the issue. You don't have to polarize and say "It's the sun that causes change." or, "It's all because of man made emissions.." It's likely a mixture of both, but with the solar portion likely being WAY more of a driving factor. The planet had quite a rich CO2 atmosphere millions of years ago, there were hordes of vegetarian dinosaurs lumbering around eating all the mass of plantlife that existed.

Anyway, my opinion might really be set to sway if all this crapload of emails becomes verified. This could be major news. Right now I remain skeptical, but posting here anyway because I think it at least deserves a look.

Also don't forget the Al Gore Photoshop

Examiner.com

The University of East Anglia's Hadley Climatic Research Centre appears to have suffered a security breach earlier today, when an unknown hacker apparently downloaded 1079 e-mails and 72 documents of various types and published them to an anonymous FTP server. These files appear to contain highly sensitive information that, if genuine, could prove extremely embarrassing to the authors of the e-mails involved. Those authors include some of the most celebrated names among proponents of the theory of anthropogenic global warming (AGW).

The FTP link first appeared on a blog called The Air Vent. The blog's owner, identified as "Jeff Id", downloaded the file, examined it, and posted a brief summary on his blog. Another commenter, identified as "Steven Mosher," passed the information on to Steven McIntyre's Climate Audit blog and to another blog, The Blackboard, run by a blogger identified as "Lucia." Most recently, blogger Anthony Watts, who runs a blog titled "Watts Up With That?" mentioned the FTP archive in his own blog.

Commentary on all the blogs involved has been brisk, except, oddly enough, at The Air Vent, where only seven comments have been received.

The FTP server is in a Russian domain and uses the anonymous FTP protocol, which does not require a pre-registered user account or password for downloading. The file is named FOI2009.zip, an apparent reference to US Public Law 89-554, 80 Stat. 383, the Freedom of Information Act.

 And now for some excerpts:

From: Phil Jones
To: Gil Campo
Subject: Re: Twentieth Century Reanalysis preliminary version 2 data – One other thing!
Date: Tue Nov 10 12:40:26 2009

Gil,
One other good plot to do is this. Plot land minus ocean. as a time series. This should stay relatively close until the 1970s. Then the land should start moving away from the ocean

One final thing – don’t worry too much about the 1940-60 period, as I think we’ll be changing the SSTs there for 1945-60 and with more digitized data for 1940-45.

Cheers
Phil

------------------------------------------------------------

From: Phil Jones
To: “Michael E. Mann”
Subject: IPCC & FOI
Date: Thu May 29 11:04:11 2008

Mike,

Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re AR4?
Keith will do likewise. He’s not in at the moment – minor family crisis.
Can you also email Gene and get him to do the same? I don’t
have his new email address.
We will be getting Caspar to do likewise.
I see that CA claim they discovered the 1945 problem in the Nature paper!!
Cheers
Phil

Prof. Phil Jones
Climatic Research Unit Telephone +44 (0) 1603 592090
School of Environmental Sciences Fax +44 (0) 1603 507784
University of East Anglia
Norwich Email p.jones@uea.ac.uk
NR4 7TJ
UK

From Recombinomics:

RBD D225G in China and Australia Raise Ukraine Concerns
Recombinomics Commentary 14:41
November 18, 2009

The recent outbreak in Ukraine has raised concern that receptor binding domain changes are responsible.  Although WHO has issued a new Ukraine situation update and has addressed preliminary changes in a news conference, they have not rule out receptor binding domain changes, and the recent announcement of investigations by two WHO Regional Centers (NIMR in Mill Hill, UK and CDC in Atlanta GA) suggests single nucleotide changes are under investigation.

The recent activity in Ukraine raises concerns that similar changes are in play there, and the failure of WHO to release the sequences or comment on receptor binding domain changes significantly increases these concerns.

I feel like I should be adding something more to this story than just reposting stuff I am finding on the net, but there's just so much information out there already. The only thing that keeps coming to my mind is how the USA will react when this shows up in the states... Remember, the puppetmasters are practically salivating over ANY excuse to divert attention from the full scale looting. My .02

There's also this:

The WHO says everything is just a normal swine flu....

Here's a quick timeline of events so far:

Plague infested mice missing in Februrary

Plague vaccine patent filed in August  (and an article discussing it)

A interesting portion of the patent is this part:

"Mab 7.3 was administered −4 hours, +24 hours, +48 hours, or +96 hours relative to s.c. Y. pestis challenge. Protection was observed when antibody was given up to 48 hours post-infection. Also, a delayed time to death was observed in the +96 hours treatment group. One of +96 hours treatment group had died prior to antibody administration and the remainder displayed signs of plague indistinguishable from untreated control animals, suggesting that even when symptoms of plague are apparent antibody therapy can delay death. Mice were treated with Mab 7.3 at −4 hours, +24 hours, +48 hours or +60 hours relative to aerosol infection. Protection was seen in groups that received antibody 24 hours and 48 hours after challenge. All mice treated at +60 hours died, but a statistically significant delay in the TTD was observed, compared with untreated animals."

And then of course we have the Moshe link and the outbreak in November.

LINK TO MUST READ ARTICLE ABOUT THE FACTS (ZEROHEDGE)

The patent references "an antibody specific for Yersinia pestis F1-antigen, or a binding fragment thereof"

Wikipedia link to Yersinia

Human Y. pestis infection takes three main forms: pneumonic, septicemic, and the notorious bubonicplagues.^[1] All three forms have been responsible for high mortality rates in epidemics throughout human history, including the Black Death (a bubonic plague) that accounted for the death of at least one-third of the European population in 1347 to 1353.

I don't know about you guys, but the more I read on this Moshe guy, and the events unfolding before our very eyes, the more freaked out I get. There's just way too many coincidences for me to ignore. I would try to make a massive thread linking all the data points I have in my head but it would just be a herculean effort. You have the NWO stating that this kind of thing would be the exact plan. Dominos are falling. Keep your eyes peeled everyone.

  “Services & Global Procurement pan IOT Europe, Pandemic Plan Overview,”an official inter-departmental document was distributed to upper-level management of IBM, France in 2006. Disclosed in this secret document was the prediction of a “planned” pandemic described as having a “100% chance of occurring within the next 5 years.”

The document also describes “quarantines”and operational procedures to be taken upon the official announcements of the “pandemic”by the World Health Organization. The foreknowledge of such an event could not exist, unless the pandemic was a planned event.

Certainly, this document is the “smoking gun” which demonstrates the current bird/swine flu “pandemic”is an orchestrated event leading to mass vaccinations sponsored by the WHO and UN.

This single document definitively proves there is international, corporate collusion behind the “bird/swine flu pandemic”and the intentional plan to create disease on a worldwide scale.

Health Freedom Alliance

 Click the link to see the original scanned documents.

Well this is floating around the intarwebs, more developments on what is happening in the Ukraine. Now we're hearing about yet another strain of a possibly 100% deadly virus, if this google translation is to be believed. Guess what, as expected flu vaccines would do NOTHING for a virus of this nature, or even a mutated H1N1. 

*translation*

"During the bilateral pneumonia monitor specific morphological picture. Regarding these deaths, there is no such morphological picture. The virus, which causes death, is very aggressive, he did not strike the trachea, and immediately gets into the lungs and causes strong swelling and continuous hemorrhage. Causes such a state of mixed types of parainfluenza and influenza A/N1N1. This is a very toxic strain, which has not yet been worked out by the Ministry of Health method of treatment ", - said Victor Bachinsky.

According to him, an urgent need to change the treatment standards, because those used so far, the results have not given - in intensive care unable to save all people infected with the virus. Not justified in this situation and ALV apparatus - the death rate of people attacked in 100%.

Victor Bachinsky, part of the initiators of the treatment group, notes that the virus is extremely toxic, it is able to penetrate not only through inhalation but also through the eye membrane. Therefore Chernovtsy scientists recommend in any case not to give up the masks and the period of the epidemic even wearing goggles. An important condition to prevent deterioration of the situation is also the observance of quarantine regime.