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EARTHFILES: Mystery in Red Rain Cells

 EARTHFILES.COM

Fluorescence Mystery in Red Rain Cells of Kerala, India. 
Click for report.   “ ...Organisms replicating at 300 degrees Celsius and showing this kind of autofluorescence are currently
unknown to exist on earth, which is again an indication supporting the view that these cells are possibly extraterrestrial.” 
- Godfrey Louis, Ph.D., Physics, Cochin University, Kerala, India   August 2007, red and white cells collected from red rain that fell for a third time on the state of Kerala, India. BELOW: AN AUDIO SHARE FILE  WITH LINDA HOWE ON COAST TO COAST as she filed this report. Gandalfhttp://cid-bd838dd923c11aa0.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Red%20Rain%20Cells%20of%20Kerala,%20India

http://www.earthfiles.com/

ENGINEERING: Solar for Less
Jake Yeston

The Sun provides far more energy to Earth each day than the worldwide population currently uses, but directing this energy toward a more useful purpose than heating the ground is a considerable challenge. Though siliconbased cells can effectively convert absorbed light into electricity, the costs associated with isolating and purifying the silicon toward this end remain substantially higher than those associated with fossil fuel-based processes for electricity generation. Wadia et al. have analyzed the relative costs and efficiencies of a wide range of alternative materials for eventual use in solar cells. Specifically, they examined 21 metal oxides, sulfides, selenides, and sundry other inorganic semiconductors in comparison with crystalline and amorphous silicon. Their model considered overall electricity consumption, and so evaluated power-conversion efficiencies of individual cells in the context of comparative fabrication costs for multiple cells. Iron pyrite emerged as an especially favorable option on the basis of its abundance and low extraction cost, with Zn3P2 and copper oxides also showing potential for economical efficiency. -- JSY

Environ. Sci. Technol. 43, 10.1021/es8019534 (2009).

Information Clearing House: CIA EXPOSED

Exposed : Secret CIA Base For Drone Raids

Google Earth Reveals Secret History of US Base In Pakistan

By Jeremy Page

The US was secretly flying unmanned drones from the Shamsi airbase in Pakistan's southwestern province of Baluchistan as early as 2006, according to an image of the base from Google Earth.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22035.htm
 

 

CIA chief says Al-Qaeda disrupted, defends drones

AFP - ‎2 hours ago‎
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - CIA director Leon Panetta defended the use of unmanned aircraft to target Al-Qaeda militants on Monday and said President Barack Obama's policies had severely disrupted the network's leadership.

 

Obama exempts CIA 'torture' staff

US President Barack Obama says CIA agents who used harsh interrogation techniques on terrorism suspects during the Bush era will not be prosecuted.

Amnesty International said the Department of Justice appeared to be offering a "get-out-of-jail-free card" to individuals who were involved in acts of torture.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8003537.stm

Hear how the CIA murders by deception

http://cid-bd838dd923c11aa0.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/CIA%20folders/CIA%20%7C4amnesty%7C4.mp3

 Spain court mulls US torture case

 Some inmates were subjected to controversial interrogation techniques


Spanish judges have agreed to consider charging six former US officials with providing legal justification for alleged torture at Guantanamo Bay. Human rights lawyers brought the case against the six, who all served under former President George W. Bush.

Among those named was former defence official Douglas Feith, who said the charges against him "made no sense".

Spanish courts can prosecute offences such as torture or war crimes even if they occurred in other countries.

The former officials - who include ex-Attorney-General Alberto Gonzalez - could face arrest on leaving the US if the courts decide to issue warrants.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7970425.stm

UPDATE:  Spanish courts have declined to persue this case.

The West Should Feel Shame Over its Collusion with Torturers

I want to know why those complicit in Almalki's ordeal are not tried in court

By Robert Fisk

". . . the Syrians quite recently complained mightily to the Americans as well as the Canadians. First, the West sent its prisoners to be tortured in Damascus - and then complained that Syria abused human rights! "
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22236.htm

Report claims CIA used 'torture'

CIA interrogation techniques used on al-Qaeda suspects "constituted torture", according to a leaked report by the international Red Cross.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. File photo (1 March 2003)
I was told that they would not allow me to die but
that I would be brought to the 'verge of death and back again'
khalid Sheikh Mohammed

MI5 telegrams 'fed interrogation'

 

A UK resident detained at Guantanamo Bay has released alleged MI5 memos which he claims show government collusion in his interrogation.  Ethiopian-born Binyam Mohamed, 30, told the Mail on Sunday they were sent to the CIA in November 2002, at a time he said he was being tortured in Morocco. His claims of British collusion are being investigated by the government.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7930708.stm

CIA destroyed 92 interview tapes

The Central intelligence Agency (CIA) has destroyed 92 tapes of interviews conducted with terror suspects, a US government lawyer has admitted.

The agency had previously said that it had destroyed only two tapes.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7919579.stm

Ridge: We were wrong to torture

 America's first homeland security secretary has accepted some criticisms of the US "war on terror" made in a recent report by legal experts.

The report the International Commission of Jurists said anti-terror measures worldwide had seriously undermined international human rights law.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7903516.stm

 

Tim Cole's Case...ADIOS MOFOS

 
  • Feb 12, 2009 ... Family of Timothy Cole meets with former prosecutor ... Cole's mother and two brothers met with Judge Jim Bob Darnell at the Lubbock County ...
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  • DNA Suggests Texas Man Was Innocent Of 1986 Rape - cbs11tv.com  

    DNA evidence suggests that Tim Cole, who died while serving a 25 year prison ... those kinds of same mistakes in the future," said District Judge Jim Bob Darnell. ... Meet The "Survivor: Tocantins" Cast · Meet America's New First Family ...
    cbs11tv.com/local/Tim.Cole.DNA.2.761614.html?detectflash=false - 59k - Cached - Similar pages
     DEEP DOWN IN MY BLOG YOU WILL FIND MY WARNING GIVEN TO THOSE IN POWER HERE.  I WILL REPEAT THAT MESSAGE NOW FOR THE TIME HAS COME!
          from scripture it has been written        
    "BECAUSE OF YOUR ARROGANCE I WILL PUT A MUZZLE IN YOUR MOUTH, A RING IN YOUR NOSE AND TURN YOU BACK DOWN THE ROAD FROM WHICH YOU CAME."
  •       TODAY'S MESSENGERS  
                       GANDALF 
  • JUDGE BLACKBURN ON TIM COLE'S CASE
    "I've been doing this for more than 30 years and this is the saddest case that I've ever seen," Baird said, praising Cole's integrity for refusing to claim he did the crime so he could receive a lesser sentence. "I'm so sorry that the powers that be in Lubbock, Texas, do not have one ounce of that integrity."
  • Blackburn saved his harshest words for after the hearing, and for Judge Jim Bob Darnell, who prosecuted the case in 1986. Residents had been duped into believing in an infallible system they could not question, he said.
    "I hope this case begins to open their eyes to just how corrupt and wrong and unlawful this whole system is," Blackburn said. "They should be ashamed of Judge Darnell, who should not be allowed to go to that courthouse. We deserve people with integrity on the bench instead of cowards."
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    Complaint Filed By Kevin Overstreet  

    FBI INVESTAGATION OF CITY ON GOING

      He's been stripped of some major job duties, called on the carpet publicly before City Council and he says some of his superiors have it in for him. So why would Animal Services Director Kevin Overstreet want to keep working for the city? VIDEO:

     http://www.myfoxlubbock.com/myfox/pages/News/Local?pageId=3.2

     US judges admit taking kickbacks

  • Two US judges charged with taking more than $2m in kickbacks from a privately-run detention centre have pleaded guilty to fraud. ...Prosecutors say Judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan took the money in return for giving young offenders long sentences to serve in the centre. ... Campaigners have complained that Mr Ciavarella gave out overly harsh sentences for minor offenses. ...  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7887502.stm
  • Tulia revisited by PBS

  • Be looking for the movie TULIA in production now, with Hallie Berry and read more about it all in my Bog on "Injustice on the High Plains"   Gandalf

  • For the past four years, there's been a story unfolding in West Texas that you may not have heard much about. It's a story that involves the war against drug abuse, an abuse of power, and the power of the press and it's taking place in the tiny town of Tulia. Follow the case through the timeline below. http://www.pbs.org/now/society/tuliatimeline.html

     

  • INJUSTICE ON THE HIGH PLAINS EXPOSED

  •     THE TIM COLE CASE  
  • The Lubbock DA, LPD, DEA, LSO and the Task Force in 1988 framed me and falsely arrested me 3 times, destroyed my family and business and tried to hold me on a one million dollar bond. I have suffered much as Mr. Cole and there has been no effort on their part to correct the wrong done to me. They only covered it up and destroyed the records I need to prove their criminality. The District Attorneys office refuses to return to me the property that they stole, including the evidence that I had in my possession that would prove that they made a practice of persecuting the innocent; in fact Matt Powell has done nothing to clear my name or help me in any way.  Lubbock, fire your District Attorney!    THAT OFFICE TRIED TO DO TO ME WHAT THEY DID TO MR. COLE.

  • Like the Rolling Stones "I Can't Get No Satisfaction".

  • Gandalf

  • AUSTIN - A district judge Friday declared the record of a man wrongfully convicted in Lubbock more than 20 years ago clean and cleared, delivering legal salve to a family long-tormented by their eldest son's sentence and later death in prison.

  • But questions remained just hours after the ruling on how the order marking the state's first posthumous exoneration could stand.


    News 8 Austin
    Texas House, Senate will honor memory of DNA exoneree
    Axis of Logic, MA - 10 hours ago
    Robert Duncan (R-Lubbock) in the Texas Senate have proposed resolutions for consideration this morning that "pay special tribute" to Tim Cole and expressing ...
    Cole cleared of '85 rape LubbockOnline.com
    Witness points to police slip-ups Austin American-Statesman
    Family Of Man Cleared By DNA Still Seeks Justice NPR
    Houston Chronicle - LubbockOnline.com
    all 490 news articles »
    After Cole cleared, family fights on
    LubbockOnline.com, TX - 18 hours ago
    His children laid flowers at the grave of their uncle, Tim Cole, whom they never met. Cole died in prison in 1999 serving a 25-year sentence for a Lubbock ...
    Tim Cole, convicted of rape of Texas Tech student in 1985, died in ...
    Houston Chronicle, United States - Feb 1, 2009
    By BETSY BLANEY AP LUBBOCK — For Tim Cole’s family, a return to a courtroom this week renews hope they’ve clung to since he was convicted of rape more than ...
    Hearing Could Exonerate Dead Texas Inmate KWTX
    Seeking justice for convict who died in prison Austin American-Statesman
    all 241 news articles »
    Judge expected to rule in first-of-its-kind DNA hearing
    Texas Cable News, TX - Feb 6, 2009
    Now, DNA evidence and a confession from Johnson indicate Cole was innocent. A Lubbock County judge refused to reopen the case, so the Innocence Project, ...
    Even in death, Cole deserves justice
    Austin American-Statesman, TX - Feb 3, 2009
    Even the victim who testified that it was Cole who raped her now believes he was innocent of the crime. None of the other victims in a string of Lubbock ...
    Texan who died in prison cleared of rape conviction - CNN.com  A Texas district court judge Friday reversed the conviction of a man who died in prison nearly a decade ago, almost two decades into a prison sentence for a ...
    www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/06/texas.exoneration/index.html?eref=time_us - Similar pages

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