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#24982785 at 2026-08-28 19:45:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #30502: Golden Pegasus and International Redhead Day Edition
>>24982784
Cernan said: 'I'm looking at what - what Jack was talking about; and it's definitely not a particle that's nearby because there is another one I can look at and get a three-dimensional comparison with.'
'It is a bright object, and it's obviously rotating because it's flashing. It's way out in the distance, as I say, because there are particles that are close by and it's obviously not one of those,' the astronaut described.
'It's apparently rotating in a very rhythmic fashion because the flashes come around almost - almost on time. And as we look back at the Earth, it's up at about 11:00 about - oh, maybe 10 or 12 Earth diameters. I don't know whether that does you any good, but there is something out there.'
During the lunar landing, which was the last time humans stepped on the moon's surface, the crew of Apollo 17 also reported seeing multiple small objects moving near the spacecraft during their flight.
'Now we've got a few very bright particles or fragments or something that go drifting by as we maneuver,' Evans told the command center on Earth.
'Roger. Understand,' the center replied. 'There's a whole [bunch] of big ones on my window down there - just bright. It looks like the Fourth of July out of Ron's window,' Schmitt added.
Evans reported: 'Yes. Now you can see some of them in shape. They're very jagged, angular fragments that are tumbling.'
The astronauts revealed that right after they fired their thrusters to change direction, the crew began to see the bright particles and jagged, angular fragments drifting past the windows.
Jack says it looks like the 'Fourth of July' out Evans' window, with big bright pieces tumbling slowly around the capsule.
The astronauts were also recorded describing the strange objects as pieces of something solid, not fluid, very bright, and mostly moving with the spacecraft but with occasional faster ones zipping by. Evans reported taking pictures of them.
Three years earlier, the Apollo 12 moon mission also reported strange sightings as they neared the lunar surface.
The Trump administration's third batch of UFO files, released on June 12, included recorded NASA briefings after Apollo 16, which referred to an 'alien starbase' on the dark side of the moon.
The comments were not included in the official transcript from the 1972 mission.
Apollo 16 flew from April 16 to April 27, 1972, and saw astronauts John Young and Charles Duke become the first humans to explore the moon's rugged highlands while Thomas 'Ken' Mattingly remained in lunar orbit.
Buried within the 55-minute discussion is a brief exchange about unusual gravity readings, laser measurements and unexplained anomalies detected on the moon's far side.
The speakers focus on what one participant describes as a 'great big hole' near the Van de Graaff crater, a distinctive lunar formation known for unusual magnetic and geochemical characteristics.
'On the backside of the moon around Fendi graph, that's where we get our big hole,' one speaker says.
The discussion then takes an unexpected turn.
'It could be an alien star base or something. Anyway, the next slide shows the front side of the moon.'
The remark appears amid a broader technical discussion of lunar data and anomalies, although the context of the comment remains unclear from the audio alone.
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#24715870 at 2026-06-14 15:21:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #30171: WH250 / PDJT80 Edition
NASA briefing on Moon's 'alien starbase' revealed in UFO files
14 Jun 2026
The Donald Trump administration has released numerous files about reported UFO sightings as well as bizarre claims and reports about the surface of the Moon
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NASA briefings mention an apparent "alien star base" on the Moon, the latest trove of UFO files has revealed.
Audio from a previously classified NASA meeting following the Apollo 16 mission in the 1970s was released as part of the third dump of UFO files on Friday. The Apollo 16 mission flew around the Moon from April 16 to April 27, 1972.
Astronauts John Young and Charles Duke were the first humans to explore the Moon's highland region as Thomas "Ken" Mattingly remained in orbit around the lunar rock. In the 55-minute audio, teams discussed gravity, laser measurements as well as abnormalities found during the exploration.
But nestled in the audio is a discussion about a "great big hole" close to the Van de Graaff crater, an area known for unusual features. One speaker said: "In the backside of the moon around Fendi graph, that's where we get our big hole."
Just moments later, a bizarre suggestion was made. The speaker continued: "It could be an alien star base or something. Anyway, the next slide shows the front side of the moon."
The comment was said extremely casually and after there had been some laughter following a comment about the "big hole."
Friday's document dump involved some 72 files collected from the FBI, CIA and Pentagon that includes video, testimony as well as artistic interpretations of objects described.
Some files date to as far back as the 1940s and cover other countries in addition to the US. President Donald Trump released the first two batches on May 8 and May 22, respectively.
Previous files refer to bizarre sightings of orbs in some areas of the US. One redacted file made mention of two people who saw a bright light in their back garden one evening.
The report of one person's account "described the red colour as being brilliant and beautiful, and ?that [redacted] had never seen anything that colour of red before." It added the red sphere was about 3ft wide and contained a "white plasma sun" about the size of a basketball in its centre.
The pair then reported seeing numerous white orbs some weeks later that flew over the house at a higher altitude. Another suspected UFO sighting was also said to have been recorded at Zimbabwe's Harare International Airport in July 2008.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/nasa-briefing-moons-alien-starbase-37293495
https://x.com/UAPLuigi/status/2065537946347044889
#24185970 at 2026-01-28 16:08:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #29473: GM Humpday Halfers: Competition Not Fraud Edition
>>24185968
The Personal Egress Air Packs (PEAPs) for the pilot, Mike Smith, were activated, probably by Judy Resnik or Ellison Onizuka. "Scobee and Smith were test pilots and reacted as they had been trained," wrote Mullane.
"They had faced countless serious emergencies in their flying careers. They knew the situation was perilous, but they were in a cockpit with a control stick, and there was a runway only twenty miles away. They believed they had a chance."
The cockpit, however, was electrically dead. No amount of button mashing or switch flicking could restore control to the blossoming cloud of debris that Challenger had become.
The crew members on the upper deck had window views of the disaster as the cockpit tumbled over its arc.
The three on the mid-deck - Ronald McNair, Christa McAuliffe, and Gregory Jarvis - were in a darkened, tumbling room, with no communication to inform them of events.
Investigators were not able to conclusively state that the crew was unconscious by the time the cockpit hit the ocean surface. At 207 mph and with a deceleration force of more than 200 g, it wasn't survivable.
Unlike Mullane, former Apollo astronaut and chief of the Astronaut Office John Young reckoned that even with the activation of the PEAPs, the crew had only a few seconds of useful consciousness.
Enough time to flick some switches, but not much more. He noted in his book Forever Young that the "PEAPs supplied only unpressurized air that was not all that helpful at the altitude of the breakup."
The managerial and cultural factors behind the disaster are equally well documented. The Rogers Commission stated: "The decision to launch the Challenger was flawed.
Those who made that decision were unaware of the recent history of problems concerning the O-rings and the joint and were unaware of the initial written recommendation of the contractor advising against the launch at temperatures below 53 degrees Fahrenheit and the continuing opposition of the engineers at Thiokol after the management reversed its position.
"They did not have a clear understanding of Rockwell's concern that it was not safe to launch because of ice on the pad. If the decision-makers had known all of the facts, it is highly unlikely that they would have decided to launch 51-L on January 28, 1986."
As John Young put it later, after summarizing the concerns of the Thiokol engineers, worries about the erosion noted on the O-rings, and the decision-making process that led to the launch: "We astronauts would have thought differently."
The Challenger disaster reverberated through NASA in the years after, though not always loudly enough to prevent the loss of Space Shuttle Columbia.
In the chapter "Echoes of Challenger" in their book Comm Check..., Michael Cabbage and William Harwood presented parallels between the last flights of Challenger and Columbia, as presented to the Columbia Accident Investigation Board [PDF].
Has NASA learned from the tragedies? It appears so, judging by the recent Starliner debacle, where caution and safety appeared to win the day in the decision to return the Boeing astronauts in a SpaceX capsule rather than risk a trip in Boeing's CST-100.
However, there is also an argument that the astronauts should never have launched in the first place, considering the faults that were stacking up on the ground.
Today's anniversary is an important reminder for engineers to speak out when something doesn't look right, and for managers to listen.
Further reading
There are many sources of information regarding the Challenger disaster. This article drew on Mike Mullane's Riding Rockets and John Young's Forever Young.
The Rogers Commission report is also an invaluable source, as are Charles Perrow's Normal Accidents and David Harland and Ralph Lorenz's Space System Failures.
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#23970029 at 2025-12-11 17:54:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #29208: Light Will Defeat Darkness. 17 Delta Day Edition
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/sixty-years-ago-when-instruments-were-played-in-space-for-the-first-time-it-was-jingle-bells-all-the-way-180987851/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkJL1lmhj8Q
Sixty Years Ago, When Instruments Were Played in Space for the First Time, It Was 'Jingle Bells' All the Way
December 11, 2025 10:28 a.m.
On December 15, 1965, NASA's mission control watched as four astronauts attempted the first-ever rendezvous between two spacecraft, Gemini 6-A and Gemini 7.
The astronauts had to delicately maneuver their individual spacecraft, both hurtling through space, and match orbits. Gemini 6-A carried astronauts Tom Stafford and Wally Schirra, and Gemini 7 carried Frank Borman and Jim Lovell.
Eventually, the two crafts finally matched orbit and circled one another for five hours.
As mission control celebrated in Houston, Gemini 6-A astronauts and Naval Academy graduates Stafford and Schirra held a sign in the window of their craft reading "Beat Army," meant for West Point alum and Gemini 7 astronaut Borman.
Borman was not the only target of Stafford and Schirra's jocular antics. The very next day, just before they re-entered Earth's atmosphere, the pair set their sights on pranking mission control.
"We have an object, looks like a satellite going from north to south, up in a polar orbit. ... It's very low; it looks like he might be going to re-enter pretty soon," Stafford said over radio transmission, according to NASA's audio, implying he had seen a Santa Claus-piloted UFO.
"Stand by, One. It looks like he's trying to signal something."
Schirra and Stafford then serenaded mission control with a brief instrumental performance of "Jingle Bells," using a small harmonica and sleigh bells.
"You're too much," responded capsule communicator Elliot See in Houston after the prank. In 1967, Stafford and Schirra donated their instruments to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, where they reside today.
The performance was Schirra's idea, Stafford told Smithsonian magazine's Owen Edwards in 2005. Stafford and Schirra practiced the song a few times before takeoff, making sure not to tell mission control about their plans.
They brought their instruments up into space along with the rest of their personal items and kept them secure to the walls of their spacecraft using dental floss and Velcro.
"It's not the best rendition of 'Jingle Bells' ever, but it was actually pretty good considering they had limited instrumentation," says Emily Margolis, curator of contemporary spaceflight at the National Air and Space Museum.
Project Gemini featured many firsts: the first American spacewalk, the first rendezvous between two crewed spacecraft and the first astronauts to spend eight days in space (Gordon Cooper and Pete Conrad of Gemini 5).
Gemini was designed as the "Bridge to the Moon," connecting the preceding Mercury program, which was the United States' first human spaceflight program, and Apollo, which would put a man on the moon.
According to Margolis, the Gemini program had to prove that NASA could safely send more people to space for longer periods of time, execute complicated spacecraft maneuvers and demonstrate a spacewalk.
Achieving all this meant that NASA could eventually send people to the moon.
"I think Project Gemini is often overlooked, because it's not as exciting as going to the moon," says Margolis. "So, I'm glad to see Gemini getting some love and attention."
While making history, Gemini's astronauts found ways to entertain themselves. On Gemini 3, astronaut John Young hid a corned beef sandwich in his spacesuit and brought it up into space for Gemini's first crewed mission.
It was the "Jingle Bells" jokester Schirra who ordered the sandwich and brought it to Young. Schirra, the only astronaut who flew in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs, was well known for practical jokes.
Once, he left an enormous fake urine sample on the desk of astronaut nurse Dee O'Hara.
But this culture of practical jokes was not unique to the Gemini mission-and it certainly was not unique to Schirra, even if he was a frequent prankster. Canadian astronaut and author Chris Hadfield says they happen "all the time."
"We're people who have done well in our careers and were highly trained, and we're living a life of service, which means we're willing to die on other people's behalf," says Hadfield, who was the first Canadian commander of the International Space Station (ISS).
"But we're just a bunch of people in a remote place, and there are pranks."
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#23467839 at 2025-08-15 20:53:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28596: President Trump Meets With President Putin Edition
>>23467790
Recalibrating. You MUST BELIVE this 'thing' has the capability to fly.
You can buy this 'authentic' photo for $179.
Lunar Module - Apollo 16
An excellent view of the Lunar Module (LM) "Orion" and Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV), as photographed by astronaut Charles M. Duke Jr., lunar module pilot, during the first Apollo 16 extravehicular activity (EVA-1) at the Descartes landing site. Astronaut John Young, commander, can be seen directly behind the LRV. The lunar surface feature in the left background is Stone Mountain. While astronauts Young and Duke descended in the LM to explore the Descartes highlands landing site on the Moon, astronaut Thomas K. Mattingly II, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) "Casper" in lunar orbit. BigBangPrints removed the black registration marks common in Apollo Mission photos and added a starry sky too. Amazing!
https://bigbangprints.com/products/lunar-module-apollo-16?variant=42186305306821
#23443604 at 2025-08-09 04:49:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28564: Another Promise Kept, Have A Great Weekend Patriots Edition
Astronaut Jim Lovell, famed Apollo 13 commander, dies at 97
Astronaut Jim Lovell, best known as the commander of the near-tragic Apollo 13 mission to the moon, died Thursday in Illinois. He was 97.
Lovell was a veteran of four spaceflights: Gemini VII, Gemini XII, Apollo 8 and Apollo 13.
In a statement released Friday, the Lovell family highlighted his "amazing life and career accomplishments" and his "legendary leadership in pioneering human space flight."
"But, to all of us, he was Dad, Granddad, and the Leader of our family. Most importantly, he was our Hero," the family said in its statement. "We will miss his unshakeable optimism, his sense of humor, and the way he made each of us feel we could do the impossible. He was truly one of a kind."
Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy said in a news release: "NASA sends its condolences to the family of Capt. Jim Lovell, whose life and work inspired millions of people across the decades. Jim's character and steadfast courage helped our nation reach the Moon and turned a potential tragedy into a success from which we learned an enormous amount. We mourn his passing even as we celebrate his achievements."
Lovell was selected to join NASA in 1962 as part of the agency's second round of astronauts - a group that included Neil Armstrong, Charles "Pete" Conrad, John Young and others that were nicknamed the "Next Nine."
Lovell's first two spaceflights, Gemini VII and Gemini XII, were designed to demonstrate how humans could live in weightlessness and to test rendezvous and docking technologies that would be essential for subsequent space station operations.
Lovell next circled the moon on the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, but it was his fourth and final spaceflight that brought him the most fame.
Apollo 13 launched into space on April 11, 1970, on a mission that was intended to be NASA's third moon landing. But 55 hours, 55 minutes and 4 seconds into the flight, disaster struck.
One of the spacecraft's oxygen tanks exploded, causing another to fail as Lovell and his two crew members, John "Jack" Swigert and Fred Haise, were about 200,000 miles from Earth. It was Swigert who initially radioed the infamous message to NASA's Mission Control: "OK, Houston, we've had a problem here."
When asked to repeat, Lovell followed up: "Houston, we've had a problem. We've had a Main B Bus Undervolt."
Over the next three days, NASA engineers and mission controllers executed a harrowing rescue that was lauded as one of the agency's finest achievements. The explosion crippled the command module, and the astronauts faced an extreme shortage of water and electrical power, along with dangerously high levels of carbon dioxide, according to NASA.
After about six days in space, the Apollo 13 crew splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean. The mission came to be known as a "successful failure," one that demonstrated the ingenuity and tenacity of the agency's engineers and astronauts.
Lovell won praise for his steady leadership throughout the flight.
"As commander of the Apollo 13 mission, his calm strength under pressure helped return the crew safely to Earth and demonstrated the quick thinking and innovation that informed future NASA missions," Duffy said in the statement.
The mission had receded into history until 1995 when Lovell was portrayed by Tom Hanks in "Apollo 13," a movie that captured the danger and drama of the mission. The movie would make Lovell's name among the most recognizable of astronauts', arguably only behind Armstrong and John Glenn.
Hanks posted to Instagram Friday offering a parting message for Lovell.
Lovell was born March 25, 1928, in Cleveland. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1952 and went on to log more than 7,000 hours of flying time.
Over the course of four spaceflights, Lovell spent 715 hours in orbit, according to NASA. He retired from the agency in 1973.
In a 2020 interview with the "TODAY" show, Lovell reflected on the milestones of his life as an aviator and astronaut.
"I think I'm very fortunate," he said. "I think that I've lived a life that - if I had a chance to live all over again, even though if I knew what the consequences would be and the chance of coming back, you know, were not unknown at the time … I would do it."
CORRECTION (Aug. 8, 2025, 6:30 p.m. ET): A previous version of this article misstated the year Jim Lovell graduated from the Naval Academy. It was 1952, not 1962.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/astronaut-jim-lovell-apollo-13-commander-dies-97-rcna223949
#23041909 at 2025-05-16 15:01:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28114: GM TGIFryday Comey Fuckery Buy Muh Book Edition
>>23041908
Space debut
Just three weeks after receiving NASA's official qualification, the Speedmaster ST 105.003 made its space debut on March 23, 1965.
It was worn by astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom and John Young during the Gemini 3 mission. The only modification made to the standard model was the addition of a long Velcro strap, allowing it to be worn over the bulky space suits.
Following Gemini 3, the Speedmaster- and its subsequent evolutions- became an essential piece of equipment for every crewed NASA mission.
It gained legendary status when astronaut Ed White wore it during the first American spacewalk later that same year, and again during Apollo 8 in 1968, when its crew became the first humans to witness "the far side of the Moon."
As the missions advanced, so did the importance of the Speedmaster. On July 20, 1969, NASA achieved its ultimate goal: Apollo 11 successfully landed on the Moon.
As Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended to the lunar surface, the Speedmaster became the first watch worn on the Moon- a milestone in both space exploration and horological history.
From that moment forward, the Speedmaster continued to accompany astronauts on every Moon landing and remained a trusted tool throughout the Apollo program and beyond.
The evolution over the years
When the original Speedmaster was created in 1957, it included many protective technologies used by Omega at the time, such the sealing powers of O-ring gaskets, and the famous "Naiad" crown.
Thanks to them, the brand was able to create an incredibly rugged chronograph that was hermetically sealed against the elements and was water-resistant to a 200 feet.
Furthermore, the hesalite crystal offered the advantage of flexibility, and therefore shatter-resistance, in high impact situations.
It was also the first watch to feature a tachymeter scale on its bezel, as opposed to the dial. This made it ideal for its intended customer-racing car drivers on the track.
Ever since then, the timing scale, with its famous dot over 90 and the dot diagonal to 70, has remained an essential and distinguishing element of the Speedmaster design.
At first glance, the Speedmaster has remained remarkably consistent over the past six decades- a silhouette instantly recognizable to watch enthusiasts and admirers alike.
But a closer look reveals a story of thoughtful evolution. While the classic DNA endures, subtle refinements in materials, mechanics, and detailing have brought the Speedmaster into the modern era without losing its iconic identity.
Today, Omega offers two models that closely resemble the watch once tested by NASA: the Speedmaster Moonwatch (ref. 310.30.42.50.01.001) and the Speedmaster Caliber 321 (ref. 311.30.40.30.01.001).
The latter, introduced in 2020, is a highly faithful recreation of the watch certified by NASA in 1965.
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#22851987 at 2025-04-01 17:06:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27903: Blessed Are The PeaceMakers On Melania Tuesdays And Beyond Edition
>>22851985
She noted that even in her second mission, she was appointed to command the spacecraft, and it is possible she will receive command of the International Space Station during her stay in space.
"Everything I know about leadership, flying and teamwork, I learned in the military," McClain said. "This experience has been significant in learning how to lead by identifying and maximizing the contributions of each of my team members.
One leader cannot do everything alone-these missions are too complex." McClain also joked in a conversation before the launch aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, saying, "I am excited, grateful and proud to serve as the crew commander for this mission.
My background in the military is in combat helicopters, so this time we will fly faster than I am used to."
When away from space
While McClain has largely kept her personal life private, she has remained active in community and educational initiatives.
She has mentored aspiring scientists and participated in outreach programs, while also receiving honorary degrees from universities nationwide. A Houston resident, she has also been spotted at local baseball games, maintaining a visible, if low-key, public presence.
Over the years, several astronauts have bent the rules, though incidents within NASA have typically resulted in disciplinary action rather than criminal charges.
One of the most memorable episodes occurred in 1965, when astronaut John Young smuggled a corned beef sandwich aboard the Gemini 3 mission and offered it to crewmate Gus Grissom mid-flight.
The sandwich had been purchased in Florida by another astronaut and given to Young as a surprise for Grissom.
Though the gesture was lighthearted, NASA was not amused. The incident drew criticism from Congress and the media, and Young received a formal reprimand.
Despite the controversy, his career with the space agency was unaffected.
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#22193194 at 2024-12-19 16:15:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27158: GM GM GM Edition
>>22193154
>Follow the Wives
>>22193168
> Her father is Vice Admiral John Terence Blake who retired in 2013 after 37 years in the United States Navy.
dmiral John T. Blake '71
Admiral John Terence Blake Rear Admiral John Terence Blake '71
2006 Recipient
United States Navy
Deputy Director for Resources and Acquisition, J-8
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Rear Admiral John Terence Blake was born and raised in New York City. He graduated from Monsignor McClancy Memorial High School in 1971. While attending McClancy High School he lettered in Track, was elected to the Student Government, served on the Student Activities Committee, and was President of the National Honor Society school chapter his senior year.
Appointed to the United States Naval Academy from the state of New York, he graduated in 1975. His sea duty assignments include: USS NEW (DD 818), USS SARFIELD (DD 837), USS JOSEPH STRAUSS (DDG 16), USS John Young (DD 973), USS CHANDLER (DDG 996) and USS LEAHY (CG 16).
Rear Admiral Blake commanded the destroyer USS O'BRIEN (DD 975), served on the SEVENTH Fleet Staff in the western Pacific as Current Operations and Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations, and as Commanding Officer, USS NORMANDY (CG 60).
His shore duty assignments include: Flag Lieutenant to Commander, Navy Recruiting Command; Naval Post Graduate School where he earned a Masters Degree in Finance; Navy Staff (N80) Head, Sea Control Section and Program Manager for the Navy Shipbuilding account; National War College where he earned a Masters Degree in National Security; Joint Staff (J8) Division Chief and Head of the Combat Identification Joint Warfare Capability Assessment Team; Director, Programming Division (N80); Director, Operations Division, Office of Budget in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management/Comptroller) and Director, Operations Division, Fiscal Management Division in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations.
Rear Admiral Blake iscurrently assigned to the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon, where he is the Deputy Director for Resources and Acquisition,J-8.
Rear Admiral Blake is married to the former Nan Marie Connelly of Crofton Maryland. They have three children; Tara (a Junior at the University of Maryland), Erin (a Freshman at Pennsylvania State University) and J.T. (a Junior at Arundel High School). Outside activities include Assistant Scout Master for Troop 115 of the Boy Scouts of America at the local church and sporting activities of any kind.
He is authorized to wear the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Legion of Merit with three gold stars, the Meritorious Service Medal with two gold stars, the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with two gold stars and various service and campaign medals.
https://msgrmcclancy.org/admiral-John-t-blake/
#21840503 at 2024-10-27 15:04:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26745: Make 45 - 47 AGAIN Edition
New study of Apollo 16 moon samples reveals hidden lunar history
October 27, 2024
Scientists continue to piece together the moon's complex history using lunar samples collected during NASA's Apollo missions over half a century ago.
A fresh analysis of lunar dust collected by Apollo 16 astronauts in 1972 offers a clearer picture of the effects of asteroid strikes on the moon, allowing scientists to reconstruct billions of years of lunar history.
The findings could also help upcoming crewed missions pinpoint precious natural resources for establishing moon bases, scientists say.
After landing in the heavily-cratered Descartes region in the lunar highlands, astronauts John Young, Charles Duke and Ken Mattingly collected roughly 200 pounds (96 kg) of material from the moon's surface.
Chemical analyses of soil-like pebbles in those samples, which the astronauts had gathered by raking across the landing site, have revealed the presence of various noble gasses including argon and xenon.
These trapped gasses serve as useful timestamps of space weather processes like solar wind and asteroid impacts that have helped shape and reshape the moon's surface over billions of years.
Most of the samples collected during the Apollo era have already been scrutinized. To take advantage of new science and technology, NASA cracked open one of the last sealed samples, collected during the Apollo 17 mission, just two years ago.
Much of our knowledge about the moon and its evolution comes from these samples, including the moon's true age being 40 million years older than we thought.
But researchers say this new study of trapped lunar gasses is already revealing new chapters of lunar history.
"We can build a much more complete picture of the history of this part of the moon during the early solar system, where heavier impacts on the lunar surface in its first billion years or so gave way to less intense periods from two billion years ago or so," study lead author Mark Nottingham of the University of Glasgow in the U.K. said in a recent statement.
While analyzing samples collected during the Apollo 16 mission, Nottingham and his colleagues used mass spectrometry techniques to catalog various noble gasses and their abundance in the samples, which helped them "determine how much time the samples spent exposed on or near the moon's surface," Nottingham said in the statement.
Chemical makeup of gasses trapped in these "regolith breccias" - a result of moon dust fusing into rock under the sheer force of asteroid impacts - show they stood exposed to solar wind and asteroid impacts for a prolonged period.
The specific exposure ages varied widely between samples, from 2.5 billion years ago to less than a billion, suggesting the moon's soil around the landing area is "well mixed," with some of it dredged up to the surface by more recent impacts, the new study reports.
Nottingham says that studies like this one will help scientists better understand where noble gases and other elements might be found on the moon and in what abundance, helping humanity better plan for future lunar exploration.
"It's remarkable to think that the samples Apollo 16 brought back more than half a century ago still have secrets to reveal about the moon's history, and that they could yet help shape how we explore the solar system in the decades to come," Nottingham said.
This research is described in a paper published Oct. 15 in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science
https://www.space.com/apollo-16-moon-samples-lunar-history
https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_1119964_en.html
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/maps.14244
#20496457 at 2024-03-01 00:27:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25140: Take THE Leap 2024 Edition
Mil tweets:
>>20495823 @CanadianForces: Major Marguerite "Peggy" Downes
>>20495878 @surflant: Navigating as an Alliance
>>20495967 @DeptofDefense: Military Leaders Say Maintaining U.S. Strategic Edge Requires Continued Investment
>>20496034, >>20496105 USMC Warfighter Laboratory
>>20496210 @USMC: Who's a Good Boy?
>>20496218 @USArmy: Arctic Agility
>>20496288 @surflant: It's great to have you on board
>>20496292, >>20496317, >>20496325, >>20496326 @NavalInstitute: Spruance-class destroyer USS John Young in Hong Kong
>>20496299, >>20496296, >>20496313 @US_SpaceCom: #USSPACECOM commander, testified before SASC
>>20496427 @3CdnDiv3DivCA: #ExHIGHLANDSTORM
#20496445 at 2024-03-01 00:26:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25140: Take THE Leap 2024 Edition
Mil tweets:
>>20495823 @CanadianForces: Major Marguerite "Peggy" Downes
>>20495878 @surflant: Navigating as an Alliance
>>20495967 @DeptofDefense: Military Leaders Say Maintaining U.S. Strategic Edge Requires Continued Investment
>>20496034, >>20496105 USMC Warfighter Laboratory
>>20496210 @USMC: Who's a Good Boy?
>>20496218 @USArmy: Arctic Agility
>>20496288 @surflant: It's great to have you on board
>>20496292, >>20496317, >>20496325, >>20496326 @NavalInstitute: Spruance-class destroyer USS John Young sailors enjoy liberty call in Hong Kong
>>20496299, >>20496296, >>20496313 @US_SpaceCom: .@SpaceForceDoD Gen. Stephen Whiting, #USSPACECOM commander, testified before the SASC
>>20496427 @3CdnDiv3DivCA: #ExHIGHLANDSTORM
#20496292 at 2024-02-29 23:53:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25140: Take THE Leap 2024 Edition
Sailors from the Spruance-class destroyer USS John Young (DD-973) enjoy liberty call in Hong Kong which was still under British rule when this recruiting commercial aired in the early 1980s.
#ThrowbackThursday
https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1763345894085145075?t=53n9AoUfNXUGobAC4yR8CQ&s=19
#20288693 at 2024-01-23 15:32:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #24894: Tuesday Morning Melania Edition
there was only one John
Young John
and
old John
both the same John
#17632115 at 2022-10-04 21:00:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21620: Bunker Apple Yellow Sky Edition
>>17632098
The history of Snoopy and NASA
For more than 50 years, Snoopy has contributed to the excitement for NASA human spaceflight missions, helping inspire generations to dream big. NASA has shared an association with Charles M. Schulz and Snoopy since Apollo missions and continues under Artemis with new educational activities. Up next – Snoopy will ride along as the zero gravity indicator on Artemis I.
Artemis I is an uncrewed flight test of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft around the Moon launching in early 2022 before missions with astronauts. Zero gravity indicators are small items carried aboard spacecraft that provide a visual indicator when a spacecraft has reached the weightlessness of microgravity. Without astronauts aboard Orion, Snoopy will help share the journey with the world as he rides along in the cabin with a manikin and two other "passengers."
Apollo Era
Already a well-known household character, Snoopy was used to encourage NASA's spaceflight safety initiative during the time of Apollo. Schulz created comic strips of Snoopy on the Moon, capturing public excitement about America's achievements in space.
In May 1969, Apollo 10 astronauts Gene Cernan, John Young and Thomas Stafford traveled all the way to the Moon for one final checkout before the lunar landing attempt. The mission required the lunar module to skim the Moon's surface to within 50,000 feet and "snoop around" scouting the Apollo 11 landing site, leading the crew to name the lunar module "Snoopy." The Apollo command module was labeled "Charlie Brown," after Snoopy's loyal owner. Snoopy's first flight to space was in 1990 when he was able to catch a ride on the space shuttle Columbia during the STS-32 mission.
The agency's Silver Snoopy award was created during the Apollo era and remains to this day. It is a high honor awarded to NASA employees and contractors by astronauts, celebrating achievements related to mission success and human flight safety. Each silver pin given with this award, depicting astronaut Snoopy, was flown in space. Continuing the tradition, Artemis I will also carry a package of silver snoopy pins for future recognitions.
Apollo 50th Anniversary
In 2019, NASA and Peanuts Worldwide celebrated the 50th?Anniversary of the launch of Apollo 10 and the history of their partnership in NASA's safety and human space flight awareness program. Leading up to the anniversary, NASA and Peanuts collaborated on STEM activities, a mini-documentary and other new products that share the excitement of science, technology, engineering and math with the next generation of explorers. The collaboration, formalized though a?Space Act Agreement, provided an opportunity to update Snoopy's spacesuit and introduce new space-themed programming with content about NASA's deep space exploration missions, 50 years after the initial collaboration began during the Apollo era.
Under the anniversary collaboration, NASA provided support for a number of new Peanuts programs that focused on modern-day astronaut Snoopy and space themes, including a STEM-based curriculum for students in kindergarten through 5th grade about America's deep space exploration objectives. NASA centers across the nation joined the celebration as well with local exhibits or STEM activities capitalizing on the Apollo 10 mission's unique call sign for the Lunar Lander of Snoopy. Snoopy also participated in the celebration on the National Mall in Washington to celebrate the 50th Apollo 11 Moon landing, which also took place in 1969.
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#16321395 at 2022-05-22 13:31:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20647: SUNDAY GLOBAL NOTABLE TOPICS EDITION
>>16321363
Perdue has got my vote as does Burt Jones, John Young, Herschal. Brian Kemp has done some good things for Georgia but when it really came time for him to stand up and defend Georgia, POTUS, he didn't. Raffensperger running commercials here making himself out to be the savior of our election process when the irrefutable fact is we had all this voting fuckery here because of him and his bitch Fat Stacy. Same for Chris Carr. Do nothing AG that sat with his enitire hand up his asshole allowing it all to happen.
Fuck all of them. End their political careers here in Georgia Anons.
#12998573 at 2021-02-19 12:02:08 (UTC+1)
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#10033482 at 2020-07-21 17:18:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12840: We Have A Reporter That Needs Some "Love", Let it Rain! Edition
Big Pharma CEOs Testify Before Congress About "Pathway To A Vaccine"
With stocks continuing to power higher on elevated hopes for a vaccine by the end of the year, executives from five major drugmakers are testifying Tuesday before a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee panel. The executives will testify about their high-stakes efforts to develop a vaccine. Lawmakers are expected to grill them about plans to develop and distribute the vaccines.
The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Energy and Commerce is hosting the hearing. The House Committee on Energy and Commerce is led by Chairman Rep. Frank Pallone, and the subcommittee is led by Rep. Diana DeGette.
Witnesses include:
Dr. Mene Pangalos Executive Vice President, BioPharmaceuticals R&D AstraZeneca
Dr. Macaya Douoguih Head of Clinical Development and Medical Affairs, Janssen Vaccines Johnson & Johnson
Dr. Julie Gerberding Executive Vice President and Chief Patient Officer Merck
Dr. Stephen Hoge President Moderna
Mr. John Young Chief Business Officer Pfizer
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-live-big-pharma-ceos-testify-congress-about-pathway-vaccine
#6180909 at 2019-04-15 02:49:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7903 We Don't Need No Education Edition
>>6180788
He is a nutjob but don't count out the article without looking at info.
It's coming from John Young of Cryptome, (which was around 10yrs. Before Wikileaks) Wikileaks is CIA/Mossad front
Cryptome probably is as well.
#1549208 at 2018-05-26 18:29:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1947: The Best Angels Of Our Nature
>>1549181
NASA: Legendary astronaut, moonwalker John Young has died January 7, 2018
everyone is slowly leaving..sad
#579796 at 2018-03-07 20:12:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #714: BQQM Edition
>>579255
https:// www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1258964/
The Extraction of Melanin from Skin with Dilute Alkali
William John Young
*** DEAR GOD, they extract the melanin by boiling the skin and hair in acid. These people are EVIL! Q They have to be stopped. Please make this stop and take these people out. We have to save the children. >>
#579726 at 2018-03-07 20:06:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #714: BQQM Edition
>>579709
https:// www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1258964/
The Extraction of Melanin from Skin with Dilute Alkali
William John Young
*** DEAR GOD, they extract the melanin by boiling the skin and hair in acid. These people are EVIL! Q They have to be stopped. Please make this stop and take these people out. We have to save the children. >>
#339017 at 2018-02-11 19:40:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #416: Think Magic Edition
>>338555
>>338605
>>338503
>>338488
I finished adding the death dates to list,, posting in Death thread,
>>247899
here is what it looks like with dates added,, here is januarys death list. Not sure if we should mix doctors in with it? We have a thread called Dr. Deaths, but no one has a list in there( of the 90 plus that have died)
I can compile a doctor list,, and post it in there?
Here is January deaths with dates, ill post Nov, december and feb in the other death thread.
JANUARY 2018
Jan 1st Jon Paul Steuer, Actor - played Alexander Rozhenko in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" - age 33
Jan 4th Ray Thomas, Musician (UK) - founding member of the rock group The Moody Blues "Nights In White Satin" - age 76 (prostate cancer)
Jan 5th Jerry Van Dyke, Actor - played David Crabtree in TV show "My Mother the Car"(1965) and Luther Van Dam on "Coach" (1989-'97) - age 86
Jan 5th John Young, Captain, USN / NASA Astronaut - flew on the first manned Gemini mission (1965) and five more missions including a moon walk (1972) - age 87
Jan 8th Denise LaSalle, Blues Singer - recognized as the "Queen of the Blues", top hit "Trapped By A Thing Called Love" (1971) - age 78 (complications from a fall)
Jan 8th Donnelly Rhodes, Actor (CAN) - played convict Dutch Leitner on TV show "Soap" (1977-'81) - age 80 (cancer)
Jan 10th Eddie Clarke, Musician (UK) - guitarist for the heavy metal band Motörhead - age 67 (pneumonia)
Jan 10th Doreen Tracey, Actress/Singer - a regular on TV show "Mickey Mouse Club" (1955-'58) - age 74 (cancer)
Jan 12th Keith Jackson, Sportscaster - the voice of ABC Sports' College football coverage (1966-2006) - age 89
Jan 13th Jean Porter, Actress - contract actress for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer who appeared in over 30 movies from 1938-'61 - age 95
Jan 14th Dan Gurney, Race car driver/owner - won races in the Formula One, Indy Car, NASCAR, Can-Am, and Trans-Am Series - age 86 (pneumonia)
Jan 15th Dolores O'Riordan, Singer (IRL) - lead singer for rock band the Cranberries; top hits "Linger" and "Zombie" - age 46 (unknown)
Jan 15th Peter Wyngarde, Actor (UK) - portrayed Jason King in TV shows Department S (1969-70) and Jason King (1971-72) - age 90
Jan 16th Bradford Dillman, Actor - played Luther Sebastian in the film "The Helicopter Spies" which was made from a The Man From U.N.C.L.E. episode - age 87 (pneumonia)
Jan 17th Jessica Falkholt, Actress (AUS) - played Hope Morrison in TV series "Home and Away" - age 29 (car accident killed her entire family)
Jan 17th Simon Shelton, Actor (UK) - played Tinky Winky in the BBC TV show "Teletubbies" (1997-2001) - age 52 (hypothermia)
Jan 19th Dorothy Malone, Actress - played Constance MacKenzie on Peyton Place (1964-'68) - age 92
Jan 19th Allison Shearmur, Film producer - worked on American Pie, Jason Bourne and The Hunger Games franchises - age 54 (lung cancer)
Jan 20th Wendell Castle, Artist/Furniture maker - probably the father of "furniture art" - age 85
Jan 20th John Coleman, TV Meteorologist - original weatherman on ABC's Good Morning America (1975) and co-founder of The Weather Channel (1982) - age 83
Jan 20th Naomi Parker Fraley, she is credited as the inspiration for the Rosie the Riveter "We Can Do It" WWII era poster - age 96
Jan 20th Jim Rodford, Musician - played with the Kinks (1978-'96) then played with redo of The Zombies - age 76
Jan 22nd Connie Sawyer, Actress - nicknamed "The Clown Princess of Comedy", appeared in movies and TV from 1955 - 2014 - age 105
Jan 26th Stacey Young, Model (UK) - she appeared in many 1980's music videos with her singer husband Paul Young - age 52 (brain cancer)
Jan 27th Mort Walker, Cartoonist - wrote the newspaper comic strips Beetle Bailey (1950) and Hi and Lois (1954) - age 94
Jan 30th Mark Salling, Actor/Musician - portrayed Noah "Puck" Puckerman on TV show "Glee"(2009-'13) - 35 (suicide)
#335152 at 2018-02-11 10:06:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #411: the beam of LIGHT Edition
>>335148
>>335146
JANUARY
Jon Paul Steuer, Actor - played Alexander Rozhenko in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" - age 33
Ray Thomas, Musician (UK) - founding member of the rock group The Moody Blues "Nights In White Satin" - age 76 (prostate cancer)
Jerry Van Dyke, Actor - played David Crabtree in TV show "My Mother the Car"(1965) and Luther Van Dam on "Coach" (1989-'97) - age 86
John Young, Captain, USN / NASA Astronaut - flew on the first manned Gemini mission (1965) and five more missions including a moon walk (1972) - age 87
Denise LaSalle, Blues Singer - recognized as the "Queen of the Blues", top hit "Trapped By A Thing Called Love" (1971) - age 78 (complications from a fall)
Donnelly Rhodes, Actor (CAN) - played convict Dutch Leitner on TV show "Soap" (1977-'81) - age 80 (cancer)
Eddie Clarke, Musician (UK) - guitarist for the heavy metal band Motörhead - age 67 (pneumonia)
Doreen Tracey, Actress/Singer - a regular on TV show "Mickey Mouse Club" (1955-'58) - age 74 (cancer)
Keith Jackson, Sportscaster - the voice of ABC Sports' College football coverage (1966-2006) - age 89
Jean Porter, Actress - contract actress for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer who appeared in over 30 movies from 1938-'61 - age 95
Dan Gurney, Race car driver/owner - won races in the Formula One, Indy Car, NASCAR, Can-Am, and Trans-Am Series - age 86 (pneumonia)
Dolores O'Riordan, Singer (IRL) - lead singer for rock band the Cranberries; top hits "Linger" and "Zombie" - age 46 (unknown)
Peter Wyngarde, Actor (UK) - portrayed Jason King in TV shows Department S (1969-70) and Jason King (1971-72) - age 90
Bradford Dillman, Actor - played Luther Sebastian in the film "The Helicopter Spies" which was made from a The Man From U.N.C.L.E. episode - age 87 (pneumonia)
Jessica Falkholt, Actress (AUS) - played Hope Morrison in TV series "Home and Away" - age 29 (car accident killed her entire family)
Simon Shelton, Actor (UK) - played Tinky Winky in the BBC TV show "Teletubbies" (1997-2001) - age 52 (hypothermia)
Dorothy Malone, Actress - played Constance MacKenzie on Peyton Place (1964-'68) - age 92
Allison Shearmur, Film producer - worked on American Pie, Jason Bourne and The Hunger Games franchises - age 54 (lung cancer)
Wendell Castle, Artist/Furniture maker - probably the father of "furniture art" - age 85
John Coleman, TV Meteorologist - original weatherman on ABC's Good Morning America (1975) and co-founder of The Weather Channel (1982) - age 83
Naomi Parker Fraley, she is credited as the inspiration for the Rosie the Riveter "We Can Do It" WWII era poster - age 96
Jim Rodford, Musician - played with the Kinks (1978-'96) then played with redo of The Zombies - age 76
Connie Sawyer, Actress - nicknamed "The Clown Princess of Comedy", appeared in movies and TV from 1955 - 2014 - age 105
Stacey Young, Model (UK) - she appeared in many 1980's music videos with her singer husband Paul Young - age 52 (brain cancer)
Mort Walker, Cartoonist - wrote the newspaper comic strips Beetle Bailey (1950) and Hi and Lois (1954) - age 94
Mark Salling, Actor/Musician - portrayed Noah "Puck" Puckerman on TV show "Glee"(2009-'13) - 35 (suicide)
February
Fidel Ángel Castro Díaz-Balart, Scientist - Fidel Castro's oldest son - age 68 (suicide)
Dennis Edwards, Singer - lead singer for The Temptations (1968-'77) "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" - age 74
Jon Huntsman Sr., Businessman/Philanthropist - Huntsman was known for his philanthropy including Huntsman Cancer Institute - age 80
John Mahoney, Actor (UK/USA) - played Martin Crane (Frazier's Dad) on TV show "Frasier" (1993-2004) - age 77 (throat cancer)
Mickey Jones, Musician/Actor - drummer for The First Edition with Kenny Rogers - age 76 (a long illness)
John Perry Barlow, Poet/Cyber Activist - lyricist for the Grateful Dead and founded Electronic Frontier Foundation - age 70
#183900 at 2018-01-27 23:10:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General: #223 The Leader Edition
>>183636
>Pretty much everyone who cared about that stuff has been bought off, gone to the dark side, or gone quiet about the stuff that's been happening to the Internet over the past few years. John Young (Cryptome) won't talk about it. The EFF is quiet and suspected of doxing people who report tips. Everyone who was involved in the Blue Ribbon campaign, quiet. The only people talking are World Socialist Website and Breitbart Tech.
Yeah, when the EFF won't do shit and you have to rely on a cartoon redhead to do their job, you know something is wrong.
Seriously, WTF? Gamergate should have been the EFF's / Slashdot / Kotaku's job.
#183636 at 2018-01-27 22:48:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General: #223 The Leader Edition
>>183570
Pretty much everyone who cared about that stuff has been bought off, gone to the dark side, or gone quiet about the stuff that's been happening to the Internet over the past few years. John Young (Cryptome) won't talk about it. The EFF is quiet and suspected of doxing people who report tips. Everyone who was involved in the Blue Ribbon campaign, quiet. The only people talking are World Socialist Website and Breitbart Tech.
8kun Midnight Riders Posts (2)
#118214 at 2022-02-04 00:58:25 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #609: MSM lurkes and We Stack Hitpieces as MIL Grade Badges of Honor Edition
>>118213
>>118213
https://timshorrock.com/2016/02/13/cryptomes-searing-critique-of-snowden-inc/
Cryptome's searing critique of Snowden Inc.
Posted on February 13, 2016 by Tim Shorrock
The current corporate media business model of celebrity as an income producer and celebrity as a sensationalizing, titillating device for increasing the value of content is something we stay away from. It's deeply cynical to sensationalize this trusted transaction, when someone come to you with a document and puts it forward to you.
- Deborah Natsios, Cryptome
Screenshot 2016-02-13 11.32.08
Credit: Natsios-Young.org
This week, John Young and Deborah Natsios, the founders of Cryptome, one of the world's oldest and best-known repositories of leaked intelligence documents, quietly posted a URL to an interview they conducted on February 6 during a conference in Berlin, Germany.
Young and Natsios are introduced, correctly, as "renowned figures within a larger community people interested in keeping governments and institutions accountable, and using documents to do that." But they also offer deep insights into the media and how it has handled revelations about U.S. intelligence and the National Security Agency. And their remarks, such as the quote above, clearly catch their host by surprise.
In the 18th minute, they issue a scathing rebuke of "celebrity" journalism as practiced, in their opinion, by The Intercept, the publication owned by Pierre Omidyar's First Look Media. The interview is worth hearing in its entirety, and I urge anyone who's had questions and concerns about Edward Snowden and his relationship to The Intercept's founding editors, Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill and Laura Poitras, to listen to it and carefully consider their arguments.
Why? Because Cryptome raises serious questions that nobody else on the left or in the media want to talk about, including how Omidar has created a business from Snowden's cache; what exactly Snowden may have been doing while he was working for the CIA prior to his time at NSA (and what else he may have been doing at NSA itself); and why Snowden and The Intercept continue to proselytize for Tor, the anonymization tool, despite its massive funding from the U.S. government, the Pentagon and the national security state.
One of the most amazing moments comes when the host, Pit Shultz, grows nervous about how his questions are being answered. It's a sad insight into how the libertarian left responds to any criticism of its heroes and the arrogance and vitriol that's been thrown to people who've raised questions about Snowden, Tor or Omidyar's operations. To his credit, Shultz soldiers on - but only after Natsios assures him that "robust debate" is crucial to democracy.
Cryptome's critique, as expressed in the interview, is not new. Ever since Greenwald first wrote about Snowden's documents in The Guardian in 2013, the organization has been keeping careful track of the glacial pace of the documents' release and The Intercept's almost-total control over the cache. Their latest tally, posted this week, is 6,318 pages of what The Guardian first reported as 58,000 files.
From the start, Young and Natsios made it clear that they strongly disapprove of the fact that this cache has not been made widely available to the public and posted for all to see - as they have done with the tens of thousands of intelligence files they have released since the late 1990s (and as Daniel Ellsberg did with the Pentagon Papers). Take a look at how Gawker, a publication very friendly to The Intercept, reported on Cryptome in June 2013:
When the Guardian and Washington Post published their blockbuster NSA reports based on Ed Snowden's leaks, journalists lined up conga-style to congratulate them on the scoops. Not Cryptome. Instead, the secret-killing site blasted the Guardian and Post for only publishing 4 of the 41 slides that Snowden gave them about PRISM, the NSA's system for spying on the internet.
"Mr. Snowden, please send your 41 PRISM slides and other information to less easily cowed and overly coddled commercial outlets than Washington Post and Guardian," Cryptome wrote in a June 10th dispatch titled "Snowden Censored by Craven Media."
To longtime followers of Cryptome, this response was unsurprising. Before Wikileaks, before Ed Snowden, there was Cryptome. Manhattan-based architects John Young and Deborah Natsios founded Cryptome.org in 1996 as a repository for documents no one else would publish, including lists of CIA assets, in-depth technical schematics of sensitive national security installations, and copyrighted material. As leaking has created a vibrant media ecosystem in recent years, complete with favored outlets, journalists and sources, Cryptome has positioned itself as its curmudgeonly ombudsman, quietly but blisteringly cutting down the hype and blather it sees in its competitors while advocating a form of radical transparency as straightforward as Cryptome.org's bare-bones website.
Until now, however, I've never seen an analysis like this. What follows is my transcript of key parts of the interview.
Shultz, the host, begins with a discussion with Natsios, who grew up "in a CIA family," about her art, and then focuses on Cryptome's roots in the Cold War and its founding in 1996 (Young was also active, with Wikileak's Julian Assange, in the "cypherpunk" movement in the early 1990s). Throughout their organization's existence, Young explains, "we did not seek celebrity. We thought we should do public service quietly and non-ostentatiously. We don't like high-profile activity because we think it disrupts the process."
This is already a huge contrast to the approach taken by the The Intercept's founders. But what follows is stunning. After Natsios makes her statement about "celebrity as an income producer," Young opens up, first taking on the ACLU.
Young: Let me name some names. ACLU, one of the most corrupt organizations in New York City and around the world. We detest how they're handling Snowden. They're using him for funding purposes. Meanwhile, they're turning down more needy people because they're not good for fund-raising. Look at what these folks are paid. Phenomenal salaries are being paid. Phenomenal salaries are being paid to The Intercept. These are your corrupt organizations to get these kinds of salaries out there while others who provide the information are either going to jail or getting nothing. I think that's the pattern that's going on now under the national security realm. Now I should say the National Security Archives and the Federation of American Scientists do not do that. But some of these newcomers to the national security field are. ACLU is an old organization. But we know people who've left ACLU over this issue, because they've become money-driven and not public service driven. And they refuse to have anything to do with ACLU. And that's a tragedy because it once had a wonderful history. Now the question is, who else is on the list? There are others who are smelling the coffee of money-making...
The interview then turns to non-profit journalism, as practiced by First Look.
Natsios: As you know, the neo-liberal model now includes the non-profit world. But the non-profit world is now in a group-think in terms of its operational practices...
Young: You know, you get a lucrative tax write-off to set up a non-profit journalism organization because it's considered a hardship industry. Isn't that absurd? But it turns out Omidyar saved a lot of money setting up First Look because he gets a tax write-off for a hardship industry as though there some farmer out there somewhere. So when you see [Amazon owner Jeff] Bezos and other people investing, it's for a tax write-off. And so a number of non-profits in the media world say, "Oh, the decline of investigative journalism" or blah blah blah. Well, it turns out that's a result of heavy lobbying to be declared a hardship industry. Bingo!
The next section (not transcribed here) focuses on Tor, the "anonymity tool" promoted heavily by Snowden, Poitras and Greenwald and financed by the U.S. government, primarily through the Pentagon, as well as Omidyar himself - a topic I'll focus on in a later posting. The discussion appears to disturb the interviewer.
Shultz: We are loyal here to this community. But some inner criticism can be seen as constructive. These questions are important. I suppose you can say whatever you say. We have free speech here.
Natsios: You said that very tentatively and cautiously. You should say that robustly, that robust dissent within any organization is crucial in a democratic context. Don't apologize for it.
After that exchange, the conversation pivots to a discussion about Snowden's role as a spy. Young mentions Snowden's experience before NSA in Hawaii as a counter-intelligence operative for the CIA.
Shultz: [At the conference there was mention of] Snowden as a hero for civil rights. But it was not mentioned he was a spy. How can you trust a spy?
Young: You cannot. You cannot trust anyone with a security clearance...They have to lie to you. It's not a glorious role, it's a dirty role.
Young then returns to The Intercept's relationship with Snowden. He mentions two journalists who came way before Greenwald & Co. and early on exposed the operations of the NSA overseas, Duncan Campbell and Nicky Hager.
Young: I don't know why Snowden didn't go to them instead of those assholes he went to. That's a story that hasn't been told. Why did he go to these technologically illiterate people to reveal this stuff to? Someone sold him a bill of goods. We don't know who fed him into this group.
Shultz: So you're critical about him spoon-feeding the mass media?
Natsios: It's a second secret regime that's been imposed by the media proxies. The assumption is there should be a media pathway to the public. Well, that could be a fallacy...If we're to believes Snowden's current media proxies and his testimony through them, he's been extremely cautious and controlling about his release. He wants to have his cake and eat it too. He's been extremely particular about what he wants to let go evidently and what he keeps in reserve. That's his choice. But these are taxpayer-paid documents belonging in the public domain. What authority does he have to open the spigot where he is now controlling in a fairly doctrinaire and authoritarian way what happens to this trove, this cache?...
Young: Snowden says he gave them to the public; no, he didn't. He gave them to a bunch of self-interested journalists who decided to run a certain story with it, i.e., to explain it to people. And their fucking explainers really have a problem.
Natsios: It's a serious conflict of interest. They've written themselves into the story as heroes, co-heroes of the story. It's a conflict of interest. They're not at a distance from their source. They've embedded themselves in the narrative, and therefore all decisions are highly suspect because they benefit from the outcome of the narrative in every sense.
Young: They should go to people who can read the documents, not report on them. Reporting is not honesty. It is headline grabbing. It is hyper ventilation. And they call it reporting, when in fact it's highly selective. This is criminal behavior. [Note: in that context, it's rather amazing to see this tweet from Snowden himself chastising a Washington journalist for being directed in his reporting by a White House official - exactly what Snowden did with his stenographers].
To get its full flavor, I again urge readers to listen to the interview in its entirety. After I heard it, I passed part of this transcript by Bill Binney, the legendary NSA analyst who once was the Technical Director of NSA's Operations Directorate. He is reknowned for blowing the whistle on corporate corruption and illegal surveillance at the NSA, a story I documented in The Nation in 2013 (prior to Snowden's appearance on the scene, I might add).
Binney, always the humorist, reminded me of a notorious statement made by Sam Visner, a senior NSA official, to a group of contractors a day after the 9/11 attacks: "We can milk this thing all the way to 2015." Here's Binney's email to me about the arguments from Young and Natsios: "As Sam said, 'we can milk this cow for 15 years.' It's just business."
Cryptome puts it this way: "At Snowden current rate it will take 20-620 years to free all documents." That's really milking it. So, yes, "money doesn't talk, it swears."
For a full bibliography of Young and Natsios, click here.
#96483 at 2021-09-11 08:35:33 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #462: WE REMEMBER edition.
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/156015
What We've Lost Since 9/11
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by Peter Van Buren
Peter Van Buren blew the whistle on State Department waste and mismanagement during Iraqi reconstruction in his first book, "We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People." A TomDispatch regular, he writes about current events at his blog, We Meant Well. His new book, "Ghosts of Tom Joad: A Story of the #99Percent," has just been published.
America has entered its third great era: the post-constitutional one. In the first, in the colonial years, a unitary executive, the King of England, ruled without checks and balances, allowing no freedom of speech, due process, or privacy when it came to protecting his power.
In the second, the principles of the Enlightenment and an armed rebellion were used to push back the king's abuses. The result was a new country and a new constitution with a Bill of Rights expressly meant to check the government's power. Now, we are wading into the shallow waters of a third era, a time when that government is abandoning the basic ideas that saw our nation through centuries of challenges far more daunting than terrorism. Those ideas enshrined in the Bill of Rights are disarmingly concise. Think of them as the haiku of a genuine people's government.
Deeper, darker waters lie ahead and we seem drawn down into them. For here there be monsters.
The Powers of a Police State Denied
America in its pre-constitutional days may seem eerily familiar even to casual readers of current events. We lived then under the control of a king. (Think now: the imperial presidency.) That king was a powerful, unitary executive who ruled at a distance. His goal was simple: to use his power over "his" American colonies to draw the maximum financial gain while suppressing any dissent that might endanger his control.
In those years, protest was dangerous. Speech could indeed make you the enemy of the government. Journalism could be a crime if you didn't write in support of those in power. A citizen needed to watch what he said, for there were spies everywhere, including fellow colonists hoping for a few crumbs from the king's table. Laws could be brutal and punishments swift as well as extra-judicial. In extreme cases, troops shot down those simply assembling to speak out.
Among the many offenses against liberty in pre-constitutional America, one pivotal event, the Stamp Act of 1765, stands out. To enforce the taxes imposed by the Act, the king's men used "writs of assistance" that allowed them to burst into any home or business, with or without suspicion of wrongdoing. American privacy was violated and property ransacked, often simply as a warning of the king's power. Some colonist was then undoubtedly the first American to mutter, "But if I have nothing to hide, why should I be afraid?" He soon learned that when a population is categorically treated as a potential enemy, everyone has something to hide if the government claims they do.
The Stamp Act and the flood of kingly offenses that followed created in those who founded the United States a profound suspicion of what an unchecked government could do, and a sense that power and freedom are not likely to coexist comfortably in a democracy. A balancing mechanism was required. In addition to the body of the Constitution outlining what the new nation's government could do, needed was an accounting of what it could not do. The answer was the Bill of Rights.
The Bill's preamble explained the matter this way: "…in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of [the government's] powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added." Thomas Jeffersoncommented separately, "[A] bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth."
In other words, the Bill of Rights was written to make sure that the new government would not replicate the abuses of power of the old one. Each amendment spoke directly to a specific offense committed by the king. Their purpose collectively was to lay out what the government could never take away. Knowing first-hand the dangers of a police state and unchecked power, those who wrote the Constitution wanted to be clear: never again.
It needs to be said that those imperfect men were very much of their era. They were right about much, but desperately wrong about other things. They addressed "humanity," but ignored the rights of women and Native Americans. Above all, they did not abolish the institution of slavery, our nation's Original Sin. It would take many years, and much blood, to begin to rectify those mistakes.
Still, for more than two centuries, the meaning of the Bill of Rights was generally expanded, though especially in wartime it sometimes temporarily contracted. Yet the basic principles that guided America were sustained despite civil war, world wars, depressions, and endless challenges. Then, one September morning, our Post-Constitutional era began amid falling towers and empty skies. What have we lost since? More than we imagine. A look at the Bill of Rights, amendment by amendment, tells the tale.
The First Amendment
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
The First Amendment was meant to make one thing indisputably clear: free speech was the basis for a government of the people. Without a free press, as well as the ability to openly gather, debate, protest, and criticize, how would the people be able to judge their government's adherence to the other rights? How could people vote knowledgeably if they didn't know what was being done in their name by their government? An informed citizenry, Thomas Jefferson stated, was "a vital requisite for our survival as a free people."
That was how it was seen long ago. In Post-Constitutional America, however, the government strives to "control the message," to actively thwart efforts to maintain a citizenry informed about what's done in its name, a concept that these days seems as quaint as Jefferson's powdered wig. There are far too many examples of the post-9/11 erosion of the First Amendment to list here. Let's just look at a few important ones that tell the tale of what we have lost since 9/11.
(Lack of) Freedom of Information
In 1966, an idea for keeping Americans better informed on the workings of their government was hatched: the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Strengthened in 1974, it began with the premise that, except for some obviouscategories (like serious national security matters and personal information), the position of the government should be: everything it does is available to the public. Like the Bill of Rights, which made specific the limits of government, FOIA began with a presumption that it was the government's duty to make information available and quickly to the people, unless a convincing case could be made otherwise. The default position of the FOIA switch was set to ON.
Three decades later, the FOIA system works far differently. Agencies are generally loath to release documents of any sort and instead put their efforts into creating roadblocks to legitimate requests. Some still require signatures on paper. (The State Department notes, "Requests for personal information cannot be submitted electronically and should be submitted by mail.") Others demand hyper-detailed information like the precise dates and titles of documents whose dates and titles may be classified and unavailable. The NSA simply denies almost all FOIA requests out of hand, absent a court order.
Most federal agencies now regard the deadlinemandated for a response as the time period to send out a "request received" note. They tend to assign only a few staff members to processing requests, leading to near-endless delays. At the State Department, most FOIA work is done on a part-time basis by retirees. The CIA won't directly release electronic versions of documents. Even when a request is fulfilled, "free" copying is often denied and reproduction costs exaggerated.
In some cases, the requested records have a way of disappearing or are simply removed. The ACLU's experience when it filed an FOIA-style request with the Sarasota police department on its use of the cell phone surveillance tool Stingray could be considered typical. The morning the ACLU was to review the files, Federal Marshals arrived and physically took possession of them, claiming they had deputized the local cops and made the files federal property. An ACLU spokesperson noted that, in other cases, federal authorities have invoked the Homeland Security Act to prevent the release of records.
John Young, who runs the web site Cryptome and is a steadfast FOIA requester, stated, "Stonewalling, delay, brush-off, lying are normal. It is a delusion for ordinary requesters and a bitch of a challenge for professionals. Churning has become a way of life for FOIA, costly as hell for little results."
Sealed Lips and the Whistleblower
All government agencies have regulations requiring employees to obtain permission before speaking to the representatives of the people – that is, journalists. The U.S. Intelligence Community has among the most restrictiveof these policies, banning employees and contractors completely from talking with the media without prior authorization. Even speaking about unclassified information is a no-no that may cost you your job. A government ever more in lockdown mode has created what one journalist calls a "culture where censorship is the norm."
So who does speak to Americans about their government? Growing hordes of spokespeople, communications staff, trained PR crews, and those anonymous "senior officials" who pop up so regularly in news articles in major papers.
With the government obsessively seeking to hide or spin what it does, in-the-sunlight contact barred, and those inside locked behind an iron curtain of secrecy, the whistleblower has become the paradigmatic figure of the era. Not surprisingly, anyone who blows a whistle has, in these years, come under fierce attack.
Pick a case: Tom Drake exposing early NSA efforts to turn its spy tools on Americans, Edward Snowden proving that the government has us under constant surveillance, Chelsea Manning documenting war crimes in Iraq and sleazy diplomacy everywhere, John Kiriakou acknowledging torture by his former employer the CIA, or Robert MacLean revealing Transportation Safety Administration malfeasance. In each instance, the threat of jail was quick to surface. The nuclear option against such truthtellers is the Espionage Act, a law that offended the Constitution when implemented in the midst of World War I. It has been resurrected by the Obama administration as a blunt "wartime" tool for silencing and punishing whistleblowers.
The Obama administration has already charged six people under that act for allegedly mishandling classified information. Even Richard Nixon only invoked it once, in a failed prosecution against Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg.
Indeed, the very word "espionage" couldn't be stranger in the context of these cases. None of those charged spied. None sought to aid an enemy or make money selling secrets. No matter. In Post-Constitutional America, the powers-that-be stand ready to twist language in whatever Orwellian direction is necessary to bridge the gap between reality and the king's needs. In the Espionage Act case of State Department contractor Stephen Kim, a judgedeparted from previous precedent, ruling that the prosecution need not even show that the information leaked to a Fox news reporter from a CIA report on North Korea could damage U.S. national security or benefit a foreign power. It could still be a part of an "espionage" charge.
A final question might be: How could a law designed almost 100 years ago to stop German spies in wartime have become a tool to silence the few Americans willing to risk everything to exercise their First Amendment rights? When did free speech become a crime?
Self-Censorship and the Press
Each person charged under the Espionage Act in these years was primarily a source for a journalist. The writers of the Bill of Rights chose to include the term "press" in the First Amendment, specifically carving out a special place for journalists in our democracy. The press was necessary to question government officials directly, comment on their actions, and inform the citizenry about what its government was doing. Sadly, as the Obama administration is moving ever more fiercely against those who might reveal its acts or documents, the bulk of the media have acquiesced. Glenn Greenwald said it plainly: too many journalists have gone into a self-censoring mode, practicing "obsequious journalism."
For example, a survey of reporters showed "the percentage of U.S. journalists endorsing the occasional use of 'confidential business or government documents without authorization,' dropped significantly from 81.8% in 1992 to 57.7% in 2013." About 40% of American journalists would not have published documents like those Edward Snowden revealed.
And the same has been true of the management of newspapers. In mid-2004, James Risen and Eric Lichtblau uncovered George W. Bush's illegal warrantless eavesdropping program, but the New York Times held the story for 15 months, until after Bush's reelection. Executives at the Times were told by administration officials that if they ran the story, they'd be helping terrorists. They accepted that. In 2006, the Los Angeles Times similarly gave in to the NSA and suppressed a story on government wiretaps of Americans.
Government Efforts to Stop Journalists
Reporters need sources. Increasingly, the government is classifying just about any document it produces – 92 million documents in 2011 alone. Its intelligence agencies have even classified reports about the over-classification of documents. As a result, journalistic sources are often pressed into discussing, at great personal risk, classified information. Forcing a reporter to reveal such sources discourages future whistleblowing.
In one of the first of a series of attempts to make journalists reveal their sources, former Fox News reporter Mike Levine stated that the Justice Department persuaded a federal grand jury to subpoena him in January 2011. The demand was that he reveal his sources for a 2009 story about Somali-Americans who were secretly indicted in Minneapolis for joining an al-Qaeda-linked group in Somalia. Levine fought the order and the Department of Justice finally dropped it without comment in April 2012. Call it a failed test case.
According to Washington lawyer Abbe Lowell, who defended Stephen Kim, significant amounts of time have been spent by the Department of Justice in the search for a legal rationale for indicting journalists for their participation in exposing classified documents. A crucial test case is James Risen's 2006 book, State of War, which had an anonymously sourced chapter on a failed CIA operation to disrupt Iran's nuclear program. When Risen, citing the First Amendment, refused to identify his source or testify in the trial of the former CIA officer accused of being that source, the government sought to imprison him. He responded that the "Obama administration… wants to use this case and others like it to intimidate reporters and whistleblowers. But I am appealing to the Supreme Court because it is too dangerous to allow the government to conduct national security policy completely in the dark."
In June 2014, the Supreme Court refused to take Risen's case on appeal, essentially ratifying a U.S. Court of Appeals decision that the First Amendment didn't protect a reporter from being forced to testify about "criminal conduct that the reporter personally witnessed or participated in." That decision makes clear that a reporter receiving classified information from a source is part of the crime of "leaking."
Risen has said he will go to prison rather than testify. It is possible that, having secured the precedent-setting right to send Risen to jail, the government will bring the suspected leaker to trial without calling on him. Attorney General Eric Holder recently hinted that his Justice Department might take that path – a break for Risen himself, but not for reporters more generally who now know that they can be jailed for refusing to divulge a source without hope of recourse to the Supreme Court.
The Descent Into Post-Constitutionalism
As with the King of England once upon a time, many of the things the government now does have been approved in secret, sometimes in secret courts according to a secret body of law. Sometimes, they were even approved openly by Congress. In constitutional America, the actions of the executive and the laws passed by Congress were only legal when they did not conflict with the underlying constitutional principles of our democracy. Not any more. "Law" made in secret, including pretzeled legal interpretations by the Justice Department for the White House, opened the way, for instance, to the use of torture on prisoners and in the Obama years to the drone assassination of Americans. Because such "legalities" remain officially classified, they are, of course, doubly difficult to challenge.
But can't we count on the usual pendulum swings in American life to change this? There were indeed notable moments in American history when parts of the Constitution were put aside, but none are truly comparable to our current situation. The Civil War lasted five years, with Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus limited in geography and robustly contested. The World War II Japanese internment camps closed after three years and the persecuted were a sub-set of Japanese-Americans from the West Coast. Senator McCarthy's notorious career as a communist-hunter lasted four years and ended in shame.
Almost 13 years after the 9/11 attacks, it remains "wartime." For the war on terror, the driver, excuse, and raison d'être for the tattering of the Bill of Rights, there is no end in sight. Recently retired NSA head Keith Alexander is typical of key figures in the national security state when he claims that despite, well, everything, the country is at greater risk today than ever before. These days, wartime is forever, which means that a government working ever more in secret has ever more latitude to decide which rights in which form applied in what manner are still inalienable.
The usual critical history of our descent into a post-constitutional state goes something like this: in the panic after the 9/11 attacks, under the leadership of Vice President Dick Cheney with the support of President George W. Bush, a cabal of top government officials pushed through legal-lite measures to (as they liked to say) "take the gloves off" and allow kidnapping, torture, illegal surveillance, and offshore imprisonment along with indefinite detentionwithout charges or trial.
Barack Obama, elected on a series of (false) promises to roll back the worst of the Bush-era crimes, while rejecting torture and closing America's overseas "black sites," still pushed the process forward in his own way. He expanded executive power, emphasized drone assassinations (including against American citizens), gave amnesty to torturers, increased government secrecy, targeted whistleblowers, and heightened surveillance. In other words, two successive administrations lied, performed legal acrobatics, and bullied their way toward a kind of absolute power that hasn't been seen since the days of King George. That's the common narrative and, while not wrong, it is incomplete.
Missing Are the People
One key factor remains missing in such a version of post-9/11 events in America: the people. Even today, 45% of Americans, when polled on the subject, agree that torture is "sometimes necessary and acceptable to gain information that may protect the public." Americans as a group seem unsure about whether the NSA's global and domestic surveillance is justified, and many remain convinced that Edward Snowden and the journalists who published his material are criminals. The most common meme related to whistleblowers is still "patriot or traitor?" and toward the war on terror, "security or freedom?"
It's not that Americans are incorrect to be fearful and feel in need of protection. The main thing we need to protect ourselves against, however, is not the modest domestic threat from terrorists, but a new king, a unitary executive that has taken the law for its own, aided and abetted by the courts, supported by a powerful national security state, and unopposed by a riven and weakened Congress. Without a strong Bill of Rights to protect us indeed, secure us from the dangers of our own government, we will have gone full-circle to a Post-Constitutional America that shares much in common with the pre-constitutional British colonies.
Yet there is no widespread, mainstream movement of opposition to what the government has been doing. It seems, in fact, that many Americans are willing to accept, perhaps even welcome out of fear, the death of the Bill of Rights, one amendment at a time.
We are the first to see, in however shadowy form, the outlines of what a Post-Constitutional America might look like. We could be the last who might be able to stop it.
8chan/8kun QResearch AUSTRALIA Posts (1)
#10780956 at 2020-09-25 09:12:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #10 - INFORMATION WARFARE Edition
Julian Assange dramatising about psychotic thoughts, court told
Julian Assange was "self dramatising" about psychotic thoughts and was unlikely to have Asperger syndrome, his extradition hearing has been told.
Nigel Blackwood, a forensic psychiatrist appearing for the US prosecution, told the Old Bailey in London that the WikiLeaks founder suffered from recurrent depression with "some risk of suicide".
But he said that risk had been carefully managed in London's Belmarsh prison, and risk factors were "modifiable and he engages with treatments to manage that risk''.
Dr Blackwood said Assange was "self-dramatising or hyperbolic approach in describing (his medical) symptoms'', adding it was important to look carefully at the clinical records as well in making diagnoses.
He said if Assange had been severely depressed with psychosis as earlier witness Michael Kopelman had claimed, then that professor should have organised an outside (the jail) referral.
"I do not agree with Kopelman's approach," Dr Blackwood said.
"I am objecting that he had Assange at the very severest end of depression ... if that was the case (prison doctor) Dr Daley was bound to refer him out to a secure unit so it could be treated. I object to him being put him at furthest end of the depression spectrum."
Assange is contesting extradition to the US, where he faces 18 spying counts and up to 175 years in jail.
Dr Blackwood, who had examined Assange twice, also said the Australian had some traits that were Asperger-like "but it does not go over the categorical diagnostic line. Even if he has an autistic spectrum disorder ... for me he's at the very mildest end of that diagnostic spectrum.''
Dr Blackwood said he had anxieties about such a diagnosis in a 49-year-old man where, despite the medical attention he had received in the past, there had never been a historic diagnosis of Asperger's.
In cross examination, Dr Blackwood said Assange had proven to be a resilient and resourceful man and that he underplayed those traits about himself.
He noted that predictions that Assange would be so depressed that he would not be able to engage in the legal process had not been proven to be the case.
He said that Assange's warmth, humour, banter, and running a very successful organisation raised doubts about the impact of any Asperger's disorder on his behaviour.
This is an important part of the trial because in other British cases, the issue of Asperger's was key to US extradition requests being denied.
Dr Blackwood said if US jail conditions previously described to the court included highly limited access to other inmates, lawyers and fresh air, it may have an impact on Assange's depressive disorder.
Lawyers from both sides have also demanded medical reports be kept suppressed from journalists "as a matter of principle".
Assange's legal team and those for the US prosecution, have asked judge Vanessa Baraitser to refuse journalists access to the reports made to the court by various medical experts.
The court has heard three days of medical evidence where various psychiatrists have referred to diagnoses of severe depression with psychotic hallucinations, details of Assange's medications, and analysis of his medical history. However the written testimonies of these witnesses has not been made available.
Meanwhile, the founder of Cryptome, a website which published unredacted US government diplomatic cables, has testified he has never been asked to remove the files by US authorities.
In a written statement, John Young told the court that he published the unredacted cables on September 1, 2011 after obtaining them from the URL http://193.198.207.6/wiki/file/xyz/z.gpg.
"Since my publication on Cryptome.org of the unredacted diplomatic cables, no US law enforcement authority has notified me that this publication of the cables is illegal, consists or contributes to a crime in any way, nor have they asked for them to be removed," he said.
The Old Bailey earlier heard how people learned about the presence of mirrored sites containing the encrypted WikiLeaks diplomatic cache and then separately about the passcode that unlocked the encryption, which was the chapter heading in a book co-written by Guardian journalist David Leigh.
Leigh had been one of the journalist partners working with Assange to redact names in the files leaked to WikiLeaks by the US military analyst Chelsea Manning.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/julian-assange-dramatising-about-psychotic-thoughts-court-told/news-story/d6dbc2c5f52ce0949ba41af98d15125b
8chan/8kun QResearch SOUTH AFRICA Posts (1)
#20918073 at 2024-05-26 16:16:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
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"Michael Kirby calls for freedom from religion | Matter of Fact"
https://youtu.be/snlQp3bPrl4
Oct 4, 2018
Former High Court justice Michael Kirby, an advocate for LGBTQI rights, speaks to Stan Grant about possible new religious freedom laws which he says might isolate and humiliate minorities.
Kirby, Michael — "Judicial Activism: Power Without Responsibility? No, Appropriate Activism Conforming to Duty" [2006] MelbULawRw 18; (2006) 30(2) Melbourne University Law Review 576
https://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MelbULawRw/2006/18.html
[...Developing ideas expressed in his 2003 Hamlyn Lectures on the same topic, the author asserts that creativity has always been part of the judicial function and duty in common law countries. He illustrates this statement by reference to the Australian Communist Party Case, and specifically the reasons of Dixon J, often cited as the exemplar of judicial restraint. He suggests that 'judicial activism' has become code language for denouncing important judicial decisions with which conservative critics disagree. By reference to High Court decisions on the meaning of 'jury' in s 80 of the Australian Constitution and cases on constitutional free speech, legal defence of criminal accused and native title, he explains the necessities and justifications of some judicial creativity...]
NOSTALGIC THOUGHTS
It is a special pleasure for me to present these thoughts in a session chaired by Sir John Young. It is 30 years since I first met him in his chambers in Melbourne as Chief Justice of Victoria. I had just been appointed to chair the Australian Law Reform Commission, a new federal agency established to advise on the reform of federal laws. I had the privilege of meeting the distinguished judges of the Supreme Court of Victoria who were members of the Chief Justice's Law Reform Committee. They included Sir Oliver Gillard, Sir Murray McInerney and Mr Justice Cliff Menhennitt. They were fine and talented judges. I learned much from them and from Sir John Young himself.
Dixon J has been praised for his adherence to the legal method. However, like all great judges of the common law tradition, he knew that the law cannot stand still. It moves and adapts to changing circumstances and different times. Those who deny this fact are wilfully blind to the realities of the judicial tradition to which we, the people of Britain, the United States and Australia, are heir. In our legal system, the judges are law-makers. They are not law-makers in the bold tradition of the other branches of government - the legislature and the executive. But law-making is part of the judicial function. Let there be no mistake about this.
To the blind or false-sayers who ignore or deny these simple facts, a question must be posed. Where else did the common law of England and its offshoots in America and Australia come from, if not from the judges? Look around the room of any judge or lawyer of our tradition and you will find bookshelves full of casebooks with legal exposition, explanation and development. It is not that the judges cannot help themselves. It is that, being a judge in our legal system necessarily involves the office-holder in a creative function. Recorded in those law books, indeed found on virtually every page, are the legal principles that form the bedrock of our system of law and precedent. It is as well that these home truths should be stated at the beginning of this conversazione so that those who live in the dream world where judges make no law can be given a rude awakening. Let them throw off their slumbers and be alert to the reality that surrounds them, if only they will look.
Nostalgic dreams of judges without choices, devoid of creativity, abjuring all 'activism', may be found in fairy stories. But for judges, lawyers and citizens who are obliged to live in the real world, it is necessary to face up to the requirements of judicial choice.
I did not think, so long after I was taught these basic rudiments about judicial choice, by my great professor and teacher of jurisprudence Julius Stone, that I would be obliged to come to an intellectual occasion to repeat the self-evident truths that he imparted nearly 50 years ago at the Sydney Law School. Stone was a disciple of Roscoe Pound. Indeed, Stone was almost appointed Dean of the Harvard Law School in succession to Pound in the 1930s. Had that happened, we would, to our great disadvantage, have lost the impact of his intellect and teaching in the Southern Hemisphere. But he came to these parts. He taught the truths that Roscoe Pound had taught. He made us face the realities of judicial choice. He required his students to acknowledge those realities. The students went on to become judges, lawyers and law teachers. The mask or blindfold of choice-free legal and judicial activity was cast aside. The debate moved to a higher plane.
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#12075 at 2018-01-07 05:29:13 (UTC+1)
The Storm General #15: EZ Bake Edition
Sad…
Astronaut John Young has died at age 87
#7243 at 2018-01-06 19:26:10 (UTC+1)
The Storm General #9: Q Is Back
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https://www.cbsnews. com/news/John-Young-legendary-moonwalker-and-shuttle-commander-dead-at-87/
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#140412 at 2024-05-17 12:57:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #437: NoBull Solutions Edition
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MAY 19, 2021
COVID-19 Vaccine Production Facility Failures
Emergent BioSolutions executives testified before the House Coronavirus Select Subcommittee about failures at their facility being used to produce Johnson and Johnson and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines. Emergent President and CEO Robert Kramer said a mixup occurred, because the facility was was producing the two vaccines simultaneosuly, which he called "unprecedented." Mr. Kramer testified the contamination impacted about 15 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. He spoke about remediation and said Emergent would be prepared to begin production "within a matter of days." Also participating was Emergent Founder and Executive Chair Faud El-Hibri. The two faced questions about the origins of the company's federal contract, executive compensation and Emergent stock sales, the number of COVID-19 vaccines the company had delivered to date, and the importance of intellectual property protections.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?511776-1/covid-19-vaccine-production-facility-failures
MAY 19, 2021
Commencement Speeches: President Biden Commencement Address at U.S. Coast Guard Academy
President Biden delivered a commencement address at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut. The president spoke about the importance and duty of the Coast Guard and his hopes for this generation of service people.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?511881-1/president-biden-commencement-address-us-coast-guard-academy
May 19, 2024
Pentecost 2024 in the United States
https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/pentecost
May 19, 2024
Dominican Republic
Legislative, Presidential Elections
https://www.ndi.org/2024-dominican-republic-presidential-and-legislative-elections
May 19, 2024
Mission and Pontifical Letter to the Holy Father's Special Envoy for the Celebration of the closing of the Virginian Jubilee Year at the Abbey of Saint Mary in Montevergine (Sunday of Pentecost, 19 May 2024), 14.05.2024
Holy See
https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2024/05/14/240514b.html
https://www.youtube.com/c/VaticanNews
May 19, 2024
12:10 AM EDT
Reel America: "The Lonely Eagles" - 1979
This U.S. Air Force recruitment film profiles the World War II service of the Tuskegee airmen by interviewing the veterans and showing archival film of their training and combat.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?454903-1/the-lonely-eagles
May 19, 2024
12:30 AM EDT
The Presidency: The American Vice Presidency. New York Times Chief White House Correspondent Peter Baker talked about the evolution of the American vice presidency. Having covered presidents from Bill Clinton through Joe Biden, he's observed the vice presidential tenures of Al Gore, Dick Cheney, Joe Biden, Mike Pence, and Kamala Harris. The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan, hosted this event.
American History/BookTV
https://www.c-span.org/video/?535073-1/american-vice-presidency
May 19, 2024
1:13 AM EDT
Congress Investigates: 1993 & 1995 Siege at Waco Hearings.
In 1993 and 1995, House committees examined events surrounding the deadly 1993 siege carried out by the federal government and other law enforcement agencies at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?533795-1/congress-investigates-waco-siege
https://www.c-span.org/networks/?channel=radio
May 19, 2024
1:30 AM EDT
Reel America: "Apollo 10, To Sort Out The Unknowns" - 1969. This NASA film documents the May 18 to May 26, 1969 Apollo mission with astronauts Thomas Stafford, Eugene Cernan and John Young. A rehearsal for the July, 1969 moon landing, the mission tested the undocking and docking of the lunar module, and its descent within nine miles of the moon's surface.
American History/BookTV
https://www.c-span.org/video/?460571-1/apollo-10-sort-unknowns
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May 18, 2024
10:30 PM EDT
Reel America: "Apollo 10, To Sort Out The Unknowns" - 1969. This NASA film documents the May 18 to May 26, 1969 Apollo mission with astronauts Thomas Stafford, Eugene Cernan and John Young. A rehearsal for the July, 1969 moon landing, the mission tested the undocking and docking of the lunar module, and its descent within nine miles of the moon's surface.
American History/BookTV
https://www.c-span.org/video/?460571-1/apollo-10-sort-unknowns
May 18, 2024
11:00 PM EDT
Lectures in History: The Road to Brown v. Board of Education. Prairie View A&M history professor Malachi Crawford discussed the evolution of civil rights law from efforts to dismantle Jim Crow and racial segregation to the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision which declared public education segregation to be unconstitutional. Prairie View A&M University is an historically black university located in Prairie View, Texas.
American History/BookTV
https://www.c-span.org/video/?535067-1/road-brown-v-board-education
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Highlights From Our Holdings at the National Archives
https://www.archives.gov/research/highlights
Iraq: Parliament Passes New Law Prohibiting Prostitution, Homosexuality, Gender Change Procedures
https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2024-05-15/iraq-parliament-passes-new-law-prohibiting-prostitution-homosexuality-gender-change-procedures/
Togo: New Constitution Promulgated
https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2024-05-16/togo-new-constitution-promulgated/
Fifty Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio
https://blinry.org/50-things-with-sdr/
New Web Page Highlights Records Held Around the Country
https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/highlights-from-our-holdings-2024
Alan Haley, Preservation Specialist
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2024/05/alan-haley-preservation-specialist/
Postmaster General and CEO Louis DeJoy's Remarks During May 9, 2024, Postal Service Board of Governors Meeting
https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2024/0509-pmg-and-ceo-louis-dejoy-remarks-during-may-9-usps-bog-meeting.htm
Jumble Sunday
https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochfun/jumble-sunday-4617649
Morsle
https://morsle.fun/
Today in History - May 19
https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/may-19
Word of the Day
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/word-of-the-day/2024/05/19.html
Proposed Protective Regulations for the Oceanic Whitetip Shark
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/action/proposed-protective-regulations-oceanic-whitetip-shark
Upcoming US Law Webinars - June 2024
https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2024/05/upcoming-us-law-webinars-june-2024/
Use This Special DocsTeach Page From the National Archives to Help Your Students Prepare for National History Day 2024.
https://docsteach.org/topics/nhd
MAY 19, 2011
U.S. Middle East Policy
President Obama talked about U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, focusing on political reforms after a wave of popular uprisings in Arab countries from Tunisia to Syria.
In his remarks he praised the democratic nature of the uprisings and contrasted the revolutionary sentiment with the terrorism of al-Qaida, and pledged moral and economic development support to assist the people of the region. He also called for a solution to the impasse in negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, specifically calling for a recognition of a sovereign Palestine along the 1967 borders. He remarked, "the status quo is unsustainable, and Israel too must act boldly to advance a lasting peace," and that "Palestinians will never realize their independence by denying the right of Israel to exist."
https://www.c-span.org/video/?299606-1/us-middle-east-policy
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May 18, 2024
12:00 PM EDT
2024 Armed Forces Day Commemoration
The National WWII Museum
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/events-programs/events/134277-2024-armed-forces-day-commemoration
May 18, 2024
12:00 PM EDT
Fur Trade Festival
Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area, Washington
https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/event-details.htm?id=CA6D2009-BEDD-E544-7843B3FE1DABDFA6
May 18, 2024
12:00 PM EDT
Pinkster Celebration
African Burial Ground National Monument, Manhattan, New York
https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/event-details.htm?id=1690060E-FCF8-DE35-44FAC299015D1B8F
May 18, 2024
12:00 PM EDT
Connecticut Historic Gardens Day with Friends of Weir Farm
Weir Farm National Historical Park, Connecticut
https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/event-details.htm?id=E43B88DE-AD25-E8DE-49B4D0118000EF57
May 18, 2024
12:00 PM EDT
Hubbell Trading Post Navajo Rugs & Jewelry at Bandelier National Monument
Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico
https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/event-details.htm?id=E1C5466F-99D9-2BFA-D4643FDDC8E17CED
May 18, 2024
12:10 PM EDT
Reel America: "The Lonely Eagles" - 1979
This U.S. Air Force recruitment film profiles the World War II service of the Tuskegee airmen by interviewing the veterans and showing archival film of their training and combat.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?454903-1/the-lonely-eagles
May 18, 2024
12:30 PM EDT
The Presidency: The American Vice Presidency. New York Times Chief White House Correspondent Peter Baker talked about the evolution of the American vice presidency. Having covered presidents from Bill Clinton through Joe Biden, he's observed the vice presidential tenures of Al Gore, Dick Cheney, Joe Biden, Mike Pence, and Kamala Harris. The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan, hosted this event.
American History/BookTV
https://www.c-span.org/video/?535073-1/american-vice-presidency
May 18, 2024
1:00 PM EDT
Blue Star Museums Kickoff Cookout
The National WWII Museum
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/events-programs/events/134276-blue-star-museums-kickoff-cookout
May 18, 2024
1:00 PM EDT
Chalmette Battlefield - Sewing Circle
Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, Louisiana
https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/event-details.htm?id=AF560DEB-0AE3-5E87-B10BC7DE015C1766
May 18, 2024
1:00 PM EDT
Kids to Parks Day with Friends of Weir Farm
Weir Farm National Historical Park, Connecticut
https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/event-details.htm?id=E2A54D3C-F6D1-BFBD-88350B4290BC7579
May 18, 2024
1:00 PM EDT
Meet and Greet with Marine Debris Artists
New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park, Massachusetts
https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/event-details.htm?id=76174A67-B964-820B-86A9D5CB14AF2478
May 18, 2024
1:00 PM EDT
Patriot Fife and Drum at Paul Revere House
Boston National Historical Park, Massachusetts
https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/event-details.htm?id=39A3E1A6-BC5E-BC4A-A0DE44F03DA7326D
May 18, 2024
1:00 PM EDT
African American Genealogy Group of Kentucky Present Dr. Amy M. Taylor
Camp Nelson National Monument, Kentucky
https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/event-details.htm?id=D7B527FF-9487-2BCC-A06D595E9C4B8405
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0oc-6qrj8qHtWMmXux3LDJUKuTBslxVd_5#/registration
May 18, 2024
1:30 PM EDT
Reel America: "Apollo 10, To Sort Out The Unknowns" - 1969. This NASA film documents the May 18 to May 26, 1969 Apollo mission with astronauts Thomas Stafford, Eugene Cernan and John Young. A rehearsal for the July, 1969 moon landing, the mission tested the undocking and docking of the lunar module, and its descent within nine miles of the moon's surface.
American History/BookTV
https://www.c-span.org/video/?460571-1/apollo-10-sort-unknowns
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May 18, 2024
10:00 AM EDT
Spring Photography Hike: Griffin Island
Cape Cod National Seashore, Massachussets
https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/event-details.htm?id=3D96598B-E1B7-98A2-1D76870CE8453919
May 18, 2024
10:00 AM EDT
Clamming 101
Canaveral National Seashore, Florida
https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/event-details.htm?id=524664EE-A9DC-7DD8-CE3F4947719AAE46
May 18, 2024
10:00 AM EDT
Porter Beach Restoration
Indiana Dunes National Park, Indiana
https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/event-details.htm?id=D1FBAD94-05A0-F6A6-C4807FD0C911879C
May 18, 2024
10:00 AM EDT
Junior Ranger Day at Valley Forge
Valley Forge National Historical Park, Pennsylvania
https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/event-details.htm?id=4505B2E0-9CB5-BA04-193E40BE86EB9044
May 18, 2024
10:00 AM EDT
Taken Only in Photographs: the Battle of Drewry's Bluff
Richmond National Battlefield Park, Virginia
https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/event-details.htm?id=CA3D5E96-ECB8-0817-8B77AC71E2457546
May 18, 2024
10:00 AM EDT
Pride of Baltimore II Deck Tours in Havre de Grace, MD
Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail, Maryland
https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/event-details.htm?id=7F569AAD-BB8D-6DD5-784AFBFA10A0A68C
ps.gov/planyourvisit/event-details.htm?id=CA3D5E96-ECB8-0817-8B77AC71E2457546
May 18, 2024
10:00 AM EDT
National Kids to Parks Day at Great Falls Tavern
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park, Maryland
https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/event-details.htm?id=B674139C-F661-805E-5D0EED98838B125B
May 18, 2024
10:00 AM EDT
Park Cleanup with the Friends of Anacostia Park
Anacostia Park, District of Columbia
https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/event-details.htm?id=415C8BA5-9797-704E-DC11C0B3DC8E23E6
May 18, 2024
10:00 AM EDT
Club House and Cottage Row Walk Tours
Johnstown Flood National Memorial, Pennsylvania
https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/event-details.htm?id=76C7B6CB-D350-3153-0013E7302A23384E
May 18, 2024
10:15 AM EDT
Royal Artillery Program
Yorktown Battlefield Part of Colonial National Historical Park, Virginia
https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/event-details.htm?id=DE0A4774-042B-87F8-D55AAF9138B47EE7
May 18, 2024
10:30 AM EDT
Reel America: "Apollo 10, To Sort Out The Unknowns" - 1969. This NASA film documents the May 18 to May 26, 1969 Apollo mission with astronauts Thomas Stafford, Eugene Cernan and John Young. A rehearsal for the July, 1969 moon landing, the mission tested the undocking and docking of the lunar module, and its descent within nine miles of the moon's surface.
American History/BookTV
https://www.c-span.org/video/?460571-1/apollo-10-sort-unknowns
May 18, 2024
10:30 AM EDT
Service Saturday: Volunteer Event
Arches National Park, Utah
https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/event-details.htm?id=3C66B4AE-A077-0FD0-3BE96B18A55C0194
May 18, 2024
10:30 AM EDT
"Louder than the Song of Southern Katydids:" The Role of Artillery at Chickamauga
Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park, Georgia
https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/event-details.htm?id=A52F70BF-95DC-5930-764D264E29142A9D
May 18, 2024
11:00 AM EDT
Lectures in History: The Road to Brown v. Board of Education. Prairie View A&M history professor Malachi Crawford discussed the evolution of civil rights law from efforts to dismantle Jim Crow and racial segregation to the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision which declared public education segregation to be unconstitutional. Prairie View A&M University is an historically black university located in Prairie View, Texas.
American History/BookTV
https://www.c-span.org/video/?535067-1/road-brown-v-board-education
May 18, 2024
11:00 AM EDT
Concord's North Bridge: History and Memory
Minute Man National Historical Park, Massachussets
https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/event-details.htm?id=1ADBA05A-E862-E100-12CA9EE8D61B9752
May 18, 2024
11:00 AM EDT
Kids to Parks Day
Gateway Arch National Park, Missouri
https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/event-details.htm?id=45B599A9-AA7F-81F1-4BAE784977FEF78F
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