Gary Rumor’s Anti-Entropic Continuum

Najibullah Zazi has been arrested for making a hydrogen peroxide bomb. At least that is what he is being accused of by the FBI. Two others were arrested one in Illinois and one in Texas for planning to blow up bridges and buildings.
This is from the Wall Street Journal.

“Colorado Man Is Charged in U.S. Bomb Probe
By CAM SIMPSON and EVAN PEREZ
WASHINGTON — A grand jury indicted a 24-year-old Afghan immigrant on a charge of conspiring to carry out bombings in the U.S., alleging he and unnamed others planned to make explosives from hair products and household cleaners in what officials say may be the first al Qaeda cell disrupted on American soil since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Prosecutors unsealed a single-count indictment Thursday charging that Najibullah Zazi, an airport-shuttle driver from Aurora, Colo., was involved with others in a plot to bomb “persons and property within the United States” — a plot Mr. Zazi allegedly remained committed to until his arrest last weekend.
Lawyers for Mr. Zazi said in court that they hadn’t received nor reviewed the new charges and supporting documentation, and had no comment. If convicted, he could receive up to a life sentence, prosecutors said. He is being held without bond.
Prosecutors detailed alleged actions over more than a year, starting with a 2008 trip to what the Federal Bureau of Investigation called an al Qaeda training camp in Pakistan, then accelerating during the three months leading up to Sept. 11, 2009.
In that period, Mr. Zazi and his associates allegedly scoured beauty supply shops and checked home improvement stores to get the ingredients for explosives favored by al Qaeda and similar to those used to bomb commuter trains and a bus in London in July 2005, killing 56. Among the products Mr. Zazi and his associates purchased — in some cases while being recorded on video — were “Liquid Developer Clairoxide” and “Ion Sensitive Scalp Developer,” authorities said.
Chemical residues created by apparent efforts to cook bomb ingredients in an Aurora hotel room used by Mr. Zazi were also found by FBI technicians, prosecutors said.
Mr. Zazi, who is a legal permanent resident in the U.S., allegedly had recipes for the explosives in his laptop that were emailed to accounts that he controlled while he was still in Pakistan.
U.S. officials have long warned that al Qaeda leaders had re-established a safe haven in the tribal areas of Pakistan and were seeking to train operatives they could send into the U.S.
It is unclear whether the individuals alleged to have traveled to Pakistan with Mr. Zazi were also trained, or whether they are the same associates who later allegedly made chemical purchases in Colorado. The FBI has said the plot extends to Pakistan, Colorado, Queens and beyond.
In December 2008, while Mr. Zazi was still in Pakistan, authorities allege that photo images were emailed to two accounts he could access. They contained nine pages of handwritten notes detailing specifications for making explosives, including the recipe for Triacetone Triperoxide, known as TATP, prosecutors said. The notes were later found on his laptop computer.
TATP is the explosive used in the London transit bombings and a foiled follow-up plot, and the FBI has warned for about the past two years of what it calls al Qaeda’s growing interest in the explosive. The three main components in TATP are hydrogen peroxide, acetone and a strong acid, such as hydrochloric acid.
—Chad Bray and Stephanie Simon contributed to this article.
Write to Cam Simpson at cam.simpson@wsj.com and Evan Perez at evan.perez@wsj.com”

Things are heating up it seems. The USA keeps going around the world attacking poor Muslims and Muslims continue to get fed up and decide to take the struggle back to the Americans. All we have to do is stop interfering in the affairs of the rest of the world and we at least will be able to take the moral high ground. Stopping torture is a good first step, but we need to do much more. We need to stop attacking countries like Iraq and Afghanistan and mind our own business. What policy goals are we furthering in either country? Iraq is a state we have destroyed. We should get out and send financial aid to make up for the damage we have done. Afghanistan is another state that we have destroyed. First we help start Al Qaeda and then when they turn on us we go after the very country we helped them liberate from the Russians. Although reinstating islamic fundamentalist rule after we destroy a socialist government is hardly what I would call liberation.
We have bombed every potential target in Afghanistan and we have helped set up a narco government similar to the one we established in Columbia. The CIA and other agencies need these narco states to help them fund their black operations that are off budget. This drug dealing is disguised as a war on drugs which is really an excuse to get in there and enforce their role getting a cut of the profits from the drug trade. This is naturally not the primary source of funding for the CIA and other covert intelligence units but it has been an integral part of US policy at least since the Vietnam War.

Today the G-20 summit protests began in earnest with anarchist and environmentalist protesters battling with cops in the streets of Pittsburgh.

This is from something called the Thaindian News

“Police fire tear gas at G-20 protesters in Pittsburgh
September 25th, 2009 - 3:51 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt -
Pittsburgh, Sep 24 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Police clashed with the unpermitted anti-capitalist protest march G-20 protestors on the streets of Pittsburgh. The police had to resort to tear gas and pepper spray to try to disperse the crowd, after the protesters barricaded the street as well.
According to news agency reports, officers made their announcement over a loudspeaker telling people to leave or face arrest or “other police action.”
The police authorities were ready for trouble on the eve of the G-20 summit, officers ordered several hundred protesters from a group which calls itself the G20 Project Resistance to stop their protest march, which the police said was not sanctioned by the city.
Protesters paid no heed to the police warnings and are reported to have turned violent, overturning six rubbish bins that were being used to barricade the street and rolling them with speed towards the police. Some protesters are also said to be using pallets and corrugated steel to block a road.
Leaders of the all the G20 nations, including US President and other high profile dignitaries, began arriving in Pittsburgh after the end of the UN General Assembly in New York. The two-day summit is aimed at shoring up the world economy and tightening rules after the financial crisis, so as to prevent further economic melt-downs.”

Senators Charles Schumer and Jay Rockefeller are calling for a roll call vote on public option amendments they are offering tomorrow. Senator Schumer thinks it is an uphill battle in the Senate Finance committee but once it gets out into the general senate he thinks it has a much better chance of passing. Senator Schumer says this is just the beginning of the battle in the Senate. He made these comments on Rachel Maddow’s show.

Glenn Beck made an absurd comment about the intent of the Constitution regarding slavery and the amendment limiting the Congresses ability to eliminate the importation of slaves before 1808. This is from Media Matters.

“Does Glenn Beck support the slave trade or is he just an “idiot”?
September 23, 2009 8:16 pm ET
Beck claims to provide authoritative explanation of Constitution’s meaning
Beck explains to “idiots” what “our Founding Fathers really intended” in the Constitution. In the introduction to a chapter titled, “The U.S. Constitution: Lost in Translation,” Beck mocks “idiots” who don’t share his interpretation of the Constitution:
How many times have you argued with your idiot friends about what’s constitutional and what isn’t? You may even show them the Constitution, but the disagreement continues. That made me think that maybe the problem is that the entire Constitution is written in English — a language that is very difficult for the average idiot to comprehend. In addition, there are several words in the document longer than three letters, making it a tougher read than the “Dick and Jane” books they normally struggle through.
What follows is a translation (from English to Idiot) of several important parts of the U.S. Constitution, leaving no doubt as to what our Founding Fathers really intended. [Beck, et. al, Arguing With Idiots, Page 267]
Beck praises constitutional provision protecting slave trade
Beck praises “Migration or Importation” tax provision in taking cheap shot at “immigrants.” In the chapter, Beck reprints and then praises Article I, Section 9, Clause 1 of the Constitution. Beck specifically highlights in yellow the phrase “ten dollars for each person”:
Section 9. The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.
That’s right, the Founders actually put a price tag on coming to this country: $10 per person. Apparently they felt like there was a value to being able to live here. Not anymore. These days we can’t ask anything of immigrants — including that they abide by our laws. [Arguing with Idiots, Page 278]
Provision Beck praised actually “barred Congress from ending the international slave trade before 1808.” As noted by Yale Law School professor Akhil Reed Amar: “To make matters worse, despite the new Congress’s general Article I, section 8 power over international commerce, section 9 barred Congress from ending the international slave trade before 1808. By that time, the Deep South hoped to have enough extra muscle in Congress, based on white migration and slave importation, to thwart any possible antislavery constitutional amendments and perhaps even to weaken any proposed ban on further slave importation. … [T]he 1808 date itself was exempt from constitutional amendment under Article V.” [Amar, America’s Constitution: A Biography, Page 91]
“$10 per person” provision Beck praised incentivized slave trade. According to Amar: “The big money would likely flow [to the federal government] — and after 1789 did in fact flow — from federal levies on imports, yet these levies fell outside the ambit of the three-fifths clause. Indeed, by capping pre-1808 federal taxes at ten dollars per imported slave, Article I gave slave importers a special twenty-year exemption from the plenary taxation power that Congress would enjoy over all other imports.” [Amar, America’s Constitution: A Biography, Page 94]
Constitutional Convention delegate recognized that “$10 per person” provision protected slave trade. According to James Madison’s notes from the 1787 Constitutional Convention, Connecticut delegate Roger Sherman — who supported the 1808 clause and other efforts by the South to protect slavery in the Constitution — recognized that the $10 tax limit that Beck highlighted prevented Congress from taxing the slave trade out of existence. According to Madison, Sherman “observed that the smallness of the duty shewed revenue to be the object, not the discouragement of the importation.”

At least now people know about Acorn. It is a pretty decent group as I have indicated before. Rachel Maddow has dug up the source of the anti Acorn people. Richard Berman is a corporate lobbyist who has dedicated his “Employment Policy Institute” that is a non profit that is funded by corporations to go after Acorn. He is head of a laundry list of front groups who take on causes for the sake of corporate groups. He has a site called “Rotten Acorn.com” where he hypes his anti Acorn rhetoric.

Here is an article from the Washington Post that has some factual information about ACORN.

“For ACORN, Truth Lost Amid the Din

By Harold Meyerson
Thursday, September 24, 2009

So what does ACORN actually do, anyway?
What’s been obscured amid all the polemics, or the polemics passing as news reports, is what ACORN is and does. Founded in Little Rock in 1970 as an organization agitating for free school lunches, Vietnam veterans’ rights and more hospital emergency rooms, ACORN has grown in the past four decades into the nation’s largest community organizing group. Based in low-income neighborhoods, it has nearly 500,000 dues-paying members, recruited by door-to-door canvassers, with chapters in 110 cities in 40 states. Nationwide, it has more than 1,000 staffers.
What are the projects on which all these staffers and members work? Raising the minimum wage, for one. ACORN conceived and led the successful initiative campaign to raise the wage in Florida in 2004 and in four more states in 2006. In the past four years, it successfully pressured seven legislatures in other states to raise their minimum wage as well.
Another major campaign has been to limit the interest and fees that banks charge homeowners. In the 1990s, ACORN spearheaded a number of legal actions, often joined by states’ attorneys general, that compelled such lenders as Citigroup to change many of their practices. The group has led successful drives to outlaw the most egregious predatory lending in nine states. It also counsels thousands of inner-city homeowners and home buyers.
ACORN’s third focus has been to expand the electorate. In the 2007-08 election cycle, it registered 1.3 million new voters in the nation’s inner cities. This activity particularly vexed many Republican politicians, who have repeatedly accused the organization of massive voter fraud. The Bush administration’s politicization of the Justice Department — its widely reported firing of U.S. attorneys for their failure to bring voter fraud indictments (all of them looked and could find scarcely any instances of same) — stemmed from the administration’s apparent desire to depress minority turnout, a goal it sought to accomplish by demonizing ACORN.
Now, how much of this would you know from following the stories about ACORN that have been running in even the best of the media? Little to nothing, as Peter Dreier, a professor of politics at Occidental College, and Christopher R. Martin, a professor of journalism at University of Northern Iowa, just concluded in an exhaustive study of news coverage of ACORN. Looking at the 647 stories on the group that ran in leading newspapers and broadcast networks in 2007 and 2008, they found that not only did a majority of such stories focus on allegations of voter fraud but also that 83 percent of the stories that linked ACORN to those allegations failed to mention that actual instances of voter fraud were all but nonexistent.
Dreier and Martin also note that newspapers in cities where ACORN has long been active against predatory lending and in voter registration — they studied the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Minneapolis Star Tribune and the Cleveland Plain Dealer — provided more balanced stories and relied less on partisan sources than the national papers did. But with some national newspapers shuttering their domestic bureaus, the truth about ACORN — the nation’s premier tribune for the poor — may be harder and harder to find.
meyersonh@washpost.com”

I cannot add any more Rachel Maddow says she is fighting mad about the Lies being spread about ACORN. Good for you Rachel. What has the President done? Nothing. This former community activist seems not to be interested when fellow activists, advocating for the poor are attacked by a campaign of slander and lies. Come on Obama speak up for your fellow community activists.

Today a gold horde found in England was announced. It is the biggest horde yet found in England. I am a real fan of that period of history the early middle ages. I hope a decent museum gets this find and takes it on the road. Read some of these descriptions. It seems positively delectable.

This is from CNN Europe.

“Englishman’s metal detector finds record treasure trove
•Amateur metal detectorist found treasure in a field in Staffordshire, England
•Hoard described as the largest ever found, including more than 1,500 pieces
•Value of find said to be “priceless,” team to assess collection over next year
•Hoard includes five kilograms of gold, 2.5 kilograms of silver, jeweled items

LONDON, England (CNN) — A man using a metal detector in a rural English field has uncovered the largest Anglo-Saxon gold hoard ever found — an “unprecedented” treasure that sheds new light on history, archaeologists said Thursday.
It’s an “incredible collection of material — absolutely unprecedented,” said Kevin Leahy, an archaeologist with the Portable Antiquities Scheme, a voluntary group that records finds made by members of the public. “We’ve moved into new ground with this material.”
The hoard was discovered in July by Englishman Terry Herbert, who was using a metal detector he bought more than a decade ago in a jumble sale for only a few pounds (dollars). He belongs to a local metal detecting club in Staffordshire and was just out enjoying his hobby when he made the find.
Herbert found 500 items before he called in experts, who then found a further 800 articles in the soil. Officials aren’t saying exactly where the gold was found, other than to say it was in Staffordshire, in north-central England.
The pieces are almost all war gear, Leahy said. There are very few dress fittings and no feminine dress fittings; there are only two gold buckles, and they were probably used for harness armor, he said.
Sword hilt fittings and pieces of helmets, all elaborately decorated, are among the more remarkable finds.
“The quantity of gold is amazing but, more importantly, the craftsmanship is consummate,” Leahy said. “This was the very best that the Anglo-Saxon metalworkers could do, and they were very good. Tiny garnets were cut to shape and set in a mass of cells to give a rich, glowing effect; it is stunning.”
“It looks like a collection of trophies, but it is impossible to say if the hoard was the spoils from a single battle or a long and highly successful military career,” he said.
Many of the objects are inlaid with garnets, which Leahy called “stunning” and “as good as it gets.” The filigree on the items is “incredible,” he said.
Some are decorated in an Anglo-Saxon style consisting of strange animals intertwined with each other. That decoration appears on what is believed to be the cheek-piece of a helmet, decorated with a frieze of running, interlaced animals.
A strip of gold bearing a Biblical inscription in Latin is one of the most significant and controversial finds, Staffordshire Council said. One expert believes the lettering dates from the 7th or early 8th centuries, but another is sure it dates from the 8th or 9th centuries.
The inscription, misspelled in places, is probably from the Book of Numbers and reads: “Surge domine et dissipentur inimici tui et fugiant qui oderunt te a facie tua,” or “Rise up, o Lord, and may thy enemies be dispersed, and let them that hate thee, flee from before thy face.”

I can hardly wait for it to tour LA. Maybe I will go to England to see it on display in Birmingham. And I think I will end on this upbeat note. Paul Kirk is the 60th democrat in the Senate. He has just been selected to take the Kennedy post by the Governor of Massachusetts Deval Patrick.

Tags: Kirk Senator From Mass. G20 Protesters attacked, US Out of Afghanistan. ACORN Defended.

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