Police Brutality

The Way I C It

Police desperately need training in Psychological and Social Skills because they never know how to speak to people in order to assess and diffuse a situation.

The abusive video below happened in New Mexico

(November 2013)

DUMBING DOWN. Zombies seem to be getting smarter. Are we?

DUMBING DOWN

Zombies seem to be getting smarter.  Are we?

I read somewhere that Walking Dead Season 4 zombies will be smarter and adapting quickly. As television, movie and X-box game zombies are figuring out that there are more ways to skin the cat, we, on the other hand are wasting more and more time sitting in front of these screens in a hypnotic state.  When we are in this hypnotic state, which is within the first 5 minutes, the brain washing begins by bombarding us with thousands of frame clicks and changes which does not seem to disturb the everyday pixel animation addict but only intensifies the openness to continue being further brain washed.

He who can control the minds of the people, can also effectively control them.

Example: Submitting to Control

·        School Curriculum (Believing what we are taught in school as truths through books)

·        Mainstream Media (Believing what we hear through speech, shown on television and read in newspapers and magazines)

·        Psychiatric Disability Diagnosis: (Believing we have a psychiatric disorder by a psychiatrist or primary care doctor. Couldn’t it be that we have gone through some rough times or do not pay attention to boring stuff? Psychiatric diagnosis is a way our self reliance is removed)

·        Psychotropic Drugs: Believing the psychiatric diagnosis to be correct and true, therefore willing to take drugs which dumb us down and keep us under control. We then lose our sense of self, our creativity, our ambition and fight for life when taking psychotropic drugs.

At the Work Place

Personnel, is now called, Human Resources.

re·source noun

1.

a source of supply, support, or aid, especially one that can be readily drawn upon when needed.

2.

resources, the collective wealth of a country or its means of producing wealth.

3.

Usually, resources. money, or any property that can be converted into money; assets.

4.

Often, resources. an available means afforded by the mind or one's personal capabilities: to have resource against loneliness.

5.

an action or measure to which one may have recourse in an emergency; expedient.

Our lives at work have made us unwitting actors reflecting others imaginations and not what we thought our lives would be. Why? The simple answer is because we have subjugated into being psychologically controlled without ever realizing it. Our minds have been harnessed and subsumed in order to be placed into a collective group of people who will do as they have been taught through language, media, training sessions and subtle intimidation tactics. We have unwittingly become as robots; male and female Stepford People because of our inherent nature to want to belong or fit in; as well as since childhood, to be controlled.

(Stepford Wives 1975 Movie Clip)

When we are creative, we can still dream, see ourselves going towards the direction of those dreams and then eagerly taking steps towards turning those dreams into reality. Creativity is exciting but it is not cost productive to the company we work at when we are stuck in a role as a cog helping the wheel to turn in the corporate world. Creativity releases us from being trapped as a cog but many of us lose our creativity when we become brainwashed into believing we are nothing without those jobs we hold in exchange for a small compensation which become even smaller after taxes have been taken from the state, city and government.  For now, we will all pay taxes weather we are working our dream job, for corporate America or private industry but if we realize what the powers of words, media, advertising and film have been doing to us and resist, we may begin to live a more fulfilling life.  We all have creative power and imagination. Do not drink the Kool-Aid! Invent your own reality. It may be too late for some but not for you.

COLLECTIVE THINKING

We have all seen the footage of the 9-11 attacks on the World Trade Towers in New York City, read about it and heard the news casts of that day, August 2^nd, 2001.  We should then all be in agreement or share the collective thinking in believing that the attack was orchestrated by Osama Bin Laden and carried out by extremist Muslim jihadists who hate the United States. Why then aren’t we? Why do some believe that the attacks were orchestrated by the United States government?  The answer is one which many have yet to learn to do.  Those who have opened their eyes to truth, who has resisted believing everything they are being shown and told by mainstream media and the government and have refused to drink the Kool- Aid, have instead dared to ask hard questions and come up with the most logical answer.

Once we begin to realize what has been done to us in order to dumb us down, it is as if a light bulb has popped over our heads brightly and we begin to want to know more of the truth.  We must remember to rely on all our own resources to find more of this truth.  In my opinion, it is the only way to regain control of our lives.

At least, That’s The Way I C It.

I HAD SHINGLES

Short Version to Describe Shingles

Shingles is caused by the same virus that causes chickenpox.

After you have chickenpox, the virus that caused it, called varicella, remains in your body.
It's always inside you, lying dormant (or asleep) in your nerve cells.
At some point later in life, your immune system may weaken, allowing the virus to resurface as Shingles.
You may be feeling great, but if you've had chickenpox, the Shingles virus is already inside you and your risk for Shingles increases as you get older.
Most often, the Shingles rash occurs in a band or strip on one side of the body; this band is called a dermatome, which is the area where one of the nerves from your spinal cord connects with the skin.
Shingles usually appears along a dermatome, each of which is located on one side of the body.
Shingles may also appear on a single side of the face, for example, in the area around the eye and the forehead but Shingles can strike any dermatome on the body.

Longer Description of Shingles

Shingles, also called herpes zoster or zoster, is a painful skin rash caused by the same virus that causes chickenpox (VZV). After a person recovers from chickenpox, the virus stays in the body. Usually the virus does not cause any problems; however, the virus can reappear years later, causing a rash of shingles to break out on the skin. Shingles most commonly occurs in older people or those who have medical conditions that keep the immune system from working properly. Signs & Symptoms: Shingles usually starts as a rash on one side of the face or body. The rash starts as blisters that scab after 3 to 5 days. The rash usually clears within 2 to 4 weeks. Before the rash develops, there is often pain, itching, or tingling in the area where the rash will develop. Other symptoms of shingles can include fever, headache, chills, and upset stomach. For about 1 person in 5, severe pain can continue even after the rash clears up. This pain is called post-herpetic neuralgia.  Prevention: Shingles is not contagious, but the chickenpox virus (VZV) can be spread to anyone who has not had chickenpox through direct contact with the rash while it is in the blistering phase. The exposed person will develop chickenpox, not shingles. Once the rash has developed crusts, the person is no longer contagious. People with shingles should keep the rash covered, not touch or scratch the rash, and wash their hands often to prevent the spread of VZV.

Before you actually see the blistered rash, you may experience a burning pain which almost feels like a bad sunburn.(That is how it was for me)  You may also notice redness or a slight swelling.  Two -Three days later, sometimes even longer, you will then begin to see the rash which appears as blisters. Some people, such as I, may think they have gotten bitten or stung by an insect and believe they can treat it at home. I desperately took my bed apart in search of bed bugs but found none, I tried cold packs, hot packs, Witch Hazel, Benedryl and even Tincture of Benzine but nothing alleviated the paralyzing pain.  Six days later, on June 12th, I visited my primary care doctor who, just by looking at my back, informed me that I had Shingles.  He prescribed 30 blue oblong shaped (400mg) tablets of Acyclovir to take 5 times a day for the virus as well as a prescription for 90 white and light brown capsules (100mgs) of Gabapentin which are time release pain killers for neuropathic pain.

Neuropathic Pain

Neuropathic pain is a complex, chronic pain state that usually is accompanied by tissue injury. With neuropathic pain, the nerve fibers themselves may be damaged, dysfunctional, or injured. These damaged nerve fibers send incorrect signals to other pain centers. The impact of nerve fiber injury includes a change in nerve function both at the site of injury and areas around the injury.

 Pain Which I Experienced

Having Shingles did in fact give me neuropathic pain, as I at times could not even feel my fingertips and my elbow would tingle burn and at times also numb..  I experienced maddening sleep deprivation, anxiety and near depression  I was afraid to walk my dog during the day because under the hot Florida sun, I felt as though the sun's rays were piercing through my loose fitting tee shirts and boiling the tiny blisters on my back. I isolated myself from my family and would not go visit them for fear of contaminating them or even worse, that their embrace would send me through the roof in pain.. Lifting my arms to wash my hair was also painful, though the shower water hitting my back felt as though I was being gently scratched by an angel. This virus can be a maddening experience for those with a low threshold for long enduring pain and discomfort. 

The pus-filled small sacs of the virus dried up almost immediately after I completed my dosages of Acyclovir, 7-9 days later; but I still have numbing of my left upper arm to my elbow as well as the chest pain which feels like I am having a heart attack.  The pain now usually occurs during the evening when I am in bed preparing to sleep and during the morning when I awaken; it is still so strong that I now dread when evening comes because I know how much pain, discomfort and restlessness I will feel while trying to sleep followed by the morning pain and chest pressure. Weakness and tiredness is also something I am still going through yet, I feel that I am fortunate because the Shingles which attacked me are relatively small compared to pictures I have seen of affected areas of others.

Below are some pictures of the Shingles which surfaced on June 8th, two days after the painful burning. Though they never spread to the front of my body, I still did and do feel pain on the left breast bone.

Notice that they are on the left side of my back. One small cluster of three did also manage to appear under my arm pit as well and that one was the most painful of them all.

Below are some worse affected areas of other people attacked by the Shingles virus

Shingles Vaccine

There is a vaccine for Shingles but I chose not to take it, as I never take any vaccines because you never know what effect vaccines will have on your body 5-10 years down the line. Something I found out about the Shingles vaccine is that Shingles vaccine contains consensual aborted fetal cell tissue as well as MSG.

Monosodium Glutamate, better known as MSG, is a form of concentrated salt. This salt version of glutamic acid is an amino acid the body can produce on its own. If it is processed, it can cause many adverse reactions, including skin rashes, itching, hives, nausea, vomiting, migraine headaches, asthma, heart irregularities, depression and even seizures.

The ingredients of the shingles vaccine according to the product information insert consist the following:

“ZOSTAVAX is a lyophilized preparation of the Oka/Merck strain of live, attenuated varicella-zoster virus (VZV). ZOSTAVAX, when reconstituted as directed, is a sterile suspension for subcutaneous administration. Each 0.65-mL dose contains a minimum of 19,400 PFU (plaque-forming units) of Oka/Merck strain of VZV when reconstituted and stored at room temperature for up to 30 minutes. Each dose contains 31.16 mg of sucrose, 15.58 mg of hydrolyzed porcine gelatin, 3.99 mg of sodium chloride, 0.62 mg of monosodium L-glutamate (MSG), 0.57 mg of sodium phosphate dibasic, 0.10 mg of potassium phosphate monobasic, 0.10 mg of potassium chloride; residual components of MRC-5 cells including DNA and protein; and trace quantities of neomycin and bovine calf serum. The product contains no preservatives.”

The good news is that there are not any thimerosal or aluminum in the shingles vaccine.
The bad news is that there is MSG in there along with aborted fetal cell tissue.   

“The MRC-5 cell line was developed in September 1966 from lung tissue taken from a 14 week fetus aborted for psychiatric reason from a 27 year old physically healthy woman.”

Now that you I have given you a small amount of information regarding Shingles and the vaccine, I would hope it is enough for you to continue to find out more about it before making a decision to get the vaccine.

Me? The Way I C It... I am glad that I did not take the shot and am just letting the virus run it's course until it goes away.

Please boost up your immune systems my friends and know that,
By His stripes I am healed!
The Bible (Isaiah 53:5)

UNITED STATES: ARE WE SAFE HERE??

The Way I C It,

Something is rotten in Denmark

This is a Shakespearean quote from Shakespeare's story,  "Hamlet." Act I, Scene 4: Marcellus (an officer) says, "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark," having just seen the ghost of Hamlet's father, the late king of Denmark.The phrase means "things are unsatisfactory; some thing's fishy, something does not smell right to me, there is something wrong."

I use to to believe that being a United States citizen has always guaranteed my safety and that, as my daughter once put it in a grade school essay; the police officer is my friend.I use to believe that the President of the United States is a man to be respected by all.  I also once believed that all clergy, teachers and the elderly have wisdom which they pass on to us and that they should be respected and placed on a pedestal with the rest of the above. Geraldo Rivera was a role model for me and inspired me to want to major in English because perhaps I could someday become a reporter because reporters were here to inform us of the truth.To be honest, I held on to these beliefs way into my 30's. I did not even pay attention to Nixon and the Watergate tapes. For those of you who do not know what the deal was with the first U.S. President to be impeached, here it is in a nutshell.The Watergate scandal was a political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement. The scandal eventually led to the resignation of Richard Nixon, the President of the United States, on August 9, 1974, the only resignation of a U.S. President. The scandal also resulted in the indictment, trial, conviction and incarceration of 43 people, including dozens of top Nixon administration officials. I was seventeen or eighteen at the time.The affair began with the arrest of five men for breaking and entering into the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate complex on June 17, 1972. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) connected cash found on the burglars to a slush fund used by the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, a fundraising group for the Nixon campaign. In July 1973, as evidence mounted against the president's staff, including testimony provided by former staff members in an investigation conducted by the Senate Watergate Committee, it was revealed that President Nixon had a tape-recording system in his offices and he had recorded many conversations. Recordings from these tapes implicated the president, revealing he had attempted to cover up the break-in. After a protracted series of bitter court battles, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the president had to hand over the tapes to government investigators; he ultimately complied.Facing near-certain impeachment in the House of Representatives and a strong possibility of a conviction in the Senate, Nixon resigned the presidency on August 9, 1974. The following president, Gerald Ford, not surprisingly, issued a pardon to Nixon. I was 19 years old then.The day my rose colored glasses began to lose some of the lovely tint was when my parents, on their way to a wedding had been held up at knife point in the parking lot of the reception area.  I know what you're thinking.  You are thinking that it was the hold up which jaded me but you are wrong.  While my parents were in the police station reporting their mugging, 2 police officers led my parents to some holding cells and asked them if it was "any of, those guys." There were 6 African American young men in the cells and when my parents told  the officers that none of the six were the culprits, one of the police officers asked them to just pick out any two of them.  Of course my parents didn't but were aghast at the suggestion.  I was in my early twenties then. 

 I always thought that the United States set the example;  now I am seeing that we are being made an example of.  Why can't countries just leave each to do what they do?  Why is there so much interference?  We all need to reform and take care of our own. We need peace in our world!  Who will be the bigger country and set the example?

 

WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THESE PEOPLE?

Presidents - Richard M. Nixon was corrupt. Bill Clinton was a liar and a hot ass.  The Bush father and son presidents were the sneaks and liars who killed many, not by hand but in their own way due to American Greed.Lawyers - Thieves who work hand in hand with prosecuting attorney. They wheel and deal.Judges - Have free reign to do what would bring in revenue for the courts and the county which in turn would give them more prestige, a higher income and gifts/favors under the table; breeding corruption.

Police Officers - March 3, 1991- Rodney Glen King (April 2, 1965 – June 17, 2012) was an African-American construction worker who, while on parole for robbery, became nationally known after being beaten with excessive force by Los Angeles police officers following a high-speed car chase on March 3, 1991. George Holliday, a resident in the nearby area, witnessed the beating and videotaped much of it from the balcony of his nearby apartment.The videotaped footage shows five Los Angeles area officers surrounding King and several of them striking him repeatedly. During the struggle to subdue King, other officers stood by, without seeming to take action to stop King from being struck. A portion of the footage was aired around the world, inflaming public outrage in Los Angeles and other American cities where racial tension was often high. The videotape also increased public sensitivity to, and anger about, police brutality, racism, and other social inequalities throughout the United States.Four of the police officers from the LAPD who engaged in the incident were charged in Los Angeles County Superior Court with assault with a deadly weapon and use of excessive force for their conduct during the incident. After a judicial finding that a fair and impartial jury could not be impaneled in Los Angeles County, the case was given a change of venue to the city of Simi Valley, in Ventura County, where they were tried. On April 29, 1992, three of the four police officers, (Koon, Wind, and Briseno) were acquitted of all charges. The jury acquitted the fourth officer, (Powell), on the assault with a deadly weapon charge but failed to reach a verdict on the use of excessive force charge. The jury deadlocked at 8-4 in favor of acquittal.The acquittals are generally considered to have triggered the 1992 Los Angeles riots, in which 53 people were killed, and over two thousand were injured. The riots ended after soldiers from the United States Army National Guard, along with United States Marines from nearby Camp Pendleton, California, were called in to assist local authorities and quell the riots.On August 4, 1992 a Federal Grand Jury after hearing evidence from federal prosecutors, indicted the four officers on charges of violating King's civil rights. The four men were put on trial on February 25, 1993 in the United States District Court for the Central District of California located in downtown Los Angeles. On April 16, 1993 the trial ended with two of the police officers, (Koon and Powell) found guilty, and subsequently imprisoned. The other two officers, (Wind and Briseno) were acquitted.During the riots, King appeared on television and offered what would later be his famous plea, "Can we all get along?"   I was 31 years old when this occurred. 

Priests - have been accused of molesting young boys from the parish, found guilty of the accusation and some even hidden and the accusation hushed from the public.  I believe the date was March 2012 when former Pope Benedict's secret documents were stolen and sold to Italian journalist by his butler of many years. The documents are included in a book written by the journalist.   His Holiness: The Secret Papers of Benedict XVI (Italian: Sua Santità. Le carte segrete di Benedetto XVI) is a book published by the Italian journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi, consisting of confidential letters and memos between Pope Benedict XVI and his personal secretary. The letters in the book portray the Vatican as a corrupt hotbed of jealousy, intrigue and underhanded factional fighting. The Italian edition paper-book was translated in 2013, in English language and is now available only in e-book format on Amazon platform. The title of digital English version of the book is Ratzinger was afraid. Nuzzi's book reveals details about the Pope's personal finances, and includes tales of bribes made to procure an audience with him. It reproduces confidential letters and memos to and from Benedict and his personal secretary. It contains letters from a very senior Vatican administrator to Pope Benedict in which he begged not to be transferred for having exposed alleged corruption that cost the Holy See millions of euros in higher contract prices. The documents also cover a 2009 scandal concerning the ex-editor of the newspaper of the Italian bishops' conference, a dinner between Benedict and Italy's president, and a 2011 letter from an Italian talk show host to the pope enclosing a check for 10,000 euros for his charity work – and asking for a private audience in exchange. Diplomatic cables include Vatican embassy's from Jerusalem to Cameroon, as well as conclusions of the pope's inquiry into the disgraced Legion of Christ religious order - where he is warned that the financial situation of the order, beset by a scandal over its pedophile founder, "while not grave, is serious and pressing".  This may have been the main reason that the pope announced that he was resigning on Feb. 28th of 2013 making him the first Pontiff to resign in 700 years.  Guess he couldn't handle the repercussions stemming from the 300 page dossier.

Teachers - Mary Kay Fualaau (née Schmitz; born January 30, 1962), formerly known as Mary Kay Letourneau, is an American schoolteacher who was imprisoned from 1997 to 2004 for having sexual intercourse with her 13-year-old student, Vili Fualaau. She gave birth to two of Fualaau's children while incarcerated. After her release from prison in 2004, Letourneau married Fualaau and took his name. Many other educators followed in her foot steps with the exception of marrying the children once they did their jail time.

I have come to the sad realization that this great nation which I grew up in, love and believed it the most powerful and safest place in the world was in now in fact a nation hated by many countries, a nation raising killers and a nation which was quickly spiraling down towards hell in a hand basket a nation which I am fearful of and for.

Below Are Some of the Terrorist Acts and Assassinations Against My Home and Country-men

November 22, 1963 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time (18:30 UTC) on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas, once his veil was lifted and he saw was had been done to him by his father and his controllers. Kennedy was fatally shot while traveling with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife Nellie, in a presidential motorcade. A ten-month investigation in 1963–64 by the Warren Commission concluded that Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone and that Jack Ruby also acted alone when he killed Oswald before he could stand trial. Although the Commission's conclusions were initially supported by a majority of the American public, polls conducted between 1966 and 2003 found that as many as 80 percent of Americans have suspected that there was a plot or cover-up. He was a much beloved president and all came out into the streets weeping.

The Warren Commission, the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) concluded in 1978 that Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy.  The HSCA found the original FBI investigation and the Warren Commission Report to be seriously flawed. While agreeing with the Commission that Oswald fired all the shots which caused the wounds to Kennedy and Connally, the HSCA stated that there were at least four shots fired (only three of which could be linked to Oswald) and that there was "...a high probability that two gunmen fired at the President." The HSCA did not identify any other person or group involved in the assassination besides Oswald, but they did specifically say the CIA, the Soviet Union, organized crime, and several other groups were not involved, although they could not rule out the involvement of individual members of those groups. Kennedy's assassination is still the subject of widespread debate and has spawned numerous conspiracy theories and alternative scenarios.  This man was the last true president because he was ready to come forward and reveal the truth to us.

April 4, 1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader of the African-American civil rights movement and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who became known for his advancement of civil rights by using civil disobedience. He was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968,  At 6:01 p.m. on a Thursday while he was standing on the motel's second floor balcony, King was struck by a single .30 bullet fired from a Remington 760 Game-master  The bullet entered through his right cheek, breaking his jaw, neck and several vertebrae as it traveled down his spinal cord, severing the jugular vein and major arteries in the process before lodging in his shoulder. By the force of the blast, King's necktie was ripped completely off his shirt. He fell violently backwards onto the balcony unconscious. Shortly after the shot was fired, witnesses saw James Earl Ray fleeing from a rooming house across the street from the Lorraine Motel where he was renting a room. A package was dumped close to the site that included a rifle and binoculars with Ray's fingerprints on them. The rifle had been purchased by Ray under an alias six days before. A worldwide manhunt was triggered that culminated in the arrest of Ray at London Heathrow Airport two months later. at the age of 39. King was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:05 PM that evening. 
James Earl Ray, a fugitive from the Missouri State Penitentiary, was arrested in London at Heathrow Airport, extradited to the United States, and charged with the crime. On March 10, 1969, Ray entered a plea of guilty and was sentenced to 99 years in the Tennessee State Penitentiary.[1] Ray later made many attempts to withdraw his guilty plea and be tried by a jury, but was unsuccessful; he died in prison on April 23, 1998, at the age of 70.
The King family and others believe that the assassination was carried out by a conspiracy involving the US government, as alleged by Loyd Jowers in 1993, and that James Earl Ray was a scapegoat. This conclusion was affirmed by a jury in a 1999 civil trial.

All part of the agenda. Was he really assassinated or was he just hidden? By now, we know he is actually deceased.

Please watch the video below by YouTuber, RussiansVids, exposes many hoaxes on his channel.

June 5, 1968 - The assassination of Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy,Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy (November 20, 1925 — June 6, 1968), also referred to by his initials RFK, was an American politician, a Democratic senator from New York, and a noted civil-rights activist. An icon of modern American liberalism and a member of the Kennedy family, he was a younger brother of President John F. Kennedy, and he served as the president's chief adviser during his presidency. From 1961 to 1964 he served as the U.S. Attorney General.

Following his brother John's assassination, on November 22, 1963, Kennedy continued to serve as the Attorney General under President Lyndon B. Johnson for nine months. There had long been bad blood between them, so in September 1964 Kennedy resigned to seek a U.S. Senate seat from New York, which he won in November. Within a few years he publicly split with Johnson over the Vietnam War.

In March 1968 Kennedy began a campaign for the presidency and was a front-running candidate of the Democratic Party, appealing especially to black, Hispanic and Catholic voters. In the California presidential primary, on June 4, Kennedy defeated Eugene McCarthy, the hero of the New Left and student elements in the Democratic Party. That night Kennedy was shot by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian Arab. Mortally wounded, he survived nearly 26 hours, then died early in the morning of June 6. 

* Note  Sirhan Sirhan, a 24-year-old Palestinian/Jordanian immigrant, was convicted of Kennedy's murder and is serving a life sentence for the crime. Sirhan's lawyers have released statements claiming evidence that he was framed. The shooting was recorded on audio tape by a freelance newspaper reporter, and the aftermath was captured on film.

His body was interred near his brother John at Arlington National Cemetery. His death prompted the protection of presidential candidates by the United States Secret Service. Hubert Humphrey went on to win the Democratic nomination for the presidency, but ultimately narrowly lost the election to Richard Nixon.

As with his brother Jack's death, Bobby's assassination and the circumstances surrounding it have spawned a variety of conspiracy theories. As of 2013 Kennedy remains one of only two sitting United States Senators to be assassinated (the other being Huey Long).

1979 - United States Embassy in Pakistan attacked by mob mistakenly blaming the US for radical Islamic faction hostage crisis in Mecca.

1979 - Terrorist group attacked a bus of unarmed navy sailors in Sabana Seca, Puerto Rico killing two and wounded another 17.

1981 - Retired General James Dozier was kidnapped by the leftist Italian Red Brigades Marxist terrorist group.

1983 - Bombing at United States Embassy in Beirut, April 18, 1983. 63 people, including 17 Americans, are killed.

1983 - Beirut barracks bombing, October 23, 1983. 305 people, including 241 US servicemen, are killed by 2 suicide bombers.
1983 - On November 7, the Armed Resistance Unit, a militant leftist group, bombs the U.S. Capitol in response to the U.S. invasion of Grenada.

1984 - Twenty-two people were killed (two of them American) and seventy were wounded when a van loaded with four hundred pounds of explosives exploded in front of the U.S. Embassy annex in Awkar, Lebanon. Islamic Jihad (code name of Hezbollah) claimed responsibility for the bombing in a call to the media.

1985 - TWA Flight 847 hijacked, U.S. Navy diver is killed by Hezbollah.

1985 - Achille Lauro hijacking, wheel-chair bound American killed by Palestinian militants.

1986 - Four Americans were killed and five Americans were injured when a bomb exploded aboard TWA Flight 840 as it traveled from Rome to Athens. The aircraft was able to land safely at Athens International Airport.

1986 - On April 6, a Berlin discotheque bombing killed a Turkish woman and 2 US servicemen and injured 230 people, including more than 50 American servicemen.

1987 - A car bomb exploded outside the back gate of the U.S. Embassy in Rome and mortars were fired at the compound from across the street. One passerby was injured in the attacks.

1988 - On April 14 at 8 p.m., a car bomb exploded in front of the USO Club in Naples, Italy. Five people died and fifteen were injured, including four U.S. servicemen who were injured and US Navy Petty Officer Angela Santos, 21, was killed. Junzo Okudaira, a Japanese Red Army (JRA) member, was indicted in the United States on April 9, 1993 for the Naples bombing. Okudaira is also a suspect in the June 1987 car bombing and mortar attack against the U.S. Embassy in Rome.

1988 - Pan Am Flight 103, outbound from London for New York with 259 people aboard, was destroyed by a bomb on December 21, 1988 while over Lockerbie, Scotland. All aboard the aircraft were killed as were eleven persons on the ground.

1988 - 1990 - Marine Col. Rich Higgins kidnapped, tortured and murdered by Hezbollah terrorists.

1993 - World Trade Center bombing, February 26: 6 killed, 1,042 injured.

1993 - Attack at CIA Headquarters in McLean, Virginia, January 25: 2 killed, 3 injured.

1995 - Killing of two US Diplomats in Pakistan, March 8.

1995 - Oklahoma City bombing, 168 killed, over 800 injured. April 19.

1996 - Khobar Towers bombing: 19 American servicemen killed.

1998 - US embassy bombings: U.S. Kenya Embassy blown up, 214 killed (including 12 Americans); U.S. Tanzania Embassy blown up, 11 killed.

2000 - USS Cole attacked, 17 U.S. Navy sailors killed, 39 sailors injured.

2001 - 9-11, World Trade Towers intentionally leveled by 2 jetliner planes crashing into them, 2,997 killed.

2002 - Reporter Daniel Pearl, kidnapped and beheaded in Karachi.

2002 - Nine people killed by bomb blast near US embassy in Lima - seen as attempt to disrupt forthcoming visit by President George W. Bush.

2002-2006 - Karachi consulate attacks: three separate attacks killed 18 people (including an American diplomat) and injured 87.

2002 - Two Marines shot, one killed in Kuwait.

2003 - Riyadh Compound Bombings kill 9 Americans, among 35 others.

2003 - Three American diplomats are killed by a roadside bomb targeting their convoy in Gaza. Palestine Resistance Committees, an umbrella organization has taken responsibility for the attack."

2003–present - Damascus terrorist attacks: American interests in Syria targeted by Islamists.

2004 - Civilians Nick Berg, Jack Hensley, and Eugene Armstrong kidnapped and beheaded in Iraq.

2004 - Paul Marshall Johnson, Jr, civilian working in Saudi Arabia, kidnapped and beheaded; five other Americans die in attacks in Saudi Arabia in 2004.

Those Who Have Turned Against Their Fellow Man

Monday, May 4, 1970 -The Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre occurred at Kent State University in the U.S. city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard. The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.

Some of the students who were shot had been protesting against the Cambodian Campaign, which President Richard Nixon announced in a television address on April 30. Other students who were shot had been walking nearby or observing the protest from a distance.
There was a significant national response to the shootings: hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools closed throughout the United States due to a student strike of four million students, and the event further affected the public opinion—at an already socially contentious time—over the role of the United States in the Vietnam War.

The 1978 - Blackfriars Massacre was an American Mafia massacre that occurred on June 28, 1978 in Downtown Boston in Boston, Massachusetts. The massacre claimed four criminals known to the police and a former Channel 7 (nowWHDH-TV) Boston television investigative news anchorman and reporter, John A. Kelly. The massacre was allegedly over the sale of cocaine.  The 5 men had been killed execution style while in the middle of a game of backgammon that had started up after the disco closed for the night. The bullet-riddled corpses were discovered by the janitor when he came in for work. The shooters who carried out the murders have never been caught. 

December 22, 1978 -The biggest shock for everyone in the United States came when John Wayne Gacy, a respected member of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, owner of a contracting business, and local Democratic party's precinct captain confessed about his crimes. On December 22, 1978, Gacy admitted to burying his victims underneath his house, in a crawlspace and disposing 5 other victims in the Des Plaines River. Gacy was born in 1942 and had a normal childhood as he had a good relationship with his mother and sisters. However, his father was an abusive alcoholic. After Gacy married and had two kids, rumors about him being a homosexual and a child molester began to circulate.
Police discovered tons of evidence along with 33 bodies buried on and near Gacy's property. Gacy was easily convicted and was sentenced to death by lethal injection which was carried out on May 10, 1994. As Gacy's last meal, he was given French fries, fried chicken, Coke, and a strawberry shortcake. Gacy's last words: Kiss my ass.

Between 1978 and 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer had murdered around 17 boys and men. These sick murders also involved acts such as forced sodomy, removal of his victims' limbs, cannibalism, and necrophilia.Dahmer was convicted on 15 counts of murder and sentenced to 15 life terms (937 years in prison). During his trials, Dahmer expressed his remorse towards his actions and expressed his wish for his own death. Christopher Scarver, a fellow inmate of Dahmer, brutally attacked him and another inmate on November 28, 1994. Dahmer was being taken to the hospital, but died en route due to severe head trauma. On September 26, 1988, one day after moving into his apartment, he was arrested for drugging and sexually fondling a 13-year-old boy in Milwaukee. He was sentenced to five years' probation and one year in a work release camp. He was required to register as a sex offender. Dahmer was paroled from the work release camp two months early, and he soon moved into a new apartment. Shortly thereafter, he began a string of murders that ended with his arrest in 1991.

 

On January 24, 1989 - Ted Bundy was executed by electric chair.  Bundy was really attractive and good looking, which helped him in luring his victims. His unique style of approaching potential victims would include him faking an injury to his arm by placing a fake cast or sling over it. He would drink alcohol before approaching them and gain their trust by acting as a policeman or a fire department personnel. He would then take the victims to his car and hit them with a crowbar over their heads. Bundy would then go on to rape and sexually assault his victims just before strangling and mutilating the bodies. Bundy would visit the Taylor Mountain, where he would dump the corpses, apply makeup on the dead bodies, and then sleep with them till the bodies would decay. In 1989, Bundy was executed for 40 murders of which he confessed about. He also kept some of his victims' severed heads in his room or apartment for some time.

Before he was executed in an electric chair on January 24, 1989. Bundy's last words: I'd like to give my love to my family and friends but at one time he also said; We serial killers are your sons, we are your husbands, we are everywhere. And there will be more of your children dead tomorrow. ~ Ted Bundy

July 29, 1976 - David Berkowitz's(Son of Sam) killing spree began, with the shooting of two teenage women outside a Bronx apartment building. At the time of the attack, Donna Lauria and Jody Valenti were sitting in Valenti's car in front of Lauria's home. Berkowitz shot the two women, killing Lauria and injuring Valenti.
Three months later, Berkowitz struck again. He shot at a couple sitting in a parked car, severely damaging the man's skull. That November, Berkowitz attacked two teenage girls walking home. He shot both of the girls, leaving one of them a paraplegic. At the time, the police did not think these shootings were related.
In January 1977, Berkowitz again targeted a couple sitting together in a car at night. He walked up to Christine Freund and her fiancé and fired twice, striking Freund in the head. She later died of her injuries. For all of his shootings, Berkowitz used a .44 caliber gun. Before long, the police would create a special task force to hunt down the .44-caliber killer.
That March, Berkowitz claimed another victim, Virginia Voskerichian, a college student. He killed her as she returned home from classes. The next month Berkowitz killed a couple, Valentina Suriani and Alexander Esau, in their parked car. This ruthless killer began taunting the police, leaving a letter for a police captain near the scene. In his note, Berkowitz called himself the Son of Sam.
Berkowitz's final attack occurred in the early hours of July 31, 1977. He shot another couple, Stacy Moskowitz and Bobby Violante, in Brooklyn. Moskowitz later died, and Violante was blinded in one eye and lost most of the vision in the other from his injuries. Fortunately for the police, a witness noticed something at the scene that helped in cracking the case. At the scene of the Moskowitz-Violante shootings, a witness saw a man getting away in a car that had a parking ticket on it.  Only a handful of tickets were given out that day, and one of them was for Berkowitz. The police arrested him on August 10, 1977. According to The New York Times, Berkowitz said, "Well, you've got me" when they took him into custody.

1976-1979  The Original Night Stalker is the name given to an unidentified serial killer and rapist who murdered at least ten people in Southern California from 1979 through 1986. The Sacramento East Area Rapist is believed to have begun as a burglar, only later committing rapes. His modus operandi was to stalk middle class neighborhoods at night for women who lived in single story homes. He ran away when spotted prowling, though on one occasion a youth who closely pursued him was shot and seriously wounded. Most victims had seen or heard a prowler on their property before the attacks and many had suffered break-ins. Police believed there was a pattern of the offender using reconnaissance on the houses of victims before the day of the crime. The criminal initially sought out women by themselves, but later began to target couples. Typically he entered a house at night, woke the occupants and threatened them with a handgun. All victims were bound with ligatures the criminal brought to the crime scene. The female victim was made to tie her male companion with bootlaces before being tied herself. The perpetrator was believed to use a bicycle for the attacks. A masked bicycle rider chased by a policeman in the early hours of the morning is believed to have been the rapist. The suspect left the bike and made off when spotted. During the subsequent footchase across back yards he vaulted a series of fences and shook off the pursuit.

The crimes initially centered on east Sacramento where at least fifty women were sexually assaulted between June 18, 1976 and July 5, 1979. The perpetrator was dubbed The East Area Rapist. In 2001 the Northern California rapes were linked by DNA to murders in Southern California.
The Original Night Stalker/The East Area Rapist was never apprehended; several suspects have been cleared through DNA, alibi or other investigative means and methods.

The Last 4 Straws On Camel's Back

April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine, an unincorporated area of Jefferson County in the State of Colorado. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, 2 seniors, murdered a total of 12 students and one teacher. They injured 21 additional students, with three other people being injured while attempting to escape the school. The pair then committed suicide. They had planned for a year and dreamed much bigger. The school served as means to a grander end, to terrorize the entire nation by attacking a symbol of American life. Their slaughter was aimed at students and teachers, but it was not motivated by resentment of them in particular. Students and teachers were just convenient quarry, what Timothy McVeigh described as "collateral damage."

The killers, in fact, laughed at petty school shooters. They bragged about dwarfing the carnage of the Oklahoma City bombing and originally scheduled their bloody performance for its anniversary. Klebold boasted on video about inflicting "the most deaths in U.S. history." Columbine was intended not primarily as a shooting at all, but as a bombing on a massive scale. If they hadn't been so bad at wiring the timers, the propane bombs they set in the cafeteria would have wiped out 600 people. After those bombs went off, they planned to gun down fleeing survivors. An explosive third act would follow, when their cars, packed with still more bombs, would rip through still more crowds, presumably of survivors, rescue workers, and reporters. The climax would be captured on live television. It wasn't just "fame" they were after—Agent Fuselier bristles at that trivializing term—they were gunning for devastating infamy on the historical scale of an Attila the Hun. Their vision was to create a nightmare so devastating and apocalyptic that the entire world would shudder at their power. This act really had me concerned for the minds of our young people, asking myself who is molding, manipulating, brainwashing them why and thinking that now, our youngest members of this nation's society, who are being prepared for the world ahead, were the next chosen victims.

Friday, July 20, 2012, fantasy became nightmare. A lone 24-year-old masked gunman, James Holmes, dressed in tactical clothing entered a Colorado movie theater playing the new Batman movie and opened fire early Friday at a midnight screening of the Batman film 'The Dark Knight Rises' in Aurora, Colorado, east of Denver. Fifty people were wounded and 12 killed. Witnesses say the gunman released a noxious gas before opening fire, making escape more difficult, The suspect, a white male, James Holmes was found in the parking lot and did not resist arrest, CNN said. 

Police said the shooter bought a ticket, entered the theater, and sat in the front row; about 20 minutes into the film, he left the building through an emergency exit door, which he propped open.

It was alleged that he then went to his car, which was parked near the exit door, changed into protective clothing, and retrieved his guns. About 30 minutes into the film, police say, around 12:30 am, he re-entered the theater through the exit door. He was dressed in black and wore a gas mask, a load-bearing vest (not to be confused with a bulletproof vest), a ballistic helmet, bullet-resistant leggings, a throat protector, a groin protector and tactical gloves. Initially, few in the audience considered the masked figure a threat. He appeared to be wearing a costume, like other audience members who had dressed up for the screening. Some believed that the gunman was playing a prank, while others thought that he was part of a special effects installation set up for the film's premiere as a publicity stunt by the studio or theater management.

It was also said that the gunman threw two canisters emitting a gas or smoke, partially obscuring the audience members' vision, making their throats and skin itch, and causing eye irritation. He then fired a 12-gauge Remington 870 Express Tactical shotgun, first at the ceiling and then at the audience. He also fired a Smith & Wesson M&P15 semi-automatic rifle with a 100-round drum magazine, which malfunctioned after reportedly firing about 30 rounds. Finally, he fired a Glock 22 40-caliber handgun. He shot first to the back of the room, and then toward people in the aisles. A bullet passed through the wall and hit a person in the adjacent theater 8, which was screening the same film. Witnesses said the multiplex's fire alarm system began sounding soon after the attack began and staff told people in theater 8 to evacuate. One witness said that she was hesitant to leave because someone yelled that there was someone shooting in the lobby and that they shouldn't leave.

The first phone calls to emergency services via 9-1-1 were made at 12:39 am. Police arrived within 90 seconds and found at least three .40-caliber handgun magazines, a shotgun and a large drum magazine on the floor of the theater.  I'm thinking, now the evil is spreading to our places of entertainment; another young person possessed.

December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza, 20, fatally shot twenty children and six adult staff members in a mass murder at Sandy Hook Elementary School in the village of Sandy Hook in Newtown, Connecticut. Before driving to the school, Lanza had shot and killed his mother Nancy at their Newtown home.As first responders arrived, he committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.

The incident is the second deadliest mass shooting by a single person in American history, after the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre. It is the second deadliest mass murder at an American elementary school, after the 1927 Bath School bombings in Michigan. However, it is the most deadly school shooting in any public school in the United States.

The shootings prompted renewed debate about gun control in the United States, and a proposal for new legislation banning the sale and manufacture of certain types of semi-automatic firearms and magazines with more than ten rounds of ammunition; what many believe to be a violation of our 2nd civil right to bear arms.

April 15, 2013  BOSTON — Tamerlan Tsarnaev 26 and Dzhohkar Tsarnaev 19 years old. Two brothers of Chechnyan decent managed to detonate two bombs which ripped explosions through the Boston Marathon's crowded finish line Monday afternoon, killing at least three people and injuring almost 300.

The dead included an 8-year-old boy, The Boston Globe reported, citing law enforcement sources briefed on the investigation. Among the injured, 17 were reported in critical condition. The victims at eight local hospitals were as young as 2.

"There were so many people in that area that they couldn't get ambulances in there," said Joe Difazio, who was working on communications near the site when the blasts occurred. "They were wheeling people out in wheelchairs. One guy had no legs. The bones was just sticking out. ... It was horrible.

The bombers were found. They were brothers. One died during a gun battle with police, he was 26 years old. The other escaped for more than 24 hours and managed to close down the entire city of Boston before giving himself up. He is only 19 years old.

I did not know anything like Hoaxes and False Flags existed but now I do and now, I question everything because now, the veil which blinded me has been lifted. I research, ask questions and use my eyes to see, not to capture what they are programming us with.

 What else are we to expect?  

Many more shocking lies and planned by the government casualties in order to create order out of chaos.

They must first create the chaos. Remember that.

Guide to Life for Graduates: WEAR SUNSCREEN

The Way I C It, this piece is worth preserving and sharing.

Hope you all enjoy and pass it on.

Mary Schmich
June 1, 1997

Inside every adult lurks a graduation speaker dying to get out, some world-weary pundit eager to pontificate on life to young people who'd rather be Rollerblading. Most of us, alas, will never be invited to sow our words of wisdom among an audience of caps and gowns, but there's no reason we can't entertain ourselves by composing a Guide to Life for Graduates.

I encourage anyone over 26 to try this and thank you for indulging my attempt.
Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97:
 

 

Wear sunscreen.

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.

Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Sing.

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Floss.

Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself.

Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.

Stretch.

Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't.

Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You'll miss them when they're gone.

Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.

Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.
 

Copyright © 2013 Chicago Tribune Company, LLC

METEOR HITS RUSSIA

 

Meteor Slams into Russia Shower or UFO over Russia Video of meteorite shower

 

Moscow (CNN) -- A meteor streaked through the skies above Russia's Urals region Friday morning before exploding with a flash and boom that shattered glass in buildings and left about 1,000 people hurt, authorities said.

Described by NASA as a "tiny asteroid," the meteor's explosion created a blast in central Russia equivalent to 300,000 tons of TNT, the space agency's officials said Friday, adding that the incident was a once-in-100-years event.

The injured included more than 200 children. Most of those hurt are in the Chelyabinsk region, though the vast majority of injuries are not thought to be serious.

 

 

About 3,000 buildings were damaged -- mostly with broken glass -- as a result of the shock waves caused by the blast, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency said.

 

 

Vladimir Stepanov, of the National Center for Emergency Situations at the Russian Interior Ministry, earlier told state media that hospitals, kindergartens and schools were among those affected.

About 20,000 emergency response workers were mobilized, RIA Novosti reported.

Amateur video footage showed a bright white streak moving rapidly across the sky, before exploding with an even brighter flash and a deafening bang.

 

The explosion occurred about 9:20 a.m. local time, as many people were out and about.

It was captured in vivid images by Russians, many of whom used dash cameras inside their vehicles.

Dash cameras are popular in Russia for several reasons including possible disputes over traffic accidents and the corrupt reputations of police in many areas. Drivers install the cameras for their own protection and to document incidents they could be caught in; on Friday, they were able to document a spectacular natural phenomenon.

CNN iReporter and Instagram user Max Chuykov saw the meteor trail from the city of Yekaterinburg. He shared on Instagram that it was "close to the ground."

Witness Ekaterina Shlygina posted to CNN iReport and wrote on Instagram: "Upon Chelyabinsk a huge fireball has exploded. It wasn't an aircraft."

The national space agency, Roscosmos, said scientists believed one meteoroid had entered the atmosphere, where it burned and disintegrated into fragments.

The resulting meteorites are believed to be scattered across three regions of Russia, one of them Chelyabinsk, as well as neighboring Kazakhstan, the news agency said.

One large chunk was discovered in a lake in the Chelyabinsk region, RIA Novosti cited the Chelyabinsk governor as saying.

A spokesman for the Emergency Ministry for the Chelyabinsk region told CNN earlier Friday that 524 people there were injured and 34 hospitalized.

NASA estimates 4,700 'potentially hazardous' asteroids

For sky watchers, the reports bring to mind the famous Tunguska event of 1908 in remote Siberia, in which an asteroid entered the atmosphere and exploded, leveling trees over an area of 820 square miles -- about two-thirds the size of Rhode Island.

About 80 million trees were felled, radiating out from the center of the blast, but no crater was left.

Friday's Chelyabinsk meteor came on the same day that a hefty asteroid charged past Earth.

An asteroid makes a close call. Fear not, scientists say

Known as 2012 DA14, the asteroid is thought to be 45 meters long, about half the length of a football field. But scientists say it came not much closer than 17,100 miles from our planet's surface.

Officials from around the world were quick to call for greater vigilance in monitoring meteors.

"Today's event is a strong reminder of why we need continuous efforts to survey and identify near-Earth objects," said Thomas Reiter, European Space Agency's Director of Human Spaceflight and Operations.

Deep Space Industries, a recently created space exploration company, said countries should be proactive in establishing "a sentry line of spacecraft circling the Earth to intercept and evaluate incoming threats."

"The hundreds of people injured in northern Russia show it's time to take action and no longer be passive about these threats," said Rick Tumlinson, chairman of Deep Space Industries.

NASA spokesman Steve Cole told CNN that scientists had determined that the Russian meteor was on a very different trajectory from the larger asteroid.

"They are completely unrelated objects -- it's a strange coincidence they are happening at the same time," said Don Yeomans, manager of the Near-Earth Object Program Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Asteroid and meteor: Connected?

"This kind of object does fall fairly frequently, but when they fall into the ocean or desert, there is no impact on people -- so this one is unusual in the sense that it's come over a populated area," Yeomans said.

Cole said he wasn't aware whether scientists had foreseen the meteor's entry into the atmosphere.

Because meteoroids are small, they are hard to spot and there is often little warning that they are heading toward Earth, he said.

By Phil Black, Boriana Milanova and Laura Smith-Spark, CNN
Many thanks to these 2 writers for the best article I have yet to read.

Please make sure to click the source link below so you can watch all the videos and read further interesting articles.

SOURCE http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/15/world/europe/russia-meteor-shower

 

Spaceship Earth took two celestial shots across its bow as, first, a meteor struck Russia, showering the Chelyabinsk region with fragments and reportedly injuring several hundred people, and second, as Asteroid 2012 DA14 whizzed past on 15 February. Traditionally, a torpedo across the bow is fired as a warning to change one's behavior – and this coincidence of events should be a warning to humanity that meteors are not always as benign as "shooting stars" and that the next asteroid might not miss! Will we, the crew of SS Earth heed this warning?

We can look at asteroid 2012 DA14 (or DA14 for short), which missed the Earth by a mere 17,000 miles, in two ways. DA14 is one of about 10,000 near-Earth asteroids that have been discovered in the past 15 years that pass close to our planet, threatening an impact. However, since we have seen these asteroids and are currently tracking them, we can predict any upcoming impacts. Happily, none of those we've found to date pose any substantial threat of impact.

Nevertheless, the Earth is hit by one of these relatively small DA14-sized asteroids about once every 300 years, on average. And "small" is far, far from insignificant. The DA14-like asteroid that hit Earth in 1908 did so in a remote region of Siberia, where the explosion (the equivalent of about 250 Hiroshima nuclear bombs going off at one time) destroyed over 800 square miles of the countryside. This disaster zone, superimposed on any city in the world, would have wiped it and all its residents from the face of the Earth. I refer you, as a graphic reminder of the power of such explosions, to the post-facto Hiroshima bomb pictures readily found online.

The second way to view DA14 is to realize that, until just about a year ago, it was one of about 1 million similarly sized, near-Earth asteroids, which we know are out there, statistically, but that we haven't yet seen. Consequently, until we find them in our telescopes, we are like sitting ducks in a shooting gallery with nothing more than luck to prevent a disaster. Regrettably, the Earth-based telescopes we've been using to discover and track these objects have, practically speaking, reached their limitations for finding the vast majority of these cosmic torpedoes.

Why do we care about finding them if there's nothing we can do about it?

Because, unknown to most people, is that if we have adequate early warning, our current space technology is sufficiently advanced to deflect these asteroids. For smaller impacts, even a last-minute warning of several days could enable a local evacuation and save many lives.

Deflection, however, will generally require several decades of warning. Fortunately, due to the relatively pure nature of space dynamics, forecasting an asteroid impact 100 years in advance is possible once its orbit is well known.

Over the past 15 years, NASA has, thankfully, discovered over 95% of the largest asteroids that cross the Earth's orbit and that would have planet-wide consequences on impact. Unfortunately, due to the limitations of the telescopes, we have discovered less than 1% of their smaller DA14-like cousins "only" capable of wiping out a metropolitan area; 99% of the job remains to be done.

Another Tunguska event?

The incident in Chelyabinsk bears a strong resemblance to the 1908 Tunguska event – an exceptionally powerful explosion in Siberia believed to have been caused by a fragment of a comet or meteor.

According to estimates, the energy of the Tunguska blast may have been as high as 50 megatons of TNT, equal to a nuclear explosion. Some 80 million trees were leveled over a 2,000-square-kilometer area. The Tunguska blast remains one of the most mysterious events in history, prompting a wide array of hypotheses on its cause, including a black hole passing through Earth and the wreck of an alien spacecraft.

It is believed that if the Tunguska event had happened 4 hours later, due to the rotation of the Earth it would have completely destroyed the city of Vyborg and significantly damaged St. Petersburg.  

When a similar, though less powerful, unexplained explosion happened in Brazil in 1930, it was named the ‘Brazilian Tunguska.’ The Tunguska event also prompted debate and research into preventing or mitigating asteroid impacts.