Still Asking Questions

Hey folks,

Back on August 18, 2007, I said this. Someone Has To Ask This.

“OK. We have a collapse of two bridges with no explanation. We have a collapse of a Mine in Utah, that was NOT due to and earthquake, and a Dike that broke flooding a Mine in China. Sorry, I do not believe in coincidences. Even if you were to believe that “Things happen.” you have to wonder about these.

We also cannot ignore all the tainted food and toys that have come out of China. This is another area of concern. For years we never had problems with this. Then all of a sudden we do? Could there be a connection? All of these things happening at the same time? What about the fact that North Korea has already threatened us may times in the past and came right out and said they would use Nuclear Weapons against us? Could there be a connection there? While we are focused on Iraq? I’m not saying anything definitively. It just seems to me to be interesting that all these things have just occurred in a very short span of time.”

I was waved off by some of you. I was called paranoid by others. Told you didn’t follow the logic. I said.

“Someone somewhere has to start asking questions. These events are far too “coincidental” to ignore.”

Then you have this, this morning. According to the AFP -China hacked into Pentagon computer network

China's military successfully hacked into the Pentagon's computer network, raising fears it could disrupt the US defence department's systems, the Financial Times reported Tuesday.

The Chinese military's cyber attack was carried out in June following months of efforts, the London-based newspaper said, citing unnamed current and former US officials.

While the Pentagon declined to say who was behind the hacking, which led to the shutdown of a computer system serving the office of Defence Secretary Robert Gates, officials told the paper it was China's People's Liberation Army.

"The PLA has demonstrated the ability to conduct attacks that disable our system," the paper quoted a former US official as saying.

One senior US official reportedly said the Pentagon had pinpointed the exact origin of the attack.

The paper quoted another person familiar with the event as saying there was a "very high level of confidence... trending towards total certainty" that the PLA was responsible.

The paper said both the US and Chinese militaries were widely assumed to conduct computer espionage on each other.

"But US officials said the penetration in June raised concerns to a new level because of fears that China had shown it could disrupt systems at critical times," the Financial Times reported.

A spokesman for the Chinese defence ministry declined to comment on the report when contacted by AFP on Tuesday.

China's foreign ministry also declined to comment immediately, asking for questions to be faxed through.

Reports of China hacking into German government systems were also raised last week between Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

German weekly Der Spiegel reported that espionage programmes traced to the PLA had been detected in computer systems at Merkel's office, the foreign ministry and other government agencies in Berlin.

"We in the government took (the reports) as a matter of grave concern," Wen said after meeting Merkel.

OK, I do not have the answer. I’m still, however, finding it necessary to ask even more questions.

Do you remember the movie were a Terrorist organization actually set off a nuclear bomb on our soil, making it look like, it was sent by Russia? Or that old movie where a hacker set in motion the start of a nuclear missile attack between us an Russia? What is the easiest way for the little guy to take out two of his biggest enemies? Let them take eachother out.

I’m not saying I know anything. I just know that all these things are just not sitting quite right with me. I’m not saying it is North Korea. I’m not saying it is Terrorists. It could very well be “coincidental”, and the Chinese military may very well have hack in themselves. I’m just saying, we need to look at the bigger picture, and we need to keep asking questions.

I’m telling you folks, my gut is just not buying this.
Peter

Someone Has To Ask This

Hey folks,

It is Saturday morning, August 18, 2007. I came into the office to start the normal process of scanning the news to see what is going on out there. {As a side note, Thank you to all of you for your Birthday wishes.} Then this one story jumped out at me. One has to ask this question. “What is going on?”

Now I know the Chicken Little Crowd will have a field day with this one. Since there is no such thing as Global Warming, I will just laugh at them and most likely poke a little fun at them when it happens. But someone really needs to look into this a little deeper.

First we had the Minneapolis Bridge Collapse on August 01, 2007. Then on August 13, 2007,

“At least 39 people were missing after the 320-metre (1,000-foot) concrete arc bridge spanning the Tuo river in Fenghuang county, Hunan province, collapsed on Monday during the evening rush hour, Xinhua news agency said.”

I asked “What, No Global Warming? Not Bush’s Fault? You know, the way the Looneys blamed ours on Global Warming and the President?

Then on August 6, 2007, we had the Utah Mine Collapse. This is not looking good at this point. According to the AP- Rescuers suspend effort at Utah mine By MICHAEL RUBINKAM, Associated Press Writer

Rescuers still cling to the hope that six trapped coal miners — will be found alive, but they are running out of time — and options — after a second mine collapse killed three among their ranks.

Officials declared it too dangerous to tunnel inside the mountain, instead pinning their hopes on a fourth hole being drilled into the mountain to look for any sign of the missing men and deliver food and water to them if they are alive.

"Is there any possible way we can continue this underground operation and provide safety for the rescue workers? At this point we don't have an answer," federal Mine Safety and Health Administration chief Richard Stickler said Friday as he announced that officials had suspended the rescue operation indefinitely.

Three rescue workers were killed and six injured in Thursday night's collapse. Rescuers working beneath 2,000 feet of sandstone had dug more than 800 feet over 10 days, with about 1,200 feet left to go, when they were hit with the huge blast.

The cave-in at 6:39 p.m. was believed to be caused by a "mountain bump," shifting layers of earth. Coal flew from the reinforced walls with a force Stickler said could break a 40-ton mining machine in half.

Now of course the owners of the Mine have insisted the whole time that it was an earth quake that caused the original collapse. Not true reports MSNBC and LiveScience.

The mine collapse last night that killed and injured rescuers at a Utah coal mine generated seismic waves that reveal the event was a collapse and not a natural earthquake, seismologists say.

And increasingly strong evidence also supports the claim that the magnitude-3.9 seismic event that initially trapped six miners on Aug. 6 was the mine collapse itself and also not a natural earthquake, say seismologists at the University of Utah.

So what DID cause it?

Then this morning, THIS jumped right out at me. According to the AP- Flooding traps 181 Chinese miners By JOE McDONALD, Associated Press Writer

Floodwaters from heavy rains poured into two coal mines in a town in eastern China, leaving 181 miners trapped and feared dead, government officials and state media said Saturday.

There was no word on whether there was any sign of life in the mines or when rescuers might enter them. Two high-speed pumps reportedly were being rushed in to drain the flooded shafts.

A dike on the Wen river in Shandong province broke Friday afternoon, sending water gushing into a mine run by the Huayuan Mining Co. in the city of Xintai and trapping 172 miners, the Xinhua News Agency reported.

Work areas were submerged and the miners "had only slim chances of survival," Xinhua said, citing Wang Ziqi, director of Shandong's coal mine safety agency. There was no indication whether rescuers had any sign the miners were alive.

Friday night, nine more miners were trapped when floodwaters poured into Xintai's Minggong Coal Mine, Xinhua and China National Radio reported.

OK. We have a collapse of two bridges with no explanation. We have a collapse of a Mine in Utah, that was NOT due to and earthquake, and a Dike that broke flooding a Mine in China. Sorry, I do not believe in coincidences. Even if you were to believe that “Things happen.” you have to wonder about these.

We also cannot ignore all the tainted food and toys that have come out of China. This is another area of concern. For years we never had problems with this. Then all of a sudden we do? Could there be a connection? All of these things happening at the same time? What about the fact that North Korea has already threatened us may times in the past and came right out and said they would use Nuclear Weapons against us? Could there be a connection there? While we are focused on Iraq? I’m not saying anything definitively. It just seems to me to be interesting that all these things have just occurred in a very short span of time.


Someone somewhere has to start asking questions. These events are far too “coincidental” to ignore.
Peter

OPNTalk -Minneapolis Bridge Collapse
OPNTalk-What, No Global Warming? Not Bush’s Fault?
MSNBC-Utah mine collapse caused seismic waves
AP- Rescuers suspend effort at Utah mine
AP- Flooding traps 181 Chinese miners