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Chemists Uncover Powerful New Click Chemistry Reactivity: The Findings Open A Doorway For Demonic Activity On Your Soul And Mind
08/17/2014- LA JOLLA, CA—August 14, 2014—Chemists
led by Nobel laureate K. Barry Sharpless at The Scripps Research
Institute (TSRI) have used his click chemistry to uncover unprecedented,
powerful reactivity for making new drugs, diagnostics, plastics, smart
materials and many other products.
The new SuFEx—Sulfur Fluoride Exchange—reactions enable chemists to link molecules of their choice together
using derivatives of a common commercial chemical considered
essentially inert. The Sharpless team made this chemical reliably and
predictably reactive. Astonishingly, acid-base constraints are rarely a
concern, though they are central to nature’s chemistry and an enormous
hurdle for chemists. The stabile linkers are also non-polar and can enter cells, so have potential for crossing the blood-brain barrier.
Consequently, SuFEx gives easy access to an entire, unexplored galaxy within the chemical universe.
“This is a new, emergent phenomenon,” said Sharpless, the W.M. Keck Professor of Chemistry and member of the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology at TSRI.
Click chemistry, conceived in the mid-90s as a
method for discovering new and improving existing chemical reactivity,
became universally used in the chemical sciences after the 2002
discovery of copper-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC). Now SuFEx is the second “perfect” click reaction to be discovered at TSRI.
The findings by Sharpless and his colleagues were reported online ahead of print by the international chemistry journal Angewandte Chemie.
Chemistry that Clicks
Sharpless shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in
Chemistry for his discovery and development during the 80s of asymmetric
catalytic reactions. Nature
routinely makes “handed” molecules like DNA, which is like a spiral
staircase you enter on the left, but chemists could not reliably make
left- or right-handed molecules. The
Sharpless asymmetric reactions gave chemists that gift with general
reactions that made either left- or right-handed products at will.
To a younger generation of scientists, however, Sharpless is famous for click chemistry.
Conceived at TSRI in the mid-90s, it is Sharpless’s modular approach
for quickly discovering new, or improving existing, chemical function.
True click reactions have guaranteed reliability and are environmentally
“green,” proceeding in water, under normal atmospheric conditions, and
without significant byproducts.
After the 2002 discovery of the copper-catalyzed azide-alkyne
cycloaddition (CuAAC), click chemistry became universally used across
the chemical sciences, especially in drug discovery, biology and
materials science.
Now SuFEx gives click chemistry even more power and reach.
“Sulfer fluoride compounds are known for
their high stability, yet we eventually realized that there are ways to
make them usefully reactive—the speed and varied reaction environment it
tolerates is amazing,” said Jiajia Dong, a research associate at TSRI
and lead author of the new report.
The breakthrough came by making SO2F2 reactive. SO2F2 is
the commercial gas known as Vikane, the world’s most common fumigant,
used for tenting buildings to kill termites, as well as being pumped
into vast warehouses to rid produce of potential disease vectors and
extend shelf life.
Applications Abound
One of the most exciting potential uses of
SuFEx is the promise of finding new diagnostics, drugs and other
therapeutics, even ones reactive within the human body.
TSRI chemists are already using SuFEx reactivity for the precision assembly of new molecules from diverse building blocks. This
should quickly lead to reduced manufacturing costs for equivalents of
existing products, as well as the introduction of new products made by
easy synthetic routes.
“We believe
that we can, with near-perfect control, use sulfur fluorides as general
connectors for joining molecular building blocks,” said Dong.
The reaction easily creates polysulfate plastics, a whole class of unexplored of materials
.Polysulfate plastics may, for example, have properties to rival or
surpass those of popular, ubiquitous polymers like polycarbonates. Strong,
resilient and transparent, polycarbonates are annually produced in the
millions of tons and are found everywhere in consumer products, from
DVDs to the cockpit canopies of F-22 Raptor jets. Yet polycarbonates
“hydrolize”—break down in water—rather easily. A consequence is the
much-publicized leaching of bis-phenol-A, the principal building block
of all polycarbonates and an estrogen mimic.
A stable, non-leaching commercial polysulfate
is an obvious target for SuFEx. Chemists have long assumed polysulfates
could not be made by a commercially feasible method, but in a
strikingly easy, controlled and scalable process, the Sharpless teammade BPA polysulfate fibers.
Initial tests
indicate this new plastic may be more resistant to impact and
degradation than polycarbonates. “But this was just one demonstration of
the technique,” Dong emphasized. “The control and the selectivity that
we have in this process mean that we can polymerize a wide variety of
different building blocks.”
TSRI chemists are now exploring multiple major applications for SuFEx chemistry.
Now that ISIS, or the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, is becoming a threat so powerful Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told reporters at the Pentagon that the terrorist
group is “beyond anything we’ve seen,” it’s time to remind everyone of a
few little factoids regarding how exactly that came to be.
“They are beyond just a terrorist
group. They marry ideology, a sophistication of … military prowess.
They are tremendously well-funded. This is beyond anything we’ve seen.”
Well-trained in military prowess. Tremendously well-funded. Super sophisticated terrorists. Hm.
And how do you think they got that way so fast? Super magic terrorist training money tree fairy dust?
Apparently the mainstream establishment media
would more likely attempt to have people believe such a thing exists
rather than expose the blatant reality that yes, the U.S. has trained and funded ISIS and without the U.S. government, ISIS would not be the threat it has become.
Syrian rebels who would later
join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIS, were trained in
2012 by U.S. instructors working at a secret base in Jordan, according
to informed Jordanian officials.
The officials said dozens of future ISIS members were trained at the
time as part of covert aid to the insurgents targeting the regime of
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Syria. The officials said the training was not meant to be used for any future campaign in Iraq.
So future ISIS
members were specially trained by the U.S. government, huh? Ya don’t
say. But they weren’t supposed to be used for campaigns in Iraq?
Oops.
This was, at least superficially, so they could wage war against the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria, and again, they weren’t called ISIS at the time, they were referred to as the Syrian rebels.
But the government won’t even admit what they’ve done here. Instead, they’re just bombing Iraq and hoping for the best…
Meanwhile, our government is still funding the “Syrian rebels” today!
Back at the end of June, Obama was requesting another $500 million in aid for
them, even though the fact that many were now calling themselves ISIS
was so blatantly obvious even back then that it could no longer be
disputed.
As Hagel said, ISIS are not just well-funded,
but “tremendously well-funded.” Now you know where ISIS gets a hefty
chunk of its tremendous funding.
This really isn’t that hard to figure out, just hard to comprehend; mostly because IT’S COMPLETELY INSANE.
Even worse, former state department official
Andrew Doran let the cat out of the bag back in June that some of these
ISIS members are actually combat veterans from Western nations including
the U.S. who have passports and could return home anytime, basically asserting that ISIS could easily attack America at any time.
Of course, it isn’t like anyone would need a
passport, what with the porous U.S.-Mexico border basically sitting
there wide open.
Now we not only have Hagel telling America that ISIS is ‘beyond anything the Pentagon
has ever seen’ but in the same week the former deputy director of the
CIA is telling CBS This Morning that he fears ISIS is going to start
carrying out 9/11-style attacks on American soil, including this little gem:
“If an ISIS member showed up at a mall in the United States tomorrow with an AK-47 and killed a number of Americans, I would not be surprised.”
If anyone is terrorizing America directly
right now, it’s the American government that would first fund and train
terrorists who are raping people and setting them on fire, crucifying Christians and beheading children, then conspire with the media to scare the American people that the government’s own terrorist creation is going to attack here 9/11-style RIGHT BEFORE ANOTHER 9/11 ANNIVERSARY.
Creating one’s own enemies then declaring war on them while putting the rest of the world in grave danger…
Again. This is madness.
'It's Madness! US opposes ISIS in Iraq, supports them in Syria'
Recently I talked about an article in the German newspaper Handelsblatt, which occupies, if one were to draw an analogy, a position within the German media rather similar to the London Times in Great Britain, a centrist-right newspaper. You’ll recall, that the Handelsblatt
broke – rather dramatically at that – with the subservient Merkel-Obama
scripting that apparently has become the norm for the German media in
the wake of Washington’s all-but-brainless call for sanctions on Russia,
and its even more brainless attempt to punish European corporations and
banks – BNP Paribas comes to mind – for continuing to deal with Russia.
Indeed, as I’ve pointed out, Berlin, Rome, Paris, and now even the
center of Perfide Albion, London itself, plan to bring up the issue of Washington’s unipolar hamfistedness(see Splendid Isolation: The Revolt Against Unpolarism has Now Spread to France).
Well, it so happens that the folks at Zero Hedge have kindly posted the entire Handelsblatt
article, and it’s a no-punches-pulled, no-holds-barred condemnation of
the West’s policy, and Chancellorin Merkel’s apparent lap-poodle status
in submission to it: German Handelsblatt Releases Stunning Anti-West Op-Ed, Asks If “West Rabble-Rousers Are On The Payroll Of The KGB”
Most telling is the Handelsblatt article clearly knows who
is behind what, and that it is the West that is the instigator of
aggression, not Russia, rather an interesting take on things for a paper
like the Handelsblatt:
“Who deceived who first?
Did it all start with the Russian invasion of the Crimean or did the
West first promote the destabilization of the Ukraine? Does Russia want
to expand into the West or NATO into the East? Or did maybe two
world-powers meet at the same door in the middle of the night, driven by
very similar intentions towards a defenseless third that now pays for
the resulting quagmire with the first phases of a civil war?”
And it leaves no doubt who is driving the demonization of Russia:
“Angela Merkel can hardly claim these mitigating
circumstances for herself. Geography forces every German Chancellor to
be a bit more serious. As neighbors of Russia, as part of the European
community bound in destiny, as recipient of energy and supplier of this
and that, we Germans have a clearly more vital interest in stability and
communication. We cannot afford to look at Russia through the eyes of the American Tea Party.
“Every mistake starts with a mistake in thinking. And we are making
this mistake if we believe that only the other party profits from our
economic relationship and thus will suffer when this relationship stops.
If economic ties were maintained for mutual profit, then
severing them will lead to mutual loss. Punishment and self-punishment
are the same thing in this case.
“Even the idea that economic pressure and political isolation would
bring Russia to its knees was not really thought all the way through. Even
if we could succeed: what good would Russia be on its knees? How can
you want to live together in the European house with a humiliated people
whose elected leadership is treated like a pariah and whose citizens
you might have to support in the coming winter.”
Drawing on the example of the former mayor of West Berlin, and later
Chancellor of West Germany, Willi Brandt, the article makes what I think
is a very significant statement:
“Following this lead – even if calculatingly and
somewhat reluctantly as in the case of Merkel – does not protect the
German people, but may well endanger it. This fact remains a fact even
if it was not the American but the Russians who were responsible for the
original damage in the Crimean and in eastern Ukraine.”
In other words, the Handelsblatt wants a German foreign policy that is best for Germany, not Washington, and if that means seeking a reconciliation with Russia, so be it. This, I suspect, is thus a message,
occurring as it does amid rumors of private talks between President
Putin and Chancellorin Merkel, in which, it is alleged, Germany would
recognize Russia’s absorption of the Crimea back into the Russian
Federation, in return for stabilized relations and energy guarantees.
And there’s a reminder about what American military strength has really
accomplished:
“The American tendency to verbal and then also
military escalation, the isolation, demonization, and attacking of
enemies has not proven effective. The last successful
major military action the US conducted was the Normandy landing.
Everything else – Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan – was a clear
failure. Moving NATO units towards the Polish border and
thinking about arming Ukraine is a continuation of a lack of diplomacy
by the military means.”
And finally, the Handelsblatt is implying the same question
that has been on many of your minds, as well as mine: why the
counter-intuitive foreign policy coming out of Washington?:
“Brandt and Bahr have never reached for the tool of
economic sanctions. They knew why: there are no recorded cases in which
countries under sanctions apologized for their behavior and were
obedient ever after. On the contrary: collective movements start in
support of the sanctioned, as is the case today in Russia. The country
was hardly ever more unified behind their president than now. This could almost lead you to think that the rabble-rousers of the West are on the payroll of the Russian secret service.”
Indeed.
One thing seems clear, however, and that is the subservient media
relationship to the Merkel government is either being broken, or
perhaps, just perhaps, this is a more subtle way of that government
stating what its true convictions and intentions may ultimately be.
There’s danger on the edge of town Ride the king’s highway, baby Weird scenes inside the gold mine Ride the highway west, babyThe Doors, The End
The killer awoke before dawn. He put his American desert boots on. He
took a knife from the ancient gallery. And he walked on down the hall –
bathed in desert sunlight.
The killer spoke with a British accent (London’s East End?) Father (Saud), I want to kill you. Mother (Langley?) I want to…
yeeeaaahh, c’mon!
Then the sartorially composed Man in Black beheaded American photojournalist James Foley.
This is not the end, beautiful friend. It’s just a new beginning in
the never-ending Global War on Terror. Now starring Papa Saud’s brand
new bag – The Caliph and his goons. This is the way Shock and Awe morphs
into “Assad must go” morphs into Islamic State of Iraq and Syria,
morphs into The Caliph’s Black Britannia goon responding to
“humanitarian” bombing. I’m my own baby now. Watch me work. Bring it on.
Choice scenery. Good sound and vision production values. Careful editing. No unnecessary gore. No blood splattering. No Allahu Akbar shrieks.
“A Message to America”, indeed – but most of all a message to the
Ummah. As in we’re the Men in Black badasses. We run The Caliphate.
We’re no mere death cult; we’re winners. And we take no prisoners.
And why did Islamic State, formerly ISIS, become winners? Because the
“West” regimented, schooled, trained, logistically helped and
weaponized most of IS’s Takfiri goons with a mission at hand: to destroy
Syria. The “West” lauded them as “Syrian rebels”. Freedom fighters.
Washington even promoted Jabhat al-Nusra (the official al-Qaeda
franchise in Syria, and a “terrorist organization”, according to the
State Department) as “good” jihadis, as well as the preferred Saudi
combo, the Islamic Front.
No wonder after photojournalist James Foley was kidnapped in November
2012 the Washington-sanctioned version was that he was being kept by
“Assad must go” forces in a prison near Damascus. Slouching towards Mecca
The House of Saud, directly and indirectly, and the proverbial
wealthy Gulf Cooperation Council donors are the Mom and Dad of ISIS. All
duly vetted/approved by the industrial-military-Orwellian-Panopticon
complex.
And yet “Assad must go” had other ideas for Syria. He didn’t go. He
and his army resisted and counter-attacked. So the original mission in
Syria morphed across the (non-existent) desert border towards Iraq. ISIS
kept expanding – via extortion, kidnapping, captured oil fields, tribal
smuggling networks.
The killer spoke with a British accent. Yet he may not be just a
well-paid mercenary (500 from Britain, 700 from France, 500 from
Belgium… ). He’s most certainly a true believer in the wider IS
medievalist ideology as well as its no-holds-barred sectarian methods.
How convenient that IS strategy is totally divide and rule. Totally
balkanization of Iraq. Totally mum on Israel’s slow-motion ethnic
cleansing of Gaza. Totally useful in wagging the (beheading) dog to make
the world forget about Gaza.
Moroever, IS/ISIS strategy, stripped to the bone, is Pentagon manual;
clear, hold and build – then expand (to an area larger than Great
Britain). It’s even Pentagon manual redux – as in building “coalitions
of the willing” (see the alliance with “remnants” – Rummy talk – of the
Saddam regime propelling their northern Iraq summer offensive.)
How convenient that the mighty Orwellian/Panopticon complex satellite
maze could not identify a long convoy of gleaming white Toyotas
crossing the desert towards their summer conquests. And how convenient
that a Briton beheading an American – what a “special relationship” plot
twist! – fully sanctions the Return of Iraq Bombing (“for months”, in
Obama’s words); more strikes; more drones; perhaps more boots on the
ground; perhaps, in the near future, a Syria extension.
IS also took over Tikrit, the birthplace of Saddam, in their summer
adventure. Now Baghdad’s military are trying to take it back. IS
welcomed them with minefields, booby-trapped buildings, an array of
snipers and hardcore mortar fire. How convenient that Obama’s
“humanitarian” bombs are not involved in R2P (“responsibility to
protect”) Saddam’s birthplace. What really matters is the US consulate
in Erbil, scores of CIA operatives and vast Big Oil interests in Iraqi
Kurdistan.
And then there’s this ultimate plot twist; a pearl by a dissident Saudi researcher (in Arabic). He argues, in detail,
that IS is essentially a revival of “pure” Wahhabism; not only that IS
comes from outside the House of Saud’s dominions – in Iraq and the
Levant – but tries hard to shatter the monarchy’s legitimacy.
The House of Saud’s counterpunch to the Arab Spring was (and remains)
all about destroying or at least isolating the Muslim Brotherhood as an
alternative Islamic rule/role model. Yet now comes IS – brimming with
religious justification (however warped); military know-how; and an army
of true – and well paid – believers.
Ride the king’s highway, baby. No staged/not staged beheading could
possibly top the ultimate blowback: the “West” nurturing the Beast who
would slouch towards Mecca to finally behead the House of Saud. And
those killers shall also speak with a British accent. Pepe Escobar is the author of Globalistan: How the Globalized World is Dissolving into Liquid War(Nimble Books, 2007), Red Zone Blues: a snapshot of Baghdad during the surge(Nimble Books, 2007), and Obama does Globalistan(Nimble Books, 2009).
When a Black Cop Killed an Innocent White Man in Utah, the Press Was Silent ...Oops :o
It has been reported that cops kill about 500 innocent Americans per year. Yet most of those stories stay buried or, at best, see limited life in local media or the blogosphere. Only the select, as in selected by the media, stories become as big as the Michael Brown story. Certain stories simply transcend the perceived boredom of news headlines and become a part of pop culture.
Does the media intentionally stir up racial hatred? Is it part of their agenda? Is it because blacks in Ferguson rioted and looted while whites in Salt Lake City have remained calm? America needs to find answers
because this racial divide is moronic. We are all “Americans” and not
“African-Americans” or “Asian-Americans” or “Redneck-Americans” or
anything else. We are Americans first and we need to remember that. It
is OK to love and celebrate your heritage. It is not OK to let it
consume who you are and carry hatred that will explode at a moment’s
notice.
Ever heard of a kid named Dillon Taylor?
He was a white kid, 20 years old, who was killed by a black cop on August 11. This happened two days after Michael Brown was killed.
Dillon Taylor seems to be a young man who was in the wrong place at
the wrong time. He was leaving a 7-11 convenience store. Officers were
in the area because there was a report of a man with a gun.
Taylor had headphones in and did not hear police when they asked him to lay down on the ground.
Taylor unfortunately reached into his pocket, for a cell phone, and that was the last thing he ever did. He had no gun. He did not rob any stores. He did not assault a police officer.
His “crime” was that he did not think and that non-crime cost him his life.
Officers were obviously in a heightened state of alert and a white kid with headphones happened to be killed by a black cop.
Do you think that was because of his race?
I don’t think it was and that’s my personal opinion, but…
Where are the riots in Salt Lake City?
Surely a lot of whites have to think that this was racially motivated. Right?
Wrong. I think most people (black and white)
understand that it was probably not racially motivated. The frustration
that falls over much of “white America” is that we are all thrown into
one big pile of racists and if a white on black crime happens, the worst always gets assumed by a minority of people and is then pushed by the media, continually growing exponentially until out of control. That is when the real problems begin to happen.
That is also exactly where we are with the situation in Ferguson.
I live in a country where I am labeled a racist for not liking Obama’s policies. If I don’t like Obamacare I am a racist and even a white man will call me that, so long as he is a democrat.
When are people going to wake up and see that “the powers that be,”
which include both media and government, want us to stay divided? They
really don’t want me and a black man in Murrieta, California
to agree on anything. That would eat away at the power that they only
keep when we remain divided. We give them that power by our senseless
bickering.
I think most of us could understand how the police might have felt
that Dillon Taylor was reaching for a gun. I, for one, don’t think this
had anything to do with race. I think it was about a cop who felt his
life was in danger. So why is it so hard to believe that Darren Wilson could have thought the same thing?
Why is it that often times, when a white man, or any man who is not black in the case of George Zimmerman, kills a black man, it becomes a media circus?
We will get nowhere by avoiding the tough questions in the name of “political correctness.”
People need to stop thinking that the black man or the white man is
their enemy and look at the real enemy that resides throughout the halls
of capitol buildings all over this nation and in newsrooms in virtually
every city.
America needs to do some soul searching and come together in spite of
those who want us divided. A lot of us are waking up and that is what
“the powers that be” fear. So what happens when they fear that we will
come together?
They stir up more chaos just as they are doing in Ferguson and just as they did with Trayvon Martin.
Until Americans open their eyes and start to see the real enemy then this will continue.
The other strange tale of Facebook’s disputed origins
Two contracts dispute whether 18-year-old Zuck sold half to accused scammer for $1,000.
Prosecutors say it took decades for Bernard Madoff to pull off one
of the largest financial scams in US history to the tune of $65 billion,
an elaborate Ponzi scheme perpetrated against the upper crust of
society.
But perhaps there's an even bigger scam afoot, and it involves the
ownership of Facebook. The social networking site is valued at $190
billion and used by billions of people daily across the globe.
Unlike Madoff's intricate accounting scheme that netted him a life
sentence in 2009, the criminal proceedings surrounding the ownership of
Facebook, at its core, rely on a two-page document—a contract that is
either forged or worth billions of dollars. Either Facebook Chief Mark
Zuckerberg, as an 18-year-old Harvard University student, promised half
of his company to a rural New York man named Paul Ceglia, or he didn't.
Round One of this high-stakes battle went to Zuckerberg, who sits in
the corner office of the Menlo Park, California-based social networking
site. Ceglia, on the other side of the country, is currently free on
$250,000 bond and must wear an electronic-monitoring ankle bracelet.
He's in legal hot water, facing criminal fraud charges following accusations he forged a contract to hijack half of Facebook [PDF].
The wood-pellet salesman is staring down a maximum 40-year prison term
if convicted—yet maintains that he's the true victim.
Paul Ceglia
Ceglia's
jury trial in Manhattan federal court is scheduled for November 17, and
the government's key witness is Zuckerberg. Other than Zuckerberg,
prosecutors' main evidence is the asserted real contract [PDF]
and a forensics analysis of the allegedly fake contract that prompted a
federal judge in a different case to declare it was "a fabrication" and
that Ceglia "knows it" [PDF]. On the other side of the table, however, Ceglia says Zuckerberg hacked or "planted"
a forged contract—the one prosecutors say is the original—onto Ceglia
family computers in a bid to protect Zuckerberg's own fortunes and to
undermine Ceglia's claims. It's a position federal prosecutors contend
is without "basis."
Ceglia attorney Joseph Alioto, the former mayor of San Francisco,
summed up his view of the prosecution. "There's a lot of dollars at
stake, a lot of influence and power at stake," he said. "One of these
people is lying, and it isn't Ceglia."
Harvard gives birth to Facebook
History books are already filled with writings that Zuckerberg, as a
Harvard University student, launched the social-networking site in 2004
as a Harvard-only network.
What's less known is that, as a computer science student, Zuckerberg
freelanced programming work on the side. In 2003, one of his clients was
Ceglia, whom he met via a Craigslist ad. Ceglia hired him to perform
programming work for Ceglia's former online venture, StreetFax, which
provided photographs of intersections to insurance adjusters.
Neither Zuckerberg nor Ceglia dispute this part of the story. It's
essentially the only fact upon which they both agree. Herein lies the
billion-dollar brouhaha:
As part of that so-called "work for hire" contract, Zuckerberg agreed
to provide Ceglia with at least a 50-percent Facebook stake, and Ceglia
fronted Zuckerberg $1,000 to make it happen. The contract references a
project called "The Face Book" in one place and "The Page Book"
elsewhere. At least that's Ceglia's position, according to the contract he submitted to the courts [PDF].
He sued Facebook and Zuckerberg in 2010, demanding the New York federal
courts enforce the contract. Along the way, he produced as evidence
e-mails between himself and Zuckerberg that seemingly bolstered his
position.
Enlarge/ Federal prosecutors say this paragraph from an April 28, 2003 contract between Ceglia and Zuckerberg is a hoax.
Facebook has maintained all along that there was no such "The Face
Book" contract or e-mails, and the case has been drawn out by delays and
a turnstile of attorney changes on Ceglia's side. Facebook, which
declined comment for this story, has repeatedly claimed the photocopied
contract submitted as evidence supporting Ceglia's claim was a
manufactured forgery and not the original Streetfax contract Ceglia and
Zuckerberg each signed. In a 2012 response to Ceglia's suit, for
example, Facebook attorneys decried the lawsuit as "a massive fraud [PDF] on the federal courts and defendants." In an e-mail to Ars, however, Ceglia maintains the contract is "genuine."
Lawyers, lawyers, and more lawyers
Where there's a courthouse, there are lawyers. And where there's a
courthouse with a lawsuit potentially worth billions of dollars, there
are plenty more lawyers.
Maybe Facebook would just settle up with Ceglia to make the New York
federal lawsuit go away? After all, it happened at least once before.
Facebook agreed in 2008 to pay Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss $65 million to resolve a dispute about whether Zuckerberg hijacked the idea for Facebook from them. The movie The Social Network
dramatized the issue in its 2010 debut. But there would be no
settlement offer to Ceglia from Facebook, and Ceglia began to churn
through plaintiff's lawyers.
Ceglia went through at least nine law firms in his quest to assume half the Facebook helm.
Facebook's lawyers took that as evidence of sorts to bolster their
position, at least in the public relations arena—saying the "revolving
door of lawyers" underscored the fact that Ceglia was perpetrating "a hoax and a fraud."
As it turned out, even Ceglia's lawyers had doubts about the
authenticity of Ceglia's claims, according to a 2011 document from a law
firm that represented Ceglia. The document was admitted as evidence, Exhibit R.
The exhibit is a letter from Aaron Marks of the New York firm of
Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman. It's to Dennis Vacco, of
Buffalo's Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman. Kasowitz is explaining that a
data examination firm it retained, Capsicum Group,
took some images of the alleged "work for hire" contract from Ceglia's
computer, and Kasowitz would release the firm to work with Vacco.
"In fact, upon my review on March 30 of certain documents that the
Capsicum Group had retrieved that established that page 1 of the Exhibit
B Contract is fabricated, I directed the Capsicum Group to stop work on
analyzing Mr. Ceglia's materials, but to preserve the images," the
letter said. "My firm also immediately withdrew as counsel to Mr. Ceglia
that evening."
Digital forensics for sale
By 2012, Ceglia's lawsuit against Facebook and Zuckerberg devolved
into what best could be described as a he-said, she-said affair. But
Facebook dropped a bombshell in March of that year, a report [PDF] from the digital forensics firm of Stroz Friedberg.
Among other things, the firm concluded that Ceglia manipulated the
original contract's text with a hex editor so the datestamps would
appear real. The report also said that Ceglia performed a process known
as "baking."
"Ceglia appears to have used clothespins or binder clips to suspend
the document and expose it to sunlight," the report said. What's more,
the report identified six versions on Ceglia's computer of the "work for
hire" contract, all of which displayed a "metadata anomaly." The report
said "the last printed dates are later than their last modified dates,
which is impossible absent system clock backdating."
The report also discounted e-mails between Zuckerberg and Ceglia. The
report said Ceglia reset the clock on his computer to 2003 and 2004 to
produce e-mails of him discussing Facebook with Zuckerberg. Stroz
Friedberg said the e-mails from October to April were not set to Eastern
Standard Time.
"Put
simply, Mr. Ceglia's purported e-mails dated between October 26, 2003
and April 4, 2004 display the time zone stamp reflecting Eastern
Daylight Time. This would not be possible if the purported e-mails were
authentic, as Eastern Standard Time was in effect at the time," the
report said.
Ceglia, however, commissioned his own expert opinions.
One of them came from San Francisco-based forensics consultant James Blanco. The "work for hire contract," he concluded, [PDF] was "an authentic, unaltered document."
In a June court filing that year, Blanco said the tan lines Stroz
Friedberg discovered on the contract could have come, not from baking,
but from "finger or thumb imprints that had lotion (or other chemicals
or substances) on the hand, the result of gloved or ungloved hands
touching the face/exposed arms then inadvertently leaving a protective
coating on the document pages thus protecting those areas from exposure.
That is, either gloved or ungloved fingers, having touched/rubbed the
skin thus being contaminated with a cream or suntan lotion."
Four months later, in October, Ceglia was criminally charged, accused
of mail and wire fraud. When announcing the charges, US Attorney Preet
Bharara of the Southern District of New York said Ceglia was seeking a
"quick payday based on a blatant forgery." Bharara added that "Ceglia’s
alleged conduct not only constitutes a massive fraud attempt, but also
an attempted corruption of our legal system through the manufacture of
false evidence. That is always intolerable. Dressing up a fraud as a
lawsuit does not immunize you from prosecution.”
US District Judge Richard Arcara, who was presiding over Ceglia's
lawsuit, eventually dismissed the case. In March of this year, Arcara
declined Ceglia's petition to block the government's criminal charges
against him. The judge ruled that "the purported contract upon which the
motion is predicated is a fabrication and that plaintiff knows it." Along the way, Arcara ordered Ceglia to pay at least $97,000 in fees and sanctions for stonewalling the forensics analysis that gave rise to his criminal prosecution.
It just keeps getting "weirder and weirder"
Ceglia, who is appealing the dismissal of his lawsuit, told Ars the
judge decided to "choose to believe only Facebook's 'experts,'" adding:
It is the only case on record where a citizen has been
charged with mail and wire fraud for filing a lawsuit. The implication
is clear. If filing a lawsuit can be mail and wire fraud, then every
single lawsuit filed in America can be indicted for as it is in my case,
it does not matter what the evidence shows or how many forensic tests
you have completed to prove just that, it only matters who has friends
in (the) Justice Department. For every lawsuit or at least almost every
lawsuit, involves a dispute about property or money, the law requires
that you use the wire and mail to submit court documents and all that is
left is to allege that one party was lying. Now if that doesn't send
the fear of God into you, if that doesn't send a shiver up your spine at
how utterly frozen our right to a jury trial would be under this
deluded thinking, then you really don't get it.
Ceglia said that the so-called original contract that does not
mention him getting half the Facebook fortune was "forged" and planted,
"perhaps by Zuckerberg himself," on his parents' computer, which was
examined by Facebook as part of the civil discovery process.
"This 'image' they claim is the original is forged and we will prove it has no authenticating properties what so ever," Ceglia wrote in an e-mail to the Daily Reporter,
his hometown newspaper, in 2011. "I would have expected more from him
and his henchmen. We have known about this photoshopped 'image' for some
time and I willingly handed it over to them, now they claim it is the
original. Oh brother...it just keeps getting weirder and weirder."
In his e-mail to Ars, Ceglia said he was tired, too, of being the
government's and the media's whipping boy. "It is clear that I have a
right to petition and that I have every belief that a jury, faced not
with media spin and half truths but the reality of the evidence will
vindicate me and the constant slander I have endured and find the
contract is authentic."
Alioto, Ceglia's current attorney, said Judge Arcara dismissed
Ceglia's case despite Zuckerberg never submitting to a deposition,
meaning the Facebook founder never faced live questioning from an
opposing attorney.
"This guy goes to court and then they put him in jail for going to
court. That is truly offensive," Alioto said of Ceglia's plight. "I
believe if I have the opportunity to cross-examine Zuckerberg, his
credibility will be in substantial doubt."
Alioto claimed the criminal case against Ceglia is based, in part, over the past of the US attorney, Bharara. Alioto claims Bharara
brought the charges as a favor to his former law firm—Gibson, Dunn
& Crutcher—the same firm that represents Facebook. Alioto points out
that Orin Snyder,
Facebook's lead attorney from Gibson Dunn who defended Facebook in
Ceglia's lawsuit, was a former prosecutor in the Southern District of
New York, which is now headed by Bharara.
"This is really a very bad situation," Alioto said.
Bharara's office declined comment for this report other than to
confirm that Zuckerberg would be called to the witness stand. Snyder did
not reply for comment.
If past is prologue
As it turns out, there appears to be little rallying behind Ceglia in his hometown of Wellsville, New York.
A 2011 Buffalo News profile said he was known around town as a "grifter:"
It's easy to generate a reputation in a community of
about 5,000 people, and Ceglia is widely known around Wellsville as a
grifter. His checkered history includes a felony drug conviction in
Texas, a trespassing conviction in Florida, real-estate swindles, and a
slew of affidavits from jilted customers.
In an e-mail, Ceglia described the newspaper article—which noted the
now-41-year-old father of two sons was arrested in 1997 for possessing
hallucinogenic mushrooms—as a "hatchet job."
I made a mistake in my early twenties and it set me
straight... I got my shit together as is proven I think by the fact that
Zuckerberg admits that I hired him as a part of my company... I think
it is pretty clear that I was working my ass off to build a dot com to
provide photographs of street intersections... Not a move "career
criminals" usually make. I've worked hard for what I have and the facts
are the facts... I traveled across the North East and then Florida
building a database of street intersections, long before there was
Google street view.
I've built homes in the Bahamas from the ground up and each and every
bolt and machine in a wood pellet factory. I've built toilets in Kibera
on my own dime and designed and built a refrigerator that runs directly
off of wood or charcoal for use in developing nations... Before that
was a prototype for a generator that runs from wave energy. I could
continue but hopefully in trying to demonstrate that I don't just fit
easily in your box I haven't given you so much that now you fit me in
the one labeled "braggard" since that is far from who I am. I am a
father and a husband, I have a close happy supportive family that I
cherish above all else.
Ceglia's checkered past, however, strangely gave rise to his claim to
Facebook and his latest legal troubles. He said he forgot about his
alleged Facebook fortunes until he began rummaging through his files as
part of an unrelated run-in with the law.
He and wife, Iasia, were arrested in 2009 and eventually sued by
then-New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. They allegedly stiffed
customers from his Allegany Pellets company out of about $200,000 for
1,900 tons of home-heating pellets. The Ceglias blamed the backlog on
mechanical failures and said they never intended to cheat anybody.
“If this thing hadn’t happened the way it happened, no way I would
have ever started looking through these ancient folders,” Ceglia told Bloomberg News in 2010. “That contract would just be sitting in there gathering dust.”
But Ceglia found the contract—allegedly fake or real depending on the
side presenting—and now he awaits his day in court this November. And
unless something unforeseen happens beforehand, Mark Zuckerberg will be
there to see him, too.
"I have no interest in a plea deal of any sort. The very idea of it
suggests that I have done something wrong," Ceglia told Ars. "Of course I
intend to go to trial."
By: Jay Transcendence is the ultimate transhumanist film to date. Convalescence
would have been a better name. The film begins with some cataclysmic
future event that has caused the collapse of civilization to a
pre-electrical state. Rewind a few years, and we see Johnny Depp as Dr.
Will Caster, a scientist who specializes in artificial intelligence on
the verge of discovering the final key to mapping the human mind so it
can be downloaded onto a floppy disc. Dr. Caster calls this point of
singularity “transcendence,” where man will finally overcome his bodily
limitations and load himself up to Youtube. Following a presentation at
a tech conference on how man will create “god,” Dr. Caster is mortally
wounded by a radical anti-tech Luddite group, RIFT (Revolutionary
Independence From Technology), leading to his desire to be the first
willing test subject of human AI. Simultaneously, attacks on AI labs
occur nationwide, prompting FBI involvement. Dr. Caster, as you might
guess, is successfully downloaded into a computer, leading to an
exponential growth in his intelligence and power enabling him to become a
ghost in the machine accessing infinite data.
After becoming Max Headroom, Caster hacka into the supercomputer PINN
(Physically Independent Neural Network) he formerly worked on to track
and identify all the members of RIFT globally The true reveal here is
not that Johnny Depp can be placed on a thumb drive like Scarlett in Lucy, but that what is
real are the NSA supercomputers that can literally track anyone,
anywhere through AI, just like PINN can in the film. As I have written
many times, the NSA supercomputers exist to do this very thing,
ultimately achieving real-time, 3D modelling of all events. NSA
programmer William Binney recently revealed to the mainstream what had
been known for a long time to alternative media: The purpose of all this
tech surveillance and grid has nothing to do with terrorism, and
everything to do with AI and panoptic population control.
The Guardian recently reported on Binney:
“At least 80% of fibre-optic cables globally go via the US”, Binney
said. “This is no accident and allows the US to view all communication
coming in. At least 80% of all audio calls, not just metadata, are
recorded and stored in the US. The NSA lies about what it stores.” The
NSA will soon be able to collect 966 exabytes a year, the total of
internet traffic annually. Former Google head Eric Schmidt once
argued that the entire amount of knowledge from the beginning of
humankind until 2003 amount to only five exabytes. “The ultimate goal
of the NSA is total population control”, Binney said…“The NSA is
mass-collecting on everyone, and it’s said to be about terrorism but
inside the US it has stopped zero attacks.”
As is usual, the ridiculous pseudo-philosophical question is raised
in this kind of film comes to the fore – is Max Headroom “self-aware”?
Here, to be “alive” has been replaced with a psychological and
ambiguously loaded philosophical concept “self-aware,” instead of the
classic idea of the soul. Individual man is no longer viewed as an
embodiment of human nature with psyche, nous or mind,
but as a single entity, a body, with mind or psyche being collapsed into
body (mind is brain). With these presuppositions, it is only rational
to conclude consciousness is purely a series of algorithms. Since fMRI
scans can image the energy waves emanating from the brain, the brain is
nothing more than these recorded sensory impressions, like an image on
film.
Regular readers will immediately see the fallacy here, where once
again the entire premise of all transhumanism and enlightenment
mythology is the presupposition that “man” is a body with a blank slate
video recorder (brain). If that’s all man is, then these electrical
impulses can be mapped and put into an algorithm, and thus transferred
to a hard drive. In logic, this is called the fallacy of composition, wherein what is true in part is assumed to be the case for the whole. Since man’s mind does record experience like a computerized camera, well then man must just
be a mobile computer camera. What this ignores and merely moves back a
step is the perennial philosophical question Plato raised long ago –
what is it you are referring to when you say “man”? For strictly
empirical philosophy, there can be no universals. And yet the entire
metaphysical superstructure of how it’s even possible to build a
computer at all, the preconditions for a computer’s possible existence,
are based on the diametrically opposite philosophies of Enlightenment
empiricism, materialism and scientism.
B-B-B-B-Boring!
Just like Lucy, Transcendence wants viewers to
think these are supremely deep questions that, instead of actually being
based in reason or real science, fly off into the realm of absurd myth.
Stop and consider for a moment how similar the fairy tale of a genie in
a bottle is to the idea of Scarlett or Johnny being downloaded into a
thumb drive. Put in this perspective, how laughable is it when
worshipers at the scientistic cult altars mock us for being
“superstitious”? Ultimately, the film doesn’t deserve a long, in-depth
analysis, as the rest of the plot amounts to Caster erecting an
underground super tech facility to build himself a new body. So, like Lucy, man achieves godhood and masters nature through nanotech. As one perceptive friend said of Lucy
that equally applies here, “This is the kind of film stupid people
think is ‘smart.'” Further, the bad guys are the backwards humans who
are afraid of the dangers of technology – and they also have….guns! The
good guys are the scientists who want to create a utopia. If we could
just be evolved enough to get past guns and tribalism, why we could
become gods! Yet do you really think all those underground
supercomputers and all that nanotech wizardry is being developed to make
everyone a god, as if it will be doled out in a government cheese line?
Given the colossal lies the establishment foists upon the public
daily, are you truly that stupid?
The only reason the film should be analyzed is because it is the
first film completely taken up with the notion of transhumanism, aside
from perhaps 2001. It is also very honest about its point – man creates
his own god, since theology is nothing more than man making up deities.
And it turns out in the storyline that the superbeing really was Dr.
Caster (a point that had been doubted), because the great climax is
that he recycled himself and his chick into a nanotech puddle, where
they can both reside in their home garden. If it wasn’t a description of
a film plot, readers would accuse me of being stoned in writing that,
but one has to wonder – is Lucy just this same film redone?
This time around, instead of being stuck in a stuffy plastic hard drive,
you can download yourself into a puddle in a garden. It’s sooooo zen,
maaaaaan. The real message here is the continued willingness of man to
believe in utter lies and nonsense that flies in the face of the
metalogic that undergirds man’s actual tech logic. And in denying
metalogic, man ends with the conclusion that he is his own god in potentia, just waiting to come to perfect tech gnosis through which he can become the deus ex machina, and then irrationally dissolve into the Absolute. In conclusion, Transcendence
is just the tired, age old pagan psychodrama retold over and over, like
the meaningless cyclical metaphysic that forms its narrative
foundation.
Dr. Michael Baden Did Not Do Michael Brown Autopsy. Then Who Did?
Shawn Parcells Did. Who Dat You Say? Well Let Me Do some splainin.
Seems Like Missy Plays nice with her subjects
Quick Update!
I’ve
added some additional copy. Seems reporter pictured above is a bigger
part of story then I gave her credit for. Shucks as you can see by the
above tweet she was playing with Crump way back when St. Trayvon was
Canonized.
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By, Frances Robles, and Julie Bosman. Aug, 17 2014
FERGUSON, Mo. — Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager
who was killed by a police officer, sparking protests around the
nation, was shot at least six times, including twice in the head, a
preliminary private autopsy performed on Sunday found.
One
of the bullets entered the top of Mr. Brown’s skull, suggesting his
head was bent forward when it struck him and caused a fatal injury,
according to Dr. Michael M. Baden, the former chief medical examiner for the City of New York, who flew to Missouri on Sunday at the family’s request to conduct the separate autopsy. It was likely the last of bullets to hit him, he said.
[...] Prof. Shawn L. Parcells, a pathologist assistant based in Kansas, assisted Dr. Baden.
“You do this for the families,” Mr. Parcells said.
The two medical experts conducted the four-hour examination Sunday at the Austin A. Layne Mortuary in St. Louis. Benjamin L. Crump, a lawyer for Mr. Brown’s family who paid their travel expenses, hired them. (link)
Reading this article by Frances Robles would give you the impression Dr. Michael M. Baden actually “conducted” the autopsy on 8/17/14.
Alas a review of the timeline shows a divergent reality. The Scheme Team are up to their old tricks.
Parks and Crump
1) Wed
Aug 13 – Professor Parcells was contacted by attorney’ Benjamin Crump
and Gray (allegedly just to assist Baden). Parcells was on MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell Tuesday night and stated he was contacted by attorneys Crump and Gray on Wednesday 8/13.
2) Fri
Aug 15 – Daryl Parks gave a press conference sharing his disgust the
Ferguson Police had release the strong arm robbery footage. During the
presser he told the media that their 2nd independent autopsy had
already been performed (citation link)
Knowing they were going to bring in Dr. Baden, that’s why when questioned about the second autopsy Parks said:
…”IT’S
DONE, AND WE’LL TALK ABOUT THAT LATER, WE’RE NOT ANSWERING ANY
QUESTIONS ABOUT THE 2ND AUTOPSY AT THIS TIME; WE WILL -IN TIME- DO
THAT”….
If
Parcells was just supposed to be assisting Baden, why was Parks stating
that the autopsy had already been performed two days before Baden was
even flown in?
The actual truth appears to be – a rather controversial person Shawn Parcells, who is NOT a forensic pathologist, was used by the Scheme Team to conduct an autopsy – and then Professor Baden was brought in AFTER to meet with Parcells and give his OPINION of it.
In essence lend his credibility toward it.
Shawn Parcells is not a pathologist, he is a voice for hire. Here’s some articles on the lack of credentials for Parcells and the concerns therein:
“[...] some coroners and medical examiners in Missouri say Parcells has inflated his qualifications and performed autopsies without a medical license.
Others allege that doctors whose signatures were on some autopsy
reports were not present at the autopsies, did not review the work or
never actually signed the documents.”
“Police in Andrew County are looking into allegations that a pathologist Parcells listed on a 2012 autopsy was never consulted.”
“Shramek said he became alarmed when Parcells asked what to put down as the cause of death on an autopsy report instead of following the evidence.”
“Others,
such as Dr. Mary Case, the medical examiner for St. Louis, St. Charles,
Franklin and Jefferson counties, have been outspoken about the
allegations against Parcells.
“It’s
very bad for our state if there’s someone doing autopsies without a
medical license,” she said. “This is a huge atrocity, an invitation to
disaster, and it needs to stop.” (link)
The bottom line is that Dr. Michael M. Baden never performed an autopsy on Mike Brown. Instead he signed off on an opinion of a forensic examination completed by a controversial Forensic Pathologist Assistant, who did an evaluation of Mike Brown’s body at the request of the Scheme Team.
Dr. Baden was flown in later to
review the findings of the Forensic Pathologist Assistant, Shawn
Parcells, and give it credibility in the eyes of a non-questioning
media.
The Scheme
Team then took Dr. Baden’s evaluation of the Shawn Parcell review, and
handed it off to their New York Times friend and cohort, Frances
Robles. Selling it as if Dr. Baden had actually conducted the physical
exam himself.
Frances worked with the Scheme
Team in 2012 while she was at the Miami Herald and was part of their
inner circle of media types willing to sell the Trayvon Story. The
Trayvon Martin Story was also full of similarly false and manufactured
media evidence.
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08/17/2014 - LA JOLLA, CA—August 14, 2014—Chemists
led by Nobel laureate K. Barry Sharpless at The Scripps Research
Institute (TSRI) have used his click chemistry to uncover unprecedented,
powerful reactivity for making new drugs, diagnostics, plastics, smart
materials and many other products.
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