A young Sikh professor by the name Dr. Prabhjot Singh has
been attacked at the Colombia University in the US. He was attacked by a group
of young men who reportedly call him “Osama” and “Terrorist”. The police are
investigating the attack as a hate crime.
It is reported that Dr. Prabhjot Singh always wear a turban
and has a beard, a symbol most people only know with Muslims. He was reportedly
attacked while walking along an avenue in upper Manhattan.
“ An unknown suspect
or suspects shouted anti-Muslim statements, knocked the professor down and
punched him numerous times in the face” according to a huffingtonpost report.
A friend of the attacked professor,
Simran Jeet Singh, who is a doctoral candidate in religion at the same
University, said in an online post, "Hate Hits Home: When My Friend Became
A Target" the father of one had been "brutally attacked" on the
street and had been rushed to the hospital "bloody and bruised, his face
swollen from a fractured jaw." The
post was published on the HuffintonPost website.
He also said the young professor had
many of his teeth displaced.
Crimes like this are inevitable as long as the media fail to stop portraying
some set of people in a bad light.
I like money no doubt and I have done so many get paid tos,
like get paid to click, get paid to shop,
get paid to write, get paid to take
surveys and so on. However, when I saw this particular get paid to, I begin to
wonder if I can do this!
NASA is carrying out a study where the participants will be
paid to sleep for a good 70 day!The
objective of the survey is to learn “how an astronaut’s body will change in
weightlessness during space flight in the future,” according to a statement by
the agency.
The study will be conducted in the Johnson Space Center in
Houston, Texas and each participant will be paid a whopping 18 thousand USD.
The participants will have to sleep at a slightly inclined
angle and will sleep for eight hours in a day. They will do everything while in
this position, including eating, bathing, pooing (wow) and interacting with
other participants.
They will also be able to do exercise on a special machine.
NASA has said they do not want people who are naturally
couch potatoes. They rather want people who are very healthy and active.
“Couch potatoes is not an accurate description for what
we are looking. Subjects need to be very healthy,” said NASA’s news chief, Kelly
Humphries.
Participants will have to undergo different tests so as to
select those who are mentally fit for the study.
“We want to make sure we select people who are mentally
ready to spend 70 days in bed. Not everyone is comfortable with that. Not every
type of person can tolerate an extended time in bed,” according Dr. Roni Cromwell, senior scientist on the bed
rest study.
“Once they qualify physically and mentally, we do rigorous
physical exercises to test muscle strength and aerobics capacity. We want
people who have the physical and psychological characteristics of an astronaut.
They should be able to do the kind of activities that astronauts do."
In any case, I can’t take part in the study because it is
only available to US citizens or permanent residents
What
if the study has a negative effect on the participants? Well wish the
participants best of luck in there sleepy adventure
The tenth anniversary of the U.S war in Afghanistan was marked on the 7th of October 2011.
Several life has been wasted, and are still being wasted while several billions of dollars has gone down the drain in what seems to be a never ending war. According to Ted Turner, he said " The last time someone surrendered was japan and that was 60 years ago. The Afghans will never surrender. We will just get tired and come home". Therefore with the looks of things , it seems like the U. S Government have but just two options; one, either to just withdraw all forces from that country and come home or two, just simply exterminate them .
My second option may seem weird, but going by the recent news, one can not but think that the U.S people and Government don' have regards and respect for any other person who is not a U S citizen.
In the first instance, the war was started based on proofs and evidences that were not strong. I mean how could a war be declared on a nation without solid evidence? it only goes to show that the government do not have any concern for human life. The mastermind of the September 11 twin tower attacks is still at best doutful till date.
So many people are beginning to believe that the attack was actually planned by the us government itself. According to a poll reported on yahoo, one out of seven American citizens believe the attack to have been planned by their government or, at best that the US government was well aware of the attack but intentionally did nothing to prevent it.
Also, there have been reports of us soldiers recklessly killing civilians for fun and game.
According to the guardian news, here is a picture of a us soldier (Jeremy Morlock)
hand holding up the head of the dead and bloodied youth he and his colleagues have just killed.
According to the report, the unsuspecting victim had been waved over by a group of US soldiers who had driven to his village in Kandahar province in one of their armoured Stryker tanks.That was the moment Morlock, according to a pre-arranged plan, threw a grenade at the boy that exploded while other members of the rogue group who called themselves the "kill team" opened fire.
They would later tell military investigators that the boy, a farmer's son, had threatened them with the grenade.
There are several pictures and videos like thiswith different soldiers posing with dead Afghan youths.
this to me seems like a very slow exterminaion of a people especially when the young ones are the ones that are targeted and treated this way.
We will continue to wait and see how all these will end.
Hon. Patrick Obahiagbon, the Chief of Staff to Governor Adams
Oshiomhole, in this chat with Punch’s Gbenro Adeoye, talks about his
controversial way of speaking and why he chooses to speak that way. What is your educational background?
I am by the grace of the
celestial choir, a legal practitioner, a public administrator, an
international historian and a diplomat. I earned a degree in Law and was
called to the Nigerian Bar as a solicitor and advocate of the Supreme
Court of Nigeria about 25 years ago and I do also have a double-barreled
Master’s degree in Public Administration and in International History
and Diplomacy.Why do you always speak ‘big grammar’?
I am not really consensus ad idem with those who opine that my idiolect
is advertently obfuscative. No no no, it’s just that I am in my elements
when the colloquy has to do with the pax nigeriana of our dreams and
one necessarily needs to fulminate against the alcibiadian modus vivendi
of our prebendal political class.
How do you talk to your wife, children and even your friends?
I relate with my family and friends very warmly and in an atmosphere of
camaraderie, stri*ped of my confutational habiliment and gladiatorial
homilies. I am a very peaceful, calm, level-headed and celestially
attuned soul personality. Is this the way you proposed to your wife, speaking high tech grammar?
Of course, the business of the day when I interfaced with my wife on
matters of the heart had to be in plain Caeser’s language and you can
decipher why that had to be so. The matter in view did not permit itself
of sphinxian conundrum.
It’s a long time ago, so I can’t remember the exact words I used. We
had a relationship for ten years before we got married. We’re looking at
close to 20 years ago. How does your family understand your English?
My family and friends understand me perfectly just the same way you
understand me now though, I must admit that it depends on the issues on
the piazza. Is this the way you were speaking in your school days?
I’m sure if you confer with my school mates they will tell you that I no
longer speak what those who just know me now call “grammar.” I could
speak for about twenty minutes when I was in the university and you
won’t understand one word of what I said. I must say I have deteriorated
in my grammatical construct. How did you start speaking in this manner?
It all happened when my father brought me a teaser which stated that
good orators had ruled the world and you must have to be a feisty orator
if you must rule the world. As an impressionable young man, I
alacritously threw myself into the whirligig of improving my usage of
words by amassing new words on a daily basis. Did you write exams in school in these big words?
I used such words very-very freely in my exams both at the secondary
school and in my university and little wonder I had the misfortune of my
English results being seized intermittently in my O’ Levels.
WAEC released my results for the other subjects and withheld my
English result. This happened for about three years. Twice, I passed the
University Matriculation Examination but I could not proceed to the
University because of my English results that were not released. At the
end of the day, it was released after the third attempt. Didn’t you have problems with your teachers?
It no doubt gave me serious issues at the university and that is because
some, if not most of my lecturers, ran away with the erroneous
impression that my attitudinal predilection had a deprecable tinge of
academic braggadocio and intellectual megalomania. But this assumption
was both mendacious and a fallacious ad hominem. I could not but take
solace in that Latin apothegm which states that O Tempora! O Mores. Was English your best subject?
My best subject in secondary school was government and religion and am
sure that I was drawn to religion because, I now know as a student of
Rosicrucian mysticism, that I was a student of divine light in my last
incarnation. As for government, I just fell in love with the subject due
to my early attraction in life to issues of political-economy. So what did you score in English language?
English language was of course my hobbyhorse and passion but like I
earlier asseverated, my results were constantly guillotined to my utter
chagrin that I had to lapse into a jeremiad of lachrymoseim for a period
of aeon. I would need to check the result again to be sure of my score. Do you pray the same way you speak?
God understands all languages, my brother and I pray to God using any
word that pops up. May I posit that the key points in prayers are your
sincerity, purity of heart, walking within the compass and to what
extent are you ready and worthy of receiving the benediction of the
cosmic and the cosmic masters because as we say in mysticism- “when the
students are ready, the masters would appear.”
Take my words my brother that more than seventy per cent of humanity
don’t know how to pray but that is a matter for another day. By the way, are there other names you call God?
God is variously known as Jehovah, Yaweh, The Great Grand Architect of
the Universe, The Cosmic Host and several other names known alone to
heirophants but which names are so ineffable for me to mention here.
Do you know that many people don’t take you too seriously when you talk because they think you are not communicating?
Why will I be perturbed from ensconcing myself in the palatable arms of
Morpheus because people have deprived themselves of the cultivation of
the regime of the mental magnitude? I read all the farrago of baloneys
and vacuous bunkum from pepper soup objurgators. The spirit of
animadversion remains their fundamental human right. It also remains an
indubitable fact that I get millions and millions of requests daily from
people all over the world requesting for my verbal mentorship which
positive cosmopolitan reactions have assisted my equipoise and righteous
sense of pachydermatous garb. I cannot put my nose to the grindstone
daily and expect to be understood by those luxuriating in a modus
vivendi, verging on pepper souping, goat heading, suyaing, big stouting
and isiewulising. Has a philosophical wag not once pontificated that
things of the spirit are spiritually discerned and that it takes the
deep to call the deep? We will speak more on this matter of critiques
and chichi dodo another day. You were there when a teacher in your state couldn’t pronounce ‘solemnly’, how did you feel?
I was indeed sad that a teacher in Edo State could not pronounce a
simple word as ‘solemn’. That was certainly one of my low moments in the
service of Edo State but the eulogies must go to Comrade Adams
Oshiomhole who put in place the infrastructure that made it possible to
detect such an egregious ambience and this government would stop at
nothing in cleansing the Augean stables. Have you ever considered organising English classes in Edo State?
I would have loved to organise English classes, my brother, but you will agree with me that I am sufficiently busy just now. Why do you pull your trousers up beyond the waist?
Hahahaha….That trousers style is called Yohji Yamamoto. It was my own
audacious statement to remonstrate against the pervasive tendency of
Nigerians especially our youths that took to the practice of putting on
trousers exposing their lower anatomical contours and I will do it over
and over again. When you speak to Caucasians of English origin, how do they react to you?
My friends that are whites simply marvel and sometimes get maniacally bewildered when we engage, most times to my consternation. Do you think that you understand English language better than the owners of the language?
I have never had the ambition to know the English language more than the
owners. However, I must mention that they are shocked most times to
find out several words from me they never heard of that existed in the
dictionary. Yet, those words are supposed to be theirs. Na so we see am. Have you ever met with the Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka? And what’s your opinion of him?
Professor Wole Soyinka is an international personality. It’s either you
have met him personally or by reputation. He is a great man and I enjoy
reading him anytime, any day. Can you ever be caught speaking what many would consider as normal English?
I speak in plain Ceasers language or what you call the normal language
and let me tell you that I will hold my own even in pidgin
conversation. No just try me at all at all o. What is your take on the ongoing crisis in the PDP?
The crisis in PDP? All I can say is that I join some people to dey laugh o and he be like say my laugh go tay well well o. Are you likely to contest for a political office?
I am still in politics, serving the good and amiable people of Edo
State. Being the Chief of Staff to the comrade governor is in itself an
art of daily political engineering. Do you look forward to developing your own dictionary?
My own dictionary? I have never really given that a thought, but there
is a young man in one of our universities who travelled all the way to
meet me in Benin. His doctoral thesis is on “Obahiagbonism as a style of
language.” How many dictionaries do you read a day and how often do you read dictionaries?
I have read and still do read a vaudeville of dictionaries from Websters
to Funk and Wagnalls, from Cambridge to Oxford dictionaries, from
Black’s Law Dictionary to Encarta and from Encyclopedia Britannica to
Foreignisms, etcetera. I developed my corpus of vocabulary by reading
omnivorously. I have also spent nothing less than an hour daily on my
dictionary for over twenty years. So, whereas the dictionary for most
people is a mere occasional reference point, it is for, me a vade-mecum.
It may also interest you to know that there is much to learn from our
daily newspapers. You seem to mix English with other languages…
On mixing of languages; that comes with reading omnivorously. You cannot
but pick these words here and there if you have an audacious reading
culture. Is any of your children like you?
My children are still growing but I petition the celestial choir and
cosmic hosts to give them the gift of kissing the hybla bee. What is your favourite quote?
One of my favorite quotes is from the sapiential mind of the late Ikene
philosopher, Papa Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo, when he was quoted as saying
that, “the greatest glory is not in never falling but to rise up after a
fall.” Are you planning to contest in 2015?
I always feel flattered and smile with delight when I hear positive
commentary on my tenure at the National Assembly and the wish of
Nigerians to see me back at the National Assembly. I am humbled but as a
student of mysticism, nothing happens in my life by accident. I am a
robot in the hands of God and from that point of view therefore, 2015
would take care of itself. All my efforts just now my brother is geared
towards complementing the efforts of the comrade governor in the total
transmogrification of Edo State which is enough to chew at the moment.
Let me however use this opportunity of your question to appreciate my
numerous admirers all over the world. How are you coping with Governor Oshiomole, knowing that two of you have strong personalities?
When two or more personages are united only by the bonds of rendering
service, that in itself becomes an agglutinating fragrance. In any case,
I am very clear that Comrade Oshio Baba is the Governor of Edo State
and I am his privileged Chief of Staff. So we are working together very
harmoniously and in an ambience of conviviality in our unstoppable
desire in taking Edo State to the next level.
OTTAWA: At their peak, just a few years ago, BlackBerry smartphones were symbols of corporate and political power. When President Barack Obama took office, he made keeping his BlackBerry a personal priority, and when BlackBerry service had a hiccup so did business on Wall Street
But after being upstaged time and again by industry rivals, the devices may soon remain only in memories.
On Friday, BlackBerry announced that it would lay off 4,500 employees,
nearly 40% of its already reduced workforce. The cut is so deep that
some analysts and investors said the company's days as a smartphone
maker were effectively over.
The company also said that it
expected to report a quarterly loss of nearly $1 billion next week,
mainly the result of a write-off of unsold BlackBerry phones, but also
because of payments to stop manufacturers and suppliers from adding to
the pile. And of its six phones that the company offers, two will be
discontinued.
"This is a recognition that they lost the handset
war," said James H Gellert, the chairman and chief executive of Rapid
Ratings, an investment risk evaluation firm. "It's certainly a waving of
the big white towel."
The company halted the trading of its
shares to make the bleak announcement. It also said that revenue was
expected to have been $1.6 billion in the second quarter, almost half of
the $3 billion analysts had anticipated. Sales of phones during that
time, it said, totaled 3.7 million. Apple, by comparison, sold 31.2
million iPhones during its last quarter.
More alarming to many
analysts was BlackBerry's announcement that it had used about $500
million in cash to stay operating during the last quarter, lowering its
cash holdings to $2.6 billion. Although the company has been losing market share for several years, it had managed to increase its cash holdings.
Shares in the company tumbled 17% for the day, to $8.73, nearly all of it after trading was resumed.
Four years ago, BlackBerry had 51% of the North American smartphone
market, according to research firm Gartner. But the fast-changing
industry, and in particular phones from Apple and Samsung, left the company behind.
"The rest of the smartphone world is racing ahead at top speed while we
have BlackBerry stuttering to a stop," said Michael Gikas, senior
editor for electronics at Consumer Reports.
BlackBerry's executives initially looked down on the move to making smartphones into pocket-size computers, which was pioneered by Apple's iPhone. But consumers preferred smartphones with full touch
screens, multiple cameras and, most important, hundreds of thousands of
apps. BlackBerry's devices largely stayed the same, often with
half-screens and a physical keyboard, and its initial attempts at
touchscreen phones were technological failures.
In January, the
company introduced the BlackBerry 10 line of phones, which were based
around an entirely new operating system of the same name and offered
hardware features similar to devices from the market leaders.
But the new devices were unable to break the grip of Apple and Samsung.
When the latest flagship phone in the line, the Z30, was announced this
week, it caused hardly a ripple. Even BlackBerry seemed to have given
up. Unlike with other phones in the series, the Z30 release came without any kind of public or flashy demonstration.
The failure of the BlackBerry 10 line of phones quickly led to
speculation that the company, like Palm before it, would be broken apart
and perhaps gradually disappear, at best lingering as little more than a
brand name. This summer, BlackBerry announced that it was undertaking
its second strategic review in less than a year. Unlike the earlier one,
however, BlackBerry's executives did not rule out a sale of the
company.
All of the uncertainty surrounding the company,
several analysts said, probably made the company's problems even worse
during the last quarter. Corporate and government information technology
departments have held back on committing to BlackBerry 10 phones and,
more important for BlackBerry, the corporate server software that
supports them.
Consumers are often less sensitive to corporate
problems. But Keith Lam, a managing partner at Red Sky Capital
Management in Toronto, said that carriers appeared to be cutting back
their BlackBerry 10 inventory to avoid being saddled with unwanted
phones and reducing display space and promotions for the devices in
stores.
"From that it kind of snowballs downward for BlackBerry," said Lam, whose firm does not manage any BlackBerry shares.
If, as many expect, BlackBerry is no longer in the handset business,
the question becomes what remains of value to a potential investor.
Mike Lazaridis, the co-founder of BlackBerry who stepped down as co-chief executive in 2011, has reached out to private equity
firms about a possible bid for the troubled company. But a private
company would be up against some of the largest companies in the world,
like Apple.
Even before Friday, many analysts had declared
BlackBerry's hardware business to be worthless. There is no clear
consensus, however, on the value of its other assets.
BlackBerry owns a secure global network that once provided it with a
selling point for customers seeking security. But that highly
centralized network is prone to occasional failures, is based on aging technology and has had its role reduced under BlackBerry 10.
The value of the company's patents, many of which it holds in
partnerships with other technology companies, is also uncertain. The
layoffs also suggest that BlackBerry will be forced to give up most of
its research and development work, further clouding its value.
"The biggest problem is that they won't have money for R&D, and
that's death for a tech company," said Neeraj Monga an analyst at
Veritas Investment Research in Toronto, referring to research and
development. "It's not like Coca-Cola, which has been able to bottle the
same formula for over 100 years."
A University of Wisconsin student with a nickname of "Silo" is eating his way through school _ competitively.
Computer
engineering student Eric Dahl now ranks third in the world of
competitive eating as determined by All Pro Eating rankings, though he
once held the top spot. Dahl has earned more than $18,000 in prize money
or merchandise to help pay for his education.
"I'm eating for my education," he said. "It helps me get through."
Dahl
was drawn to competitive eating in 2011, at the former Big Red's
Steakhouse in Madison. Dahl didn't want to pay for his meal so he signed
up for a challenge: eat a three-pound cheesesteak sandwich in less than
10 minutes and skip the bill. He finished in 5 minutes, 50 seconds.
"It just started rolling from there," he said.
Dahl's
first paycheck came from Dickey's Barbecue Pit in suburban Minneapolis,
where he earned $250 for inhaling nine pulled-pork sandwiches in six
minutes. The former high school athlete found the competition and its
over-the-top atmosphere reminiscent of professional wrestling.
"I
really get pumped when the crowd starts cheering," he said. "I'm friends
with other competitive eaters, but once I'm on stage I don't have any
friends."
The 6-foot-3 Dahl said he walks a few miles a day, lifts
weights twice a week and plays intramural soccer and hockey to maintain
his 220-pound weight. The State Journal reports (
http://bit.ly/1dvsVlj) that he eats no more than 3,100 calories a day,
mostly vegetables to avoid increasing his waistline, and stretches his
stomach by eating 10 pounds of cabbage or broccoli in a single sitting
followed by a lot of water.
His next bout is scheduled for
Saturday. "Silo" will try to win $1,000 at a national pizza-eating
contest on Library Mall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Information from: Wisconsin State Journal, http://www.madison.com/wsj
The world today claims it is very civilized and most countries of the world will claim to uphold the fair trial of all accused. An accused person is presumed innocent until undoubtedly proven otherwise.
In the lead of the most civilized countries today is the united state of America. However, with the recent happenings in this super country, one can not but ask ; Is there absolute justice anywhere.
How could a person be assassinated by a country without even first indicting him especially when that person is a citizen of that country. These are things that happen in other less civilized countries and should not be happening in a civilized country such as the USA. According to a report on prison planet, Anwar al-Awlaki who was assassinated in Yemen by the USA operatives was not even indicted. He was simply ordered to be killed by the government despite the fact that there were doubts whether he had any operational role in the so called 'al-Qaeda'. What assurance can anybody then have that he cannot be a victim of this kind of justice. The us government will usually just say they have very good intelligent report. But should this report be enough to order the killing of a person? Even when the report has sometimes been shown to be heavily flawed in the past like the case of the-intelligence used to start the Iraq invasion.
Wonders, they say, shall never end. The real world is concrete and material while the digital world is non-material, though real most times. Traditionally, interaction between the two worlds had been a tedious and mostly achieved by very lengthy and cumbersome digital procedures. Recently, a young man, featured in the series of talks by ted.com brought out another wonderful possibility of the physical - digital world interaction, claiming the gap between the two worlds could be closed by his invention he called the thrilling potential of Sixth Sense Technology.
Watch the video below to witness his technological feat. To magnify to full screen, click the button on the video window. You can also show subtitles in your chosen language by clicking "View subtitles". Feel free to drop a comment here by clicking on "comments" link located at the end of the Video.
A young man around 23, named Farouk Umar Mutallab, a son of a prominent politician, a former minister and a former Chairman of First Bank Nigeria PLC, was arrested by security operatives in an attempt to bring down an aircraft flying from in Amsterdam to Michigan in the US, on the Christmas day, 25th December 2009. He attempted this terrorist attack when the plane was approaching the destination in US. According to ABC, CNN and the entirety of the corporate media, this guy was trained in Yemen by Alqaida operatives for one month before the day of the attack and also there are a host of other recently trained terrorists like him that will still strike soon. All these information were obtained when this guy was interrogated by FBI and CIA officials. This or something like this story is what you hear from the corporate media and other media around the world that follow them without questioning apparent errors in their stories.
As a citizen of the ‘global village’ and as an educated individual, any event that has to do with security and peaceful existence on this globe should be subjected to careful analysis and scrutiny, on a platform of fairness and open-mindedness. In reality, no one can claim to be completely and absolutely fair or balanced - that is the very nature of human being, and we can not help being angels or robots – but an enlightened mind should try his best at being fair in handling matters. Everybody – except the imbeciles – has got one mindset or the other based on which class he belongs to, but it’s a praiseworthy attribute to be able to scrutinize events as they unfold and not be fooled by the media or brainwashers. Unfortunately the media, local or international, government controlled or independently owned is corrupt and shamelessly biased in matters of world politics. At this juncture, let me make a vital point. To an ‘average’ person, the government can not be wrong: the accused person(s) – terrorists, activists, freedom fighters, pressure group, and so on – is to be blamed. This is a wrong perspective. Take it. History had documented several grievous actions taken by the government against people, individuals and groups and in majority of those instances, it’s all about a ‘powerful’ person(s) – within or outside the government – struggling to achieve his personal desire using the machine of the government and media. Another pertinent point here is that the media is always the government’s mouthpiece, and the other party has limited, or at times, no means of making its views known to the public and so what the media has to say is the dominant idea, which may be terribly wrong at times. So for those of you who listen to CNN, ABC News, and so on, and then go out and say “….yes, it’s true, the government must deal with them, they must be killed, bla bla bla…”, you need to adjust lest you continue to be fooled by the brainwashing ideas that a group of people created in order to deal with another using the chance of being closer to the government than the other (the accused– terrorists, activists, freedom fighters, pressure group, and so on). Big thanks to the world of internet. Nowadays, except for the psycho-intellectually lazy individuals, it’s now not only possible but also very easy to gather information from various sources and determine who is right and who is wrong. Then it will be easy to judge matters with intellectual soundness, and not render your brain to think only in the direction the stereotyping media guides it. Okay let’s go back to the issue.
The popular report we hear and read is this: This boy left Nigeria for Amsterdam and then from there, boarded another plane Northwest Airline Flight 253 to US. He left his seat for the toilet and after spending some times in the toilet he came back to his seat only to detonate - in the eyes of everybody on board - what they called ‘explosive’, about 20 minutes to the destination airport in Michigan. He was arrested while the fire that resulted from his ‘bomb’ was extinguished after burning his trousers and the walls of the plane. After the day of the attempted bombing, a lot of shocking revelations were revealed, which will put a reasonable person at least on the fence, until clearer evidences emerge to determine where one should stay in the picture.
Whatever the media has to say about the matter, common sense gives preference should be given to the accounts provided by the eye witnesses to the event, and in this case, those on board. For anybody who fears to be tagged terrorist or alt least alleged of ‘sympathizing’ with terrorists, he would not want to implicate himself if he’s not sure of his accounts of the incident. A man named Kurt Haskell, an attorney with the Haskell Law Firm in Taylor, Michigan, was on board with his wife on the same aircraft. He detailed his experience at the Amsterdam airport and on flight 253. Mr. Haskell provided information not covered by the corporate media. CNN interviewed this man, his wife and other key eyewitnesses during their Dec. 28 program who raised these very points, making clear that the full story is still emerging and that wider-connections to intelligence handlers is evident. What did Haskell say? Read his account.
“Laurie and I were sitting near the boarding gate, sitting on the floor, there weren’t any seats to sit in. And I saw two men. They caught my eye because they seemed to be an odd pair. One was what I would describe as a poor-looking black teenager around 16 or 17, and the other man, age 50-ish, wealthy looking Indian man. And I was just wondering why they were together– kinda strange. And I watched them approach what I would call the ticket agent, the final person that checks your boarding pass before you get on the plane. And I could hear the entire conversation. The only person that spoke was the Indian man, and what he said was: ‘This man needs to board the plane, but he doesn’t have a passport.’ And the ticket agent responded, ‘Well, if he doesn’t have a passport, he can’t get on the plane.’ To which the Indian man responded back, ‘He’s from Sudan. We do this all the time.’ And the ticket agent said, ‘Well, then you’ll have to go and talk to my manager.’ And she directed them down a hallway. And that was the last time I saw the Indian man, and the black man I didn’t see again until he tried to blow up our plane hours later.”
This was said to the CNN interviewer, who also asked whether he was sure the guy he saw was the same Mutallab or someone else. He replied he could still recognize him to be the same ‘Sudanese refugee’ that was first rejected by the ticket agent in his account. Then let me ask the following questions:
Who is the ‘wealthy looking Indian man’ and why was the suspect was allowed to speak for himself when it was not established he was a deaf?
Who is the ‘we’ in his statement: ‘We do this all the time.’ and why and how was the supposed refugee allowed in the end to board an international flight, even without a passport?
Why was he not searched and scanned like they do for people before being allowed to board, particularly since he later turned out to be a person on the terror watch list even months before the attack?
Then you can see something is fishy! This guy had been on the CIA counter terrorism watch list because they suspected earlier that he may have links with Alqaeda, and also his very father had reported him to the US embassy/ CIA of his strange behaviours recently. So how was he able to scale through stringent security checks despite his security status? Think over these points. Another thing worthy of note is that another eyewitness on board the Northwest Airline flight 253, Patricia Keepman, said she noticed the a mysterious cameraman at the beginning of the flight, believing the man might have been simply excited about a first flight, or etc. Later when the ‘bombing’ incident took place, she says the “cameraman was the only one standing up, and intently filming the entire incident.” Patricia “Scotty” Keepman and her daughter witnessed the alleged botched bombing. Keepman’s daughter said that ahead of them was a man who videotaped the entire flight, including the attempted detonation. “He sat up and videotaped the entire thing, very calmly,” said Patricia. “We do know that the FBI is looking for him intensely. Since then, we’ve heard nothing about it.” The alleged videotaping of the underwear bomber and his fudged attack is another oddity that the corporate media should subject to careful scrutiny if they are sincere about exposing the truth. Who is the man and why did FBI allow him to leave with the recorded video clip if he covered everything from the beginning of the flight to the end of the events of the attack? Remember, in the first place, it’s not permitted to take video recordings while at the airport or in the plane except with special permission.
On The Alex Jones Show on Tuesday, December 29, 2009, Detroit attorney Kurt Haskell dropped bombshell revelations concerning his eyewitness experience of the Flight 253 attack and how the FBI detained a second man after dogs detected a bomb in his luggage. The FBI has not only ignored Haskell’s story, but they have launched a cover-up by refusing to even acknowledge the existence of another man who filmed the entire flight, including the aborted attack, as well as the well-dressed man who aided the bomber to board the plane even though he had no passport and was on a terror watch list. Haskell continues his account:
"After being allowed to disembark from the plane by officials, passengers were detained in customs with their carry-on luggage for six hours while they waited to be interrogated by the FBI.At this point a bomb-sniffing dog pointed at carry-on luggage in the possession of a man Haskell described as Indian around 30 years old. Officials led the man away to an interrogation room. Haskell said he was concerned because the bomb-sniffing dog had flagged the man, indicating he may have had explosives in his carry-on luggage. The Indian man was subsequently led away in handcuffs."
Another pertinent issue in this story of underwear bomber is that it was confirmed from many sources that he left Nigeria without any hand luggage. Then where did he get the supply of explosive? Is it at the Amsterdam airport or was it supplied by accomplices right in the plane before the time he used it? I think you should have a clue to the answer. One, remember the "smartly dressed Indian man from Kurt Haskell's account above, and two, the other Indian man whose carry-on luggage contained explosive according to the "bomb sniffing dog." I guess you have a clue now.
Other eye witnesses later reported that Mutallab seemed to be in a trance. This reported trance state could be corroborated with the fact that the ‘wealthy looking Indian man’ spoke on his behalf throughout. Don’t you think he may be drugged/hypnotized and programmed so that he’s not conscious of what he’s doing while on the mission? Then if this is true, who did this? Alqaeda? CIA/FBI? If it’s Alqaeda that did this, then all the security agents and the airport officials at the Amsterdam airport must have collected bribe from Alqaeda to allow this boy they were told to be watching, to board without checking him. I may be wrong! I can not say, just like some terrorist sympathizers are claiming, that CIA/FBI was responsible for the underwear bombing plot. I guess it was alqaeda that did it, but they paid bribe to them so that the boy would not be checked. Do you get the math?
