Grafton, NSW, had their flood waters reach to within two centimeters of the top of their existing flood wall. So each year their "monsoon season" brings cyclonic storms and floods. At some point Australia has to adopt Natural Progression Farming to bring their river systems back into contact with their catchment areas.
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Monday, January 28, 2013
Parents of JonBenet Ramsey indicted?
JBR:
JonBenet Ramsey related article in Daily Camera alleges once again that the Grand Jury actually voted to indict each of the Ramseys but that DA Hunter, doubtful he could get a conviction against either one, refused to sign the indictment. Colorado law requiring both the Foreman of the Grand Jury and the Prosecutor to sign a True Bill of Indictment.
There were tabloid inspired rumors of this right from the start and even now I'm not convinced it actually happened. The indictment, if it existed, was for child neglect not murder or torture. Four year statute of limitations.
Most of the Grand Jurors are refusing to speak and it seems some are only speaking if their identity is not revealed. The indictment, if indeed it ever existed, seems to have been born of frustration and hopelessness, and not based on any specific actions or inactions by the Ramseys.
It still seems strange that the parents would have been indicted by the grand jury when the jury failed to call either of the parents as witnesses.
Scott Shapiro is, of course, magnifying this out of all proportion and claiming that the possible indictment for child neglect is a complete repudiation of Lou Smit and his theories and complete acceptance of the theories of that incompetent motor mouth from the BPD.
JonBenet Ramsey related article in Daily Camera alleges once again that the Grand Jury actually voted to indict each of the Ramseys but that DA Hunter, doubtful he could get a conviction against either one, refused to sign the indictment. Colorado law requiring both the Foreman of the Grand Jury and the Prosecutor to sign a True Bill of Indictment.
There were tabloid inspired rumors of this right from the start and even now I'm not convinced it actually happened. The indictment, if it existed, was for child neglect not murder or torture. Four year statute of limitations.
Most of the Grand Jurors are refusing to speak and it seems some are only speaking if their identity is not revealed. The indictment, if indeed it ever existed, seems to have been born of frustration and hopelessness, and not based on any specific actions or inactions by the Ramseys.
It still seems strange that the parents would have been indicted by the grand jury when the jury failed to call either of the parents as witnesses.
Scott Shapiro is, of course, magnifying this out of all proportion and claiming that the possible indictment for child neglect is a complete repudiation of Lou Smit and his theories and complete acceptance of the theories of that incompetent motor mouth from the BPD.
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Death of Gareth Williams: MI 6 Agent
Once again, I visit the death of an MI6 agent and note certain disquieting facts.
Despite all attempts by the various intelligence agencies involved to portray him as a nerdy technician rather than field agent, it is clear that he had been trained for operations and, in fact, had been conducting field operations.
As someone tasked to any field assignment it is necessary to have a cover story and as all good cover stories go, it is sensible to have depth and breadth to them so that any character appears to have a variety of interests and activities and does not appear to be one-dimensional and therefore a suspected mole. Those who look for moles or intruders are apt to be impressed by discoveries of non-mainstream interests. The famed "cover story within a cover story" is far more believable than a shallow, single-dimensional cover story that is easily blown.
To what extent the decedent's visitations to cross-dressing sites, auto-eroticism sites, bondage sites, etc. represented an actual interest versus a career-motivated affectation is unknown and to a great extent unknowable.
It is true that twenty thousand pounds is a rather substantial investment in ladies undergarments but it is also clear that a one time purchase of such items is more suggestive of a cover story than an ongoing interest persisting over the course of many years.
Exploration of a variety of extreme websites is a very sensible way to build a complex cover story for later adventures in the world of Hackers. Hackers who discover one of their number has various cross-dressing interests and auto-eroticism interests would be less likely to view him as a possible government agent sent to penetrate their network.
As in any forensic investigation, it is often impossible to exclude an option it is only possible to term it unlikely. People often have extreme skills or unusual knowledge: regurgitated keys, cat burglar climbing skills, lock picking skills, contortionist routines, etc. all come to mind as items frequently possessed by the general population and therefore unable to be rejected by a coroner.
A person who wished to advance his career by becoming accepted in the world of auto-eroticism and cross dressing may well have applied himself to some fairly interesting situations. Not only is the self entry into the holdall physically possible but there is a measure of evidence to indicate that self entry into the holdall may have been a particularly valuable career skill for him to acquire as it transcends the world of auto eroticism and extends to ordinary burglary skills.
It is impossible for a coroner to rule that self entry into the holdall did not take place. We may find comfort in the fact that we ourselves would never attempt such a thing and that if we were indeed to attempt such a dangerous contortion we would do so under conditions of greater safety, but such thoughts are of no use to the coroner. We can think the intelligence services played a role and that forensic evidence was tampered with. It is a comfort to us to think that but a coronial inquiry is not an exercise in intellectual comfort.
Would the appropriate coroner's verdict be Death by misadventure? No. Death by patriotism seems much more appropriate.
Please note that the coroner is of the opinion that the visitations to the alternative lifestyle sites were brief and sporadic and therefore should be given little weight. I accord the sites greater weight due to the assumed goal in such visitations to the alternative sites. Everything is strange about the case. Even the initially much sought after and now discounted Mediterranean Couple has ties to the Italian embassy so the intrigue seems to never stop.
Despite all attempts by the various intelligence agencies involved to portray him as a nerdy technician rather than field agent, it is clear that he had been trained for operations and, in fact, had been conducting field operations.
As someone tasked to any field assignment it is necessary to have a cover story and as all good cover stories go, it is sensible to have depth and breadth to them so that any character appears to have a variety of interests and activities and does not appear to be one-dimensional and therefore a suspected mole. Those who look for moles or intruders are apt to be impressed by discoveries of non-mainstream interests. The famed "cover story within a cover story" is far more believable than a shallow, single-dimensional cover story that is easily blown.
To what extent the decedent's visitations to cross-dressing sites, auto-eroticism sites, bondage sites, etc. represented an actual interest versus a career-motivated affectation is unknown and to a great extent unknowable.
It is true that twenty thousand pounds is a rather substantial investment in ladies undergarments but it is also clear that a one time purchase of such items is more suggestive of a cover story than an ongoing interest persisting over the course of many years.
Exploration of a variety of extreme websites is a very sensible way to build a complex cover story for later adventures in the world of Hackers. Hackers who discover one of their number has various cross-dressing interests and auto-eroticism interests would be less likely to view him as a possible government agent sent to penetrate their network.
As in any forensic investigation, it is often impossible to exclude an option it is only possible to term it unlikely. People often have extreme skills or unusual knowledge: regurgitated keys, cat burglar climbing skills, lock picking skills, contortionist routines, etc. all come to mind as items frequently possessed by the general population and therefore unable to be rejected by a coroner.
A person who wished to advance his career by becoming accepted in the world of auto-eroticism and cross dressing may well have applied himself to some fairly interesting situations. Not only is the self entry into the holdall physically possible but there is a measure of evidence to indicate that self entry into the holdall may have been a particularly valuable career skill for him to acquire as it transcends the world of auto eroticism and extends to ordinary burglary skills.
It is impossible for a coroner to rule that self entry into the holdall did not take place. We may find comfort in the fact that we ourselves would never attempt such a thing and that if we were indeed to attempt such a dangerous contortion we would do so under conditions of greater safety, but such thoughts are of no use to the coroner. We can think the intelligence services played a role and that forensic evidence was tampered with. It is a comfort to us to think that but a coronial inquiry is not an exercise in intellectual comfort.
Would the appropriate coroner's verdict be Death by misadventure? No. Death by patriotism seems much more appropriate.
Please note that the coroner is of the opinion that the visitations to the alternative lifestyle sites were brief and sporadic and therefore should be given little weight. I accord the sites greater weight due to the assumed goal in such visitations to the alternative sites. Everything is strange about the case. Even the initially much sought after and now discounted Mediterranean Couple has ties to the Italian embassy so the intrigue seems to never stop.
Friday, January 4, 2013
Don't You Just Get Tired of It All?
Okay. Okay. Enough already. A ten year old girl got killed and her body was dumped in North Las Vegas, a city not unknown for violence.
Yeah, yeah, I know. Innocent until proven guilty but lets face it the evidence against the father's sometime girlfriend is pretty damning. The girl's blood was found in the "step mother's" vehicle and apartment.
Meanwhile the step mother was being held on high bail charges involving her razor slashing of a fellow female blackjack dealer at the Bellagio whom she apparently believed had become romantically involved with the dead girl's father.
Now it turns out that although official records were all Katrina-drowned, the defendant had a history of razor attacks having boasted of a razor attack on a former lover's penis in Moss Point, MS. Whether she pre-positioned razors near her bed and then invited the former lover to drop by enroute to his wedding to another woman or whether the former lover attacked her and she just happened to use razors on his penis is hardly the issue.
The bereaved father of the ten year old girl knew of the prior razor attack yet chose to associate with the woman and entrust his daughter to her care. Don't you just get tired of these headlines when the inevitable happens?
The very upscale Bellagio casino is supposed to have better quality dealers than this.
Yeah, yeah, I know. Innocent until proven guilty but lets face it the evidence against the father's sometime girlfriend is pretty damning. The girl's blood was found in the "step mother's" vehicle and apartment.
Meanwhile the step mother was being held on high bail charges involving her razor slashing of a fellow female blackjack dealer at the Bellagio whom she apparently believed had become romantically involved with the dead girl's father.
Now it turns out that although official records were all Katrina-drowned, the defendant had a history of razor attacks having boasted of a razor attack on a former lover's penis in Moss Point, MS. Whether she pre-positioned razors near her bed and then invited the former lover to drop by enroute to his wedding to another woman or whether the former lover attacked her and she just happened to use razors on his penis is hardly the issue.
The bereaved father of the ten year old girl knew of the prior razor attack yet chose to associate with the woman and entrust his daughter to her care. Don't you just get tired of these headlines when the inevitable happens?
The very upscale Bellagio casino is supposed to have better quality dealers than this.
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