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- THE BROWN-SHIRTS ARE COMING DEPARTMENT -

CIA To Spy, Arrest U.S. Citizens

Rep. Porter Goss, President Bush??™s nominee to head the CIA, recently introduced legislation that would give the president new authority to direct CIA agents to conduct law-enforcement operations inside the United States??”including arresting American citizens.

The legislation, introduced by Goss on June 16 and touted as an ???intelligence reform??? bill, would substantially restructure the U.S. intelligence community by giving the director of Central Intelligence (DCI) broad new powers to oversee its various components scattered throughout the government.

But in language that until now has not gotten any public attention, the Goss bill would also redefine the authority of the DCI in such a way as to substantially alter??”if not overturn??”a 57-year-old ban on the CIA conducting operations inside the United States.

The language contained in the Goss bill has alarmed civil-liberties advocates. It also today prompted one former top CIA official to describe it as a potentially ???dramatic??? change in the guidelines that have governed U.S. intelligence operations for more than a half century.

???This language on its face would have allowed President Nixon to authorize the CIA to bug the Democratic National Committee headquarters,??? Jeffrey H. Smith, who served as general counsel of the CIA between 1995 and 1996, told NEWSWEEK. ???I can??™t imagine what Porter had in mind.???

Goss himself could not be reached for comment today. But a congressional source familiar with the drafting of Goss??™s bill said the language reflects a concern that he and others in the U.S. intelligence community share??”that the lines between foreign and domestic intelligence have become increasingly blurred by the war on terrorism.

At the time he introduced the bill, Goss thought the 9/11 commission might recommend the creation of a new domestic intelligence agency patterned after Britain??™s M.I.5. The commission ended up rejecting such a proposal on civil-liberties grounds. But in his bill Goss wanted to give the DCI and a newly empowered CIA the ???flexibility?????”if directed by the president??”to oversee and even conduct whatever domestic intelligence and law-enforcement operations might be needed to combat the terrorism threat, the congressional official said.

???This is just a proposal,??? said the congressional official familiar with the drafting of Goss??™s bill. ???It was designed as a point of discussion, a point of debate. It??™s not carved in stone.???

But other congressional staffers predicted that the Goss bill, even if it has little chance of passage, is likely to get substantial scrutiny at his upcoming confirmation hearings??”in part as an opportunity to explore his own attitudes toward civil liberties.

Those hearings are already expected to be unusually contentious??”partly because of concerns among Democrats that the Florida Republican, a former CIA officer himself who has chaired the House Intelligence Committee, has been too partisan and too close to the Bush White House. But so far, most staffers expect Goss to be confirmed eventually??”if only because Democrats are loath to appear overly obstructionist on a matter that might be portrayed as central to national security.

The Goss bill tracks current law by stating that the DCI shall ???collect, coordinate and direct??? the collection of intelligence by the U.S. government??”except that the CIA ???may not exercise police, subpoena, or law enforcement powers within the United States.???

The bill then adds new language after that clause, however, saying that the ban on domestic law-enforcement operations applies ???except as otherwise permitted by law or as directed by the president.???

In effect, one former top U.S. intelligence community official told NEWSWEEK, the language in the Goss bill would enable the president to issue secret findings allowing the CIA to conduct covert operations inside the United States??”without even any notification to Congress. The former official said the proposal appeared to have been generated by Goss??™s staff on the House Intelligence Committee, adding that the language raises the question: ???If you can??™t control a staff of dozens, how are you going to control the tens of thousands of people who work for the U.S. intelligence community????

A CIA spokeswoman said today that, while familiar with the provision, she was not aware of any agency official seeking such a modification to the longstanding ban on the CIA from conducting domestic law-enforcement operations. (Ever since the creation of the CIA in 1947, the agency has been excluded from federal law-enforcement within the United States. That function was left to the FBI??”which must operate in conformity to domestic laws and, in more recent years, under guidelines promulgated by the attorney general designed to insure protection of the rights of citizens.)

Sean McCormack, a White House spokesman, said the president??™s own proposal for the creation of a national intelligence director??”separate from the director of the CIA??”to oversee the entire U.S. intelligence community does not envision any change along the lines called for in the Goss bill. ???I have not heard any discussion of that,??? said McCormack about the idea of allowing the CIA to operate domestically.

Some congressional staffers speculated today that Goss most likely had reached an understanding with President Bush that, if Congress does create the new position of a national intelligence director, he would move into that position rather than serve in the No. 2 position of CIA director. Asked if such a deal had been reached, McCormack responded: ???Nothing has been ruled in or out.???

Goss introduced his legislation, H.R. 4584, on June 16??”before the September 11 commission issued its own recommendations for the creation of a national intelligence director as well as a new National Counterterrorism Center that would conduct ???joint operational planning??? of counterterrorism operations involving both the FBI inside the United States and the CIA abroad. The congressional official familiar with the Goss bill pointed to that proposal as a recognition of the increasingly fuzzy lines between foreign intelligence operations and domestic law enforcement.

The proposal comes at a time when the Pentagon is also seeking new powers to conduct intelligence operations inside the United States. A proposal, adopted last spring by the Senate Intelligence Committee at the request of the Pentagon, would eliminate a legal barrier that has sharply restricted the Defense Intelligence Agency and other Pentagon intelligence agencies from recruiting sources inside the United States.

That restriction currently requires that Pentagon agencies be covered by the Privacy Act, meaning that they must notify any individual they contact as to who they are talking to and what the agency is talking to them about??”and then keep records of any information they collect about U.S. citizens. These are then subject to disclosure to those citizens. Pentagon officials say this has made it all but impossible for them to recruit intelligence sources and conduct covert operations inside the country??”intelligence gathering, they say, that is increasingly needed to protect against any potential terror threats to U.S. military bases and even contractors. But critics have charged the new provision could open the door for the Pentagon to spy on U.S. citizens??”a concern that some said today is only amplified by the language in the Goss bill.

Source: MSNBC.com
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5675992/site/newsweek/

- ASK THE EXPERTS DEPARTMENT -

The astronaut says he does not believe other astronauts when they say they have never seen anything unusual in space

Soviet astronaut, USSR Hero Vladimir Kovalenok spent 217 days of his life living in space. The astronaut does not exclude the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations. "When I was working at the Salyut orbital station, I saw something strange in a porthole one day. The object was the size of a finger. I was surprised to see it was an orbiting object," Kovalenko said at the press conference in Moscow on Friday.

The astronaut added he called his partner Viktor Savinykh to take a look at the unidentified object in space. "It was hard to determine the size and the speed of an object in space. That is why I can not say exactly, which size it actually was. Savinykh prepared to take a picture of it, but the UFO suddenly exploded. Only clouds of smoke were left. The object split into two interconnected pieces. It was reminiscent of a dumb-bell. I reported about it to the Mission Control immediately," the astronaut said.

Vladimir Kovalenok said they had not managed to photograph the object, Interfax reports.

"The Soviet press headlined the event widely. Soviet newspapers and magazines published a lot of articles and messages about it, but they were mostly critical articles. Journalists excluded the existence of the extraterrestrial reason," Kovalenok was quoted as saying. The astronaut said nobody knows, what happened that day, when he saw the strange object in space. "It was probably a UFO, but it was definitely not mysticism - two people watched it at the same time," said he.

When on Earth, Kovalenok learned specialists had registered considerable radiation emission the day the astronaut saw the object. "I do not believe it when astronauts say they have never seen anything extraordinary in space," concluded Kovalenok.

Source: Pravda
http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/378/13760_astronaut.html

- GONNA GO BACK IN TIME DEPARTMENT -

Time Travel: Shaping the Future
by Neil Johnson

The idea of travelling forward into the future or back into the past has always fascinated science fiction writers. The 'grandfather paradox' is the argument many people use to suggest that time travel is impossible. What if you went back in time and prevented your grandfather from meeting your grandmother so that your mother was never born? Then you would never have been born... and so on.

Until very recently such arguments led most scientists to believe that time travel could never exist outside science fiction. But amazingly, some interpretations of the weirdness of the quantum world now suggest that time travel is possible - at least in theory.

Einstein's theory of relativity brought space and time together in a single, four-dimensional arrangement that he called spacetime. We know that we can travel forwards, backwards and sideways in space, so why not forwards and backwards in time?

Four dimensions are difficult to imagine, so physicists usually suggest you think of spacetime as a rubber sheet stretched out flat. If there are no large masses around, the sheet stays flat, and so any object placed on it will move around in straight lines. But a large mass, such as the Sun, makes a dip in the sheet because it actually warps spacetime. Now any other object with smaller mass, like our Earth, moving about in spacetime rolls into the dip as it comes past the Sun. It appears 'attracted' to the large mass. This effect of warping spacetime is what gives rise to gravity.

The Universe is full of heavy objects exerting gravitational effects and the net result is that spacetime is not flat at all but curved. Everything, including light, has to follow curved paths in spacetime. We know Einstein was right about this because astronomers can sometimes see distant stars that ought to be masked by nearer objects such as the Sun. Instead of travelling in straight lines and hence being blocked, the light from the stars bends round the obstruction.

When a star reaches the end of its life it may collapse inwards under the influence of its own gravity to such an extent that all its matter becomes concentrated into an extremely dense object a fraction of its original size. This is a black hole. Black holes have such a huge gravitational pull that nothing can escape from them, not even light. We cannot see them but we have good evidence that they exist. We can see stars behaving in ways which suggest that they are being pulled about by a nearby invisible object with enormous mass.

What does a black hole do to spacetime? Relativity predicts that at the centre of a black hole is an infinitely dense point, called a singularity, within which all the normal laws of physics no longer apply. Time, space, matter and energy no longer have any well-defined meaning. Einstein's equations show that such a singularity doesn't just make a dip in the imaginary rubber sheet of spacetime, it makes a tunnel that goes right through and momentarily opens out on the other side.

Where is 'the other side'? It could be somewhere else in spacetime, either in the future or in the past, or it could even be in another Universe! Supposedly it was Dr Who's Timelords who first harnessed the power of a black hole to begin their experiments in time travel. If you could take a spaceship through such a tunnel, or wormhole, you would have discovered the secret of time travel. This is of course impossible with today's technology. But in the future, who knows?

Einstein's equations describe a spacetime that is perfectly smooth, like the rubber sheet. His theory of relativity only deals with the physics of what happens on big scales. It cannot deal with what happens at the centre of a black hole, or what happened during the moment of the Big Bang at the birth of the Universe when spacetime itself was infinitesimally small. That takes us back into the world of quantum physics.

If you could look at spacetime with a magnifying glass so powerful that it reached down to the quantum scale, you would not see the smooth, continuous sheet of Einstein's spacetime. Just as a foam rubber ball looks smooth from a distance but rough and ragged close up. In this picture of spacetime it is quite likely that tiny holes could open up, entrances to little tunnels between now and other times, or between here and other universes. Another option for future time travellers would be somehow to harness these tiny wormholes and expand them.

To return to the question that has puzzled thinkers since Newton's day, is the future preordained? Or are there an infinite number of futures? One way of looking at the quantum world suggests that not only are there an infinite number of futures, but they are realised in an infinite number of universes.

Photons and electrons sometimes behave as waves and sometimes as particles, but never both at the same time. So far, the argument for interference between one universe and another applies only to events occurring at the quantum level.

But the idea of parallel universes provides a possible resolution to the 'grandfather paradox' that might otherwise cause problems for time travellers. If we travel back in time and change history, we launch ourselves into a new future in a parallel universe - but we have no effect on the present one from which we started out.

Scientists of the future may well pursue a new form of futuristic technology based on quantum effects. Such applications could include quantum teleportation, by which a quantum particle can be teleported from one point in space to another; and quantum computation, where calculations can be carried out which would take many years on a conventional computer. Although we now know how to measure time very accurately, have we come any nearer to answering the basic question 'What is time?'.

Neil Johnson is a Physics lecturer at Oxford University where he heads his own research group.

Source: BBC Science and Nature
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/exploration/timetravel/

- BEAM ME UP SCOTTY DEPARTMENT -

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Physicists have carried out successful teleportation with particles of light over a distance of 600m across the River Danube in Austria.

Long distance teleportation is crucial if dreams of superfast quantum computing are to be realised.

When physicists say "teleportation", they are describing the transfer of key properties from one particle to another without a physical link.

The team has published its findings in the academic journal Nature.

Researchers from the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Science used an 800m-long optical fibre fed through a public sewer system tunnel to connect labs on opposite sides of the River Danube.

The link establishes a channel between the labs, dubbed Alice and Bob. This enables the properties, or "quantum states", of light particles to be transferred between the sender (Alice) and the receiver (Bob).

In the computers of tomorrow, this information would form the qubits (the quantum form of the digital bits 1 and 0) of data processing through the machines.

The Austrian team encoded their qubits using a property of light particles, also called photons, known as polarisation. This property describes the direction in which they oscillate.

Quantum teleportation relies on an aspect of physics known as "entanglement"; whereby the properties of two particles can be tied together even when they are far apart. Einstein called it "spooky action at a distance".

The Nature study used an experimental method in which Alice performs a joint measurement on one photon in the entangled pair and on an "input" photon.

As a result of this measurement, Bob transforms the quantum state of the other photon in the entangled pair into that of the "input" photon.

The researchers were able to teleport three distinct polarisation states between Alice and Bob via the fibre-optic cable through the tunnel.

The significance of this research was that it took place under "real world" conditions.

"The really interesting question for us was whether we could do this outside a lab setting, in the environment used for today's fibre-optic communications," co-author Rupert Ursin of the University of Vienna told BBC News Online.

"This is very important if you are talking about investing money in quantum communication."

Quantum teleportation could be harnessed for fast, powerful computers or communication networks.

In the underground sewer pipe tunnel, the fibre-optic link was exposed to temperature fluctuations and other environmental factors that could interfere with the process.

Nicolas Gisin of the University of Geneva, Switzerland, successfully teleported quantum bits, or qubits, between two labs over 2km of coiled cable. But the actual distance between the two labs was about 55m.

Mr Ursin said a next step towards worldwide quantum communication would be to attempt the teleportation of quantum states between particles using a satellite link.

"The first thing you will need to do is find out whether you can have entanglement over such long distances. But teleportation will be one of the next goals," he added.

The researchers were also able to double the efficiency of teleportation using linear optics.

Source: BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3576594.stm

- SMILE FOR THE CAMERA DEPARTMENT -

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For the first time, the adventurer Jan-Ove Sundberg has managed to take pictures of what he claims to be the Seljord monster.

Sundberg explained that the pictures of the monster also pictured a mirage of the animal, with a heat vibration in between.

"That's the reason why it most of all resembles a cake or an ice hockey puck," Sandberg stated.

Loch Ness has its «Nessie». Its Norwegian cousin may live in the lake Seljordsvannet about 80 miles west of Oslo in the county of Telemark.

Sundberg and his team, the Global Underwater Search Team (GUST), have been looking for the Seljord monster in the deep Norwegian lake for several years.

Last week TV 2 Nettavisen reported that Sundberg had filmed something that may be the Seljord monster. Here are the first pictures of what Sundberg claims is a small Seljord monster. The pictures are from a video which allegedly pictures the monster swimming in the water before disappearing into the water.

"It is rather speculative to call it a baby sea monster because the animal is only one and a half meter long," Sundberg said to the Norwegian radio channel Kanal 24. "We have filmed an animal that moves itself up and down in the water."

Sundberg said to TV 2 Nettavisen that it is a mirage of the sea monster that is captured on film, and that it therefore can be difficult to interpret the pictures.

"We didn??™t know what this was in the beginning, but we have now gotten it explained that the monster mirrors in the air," Sundberg said. "Between the air mirage and the monster, you can see heat vibrations. These are in other words unique pictures. We have taken pictures of the sea monster at the same time as these are pictures of an atmospheric phenomenon."

Another issue is that Sundberg never managed to focus the picture before the object disappeared underneath the water surface.

When asked if this is a breakthrough in the hunt to find evidence of the existence of the Seljord monster, Sundberg answered yes.

"It??™s not every day you get to film the monster," Sundberg said. "This was just accidental. First I thought it was a buoy, but it was a mirage which tricked me. Now when we have analysed it home, we realize that it is a small monster in the water."

When TV 2 Nettavisen talked to Sundberg Tuesday, he was working as on sounds he recorded at Seljordvannet this year. Sounds have been recorded earlier this year too. Researchers at the Institute for Marine Research in Bergen and University of Copenhagen have heard the recordings and concluded that that they were made by a large mammal.

Sundberg got new sound bites from the animal this year, but he does not wish to go public with the sounds just yet.

"We had just lowered the equipment into the water by Tjuvholmen when we heard a very loud sound directly underneath the boat," Sundberg said. "It was like a lion that roared in the jungle, and it was directly underneath the boat. We jumped. We heard only one roar, and then we heard a smaller sound before it disappeared."

GUST is back at Seljordsvannet next year. Then they are going to bring along divers, who among other things, are going to investigate strange tracks found on the floor of Seljordsvannet.

"We are also trying to build special equipment that is more useful for our mission," Sundberg said. "Until now, we have used a sonar which is used to locate fish, but we are looking for larger animals."

Source: TV2.no
http://pub.tv2.no/nettavisen/english/article266744.ece

- HOW TO TRAP A BIGFOOT DEPARTMENT -

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While tales about the legendary Bigfoot are scattered around the world, southern Oregon has its very own claim to fame thanks to a decades-old Bigfoot Trap nestled within the Applegate Ranger District of the Rogue River National Forest.

As primitive as it may sound, the giant contraption was built only in the early 1970s as an attempt by some locals to validate the elusive creature's existence as well, allegedly, as to spare them its wrath.

The one-of-a-kind trap has waited decades for a furry creature with 18-inch feet and a larger than life shadow, outlasting many of the men who built it.

The trap was constructed, according to forest service records, when a short-lived group dubbed the North American Wildlife Research firm applied for a special use permit in the early 1970s.

It stands today, almost-but-not-quite as solid as the day it was built, measuring 10x10-square-feet and of heavy wood slats and reinforced steel bolts and plats, anchored to huge lumber pillars.

Former Applegate resident Sharon B. remembers vividly an uncle who could not let tales of the eight-foot monster fade away.

"My uncle was convinced to the day he died that Bigfoot existed and that he smelt him once when he was out hunting deer," she said.

"Did he? Who knows. Some folks think its kinda fun to believe, but some were more passionate than others, God rest their souls."

The now Medford nurses aid recalls being told she could not go on a camping trip with a group of friends in the Applegate as a teenage for fear Sasquatch may strike.

"Everyone had a friend of a friend who swore they'd heard proof he was real... a friend of a friend had seen a footprint, smelt something, heard noises in the woods. I thought it was pretty ridiculous as a teenager. Thirty years later, it borders somewhere between that and a little creepy."

Jeff LaLand, historian for the Rogue River National Forest, said interest had hardly faded in the trap that never seemed to net its eight-foot tall target. Interest in the trap, he pointed out, seemed to outlast interest from those obsessed with Bigfoot's capture.

"They were granted permission to build this thing in early 70s. They would hang a deer carcass or something real stinky and the critter was supposed to go in after it and when he pulled it the trap would come down and set off an alarm," LaLand explained.

"I think they might of caught a bear at some time. The thing was in operation for just a few years then they didn't renew their special use permit. I think the whole thing kind of went belly up."

LaLand said the trap's construction was nothing to scoff at.

"The trap has remained all this time. It's built very, very solid with creosoted planks and posts... these people were evidently sincere in what they were trying to accomplish," he added.

"After almost 40 years or so of Bigfoot lore, the more information that comes out, the more indication that all this Bigfoot stuff was, well... the film, the footprints, maybe they all were hoaxes. It's too bad I guess not to have that little bit of mystery out there. We have it up there on the trail because it's just a nifty thing, kind of an interesting little symbol of southern Oregon history."

To get to the legendary Bigfoot trap, Take Highway 238 from Jacksonville onto Upper Applegate Road towards the Applegate Dam. A pull-off along the right side of the side the road is used for parking. Hike just over a half mile to an abandoned miner's claim and follow a dirt trail to the 1974 structure.

You might not find any large hairy creatures, but it makes for a nice afternoon drive, gorgeous countryside and some interesting southern Oregon history.

Oregon Bigfoot Sightings and other news from around the state and country - http://www.oregonbigfoot.com/index.php

http://www.n2.net/prey/bigfoot/ - an independent site with scientific information on the creature himself

Bigfoot, Fact or Fantasy? http://www.rfthomas.clara.net/bigfoot.html

The Museum of UnNatural Mystery and its take on Sasquatch -
http://www.unmuseum.org/bigfoot.htm

Source: SouthernOregonNews.com

http://www.jacksonvilleoregonnews.com/articles/index.cfm?artOID=208110&cp=10989

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