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Saucer photographed at Radiohead Gig

From: "Andrew Johnson"

Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 23:14:02 +010
I am the House Photographer for Viejas Entertainment. Viejas Entertainment was putting on the big sold out Radiohead concert (6/27/06) when just at dusk the rocket launch from Vandenberg (Air Force Base) occurred. All eyes went off the stage and to the sky. While I was watching the rocket I saw a
shiny object moving above and apparently way beyond the roof top of the stage. It was not a camera glitch or dirt on the sensor (just had the sensor cleaned a week ago) and you can see that the object was moving and not on the same spot on the photo as the previous shot.



It was not a bird either....it's hard to tell distances but it seemed to be further and higher then a bird would have been visible. And as I watched it move....it moved not like a bird. Kind of sauntering or floating. Then in an instant....poof....it disappeared! I even have shots of the same scene seconds later and....rocket trail still there but no UFO.

On the close ups it's clear to see that a flying saucer was watching the launch ;-) And I will say this....that rocket had a top secret payload and spy satellite on it and was the largest rocket ever launched on the WestCoast ;-) They're watching us :-)) Below are 6 photos, including the close ups. Oh I've sent along a few shots from the Radiohead concert as well.
After watching these guys I can understand why a UFO might be hanging around !! Radiohead is like from another planet !!!

Take Care
--Paul Parks
San Diego, Ca.
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N. Korea vows nuke response to U.S. attack

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is seen in this framegrab taken from Chinese television on January 18, 2006. The North stepped up its rhetoric with the United States on Monday. State-run media reported that the country would respond to any pre-emptive U.S. military attack with an 'annihilating strike and a nuclear war.'



North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is seen in this framegrab taken from Chinese television on January 18, 2006. The North stepped up its rhetoric with the United States on Monday. State-run media reported that the country would respond to any pre-emptive U.S. military attack with an "annihilating strike and a nuclear war." (AP Photo/Kyodo News, File)

By Joseph Coleman, Associated Press Writer | July 3, 2006

SEOUL, South Korea --North Korea vowed on Monday to respond with an "annihilating" nuclear strike if it is attacked pre-emptively by the United States.

The Bush administration responded sternly, saying while it had no intention of attacking, it was determined to protect the United States if North Korea launched a long-range missile.

"Should North Korea take the provocative action of launching a missile the U.S. would respond appropriately, including by taking the necessary measures to protect ourselves," Julie Reside, a State Department spokeswoman, said.

Still, Reside said, the United States and other countries that have negotiated with North Korea are seeking a fundamentally different relationship with the reclusive regime. She said that relationship must be based on the complete and verifiable elimination of North Korea's nuclear weapons and nuclear program.

"We and our partners in the six-party process continue strongly to urge North Korea not to launch a long-range missile and, instead, to return to the six-party talks," she said in a statement.
White House: N. Korea nuclear comment hypothetical

The six-party talks, suspended by North Korea, involved negotiations by the United States, China, South Korea, Japan and Russia with Pyongyang over the country's nuclear program.

The North's warning effectively stepped up its customary anti-U.S. vitriol, in which it often accuses Washington of plotting an attack. The North has recently come under heightened scrutiny after reports by the United States and Japan that it has taken steps to prepare for a test of a long-range missile.

The North's Korean Central News Agency, citing an unidentified "analyst" with the state-run Rodong Sinmun newspaper, accused the United States of harassing Pyongyang with war exercises, a massive arms buildup and increased aerial espionage by basing new spy planes in South Korea.

"This is a grave military provocation and blackmail to the DPRK, being an indication that the U.S. is rapidly pushing ahead in various fields with the extremely dangerous war moves," the dispatch said.

"The army and people of the DPRK are now in full preparedness to answer a pre-emptive attack with a relentless annihilating strike and a nuclear war with a mighty nuclear deterrent," the report said.

DPRK stands for the North's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

The report concluded by urging the U.S. to "get out of South Korea promptly." About 29,500 U.S. troops are stationed in South Korea as a deterrent against the communist North.

On Friday, Pyongyang accused the United States of driving the situation on the Korean Peninsula "to the brink of war," and said it is fully prepared to counter any U.S. aggression.

Washington and Japan have said in recent weeks that spy satellite images show North Korea has taken steps to prepare a long-range Taepodong-2 missile for a test-launch.

Estimates for the range of the missile vary widely, but at least one U.S. study said it could be able to reach parts of the United States with a light payload.

Speculation that Pyongyang could fire the missile has waned in recent days, however, since the country's top ally and a major source of its energy supplies, China, publicly suggested North Korea should not to go ahead with the test.

A news report said Monday that China has offered a new proposal over the stalled six-party talks.

Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan told Ichiro Ozawa, the head of Japan's main opposition party, that China had relayed the proposal to Japan, the two Koreas, the United States and Russia, Kyodo News agency reported, citing party officials.

The report did not elaborate on the proposal. An opposition party spokesman in Tokyo could not be reached for comment. Ozawa is in Beijing for a six-day stay that party officials hope will include a meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao, according to Kyodo.

The United States and its allies South Korea and Japan have taken quick steps over the past week to strengthen their missile defenses. Washington and Tokyo are working on a joint missile-defense shield, and South Korea is considering the purchase of American SM-2 defensive missiles for its destroyers.

The U.S. and North Korea have been in a standoff over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program since 2002. The North claims to have produced nuclear weapons, but that claim has not been publicly verified by outside analysts.

While public information on North Korea's military capabilities is murky, experts doubt that the regime has managed to develop a nuclear warhead small enough to mount on its long-range missiles.

Nonetheless, Lt. Gen. Michael Maples, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, told U.S. lawmakers last week that officials took the potential launch reports seriously and were looking at the full range of capabilities possessed by North Korea.
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Sealand in ruins after blaze
24 June 2006 | 09:21

CRAIG ROBINSON

A FORMER wartime fortress which is now a self-proclaimed independent state has been left devastated after a fierce blaze tore through the structure.

The so-called Principality of Sealand, seven miles off the coast of Felixstowe and Harwich, was evacuated at lunchtime yesterdayafter a generator caught fire.

Thames Coastguard, Harwich RNLI lifeboat, Felixstowe Coastguard rescue teams, firefighting tug Brightwell, the RAF rescue helicopter from Wattisham and 15 Suffolk based firefighters from the National Maritime Incident Response Group (MIRG) were all called into action to tackle the blaze.

One man, believed to be a security guard, was airlifted from the scene and taken to Ipswich Hospital with smoke inhalation but no one else was on the Second World War gun emplacement.

Emergency services were first alerted to the drama just after midday when eyewitnesses noticed huge clouds of black smoke billowing out of the concrete structure, which is owned by self-styled King Roy Bates.

Brian Ironman, who was fishing just off Sealand along with his dog Rosie, said he noticed something was wrong around 11.30am.

“I'd been fishing nearby since 7am for smoothhound and tope and just before lunchtime I noticed there was a lot of smoke coming from the back end of the tower,” he said.

“I immediately thought something was wrong and called the coastguard straight away. They were here fairly quickly and there were about five or six extinguishers trying to put the fire out.

“The helicopter also arrived and I think it picked up one person who was on the platform.”

Andrew Beal, a council worker from Trimley who watched events unfold from his beach hut at Brackenbury, said: “There was thick black smoke billowing out of the gun emplacement. Air sea rescue was heading out at high speed and hovered over the platform and appeared to be taking someone off.

“There were several other vessels heading out, including a lifeboat, and there was a boat out there hosing it down. The smoke was hundreds of feet high in the air.”

Rod Markham, who runs angling trips out of Felixstowe Ferry in his boat Tracy Jane, was able to see the excitement from his house.

“At first I just thought they were stoking up the generators because there is always a bit of smoke - I never realised it was on fire,” he said.

“But when I looked back after I'd messed about a bit in the garden I saw there was a big deluge of black and that's when I saw the lifeboat and tug were there.”

Firefighting tug Brightwell from the port of Felixstowe was despatched to the scene and doused the flames with vast amounts of water.

A team of 15 off-shore firefighters from the National Maritime Incident Response Group (MIRG) were also assembled but after a reconnaissance of the area from the air it was decided it was too dangerous to land.

Keith Churchman, of Harwich Royal National Lifeboat Institution, said: “The damage is very extensive. The fire started in a generator and spread quickly to the accommodation.

“There have been a number of explosions on board as the fire has engulfed gas bottles and batteries. Only one person was on Sealand at the time, whom we understand to be a watchman whose job was to maintain the generators and equipment.

“A team of firefighters was flown to the scene but because of the damage to the structure they decided not to go on board.

“A firefighting tug sprayed the whole structure with water in the hope this would eventually cool the fire and starve it of oxygen.”

A spokesperson for Suffolk Fire Service confirmed the fire was left to burn itself out and was under control by 3.10pm.
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'Sealand' samt 'Havenco' abgebrannt
Mittwoch, 28. Juni 2006

Die skurrile Geschichte des Freistaates "Sealand" und dem dort beheimateten Provider HavenCo könnte nach einem Großfeuer ein Ende gefunden haben. Michael Bates, "Prinz" von Sealand und Sohn des "Fürsten" Roy Bates steht vor einem verkohlten und verwässerten Scherbenhaufen. Feuerwehrleute aus dem benachbarten England haben den Brand eines Generators mit einem Löschboot bekämpft und dabei alles unter Wasser gesetzt.

Zur Erinnerung: Fürst Bates hatte die nicht mehr benutzte britische Seefestung aus dem 2. Weltkrieg im Herbst 1967 besetzt und für unabhängig erklärt. Es folgte eine äußerst wechselvolle Geschichte, in der es um die Angriffspläne der britischen Regierung, die Errichtung eines Piratensenders, um einen Staatsstreich, die Bildung einer Exilregierung in Deutschland sowie um dubiose Sealand-Pässe ging, die für kriminelle Zwecke genutzt worden sein sollen. Der Wikipedia-Beitrag zu Sealand liest sich spannend wie ein Krimi

Die Grundlage des Freistaat-Gedankens, außerhalb der britischen Drei-Meilen-Zone zu liegen, ist dabei schon längst hinfällig. Die nationale Zuständigkeit wurde schon in den 80er Jahren auf 12 Seemeilen ausgeweitet und künstliche Bauten im Meer werden nicht als "staatliches Territorium" akzeptiert.

Doch das hinderte den Sohn des Fürsten nicht daran, sich an dem britischen Provider Havenco zu beteiligen und mit der staatlichen Souveränität von Sealand zu werben. Das Hosting auf Sealand sollte Schutz vor jedem staatlichem Zugriff bieten (vgl. Havenco, der sichere Hafen) und im Jahr 2001 wurden sogar Pläne kolportiert, wonach die Tauschbörse Napster auf Sealand-Servern weiter betrieben werden könnte (vgl. Napster ins Insel-Exil?).

Nun aber, nach dem Brand dürfte wohl kaum jemand mehr an die Eigenstaatlichkeit Sealands und den damit verbundenen Hosting-Vorteil glauben. Und das weniger, weil nun auf Sealand keine Server mehr beheimatet werden könnten. Dass dort auch nur im Notfall ein echtes Server-Housing angeboten werden konnte, musste ohnehin schon die ganzen Jahre bezweifelt werden. Nur ein Havenco-Büro soll in den Betonpfeilern Sealands beheimatet gewesen sein.

Viel wichtiger aber scheint, dass Sealand nun eine unbewohnte Ruine ist und damit eine der wichtigsten theoretischen Grundlage des Freistaats verschwindet, die dauerhafte Bevölkerung. Der einzige Bewohner der Insel, vermutlich ein Sicherheitsangestellter, wurde bei dem Brand aus der Luft gerettet. Und die britische Regierung dürfte nun weiterhin Anlass haben, aus Sicherheitsgründen den Wiederaufbau der Festung zu verhindern. Was angesichts des Schadens von möglicherweise 500.000 Pfund ohnehin ein Problem wäre. Denn Sealand war leider nicht gegen Brand versichert.
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Crypto utopia Sealand ravaged by fire
Autonomous zone now vacant
Published Monday 26th June 2006
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Vow to repair Sealand
27 June 2006 | 23:17
RULERS of the independent mini-state of Sealand today said they hoped to do most of the repair work themselves following the devastating fire which left the country in ruins.

Michael Bates, Prince of Sealand, said it was hoped to make a start as soon as possible but could not estimate how long the work would take.

He believes it could cost up to £500,000 to put the principality back to how it was - and the biggest blow was that it was not insured for damage by fire.

He said: “It is so difficult at the moment. We have been out there once to have a look and try to work out what needs to be done and we just need to clean it up to begin with. The damage is so much worse than we expected.

“The water damage is horrendous but that couldn't be helped because the tug fighting the fire was brilliant and needed to put as much water on there as it could.

“But the windows had blown out and a lot of water has found its way down into the legs of the tower and so there is a lot of water damage in there, and a lot of smoke damage, too.”

Prince Michael and his sons James, 19, and Liam, 17, climbed onto the tower seven miles off Felixstowe from a boat using a hook ladder.

They were not prepared for the devastation which greeted them.

He said: “It is heartbreaking, really. We will do as much of the repair work we can ourselves.

“The aim will be to get out there as regularly as we can and do a bit each time.”

Offices on Sealand are leased to IT firm HavenCo Ltd, which has its internet servers on the former war-time fort. The company cannot function until the repairs are made.

Flames destroyed the generator and gutted three of the rooms - generator room, radio shed and living room - and left the legs of the tower smoke-logged.

A watchman on the fort suffered burns in the drama and was airlifted to Ipswich Hospital for treatment for smoke inhalation. He was later released.

Sealand was a gun emplacement known as Roughs Tower built in 1941 at a cost of £1m to defend England against German air raids in the Second World War.

Its two 70ft concrete towers weigh 4,500 tons and contain seven storeys of living quarters.

After being used as a base for pirate radio stations, it was taken over by Michael Bates' father, Major Roy Bates, who declared it an independent sovereign state in 1967.

WEBLINK: www.sealandgov.com
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Soldaten als IP-Selbstversorger
Dienstag, 27. Juni 2006

Eine der Wortschöpfungen, die das Irak-Abenteuer des US-Präsidenten Bush der Welt hinterlassen könnte, ist das so genannte "Hajjinet" (Hajji = Mekka-Pilgerer). Gemeint sind die in Privat-Initiative aufgebauten Privat-Netzwerke von US-Soldaten, die sich über Satellitenschüssel und gemeinschafltiche Investition einen eigenen Internet-Zugang verschaffen. Denn das von der Armee zur Verfügung gestellte Equipment kann meist nur für eine Viertelstunde pro Tag genutzt werden, wenn überhaupt. Ein Hajjinet versorgt meist zwischen 20 und 30 Soldaten rund um die Uhr, sofern Strom zur Verfügung steht. In einigen Fällen sind sogar über 300 Soldaten beteiligt.

Derart große Privat-Netzwerke können auch teurere Satelliten-Zugänge finanzieren, die bis zu 15.000 Dollar pro Monat kosten, auch wenn dazu kostengünstige Diensteanbieter aus der Ukraine genutzt werden. Ein Betreiber eines solchen Netzwerks hat nun eigens eine Site hajjinet.com eingerichtet, um seinen Kameraden das notwendige Know-How und die Bezugsquellen - sofern legal - mitzuteilen. Und wer weiß, vielleicht entstehen ja auch schon bald in DSL-untersorgten Gebieten Deutschlands die ersten Haddschinets. Ähnliches soll es im ländlichen Raum ja schon geben. (Quelle: Hacking Iraq - Localist)
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30.06.2006 10:26
Schweizer entwickeln fliegende Mobilfunkantenne

Ein Team aus Schweizer Wissenschaftlern und Unternehmern hat eine fliegende Mobilfunkstation entwickelt, die die Funkmasten am Boden ersetzen können soll. Die "X-Station" besteht aus einem mit Helium gefüllten 60 Meter langen Zeppelin und einer Plattform, die auf eine Höhe von 21.000 Meter steigen und dort stationär verbleiben soll. An den Zeppelin angekoppelt ist ein unbemanntes Kleinflugzeug, berichtet[1] das Schweizer Fernsehen. Die Handy-Strahlung würde durch das System tausendfach verringert, heißt es.

Die Idee zu dem Projekt hatte der Schweizer Erfinder Kamal Allawi. An der Umsetzung arbeiten derzeit mehr als 50 Wissenschaftler von der ETH Zürich und Lausanne, von der Universität Neuenburg sowie der Eidgenössischen Materialprüfungsanstalt. Auch der Technologiekonzern RUAG Aerospace sei beteiligt. Damit die X-Station ihre Position halten kann, sei ein Autopilot mit GPS entwickelt worden. Das Kleinflugzeug sei mit riesigen Propellern ausgerüstet, die den starken Winden in dieser Höhe entgegenwirken sollen. Ein Prototyp des auf 30 bis 40 Millionen Franken (19 bis 25,5 Millionen Euro) veranschlagten Zeppelins soll im kommenden Jahr starten.

Eine einzige X-Station soll die Fläche der Schweiz abdecken können, für die Abdeckung von ganz Europa würden rund 20 Stationen benötigt. Neben der Verbreitung von Telefonie, Internet, digitalem Radio und Fernsehen seien durch die Ausstattung mit einer Kamera auch Überwachungsfunktionen möglich, zum Beispiel bei Waldbränden.
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