Plane is a Cessna (see pic at link)
VENUS - A single-engine military airplane with Iraqi Air Force markings made an emergency landing on County Road 731 in Highlands County this afternoon, according to the Highlands County Sheriff's Office. No injuries or damage to the plane were reported.
The plane had markings on it identifying it as belonging to the Iraqi Air Force, the sheriff's office confirmed.
The Department of Homeland Security said the plane was owned by a contractor working for the U.S. military and not by Iraq.
Some Iraqi military pilot cadets are getting some flight training in Florida, my guess.
A deputy will protect the plane until the contractor is able to dismantle it and recover it, said Sheriff Susan Benton. Benton wasn't sure if roads were closed, adding that the plane landed in a "very, very remote area of the county." "We've worked plane crashes before, but nothing that has started out as a military secret event, then turned into a military contractor testing out a plane," Benton said. "Early on there was a real scurry."
A single deputy continued to guard the plane by 9 p.m. as it sat on the west shoulder of the road. Sheriffs deputy Jacob Riley, who was there since 6 that evening, said he had a couple of passersby ask him about it.
Paper and silver foil covered several parts of the plane on its right side. The body of the plane had a marking "Y1 - 138." Foil, he said. FOIL?!
In other news from the East Coast, a mysterious cylinder has crash-landed near Grovers Mill NJ.
2. "Owner is Cessna" according to the story. See yesterday's Rantburg post about the Iraqis buying Cessnas for training. Obviously the Florida media don't have a clue about doing research...
3. "Congressman Kucinich, you have a call from New Jersey, from a Mister...Kzrbchyzyz on line 4..."
LIVINGSTON, Tenn. -- A 13-year-old boy from Overton County managed to save his granddad from a raging bull by using a family vehicle.
On Friday afternoon, Aubrey Presley, 75, was routinely feeding a bull on his son's farm when the animal became enraged and nearly trampled him to death. "I'd already made up in my mind that I wasn't going to make it," said Presley.
Presley believes he owes his life to his grandson. The seventh-grader saw what was happening and used his father's truck to stop the attack. "I was driving right through here and hit the bull, turned and was driving him," said Cole Presley.
The only reason Cole Presley was home that day was because his school was out because of sickness.
Cole's grandpa has six broken ribs and lots of bruises. "I think the good Lord was with him and me too. He just wasnÂ’t ready for me to go," said Aubrey Presley.
Cole Presley told Channel 4 that he believes the bull went crazy because it had been raised as a pet.
Since the teen is under 16 years old, he's not allowed to officially drive, but his parents said his chores sometimes involve driving the truck and hauling farm items.
A Danish artist will march through the streets of Kabul bearing a white flag as part of a theatre project.
Is he gonna be nekkid? That should go over well.
Residents of Kabul will be greeted with an unusual sight on 28 February when a Danish man carrying a white flag walks through the streets of the war-torn city. Part of a theatre project to promote democracy, Claus Beck-Nielsen will carry the flag of democracy, a white flag with a hole in the middle, where one would normally find a national symbol.
Care to discourse on how much democracy's actually been promoted by that project? Have we seen something like a 30 percent increase in democracy since it started? Is it more than that? A little less, maybe? What quantification methods are they using?
As part of the project, he will walk from the outskirts of Kabul to the National Theatre, a walk, between 10 to 20 km , that will take him onto centre stage where he will become part of the performance.
Holding a white flag with a hole in the middle, kinda like a big cloth donut. Or maybe more like a white flag with a hole shot through it.
The play, 'The Parliament', written by Beck-Nielsen, is about an architect who wants to design and build history's first world parliament and introduce world democracy.
"Based on a true story," no doubt.
However, the endeavour is not without some danger and Beck-Nielsen was concerned about his safety. 'You never know what people will think. I carried flags with a colleague in Iran and we were constantly arrested by the secret police,' he told national broadcaster DR. 'In Kabul, Taleban and government officials, or even a stray Danish soldier from the Helmand province might think I'm doing something dangerous.'
More likely they'll think you're stoopid and maybe slap you around for fun. They do that sort of thing in that part of the world.
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Heh, reminds me of something I saw on Futurama last night. Dr. Zoidburg (sp?) species invade Earth and say something to the effect of "The people of Earth will have freedom and democracy as soon as we get done telling them how to do it."
Not a Futurama fan and was busy while that line was said, but seems appropriate here.
Kenya's defeated presidential challenger Raila Odinga has claimed to be a cousin of Barack Obama and said that they had discussed his country's post-election violence.
Mr Odinga, 63, said that the US senator's father, from western Kenya's Luo tribe, was his maternal uncle. Mr Odinga says that Senator Obama's late father was his uncle on his mother's side. "He has called me to talk about the destabilising constitutional crisis in this country, despite being in the middle of the very busy New Hampshire primary," Mr Odinga said yesterday.
Mr Obama's spokesman Robert Gibbs confirmed that the senator spoke to the Kenyan opposition leader on Monday afternoon for about five minutes before going into a rally in New Hampshire, according to Associated Press. The Democrat would-be presidential candidate is also understood to have tried to speak to President Mwai Kibaki, whose victory in December 27 elections has been widely questioned.
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If Barack Obama were in Kenya today, he would "work with the leadership to bring them to a round table and find a solution to the problems that have been ravaging the country"
They would hear his drivel, both sides becoming equally enraged, attack him from both sides and hack him to bits. They would then agree that the best course is to resume fighting to the death.
Jordan acknowledged Wednesday that it had expelled foreign Christians for preaching their religion in violation of the law in this predominantly Muslim Arab nation.
The announcement by acting Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh is the first official acknowledgment that the government has clamped down on several foreign Christian preachers, including Americans and other Westerners, Koreans and other Asians, as well Arabs like Egyptians and Sudanese.
Judeh said the preachers came to Jordan under the "pretext of charitable and voluntary activities, but they have violated the law by undertaking preaching activities and were expelled."
Under Jordanian law, the government must sanction preaching and any religious activity, whether Christian or Muslim.
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Our "friends". Send them another hundred million GW!
I hate it when they do that. Every time the earth trembles, we know the homosexuals are at it again. Look how many earthquakes they have in San Francisco, fergawdsake.
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ION EARTHQUAKES, MVARIETY > "THE DEEP" - WILL ANATAHAN'S VOLCANO [Northern CNMI] GO "KRAKATOA" ON US. Guam + lower Marianas NOT immune from any eruption - VOLCANIC ASH CLOUDS, QUAKES, TSUNAMI THREATS, etc.
INDONESIAN-SUMATRAN QUAKES > "EARTH CHANGES" + REGIONAL DIAPORAS/EMIGRATIONS > wel-l-l, does explain DREAMS/VISIONS of a FUTURE GUAM WHERE INDON, etc.-STYLE "SEA HUTS/HOUSES" STANDING ON STILTS-PILLARS ABOVE THE OCEAN SURFACE. Beyond my lifetime.
Also, EARTH CHANGES > FUTURE GUAM > DREAM - in aftermath of strong quake, a young boy + family sees the GROUND/EARTH CRACK OR SHEAR AS NEW REGIONAL-ISLAND FAULT LINE APPEARS + RUNS ACROSS THE ISLAND.
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In the Smallville episode "Wrath" which first aired on Nov 8 2007, Lana gets Superpowers from a crystal and Clark and Lana literally make the earth move.
Cloe complains about tremors and Clark says that "It was probably us".
I think this is also the episode where Kara (Clark's unbelieveably good looking cousin) quizes Jimmy Olsen about his childhood and Jimmy says, "Yeah, my dad and I used to listen for ultraviolet electromagnetic communication from Mars" and Kara says, "Silly. Martians use infrared."
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John Donne:
"Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears; Men reckon what it did, and meant
But trepidation of the spheres,
Though greater far, is innocent."
(From A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning)
(Does anything about this little start-up impress you as 'odd'?)
"Thorium Power, Ltd., a development stage company, engages in the development, promotion, and marketing of nuclear fuel designs in the United States. It primarily develops thorium/weapons-grade plutonium disposing fuel, thorium/reactor-grade plutonium disposing fuel, and thorium/uranium nuclear fuel."
Headquarters: McLean, VA
"Thorium Power Appoints Dr. Hans Blix as Senior Advisor"
"...the leading developer of low-waste, non-proliferative nuclear fuel technology for existing and future reactors, today announced that a new formal agreement has been reached with Russia's Kurchatov Institute relating to the irradiation testing program for the Company's fuel designs, which has been ongoing since 2002. The agreement assigns to Thorium Power Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Thorium Power, Ltd., the worldwide rights, title and interest in and to the technical data generated from the ampoule irradiation testing of seed and blanket fuel samples in the Kurchatov research reactor over the past two years."
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The agreement assigns to Thorium Power Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Thorium Power, Ltd., the worldwide rights, title and interest in and to the technical data generated from the ampoule irradiation testing of seed and blanket fuel samples in the Kurchatov research reactor over the past two years."
Read it a few times, it gets worse every time you do.
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Well, I'm only "Honored" with the Thorium Brotherhood, and have intention of working up to "Exhalted", so I don't have a vote, but Blix, IMHO should be fed to a Fel Reaver. heh.
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What got my spider sense tingling was first its location: McLean, VA, home of the CIA and NSA.
Second and third were Blix, who you would *think* is a personna non grata in the area of the US government. And of course the Russians and the nuclear material.
Since then, I've picked up on some other details.
AMBASSADOR THOMAS GRAHAM, JR., Exec. Chairman and Member of Exec. Committee. Check out this guy's bio:
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
LIVINGSTON, Tenn. -- A 13-year-old boy from Overton County managed to save his granddad from a raging bull by using a family vehicle.
A Danish artist will march through the streets of Kabul bearing a white flag as part of a theatre project. 
