By intentionally causing a gas leak in a room and inserting a magazine in a toaster, it is possible to cause a large explosion (as shown in the movie Bourne Supremacy).

BUSTED
Adam and Jamie began by placing magazines of various thicknesses in toasters and timing how long they took to catch fire. The thinnest and fastest to burn, similar to common newsprint or comic books, took roughly 2 minutes to catch a flame rather than the 20-30 seconds observed in the film. Small-scale tests with mixtures of methane and air indicated that a methane level as low as 6% (the bottom end of its flammability range) could trigger a noticeable explosion.

For full-scale testing, they built a replica of Jason Bourne’s apartment, including the toaster, magazine, and methane supply. Their first attempt at an explosion, using the circumstances shown in the movie, did not give any significant reaction, and the myth was declared busted. A second attempt with a higher gas concentration and a fireplace starter log as the ignition source led to an energetic fire, but no explosion. Adam and Jamie made one last attempt, using enough methane to achieve a 9% concentration (the center of the flammability range) and a set of fans and diffuser hoses to mix the gas and air thoroughly. This time, they were able to get one wall to blow out and set the apartment on fire.

Tehran Building Collapse: Investigators Must Consider Explosives
NEW YORK – At approximately 11:30 AM local time yesterday in Tehran, an iconic 17-story high-rise known as the Plasco Building tragically collapsed after being on fire for some 3 ½ hours. It is not yet known how many firefighters and civilians were killed, but early reports say that anywhere from 20 to 50 are feared dead.
Based on preliminary analysis of many videos of the collapse, Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth (AE911Truth)—a nonprofit that represents more than 2,750 architects and engineers who are calling for a new investigation of the 2001 World Trade Center disaster—strongly urges President Rouhani, Iranian authorities, and the people of Iran to thoroughly investigate the possible use of explosives in the Plasco Building’s shocking demise, and to act swiftly and decisively to preserve the physical evidence.
Let us be clear: It is impossible to know at this early stage what caused the structure to suddenly come crashing down. But, as with any proper forensic investigation, no plausible scenario should be ruled out—especially when the available data seem to support that scenario.
Here, six separate videos we have compiled show what appear to be—and in some cases sound like—explosions emanating from the tower in sequential patterns as it began to crumble. The building’s tumultuous fall is then accompanied by thick, energetic, rapidly forming plumes that are reminiscent of what we see in controlled demolitions.
Further, the BBC reported that the fires were nearly extinguished—and that emergency personnel and occupants had begun reentering the building—when the collapse unexpectedly occurred. Indeed, videos display very few flames and a thick black smoke—signs of a low-temperature, oxygen-starved fire. Moreover, the inferno was limited to the upper floors, yet the entire 17 stories came down in just a few seconds.
We at AE911Truth are all too familiar with events in which a prematurely formed narrative makes it harder to subsequently ascertain what truly happened. We therefore adamantly caution against rushing to any conclusions as investigators work to uncover the truth surrounding this national tragedy in Iran.
Should the Plasco Building collapse be found to have been caused by pre-placed explosives, sadly it will not be the first time that explosives were used to bring down a burning high-rise while people were still inside.

Social media users claim Erdogan will use the attempted coup in the same way Hitler used the Reichstag Fire to suppress all opposition


Conspiracy theorists are saying the attempted military coup in Turkey was faked, after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reportedly called it “a gift from Allah”.

Social media users have compared the coup attempt in which more than 160 people are thought to have died to the Reichstag fire – the 1933 arson attack on the German parliament building which Hitler used as an excuse to suspend civil liberties and order mass arrests of his opponents.

President Erdogan reportedly told supporters at Istanbul’s international airport that the coup attempt was the work of the movement led by the exiled preacher Fethullah Gulen, which he denounced as “an armed terrorist organisation”.

Conspiracy theorists are saying the attempted military coup in Turkey was faked, after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reportedly called it “a gift from Allah”.

Social media users have compared the coup attempt in which more than 160 people are thought to have died to the Reichstag fire – the 1933 arson attack on the German parliament building which Hitler used as an excuse to suspend civil liberties and order mass arrests of his opponents.

President Erdogan reportedly told supporters at Istanbul’s international airport that the coup attempt was the work of the movement led by the exiled preacher Fethullah Gulen, which he denounced as “an armed terrorist organisation”.

Ryan Heath, the senior EU correspondent at Politico, used Twitter to share comments from his “Turkish source”, who called the events of Friday night a “fake coup” which would help a “fake democracy warrior” [Erdogan].

The source said: “Probably we’ll see an early election [in] which he’ll try to guarantee an unbelievable majority of the votes. And this will probably guarantee another 10-15 years of authoritarian, elected dictatorship.

“We’ll possibly see a change in the constitution for worse, which secularism will be gone and Islamist motifs will be in!”

Using the hashtag #TheatreNotCoup, a Twitter user calling himself Subsidiarity Man wrote: “Two words: Reichstag fire. The year was 1933 and you know what happened next.”

Another Twitter user quoted “my special friend in Istanbul” as calling what happened: “Most probably a real coup attempt, which was vaguely known beforehand, and was allowed to proceed, because they knew it to be disorganised and weak.

“This means it will be followed by a real coup by Erdogan himself, and the last remnants of democracy will be lost.”

In a reference to the history of Nazi Germany, the friend added: “A civilian brown-shirt movement is already in the making, and this will rule the streets once the so-called coup is defeated in a couple of days.”

The Gulen movement, also known as Hizmet and led by the US-based moderate Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen, has rejected Mr Erdogan’s accusations and denied any involvement in the coup.

The group, which presses for a moderate version of Sunni Islam that emphasises interfaith dialogue, has regularly accused President Erdogan of harassing and unfairly arresting its supporters.

Before the attempted coup, there had also been extensive international criticism of Mr Erdogan’s human rights record, especially his growing repression of the media.

It has been reported that since 2014 1,845 journalists, writers and critics have faced charges of insulting the president, an offence which in Turkey carries a potential jail sentence.

President Erdogan faced particular scrutiny earlier this year after he demanded a criminal prosecution of the German satirist Jan Böhmermann who used profane language to insult him on television.

This prompted the British right-wing magazine The Spectator to run a President Erdogan Offensive Poetry competition – won by the then former London mayor, now Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, with a limerick suggesting the Turkish president had enjoyed sexual congress with a goat.

It read:

There was a young fellow from Ankara

Who was a terrific wankerer

Till he sowed his wild oats

With the help of a goat

But he didn’t even stop to thankera.

As news of the coup attempt emerged, Mr Johnson issued a series of messages in support of President Erdogan and his “democratic elected government and institutions”.

Allmänheten uppmanas att fotografera personer som beter sig misstänkt och skicka in bilderna via en app.

Terrordåden i Paris har lett till ett antal åtgärder i syfte att förhindra eller försvåra liknande attacker i framtiden.

I USA har det lanserats en ny app med namnet See Something, Send Something. Med hjälp av denna ska det bli enkelt att skicka in bildereller beskrivningar av personer som beter sig misstänkt. Det enda som krävs är att användaren uppger sitt namn och telefonnummer.

Efter att myndigheterna har granskat bilderna kan det bli aktuellt med ett ingripande mot den misstänkte personen.

Det har väckts farhågor om att appen kan komma att missbrukas av personer som vill jävlas med sina grannar eller arbetskamrater, men NewYorks guvernör Andrew Cuomo tar lätt på kritiken. Enligt honom är det nämligen ett nödvändigt verktyg i kampen mot terrorn, rapporterar den brittiska tidningen Daily Mail.

Googles förre Android-chef Andy Rubin har tydligen fått något av en medelålderskris. Han har hoppat av ett av de viktigaste jobben som Google har att erbjuda, för att syssla med något som med stor säkerhet inte kommer att spela mer än en perifer roll för Google, nämligen robotar.
Google är ett sökföretag som tjänar mer pengar än vi kan föreställa oss på sökfuntioner. Och som nu försöker dominera den mobila sökmarknaden.
Så varför sysslar man med saker som Googles självstyrande bil? Jo för att locka till sig gräddan av IT-eliten. Det är viktigt att Google uppfattas som ett coolt företag med en massa spännande ny teknologi, som Google Calico, dess initiativ för att “lösa åldrandets gåta” Med sina miljarder så har Google råd med såna här perifera projekt som man kanske kan anpassa till sin centrala sökverksamhet.
John Markoff skriver i New York Times:

Quote:

Google Adds to Its Menagerie of Robots
oogle confirmed on Friday that it had completed the acquisition of Boston Dynamics, an engineering company that has designed mobile research robots for the Pentagon. The company, based in Waltham, Mass., has gained an international reputation for machines that walk with an uncanny sense of balance and even — cheetahlike — run faster than the fastest humans.
It is the eighth robotics company that Google has acquired in the last half-year. Executives at the Internet giant are circumspect about what exactly they plan to do with their robot collection. But Boston Dynamics and its animal kingdom-themed machines bring significant cachet to Google’s robotic efforts, which are being led by Andy Rubin, the Google executive who spearheaded the development of Android, the world’s most widely used smartphone software.
The deal is also the clearest indication yet that Google is intent on building a new class of autonomous systems that might do anything from warehouse work to package delivery and even elder care.
Boston Dynamics was founded in 1992 by Marc Raibert, a former professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It has not sold robots commercially, but has pushed the limits of mobile and off-road robotics technology, mostly for Pentagon clients like the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or Darpa. Early on, the company also did consulting work for Sony on consumer robots like the Aibo robotic dog.

Google Glass däremot är en del av Googles sökverksamhet, och därför inte alls ett perifert projekt.
Vi ser idagatt hur Google har lockat över en Microsoftchef och vi vet också att Twitter idag anses som ett bättre företag än både Facebook och Google.
Så det är viktigt för Google att kunna erbjuda coola projekt.
Om Google tror att robotar kommer att bi en del i dess sökverksamhet så kan i alla fall jag inte se det.
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EU-domstolen ogiltigförklarar det kritiserade datalagringsdirektivet från 2006, som innebär att mobil- och bredbandsbolag är skyldiga att lagra trafikuppgifter om data- och teletrafik i sex månader.

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Domstolen skriver att "det omfattande och särskilt allvarliga intrång som direktivet innebär i de grundläggande rättigheterna, inte är tillräckligt noggrant reglerat".

I Sverige ledde direktivet till en häftig debatt och det dröjde till 2012 innan det började gälla. Dröjsmålet ledde till att Sverige fick böta tre miljoner euro.

Justitiedepartmentet säger att man nu måste analysera EU-domstolens beslut för att se på vilka grunder det ogiltigförklaras, och vad det betyder för Sveriges del.

Direktivet innebär i nuläget att uppgifter om var personerna befann sig när ett samtal inleddes och avslutades ska lagras, liksom uppgifter om att en person ringt upp en annan utan att få svar.

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UTRIKES PUBLICERAD 3 JANUARI

USA överklagar NSA-övervakning

USA:s justitiedepartement överklagade på fredagen utslaget från en federal domare som i december sade att den amerikanska säkerhetstjänsten NSA:s telefonövervakning antagligen strider mot författningen.

Departementet har nu bett en appelationsdomstol i Washington DC att utvärdera saken.

Samtidigt avslöjade NSA-chefen James Clapper att en hemlig domstol har förnyat NSA:s tillstådn att samla in metadata.

Coming this fall, “9/11 in the Academic Community,” a Winner of the University of Toronto Film Festival, is a unique film that documents academia’s treatment of critical perspectives on 9/11 by exploring the taboo that shields the American government’s narrative from scholarly examination. Through a powerful reflection on intellectual courage and the purpose of academia, the film aims at changing intellectual discourse on 9/11 and the War on Terror.

As well as probing the repercussions several scholars have endured due to their investigation of 9/11, this documentary provides an analysis of impairments in professional inquiry, ranging from the failure to critically reflect on terms functioning as thought-stoppers (such as “conspiracy theory”) to the structural approach that restricts inquiry to the broad implications of 9/11 while shutting out enquiry into the events of the day itself. Morton Brussel, Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has stated: “The main thesis of the film concerns the silence of the academic community on this vital issue. I think it is extremely important and very well produced.”

As 9/11 served as the rationale for the Global War on Terror, the expansion of the military and intelligence complex, the invasion of other countries in violation of international law, and the curtailing of civil liberties, the film provides an inspiring demonstration of intellectual courage that will cause many scholars to reflect on the academy’s role and strength to dismantle the war system. As Alvin A. Lee, President Emeritus of McMaster University, has stated in his endorsement of the film: academics should “stand sufficiently outside society intellectually to see, understand, and interpret what is going on.”

RT has reported that in a secretly unannounced move, President Barack Obama signed an executive order giving the Department of Homeland Security the ability to shut down all of the United States' communications systems upon his request. Barack Obama laid out a statement he titled "Assignment of National Security Emergency Preparedness Communications Function". No doubt a very confusing title. The reasoning behind his issuing of this executive order, is that he feels the government may one day need to access all of our telephones, computers, cable communications, etc., in the name of national security.

"The Federal Government must have the ability to communicate at all times and under all circumstances to carry out its most critical and time sensitive mission."

The American public should be concerned about what this "mission" could be. In a presidential election, one candidate's mission may not be the same as his opponents. RT quotes the president as saying:

"Such communications must be possible under all circumstances to ensure national security, effectively manage emergencies and improve national security.."

The fact that our nation needs so much "national security" is puzzling, given the fact that President Obama has declared himself leader of the front that has ended terrorism in the U.S. It seems like now, more than ever, our nation is in peril according to the State Department; but many U.S. citizens are asking themselves, "From what?", or better yet, "From who?"

According to Obama, the items of confiscation, or shut down can include: wireline, wireless, satellite, cable, broadcasting, internet, and other key information systems. Never in United States' history has a president given himself the authority to shut down the entire nation and immobilize the citizenry.

The public has been alerted recently that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been buying an excessive amount of weaponry and ammunitions; inclusive of hallow point bullets. DHS has also been given authority to "supervise" some protests throughout the nation. Tea Party groups have had several organized and peaceful protests circled by Department of Homeland Security officers, leading many to believe that DHS has been given the authority to intimidate as well.

If you combine bullets with nationwide immobilizing of all communications, the power given unto the government, is a power our founding fathers never foresaw, nor wished.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) recently announced that they had already used drones on Americans for surveillance. This is just one step closer to American's journey towards a police state.

Forskarna vid University of Illinois i Urbana-Champaign i USA ligger verkligen inte på latsidan. Förutom töjbara batterier som nyligen visats upp utvecklar man också elektroniska sensorer på ett flexibelt plastunderlag som kan fästas på huden för medicinska ändamål. Hittills har forskarna haft problem med att plasten släpper vid kontakt med vatten, men den begränsningen har man nu tagit sig förbi.

– Vi kom fram till att du inte behöver det elastiska underlaget alls. Du kan använda en gummistämpel för att fästa det extremtunna elektroniknätet direkt på huden, säger professor John Rogers till tidskriften Technology Review.

Ett vanligt sprayplåster ger extra skydd och hållbarhet, och elektroniken lossnar naturligt efter cirka två veckor.

Forskarna hoppas nu vidareutveckla sina olika framsteg och kombinera dem för att skapa sensorer och elektronik för bättre hälsoövervakning.

Fråga: Jag läst ett par av frågorna här och kom fram till att jag har ett par frågor jag gärna ville ställa. Väldigt glad om du kan belysa vad som gäller.
Finns en stor "awarness" om den här typen av frågor just nu. Framförallt på youtube där många amerikaner framför allt filmar polisen för felaktiga stopp,felaktiga id-kontroller med mm där poliserna ej kan lagen. Det jag undrar är: ( i sverige)
1. Grundlagen, yttrandefrihetslagen ger mig rätten att filma på allmän offentlig plats. Kan polisen neka mig att filma dem?
2. Får polisen kräva ID om de bara stannar mig? Det finns ingen lag som kräver att jag är skyldig att visa leg.
3. Kan man ställa polisen frågan för att avgöra om man kan gå vidare: Är jag frihetsberövad eller är jag fri att gå?
4. Har man rätt att be polisen uppge namn och ID?
Tack för hjälpen! MVH Ola Forslund
Svar: Rätten att filma på offentlig plats är i princip oinskränkt, även om du filmar poliser. Om det kan det betraktas som om du med ditt beteende på något sätt stör den allmänna ordningen och säkerheten kan polisen avlägsna dig från platsen, oavsett om du filmar eller ej. Om du är så närgången när du filmar att du på något sätt stör polisens arbete skulle dom kunna be dig upphöra med detta, men i "normalfallet" råder inget förbud.

I Körkortslagen står det att den som kör ett fordon ska medföra, och på begäran från polis eller bilinspektör, visa upp körkort eller annan giltig id-handling. Blir du stoppad i något annat sammanhang har du ingen skyldighet att uppvisa legitimation, men det hindrar inte polisen att be dig legitimera dig. Om vi misstänker någon person för ett brott, så är det viktigt att fastställa personens identitet. Kan vi inte göra det "på fältet" så är det ett skäl att frihetsberöva personen, även om det bara rör sig om ett lindrigt brott. Det finns inget som hindrar att man ställer frågan om man är frihetsberövad eller inte, men blir man det ska man underrättas om anledningen till det. En mer relevant fråga till polisen om man inte vill prata med dom är: Är jag misstänkt för något brott?

Precis som polisen kan be vem som helst att uppge sin identitet kan vem som helst be en polis legitimera sig. Vi har skyldighet att medföra vår tjänstelegitimation, men vi har ingen skyldighet att visa den eller uppge vår identitet. I normalfallet bör dock de flesta poliser, inom ramen för vår värdegrund, kunna tala om vad man heter. Det är dock upp till respektive polis att från situation till situation avgöra saken. Det förekommer både hot och trakasserier också mot polismän så jag har viss förståelse för om man ibland låter bli att uppge sitt namn. I de fall vi rapporterar någon person så framgår det av den dokumentation vi måste göra vilka polismän som genomfört åtgärden.

Stefan Dangardt