One Cheer for President Obama. How to end a war on terror? Two acts of –- terror?

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If you wonder why Congress is losing approval with the people, this may be of use: 

http://www.youtube.com/embed/svGDZOW-brA?rel=0  It is worth your time.

A cheer for President Obama

In a major speech at the National Defense University, President Obama announced that it it time for an end to the war on terror. In pursuit of that he has a new policy on drone strikes, with strict procedures to be followed before anyone can be put on a proscription list and killed by a Hellfire missile (along with anyone else unfortunate enough to be near the proscribed person) anywhere in the world. And he says that he intends to close the internment camp – prison? – at Guantanamo.

That’s worth a cheer. I have never been a great fan of a war without identifiable enemies which justifies proscription lists, nor of overseas internment camps to which people may be sent for the duration of a war which has no visible means of being concluded. A detainment camp for prisoners of war, subject to the rules of the Geneva Convention, should be sufficient: and yes, I understand that many of the prisoners at Guantanamo are uncooperative to say the least, and require extraordinary means of confinement including separation from other prisoners. I understand the impossibility of running such an establishment when hundreds of judicial officers can assert authority over them and issue writs of habeas corpus.

The War Powers of the President are great, and should be; but wars ought to have a defined enemy, and some means of coming to an end.

This will not all be settled by fiat. There will be debate, as there should be. This is not the first time that the United States has been challenged by organized clandestine enemies. It is time to find ways of dealing with this.

Perpetual war is not in my judgment the best way to do that. It is time and high time to have a national debate on just what measures the United States should take in defense against an implacable enemy dedicated to acts of terror.

Regarding Cold Fusion:

E-Cat report

I too have been following Andrea Rossi since he first surfaced. I find the vitriol used against LENR and him pathological, from the days of Robert Park and Huizenga, through the Patent Office making it virtually impossible to obtain patents in anything related to cold fusion, to the current ad hominems.

Andrea Rossi sold his EON business for about a million Euros (a matter of public record) and could have retired. It is ludicrous to suggest that he has spent that money and several years working 14 – 16 hour days to build an elaborate fraud.

The recent two 100 hour tests funded by the Swedish R&D Organization ELFORSK (equivalent to our EPRI) run by seven professors from various universities, proves beyond reasonable doubt that LENR is real and Rossi’s E-Cat works.

Doubt remains about how controllable the E-Cat is and the actual COP of a commercial unit. They are already committed to a six month trial starting this Summer.

The critics start with the idea that LENR is impossible and jump at any detail that might confirm their belief. The earlier demonstrations left plenty of room for the skeptics to suggest ways for fraud, but if the E-Cat really does work, this means that Rossi’s claims were actually true.

As of a couple of days ago DOE doesn’t believe LENR is real and refused to take Defkalion up on their offer to test the Hyperion (a kissing cousin to Rossi’s E-Cat) in Greece last year.

That DOE supports the $25 billion ITER hot fusion Tokamak is not entirely coincidental.

LENR is indeed real. I don’t think anyone has yet come up with a satisfactory explanation of how it works. Possibly Rossi knows as he knows what the fuel is and can analyze the ash.

There are hundreds of peer reviewed papers on the subject at http://lenr-canr.org Interesting times ahead

Adrian Ashfield

What I would like to see is a picture of a plant delivering a megawatt of power with some indication of how that was measured and what the power was being used for. Such things need no peer reviews although if reporters are not allowed to look behind the curtains some might be suspicious. I have seen a dozen “cold fusion” plants purporting to show as much as a hundred watts of output, but I was never allowed to examine where all the wires going into the system led to (and I suspect that one eventually ended in a wall socket), but those were all very low power output systems. It would be impossible to fake a megawatt (although finding a load to measure that much power output might be difficult). I’d be glad of an account of “How I charged my Volt on an LENR.”

There is no need for vitriol. A power plant that delivers a megawatt of power is not small, and showing that it can deliver that output, while not simple, isn’t all that difficult either; and since a megawatt is a lot of power, it would be very difficult to conceal some hidden input. If a small device can output a megawatt of electrical power, it should be headline news in any country in the world. I note that Forbes does not claim to have seen such a demonstration. I would be glad to be shown that I am in error on this. Surely it can’t be hard to show a megawatt of power?

As to the peer reviewed papers, the one by DIA appears to be a justification of continued Navy and other US agency investments in continued experimentation of the Fleischmann and Pons research, and an estimate that other governments are making similar small investments. It does not mention any large scale results, but does state that “energy anomalies” have taken place. I don’t doubt the energy anomalies. I have not seen any claim to have witnessed a megawatt.

I MW E-Cat plant real

Further to my recent comment on this form, I then read that you doubted the existence of the 1 MW plant.

Here is a picture of the 1 MW plant being loaded for shipment to the US last month.

http://s20.postimg.org/fc0n0hat5/004.jpg

Here is a picture of the Hot Cat under test http://ecat.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Hot-Cat-closeup.jpg

Adrian Ashfield

My apologies but neither of those pictures shows me anything that convinces me that the system would deliver a megawatt or even light a hundred watt lightbulb. Now if the system ready for delivery were to be turned on and light up McCormick Field or Dodger Stadium I would be enormously impressed; and I suspect that such a demonstration could be arranged and would probably sell out. Perhaps the plant in the picture could be used? It can’t be that expensive to set it up just outside the stadium.

The existence of a system of the size in the picture capable of delivering a megawatt of power would start a fourth industrial revolution, as well as end the importance of the Middle East. No place on Earth need be without electrical power, apparently without need for large turbines and big power grids. Obviously a new source of energy would have an enormous impact on the war on terror.

The Kern County sheriff’s department, whose officers beat a partly drunk man until he died, has ruled that the man died of heart failure and high blood pressure. This seems a bit like saying that a man thrown off a building died of the fall. It seems extremely unlikely that the man would have died of failure had he not been bitten by police dogs and beaten by a number of young men with clubs. He was being beaten because he was trying to defend himself from the dog. A casual observer would say that the deputies beat him to death. He was certainly screaming for help as he lay with bound feet while being assaulted. He died soon after.

In England a British soldier was killed by attack with a cleaver. There is no contention that the assault was not intended to result in death. The President of the United States has so far refused this to call an act of terrorism. One presumes that the actual cause of death was exsanguination.

Neither of these is officially to be called an act of terror.

A brilliant idea

Re the London terrorists: We can put them thru the new food replicator and turn them into bacon. Then feed them to the pigs.

My fantasy on hearing of the attack was to picture a wigged judge putting on the black cap and sentencing them to be taken to Woolwich Barracks and there delivered into the custody of the Sergeant Major of Her Majesty’s Fusiliers, who need make no future account of his disposal.  Do they have the equivalent of Mons Meg in an English fortress?  I am pretty sure the Scots would loan her to the Fusiliers…