She suffered a heart attack and died late Friday evening. ... Kara Kennedy, daughter of the the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, died late ... In 2002, Kara Kennedy, Ted and Joan Kennedy's eldest daughter was diagnosed with cancer..Kara Kennedy, daughter of the the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, died late Friday evening after suffering a heart attack, ABC News reports. She was 51Kara Kennedy was born Feb. 27, 1960. She has two brothers, Teddy Jr. -- a congressman -- and Patrick. She graduated from Tufts University and was a producer for VSA arts, a non-profit organization founded by her aunt Jean Kennedy Smith. She also served on the board for the National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome with her cousin.She accepted the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama in 2009 on behalf of her father, who was terminally ill during that time ..On Saturday, the daughter of former vice president Walter Mondale, Eleanor Mondale, who worked for E! and CBS at one point during her reporting career, died -- also at 51.
Sunday 18 September 2011
Friday 9 September 2011
Majority Feel 9/11 Story Might be Wrong In Important Respects
September 9, 2011
Reinvestigate911.org
For more info or interviews please call Ian Henshall on 01273 326862 or 079469 39217
Today Ian was on LBC 8.30am, this evening scheduled on Talksport 11.30pm
A new opinion poll shows surprisingly high levels of doubt in the UK over the official story of the 9/11 attacks. The poll, conducted by ICM on behalf of Reinvestigate911.org, found that more people agree than disagree that the official account of what happened on 9/11 might turn out to be wrong in important respects. Only 8% strongly agree that they have been told the full story of the 9/11 attacks.
Of those who expressed an opinion 37% agreed that rogue elements in the American intelligence services may have made a decision prior to 9/11 to allow a terrorist attack to take place. Richard Clarke, White House anti-terror co-ordinator at the time, said recently that the 9/11 attacks could have been foiled but for an explicit agreement within the CIA to withhold vital information from him and the FBI. Clarke says he cannot explain this behaviour. At the time the CIA were prohibited by law from operating in the US.
The results are mirrored by a HEC poll published today in France showing that 58% have doubts compared to 31% percent who accept the official story. Half suspect that US authorities deliberately allowed the attacks to take place while a third suspect they were implicated in the execution of 9/11.
Reinvestigate911.org is campaigning for a closer examination of unanswered questions they say remain on the table ten years later. They are holding a London conference on October 15 on what they call SCCADS, state and corporate crimes against democracy. Speakers will address issues from the David Kelly case to the rise to power of New Labour in the 1990s
Ian Henshall of Reinvestigate 9/11 says, "People remember the Iraq WMD fiasco which showed how wrong the official story can be, even on an important matter of war and peace".
"Richard Clarke knows more than anyone about this. It is no longer feasible to label all 9/11 sceptics as conspiracy theorists".
"It beggars belief that we are still in Afghanistan ten years later when the case for invasion was never properly made in the first place. If Bush had declared war on government incompetence instead of unleashing a bloodbath we would not be in the mess we are in now."
"We agree with Senator Max Cleland, who resigned from the 911 Commission and denounced it as a whitewash and a national disgrace. This is not the only issue. John Farmer a senior Commission official later wrote that they had determined there was a decision to lie to them by the Pentagon and considered bringing criminal charges. The report made no mention of this nor the mysterious anti-hijack exercise running at the time of the attacks. It also left out any reference to the collapse of WTC 7 which was not hit by a plane and fell symmetrically at freefall speed into its own footprint".
Notes
Levels of doubt in the UK poll were fairly even across social class and age, but higher in Scotland. High levels of don't know and neither agree or disagree indicate some respondents had not given the issue much thought. The figures show an even higher level of scepticism than the shock poll for the BBC released last week to coincide with the latest Conspiracy Files programme. Asked if they thought there was a wider conspiracy than Al Qaeda that included the American government, one in seven respondents and one in four young people said yes, with similar figures in a parallel poll the US.
For more details of ICM poll see their website. For French poll see http://www.reopen911.info
Clarke's comments can easily be found on the web, he repeated them to the BBC's Conspiracy Files screened this week but they failed to emphasise that his statement overturns a decade of bland reassurances from Washington, echoed uncritically in earlier editions of the controversial BBC series.
RI911 would like to see9/11 doubts fully addressed and say this requires an inquiry that is entirely independent of Washington and follows the evidence, not the preconceptions of political lobbies. Two possibilities they cite are an inquiry run by unimpeachable international figures under the auspices of the UN General Assembly, or a fully independent Commission with subpoena powers in the US along the lines proposed by Senator Mike Gravel. He is calling for voters in key states to mandate support for this at state level. he says his solution would be independent of the Federal government, widely seen as hopelessly beholden to the same interests that have gained so much from the 9/11 wars and which some suspect helped to orchestrate the 9/11 attacks.
Reinvestigate 9/11 wants to gather a broad coalition ranging from people sure the official story is entirely wrong to those who feel a new investigation is needed to reassure the doubters who make up large majorities in some countries.
Reinvestigate 911 say the 911 Commission was never independent. Commissioner Cleland called it a "whitewash" and a "national scandal" and resigned for reasons that went unreported at the time but have since been revealed in a series of books from Commissioners, Commission investigators and the New York Times special correspondent Phil Shenon. One key moment was the failure to dismiss the powerful Executive Director Phillip Zelikow, a friend and colleague of Condoleeza Rice, when it was discovered that he had made secret phone calls to the White House in defiance of undertakings given when he was appointed. Later the Commission failed to demand more time and resources when it found that, in the words of senior investigator John Farmer, there was a "decision to lie" to them by key officials in the Pentagon.
Similarly they failed to get to the bottom of the decision to paralyse the FBI, which Clarke has now confirmed but which was obvious to independent investigators ever since FBI officers at two different field offices blew the whistle in 2002. Instead they dismissed it as unexplained and briefed reporters it was due to mix-ups.
The Commission's inexperienced and unassertive chair Thomas Kean worked in the shadow of Zelikow whose academic background included a study of the creation of political myths. Kean replaced Henry Kissinger, the first choice of the Bush White House, after an outcry from the 9/11 families. It later emerged Kean, a minor Republican politician, was a long time business associate of the Bush family. Lee Hamilton, the Democrat vice chair, has been accused of presiding over an earlier coverup as the man in charge of Congress' Iran Contra Inquiry which exonerated President Reagan. Hamilton later confessed that he knew this was wrong but judged it bad politics to say so. Kean and Hamilton appointed Zelikow with little or no consultation with other Commissioners and gave him dictatorial powers over investigation teams who were not even allowed to communicate directly with Commissioners.
Nonetheless Kean seemed upset by much of what he heard and in an outburst said the 9/11 attacks "could and should have been prevented", a view that was dropped from the final report under intense pressure from Republican Commissioners and hawkish media commentators. Families campaigning for full disclose were angered, saying that 70% of their carefully prepared questions had been ignored.
The Commission made little attempt to investigate the CIA other than to record that they had relied for their long account of the alleged Al Qaeda plot on interrogations of alleged ringleader Khaled Sheikh Mohammed supplied by the CIA. KSM was held in Guantanamo Bay and interrogated under torture. The Commissioners were given no access to either KSM or his interrogators. Recently the then White House anti-terrorism chief Richard Clarke has stated that the CIA made a decision to withhold information from him and the FBI, and that had this not happened the 9/11 attacks could have been foiled, confirming Kean's unofficial view at the time. There is little evidence that the Commission made any serious attempt to get to the bottom of the CIA's activities in effectively protecting the 9/11 plot from detection, although two different teams of FBI officers were complaining loudly and publicly about the way in which their investigations were stymied.
Have groups like Reinvestigate 9/11 any chance of success? "We know we will never get a real inquiry from the sort of people in power in the NATO countries at present", says Henshall, "but I am old enough to remember other apparently lost causes like the liberation of Eastern Europe or the acquittal of the Birmingham Six in the UK after many years of false imprisonment. The world is changing fast. Key factors are the increasing penetration of alternative news sources on the internet and the waning power of the US which has been looted by the people who many suspect had a hand in the 9/11 attacks that made it all possible for them. Despite the silence in the mainstream media people are thinking for themselves as our poll shows. Few are happy with the shameless abandonment of long established rights, the ruinous wars that are quite obviously about the short term enrichment of an elite, and the rulers' ever increasing distance from the general population.
"Sooner or later the dam will break. The political class seem to have lost the ability to respond to reality in a rational way. It may be sooner than most people think."
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ADVANCE NOTICE - LONDON CONFERENCE SATURDAY OCTOBER 15
Ten Years after 9/11 anger and doubts over the insultingly simplistic and factually challenged official 9/11 story are as great as ever. Moreover the doubts have spread to many citizens as we expect our opinion poll will show tomorrow. This includes campaigners who up to now have been wary of bringing up 9/11 issues, based on the smears and sneers from too many people in the corporate media who should know better.
From now on we seek to create a broad movement of campaigns who suffer from outright lies and ruthless censorship from the corporate media that many of us know only too well.
This is a fluid situation as we work out areas of common interest. Provsionsally the Conference title is
SCCADS: State and Corporate Crimes Against Democracy: How we can investigate them and how we can campaign to stop them. We will have a list of respected speakers on subjects including 9/11, 7/7, Kelly, Bilderberg, and the global elite, Political Corruption and the creation of New Labour and other SCADS.
The detailed schedule and full list of speakers is not confirmed but includes Professor Niels Harrit (featured
Tuesday 6 September 2011
PLX Technology Expands PCI Express Gen3 Switch Family
Three New Multi-Root Devices Offer Four On-Chip DMA Engines; Multiple NT, SSC, Ports
SUNNYVALE, CA, Sep 06, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- PLX Technology, Inc. PLXT +2.09% , the leader in high-speed connectivity solutions for the enterprise and the home, today expanded its PCI Express (PCIe) Gen3 switch family with three new high-performance, feature-packed devices compliant with the PCI Express Gen3 r1.0 Specification. The new PLX(R) ExpressLane(TM) PEX8749 (48-lanes, 18 ports), PEX8733 (32 lanes, 18-ports) and PEX8725 (24 lanes, 10 ports) PCIe Gen3 switches blend valuable innovation and high port counts to enable new, more powerful designs in servers, storage and communications platforms. The three switches are available today with production scheduled for Q4'11.
PLX was the industry's first vendor to launch PCIe Gen3 silicon more than one year ago and remains the only company offering Gen3 switches. With the debut of these three new switches, PLX is expanding its PCIe Gen3 portfolio to 11 highly flexible devices ranging from 12 to 48 lanes, and three to 18 ports. This leadership position has placed PLX at the forefront of Gen3 reference designs by worldwide CPU, GPU and endpoint vendors who have been rigorously validating and testing their own silicon and systems using PLX Gen3 devices. Numerous tier-one server and storage OEMs have multiple designs underway using PLX PCIe Gen3 switches that are ready to be launched when Gen3 enabled CPUs become available.
Integrated into each new PLX PCIe Gen3 multi-root switch device are unique performancePAK(TM) features, including two non-transparency (NT) ports, four direct memory access (DMA) engines, two virtual channels (VCs), and up to 12 ports for spread spectrum clock (SSC) isolation. The NT feature enables host failover and redundancy and has been widely used by tier-one OEMs since it was developed in early PCI technology. The on-chip DMA engines enable designers to increase the performance of systems by moving data among endpoints or between memory and endpoints without sacrificing CPU bandwidth. Support for two VCs enable users to prioritize traffic to support desired quality of service (QoS). The SSC clock isolation for each x4 port of the device allows designers to create large systems with each sub-system running its own SSC clock.
PLX is the only switch vendor that offered x16 ports on PCIe Gen1 and Gen2 switches, and it continues to support x16 on today's Gen3 devices. In addition to x16 and x8 ports, these switches offer native x2 and x4 ports that enable development of large arrays of SSD based systems with fewer switches. Also included is the support for PCIe specification engineering change notices (ECNs) such as multicast, access control service (ACS), alternative routing-ID interpretation (ARI), atomic operations, and optimized buffer flush/fill (OBFF). PLX PCIe Gen3 devices are fully backwards-compatible with Gen2/Gen1 devices and recommended for all new designs. The PLX Gen3 devices can be used to create Gen3 slots using their bridging capability in a Gen2 platform.
"Next-generation PCI Express-based systems benefit from switches with DMA, higher port counts and non-transparency, providing a boost for Gen3 speeds, design flexibility and range of applications," said Jag Bolaria, senior analyst at Linley Group and author of the report A Guide to High-Speed Interconnects. "PLX is addressing the market need for such switches that should help accelerate the development of new communications, storage, server and graphics systems."
"Being the first to market with PCI Express Gen3 switches, having the industry's largest family of such devices, and offering a rich array of debug tools make PLX the go-to vendor for PCIe-based designs in virtually every market segment," said David Raun, PLX vice president of marketing and business development. "Gen3 adoption is expected to be significantly faster than was the transition to Gen2, and PLX is the silicon provider in the best possible position to enable the industry's next-generation Gen3-based designs."
As a premium benefit for designers, the new switches are supported by exclusive PLX visionPAK(TM) system debug tools, such as Performance Monitoring, Error Injection, Packet Generator, and the ability to measure both width and height of a SerDes eye using PLX's free software development kit (SDK). The on-chip hardware debug features, complemented by PLX's SDK software, offer instant logic analyzer support, high-speed scope view, pattern generation, and error injection -- capabilities that shed the cost of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on test equipment. This proven SDK, used by designers worldwide for thousands of PCIe-based products, has garnered the attention of numerous OEMs, reducing their validation tool budgets and helping their products get to market faster.
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Review: 'Resistance 3' the best of the series
By Brett Molina, USA TODAY
The beauty of sequels in video games is the ability to correct the mistakes of predecessors and create a tighter, more enjoyable experience.
Such is the case with Insomniac Games latest releaseResistance 3. The third chapter in the PlayStation 3 series is perhaps the best thus far, featuring a more focused campaign and challenging first-person combat.
The alternate universe created in Resistance is based on an invasion before World War II by an alien race called Chimera. The hostile visitors have slowly staked their claims on Earth, and are on the verge of a complete takeover in Resistance 3.
Players follow Joseph Capelli, one of few surviving humans hiding from the Chimera in the Midwest. After escaping an attack near his home, Capelli joins Russian scientist Fyodor Malikov on a trek to New York City to deliver a devastating blow to the Chimeran assault.
Once again, the series' diverse arsenal is the star of the show inResistance 3. Each weapon feels distinct, from the overall design and sounds each gun makes to the cool secondary attacks and upgrades.
Take the Deadeye, for example. At first glance, it's a simple sniper rifle, but utlitize the secondary fire and you unleash a devastating beam that decimates any foe in its crosshairs. The gun becomes even more entertaining when players add upgrades such as scopes that highlight an enemy's head and a beam that pierces objects.
Each weapon in Resistance 3 features a primary and secondary attack, such as the Rossmore shotgun that fires concussive grenades or the new Mutator, a biological weapon that can shoot a green cloud leaving foes vomiting endlessly.
The more players use particular weapons, the more experience they earn toward upgrades. In the case of the Marksman, the long-range rifle can upgrade to a better scope to shoot targets from further away.
Developers have also brought back the weapon wheel, allowing players to stop action and select from 12 weapons. Players can also tap the triangle button to quickly flip between a pair of guns. The wheel works pretty well for the most part, but when players have access to all 12 devices, the compact space makes it easy to grab the wrong weapon.
Tiki Barber comeback fails, agent "flabbergasted"
Tiki Barber's bid at returning to the NFL can officially be declared a disaster. With the season kicking off this week, teams have finalized their rosters but the former star running back never got any serious interest.
And now one league insider hears Barber is "devastated" and his agent is "flabbergasted."
According to Sports Illustrated's Peter King: "I tried to reach Barber on Sunday, but he wasn't talking. I hear he's devastated that no team gave him a chance. You might wonder if teams would bring him in after the first game of the season, so his contract wouldn't be guaranteed, and that could still happen. But with no team calling (agent Mark) Lepselter with even a hint of interest, it's more likely teams would start with backs who've been in some football competition this summer."
In fact, since Barber announced he was "unretiring" in March, just one team (Miami) worked him out. Their murky assessment? He did a "nice job."
"We are flabbergasted that Tiki has not had an opportunity with any team, especially when rosters were at 90 players this year," Lepselter told King on Sunday. "I certainly thought some team would be intrigued to see what he had left in the tank.''
Realistically no one should be "flabbergasted" by the lack of interest considering Barber's age (36), his reputation as a teammate (less than stellar) and his off-the-field drama (making strangeAnne Frank analogies and dumping his pregnant wife for a "hot blonde," for example).
But it's worth noting that Barber was at the top of his game when he left the NFL. In fact, he led all running backs in total yards from scrimmage in the last three years of his playing days. At the ripe old age of 30 (in 2005), he rushed for an amazing 1,860 yards and scored 11 TDS.
Even half that production would be worthy of a roster spot on many teams. But apparently Barber just couldn't convince any GM he was worth the trouble.
At least Barber can take comfort in his "hot blonde" - last week, the two got engaged.
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