I verified those check-out prices with the price listed on the shelves and the values match.
I must be a sociopath. That's all that makes sense.
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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: Miniseries (2003)
Adama: Like we did with the Cylons. We decided to play god, create life. (We see Starbuck listening in her cell.) When that life turned against us, we comforted ourselves in the knowledge that it really wasn't our fault, not really. You cannot play god, then wash your hands of the things that you've created. Sooner or later, the day comes when you can't hide from the things that you've done anymore.
From 11/15/1977 to 6/3/1989 is 4218 days
From 11/25/1993 to 6/13/2005 is 4218 days
From 5/24/1993 to 12/10/2004 is 4218 days
From 6/14/2002 to 12/31/2013 is 4218 days
From 11/17/1994 to 6/5/2006 is 4218 days
From 3/16/1991 to 10/2/2002 is 4218 days
From 10/28/1994 to 5/16/2006 is 4218 days
From 3/16/1979 to 10/2/1990 is 4218 days
From 5/21/1992 to 12/8/2003 is 4218 days
From 12/8/2003 to 6/26/2015 is 4218 days
From 11/20/1972 to 6/8/1984 is 4218 days
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Quotes
Project Leader: He says the sun came out last night. He says it sang to him.
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The American Presidency Project
George Bush
XLI President of the United States: 1989 - 1993
Statement on the Chinese Government's Suppression of Student Demonstrations
June 3, 1989
It is clear that the Chinese Government has chosen to use force against Chinese citizens who were making a peaceful statement in favor of democracy. I deeply deplore the decision to use force against peaceful demonstrators and the consequent loss of life. We have been urging -- and continue to urge -- nonviolence, restraint, and dialog. Tragically, another course has been chosen. Again, I urge a return to nonviolent means for dealing with the current situation.
The United States and People's Republic of China over the past two decades have built up through great efforts by both sides a constructive relationship beneficial to both countries. I hope that China will rapidly return to the path of political and economic reform and conditions of stability so that this relationship, so important to both our peoples, can continue its growth.
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Quotes
Roy Neary: You can't fool us by agreeing with us.
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converted.html?iso=19890604T0005&p1=33&p2=263
timeanddate.com
The World Clock – Time Zone Converter – results
At the specified time, local time in Washington DC was 13 hours behind Beijing
Location Local time Time zone UTC offset
Beijing (China - Beijing Municipality) Sunday, June 4, 1989 at 12:05:00 AM UTC+9 hours
Washington DC (U.S.A. - District of Columbia) Saturday, June 3, 1989 at 11:05:00 AM EDT UTC-4 hours
Corresponding UTC (GMT) Saturday, June 3, 1989 at 15:05:00
http://articles.latimes.com/1989-06-04/world/la-fg-tiananmen-archive-1989jun04_1_tiananmen-square-troops-fire-chinese-troops
Los Angeles Times
Protests For Democracy in Tiananmen Square; Troops Fire on Beijing Crowds
At Least 100 Dead, 400 Hurt; Square Is Recaptured
June 04, 1989 Jim Mann and David Holley Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
BEIJING -- Chinese troops of the People's Liberation Army opened fire with automatic weapons early today on huge crowds of civilians in Beijing, killing at least 100 of them and perhaps many more, according to medical and diplomatic reports, in a successful effort to recapture Tian An Men Square from pro-democracy demonstrators.
At least 400 people were reported wounded.
For China, it was a fundamental turning point. The Communist Party leadership headed by the aging Deng Xiaoping made the decision that no matter how high the costs to its image at home or abroad, it had to overwhelm with a force the students and other demonstrators who had challenged the power and legitimacy of the regime.
The gunfire began shortly after midnight and continued until well after dawn. There was gunfire all over Beijing, from the central Tian An Men Square area to the areas outside the main tourist hotels to the outskirts of the city.
At times, the firing was indiscriminate. At about 5:30 a.m. today, for example, a military convoy of about 100 vehicles--including tanks, armored personnel carriers, trucks and jeeps--swept past the Beijing Hotel toward Tian An Men Square, firing at bystanders.
http://articles.latimes.com/1989-06-03/news/mn-835_1_beijing-hotel-kentucky-fried-chicken-correct-chinese-communist-party
Los Angeles Times
TURMOIL IN CHINA: Protests For Democracy : Pro-Regime Slogans Adorn Hotels and Restaurants Serving Foreigners : Red Propaganda Banners Blossom in Beijing
June 03, 1989 JIM MANN Times Staff Writer
BEIJING — Colonel Sanders is a bourgeois liberal.
That, at least, was the message China sought to convey Friday as red propaganda banners like those that appeared earlier this week to adorn the facades of Beijing hotels were unfurled outside the city's first Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet.
"Maintain Order in the Capital!" exhorted one banner of Chinese characters done in white-on-red colors that almost matched the hues of the familiar logo of the fast-food chain.
"Maintain Unity and Stability!" urged another, which was hung so that its bottom edge covered a picture of Col. Sanders from his hairline to his nose.
The Colonel had lots of company.
Diners in search of haute cuisine also found political banners Friday hanging high above the front doors of Maxim's, a pricey Beijing branch of the famous Paris restaurant.
"Firmly Take the Socialist Road!" said one of the banners hanging above the restaurant opened in 1983 by Pierre Cardin, the decidedly unsocialistic French fashion designer and entrepreneur.
In the last few days, most of the hotels in Beijing that cater to a foreign clientele have put up similar banners. These political placards are seldom seen on other buildings here.
It does not seem to make any difference whether the hotels and restaurants are foreign-owned or Chinese.
The Beijing Hotel, which is owned by the Chinese government, has been sporting banners that say, "Oppose Bourgeois Liberalization With a Clear-Cut Stand!" and "Long Live the Great, Glorious, Correct Chinese Communist Party!"
Many Questions
What is the reason for the banners? What do they mean? Why are they being put up primarily on establishments for foreigners?
Such questions cannot be answered with any certainty. Under the terms of the martial-law regulations now in effect, foreign reporters are generally not permitted to interview Chinese officials or scholars who might offer explanations.
At Kentucky Fried Chicken, an official who declined to give his full name told one Western visitor that the banners outside his door were put there because "it was demanded." Asked why, the official replied nervously, "I can't tell you, because martial law prevents any interviews."
According to a witness, when a foreign tourist outside Maxim's asked a young Chinese man what he thought of the new propaganda banner, the man quickly replied: "I can't tell you. There are a lot of plainclothes police around here."
On the surface, the most obvious explanation is that the Chinese regime is tapping the age-old strain of xenophobia, or fear of foreigners, as an explanation for this spring's student demonstrations and the country's current political turmoil.
"Among some people in the leadership, there's a desire to make Western culture, or just the United States, a scapegoat," one Western diplomat said Friday.
Unlikely Explanation
But this explanation doesn't seem to fit too well. At least so far, the regime has been extremely reluctant to blame the student demonstrations on foreign influences. When Chinese leaders have attempted to blame someone else besides the students themselves, their targets have been not foreigners but rivals for power within the Chinese Communist Party.
"The students feel they have one man supporting them in the central authorities and therefore, the turmoil is deteriorating," said President Yang Shangkun in one recent speech. He was referring to Communist Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang.
Another possible explanation is that banners at the hotels and restaurants are an outgrowth of the continuing power struggle and factionalism within the Communist Party leadership.
Beijing insiders note that the director of the Beijing Municipal Tourism Bureau, which has authority over the city's hotels and restaurants for foreigners, is Bo Xicheng. He is the son of Bo Yibo, one of the elderly Communist Party leaders who are now spearheading a new ideological campaign against "bourgeois liberalization."
One other interpretation, admittedly a Machiavellian and conspiratorial one, is that the banners are some Beijing officials' way of covertly undermining the efforts by the regime to impose martial law here.
The red banners flying outside the hotels and restaurants pay lip service to the current ideological campaign. No one in the Chinese leadership could possibly criticize someone who put up placards praising the leadership of the Communist Party.
Undermine Regime
Yet at the same time, the big red banners undermine the regime's efforts to assure foreign tourists and investors that everything is going smoothly in China. Whoever put up the banners at places like Kentucky Fried Chicken managed, whether intentionally or not, to expose the contradiction between China's renewed denunciations of "bourgeois liberalization" and its continued efforts to court the West.
Out of apparent concern for the effect of martial law on tourism, the government-run New China News Agency reported Friday night that "China's travel agencies, hotels and other tourism-related institutions are operating normally."
According to the Chinese news account, a spokesman for China's National Tourism Administration said that travel programs for overseas tour groups are being conducted normally.
"Causing slight changes in tour programs is the temporary closure of Beijing's Forbidden City and a few other places in the center of the capital," the spokesman said. Nevertheless, he said, local travel services "offer alternative attractions."
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Release Info
USA 15 November 1977 (New York City, New York) (premiere)
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Full Cast & Crew
Richard Dreyfuss ... Roy Neary
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Springfield! Springfield!
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
I beg your pardon,
but my English is not good too.
I want to share with you now...
...the breakthrough
that happened in India.
We think it means something.
We think it is important.
To help you learn, I am using the hand
sign created by Zoltn Kodly.
Kodly developed these signs
to teach music to deaf children.
Hello?
Hi.
Hi, how are you? You came here too?
Yes. Jillian Guiler.
Roy Neary.
Sorry about what happened.
-Good night!
-What?
Look at you.
You got the same burn.
Yeah, but it's better on you.
You got it all over at least.
I gotta tan the other side tonight.
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Springfield! Springfield!
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
-What are we saying to each other?
It seems they're trying to teach us
a basic tonal vocabulary.
It's the first day of school.
Take everything from the lady.
Follow her pattern note for note.
We have a translation airlock
on their audio signal.
We're taking over
this conversation now.
Let's go! Come on!
I am Claude Lacombe.
Frank Taylor...
...Lieutenant, United States
Navy Reserve...
...0641 99.
Lieutenant, welcome home.
This way to debriefing.
Harry Ward Craig...
...Captain, United States Navy...
...043431 .
Captain,
would you come right this way?
Welcome back, Navy. Welcome back.
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Quotes
Project Leader: [over a loudspeaker at The Dark Side of the Moon] Could we have the lights in the arena down 60 percent, please... 60 percent.
[the lights go down and running lights turn on one at a time up the runway]
Project Leader: I don't think we could have asked for a more beautiful evening, do you? Okay, watch the skies please... We now show uncorrelated targets approaching from the north-northwest.
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Quotes
David Laughlin: We didn't choose this place! We didn't choose these people! They were invited!
Claude Lacombe: They belong here more than we.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: - posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 07:21 AM Pacific Time Seattle USA Tuesday 12 March 2013 - http://hvom.blogspot.com/2013/03/wouldnt-it-blow-your-mind-to-hear.html
I thought about that later and I decided she was glaring at me because she was possibly expected me to club her with my fist, which I did not.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 12 March 2013 excerpt ends]
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Second Chances (TV Series)
Pilot (1993)
Release Info
USA 25 November 1993
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IMDb
Second Chances: Season 1, Episode 1
Pilot (25 Nov. 1993)
TV Episode
Connie Sellecca ... Dianne Benedict
Release Date: 25 November 1993 (USA)
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Quotes
[last lines]
Barry Guiler: Goodbye.
http://www.chakoteya.net/NextGen/250.htm
Second Chances
Stardate: 46915.2
Original Airdate: 24 May, 1993 [ Star Trek: The Next Generation ]
[Lt Riker's quarters]
(The Lieutenant is in a fresh gold uniform, and finishing a meal when the doorbell rings)
RIKER 2: Come in.
TROI: Hello, Will.
(He sweeps her off her feet, literally, and kisses her)
RIKER 2: Imzadi.
TROI: Will.
RIKER 2: I never thought I'd see you again.
TROI: We need to talk.
RIKER 2: You're on board because of him.
TROI: No. Commander Riker and I are friends. Close friends, but nothing more. Why don't we sit down? Do you remember the last time we saw each other?
RIKER 2: Like yesterday. The Janaran Falls on Betazed.
TROI: It was the day before you started your tour on the Potemkin.
RIKER 2: And we were going to meet on Risa, six weeks later.
TROI: We never did.
RIKER 2: I know.
TROI: No, what I mean is, Commander Riker and I never did. You see, he earned a promotion very quickly.
RIKER 2: I know that too. 'For exceptional valour during the evacuation of the research station on Nervala Four'. I looked at his service record.
TROI: He chose to make his career a priority. There wasn't much time for anything else.
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STAR TREK
Second Chances
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Episode: TNG 250 - Second Chances
Season 6 Ep. 24
Air Date: 05/24/1993
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tv.com
JAG Season 10 Episode 9
The Man on the Bridge
Aired Friday 9:00 PM Dec 10, 2004 on CBS
AIRED: 12/10/04
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JAG (TV Series)
The Man on the Bridge (2004)
Plot Summary
A biowarfare expert disappears, apparently by suicide; Harm, Mac, and the FBI investigate. A woman Marine has filed a petition to allow women to compete with men in boxing; Bud investigates, and the general changes his mind in a ring.
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tv.com
JAG Season 10 Episode 9
The Man on the Bridge
I'VE WATCHED THIS 0
Aired Friday 9:00 PM Dec 10, 2004 on CBS
QUOTES
Harm: Buying into Agent Benton's theory of kidnapping now, Mac?
Mac: Not necessarily, suicide still tops the list.
Harm: Can't find the trigger.
Mac: Family history of depression and suicide- Kohler showed the signs, Harm, isolation and the inability to sustain relationships...
Harm: That could be either one of us.
FBI Agent Benton: You understand the FBI has lead here, Commander?
Harm: As long as you understand the dangers of creating a turf war by not co-operating.
Mac: Ah, love is in the air.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 11:21 PM
To: 'Chad Trammell'
Subject: RE: The Fly 1986
The final scenes were not as predictable as I predicted, although that is arguable after having watched all of it.
I recall watching certain scenes towards the end of the 2002 film “The Ring” and feeling impressed at how “I did not see that coming.” And after that I made a quick run-through of the numbers.
The earliest premiere date is listed as 10/2/2002.
I was surprised by scenes that associate with that date. I ran the numbers after watching those scenes. The date 10/25/1994 associates with the 10/10/1973 premiere US TV movie “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark.”
“Barnyard Actor” and 12/25/1991.
“Blazing Saddles” and 6/27/1994.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 27 December 2012 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 10:36 PM
To: 'Chad Trammell'
Subject: RE: The Fly 1986
“The Ring” seems pretty pointless and predictable, and I thought that before I remembered dialog that happens after the 42 minute point and now at the barn scene.
But I just thought of something: 7 days from today. I had earlier calculated that difference. But what just struck me is the precisely one week today is 1-3-13.
13-13.
I bought that DVD and watched it when a major plot element, that I had absolutely no conscious awareness about forms that pattern.
A while earlier I was trying to remember if that was the same grocery store checkout lane where I got the ’33.59’ receipt. I still don’t recall for certain. I know it that one or the one next to it. The same side of the self-checkout lanes where there are three computer terminals on each side.
What does it mean? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Those are deliberate coincidences. Those are coincidences that were created deliberately by forces I understand but that I cannot describe in precise detail.
A message in a bottle found by a person who was born alone on a deserted island.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 27 December 2012 excerpt ends]
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IMDb
The Ring (2002)
Quotes
[first lines]
Katie: I hate television. Gives me headaches. You know, I heard there's so many magnetic waves traveling through the air, because of TV and telephones, that we're losing, like, ten times as many brain cells as we're supposed to. Like, all the molecules in our heads are all unstable. All the companies know about it, but they're not doing anything about it. It's, like, a big conspiracy.
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The Ring (2002)
Release Info
USA 2 October 2002 (Hollywood Film Festival)
From 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) To 10/2/1994 is 1296 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/21/1969 ( the Princeton University doctor of medicine degree graduation of my biological brother Dr Thomas Reagan MD ) is 1296 days
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2015/01/what-are-all-these-things-ive-done.html ]
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-simpsons/itchy-and-scratchy-land-1392/
tv.com
The Simpsons Season 6 Episode 4
Itchy & Scratchy Land
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Oct 02, 1994 on FOX
The Simpson family takes a vacation to Itchy & Scratchy Land. When the robotic Itchys and Scratchys go haywire, the Simpsons must find a way to escape the island.
AIRED: 10/2/94
From 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) To 10/28/2002 is 4244 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/16/1977 ( Wernher von Braun dead ) is 4244 days
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2014/08/alamogordo.html ]
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=63357
George W. Bush
Remarks in Alamogordo, New Mexico
October 28, 2002
The President. Thank you all very much. Hola.
Audience members. Hola.
The President. Si. Thank you all for coming today. It's a beautiful day here. Of course, every day is a beautiful day in New Mexico. I love to come to a part of the country where the cowboy hat is—the cowboy hat, instead of the tie, is a part of the work uniform. It kind of reminds me of home, right around the corner from here.
They tell me I'm the first President ever to come to Alamogordo.
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IMDb
Windtalkers (2002)
Release Info
USA 14 June 2002
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=windtalkers
Springfield! Springfield!
Windtalkers (2002)
Now, Saipan is Japanese soil,
and there's 30,000 of 'em dug in.
They're gonna fight for every square inch,
because it's their home,
but we're gonna take it away from 'em!
Yeah! Kill me some Japs!
We're gonna be in front
of the whole damn division.
We're gonna be the eyes and the ears.
We're gonna be
sniffin' out enemy positions,
coordinating the naval gunfire -
exactly what we've been training to do
for the last four months. All right?
Now, we got some new radiomen
from headquarters.
There's a Private Whitehorse...
and Yahzee...
and a couple of sergeants,
Enders and Henderson,
who, if I'm understanding
these orders correctly,
will be covering our Navajos' asses.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=104552
The American Presidency Project
Barack Obama
XLIV President of the United States: 2009 - present
881 - Proclamation 9075 - National Stalking Awareness Month, 2014
December 31, 2013
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Each January, we draw attention to a crime that will affect 1 in 6 American women at some point in their lives. Although young women are disproportionately at risk, anyone can be a victim of stalking—regardless of age, sex, background, or gender identity. While many victims are stalked by ex-partners, sometimes the perpetrators are acquaintances or even strangers. During National Stalking Awareness Month, we extend our support to victims and renew our commitment to holding their stalkers accountable.
Stalkers seek to intimidate their victims through repeated unwanted contact, including harassing phone calls, text messages, or emails. Cyberstalking is increasingly prevalent, with more than one quarter of stalking victims reporting being harassed through the Internet or electronically monitored. Many victims suffer from anxiety, depression, and insomnia, and some are forced to move or change jobs. Stalking all too often goes unreported, yet it also tends to escalate over time, putting victims at risk of sexual assault, physical abuse, or homicide.
My Administration remains dedicated to pursuing justice for victims of stalking and ensuring survivors receive the support they need. Last March, I was proud to sign the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act. Every time we renew this landmark legislation, we improve it, and this time was no exception. This renewal expanded protections for Native American and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender victims of stalking, domestic violence, and sexual assault. It amended the Clery Act to require colleges to report crime statistics on stalking, continued to allow relief for immigrant victims, and strengthened support and training programs that have proven effective in helping law enforcement bring offenders to justice.
We also stand behind the tireless advocates who provide essential services to victims. Along with law enforcement, prosecutors, court personnel, and survivors, these devoted women and men are links in a chain that has made a difference—one person, one family, one case at a time. This month, let us resolve to strengthen this chain, bring stalkers to justice, and give hope to everyone who has suffered from this crime.
Now, Therefore, I, Barack Obama, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim January 2014 as National Stalking Awareness Month. I call upon all Americans to recognize the signs of stalking, acknowledge stalking as a serious crime, and urge those affected not to be afraid to speak out or ask for help. Let us also resolve to support victims and survivors, and to create communities that are secure and supportive for all Americans.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this thirty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord two thousand thirteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-eighth.
BARACK OBAMA
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Star Trek: Generations (1994)
Release Info
USA 17 November 1994 (Hollywood, California) (premiere)
http://www.semissourian.com/story/1155702.html
SOUTHEAST MISSOURIAN
Dr. Harley Rutledge
Wednesday, June 7, 2006
Dr. Harley D. Rutledge, 80, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, June 5, 2006, at Missouri Veterans Home.
http://www.ufosnw.com/news_items/rutledgedies06052006/rutledgedies06052006.html
UFOs Northwest
UFO Researcher Harley Rutledge Dies
Solid state physicist, Harley Rutledge, Ph.D., at work during Project Identification in 1970s at Southeast Missouri State University.
Harley Rutledge, Ph.D., age 80, died at the Missouri Veterans Home in Mt. Vernon, on Monday, June 5, 2006. Dr. Rutledge was former Chairman of the Physics Department at Southeast Missouri State University. He gained national attention in 1973 when he organized "Project Identification" to track and photograph, if possible, unidentified aerial objects being seen by hundreds of residents in Franklin County, Missouri. The summary of his study was published in a book entitled, Project Identification © 1980 by Dr. Rutledge. His goal was a scientific study of velocity, distance and size of objects, many recorded on videotape.
Linda Moulton Howe talked to Dr. Rutledge often while she was producing the 1980 TV documentary, A Strange Harvest for KMGH-TV in Denver, Colorado. Dr. Rutledge had hundreds of anomalous photographs, many he had taken himself. He acknowledged that mixed with all the sightings reports were calls to law enforcement in Missouri about bloodless, trackless animal mutilations, sometimes linked to the presence of unidentified aerial craft.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
To: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 5:55:42 PM
Subject: Re: I don't know if I am winning or losing an effort by the Borg to assimilate my mind.
Kerry Burgess wrote:
I don't know if I am winning or losing an effort by the Borg to assimilate my mind. I have this sense of dread I can't explain. But there is something........I can't put my finger on it, something, something, something, what is it? I had the strongest feeling this morning that I don't know who I am. Then it just clicked back. It just turned off. I think it was something someone on tv said while they were listening to me. I find myself thinking about that part in that 1998 Star Trek movie where Data realizes he is missing some memory chips. And I heard someone just the other day saying something similar. I keep my headphones on to block out stuff like that, but......what am I missing? What other clues are there that I've missed? Are people telling me this all to help? Do I need help? All I know is I need to get the hell out of here. Goddamn it, when do I get out of HERE!!!!!!
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 16 May 2006 excerpt ends]
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Stargate (1994)
Release Info
USA 28 October 1994
http://www.tv.com/shows/battlestar-galactica/battlestar-galacticathe-mini-series-1603714/
tv.com
Battlestar Galactica Episode 1
Battlestar Galactica:The Mini-Series
AIRED: 12/8/03
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=110387
The American Presidency Project
Barack Obama
XLIV President of the United States: 2009 - present
464 - Eulogy at the Funeral Service for Pastor Clementa C. Pinckney of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina
June 26, 2015
The President. Giving all praise and honor to God.
The Bible calls us to hope. To persevere and have faith in things not seen. "They were still living by faith when they died," Scripture tells us. "They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on Earth."
We are here today to remember a man of God who lived by faith.
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tv.com
The Real World Season 1 Episode 1
This is the True Story...
Aired Wednesday 10:00 PM May 21, 1992 on MTV - Music Television
AIRED: 5/21/92
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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: Miniseries (2003)
Leoben: What is it about this place? What's it doing to me?
Adama: Must be your allergies.
Leoben: I don't have allergies.
Adama: I didn't think so. What you got are silica pathways to the brain, or whatever it is you call that thing you pretend to think with. It's decomposing as we speak.
Leoben: It's the storm, isn't it? It puts out something. Something you discovered has an effect on Cylon technology. That's it, isn't it? And this is a refuge, that's why you put a fleet out here. Last ditch effort to hide from the Cylon attack. Right, well, that's not enough Adama. I've been here for hours.
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Gremlins (1984)
Release Info
USA 8 June 1984
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Gremlins (1984)
Full Cast & Crew
Phoebe Cates ... Kate Beringer
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972)
Release Info
USA 20 November 1972 (Los Angeles, California)
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=the-china-syndrome
Springfield! Springfield!
The China Syndrome (1979)
Ted? Can I see you a sec?
I wanted to get your impressions
of one phase here.
Just after the turbine trip,
did you feel a vibration?
The steam line closure.
No, that's here. I mean later.
More of a vibration.
Right here. It's relief valve 14.
I don't think so.
Didn't they ask you about this?
They asked us not to discuss it.
Ha, ha. That's during the investigation.
Is this part of the investigation?
What's the matter?
I was in there
for twice as long as anyone else.
You Navy guys have credentials,
but I'm a 25-year company man.
I knew nothing nuclear before.
You tell me, where do you think
the axe of "human error" will fall?
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IMDb
The China Syndrome (1979)
Release Info
USA 16 March 1979
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IMDb
The China Syndrome (1979)
Full Cast & Crew
Jack Lemmon ... Jack Godell
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=18891
The American Presidency Project
George Bush
XLI President of the United States: 1989 - 1993
Remarks at the Presentation Ceremony for the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Teaching
October 2, 1990
To our Secretary of Energy, Jim Watkins, delighted to see you sir; and Ted Sanders, the Under Secretary of Education; Fred Bernthal; Dr. Bill Phillips; and all of you here in the Rose Garden.
I am very pleased to have this opportunity to join you today and add my congratulations to those that you have already received. Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science and Math Teaching have been presented for the past 8 years to secondary schoolteachers, but this is the first year that elementary schoolteachers have also received these awards. So, you are the pioneers in what will be a continuing effort to honor the achievement of this nation's many outstanding schoolteachers.
You are a very select group -- 107 teachers from the more than 1 1/2 million elementary school instructors in this country. For many students, you represent their very first exposure to science and math, which gives you a vital responsibility. Most kids who go on to become scientists or engineers first became interested in those subjects in elementary school or junior high. And most often, the reason they do is because they are exposed to a teacher like you -- like each one of you -- someone who can speak their language, communicate with them, spark their imagination, and evoke the sense of wonder that is inherent in science and math.
Kids are natural-born scientists, but too many of them lose interest when their only exposure to science is through long lists of facts. And you've discovered how to bring out the fun in science and math, and in so doing, you provide a model and an inspiration for elementary schoolteachers everywhere.
You're also helping to meet a crucial national need. We live in an increasingly complex and competitive world, and the link between science and technology and our standard of living is stronger today than ever before. At a time when our international position in certain key industries is being challenged, we face impending shortfalls of qualified scientists and engineers. The students who can fill those shortfalls are in the classrooms right now, and we must ensure that they are given the education and the encouragement that they need.
Just a little over a year ago, I met with the Nation's Governors at Charlottesville for the first education summit, a first step towards building a strong partnership among this administration, the Governors, educators, parents and, indeed, community leaders. And this historic event resulted in a sense of direction and national goals for individual and collective efforts to improve the quality of education for all Americans.
Well, three of those goals directly involve science and math. By the year 2000, American students must demonstrate competency in five critical subjects, including science and math, with their progress measured in grades 4 and 8 and 12. We must also make American students the first in the world in science and math by the year 2000. And we must ensure that every adult American must be able to read and have the skills, including technological skills, to compete in a global economy.
So, these are ambitious goals, but they are faithful to the ambitions of this country. And as a people, we've set tough goals before: to send men to the Moon or to serve the cause of freedom abroad. And we know that when the challenge is great, great things happen in America.
Already, a great many things are happening at the Federal, State, and local level. The Department of Energy and NASA are opening up their research labs to students and teachers so that they can experience cutting-edge science firsthand. And the Department of Education and the National Science Foundation are working together and with the States on strengthening research, assessment, and curricula. Equally exciting are things that are happening in the States themselves.
But achieving the goals that I announced last January will require that everyone get involved. That means parents; it means teachers, school administrators, businesses, and universities.
Parents really are especially important. And it is very difficult for you as teachers to go out and do your job if you don't get help from parents, and that's why we want to see parental empowerment in education. We must make American education the best it can be, and that takes two things: greater parental involvement and, in my view, greater choice in education.
Reading about your accomplishments makes me confident that we will succeed. The letters of recommendation that helped bring you to Washington are really spectacular; and they give ample testimony to your ingenuity, your determination and, indeed, enthusiasm. In one letter, the parents of a kid named Woody write: "When we used to ask Woody what happened in school, he would tell us about recess. And now he tells us about science." You know, that really is a wonderful, wonderful statement about Woody's teacher, it seems to me. Another one, another letter, writes of a teacher who "studies with the mind of a scholar; perceives through the eyes of a child; and communicates with the voice of an understanding, compassionate, and energetic motivator." And all of the letters are unanimous about one thing: the enthusiasm that each one of you bring to the classroom, an enthusiasm that goes beyond the classroom, that touches everyone that you know.
You are truly remarkable people, and you're able to take children and lift them up and inspire them and broaden their horizons and then aim them off in new directions. So, the country owes you an immense debt of gratitude. But your real rewards can't be printed on some scroll, one piece of paper. The real rewards are the students who will remember you and what you have done for them for the rest of their lives.
Thank you all very much for being here today, and God bless each and every one of you for your wonderful commitment to the young people of this country. Thank you.
Note: The President spoke at 1:35 p.m. in the Rose Garden at the White House.
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The American Presidency Project
George Bush
XLI President of the United States: 1989 - 1993
Address to the German People on the Reunification of Germany
October 2, 1990
It is with great pleasure that I congratulate Chancellor Kohl and the German people at this historic moment. And it is my distinct honor to address the people of the united Germany.
In Berlin and Bonn, from Leipzig in the east to western towns along the Rhine, people are celebrating the day that all of Germany has been waiting for, for 45 long years. For the world, those 45 years were a time of tension and turmoil. For your nation, fate was particularly cruel. For 45 years, at the heart of a divided continent stood a divided Germany, on the fault line of the East-West conflict, one people split between two worlds.
No more. Today begins a new chapter in the history of your nation. Forty-five years of conflict and confrontation between East and West are now behind us. At long last the day has come: Germany is united; Germany is fully free.
The United States is proud to have built with you the foundations of freedom; proud to have been a steady partner in the quest for one Germany, whole and free. America is proud to count itself among the friends and allies of free Germany, now and in the future. Our peoples are united by the common bonds of culture, by a shared heritage in history. Never before have these common bonds been more evident than in this past year as we worked in common cause toward the goal of German unity. Today, together, we share the fruits of our friendship.
In this past year, we've witnessed a world of change for the United States, for the united Germany, for the Atlantic alliance of which we are a part. Even as Germany celebrates this new beginning, there is no doubt that the future holds new challenges, new responsibilities. I'm certain that our two nations will meet these challenges, as we have in the past, united by a common love of freedom. Together, building on the values we share, we will be partners in leadership.
This day, so full of meaning for Germany, is full of meaning for the world. Meters away from the walls of the Reichstadt, scene of the first session of the newly united German Parliament, stood the Berlin Wall, the stark and searing symbol of conflict and cold war. For years, free men and women everywhere dreamed of the day the Berlin Wall would cease to exist, when a world without the Wall would mean a Germany made whole once more -- when Germany, united and sovereign, would contribute in full measure as a force for peace and stability in world affairs.
Today the Wall lies in ruins, and our eyes open on a new world of hope. Now Germany is once more united. Now the Wall no longer divides a nation and a world in two. The last remnants of the Wall remain there at the heart of a free Berlin, a ragged monument in brick and barbed wire, proof that no wall is ever strong enough to strangle the human spirit, that no wall can ever crush a nation's soul.
Today the German nation enters a new era; an era, in the words of your national anthem, of "unity and justice and freedom." At this moment of celebration, as we look forward with you to a future of hope and promise, let me say, on behalf of all Americans, may God bless the people of Germany.
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=close-encounters-of-the-third-kind
Springfield! Springfield!
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
All I want to do is know
what's going on.
Nothing's going on!
It's just one of those things.
Which things? Which things?
-I don't want to hear about this.
-This is very important!
I won't let it lay here.
I'm gonna call somebody!
I'm not listening. I'm not listening.
I saw something last night
that I can't explain.
I saw something last night
I can't explain.
I'm going out there again tonight.
No, you're not.
Yes, I am.
No, you're not.
Yes, I am.
No, you're not.
Do they live on the moon?
They got bases there so at night
they can come through your window.
This isn't a moon burn, goddamn it!
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: - posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 09:04 AM Pacific Time somewhere near Seattle Washington USA Thursday 20 March 2014 - http://hvom.blogspot.com/2014/03/when-i-was-home-after-my-first-tour-it.html
"When I was home after my first tour, it was worse."
Well, looking at Google Maps Streetview I feel fairly certain I would not be able to see it if I walked down there now. For one thing, there is a big sign on the other side of the street that usually catches my sight when I get to the point I might be able to see it. I can think of a lot of reasons why I would not see it unless I walked maybe a hundred yards closer to it. Houses and trees on that side of the street probably obscure the line of sight to it.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 7:55 PM Thursday, December 08, 2011
Also, despite how I tell myself often that I am ready and mentally prepared to take the big step into that great big empty world where I can finally get some privacy today was a wake up call. The reality of non-reality is something that the human mind, at least my own human mind, cannot understand until actually in the presence of such new wisdom. Sometimes I think that only someone as dumb as myself can be. Something. I don't know.
So, but anyway, what I gave strong thought to throughout today is again a notion that I thought about before and that I was trying to recall just how extensively I had thought it through on past occasions and I cannot recall very much but what I was thinking again about today and seemingly really for the first time to really give it serious consideration is that I my sense of reality as I sit here today is a complete fabrication and that is consistent was thoughts that have been present in my mind the past couple of days or more. The notion is that this entire universe that I perceive, which includes all of you, is a complete fabrication. I actually was feeling, and still do to the same extent as earlier today, that I actually exist in the very distant future of this present day and the world I am living in is some kind of hallucination I am now experiencing for the purpose of scientific research. I don't feel like going into a lot more detail about it right now.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 08 December 2011 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 2:05 PM Thursday, December 08, 2011
A dream I had this morning is the reason I make this observation and I believe this information is strongly in the public interest.
Severe criminal activity directed at my personal property and that is being allowed to go unchecked by the law enforcement establishment in King County Washington State, specifically, and other places of the United States has created a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States of America.
There was a lot of stuff in the dream and just weird. As I am confounded with trying to write something else here I will skip ahead to the reason for this paragraph. Unlike in the 1982 film referenced below, the tunnel I saw was a clean and well-constructed tunnel of concrete and steel. There was a lot of stuff going on in the dream at the time - Thomas Reagan was flying around above us in some kind of spacecraft-type of craft that I have thought about several times today since the dream and I really just did not want to go into a lot of detail about that dream this morning. The reason I was going to go into the tunnel is because on the other side of the tunnel, which was very long was a computer terminal or personal computer and from that computer device I could produce a short text message in the sky above the city we were at. So I started down into the tunnel and down to the level of the tunnel as it progressed in the direction of the other side but then I stopped and did not go down there. The reason I did not go down there was because I was worried that someone would cut off the power while I was down there and I would be in complete darkness probably about half way through the tunnel. Then I came back up and I was yelling at a soldier wearing the camouflage uniform of a major and I was yelling at him because the road barricade he was in charge of had caused a loose elephant to go in the wrong direction. Not really sure what that was about. There was a lot of other stuff that just doesn't seem to matter. Back during the tunnel scene I could visualize that message I was going to produce in the sky above the city, where everyone could read the three-word phrase, but I do not recall the full message now and that also did not seem to really matter overall.
I was wrestling with a deer with a large rack of horns at one point in that dream. That's what it was and I woke up from that.
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Springfield! Springfield!
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Welcome back, Navy. Welcome back.
-Craig, Harry Ward.
-''Captain, United States Navy...
...043431 1 .''
Disappeared off Chicken Shoals
http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/w/windtalkers-script-transcript-wind-talkers.html
Windtalkers
Joe, nobody else needs to die.
We can go, we can get out of here!
We got orders!
They told us to hold the position,
and that's what we're going to do!
Get up, Marines!
Hold the goddamn position!
http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/w/windtalkers-script-transcript-wind-talkers.html
Windtalkers
Charlie.
Behind you!
Watch out!
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From 12/20/1994 ( in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) To 2/20/1996 is 427 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/3/1967 ( Jack Ruby dead ) is 427 days
From 9/1/1964 ( Lyndon Johnson - Executive Order 11174 - Establishing the Presidential Service Certificate and the Presidential Service Badge ) To 12/20/1994 ( in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) is 11067 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 2/20/1996 is 11067 days
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2015/02/i-probably-havent-seen-these-since.html ]
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The American Presidency Project
William J. Clinton
XLII President of the United States: 1993 - 2001
Statement on the Balkan Peace Process
February 20, 1996
This afternoon I met with my senior national security team to review the situation in Bosnia. I received a report on this weekend's meeting in Rome with the Presidents of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia.
I am pleased that in Rome, the Balkan leaders recommitted themselves to keeping peace on track. The parties pledged to resume contacts with the NATO-led Implementation Force, to reunify Sarajevo on schedule, to release all remaining war prisoners, to remove any remaining foreign forces, to cooperate in the investigation and prosecution of war crimes, and to strengthen the Bosnian-Croat Federation and reunify Mostar.
From 12/20/1994 ( in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) To 9/17/2000 is 2098 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 8/1/1971 ( premiere US film "The Omega Man" ) is 2098 days
From 10/3/1993 ( the Battle of Mogadishu Somalia begins with my personal participation United States of America Delta Force operation ) To 9/17/2000 is 2541 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/17/1972 ( Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II visits Yugoslavia ) is 2541 days
From 10/25/1994 ( Susan Smith kills her two children and dumps them in her car in the John D. Long Lake near Union South Carolina ) To 9/17/2000 is 2154 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/26/1971 ( Susan Smith ) is 2154 days
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2013/04/boston-marathon.html ]
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=1325
The American Presidency Project
William J. Clinton
XLII President of the United States: 1993-2001
Remarks at the Groundbreaking Ceremony for the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia
September 17, 2000
Thank you very much. The final sentence of the preamble: "We do ordain and establish this Constitution of the United States." Today we come to ordain and establish this Constitution Center
From 1/18/1991 ( premiere US film "Flight of the Intruder" ) To 8/29/2015 is 8989 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/13/1990 ( demolition of the Berlin Wall officially begins ) is 8989 days
https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2014-featured-story-archive/a-look-back-25-years-since-the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall.html
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A Look Back: 25 Years Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall
On November 9, 1989, after serving as the symbol of the Cold War for decades, the Berlin Wall fell. Its demise signaled the dawn of change not only in Eastern Europe, but the world.
The Berlin Wall started as a barbed wire fence built by the communist East German state (with approval from the Soviet Union) to stop the flow of refugees from East Berlin into West Berlin. For years, the CIA had predicted the East German government would take stern measures to stop border crossers but did not have tactical forewarning that a barrier would be put up starting on August 13, 1961. Stretching 96 miles long, the fence eventually evolved into the now familiar 12 foot high concrete wall, built in 45,000 separate sections, each four feet wide.
The Berlin Wall divided East Berlin and West Berlin for 28 years, from 1961 until November 1989. Typical for totalitarian states, the East German government declared the Wall to be a necessary defense against Western aggression. In reality, the Wall was intended to stop East Germans from seeking freedom in the West. In 1962, a second barrier was placed 100 yards back, creating a no-man’s land, widely known as the “death strip,” useless for defense against the West but clearly intended to prevent escape. It was booby-trapped with tripwires, offered no cover, and provided a clear field of fire to the watching guards. Even so, some 5,000 East Berliners escaped into the western half of the city. Tragically, an estimated 200 people died trying. Although the East German government always denied having a “shoot to kill” policy, the border guards were told to treat attempted defectors—even women and children—as criminals and stop them by whatever means necessary.
The Wall proved a propaganda disaster for the Soviet bloc as a whole. It became a powerful symbol of communist tyranny that Western leaders, starting with President John F. Kennedy, frequently denounced. In 1987, Ronald Reagan gave his famous speech at the Brandenburg Gate, at which he challenged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall.”
Two years later, during the summer of 1989, communist Hungary removed its border restrictions with Austria, and in September, more than 13,000 East German tourists in Hungary escaped to Austria. Demonstrations broke out all over East Germany. The long-time leader of East Germany, Erich Honecker, who in January had predicted that the Berlin Wall would stand for “a hundred more years,” resigned on October 18, replaced by Egon Krenz. By November 4, 1989, the protests had increased significantly, with a million people gathered that day in Alexanderplatz in East Berlin. Meanwhile, the wave of refugees leaving East Germany for the West had increased through Czechoslovakia, tolerated by the new Krenz government and the communist regime in Prague.
To ease the complications, the Krenz government decided on November 9, 1989, to allow refugees and even private travelers to exit directly through crossing points between East Germany and West Germany, including West Berlin. The new regulations were to take effect the next day, on November 10, to allow time to inform the border guards. However, no one told the East German government spokesman, who had not been briefed on the situation but simply had been handed a note to announce that East Berliners would be allowed to cross the border with proper permission. He read the note aloud at the end of the conference and, when asked when the regulations would come into effect, he replied, “As far as I know, effective immediately, without delay.” Nobody, including the East German government, knew that on November 9, 1989, the Wall would start coming down.
Tens of thousands of East Berliners heard the spokesman’s statement live on East German television and soon flooded the checkpoints in the Wall, demanding entry into West Berlin. The surprised and overwhelmed border guards tried to call their superiors, but no East German official was willing to take personal responsibility for issuing orders to use lethal force. Faced with the swelling crowd, the guards finally yielded, opening the checkpoints and allowing people through with little or no identity checking. Ecstatic East Berliners were soon greeted by West Berliners on the other side in a celebration of freedom and reunion. As a result, November 9 is considered the date the Wall fell.
In the days and weeks that followed, people came to the Wall with sledgehammers to chip off souvenir pieces. The first concrete section of the Wall was removed on the 12th. By June 13, 1990 the wall was officially dismantled, and on October 3, 1990 East and West Germany were reunified. The collapse of the Soviet Union would soon follow.
While it is often repeated by some that the CIA and the US Intelligence Community (IC) missed the fall of the Soviet Union, assessments from the time tell a different story. With the demise of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet system in crisis, the CIA in 1989 assessed the Soviet Union under Gorbachev would not survive. In 1990, the IC released a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), in which it stated, “the Soviet Union as we have known it is finished.(PDF)” (The NIE is an assessment by as many as 17 government agencies and departments regarding a national, regional or transnational issue of high importance, such as the Soviet Union, and is normally briefed to the President and other very senior officials). By the spring of 1991, the CIA warned of a future coup against Gorbachev, how it would take place, and the likelihood of the Soviet Union’s collapse—all accurate predictions of what happened soon after. On December 25, 1991, Gorbachev resigned and the Soviet Union ceased to exist
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=flight-of-the-intruder
Springfield! Springfield!
Flight Of The Intruder (1991)
Red River, Paul Doumier Bridge.
Then you follow the main
boulevard, you go right to it.
People's Resistance Park.
It's right across the square
from the national assembly.
SAM City, man.
You guys must be nuts.
The air force won't give me
any pictures of downtown.
I'd have to send for 'em.
That would be like
robbing a bank
and using your own car
for the getaway.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 10:40 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Monday 31 August 2015
