"The Final Countdown" (1980)
US Navy chief petty officer: It's a code.
US Navy commander Dan Thurman - USS Nimitz CVN 68 executive-officer: Can you break it, Chief?
CPO: I think someone's putting us on.
Dan Thurman: Why?
CPO: Because I learned this code at Great Lakes. It's ancient!
https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/an-inspiration-of-all-men.htm
National Park Service
“An Inspiration of All Men”: Remembering John “Osawatomie” Brown in Kansas
While places around the country commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Raid on Harpers Ferry, celebrations of John Brown’s exploits had begun decades earlier in Kansas. John Brown, who had earlier dedicated his “life to the destruction of slavery,” had arrived in the Kansas Territory with other members of his family in 1855. It was here he came to the nation’s attention as a leading figure in the free-state struggle, “Bleeding Kansas,” engaging in armed struggles against slavery that not only foreshadowed the violence at Harpers Ferry, but the violence that would ultimately culminate in the Civil War.
“The friends of humanity, liberty, and of human progress in Kansas yesterday unveiled a monument to commemorate the sufferings, the life and the triumph of a martyr, whose name will never perish from the record of humanity, and whose memory will gain a luster with the passing years as one of the choicest heritages of our posterity.”
“John Brown,” St. Louis Globe Democrat, August 31, 1877.
http://www.newsweek.com/2013/11/15/biggest-little-cia-shop-youve-never-heard-243964.html
Newsweek
IN THE MAGAZINE U.S.
THE BIGGEST LITTLE CIA SHOP YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF
BY JEFF STEIN ON 11/14/13 AT 5:36 PM
For the men (and women) of the CIA's principal espionage corps, working abroad under cover, often in some of the world's nastiest neighborhoods, National Resources looks like the country club of Spy-Ville, a 9-to-5 domestic job, free of risk and stress, a refuge for the lazy, the incompetents and the burnouts.
"We look down on NR: You're a slacker, you're going home every night and watching TV, while I'm here in Moscow with the Russians looking up my ass with a microscope. We're not working for the same organization," says one veteran overseas operative, echoing a common view. "In Moscow, Beijing, Delhi, whatever, I'm not only living in rotten conditions, I've got a hostile intelligence service following me around."
Says another: "The problem is - they'll deny it - but NR's recruitments [of spies] are not to the same standards" as the rest of the clandestine service.
Read the full text here: https://www.greystar.com/blog/greystar-acquires-riverstone-residential-group
Greystar (official website on the global-internetwork)
Thursday, May 28, 2015
Greystar Acquires Riverstone Residential Group
We are proud to announce that Riverstone Residential Group, one of the nation’s premier third-party multifamily management firms, is now part of the Greystar family.
Our valued residents will see very little, if any, changes when it comes to day-to-day life. Expect the same stellar services, thoughtful amenities and friendly faces you see in our communities across the country. For staff members of the Riverstone team, the merger brings about an important cultural revitalization that will provide new opportunities for growth with the goal of improving residents’ daily lives and experiences.
Greystar has long recognized the importance of strong internal company mores, and as Riverstone’s unique and talented team unites with us, rest assured that our brand will only grow stronger as a result.
https://www.greystar.com/contact-us/our-people/bob-faith
Greystar (official website on the global-internetwork)
FOUNDER
CHAIRMAN AND CEO
BOB FAITH
Corporate Office
Charleston, SC 29403
BIOGRAPHY
Bob Faith is Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Greystar, a global leader in the investment, development, and management of high-quality rental housing properties. As Chief Executive Officer, Bob leads the Greystar Investment Committee, Executive Committee, and Board of Directors. For nearly three decades, Bob has maintained oversight over all aspects of Greystar, including organizational structure, strategic planning, and company growth. Bob believes that the company’s commitment to its pillars of excellence, core values, evergreen business strategy, and entrepreneurial spirit allows Greystar to mitigate cyclicality while attracting and retaining the best talent in the industry and providing attractive career growth potential to all team members.
Following Harvard Business School, Bob began his real estate career with the Trammell Crow Company in 1986, ultimately becoming a Partner in the Charlotte, North Carolina office. In 1991, he co-founded Starwood Capital Partners, LP, a private investment company. In 1993, Bob founded Greystar Real Estate Partners, LLC, in Houston, Texas. In addition, he founded and served as CEO of Homegate Hospitality, Inc from 1996 to 1997. From 2002 through 2006, Bob served as the South Carolina Secretary of Commerce.
Under Bob’s leadership, Greystar has grown from a manager of 9,000 units in the United States through the acquisition of the company’s predecessor Greystone to managing and operating an estimated $230 billion of real estate in 215 markets globally throughout the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific region. Today, Greystar is the largest operator of apartments in the United States, managing 754,000+ units/beds globally, and has a robust institutional investment management platform with approximately $49.9+ billion of assets under management, including over $22 billion of assets under development. In 2020, Greystar was ranked as the 47th largest real estate investment manager in the world.
In 2020, Bob was recognized by Commercial Observer as one of the Most Powerful Players in Real Estate ranking #32 on the Power 100 list. Following the EdR transaction in 2018, Bob was the recipient of PERE’s North America Industry Figure of the Year award. Since 2016, Bob has been consecutively listed as a Glassdoor Top CEO. Bob is a member of the National Multifamily Housing Council, the Pension Real Estate Association, and the Young Presidents’ Association.
Bob received his bachelor’s degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Oklahoma and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-11828-establishing-commission-cia-activities-within-the-united-states
The American Presidency Project
GERALD R. FORD
38th President of the United States: 1974 ‐ 1977
Executive Order 11828 - Establishing a Commission on CIA Activities Within the United States
January 04, 1975
The Central Intelligence Agency as created by the National Security Act of 1947 fulfills intelligence functions vital to the security of our nation, and many of its activities must necessarily be carried out in secrecy. Such activities are nevertheless subject to statutory limitations. I have determined that in order to insure scrupulous compliance with these statutory limitations, while fully recognizing the statutory missions of the Agency, it is advisable to establish a Commission on CIA Activities Within the United States.
NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and statutes of the United States, and as President of the United States, I hereby order as follows:
SECTION 1. Establishment of the Commission. There is hereby established a Commission on CIA Activities Within the United States (hereinafter referred to as the "Commission"), to be composed of a Chairman and other members to be appointed by the President.
SEC. 2. Functions of the Commission. The Commission shall:
(a) Ascertain and evaluate any facts relating to activities conducted within the United States by the Central Intelligence Agency which give rise to questions of compliance with the provisions of 50 U.S.C. 403;
(b) Determine whether existing safeguards are adequate to prevent any activities which violate the provisions of 50 U.S.C. 403;
(c) Make such recommendations to the President and to the Director of Central Intelligence as the Commission deems appropriate.
SEC. 3. Cooperation by and with Executive Departments and Agencies. The Commission is authorized to request, at the direction of the Chairman, from any executive department or agency, any information and assistance deemed necessary to carry out its functions under this order. Each department or agency shall furnish such information and assistance to the Commission, to the extent permitted by law. The Commission shall furnish to the Attorney General any evidence found by the Commission which may relate to offenses under the statutes of the United States.
SEC. 4. Compensation, Personnel, and Finance. (a) Each member of the Commission may receive compensation for each day he or she is engaged upon the work of the Commission at not to exceed the daily rate now or hereafter prescribed by law for persons and positions in GS-18, as authorized by law and may also receive travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5703) for persons in the government service intermittently employed.
(b) The Commission shall have an Executive Director who shall be designated by the President and shall receive such compensation as may hereafter be specified. The Commission is authorized to appoint and fix the compensation of such other personnel as may be necessary to enable it to carry out its functions, and is authorized to obtain services in accordance with the provisions of 5 U.S.C. 3109.
(c) All necessary expenses incurred in connection with the work of the Commission shall be paid from the appropriation for "Unanticipated Personnel Needs" P.L. 93-381, 88 Stat. 617, or from such other funds as may be available.
SEC. 5. Administrative Services. The General Services Administration shall provide administrative services for the Commission on a reimbursable basis.
SEC. 6. Report and Termination. The Commission shall present its final report to the President not later than three months from the date of this order. It shall terminate within one month after presenting its final report.
GERALD R. FORD
The White House,
January 4, 1975.
Gerald R. Ford, Executive Order 11828—Establishing a Commission on CIA Activities Within the United States Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/268730
From 1/4/1975 ( Gerald Ford, 38th President of USA: Executive Order 11828 - Establishing a Commission on CIA Activities Within the United States ) To 6/5/2014 ( ) is 14397 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/3/2005 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Simpsons"::"The Seven-Beer Snitch" ) is 14397 days
From 12/20/1994 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: in non-aviator related duties boots on the ground 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 6/5/2014 ( ) is 7107 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/18/1985 ( Ronald Reagan, 40th President of USA: Telephone Conversation With the Astronauts on Board the Space Shuttle Discovery ) is 7107 days
From 2/21/1997 ( the landing of the US space shuttle Discovery orbiter vehicle mission STS-82 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-82 pilot astronaut and my 4th official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) To 6/5/2014 ( ) is 6313 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/14/1983 ( premiere US TV series episode "Frontline"::"God's Banker" ) is 6313 days
From 11/22/1996 ( premiere US film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) To 6/5/2014 ( ) is 6404 days
6404 = 3202 + 3202
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/9/1974 ( Richard Nixon surrenders and abandons his illegal presence in the United States of America federal White House ) is 3202 days
From 7/24/1916 ( from Wikipedia on the global-internetwork: Louis R. Lowery ) To 9/27/2013 ( for me personally as Kerry Burgess: my first day at the apartment complex in Spokane Valley I still reside as of this writing ) is 35494 days
35494 = 17747 + 17747
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/5/2014 ( ) is 17747 days
From 8/17/1960 ( premiere US film "The Time Machine" & the Soviet Union trial of the United States Central Intelligence Agency pilot Gary Powers begins in Moscow Russia Soviet Union ) To 3/20/2009 ( premiere US film "Knowing" & premiere US TV series episode "Battlestar Galactica"::series finale episode "Daybreak" ) is 17747 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/5/2014 ( ) is 17747 days
https://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/06/prweb11919615.htm
CISION
PRWeb
Greystar Real Estate Partners Acquires Riverstone Residential Group in Blockbuster Deal
Greystar Acquires Leading Apartment Management Company
CHARLESTON, S.C (PRWEB) JUNE 05, 2014
Greystar Real Estate Partners announced today that it has acquired Riverstone Residential Group, a leading manager of apartments in the United States, from London-based CAS Capital Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Regis Group PLC, owned by Nick and Peter Gould. The acquisition solidifies Greystar’s position as one of the world’s leading multifamily real estate services companies with over 385,000 apartment units under management in major markets throughout the United States and abroad.
“Riverstone is one of the nation’s most highly respected multifamily firms, and we are proud to have them join our Greystar family,” said Bob Faith, Greystar’s Chairman and CEO. “Combining forces makes us even stronger, especially in local markets where we are bringing together some of the most talented and experienced multifamily professionals in the industry. Our local teams are well resourced, and will now harness the power of our combined technology and service platforms to further expand our service offerings to our clients, partners and residents.”
Greystar has been among the largest managers of apartments in the United States for a number of years. Over its 20-year history, the company has successfully integrated a number of major operators, including the management arms of JPI, Archon, and Glacier. In addition to property management, the company also has a robust investment management and development platform and recently expanded its operations internationally to Mexico and the United Kingdom.
Nick Gould, Chairman of the Board for CAS Capital Limited, said, “We are excited to complete this transaction with Greystar. The combining of these two great companies represents the realization of our vision to create the highest quality multifamily residential service provider in the U.S.” Peter Gould, Vice Chairman, added, “We believe Greystar is a great strategic and cultural fit for the company and are proud that they will continue our legacy in providing high quality services to clients and residents. We now entrust a great company to Bob Faith as we move on to continue what we do best, creating and growing our other large scale business platforms.”
The acquisition will greatly enhance Greystar’s local presence in major markets throughout the country, particularly in the Western U.S. With a combined force of over 10,000 team members, the company manages apartment communities for many of the premiere ownership groups and institutions in the multifamily industry.
About Greystar Real Estate Partners
Greystar is a fully integrated real estate company offering expertise in property management, investment management, and development of residential properties. Headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina, Greystar is the largest operator of apartments in the United States, managing over 385,000 units in over 100 markets. Greystar also has $1.5 billion of development underway and has a robust institutional investment management platform with over $7.5 billion in assets in major markets globally. Greystar was founded by Bob Faith in 1993 with the intent to become a provider of world class service in the rental residential real estate business. To learn more about Greystar, visit http://www.greystar.com.
About Regis Group PLC
Nick and Peter Gould have led Regis Group PLC over a 30-year period, to become internationally recognized as significant investors in the residential real estate markets in the United States, United Kingdom and France. By investing widely, buying, building, and merging multiple entities, they specialize in the creation and management of residential platforms.
Invitation Homes was established in 2012 in partnership with The Blackstone Group; the Gould’s are founding partners. To date, Invitation Homes has deployed over $8 billion to acquire in excess of 43,000 homes for rent in the United States. The company is now the largest owner of single family rental properties in the United States.
B2R Finance is a joint venture between the Goulds and The Blackstone Group. B2R Finance provides cost effective buy to rent mortgages for residential property investors throughout the United States.
R4 Capital, a New York-based subsidiary of the Regis Group PLC, provides low income housing tax-credit (LIHTC) opportunities to investors and developers in the United States. To learn more about Regis Group PLC, visit HYPERLINK "http://www.regisplc.com" http://www.regisplc.com.
Media Contact:
Greystar/Riverstone:
Tricia Peters
602-522-1228
tpeters(at)greystar(dot)com
Regis Group Plc:
Elizabeth Tagge
+44 (0) 203-047-2000
Elizabeth.Tagge(at)edelman(dot)com
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1078719/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
IMDb
Frontline
God's Banker
Episode aired Feb 14, 1983
S1 E5
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0701260/?ref_=ttmi_tt
IMDb
The Simpsons
The Seven-Beer Snitch
Episode aired Apr 3, 2005
S16 E14
Springfield builds an opera house, but since no-one attends it they convert it into a prison. Old and forgotten laws are used to fill the prison, and therefore Homer goes to jail for kicking a can five times in a row. In jail, Homer becomes a snitch
NCIS: Los Angeles
Season 7 Episode 11
Cancel Christmas
Aired Monday 10:00 PM Dec 14, 2015 on CBS
AIRED: 12/14/15
07x11 - Cancel Christmas
Hetty Lange: I heard what you said to, um, Jennifer Kim. Or whatever her real name is. Any of that, uh, true?
Owen Granger, assistant director of NCIS: Does it matter?
https://www.krem.com/article/news/investigations/spokane-health-district-amelia-clark-calls-cops-leaked-recordings/293-eeb5c696-f225-423b-b364-3a66c939c16a
Channel 2 KREM CBS Spokane
'I need to file a report': SRHD's Amelia Clark calls Crime Check over leaked recordings
"Apparently today during a meeting I had staff members record me unbeknownst to me," Clark said in a call to Crime Check.
Author: Kaitlin Riordan, Ian Smay
Published: 4:11 PM PST December 16, 2021
SPOKANE, Wash. — Spokane Regional Health District (SRHD) Administrator Amelia Clark called Crime Check on one or more of her employees after she claimed they recorded a meeting without her permission.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/telephone-conversation-with-the-astronauts-board-the-space-shuttle-discovery
The American Presidency Project
RONALD REAGAN
40th President of the United States: 1981 ‐ 1989
Telephone Conversation With the Astronauts on Board the Space Shuttle Discovery
April 18, 1985
The President. Commander Bobko - Commander Bobko? Greetings. We've
Commander Bobko. Good morning, Mr. President.
The President. Ah, thank you. I thought maybe I might have missed you. Well, listen we know you've had some frustrations up there. But overall, I think we can all be proud of the fourth mission of the Discovery and all that you've accomplished.
We've been watching down here, and I mean all of America. And I want you to know that we're rooting for you all. We saw a lot of human ingenuity at work, making the flyswatter-like tool. And as we watched Jeff Hoffman and Dave Griggs install it on the Discovery's arm, we had to acknowledge that was great work. And we're calling all of you up there now the "SWAT Team."
I want to congratulate astronauts Bobko and Williams on the maneuvers you've been putting the shuttle through. This is the 16th shuttle to go up. And we're learning more about its versatility every trip.
I've seen you playing—excuse me—I mean demonstrating with balls and jacks and yo-yo's and even a slinky toy in the zero-gravity of space. And now, I know you're doing this to make some education videotapes for students learning about the laws of physics. That's really the best thing about our space program—the inspiration and challenge that it gives our young people.
You've been conducting extensive tests on the human body's blood flow and digestion. And I want to ask astronaut-physician Rhea Seddon, how are these tests working out? And, Rhea, I'd also like to commend you on your dexterity on hitting that pin on the side of the satellite. If you don't mind, I could think of a job on a ranch in California that you might be interested in. [Laughter]
But, Senator Garn, I know that you're taking part in the health experiments. And, Jake, how are you doing? You're doing a fine job up there, but I could use your help down here right now in getting the Federal budget under control and arranging assistance for some people fighting for their freedom in Central America. So, don't stay up there too long. You know, Jake, maybe in around.
Senator Garn. Well, Mr. President, I'm doing just great. I've missed you, but I'll be back on Tuesday. I'm well aware of the vote on the Nicaraguan aid on Tuesday night. And I'll be voting just the way you'd like me to when I get back.
The President. Well, God bless you [ Superstition nonsense for cowards terrifed of mortality ]. And you know, Jake, maybe in around 4 years or so you could use your influence with NASA to get a certain retired politician a ride on the space shuttle.
Well, I just want all of you to know how proud we are of you. Good luck, and God be with all of you [ Superstition nonsense for cowards terrifed of mortality ].
Anyone up there want to
Commander Bobko. Thank you very much, Mr. President. We certainly enjoy being here. And I'm sure you realize that we're just the people in space, who are the working edge of the great team that's on the ground supporting us. Thanks again.
The President. Well, you're a great team up there. And we're all very proud of you. God bless you [ Superstition nonsense for cowards terrifed of mortality ].
Note: The President spoke at 10:04 a.m. from the Oval Office at the White House to the Discovery's crew: astronauts Karol J. Bobko, Donald E. Williams, M. Rhea Sealdon, Jeffrey A. Hoffman, S. David Griggs, Charles D. Walker, and Senator Jake Garn of Utah.
Ronald Reagan, Telephone Conversation With the Astronauts on Board the Space Shuttle Discovery Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/260130
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-iwo-jima-flag-raising-photo-was-misidentified-marine-corps-n597671
NBC NEWS
Man in Iwo Jima Flag-Raising Photo Was Misidentified, Marine Corps Says
by ERIK ORTIZ
JUN 23 2016, 11:02 AM ET
One of the six men believed to have been part of the iconic moment when an American flag was hoisted at Iwo Jima was misidentified, the Marine Corps confirmed.
An investigative panel led by a retired general reviewed claims that one of the men was not Navy corpsman John Bradley, and concluded that he was actually a Marine who was there that day: Pfc. Harold Schultz of Detroit.
"Our history is important to us, and we have a responsibility to ensure it's right," Marine Corps' commandant Gen. Robert Neller said in a statement Thursday.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058083/quotes
IMDb
Fail-Safe (1964)
Quotes
Prof. Groeteschele: And the Lord said, gentlemen, "He who is without sin, let him cast the first stone."
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058083/quotes
IMDb
Fail-Safe (1964)
Quotes
US Ambassador: [over the phone] I can hear the sound of explosions from the north east. The sky is very bright. All lit up.
From 9/5/1953 ( premiere US TV series "The Secret Files of Captain Video" ) To 3/31/2003 ( the City of Spokane Valley incorporated ) is 18104 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/28/2015 ( ) is 18104 days
From 8/3/1998 ( "Rainbow Six" by Tom Clancy ) To 5/28/2015 ( ) is 6142 days
6142 = 3071 + 3071
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/31/1974 ( premiere US TV series episode "Nova"::"Last of the Cuiva" ) is 3071 days
From 3/16/1991 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate and possibly the date of the secret, doctorate-degree credential from Princeton University, I can only theorize, struggling to understand ) To 5/28/2015 ( ) is 8839 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/14/1990 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Simpsons"::"Bart the Genius" ) is 8839 days
From 12/20/1994 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: in non-aviator related duties boots on the ground 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 5/28/2015 ( ) is 7464 days
7464 = 3732 + 3732
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/21/1976 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut bound for deep space in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship this day was his first landing the planet Mars and his documented and lawful exclusive claim to the territory of the planet Mars ) is 3732 days
From 5/9/1986 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my official enlisted United States Navy documents includes: Date Enrolled - United States Navy Fire Control Technician Class "A", Service School Command, Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, Illinois, - leading to permanent assignment until 1990 to CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computer Complex (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance), USS Wainwright CG-28, United States Navy, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Petty Officer Second Class Fire Controlman (FC2) ) To 5/28/2015 ( ) is 10611 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/21/1994 ( premiere US film "The Man Who Played God" ) is 10611 days
From 5/9/1986 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my official enlisted United States Navy documents includes: Date Enrolled - United States Navy Fire Control Technician Class "A", Service School Command, Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, Illinois, - leading to permanent assignment until 1990 to CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computer Complex (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance), USS Wainwright CG-28, United States Navy, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Petty Officer Second Class Fire Controlman (FC2) ) To 5/28/2015 ( ) is 10611 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/21/1994 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine"::"Defiant" ) is 10611 days
From 11/29/1985 ( the USA Department of Defense design and procurement of the Prisoner of War medal ) To 5/28/2015 ( ) is 10772 days
10772 = 5386 + 5386
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/1/1980 ( premiere US film "The Final Countdown" ) is 5386 days
From 11/4/1970 ( premiere US TV series episode "San Francisco International Airport"::"We Once Came Home to Parades" ) To 5/28/2015 ( ) is 16276 days
16276 = 8138 + 8138
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/13/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Petty Officer Second Class Fire Controlman (FC2), with my personal participation and commendation my official enlisted United States Navy documents includes: Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal 88Feb13 88Jun03, CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computer Complex (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance), USS Wainwright CG-28, United States Navy, Operation Earnest Will, Middle East Force, including Operation Praying Mantis ) is 8138 days
From 10/7/1964 ( premiere US film "Fail-Safe" ) To 5/2/2014 ( for me personally as Kerry Burgess - my first day in new-construction Phase II apartment at complex in Spokane Valley I've lived since 09/27/2013 and still reside as of this writing ) is 18104 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/28/2015 ( ) is 18104 days
From 1/22/1997 ( premiere US TV series episode "Biography"::"Eliot Ness: Untouchable" ) To 5/28/2015 ( ) is 6700 days
6700 = 3350 + 3350
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/4/1975 ( Gerald Ford, 38th President of USA: Executive Order 11828 - Establishing a Commission on CIA Activities Within the United States ) is 3350 days
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3280610/
IMDb
Wayward Pines (2015–2016)
Our Town, Our Law
Episode aired 28 May 2015
Season 1 Episode 3
Cast
Matt Dillon ... Ethan Burke
Release Date: 28 May 2015 (USA)
https://www.greystar.com/blog/greystar-acquires-riverstone-residential-group
Greystar (official website)
Thursday, May 28, 2015
Greystar Acquires Riverstone Residential Group
We are proud to announce that Riverstone Residential Group, one of the nation’s premier third-party multifamily management firms, is now part of the Greystar family.
Our valued residents will see very little, if any, changes when it comes to day-to-day life. Expect the same stellar services, thoughtful amenities and friendly faces you see in our communities across the country. For staff members of the Riverstone team, the merger brings about an important cultural revitalization that will provide new opportunities for growth with the goal of improving residents’ daily lives and experiences.
Greystar has long recognized the importance of strong internal company mores, and as Riverstone’s unique and talented team unites with us, rest assured that our brand will only grow stronger as a result. Collective town hall-style internal meetings have taken place around the country with the aim of codifying and defining the new Greystar philosophy within the newly combined corporate structures.
Greystar is devoted to finding motivated, talented and intelligent people to serve — and ultimately shine — in many capacities in our company. The Riverstone acquisition is a perfect example of this movement toward greater efficiencies and also brings a formidable recruiting team to the table that can continue our tradition of excellence in customer service.
Greystar is focused on providing desired amenities to our residents. The combination of our two companies will bring even more talent and tools to allow us to focus on enhancing our residents’ experiences and raising the levels of comfort and service that are applied on a broad and universal scale within the Greystar brand.
With the help of our exceptional new team, we fully intend to tactically address our current opportunities, all while taking advantage of the chance to develop stronger ties with our core.
We expect the Riverstone integration to be entirely finished soon. The new Greystar looks forward to serving you while pressing forward as a company and community of communities.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058083/quotes?ref_=ttrel_ql_trv_4
IMDb
Fail Safe (1964)
Quotes
Brigadier General Warren A. Black: Maybe they'll think that even capitalists aren't that insane, to want to kill after they themselves have been killed.
Prof. Groeteschele: These are Marxist fanatics, not normal people. They do not reason they way you reason, General Black. They're not motivated by human emotions such as rage and pity. They are calculating machines. They will look at the balance sheet, and they will see they cannot win.
Defense Secretary Swenson: Then you suggest doing what?
Prof. Groeteschele: [leans forward] Nothing.
Defense Secretary Swenson: Nothing?
Prof. Groeteschele: The Russians will surrender, and the threat of Communism will be over, forever.
Gen. Bogan: That's a lot of hogwash. Don't kid yourself, there'll be Russian generals who will react just as I would - the best defense is a good offense. They see trouble coming up, take my word for it, they'll attack, and they won't give a damn what Marx said.
Prof. Groeteschele: Mr. Secretary, I am convinced that the moment the Russians know bombs will fall on Moscow, they will surrender. They know that whatever they do then, they cannot escape destruction. Don't you see, sir, this our chance. We never would have made the first move deliberately, but Group 6 has made it for us, by accident. We must take advantage of it - history demands it. We must advise the President not to recall those planes.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1426819/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
IMDb
Nova
Last of the Cuiva
Episode aired Mar 31, 1974
S1 E5
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/listseason/01.html
Nova
Last of the Cuiva
How does a primitive nomadic tribe of the Amazon basin cope with the encroachment of Western settlers? NOVA looks at both sides of the story, revealing the misunderstandings between the two cultures. Original broadcast date: 03/31/74
Rainbow Six (1998) - Tom Clancy
(from internet transcript)
CHAPTER 24
"Your building, Doc," Hollister allowed. That one specification had added five million dollars of labor costs to the project, all of it to the window contractor, whose workers had hated the detail work, though not the extra pay to do it. The old Boeing plant down the road at Wichita had hardly been called upon to do such finely finished work. "You picked a pretty setting for it, though."
"Didn't we, though?" All around, the land was covered with a swaying green carpet of wheat, just about a quarter way into its growing cycle. There were some farm machines visible, fertilizing and weeding the crop. Maybe not as pretty as a golf course, but a lot more practical. The complex even had its own large institutional bakery to bake its own bread, maybe from the wheat grown right here on the campus? Hollister wondered. Why hadn't he thought about that one before? The farms that had been bought along with the land even included a feedlot for fattening up cattle, and other land used for truck-farm vegetables. This whole complex could be self-sustaining if somebody ever wanted it to be. Well, maybe they just wanted it to fit in with the area. This part of Kansas was all farms, and though the steel-and-glass buildings of the project didn't exactly look like barns and equipment sheds, their surroundings somehow muted their invasiveness. And besides, you could hardly see them from the interstate highway to the north, and only from a few public roads closer than that, and the gatehouses for limiting access were stout buildings, almost like pillboxes - to protect against tornadoes, the specifications had said, and sure enough no tornado could hurt them -hell, even some loony farmer with a.50-caliber machine gun couldn't hurt those security huts.
"So, you've earned your bonus. The money will be in your account by the close of business tomorrow," Dr. John Brightling promised.
"Suits me, sir." Hollister fished in his pocket and pulled out the master key, the one that would open any door in the complex. It was a little ceremony he always performed when he finished a project. He handed it over. "Well, sir, its your building complex now."
Brightling looked at the electronic key and smiled. This was the last major hurdle for the Project. This would be the home of nearly all of his people. A similar but much smaller structure in Brazil had been finished two months earlier, but that one barely accommodated a hundred people. This one could house three thousand - somewhat crowded, but comfortably even so-for some months, and that was about right. After the first couple of months, he could sustain his medical research efforts here with his best people - most of them not briefed in on the Project, but worthy of life even so because that work was heading in some unexpectedly promising directions. So promising that he wondered how long he himself might live here. Fifty years? A hundred? A thousand, perhaps? Who could say now?
Olympus, he'd call it, Brightling decided on the spot. The home of the gods, for that was exactly what he expected it to be. From here they could watch the world, study it, enjoy it, appreciate it. He would use the call-sign OLYMPUS-1 on his portable radio. From here he'd be able to fly all over the world with picked companions, to observe and learn how the ecology was supposed to work. For twenty years or so, they'd be able to use communications satellites no telling how long they'd last, and after that they'd be stuck with long-wire radio systems. That was an inconvenience for the future, but launching his own replacement satellites was just too difficult in terms of manpower and resources, and besides, satellite launchers polluted like nothing else humankind had ever invented.
Brightling wondered how long his people would choose to live here. Some would scatter quickly, probably drive all over America, setting up their own enclaves, reporting back by satellite at first. Others would go to Africa-that seemed likely to be the most popular destination. Still others to Brazil and the rain forest study area. Perhaps some of the primitive tribes down there would be spared the Shiva exposure, and his people would study them as well and how Primitive Man lived in a pristine physical environment, living in full harmony with Nature. They'd study them as they were, a unique species worthy of protection and too backward to be a danger to the environment. Might some African tribes survive as well? His people didn't think so. The African countries allowed their primitives to interface too readily with city folk, and the cities would be the focal centers of death for every nation on earth-especially when Vaccine-A was distributed. Thousands of liters of it would be produced, flown all over the world, and then distributed, ostensibly to preserve life, but really to take it… slowly, of course.
Progress was going well. Back at his corporate headquarters the fictional documentation for -A was already fully formulated. It had been supposedly tested on over a thousand monkeys who were then exposed to Shiva, and only two of them had become symptomatic, and only one of those had died over the nineteen month trial that existed only on paper and computer memories. They hadn't yet approached the FDA for human trials, because that wasn't necessary-but when Shiva started appearing all over the world, Horizon Corporation would announce that it had been working quietly on hemorrhagic fever vaccines ever since the Iranian attack on America, and faced with a global emergency and a fully documented treatment modality, the FDA would have no choice but to approve human use, and so officially bless the Project's goal of global human extermination. Not so much the elimination, John Brightling thought more precisely, as the culling back of the most dangerous species on the planet, which would allow Nature to restore Herself, with just enough human stewards to watch and study and appreciate the process. In a thousand or so years, there might be a million or so humans, but that was a small number in the great scheme of things, and the people would be properly educated to understand and respect nature instead of destroying her. The goal of the Project wasn't to end the world. It was to build a new one, a new world in the shape that Nature Herself intended. On that he would put his own name for all eternity. John Brightling, the man who saved the planet.
Brightling looked at the key in his hand, then got back into his car. The driver took him to the main entrance, and there he used the key, surprised and miffed to see that the door was unlocked. Well, there were still people going in and out. He took the elevator to his office-apartment atop the main building. That door, he saw, was locked as it was supposed to be, and he opened it with a kind of one-person ceremony, and walked into the seat of Olympus's chief,o d. No, that wasn't right. Insofar as there was a god, it was Nature. From his office windows, he could see out over the plains of Kansas, the swaying young wheat… it was so beautiful. Almost enough to bring tears to his eyes. Nature. She could be cruel to individuals, but individuals didn't matter. Despite all the warnings, humankind hadn't learned that.
Well, learn it they would, the way Nature taught all Her lessons. The hard way.
From 5/2/2014 ( for me personally as Kerry Burgess - my first day in new-construction Phase II apartment at complex in Spokane Valley I've lived since 09/27/2013 and still reside as of this writing ) To 12/2/2019 ( ) is 2040 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/4/1971 ( James Callis ) is 2040 days
From 3/8/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Petty Officer Second Class Fire Controlman (FC2), my official enlisted United States Navy documents includes: Terrier MK 152 guided-missiles Fire Control Computer Complex Operator (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance) - CF-division, Missile Plot, USS Wainwright CG-28, United States Navy, following my graduation Naval Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia ) To 12/2/2019 ( ) is 11591 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/28/1997 ( Bill Clinton, 42nd President of USA: Message to the Congress Transmitting a Report on Protection of National Information Infrastructure ) is 11591 days
From 11/8/1949 ( premiere US film "All the King's Men" ) To 12/8/2003 ( premiere US TV miniseries "Battlestar Galactica" ) is 19753 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/2/2019 ( ) is 19753 days
From 3/16/1991 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate and possibly the date of the secret, doctorate-degree credential from Princeton University, I can only theorize, struggling to understand ) To 12/2/2019 ( ) is 10488 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/21/1994 ( premiere US TV series episode "Biography"::"Donald Trump: Master of the Deal" ) is 10488 days
From 1/17/1991 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) To 12/2/2019 ( ) is 10546 days
10546 = 5273 + 5273
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/10/1980 ( Jimmy Carter, 39th President of USA: Proclamation 4747 - Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust ) is 5273 days
From 8/3/1998 ( "Rainbow Six" by Tom Clancy ) To 12/2/2019 ( ) is 7791 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/3/1987 ( premiere US TV series "Spies" ) is 7791 days
https://www.greystar.com/about-greystar/newsroom/greystar-building-hq
Greystar
Greystar Unveils New Corporate Headquarters
Thursday, December 5, 2019
CHARLESTON, S.C. – December 2, 2019 – Greystar Real Estate Partners, LLC (“Greystar”), a global leader in the investment, development, and management of high-quality rental housing properties, together with Robert A.M. Stern Architects (“RAMSA”), Gensler and Elizabeth Stuart, today announced the completion of the Greystar Building, the company’s new Charleston, S.C., headquarters. The five-story, 82,000-square-foot building introduces a modern, mixed-use development into a historical urban context.
The property – which completes the first phase of Evening Post Industries’ broader Courier Square redevelopment – was designed from the outside in, taking cues from Charleston’s classical tradition of 19th century architecture and integrating Greek Revival details to construct a property that reflects its surroundings. The Greystar Building is the second property to open as part of the first phase of development within the master plan. Greystar and RAMSA celebrated the opening of The Guild, a rental housing property owned and managed by Greystar, in the spring of 2018. The Guild serves as a showpiece of the superior level of quality Greystar brings to the table as an owner, developer and property manager of rental housing.
“Greystar is a Charleston-bred company, so we were highly sensitive to the fact that our new headquarters needed to blend seamlessly into its exterior environment while providing the interior scale and infrastructure needed to support our rapidly growing team,” said Bob Faith, Chairman and CEO of Greystar. “The result is an intuitively designed property that thoughtfully integrates architectural relevance with modern, progressive design to facilitate greater collaboration and productivity among our teams.”
The team behind the Greystar Building was especially cognizant of the fact that Charleston is famed for its iconic historical architecture, and RAMSA was empowered to design a building that blends seamlessly into its surroundings, integrating new buildings into the smaller-scale urban fabric of the neighborhood. To address this need while developing a property that was appropriately sized to house Greystar’s growing team, RAMSA designed the exterior to resemble multiple smaller and architecturally relevant buildings. Accomplishing this feat demonstrates that new construction can be thoughtfully designed to reflect the scale and character signature to its environment.
“Where we designed the Guild to reflect the neighborhood's industrial warehouse past, for Greystar’s corporate headquarters we looked to the dignity of Charleston's classical civic buildings to express Greystar's commitment to the life of the city,” said Gary L. Brewer, the Partner at Robert A.M. Stern Architects who led the design of both projects. “We’re pleased to have been entrusted to design these two buildings, which are among the first to realize the promise of the City of Charleston’s new Height District Ordinance, underpinned by guidelines written by DPZ, that enables the sensitive introduction of greater density to the Upper Peninsula.” LS3P served as master planner and architect of record.
Gensler and Elizabeth Stuart worked closely together to create a modern and progressive interior setting that reflects the dynamic, world-class nature of Greystar’s growing business and introduces a more diverse array of workspaces to meet the evolving needs of today’s workforce. The teams employed the same level of careful consideration Greystar uses to design its portfolio of purpose-built rental housing properties, and the primary objective for the property’s interior design was to create a space that would foster creativity and productivity. Greystar was looking for an environment that could support its efforts to facilitate greater levels of transparency, innovative service delivery and learning, as well as attract top-tier talent to enhance the company’s vertically integrated global platform.
“Our project team meshed the traditional envelope with a modern and progressive interior setting to reflect the dynamic, world-class nature of Greystar’s growing business,” said John Gaulden, principal and co-managing director of Gensler Charlotte. “By blending a variety of collaborative spaces with options for heads-down work, we created a unique, nearly office-free environment that reflects the casual collegial culture while providing a structure to showcase Greystar’s expertise to their clients and investors.”
The resulting office environment is a free address space, which encourages Greystar team members to work in the way that best suits them and providing diverse optionality to fit the needs of each employee as well as accommodate the company’s continued growth. Each detail of the interior design was meticulously planned – down to evaluating the psychology of Greystar’s various teams – to ensure the resulting atmosphere would be conducive to supporting the team’s needs and producing the highest-quality work. The centerpiece of the office – and what serves as its primary physical connector – is a central stair across three floors, which provides access to workspaces, conference rooms, phone booths and amenity spaces.
"Our goal was to design an innovative, flexible workspace that would promote a sense of collaboration, provide choice and balance throughout the workday and take Greystar into the future,” said Elizabeth Stuart, principal of interior design firm, Elizabeth Stuart. “We drew inspiration from RAMSA’s outstanding design, Greystar’s engaging culture and the panoramic views of the Charleston Harbor and Ravenel Bridge seen through the building’s windows. The bridge is a staple of Charleston; it’s light, airy and a dynamic design. Like it, we designed Greystar’s global headquarters to be crisp, clean and progressive. From the dramatic hand-curated Halsey art installation and iconic Knoll furniture to the high-touch technological aspects, we have created an office that feels distinctly Greystar and reflects the company’s world class stature, while also feeling right at home in Charleston."
The Greystar Building is a mixed-use property comprising five stories and 82,000 square feet, including 70,000 square feet of office and 12,000 square feet of retail space. The office component boasts 289 sit-stand workstations; 130 touchdown seats, which are also standing height-capable; and 71 diverse conference rooms and collaborative spaces. The teams integrated sustainable office practices into the design and functionality of the building, including infrastructure to support Greystar’s paperless initiative, motion sensored lighting to limit power usage, and the introduction of filtered water machines to eliminate plastic water bottles in the office. The property is also well-amenitized, providing Greystar team members with on-site access to a coffee bar, fitness center, yoga studio and locker rooms with showers.
About Greystar:
Greystar is a leading, fully integrated real estate company offering expertise in investment management, development, and management of rental housing properties globally. Headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina, Greystar manages and operates an estimated $160 billion+ of real estate in nearly 200 markets globally including offices throughout the United States, UK, Continental Europe, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific region. Greystar is the largest operator of apartments in the United States, managing more than 500,000 units/beds, and has a robust institutional investment management platform with approximately $36.1 billion of assets under management, including nearly $14.2 billion of assets under development. Greystar was founded by Bob Faith in 1993 with the intent to become a provider of world-class service in the rental residential real estate business. To learn more, visit www.greystar.com
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1699275/?ref_=tt_eps_top
IMDb
Battlestar Galactica
Episode #1.1
Episode aired Dec 8, 2003
S1 E1
Top Cast:
James Callis as Gaius Baltar
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041113/releaseinfo?ref_=tttrv_ql_dt_2
IMDb
All the King's Men (1949)
Release Info
USA 8 November 1949 (New York City, New York) (premiere)
Battlestar Galactica - tv miniseries - 12/08/2003, 12/09/2003
(from internet transcript)
(Number Six walks away, looking upset.)
(Cut to a tv screen, where a reporter, whose name is given as Kellan Brody, is talking to a man, Dr. Gaius Baltar.)
Brody: For those of you just joining us from the pyramid game on Geminon, welcome to The Spotlight, our weekly interview program devoted to people making news on Caprica.
(Gaius is looking out the window and then looking at his watch.)
Brody: Today, we're talking to Dr. Gaius Baltar, winner of three Magnet Awards over the course of his career, a media cult figure and a personal friend of President Adar's. He is currently working as a top consultant for the ministry of defense on computer issues, but he's perhaps best known for his controversial views on advancing computer technology. (The camera pans around so that we can see that Baltar is giving the interview from his home. Nice place.) Dr. Baltar, again, welcome.
Baltar: Thank you, Kellan. And first may I say how lovely you're looking, and secondly, what an absolute pleasure it is to be on the show.
Brody: Well, we're delighted to have you with us. Could you summarize your views for our audience?
Baltar: Yes, I'd be happy to. My position is very simple. (Off to the side, we see Number Six walk into the house and put a metal box down on a table.) The ban on research and development into artificial intelligence is, as we all know, a holdover from the Cylon Wars. Quite frankly, I find this to be an outmoded concept. It serves no useful purpose except to impede our efforts.
Battlestar Galactica - television miniseries - 12/08/2003, 12/09/2003
(internet transcript)
(Colonial One - Baltar is alone, with paperwork spread out before him)
Six: I see they've put you to work. (He looks over, sees her sitting next to him.) Ignoring me won't help.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: No, I've decided you're an expression of my, uh, subconscious mind playing itself out through my waking states.
Six: Oh, I'm only in your head?
Baltar: Exactly. Six: Hmm. Have you considered the possibility that I could very well exist *only* in your head? Without being a hallucination? Maybe you see and hear me, because while you were sleeping, I implanted a chip in your brain that transmits my image right into your conscious mind.
Baltar: No, no, see that's me again. My subconscious self is expressing irrational fears, which I must choose to ignore.
Six: (moving closer to him) What are you working on?
Baltar: If you were really a chip in my head, I wouldn't have to tell you, now would I?
Six: Indulge me.
Baltar: I'm trying to figure out how you managed to pull this kind of an attack. You virtually shut down the entire defense network without firing a shot. Baltar: Entire squadrons lost power just as they engaged the enemy. The CMP's a navigation program, but you, uh, you made changes to the programs that you were building in, backdoors for your company to exploit later.
Six: All true, in a sense.
Baltar: That was your job.
Six: Officially. Unofficially, I had other motives. We had something, Gaius. Something... special.
Baltar: This is insane.
http://www.newsweek.com/2013/11/15/biggest-little-cia-shop-youve-never-heard-243964.html
Newsweek
IN THE MAGAZINE U.S.
THE BIGGEST LITTLE CIA SHOP YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF
BY JEFF STEIN ON 11/14/13 AT 5:36 PM
NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 9: A man walks along Wall Street in Manhattan on October 9, 2012 in New York City. State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli will release his annual report on employment and earnings October 9, in New York' City's financial industry, one of the worlds largest. While employment is still down thousands of positions since the economic crisis of 2008, DiNapoli has said that last year the sector employed 166,600 people in hedge funds, investment banks and securities trading firms. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
A few years ago, an American company placed a want ad for an aerospace engineering consultant in an Asian newspaper. It quickly drew a flurry of applicants - one of whom was just the kind of person the company was looking for: someone who worked in that country's missile program, someone who was a little sleazy, someone looking to make a little cash on the side.
This was a CIA front operation, and soon that eager applicant was supplying the spy agency with details on his country's ballistic missile program.
That kind of covert activity is a specialty of the CIA's National Resources Division, a little-known, U.S.-based component of the agency's National Clandestine Service.
The CIA's main business is sending operatives abroad to recruit spies and, especially since 9/11, chasing down terrorists for its target-hungry drone pilots. But NR, as it's known, is the agency's stay-at-home division. It's nothing like Homeland, however, with operatives running about with guns in the D.C. suburbs (though its 1960s-era predecessors once spied on antiwar and civil rights activists and recruited Cuban exiles to harass Fidel Castro). It also works with the FBI and NSA in bugging foreign diplomatic missions there.
Think of it as a more cuddly CIA. Its main business is to openly gather information from Americans who've traveled to places the CIA is interested in, particularly hard targets like North Korea, and to inveigle foreigners in the U.S. - officials, scientists and students - into spying when they return home.
For the men (and women) of the CIA's principal espionage corps, working abroad under cover, often in some of the world's nastiest neighborhoods, National Resources looks like the country club of Spy-Ville, a 9-to-5 domestic job, free of risk and stress, a refuge for the lazy, the incompetents and the burnouts.
"We look down on NR: You're a slacker, you're going home every night and watching TV, while I'm here in Moscow with the Russians looking up my ass with a microscope. We're not working for the same organization," says one veteran overseas operative, echoing a common view. "In Moscow, Beijing, Delhi, whatever, I'm not only living in rotten conditions, I've got a hostile intelligence service following me around."
Says another: "The problem is - they'll deny it - but NR's recruitments [of spies] are not to the same standards" as the rest of the clandestine service. "They're under the gun more than others to recruit by the numbers. They'll recruit a Moroccan because he's a Moroccan, not because he has access. And it's a crapshoot when they go back home.... In general, their recruitments are not viewed that positively." (The CIA declined comment for this story.)
NR's operations also irritate the turf-conscious FBI, which is in charge of domestic counterintelligence and counterterrorism and also recruits foreigners here as spies. Others argue that its intimate relations with top U.S. corporate executives willing to have their companies fronting for the CIA invites trouble at home and abroad.
All of which makes a few spy veterans question how valuable the NR is.
NR swelled with new CIA recruits after 9/11, but it wasn't supposed to be that way. At a time when then-CIA director George Tenet was boasting about dispatching CIA spies around the globe to hunt down terrorists, scores of new hires were suddenly showing up in NR's domestic offices, far from the action of places like the Middle East, Pakistan, or North Africa. As recently as 2010, a former CIA operative who writes under the pseudonym Ishmael Jones told me, "more than 90 percent" of the agency's clandestine corps were living and working "entirely within the United States."
Why? According to Jones, the agency chickened out, targeting Chinese, Russians, Pakistanis, Saudis, and other foreigners for recruitment while they were visiting the United States, rather than in their own countries where the secret police are ubiquitous.
That's half-true, says a former CIA executive with extensive foreign experience, who says the new recruits landed in NR out of a bureaucratic screwup, not because the CIA was risk-averse: "What happened was, we hired a massive amount of people, and it occurred to nobody that we needed State Department plus ambassadorial approval to assign these people to overseas embassies [under diplomatic cover]. Say you tell an ambassador we're going to assign six new people to his embassy. How is he going to explain to the local interior minister that his staff is going from 12 to 18?"
He can't, the former official says. And if he could, the local secret police would quickly take notice of the new embassy staff, putting everyone else new to the embassy under scrutiny. "So State said, 'F**k that. We have no space.'" (The problem was eventually eased by shunting undercover operatives into other U.S. facilities, he adds.)
Thus hundreds of new case officers - the agency's term for spy recruiters and handlers - were pushed into NR.
Today, according to knowledgeable sources, NR has offices in about a dozen cities, down from about three times that two decades ago because of cost-cutting, sources said. Naturally, they're located in places where foreign officials, military officers, scientists and students - as well as Americans who travel abroad on business - congregate, cities like New York, Boston, Washington, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit (where there's a large Arab population nearby) and Denver, which is such a hotbed of U.S. military and intelligence activity that the CIA considered moving NR there entirely in 2005. After much criticism, it stayed put.
In any event, since some CIA case officers discovered along the line that they weren't suited for - or really disliked - learning foreign languages and spying in hostile territory, NR was the perfect job for them.
"At a Christmas party once," recalls a retired CIA operative with extensive overseas experience who did a stint in a Midwestern city, "a guy let me know he had no interest in working in the clandestine world - 'I don't do dark street corners at night,' he said. Well, I loved dark street corners at night.... In that same office, you have people going out to meet academics and so forth and people going out the same door under an alias to recruit sources."
The FBI is said to despise the CIA's domestic recruiting operations. According to a 2005 account by The Washington Post's Dana Priest, the two sides had "highly contentious" negotiations over who could do what, "with the FBI saying that it should control and approve the CIA's domestic activities.... " That wasn't going to happen, so in the end, the two sides just promised to play nice.
But that hasn't always happened.
"There are a lot of problems with NR and the FBI," says a former senior CIA executive. "You have good one-on-one relationships, but you have terrible [FBI]-field-office-to-[CIA]-station relationships. The FBI guards its turf jealously...and NR just in general hasn't handled those relationships well." It's not uncommon for NR offices "to lie" to the FBI about operations they have going, the former CIA official says. And vice versa.
In New York City, NR operatives work with the FBI and NYPD on counterterrorism cases - the head of NYPD's intelligence division, David Cohen, is a former NR chief - but they also cultivate their own sources on Wall Street, especially looking for help keeping track of foreign money sloshing around in the global financial system, while recruiting companies to provide cover for CIA operations abroad. And once they've seen how the other 1 percent lives, CIA operatives, some say, are tempted to go over to the other side.
"New York has a particular problem, and that's attrition," says this former CIA executive. "They get a pretty nice housing allowance and all that, but you've got an officer who, as part of his portfolio, he's supposed to be meeting with Joe Blow at Morgan Stanley or Goldman Sachs. And after a year or two of this, it begins to fray. And you've got these people at Goldman Sachs who take a look at you and say, 'You know, you're a good guy, you've got all the skill sets we need, and, oh, by the way, we'll basically triple your salary.' And it's, you know, 'When do I start?' So attrition is a big problem."
Any conversation with operations veterans about NR begins with a 30-minute litany of its supposed shortcomings. But eventually, they'll grant that it has value.
The best thing NR does, they say, is "finding and cultivating contacts in the local business world," says another former CIA executive. "They look for guys who have been to China, Mongolia, Vietnam, or whatever to debrief - all the way up to arranging with a company to provide cover for us."
Former senior U.S. government officials are happy to share information with the CIA from their foreign travels, they explain. George H.W. Bush, a former CIA director who until his recent illness continued to meet with prime ministers, had "a standing appointment with the Houston station," recalls another former CIA executive. "He'd say, 'When I come back, I'll tell you everything I got.'
"And that's another reason NR stays in regular contact with top Wall Street and other corporate executives.
It also knows some titans of finance are not above being romanced. Most love hanging out with the agency's top spies - James Bond and all that - and being solicited for their views on everything from the street's latest tricks to their meetings with, say, China's finance minister.
JPMorgan Chase's Jamie Dimon and Goldman Sach's Lloyd Blankfein, one former CIA executive recalls, loved to get visitors from Langley.
And the CIA loves them back, not just for their patriotic cooperation with the spy agency, sources say, but for the influence they have on Capitol Hill, where the intelligence budgets are hashed out.
One New York commercial real estate tycoon, who the source asked Newsweek not to name, was "a regular contact." In exchange, he was "kept happy by bringing him down to the Farm" - the CIA's training facility in Virginia - "and letting him shoot off weapons, [and] see some of the things we're doing down there.
"And everyone," he says, "went away happy."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_Haspel
Gina Haspel
From Wikipedia
Gina Cheri Walker Haspel (born October 1, 1956) is an American intelligence officer who served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 2018 to 2021.
nominated by President Donald Trump to become the official Director of the CIA. On May 17, 2018, she was confirmed as the director of the CIA
She was officially sworn as director of the CIA on May 21, 2018.
From 2004 to 2005, Haspel was Deputy Chief of the National Resources Division.
From 10/1/1956 ( from Wikipedia on the global-internetwork: Gina Haspel ) To 12/6/2011 ( Barack Obama, 44th President of USA: Remarks at Osawatomie High School in Osawatomie, Kansas ) is 20154 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/6/2021 ( ) is 20154 days
From 8/3/1998 ( "Rainbow Six" by Tom Clancy ) To 1/6/2021 ( ) is 8192 days
8192 = 4096 + 4096
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/19/1977 ( premiere US TV series episode "Nova"::"What Price Coal?" & Gerald Ford, 38th President of USA: Executive Order 11965 - Establishing the Humanitarian Service Medal ) is 4096 days
From 8/17/1994 ( "Debt of Honor" by Tom Clancy ) To 1/6/2021 ( ) is 9639 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/24/1992 ( George Bush, 41st President of USA: Statement by Press Secretary Fitzwater on the Open Skies Treaty ) is 9639 days
From 11/3/1977 ( Jimmy Carter, 39th President of USA: Executive Order 12019 - Defense Meritorious Service Medal ) To 1/6/2021 ( ) is 15770 days
15770 = 7885 + 7885
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/5/1987 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my official enlisted United States Navy documents includes: Earned NEC 1189 - Based on graduation from the Terrier Mk 152 Guided-missiles Fire Control Computer Complex course - Naval Guided Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States Navy - leading to permanent assignment until 1990 to CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computer Complex (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance), USS Wainwright CG-28, United States Navy, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Petty Officer Second Class Fire Controlman (FC2) ) is 7885 days
From 2/12/1933 ( from Wikipedia on the global-internetwork: William Robert Robertson dead ) To 4/18/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Petty Officer Second Class Fire Controlman (FC2), from my official enlisted United States Navy records: during USA Armed Forces Expeditionary Operation Earnest Will with my personal participation and commendation - CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computer Complex (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance) - aboard the USS Wainwright CG-28 US Navy the United States Operation Praying Mantis ) is 20154 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/6/2021 ( ) is 20154 days
From 11/10/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) To 1/6/2021 ( ) is 19416 days
19416 = 9708 + 9708
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/1/1992 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek: The Next Generation"::"The Inner Light" ) is 9708 days
From 6/27/1994 ( the US NASA Stargazer Pegasus rocket failure ) To 1/6/2021 ( ) is 9690 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/14/1992 ( the Intelsat 6 successful rescue during US space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-49 pilot astronaut and my 1st official United States of America National Aeronautics and Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 9690 days
From 1/17/1963 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Twilight Zone"::"Valley of the Shadow" ) To 1/6/2021 ( ) is 21174 days
21174 = 10587 + 10587
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/28/1994 ( premiere US film "Stargate" ) is 10587 days
2021 United States Capitol attack
From Wikipedia
On the afternoon of Wednesday, January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. was violently attacked by a mob of supporters of President Donald Trump. The mob sought to overturn his defeat
https://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2021/01/06/stories/1063721881?utm_campaign=edition&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eenews%3Aclimatewire
ENERGY TRANSITIONS
Exxon reveals emissions from using its oil
Mike Lee and Carlos Anchondo, E&E News reporters
Published: Wednesday, January 6, 2021
Exxon Mobil Corp. yesterday revealed for the first time the amount of greenhouse gases that are released by using its products.
Rainbow Six (1998) - Tom Clancy
(from internet transcript)
CHAPTER 6
TRUE BELIEVERS
"So, what do you do, Mark?"
"Molecular biochemistry, Ph.D., in fact."
"What's that mean?"
"Oh, figuring out how life happens. Like how does a bear smell so well," he went on, lying. "It can be interesting, but my real life is coming out to places like this, hunting, meeting people who really understand the game better than I do. Guys like you," Mark concluded, with a salute of his glass. "What about you?"
"Ah, well, retired now. I made some of my own. Would you believe geologist for an oil company?"
"Where'd you work?"
"All over the world. I had a good nose for it, and the oil companies paid me a lot for finding the right stuff, y'know? But I had to give it up. Got to the point - well, you fly a lot, right?"
"I get around," Mark confirmed with a nod.
"The brown smudge," Foster said next.
"Huh?"
"Debt of Honor"
"A Jack Ryan Novel"
Tom Clancy
BERKLEY paperback 1994
Page 971
Captain Sato remained in his command seat. One problem with international air travel was the sameness of it all. This terminal could have been almost anywhere, except that all of the faces were gaijin. There would be a day-long layover before he flew back, doubtless full again of Japanese executives running away.
And this was the remainder of his life, ferrying people he didn't know to places he didn't care about. If only he'd stayed in the Self-Defense Forces - maybe he would have done better, maybe it would have made a difference. He was the best pilot in one of the world's best airlines, and those skills might have ... but he'd never know, would he, and he'd never make a difference, just one more captain of one more aircraft, flying people to and from a nation that had forfeited its honor.
Debt Of Honor (1994) Tom Clancy
(from internet transcript)
excerpt, Chapter 47.
Brooms
"Vancouver tower, this is JAL ferry flight five-zero-zero, requesting clearance to taxi."
"Five-Zero-Zero Heavy, roger, you are cleared to taxi runway Two-Seven-Left. Winds are two-eight-zero at fifteen."
"Thank you, Vancouver, Five-Zero-Zero Heavy cleared for Two-Seven Left." With that the aircraft started rolling. It took ten minutes to reach the end of the departure runway. Sato had to wait an extra minute because the aircraft ahead of his was another 747, and they generated dangerous wake turbulence. He was about to violate the first rule of flight, the one about keeping your number of takeoffs equal to that for landings, but it was something his countrymen had done before. On clearance from the tower, Sato advanced the throttles to the takeoff power, and the Boeing, empty of everything but fuel, accelerated rapidly down the runway, rotating off before reaching six thousand feet, and immediately turning north to clear the controlled air space around the airport. The lightly loaded airliner positively rocketed to its cruising altitude of thirty-nine thousand feet, at which point fuel efficiency was optimum. His flight plan would take him along the Canadian-U.S. border, departing land just north of the fishing town of Hopedale. Soon after that, he'd be beyond ground-based radar coverage. Four hours, Sato thought, sipping tea while the autopilot flew the aircraft. He said a prayer for the man in the right seat, hoping that the copilot's soul would be at peace, as his now was.
- posted by me, Kerry Burgess 12:34 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Monday 01/10/2022
