The Sum of All Fears (2002)
Quotes
Marcus Cabot, Director of Central Intelligence: Tell her where you're going. In fact, tell her who you work for. She'll be impressed.
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https://www.upi.com/Archives/1992/04/04/Yugoslav-hostilities-flare-as-UN-forces-arrive/7781702363600/
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Los Angeles Times
Fierce Storms in Neptune's Atmosphere Baffle Scientists
August 21, 1989 LEE DYE Times Science Writer
Scientists have discovered a "Rogue's Gallery" of storm centers in the atmosphere of Neptune, including hurricane-like storms that are so intense they defy explanation.
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From 11/2/1965 ( ) To 10/28/1967 ( Julia Roberts ) is 725 days
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-the-signing-ceremony-for-the-balkan-peace-agreement-paris
The American Presidency Project
WILLIAM J. CLINTON
42nd President of the United States: 1993 - 2001
Remarks at the Signing Ceremony for the Balkan Peace Agreement in Paris
December 14, 1995
President Chirac, President Izetbegovic, President Tudjman, President Milosevic, Secretary-General Boutros-Ghali, Secretary General Solana, High Representative Bildt, Prime Minister Filali, Prime Minister Chernomyrdin, Prime Minister Major, Prime Minister Gonzalez, Chancellor Kohl: Let me begin, on behalf of the people of the United States, by thanking all of those whose labor and wisdom helped to keep hope alive during the long, dark years of war, the humanitarian relief workers, the United Nations forces from Europe and beyond. Had it not been for their dedication and their sacrifice, the toll of the war in Bosnia would have been even greater.
And I thank those whose work helped make this moment of peace possible, beginning with our host, Prime Minister Chirac, for his vigor and determination; Prime Minister Major, who was a full partner in the development of the rapid reaction force and our NATO cooperation; and our friend Chancellor Kohl, who has taken so many of the refugees and who now is sending German troops beyond his border in this historic common endeavor. I thank the leaders of the strong NATO and the determined negotiating team of Russians, Europeans, and Americans.
All of you have brought us to this bright new day, when Bosnia turns from the horror of war to the promise of peace. President Izetbegovic, President Tudjman, President Milosevic, by making peace you have answered the call of your people. You have heard them say, "Stop the war. End the suffering. Give our children the blessings of a normal life."
In this chorus for peace today we also hear the hallowed voices of the victims, the children whose playgrounds were shelled into killing fields, the young girls brutalized by rape, the men shot down in mass graves, those who starved in the camps, those who died in battle, the millions taken from their homes and torn from their families. Even from beyond the grave there are victims singing the song of peace today. May their voices be in our minds and our hearts forever.
"Whom Gods Destroy" Star Trek
Original Airdate: 3 Jan, 1969
(from internet transcript)
SPOCK: Please forgive me, but exactly where is your fleet?
GARTH: Out there waiting for me. They will flock to my cause, and for good reason. Limitless power, limitless wealth, and solar systems ruled by the elite. We, gentlemen, are that elite, and we must take what is rightfully ours from the decadent weaklings that now hold it.
"Lady Bouvier's Lover" (The Simpsons)
Original airdate in N.A.: 12-May-94
[End of Act Two. Time: 13:39]
Burns is jubilant in his office the next day.
Burns: Smithers, guess what happened to me last night?
Smithers: I don't know, sir. You had sex with that old woman?
Burns: She said "no" to me! Do you know how many women have said "no" to me? One hundred thirty, but only one since I've become a billionaire. And _she's_ the one for me. I'm in love!
[Smithers groans]
Smithers: Whoop-de-do, sir.
Burns: Yes, whoop-de-do! Whoop-de-do to the world. Whoop-de-do, Mr. Florist. Whoop-de-do, Mr. Physical Trainer. Whoop-de-do, Mr. President!
Clinton: I'm happy you finally found love.
Burns: Whoop-de-do, Tarantula Town! [grabs PA mike] Whoop-de-do, employees! Everyone who's found true love may leave early today!
Everyone: Yay! [run off, except one man, who cries]
From 10/28/1967 ( Julia Roberts ) To 5/12/1994 is 9693 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 5/17/1992 ( United Nations peacekeepers abandon Sarajevo ) is 9693 days
"Whom Gods Destroy" Star Trek
Original Airdate: 3 Jan, 1969
(from internet transcript)
Captain KIRK: Captain Garth
GARTH: Lord Garth!
KIRK: No, sir. Captain Garth, Starship fleet Captain. That's an honourable title.
GARTH: And I was the greatest of them all, wasn't I?
KIRK: Yes, you were.
KIRK: think. Think back to what you were before the accident
Kirk: Try.
GARTH: I can't remember. It's almost as if I had died and was reborn.
KIRK: No, I, I can remember. You were the finest student at the Academy, the finest Starship Captain. You were the prototype, the model for the rest of us.
GARTH: Yes, I do remember that. It was a great responsibility, but one I was proud to bear.
KIRK: And you bore it well. And the disease that changed you, it's not your fault. And the terrible things you did since then, not truly responsible.
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journals: 2:34 AM December 11, 2010
From 3/14/1965 ( I am active duty United States of America Central Intelligence Agency officer and executive )
From 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City Iowa and from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs and being abandoned at left to my own devices: the end of Kerry Burgess - *me* - the natural human being cloned from another human being {Thomas Reagan} - or something ) To 11/21/1995 ( ) is 2316 days
2316 = 1158 + 1158
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/3/1969 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Whom Gods Destroy" ) is 1158 days
From 6/12/1980 ( Jimmy Carter, 39th president of USA federal government 1977-1981: Interview With the President Question-and-Answer Session With Goran Milic of Yugoslavian TV and Juri Gustinicic of Politika ) To 11/21/1995 ( ) is 5640 days
5640 = 2820 + 2820
From 11/2/1965 ( me ) To 7/23/1973 ( described publicly only by me, my biological brother Thomas Reagan the 1969 medical-doctor graduate of Princeton University and the 1973 law-doctorate graduate of University of Oxford, England, passes the United States of America Multistate Bar Examination ) is 2820 days
From 6/12/1980 ( Jimmy Carter, 39th President of USA: Interview With the President Question-and-Answer Session With Goran Milic of Yugoslavian TV and Juri Gustinicic of Politika ) To 11/21/1995 ( ) is 5640 days
5640 = 2820 + 2820
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/23/1973 ( Monica Lewinsky ) is 2820 days
From 12/25/1991 ( an aviator in non-aviator related duties boots on the ground as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) To 11/21/1995 ( ) is 1427 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/29/1969 ( premiere USA TV series "Love, American Style" ) is 1427 days
From 12/25/1991 ( an aviator in non-aviator related duties boots on the ground as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) To 11/21/1995 ( ) is 1427 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/29/1969 ( the USA Congressional Space Medal of Honor established ) is 1427 days
From 12/1/1964 ( premiere USA TV series episode "World War One"::"D-Day at Gallipoli" ) To 12/20/1994 ( an aviator in non-aviator related duties 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 ) is 10976 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/21/1995 ( ) is 10976 days
From 4/4/1924 ( Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of USA: Executive Order 3987 - Commercial Research of Government Officials in Foreign Lands ) To 5/11/1984 ( as Kerry Burgess my Ashdown, Arkansas, Class of 1984 Ashdown High School graduation ceremony {3 days before I began active-duty US Navy} ) is 21952 days
21952 = 10976 + 10976
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/21/1995 ( ) is 10976 days
From 12/11/1930 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: DR. [ clergy is superstition ] VAN DYKE DISCUSSES MODERN ETHICAL TREND ; Attacks Companionate Marriage And War - Upholds Dogma Of Original Sin [ Superstition ] In Seminary Talk.) To 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my US 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 ) is 21952 days
21952 = 10976 + 10976
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/21/1995 ( ) is 10976 days
From 11/13/1942 ( Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of USA: Statement on Signing the Bill Reducing the Draft Age ) To 11/21/1995 ( ) is 19366 days
19366 = 9683 + 9683
From 11/2/1965 ( me ) To 5/7/1992 ( the first launch of the United States space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps commissioned-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 9683 days
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-announcing-the-bosnia-herzegovina-peace-agreement-and-exchange-with-reporters
The American Presidency Project
WILLIAM J. CLINTON
42nd President of the United States: 1993 - 2001
Remarks Announcing the Bosnia-Herzegovina Peace Agreement and an Exchange With Reporters
November 21, 1995
Good morning. About an hour ago I spoke with Secretary Christopher in Dayton, Ohio. He informed me that the Presidents of Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia have reached a peace agreement to end the war in Bosnia, to end the worst conflict in Europe since World War II.
After nearly 4 years of 250,000 people killed, 2 million refugees, atrocities that have appalled people all over the world, the people of Bosnia finally have a chance to turn from the horror of war to the promise of peace.
"Whom Gods Destroy" Star Trek: The Original Series
Original Airdate: 3 Jan, 1969
GARTH: Oh ho! Our beloved governor has decided to address us, and we have not given him our permission to speak.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_River_County,_Arkansas
Little River County, Arkansas
From Wikipedia
Little River County is a county located on the southwest border of the U.S. state of Arkansas, bordering a corner with Texas and Louisiana.
the population was 13,171. The county seat is Ashdown.
excerpt - Bill Clinton's draft-dodger letter:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/clinton/etc/draftletter.html
PBS Frontline
Bill Clinton's Draft Letter
GOV CLINTON (November 23, 1991)
Bill Clinton's Draft Letter: On December 3rd, 1969, Bill Clinton, then in his second year as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University in England, wrote a letter to Colonel Eugene Holmes, who headed up the Reserve Officer Training Corps program at the University of Arkansas. Here is the full text of the letter.
"Dear Colonel Holmes,
I am sorry to be so long in writing. I know I promised to let you hear from me at least once a month, and from now on you will, but I have had to have some time to think about this first letter. Almost daily since my return to England I have thought about writing, about what I want to and ought to say. First, I want to thank you, not just for saving me from the draft, but for being so kind and decent to me last summer, when I was as low as I have ever been. One thing which made the bond we struck in good faith somewhat palatable to me was my high regard for you personally. In retrospect, it seems that the admiration might not have been mutual had you known a little more about me, about my political beliefs and activities. At least you might have thought me more fit for the draft than for ROTC. Let me try to explain.
"Cibola Burn" - The Expanse" novels by James Corey
excerpt, Chapter 20: Elvi
Nothing proved fear like the effort of rejecting it.
Stargate Atlantis - "Rising" - season 1 episode 1, tv-series premiere 07/16/2004
(from internet transcript)
LAB. O'Neill, Daniel, Weir and McKay are there.
JACKSON: I figure the Ancients packed up their entire city and left somewhere between five and ten million years ago.
O'NEILL: In their ... flying city.
JACKSON: Yes.
(O'Neill tries to hide a smile.)
JACKSON: What?
O'NEILL (smirking): Flying city.
JACKSON: Well, keep in mind this is the race that built the Stargates. They did everything big.
O'NEILL: So why'd they leave?
JACKSON: Why'd they leave? Um, who knows? We know the Ancients on Earth were suffering from a plague. Uh, maybe some of them were trying to start over, seeding life in a new galaxy. Maybe that's what Ancients do. The point is, we know where they went.
O'NEILL: Pegasus.
JACKSON: Yes, it's-it's the name of a dwarf galaxy in the local group.
McKAY: After all that time, is there any hope of actually meeting them?
JACKSON: Who knows, but isn't that reason enough to go?
WEIR: I've been choosing members for this expedition for months, Doctor. I'm not the one who needs convincing. (She looks at O'Neill.)
O'NEILL: Oh, I'm convinced. (He looks at Daniel.) Have fun.
JACKSON: Uh, it's-it's-it's a little more complicated than that.
McKAY: We need the ZedP.M. to power the Gate.
O'NEILL: What?
JACKSON: ZeeP.M. He's, uh, he's Canadian.
O'NEILL (sympathetically to McKay): I'm sorry.
McKAY: The Zero Point Module, General. The, uh, Ancient power source you recovered from Proclarush Taonas and that's now powering the outpost's defences. I have since determined that it generates its enormous power from vacuum energy derived from a self-contained region of subspace time.
O'NEILL: That was a waste of a perfectly good explanation. (He turns to the other two.) The answer's no.
MAIN ROOM. Sheppard is still wandering around. He walks over to the Chair Room and overhears Beckett talking to a couple of people.
BECKETT: The second I shut my eyes, I could see. I felt power I've never had before. I had it dancing all across the sky. It was magical, it really was. (He laughs.) They're lucky. I don't know where it came from. I just tried to concentrate and the drone shut itself down. (He laughs again.)
SHEPPARD: So you were the one.
(Beckett turns to him nervously.)
BECKETT: Me?
SHEPPARD (walking up to the Chair): You were the one who fired that thing at me.
BECKETT: Look we're doing research; working with technology that's light years beyond us and we make mistakes. I'm incredibly, incredibly sorry.
SHEPPARD: Well, next time just be a little more careful, OK?
BECKETT: That's what I said.
SHEPPARD: What the hell was that thing anyway?
BECKETT: You mean the drone? (Sheppard nods.) The weapon the Ancients built to defend this outpost.
SHEPPARD: The who?
(Beckett looks at him suspiciously.)
BECKETT: You do have security clearance to be here?
SHEPPARD: Yeah, yeah. General O'Neill just gave it to me.
(Beckett's eyes widen.)
BECKETT: Then you don't even know about the Stargate.
SHEPPARD: The what?
From 3/3/1944 ( ) To 7/16/2004 ( premiere USA TV series "Stargate: Atlantis" ) is 22050 days
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From 2/11/1991 ( ) To 3/17/2026 ( ) is 12818 days
12818 = 6409 + 6409
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/21/1983 ( aged 17 years, my application accepted 05/21/1983 for my 05/15/1984 active-duty induction and my 6-year active-duty obligation for the Advanced Electronics Field program, US Navy ) is 6409 days
"Clues" Star Trek: The Next Generation
TV-series season 4 episode 14, 02/11/1991
GUINAN: Dixon Hill around?
MADELINE: He's occupied at the present moment.
GUINAN: Tell him Gloria's here.
MADELINE: Can't do that. He doesn't want to be disturbed.
GUINAN: Tell him it's Gloria from Cleveland.
MADELINE: Doesn't matter if you're from the moon, hon. Mister Hill is incommuni, incommunica, ka
GUINAN: Incommunicado.
MADELINE: That's it. Sorry, hon.
GUINAN: Look, hon. Just tell him Gloria's here.
MADELINE: Look, when the boss doesn't want to be disturbed, the boss doesn't want to be disturbed. Don't take it personal, like.
Red Storm Rising (1986) - by Tom Clancy, author
excerpt, Chapter 13. – The Strangers Arrive and Depart
AACHEN, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
"Siegfried Baum" awoke six hours later to see three men wearing surgical garb. The effect of the anesthesia still heavy on him, his eyes could not focus properly.
"How are you feeling?" one asked. In Russian.
"What happened to me?" The major answered in Russian.
Ach so. "You were struck by a car and you are now in a military hospital," the man lied. They were still in Aachen, near the German-Belgian frontier.
"What . . . I was just coming out to-" The major's voice was that of a drunken man, but it stopped abruptly. His eyes tried to focus properly.
"It is all finished for you, my friend." Now the speaker switched to German. "We know you are a Soviet officer, and you were found in possession of classified government documents. Tell me, what is your interest in Lammersdorf?"
"I have nothing to say," replied "Baum" in German.
"A little late for that," the interrogator chided, switching back to Russian. "But we'll make it easy for you. The surgeon tells us that it is now safe to try a new, ah, medication for you, and you will tell us everything you know. Be serious. No one can resist this form of questioning. You might also wish to consider your position," the man said more harshly. "You are an officer in the army of a foreign government, here in the Federal Republic illegally, traveling with false papers, and in possession of secret documents. At the least, we can imprison you for life. But, given what your government is doing at the moment, we are not concerned with 'least' measures. If you cooperate you will live, and probably be exchanged back to the Soviet Union at a later date for a German agent. We will even say that we got all our information due to the use of drugs; no harm could possibly come to you from this. If you do not cooperate, you will die of injuries received in a motor accident."
"I have a family," Major Andre Chernyavin said quietly, trying to remember his duty. The combination of fear and drug-induced haze made a hash of his emotions. He couldn't tell there was a vial of sodium pentothol dripping into his IV line, and already impairing his higher brain functions. Soon he would be unable to consider the long-term consequences of his action. Only the here and now would matter.
"They will come to no harm," Colonel Weber promised. An Army officer assigned to the Bundesnachrichtendienst, he had interrogated many Soviet agents. "Do you think they punish the family of every spy we catch? Soon no one would ever come here to spy on us at all." Weber allowed his voice to soften. The drugs were beginning to take effect, and as the stranger's mind became hazy he would be gentle, cajoling the information from him. The funny part, he mused, was that he'd been instructed on how to do this by a psychiatrist. Despite the many movies about brutal German interrogators, he hadn't had the least training in a forceful extraction of information. Too bad, he thought. If there was ever a time I need it, it is now.
Red Storm Rising (1986) - by Tom Clancy, author
excerpt, Chapter 13. – The Strangers Arrive and Depart
BONN, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
"It's all a sham," Weber reported to the Chancellor four hours later. The helicopter he'd flown to Bonn hadn't even left the ground yet. "The whole bomb-plot business is all a cruel and deliberate sham."
"We know that, Colonel," the Chancellor replied testily. He'd been awake for two days straight now, trying to come to grips with the sudden German-Russian crisis.
"Herr Kanzler, the man we now have in the hospital is Major Andre Ilych Chernyavin. He entered the country over the Czech border two weeks ago with a separate set of false papers. He is an officer in the Soviet Spetznaz forces, their elite Sturmtruppen. He was badly injured in an auto accident-the fool stepped right in front of an automobile without looking-and was carrying a complete diagram for the NATO communications base at Lammersdorf. The station's security posts were just relocated a month ago. This document is only two weeks old. He also has the watch schedule and a roster of watch officers-and that is only three days old! He and a team of ten men came over the Czech border, and only just got their operational orders. His current orders are to attack the base exactly at midnight, the day after receipt of his alert signal. There is also a cancellation signal should plans change. We have them both."
"He came into Germany long before-" The Chancellor was surprised in spite of himself. The entire affair was so unreal.
"Exactly. It all fits, Herr Kanzler. For whatever reason, Ivan is coming to attack Germany. Everything to this point was a sham, all designed to put us to sleep. Here is a full transcript of our interview with Chernyavin. He has knowledge of four other Spetznaz operations, all of them consistent with a full-scale assault across our borders. He is now at our military hospital in Koblenz under heavy guard. We also have a videotape of his admission."
"What of the chance that this is all some sort of Russian provocation? Why weren't these documents brought over when they crossed the border?"
"The reconstruction of the Lammersdorf installation meant that they needed correct information. As you know, we've been upgrading the security measures at our NATO communications stations since last summer, and our Russian friends must have been updating their assault plans as well. The fact that they have these documents at all-just days old, some of them-is most frightening. As for how we happened to get hold of this man-" Weber explained the circumstances of the accident. "We have every reason to believe that it was a genuine accident, not a provocation. The driver, a Madame Anne-Marie LeCourte, is a fashion agent -she sells dresses for some Paris designer or other; not a likely cover for a Soviet spy. And why do such a thing? Do they expect us to launch an attack into the DDR based on this? First they accuse us of bombing the Kremlin, then try to provoke us? It's not logical. What we have here is a man whose mission is to prepare the way for a Soviet invasion of Germany by paralyzing NATO communication links immediately before hostilities commence."
"But to do such a thing-even if such an attack is planned.
"The Soviets are intoxicated with 'special operations' groups, a lesson from Afghanistan. These men are highly trained, very dangerous. And it's a cunning plan. The Jewish identification, for example. The bastards play on our sensitivity with the Jews, no? If he is stopped by a police officer, he can make a casual remark about how Germans treat Jews, and what would a young policeman do, eh? Probably apologize and send him on his way." Weber smiled grimly. That had been a carefully thought-out touch. He had to admire it. "What they could not allow for was the unexpected. We've been lucky. We should now make use of this luck. Herr Kanzler, this data must go to NATO high command immediately. For the moment we have their safe house under observation. We may wish to assault it. GSG-9 is ready for the mission, but perhaps it should be a NATO operation."
"I must meet with my cabinet first. Then I will speak with the President of the United States on the telephone and the other NATO chiefs of government."
"Forgive me, Chancellor, but there is no time for that. With your permission, within the hour I will give a copy of the videotape to the CIA liaison officer, and also to the British and French. The Russians are going to attack us. Better to alert the intelligence services first, which will lay the groundwork for your talk with the President and others. We must move at once, Herr Kanzler. This is a life-and-death situation."
The Chancellor stared down at his desk. "Agreed, Colonel. What do you propose to do with this Chernyavin?"
Weber had already moved on that score. "He died of injuries sustained in the auto accident. It will appear on the television news this evening, and in the newspapers. Of course he will be made available to our allies for further interrogation. I am certain the CIA and others will wish to see him before midnight."
The Chancellor of the German Federal Republic stared out the windows of his Bonn office. He remembered his armed service forty years before: a frightened teenager with a helmet that nearly covered his eyes. "It's happening again." How many will die this time?
"Ja." Dear God, what will it be like?
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 2:01 PM Pacific-timezone USA Saturday 06/13/2026
