Reis' blog

Ouch

2007-12-23T12:33:00.000Z

This has got to hurt, really hurt!

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21st century Iwo Jima

2007-12-22T02:13:00.000Z

Well i saw this image and i thourght its wonderful what photoshop can do, anyone beleive in the war was for oil line of thourght? Opinions?

21st century Iwo Jima [PIC] | Presscue

Loopholes

2007-12-22T00:39:00.000Z

I just love this as well i wish i had thourght of that when i did Physics.

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Fairy tale of New York - The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl

2007-12-21T15:33:00.001Z

I saw this on TV so i decided to youtube it and put it up for all because as i see it; its finally Christmas, an people are really starting to feel it so i thourght i should post an ol' holiday favourite. Fairy tale of New York.

Guys (please digg if you can :-P)

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I'm Cold

2007-12-20T15:27:00.000Z

I really am starting to freeze my fingers are becomming numb, so numb!
Ok god im so cold! really cold look at my windows there is water on the inside i am so cold, really cold! lol i can see my breath in my room - oh god help me! lol

You have to love this!

2007-12-19T16:30:00.000Z

Ok can you tell what it is yet? No?? Are you sure have another guess?

WELL it is a Pussy Snorkel lets you heard me, how great is that :-P

Ah you have to love Digg/Images for finding the best images on the net.
Pussy Snorkel

Rock Band

2007-12-19T10:39:00.000Z

Ok come on this is just to true :-P pressing buttons makes me COOL! and i wont hear anyone say otherwise *evil grin*

xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe

What kind of a bank?

2007-12-19T10:33:00.000Z

Say wha'?

Ok Lloyds bank, you would expect as one of the most reputable banks to be open at 9-5, standard banking hours, BUT NOOOO. Well atleast not for one of the Birmingham branches, no it decides that EVERY wednesday it is going to be open at 10, why? Staff Training and i could clearly see they where doing nothing but drinking cups of coffee and walking about in the reception basking in the fact they have an hour to appear awake.

I know this isn't big but i really got me in a twiz lol.

Home!

2007-12-18T22:43:00.001Z

Ah i am home now, and got a better than expected opinion of my hair. Go me! lol.

God what a dork i look (Image Below)

Post-Haircut

2007-12-18T11:37:00.001Z

Ah well i look less like a hippy now, hope its not to short for Sasha, but at least i will be let into my house now. Hope i pleased both sides :), an for next time i got a 30% discount card go me, 'woot' (the so called word of the year of 2007, hmm i remember people using this word in 1997)

Pre-Haircut

2007-12-18T10:11:00.001Z

Ok then, lucky me its time for the haircut, it has to be done, i look like some sort of hippy and this hair hasn't had a good cut since well Xmas 2006, so its been basically one whole year! So goodbye cruel world who requires my haircut, (honestly i will not be let into my house if i don't have it done now!)

Dog's Can Read??

2007-12-18T10:07:00.000Z

Ok i see the humour in this, and to all those reading this of the non-human kind, 'woof' right back at ya ;-)

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Ah dumb people

2007-12-18T01:23:00.000Z

Ah dumb people I really love them! How much of a d*ck do you have to be to reply to that its just asking to be caught, and if you are asking to be caught why the hell do you do anything in the first place.

It's a rule, regardless of the situation. (from CollegeHumor)

The Last Day

2007-12-18T01:00:00.000Z

Well then, today is er, the 18th of December i am going back home tomorrow to good ol' Birmingham, oh what fun! However it's Christmas and i should be happy, however to tell you the truth i am enjoying myself 'ere in Cardiff now with my house mates James and Adam (Image 2 &3). So whats the real point in going back, i know i want to go back to see everyone but i like been able to do what i like, of course Sasha i want to see you but you come here a lot so you see what i mean.

Anyway what sort of a Christmas is this going to be? Well this is not going to be a fun one i tell you now, i have hundreds of essays i have 6x essays to complete for the 7th and 14th of January. So that killed Christmas right?Anyway here is the image above from when i went to Cardiff Bay for the optical leveling for Coastal Hydrography. It involved basically taking and optical reading behind the bald guys head as a know height and then measuring Cardiff Bay's height. No really point to this, i have to say we are just going learning the technique and i now have to write a report about it how lame is that? I will add some credit here where credit is due we are next year going to use the data, but what for i have no idea, something to do with a comparison to some boat work we are going to do.

Oh yeh and talking about, working on the boat, haven't done that the first time of year 2. What a lame show we have nothing to do, nothing they couldn't even be bothered to rearrange it and I tell the truth here i think they have just forgotten and no longer care about us, we are the forgotten year. *Gets out Violin*

Don't the two of them look so happy on their laptops, we are such a nerdy house, each evening network games, GTA, crazy websites our Linux Media Centre and Linux virtual machines for no real reason... but mostly just writing f**king essays, how lame :-(.

Charging Batteries

2007-12-09T20:56:00.000Z

Well i kind of like this video makes a case for keeping on using batteries i am surprised how few cranks are needed. Another point to make is to set the hardness of the turn by adjusting the power settings on the drill, the higher you make it the fewer turns are needed. Kind of a neat idea.

Crank Charge Your Batteries! - The funniest home videos are here

Teen Calls Bush’s Secret Phone; Creates Security Scare

2007-12-08T12:27:00.001Z

An Icelandic teen somehow figured out President Bush’s private phone number, and called it recently, leaving a message saying he was the president of Iceland and wanted him to call him back. Teen won't say how he did it.

Ahh :P i hope he called him back and the kid asked for Bush to send all the troops NOW!

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Chuckle

2007-12-07T17:17:00.000Z

Good for a chuckle ;)

Not what you want to see

2007-12-07T02:04:00.000Z

I think this picture speaks for itself.

Can The African Sun Power Europe?

2007-12-05T23:42:00.001Z

Ah this opens up lots of jobs for me (marine geography), can work out where those cables can go and their impact. Click the read more link to read the article.

The European Union is considering a $10 billion plan that would see a string of solar power stations in North Africa and the Middle East deliver electricity to Europe via undersea cables.

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BBC NEWS | World | Americas | NY cop says wife spiked meatballs

2007-12-05T20:23:00.000Z

"A US counter-terrorism police officer who says he failed a drugs test because his wife spiked his meatballs with marijuana is suing to get his job back."

All i can say is my arse! He was doing a little bit of the wacky baccy on the side, just medicinal to make the job bareable.

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | NY cop says wife spiked meatballs

BBC NEWS | Politics | UK bans non-EU unskilled workers

2007-12-05T20:19:00.000Z

Have a little read, i would like to know your thourghts more than mine. However then i will release my nuggets of opinion for your enjoyment.

BBC NEWS | Politics | UK bans non-EU unskilled workers

BBC NEWS | Wales | Protest halts opencast mine work

2007-12-05T20:16:00.000Z

Kind of an intresting news article. Intresting as Merthyr Tydfil technically is one of the most deprived areas in the UK, but the citezens revolt?? Hmmm. I also notice that people cite the global warming issues - WELL, if will just be imported from somewhere else, AND Welsh coal is a low methane coal very hard to burn but once burning its very high energy, as far as i understand its also a lower sulpher coal than many steam coals around the world. So yes its more expensive/tonne but you need less to get more energy. It is a balance that companies work on, to decide what is more economical.

Ah i just liked this, article, lots of food for thourght.

BBC NEWS | Wales | South East Wales | Protest halts opencast mine work

Good Morning USA

2007-12-05T19:15:00.000Z

Well i saw this and i thourght it was kinda intresting. The world is blined by propoganda on both sides. We are living in a hoodwinked world. God FEKIN DAMIT

Herbal Elements

2007-12-05T13:21:00.000Z

Saw this and i thourght, yeh this is kinda funny, but very mean. Those bastards i enjoy my shower time :-P

Herbal Elements - The most popular videos are here

xkcd - Python

2007-12-05T13:01:00.000Z

Depends if you know what Python is like :P

xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe

Another Bubble?

2007-12-04T21:48:00.000Z

It told me to blog it, so i thourght i would ;).. im so impressionable ;-)

xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe

2007-12-04T21:17:00.000Z

And another one i kinda liked.

xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe

xkcd - Far Away

2007-12-04T21:15:00.000Z

Saw this and so i thourght i would blog it.

xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe

Why Cant We Tickle Ourselves?

2007-12-04T21:09:00.001Z

Saw this an thourght it was quite intresting, if a little odd.

Ever wondered why you burst out laughing when tickled by others, but are usually unable to tickle yourself? Heres the explanation!

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The 20 Best iPod Utilities

2007-12-04T20:25:00.003Z

Saw this and thourght it might be useful for some people, i really! like this sort of thing, i really love tha audiobook converter, i can now convert by audionovel podcasts to nice m4b files :-)

With a new generation of iPods on the market this holiday season, your reliable old iPod may not seem as shiny as it once did. But with the help of third party applications and utilities, you can unlock tons of useful functionality you never knew was there and revive that aging iPod so it doesn't look quite so bad next to its successors.

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Can you spot the library? (PICS)

2007-12-01T23:43:00.001Z

Dude Cardiff got 2014 diggs at the moment we have never rocked so much :P

If you’ve ever wanted to feel like an ant, head to the library in either Cardiff or Kansas: rather than using a traditional front to the building, both have decided to turn the premises into giant bookshelves, creating an extremely surreal experience for passers by.

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The Marine Team

2007-11-28T22:58:00.001Z

Ahh i just thourght i should post our video, old now but still what a good time!

Michael Salamon » Procedurally Enforcing Workflow

2007-11-28T22:44:00.000Z

Michael Salamon » Procedurally Enforcing Workflow: "I copied this down from somewhere and I can’t remember where, so if it was you let me know, and I’ll credit you properly. Until then here is this little UI gem, and a great reminder for the RIAA/MPAA: You can’t force people to follow directions they deem arbitrary. I bet if that gate spit out $100 bills people would use it."

xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe

2007-11-28T19:13:00.000Z

xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe

THE MAGLEV: The Super-powered Magnetic Wind Turbine

2007-11-27T12:38:00.001Z

1 Maglev wind turbine, which uses full-permanent magnets to nearly eliminate friction by "floating" the blades above the base could power up to 750,000 homes. According to developers, the technology is capable of scaling to massive sizes, and the ability to generate power with winds as slow as three miles per hour.

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The Lifeuard

2007-04-30T19:20:00.000Z

Ahh humor ;)

Subliminal Message in coke Ad!! MUST SEE

2007-04-28T23:28:00.001Z

There's a subliminal message in one of coca cola's ad from the 80's! Can anyone spot it ;)

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Any way the wind blows?

2007-04-28T23:23:00.000Z

Oh what a video i only wish i could have seen it...

The Cover up

2007-04-28T16:51:00.000Z

The Cover up of Isreal and then American Soilders

BBC Report:

Guardian Story
At the height of the six-day war in 1967, Israel attacked a US spy ship, killing 34 men and injuring many more. The Israelis claimed it was an accident, the Americans backed them up. But, as James Bamford reveals in his new book, both governments concealed the horrific truth

Early in the morning of Thursday June 8 1967 and the first rays of sun spilled softly over the Sinai's blond waves of sand. A little more than a dozen miles north, in the choppy eastern Mediterranean, the USS Liberty headed eastward. But the calmness was like quicksand - deceptive, inviting and friendly - until it was too late.

As the Liberty passed the desert town of El Arish, it was being closely watched. About 4,000ft above was an Israeli reconnaissance aircraft. At 6.05am, the observer on the plane reported back to Israeli naval headquarters: "What we could see were the letters written on that ship and we gave these letters to ground control," he said. The letters were "GTR-5" - the Liberty's identification. "GTR" stood for "General Technical Research" - a cover designation for the National Security Agency (NSA)'s fleet of spy ships.

The Liberty was in dangerous waters at a dangerous time. The six-day war, in which Israeli air and ground forces launched a massive attack on Egypt, Syria and Jordan, was raging. Fearing involvement in a Middle East war, the US joint chiefs of staff needed rapid intelligence on the ground situation in Egypt. Ships were considered the best option for the job. They could sail relatively close and pick up the most important signals. Also, unlike aircraft, they could remain on station for weeks at a time, eavesdropping, locating transmitters, and analysing the intelligence. And so the Liberty, which was large, fast and had been stationed relatively close on the Ivory Coast, had been ordered in.

Throughout the morning, the ship sailed on, with reconnaissance repeated at approximately 30-minute intervals. At one point, an Israeli air force Noratlas Nord 2501 circled the ship and headed back towards the Sinai. "It had a big Star of David on it and it was flying just a little bit above our mast," recalled crew member Larry Weaver. "I was actually able to wave to the co-pilot. He waved back and actually smiled at me - I could see him that well. There's no question about it. They had seen the ship's markings and the American flag. They could damn near see my rank. The underway flag was definitely flying, especially when you're that close to a war zone."

By 9.50am, the minaret at El Arish could be seen with the naked eye like a solitary mast in a sea of sand. Although no one on the ship knew it at the time, the Liberty had suddenly trespassed into a private horror. At that very moment, near the minaret, Israeli forces were engaged in a criminal slaughter.

Three days after Israel had launched the six- day war, Egyptian prisoners in the Sinai had become a nuisance. There was no place to house them, not enough Israelis to watch them, and few vehicles to transport them to prison camps. But there was another way to deal with them.

As the Liberty sat within eyeshot of El Arish, eavesdropping on surrounding communications, Israeli soldiers turned the town into a slaughterhouse, systematically butchering their prisoners. An eyewitness recounted how in the shadow of the El Arish mosque, they lined up about 60 unarmed Egyptian prisoners, hands tied behind their backs, and then opened fire with machine guns until the pale desert sand turned red.

This and other war crimes were just some of the secrets Israel had sought to conceal since the start of the conflict. An essential element in the Israeli battle plan seemed to have been to hide much of the war behind a carefully constructed curtain of lies: lies about the Egyptian threat, lies about who started the war, lies to the US president, lies to the UN Security Council, lies to the press, lies to the public. Thus, as the American naval historian Dr Richard K Smith noted, "any instrument which sought to penetrate this smoke screen so carefully thrown around the normal 'fog of war' would have to be frustrated".

Into this sea of deception and slaughter sailed the USS Liberty, an enormous spy factory loaded with the latest eavesdropping gear.

About noon, as the Liberty was again in sight of El Arish, and while the massacres were taking place, an army commander there reported that a ship was shelling them from the sea. But that was impossible. The only ship in the vicinity was the Liberty, and she was eavesdropping, not shooting. As any observer would have recognised, the ship was a tired old second world war vessel crawling with antennae, and unthreatening to anyone - unless it was their secrets, not their lives, they wanted to protect.

By then the Israeli navy and air force had conducted more than six hours of close surveillance of the Liberty off the Sinai and must have positively identified it as an American electronic spy ship. They knew she was the only military ship in the area. Nevertheless, the order was given to kill her and at 12.05pm, three motor torpedo boats from the port of Ashdod, about 50 miles away, departed. Israeli air force fighters, loaded with 50mm cannon ammunition, rockets and napalm, followed.

Without warning, the Israeli jets - swept-wing Dassault Mirage IIICs - struck. On board Liberty, Lieutenant Painter observed that the aircraft had "absolutely no markings", their identity unclear. He then attempted to reach the men manning the gun mounts, but it was too late. "I was trying to contact these two kids," he recalled, "and I saw them both; well, I didn't exactly see them as such. They were blown apart, but I saw the whole area go up in smoke and scattered metal. At about the same time, the aircraft strafed the bridge area. The quarter-master, Petty Officer Third Class Pollard, was standing right next to me, and he was hit."

The Mirages raked the ship from bow to stern with armour-piercing lead. A bomb exploded near the whaleboat aft of the bridge, and those in the pilothouse and the bridge were thrown from their feet. Commander William L McGonagle grabbed for the engine order annunciator and rang up all ahead flank.

In the communications spaces, radiomen James Halman and Joseph Ward had patched together enough equipment and broken antennae to get a distress call off to the Sixth Fleet, despite intense jamming by the Israelis. "Any station, this is Rockstar," Halman shouted, using the Liberty's voice call sign. "We are under attack by unidentified jet aircraft and require immediate assistance."

"Great, wonderful, she's burning, she's burning," said an Israeli pilot.

At 2.09pm, the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga, operating near Crete, acknowledged Liberty's cry for help. "I am standing by for further traffic," it signalled.

After taking out the gun mounts, the Israeli fighter pilots turned their attention to the antennae so the ship could not call for help or pick up any more revealing interceptions. Then the planes attacked the bridge, killing instantly the ship's executive officer. With the Liberty now deaf, blind, and silenced, unable to call for help or move, the Israeli pilots proceeded to kill her. Designed to punch holes in the toughest tanks, their shells tore through the Liberty's steel plating like hot nails through butter, exploding into jagged bits of shrapnel and butchering men deep in their living quarters.

As the slaughter continued, neither the Israelis nor the Liberty crew had any idea that witnesses were present high above. Until now, that is. According to information, interviews and documents obtained, for nearly 35 years the NSA has hidden the fact that one of its planes - a Navy EC-121 ferret - was overhead at the time of the incident, eavesdropping on what was going on below. The interceptions from that plane, which answer some of the key questions about the attack, are among the NSA's deepest secrets.

The ferret had taken off from Athens for its regular patrol of the eastern Mediterranean, and at about the time that the air attack was getting underway, Navy Chief Petty Officer Marvin Nowicki heard one of the other Hebrew linguists on the plane excitedly trying to get his attention on the secure intercom. "Hey, chief," he shouted, "I've got really odd activity on UHF. They mentioned an American flag. I don't know what's going on." Nowicki asked the linguist for the frequency and "rolled up to it". "Sure as the devil," said Nowicki, "Israeli aircraft were completing an attack on some object. I alerted the evaluator, giving him sparse details, adding that we had no idea what was taking place."

Deep down in Liberty, Terry McFarland, head encased in earphones, was vaguely aware of flickers of light coming through the bulkhead. He had no idea that they were armour-piercing tracer bullets slicing through the ship's skin. Larry Weaver had run to his general quarters station but it was located on an old helicopter pad that left him exposed and vulnerable. He grabbed a dazed shipmate and pushed him into a safe corner. "I said, 'Fred, stay here, you've just got to because he's coming up the centre'," Weaver recalled. "I got in the foetal position," he said, "and before I closed my eyes I looked up and I saw the American flag and that was the last thing I saw before I was hit. I closed my eyes, just waiting for hell's horror to hit me. And I was hit by rocket and cannon fire that blew two and a half feet of my colon out and I received over 100 shrapnel wounds. It blew me up in the air about four and a half, five feet. And just blood everywhere."

Stan White raced through the sick bay for the enclosed NSA spaces. "Torn and mutilated bodies were everywhere," he said. "Horrible sight!"

As soon as the Mirages pulled away, they were replaced by Super Mystere fighters which raked the ship. A later analysis would show 821 separate hits on the hull and superstructure. Now, in addition to rocket, cannon, and machine-gun fire, the Mysteres attacked with 1,000lb bombs and napalm. Deafening explosions tore through the ship and the bridge disappeared in an orange-and-black ball. Lying wounded by shrapnel, his blood draining into his shoe, was Commander McGonagle. Seconds later the fighters were back. Flesh fused with iron as more strafing was followed by more rockets, followed by napalm.

As the last fighter departed, having emptied out its onboard armoury, turning the Liberty's hull into a flaming mass of grey Swiss cheese, sailors lifted mutilated shipmates on to makeshift stretchers of pipe frame and chicken wire. Damage control crews pushed through passageways of suffocating smoke and blistering heat, and the chief petty officer's lounge was converted into a macabre sea of blood-soaked mattresses and shattered bodies.

After landing back at Athens airport, Nowicki and the intercept crew were brought directly to the processing centre. "By the time we arrived at the USA-512J compound," he said, "collateral reports were coming in to the station about the attack on the USS Liberty. The NSA civilians took our tapes and began transcribing. It was pretty clear that Israeli aircraft and motor torpedo boats attacked a ship in the east Med. Although the attackers never gave a name or a hull number, the ship was identified as flying an American flag. We logically concluded that the ship was the USS Liberty."

At 2.50pm (Liberty time), 50 minutes after the first shells tore into the ship and as the attack was still going on, the aircraft carrier USS America, cruising near Crete, was ordered to launch four armed A-4 Skyhawks. At the same time, the carrier USS Saratoga was also told to send four armed A-1 attack planes to defend the ship. "Sending aircraft to cover you," the Sixth Fleet told the Liberty at 3:05pm (9.05am in Washington). "Surface units on the way."

At that moment in Washington, President Johnson was at his desk, on the phone, alternately shouting at congressional leaders and coaxing them to support his position on several pieces of pending legislation. But four minutes later he was interrupted by Walt Rostow, national security adviser, on the other line. "The Liberty has been torpedoed in the Mediterranean," Rostow told Johnson excitedly.

The NSA's worst fears had come true. "After considerations of personnel safety," said deputy director Tordella, "one of my immediate concerns, considering the depth of the water and the distance of the ship off shore, had to do with the classified materials on board." Tordella got on the phone to the Joint Reconnaissance Centre (JCS) and spoke to the deputy director, a Navy captain named Vineyard. "I expressed my concern that the written material be burned if at all possible, and that the electronic equipment be salvaged if that were possible," he said.

But Tordella was not prepared for what he heard. According to NSA documents - classified top secret- he was told that some senior officials in Washington wanted above all to protect Israel from embarrassment. "Captain Vineyard had mentioned during this conversation," wrote Tordella, "that consideration was then being given by some unnamed Washington authorities to sink[ing] the Liberty in order that newspaper men would be unable to photograph her and thus inflame public opinion against the Israelis. I made an impolite comment about the idea." Almost immediately, Tordella wrote a memorandum for the record, describing the conversation, and then locked it away.

A cover story for the Liberty was then quickly devised. "She was a communications research ship that was diverted from her research assignment," it said, "to provide improved communication-relay links with the several US embassies around the entire Mediterranean during the current troubles."

On the Liberty, black smoke was still escaping through more than 800 holes in the hull, and the effort to hush up the incident had already begun. Within hours of the attack, which left 34 men dead and two-thirds of the rest of the crew wounded, Israel asked President Johnson to quietly bury the incident. "Embassy Tel Aviv," said a highly secret, very limited distribution message to the state department, "urged de-emphasis on publicity since proximity of vessel to scene of conflict was fuel for Arab suspicions that the US was aiding Israel." Shortly thereafter, a total news ban was ordered by the Pentagon. No one in the field was allowed to say anything about the attack. All information was to come only from a few senior Washington officials.

Later that morning, Johnson took the unusual step of ordering the JCS to recall its fighters while the Liberty still lay smouldering, sinking, fearful of another attack and with its decks covered with the dead, dying and wounded. On board the flagship of the Sixth Fleet, Rear Admiral Lawrence R Geis, who commanded the carrier force in the Mediterranean, was angry and puzzled at the recall and protested to the secretary of defence, Robert S McNamara.

Geis was shocked by what he heard next. "President Lyndon Johnson came on with a comment that he didn't care if the ship sunk, he would not embarrass his allies." Geis told Lieutenant Commander David Lewis, head of the NSA group on the Liberty, about the comment but asked him to keep it secret until after Geis died. It was a promise that Lewis kept.

In the days following the attack, the Israeli government gave the US government a classified report that attempted to justify the claim that the attack was a mistake. On the basis of that same report, an Israeli court of inquiry completely exonerated the government and all those involved. No one was ever court-martialled, reduced in rank or even reprimanded. On the contrary, Israel chose instead to honour motor torpedo boat 203, which fired the deadly torpedo at the Liberty. The ship's wheel and bell were placed on prominent display at the naval museum, among the maritime artefacts of which the Israeli navy was most proud.

Despite the overwhelming evidence that Israel had attacked the ship and killed the American servicemen deliberately, the Johnson administration and Congress covered up the entire incident. Johnson was planning to run for president the following year and needed the support of pro-Israel voters.

A mistake or mass murder? It was a question Congress never bothered to address in public hearings at the time. Among those who have long called for an in-depth congressional investigation is Admiral Thomas Moorer, who went on to become chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. "Congress to this day," he said, "has failed to hold formal hearings for the record on the Liberty affair. This is unprecedented and a national disgrace." Perhaps it is not too late.

• Extracted from Body of Secrets by James Bamford, published by Century at £20 © 2001 James Bamford

Mock the Week

2007-04-27T22:49:00.001Z

Well saw this video after watching a Daily Show clip, was funny watch ;)

Smug little git

2007-04-27T10:28:00.000Z

Smug little git...

Tighten up

2007-04-27T00:14:00.000Z

Was just writing my essay still and then i got an email alert and this video had been sent to be from a random guy... anyway was actually quite funny he appears to be a guy who makes funny skits and this just seemed like a bit of harmless fun. (If abit sexist :P, lookaway now if you are easily offended)

Students design, launch tiny satellite

2007-04-21T17:45:00.001Z

A group of students, former students and professors stood quietly in an electronics-filled room on a recent Tuesday, intently listening for contact from a 4-inch cubed satellite hurtling miles overhead. Those gathered are part of a program called Cubesat, which allows universities to cheaply launch satellites.Now this is cool eh? Lets make one to broadcast ermmm dunno but still lets make one.

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The End of Easter

2007-04-21T17:22:00.001Z

Well that's it its almost the end of easter break. I have had 3 weeks off been at home and enjoying myself seen the girlfriend Sasha everyday :) and saw some old friends, Jon going miss you now but remember don't pannic. [Note2Self Must call him to ask about his medical] Anyway now sitting at home in my room still needing to do the following. 1. Pack, 2. Revise, 3. Do Coursework Work. Have been doing bits but by no means done, bugger lol. Ah well i will get it done (he says and hopes). Anyway im off now to my grandparents to go for a chinese takeaway (yum) with Sasha and the family, then its back home to spend one last night in my bed :( before been sent to the tourture chamber bed in Talybont North. Lucky me eh?

Post again soon with some news/thourghts videos or whatever.

Will Farrel

2007-04-19T11:52:00.000Z

The Landlord

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2007-04-16T09:02:00.000Z

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Ahh now this was funny ;)

Well im back

2007-04-08T21:19:00.000Z

Well im back from my trip to Pembrokeshire and i must say first that it was a really good trip. Have now been home for a week and within the next two weeks i am now going to nuckle down and do some propper work, poor me... but it will all be good in the end. So what am i doing now then well i was off to bed but first i am going to just post my latest toy ;) . I discovered i could use my phone to find wifi points with gps co-ords then map them, so i will work on that for you all.

Post-bday

2007-03-25T11:16:00.000Z

Well as i write this i am in bed on the Sunday after Erin's 16th birhday i took lots of photo's and i think she also enjoyed it alot, we had an adult bouncy castle so you can't really go wrong espesh when there is beef to be BBQ'd as well. Anyway enough about her bithday some photos will follow but for now as i am in bed hugging Sasha who is asleep i sit here and wonder to myself how her revision is going and that her 4th yr medical final is going to be ok.

Anyway enough soppy stuff here is a video that was made popular on Digg. It made me laugh some very smart marketing from ikea.

Ned Flanders

2007-03-24T08:59:00.000Z

For your enjoyment ;)

On another topic today is the 24th of March and therefore my sisters birthday. She is now 16 i will post some photos of her latter today, she looks wonderful and is now full of beans and seems alot happier than she used to be. Even if mum has let all her standards go when i moved out and she now has purple hair, i have to hand it to Erin she played her cards very well she wore down the boundries that where in place slow enough that mum wouldn't notice because she is surrounded by it but large enough for her to do what she wants now. Well done you have had a lot more freedom than i did, i like to think i paved the way though ;)

On way home

2007-03-23T10:11:00.000Z

Well then how are you all? I am now going to go and get the train and im sending this from my phone... what fun eh? Well i will get back to my lecture now. See everyone in Birmingham and goodbye Cardiff.

Dad's Army

2007-03-22T21:59:00.000Z

Well i was thinking and looking and for some reason on Wikipedia ended up on Dad's Army a very long winded way and on there what should i find but..... memorable quotes. Who remembers hearing this on a sunday afternoon:

"Don't tell him, Pike!"

Well i do and after searching and trying to find it i couldn't i tried searching all sorts of quotes on Youtube, Dailymotion etc just to hear that emortal line... and what should i find Nothing. However i did find by just typing in Dad's Army an episode as the first result on youtube... after watching it guess what i found it was in that one, so for all here is abit of enjoyment.

Tommy Chong

2007-03-22T19:22:00.000Z

I wonder what Tommy Chong is talking about ;)? (Leo - Thats 70's Show)
First:

Second (Where's the cheech?)

Earth and Planet Science - The Past - The Cenozoic 65MA - 0MA

2007-03-22T18:45:00.000Z

For those who missed this, Huw and Dan on the Pembroke boat hopping trip taking it there for our residential next week here we go.

Earth and Planet Science - The Past - The Cenozoic 65MA - 0MA

For those who missed it

2007-03-22T18:44:00.000Z

For the benifit of Dan i made this on the 8th of March when he was asleep in the second half of EA10 06's lecture. So for anyone else who stumbles accross this you can watch it as well

EA1006 - International Enviromental Issues

Bit of Fun

2007-03-22T18:38:00.000Z

Well so i thourght i would repost the video from y'day.. here is a video of Chris Rock, was watching 'Everybody Hates Chris' and decided to watch some of Chris Rocks videos after. Very funny all of them, 100% non-pc and 101% funny.

And one on the War on Terror

Hello World

2007-03-22T18:37:00.001Z

Well i am getting this blog off to a new start so:

Hello World - You have to say this don't you? ;-)

So a little about me for all who don't know i do Marine Georaphy @ Cardiff. I am from Birmingham about as far from the sea as you can get and i have a girlfriend from Birmingham who i still see a year latter called Sasha (*Waves* Hello Sweetie). So why not i thourght i would do abit of a internet site to pass the time...

Here is a video i posted y'day but somehow got deleted....