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Barry Chamish Newsletter Archives February 23 - A Free Book and Site February 15 - The Owens Scandal Is Breaking February 8  -  Shuttle Persuasion February 3  -  Shuttle Letters February 1  -  One Thing We Aren't Being Told About the Columbia Explosion back to index   February 23, 2003 - A FREE BOOK AND SITE       Hebrew readers,  I have my best work up on a new Hebrew site. It is far from built but there is plenty to look at. Spread the news to all Israelis to: Check out:   www.geocities.com/barrychamish       Now look at this letter received last week from one of my publishers, Counting Coup Press: Barry, Thanks for your email. We have had legal trouble after legal trouble trying to release this book. We're in the position of having to go up against not only the Kennedys but the King family as well and we just don't have the resources to do that. I'm afraid we're going to have to release you from your contract for this work.       To which I replied: I figure legal trouble with the Kennedys and Kings would sell a million copies. They haven't a leg to stand on. This is satire. Let it go to the Supreme Court. This is an opportunity. Barry      To which the publisher answered that they can't afford the legal costs. I immediately contacted several e-book publishers which agreed to sell the book over the net and I guess that's what I'll do in time. Meanwhile, I offer my loyal readers a reward for sticking with my unique vision: the world's first conspiracy comedy, With The Kennedys.      It's time for some comic relief, no? You are invited to read the attached book which both the families of Martin Luther King and JFK threatened to sue if it was released. Now what could be inside to raise the ire of the estates of JFK and Martin Luther King? [Click to read With The Kennedys]      It is an irreverent comedy and I know my readers will not have their sensibilities hurt by the contents. It's a world where hippies became survivalists, Black Panthers turned into Uncle Toms and Jews have lost their sense of humor.      Enjoy my little gift to you.      But recall, this work is supported by selling other things like my new book, Save Israel! and my new two hour video, Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin.  These new products and my previous books can be ordered from me at  chamish@netvision.net.il   February 15, 2003 - THE OWENS SCANDAL IS BREAKING        A brave Salt Lake City radio station is breaking the Wayne Owens murder. For once, there is a feeling that this lonely work of mine could result in an official investigation. I exposed the murder on the Barbara Jean Show three days ago and have been invited to talk about Owens for two hours on Monday, Feb.17 at 11AM MST on the same station. Try and listen:         "The Jim Dexter Show"   Mondays & Tuesdays,   11:00 AM to 1:00 PM (Mountain)   KTKK-AM 630 -- The Voice of Utah   http://www.k-talk.com   Past shows archived @   http://www.mindcleaner.com       I promised Jim Dexter that I would update my research for his program and I remained true to my word. OWENS' LAST DAYS         FORMER Utah Senator Wayne Owens was murdered on Dec.18 in Tel Aviv at the end of a factfinding mission shared with House Representatives David Price and Jim Davis. Price prepared a summation of the mission, noting early on that, "Wayne Owens had few illusions about the obstacles to getting peace negotiations back on track."         He continued: "We met in Cairo with Chief of Intelligence General Omar Seuliman regarding the next round of cease-fire talks to be brokered by Egypt among Hamas, Fatah, and possibly other groups.        "We then visited chief Palestinian Authority negotiator Abu Mazen on the day it was determined that he would personally attend this second round.        "We met with Palestinian Authority Finance Minister Salam Fayyad regarding financial and budget reform, where there has been enough progress to allow the U.S. to broker the release of a first installment of Palestinian Authority revenues impounded by Israel.        "We talked with Sari Nusseibeh, head of Jerusalem Affairs for the PLO, about the back-channel, unofficial peace initiatives undertaken by him and others." By Akiva Eldar (Ha'aretz) Dec. 20, 2002 Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat has taken over responsibility for the Jerusalem portfolio by deposing prominent Palestinian peace activist Prof. Sari Nusseibeh. Nussibeh, president of Al Quds University, hammered out a peace plan with former Shin Bet chief Maj. Gen. (res.) Ami Ayalon earlier this year. A senior Palestinian official who asked to remain unnamed said that Nusseibeh's removal and the establishment of the two committees appear to be part of a pattern of eccentric behavior exhibited by Arafat. The official mentioned, for example, Arafat's announcement that East Jerusalem publisher Hanna Siniora would be the PA's ambassador in Washington, but when the prospective envoy arrived in the U.S. capital, Arafat backed down from the appointment. Recent visitors to Arafat's office in the Muqata said his behavior has become strange. They said he was not focused, spoke in a confused manner, and his lips are shaking again. His doctors attribute the shaking lips to neurological damage that followed an airplane crash in the Libyan desert that Arafat survived. During the past year, Nusseibeh and Ayalon worked out a draft peace plan based on the 1967 borders without a right of return for Palestinian refugees. The paper was presented publicly a few months ago at a modest ceremony in Athens attended by former U.S. president Bill Clinton and the Greek foreign minister. Yesterday, however, Nusseibeh issued a statement saying that in protest of the arrest of Musa Balawneh, a former militant-turned-peace activist in Nusseibeh's "People's Peace Campaign," which hopes to get one million signatures on the Nusseibeh-Ayalon plan, Nusseibeh is ceasing his peace activist work in the Palestinian community, his dialogue with Israel, and his efforts to transform the armed intifada into a non-violent civil disobedience campaign - until Balawneh is released. Balawneh was arrested Wednesday night at a checkpoint near Nablus while on his way to a meeting of peace activists in Ramallah. According to Nusseibeh, Balawneh has not been accused of anything nor informed of the reason for the arrest. Balawneh's travel permit, according to the Nusseibeh statement, was issued by Israel at Nusseibeh's request and with Israeli understanding that he would not be intercepted or arrested. THE PLOT SO FAR 1. ON December 17, Owens' group met with Sari Nusseibeh, the Palestinian Authority's Jerusalem Affairs minister and Finance Minister Salam Fayyad. 2. On Dec.18, Owens met with Avi Gil, Shimon Peres' deputy director, for dinner. Owens was found dead on a Tel Aviv beach two and a half hours later. 3. A short time after Owens' body was discovered, Nusseibeh's political partner, Ibrahim Musa Mussalam Balawneh, was arrested by IDF troops. 4. On Dec.19, Nusseibeh condemned the arrest of Balawneh who was travelling on a special permit that he personally arranged. 5. Also on Dec. 19, Arafat stripped Nusseibeh of his Jerusalem portfolio.     And jumping ahead: 6. On Feb.15, under American pressure, Arafat agreed to share power with Salam Fayyad.     If no one minds, I'm going to give away the motive for murder. I may have been underestimating Owens. It seems that he was plotting behind Arafat's back with the, possibly, untainted Nusseibeh. The goal was to replace Arafat's criminal regime with one run by Nusseibeh and Fayyad. If that happened, a lot of crooks headed by Arafat and Peres were going to lose hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions.     I am not going to rehash my previous articles at this point. I will send them to those who so request. But I had put Owens in the middle of an enormous Oslo embezzlement cartel whose members included Arafat, Peres, Muhamed Rashid, Hani Masri, Yossi Ginosar, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem and a host of sundry American, Arab and Israeli politicians, all taking their cuts of the peace pie. Now we must ask if Owens was attempting to destroy this extended crime family.     I was asked by Salt Lake City radio hostess Barbara Jean if there was any chance that Owens didn't know about the crimes being run through his and Peres' peace centers. I answered that after 13 years in the Middle East peace business, Owens had to have been a willing participant. The latest evidence more than suggests that either he was used all these years or he had a change of heart and decided to do the right thing and end the Arafat/Peres crime syndicate. This betrayal would have constituted a strong motive for murder. ENTER USAID      READERS will recall that at the time of his murder, Owens was the CEO of a desalinization project and Peres was the project's NGO director. USAID provided $128 million of American taxpayer's money to fund the enterprise.      Following is a press release from the US Consulate in Jerusalem from April 4, 2002 announcing, "The U.S. Government to finance construction of a seawater desalination plant and water carrier pipeline in the Gaza Strip." http://www.uscongen-jerusalem.org/DOCS/PressReleases/PRUSAID040402.html "Congratulating Minister Sha'ath and Chairman Sharif, U.S. Consul General Schlicher remarked, "The Palestinian Authority is to be complimented for taking the steps necessary to introduce desalinated water on a large scale for the people of Gaza. This agreement will result in an increased supply of water while also protecting the ground water quality in Gaza." USAID Mission Director Garber added that, "USAID financed a pilot desalination project in Gaza with superior results. We are pleased that MOPIC and the PWA have asked us to help them with these historic desalination and water distribution projects that will bring healthier lives to people throughout the Gaza Strip."      SO who is the USAID Director Larry Garber? Here is a bit of background found, guess where? On Wayne Owens own web site. Why is Larry Garber's bio on Owens site? Because they invited him to speak at the Center for Middle East Peace and Economic Development on January 29, 2002. The topic was "Challenges Facing the Donor Community" http://www.centerpeace.org/events/02-01-29Garber.htm       Here are some key points from his talk: *** The West Bank and Gaza are among the top five recipients of U.S. assistance in the world and are probably the largest recipients of per capita aid other than Israel. *** Congressional legislation prevents USAID (and the United States) from providing any funding directly to the Palestinian Authority; it only provides grants to NGOs and commercial businesses, whose programs are overseen and audited by USAID. *** Before September 2000...The Peres Center for Peace was working with USAID on developing an information technology park in Tulkarm, and USAID was in the third phase of developing its wastewater treatment program. [*** In response to the deteriorating situation... Border industrial zone and local government projects have been suspended, but rule of law and civil society programs continue, as do some infrastructure projects, such as a desalination plant and water carrier in Gaza and a wastewater treatment facility in Hebron.      NOW what do we notice here? We learn that USAID, and its billion dollars invested in the region so far, only work through NGOs; and who is NGO director of the biggest project of all, Wayne Owens' desalinization plant? Why it just happens to be Shimon Peres. But recall that Arafat's NGOs also received $75 million from USAID to construct a water carrier in Gaza, we must believe, to transport some of the desalinized water to him for sale to his people.      But of course, a good chunk of the dough will finance terror and Peres and Owens, unless they were completely blind, had to have known that when they arranged it for him.      Owens, however, had an out. USAID had a director in the region who was responsible for auditing the funds. His name was Larry Foley and he was murdered: Lawrence Foley who was the most senior USAID employee based in Amman Jordan. Unfortunately he was assassinated on October 28, 2002. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2367311.stm       NOW who would have benefitted from this murder? You can be sure, for starters, everyone involved in the Owens desalinization project. For instance, the builders: Desalination To Meet Shortfall After Water Import Deal Setback National Infrastructure Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on 11/28 that Israel would have to build a new desalination plant for 50 million cubic meters of water a year if the government fails to follow through plans to import water from Turkey. Lieberman made the comment following the tender's cancellation by an inter-ministerial committee. The only two bidders - Universe Waters and Anatalia - said a clause in the tender that would allow the government of Israel to cancel the project without compensation for up to a year after the contract is signed was unacceptable. The companies said they could not afford to invest tens of millions of dollars in refitting oil tankers for water transport without receiving compensation if the project is scrapped. Water experts say that even if the import of water from Turkey goes forward, the panel's decision would set the project back by up to two years and leave the country short of 50 million cubic meters of water a year. A senior ministry official said that if a desalination plant is built in place of importing water from Turkey, it should be constructed south of Ashkelon, where plans are already afoot for such a plant that is to be built by the VID consortium, composed of Dankner Elran Investments, Engineering & Desalination (part of Israel Chemicals) and Vivendi, the world's largest desalination company. The government has the option of asking the consortium to increase its production from 50 million cubic meters of water a year to 100 million cubic meters. But David Gershonovitz, chair of the central committee for desalination, said last week that if an additional facility is to be constructed, the contract will not be automatically given to VID but would be subject to an international tender. (Ha'aretz 11/29/01)      AFTER sabotaging the Turkish water project with an option no company could accept, desalinization carried on, full steam ahead:        The tender for the construction of Israel's first seawater desalination plant ended this week with a surprising price - 52.69 cents per cubic meter - the lowest ever price offered worldwide for seawater desalination. The group that was awarded the project is V.I.D. Desalination, comprising Dankner-Elran investments (25%), Desalination Engineering (50%) and Vivendi (25%), which is the world's largest water company and is French-American owned.     THE tie here which should raise alarm bells is Vivendi. In July 2000, the Seagrams Group, founded and controlled by the Bronfman family, bought Vivendi. Charles Bronfman is a member of the board of The Peres Center For Peace. He is, along with Daniel Abraham, Owens' business partner, the leading contributor to Peres' center and to Peace Now. Sarah Ehrman, on the board of both Owens' peace center and water project, was director of Peace Now - America. And the ties get deeper and deeper.      Let's cut to the chase. Did the Bronfman family decide to go into the water business in July 2000 because of the guaranteed prospect of building a $150 million desalinization plant in Ashkelon and other projects funded by USAID? How much of USAID funds to "peace" went into the hands of other nepotists and insiders for "peace?" How much funded the murders of Israelis for "peace?" THE FALLOUT SINCE THE OWENS MURDER Jerusalem Post Feb. 5, 2003 Palestinian Finance Minister Salaam Fayad confirmed Tuesday that Israel earlier this week transferred to the Palestinian Authority almost $60 million in taxes (some NIS 280m.) collected from Palestinian laborers and businesses, the single largest payment since the fighting began. A senior diplomatic official said Israel is satisfied that with a new US-backed supervisory mechanism in place, the money is not being funneled to fund or support terrorism. Some NIS 100m. of this amount is not merely tax payments due the PA from the previous month, but comes from the more than NIS 2.5 billion that has been frozen since the early days of the violence. "There is an expectation that Israel will make the payments regularly now," The Associated Press quoted Fayad as saying. Fayad, according to one senior Israeli official, is "giving us hope that at least in the financial sphere some reform is being done. He is trying to do what he can." The transfer of the funds was made possible after the establishment of a supervisory mechanism to ensure that the money is not misused. The main component of the supervisory mechanism is the placement of officials from the US Agency for International Development inside the PA Finance Ministry to train auditors and help monitor the money flow.      USAID is now firmly in charge of auditing funds to the PA. And Fayad is sharing power with Arafat. It seems Owens got his way after all.      But look at one of the conditions for releasing new funds: Article from www.usaid.gov "Prior to the second intifada, the PLO agreed to cooperate with our requests for information available to them that could shed light on the status of U.S. nationals known to have been held by the PLO or factions thereof in the past. Currently, we do not have an ongoing relationship with the PLO on these matters."       NOW who are these Americans held by the PLO? Could they have been USAID workers who got in the way and had to be persuaded not to report anything that would upset the Arafat/Peres crime  syndicate? Presumably they got off cheaper than Foley and Owens. end ***      In preparation for my Australian tour next month, I created a video to sell at lectures. It is a recording of my lecture, Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin, at the Windmill Hotel in Jerusalem last October. I played it for the first time last night and I'm delighted. The film and sound qualities are fine. And I was hot that night. In 1997, a similar video filmed in Toronto was released and it was one hour in length. The new video is two hours and fourteen minutes in length with all the latest information. And it's entertaining without a letup.      I'll be reproducing the video and printing a cover next week. Let me know if you'd like a copy of the first run for $25 or NIS 80. It's important that Americans inform me quickly, since Israel and Australia employ PAL, while I have to know how many American NTSC tapes to make. And of course, my new book, Save Israel! is also available for the same price by writing   chamish@netvision.net.il I owe much to my researcher David Miller; a truly great snoop.   February 8, 2003 - SHUTTLE PERSUASION        YESTERDAY, I was sent a photo of what was purported to be the electric charge that struck Columbia. After seeing the weird blue looped streak I was all prepared to say, "Case closed. We know what damaged the craft's left wing and caused the crash seven minutes later. Now I can concentrate on my Israeli reports like I was born to do."        I was all ready to prepare a jpg of the streak and send it out. But then I noticed there were clouds, lots of them, above the supposed Columbia: at 212000 feet, a sky full of clouds. This picture was a hoax. That led me to the next step in logical thinking: this is all too easy. An electric discharge is photographed bolting into Columbus. Proof quickly arrives that electric storms occur in the high atmosphere. Mystery solved. Lightning knocked out the left wing. Let's bury the astronauts and go home.        Such an approach is a good idea if you're covering up facts, considering more and more influential people want to know if the blue light was caused by a Star Wars Weapon: *** Dallas Congressman, Pete Sessions(R-Dallas), and son for former FBI Director Judge William Sessions, told KLIF-AM talk radio, on Saturday morning, that these electrical flashes are very disturbing. He speculated that America's enemies, citing China, had developed SDI weapons. (Was this an assassination contracted by Iraq to the ChiComms?) *** Congressman Pete Sessions, Republican-Northwest Dallas, and son of former FBI Director William Sessions (of San Antonio), has called for an investigation of the mysterious flashes of light seen just before the Columbia accident. ***       TO PREVENT such calls for a real investigation, the strategy is; let us quickly prepare data that will lead all to one inescapable conclusion; a storm in an unknown part of the high atmosphere released a bolt of lightning which damaged the Shuttle's left wing and caused it to break up and crash. Or, as we shall conjecture shortly, let's have it prepared before the disaster: Here are some reports from Feb.5-7: *** An Air Force tracking camera in New Mexico that photographed the final minute of flight by the space shuttle Columbia showed "heavy structural damage on the left wing near the fuselage," a source familiar with the investigation of the disaster told NBC News on Friday. *** "Cosmic bolt" probed in shuttle disaster Scientists poring over 'infrasonic' sound waves http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/02/07/MN200326.DTL Federal scientists are looking for evidence that a bolt of electricity in the upper atmosphere might have doomed the space shuttle Columbia as it streaked over California, The Chronicle has learned. Investigators are combing records from a network of ultra-sensitive instruments that might have detected a faint thunderclap in the upper atmosphere at the same time a photograph taken by a San Francisco astronomer appears to show a purplish bolt of lightning striking the shuttle. Should the photo turn out to be an authentic image of an electrical event on Columbia, it would not only change the focus of the crash investigation, but it could open a door on a new realm of science. "We're working hard on the data set. We have an obligation," said Alfred Bedard, a scientist at the federal Environmental Technology Laboratory in Boulder, Colo. He said the lab was providing the data to NASA but that it was too early to draw any conclusions from the sounds of the shuttle re-entry. The lab has been listening to the sounds of ghostly electromagnetic phenomena in the upper atmosphere, dubbed sprites, blue jets and elves. For some time, scientists have speculated on whether these events could endanger airliners or returning spacecraft. A study conducted 10 years ago for NASA found that there is a 1-in-100 chance that a space shuttle could fly through a sprite, although it concluded that the consequences of such an event were unclear. And in 1989, an upper- atmospheric electrical strike "shot down" a high-altitude NASA balloon 129,000 feet over Dallas. ***  From USA Today: Nothing but a rocket can fly at its upper limit of 53 miles. The "ignorosphere" encompasses the mesosphere and upper stratosphere. Invisible clouds, strange electrical flashes called red sprites and blue lightning bolts that strike upward from the tops of clouds inhabit the thin air. This is the place where falling stars are made. The "ignorosphere" earns its nickname from the fact that you can't get there from here without a rocket. It is too high for weather balloons and too low for satellites to dip down to gather information. Much of what is known about the upper atmosphere comes from measurements collected during more than 100 re-entries by space shuttles since the first launch of the Columbia in 1981. What is perhaps least known about the mesosphere is how to fly in it. This may be a missing links in the Columbia mystery. Scientists say that one of the big unknowns is the behavior of airflow over the shuttle as it streaks downward into the thinnest of thin air at speeds of 17,000 to 14,000 miles per hour. Xiaolin Zhong, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at UCLA is studying the airflow problem for the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Space shuttles can experience unpredictable airflow problems on the wings for a variety of reasons: the wrong trajectory, unknown atmospheric conditions or any roughness on the shuttle's surface. These problems are known to cause intense heating, which is a focus of NASA's investigation. Understanding these airflow problems is one of the top priorities of the Air Force, which is planning to build its own space plane and upper atmosphere aircraft. "Part of my work is on disturbances" in airflow that can potentially burn up a shuttle, says Zhong. "This is still more art than science." Zhong says this problem was one of four major reasons cited a decade ago for canceling the National Aerospace Plane, which was supposed to replace the shuttle. As NASA proceeds with its investigation, scientists will have to ponder the many mysteries of the "ignorosphere." A report by NASA scientists released last fall describes concerns about the impact of upper atmospheric phenomenon on the space shuttle: ·       Transparent clouds, called "noctilucent" clouds, float 50 miles above Earth and are visible only at twilight. These silvery cirrus clouds form at the edges of much larger clouds. Models of shuttle impacts with them "vary from trivial to catastrophic" according to the report, which says "the most severe effect of entry through a noctilucent cloud would probably be the erosion of the thermal protection system during the most critical heating region." That critical heating region is where Columbia was destroyed. The agency plans its re-entry paths to avoid regions thought prone to these clouds. ·       Red sprites are electrical discharges in the upper atmosphere. They occur over thunderclouds and have been considered to pose less than a one in 100 risk to the shuttle. Some rainstorm clouds did appear over Northern California during re-entry last Saturday but no lightning was reported on the ground, says atmospheric scientist Walter Lyons, of FMA Research Inc. in Fort Collins, Colo. ·       Density shears are patches of thicker-than-expected air that can increase the shuttle's roll and pull on one wing. On a Columbia mission in 1992 and an Endeavor mission in 1993, hitting such patches forced them to use up its fuel for the thrusters that help keep it on course during re-entry. ·       Blue jets are upward lightning strikes. In 1998, Lyons and a team of scientists reported one that was sparked by a meteor. "The safety implications are just a gaping hole in our knowledge," he says. As the space shuttle streaks through the upper atmosphere, it leaves a wake in the air just as a boat leaves a wake behind it in the water. The shuttle's wake becomes electrified. Lyons says some scientists are speculating that its electrified wake acted as an antenna and drew a blue jet to the Columbia. NASA and the Air Force have been losing interest in studying the uppermost atmosphere. Meanwhile, Lyons says scientists are still discovering unexplained phenomenon. "We're nickel-and-diming to do our research," he says. "And there is all sorts of electrical foolishness going on up there that we still don't know anything about." ***       SO WHAT is it about that last report that is so bothersome? It's when NASA began its investigation; less than two months before Columbia took off. This is known as establishing an alibi. The next reporter implies that NASA's plan to shut down the Shuttle program and its release of the ignorosphere report just prior to the loss of the Columbia was not accidental: *** To: Breaking News Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 1:38 AM Subject: Earth Changes TV/Breaking News - NASA Looking To Shut Down Space Station & Shuttle NASA Looking To Shut Down Space Station & Shuttle...02/05/03 by Mitch Battros (ECTV) Sound like breaking news? Well, it is at least two months old. ECTV reported on this event in late November 2002. Could this be a coincidence? I sure hope so, because if it is not, it was at the coast of seven innocent people who died, and countless others who have been betrayed. This whole incident is beginning to stink. I found it very interesting how many times Sean O'Keefe, head administrator of Nasa stated "it is import for us (nasa) to keep the trust of the American people". Now I am not quite sure who he is trying to convince, the public, or the vast Nasa staff, contractors and consultants. Once again, only time will tell. Here is the first ECTV article posted which has the tale tell signs of what was to happen to the Space Station and the Shuttle missions: November 25th 2002: "The not so good news; is the same geomagnetic storm that produces beautiful lights in the sky, can also blow out power grids and harm satellites. Not to mention the space station and space shuttle. I wonder if this was behind the reasoning for delaying the space shuttle for two weeks before its blast off Friday night. I certainly welcome NASA employees to share anything you may have heard. I promise to keep your name confidential, but I will share your information, provided it can be verified, with over 14 million of my closest friends." 1) Full Article : "Geo-Magnetic Storm "Off The Chart" http://www.earthchangestv.com/breaking/November2002/25geomagnetic.htm November 27th 2002 "btw, I am still looking for that one Nasa official to come forward and tell us "what's really going on with the space shuttle and space station". Remember, it is your duty to keep the public informed. Step up, to the call of duty and help your neighbor." 2) Full Article : "Power Outages Hit Southern California" http://www.earthchangestv.com/breaking/November2002/27power_outages.htm November 27th 2002 "NASA has completed an initial contingency study of how to evacuate the International Space Station and leave it without a permanent astronaut crew for up to a year. The interruption of permanent occupancy of the space outpost may be forced by Russia's failure to finance the regular visits of manned Soyuz space taxis and unmanned Progress cargo ships. Reported by James Oberg, special to MSNBC.COM " 3) Full Article: "NASA Mulls Station Evacuation Plan" http://www.earthchangestv.com/secure/1102_4articles/27NASA.htm February 4th 2003 And now as of today, a new article just came out from Stanford University. "It is time to rethink the manned space program. Despite the Columbia shuttle disaster on Saturday, which took the lives of seven astronauts, NASA officials have called for the shuttle program to continue. The cry, ``Let`s go on to Mars,`` has even been heard from some quarters in NASA." 4) Full Article: "Re-Thinking NASA`s Manned Space Program" http://www.earthchangestv.com/breaking/index2000.htm Now lets see if we can objectively put this puzzle together. ***      SO AFTER forty years in space, when not even one little red sprite has ever hit, let alone felled, a spacecraft, the one that does, emerges not two months after NASA announced the danger it posed.      There exists the real possibility that we are being toyed with. And the sophisticated manipulations are going to work. Very shortly, the world will put the Shuttle tragedy to bed, fully persuaded that the craft was brought down by a freak high upper atmosphere electrical discharge. And that will be that.       But there is more, much more to the downing of Space Shuttle Columbia. And the memories of Ilan Ramon and his brave crewmates will never find peace. end Barring the unexpected, we end the Shuttle period and return to Israel next sendout. BOOK plug: My new book is being opened and vandalized by postal authorities everywhere.  From Edmonton: "My books haven't arrived and Cora's were delivered opened...again."  From Reno: Book arrived today, can't wait to read it. However, cover was barely on, torn, and held together by a big rubber band. Return address not clear, where do I send your $25 to cover book cost/shipping??? If you'd like to risk ordering Save Israel, write  chamish@netvision.net.il The most open-minded coverage of the Shuttle disaster is found at: Page One News http://pageonenews.com http://InvestigativeJournal.com http://www.rumormillnews.com/ February 3, 2003 - SHUTTLE LETTERS       Never, ever have I received as much response in 36 hours to any piece I've written. Numerous people suggested that I should stay away from the Shuttle because it will kill my credibility about Rabin. Other writers, including two police officers from Texas, offered plausible scenarios that I should consider. One said the flying foam insulation knocked out the craft's auxiliary power box, the other, that it caused a tire to blow up, triggering the disaster.       My feeling is that foam insulation would not do either. That the left wing's problems were coincident to the tragedy, not the cause of it. My logic works like this:      The temperature of the wing rose 60 degrees F in 5 minutes. We were told the temperature surrounding the craft was 3000 degrees F. So what's 60 degrees relatively? There was also drag on the wing which was corrected by the flight computers. These are not convincing reasons for the total destruction of the craft.       My central doubt concerns the huge boom that thousands heard and felt. Where did it come from? A sonic boom from 40 miles altitude? From debris, none bigger than a compact car and most very much smaller? Houses, even barns shook when Columbia exploded. From what?       I will say no more. Here are just some of the comments, quotations and sites sent to me in a day and a half. Please notice the inquiring minds of my readers. Then, notice also, that many are military officers, police personnel, engineers, doctors and journalists.       Without them, I wouldn't be able to understand how the world works, inasmuch as anyone possibly can. The following is my unedited correspondence in response to my suspicions that we are not getting the facts about the Columbia tragedy the way free people should be. The Boom Barry, I'm not sure why I am writing to you about this. If it is inappropriate in any way please forgive me. It's about 10:45AM. The space shuttle Columbia blew up somewhere in the skies above where I live. I heard it happen, though at the time I didn't know what it was. I was sitting where I am now when I heard and felt either a tremendous sonic boom from when the Columbia re-entered the atmosphere or the explosion. When it happened I thought one of my 3 roommates had left the house in some sort of dramatic rage, slamming the front door using all of their strength. It happens. And whenever it does happen the house slightly shakes. Looking back, the "boom" was way too loud and the house shook much more than is usually caused by the standard door slammings. It felt more like a very heavy object - maybe refridgerator-like in size and weight - had been knocked over in the center of the house. *** Hi Barry I was waiting for this email. I knew someone other than me had to believe it was sabotage. I am 99% certain that it was. I produce a radio show for young people on Saturday afternoons, and I had several of our youngsters out and about in the Dallas area interviewing eyewitnesses. At least 35 unconnected people said they heard the shuttle explode - so loud that it shook houses - and then saw it descend. *** 'Big bang' then 'fireball' There were reports of an explosion to local law enforcement officials all over Texas. Witnesses said they heard a "big bang" at approximately 9:00 a.m. Eastern and windows shook in buildings. "I watched the shuttle blow up while it came over Texas," witness Daniel Lee Schinzing told WorldNetDaily. "My family was outside watching it come over and pieces started coming from it!" *** "It was like a car hitting a house, or an explosion. It shook that much," said John Ferolito, 60, of Carrollton, just north of Dallas. "I was getting ready to go out and I heard a big bang, a massive roar and the windows shook." A neighbour told CNN: "We heard a rumble. It eventually got to where our house was shaking . it lasted for about a minute and a half. It felt like you lived with a railroad in your backyard." Andrea Robinson, a housewife in Dallas, had promised her children that she would get them up in time to watch the Shuttle fly overhead, after a local media campaign for schoolchildren to pay more attention to the regular space flights - this was the 113th in 22 years. She told The Telegraph: "I knew it was going overhead soon and I was just lying in bed thinking I had better get my daughter up. "All of a sudden my house started to shake and there was this huge noise and my daughter ran into the bedroom. We went outside and we could see this big trail of smoke coming down; it was very very wide. "I thought, well, that looks strange, they didn't tell us it was supposed to look like that. Then I heard my phone ringing and I went in and it was my neighbour telling me to turn on the television, the Shuttle had blown up. We are all in shock." Bob Multer of Palestine, 110 miles south-east of Dallas, said that the noise "was very similar to a tornado, it was very loud and intense - loud enough and low enough that it shook the building. "As soon as it started I shot out of my house because the windows were rattling. I looked up at the sky and a very large zigzagging smoke plume was going south-east. It was huge. Much bigger than it looked on the TV screen on the news. "I timed it and it took a minute-and-a-half to pass. I just stood there because I couldn't really believe what was happening." Benjamin Laster of Kemp, Texas, said: "The barn started shaking and we ran out and started looking around. I saw a puff of vapour and smoke and saw big chunk of material fall." *** Booms? Sonic booms? Sound of explosion? The aircraft was 38 miles high so the sound would take at least 200 seconds to get from the explosion to the witnesses' ears. Meanwhile the thing is moving a six times the speed of sound so by the time we hear the boom, the wreckage is somewhere else. *** The Lights There was one report, I heard it only once, that a military satellite monitoring the shuttle picked up three flashes of light hitting the shuttle and then kaboom. There are allegedly no weapons fast enough to hit a shuttle moving at that speed. But lasers travel faster than missles and knowing now that a number of American weapons systems security codes have been compromised and have found their way into very unfriendly hands, who knows if one of our own weapons systems was somehow compromised and used . . . you're the reporter, but I have my sources too . . . *** http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30826 CATASTROPHE IN THE SKY Bright flashes photographed near shuttle Astronomer catches 'electrical phenomena' near Columbia's track An astronomer who regularly photographs space shuttles when they pass over the San Francisco Bay area has captured five "strange and provocative images" of Columbia as it was re-entering the atmosphere. The San Francisco Chronicle reports the images "appear to be bright electrical phenomena flashing around the track of the shuttle's passage." "They clearly record an electrical discharge like a lightning bolt flashing past, and I was snapping the pictures almost exactly ... when the Columbia may have begun breaking up during re-entry," the photographer, who asked not to be identified, told the Chronicle. The photos were snapped with a Nikon 8 camera using a tripod. Though he's not making the pictures public immediately, he invited the newspaper to view the images on his home computer this weekend. David Perlman, science editor for the San Francisco Chronicle, calls the photos "indeed puzzling." "They show a bright scraggly flash of orange light, tinged with pale purple, and shaped somewhat like a deformed L," Perlman writes. "The flash appears to cross the Columbia's dim contrail, and at that precise point, the contrail abruptly brightens and appears thicker and somewhat twisted as if it were wobbling." "I couldn't see the discharge with own eyes, but it showed up clear and bright on the film when I developed it," the photographer said. "But I'm not going to speculate about what it might be." Meanwhile, an Australian astronomer working in California says he saw what could be tiles falling off the Columbia as it flew over the Golden State. "After the first few flashes I thought to myself that I knew the shuttle lost tiles as it re-entered and quite possibly that was what was going on," Anthony Beasley told ABC News. Beasley was north of Los Angeles when he made his report, indicating the shuttle possibly began to disintegrate above California. If Beasley is correct, it indicates the shuttle began to disintegrate on the west coast above California. The Australian reported how the astronomer witnessed "a couple of flashes" and "things clearly trailing" Columbia. "I think that after the particularly bright event I started to wonder whether or not things were happening how they should," Beasley said. Space experts said tiles falling off the shuttle would be too small to be detected by NASA radar. "It leads in the direction that tile loss or some type of structural loss like that was likely to be a cause," former shuttle astronaut Norm Thagard told ABC. "But it still doesn't rule out other possibilities." *** Fox 11 news out of Los Angeles reported Saturday night at 11:00 PM eastern that a photographer had been up on his roof Saturday morning taking pics of the sky when he saw the Columbia and took a picture of it. They explained on the news show as well as showed the picture. They said and showed that there were to jet streams...one coming down and the other coming up from the ground. According to the LA times Sunday edition front page the problem began at 7:53 AM...that was exactly the time it was over LA. Thought you might want to check it out. *** I watched Larry King on CNN,as he interviewd eye-witnesses. The first person who called the Hoston Airforce--a eye witness pilot, stated that no way could the spaceship travel the 200.000 feet as reported, as the contrails were visible, which is not possible over 50 Thousand feet. A Astronaut from the 70s disagreed, but ther pilots reaffirmed the first pilots (David Neal's) remarks. Interesting! *** Guesses A laser EMP beam could easily cause an explosion. It is not true that Columbia was too high above ground to be hit from the earth. I think that 60 miles is a piece of cake for an EMP weapon. But the question is: Who has got it? Right. The US of A. Weird? I dunno. To admit - or even hint at sabotage (terrorism) is not very smart, but a flat denial is pure stupidity. NASA knows or suspects what went on - that is for sure. *** Right after Shabbat I found out about this and my thoughts wre the same as yours. All my friends thought I was crazy till I pointed out the first failure had a Jew and the Palestine TX thing was just to much. That explosion was my clue also. Aftr all, the US had admitted back a few months ago that it had found contrails of unexpalined origin over more than one US city. To top it off, there are also weapons using EMP/directed energy that could do the job. Now most folks think those are still comic book weapons, but not so. I am an engineer, although not a space type but a mechanical type, and I agree with you on the explosions could not have been from engine failure at reentry. I am also a retired military officer and trained to think outside the norm/average mundane stuff which is why I knew right away that it was terrorism. I do not believe in coincidences and although it will be hard to prove, there is just to much there. I am happy to see that some one besides me had the same thoughts on this incident. I wanted to write to you last night, but had lots of peer pressure not to. *** http://www.gulufuture.com/future/scalar_columbia_z.htm A scalar-burst strike on the US space shuttle Columbia has struck a debilitating preemptive blow to Anglo-American plans for a Middle-East takeover. Psychological warfare tactics were to the fore in continuing pre-conflict skirmishing over the planned US-UK invasion of the Middle-East. This time the blow was devastating, as the Columbia ran into an electromagnetic 'wall,' in the sky over Texas. On Saturday 1st February, 2003 a scalar Tesla Howitzer weapon --aimed at downing the US space shuttle Columbia was phenomenally successful and will leave red faces in the Pentagon. Despite the media spin of an unfortunate accident, the nature of the crash of Columbia was evident from eyewitness accounts. The telltale sonic boom from the deployment of the weapon was so strong: "It was like a car hitting the house or an explosion. It shook that much," John Ferolito, 60, of Carrolton, north of Dallas, told the Associated Press. Media reports put the noise down to the effects of the shuttle breakup, but this is clearly spurious. The shuttle was gliding at 203,000 feet. That works out to almost 40 miles. Aircraft-generated sonic booms 40 miles up in super-thin air do not shake homes at ground level. Nor do small debris parts. Just try generating air pressure changes at ground level when 40 miles up -no matter how fast you are going. *** Thanks for the information. Like everyone else, I'm trying to gather information on the shuttle disaster, and also just having to wait to see what anomalies turn out to be certain. Then one has to look at those anomalies very hard (and usually pretty long!). I really don't know at this point what it was, so am keeping all scenarios open. Certainly the shuttle was old and they did have a tile problem. But again, whether this was sufficient to produce the phenomenology still remains to be seen. Also, I was very happy to see the tone of the news media and our leaders in recognizing the grief of the families. That I think was very important; it shows that we still are a caring nation. I do hope they also do some radioactivity tests and others (test for longitudinal EM wave radiation, which can be done with a Geiger tube), etc. If longitudinal EM wave emissions from the fragments are found, that is a 100% certain signature. If anomalous isotopes of Aluminum are found, that also is a 100% certain signature. If not, then one has to sort out (or try to) all the other phenomena etc. *** In your recent blurb on the possible sabotage of STS-107, I discovered that the comment on the "D-Orb burners" actually was made from the Columbia to Houston, rather than the other way around...at least this is what someone watching Ch 2 heard very distinctly. Is this a fact? Secondly, Richard C. Hoagland, the emminent NASA investigator, has requested through a friend of mine, that you be good enough to contact him so that a discussion can be initiated with regards to Richard's findings of a Nazi presence at the highest levels of NASA. It is clear to many of us that the "fix" is in at NASA and that sabotage was a probability due to Ilan Ramon's presence on board Columbia. *** The Path Shuttle Notes, Cont. Michael Bunker Feb 01, 2003 Here is my problem, and it has been my problem since the first hour. 1. First story says that breakup had to have started between my house(West of Lubbock) and NORTH TEXAS, North of Dallas. All of the eyewitness accounts are from North Texas and debris is reportedly immediately spotted in PLANO (North of Dallas). I said, "THIS CANNOT BE, the debris should be in Louisiana". 2. Then it is reported that debris is reported as far south as Palestine and Lufkin, which means if the first stories are true - debris should be ALL OVER the DFW Metroplex which is HUGE and covers almost 2 hours driving time. 3. New stories have the flight path going way SOUTH of Dallas, with breakup starting just before Dallas and the debris field as widespread as Arkansas to just north of the Houston area. 4. This radar imagery clearly shows the breakup happening over LOUISIANA (below Shreveport) which is what I said from the first minute. Now, vast areas of the forests of South East Texas are being swarmed over with Feds, Forest Service and National Guard. Now, the flight path, speed, etc. is NOT adding up. Why was the Shuttle still moving so fast? Why was it still 40 miles up? Now it is supposedly 16 minutes from the Cape, but at it's speed it would have been there in under 5 minutes! No time for slowing "S-curves" etc. *** Barry, not the "D-orbit burn", rather the "de-orbit burn", i.e., the burn to slow the craft down from orbital velocity and drop out of orbit and spiral down the gravity well to the landing at Cape Canaveral. But the de-orbit burn should happen about 45 minutes before actual landing. It would not make any sense to do that once the craft has reentered the upper atmosphere. Also, if the de-orbit burn is done too soon, or too late, the craft can potentially strike the atmosphere at the wrong angle, thereby dooming the reentry to catastrophic failure. Did that happen here? Moreover, they dump excess fuel before reentry. Plenty of unanswered and unasked questions in this spectacular crash. *** I accidently caught the news on satellite (Fox channel) here, switched on as the shuttle was coming in, and within minutes the whole scenario changed as communications were lost. I also accidently watched the takeoff on the 16th. I say accidently, as it isn't big news here, and I just happened to turn on the tv at the right times! I heard the Mission Control statement of "you're going to be surprised" etc. At the time the news channel was tuned in live to mission control without any edit. It was explained too at the time, that the shuttle was on computer command from mission control still, and that it was minutes away from switching command to the pilot of the shuttle. This was before any idea there was a problem. If this is the case, and no power was on at the time, why has an attack been ruled out? All of us know that computer messages can be played with and altered, coding scrambled etc. The exact message from NASA at the time was that an attack "from the ground" did not occur. Well that could be correct in the traditional sense of attack, but not in the technological sense. *** Dear Chamish; I'm pretty sure the comments about being surprised that the Deorbit burn was starting occurred ~ 40 minutes before the break up, and somewhere over the Indian Ocean. The weather was an issue at the landing site (Fog on the field) in Florida, and they didnt get the "go" until the last minute for the Deorbit (actually deorbit) burn which starts the descent out of orbit. You can check on the British site www.spaceflightnow.com. It's the lead article and when you go to it, they have the entire timeline, and communication log, and I read that line about the D-orbit burn, early on. I can't imagine why the reporter would have heard it at the time of the loss of communication. The engines were off. They were way past removal from orbit. Could he be mistaken in the worry of the moment? Could it have been a replay of the earlier communication? It wouldn't at all be a coverup statement to the crew or anybody. *** Message: Look at the piece of metal ** Hunt for shuttle answers begins ** The space shuttle Columbia plummeted to Earth in flames and crashed in central Texas on Saturday, taking the lives of all seven astronauts on board. http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_email.asp?/news/857733.asp *** If the breakup began at 40 miles up, traveling at 12,500 mph - and the Shuttle was supposed to land in Florida at 9:15 eastern time. That means the Shuttle would have been over Louisiana 1.5 minutes after the breakup began, which means most of the debris should have landed in Louisiana, not in Texas. The debris is being found over North Texas. How is this possible when the plane was traveling 12,500 mph when it BEGAN it's breakup over North Texas? Did the debris fall straight down? The Israeli pilot on board is one of the pilots who bombed the Iraqi nuclear plant at Osirak. This is just a question: The Shuttle was traveling 12,500 mph over the Dallas area when the visible breakup occured. How does a vehicle traveling at that speed take 15 minutes to slow down to landing speed, when they would have been over Florida in about 6 minutes? I have never considered this before, but I thought the re-entry took a more steady and gradual glide-path. Am I being told that this plane enters the atmosphere at 50 miles, and only 6 minutes from its target it is still at 40 miles altitude and travelling at 12,500 mph? How can that be? Does anyone know anything about this? *** They are now reporting that debris field is as far south as Palestine, Texas. This makes no sense at all. The shuttle was traveling eastward and slightly south. The debris field should be in Louisiana and not in south Texas or Arkansas. Next: ABC had an eyewitness who had a yard filled with debris and tiles. The host asked him if he had called emergency personnel and he said NO. They immediately took him off the air. At first they said the debris would be HOT, but not chemically or nuclearly dangerous. Now, some "expert" said that no one should even touch the debris because it had "hydrozine" on it and "it will kill you". Give me a break. Everyone sees the debris flying to the east southeast. To find debris in Palestine, Texas HUNDREDS of miles to the direct south doesn't make sense. *** Here is my problem, and it has been my problem since the first hour. 1. First story says that breakup had to have started between my house(West of Lubbock) and NORTH TEXAS, North of Dallas. All of the eyewitness accounts are from North Texas and debris is reportedly immediately spotted in PLANO (North of Dallas). I said, "THIS CANNOT BE, the debris should be in Louisiana". 2. Then it is reported that debris is reported as far south as Palestine and Lufkin, which means if the first stories are true - debris should be ALL OVER the DFW Metroplex which is HUGE and covers almost 2 hours driving time. 3. New stories have the flight path going way SOUTH of Dallas, with breakup starting just before Dallas and the debris field as widespread as Arkansas to just north of the Houston area. 4. This radar imagery clearly shows the breakup happening over LOUISIANA (below Shreveport) which is what I said from the first minute. Now, vast areas of the forests of South East Texas are being swarmed over with Feds, Forest Service and National Guard. Now, the flight path, speed, etc. is NOT adding up. Why was the Shuttle still moving so fast? Why was it still 40 miles up? Now it is supposedly 16 minutes from the Cape, but at it's speed it would have been there in under 5 minutes! No time for slowing "S-curves" etc. *** Challenger I often do not agree with you however, on this one we are of one mind. As soon as I heard that Ramon was one of the astronauts, I was proud but I was scared. My vibes were bad from the beginning. Yesterday morning when I heard of the disaster, I declared immediately, They killed him. I don't know how they did it and probably we will never know whether it was a bomb placed on board and put on a timer or someone who tampered with the tiles or the computers, but I know they did and I wrote about it on a newsboard and to one of my friends immediately. I always felt that they killed Judy too. There are too many coincidences on this one--. It happened around 9:11 am EST . and over Palestine, TX. I am sick over this. *** I announced in 1986 that the first coverup was done to cover up the fact that a particle beam had hit it. O Rings are another magic bullet. take a look at www.cloakanddagger.ca I've confirmed it. *** Listen, you don't know what you are getting into here, it's as bad as maybe left alone. I didn't want to go into it, it is BIG no-no and FBI don't like any rubbing noses. Just get a glimpse of link http://mission51l.com/apreview.htm It's M-51, the 1986 Challenger disaster. But no disaster.... There are big forces in the States that don't want the space program to lift off the ground. Big big money. All the inquiries NASA will conduct, together with "federal agencies" will lead to nothing - only to what they want to say. M-51 in January 1986 was no fiasco but they had to enroll a brilliant, ailing physicist - Feynemann - to deeply enseed the principle of the O rubber ring failing. No O ring failed. the boosters CRISS-CROSSED and flew straight into the main liquid fuel tang to make the big bang. To undestand the problem, the boosters are so designed to jetison away from the space shuttle on two axis: lateral away from the main rocket AND away from the shuttle wings! Photo M51 -1 shows the 2 minor jets firing at 45deg on the two axes: upward and downward at 45 deg, so no to hit any assembly on the shuttle (the detached backwards, away from the wings), and INWARDS at 45 deg so the boosters are pushed away from the remaining rocked. Futher, the left and right boosters are identified by a black painted ring near the top - ONLY on the LEFT booster. This is critical to understand. It aides photography and identification at very high altitude of tens of km. Black and white are best contrasting colors for camera lens. To see how Columbia adhered to this procedure, see attached M51-2 and M51-2clsup, both actually of Columbia STS-107 - our flight. The first is of Columbia rolling out on its 5m ride to the launching pod, the other a closeup of the boosters and the black left ring on the launch pod. A lot of engineering questions remain unanswered on the STS-107 reentry. I watched it live and knew 10 min before touchdown that they are not coming home. NASA new it 20min before. Just note that Apollo 1 - the first disaster with 3 astronauts killed, happend in January. Challenger 1986, in January. Columbia STS-107 January (okay, 1 Feb). Pretty close no? All engines, including Columbia's, suffered hailine cracks and were removed, checked and "repaired". Hiarline cracks are notoriously difficult to fix, ususally engines are replaced. Mostle the nozzle area that suffers lots of stress. Guess this one intended to hit massively on people on the ground as the approach path covered the entire USA. That people weren't killed by the debris is a miracle.Worst doomsday scenario when debris fall out of the sky. *** Phenomena Just now on the 7 pm news, Kol Yisrael broadcast that Hackers broke into the NASA website and put up materials denouncing the upcoming attack on Iraq. Perhaps there were some other enemies of NASA who brought down the Columbia? *** You know what? Something is not sitting right in my gut with this tragedy of the Colombia Space Shuttle. While I was on-line today from 6am (eastern) I had no problem with my computer. Now do not think I am nuts, but around 9am (eastern) my computer was going crazy. First I could not e-mail, then different windows kept opening and closing. I called my Internet Provider to see what was the problem and he was going to look into it. Now that specific time the space shuttle lost contact, and everything is run by computers right? Also how ironic is it that the Israeli Astronaut, a historic first, just happened to be the pilot leading the bombing of the Iraqi nuclear plants back in 1981? I do not know, but my gut says something else, and I feel very uneasy about this! Please do not think I am nuts! *** The excuse will be a piece of foam insulation that broke off the fuel tank and struck the left wing of the aircraft. Now that wing is a pretty hefty thing, designed to take pretty severe G-forces. A dent or so would not matter in my humble, uneducated opinion. If the foam damaged the control surfaces, well, these are used on takeoff as well to steer and stabilize the trajectory so we would have known about that! But an uninvestigated mishap could conceivably have destroyed the Columbia on the stress of reentry and descent so we have it. (And the German astronaut that flew a few years back said publicly that there should have been a spacewalk to inspect the wing and a loudmouthed French astronaut that also flew her said they should have junked the Columbia before now--I guess foreigners will no longer be welcomed on NASA flights). Most plausable explanation would be loss of stable attitude at mach-6. Damaged control surface? Pilot-error -- does not wash with NASA! Errant command from the ground? Errant? What about the con-trails the were captioned in every picture released? Con-densation-trails are caused by the water in jet-engine exhaust. But the engine was not running and the fuel was either used out or jettisoned before reentry. The shuttle dead-sticks down. Highly explosive hydrozene was around in the positioning jets in small quantity. If these were being fired (unlikely after reentry), they get used momentarily--not enough for a con-trail and not enough to blow the thing up. *** Insider Information Hi Barry I have had a communication from a very reliable source in the US military that this was a bomb on board, as i suspected. He cannot talk more right now. More news as I get it. *** Barry Exchange with my high level source inside the US military re shuttle: NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT ......"from within" is all I can say... and the from within means more that just done by - yes think about it. ______________________________________ plug: My new book Save Israel!, is available by writing this author at  chamish@netvision.net.il   February 1, 2003 - ONE THING WE AREN'T BEING TOLD ABOUT THE COLUMBIA EXPLOSION      So the Space Shuttle on its 113th mission, carrying Israel's first astronaut, explodes on the Sabbath over Palestine, Texas. Too unbelievable to be accidental, right? Well, maybe it isn't. We will return.      I had prepared my usual report from Israel and it was chock full of powerful eye-witness evidence. It was that sort of week. Now who will give a hoot about last week's news? So let's summarize what I won't report in depth and get it over with.      * We were going to start by asking why, if two/thirds of Israel's Jewish voters chose parties from the Right, is it that Sharon is forming a coalition with the Left, guaranteeing that Peres will be back in the cabinet? And our conclusion was, obviously, that the voters wasted their time voting.      * Then we were going to present eye-witnesses that the Green Leaf Party, which all polls showed winning 2-4 seats, lost because of mass ballot destruction. And something similar took place to Herut, before the vote counting began.      * Like mother, like daughter. Dahlia Pelosoff Rabin is sick with cancer and not telling anyone. A close friend of hers contacted me with the information.      * My last article included an interview with an associate of Rabin's personal bodyguard, who was called away for an overseas assignment a week before the assassination. I was told, "You got that story right. What you missed is he wasn't the only one called away on the night of the rally. Practically the whole Shabak protection unit was called to a gathering in Mishmar Hashiva that evening when we should have been on duty."      Back to NASA, once again an acronym for Need Another Seven Astronauts. Obviously, it's too early to make a claim for sabotage, but there are some signs to look for and one powerful piece of evidence unknown outside Israel.      The easy way out is to observe that just when an Israeli is on board, the shuttle disintegrates. Two of the 113 shuttle flights ended in disaster, so Ilan Ramon, we calculate after the fact, had a 1 in 56.5 chance of not returning or a 1 in 112 chance before boarding. These are high but not unlikely odds. That there were Jewish astronauts on both shuttle disasters, (a distant relative of mine, Judy Resnick died in the 1986 conflagration), is entirely explainable by coincidence.      So let's increase the chances of improbability by noting that Ramon was in the Air Force squadron which bombed the Iraqi nuclear reactor in 1982, and he was on the craft on the eve of an American invasion of Iraq. There are several thousand Israeli Air Force pilots who weren't on the Iraqi mission, so Ramon's choice as the country's astronaut may not have been entirely coincidental. The Columbia explosion has the grand potential of rallying Americans against Iraq either way. Sabotage would be fine for that purpose but the images of rejoicing in Baghdad are useful as well.      THEN, that the first explosion reported was over Palestine, Texas gets a bit spooky already. Which brings us to a peculiar NASA reaction. The space agency initially insisted that no explosion was heard from the Shuttle by anyone . What people thought was an explosion was actually debris hitting the ground.      A few hours of TV watching proved that to be untrue. All kinds of witnesses saw the vapor trail and heard the explosion. They included a Texas senator and ordinary people like Randy Hendricks and Kim Dornak-Anderson, both interviewed on Fox News. Yet NASA continued to insist the Shuttle broke up, not exploded. The final proof of this false contention came from the Shreveport, Louisiana weather station, which taped the explosion on its radar screen.      So why was NASA denying that there was an explosion? The only answer anyone should come up with is that an explosion means possible sabotage. There is another reason not to dismiss that option; the reaction of the astronauts themselves. The last radio transmission proves that the crew didn't suspect anything was wrong. Then came the end of transmission, suddenly. There was not a moment of fire or smoke within the cabin. No one saw a wing in jeopardy. No one felt a sudden jolt. And those are the telltale human signs of an immediate and highly traumatic blast.      I'm not an aeronautical engineer and I'm sure there are lots of reasons why the Columbia could have exploded. However, I know that no engines were ignited because the ship was in a gliding mode. So, with no motors running and no fuel being sparked, what precisely exploded the whole ship in one gigantic blast?      Which leads me to one concrete piece of evidence that should be very closely examined. The Israeli TV Channel Two, had a reporter and crew inside the NASA Control Center. Ilan Ramon's landing was being carried live from a number of sites and Channel Two's reporter was in the right place to hear the REAL last transmissions from Columbia. And they are not even close to what the rest of the world is being told.      According to the reporter, one NASA message to the crew was most significant. A few moments before the end, NASA broadcast the following message. Now there is some Hebrew translation involved, so there are going to be some differences in the actual message; But the Channel Two reporter heard, "Rick, you're going to be surprised. We're starting the D-Orbit burn now."      The reporter wisely asked why the commander of the mission was going to be surprised and concluded that the message could lead in all kinds of suspicious directions. It was the only blatant talk of alternative suspicion that I heard all night. I waited for hours through five TV networks and not once did I hear this conversation. All I heard was a warning about tire pressure, an acknowledgement, then nothing.      But something very odd preceded the final words NASA agreed to release. And it IS a reason not to dismiss sabotage. And that may go a ways to explaining why the Homeland Security division of FEMA was placed in charge of collecting debris, backed by a beaut of a scare campaign for what will become of all who hold on to Shuttle souvenirs.      Now for me, here's the clincher. NASA stressed that it had no idea what caused the tragedy and even noted that they may never know. However, they have totally discarded terrorism as a cause of the "accident."      So, if NASA doesn't know what caused the disaster and may never know, how exactly do they know with such concrete certainty that it wasn't sabotage? end My new book Save Israel, is available by writing this author at  chamish@netvision.net.il