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Small plane crash into Echelon building in Austin, TX, housing IRS employees. No fatalities reported yet:

According to Alex Jones’ PrisonPlanet.com:

UPDATE: NTSB Investigating Austin Plane Crash As An Intentional Act

Comment: How long before this is blamed on a Tea Party acitvist/Ron Paul supporter or 9/11 truther?

12:42 p.m.: The pilot of the plane had set his house on fire beforehand, stole the plane and crashed it intentionally, a federal official told CNN.

12:40 p.m.: Federal officials said two F-16 fighter jets were launched as a precaution after the crash, though terrorist intent was not indicated.

UPDATE: NTSB official told Fox News that they are investigating Austin, Texas plane crash as an intentional act, and said it appears the pilot set his own house on fire and then got in his plane and flew it into the building. An NTSB spokesman, however, told FoxNews.com that “we can’t confirm any of that.”

An IRS office is located inside the building, NTSB told Fox News.

In relation to the plane crashing into the IRS office in Austin, Texas, this website has a long rambling rant from a guy named Joe Stack with a grievance versus the IRS.

UPDATE: NTSB official told Fox News that they are investigating Austin, Texas plane crash as an intentional act, and said it appears the pilot set his own house on fire and then got in his plane and flew it into the building.

Federal authorities see no terrorist or criminal ties to the crash today of a plane in Austin, Texas, a Department of Homeland Security spokesman said.

A compelling account of alien abduction that took place in 1987 in the Ilkley Moor, Yorkshire, U.K….a unique case which may include one of the very few photographs taken of a live alien being. The main character and only witness of a UFO and alien be…

Click for newly released UFO files from the UK government.nydailynews – The British government has received thousands of UFO reports over the decades, and Thursday it released the largest amount of documents ever concerning UFO sightings.The documents,…

From NYT:

Senior United Nations officials in Afghanistan on Wednesday criticized NATO forces for what one referred to as “the militarization of humanitarian aid,” and said United Nations agencies would not participate in the military’s reconstruction strategy in Marja as part of its current offensive there.“We are not part of that process, we do not want to be part of it,” said Robert Watkins, the deputy special representative of the secretary general, at a news conference attended by other officials to announce the United Nations’ Humanitarian Action Plan for 2010. “We will not be part of that military strategy.”

The American commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, has made the rapid delivery of governmental services, including education, health care and job programs, a central part of his strategy in Marja, referring to plans to…

From Time Magazine:

Adapted from Jim Frederick’s book Black Hearts: One Platoon’s Descent into Madness in Iraq’s Triangle of Death

On Nov. 5 of last year, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist known by his superiors to have job-performance problems and by others in the government to have Islamist sympathies, opened fire at Fort Hood, Texas, killing 13 people and wounding 43 more before he was subdued. Defense Secretary Robert Gates quickly ordered a blue-ribbon panel to conduct an investigation into how such an atrocity could occur. Gates emphasized the importance of accountability. “One of the core functions of leadership is assessing the performance and fitness of people honestly and openly,” he said. “Failure to do so … may lead to damaging, if not devastating, consequences.”

Demanding accountability is admirable, but it…

This fascinating video reel shows the extent to which today’s scripted television shows are based around green screens. When Ugly Betty waits for the bus on a New York street corner, she’s actually standing in a green box. T.V. is even less real than you thought.

I think the family’s lawyer in this case has it right when he says that this can only be explained by “the arrogance of the bank.” View the source article for updates.

From Examiner.com:

Maria and Charlie Cardoso, who reside in Massachusetts, had been renting out the Spring Hill, Florida home they purchased in 2005 with cash. However, Bank of America, who had no connection to the property, took it anyway, ignoring complaints by the Cardoso’s that they had the wrong house.

From The Huffington Post:

On January 27, 1986, the night before the Space Shuttle Challenger was to be launched, a phone conference took place between NASA managers and Morton Thiokol, the manufacturer of the shuttle’s solid rocket motors. Engineers from the rocket company told NASA that it would be too cold (26ºF) to launch since the previous coldest launch (53ºF) showed burn-through problems with the O-ring seals and therefore there was no data to show that it was safe to launch. The NASA managers asked if they could prove that the rockets would fail at low temperatures and, of course, it could not be proved. NASA then held a private call with the rocket company’s managers, with the engineers excluded, and got them to agree to say it was OK to…

Hard to believe, but supposedly true, as reported in the Daily News:

Apparently someone really DOES miss Dubya.

Items featuring a smiling former President George Bush and the question, “Miss Me Yet?” are doing a brisk business as sales of pro-President Obama items lag, reports the Web shopping site CafePress.

Demand for the items spiked after a billboard featuring the ex-commander in chief appeared alongside a rural Minnesota highway last week, stirring up buzz.

CafePress spokeswoman Jenna Martin said sales of Bush-related products virtually disappeared after Obama replaced him.

But last week, she said, 10 of the firm’s top-selling 100 designs were “Miss Me Yet?” items, moving to the tune of up to 500 orders a day…

[continues in the Daily News]

Via Disinformation

Photo of Sohrab Arabi was taken on the day that he was to disappear.

On 16 February 2010 – the week of the anniversary of the revolution of 1979, marked by a huge official demonstration in Tehran – an anonymous video of the death of Neda Agha-Soltan on 20 June 2009 was given the prestigious […]

asylum – Wander into Indianapolis’s Lazy Daze coffee house and you might get more than a cup of joe. In addition to being one of the city’s favorite cafes, it’s also the most haunted.”Several customers, employees and visitors have reported the presence…

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama. Photo by Luca Galuzzi – www.galuzzi.it

A US president is again choosing to meet the Dalai Lama despite Chinese opposition. BBC News asks why this Tibetan spiritual and political leader is such a popular figure in the West:
To the Chinese government and to many of its people he is an inciter […]

It’s all over the net today that the British Government has released a final batch of UFO files, covering 1994 to 2000. (It’s probably not the last batch, but some are hyping it that way.) It’s several thousand pages, covering the usual kinds of cases. Mostly nocturnal lights, mostly explainable as stars and planets, but there are some odd things in the mix.

I tried downloading one set of the documents. They’re in sets of about 300 pages each – about 30 megs on average. Their server was swamped today and it took 40 tries to get one set. even one set is a lot to read and go through.

The Guardian and the Times picked out some interesting cases and headlined them, so I won’t go into these in any detail.

Here’s the Guardian’s story:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/18/mod-records-ufos-encounter-absurd-kind

And the Beeb’s:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/8521868.stm

But I found a few other odd things and I’ll be noting them in weeks to come.

One thing I did find was really telling. The UK RAF base at Leuchars (Scotland) filed many of the UFO reports in the set I looked at. I found it remarkable that the base’s own official UFO reporting form featured a cartoon alien and UFO on its masthead!

So, did the RAF really take the reports seriously?

Tampa police, TSA and Homeland Security agents are teaming up “to keep your family safe,” according to ABC News, by implementing random searches at bus depots, in yet another example of how airport tyranny is being rolled out onto the streets.

Google and other powerful forces are testing the limits of Internet censorship on all conceivable fronts.

A good question, not asked often enough.

Congressman Jason Chafetz just said that we need to be vigilant and continue to investigate 9/11.