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Today I have some good and bad news about The Clone Wars Season 7 and some speculation of the Disney+ Release Date.
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On Sunday I visited the Garden of Cosmic Speculation with friends. This is the personal garden of Charles Jencks, who has designed many structures such as Landform UEDA in front of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. The garden, which is near Dumfries, is only open for one day each year.
The U.S. National Archives has recently posted online a redacted Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) file dated 1973-74 related to an investigation of the original Washington Area Spark newspaper.
The timing of its publication is curious given the Trump administration’s abandonment of investigations into right wing groups and its focus on surveying left wing groups.
The file contains a mixture of facts, incorrect information, speculation and an astounding lapse in collecting publicly available information. It also spends considerable time trying to understand the political viewpoints of the individuals they are investigating, but without success.
Among the individuals named are Robert “Bob” Simpson (RIP), Craig Simpson, Sue Reading and Barbara Myers.
One of the things the FBI failed to understand was that the inhabitants of a group house in Takoma Park were not synonymous with the Washington Area Spark collective. The house at 201 Lincoln Avenue was a collection of people associated with the University of Maryland who shared a house to cut expenses. The Simpson brothers and Reading were all regular contributors to Spark whereas Myers was not.
The FBI also struggles to understand the politics of the group and mixes up the political leanings and orientations of different individuals. For example, attending a demonstration sponsored by the group Youth Against War and Fascism is not the same as being close to or joining that organization.
Another example is alleging that Craig Simpson published an underground newspaper at the University of Maryland College Park. Simpson said recently, “I’d very much like to take credit for it, but it’s something I never did.”
The FBI was interested in learning if Spark contributors had a “propensity for violence,” but found little evidence. However, it is astounding that they failed to note Bob Simpson’s 1972 arrest at a George Wallace rally at Capital Plaza for inciting to riot. They also failed to note that Craig Simpson had been arrested in 1970 for assault on a police officer in one incident and carrying a deadly weapon and destruction of government property in another 1970 incident. Nor did they note Meyer’s 1970 arrests at the University of Maryland for occupying Skinner Hall or her arrest as one of the Donut Shop 10. All that was public information that they failed to uncover.
Likewise, they had had an interest in foreign contacts. They noted Meyers’ trip with the Venceremos Brigade to Cuba, but failed to note Bob Simpson’s membership in the Irish Republican Clubs or his application to join a Venceremos Brigade trip to Cuba.
The agents were unable to determine where the newspaper was published. The mystery could have been solved by contacting the Carroll County Times
Two of the redacted informants’ names mentioned in the FBI files are believed to be “Ted Falk,” a member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War who was believed to be an undercover Maryland State Police officer and Sheila O’Connor, a National Lawyers Guild activist believed to be an FBI informant.
Other information was obtained by the FBI calling or visiting people like the landlord at 201 Lincoln Avenue, postal officials and others that could verify details on the investigation.
Falk was denounced by two separate campus activists who swore they saw Falk enter the campus police station on separate occasions. They alleged that Falk had no explanation for his visit to the police there.
With suspicions aroused, activists called a meeting and asked Falk if they could use his apartment for the meeting. Falk agreed and the meeting was held at an apartment off of Knox Road in College Park, MD.
The apartment was sterile—no personal items or clutter—only dated furniture and wall hangings--apparently a furnished apartment. Under the pretext of using the restroom, one meeting attendant checked Falk’s closet and found there were no clothes in it.
When the meeting convened, the agenda unknown to Falk was to denounce violence in no uncertain terms so that Falk would simply lose interest and leave the group. The ruse worked as Falk never came to another meeting.
O’Connor’s career was much longer. She began cozying up to left wing political activists around the time of the 1971 Mayday demonstrations. Her sordid activities are covered in a Counterspy article on her dated Spring 1976 entitled, “Congressional Aide Spies on Left.”
For at least seven years she and her husband published a newsletter that was mailed to law enforcement and intelligence agencies entitled, “Information Digest.” The two were S. Louise Rees and John Rees, better known to the Washington, D.C, left-wing community as Sheila O'Conner [sometimes O’Donnell] and John Seeley. They had a number of informant sources that provided unsubstantiated information for their newsletter.
She later ingratiated herself to the National Lawyers Guild where she rose to a leadership position.
It was during her time at the National Lawyers Guild that she reported on the Washington Area Spark and On The Move newspapers.
O’Connor worked for a time for U.S. Rep. Larry McDonald (D-GA) during the mid-1970s, one of the most right-wing members of the House of Representatives at the time.
O’Connor would later move to the West Coast and acted as a private investigator under the name O’Donnell for many left-wing organizations, including former University of Maryland activist Judy Bari. Bari was then a prominent environmental activist on the West Coast and was the victim of an attempted assassination by car bomb.
It is not known whether O’Connor/O’Donnell continued to be a double agent, but it seems likely.
However, the left-wing on the West Coast was apparently unaware of her past duplicitous activity and an obituary written by David Helvarg and published January 5, 2023 on the LAProgressive site is effusive in its praise.
O’Connor/O’Donnell ingratiated herself to those on the left by providing factual details using her investigative skills that they were unaware of. This was the method O’Connor/O’Donnell used to gain the trust of activists while she acted as a double-agent.
The publication of Information Digest was a predecessor of the right-wing sleuths who attempt to infiltrate left-wing circles in contemporary times.
CounterSpy wrote in 1976, “Experts consulted by CounterSpy including Frank Donner, of the ACLU Political Surveillance Project and Wes McCune, veteran analyst of America’s right wing, were astounded by the sophistication and depth of Information Digest. Donner believes Information Digest demonstrates that the private, abundantly financed right-wing elements have better information on liberals and radicals than that normally processed by the government.”
The current version of Washington Area Spark is reposting these FBI notes as a matter of historical interest.
For a PDF of this 19-page, 8 ½ x 11 document, see washingtonareaspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Spark-...
For a PDF of the CounterSpy article on Rees/O’Donnell/O’Connor, see page 16: washingtonareaspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/1976-S...
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHBqjCaLpD
Original posted by the U.S. National Archives.
This elevator was originally built by speculation that the CPR was to bring a sub from Stavely to Champion into the area, but that never happened so the elevator has since sat empty and neglected.. Thanks to Jim from Vanishing Sentinels for the info.. web.mac.com/difdbs/Vanishing_Sentinels/Home.html
This was my 2nd stop, taken around 2:300 pm on July 6, 2010 as part of the Alberta Wooden Grain Elevator Survey 2010.
Scottish Bloodline
Approximately 25 - 30 poplar trees make up this avenue next to the Garden of Worthies (left of the banners).
The original plans for Rosslyn have never been found or recorded, so it is open to speculation whether or not the chapel was intended to be built in its current layout. Its architecture is considered to be among the finest in Scotland.
Construction of the chapel began on 20 September 1456, although it has often been recorded as 1446. The confusion over the building date comes from the chapel's receiving its founding charter to build a collegiate chapel in 1446 from Rome. Sinclair did not start to build the chapel until he had built houses for his craftsmen.
Although the original building was to be cruciform, it was never completed. Only the choir was constructed, with the retro-chapel, otherwise called the Lady chapel, built on the much earlier crypt (Lower Chapel) believed to form part of an earlier castle. The foundations of the unbuilt nave and transepts stretching to a distance of 90 feet were recorded in the 19th century. The decorative carving was executed over a forty-year period. After the founder's death, construction of the planned nave and transepts was abandoned - either from lack of funds, lack of interest or a change in liturgical fashion.
The Lower Chapel (also known as the crypt or sacristy) should not be confused with the burial vaults that lie underneath Rosslyn Chapel.
The chapel stands on fourteen pillars, which form an arcade of twelve pointed arches on three sides of the nave. At the east end, a fourteenth pillar between the penultimate pair form a three-pillared division between the nave and the Lady chapel. The three pillars at the east end of the chapel are named, from north to south: the Master Pillar, the Journeyman Pillar and, most famously, the Apprentice Pillar. These names for the pillars date from the late Georgian period — prior to this period they were called the Earl's Pillar, the Shekinah and the Prince's Pillar.
Despite numerous copies of "Holy Infants" only one held at Naples was announced to be made by Leonardo after painted anemones and ivys of a very good quality. However, we see the same elements in a background of this painting too. And the painting is ascribed to Marco d'Oggiono. Can we call every copy original just by the plants used in it? :D
This project is my speculation about presumable existence of parallel universes. The universe is infinite, but there is only limited amount of particles everything is made of. That means, that any combination of limited amount of participles will repeat again. Theory of hyperspace says, that our universe is just one small bubble in the foam full of bubbles.What if somewhere there, in the depth of infinite universe, exists exactly the same version of me?
Or you?
This is speculation - These triangulation points ( see also www.flickr.com/photos/27392491@N02/6111158309/in/photostr... ) may have been erected to measure movement of the cliffs ?
This was one failing of #5: using compression fittings works but it's a week connection. Maybe I should use unions instead?
London Bus Route #205 Shoreditch Bishopsgate 50 Storey Sky Scrapper Principal Tower Luxury Residential Apartments for Financial Speculation Investment
"One Thousand Speculations," by Michel de Broin, is a giant, 1000-facet mirror ball. It's been erected in David Pecaut Square in Toronto as part of the Luminato festival.
A new rule to be proposed by Commodity Futures Trading Commission Commissioner Bart Chilton would harden regulation of the paper trading aspect of the commodity market. The agency's effort to address excessive speculation reignites due to the nearing retirement of its chief economist Jeffrey Harris, who opposed reform in this area.
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London Bus Route #205 Shoreditch Bishopsgate Principal Tower Skyscraper Luxury Residential Apartments for Financial Speculation Investment
I actually think this is very cute. I just wonder how this came to be. Did this little guy insist on the purse? Is he aware that most of society regards this as a feminine icon? Or did his parents not know what they were giving him?
Having my own son around this same age, I am inclined to wonder what I would do in a similar situation. Yes, I believe in self-expression, but at what cost? Is my son is old enough to understand such concepts? I would support him if this was his informed decision that I know, but as a parent you also want to protect your child from unecessary pain.
In case you're wondering....
This representation of my first upstream crossing is intended to tell a story, not to demonstrate any kind of photographic skill. This photo is pieced together from four photos taken on three different days, and should be seen only as an illustration and learning experiment, not the work of a photographer.
On January 1, 2012, after a fine, large meal which included Julie's contribution of black-eyed peas, my adventurous #3 daughter insisted we take a "hike". It was a good idea, and we all needed the exercise, and only Julie, Greg, and I ventured out for a "hike".
This crossing is not quite ¾ miles from our house, but when we reached it, I told the younger folks, "I have an idea. I think I'll sit on the bench, and see you when you come back by". The bench, having been replaced to its original location twice in previous times, had been moved to "higher ground".
As I sat there, contemplating the scene before me, I thought of the vain works of Man, and the remarkable ability of the earth to overcome these futile attempts at "control".
In the days before the gu'ment usurped our little river and "tamed" it, this was a friendly little place where people from all over the neighborhood would convene on evenings and weekends for swimming, sunning, and simply "hanging out" on a clean, wide beach which would cleanse and renew itself after each flood. The periodic floods that the gu'ment releases in order to "correct" their management errors, while inconvenient to us trail users, are not adequate to replace the cleansing floods once provided by the river. Those wishing to visit or return home to a neighborhood across the river would drive across the beach and across the river bottom, only occasionally getting stuck whenever a flood would make subtle changes to the texture of the bottom.
And NOW, I'm looking at the "lay of the land", and speculating that there will be a time in the future when the minor obstruction provided by the crossing "bridge" will push the river into a new channel, a "path of least resistance". The trail will collapse at a point near where I sat on the bench, and the crews will have to return to make a new bridge over the altered channel, thinking that, "This time, we'll have surely tamed the river!"
Garden of Worthies
Elsie Maude Inglis 1864 -1917
It was a great day in my life when I discovered that I did not know what fear was.
How Architecture Learned to Speculate
Mona Mahall and Asli Serbest
December 2009
For the first time, the speculative in architecture becomes a topic of critical research. It is investigated, not as idealistic but as strategic acting within endless modernity. This modernity implies that speculation, as strategic acting, is not only applied to economic, but also to political, and aesthetic values. The consequences? Values become mobile, valuations become a play with high and low, authors (architects) become winners or losers, and culture becomes fashion.
Including projects by Michael Najjar, Matthieu Laurette, NL Architects, PARA-Project, visiondivision, MVRDV, Aristide Antonas, David Schalliol, Kevin Bauman, FAT, David Trautrimas, JODI, Bernard Gigounon, Ralf Schreiber, Gitta Gschwendtner, Pascual Sisto, Darlene Charneco, Seyed Alavi, Helmut Smits, Ant Farm, 100101110101101.ORG, Caspar Stracke, and OMA.
ISBN: 978-3-00-029876-9
Number of pages: 246
Measurements: 19 x 12 x 1,1 cm
Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based street artist, political activist, and film director whose real name and identity remain unconfirmed and the subject of speculation. Active since the 1990s, his satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stenciling technique. His works of political and social commentary have appeared on streets, walls, and bridges throughout the world. His work grew out of the Bristol underground scene, which involved collaborations between artists and musicians. Banksy says that he was inspired by 3D, a graffiti artist and founding member of the musical group Massive Attack.
Banksy displays his art on publicly visible surfaces such as walls and self-built physical prop pieces. He no longer sells photographs or reproductions of his street graffiti, but his public "installations" are regularly resold, often even by removing the wall on which they were painted. Much of his work can be classified as temporary art. A small number of his works are officially, non-publicly, sold through an agency he created called Pest Control. Banksy's documentary film Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) made its debut at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. In January 2011, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for the film. In 2014, he was awarded Person of the Year at the 2014 Webby Awards.
Banksy's name and identity remain unconfirmed and the subject of speculation. In a 2003 interview with Simon Hattenstone of The Guardian, Banksy is described as "white, 28, scruffy casual—jeans, T-shirt, a silver tooth, silver chain and silver earring. He looks like a cross between Jimmy Nail and Mike Skinner of The Streets." An ITV News segment of 2003 featured a short interview with someone identified in the reporting as Banksy. Banksy began as an artist at the age of 14, was expelled from school, and served time in prison for petty crime. According to Hattenstone, "anonymity is vital to him because graffiti is illegal". Banksy reportedly lived in Easton, Bristol, during the late 1990s, before moving to London around 2000.
In an interview with the BBC in 2003, which was rediscovered in November 2023, reporter Nigel Wrench asked if Banksy is called Robert Banks; Banksy responded that his forename is Robbie. The Mail on Sunday claimed in 2008 that Banksy is Robin Gunningham, born on 28 July 1974 in Yate, 12 miles (19 km) from Bristol. Several of Gunningham's associates and former schoolmates at Bristol Cathedral School have corroborated this, and, in 2016, a study by researchers at the Queen Mary University of London using geographic profiling found that the incidence of Banksy's works correlated with the known movements of Gunningham. According to The Sunday Times, Gunningham began employing the name Robin Banks, which eventually became Banksy. Two cassette sleeves featuring his art work from 1993, for the Bristol band Mother Samosa, exist with his signature. In June 2017, DJ Goldie referred to Banksy as "Rob" in an interview for a podcast.
Other speculations on Banksy's identity include the following:
Robert Del Naja (also known as 3D), a member of the trip hop band Massive Attack, had been a graffiti artist during the 1980s prior to forming the band, and was previously identified as a personal friend of Banksy.
In 2020, users on Twitter began to speculate that former Art Attack presenter Neil Buchanan was Banksy. This was denied by Buchanan's publicist.
In 2022, Billy Gannon, a local councillor in Pembroke Dock was rumoured to be Banksy. He subsequently resigned because the speculation was affecting his ability to carry out the duties of a councillor. "I'm being asked to prove who I am not, and the person that I am not may not exist," he said. "I mean, how am I supposed to prove that I'm not somebody who doesn't exist? Just how do you do that?"
In October 2014, an internet hoax circulated that Banksy had been arrested and his identity revealed.
The Roswell UFO Incident involved the recovery of materials near Roswell, New Mexico, USA, in July 1947, which has since become the subject of intense speculation, rumor, questioning and research. There are widely divergent views on what actually happened and passionate debate about what evidence can be believed. The United States military maintains that what was recovered was a top-secret research balloon that had crashed. However, many UFO proponents believe the wreckage was of a crashed alien craft and that the military covered up the craft's recovery. The incident has turned into a widely-recognized and referenced pop culture phenomenon, and for some, Roswell is synonymous with UFOs. It likely ranks as the most famous alleged UFO incident.
On July 8, 1947, the Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) issued a press release stating that personnel from the field's 509th Bomb Group had recovered a crashed "flying disc" from a ranch near Roswell, sparking intense media interest. Later the same day, the Commanding General of the Eighth Air Force stated that, in fact, a weather balloon had been recovered by RAAF personnel, rather than a "flying saucer."[1] A subsequent press conference was called, featuring debris said to be from the crashed object that seemed to confirm the weather balloon description. The case was quickly forgotten and almost completely ignored, even by UFO researchers, for more than 30 years. Then, in 1978, ufologist Stanton T. Friedman interviewed Major Jesse Marcel, who was involved with the original recovery of the debris in 1947. Marcel expressed his belief that the military had covered up the recovery of an alien spacecraft. His story circulated through UFO circles, being featured in some UFO documentaries at the time.[2] In February 1980, The National Enquirer ran its own interview with Marcel, garnering national and worldwide attention for the Roswell incident.
Additional witnesses and reports emerged over the following years. They added significant new details, including claims of a large military operation dedicated to recovering alien craft and aliens themselves, at as many as 11 crash sites,[2] and alleged witness intimidation. In 1989, former mortician Glenn Dennis put forth a detailed personal account, wherein he claimed that Roswell alien autopsies were carried out at the Roswell base.[3]
In response to these reports, and after congressional inquiries, the General Accounting Office launched an inquiry and directed the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force to conduct an internal investigation. The result was summarized in two reports. The first, released in 1995, concluded that the reported recovered material in 1947 was likely debris from a secret government program called Project Mogul.[4] The second report, released in 1997, concluded that reports of recovered alien bodies were likely a combination of innocently transformed memories of military accidents involving injured or killed personnel, and the recovery of anthropomorphic dummies in military programs like Project High Dive conducted in the 1950s, and hoaxes perpetrated by various witnesses and UFO proponents. The psychological effects of time compression and confusion about when events occurred explained the discrepancy with the years in question. These reports were dismissed by UFO proponents as being either disinformation or simply implausible, though significant numbers of UFO researchers discount the probability that any alien craft was in fact involved