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The White Hats Report #17
To Patriotic Americans and our good readers worldwide.
It’s Wednesday evening and despite all other promises and “disclosures”, the Texas and DC crowd still continue on in their immoral way.
It was presented yesterday (Tuesday) to a large settlement Payee that George Soros, Harry Reid, and others wanted to get together from April 8th thru the 11th to discuss breaking down the FED and establishing a new financial system without current bankers and the US currency. That agent was told to “excuse himself.”
Today, much the same was presented calling it a Soros - Bretton Woods meeting in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. It will be attended, they said, by as many as could be convinced to go, including Mitt Romney, David Dewhurst and other Bush loyalists for the same reason as Tuesday’s presentation.
We had asked Bretton Woods directly about their participation but this meeting does not appear on their schedule.
All this activity has brought up many questions, some particularly mystifying about there being desires by Reid, Obama, the Bushes, and some others to not distribute some of the larger settlements overdue because “receiving” the taxes before the 18th of April, or between July 1st and July 8th, would not serve the purpose well in dismantling the present financial system and to come back with a Soros designed and initiated financial system.
Readers, our question to you is: “Why would anyone want to elect a Romney, a Dewhurst, an Obama or anyone else who wants to dismantle America rather than fix it?”
To help answer the question above, as of last Thursday, March 31st, Ed Falcone filed a series of criminal charges including extortion with the FBI against George H.W. Bush, David Dewhurst and Donald Nevins.
http://tdarkcabal.blogspot.com/2011/04/april-6-2011-white-hats-report-17.html
Fed members raise specter of higher interest rates
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Fed-members-raise-specter-of-apf-2534609896.html?x=0
1988: Ron Paul accuses the CIA, Bush sr, and the democrats of drug trafficking
Had me going for a bit, Well done..
As Fed Debates Inflation Risk, Markets Just Want to Party
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/As-Fed-Debates-Inflation-Risk-cnbc-3304063126.html?x=0
OSUR 8.11 OraSure Technologies - Speaking at Needham tomorrow..
"Douglas A. Michels, President & CEO, will speak to the investment community at the 10th Annual Needham Healthcare Conference in New York City. The conference will be simultaneously webcast over the Internet. Mr. Michels is scheduled to speak April 5, 2011, at approximately 9:20 am Eastern Time (6:20 am Pacific Time)"
Live Link: http://www.wsw.com/webcast/needham44/osur/.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/OraSure-Technologies-to-pz-3668089979.html?x=0&.v=1
Virginia offers naming rights for rest stops
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/26/us-virginia-highways-rest-idUSTRE72P15Z20110326
Twitter is still tied into the PtB. When Twitter was brand new, every MSM outlet was pumping it like crazy. They were all pushing it too hard for me to believe it's independent. Facebook VS Twitter reminds me of Republican VS Democrat..
Housing Double Dip - From bad to worse
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232/?video=3000012425&play=1
Pentagon overpaid billionaire oil tycoon by up to $200million
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1367780/Pentagon-overpaid-billionaire-oil-tycoon-Harry-Sargeant-200m.html
Rap News 7: #Revolution
Palin warns: 'China is preparing to launch a military offensive' as she continues her own charm offensive in India
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1368060/Sarah-Palin-warns-China-preparing-launch-military-offensive.html
States push harder for online sales tax collection
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/03/21/technology-specialized-consumer-services-us-tec-amazon-online-sales-tax_8366207.html
U.S. drones kill 25 in Pakistan; army protests
LAHORE, Pakistan — A missile strike by unmanned U.S. Predator planes Thursday reportedly killed at least 25 suspected Islamist insurgents and tribal supporters in a village in Pakistan's remote North Waziristan region
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/us-drones-kill-25-in-pakistan-army-protests/2011/03/17/ABCcM3m_story.html
LMAO, this brawd is unbelievable. Your husband cigar-banging an intern is forgivable, but the the president's hesitation to commit an act of war is inexcusable.
Misguided girl, too bad the debt-trap schools peddling degrees don't teach much critical thinking.
Cold Fusion
Team America World Police
Maybe, Maybe not.. Wasn't too long ago Obama/McChrystal sent another ??,000 troops after Bin Laden..
"Warfare is the welfare of the state"
Kadafi warns rebels to give up and rest of the world to stay out
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-libya-kadafi-20110318,0,4106997.story
Warmongers been biding their time to manufacture consent.
The F-35: A Weapon That Costs More Than Australia
The U.S. will ultimately spend $1 trillion for these fighter planes. Where's the outrage over Washington's culture of waste?
The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is an impressive aircraft: a fifth generation multirole fighter plane with stealth technology. It's also a symbol of everything that's wrong with defense spending in America.
In a rational world, U.S. military expenditure would focus on the likely threats that the United States faces today and in the future. And at a time of mounting national debt, the Tea Party would be knocking down the Pentagon's door to cut waste.
But the only tea party in sight is the one overseen by the Mad Hatter, as we head down the rabbit hole into the military industrial wonderland.
The F-35 is designed to be the core tactical fighter aircraft for the U.S. military, with three versions for the Air Force, Navy, and the Marine Corps. Each plane clocks in at around $90 million.
So, how many F-35s do we need?
100?
500?
Washington intends to buy 2,443, at a price tag of $382 billion.
Add in the $650 billion that the Government Accountability Office estimates is needed to operate and maintain the aircraft, and the total cost reaches a staggering $1 trillion.
In other words, we're spending more on this plane than Australia's entire GDP ($924 billion).
The F-35 is the most expensive defense program in history, and reveals massive cost overruns, a lack of clear strategic thought, and a culture in Washington that encourages incredible waste.
Money is pouring into the F-35 vortex. In 2010, Pentagon officials found that the cost of each plane had soared by over 50 percent above the original projections. The program has fallen years behind schedule, causing billions of dollars of additional expense, and won't be ready until 2016. An internal Pentagon report concluded that: "affordability is no longer embraced as a core pillar."
In January 2011, even Defense Secretary Robert Gates, a champion of the aircraft, voiced his frustration: "The culture of endless money that has taken hold must be replaced by a culture of restraint."
The F-35 is meant to be the future of U.S. tactical airpower, but the program harks back to the Cold War, when we faced an aggressive great power rival.
The world has changed. The odds of great power war have declined dramatically. We still need a deterrent capacity against China and Russia, but how much is enough? In a decade's time, the United States plans to have 15 times as many modern fighters as China, and 20 times as many as Russia.
Meanwhile, new challenges and threats have emerged. We should be focusing our military spending on the types of campaigns that we're actually likely to face: complex asymmetric wars against weaker opponents, where manpower and intelligence are critical.
And it's hard to square the military largesse with our rampant debt. Republicans want to slash billions from programs like early education, in Representative Jeb Hensarling's words, to "save our children from bankruptcy."
So where is the outrage at the F-35's outlandish cost?
Some just don't seem to care. When it comes to defense, Republicans are the champions of big government and massive expenditure. The F-35 is too big to fail.
At the same time, many Democrats keep quiet for fear of looking weak on defense--unless, like Senator Bernie Sanders, they're from Vermont.
Other politicians are bought off with pork. Defense suppliers are spread throughout dozens of states, giving everyone a reason to look the other way.
Any serious effort to balance the federal budget will require significant cuts in defense spending. And the F-35 is a prime target.
The 2010 bipartisan Bowles-Simpson Commission on deficit reduction suggested canceling the Marine Corps's version of the F-35, and halving the number of F-35s for the Air Force and Navy--replacing them with current generation F-16s, which cost one-third as much. This would save close to $30 billion from 2011 to 2015.
The plan went nowhere.
We used to be content to outspend Australia on aircraft. Now we literally spend Australia on aircraft.
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/03/the-f-35-a-weapon-that-costs-more-than-australia/72454/
Japan Nuclear Reactors: Radioactive crisis intensified
Al Franken: ‘They're coming after the Internet’
AUSTIN, Texas — Sen. Al Franken claimed Monday that big corporations are "hoping to destroy" the Internet and issued a call to arms to several hundred tech-savvy South by Southwest attendees to preserve net neutrality.
"I came here to warn you, the party may be over," Franken said. "They're coming after the Internet hoping to destroy the very thing that makes it such an important [medium] for independent artists and entrepreneurs: its openness and freedom.”
Net neutrality, he added, is "the First Amendment issue of our time."
Receiving a hero's welcome from the liberal crowd, Franken took repeated shots at big telecoms, singling out Comcast.
He said Comcast is looking to change the basic architecture of the Web by implementing a pricing scheme that allows moneyed interests to pay for faster speeds, leaving everyone else behind. That would be a particularly bad development for the independent musicians and artists gathered here, he said.
"The real end for Comcast is to put Netflix out of business entirely," Franken said, because of the threat that Netflix's streaming video business could pose to Comcast's cable franchise. "In the end, the American people will end up paying a lot more for worse service."
Comcast is now embroiled in a dispute with Level 3, a networking company that carries online video feeds for Netflix, over fees Comcast wants to charge to carry the high-bandwidth content.
In response to Franken’s comments, a Comcast spokeswoman said Monday that the dispute with Level 3 isn’t about net neutrality but is “a peering issue.” “Under the FCC order for the Comcast NBCU transaction, Comcast is required to comply with the FCC’s recent open Internet rules even if they are overturned in court. Our customers can access all Netflix content,” said Sena Fitzmaurice, Comcast’s vice president of government communications.
Franken, who was an aggressive opponent of the Comcast acquisition of NBC Universal, implored SXSW attendees to fight the political influence of the big telecom firms.
"Unfortunately one thing these big corporations have that we don't is the ability to purchase favorable political outcomes," he said. "Big telecoms have lots of [lobbyists], and good ones, too. ... The end of net neutrality would benefit no one but these corporate giants."
Franken said talk of a "government takeover" of the Internet by net neutrality critics has as much credibility as claims of "death panels" in the health care legislation and claims that "Obama's a Muslim," calling them a "pantheon of lies."
Franken finished up his half-hour speech by imploring the crowd to preserve net neutrality to avoid a future in which they're "stuck listening to the Black Eyed Peas and reminiscing about the days before you had to sell out to make it.”
“Let's not let the government sell us out,” he said. “Let's fight for net neutrality. Let's keep Austin weird. Let's keep the Internet weird. Let's keep the Internet free."
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51266.html
LOL, every kid should get the chance to eat fish they've caught themself, and marshmellows right off a fire..
Incredible swarms of fish form off coast of Acapulco: But was surge caused by tsunami thousands of miles away?
The shores of Acapulco's beaches were this weekend teeming with masses of fish packed so tightly they looked like an oil slick from above.
Thousands of sardines, anchovies, stripped bass and mackerel surged along the coast of the Mexican resort in an event believed to be linked to the devastating Japanese tsunami.
Delighted fishermen rushed out in wooden motor boats, abandoning their rods and nets and simply scooping the fish up with buckets.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1365538/Japan-earthquake-Swarms-fish-coast-Acapulco-caused-tsunami.html
TSA to retest airport body scanners for radiation
The Transportation Security Administration announced Friday that it would retest every full-body X-ray scanner that emits ionizing radiation — 247 machines at 38 airports — after maintenance records on some of the devices showed radiation levels 10 times higher than expected.
The TSA says that the records reflect math mistakes and that all the machines are safe. Indeed, even the highest readings listed on some of the records — the numbers that the TSA says were mistakes — appear to be many times less than what the agency says a person absorbs through one day of natural background radiation.
Even so, the TSA has ordered the new tests out of "an abundance of caution to reassure the public," spokesman Nicholas Kimball says. The tests will be finished by the end of the month, and the results will be released "as they are completed," the agency said on its website.
TSA officials have repeatedly assured the public and lawmakers that the machines have passed all inspections. The agency's review of maintenance reports, launched Dec. 10, came only after USA TODAY and lawmakers called for the release of the records late last year.
The agency posted reports Friday from 127 X-ray-emitting devices on its website and said it would continue to release results from maintenance tests for the approximately 4,500 X-ray devices at airports nationwide. Those devices include machines that examine checked luggage. Of the reports posted, about a third showed some sort of error, Kimball said.
The TSA announced steps to require its maintenance contractors to "retrain personnel involved in conducting and overseeing the radiation survey process."
Some lawmakers remain concerned, however.
The TSA "has repeatedly assured me that the machines that emit radiation do not pose a health risk," Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said in a written statement Friday. "Nonetheless, if TSA contractors reporting on the radiation levels have done such a poor job, how can airline passengers and crew have confidence in the data used by the TSA to reassure the public?"
She said the records released Friday "included gross errors about radiation emissions. That is completely unacceptable when it comes to monitoring radiation."
U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz also was troubled by the information posted by the TSA. Chaffetz, R-Utah, chairs a House oversight subcommittee on national security and has sponsored legislation to limit the use of full-body scans. He has been pushing the TSA to release the maintenance records.
At best, Chaffetz said, the radiation reports generated by TSA contractors reveal haphazard oversight and record-keeping in the critical inspection system the agency relies upon to ensure millions of travelers aren't subjected to excessive doses of radiation.
"It is totally unacceptable to be bumbling such critical tasks," Chaffetz said. "These people are supposed to be protecting us against terrorists."
In the past, the TSA has failed to properly monitor and ensure the safety of X-ray devices used on luggage. A 2008 report by the worker safety arm of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that the TSA and its maintenance contractors had failed to detect when baggage X-ray machines emitted radiation beyond what regulations allowed. They also failed to take action when some machines had missing or disabled safety features, the report shows.
Chaffetz said the TSA's characterization of the maintenance mistakes "sounds like an excuse rather than the real facts."
"I'm tired of excuses," Chaffetz said. "The public has a right and deserves to know. It begs the question, 'What are they still not sharing with us?' These are things you cannot make mistakes with." Chaffetz said he expects to address some of his concerns during a hearing Wednesday.
The full-body scanners, called backscatter devices, are supposed to deliver only a tiny amount of radiation — about as much as an airplane passenger gets during two minutes of a typical flight.
Peter Rez, a physics professor at Arizona State University, said Friday he wanted to scrutinize the 2,000 pages of reports the TSA posted. He has expressed concerns about the potential for the scanners to break and the importance of proper maintenance and monitoring.
"Mechanical things break down," Rez told USA TODAY in December. Rez also has voiced fears about the potential for a passenger to get an excessive dose of radiation or even a radiation burn if the X-ray scanning beam were to malfunction and stop on one part of a person's body for an extended period of time.
He said Friday that the contractor mistakes TSA identified only heighten his concerns.
"What happens in times of failure, when they can give very, very high radiation doses. I'm totally unconvinced they have thought that through," Rez said of the TSA. "I just see a large, bumbling bureaucracy. Of course it's not very reassuring."
The TSA's Kimball disputed such characterizations.
"Numerous independent tests have confirmed that these technologies are safe, but these record-keeping errors are not acceptable," he said. For instance, "the testing procedure calls for the technician to take 10 separate scans" for radiation levels, "add them up and then divide by 10 to take an average. They didn't divide by 10," Kimball said.
"We're taking a number of steps to ensure the mistakes aren't repeated," he said, "and the public will be able to see for themselves by reviewing all future reports online."
The TSA is responsible for the safety of its own X-ray devices. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has said it does not routinely inspect airport X-ray machines because they are not considered medical devices. The TSA's airport scanners are exempt from state radiation inspections because they belong to a federal agency.
Some of the records were written by employees of the machines' maker: Rapiscan Systems. In a written statement, the company's executive vice president, Peter Kant, said, "The mistakes were the result of calculating and procedural errors that were identified by Rapiscan management and have been corrected. In actuality, the systems in these airports have always been well below acceptable exposure limits."
Rapiscan Systems said in a Dec. 15 letter to the TSA that company engineers who tested the backscatter machines were confused by inspection forms and instructions, leading them to make mistakes on the forms that vastly inflated the radiation emitted by the machines.
Rapiscan vowed to redesign its inspection forms and retrain its engineers.
The TSA released inspection reports from 40 backscatter machines, and reports for 19 of those machines had errors, including six that were deemed "considerable."
In a written statement sent to USA TODAY, TSA Administrator John Pistole said the equipment is safe.
"Independent third-party testing has confirmed that all TSA technology is safe," Pistole said. "We are also taking additional steps to build on existing safety measures in an open and transparent way, including commissioning an additional independent entity to evaluate these protocols."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2011-03-11-tsa-scans_N.htm
Man With 4th Amendment Written on Chest Sues Over Airport Arrest
A 21-year-old Virginia man who wrote an abbreviated version of the Fourth Amendment on his body and stripped to his shorts at an airport security screening area is demanding $250,000 in damages for being detained on a disorderly conduct charge.
Aaron Tobey claims in a civil rights lawsuit that in December he was handcuffed and held for about 90 minutes by the Transportation Security Administration at the Richmond International Airport after he began removing his clothing to display on his chest a magic-marker protest of airport security measures.
“Amendment 4: The right of the people to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated,” his chest and gut read.
The University of Cincinnati student didn’t want to go through the advanced imaging technology X-ray machines that are cropping up at airports nationwide. Instead, when it was his turn to be screened, he was going to opt for an intrusive pat-down — and remove most of his clothing in the process.
“He went there knowing he would not do the advanced imaging and do the pat-down instead,” his attorney, James Knicely, said in a telephone interview. “He was making it easy for them and in the process he wanted to communicate his objection for doing so.”
Among other things, the federal lawsuit claims wrongful detention and a breach of the First Amendment and Fourth Amendment. “He was held there for 90 minutes, and handcuffed behind his back,” Knicely said.
Tobey was on his way to Wisconsin for his grandmother’s funeral. Despite his detainment, he made his flight.
According to the suit, while under interrogation on December 30, the authorities wanted to know “about his affiliation with, or knowledge of, any terrorist organizations, if he had been asked to do what he did by any third party, and what his intentions and goals were.”
Two weeks later, Henrico County prosecutors dropped the misdemeanor charge.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/03/4th-amendment-on-chest/
Walter Reddy, the founder of the modern Committees of Saftey Raided by SWAT Under Patriot Act
World watches nervously as Japan struggles with nuclear reactors
Radiation 1K times normal at one Japan nuke plant; pressure release ordered
Update at 6:25 p.m. ET: Japan's nuclear safety agency is preparing to issue what Kyodo News called "an unprecedented order" directing the Tokyo Electric Power Co. to open a valve at the earthquake-crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant to release pressure from a reactor that is in danger of overheating.
Original post: Radiation 1,000 times normal has been detected inside a crippled nuclear plant in northeastern Japan where utility managers have released potentially radioactive steam to reduce mounting reactor pressure, the Kyodo News service is reporting, citing the government's safety agency.
That suggests radioactivity could spread around Tokyo Electric Power's Fukushima No. 1 plant, where thousands of residents within a 6-miles were ordered to leave before dawn Saturday.
A state of emergency has been declared at the plant, one of the world's largest. Its primary cooling system was damaged by Friday's magnitude 8.9 earthquake.
There's potential danger to the public from three of at least 11 nuclear power reactors that are shut down, the Christian Science Monitor reports.
Managers at Fukushima No. 1 said before the planned release of steam that any radiation would be "very low and the safety of nearby residents has been ensured," Kyodo reported earlier. Within the hour, plant officials said some radiation may have already been released, according to Kyodo.
About 3,000 people within a 2-mile radius had been ordered to leave late Friday, while thousands more within a 6-mile radius were told to stay indoors. Before dawn, however, mandatory evacuations were extended to 6 miles.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan plans to visit the plant later Saturday.
A U.S. nuclear specialist calls it "a dicey situation."
"They're operating on battery power now, and if they lose the batteries, they lose core cooling," Edwin Lyman, with the Union of Concerned Scientists, told the Monitor. He said the military is supposed to be bringing batteries to keep the backup cooling system operating to prevent the reactor's uranium core from overheating and melting.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/03/radiation-1000-times-normal-detected-around-crippled-japanese-plant/1
Youtube user 9Nania posted this prediction on Mar 8, 2011
MARCH 11-23 EVENT?! Signs and Evidence
Worldwide volcano eruptions after monster Japan quake
Almost simultaneously with the strong shock that hit Japan and triggered a giant tsunami in the Pacific, two russian Kamchatka volcanoes erupted. Kizimen and Sheveluch eruptions were accompanied by earthquakes. Ash plume rise 7km above crater. According to Russian media reports, the first cloud of dust covered the city of Ust-Kamczatsk. Over five thousand people are forced to stay at home. The authorities have recommended the strict ban on opening windows. The population, however, was not evacuated, and experts say that the dust does not constitute a great danger.
One of Indonesia’s most active volcanos has erupted, sending lava and searing gas clouds tumbling down its slopes. Volcanology official Agus Budianto said Friday that authorities were still trying to evacuate residents living along the slopes of Mount Karangetang. There were no immediate reports of injuries or serious damage. The 5,853-foot (1,784-meter) mountain is located on Siau, part of the Sulawesi island chain. It last erupted in August, killing four people. Indonesia, the world’s largest archipelago, is located on the so-called Pacific “Ring of Fire,” an arc of volcanos and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin. The eruption happened hours after a massive earthquake in Japan that triggered a Pacific-wide tsunami. Meanwhile, thousands of people are fleeing their homes in northeastern Indonesia after officials warned that a tsunami up to six feet (two meters) high could hit coastal areas following a massive earthquake near Japan. Some jumped in cars and motorcycles and headed to high ground as sirens blared. Others huddled in mosques or were brought to police stations or army barracks.
Two volcanoes in Eastern Russia , Kamchatka and one other in Indonesia, have erupted around the same time as the Japan 8.9-magnitude Earthquake on Friday.
Meteorologist Kevin Martin is the lead scientist here at TheWeatherSpace.com and explains in his own way what may actually be happening.
“Waves from the Earthquake have been ringing the planet like bell, causing stress in all sections of the planet”, Martin said. “Imagine a calm magma chamber that just needs one push, even if a few feet. This would be enough to cause instability in the chambers, causing volcanic eruptions in various locations. These three eruptions will not be the only mountains to go and other quakes worldwide will follow as the worldwide faults get disturbed.
Yuri Yamamoto, a resident from Tokyo, tells TheWeatherSpace.com that Japan’s early warning system gave Tokyo 30 seconds of a warning, proving an advanced system may actually work elsewhere and should be implemented in places like the Western Coast of the United States. So it has been interesting to watch history unfolding across the planet, but TheWeatherSpace.com gives our condolences to those lost and the over 88,000 people in Japan that are reported to be missing.
As for the Tsunami Prediction Center, an amazing job from them as predictions were nearly accurate as in timing and strength of the waves.
Mt Sakurajima erupted today also just after the big 8.9 earthquake.
Sakurajima Volcano is situated in South Kyushu, Japan (31 35'N, 130 40E, H=1100m). The lava is andesite and content of SiO2 is 57-66%. The acivity of Sakurajima volcano started approximately 13,000 years ago as a post-caldera volcano on the southern rim of Aira Caldra.
Great eruptions in recording history took place in 1471-1476 (Bunmei era), 1779-1782 (An-ei era) and 1914 (Taisho era). A huge amount of lava flows and pyrocrastic materials were erupted from parasitic craters at both sides of the summit. Lava flows in the 1914 eruption piled up a channel 400m wide and connected the volcano with Osumi Peninsula. Present summit activity began in 1955. More than 7,300 explosive eruptions have been recorded in the past 45 years.
Heavy News day.. Libya govt forces hit refinery storage tanks-rebels
Rebels said on Friday that an air strike by forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi hit storage tanks of Libya's state-owned Ras Lanuf Oil and Gas Processing Company (RASCO), but the government denied it.
"Gaddafi planes hit the storage tanks of the RASCO production plant," rebel Colonel Bashir Abdul Qadr told Reuters. His comments were confirmed by two other rebel sources.
But Libyan state television, quoting a military source, saying that the armed forces had denied it bomb residential areas and a refinery in Ras Lanuf.
RASCO is a subsidiary of the state-owned National Oil Corp. (Writing by Edmund Blair in Cairo)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/11/libya-east-refinery-idUSWEA812220110311
By me, going back to the 90's, I used to see quite a few bumble bees... Now its almost entirely wasps/hornets.