Jan 1st, 2006 by Jack Henderson

The paperback of Seven Seconds will be coming out soon in the U.K.!
I just looked up at the calendar and realized that I’ve been fairly absent from the site for a little while. Time gets away from me, but I haven’t been idle. I’ve been working pretty obsessively on some new things for you, and I’ll pass along a little more useful information on that just as soon as I can…
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Jan 24th, 2010 by Jack Henderson
from The London Evening Standard
70-year gag on Kelly death evidence
24.01.10
Evidence relating to the death of Government weapons inspector David Kelly is to be kept secret for 70 years, it has been reported.
A highly unusual ruling by Lord Hutton, who chaired the inquiry into Dr Kelly’s death, means medical records including the post-mortem report will remain classified until after all those with a direct interest in the case are dead, the Mail on Sunday reported.
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Jul 20th, 2009 by Jack Henderson

Those of you who’ve read Seven Seconds will recognize this mental image from a scene late in the book. Coincidentally, Wired Magazine has just come out with an everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-HAARP article this week, and I thought you might find it interesting.
from Noah Shachtman, at Wired
Tomorrow, for one day only, the military will grant the public access to Haarp for the first time since 2007. Today, I’m getting a sneak peek. I say my name into a call box. The gate draws to the left. Ahead, against the slate-gray sky, resting on a small hill surrounded by trees, is a windowless six-story building: Haarp’s control and power center. Inside, five 3,600-horsepower diesel-electric generators, each powerful enough to drive a locomotive, produce the energy that Haarp channels into the heavens.”
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Jun 24th, 2009 by Jack Henderson
Well, it certainly was at the time, but not anymore.
“The Biggest Scandal Ever” was the New York Times headline on May 29, 1990, referring to the Savings and Loan bailout. Half a trillion dollars was the high-end estimate of the theft from the taxpayers; that figure sounds almost quaint by current standards, doesn’t it?
It is scandalous, all agree, but unlike any earlier scandal. By any measure, it is the largest by far. Forget the relatively puny bailouts of Chrysler, Lockheed and New York City. (Even the Marshall Plan, which bailed out Western Europe 40 years ago, cost a mere $65 billion in today’s dollars.) A greater outrage is that most of the perpetrators will escape.”
Almost 20 years later, though, just as we’ve managed to make a modest dent in dutifully paying down the S&L bailout with our hard-earned tax dollars, we find ourselves on the receiving end of another fleecing, this one 20 times as large and maybe 20 times as scandalous.
Take a stroll through the numbers here at CNN’s Bailout Tracker. As we lose half a million jobs a month, as the virtual nationalization of banks and major industries continues apace, and as we realize that the real shock waves of this crisis are yet to hit us full-force, look through those 10.5 trillion dollars in commitments and see if you can find the part that’s supposed to get us out of this in one piece. If you find it, drop me a note and I’ll post an update. Good luck with that, though; as of a few months ago our elected representatives had “no idea” how your money was being used.
Speaking of those elected to represent us, US visitors can go here to find those names and numbers. It seems to me that it’s a good time to find out if they’re part of the solution, or part of the scandal.
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May 17th, 2009 by Jack Henderson
I suppose the two books I’ve written (and the third that I’m working on now) are historical thrillers, in that there’s a lot of inter-mixing of things that actually did happen, with things that probably happened (though we may never be able to verify them), rounded out with some other exciting things that didn’t happen at all. They’re set in a very specific time, and my hope is that if these books are still around 20 or 30 years from now, they’ll in some small way provide an eye-opening look at the beginning of (I believe) one of the most pivotal decades in the history of the U.S.A.
I enjoy hearing from readers, and this is one of the things I enjoy hearing most: Occasionally someone will have found something in the text that simply stretches their suspension-of-disbelief a little too far, and then after some research they find that the detail that blew their mind is one of the things that really happened. Here’s a recent example, written up in an article from Alternet:
Things go missing. It’s to be expected. Even at the Pentagon. Last October, the Pentagon’s inspector general reported that the military’s accountants had misplaced a destroyer, several tanks and armored personnel carriers, hundreds of machine guns, rounds of ammo, grenade launchers and some surface-to-air missiles. In all, nearly $8 billion in weapons were AWOL.
Those anomalies are bad enough. But what’s truly chilling is the fact that the Pentagon has lost track of the mother of all weapons: a hydrogen bomb.”
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