Five Mountain System

The Five Mountains and Ten Monasteries System (五山十刹制度 Chinese: Wushan Shicha, Japanese: Gozan Jissetsu Seido^?) system, more commonly called simply Five Mountain System, was a network of state-sponsored Zen Buddhist temples created in China during the Southern Song Dynasty (1127–1279). The term "mountain" in this context means "temple" or "monastery", and was adopted because many monasteries were built on isolated mountains. The system originated in India and was later adopted also inJapan during the late Kamakura period (1185–1333).^[1]

In Japan, the ten existing Zen Gozan temples (five in Kyoto and five in Kamakura) were both protected and controlled by the shogunate.^[1] In time, they became a sort of governmental bureaucracy that helped theAshikaga shogunate stabilize the country during the turbulent Nanboku-chō period. Below the ten Gozantemples there were ten so-called Jissetsu (十刹^?) temples, followed by another network called Shozan (諸山lit. many temples^?).^[2] The terms Gozan and Five Mountain System are used both for the ten temples at the top and for the Five Mountain System network in general, including the Jissetsu and the Shozan.

There used to be in Kamakura a parallel Five Mountain System of nunneries called Amagozan (尼五山^?), of which the famous Tōkei-ji is the only survivor.^[3]

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Federal Judge Slaps FBI for Continuing OKC Bombing Cover-Up

Fascinating read if you have twenty minutes or so.

"During a March 20 hearing in Salt Lake City, U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups described as “astounding” the FBI’s claim that critical video of the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing had simply gone “missing” – an assertion that buttresses attorney Jesse Trentadue’s belief that the Bureau has spared no effort to cover up critical facts about the atrocity. Trentadue, whose brother Kenney was murdered by federal agents in Oklahoma shortly after the 1995 terrorist attack, filed a Freedom of Information Act request for surveillance video of Timothy McVeigh parking the truck bomb outside the Murrah Federal Building, and dashcam video of his arrest by a state trooper 90 minutes after the explosion. The FBI claims that these indispensable pieces of evidence regarding what was at the time the worst terrorist act in U.S. history have simply vanished in the tenebrous depths of an official warehouse, much like the Ark of the Covenant was at the end of the first Indiana Jones film. The attorney filed his first FOIA request in December 2006, and the Bureau has done its formidable best to ignore, mislead, misdirect, and otherwise obstruct efforts to produce the records, as it is required to by law. “The FBI has submitted several declarations from its top records manager to show the agency has searched electronic databases and evidence warehouses without success,” reports the Deseret News of Salt Lake City. “But Waddoups said the declarations lack credibility because they do not include firsthand knowledge or details about who, when, where or how the searches were conducted.” Attorney Kathryn Wyer, representing the criminal clique that wittily calls itself the Department of Justice, produced the novel complaint that compelling the FBI to comply with its legal duty to find the video evidence – as opposed to conducting cursory database searches and then dismissing the matter – would be tantamount to issuing a “search warrant.” This objection, which emits the pungent odor of bad conscience and the rank aroma of desperation, is absurd: The purpose of a search warrant is to protect the privacy rights of individual citizens from government invasion, not the reverse. With each new enrichment of the federal government’s surveillance powers, the public is told that the innocent need not fear enhanced scrutiny. Yet the FBI – which is a pillar of the surveillance state – is so anxious to prevent disclosure of key OKC documents that it will take refuge in facially ludicrous claims. What is the Bureau trying to hide? After roughly a decade and a half of investigating the murder of his brother, Jesse Trentadue is convinced that the Bureau is trying to conceal its criminal complicity in the OKC bombing – either by way of culpable negligence in a blown “sting” operation, or as a full partner in a “false flag” operation intended to frame the “radical right” as a domestic terrorist enemy."

Oakland Cali Nursing School attack

A tragedy for those caught in the cross fire of a (purportedly) disgruntled student.  Will this tragedy take the mainstream media off the Trayvon Martin racial-unrest-fire flaming?

One youtube commentator points out:

" There is always something about April if you think about it:
Waco: April
Columbine: April
Virginia Tech: April
Oklahoma City: April
Now this..."

There does seem to be something about April in the US that brings out the worst in people.


Note the Irony of the kid who is giving an interview about the incident. Wearing a shirt "death for dessert." Probably will be edited out, awfully bad taste and timing.

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Yaesu FT-817ND - SOLAR setup

SKIP TO about 00:42 in the video.

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PRC 25 - PRC 77 - Enrique TodoSonido - YouTube

When I saw this video for the first time I noted the differences between the two radio sets and made notes in the margins. I have been waiting for a video tear down like this for a long time. This is really an amazing look into manpack vintage US military radios. Are these Narco-War "Lend-Lease" US derived radios? Note the use of the vacuum tube and the metal cap that goes over it.

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Advanced packet analysis and the end of interpersonal violence in technologically advanced Western societies.

In Ira Levin's book "This Perfect Day" the computer was more of an economic and transportation recorder than a personality or agent program that its top level users accessed. The need for a centralized system is no longer necessary nor great concentration pf computer resources, merely the collection and storage of sufficient data.

It seems that the packet analysis systems deployed by the security forces to cover and collect digital network traffic has resulted in a tremendous advance in law enforcement capacity. Public safety has never been better and stands only to improve by leaps and bounds as digital devices expand into all levels of the public space.

The reduction of interpersonal violence from advanced digital forensics and surveillance means that perpetrators are nearly always caught with a high degree of precision, and may increasingly be expected to be intercepted through advanced "real time" intelligence. The possibility that interpersonal violence, which is the most egregious form of (possibly preventable) human suffering is on the decline has been noted by philosophers such as Steven Pinker, for example. That interpersonal violence is on the decline in western countries is perhaps increasingly attributable to this trend in lawful intercept surveillance technology, increasing penetration of mobile devices, and the almost exponential process of increasing transistor density.

Violence as a means to an end or an end in and of itself is increasingly being disclosed as an impossibility (or an irrational one-off event at worst) in technologically advanced western countries. The use of violence as a means to some end is almost always invariably contrary to the stated end desired but that is a philosophical topic to be discussed else where. The securitization of suburban and urban space and ensuing enhancement of public safety is a great achievement akin to a rocket program or nuclear power.  Just as nuclear power and rockets, surveillance and expert analysis monitoring programs require adequate safeguards in place in order to prevent this network management style from degenerating into a myriad of  dystopian possibilities. 

We must admit that the technology of Orwell's 1984 has been deployed as a means to enhance public safety without necessarily devolving into a dictatorship of repression, at least in the US. The neo-conservatives and the neo-liberal factions have steered a careful course so far. They deserve at least to some extent the benefit of the doubt from a historical perspective by, for example, inheriting and not using the cold war nuclear weapons complex.

We (US and European citizens) may encounter ( if we are not currently already experiencing ) a computer-ized analysis which examines the individual behind the IP address that their networked devices and workstations pull. These individuals are examined through an automated process such as a special forensic psychologist social monitoring "expert AI" system perhaps like IBM Watson for law enforcement.* These systems are increasingly sophisticated and nuanced in the execution of their tasks. They may also be useful for detecting the operation of foreign intelligence and espionage agents or cells operating within a give you geographical area. Not only is this network capable of sniffing out the would be violent actors, but it is also able to detect and unmask the spys. The only persons who are not subject to this regime of monitoring would be those persons who are working under the false identity of under cover domestic spy and Leo agents.

*Of course we may reserve a more narrow definition. For "expert" in the sense that the computer or server cluster is a natural language capable engine capable of limited hypothesis testing and so on.