By PETE BENNETT - Contra Costa Watch EMAIL
Phone: 510-460-5641
Posted: 07/12/2013

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Related: Arson / Drownings
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CONCORD / Transient apparently fell in creek, drowned

Published 4:00 am, Saturday, November 24, 2001

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Concord police believe a 47-year-old transient pulled dead from a creek in Newhall Park drowned after falling in.

A neighborhood resident pulled the man from the water at about 5 p.m. yesterday. Police and paramedics arrived minutes later and rushed the man to John Muir Medical Center, where a doctor pronounced him dead.

The resident told police he had seen the man in the creek earlier in the day and told him to get out of the water, police said. The resident told investigators the transient was alert but may have been drunk, said police Lt. Keith Whitaker.

The resident said he returned about 5 p.m. to check on the transient and found him lying in the water, Whitaker said.

Police withheld the man's identity but said he was a transient often seen in the area.

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Updated Personally by: Pete Bennett 

Concord CA: I know this park very well which hosted our soccer league for nearly my entire 15 years of playing on the team.  I am too old but when I discovered this incident I went Valley Talk - like wow man, really, unreal and so not possible.  

The Big Deep Creek 

Newhall Park and Creek is a 2' Deep Slough

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Brrzzzt! U.S. Army checks out laser-based lightning tech

By PETE BENNETT - Contra Costa Watch EMAIL
Phone: 510-460-5641
Posted: 06/13/2013

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In 2011 my car was totaled in a similar fashion.  The Lafayette Police have refused to investigate the accident just like they refused to investigate the near fatal 2004 assault and truck fire.  

Note: New Tagging System in the works.    
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Brrzzzt! U.S. Army checks out laser-based lightning tech

Earlier this spring, the U.S. Army revealed the existence of a project underway to build a device that could shoot lightning bolts down laser beams to take out a target. Now the military's boffins report success in their first tests.

The technology -- known as laser-induced plasma channel -- is designed to seek out targets that conduct electricity better than the air or ground that surrounds them.

Although scientists and engineers working on the weapon's development expressed confidence in the physics behind their work, George Fischer, who is the lead scientist on the project, nonetheless cautioned about the technical challenges still ahead.

"If the light focuses in air, there is certainly the danger that it will focus in a glass lens, or in other parts of the laser amplifier system, destroying it," according to Fischer. "We needed to lower the intensity in the optical amplifier and keep it low until we wanted the light to self-focus in air.

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Laser weaponry is moving apace. In early May, for example, Northrop Grumman demonstrated a prototype system that burned through the skin of a drone playing the part of a cruise missile for the test. However, Fischer pointed to the challenges involved in synchronizing the laser with the high voltage, as well as how to build a device that's sufficiently rugged so as to stand up under extreme environmental conditions. The system would also need to be able to perform in the field over extended periods of time, he said, adding that a number of high-tech components would need to run continuously.

It remains unclear how soon the military can weaponize this sort of technology. A representative from the Picatinny Arsenal, headquarters for the project, was not available for comment.

However, there's clear interest in getting this done as the battlefield bottom line in having a weapon which can harness lightning bolts is huge in terms of the amount of energy generated.

"If a laser puts out a pulse with modest energy, but the time is incredibly tiny, the power can be huge," according to Fischer. "During the duration of the laser pulse, it can be putting out more power than a large city needs, but the pulse only lasts for two-trillionths of a second."

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Asiana Pilot Blinded - It was deliberate - I survived this by sheer luck

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By: PETE BENNETT

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Phone: 510-460-5641

Posted: 07/11/2013

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The pilot flying the plane, a veteran captain still in training on the Boeing 777, reportedly told Korean investigators that a bright flash temporarily blinded him at an altitude of about 500 feet.Officials are investigating whether the pilot of the Asiana Airlines jet that crashed into the runway at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday had been blinded seconds before by a flash of light.

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National Transportation Safety Board director Deborah A.P. Hersman said pilot Lee Kang-kook shared "some of that information" with the U.S. investigators interviewing the pilots. When asked it if was a laser, she said investigators weren't yet sure. 

"We really don't know what it could have been," Hersman said. "We need to look into it. We need to understand what he's talking about."

At the same altitude, the pilots realized the jet was coming in too low, and tried to correct their path. The speed of the airplane also slowed significantly at that altitude, from about 134 knots (154 mph) at 500 feet, to 118 knots (136 mph) at 200 feet, to 112 knots (129 mph) at 125 feet.

During the briefing, Hersman outlined other aspects of the ongoing investigation, including a deeper analysis of the plane's automated flight systems to determine how they interacted, whether the pilots used them properly or if they malfunctioned during the landing.

Noting that the Boeing 777 has some of the most sophisticated automation in the sky, Hersman said the systems, such as the auto-throttles, have many settings and can be coupled with one another.

Investigators found that in the 2-1/2 minutes before the crash, multiple auto-throttle modes and multiple auto-pilot modes had been set.

"What was the final mode the airplane was in?" Hersman asked. "We still need to validate the data. We need to make sure how the devices were set and what the pilots understood the modes to be."

The evacuation of more than 300 people aboard the jetliner did not begin until 90 seconds after the aircraft came to rest and only when fire was spotted by a flight attendant, federal investigators said.

Getting everyone out of the wide-body 777 late Saturday morning also was complicated by two escape slides that inflated in the cabin, pinning down two crew members, as the plane careened down Runway 28L.

The accident killed two teenage girls from China who were coming to Los Angeles for a summer camp. Scores more were injured.

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Walnut Creek Homeless Trinity Center is Biased

By PETE BENNETT - Contra Costa Watch EMAIL
Phone: 510-460-5641
Posted: 06/13/2013

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Earlier this year I found myself without gear, food or transportation.  In December the Walnut Creek Police towed my truck off and my gear including my amps and guitars.  That was my basic home where I parked behind my friends house.  

That same week officers killed a person I personally knew and should have never been shot but worse is the last fatal shooting is related to Supervisor Glover who has another cousin shot and killed by Pittsburg Police.  

I know residents and businesses of Walnut Creek who donate food to Trinity think their donations are going to the greater good but many that need these services are being refused, they take food from Loaves and Fishes which is part of the Contra Costa Food Bank, they all receive donations and federal funds to run their operations but have been known to cut homeless and need out.  Trust me I know as they did this to me.  They simply don't like me making noise about how some local homeless that talk to me.  It's not just about Nordstroms or Nieman Marcus or Tiffany's it's about equity.  You need a lesson just ask a few past Presidents. 

In 2011 when my world fell apart I returned to Fresh Start (now Trinity) as a client not as helper.  I've donated food, clothing and even gave Loaves and Fishes restaurant equipment way back in the 80s.  

Today I can't get services because I've been banned as a trouble maker.  They are not too happy with what I've found that's being covered up in Walnut Creek and surrounding areas.  

Over in front of Traders Joes the homeless are being hit by cars and nearly killed, we have persons found floating the creek, we have homeless being hit by cars all around the county. 

When I wrote this article I'd spent months asking questions about these accidents near Traders Joes Walnut Creek CA as I was really taken aback learning about g
Homeless Targets 


It seems that the only place in town is a club but my complaints about Hillside Covenant Church are well know which is why I stood up at Walnut Creek Council Meeting.  

Watch me speak about my desperate situation coupled with the numerous incidents clearly point to I'm being targeted and that others based on their situation end up with the same deal or dead or so severely injured they end up in long term care with permanent brain damage which is why I wrote this article.  

City Council Meeting

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Open Letter With San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District

By PETE BENNETT - Contra Costa Watch EMAIL
Phone: 510-460-5641
Posted: 07/06/2013

Poseter Protect My Sons
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Dear Chief Paige Meyer, 

I am sorry that approach may sit well but this Contra Costa Resident who is an arson victim himself has concluded there is concerted effort to cover-up my 2004 truck fire.  My earnest search for information began after my car was targeted by a retired San Francisco Police Lieutenant in Lafayette CA as noted in my previous article Blinded By who once showed me pictures of the Piedmont Lumber Fire from March 2010.  

http://contracostawatch.blogspot.com/p/contra-costa-watch.html

Via this blog I will share a series of connections which suggest a larger perhaps broader conspiracy exists but please read the Evolution of a Coincidence to a Conspiracy



http://contracostawatch.blogspot.com/search?q=arson   

You want to protect your jurisdiction than talking to me could very well connect the dots between fires.  I spoke with the State Fire Marshalls office about a connection between Butte Fires and Contra Costa County.  One fire nearly raced over the hill in Paradise CA to where my sons live.  They are former Danville residents who were in a truck with me in 2005 when we endured a hit and run that killed the other driver.  We were targeted.  

I've got names, dates, persons, a suspect profile and I suspect this former SF Cop as noted on this map is a key suspect.  



By the way San Ramon and Danville residents you should read this page and get worried as one arsonists lives in Danville

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NTSB: Open Letter To Director Deborah Hersman

By PETE BENNETT  
Phone: 510-460-5641
Posted:  
Updated:07/11/2013

 
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Letter Pending 

The goal of this will be to draw parallels to my incidents to the San Bruno Pipeline Case, my 2004 arson case and my attorney who's was an arson victim in 2004 then over to how a retired San Francisco Police Lieutenant fits into the Piedmont Lumber Fire that appear to fit other fires in the east county.  

The July 20th 2011 hit and run was the final straw as that's when another coincident became targeting.   

I need work hire me? It appears that PG&E would rather let me starve then deal with their vendors unpaid bill. It was a big ass fire that should be the wake up call of the century.  

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Spinal Meningitis: Former Contra Costa County treasurer Bill Pollacek dies

By PETE BENNETT - Contra Costa Watch EMAIL
Phone: 510-460-5641
Posted: 06/13/2013

Reposted to Protect My Sons
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Related: Arson / Murder By Bacteria
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Former Contra Costa County treasurer Bill Pollacek dies

By Katie Nelson

Contra Costa Times

Posted:   05/03/2013 09:38:49 PM PDT

Updated:   05/03/2013 11:10:46 PM PDT

MARTINEZ -- A public memorial service is being arranged for former Contra Costa County treasurer Bill Pollacek, who died Friday after a three-week bout with spinal meningitis, a county official said.

"It is with sadness that I announce the passing of our friend and colleague Bill J. Pollaceck," wrote County Treasurer-Tax Collector Russell V. Watts in a news release.

Arne Simonsen, Antioch's city clerk, said Pollacek had been a close friend for more than 15 years and that his death was a "loss to all of us."

Pollacek was "friendly as hell," Simonsen said, and was known for his great sense of humor and for looking out for the county that had elected him to serve as both their treasurer and their tax collector.

Pollacek retired in January 2011 and had moved to the Napa area before his death, according to Simonsen.

Before serving as the county treasurer, Pollacek served on the board for the Center for Human Development, based in Pleasant Hill, and was a city councilmember in Martinez.

He was elected as the county treasurer in 1998.

"He always looked great in a tuxedo, and he always had a smile on," Simonsen said. "He had real dedication, stayed solvent. You just don't see too many people in politics who look out for the tax payers the way he did."

Pollacek is survived by his wife Nancy, who is arranging a memorial service for Thursday, May 16, at 1 p.m. at Tulocay in Napa.

"She wants to make this a big  event for Bill to let him know how much we'll miss him," Watts said. "Indeed, I will."

Check back for updates.

Contact Katie Nelson at 925-945-4782 or follow her atTwitter.com/katienelson210.

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