Jim Sinclair’s Commentary

What is even more interesting is that Adlene Hicheur worked at CERN where the Large Hadron Collider is located 300 feet below three countries.

There scientists are attempting to recreate the "BIG BANG" which is the event horizon for the birth of the entire universe.

That would have to be one hell of a boom!

Scientist truly have no idea what will occur if they are successful. God only knows what will occur if they make a mistake. Why do you think it is 300 feet underground?

Maybe it should have been built at the bottom of the main shaft at Western Deep Levels mine in RSA.

The Curious Case of Adlene Hicheur
By Scott Stewart

On Oct. 8, 2009, French police and agents from the Central Directorate of Interior Intelligence (known by its French acronym, DCRI) arrested French particle physicist Adlene Hicheur and his brother, Halim, who has a Ph.D. in physiology and biomechanics. French authorities arrested the brothers at their family home in Vienne, France, and also seized an assortment of computers and electronic media. After being questioned, Adlene Hicheur was kept in custody and charged on Oct. 12 with criminal association with a terrorist enterprise for allegedly helping al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) plan terrorist attacks in France. Halim Hicheur was released and denies that the brothers were involved in any wrongdoing.

Perhaps one of the most intriguing aspects of this case is that Adlene Hicheur, the man the French government has charged with seeking to help AQIM conduct attacks in France, earned a doctorate in particle physics and has worked at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). In addition to his work at CERN, Hicheur also reportedly worked at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Oxfordshire, England, for about a year in 2005 and is believed to have spent six months in 2002 at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in California, where he conducted research for his doctorate.

However, while Hicheur is a particle physicist and has worked at some high-profile scientific sites — like the CERN Large Hadron Collider and the RAL — simply being a scientist does not necessarily mean that a person is a trained militant operative capable of successfully conducting terrorist operations. It is also important to understand that Hicheur’s specific field of scientific work was not directly applicable to building improvised weapons that could be used in a terrorist attack. Therefore, while the Hicheur case is a good reminder of the threat of hiring infiltrators and sympathizers, and that people with hard-science backgrounds (e.g., doctors and engineers) seem for some reason to be disproportionately prone to embrace jihadist ideology, it is also important not to exaggerate the potential dangers associated with this particular case.

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Jim Sinclair’s Commentary

Sounds a little like "Let them eat cake."

Not the proper translation of "qu’ils mangent de la brioche." but it may have the same result for the speaker.

Public must learn to ‘tolerate the inequality’ of bonuses, says Goldman Sachs vice-chairman
Bankers’ soaring pay is an investment in the economy, Lord Griffiths tells public meeting on City morality
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 21 October 2009 13.53 BST
Kathryn Hopkins

One of the City’s leading figures has suggested that inequality created by bankers’ huge salaries is a price worth paying for greater prosperity.

In remarks that will fuel the row around excessive pay, Lord Griffiths, vice-chairman of Goldman Sachs International and a former adviser to Margaret Thatcher, said banks should not be ashamed of rewarding their staff.

Speaking to an audience at St Paul’s Cathedral in London about morality in the marketplace last night, Griffiths said the British public should "tolerate the inequality as a way to achieve greater prosperity for all".

He added that he knew what inequality felt like after spending his childhood in a mining town in Wales. Both his grandfathers were miners who had to retire from work through injury.

With public anger mounting at the forecast of bumper bonuses for bankers only a year after the industry was rescued by the taxpayer, he said bankers’ bonuses should be seen as part of a longer-term investment in Britain’s economy. "I believe that we should be thinking about the medium-term common good, not the short-term common good … We should not, therefore, be ashamed of offering compensation in an internationally competitive market which ensures the bank businesses here and employs British people," he said.

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