projecting business as usual

ALBUM COVER FROM 1977?

WTF? WHO DID THAT ARTWORK?
Michael Fink / Rod Dyer Inc. (source) 

Artist: New York Port Authority
Title Of Album: Three Thousand Miles From Home
Year Of Release: 1977

source: http://www.israbox.com/1146359074-new-york-port-authority-three-thousand-miles-from-home-1977.html

"Named after the largest bus terminal in the U.S., New York Port Authority (NYPA) was an obscure funk/soul/disco band that was active in the Big Apple in the late '70s. The six-man band signed with Holland-Dozier-Holland's Invictus label in 1977, when its members included singer/bassist Reginald A. Brown, guitarist Melvin Miller Jr., trumpeter/percussionist Rodney J. Brown, keyboardist/trombonist Stafford M. Floyd, alto saxophonist John O. Hargrove, and drummer Monwell E. Lowndes. That year, Invictus released NYPA's debut album, Three Thousand Miles from Home, which was produced by Brian Holland and contained the single "I Don't Want to Work Today." The LP didn't sell, and in 1978, NYPA broke up without ever recording a second album. ~ Alex Henderson, Rovi" source

Magna BSP, the Israeli company that made the "camera" that allegedly survived an explosion which blew the concrete off the metal in Fukushima, penetrated the American market in March 2009. It couldn't have been easier.


http://www.njjewishnews.com/njjn.com/040909/njIsraeliTechCompanies.html

By the time a mid-morning break at an April 1 conference on homeland security technology in Newark took place, Israeli company representatives had shown off their high-tech technologies, and Magna had landed an American partner, AXCESS Technology Inc....
Partnerships like that were the goal of the half-day conference, which took place at NJIT: New Jersey’s Science & Technology University. Eleven Israeli companies had a chance to present their security products to an audience of about 40 mostly NJ-based companies as well as researchers and government representatives.

...The Israel Economic Mission, which organized the trip from the Israeli side, handpicked the Israeli participants with the help of the Israeli Export Institute, while NJIT officials selected the American participants.

All involved in the conference hoped partnerships would emerge. “The goal is collaboration among Israeli companies and American companies currently working in homeland security and homeland defense,” said William Marshall, vice president of military and government relations at NJIT.

Good to know that the NY and NJ port authorities are so accessible to Israeli companies, handpicked by the Israeli government:

The conference was part of a two-day program for the Israeli companies that included a meeting on March 31 with the Port Authority of NY and NJ, in which the Israeli businesses met with procurement officials and other representatives of each of the Port Authority divisions.
Both days were productive for Asher Gendelman, representing the Israeli company Agent VI, which develops products in video intelligence.
“Yesterday was about the end user, and today is about getting the product to market,” he said at the conference. He was thrilled that the March 31 meeting attracted key security personnel from the Port Authority. “Everyone was there. Normally, you can’t get them,” he said. At the conference, he pointed out representatives of some of the large U.S. companies like Sarnoff and Raytheon. “We see some different businesses, some of the 800-pound elephants,” he said.

Conference sponsors:

• New Jersey Institute of Technology
• New Jersey-Israel Commission
• America-Israel Chamber of Commerce & Industry
• ZAG S&W -- an Israeli / American law firm
• Millennium Communications Group Inc.
• Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

Again, this happened two years ago.

Jennifer Lake left us a comment about Magna BSP:

Magna was created within an Israeli technology development system called the "incubator network". Incubators are like mini 'silicon valleys', operated as private licensed franchises by the Israeli government to speed up investment and integration of new technical capabilities. Magna's Dimona incubator is licensed to a Life Sciences contractor, named Maayan Ventures, and the radar camera system was developed for sophisticated, and remote, "medical imaging". Presumably, this type of imaging can even be used with satellites as the U.S. GEIS (Global Emerging Infections System) seems to be adapting its network to collate this sort of data. Maayan Ventures owns at least 5 incubators throughout Israel.
Here's a link describing the relationship between the Dimona incubator "Maayan" (formerly called ATC and/or Rotem Industries) and the government: "ATC's companies operate according to the directives of Israel's Ministry of Industry and Trade Incubator privatization program.." www.incubators.org.il/h01000.htm --this merely clears up any doubt that Magna is an extension of the Israeli government. From there, we can see what kind of "systems" are disseminated by Magna's parent Maayan (80% owned by Maayan, and 20% owned by Rotem Industries), and take the Dimona chapter as but one example in a multiplex of "interests".

RECAP:

Magna is an extension of the Israeli government. In 2009 the Israeli government handpicked Magna and some other companies to participate in a NJ conference on homeland security. The New Jersey-based companies invited to participate were selected by the New Jersey Institute of Technology, with the stated goal of collaborating with Israeli companies. That was the point of the conference -- to HELP ISRAELI COMPANIES, which may by the way be extensions of the ISRAELI GOVERNMENT, get into our homeland security business, and to work with the port authorities. Coincidentally, Magna also installed the security system at Fukushima about a year ago.

Reported March 18, 2011 in Haaretz:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israeli-firm-which-secured-japan-nuclear-plant-says-workers-there-putting-their-lives-on-the-line-1.349897

The system includes cameras and a warning system, enabling the facility's security staff to monitor anyone attempting to trespass onto the site or damage the perimeter fence. The security system was designed to guard the plant against any hostile elements seeking to seize radioactive material to use in a terrorist attack.
Among the 50 Japanese workers who have remained at Fukushima amid the unfolding crisis, in an effort to bring the facility under control, are two individuals who were in Israel about three weeks ago, where they underwent training to transfer the operation of the security system to the Japanese themselves.
"We still haven't been able to make contact with them, either by phone or e-mail," Magna CEO Haim Siboni said yesterday. "We know they're alive, but it's not clear if they are healthy due to the high level of radiation at the reactor, which is life-threatening."

...Although there is no access to the area, Siboni said the cameras from his company's security system - which were installed high up - were probably not damaged and likely captured the post-earthquake explosions at the site, as well as the impact of the tsunami.
Magna BSP was established by Siboni about 10 years ago and is owned by several partners. Based in Dimona, the firm employs 15 people, a number which Siboni expects to expand dramatically in light of additional orders Magna has received from Japan and interest shown by the operators of nuclear reactors in other countries. Its operations in Japan are conducted through a Japanese government firm.
"We have an agreement in principle with the Japanese that we will provide protection for all of the country's nuclear reactors," Siboni said.
Magna had planned to send additional security equipment to Japan next week. The Japanese have not asked that the shipment be halted, Siboni said, adding: "They are projecting business as usual."

Business is booming then?

remarkable coincidence