tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38909262873759505542024-03-05T01:28:40.818-05:00The Red PillYou take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember...all Im offering is the truth, nothing more. ~ Morpheus~... After reading the information on this blog, you can never again say..."I didn't know..."*Sparkle*http://www.blogger.com/profile/05387399708185284317noreply@blogger.comBlogger213125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890926287375950554.post-49893910905612800022021-09-22T22:49:00.000-04:002021-09-22T22:49:55.393-04:00 IT IS NOT AN EXPERIMENTAL VACCINE. THE EXPERIMENT WAS ON MICE. THEY ALL DIED. IT WORKED FINE.<p> Something to think about.....process the message!</p><p><br /></p>
<iframe frameborder="0" height="360" scrolling="no" src="https://www.bitchute.com/embed/Dj2F3I8ubx5z/" style="border: none;" width="440"></iframe>*Sparkle*http://www.blogger.com/profile/05387399708185284317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890926287375950554.post-53360122174061210322020-04-17T23:10:00.003-04:002020-04-17T23:12:42.135-04:00Exclusive: Secret Military Task Force Prepares to Secure the U.S. CapitalI had soooooo many questions after reading this article, but I guess the main one is....Who stands to gain??? So much for things done in <b>'secret'</b>.<br />
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NOTE: I copy & pasted the article so we'd still have it, just in case Newsweek decides to retract the story or delete it! I've also provided the link to the article in case you wanted to verify it yourself.<br />
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Source: <b>The ORIGINAL Article: </b><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/exclusive-secret-military-task-force-prepares-to-secure-the-u-s-capital/ar-BB12IZtv">https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/exclusive-secret-military-task-force-prepares-to-secure-the-u-s-capital/ar-BB12IZtv</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "segoe ui" , "segoe wp" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">Exclusive: Secret Military Task Force Prepares to Secure the U.S. Capital</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "segoe ui" , "segoe wp" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"> </span></span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "segoe ui" , "segoe wp" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">"No one wants to talk evacuation, especially when there's nowhere to go," says a senior military officer working on continuity of government planning; he requested anonymity because he is not authorized to speak on the record.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "segoe ui" , "segoe wp" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">But a little-known military task force charged with evacuating Washington has already been activated, a task force charged with the most sensitive government mission of "securing" Washington in the face of attackers, foreign and domestic—and if necessary, moving White House and other key government offices to alternate locations.</span><br />
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<b style="color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Activated on March 16</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "segoe ui" , "segoe wp" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">, Joint Task Force National Capital Region (JTF-NCR) is chartered to "defend" Washington on land, in the air, and even on its waterfronts. The special task force, the only one of its kind in the country, demonstrates how there are two sides of government preparedness. The public face, and even the day-to-day work of most men and women assigned to JTF-NCR, is the same as it is everywhere else in the country—medical support, delivering supplies, manning health-check stations.</span><br />
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But behind the scenes, JTF-NCR is responsible for what the military calls "homeland defense": what to do in the face of an armed attack on the United States, everything from guarding Washington's skies to preparing for the civil unrest that could occur if a nuclear weapon were detonated in the capital. But most immediate, JTF-NCR is charged with facilitating continuity of government, particularly moving civil and military leaders to secret locations were the order given to evacuate the city.</div>
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Ever since National Guards started to activate countrywide, Pentagon officials have insisted that men and women in uniform are not conducting secret missions and that they will not administer or enforce "stay at home" quarantines. The Pentagon has also rejected reports, including articles in <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Newsweek</em>, about martial law or other extreme contingency plans, arguing that the Guard remains under strict control of state governors, while federal troops support civil agencies like FEMA.</div>
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And yet the activation of Joint Task Force National Capital Region, including almost 10,000 uniformed personnel to carry out its special orders, contradicts those assurances. JTF-NCR is not only real and operating, reporting directly to the Secretary of Defense for some of its mission, but some of its units are already on 24/7 alert, specially sequestered on military bases and kept out of coronavirus support duties to ensure their readiness.</div>
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<b>On March 12</b>, families and friends gathered at a Decatur, Illinois, National Guard armory to say their goodbyes to guardsmen and women who were shipping out.</div>
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"This is my first time getting to do something big for my country," Alycia Thomas, 29, an Army Specialist from Peoria, told the local Herald & Review.</div>
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All anyone would say was that two Blackhawk helicopter companies of the 106th Aviation Battalion were headed to Fort Belvoir, in the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC. There, "something big" was a special assignment in support of Joint Task Force–National Capital Region.</div>
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Unlike other Guardsmen activated under "Title 32" orders—under gubernatorial control but paid for by the federal government—<b>the soldiers of the 106th were activated under "Title 10" orders, strict federal duty as if they were going to be shipped off to Afghanistan or Iraq. Except that in this case, the battlefield is Washington, DC.</b></div>
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On that battlefield, the Illinois 106th Aviation Battalion's helicopters would be used to evacuate everyone from Army leaders to the White House.</div>
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"We are that quick reaction force that allows us to help mobilize forces within the Washington DC area, evacuate people, or whatever that might be," says Cpt. Adam Kowalski of the Illinois Guard. "We're kind of like that big taxicab that makes sure everybody gets where they need to be and keeps the government going."</div>
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He and his fellow officers have been studying the Joint Emergency Evacuation Plan (JEEP), the national plan to move Defense Department officials to alternative locations outside the Washington area. JEEP is not the only plan. It is supplemented by Atlas as well, which designates the procedures for the movement of civilian leaders, called "Enduring Constitutional Government," ensuring the survival of the legislature and the judiciary. And above JEEP and Atlas are the highly classified Octagon, Freejack and Zodiac plans that deal with other emergencies, and the movement of the White House and other presidential successors.</div>
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The March 16 order that activated JTF-NCR placed all of this planning under the command of Maj. Gen. Omar J. Jones IV. In "peacetime," the Army Major General commands the Military District of Washington, an Army unit mostly known mostly for its ceremonial and memorial expertise, providing the soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery, the Drum and Fife formations for parades, the grave and precise standard bearers for state funerals. Following post 9/11 organizational changes, Maj. Gen. Jones was also "dual-hatted" as the commander of Joint Forces Headquarters–National Capital Region, an organization created after it became clear that no single command was in charge of immediate response in Washington. There was not even a single military interface with the White House and what's called "the interagency", one organization that would be in charge as continuity of government or other disaster plans were implemented.</div>
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In peacetime, the Joint Forces Headquarters is merely a coordinator, with each of the military services retaining control of their forces. But once the Joint Task Force is activated, as it has been now, operations and units shift to what the military calls "operational command." Maj. Gen. Jones is now in charge. He isn't some martial law commander who takes precedence over any civil authorities, nor is he out in public telling anyone outside his secretive task force what to do. But he is the military man who would be in charge in Washington if civil government broke down.</div>
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Gen. Jones' battlefield is defined in U.S. law as the "National Capital Region," which includes the District of Columbia; Prince Georges and Montgomery Counties in Maryland; Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William Counties in Virginia; and all cities and towns included within the outer boundaries of that area. The Pentagon plan for the Joint Task Force's operation says that the NCR houses all three branches of the Federal Government, over 270 federal departments and agencies, an inventory of over 880 government-owned and leased facilities and nearly 300,000 federal workers.</div>
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It is perhaps one of the most sensitive jobs in the entire military, dealing with three civil governments, all of whom, including the District of Columbia, have their own National Guards and their own responsibilities. The NCR also houses the White House and its two quasi-military controllers, the White House Military Office and the Secret Service. And it houses the FBI and various other federal police forces such as the U.S. Capital Police, each of which has its own jurisdictions and emergency responsibilities.</div>
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Most publicly, JTF-NCR now controls the skies over Washington, DC. The operation is called "Noble Eagle" and is the longest-running operation since 9/11, keeping fighter jets within range of Washington airspace on alert, ready to take off with minutes. Fighter pilots on alert for immediate defense are kept in near-isolation, Bloomberg news reported yesterday.</div>
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To practice this failsafe mission, less than a week after the Illinois 106th Battalion was mustered, exercise Falcon Virgo commenced in the skies over El Paso, Texas. Over the next five days, small Cessna planes of the Civil Air Patrol—a volunteer auxiliary of the Air Force—flew evasive missions to test the intercept skills of air defenders assigned to another special unit belonging to the Mississippi National Guard. Single-engine CAP airplanes flew mock terrorist strikes to penetrate restricted airspace, an Army range over Ft. Bliss that was gridded out to simulate the airspace of Washington, DC.</div>
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During the exercise, old-fashioned radar operators detected the planes and relayed messages to the Mississippi troops, who were armed with surface-to-air missiles capable of shooting them down. All anyone would say was that Falcon Virgo was preparing the Mississippi Guard "for the upcoming deployment in the nation's capital."</div>
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A second Falcon Virgo exercise had taken place less a week earlier, this one in Washington DC.<b> On March 11</b>, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) announced that Coast Guard helicopters and Civil Air Patrol planes would be operating in the skies over the nation's capital. The command said NORAD "routinely conducts exercises with a variety of scenarios, including airspace restriction violations, hijackings and responses to unknown aircraft."</div>
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Another Falcon Virgo exercise was <b>over Washington DC on April 7</b>.</div>
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The air defense of the nation's capital is directed from a 22,000-square-foot, two-story blockhouse called the Joint Air Defense Operations Center, opened at Bolling air force base in southwest Washington. JADOC was built to oversee the 24/7 operation that has secured the skies over the capital since 9/11. The interceptor aircraft and ground surface-to-air missile units like those assigned to the Mississippi National Guard are vigilant and ready to stop any intruder.</div>
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Now JADOC has an added function. It operates as the secure headquarters and command center for JTF-NCR.</div>
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According to U.S. NORTHCOM, the overall military command responsible for homeland defense and the higher headquarters that Gen. Jones reports to, "JTF-NCR brings appropriate levels of military support to bear in the National Capital Region when authorized by proper authorities or as immediately required to save lives, prevent human suffering or mitigate great property damage." Three military sources familiar with NORTHCOM planning say the Joint Task Force is currently operating under multiple contingency plans, from specific pandemic response operations through White House-directed continuity plans. The highest level plan, the one written for "homeland defense," exists in case of an armed attack upon the United States or in other extraordinary circumstances.</div>
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"As immediately required to save lives, prevent human suffering or mitigate great property damage," a senior retired NORTHCOM commander says, reciting JTF-NCR's orders. "That's the language that endows the JTF commander to have to act, even if he is not formally directed to. Anyone who says otherwise is playing with the truth."</div>
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In other words, JTF-NCR supports coronavirus response efforts in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia; guards Washington from a terrorist attack; and prepares for the worst, even taking unilateral action to carry out its orders.</div>
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To conduct his multiple missions, Maj. Gen. Jones has a force of over 10,000. They are doing everything from watching Washington's airspace, to standing by for emergency bomb disposal, to staying ready to carry out law enforcement duties should there be a greater catastrophe and need for military intervention.</div>
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His largest unit, the 3rd Infantry Regiment, also known as "The Old Guard," normally supplies the spit-shined guards at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers and conduct the Army's most public events. But behind the scenes, the 3rd Regiment reverts to its true infantry origins. With activation of the Joint Task Force, the Regiment has been given responsibility to "conduct homeland defense and civil support operations to defend and secure the National Capital Region."</div>
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Beyond the 3rd Regiment, Maj. Gen. Jones can call on a dozen or more specialized units, all allocated for DC area duties under JTF-NCR:</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red;">The Marine Corps Chemical Biological Incident Response Force (CBIRF), a specialized unit able to provide "swift and robust support" to the White House, U.S. Capitol Police and the Secret Service in the event of a Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, or High-yield Explosive incident. Two subordinate initial response forces (IRFs) are assigned approximately 150 personnel each. One IRF is maintained on a constant 24-hour alert, with the second IRF prepared to deploy within 48 hours.</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red;">The Army Special Reaction Team (SRT), a sort of super SWAT team comprised of elements from 289th Military Police Company and 947th Military Police Detachment, infantry of the 3rd Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard); officers from the base-level Directorate of Emergency Services and DC, Maryland and Virginia State Police Departments.</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red;">The Army Aviation Brigade, including the 12th Aviation Battalion, the Army Priority Air Transportation detachment; and the now deployed Illinois National Guard 106th Aviation Battalion. Other helicopter evacuation units include HMX-1, a large Marine Corps unit that provides the "Marine One" helicopter for the President, and the 1st Helicopter Squadron, an Air Force unit at Andrews air force base also chartered with Washington-specific duties.</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red;">A specialized "technical rescue" unit, the 911th Engineer Company, able to conduct urban search and rescue; even burrowing into the rubble of the White House, were it attacked.</span></li>
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To augment the immediate response capabilities of the Special Reaction Team, JTF-NCR has more than 1,000 military police and civilian law enforcement officers under his command, including the largely civilian Pentagon Force Protection Agency. In "peacetime" the role of these various military police organizations is to guard the Pentagon and the various forts and bases dotted around the capital region as well as to provide the protective "details" of bodyguards for Defense officials. Under "wartime" orders, though, they too are tasked to actively help with the implementation of continuity of government. That includes most importantly military police who would accompany over 100 helicopters, vans and limousines that are earmarked to evacuate the designated survivors, each of those individuals now on alert to proceed to their marshalling point of embarkation should the "Continuity of Government Condition" (or COGCON) change.</div>
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On March 24, the Joint Chiefs of Staff issued "Modification 1" to the general coronavirus response order exempting any military personnel engaged in "presidential support duties" and other secret contingencies of JTF-NCR from complying with no-travel rules.</div>
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Two days later, all "Immediate Response Force" and "Contingency Response Force" units of the military were moved to a higher level of alert to preserve their special military readiness. That included quick reaction infantry units from the 82nd Airborne Division at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, and the 101st Airborne Division from Ft. Campbell, Kentucky—units that would normally be rushed to the Middle East in some crisis. But tucked away in that same March 26 order were others assigned to JTF-NCR—including secret special operations units, the so-called "National Mission Force"—units that were directed to sequester in operational facilities and split up into multiple shifts, creating a primary and back-up group that would be available for immediate deployment. In theory the separate groups in theory could avoid infecting the other. JTF-NCR has now been operating for one month under these special orders.</div>
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Given how many denials the government has issued regarding these plans, <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Newsweek</em> made repeated attempts to get official and on-the-record comment for this story. FEMA passed the requests for information about continuity of government conditions to the White House press office, which declined to provide additional information or answer questions, saying that <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Newsweek</em> was getting into "matters of national security."</div>
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The National Guard Bureau referred questions to the Military District of Washington, whcih then referred the request for comment to the Joint Task Force itself, which referred <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Newsweek</em> queries directly to NORTHCOM. Queries to the Illinois and Mississippi National Guards went unanswered, though officers in both spoke off-the-record. <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Newsweek</em> also made repeated attempts to contact Maj. Gen. Jones, including sending personal emails, to comment for this story.</div>
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Maj. Gen. Jones gave an interview to "Fort Meade Declassified" on March 17, an official and breezy official podcast about goings on in the Washington area military. There he talked about growing up in Maryland and his job as senior officer responsible for the Washington battlefield. When asked what he was doing in his leisure time, he said that he had just finished reading a book about the riots in Washington, DC in 1968 following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. The name of that book? "A Nation on Fire."</div>
*Sparkle*http://www.blogger.com/profile/05387399708185284317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890926287375950554.post-26902365411258402822020-04-16T22:36:00.003-04:002020-04-17T23:17:51.128-04:00Trump Reverses His Own Authority About Opening America Back UpHe [Trump] sure did change his mind quick. He went from, "Im the President, I call the shots!" to "I'll let each of the Governors make the decision." a couple days later. 'What a difference a day makes'!<br />
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*Sparkle*http://www.blogger.com/profile/05387399708185284317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890926287375950554.post-72382080935850222262020-04-16T22:24:00.002-04:002020-04-16T22:24:59.394-04:00Dr. Fauci describes 'rolling reentry' for US’ return to normal So when Trump was talking about reopening the US yesterday, these are the guidelines to getting us back to normal. This is the plan for what they call a "Rolling Reentry", as explained by Dr. Fauci....<br />
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If you've ever wondered what UN Agenda 21 is about, this is the perfect video for you! Maybe you've read it or have been told about it but never really quite understood it. Maybe you've checked it out for yourself and you didn't see anything wrong with it. Im sharing this video with you in hopes that if nothing else you at least leave this page with another perspective. You don't have to agree but at least you'll see it clearly from another side. </div>
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*Sparkle*http://www.blogger.com/profile/05387399708185284317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890926287375950554.post-65103986643789618652018-08-06T21:49:00.000-04:002018-08-06T21:49:01.134-04:00Former MTV/BET Producer tells the Cold Truth about Working In The Music & TV Industry Im posting this video for anyone trying to break into the Entertainment Industry. Know exactly what you're getting yourself into before you do it. Know that you can't believe everything you see. All those people you THINK are ballin' are not really ballin'. You don't REALLY know anyone's situation except your own. Listen to D-Brad tell you about that really goes on in the industry....<br />
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*Sparkle*http://www.blogger.com/profile/05387399708185284317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890926287375950554.post-25648769571965506752018-08-06T20:54:00.003-04:002018-08-06T20:54:46.816-04:00Alex Jones Get's Shut Down and Silenced by Major Social Media Platforms in one dayLove him or hate him, agree with him or not, Alex Jones has a right to exercise free speech and today he has been virtually muted by several social media platforms. Facebook, Youtube & Apple have turn the lights off on Alex and his 'Info Wars' internet and radio show. I heard Spotify said bye bye too. Will Twitter follow suit? Only time will tell. In the meantime, here's the story as it stands at this moment.<br />
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*Sparkle*http://www.blogger.com/profile/05387399708185284317noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890926287375950554.post-48741739137693840482017-05-13T21:47:00.000-04:002017-05-13T21:49:18.095-04:00Media Blackout Ordered As UK Begins Mass Burials<br />
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<b><span style="color: yellow;">By: <span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers</span></span></b><br />
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Disturbing reports from Britain today are showing that their government has invoked their dreaded <a href="http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1989/Ukpga_19890006_en_1.htm" target="_blank">Official Secrets Act</a> as a mysterious pandemic sweeps their Nation leaving an, estimated, 3,000 people dead and leaving ‘no choice’ for British Health Officials but to begin mass burials.<br />
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British media sources are reporting on this pandemic as being due to a virus, and as we can read as reported by Guardian News Service in their report titled "<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/jan/06/health" target="_blank">Vomiting bug to get worse</a>", and which says:<br />
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"<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/jan/06/health" target="_blank">Infections from the debilitating Norovirus stomach bug will peak this week as millions return to work after the holidays and spread the germs, the government has warned. The virus, which was responsible for closing more than 100 hospital wards last week and Doctors estimate that more than 100,000 people a week are catching the infection - and the rate may peak this week as the virus takes the opportunity to spread in the workplace and classrooms. </a></blockquote>
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<a name='more'></a><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/jan/06/health" target="_blank">Reported cases of the illness from early December are at a five-year-high, but the real figure is likely to be much greater as most sufferers do not seek medical attention. People struck down have been urged by GPs not to go back to work until the symptoms have fully disappeared." </a></blockquote>
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Russian scientists, however, though noting that the <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/revb/gastro/norovirus-qa.htm" target="_blank">Norovirus</a> is indeed a highly contagious disease, are in disagreement with their British counterparts and are stating that the symptoms being reported by the British victims being attacked by this disease are more consistent with a variant of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H5N1" target="_blank">H5N1 Avian Influenza </a>virus which the United Kingdom has been reporting numerous outbreaks of this past year.<br />
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Russian Health Authorities were, also, highly critical of the British Governments decision in mid-December to <a href="http://www.forbes.com/afxnewslimited/feeds/afx/2007/12/19/afx4456162.html" target="_blank">lift their remaining restrictions </a>following an outbreak of the deadly Avian Flu in southeastern England, but even more strongly condemned Britain’s decision to allow the continued sale to their citizens of poultry for their Christmas season.<br />
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To the fullest truth of this mysterious disease affecting millions of British citizens, and which has now been <a href="http://www.sbpost.ie/post/pages/p/story.aspx-qqqt=IRELAND-qqqm=news-qqqid=29426-qqqx=1.asp" target="_blank">reported in Ireland</a>, it is not in our knowing, but what is a matter of record is Britain’s Health Authorities engaging in cover-ups to hide from their people the true and catastrophic deaths attributed to disease, and as we can read as reported by London’s Daily Mail News Service:<br />
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"<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=505798&in_page_id=1770" target="_blank">Edwin died on April 12 last year aged 82. He had been in hospital for just a fortnight after complaining of feeling frail while on holiday. Although Edwin had suffered from rectal cancer in the past, the disease was in remission and Joan says that he was expected to make a full recovery at the hospital - until he caught C. diff. </a> </blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=505798&in_page_id=1770" target="_blank">His death, and thousands of others, lie at the heart of a growing scandal over NHS superbugs. Yesterday Tory leader David Cameron said hospitals should be fined for every patient who catches an infection on their wards. But would such a crackdown just lead to more secrecy about superbugs? </a></blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=505798&in_page_id=1770" target="_blank">In 2006 almost 56,000 elderly hospital patients caught C. diff, which is spread by poor hygiene, dirty hands and soiled bedding. Amazingly, we still don't know how many of these people died because the figures have not yet been released by the NHS. In 2005, the latest year that death statistics for C. diff were available, 3,807 hospital patients died, a rise of almost 70 per cent over the previous 12 months. </a></blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=505798&in_page_id=1770" target="_blank">But the truth is that this figure may be utterly meaningless because many people, including Joan, believe there is a cover-up over the figures. </a> </blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=505798&in_page_id=1770" target="_blank">As this investigation has discovered, when a person dies from a hospital superbug the details are often left off the death certificate. The practice has become so widespread that last autumn the Government's chief medical officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, wrote to hospitals and doctors warning them that any dishonesty has to stop.</a>" </blockquote>
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Of the greatest concern, however, of these events are the British peoples following the dangerous path of their American counterparts by consuming vast quantities of genetically modified (GM) foods, and which scientific reports have <a href="http://www.responsibletechnology.org/utility/showArticle/?objectID=208" target="_blank">proven</a> allow new viruses to enter the human body leading to weakened immune systems.<br />
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It is interesting to note, too, that while the death toll mounts in Britain from this mysterious pandemic, the French government, and seeing the disaster unfolding in their European neighbor, is <a href="http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2008/01/04/afx4494204.html" target="_blank">contemplating</a> the total ban of all genetically modified crops in their country.<br />
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As our World continues its entrance to this new century, and as our <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1231/p13s01-wogi.html" target="_blank">Global food supply continues to plummet</a>, and as new diseases continue their rampage, it remains to be seen if the Western World will ever awaken to threat they have created, not just to themselves, but to the entire human race..<br />
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www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1062.htm*Sparkle*http://www.blogger.com/profile/05387399708185284317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890926287375950554.post-22080901371090239562013-02-06T10:58:00.000-05:002013-02-06T11:04:30.619-05:00The White House is “Judge, Jury and Executioner” of Both Drone and Cyber-Attacks<br />
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<strong>Source: <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/02/the-white-house-is-judge-jury-and-executioner-of-both-drone-and-cyber-attacks.html" style="color: #0033cc;">Washington’s Blog</a></strong></div>
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Legal experts expressed grave reservations Tuesday about an Obama administration memo concluding that the United States can order the killing of American citizens believed to be affiliated with al-Qaida — with one saying <strong>the White House was acting as “judge, jury and executioner.”</strong><br />
“<strong>Anyone should be concerned when the president and his lawyers make up their own interpretation of the law or their own rules</strong>,” said Mary Ellen O’Connell, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame and an authority on international law and the use of force.<br />
“This is a <strong>very, very dangerous thing that the president has done</strong>,” she added.</blockquote>
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Glenn Greenwald, a constitutional lawyer who writes about security and liberty for the British newspaper The Guardian, described the memo as “fundamentally misleading,” with a clinical tone that disguises “the radical and dangerous power it purports to authorize.”<br />
“If you believe the president has the power to order U.S. citizens executed far from any battlefield with no charges or trial, then it’s truly hard to conceive of any asserted power you would find objectionable,” <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/05/obama-kill-list-doj-memo" style="color: #0033cc;" target="_blank" title="he wrote">he wrote</a>.</blockquote>
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Top constitutional law expert Jonathan Turley <a href="http://jonathanturley.org/2013/02/05/doj-memo-obama-administration-claims-broader-authority-to-kill-americans/" style="color: #0033cc;" target="_blank" title="notes">notes</a>:</div>
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In plain language, [the Obama administration memo] means that [any Americans can be assassinated if] the President <strong>considers the citizens to be a threat in the future</strong>. Moreover, the memo allows killings when an attempt to capture the person would pose an “undue risk” to U.S. personnel. That undue risk is left undefined.</blockquote>
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I think I’ve <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precrime#Precrime" style="color: #0033cc;" target="_blank" title="seen that movie before">seen that movie before</a> …</div>
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Given that drones are being <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/10/the-same-secret-government-agency-which-spies-on-all-americans-also-decides-who-gets-assassinated-by-drones.html" style="color: #0033cc;" title="deployed in the American homeland">deployed in the American homeland</a>, some fear that the war is<a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/03/legal-experts-destroy-obamas-assassination-policy-and-slam-democrats-for-supporting-it.html" style="color: #0033cc;" title="coming home">coming home</a>.</div>
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Indeed, the military now considers the <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/03/fbi-director-have-to-check-to-see-if-obama-has-the-right-to-assassinate-americans-on-u-s-soil.html" style="color: #0033cc;" title="U.S. homeland to be a battlefield">U.S. homeland to be a battlefield</a>. The U.S. is already allowing<a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/05/congress-proposes-bill-to-allow.html" style="color: #0033cc;" title="military operations within the United States">military operations within the United States</a>. The Army is <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2008/09/army-to-be-deployed-inside-u-s-as-part-of-northcom.html" style="color: #0033cc;" title="already being deployed on U.S. soil">already being deployed on U.S. soil</a>, and the military is conducting <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=northcom+exercise&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&sei=6g7IT_rTIqbS2QWZ7-HaDQ&gbv=2" style="color: #0033cc;" target="_blank" title="numerous training exercises on American streets">numerous training exercises on American streets</a>. (For more background, see <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/08/2789687/military-training-in-the-middle.html" style="color: #0033cc;" target="_blank" title="see this">this</a>,<a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/constitutional-expert-president-obama-says-that-he-can-kill-you-on-his-own-discretion-he-can-jail-you-indefinitely-on-his-own-discretion.html" style="color: #0033cc;" title="this">this</a>, <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/03/fbi-director-have-to-check-to-see-if-obama-has-the-right-to-assassinate-americans-on-u-s-soil.html" style="color: #0033cc;" title="this">this</a>, <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/americans-are-military-targets-in-the-war-on-terror.html" style="color: #0033cc;" title="this">this</a>, and <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/10/the-same-secret-government-agency-which-spies-on-all-americans-also-decides-who-gets-assassinated-by-drones.html" style="color: #0033cc;" title="this">this</a>.)</div>
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Like with the drone program, President Barack Obama is presiding over the creation and development of a power that previous presidents never imagined having. <strong>The national security state is effectively appointing him and all future presidents the proverbial judge, jury and executioner when it comes to cyber warfare</strong>.</blockquote>
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As Greenwald makes clear, virtually all of the U.S. efforts regarding so-called “cyber-security” are<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/28/pentagon-cyber-security-expansion-stuxnet" style="color: #0033cc;" target="_blank" title="actually efforts to create offensive attack">actually efforts to create <em>offensive</em> attack</a> capabilities.</div>
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And given that the government may <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/10/u-s-military-may-consider-you-a-potential-terrorist-if-you-are-young-use-social-media-or-question-mainstream-ideologies.html" style="color: #0033cc;" title="consider normal Americans who criticize any government policy to be terrorists">consider normal Americans who criticize any government policy to be terrorists</a> – and that the military is <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/04/pentagon-smears-usa-today-reporters-for-wait-for-it-investigating-illegal-pentagon-propaganda.html" style="color: #0033cc;" title="fighting against dissent on the Internet">fighting against dissent on the Internet</a> – it is obvious that the cyber-attack capabilities are coming home to roost.</div>
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Of course, indiscriminate drone strikes are <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/21/drone-strikes-international-law-un" style="color: #0033cc;" target="_blank" title="may well be war crimes">war crimes</a> (and <a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/01/un-drone-inquiry/" style="color: #0033cc;" target="_blank" title="here">here</a> and <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/10/26" style="color: #0033cc;" target="_blank" title="here">here</a>) , and cyber-attacks are a<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberterrorism" style="color: #0033cc;" target="_blank" title="form of terrorism">form of terrorism</a>. But that <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/01/by-any-measure-the-u-s-is-the-worlds-largest-sponsor-of-terror.html" style="color: #0033cc;" title="won’t stop the U.S.">won’t stop the U.S.</a> … because it’s <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/08/ter%C2%B7ror%C2%B7ism-noun-when-other-people-do-what-we-do.html" style="color: #0033cc;" title="only terrorism when other people do">only terrorism when <em>other people</em> do</a> what we do.</div>
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As Greenwald <a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/03/06/attorney_general_holder_defends_execution_without_charges/singleton/" style="color: #0033cc;" target="_blank" title="noted">noted</a> last year:</div>
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We supposedly learned important lessons from the abuses of power of the Nixon administration, and then of the Bush administration: namely, that we don’t trust government officials to exercise power in the dark, with no judicial oversight, with no obligation to prove their accusations. Yet now we hear exactly this same mentality issuing from Obama, his officials and defenders to justify a far more extreme power than either Nixon or Bush dreamed of asserting: <em>he’s only killing The Bad Citizens, so there’s no reason to object!</em></blockquote>
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The core distortion of the War on Terror under both Bush and Obama is the Orwellian practice of equating government <strong>accusations</strong> of terrorism with proof of guilt. One constantly hears US government defenders referring to “terrorists” when what they actually mean is: those accused by the government of terrorism. This entire memo is grounded in this deceit.<br />
Time and again, it emphasizes that the authorized assassinations are carried out “against a senior operational leader of al-Qaida or its associated forces who poses an imminent threat of violent attack against the United States.” Undoubtedly fearing that this document would one day be public, Obama lawyers made certain to incorporate this deceit into the title itself: “Lawfulness of a Lethal Operation Directed Against a US Citizen Who is a Senior Operational Leader of al-Qaida or An Associated Force.”<br />
This ensures that huge numbers of citizens – those who spend little time thinking about such things and/or authoritarians who assume all government claims are true – will instinctively justify what is being done here on the ground that <em>we must kill the Terrorists</em>or <em>joining al-Qaida means you should be killed</em>. That’s the “reasoning” process that has driven the War on Terror since it commenced: if the US government simply asserts without evidence or trial that someone is a terrorist, then they are assumed to be, and they can then be punished as such – with indefinite imprisonment or death.<br />
But of course, when this memo refers to “a Senior Operational Leader of al-Qaida”, what it actually means is this: someone whom the President – in total secrecy and with no due process – has <strong>accused</strong> of being that. Indeed, the memo itself makes this clear, as it baldly states that presidential assassinations are justified when “<strong>an informed, high-level official of the US government has determined</strong> that the targeted individual poses an imminent threat of violent attack against the US”.<br />
This is the crucial point: the memo isn’t justifying the due-process-free execution of senior al-Qaida leaders who pose an imminent threat to the US. It is justifying the due-process-free execution of people<strong> secretly accused by the president and his underlings, with no due process, of being that</strong>. The distinction between (a) government accusations and (b) proof of guilt is central to every free society, by definition, yet this memo – and those who defend Obama’s assassination power – willfully ignore it.<br />
Those who justify all of this by arguing that Obama can and should kill al-Qaida leaders who are trying to kill Americans are engaged in supreme question-begging. Without any due process, transparency or oversight, there is no way to know who is a “senior al-Qaida leader” and who is posing an “imminent threat” to Americans. All that can be known is who Obama, in total secrecy, <strong>accuses</strong> of this.<br />
(Indeed, membership in al-Qaida is not even required to be assassinated, as one can be a member of a group deemed to be an “associated force” of al-Qaida, whatever that might mean: a formulation so broad and ill-defined that, as Law Professor Kevin Jon Heller<a href="http://opiniojuris.org/2013/02/05/the-doj-white-papers-fatal-international-law-flaw/" style="color: #0033cc;" target="_blank" title="argues">argues</a>, it means the memo “authorizes the use of lethal force against individuals whose targeting is, without more, prohibited by international law”.)<br />
The definition of an extreme authoritarian is one who is willing blindly to assume that government accusations are true without any evidence presented or opportunity to contest those accusations. This memo – and the entire theory justifying Obama’s kill list – centrally relies on this authoritarian conflation of government accusations and valid proof of guilt.<br />
They are not the same and never have been. Political leaders who decree guilt in secret and with no oversight inevitably succumb to error and/or abuse of power. Such unchecked accusatory decrees are inherently untrustworthy (indeed, <a href="https://twitter.com/gregorydjohnsen/status/75837444557258752" style="color: #0033cc;" target="_blank" title="Yemen experts">Yemen experts</a>have <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/20/opinion/20johnsen.html" style="color: #0033cc;" target="_blank" title="vehemently contested">vehemently contested</a> the claim that Awlaki himself was a senior al-Qaida leader<a href="https://twitter.com/gregorydjohnsen/status/75838992544841729" style="color: #0033cc;" target="_blank" title="posing an imminent threat">posing an imminent threat</a> to the US). That’s why due process is guaranteed in the Constitution and why judicial review of government accusations has been a staple of western justice since the Magna Carta: because leaders can’t be trusted to decree guilt and punish citizens without evidence and an adversarial process. That is the age-old basic right on which this memo, and the Obama presidency, is waging war.</blockquote>
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We’ve previously <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/03/the-governments-indefinite-detention-policy-is-based-on-circular-reasoning.html" style="color: #0033cc;" title="noted">pointed out</a> the absurdity of the government’s circular reasoning in the context of indefinite detention:</div>
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The government’s indefinite detention policy – stripped of it’s spin – is literally insane, and based on circular reasoning. Stripped of p.r., this is the actual policy:<br />
- If you are an enemy combatant or a threat to national security, we will detain you<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/07/AR2011030704871.html" style="color: #0033cc;" target="_blank" title="indefinitely">indefinitely</a> until the war is over<br />
- It is a <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/17-6" style="color: #0033cc;" target="_blank" title="perpetual war">perpetual war</a>, which will never be over<br />
- <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/08/well-known-lawyer-discusses-justice.html" style="color: #0033cc;" title="Neither you or your lawyers">Neither you or your lawyers</a> have a right to see the evidence against you, nor to face your accusers<br />
- But trust us, we know you are an enemy combatant and a threat to national security<br />
- We may torture you (and <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2009/4/7/guantanamo_attorneys_face_possible_prison_time" style="color: #0033cc;" target="_blank" title="try to cover up the fact that you were tortured">try to cover up the fact that you were tortured</a>), because you are an enemy combatant, and so basic rights of a prisoner guaranteed by the Geneva Convention don’t apply to you<br />
- Since you admitted that you’re a bad guy (while trying to <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/04/top-interrogation-experts-agree-torture-doesnt-work.html" style="color: #0033cc;" title="tell us whatever you think we want to hear">tell us whatever you think we want to hear</a> to make the torture stop), it proves that we should hold you in indefinite detention</blockquote>
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The Founding Fathers are rolling in their graves, as the separation of powers they fought and died for is being destroyed. We’ve gone <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/05/weve-gone-from-nation-of-laws-to-nation.html" style="color: #0033cc;" title="from a nation of laws to a nation of powerful men making laws in secret">from a nation of laws to a nation of powerful men making laws in secret</a>, where Congressional leaders <strong><em>themselves </em></strong><a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/06/international-treaty-negotiated-in-secret-even-hiding-the-terms-from-congressmen-with-every-reason-to-see-them-threatens-to-destroy-national-sovereignty.html" style="color: #0033cc;" title=" aren’t even allow to see the laws">aren’t even allowed to <em>see</em>the laws</a>, or to <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/07/the-cias-rogue-operation.html" style="color: #0033cc;" title="learn about covert programs">learn about covert programs</a>. A nation where Congressmen are <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/10/government-leaders-said-bailouts-were-needed-because-the-house-next-door-was-burning-down-were-they-right.html" style="color: #0033cc;" title="threatened with martial law">threatened with martial law</a> if they don’t approve radical programs.</div>
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Indeed, Bush and Obama have literally set the clock back <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/12/its-not-a-fiscal-cliff-its-the-descent-into-lawless-anarchy.html" style="color: #0033cc;" title="800 years … to before the signing of the Magna Carta">800 years … to before the signing of the Magna Carta</a>.</div>
*Sparkle*http://www.blogger.com/profile/05387399708185284317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890926287375950554.post-31836107827871010952013-02-04T09:42:00.002-05:002013-02-04T09:45:16.798-05:00Quoted Reflections from the Past....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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*Sparkle*http://www.blogger.com/profile/05387399708185284317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890926287375950554.post-33259222775526029252012-08-31T00:04:00.000-04:002012-08-31T00:04:59.799-04:00Justice Department sued for hiding secret NSA Surveillance Program.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: red;">Any of you who read this blog on a regular basis Im sure, have seen the crazy look that comes across peoples faces when you speak about Big Brother, Phone Taps, different types of surveillance the government uses on it's citizens...etc. They may find it hard to believe that their Government would mistrust them enough to invade their privacy, as a matter of national security. They fail to even ask themselves, or wonder "When did the <b>American People </b>become the enemy?", "They're supposed to be protecting US from the terrorists!" Yet it's OUR bags that are being checked when we board planes... WE'RE the ones who have to take our shoes off and walk through the X-ray machine or the metal detector. Every city is quickly installing cameras on every street corner they can think of. Who do you think they're watching??? Thaaaat's right, YOU! So then I ask you this...... WHO do THEY think the real terrorist is? And if they DON'T think WE are the threats then WHY are they listening in on our phone conversations, and reading our emails? I say those two specifically because I can see where the cameras all over the place can be a gift AND a curse.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">People need to start asking more questions and stop taking things at face value....."it is what they say it is." and stop accepting everything with no thought or opinion of your own. Stop brushing everything off and acting like it's nothing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Some of you are walking around THINKING and BELIEVING the Muslims are the terrorist because that's what you were LED to believe. And peep this, they've got some of you being leery of not just Middle Eastern Muslims but ALL Muslims. O_o Come on now, keep it real! You KNOW if you got on a plane anytime after 911 and you saw a Middle Eastern Man sitting 2 seats in front of you....well I don't even have to speak of the thoughts that crossed your mind at that point. </span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Here's MY point...Taking into account of how they had US thinking (because I ain't gon lie, I fell into the trap TOO when 911 first happened!) I need you to consider this.....You don't even look Middle Eastern, you're a Proud US CITIZEN, yet they check YOUR bags like they check the "so called" suspects, they're checking YOUR email and listening in on YOUR phone calls, they have some of YOUR names on the do not fly list, you're the one who has to show ID everywhere, YOU'RE the one who lost a lot of your Constitutional Rights...... <span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Today we have<b> government sanctioned phone taps.</b> Any law enforcement agency can pull up a person's phone, email, financial, and personal information at a whim. The government can also 'monitor' your personal email for keywords and phrases. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span></span> so with all that said, I ask you.....Who's the REAL enemy?</span></div>
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*Sparkle*http://www.blogger.com/profile/05387399708185284317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890926287375950554.post-10850221248875779132012-08-25T07:08:00.001-04:002012-08-25T07:20:11.690-04:00Romney birth certificate remark rekindles Obama controversy<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: small;">We've all seen the mud slinging, and we all KNEW it was destined to get ugly. I have to admit though, when Romney reached in his bag, I expected him to pull out something better than THIS...back to the birth certificate we go. He needs to be worrying about getting those tax papers in order....nevermind Obama's birth certificate, that's OLD news. People always gotta be bringing up old shyt! Aaahhh, anyway click on the link below that says "more" to read the story....</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;">COMMERCE, Michigan (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney took a dig at President Barack Obama on Friday over his birth certificate in comments that reignited a controversy over the Democrat's eligibility to be president.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;">"No one's ever asked to see my birth certificate," a smiling Romney told a rally of some 7,000 people in his home state of Michigan.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;">"They know that this is the place that we were born and raised," he said to the laughter of the crowd, speaking alongside his wife, Ann.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;">Romney's remarks, which he said later were meant as humor, drew a strong rebuke from Obama's team in the tight presidential contest that has become more ill-tempered in recent weeks. They also further obscured Romney's attempts to keep his message focused on jobs.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;">The joke was a reference to the widely discredited belief that Obama, whose father was from Kenya, was not born in the United States and thus is not eligible to be president.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;">Conservative fringes of the Republican Party -- including high-profile Romney backer Donald Trump -- have argued that Obama was not born in Hawaii as he says.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;">In an effort to end the "birther" controversy, Obama has released multiple copies of his birth certificate that show he was born in the United States. But some conservatives refuse to let the issue die.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;">"Governor Romney's decision to directly enlist himself in the birther movement should give pause to any rational voter across America," Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;">Romney's comments came as Republicans prepared for Monday's opening of a four-day convention that will formally nominate him for president, and were the latest detour from his central argument that Americans need a change from Obama's economic leadership.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;">Brushing the comment off as a joke, the former Massachusetts governor said he did not believe the birther theories.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;">"I've said throughout the campaign and before, there's no question about where he was born. He was born in the U.S. This was fun about us, and coming home. And humor, you know -- we've got to have a little humor in a campaign," Romney told CBS News.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;">Less than 24 hours earlier, Romney said in Minnesota that "big business is doing fine in many places," seemingly contradicting his message that companies are struggling under Obama.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;">The line echoed an Obama comment about the private sector doing well that the Republican has repeatedly criticized on the campaign trail.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;">Romney has had a series of awkward campaign-trail moments -- highlighted by his European trip last month when he cast doubt on London's readiness for the Olympics and discussed cultural differences between Israelis and Palestinians -- that raised questions about his political instincts.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;">"He seems to really struggle when he tries to be spontaneous," said Cal Jillson, a political scientist at Southern Methodist University. "He comes across as more awkward and tin-eared than malicious."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;">Romney attempted to turn the national conversation back to his record as a business executive in an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;">In a column headlined, "What I Learned at Bain Capital," Romney described his days at the private equity firm and said he would use his lessons from turning around private companies to fix the U.S. economy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;">"My presidency would make it easier for entrepreneurs and small businesses to get the investment dollars they need to grow," Romney said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;">Romney brought up the birther issue despite having complained recently that the campaign had taken a nasty tone.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;">"Throughout this campaign, Governor Romney has embraced the most strident voices in his party instead of standing up to them," Obama campaign spokesman LaBolt said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;">(Additional reporting by John Whitesides; Editing by Alistair Bell and Peter Cooney)</span></div>
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<em><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">As many as <a href="http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Empire-State-Building-Shooting-167313495.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">10 people have been injured in a shooting outside the Empire State Building</a>in Manhattan, NBC News reports.</span></em></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><b>Update at </b><b>12:07 a.m. ET:</b> Johnson's first victim, initially described as a "coworker," was his former manager.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><b>Update at </b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; line-height: 22px;"><b>11:03 a.m. ET: </b>The </span><em style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Post</em><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; line-height: 22px;"> has </span><a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/shot_at_empire_state_building_Ycd08ZMPwDQf7r8qSKX3yO?utm_source=SFnewyorkpost&utm_medium=SFnewyorkpost" style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">updated its story</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; line-height: 22px;">. It's now saying that the man in the grey suit "stalked" a colleague down 33rd Street before shooting him dead and then heading toward the Empire State Building, where he opened fire on a corner crowded with morning commuters.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><b>Update at 10:39 a.m. ET:</b> The <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Daily News</em> <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/person-killed-shooting-empire-state-building-morning-rush-article-1.1143522" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">reports</a> that the shooter was "well-dressed," wearing a grey suit and carrying a briefcase.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><b>Update at 10:23 a.m. ET:</b> Reader Brooke R. works near the Empire State Building and sent in this photo, which shows police near a covered body.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><strong>Update at 10:10 a.m. ET:</strong> CBS2 New York <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/08/24/multiple-people-reported-shot-near-empire-state-building/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">quotes</a> a witness as saying she heard three shots and saw three people running down the street. “Then we heard it again and it was like 10 to 15 shots at one time,” she tells CBS2.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><strong>Update at 10:05 a.m. ET:</strong><em>The New York Post</em>, quoting unidentified sources, <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/shot_at_empire_state_building_Ycd08ZMPwDQf7r8qSKX3yO#ixzz24TLYOxP8" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">reports</a> that the shootings stemmed from a dispute between coworkers.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><b>Update at <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; line-height: 22px;">10:04 a.m. ET:</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; line-height: 22px;"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/dashb0t/status/238998942690455552" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">NBC4 reports</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; line-height: 22px;">that the shooter was a disgruntled employee who worked in the Empire State Building.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><strong>Update at 10:04 a.m. ET:</strong> Aliyah Imam tells Fox 5 News that she was standing at a red light when a woman standing next to her fell to the ground. She says the woman was hit in the hip. She says the gunman was “shooting indiscriminately at people.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><b>Update at </b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; line-height: 22px;"><b>10:00 a.m ET:</b> A witness described the shooter as a "</span><a href="https://twitter.com/DanAmira/status/238994787221512194" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">young white guy</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; line-height: 22px;">" to local news station Fox 5.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><strong>Update at 9:51 a.m. ET</strong>: Several media outlets are quoting New York City police as saying the incident is not terrorism related.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><strong>Update at 9:49 a.m. ET: </strong>The shooting occurred at 34th Street and Fifth Avenue, just beside the city’s iconic skyscraper and a massive tourist attraction.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><strong>Update at 9:45 a.m. ET:</strong> Reuters, quoting an unidentified New York City police source, <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/24/us-usa-shooting-empirestate-idUSBRE87N0M220120824" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">reports</a> two are dead in the shootings, but this has not been confirmed by other media sources.</span></div>
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</em>*Sparkle*http://www.blogger.com/profile/05387399708185284317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890926287375950554.post-46761801904139793022012-08-24T10:55:00.000-04:002012-08-24T10:57:25.536-04:00The Last Confessions of E. Howard Hunt Reveal Who Was Behind The Assassination Of JFK<b><a href="http://www.infowars.com/articles/us/jfk_hunt_last_confessions_rolling_stone.htm" target="_blank">SOURCE</a></b><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>It would be so easy to shrug your shoulders and proclaim that you don't care about this, throwing off an air of letting what's in the past STAY in the past. Unfortunately in this case it's the past that makes up who we are as a country today. On top of that we must all face the harsh reality that history ALWAYS repeats it's self. The only thing that changes are the players, but the game ALWAYS remains the same. </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Listen to the video below as E. Howard Hunt the man of many secrets, confesses who was behind JFK's assassination.</b></span><br />
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He was the ultimate keeper of secrets, lurking in the shadows of American history. He toppled banana republics, planned the Bay of Pigs invasion and led the Watergate break-in. Now he would reveal what he'd always kept hidden: who killed JFK<em></em></div>
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Once, when the old spymaster thought he was dying, his eldest son came to visit him at his home in Miami. The scourges recently had been constant and terrible: lupus, pneumonia, cancers of the jaw and prostate, gangrene, the amputation of his left leg. It was like something was eating him up. Long past were his years of heroic service to the country. In the CIA, he'd helped mastermind the violent removal of a duly elected leftist president in Guatemala and assisted in subterfuges that led to the murder of Che Guevara. But no longer could you see in him the suave, pipe-smoking, cocktail-party-loving clandestine operative whose Cold War exploits he himself had, almost obsessively, turned into novels, one of which, <em>East of Farewell </em>, the <em>New York Times </em>once called "the best sea story" of World War II. Diminished too were the old bad memories, of the Bay of Pigs debacle that derailed his CIA career for good, of the Watergate Hotel fiasco, of his first wife's death, of thirty-three months in U.S. prisons -- of, in fact, a furious lifetime mainly of failure, disappointment and pain. But his firstborn son -- he named him St. John; Saint, for short -- was by his side now. And he still had a secret or two left to share before it was all over.</div>
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They were in the living room, him in his wheelchair, watching Fox News at full volume, because his hearing had failed too. After a while, he had St. John wheel him into his bedroom and hoist him onto his bed. It smelled foul in there; he was incontinent; a few bottles of urine under the bed needed to be emptied; but he was beyond caring. He asked St. John to get him a diet root beer, a pad of paper and a pen.</div>
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Saint had come to Miami from Eureka, California, borrowing money to fly because he was broke. Though clean now, he had been a meth addict for twenty years, a meth dealer for ten of those years and a source of frustration and anger to his father for much of his life. There were a couple of days back in 1972, after the Watergate job, when the boy, then eighteen, had risen to the occasion. The two of them, father and son, had wiped fingerprints off a bunch of spy gear, and Saint had helped in other ways, too. But as a man, he had two felony convictions to his name, and they were for drugs. The old spymaster was a convicted felon too, of course. But that was different. He was E. Howard Hunt, a true American patriot, and he had earned his while serving his country. That the country repaid him with almost three years in prison was something he could never understand, if only because the orders that got him in such trouble came right from the top; as he once said, "I had always assumed, working for the CIA for so many years, that anything the White House wanted done was the law of the land."</div>
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Years had gone by when he and St. John hardly spoke. But then St. John came to him wanting to know if he had any information about the assassination of President Kennedy. Despite almost universal skepticism, his father had always maintained that he didn't. He swore to this during two government investigations. "I didn't have anything to do with the assassination, didn't know anything about it," he said during one of them. "I did my time for Watergate. I shouldn't have to do additional time and suffer additional losses for something I had nothing to do with."</div>
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But now, in August 2003, propped up in his sickbed, paper on his lap, pen in hand and son sitting next to him, he began to write down the names of men who had indeed participated in a plot to kill the president. He had lied during those two federal investigations. He knew something after all. He told St. John about his own involvement, too. It was explosive stuff, with the potential to reconfigure the JFK-assassination-theory landscape. And then he got better and went on to live for four more years.</div>
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They sure don't make White House bad guys the way they used to. Today you've got flabby-faced half-men like Karl Rove, with weakling names like "Scooter" Libby, blandly hacking their way through the constraints of the U.S. Constitution, while back then, in addition to Hunt, you had out-and-out thugs like G. Gordon Liddy, his Watergate co-conspirator and Nixon's dirty-tricks chief, who would hold his own hand over an open flame to prove what a real tough guy he was. It all seems a little nutty now, but in 1972 it was serious business. These guys meant to take the powers of the presidency and run amok. Hunt, an ex-CIA man who loved operating in the shadows and joined Nixon's Special Investigations Unit (a.k.a. "the Plumbers") as a $100-a-day consultant in 1971, specialized in political sabotage. Among his first assignments: forging cables linking the Kennedy administration to the assassination of South Vietnam's president. After that, he began sniffing around Ted Kennedy's dirty laundry, to see what he could dig up there. Being a former CIA man, he had no problem contemplating the use of firebombs and once thought about slathering LSD on the steering wheel of an unfriendly newspaperman's car, hoping it would leach into his skin and cause a fatal accident. But of all his various plots and subterfuges, in the end, only one of them mattered: the failed burglary at the Watergate Hotel, in Washington, D.C., in the spring of 1972.</div>
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The way it happened, Hunt enlisted some Cuban pals from his old Bay of Pigs days to fly up from Miami and bug the Democratic National Committee headquarters, which was located inside the Watergate. Also on the team were a couple of shady ex-government operators named James McCord and Frank Sturgis. The first attempt ended when the outfit's lock picker realized he'd brought the wrong tools. The next time, however, with Hunt stationed in a Howard Johnson's hotel room across the way, communicating with the burglars by walkie-talkie, the team gained entry into the office. Unfortunately, on the way into the building, they'd taped open an exit door to allow their escape, and when a night watchman found it, he called the cops. The burglars were arrested on the spot. One of them had E. Howard's phone number, at the White House, no less, in his address book. Following this lead, police arrested Hunt and charged him with burglary, conspiracy and wiretapping. Abandoned by his bosses at the White House, he soon began trying to extort money from them to help pay his mounting bills, as well as those of his fellow burglars, the deal being that if the White House paid, all those arrested would plead guilty and maintain silence about the extent of the White House's involvement.</div>
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That December, his wife, Dorothy, carrying $10,000 in $100 bills, was killed in a plane crash, foul play suspected but never proved. Two years later, impeachment imminent, Nixon resigned his presidency. And in 1973, E. Howard Hunt, the man who had unwittingly set all these events in motion, pleaded guilty and ultimately spent thirty-three months in prison. "I cannot escape feeling," he said at the time, "that the country I have served for my entire life and which directed me to carry out the Watergate entry is punishing me for doing the very things it trained and directed me to do."</div>
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After his release, Hunt moved to Miami, where he remarried, had two more children and spent three decades living a quiet, unexceptional life, steadfastly refusing to talk about Watergate, much less the Kennedy assassination. His connection to the JFK assassination came about almost serendipitously, when in 1974 a researcher stumbled across a photo of three tramps standing in Dallas' Dealey Plaza. It was taken on November 22nd, 1963, the day of Kennedy's shooting, and one of the tramps looked pretty much like E. Howard. In early inquiries, official and otherwise, he always denied any involvement. In later years, he'd offer a curt "No comment." And then, earlier this year, at the age of eighty-eight, he died -- though not before writing an autobiography, <em>American Spy: My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate & Beyond </em>, published last month. Not surprisingly, those things he wrote down about JFK's death and gave to his eldest son don't make an appearance in the book, at least not in any definitive way. E. Howard had apparently decided to take them to the grave. But St. John still has the memo -- "It has all this stuff in it," he says, "the chain of command, names, people, places, dates. He wrote it out to me directly, in his own handwriting, starting with the initials 'LBJ' " -- and he's decided it's time his father's last secrets finally see some light, for better or for worse.</div>
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Out in eureka, a few days before his father's death, St. John is driving through town in a beat-up mottled-brown '88 Cutlass Sierra. He is fifty-two. His hair is dark, worn long, and despite his decades as a drug addict, he's still looking good. He has a Wiccan girlfriend named Mona. He's also an accomplished and soulful guitar player, leaning heavily toward Eric Clapton; he can often be found playing in local haunts during open-mike nights and is working on putting a band together, perhaps to be called Saint John and the Sinners or, though less likely, the Konspirators. He's got a good sense of humor and a large sentimental streak. The last time he saw his father, in Miami, was a week ago.</div>
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"I sat by his bedside holding his hand for about ten hours the first day," St. John says somberly. "He hadn't been out of bed in ten weeks, had pneumonia twenty-seven times in the last sixteen months. He's such a tough old motherfucker, that guy. But he had all this fluid in his lungs, a death rattle, and I thought, 'Any minute now, this is it, his last breath, I'm looking at it right here.' A couple of times my stepmom, Laura, would say, 'Howard, who is this?' He'd look at me and her, and he didn't have a clue. Other times, he would quietly say, 'St. John.' He said he loved me and was grateful I was there."</div>
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At the moment, Saint doesn't have a job; his felonies have gotten in the way. He has to borrow money to put gas in his Cutlass. Beach chairs substitute for furniture in the tiny apartment where, until recently, he lived with an ex-girlfriend, herself a reformed meth addict, and two kids, one hers, one theirs. "I would've loved to have lived a normal life," he says. "I'm happy with who I am. I don't have any regrets. But all the shit that happened, the whole thing, it really spun me over."</div>
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And not only him but his siblings, too -- a brother, David, who has had his own problems with drugs, and two older sisters, Kevan and Lisa, who still hold their father responsible for the tragedy of their mom's death. Dorothy Hunt was staunchly loyal to her husband and, after his arrest, helped him with his plans to blackmail the White House. On December 8th, 1972, carrying $10,000 in what's regarded as extorted hush money and, some say, evidence that could have gotten Nixon impeached, she boarded United Airlines Flight 553 from Washington to Chicago. The plane crashed, killing forty-three people onboard, including Dorothy. The official explanation was pilot error, but St. John doesn't believe it. He thinks that the Nixon White House wanted to both get rid of his mother and send a message to his father. Nonetheless, he says he tries not to place blame.</div>
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"She got on that plane willingly and lovingly, because that's the kind of woman she was," he says. "They had lots of marital problems, but when it came down to it, she had his back, and she could hang in there with the big dogs. She was really pissed at Nixon, Liddy, all those guys, and she was saying, 'We're not going to let them hang you out to dry. We're going to get them. Those motherfuckers are going to pay.' So I've never held what happened against him. I had bitterness and resentment, but I always knew he did what he had to do given the circumstances."</div>
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And at times, he even seems to think of his dad with pride: "Did you hear that the character that Tom Cruise plays in the <em>Mission: Impossible </em>movies is named after him? Instead of Everette Hunt, they named him Ethan Hunt. I know he's been portrayed as kind of an inept, third-rate burglar, but burglary wasn't really his bag. My dad was a really good spy, maybe a great spy."</div>
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But then he starts talking about what it was like growing up the eldest son of Everette Howard Hunt, and a different picture emerges. "He loved the glamorous life, cocktail parties, nightclubbing, flirting, all that," Saint says. "He was unfaithful to my mom, but she stayed with him. He was a swinger. He thought of himself as a cool dude, suave, sophisticated, intellectual. He was Mr. Smooth. A man of danger. He was perfect for the CIA. He never felt guilt about anything."</div>
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In the early days of the cold war, the CIA's mandate was simple: to contain the spread of communism by whatever means necessary; it was tacitly given permission to go about its dirty business unfettered by oversight of any kind. For much of the Cold War, it was answerable to no one. And if you were lucky enough to become one of its agents, you had every right to consider yourself a member of an elite corps, a big swinging all-American dick like no other.</div>
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The middle-class son of a Hamburg, New York, attorney, E. Howard Hunt graduated from Brown University in 1940 with a bachelor's in English, joined the Navy during World War II, served in the North Atlantic on the destroyer <em>Mayo </em>, slipped and fell, took a medical discharge and wound up in China working under "Wild" Bill Donovan in the newly formed Office of Strategic Services. When the OSS was transformed into the CIA, Hunt jumped onboard. He loved action as much as he hated communism, and he soon began operating with a level of arrogance entirely typical of the CIA. He was instrumental, for instance, in planning the 1954 coup in Guatemala that overthrew the left-leaning, democratically elected president, Jacobo Arbenz, and ushered in forty years of military repression, which ultimately cost 200,000 Guatemalans their lives. Years later, when asked about the 200,000 deaths, E. Howard said, "Deaths? What deaths?" Like Saint says, he never felt guilt about anything: "He was a complete self-centered WASP who saw himself as this blue blood from upstate New York. 'I'm better than anybody because I'm white, Protestant and went to Brown, and since I'm in the CIA, I can do anything I want.' Jew, nigger, Polack, wop -- he used all those racial epithets. He was an elitist. He hated everybody."</div>
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In the early Fifties, his father could often be seen cruising around in a white Cadillac convertible; he loved that car. He also loved his cigars and his wine and his country clubs and being waited on by servants and having his children looked after by nannies. He was full of himself and full of the romantic, swashbuckling, freewheeling importance of his government mission. He had quite an imagination, too. When he wasn't off saving the world from Reds, he spent much of his time in front of a typewriter, hacking out espionage novels, some eighty in all, with titles such as <em>The Violent Ones </em>("They killed by day, they loved by night") and <em>I Came to Kill </em>("They wanted a tyrant liquidated, and cash could hire him to do it").</div>
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Wherever E. Howard was stationed -- he'd pop up Zelig-like in hot spots from Japan to Uruguay to Spain -- he and his family lived lavishly and well, all presumably to lend credence to his cover job as a high-ranking embassy official. One estate was as large as a city block, and one dining table as long as a telephone pole, with the parents sitting at distant opposite ends. Sadly, he treated his children the way he and the CIA treated the rest of the world. They were supposed to bend to his will and otherwise be invisible. God forbid during a meal one of them should speak or rattle a dish.</div>
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"Whenever I made a sound, he looked at me with those hateful, steely eyes of his, a look of utter contempt and disgust, like he could kill," St. John says. "He was a mean-spirited person and an extremely cruel father. I was his firstborn son, and I was born with a clubfoot and had to have operations. I suffered from petit-mal seizures. I was dyslexic and developed a stutter. For the superspy not to have a superson was the ultimate disappointment, like, 'Here's my idiot son with the clubfoot and glasses. Can we keep him in the closet, Dorothy?' "</div>
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Later, E. Howard moved the family to the last home it would ever occupy as a family, in Potomac, Maryland. It was called Witches Island. It was a rambling affair, with a horse paddock, a chicken coop, the Cold War bonus of a bomb shelter, and a fishing pond across the way. E. Howard wanted Saint to attend a top-flight prep school and one night took him to a dinner at St. Andrew's School, to try and get his son enrolled. In the middle of the meal, Saint leaned over to his dad and whispered, "Papa, I have to go to the bathroom." His father glared at him. Pretty soon Saint was banging his knees together under the table. "Sit still," his father hissed. Saint said, "Papa, I really have to go."</div>
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"I ended up pissing in my pants at the dinner," Saint says. "Can you imagine how humiliating that was? Unbelievable." He didn't get into St. Andrew's. He ended up settling for a lower-tier boarding school called St. James, near Hagerstown, Maryland. His second year there, in 1970, after being repeatedly molested by a teacher, he broke down and told his mother what was going on. She told his father. And rumor had it that E. Howard came up to St. James with a carload of guns to make the teacher disappear. "He was really, really pissed off," says Saint. "He wanted to kill." In any case, at the school, neither the teacher nor St. John was ever seen again.</div>
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That same year, his father retired from the CIA after being relegated to the backwaters for his role in the Bay of Pigs. He went to work as a writer for a PR firm. He was bored and missed the hands-on action of the CIA.The following year, however, his lawyer pal Chuck Colson, who was special counsel to Nixon, called him up with an invitation to join the president's Special Investigations Unit as a kind of dirty-tricks consultant. He signed on. He really thought he was going places.</div>
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"Howard," Laura said, "he wants to know who shot JFK."</div>
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But then St. John got involved, and he knew better how to handle the situation. For one thing, he knew that his stepmother wanted to forget about the past. She didn't want to hear about Watergate or Kennedy. In fact, E. Howard swore to Laura that he knew nothing about JFK's assassination; it was one of her preconditions for marriage. Consequently, she and her sons often found themselves in conflict with St. John.</div>
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"Why can't you go back to California and leave well enough alone?" they asked him. "How can you do this? How dare you do this? He's in the last years of his life."</div>
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But Saint's attitude was, "This has nothing to do with you. This stuff is of historical significance and needs to come out, and if you're worried that it'll make him out to be a liar, everybody knows he's a liar already. Is this going to ruin the Hunt name? The Hunt name is already filled with ruination."</div>
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So when Saint arrived in Miami to talk to his dad, the two men spent a lot of time waiting for Laura to leave the house. Saint painted the living room and built a wheelchair ramp. In the mornings, he cooked breakfast. In the afternoons, he plopped a fishing hat on E. Howard's head and wheeled him around the neighborhood. They drank coffee together. And watched lots of Fox News. And when Laura finally left, they talked.</div>
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Afterward, another meeting was arranged with Costner, this time in Los Angeles, where the actor had fifty assassination-related questions all ready to go. (The actor declined comment for this article.) Though the $5 million figure was still floating around, all Costner wanted to pay E. Howard at this point was $100 a day for his time. There would be no advance. St. John called Costner.</div>
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"Nobody calls me a cheapskate," said Costner. "What do you think I'm going to do, just hand over $5 million?"</div>
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"No. But the flight alone could kill him. He's deaf as a brick. He's pissing in a bag. He's got one leg. You want him to fly to Los Angeles and for $100 a day? Wow! What are we going to do with all that money?!"</div>
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One evening in Eureka, over a barbecue meal, St. John explains how he first came to suspect that his father might somehow be involved in the Kennedy assassination. "Around 1975, I was in a phone booth in Maryland somewhere, when I saw a poster on a telephone pole about who killed JFK, and it had a picture of the three tramps. I saw that picture and I fucking -- like a cartoon character, my jaw dropped, my eyes popped out of my head, and smoke came out of my ears. It looks like my dad. There's nobody that has all those same facial features. People say it's not him. He's said it's not him. But I'm his son, and I've got a gut feeling."</div>
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He chews his sandwich. "And then, like an epiphany, I remember '63, and my dad being gone, and my mom telling me that he was on a business trip to Dallas. I've tried to convince myself that's some kind of false memory, that I'm just nuts, that it's something I heard years later. But, I mean, his alibi for that day is that he was at home with his family. I remember I was in the fifth grade. We were at recess. I was playing on the merry-go-round. We were called in and told to go home, because the president had been killed. And I remember going home. But I don't remember my dad being there. I have no recollection of him being there. And then he has this whole thing about shopping for Chinese food with my mother that day, so that they could cook a meal together." His father testified to this, in court, on more than one occasion, saying that he and his wife often cooked meals together.</div>
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St. John pauses and leans forward. "Well," he says, "I can tell you that's just the biggest load of crap in the fucking world. He was always looking at things like he was writing a novel; everything had to be just so glamorous and so exciting. He couldn't even be bothered with his children. That's not glamorous. James Bond doesn't have children. So my dad in the kitchen? Chopping vegetables with his wife? I'm so sorry, but that would never happen. Ever. That fucker never did jack-squat like that. Ever."</div>
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Not that it was all bad back then, in Potomac, at Witches Island. E. Howard played the trumpet, and his son was into music too, so sometimes the pair went down to Blues Alley, in Georgetown, to hear jazz. Back home, E. Howard would slap Benny Goodman's monster swing-jazz song "Sing, Sing, Sing" on the turntable, and the two would listen to it endlessly. And then, sometimes, during the stomping Harry James horn solo, E. Howard would jump to his feet, snapping his fingers like some cool cat, pull back his shirt sleeves, lick his lips and play the air trumpet for all he was worth. It was great stuff, and St. John loved it. "I would sit there in awe," he says. But the best was yet to come.</div>
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It was well past midnight on June 18th, 1972. Saint, eighteen years old, was asleep in his basement bedroom, surrounded by his Beatles and <em>Playboy </em>pinup posters, when he heard someone shouting, "You gotta wake up! You gotta wake up!"</div>
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When he opened his eyes, Saint saw his father as he'd never seen him before. E. Howard was dressed in his usual coat and tie, but everything was akimbo. He was a sweaty, disheveled mess. Saint didn't know what to think or what was going on.</div>
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"I don't need you to ask a lot of questions," his father said. "I need you to get your clothes on and come upstairs."</div>
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He disappeared into the darkness. Saint changed out of his pajamas. Upstairs, he found his father in the master bedroom, laboring over a big green suitcase jumble-filled with microphones, walkie-talkies, cameras, tripods, cords, wires, lots of weird stuff. His father started giving him instructions. Saint went to the kitchen and returned with Windex, paper towels and some rubber dishwashing gloves. Then, in silence, the two of them began wiping fingerprints off all the junk in the suitcase. After that, they loaded everything into E. Howard's Pontiac Firebird and drove over to a lock on the C&O Canal. E. Howard heaved the suitcase into the water, and it gurgled out of sight.</div>
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They didn't speak on the way home. St. John still didn't know what was going on. All he knew was that his dad had needed his help, and he'd given it, successfully.</div>
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The next day, dressed in one of his prep-school blazers, he drove to a Riggs Bank in Georgetown and met his father inside the safety-deposit-box cage. His father turned him around, lifted his blazer and shoved about $100,000 in cash down the back of his pants. The boy made it home without picking up a tail. Then his father had him get rid of a typewriter. Saint put the typewriter in a bag, hoofed it across the Witches Island property onto the neighboring spread and tossed it into the pond where he and his brother David used to go fishing.</div>
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"Don't ever tell anybody you've done these things," his father said later. "I could get in trouble. You could get in trouble. I'm sorry to have to put you in this position, but I really am grateful for your help."</div>
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"Of course, Papa," Saint said.</div>
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Everything he had done, he'd done because his father and his gang of pals had botched the break-in at the Watergate Hotel. Soon his mother would be killed in a plane crash, and his father would be sent to jail, and Nixon would resign, and his own life would fracture in unimaginable ways. But right now, standing there with his father and hearing those words of praise, he was the happiest he'd ever been.</div>
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Years later, when saint started trying to get his father to tell what he knew about JFK, he came to believe the information would be valuable. He both needed money and thought he was owed money, for what he'd been through. Also, like many a conspiracy nut before him, he was more than a little obsessed.</div>
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"After seeing that poster of the three tramps," he says, "I read two dozen books on the JFK assassination, and the more I read, the more I was unsure about what happened. I had all these questions and uncertainties. I mean, I was trying to sort out things that had touched me in a big way."</div>
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Touched him and turned him upside down, especially the death of his mother. He had been particularly close to her. She was part Native American and had sewed him a buckskin shirt that he used to wear like a badge of honor, along with a pair of moccasins. At the same time, Saint feels that he never got to know her. She told him that during World War II, she'd tracked Nazi money for the U.S. Treasury Department, and Saint believes that early in her marriage to his father, she may have been in the CIA herself, "a contract agent, not officially listed." But he isn't sure about any of it, really.</div>
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"In our family, everything was sort of like a mini-CIA," he says. "Nothing was ever talked about, so we grew up with all of these walls, walls around my father, walls around my mother, walls around us kids, to protect and insulate us. You grow up not knowing what really happened. Like, who was my mom, for Christ's sake? Was she a CIA agent? What was her life really like?" The one thing he does know is that when she died, so in large part did the Hunt family.</div>
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Once his father went to prison, Saint moved to Wisconsin, where he worked in a potato-processing plant and spent the rest of his time dropping acid. In 1975, he moved to the Oakland, California, area, started snorting coke and for five years drove a bakery truck. He was in a band and hoped to become a rock star, though touring alongside Buddy Guy was about the biggest thing that ever happened. Then he gave up coke and took up meth and a while later started dealing meth. Twenty years flew by. He had wild sexual escapades; he shacked up with two sisters -- "nymphs," he calls them. But mainly his life, like his father's, was a rolling series of misfortunes. He received insurance money after his mom died, and bought a house; a week later, it burned down in some drug-related fiasco. His brother David followed a similar path; leaving boarding school, he hooked up with Saint, and together they set about snorting and dealing away the years.</div>
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Finally, in 2001, on the heels of two drug busts, Saint decided to go straight. With his ex-girlfriend, their daughter and her son, he stayed in a series of shelters, then took them to live in Eureka, several hours north of Oakland. He's since earned a certificate in hotel management, but jobs don't last. And the questions and uncertainties about his father continue to circulate in his head.</div>
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"In some ways we turned out similarly," he says. "He was a spy, into secrets and covert activity. I became a drug dealer. What has to be more covert and secret than that? It's the same mind-set. We were just on opposite sides of the -- well, actually, in our case, I guess we weren't even on opposite sides of the law, were we?" That time in miami, with saint by his bed and disease eating away at him and him thinking he's six months away from death, E. Howard finally put pen to paper and started writing. Saint had been working toward this moment for a long while, and now it was going to happen. He got his father an A&W diet root beer, then sat down in the old man's wheelchair and waited.</div>
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E. Howard scribbled the initials "LBJ," standing for Kennedy's ambitious vice president, Lyndon Johnson. Under "LBJ," connected by a line, he wrote the name Cord Meyer. Meyer was a CIA agent whose wife had an affair with JFK; later she was murdered, a case that's never been solved. Next his father connected to Meyer's name the name Bill Harvey, another CIA agent; also connected to Meyer's name was the name David Morales, yet another CIA man and a well-known, particularly vicious black-op specialist. And then his father connected to Morales' name, with a line, the framed words "French Gunman Grassy Knoll."</div>
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So there it was, according to E. Howard Hunt. LBJ had Kennedy killed. It had long been speculated upon. But now E. Howard was saying that's the way it was. And that Lee Harvey Oswald wasn't the only shooter in Dallas. There was also, on the grassy knoll, a French gunman, presumably the Corsican Mafia assassin Lucien Sarti, who has figured prominently in other assassination theories.</div>
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"By the time he handed me the paper, I was in a state of shock," Saint says. "His whole life, to me and everybody else, he'd always professed to not know anything about any of it. But I knew this had to be the truth. If my dad was going to make anything up, he would have made something up about the Mafia, or Castro, or Khrushchev. He didn't like Johnson. But you don't falsely implicate your own country, for Christ's sake. My father is old-school, a dyed-in-the-wool patriot, and that's the last thing he would do."</div>
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Later that week, E. Howard also gave Saint two sheets of paper that contained a fuller narrative. It starts out with LBJ again, connecting him to Cord Meyer, then goes on: "Cord Meyer discusses a plot with [David Atlee] Phillips who brings in Wm. Harvey and Antonio Veciana. He meets with Oswald in Mexico City. . . . Then Veciana meets w/ Frank Sturgis in Miami and enlists David Morales in anticipation of killing JFK there. But LBJ changes itinerary to Dallas, citing personal reasons."</div>
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David Atlee Phillips, the CIA's Cuban operations chief in Miami at the time of JFK's death, knew E. Howard from the Guatemala-coup days. Veciana is a member of the Cuban exile community. Sturgis, like Saint's father, is supposed to have been one of the three tramps photographed in Dealey Plaza. Sturgis was also one of the Watergate plotters, and he is a man whom E. Howard, under oath, has repeatedly sworn to have not met until Watergate, so to Saint the mention of his name was big news.</div>
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E. Howard, "incredulous," says to Sturgis, "You seem to have everything you need. Why do you need me?" In the handwritten narrative, Sturgis' response is unclear, though what E. Howard says to Sturgis next isn't: He says he won't "get involved in anything involving Bill Harvey, who is an alcoholic psycho."</div>
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After that, the meeting ends. E. Howard goes back to his "normal" life and "like the rest of the country . . . is stunned by JFK's death and realizes how lucky he is not to have had a direct role."</div>
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After reading what his father had written, St. John was stunned too. His father had not only implicated LBJ, he'd also, with a few swift marks of a pen, put the lie to almost everything he'd sworn to, under oath, about his knowledge of the assassination. Saint had a million more questions. But his father was exhausted and needed to sleep, and then Saint had to leave town without finishing their talk, though a few weeks later he did receive in the mail a tape recording from his dad. E. Howard's voice on the cassette is weak and grasping, and he sometimes wanders down unrelated pathways. But he essentially remakes the same points he made in his handwritten narrative.</div>
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Shortly thereafter, Laura found out what had been going on, and with the help of E. Howard's attorney put an end to it. St. John and his father were kept apart. When they did see each other, they were never left alone. And they never got a chance to finish what they'd started. Instead, the old man set about writing his autobiography and turned his back on his son. He wrote him a letter in which he said that Saint's life had been nothing but "meaningless, self-serving instant gratification," that he had never amounted to anything and never would. He asked for his JFK memos back, and Saint returned them, though not before making copies.</div>
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There is no way to confirm Hunt's allegations -- all but one of the co-conspirators he named are long gone. St. John, for his part, believes his father. E. Howard was lucid when he made his confession. He was taking no serious medications, and he and his son were finally on good terms. If anything, St. John believes, his father was holding out on him, the old spy keeping a few secrets in reserve, just in case.</div>
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"Actually, there were probably dozens of plots to kill Kennedy, because everybody hated Kennedy but the public," Saint says. "The question is, which one of them worked? My dad has always said, 'Thank God one of them worked.' I think he knows a lot more than he told me. He claimed he backed out of the plot only so he could disclaim actual involvement. In a way, I feel like he only opened another can of worms." He takes a deep breath. "At a certain point, I'm just going to have to let it go."</div>
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Out in Eureka, Saint has been reading an advance copy of E. Howard's autobiography,<em>American Spy </em>. In it, his father looks at LBJ as only one possible person behind the JFK killing, and then only in the most halfhearted, couched-and-cloaked way. He brings up various other possibilities, too, then debunks each of them.</div>
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But of all the shadings and omissions in the book, the only one that truly upsets St. John has to do with the happiest moment in his life, that time in 1972, on the night of the Watergate burglary, when he helped his father dispose of the spy gear, then ran money for him and ditched the typewriter.</div>
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"That's a complete lie," Saint says, almost shouting. "A total fabrication. I did that. I mean, he never took me aside and thanked me in any kind of deep emotional way. But I'm the one who helped him that night. Me! And he's robbing me of it. Why?"</div>
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Like so many other things, he will never know why, because the next day, on January 23rd, in the morning, in Miami, the old spymaster dies.</div>
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"Oh, God," Saint says and goes looking for how <em>The New York Times </em>handled his father's death. The obit reads, "Mr. Hunt was intelligent, erudite, suave and loyal to his friends. But the record shows that he mishandled many of the tasks he received from the CIA and the White House. He was 'totally self-absorbed, totally amoral and a danger to himself and anybody around him. . . .' "</div>
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But the <em>Times </em>is right, of course. E. Howard was a danger to anybody around him, and any list of those in danger would always have to include, right at the top, his firstborn son, St. John.</div>
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The ACLU is <a href="http://www.aclu.org/national-security/predator-drone-foia" target="_blank">suing the Obama administration</a> under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), seeking to force disclosure of the guidelines used by Obama officials to select which human beings (both U.S. citizens and foreign nationals) will have their lives ended by the CIA’s drone attacks (“In particular,” the group explains, the FOIA request “seeks to find out when, where and against whom drone strikes can be authorized, and how the United States ensures compliance with international laws relating to extrajudicial killing”). The Obama administration has not only refused to provide any of that information, but worse, the CIA <a href="http://www.aclu.org/files/assets/15__cia_s_motion_for_summary_judgment_10_01_10.pdf" target="_blank">is insisting to federal courts</a> that it cannot even confirm or deny the existence of a drone program at all without seriously damaging national security; from the CIA’s brief in response to the ACLU lawsuit:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><a name='more'></a><br />
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</div>What makes this so appalling is not merely that the Obama administration demands the right to kill whomever it wants without having to account to anyone for its actions, choices or even claimed legal authorities, though that’s obviously bad enough (as I <a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/02/02/aclu_sues_obama_administration_over_assassination_secrecy/">wrote</a> when the ACLU lawsuit was commenced: “from a certain perspective, there’s really only one point worth making about all of this: if you think about it, it is warped beyond belief that the ACLU has to sue the U.S. Government in order to force it to disclose its claimed legal and factual bases for assassinating U.S. citizens without charges, trial or due process of any kind”). What makes it so much worse is how blatantly, insultingly false is its claim that it cannot confirm or deny the CIA drone program without damaging national security.<br />
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Numerous Obama officials — including the <a href="http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/30/obama-admits-to-pakistan-drone-strikes/" target="_blank">President himself</a> and the <a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/02/02/aclu_sues_obama_administration_over_assassination_secrecy/">CIA Director</a> — have repeatedly boasted in public about this very program. Obama <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/31/world/middleeast/civilian-deaths-due-to-drones-are-few-obama-says.html?_r=2" target="_blank">recently hailed</a> the CIA drone program by claiming that “we are very careful in terms of how it’s been applied,” and <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/after-obamas-remarks-on-drones-white-house-rebuffs-security-questions/2012/01/31/gIQA9s2LgQ_story.html" target="_blank">added that</a> it is “a targeted, focused effort at people who are on a list of active terrorists, who are trying to go in and harm Americans, hit American facilities, American bases and so on.” Obama has told <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2010/05/president-obamas-joke-about-predator-drones-draws-fire/" target="_blank">playful jokes</a> about the same drone program. Former CIA Director and current Defense Secretary Leon Panetta also likes to tell <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2011/10/07/panetta_spills____a_little____on_secret_cia_drones/" target="_blank">cute little jokes</a> about CIA Predator drones, and then <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/16/panetta-sees-no-need-to-ease-drone-strikes/" target="_blank">proclaimed</a> in December that the drone program has “been very effective at undermining al Qaeda and their ability to plan those kinds of attacks.” Just two weeks ago, Attorney General Eric Holder gave a speech <a href="http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/targeted-killing-speech-holder-mischaracterizes-debate-over-judicial-review" target="_blank">purporting to legally justify</a> these same drone attacks.<br />
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So Obama officials are eager to publicly tout the supposed benefits of the CIA’s drone programs in order to generate political gain for the President: to make him look like some sort of Tough, Brave Warrior single-handedly vanquishing Al Qaeda. The President himself boasts about how tightly controlled, precise and effective the CIA drones are. Everyone in the world knows the CIA has a drone program. It is openly discussed everywhere, certainly including the multiple Muslim countries where the drones routinely create piles of corpses, and by top U.S. Government officials themselves.<br />
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But then when it comes time to test the accuracy of their public claims by requesting the most basic information about what is done and how execution targets are selected, and when it comes time to ask courts to adjudicate its legality, then suddenly National Security imperatives prevent the government even from confirming or denying the existence of the program: the very same program they’ve been publicly boasting and joking about. As the ACLU’s Jameel Jaffer put it after Obama publicly defended the program: “At this point, <b>the only consequence of pretending that it’s a secret program is that the courts don’t play a role in overseeing it” </b>– that, and ensuring that any facts that contradict these public claims remain concealed.<br />
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This is why the U.S. Government’s fixation on secrecy — worse than ever under the Obama administration, as evidenced by its <a href="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2011/05/obamas-war-whistle-blowers/38106/" target="_blank">unprecedented war on whistleblowers</a> — is so pernicious. It not only enables government officials to operate in the dark, which inevitably ensures vast (though undiscovered) abuses of power. Worse, it enables the government to aggressively propagandize the citizenry without challenge: Obama officials are free to make all sorts of claims about how great and targeted the drone program is and how it Keeps Us Safe™, while simultaneously suppressing any official evidence or information that would test those claims and/or contradict them (even as <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/17/us-drone-strikes-pakistan-waziristan" target="_blank">some evidence</a> suggests these assurances are false).<br />
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Worse still, it literally removes our highest political officials from the rule of law. The sole purpose of these vast claims of secrecy around the drone program — the absurd notion that they cannot even confirm or deny its existence without harming National Security — is to block courts from reviewing the legality of what they’re doing, which is another way of saying: they have removed themselves from the rule of law. Even Bush DOJ lawyer Jack Goldsmith, a vociferous advocate of executive authority and secrecy powers, <a href="http://www.lawfareblog.com/2011/10/more-on-al-aulaqi-and-transparency/" target="_blank">understands how abusive this is</a>:<br />
<blockquote>First, it is wrong . . . for the government to maintain technical covertness but then engage in continuous leaks, attributed to government officials, of many (self-serving) details about the covert operations and their legal justifications. It is wrong because it is illegal. It is wrong because it damages (though perhaps not destroys) the diplomatic and related goals of covertness. And it is wrong because the Executive branch seems to be trying to have its cake (not talking about the program openly in order to serve diplomatic interests and perhaps deflect scrutiny) and eat it too (leaking promiscuously to get credit for the operation and to portray it as lawful).</blockquote>Indeed, one of the worst abuses of the lawless Bush presidency was that Bush officials <a href="http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com.br/2006/04/building-secrecy-wall-higher-and.html" target="_blank">repeatedly invoked</a> secrecy powers (the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/29/us/29nsa.html" target="_blank">State Secret privilege</a>) to shield their most controversial and lawless programs from judicial review: warrantless eavesdropping, rendition, and torture. One of the earliest alarms about what the Obama presidency would be was when the Obama DOJ told courts early in 2009 that it would <a href="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/04/expert_consensus_obama_aping_bush_on_state_secrets.php" target="_blank">continue to assert those same radical secrecy claims</a>: thus telling courts that the <a href="http://www.salon.com/2010/09/08/obama_138/">very programs</a> which candidate Obama long denounced as illegal were now such vital State Secrets that courts must not risk their disclosure by adjudicating their legality. Beyond Obama’s decree that the DOJ must not investigate Bush-era crimes, that was the instrument used by Obama to shield Bush’s criminal policies from judicial challenge: through Kafkaesque claims of secrecy whereby programs that everyone in the world knows exist were Too Secret even to let courts examine. In sum, there is only one place in the entire world where these policies of warrantless eavesdropping, rendition, torture, and CIA drones cannot be discussed: in American courts, when it’s time to review their legality and/or allow its victims to vindicate their legal rights.<br />
Now, in this ACLU/FOIA case, the Obama administration is taking these warped secrecy games one step further. They boast publicly about the programs to lavish themselves with praise, only to turn around once they’re sued in court and insist that the programs are too secret even to acknowledge. So extreme is the fixation on secrecy from the Most Transparent Administration Ever™ that they are routinely reduced to this type of <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/12/2011-review-year-secrecy-jumped-shark" target="_blank">self-parody</a>; behold how they <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/09/us/a-not-quite-confirmation-of-a-memo-approving-killing.html?scp=6&sq=charlie%20savage&st=cse" target="_blank">are insisting in response</a> to a separate FOIA lawsuit from <i>The New York Times</i> that they cannot even confirm or deny the existence of the OLC memo which authorized the assassination of Anwar Awlaki — even though the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/world/middleeast/secret-us-memo-made-legal-case-to-kill-a-citizen.html?hp" target="_blank"><i>NYT</i> reported</a> on its contents. More amazingly still, the Obama administration <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/09/us/a-not-quite-confirmation-of-a-memo-approving-killing.html?scp=6&sq=charlie%20savage&st=cse" target="_blank">continues to insist</a> that they cannot confirm or deny the memo’s existence even after <b>Eric Holder talks about the memo</b> in a Senate hearing.<br />
This would be laughable if it were not so destructive. It results in the government’s most consequential actions being completely shielded not only from public scrutiny, but also from the rule of law. It enables the most powerful political officials to inculcate the public with claims about their actions while preventing any form of checks and suppressing any contrary information. It literally means that the Obama administration is able to conduct <a href="http://www.cjr.org/feature/covering_obamas_secret_war.php?page=all" target="_blank">multiple secret wars</a> around the world, ones conducted by drone attacks, the very existence of which they refuse to acknowledge. And it is yet another way the Obama presidency is cementing the worst abuses of the Bush presidency: the very same ones he <a href="http://www.salon.com/2009/02/10/obama_88/">so inspirationally</a> <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503983_162-4850652-503983.html" target="_blank">vowed</a> to reverse.<br />
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<b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">UPDATE</span>: </b>Just this weekend, <i>The Washington Post</i> published a <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/at-cia-a-convert-to-islam-leads-the-terrorism-hunt/2012/03/23/gIQA2mSqYS_story.html" target="_blank">lengthy, glowing profile</a> of the anonymous CIA official who oversees the CIA drone program. We learned how the drone program has slain countless Al Qaeda leaders with such precision and force: the same program the Obama administration insists cannot be acknowledged without seriously harming national security. Given that claim, will the anonymous officials who enabled this hagiography by talking to the <i>Post</i> about this glorious official and all that the drone program has accomplished be prosecuted under espionage statutes? Yes, that question is rhetorical, and further highlights how severely secrecy powers are manipulated and exploited by this administration.<br />
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If ever an airline could FAIL! Delta has managed to figure out a way to do it and do it well. Momma always said be the best at whatever you do....I guess the owner of Delta listened to his. Funny how WE [the USA] can let anybody and their momma, cousins and uncle into out country and ALLOW them to become citizens with little to no restrictions, and yet Americans are not permitted into Arabia unless they abide by certain stipulations. What's even more crazy is the fact that Delta is going for this hot mess. Discrimination of ANY kind is wrong, not that we aren't subjected to it more than I'd like to mention, but this is outright WRONG! No Jews allowed??? And Christians don't think you're exempt...they're taking Holy Bibles and tossing them too. Now what'chu gon do???<br />
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JERUSALEM (RNS) Jews and Israelis, or passengers carrying any non-Islamic article of faith, will not be able to fly code-share flights from the U.S. to Saudi Arabia under Delta Air Line's new partnership with Saudi Arabian Airlines that is set to begin in 2012.<br />
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Although Delta announced in January that the Saudi airline would join its SkyTeam network next year, the implications of the deal only came to light recently, according to people who have scrutinized the details.<br />
Saudi Arabia, which is governed by strict Islamic law, requires citizens of almost every country to obtain a visa. People who wish to enter the country must have a sponsor; women, who must be dressed according to Saudi standards of modesty, must be met at the Saudi airport by a man who will act as a chaperone.<br />
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Saudi Arabia bans anyone with an Israeli stamp in their passport from entering the country, even in transit. Many Jews believe the kingdom has also withheld visas from travelers with Jewish-sounding names.<br />
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Religious items such as Bibles that are not related to Islam may be confiscated at the airport.<br />
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Colby M. May, senior counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice, a conservative legal group founded by religious broadcaster Pat Robertson, said his office is trying to determine if the agreement runs afoul of U.S. law.<br />
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"The very idea that there is a common carrier airline service that would deny an American citizen in America access to their services because they are Jewish or have religious items such as a yarmulke, a cross or a priestly collar, is deeply disturbing," May said.<br />
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May said he is "trying to get answers" from Delta.<br />
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"They have not responded in a way that answers the question," he said. "Hopefully they'll do so."<br />
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In a statement to Religion News Service on Thursday (June 23), Delta said it "does not discriminate, nor do we condone discrimination against any protected class of passenger in regards to age, race, nationality, religion, or gender."<br />
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The airline, which did not deny the new policy, insisted that it has no control over who may fly to Saudi Arabia.<br />
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"Delta must also comply with all applicable laws in every country it serves," adding that passengers are responsible for obtaining the necessary travel documents required for entry.<br />
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"If a passenger travels without proper documents, the passenger may be denied entry into that country and our airline may be fined," the statement said.<br />
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The Jan. 10 agreement allows Saudi Arabian Airlines to become a member of SkyTeam in 2012 after "fulfilling all membership requirements," according to a SkyTeam statement. The Saudi airline is SkyTeam's first member from the Middle East.<br />
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The policy has deeply angered U.S. Jewish groups, especially since Delta is an American carrier.<br />
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"Saudi Arabia, a U.S. ally, should be strongly condemned for its despicable discrimination against Jews," said Kenneth Bandler, a spokesman for the New York-based American Jewish Committee.<br />
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"For an American company, our nation's values should trump narrow business interests. Delta should be the first to reject Saudi airlines as a SkyTeam member."<br />
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Dan Diker, secretary general of the World Jewish Congress, said he hoped "Delta will not be complicit with what appears to be a demonstrably anti-Semitic and racist policy by Saudi Arabian Airlines."<br />
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<i>Jack Jenkins contributed to this report.</i>*Sparkle*http://www.blogger.com/profile/05387399708185284317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890926287375950554.post-22910457499333008992011-05-06T00:50:00.001-04:002011-05-06T00:52:04.131-04:00US Government now changing story about Bin Laden death repeatedly. Why so many different stories? ESPECIALLY if they REALLY have the Video!!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGT1GgMeArMVX36r1Glq-B00KV1mYigrNYBH_k9tdoNtNzqUH7I3DmFThk_OurtNLQhyphenhyphensMeelGGkDQVVfnw5O2EM3wkO2txGkur5AapQxSU1WfqcQNpWAEFPDr1FzA3sVGmmjMobjC0XTo/s320/obama-sit-room.png" width="320" /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>Pay attention to how the details of the story about Osama's death keeps changing. First he was armed....then he wasn't. They said he used one of his wives as a human shield, then he didn't. They said there was a fire fight and he was killed in battle....a 40 minute battle at that... then they said Navy Seals had him in custody and shot him. They told us that Osama was living in a CAVE in Afghanistan, yet when they kill him he's living in a MANSION in Abbotidod, or what's to be considered a mansion over there. Doesn't it seem ODD to you that IF Obama had all these pictures and video of the incident and he LOOKED at everything, wouldn't they at least know how it happened??? I mean, wouldn't all this live feed VIDEO Obama was "SUPPOSEDLY" watching at least give clear detail as to how everything went down??? Which really does lead one to question a whole lot of things about this incident....and it SHOULD! Ask questions and if it doesn't sound right then it usually ain't!</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b><br />
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What a difference a day makes. <span style="color: yellow;">Yesterday:</span> Obama administration officials said an armed Osama bin Laden was shot and killed in a firefight while using one of his wives as a human shield. The wife, we were told, was also killed in the process.<br />
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<span style="color: yellow;">Today:</span> Maybe bin Laden wasn't armed. Or using the woman as a human shield. And, well, she wasn't actually his wife. Also, um, she didn't die. But aside from that...<br />
From <i><a href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/white-house-corrects-bin-laden-narrative/?hp"> The New York Times</a></i>:<br />
<blockquote>The new Defense Department narrative released by the White House, and read at a White House news briefing on Tuesday, said that one of Bin Laden’s wives was shot in the leg as she charged members of the commando team on the third floor of the compound. </blockquote><blockquote>“In the room with Bin Laden, a woman – Bin Laden’s wife – rushed the U.S. assaulter and was shot in the leg but not killed,” the brief statement said. “Bin Laden was then shot and killed. He was not armed.” </blockquote><blockquote>Jay Carney, the White House press secretary, read the narrative in an attempt to correct statements by administration officials who had suggested that Bin Laden was armed during the raid. </blockquote><blockquote>Under questioning, Mr. Carney said that the White House stood by its claim on Monday that Bin Laden had resisted capture, but said that “resistance does not require a firearm.” Mr. Carney said that the new narrative was the result of “fresh” information. </blockquote><blockquote>...On Monday, John O. Brennan, the top counterterrorism adviser to President Obama, said he believed that Bin Laden’s wife had been killed while trying to shield the terror leader during the 40-minute raid. </blockquote><blockquote>But the narrative released Tuesday by Mr. Carney suggested that the woman who died in the raid was part of another family living at the compound. The narrative says that woman was shot and killed on the first floor, not the third floor, where Bin Laden was found and killed.</blockquote>Let's assume, for the moment, that no bad faith was involved in the initial transmission of these unfortunate untruths, and that it was all a result of a misunderstanding, not a deliberate plan to spread a convenient story about bin Laden dying a particularly pathetic death. As anyone who's ever played a game of telephone knows, it's tough enough to get a bunch of people sitting in a room next to each other to keep a story straight; in the fog of kinetic military action, it's surely even tougher.<br />
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But that's the point: This sort of revision should be a reminder to anyone tempted to take the official story at face value before it's been independently reported and verified. It's easy to ignore the fact that the vast majority of the details reported about the raid came via the usually-talking-point-filled mouths of administration sources, not from firsthand accounts, independent reports, or documentation. All we know is what various senior officials <i>said</i> happened, not what <i>actually</i> happened. This is why it would be helpful for the administration to release documentation—images, video, audio, whatever—that can verify the official account of the raid. But so far, they're not even saying exactly how Obama and other White House officials tracked the operation's progress, only that they followed along in real time.<br />
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The administration deserves a small amount of credit for willingly issuing what amounts to an embarrassing correction—but only a small amount. If you're going to stand in front of the world as senior representatives of the United States government and confidently assert that some historic event happened in some particular way, then you'd better be certain you've got your story straight. By failing to get basic who, what, and where information right the first time around, the administration has undermined its own credibility on what ought to have been a straightforward victory and arguably made it easier for the inevitable conspiracy theories to spread. Good for them for correcting their mistakes. But they should've gotten it right the first time around.*Sparkle*http://www.blogger.com/profile/05387399708185284317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890926287375950554.post-25119562393534214112011-05-06T00:16:00.002-04:002011-05-06T00:21:09.919-04:00September 28, 2001, Bin Laden allegedly does interview with Afghanistan news outlet and claims US intelligence agencies carried out 9/11<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlowdCba3bjAlGC18Rcxj6qRv6Pl-U09USReHjhsd66_AyNk6h9LsvOAC0X8imIcqPtCkkJHZ8fuAeUEHmmqMQMJ8kl6laUE-4UFND9uutKZJDdF70mQ0ocZblaVkN0eHkyXanUn1zZ0DL/s1600/index2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlowdCba3bjAlGC18Rcxj6qRv6Pl-U09USReHjhsd66_AyNk6h9LsvOAC0X8imIcqPtCkkJHZ8fuAeUEHmmqMQMJ8kl6laUE-4UFND9uutKZJDdF70mQ0ocZblaVkN0eHkyXanUn1zZ0DL/s1600/index2.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span lang="EN-GB">This interview was published by <i>JUST Response</i> on November 26 2003. It first appeared on September 28 2001 in the Karachi-based </span></span></b></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://ummat.com.pk/main_index.asp"><i><span style="color: #003366;">The Daily Ummat</span></i></a><span lang="EN-GB">, Pakistan's second largest Urdu morning newspaper. Explanations and additions in square brackets were added by the translator.</span></b></span></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-GB"><b>Daily Ummat</b></span>:<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #1f1a17;"><b> </b></span>You have been accused of involvement in the attacks on New York and Washington. What do you want to say about this?<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #1f1a17;"> </span></b></i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small;"><b>Osama Bin Laden</b>:</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #1f1a17;"> </span>In the name of Allah, the most beneficent, the most merciful. Praise be to Allah, Who is the creator of the whole universe and Who made the Earth as an abode for peace for the whole of humankind. Allah is the Sustainer, who sent the Prophet Muhammad for our guidance. I am thankful to Ummat Publications for giving me the opportunity to convey my viewpoint to the people, particularly the valiant and Momin [true Muslim] people of Pakistan who refused to believe the lies of the demon [Pakistani military dictator General Pervez Musharraf]. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have already said that I am not involved in the September 11 attacks in the United States. As a Muslim, I try my best to avoid telling a lie. I had no knowledge of these attacks, nor do I consider the killing of innocent women, children and other human beings as an appreciable act. Islam strictly forbids causing harm to innocent women, children and other people. Such a practice is forbidden even in the course of battle. It is the United States which is perpetrating every sort of maltreatment on women, children and common people of other faiths, particularly the followers of Islam. All that has been going on in Palestine for the last 11 months is sufficient to invoke the wrath of God upon the United States and Israel. There is also a warning for those Muslim countries that witnessed all of this as silent spectators. What had earlier been done to the innocent people of Iraq, Chechnya and Bosnia? </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Only one conclusion could be derived from the indifference of the United States and the West to these acts of terror and the patronage of the tyrants by these powers, namely that America is an anti-Islamic power and is patronizing anti-Islamic forces. Its friendship with the Muslim countries is just show, or rather deceit. By enticing or intimidating these countries, the United States is forcing them to play a role of its choice. Cast a glance around and you will see that the slaves of the United States are either rulers or enemies of Muslims.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The US has no friends, nor does it want any because the prerequisite of friendship is to come to the level of the friend or consider him on par with yourself. America does not want to see anyone equal to it. It expects slavery from others. Therefore, other countries are either its slaves or its subordinates. However, our case is different. We have pledged slavery to God Almighty alone and after this pledge there is no possibility of becoming someone else's slave. If we did that it would be disregardful both to our Sustainer and to his fellow beings. Most of the nations of the world who are upholding their freedom are the religious ones, which are the enemies of the United States, or which the US itself considers to be its enemies.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The countries which do not agree to become US slaves are China, Iran, Libya, Cuba, Syria [Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iraq, Sudan, Indonesia, Malaysia] and Russia. Whoever committed the act of September 11 are not the friends of the American people. I have already said that we are against the American system, not against its people, whereas in these attacks, common American people have been killed. According to my information, the death toll is much higher than what the US Government has stated. But the Bush administration does not want the panic to spread. The United States should try to trace the perpetrators of these attacks within itself; the people who are a part of the US system but are dissenting against it. Or those who are working for some other system; persons who want to make the present century as a century of conflict between Islam and Christianity so that their own civilization, nation, country, or ideology can survive. They may be anyone, from Russia to Israel and from India to Serbia. In the US itself, there are dozens of well-organized and well-equipped groups capable of causing large-scale destruction. Then you cannot forget the American Jews, who have been annoyed with President Bush ever since the Florida elections and who want to avenge him.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Then there are intelligence agencies in the US, which require billions of dollars worth of funds from Congress and the government every year. This [funding issue] was not a big problem until the existence of the ex-Soviet Union but after that the budget of these agencies has been in danger. They needed an enemy. So, they first started propaganda against Osama and the Talibans and then this incident happened. You see, the Bush Administration approved a budget of 40 billion dollars. Where will this huge amount go? It will be provided to the same agencies which need huge funds and want to exert their importance. Now they will spend the money for their expansion and to increase their importance. I will give you an example. Drug smugglers from all over the world are in contact with the US secret agencies. These agencies do not want to eradicate narcotics cultivation and trafficking because their importance would be diminished. The people in the US Drug Enforcement Department are encouraging drug trade in order to show performance and get millions of dollars worth of budget. General Noriega was made a drug baron by the CIA and, in need, he was made a scapegoat. In the same way, whether it is President Bush or any other US President, they cannot bring Israel to justice for its human rights abuses or to hold it accountable for such crimes. What is this? Is it not that there exists a government within the government in the United Sates? That secret government must be asked who carried out the attacks.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-GB"><b>Daily Ummat</b></span>: A number of countries have joined the call of the United States to launch attacks on Afghanistan. These also include a number of Muslim countries. Will Al-Qaeda declare a jihad against these Islamic countries too?</i></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small;"><b>Bin Laden</b>:</span><span style="font-size: small;"> I must say that my duty is just to awaken the Muslims; to tell them what is good for them and what is not, what Islam says and what the enemies of Islam want. Al-Qaeda was set up to wage a jihad against infidelity, particularly to counter the onslaught of the infidel countries against the Islamic states. Jihad is the sixth undeclared pillar of Islam. [The first five being the basic holy words of Islam: that there is only one God in the entire universe and that Muhammad is the last Prophet of God; prayers; fast; pilgrimage to Mecca; and giving alms.] Every anti-Islamic person is afraid of the jihad. Al-Qaeda wants to keep the jihad alive and active and make it a part of the daily life of the Muslims. It wants to give it the status of worship. We are not against any Islamic country. We do not consider a war against an Islamic country to be a jihad. We are in favour of an armed jihad only against those infidel governments that are killing innocent Muslim men, women and children just because they are Muslims. Supporting the US act is the need of some Muslim countries and the compulsion of others. However, they should think about what will remain of their religious and moral position if they support the attack of the Christians and Jews on a Muslim country like Afghanistan. The orders of Islamic Shariah [jurisprudence] for such individuals, organizations and countries are clear and all the scholars of the Muslim brotherhood are unanimous about them. We will do the same, which is being ordered by the Ameer-ul-Momeneen [the commander of the faithful Afghans] Muhammad Omar and the Islamic scholars. The hearts of the people of Muslim countries are beating with the call of jihad. We are grateful to them.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-GB"><b>Daily Ummat</b></span>: The losses caused in the attacks in New York and Washington have proved that giving an economic blow to the US is not too difficult. US experts admit that a few more such attacks could bring down the American economy. Why is Al-Qaeda not targeting their economic pillars?</i></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small;"><b>Bin Laden</b>:</span><span style="font-size: small;"> I have already said that we are not hostile to the United States. We are against the [US Government] system, which makes other nations slaves of the United States, or forces them to mortgage their political and economic freedom. This system is totally under the control of American-Jews, whose first priority is Israel, not the United States. It is clear that the American people are themselves the slaves of the Jews and are forced to live according to the principles and laws laid down by them. So, the punishment should reach Israel. In fact, it is Israel, which is giving a blood bath to innocent Muslims and the US is not uttering a single word.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-GB"><b>Daily Ummat</b></span>:</i></span><span style="font-size: small;"> <i>Why is harm not caused to the enemies of Islam through other means, apart from the armed struggle? For instance, urging the Muslims to boycott Western products, banks, shipping lines and TV channels.</i></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJus1V9XA4c97VbkyQd-49jZNN3slcsLUUPBAqrKjDuLCfVQEzCDFuR5jHngeCFZ3GyqNnNxb3u1BtGtbW_n7RUcFMuyqgYBhUI0DmEUzK8ODnf7CTaPzpF803GfrRYWAF7-eWv3uajhZk/s1600/index.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJus1V9XA4c97VbkyQd-49jZNN3slcsLUUPBAqrKjDuLCfVQEzCDFuR5jHngeCFZ3GyqNnNxb3u1BtGtbW_n7RUcFMuyqgYBhUI0DmEUzK8ODnf7CTaPzpF803GfrRYWAF7-eWv3uajhZk/s1600/index.jpg" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small;"><b>Bin Laden</b>:</span><span style="font-size: small;"> The first thing is that Western products could only be boycotted when the Muslim fraternity is fully awakened and organized. Secondly, the Muslim companies should become self-sufficient in producing goods equal to the products of Western companies. Economic boycot of the West is not possible unless economic self-sufficiency is attained and substitute products are brought out. You see that wealth is scattered all across the Muslim World but not a single TV channel has been acquired which can preach Islamic injunctions according to modern requirements and attain an international influence. Muslim traders and philanthropists should make it a point that if the weapon of public opinion is to be used, it is to be kept in the hand. Today's world is of public opinion and the fates of nations are determined through its pressure. Once the tools for building public opinion are obtained, everything that you asked for can be done.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-GB"><b>Daily Ummat</b></span>:</i></span><span style="font-size: small;"> <i>The entire propaganda about your struggle has so far been made by the Western media. But no information is being received from your sources about the network of Al-Qaeda and its jihad successes. Would you like to comment on this?</i></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small;"><b>Bin Laden</b>:</span><span style="font-size: small;"> In fact, the Western media is left with nothing else. It has no other theme to survive for a long time. Then we have many other things to do. The struggle for jihad and the successes are for the sake of Allah and not to annoy His bondsmen. Our silence is our real propaganda. Rejections, explanations, or corrigendum only waste your time and through them, the enemy wants you to engage in things which are not of use to you. These things are pulling you away from your cause. The Western media is unleashing such a baseless propaganda, which makes us surprise but it reflects on what is in their hearts and gradually they themselves become captive of this propaganda. They become afraid of it and begin to cause harm to themselves. Terror is the most dreaded weapon in the modern age and the Western media is mercilessly using it against its own people. It can add fear and helplessness in the psyche of the people of Europe and the United States. It means that what the enemies of the United States cannot do, its media is doing for them. You can understand what will be the performance in war of a nation that suffers from fear and helplessness.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-GB"><b>Daily Ummat</b></span>:</i></span><span style="font-size: small;"> <i>What will be the impact of the freezing of Al-Qaeda's accounts by the US?</i></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small;"><b>Bin Laden</b>:</span><span style="font-size: small;"> God opens up ways for those who work for Him. Freezing accounts will not make any difference for Al-Qaeda or other jihad groups. With the grace of Allah, Al-Qaeda has more than three alternative financial systems, which are all separate and totally independent from each other. This system is operating under the patronage of those who love jihad. What can we say about the United States when not even the world combined can budge these people from their path? These people are not hundreds but thousands and millions. Al-Qaeda comprises modern educated youths who are as aware of the cracks inside the Western financial system as they are aware of the lines in the palms of their hands. These are the very flaws of the Western fiscal system, which are becoming a noose for it and this system could not recuperate despite the passage of so many days.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-GB"><b>Daily Ummat</b></span>:</i></span><span style="font-size: small;"> <i>Are there any safe areas other than Afghanistan, where you can continue jihad?</i></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small;"><b>Bin Laden</b>:</span><span style="font-size: small;"> There are areas in all parts of the world where strong jihadi forces are present, from Indonesia to Algeria, from Kabul to Chechnya, from Bosnia to Sudan, and from Burma to Kashmir. Then it is not the problem of my person. I am a helpless fellowman of God, constantly in the fear of my accountability before God. It is not the question of Osama but of Islam and, in Islam too, of jihad. Thanks to God, those waging a jihad can walk today with their heads raised. Jihad existed when there was no Osama and it will continue to exist even when Osama is no longer here. Allah opens up ways and creates love in the hearts of people for those who walk on the path of Allah with their lives, property and children. Believe it, through jihad, a man gets everything he desires. And the biggest desire of a Muslim is the life after death. Martyrdom is the shortest way of attaining an eternal life.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-GB"><b>Daily Ummat</b></span>:</i></span><span style="font-size: small;"> <i>What do you have to say about the Pakistani Government policy regarding the attack on Afghanistan?</i></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small;"><b>Bin Laden</b>:</span><span style="font-size: small;"> We are thankful to the Momin and valiant people of Pakistan who erected a blockade before the evil forces and stood in the first line of battle. Pakistan is a great hope for the Islamic brotherhood. Its people are awakened, organized and rich in the spirit of faith. They backed Afghanistan in its war against the Soviet Union and extended all its help to the Mojahedin and Afghan people. Then these are the very Pakistanis who are standing shoulder to shoulder with the Taliban. If such people emerged in just two countries, the domination of the West would diminish in a matter of days. Our hearts beat with Pakistan and, God forbid, if a difficult time comes we will protect it with our blood. Pakistan is as sacred for us as a place of worship. We are the people of jihad and fighting for the defense of Pakistan is the best of all jihads to us. It does not matter for us as to who reforms Pakistan. The important thing is that the spirit of jihad is alive and stronger in the hearts of the Pakistani people.</span></div><div align="left"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><object height="349" width="420"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/x-CrNlilZho?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/x-CrNlilZho?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="420" height="349"></embed></object></div>*Sparkle*http://www.blogger.com/profile/05387399708185284317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890926287375950554.post-49464161641282247392011-04-14T12:07:00.001-04:002011-04-14T12:08:52.175-04:0020 Signs That You Are Living in a Goddamned Nightmare Courtesy of "The Warrior" [Thanks For Sharing]<br />
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<a href="http://thelineinthesands.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/mad-as-hell.jpg" linkindex="58" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-497" height="317" src="http://thelineinthesands.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/mad-as-hell.jpg?w=468&h=317" title="mad-as-hell" width="468" /></a>I know if you’re reading this, I know you’re <b>angry</b>.<br />
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I can feel your frustration and believe me, you’re not alone. Everyone wants to do something but they don’t know what to do. They need to be told, instructed, and pushed into the direction in life they should go. And that’s fine, it’s not your fault, you’ve been taught helplessness since the moment you were in public school. It’s like when a dog is being beaten by his master, clearly the dog has every ability to fight back and bite but what does an abused dog do? He lays down and kneels and puts his tail between his legs and takes the beating because he never was taught how to defend himself.<br />
Your instincts were <b>taken away from you</b>.<br />
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But why are you mad?<br />
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There is more civil unrest in America than its peak post World War II. Most of you will say it’s the economy. I can think of little that is more frustrating than not being able to find work so that you can pay your rent or mortgage and feed your kids. If you’re poor and you’re relying on a program that may not be there by the end of the year. If you do have money saved away, chances are you are already living off of your savings just to stay afloat.<br />
Many of you are on the verge losing your homes, farms, and businesses. And you know one day your banker is going to callously toss you and your babies out onto the street.<br />
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Meanwhile who helps you?<br />
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Your politician?<br />
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You probably see the man you voted for burdening you and your brothers with more debt and shipping your jobs and industries over seas as they hire more and more police to watch your every move. Cameras on every corner. Google and Northcom profiling you every second of the day. FEMA building camps all around you in plain view…<br />
Yet, if you watch the news…the man on the television has no idea why you are so mad?<br />
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Isn’t it obvious?<br />
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You’re living in a <b>goddamn nightmare.</b><br />
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Let’s stop sitting on our couch and call it what it is.<br />
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<b>A goddamn nightmare.</b><br />
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Your president says the<b> recession ended in 2009</b> but all of the numbers say that the economies numbers keep getting worse.<br />
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Your betters<b> think you’re stupid.</b><br />
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I’m not trying to tell you that there is no hope, and that you shouldn’t be “positive.”<br />
But, there is a time, when it all comes to an end. And you have to look in the mirror and say.<br />
<blockquote><i>“I have nothing else to lose.”</i><br />
-You</blockquote>The man on television wants you to sit right where you are and watch the television and pretend that these problems have nothing to do with you.<br />
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I know that people are waking up all over the world. The protests over seas proves that. However; the first step is realizing, what is wrong with the world around you. If you do not recognize the problem, you will never be able to fix it.<br />
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So, to help you out, here is a list of 20 things that you are living in a nightmare.<br />
<ol><a href="http://thelineinthesands.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/ivory.jpg" linkindex="59" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-496" height="231" src="http://thelineinthesands.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/ivory.jpg?w=300&h=231" title="ivory" width="300" /></a><a href="http://thelineinthesands.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/ob-lz797_number_e_20110123113433.jpg" linkindex="60" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-495" height="178" src="http://thelineinthesands.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/ob-lz797_number_e_20110123113433.jpg?w=268&h=178" title="OB-LZ797_number_E_20110123113433" width="268" /></a>
<li>Millions of you’re fellow Americans have been <b>using their savings and investments </b>in a desperate act to stay afloat. Over the past couple years, United States consumers have withdrawn $311 billion (<a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2011/01/22/number-of-the-week-americans-dipping-into-savings/" linkindex="61" target="_blank">TRUTH-WALLSTREET JOURNAL</a>) more from savings and investment accounts than they have placed into them.</li>
<li>Goldman Sachs (The banker of the gods) <b>paid out $15 billion dollars in compensation to its employees </b>for 2010. (<a href="http://www.independent.ie/business/world/bank-giant-goldman-rewards-staff-with-euro114bn-2503082.html" linkindex="62" target="_blank">TRUTH-THE INDEPENDENT</a>) while you paid them a bail out.</li>
<li>In 2010, the number of American families that were <b>kicked out onto the street</b> from their homes reaches an all-time new record. (<a href="http://www.realtytrac.com/content/press-releases/2010-year-end-foreclosure-report-6309" linkindex="63" style="color: orange;" target="_blank">TRUTH-REALTY TRAC</a>)</li>
<li>Many of the things you buy in the supermarket have been reduced in size by up to 20%, while they label their goods, “Now 20% more!”. There are now 2 less slices of Kraft cheese in a package, there is 9% less toilet paper in a typical package of toilet paper (you’re not crazy, tp really isn’t lasting as long for your bung hole). But at the same time, they have you convinced you are paying the same amount for these items that you always have before, while in reality, <b>it was an increase.</b> (<a href="http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2011/pf/1101/gallery.downsized_consumer_products/index.html" linkindex="64" target="_blank">TRUTH-CNN</a>)</li>
<li>Companies are making millions by shipping your manufacturing equipment from shut down factories in the United States and <b>sending them to China.</b> (<a href="http://www.financialpost.com/Liquidated+North+American+industrial+assets+find+home+China/4134895/story.html" linkindex="65" style="color: orange;" target="_blank">TRUTH-FINANCIAL POST</a>)</li>
<li>The <b>wealthiest 20% own 93 freaking percent of all of the goddamn “financial assets”</b> in the United States. (<a href="http://theinternationalforecaster.com/International_Forecaster_Weekly/As_If_The_Fed_Planned_To_Do_It_All_Wrong" linkindex="66" target="_blank">TRUTH-THE INTERNATIONAL FORECASTER</a>)</li>
<li>Only <b>35% of Americans have enough savings to be able to cover three months of living expenses</b>. (<a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2011/01/22/number-of-the-week-americans-dipping-into-savings/" linkindex="67" target="_blank">TRUTH-WALLSTREET JOURNAL</a>)</li>
<li><b>47% of you believe that your banker, China, is the numero uno economic super power in the world</b>. (<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-13/americans-say-china-not-u-s-now-world-s-top-economic-power-poll-finds.html" linkindex="68" style="color: orange;" target="_blank">TRUTH-BLOOMBERG</a>)</li>
<li>The man on television tells you that the United States banking system is healthy but why then, does the number of <b>“problem banks” continue to increase,</b> now up to 937. (<a href="http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2011/01/unofficial-problem-bank-list-increases_22.html" linkindex="69" target="_blank">TRUTH-CALCULATED RISK</a>)</li>
<li>According to Robert Reich, former U.S. Labor Secretary, the <b>wealthiest 0.1%</b> of all Americans make as much money as the<b> poorest 120 million</b> Americans. (<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/in-twilight-social-state-rethinking-walter-benjamins-angel-history66544" linkindex="70" target="_blank">TRUTH-TRUTH-OUT.ORG</a>)</li>
<li>House prices <b>continue to fall</b>, and they are falling faster than they did during the great depression of the 30′s. (<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/housing/2011-01-12-Homeprices12_ST_N.htm" linkindex="71" target="_blank">TRUTH-USA TODAY</a>)</li>
<li><b>45%</b> of college students in the United States exhibit <b>“no significant gains in learning”</b> after two freaking years of college! (<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2011-01-18-littlelearning18_ST_N.htm?csp=hf&loc=interstitialskip" linkindex="72" target="_blank">TRUTH-USA TODAY</a>)</li>
<li>American students now ow more than<b> $886 billion in student loans,</b> which is also a new all-time record. (<a href="http://www.finaid.org/loans/studentloandebtclock.phtml" linkindex="73" target="_blank">TRUTH-FINAID</a>)</li>
<li>The United Nations reported that <b>global food prices are at an all time high</b> and that the price of oil is nearly $100 a barrel, however the man on television says that there is barely any inflation at all. (<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12119539" linkindex="74" target="_blank">TRUTH-BBC</a>)</li>
<li>The more of you that are on <b>food stamps,</b> JP Morgan makes more money. What it’s not free money? No way, a record 43.2 million Americans are now on food stamps and JP Morgan is making tons of money processing these payments and those jobs are held by people in India. (<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/story?id=7452561&page=2" linkindex="75" target="_blank">TRUTH-ABC NEWS</a>)</li>
<li>In the 1970′s, 25% of all jobs in the United States were manufacturing jobs. However, it is only <b>9%</b> today. Made in an American is a thing of the past. (<a href="http://www.theburningplatform.com/?p=8936" linkindex="76" target="_blank">TRUTH-THE BURNING PLATFORM</a>)</li>
<li> <b>36 out of 50 states</b> are going to <b>increase </b>their <b>taxes</b> to raise their revenue and further burden you. (<a href="http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/flowchart/2010/6/30/10-states-where-taxes-are-rising-the-most.html" linkindex="77" target="_blank">TRUTH-U.S. NEWS</a>)</li>
<li>The United States of America has had a <b>negative trade deficit</b> every single year since 1976. (<a href="http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/historical/gands.pdf" linkindex="78" target="_blank">TRUTH-CENSUS.GOV</a>)</li>
<li>The United States national debt has cross the <b>$14 trillion-dollar</b> ceiling. And they know that in 2011 it will cross $15 trillion. You are now a citizen of a country who has more debt than any other country added together in the <b>history of civilization. </b>How does that make you feel? (<a href="http://money.cnn.com/2011/01/20/news/economy/debt_record_high/index.htm?section=money_news_economy&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fmoney_news_economy+%28Economy+News%29&utm_content=Google+Reader" linkindex="78" target="_blank">TRUTH-CNN</a>)</li>
<li>The current Administration is imposing a “<b>universal InternetID”</b> that will track, monitor, and have the potential to control every single thing you do on the Internet. No such thing as anonymity on blog posts, articles, and purchases. (<a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2375607,00.asp" linkindex="79" style="color: orange;" target="_blank">TRUTH-PC MAGAZINE</a>)</li>
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<b> </b>These are just 20 of the problems, and every single one, concerns you directly. Go through that list and try to find one of those that has nothing to do with you.<br />
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Go on.<b> Try it.</b><br />
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And if you think you’ve found one, you’re wrong, all of these affect you in one way or another to varying degrees.<br />
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Do you see it now?<br />
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I’ve identified some problems, and you can either help me find a solution or you can sit on the couch and let your greasy back sink into the cushions.<br />
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-The Warrior<br />
<blockquote><i>“Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.”</i><br />
-Ulrich Beck, Sociologist</blockquote>*Sparkle*http://www.blogger.com/profile/05387399708185284317noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890926287375950554.post-87167952908637345322011-04-08T19:52:00.002-04:002011-04-08T19:54:37.639-04:00NWO: Diagrams & Flow Charts<div style="color: yellow;"><b>NWO: Diagrams, Flow Charts, and How U.S. Policy-Making is Controlled and Channeled. [click on the pictures to make them bigger]</b></div><br />
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Here's how the power structure functions, according to Dr. John Coleman, The Conspirator's Hierarchy: The Committee of 300. <br />
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<div style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>How United States Policy-Making is Controlled and Channeled: </b></span></div><div style="color: red;"><br />
</div><div style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>I</b></span><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">ssues are Created and Decided By:</span></b></div>The Committee of 300, Royal Families, Top Illuminati Members, the Nine Unknown Men (Masonry), Tavistock Institute of Human Relations<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;"><b>Decisions Given for Execution To:</b></span><br />
The Royal Institute for International Affaris: consisting of key members connected by bloodlines and oligarchic family ties. Every major city in the West is controlled by this simple but effective method.<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;"><b>Research is Carried Out By:</b></span><br />
Universities, Foundations, Think Tanks, Institutes: e.g., Hudson, MIT, Stanford, IPS, Business Round Table, Milner Group, The American Enterprise Institute, Heritage Foundation, Brookings, Population Council, RAND Institute.<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;"><b>Orders Executed By:</b></span><br />
Level 1 Planning Groups: Council on Foreign Relations, Bilderberg Group, Trilateral Commission, Cini Foundation, National Security Council, Club of Rome, Morgan Bank (U.S.) Operations Coordination Board backed up by Interfaced Corporations, Banks, Insurance Companies. <br />
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<b style="color: red;">Decisions and assassination orders carried out by: </b><br />
Intelligence Agencies, NSA, M16, CIA, FBI counter-intelligence (Division 5), Note: CIA and M16 elicit covert support from France (DGSE), Israel (Mossad), Australia (ASIO), Canada (SIS), Egypt (Mukhabaral el-Am), Japan (Naicho-Cabinet Research Office).*Sparkle*http://www.blogger.com/profile/05387399708185284317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890926287375950554.post-32001686156032964922011-04-08T19:32:00.001-04:002011-04-08T19:33:26.571-04:00Synonyms and Fronts for the “New World Order”<b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Synonyms</span></b> <br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Power Elite (C. Wright Mills, <i>The Power Elite</i>)</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Global Power Elite</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Superclass (D. Rothkopf, <i>Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They are Creating</i>)<b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">The Secret Establishment (Anthony Sutton: <i>America’s Secret Establishment : An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones</i>)</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Anglo-American Establishment (Prof. Carol Quigley, <i>Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in our Time</i>)</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Establishment (Larry Abraham, <i>The Greening: The Environmentalist’s Drive for Global Power</i>)</div><div class="MsoNormal">Atlantic Ruling Class (Kees Van Der Piyl, <i>The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class</i>)</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Secret World Government (Cherep-Spiridovich, <i>The Secret World Government or “The Hidden Hand”)</i></div><div class="MsoNormal">The Hidden Hand (Secret Council of “The Hidden Hand” has 7 individuals, Jews)</div><div class="MsoNormal">Shadow Government</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Invisible Government (H.G. Wells, <i>The New World Order</i>)</div><div class="MsoNormal">New World Order</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Socialist One-World Government</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Open Conspiracy</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Conspiracy</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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World Revolutionary Movement (William Guy Carr, <i>Pawns in the Game</i>) </div><div class="MsoNormal">International Criminal Conspiracy</div><div class="MsoNormal">One-World Government Conspiracy</div><div class="MsoNormal">International Revolutionary Movement</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Secret World Government</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Global Cartel (J. Grupp; <i>The Corporatocracy: The Secret Government of the New World Order</i>)</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Corporatocracy</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Money Trust</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Money Power (J.B. Woolfolk, <i>The Great Red Dragon or London Money Power</i>)</div><div class="MsoNormal">The London Money Power (Woolfolk; The Great Red Dragon or London Money Power)</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Jew Money Power (Woolfolk)</div><div class="MsoNormal">Jewish Money Kings (Woolfolk)</div><div class="MsoNormal">Invisible Government of the Money Trust</div><div class="MsoNormal">Worldwide Jewish Conspiracy</div><div class="MsoNormal">International Conspiracy</div><div class="MsoNormal">International Bankers</div><div class="MsoNormal">Judeo-Masonic Conspiracy</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Jewish Conspiracy</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Jewish International</div><div class="MsoNormal">Universal Jewish Empire</div><div class="MsoNormal">Judeo-Masonic Universal Atheistic Republic</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Synagogue of Satan (The Bible, A.C. Hitchcock, <i>The Synagogue of Satan</i>)</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Jewish Secret Supreme Government</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Judeo-Mongolian World Government</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Fronts, Instruments, and Networks of NWO </b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Royal Institute for International Affairs (England)</div><div class="MsoNormal">Aka Round Table Group(s)</div><div class="MsoNormal">Council on Foreign Affairs (American Branch of RIIA)</div><div class="MsoNormal">Milner Group</div><div class="MsoNormal">Trilateral Commission</div><div class="MsoNormal">Bilderberg Group</div><div class="MsoNormal">Institute of Pacific Relations</div><div class="MsoNormal">CIA/MI5/MI6/Mossad, etc.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (formerly known as “Wellington House”; John Coleman, Tavistock Institute of Human Relations)</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Aspen Institute (America’s home of the Socialist One World Government, John Coleman, <i>Tavistock Institute of Human Relations</i>)</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Club of Rome</div><div class="MsoNormal">Pilgrim Society</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Committee of 300 (aka, The Olympians, John Coleman, <i>The Committee of 300</i>)</div><div class="MsoNormal">Council of 13/Council of 33</div><div class="MsoNormal">The British East India Company </div><div class="MsoNormal">The Order of Illuminati (Mariah Conquering Wind)</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Brotherhood of Death </div><div class="MsoNormal">The Order of Death (The Order)</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Cult of Dionysius</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Cult of Isis</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Cult of Catharis, Gnostics, and Boromils</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Cult of Moloch</div><div class="MsoNormal">Nine Unknown Men</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Spin-offs of Tavistock Institute include (Coleman, Tavistock Institute of Human Relations):</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Club of Rome (founded 1969)</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Harvard Psychological Clinic</div><div class="MsoNormal">Massachusetts Institute Of Technology (MIT)</div><div class="MsoNormal">Rand Corporation</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Committee on National Moral</div><div class="MsoNormal">National Resources Defense Council</div><div class="MsoNormal">Environmental Protection Agency</div><div class="MsoNormal">National Institute for Mental Health</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Stanford Research Center</div><div class="MsoNormal">The National Training Laboratories</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Wharton School of Economics</div><div class="MsoNormal">The FBI</div><div class="MsoNormal">The CIA</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Rand Institute</div><div class="MsoNormal">The New York Police Department </div><div class="MsoNormal">North Atlantic Treaty Organization</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Science Policy Research Center</div><div class="MsoNormal">Institute for Social Research</div><div class="MsoNormal">Esalen Institute</div>*Sparkle*http://www.blogger.com/profile/05387399708185284317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890926287375950554.post-12228165087452803692011-03-30T20:57:00.000-04:002011-03-30T20:57:10.736-04:00Don't Worry America, Israel Is Behind You<object style="height: 330px; width: 390px;"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HxLdnVZ5SiA?version=3"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HxLdnVZ5SiA?version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="390" height="330"></object>*Sparkle*http://www.blogger.com/profile/05387399708185284317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890926287375950554.post-13316763794736889492011-02-09T02:19:00.002-05:002011-02-09T02:43:17.616-05:00Scientists Treat Hospital Infection With 'Fecal Transplant'<div style="color: #cc0000;">For Years I've been saying that if Fox News reported that eating doo doo could cure all health issues, people would break their necks to eat their own poop. All they had to do at Fox was get a few scientists to go on the air during a breaking news report and say they have scientifically proven that eating human feces once or twice a week would cure most health problems and I was SURE there'd be some people who would rush to the store to stock up on glad sandwich bags and jelly jars in order to stock pile their new found cure to ANYTHING that ails them. I've used this senerio a million times as an example to show how much people believe everything they see and hear on the news.</div><div style="color: #cc0000;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: #cc0000;">Well guess what!!! Excuse my language but this shit is TRUE!! And guess who's promoting it....some Scientist! And guess who reported the story....FOX NEWS!!!! But they've even taken it a step further. Where I said they'd tell you to eat your own poo, they're saying you have to eat other people's! LOL And I did say that people would probably be trying to figure out a way to sell it, but I was only joking......REALLY! LOL Can you see people standing on the street corners with pre packaged bags of feces hollering to passersby by...."Yo, you'll love the shit I got, it'll cure everything! I got that Good shit! Yo come check this shit out!" LOL!</div><div style="color: #cc0000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #cc0000;">It's crazy I know, and when I used it as an example I was trying to be as far feathered as I could for effect, who KNEW they would try this shit for real????</div><div style="color: #cc0000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #cc0000;">I know it's hard to believe so I've copied and pasted the story here along with a link to PROVE it was actually reported on Fox News. I guess the old saying "eat shit and die" is loooong gone. LOL Who KNEW???? Really, who knew it would actually come to this? LOL Aye if you're grossed out, don't blame me, blame those scientists along with Fox News! I always TOLD ya'll they were no damn good!</div><div style="color: #cc0000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #cc0000;">Here's the story....</div><div style="color: orange;"><br />
</div><h2 class="entry-title" id="article-title" style="color: orange;">Scientists Treat Hospital Infection With 'Fecal Transplant'</h2><h2 class="entry-title" id="article-title" style="color: orange;"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/01/19/scientists-perform-fecal-transplant-treat-hospital-infection/" linkindex="24">[Source] </a></h2><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;">Once a year, every year, Professor Thomas Borody receives a single-stem rose from one of his most grateful patients. She is, he says, thanking him for restoring her bowel flora.</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;">It's a distasteful cure for a problem that's increasingly widespread: the Clostridium difficile bug, typically caught by patients in hospitals and nursing homes, can be hard to treat with antibiotics. </div><div style="color: orange;"><br />
</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;">But Borody is one of a group of scientists who believe the answer is a fecal transplant.</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;">Some jokily call it a "transpoosion." Others have more sciencey names like "bacteriotherapy" or "stool infusion therapy." But the process involves, frankly, replacing a person's poo with someone else's, and in the process, giving them back the "good" bugs they desperately need.</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;">Borody's grateful patient, Coralie Muddell, suffered months of chronic <a class="r_lapi" href="http://www.foxnews.com/topics/health/diseases/diarrhea.htm#r_src=ramp" linkindex="25">diarrhea</a> so bad she would often embarrass herself in public, and had even stopped eating to try to halt the flow.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: orange; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: orange; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br />
The technique that cured her has had a success rate of around 90 percent in the experimental cases where it has been used so far. Now scientists are taking it to the next level, with randomized controlled trials to establish if it can really be a viable option when antibiotics have failed.</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;">With rates of hospital-acquired C.difficile infection rising in the United States, Europe and other parts of the world, that could save lives as well as reducing expensive days of extra care. "There's rising recognition of how effective this is," Borody, a Sydney-based gastroenterologist, told Reuters.</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;"><b>YUCK FACTOR</b></div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;">There's little doubt this treatment has an image problem. Feces, including important bowel flora, is transferred from a volunteer donor – screened to limit possible other infections – into the colon of the infected patient.<b> The treatment can be administered by a colonoscope or an enema, or by the mouth or the nose.</b></div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;">"I used to be frowned upon and called 'the doctor who makes people eat s---'," says Borody, whose scientific papers have included such titles as "Flora Power" and "Toying with Human Motions." </div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: orange; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: orange; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">But he is also deadly serious. One of his published studies reported that in patients with recurrent C.difficile infection, 60 out of 67 – 90 percent – of those who received fecal transplants were cured.</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;">Alex Khoruts, a gastroenterologist at the University of Minnesota Medical School in the United States, agrees that the science is not to be sniffed at. "The data are very strong," he said in a telephone interview. <b>"There is no question that it works."</b></div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;">Khoruts published a study in the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology in 2009 that showed a single infusion of feces reversed the absence of bacteroides – a group of bacteria vital to the body's ability to withstand infections with C.difficile.</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;">Khoruts often sees patients who have taken course after course of antibiotics. As soon as the treatment stops, the infection returns. It doesn't take much for these sufferers to listen to a new treatment idea, even if it involves feces.</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;">"The patients I see don't have any qualms about it," he says. "By the time I see them, they've often been sick for anywhere from six months to two years, so they're quite desperate. Nothing really scares them."</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;">The main aim, he says, is to keep the poo pure.</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;">"What we try to do is preserve it as close as possible to how it was in the donor. There's no in-between culture or enrichment. We want to transfer as much as we can intact."</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;">The donor feces is filtered to remove some larger particles and then "simply goes through a blender," says Khoruts, with a saline solution to liquefy it before it is administered.</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;">He favors methods which avoid going in through the mouth or the nose, which he says may make patients gag.</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;">Borody's clinic, at the Center for Digestive Diseases in New South Wales, acknowledges that using a nasojejunal tube – which goes in through the nose, down the throat and into the stomach – is not the most attractive method, but argues it is the most reliable way of killing the C.difficile bug and its spores once and for all.</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;"><b>C. DIFFICILE ON THE RISE</b></div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;">Repellent as fecal transplants may seem, if C.difficile trends continue, demand could rise rapidly.<br />
A Europe-wide study published in The Lancet late last year found the incidence of C.difficile infections in hospitals in the region had risen to 4.1 per 10,000 patient days in 2008 from 2.45 per 10,000 patient days in 2005.</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;">The infections can have a range of consequences, from severe diarrhea to blood poisoning, colitis and death.</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;">A 2008 report from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) found that on any single day in U.S. hospitals, there could be 7,000 infections with C.difficile and up to 300 deaths.</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;">The most commonly used antibiotic for C.difficile is metronidazole, and some more severe forms are treated with vancomycin, traditionally seen as the antibiotic of last resort. Like other bacteria, C.difficile can develop resistance to vancomycin, giving it "superbug" or multi-drug-resistant traits that make treatment extremely difficult or impossible.</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;">Khoruts cites data from 1958, when some of the first scientific papers on the use of fecal transplants were published. That showed the death rate for patients with a type of infection called fulminant C.difficile colitis was 75 percent.</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;">"Then if you go forward to 2010 – 52 years later, with the best current medical care and new antibiotics – the mortality is still 50 percent," he says. "So we really can't say standard medicine has done that well in 50 years."</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;"><b>"POO IS THE ONLY ANSWER"</b></div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;">Khoruts now fears that unless the medical establishment embraces the technique, "the majority of people who could benefit from this procedure are not going to get it." Borody says "poo is the only answer." So why is it not catching on?</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;">Scientific literature over half a century has documented the use of fecal transplants, but the technique has remained on the fringes of medicine. Some experts say a lack of robust trial data may be holding people back – as well as the obvious and natural aversion to feces as a medicinal product.</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;">To try to address this, a team of specialists in The Netherlands is recruiting around 100 sick and healthy people into a randomized controlled trial – considered the gold standard in science – to see if the method can be proven.</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;">Although the study is still under way, Ed Kuijper of the Leiden University Medical Center, one of those working on it, says the early signs are that fecal transplants will be shown to be effective in patients with recurrent, or relapsing C.difficile infections.</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;">Tackling the image problem is more challenging; but both Khoruts and Kuijper say scientists are "not very far away" from being able develop a kind of artificial feces that might help.</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;">This laboratory-grown poo would be like a super pro-biotic, they say, but more powerful by far than any yoghurt drink you can buy in a supermarket. It would have the qualities of donor poo without the marketing issues.</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: orange; font-size: 14px;">"It would be a good idea if synthetic poo would work," says Borody. But he has doubts – and until he sees some good results with artificial feces, he's sticking with the real thing. "We'd like to get away from poo, but it works the best."</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br />
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