The visitor, Tim Phillips, the
president of
Americans for Prosperity,
told a large group of counterprotesters who had
gathered Saturday at one
edge of what otherwise was a
mostly union crowd that the cuts were not only
necessary, but they also represented the start
of a much-needed nationwide
move to slash
public-sector union benefits.
“We are going to bring fiscal
sanity back to this great nation,”
he said.
What Mr. Phillips did not
mention was that his Virginia-based nonprofit
group, whose budget surged to $40 million in
2010 from $7 million three years ago,
was
created and financed
in part by the secretive billionaire brothers
Charles G. and
David H. Koch.
State records also show that
Koch Industries,
their energy and consumer products conglomerate
based in Wichita, Kan., was one of the biggest
contributors to the election
campaign of Gov.
Scott Walker
of Wisconsin, a Republican who has championed
the proposed cuts.
Even before the new governor
was sworn in last month, executives from the
Koch-backed group had worked behind the scenes
to try to encourage
a union showdown, Mr.
Phillips said in an interview on Monday.
State governments have gone
into the red, he said, in part because of the
excessively generous pay and benefits that
unions have been able to
negotiate for teachers,
police, firefighters and other state and local
employees.
“We thought it was important
to do,” Mr. Phillips said, adding that his group
is already working with activists and state
officials in Indiana, Ohio and
Pennsylvania to urge them to
take similar steps to curtail union benefits or
give public employees the power to opt out of
unions entirely.
To union leaders and liberal
activists in Washington, this intervention in
Wisconsin is proof of the expanding role played
by nonprofit groups with murky ties
to wealthy corporate
executives as they push a decidedly conservative
agenda.
“The Koch brothers are the
poster children of the effort by multinational
corporate America to try to redefine the rights
and values of American citizens,” said
Representative Gwen Moore,
Democrat of Wisconsin, who joined with others in
the union protests.
A spokesman for Koch
Industries, as well as Mr. Phillips, scoffed at
that accusation. The companies owned by Koch
(pronounced Coke) — which include
the Georgia-Pacific
Corporation and the Koch Pipeline Company — have
no direct stake in the union debate, they said.
The company
has about 3,000 employees in
Wisconsin, including workers at a toilet paper
factory and gasoline supply terminals. The
pending
legislation would not directly
affect its bottom line.
“A balanced budget will
benefit Koch Industries and its thousands of
employees in Wisconsin no more and no less than
the rest of the
state’s private-sector workers
and employers,” said Jeff Schoepke, a Koch
Industries lobbyist in Wisconsin. “This is a
dispute between
public-sector unions and
democratically elected officials over how best
to serve the public interest.”
Certainly, the Koch brothers
have long used their wallets to promote fiscal
conservatism and combat regulation, another Koch
Industries
spokesman said Monday.
But the push to curtail union
benefits in Wisconsin has been backed by many
conservative groups that have no Koch
connection, Mr. Phillips noted.
Americans for Prosperity came
to Wisconsin more than five years ago and has
thousands of members, he said. The state chapter
organized buses on Saturday
for
hundreds
of Wisconsin residents to go to the Capitol to
support the governor’s proposals.
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Walker's testimony will be
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bought and paid for by the
Koch brothers.
David H. Koch in 1996.
He and his brother Charles are lifelong libertarians and have quietly given more
than a hundred million dollars to right-wing causes.
On May 17th, a black-tie audience at the Metropolitan Opera House applauded as a
tall, jovial-looking billionaire took the stage. It was the seventieth annual
spring gala of American Ballet Theatre, and David H. Koch was being celebrated
for his generosity as a member of the board of trustees; he had recently donated
$2.5 million toward the company’s upcoming season, and had given many millions
before that. Koch received an award while flanked by two of the gala’s
co-chairs, Blaine Trump, in a peach-colored gown, and Caroline Kennedy
Schlossberg, in emerald green. Kennedy’s mother, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, had
been a patron of the ballet and, coincidentally, the previous owner of a Fifth
Avenue apartment that Koch had bought, in 1995, and then sold, eleven years
later, for thirty-two million dollars, having found it too small.
The
gala marked the social ascent of Koch, who, at the age of seventy, has become
one of the city’s most prominent philanthropists. In 2008, he donated a hundred
million dollars to modernize Lincoln Center’s New York State Theatre building,
which now bears his name. He has given twenty million to the American Museum of
Natural History, whose dinosaur wing is named for him. This spring, after
noticing the decrepit state of the fountains outside the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, Koch pledged at least ten million dollars for their renovation. He is a
trustee of the museum, perhaps the most coveted social prize in the city, and
serves on the board of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where, after he
donated more than forty million dollars, an endowed chair and a research center
were named for him.
One
dignitary was conspicuously absent from the gala: the event’s third honorary
co-chair, Michelle Obama. Her office said that a scheduling conflict had
prevented her from attending. Yet had the First Lady shared the stage with Koch
it might have created an awkward tableau. In Washington, Koch is best known as
part of a family that has repeatedly funded stealth attacks on the federal
government, and on the Obama Administration in particular.
With his brother Charles, who is seventy-four, David Koch owns virtually all of
Koch Industries, a conglomerate, headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, whose annual
revenues are estimated to be a hundred billion dollars. The company has grown
spectacularly since their father, Fred, died, in 1967, and the brothers took
charge. The Kochs operate oil refineries in Alaska, Texas, and Minnesota, and
control some four thousand miles of pipeline. Koch Industries owns Brawny paper
towels, Dixie cups, Georgia-Pacific lumber, Stainmaster carpet, and Lycra, among
other products. Forbes ranks it as the second-largest private company in
the country, after Cargill, and its consistent profitability has made David and
Charles Koch—who, years ago, bought out two other brothers—among the richest men
in America. Their combined fortune of thirty-five billion dollars is exceeded
only by those of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.
The
Kochs are longtime libertarians who believe in drastically lower personal and
corporate taxes, minimal social services for the needy, and much less oversight
of industry—especially environmental regulation. These views dovetail with the
brothers’ corporate interests. In a study released this spring, the University
of Massachusetts at Amherst’s Political Economy Research Institute named Koch
Industries one of the top ten air polluters in the United States. And Greenpeace
issued a report identifying the company as a “kingpin of climate science
denial.” The report showed that, from 2005 to 2008, the Kochs vastly outdid
ExxonMobil in giving money to organizations fighting legislation related to
climate change, underwriting a huge network of foundations, think tanks, and
political front groups. Indeed, the brothers have funded opposition campaigns
against so many Obama Administration policies—from health-care reform to the
economic-stimulus program—that, in political circles, their ideological network
is known as the Kochtopus.
In
a statement, Koch Industries said that the Greenpeace report “distorts the
environmental record of our companies.” And David Koch, in a recent, admiring
article about him in New York, protested that the “radical press” had
turned his family into “whipping boys,” and had exaggerated its influence on
American politics. But Charles Lewis, the founder of the Center for Public
Integrity, a nonpartisan watchdog group, said, “The Kochs are on a whole
different level. There’s no one else who has spent this much money. The sheer
dimension of it is what sets them apart. They have a pattern of lawbreaking,
political manipulation, and obfuscation. I’ve been in Washington since
Watergate, and I’ve never seen anything like it. They are the Standard Oil of
our times.”
A
few weeks after the Lincoln Center gala, the advocacy wing of the Americans for
Prosperity Foundation—an organization that David Koch started, in 2004—held a
different kind of gathering. Over the July 4th weekend, a summit called Texas
Defending the American Dream took place in a chilly hotel ballroom in Austin.
Though Koch freely promotes his philanthropic ventures, he did not attend the
summit, and his name was not in evidence. And on this occasion the audience was
roused not by a dance performance but by a series of speakers denouncing
President Barack Obama. Peggy Venable, the organizer of the summit, warned that
Administration officials “have a socialist vision for this country.”
Five hundred people attended the summit, which served, in part, as a training
session for Tea Party activists in Texas. An advertisement cast the event as a
populist uprising against vested corporate power. “Today, the voices of average
Americans are being drowned out by lobbyists and special interests,” it said.
“But you can do something about it.” The pitch made no mention of its corporate
funders. The White House has expressed frustration that such sponsors have
largely eluded public notice. David Axelrod, Obama’s senior adviser, said, “What
they don’t say is that, in part, this is a grassroots citizens’ movement brought
to you by a bunch of oil billionaires.”
Koch Industries, Inc.
/ˈkoʊk/) is an American private energy
conglomerate based in
Wichita, Kansas,
with subsidiaries involved in manufacturing, trading and investments.
Koch also owns Invista,
Georgia-Pacific,
Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals and
Matador Cattle Company. The firm employs 50,000 people in the United
States and another 20,000 in 59 other countries.[2]
In 2008, Forbes
called it the second largest
privately
held company in the United States (after
Cargill) with an
annual revenue of about $98 billion,[4][5][6]
down from the largest in 2006. If Koch Industries were a public company
in 2007, it would rank about 16 in the
Fortune 500.[7]
Fred C. Koch,
for whom Koch Industries, Inc. is named, co-founded the company in 1940
and developed an innovative crude oil refining process.[8]
His sons, Charles
G. Koch, chairman of the board and chief executive officer, and
David H. Koch,
executive vice president, are principal owners of the company after they
bought out their brothers,
Frederick and
William, for $1.1 billion in 1983.[9]
Charles and David H. Koch each own 42% of Koch Industries, and Charles
has stated that the company will publicly offer shares "literally over
my dead body".[4]
Predecessor
companies
In 1925, Fred C. Koch joined an
MIT classmate Lewis E. Winkler at an engineering firm in
Wichita, Kansas,
which was renamed the Winkler-Koch Engineering Company. In 1927 they
developed a more efficient thermal cracking process for turning crude
oil into gasoline. This process threatened the competitive advantage of
established oil companies, which sued for patent infringement.
Temporarily forced out of business in the United States, they turned to
other markets, including the
Soviet Union,
where Winkler-Koch built 15 cracking units between 1929 and 1932. During
this time, Koch came to despise communism and
Josef Stalin's regime.[10][11]
In his 1960 book, A Business Man Looks at Communism, Koch wrote
that he found the USSR to be "a land of hunger, misery, and terror."[12]
According to Charles G. Koch, "Virtually every engineer he worked with
[there] was purged."[11]
In 1940, Koch joined new partners to create a new firm, the Wood
River Oil and Refining Company, which is today known as Koch Industries.
In 1946 the firm acquired the Rock Island refinery and crude oil
gathering system near
Duncan, Oklahoma.
Wood River was later renamed the Rock Island Oil & Refining Company.[13]
Charles G. Koch joined Rock Island in 1961, having started his career at
the management consulting firm
Arthur D. Little.
He became president in 1966 and chairman at age 32, upon his father's
death the following year.[8][14]
The company was renamed Koch Industries in honor of Fred Koch, the
year after his death. At that time, it was primarily an engineering firm
with part interest in a Minnesota refinery, a crude oil-gathering system
in Oklahoma,[11]
and some cattle ranches.[15]
In 1968, Charles approached Union Oil of California about buying their
interest in Great Northern Oil Company and its
Pine Bend
Refinery but the discussions quickly stalled after Union asked for a
large premium.[10]
In 1969, Union Oil began trying to market their interest in Great
Northern by telling potential buyers that Koch's controlling interest
could be thwarted by currying favor with another owner,
J. Howard Marshall II. When Marshall discovered this he threw his
lot in with Koch, they together acquired a majority interest in the
company and ultimately bought Union's interest.[13]
Ownership of Pine Bend refinery led to several new businesses and
capabilities, including chemicals, fibers, polymers, asphalt and other
commodities such as petroleum coke and sulfur. These were followed by
global commodity trading, gas liquids processing, real estate, pulp and
paper, risk management and finance.[10]
In 1970, Charles was joined at the family firm by his brother
David H. Koch.
Having started as a technical services manager, David became president
of Koch Engineering in 1979.[10]
Among Koch Industries' subsidiaries across various industries[16]
are:
Georgia-Pacific paper and pulp company, maker of "Brawny" paper
towels, "Angel Soft" toilet paper, "Mardi Gras" napkins and towels,
"Quilted Northern" toilet paper and paper towels, "Dixie" paper
plates, bowls, napkins and cups, "Sparkle" paper towels, and "Vanity
Fair" paper napkins, bowls, plates and tablecloths. The
Atlanta-based company has operations in 27 states.[17]
Invista, a
polymer and fibers company that makes "Stainmaster" carpet, and
"Lycra" fiber, among other products.
Koch Pipeline Company LP, which owns and operates 4,000 miles of
pipeline used to transport oil, natural gas liquids and chemicals.
Its pipelines are located across
Wisconsin,
Minnesota,
Texas, Missouri,
Iowa, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Alberta, Canada. The firm operates
offices in
Wichita, Kansas,
St. Paul, Minnesota and
Corpus
Christi, Texas.
Flint Hill Resources LP, is a major refining and chemicals
company based in
Wichita,
Kansas. It sells products such as gasoline, diesel, jet fuel,
ethanol, polymers, intermediate chemicals, base oils and asphalt. It
operates oil refineries in six states. Flint Hill has chemical
plants in Illinois,
Texas and
Michigan. The
firm is also a major manufacturer of
asphalt used for
paving and roofing applications. It operates 13 asphalt terminals
located in six states including
Alaska (2
terminals),
Wisconsin (2), Iowa
(3), Minnesota
(4), Nebraska
(1), and North
Dakota(1).[18]
The firm manages the purchasing of domestic crude oil from Texas and
Colorado offices, has four ethanol plants across
Iowa, operates three
refineries in Alaska,
Texas, and
Minnesota, and
has a refinery terminal in
Alaska. It also
operates fuel terminals in
Wisconsin (4
locations), Texas
(6), and one each in Iowa and Minnesota.[19]
Koch Fertilizer, LLC, which is one of the world’s largest makers
of nitrogen fertilizers.[20]
Koch Fertilizer owns or has interests in fertilizer plants the
United States, Canada,
Trinidad
and Tobago,
Venezuela, and
Italy, among others.[21][22]
In October 2010, a plant in Venezuela was nationalized by the
government.[23]
Koch Agricultural Company's Matador Cattle Company division
operates three ranches totaling 425,000 acres located in Beaverhead,
Montana,
Matador, Texas
and the Flint
Hills of eastern
Kansas. There are more than 15,000 head of cattle raised on the
ranches.[24]
In 2010, Koch Industries was ranked 10th on the list of top US
corporate air polluters, the “Toxic 100 Air Polluters,” by the Political
Economic Research Institute at the
University of Massachusetts Amherst.[25]
In 2005, Koch's Flint Hills Resources refinery was recognized by the
EPA's Clean Air Awards program for reducing air emissions by 50 percent
while expanding operations.[26]
Koch Industries' headquarters in Wichita has been certified for meeting
the Energy Star
standards for superior energy efficiency and environmental protection.
As of 2010[update]
it is the only Wichita office building to be so recognized.[27][28]
A Tulsa, Oklahoma site of the Koch-owned John Zink Company site was part
of the EPA's National Environmental Performance Track program from 2003
until 2009 when the program was suspended.[29][30]
Koch's Matador Ranch in Texas earned the Lone Star Land Steward award
for outstanding natural resource management in 2010.[31]
The Montana ranch has earned several environmental stewardship awards,
including the EPA Regional Administrator's award.[32]
Koch's Sterling butane pipeline had a leak in
Lively, Texas, on August 24, 1996. Two teenagers on the way to
report the leak drove into the unseen butane cloud, and were killed when
the gas exploded and burned. The National Transportation Safety Board
concluded that severe external pipeline corrosion was the cause of the
failure, and recommended to Koch to improve corrosion evaluation
procedures. Although Koch distributed pamphlets about safety around the
pipelines, they failed to maintain an up-to-date mailing list. Only 5
out of 45 residences in the area of the accident had received pamphlets.
The families of the dead had not.[33][34]
In March 1999, Koch Petroleum Group, a Koch Industries subsidiary,
pled guilty to charges that it had
negligently dumped hundreds of thousands of gallons of
aviation fuel
into wetlands near the Mississippi River from its refinery in
Rosemount,
Minnesota, and that it had also illegally dumped a million gallons
of high-ammonia
wastewater onto the ground and into the
Mississippi
River. Koch Petroleum paid the Dakota County Park System a $6
million fine and $2 million in remediation costs, and was ordered to
serve three years of probation.[35]
In 1999, a federal jury found that Koch Industries had stolen oil
from government and
American Indian lands, had lied about its purchases more than 24,000
times, and was fined $553,504.[36]
In January 2000, a Koch Industries subsidiary, Koch Pipeline, agreed
to a $35 million settlement with the
U.S. Justice Department and the
State of
Texas. This settlement, including a $30 million
civil fine, was incurred for the firm's three hundred
oil
spills in Texas and five other states going back to 1990.[37][38][39]
The spills resulted in more than three million gallons of crude oil
leaking into ponds, lakes, streams and coastal waters.[40]
In 2001, the company reached two settlements with the government. In
April, the company reached a $20 million settlement in exchange for
admitting to covering up environmental violations at its refinery in
Corpus
Christi, Texas.[41][42]
That May, Koch Industries paid $25 million to the federal government to
settle a federal lawsuit that found the company had improperly taken
more oil than it had paid for from federal and Indian land.[43][44]
In June 2003, the
US Commerce Department fined Koch Industries subsidiary Flint Hill
Resources a $200,000 civil penalty. The fine settled charges that the
company exported crude petroleum from the US to
Canada without proper
US government authorization. The Commerce Department’s Bureau of
Industry and Security said from July 1997 to March 1999, Koch Petroleum
(later called Flint Hill Resources) committed 40 violations of Export
Administration Regulations.[45]
In 2006, Koch Industries’ subsidiary Flint Hill Resources was fined
nearly $16,000 by the EPA for 10 separate violations of the
Clean Air Act
at its Alaska oil refinery facilities, and required to spend another
$60,000 on safety equipment needed to help prevent future violations.[46]
In 2007, Koch Nitrogen's plant in
Enid, Oklahoma,
was listed as the third highest company releasing toxic chemicals in
Oklahoma, according to the EPA, ranking behind Perma-Fix Environmental
Services in Tulsa and Weyerhaeuser Co. in Valliant.[47]
The facility produces about 10% of the US national production of
anhydrous ammonia, as well as urea and UAN.[48]
In 2009, Koch subsidiary Invista agreed to pay a $1.7 million civil
penalty and spend up to $500 million to correct self-reported
environmental violations at its facilities in seven states.[49][50]
Prior to the settlement, the company had disclosed to the EPA more than
680 violations after auditing 12 facilities acquired from DuPont in
2004.[51][52]
From 2005 to 2008, Koch industries spent $5.7 million on political
campaigns and $37 million on direct lobbying to support
fossil fuel
industries.[citation
needed]
Greenpeace
states that between 1997 and 2008 Koch Industries donated nearly $48
million to groups which doubt or oppose the theory of
anthropogenic global warming.[55]
According to
Greenpeace, Koch Industries is the major source of funds of climate
denial.[56]
as
we know it and gives tax breaks to
the wealthy.
Four
Republicans voted against the Ryan
plan.
The
Democrats voted unanimously against
it, for a
235-193 margin."
Afterward, Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid released this statement:
"The Republican plan to end
Medicare and immediately raise
prescription drug costs for
seniors in order to pay for
millionaire tax breaks will
never pass the Senate.
The
fact that it passed the House
shows just how far to the right
the Tea Party has dragged the
Republican Party.
"In addition to ending Medicare
and doubling seniors' health
care costs down the road, the
Republican plan would also
destroy nearly two million
American jobs and
undermine our economic growth.
Republicans' plan would only
benefit the wealthiest
Americans, who would get another
round of tax breaks they don't
need and that our economy can't
afford.
"In contrast to Republicans'
plan to end Medicare, Democrats
support a responsible approach
to reducing the deficit that
doesn't simply shift the burden
onto seniors
and the middle class, who did
nothing to put us in the fiscal
hole we are in today. As the
President outlined this week, we
can reduce the deficit by as
much as $4 trillion by
making
targeted cuts in federal
spending that protect seniors'
hard-earned benefits, and by
asking millionaires and
billionaires to contribute their
fair share."
Ryan
budget, meet the brick wall known as
Senator Harry Reid, Democrat of
Nevada."
this
exchange between Representative
Keith Ellison (D-Minnesota) and
Representative Todd Rokita
(R-Indiana):
"On Friday, John Boehner's House Republicans plan to ram through(
sound familiar?)
their rightwing TeaParty budget for 2012, which would destroy Medicare
to
pay for bigger tax breaks for billionaires.
But the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) fought for - and won - a separate
vote on the "People's
Budget," which fights for
Per Democrats: What
will happen if they pass the Ryan Budget!
“The extreme budget plan
passed by the House GOP yesterday would kill Medicare as we know it while giving
huge tax breaks to billionaires
and corporations. And
instead of reducing our national debt, it would actually make it worse!
We've seen how radical these Republicans are – they nearly shut down the federal
government trying to gut women's health care and defund the
EPA. The GOP budget
is an affront to working men and women and an attempt to unravel our nation's
safety net strand by strand. Democrats must stand together and fight back.
In 2012,
Democrats are defending 23 seats. Republicans only have 10. A net gain of four
seats, and we’d lose the Senate. We wouldn’t be able to stop
crazy
legislation like the 2012 Republican budget. We need the help of the grassroots
to defend our Democratic firewall.
NEVADA: Great
news in the Silver State! Rep. Shelley Berkley has jumped into the Senate
race to replace embattled Republican Sen. John Ensign,
who’s
giving up his seat after a scandal and criminal and ethics investigations.
Berkley fights hard every day on behalf of all Nevadans and knows what it
takes
to create good jobs and strengthen the economy. Meanwhile, extremist Rep.
Dean Heller is running for the Republican nomination. Heller wants
to
end Medicare as we know it and voted to cut more than 6,000 Nevada jobs, slash
job training programs and keep Yucca Mountain open.
MASSACHUSETTS:
Sen. Scott Brown has officially been exposed as a flip-flopping
hypocrite. During the recent budget fight, Brown voted for a
measure that would strip Planned Parenthood of all federal funding. Then he
turned right around and attacked his fellow Republicans for trying to
strip
Planned Parenthood of all federal funding. Sounds like hypocrisy to us. Then
there’s the little issue of health care reform. Brown was a big fan
when
Gov. Mitt Romney passed it on the state level, but demands the repeal of
“Obamacare” on the national level. Clearly, Dr. Jekyll has turned into
Mr.
Hyde for his re-election bid.
VIRGINIA: The
nastiness is just beginning. Republicans face a bitter, bloody primary between
former Sen. George Allen – he of “Macaca” fame –
and
Tea Party leader Jamie Radtke. Radtke wants to dump the minimum wage, a
favorite bit of Tea Party red meat. Will Allen jump on the two-
bucks-an-hour bandwagon, or will he devise another way to prove his Tea Party
cred? Meanwhile, former Gov. Tim Kaine jumped into the Senate
race,
giving us the best possible chance of holding onto the blue seat currently
occupied by retiring Sen. Jim Webb. As governor, Kaine improved
Virginia’s economy, brought business to the state and made education and the
environment top priorities.
MONTANA: Rep.
Denny Rehberg just might be the most extreme major Republican candidate
running for the Senate – and that says a lot.
Rehberg recently called Pell Grants “the welfare of the 21st Century.” Then he
doubled down, adding: “You can go to school, collect your Pell
Grants, get food stamps, low-income energy assistance, section 8 housing, and
all of a sudden we find ourselves subsidizing people that don’t have
to
graduate from college.” Apparently, Rehberg thinks that the 24,000 Montanans who
will receive Pell Grants next year will turn the grant into a
life
of leisure on the government dole. It’s outrageous. Pell Grants ensure that
people can afford an education, get good jobs and support their families.
FLORIDA: The
GOP race to take on Sen. Bill Nelson can be summed up in one word: messy. There
are two official candidates: Florida State Senate
president Mike Haridopolos, and former Charlie Crist-appointed
seatwarming Sen. George LeMieux. A second former, former state House
majority leader Adam Hasner, is dipping his toe. Haridopolos and Hasner
both were the subject of ethics complaints, while LeMieux has to figure
out
a way to distance himself from his longtime best buddy, Crist. Crist, who dubbed
LeMieux his “maestro,” is persona non grata among Florida
Republicans after he ditched the party and ran for the Senate as an independent
when it became clear he wasn’t extreme enough to win the Republican
nomination. LeMieux has a short-yet-predictably Republican Senate record: He
opposed health care reform and refused to stand up for unemployed
Floridians. QUICK
HITS: In New
Mexico, Democrats have a top-notch candidate in Rep. Martin Heinrich,
an engineer by training who’s been
an
advocate for technology innovation and clean energy. Heinrich is also a strong
defender of New Mexican workers and families. And in Indiana
and
Utah, GOP Sens. Dick Lugar and Orrin Hatch are top Tea
Party targets.
We Need You!
The Democratic Senate is the firewall against the dangerous legislation pushed
by House Republicans. We need your help to defend the firewall,
and it’s
a big job. Democrats have 23 seats to defend next year, while the GOP has only
10. A net loss of four seats, and we lose the majority. "
Two Lords of England brave enough
to ask the questions about who "Foundation X " is that wants to loan
5 Billion to save world economy
(maybe they caused the economic collapse so they could take control of word
economy), and with some
conscience left, one is now dead, and it is up to us to do our homework and find
out
for the world who these (bankers)
are and what they are planning before it is too late: LISTEN TO THESE ENGLISH
LORDS
TALK ABOUT THIS DISCOVERY (THERE
IS PROFANITY WRITTEN OVER THE TOP OF VIDEO, SO JUST LISTEN WHILE YOU DO
SOMETHING
11/17/10
"Dept of Homeland Security taking
over FDA for supposed 'food contamination' but really since they are former
Monsanto 'GMO, genetically modified food, employees that want to control all of
our
food supply, it does not suprise
me but making illegal for us to have our own farms, or grow our own food, and
with this deppression most people will starve"
CHICAGO -- In the wake of recent revelations of domestic spying by the
Pennsylvania Department of Homeland Security, viewers of the popular online
show,
"The Reality Report", demanded the need for
accountability. In his
62nd webcast Gary Franchi, the host,
posed the question, "What should the punishment
be for director James Powers for spying on
Pennsylvania citizens?" Viewers replied and expressed outrage after Franchi
disclosed the case against Director
James Powers at the onset of the report.
Governor Ed Rendell has stated that he doesn't wish to make the Director a
"martyr" and offered no accountability when it was revealed the State's Homeland
Security Department paid an Israeli based
company $125,000 to spy on Tax Protesters, Gay and Lesbian Groups, and opponents
of drilling in the Marcus Shale.
At the end of
Reality Report 63 Franchi read the
emails of viewers who replied to the question. Mike S. emailed his reply to
Franchi's question stating, "[he]
should be put on trial, convicted and then
put before a firing squad and executed for treason."
When asked about putting a public official
before a "firing squad" Franchi replied, "I don't wish death on anyone and a
'firing squad' sounds like 'crewel and unusual
punishment.' But if the courts decide
his fate in that fashion, however unlikely, then the law has spoken."
Other viewers offered lesser penalties such
as jail time in the "prison industrial complex" and a penalty invoked by angry
crowds during the revolutionary war era,
"Tar and Feathering".
When asked about his viewers comments Franchi responded, "The people are upset,
and rightfully so, they want accountability from the Governor who only offers
apologies."
Governor Rendell and Director James Powers offices did not return calls. As of
this article no trial date has been set for Director James Powers for violating
his
S 510, the
Food Safety Modernization Act,
may be the most dangerous bill in the history of the US. It is to our food what
the bailout was to our economy, only we can live without money.
“If accepted [S 510] would preclude the public’s right
to grow, own, trade, transport, share, feed and eat each and every food that
nature makes. It will become the most offensive authority against the
cultivation, trade and consumption of food and agricultural products of one’s
choice. It will be unconstitutional and contrary to natural law or, if you like,
the will of God.” ~Dr.
Shiv Chopra, Canada Health whistleblower
It is similar to what India faced
with imposition of the salt tax during British rule, only S 510 extends control
over all food in the US, violating the fundamental human right
to food.
Monsanto says it has no interest in the bill and would not
benefit from it, but Monsanto’s Michael Taylor who gave us rBGH and unregulated
genetically modified (GM) organisms, appears to have
designed it and is waiting as an
appointed Food Czar to the FDA (a position unapproved by Congress) to administer
the agency it would create — without judicial review — if it
passes. S 510 would give Monsanto unlimited power over all US seed, food
supplements, food and farming.
History
In the 1990s, Bill Clinton introduced HACCP (Hazardous
Analysis Critical Control Points) purportedly to deal with contamination in the
meat industry. Clinton’s HACCP delighted the offending corporate (World Trade
Organization “WTO”) meat packers since it allowed them to inspect themselves,
eliminated thousands of local food processors (with no history of
contamination), and centralized meat into their control.
Monsanto promoted HACCP.
In 2008, Hillary Clinton, urged a powerful centralized food
safety agency as part of her campaign for president. Her advisor was
Mark Penn, CEO of Burson Marsteller*, a
giant PR firm
representing Monsanto. Clinton lost,
but Clinton friends such as Rosa DeLauro, whose husband’s firm
lists Monsanto as a progressive client
and globalization as an area of expertise, introduced early versions of S 510.
S 510 fails on moral, social, economic, political,
constitutional, and human survival grounds.
1. It puts all US food and all US farms under
Homeland Security and the Department of Defense, in the event of contamination
or an ill-defined emergency. It resembles the
Kissinger Plan.
2. It would end US
sovereignty over its own food supply by insisting on
compliance with the WTO, thus
threatening national security. It would end
the Uruguay Round Agreement Act of 1994, which put US sovereignty and US law
under
perfect protection. Instead, S 510
says:
COMPLIANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS.
Nothing in this Act (or an amendment made by this Act) shall
be construed in a manner inconsistent with the agreement establishing the World
Trade Organization or any other treaty or international agreement to which the
United States is a party.
3. It would allow the government, under Maritime Law,
to define the introduction of any food into commerce (even direct sales between
individuals) as smuggling into “the United States.”
Since under that law, the US is a corporate entity and not a location, “entry of
food into the US” covers food produced anywhere within the land mass of this
country and “entering into” it by virtue of being produced.
4. It imposes
Codex Alimentarius on the US, a
global system of control over food.
It allows the United Nations (UN), World Health Organization (WHO), UN Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the WTO to take control of every food on
earth and remove access to natural food supplements. Its
bizarre history and its
expected impact in
limiting access to adequate nutrition
(while mandating GM food, GM animals, pesticides, hormones, irradiation of food,
etc.) threatens all safe and
organic food and health itself, since
the world knows now it needs vitamins to
survive, not just to treat illnesses.
5. It would remove the right to clean, store and thus
own seed in the US, putting control of seeds in the hands of Monsanto and other
multinationals, threatening US security. See
Seeds – How to criminalize them, for
more details.
6. It includes NAIS, an animal traceability program
that threatens all small farmers and ranchers raising animals.
The UN is participating through the WHO, FAO, WTO, and World Organisation for
Animal Health (OIE) in allowing mass slaughter of even heritage breeds of
animals and without proof of disease.
Biodiversity in farm animals is being
wiped out to
substitute genetically engineered
animals on which corporations hold patents. Animal diseases can be falsely
declared. S 510 includes the Centers for Disease Control (CDC),
despite its
corrupt involvement in the
H1N1 scandal, which is now said to have
been concocted by the corporations.
7. It extends a failed and destructive HACCP to all
food, thus threatening to do to all local food production and farming what HACCP
did to meat production – put it in corporate hands and worsen food safety.
8. It deconstructs what is left of the American
economy. It takes agriculture and food, which
are the cornerstone of all economies, out of the hands of the citizenry, and
puts them under the total control of multinational corporations influencing the
UN, WHO, FAO and WTO, with HHS, and CDC, acting as agents, with Homeland
Security as the enforcer. The chance to rebuild the economy based on farming,
ranching, gardens, food production, natural health, and all the jobs, tools and
connected occupations would be eliminated.
9. It would allow the government to mandate
antibiotics, hormones, slaughterhouse waste, pesticides and GMOs.
This would industrialize every farm in the US, eliminate local organic farming,
greatly increase global warming from increased use of oil-based products and
long-distance delivery of foods, and make food even more unsafe. The five items
listed — the
Five Pillars of Food Safety — are
precisely the items in the food supply which are the primary source of its
danger.
10. It uses food crimes as the entry into police state
power and control. The bill postpones defining
all the regulations to be imposed; postpones defining crimes to be punished,
postpones defining penalties to be applied. It removes fundamental
constitutional protections from all citizens in the country, making them subject
to a corporate tribunal with unlimited power and penalties, and without judicial
review. It is (similar to C-6 in Canada) the end of
Rule of Law in the US.
10/20/10 From Concerned citizen doing
something: "Yesterday there was a huge
food fight on the senate floor. We got 4 more senators to vote no and 16 to
descent, Senator Reed told people to stay calm. But as you can see on the fake
food safety bill that makes Codex Alimentarius into law which is a treaty with
other countries. This treaty will let others who could care less, because they
are politically appointed fat cats working for industry, vote and decide which
poisons and chemicals can go in our food. Also there is wording in the Bill that
gives the Gov. the ability to believe something and that the law. Only Kings or
Queens can believe something and that's the law....We are at war for our
sovereignity and our freedom to choose our own future health and food choices.
OK...S.510 is a way to
give the gov the power to believe something and it is the law, just like a Queen
or
King can do. We cannot win
in court if what the gov believes is law and is the law we are governed by.
Do you trust the FDA and
Monsanto? Or even trust they are here to "help us"? Look how straight from the
S.510 bill it changes USC
Code and Federal Law...Can you believe what they "believe"? Can you believe
that
there can be a law that
says what a Government "believes" is the law? Can you believe the nerve to even
try
this BS.
(a) In General- Section
304(h)(1)(A) (21 U.S.C. 334(h)(1)(A)) is amended by--
(1) striking `credible
evidence or information indicating' and inserting `reason to believe'; and
(2) striking `presents a
threat of serious adverse health consequences or death to humans or animals'
and
inserting `is adulterated
or misbranded under section 403(w)'
?"The thing that bugs me
is that the people think the FDA is protecting them. It isn't. What the FDA IS
doing and what the public
THINKS it's doing are as different as night and day." - Herbert Lay, M.D.,
Former
Take It Viral NOW! Why $.
510 MUST NOT Pass:http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=7446
Take This VIRAL NOW! MUST
Flood Email Boxes and Switchboard this Morning
TAKE ACTION ITEM NOW For
Each Member of Your Household, THEN!CALL YOUR SENATORS -RIGHT NOW! Tell Them You
Vigorously Oppose $.510http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
11.17.10 UPDATEPUSH BACK
rate reaches 5,000 emails an hour to decision makers!Keep sending those
messages! And PLEASE CALL YOUR SENATORS, Too
S.510, the horrific, fake
“food safety” bill (and possibly its evil companions, $.3767 and the discredited
S.3002) will be pushed through the Lame Duck Congress this week. It is
definitely on the Obama Lame Duck Agenda. Our friends in DC have confirmed this.
Vote on Motion Thursday
was 57 to 27 ... which is better than Wednesday's Cloture vote of 74 to 25!
Wednesday the Senate voted
to end debate (cloture) on bill $.510, setting the stage for a final vote Friday
after Thursday's procedural motion vote. The exact schedule of voting is not
clear. What is clear is that this bill, and its horrific companion pieces MUST
NOT be allowed to pass despite the determination of the worst combination of
Lame Duck destructiveness, Corporate greed and Regulatory irresponisiblity.
The delays, if they occur,
may, in fact, be exactly what we need. The President, Secretary Sebelius and the
US Senate have been bombarded with more than 600,000 emails from you and more
from the supporters of the many, many health and food freedom groups who have
followed our leads and asked their supporters to send the same message to the
same recipients: DON'T YOU DARE!
So we may have hours or
days to make sure that we still have food freedom without having to fight for
repeal or use other strategies to make sure that we control the quality of the
food that we eat. Health Freedom, including food freedom, IS our first freedom.
IT IS URGENT THAT EVERY
HEALTH AND FOOD FREEDOM GROUP WARN THEIR SUPPORTERS AND FLOOD CONGRESS WITH “NO
$.510!” MESSAGES, NOW!
Please forward this
message widely. Please take the Action Item below each day this week, for each
person in your family!
For information about the
bills, see our Talking Points here:http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6910
Our action item, to email
US Senators, is here:http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613
THIS IS A RED ALERT! WE
MUST FLOOD THE SENATE NOW!Last November 150,000 emails held the bill in
committee for nearly a year;WE NEED EVEN MORE PUSH BACK RIGHT NOW!
Ambassador of Pakistan Thanks Church Leaders
for Mormon Humanitarian Aid
2 days ago
source: LDS.org Newsroom
His Excellency Husain Haqqani, Pakistan
ambassador to the United States, made a brief stop at The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
headquarters following the Church’s 10
September announcement of humanitarian aid provided to the
people of Pakistan.
“On behalf of the government of Pakistan, I would like to
express our appreciation and gratitude to President (Thomas
S.) Monson, to the
leadership, and all the members
of the flock for their contribution,” said Haqqani of the
400,000 pounds of food, blankets and relief aid
shipped to Pakistan.Following a meeting
with members of the First Presidency, the ambassador spoke
to members of the media about the
conditions in Pakistan.“The awareness
hasn’t really hit the American public,” he said. “Twenty
million people have been affected by the flood.
One-fourth of the country is inundated
with water.
Read the rest of this story at
LDS.org
President Obama will award the Medal of Honor to a living soldier for his
heroism in Afghanistan in 2007, marking the first time since the Vietnam War
that a service member has earned the nation's highest award for valor on the
battlefield that didn't result in his death.
Obama spoke with Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta on Thursday to inform him that he
had earned the honor and thank him for his "extraordinary bravery in battle,"
the White House said in a prepared statement.
Just a few weeks ago I told you the
anti-freedom DISCLOSE Act wasn’t dead, and I was right.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and
arch anti-gunner Chuck Schumer (D-NY) have been twisting the arms of a handful
of short-on-principle Republicans in order to gain passage of the outrageous
DISCLOSE Act.
CongressDaily, a Capitol Hill publication,
reports that Republican Senators Scott Brown (MA), Olympia Snowe (ME) and Susan
Collins (ME) are under pressure from Reid, Schumer and their anti-gun cabal to
vote for the DISCLOSE Act.
In the name of “openness” Reid and Schumer
want to silence grassroots activists like you and me.
They say they want to "shine light" on our
"dealings" in order to restrain our "undue" influence on politics.
In reality, they’re only interested in
protecting their reelections and hiding their anti-freedom voting records.
You and I cannot let them succeed in these
dirty tricks.
I know you saw what happened during the health
care debate -- you can be sure the same kind of underhanded, backroom deals are
going on RIGHT NOW.
Without a doubt Reid and Schumer will do
whatever it takes to buy the vote from RINO’s (Republicans-In-Name-Only) like
Brown, Snowe and Collins.
Remember, the DISCLOSE Act was written
to silence YOU...
...and
the National Association for Gun Rights.
The truth is this legislation was written to
silence any group that talks about the voting records of politicians -- from the
National Association for Gun Rights to your local state group or gun club.
The DISCLOSE Act should really be called the
"Establishment Protection Act."
To make matters worse, while you and I
are silenced, anti-gun liberal special interests and labor unions are exempt
from the outrageous provisions of this bill.
You and I might expect this sort of election
year payoff for labor unions and liberal special interest groups, but gun owners
have been shocked to learn that the "pro-freedom" NRA has also negotiated a
special exemption.
That's right, because they agreed to sit on
the sidelines in this fight, President Obama and Majority Leader Harry Reid
granted the NRA a special exemption to the onerous restrictions that will be put
on the rest of us.
Here’s what you can do to join the fight
against the DISCLOSE Act.
1.Call Senators Scott Brown
(202-224-4543), Olympia Snowe (202-224-5344) and Susan Collins (202-224-2523)
and demand that the stand up to
Harry Reid’s malicious manipulation and publicly oppose the DISCLOSE Act in any
form.
2.Call your U.S. Senators at (202) 224-3121 and demand that they publicly
oppose the anti-free speech DISCLOSE Act.
3.Forward this e-mail to all
your gun rights supporting and freedom loving friends and family.
I know I don’t have to tell you that time is
of the essence.
Please call Senators Scott Brown,
Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins TODAY. Demand that they stand up to Harry Reid
and oppose the anti-freedom DISCLOSE Act."
The
anti-free speech DISCLOSE Act stalled in the Senate yesterday, thanks to
your phone calls and emails.
Don’t let some punk Senate staffer tell you differently; your phone
calls and e-mails are making a difference.
Keep them up!
Because of pressure from you and thousands of other members of the National
Association for Gun Rights, anti-gun Democrats were unable to muster the votes
necessary to begin the final debate on the DISCLOSE Act.
But, the battle is far from over.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid continues to play the despicable Beltway games
he's famous for.
At the last minute, Reid voted against cloture.
That means he can bring it up for a vote at any time.
And insider sources tell me Harry Reid and his allies plan to bring it
up again in September to use as a campaign issue in the elections.
Reid and his anti-gun allies will say you and I are just a special interest
group flush with corporate cash.
EMERGENCY UPDATE
DISCLOSE Act on the move
As I told you
yesterday, the fate of free speech was being debated in the U.S. Senate
yesterday . . .
. . . And today the vote is scheduled for 2:45pm EST.
The best news of the day is that Harry Reid may be short on his votes for the
free speech-limiting DISCLOSE Act.
Yesterday, President Obama lobbied for the bill. You can bet he’s talking on
the phone to any Senators who might be on the fence.
That’s why it’s vital
that you call your Senators again!
Even if you called yesterday, you MUST CALL AGAIN TODAY!
I need you to call
BOTH Senator Robert Bennett at (202) 224-5444 and Senator Orrin Hatch at (202)
224-5251 immediately and demand that they vote AGAINST and publicly oppose the
DISCLOSE Act.
To recap: the DISCLOSE Act was written to protect the anti-gun Establishment in
Washington, D.C., and silence gun rights activists like you and me.
But there is a chance we can stop this monstrous violation of our Constitutional
Rights -- if you ACT right now.
Please, call Senator
Robert Bennett at (202) 224-5444 and Senator Orrin Hatch at (202) 224-5251 and
demand that they vote against and publicly oppose the DISCLOSE Act
"The photograph is of chemical clouds in the sky over Las Vegas.
So many have been sick in what seems to be a direct correlation to exposure to
these chemical clouds. These chemical contrails are often laden with aluminum
oxide (chaff) and barium powders, amongst many other heavy metals, mycoplasma
and bio-toxins. Ingesting these heavy metals seems to be vastly increasing
reported memory problems, mental fog, headaches, chronic fatigue,
walking pneumonia, persistent cough, flu-like illness, recurring sinus and
respiratory infections.
These aerosol programs are kept secret from the public due to the
invasive nature of spraying the atmosphere (your breathing air) with dangerous
chemical ingredients.
These ingredients should be tested daily. We need a wide-spread
awareness as to the dangers in breathing these chemical residues and steps to
take to protect ourselves and our families from the long and short term effects
of exposure to these chemical clouds.
Here is a collection of information I have put together to alert
the Nevada media. You are free to use it to help in researching this horrendous
man-made phenomenon in your area. We must distribute this information far and
wide. With enough exposure and the ensuing public outcry we can force the
government to stop this experiment on our lives. This is against the law,
If the UN, WHO, NOAA, NSA, DOD, DOE or any other government
agencies have chosen to work above the law, and feel they own the upper
atmosphere and do not answer to constraints of any earth law; or if you seek out
the responsible party for this vast human experiment and find no one accepting
responsibility; if our politicians have truly abandoned us, if for any
reason, this criminal activity cannot be stopped, in the very least we must take
it upon ourselves to protect our own citizens. We must see that this pollution
is monitored, rigorously and regularly tested in air, soil, and standing water,
and if found dangerous to health, issue preventative health precautions to
protect the health and well-being of not only citizens of Nevada, but everyone,
anywhere, who breathes this tainted air. This would be fairly simple to
implement using air, water and soil testing facilities which are already in
place. Please take any action you can to bring awareness to this crime against
humanity. We must stop these aerosol experiments now!
thank you,"
dbdonovan
citizen alert
~~~
Dear
Nevada Media,
Look
at these pictures posted on Flicker of the skies over Las Vegas. There is a very
quick sign up required to view, but well worth it. These are the once deep blue
skies of Southern Nevada. Please take a look.
These
persistent contrails - as the officials like to call them, are filled with
dangerous chemicals, heavy metals, mycoplasmas and biotoxins, greatly effecting
the health and quality of life of those who are breathing them. That is you and
your family, your friends, your pets, even your plants.
The
politicians do nothing. The media remain silent. It is just unbelievable the
inattention this is receiving.
According to a television station which paid to have these chemicals tested,
there are many, sometimes thousands times more - than the allowable amount of
barium powders and aluminum oxides, plus ethylene dibromide, arsenic, iron,
boron, manganese, magnesium, potassium, sodium, copper, zinc, nickel, thorium,
zirconium, titanium, chromium, cadmium, strontium, mycoplasma and biotoxins in
these chemical releases. Toxic
levels! (a
recent Arizona air sample analysis (all elements) showed 12,800,000 PPB for
Aluminum.) Incredible.
That's 12 million parts per billion! 6,400 times the toxic limit!
Scientific studies have shown that exposure to barium, a major chemical
component in these aerosol releases, breaks down immune systems, producing a
receptive environment for any lab-generated recombinant flu-virus which has
"accidentally" appeared in the population.
Whether intentional or not, the data shows chemtrails and vaccine adjuvants are
weakening our immune systems, making us susceptible to illness.
Illness delivered in prepared pandemics which keep creeping into the population
with slight modifications each demanding another tainted, untested vaccination:
first as swine flu, then SARS, then bird flu, then a recombinant
bird/swine/human flu. These vaccines are used as delivery mechanisms, tested on
the public tainted with squalene, mercury, polysorbate 80 and live viruses.
These additives often cause illness, paralysis, even death.
Big
pharma and the CDC will demand each of you take these untested vaccines. They
will work to make them mandatory and the collaborative news media will be
echoing the mantra "get the shot, get the shot" - all the while having
stripped hapless victims of this vaccine of any legal recourse against the
pharmaceutical industry.
Ret Chief medical Officer for Finland, Rauni Kilde reveals disturbing
information about objectives of global FLU pandemic.
The
military actually sampled victims of the 1918 Spanish flu to recreate this
deadly disease and now they have created something more damaging - a mutated
lab-generated pneumonic flu plague, which has been quietly introduced in the
Ukraine and if not contained, may be visited on the rest of the world over the
next few years.
Mutant H1N1 Swine Flu Or Pneumonic Plague? Number Of People In Ukraine
With
Mystery Illness Almost Doubles In Two Days To Nearly Half A Million!
"According to reports, China's People's Liberation Army Air Force contacted the
Indian and Nigerian intelligence officials about the presence of these US
operated Ukrainian aircraft amidst growing concern that the United States was
spreading 'biological agents' in the Earth's atmosphere, which some Chinese
officials believed to be an attempt to (commit) mass genocide via the spread of
H1N1 swine flu."
The
Flu case site has reports of LOW FLYING PLANES SPRAYING IN POLAND
-
NOW PEOPLE ARE IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM WITH PNEUMONIC PLAGUE SYMPTOMS!
If you
find you are losing your memory, your ability to focus, feeling constantly
tired, listless, apathetic, suffering pneumonia, flu-like symptoms, continual
cough, throat irritation, respiratory and bronchial problems, burning eyes,
sinus infection, head ache, body aches, frequent nose bleeds, you are very
likely experiencing the symptoms of exposure to these aerosol chemicals and
heavy metals.
The
barium compounds break down immune systems causing weakness and susceptibility
to illness. Barium compounds are also shown to be a dessicant, taking the
moisture out of the sky and greatly impacting drought conditions over the
southern United States.
Aluminum is thought contributive to Alzheimers disease. Alzheimers was a leading
cause of death in Los Angeles County last year and the long term implications of
our current exposure have yet to be studied. The clouds themselves are shown to
form a reflective barrier that retains the earth's heat and give a false
impression of global warming, useful for those interested in instituting a
massive multi-layer carbon tax. Yet there is significant evidence of an opposite
reality, that we are entering a cooling period, possibly very cool (the coldest
winter in 50 years in many parts of the world) and these temperature
fluctuations are normal throughout history, generally related to sunspot
activity.
"In
July through August, fifty-one consecutive days passed without a spot, one day
short of tying the record of fifty-two days from the early 1900s."
Alzheimer's Disease Supersedes
Diabetes As Sixth Leading Cause Of Death In The United Stateshttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/111176.phpThe
death rate from Alzheimer's jumped 220% — or from 5 to 16 deaths out of every
100,000 people — from 1994 to 2003, according to a new county Department of
Public Health mortality report.
325,000 baby boomers to develop
Alzheimer’s disease
Watch
the skies each and every day. These persistent contrail clouds are as bold as
the enormous white "X" painted fully across the sky, slowly expanding into a
dull layer of chemical mist. A mist of sickening chemicals quietly raining down
on those below. These heavy metals then accumulate on the ground and when the
wind blows the air is again filled with extreme levels of toxic dust.
These
clouds are so strikingly unnatural, so boldly visible and so easily tested for
chemical composition,
- so
why aren't the media curious enough to demand our local governments "in the
least" test these ingredients?
The
media hold a public trust to investigate and report unusual phenomenon which may
endanger the populous. Yet our current media do not seem to notice these
chemical clouds. They they do not investigate them; they do not report
them; they do not question their chemical make-up, and most importantly, they
do not show enough concern or curiosity to demand local governments test them
for chemical composition to see how dangerous they may be to all living things.
Any
prudent, thoughtful human-being should demand these chemicals be tested - just
to be on the safe side.
This
stunning silence may be letting their own families die.
I was
told by one television reporter, upper management "put the word out" reporters
were to stay away from reporting on anything conspiracy related. While the
biggest crimes of our day are being hidden behind the surrealistic charge of
being nothing more than conspiracy theories.
When a
valid concern is being stigmatized as being nothing more than a conspiracy
theory it should provide a trigger to alert you that someone high and mighty is
up to their eyeballs in crime and doesn't want an investigation of that
subject.
FORMER FBI CHIEF TED GUNDERSON TALKS GOVERNMENT CRIME
In
their silence, the national news media has become a partner in in these crimes.
They no longer provide a check and balance against government crime. They turn
their head and look the other way, instead working to manipulate us to follow
whatever the current agenda, terror level or scare tactic the globalists have to
throw at us.
Research whom owns the media. It's frightening. Try
this media quote:
"Our
job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to
have."
-- Richard Salent, Former President CBS News.
or
this one:
“We
are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other
great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected
their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been
impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to
the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the work is now much
more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The
supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely
preferable to the national auto determination practiced in past centuries.” --David
Rockefeller speaking before the secretive Trilateral Commission, June, 1991
In
response we now have citizen journalists seeking the truth, without pay, without
corruption, researching facts, finding sources, the truth comes out.
Now
Obama's top czar wants to infiltrate investigative journalist groups (branding
them conspiracy groups) and issue fines to anyone espousing any ideas opposing
the official propaganda - no matter how ridiculous or easily disputed.
Anyone
who stops or impedes an investigation of suspected criminal behavior, which has
substantial corroborating evidence, is purposely disallowing the truth - and may
well be involved in covering up a crime. Albert Einstein said "Condemnation
without investigation is the height of ignorance."
The
unknown is right in front of you. Investigate it and make it a known, before we
are all sick.
You
can see the importance and all encompassing relevance of this story - how it
effects us all, our lives, our quality of life. Yet no one of authority is doing
anything to stop these programs.
The
media are letting us down. They are letting America die. As our local media, you
are our herald voice, the investigator and reporter. You have a major
responsibility to the people of Nevada, most especially to those living in Las
Vegas - the community where you live and breath. If there is a health concern of
this magnitude you should be investigating it, demanding the proper authorities
are rigorously testing these clouds daily and with due diligence, then reporting
what is found.
The
aerosol programs have been going strong for years, so many are sick, so many
have died. Patients with pneumonia and flu-like illness jamming the local
hospitals, beds in the hallways - and still, you do nothing.
These
aerosol programs need to be fully exposed; the atmosphere, soil, and standing
water regularly tested and the public alerted, so each may make efforts to
protect the health of their selves and their family. There must be an outcry to
make this poisoning stop!
You
are the media. You were a once trusted source for information and awareness;
now
shamelessly filled with lies, omission, misdirection, and manipulation. Public
trust no longer matters.
Please
assume a roll in protecting the public you report for.
Investigate, report, do your job; hammer the politicians until this is stopped.
"Others are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the
climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of
electromagnetic waves… So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are
at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations…It's
real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our [counterterrorism]
efforts."
Secretary of Defense William Cohen at an April 1997 counterterrorism conference
sponsored by former Senator Sam Nunn. Quoted from DoD News Briefing, Secretary
of Defense William S. Cohen, Q&A at the Conference on Terrorism, Weapons of Mass
Destruction, and U.S. Strategy, University of Georgia, Athens, Apr. 28, 1997.
U.S. Navy (1974) “The powder
contrail generator is normally carried on an aircraft in a pod containing a ram
air tube and powder feed hopper.”: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3899144.html
“U.S.
National Reportto
IUGG, 1991-1994… Vaporized barium was expelled from the payloads in flight by
using a shaped charge which produced a velocity distribution with speeds up to
13 km/sec…”
http://www.agu.org/revgeophys/raitt00/node6.html
“This is the ‘Description of Preferred Embodiments’
link in the NASA Barium Patent listed above. Astounding that this information
was generated in l969 and now, 30 years later, there is evidence of Barium
saturation in our atmosphere.”
http://www.lightwatcher.com/chemtrails/NASA_chem_suppliers.html
synthesis: a hypothesis for theorigins
of multiple sclerosis.
High level contamination by
natural and industrial sources of the alkali earth metal,barium(Ba)
has been identified in the ecosystems/workplaces that areassociated
with high incidence clustering of multiple sclerosis(MS)
and other neurodegenerative diseases such as the transmissible spongiform
encephalopathies (TSEs) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Analyses of
ecosystems supporting the most renowned MS clusters in Saskatchewan, Sardinia,
Massachusetts, Colorado, Guam, NE Scotland demonstrated consistently elevated
levels of Ba in soils (mean: 1428 ppm) and vegetation (mean: 74 ppm) in relation
to mean levels of 345 and 19 ppm recorded in MS-free regions adjoining. The high
levels of Ba stemmed from local quarrying for Ba ores and/or use of Ba in
paper/foundry/welding/textile/oil and gas well related industries, as well as
from the use of Barium as an atmospheric aerosol spray for enhancing/refracting
the signaling of radio/radar waves along military jet flight paths, missile test
ranges, etc.
"an atmospheric aerosol spray
for enhancing/refracting the signaling of radio/radar waves along military jet
flight paths, missile test ranges, etc. "
"Barium dust, if inhaled, can
accumulate in the lungs, leading to a condition called baritosis."
~~~
U.S. Code, Title 50, Chapter 32,
Section 1520a-it's
illegal for the military to - or contract others to -
"conduct weather modification
experiments or anything that is capable of causing -
(1) death, disease, or other
biological malfunction in a human, animal, plant, or another living organism;
(2) deterioration of food,
water, equipment, supplies, or materials of any kind; or
(3) deleterious alteration of
the environment.
without the prior informed
consent of all human subjects."
Included in Climate Security and
Climate Change Legislation will be Cap
& Trade Bills which will be more
Stock Market Schemes designated as:
Cap & Trade Bills under the
heading of climate security acts.
~~~
This
full-page advertisement was placed in a Redding, California newspaper by a group
of concerned citizens!
WASHINGTON POST INVESTIGATION: Top Secret
America: The secrets next door
05:45 AM EDT Wednesday, July 21, 2010
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The third installment of The Post's
investigation into the growth of top-secret government work after Sept. 11,
2001, takes readers to the capital of Top Secret America. Fort Meade, Md.,
anchors the largest of
a dozen clusters of top-secret
government organizations and the companies that do work for them. They are in
otherwise ordinary
suburbs where hotels rent eavesdrop-proof
rooms, road signs advertise job fairs for workers with top-secret clearances,
and even the manhole covers are not what you might expect.
Around Fort Meade, as in suburbs across
the nation, the intelligence community goes about its anonymous business. Its
work isn't seen, but its impact is surely felt.
Read today's story and review the first
two parts at washingtonpost.com/topsecretamerica.
One of the three Congressmen who
voted against going to war with Iraq because it had nothing to do
with 9/11 has gone:
News alert: Robert C. Byrd, longest-serving member of Congress, died at a
Fairfax hospital
05:32 AM EDT Monday, June 28, 2010
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Robert C. Byrd, a West Virginia Democrat who became the longest-serving
member of Congress, died at 3 a.m. Monday at Inova Fairfax Hospital, his office
said.
A recent report proves government officials are not enforcing the Animal Welfare
Act -- giving
unscrupulous breeders the green light to keep dogs in awful conditions.
The report found that despite regular inspections, large-scale breeding
facilities continued to house dogs in cages full of urine and feces and failed
to
The Justice Department has filed suit
against Arizona on grounds that the
state's new immigration law illegally
intrudes on federal prerogatives and will seek a preliminary injunction to stop
the legislation from taking effect.
For more information, visit
washingtonpost.com: (and so the illegal aliens will keep sneaking into our
country as well as Middle Eastern Terrorists)
How General Petraeus Will Change Afghan War Strategy The Atlantic WireTue, 29 Jun
2010 11:51 AM PDT
On Tuesday morning, General David Petraeus faced the Senate Armed Services
Committee to confirm his nomination by President Obama to replace now-resigned
General Stanley McChrystal as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan. Petraeus's
hearing was not especially contested as he remains enormously popular with both
parties in Congress for his handling of Iraq. At one point during the
hearing ...
12 killed in Iraq attacks, including army general Boston HeraldTue, 29 Jun
2010 12:03 PM PDT
BAGHDAD - A series of bombings and shootings around Iraq Tuesday claimed
12 lives, including four policemen, an...
It has been nine days since
Oreo’s Law was defeated in this session of the
New York State legislature. Nine days since several of the largest, most
influential “animal protection” organizations in the country banded
together to defeat a bill that had the potential to save thousands of
lives by empowering their less wealthy, less powerful colleagues to do
so. And I’ve written nothing about its defeat.
I assume I am regarded as a person who is rarely at a
loss for words. And truth be told, I do have much to say regarding the
bill’s demise and the obvious lessons the fight for Oreo’s Law has
imparted. But this blog nonetheless has not come as easily as the others
have, and every day since the bill’s defeat, I have sat before my
computer, staring at a blank screen and struggling to find the words to
express what needs to be said, to reiterate in part, that which to me
and I hope to my readers has by now become so evident that stating it
feels simply gratuitous: the enemy is within.
Yes, I am talking about the ASPCA which claims to
champion the animals but advocates for their slaughter; and yes, I am
talking about groups like the Mayor’s Alliance and the Animal Law
Coalition that do the same. And as groups mirror the decisions of their
leaders, I am talking specifically about
Ed Sayres, Jane Hoffman, and Laura Allen. But
those have become the obvious ones and I’ve written no less than 17
blogs and articles about their duplicitous and indefensible role in this
saga. And if that was all there was to be said, I would have done it on
June 16, the morning after Oreo’s Law was tabled by the legislature.
What has caused me to stare at a blank screen, unable to
find the words is trying to put into context the actions of a group
which I’ve worked with in the past and whose conferences I’ve been
speaking at since their inception. Last week, as thousands of animal
lovers throughout New York State flooded Albany with e-mails of support
for Oreo’s Law, shutting down the mail server not once, but twice, ASPCA
lobbyist Debora Bresch combed the halls of the capitol, working to
defeat the bill with lies, misrepresentations and the powerful weight of
the ASPCA’s century-old reputation. Covering her back were not only
those organizations financially beholden to the ASPCA or those equally
threatened by the upset of power which Oreo’s Law would accomplish but,
tragically, an organization that for a long time now has been generally
regarded within the No Kill movement as the only large national
organization that is an ally to our cause: Best Friends Animal
Society.
How can I share how hurt I am over their positions and
handling of Oreo’s Law, without coming off as callous or dismissive to
their sanctuary work, the rescue they do, and the safety net they
provided for the victims of dog killer Michael Vick? I don’t want to
take anything away from those things. Nor can I forget that while most
national groups were preaching killing, Best Friends championed my
message when I was in San Francisco and they championed me when I
created the nation’s first No Kill community in Tompkins County. And
though I’ve been disappointed in their handling of some issues—how they
sought to quell public discontent over the Wilkes County Massacre
among other things—I’ve not called them out the way I have others,
believing that in the cost-benefit analysis, they help more than they
limit the success of our cause.
But this time, it is different. And I cannot remain
silent in deference to their past contributions. In Oreo’s Law, in the
brutal and needless killing of Oreo herself, I saw the defining issue of
the No Kill movement. Oreo’s Law is not some auxiliary effort for the
movement, it is central to the fight for a No Kill nation. Legislation
that empowers rescue groups, removes the discretion which allows shelter
directors the ability to kill animals in spite of lifesaving
alternatives, and makes the killing we all claim to want to end illegal
is what our movement is ultimately about. We will never, ever, ever,
ever achieve and sustain a No Kill nation without legislation to reform
our broken animal shelter system.
The goal of every social
movement is legislation to gain and then protect the rights of its
members or the focus of its efforts. The suffrage movement wasn’t just
seeking discretionary permission from elections officials to vote, an
ability that could be taken away. Its goal was winning the right to
vote, a right guaranteed in law. The civil rights movement wasn’t just
seeking the discretionary ability to sit at the front of the bus or to
eat at the same lunch counters or be given equal protection and equal
opportunity. Its goal was winning the right to do
so, a right guaranteed in law. The movement for marriage equality isn’t
just seeking the discretionary opportunity to marry despite sexual
orientation. Its goal is winning the right to do
so, a right guaranteed in law. Because without legal rights, one’s fate
is contingent on who the election official is, who the restaurant owner
is, and who the mayor is. And in our case, who the shelter director is.
And just as quickly as permission is given, it can be taken away.
Laws codify norms of behavior and, at their best, help
create a just and thoughtful society. We have—and embrace—voting rights
acts, environmental protection laws, and laws against discrimination
based on gender, race, and sexual orientation. Ultimately, such laws are
essential to ensure that fair and equal treatment is guaranteed, not
subject to the discretion of those in power. We shouldn’t just want a
promise that shelters will try to do better. We already have such
promises—and millions of animals still being killed show just how hollow
such promises are. We must demand accountability beyond the rhetoric.
And we shouldn’t simply be seeking progressive directors willing to save
lives. We should demand that the killing end, now and forever,
regardless of who is running the shelters. And we get that in only one
way: by passing
legislation that gives sheltered animals the right to live.
But Best Friends refused to embrace Oreo’s Law. And in
not taking a position, their silence spoke volumes too: it failed to
convey the urgency with which laws such as this are needed. In reality,
neutrality is a position—a position that condones the status quo by not
demanding different. It amounts to support for killing. This was bad
enough, but it gets worse. Several months ago, I was made aware that
Best Friends had called and e-mailed an early and influential supporter
of Oreo’s Law—Mike
Fry of Animal Ark shelter and Animal Wise Radio—asking
him to withdraw their support in deference to ASPCA President, Ed
Sayres. In addition, I was privy to several conversations with Best
Friends where they stated they would support the law if various
amendments were made. Those amendments were made, but Best Friends did
not honor the agreements. They also stated that they would support the
law if Ed Sayres and Jane Hoffman did not withdraw their opposition
after they were told that in exchange for doing so, the bill would be
renamed to remove any reference to Oreo. And when Sayres and Hoffman
said “No,” Best Friends still refused to support it.
Instead, when queried by rescuers as to where they stood
on Oreo’s Law, they responded that they “support rescue access
legislation,” even as they failed to actually support it, in Oreo’s Law.
But the inherent contradiction aside,
Best Friends tried to undermine it behind the scenes by asking Animal
Ark and Animal Wise Radio to withdraw their support.
Why? According to Best Friends, the bill was nothing more than a
vendetta on my part to “get back” at Ed Sayres for destroying the San
Francisco SPCA. And Best Friends would not support such a bill.
But I did not introduce Oreo’s Law, did not name it
Oreo’s Law, had never met, spoken to, or heard of Assembly Member Micah
Kellner before he introduced it, and found out about it after the bill
was already introduced. It is true that I disdain Ed Sayres, and no one
who has read anything I’ve ever written about him would think otherwise.
It is no secret that I think he is a bad, small-minded and hard-hearted
individual. But I have come to this conclusion not out of spite, but out
of experience. I have judged his actions in relation to his
responsibilities and have continually found them to be the opposite of
those a man in his position should be taking.
He has defended killing and killers throughout the nation,
providing them political cover which allows them to remain in their
positions and kill even more. Even though he heads the nation’s
wealthiest humane society, the
shelter in his own community routinely says it is running out of food.
And he stated publicly that killing animals is the moral equivalent of
not killing them.
In Austin, Texas, he worked diligently to derail the
efforts of animal lovers trying to reform a regressive shelter whose
director killed animals despite over 100 empty cages on any given day,
refused to allow the public to foster animals choosing to kill them
instead, claimed she and her staff
did not have time to adopt out animals because they were too busy
(killing those animals in the back), and
withheld treatment and care to sick cats, allowing them to suffer
as a vendetta against the City Council which ordered her to stop
convenience killing. And when she was finally fired,
Sayres called her termination “horrible.”
Time and time again, he has taken positions that embrace killing. Time
and time again, he has misappropriated donor funds given to save animals
to promote their killing instead. Time and time again, he has abused the
power he has been given in trust by the American people.
But while Oreo’s Law was sparked by the actions of Ed
Sayres, my disdain for him was not the reason I supported it. For one, I
supported the Hayden Law, on which Oreo’s Law was based at a time when
Sayres also supported it. But more importantly, I supported Oreo’s Law
because it would have taken animals throughout NYS out of harm’s way,
and placed them in the protective embrace of true animal lovers.
Over 70% of non-profit rescue organizations surveyed in New York State
stated that they have been denied the ability to rescue animals on death
row at their local shelters for entirely arbitrary reasons. The study
also revealed a pattern of intimidation by shelter directors throughout
that state which forces rescuers to do what is incredibly difficult for
any animal lover to do: stay silent in the face of abuse and inhumane
treatment at their local shelters or risk losing the ability to save any
animals. Oreo’s law sought to right these terrible wrongs and to further
the cause which I am pledged to protect: to reform our nation’s shelters
and to save the lives of innocent dogs and cats.
Were another Oreo’s Law to be introduced in another
state, under a different name, and with a different set of events
sparking its introduction—and were such a law to ultimately have nothing
whatsoever to do with Ed Sayres or the ASPCA, I would work just as hard
to ensure its passage as I did Oreo’s Law, because it is a good law,
vital and essential to our cause. In fact, I sent a
letter to Sayres offering to disappear, to give him full credit for the
law, to have the name of the law changed, if he would withdraw his
opposition and champion it. And because we
could never bring her back but we could save thousands of others with
the law if he removed his opposition, I offered never to mention Oreo
again in return.
But I suspect that their alleged concern over my
relationship with Sayres is not really why Best Friends asked Animal Ark
and Animal Wise Radio to withdraw their support for Oreo’s Law, but
rather it was motivated by their
relationship with Ed Sayres. Because when Animal Ark and Animal Wise
Radio informed Best Friends that this was about saving animals
needlessly killed, not about who was or was not supporting it, they
balked even though their own survey showed that shelters in NYS were
hostile to rescuers, were needlessly killing animals, and that this bill
was desperately needed. (Best Friends removed the comments from
rescuers, the pleas for help, the evidence of needless killing from
their website and erased it from their servers.)
Over the last several months, I have struggled with how
to react to these actions: to the knowledge that not only did Best
Friends intend not
to support a law which could save thousands of lives by empowering the
small non-profits rescuers which have always supported them, indeed,
made them who they are; but, even more painful, that they had actively
worked behind the scenes to undercut support for the bill. Although I
was upset at these decisions, I worried that publicly revealing their
conduct would place Oreo’s Law in further peril. I calculated that the
revelation that yet another large, powerful animal protection
organization opposed the law—even unofficially—especially an
organization that is seen as “progressive,” might give legislators who
were unacquainted with the dysfunctional and broken humane movement one
more reason to table the bill.
And so I chose to remain silent, I chose to continue a
dialog with Best Friends, hoping that their politically calculated
statement in support of “rescue access legislation” might be interpreted
as support for Oreo’s Law and hoping that their lack of involvement in
Albany would have no impact. But the ASPCA made sure that didn’t happen,
telling legislators on the eve of the June 15 vote to kill the bill that
groups like Best Friends really opposed the law, but they were afraid to
come forward for fear of reprisals from the rescue community. Bresch,
the ASPCA’s hired gun in Albany, told legislators to interpret their
neutrality as opposition because that was what it really was. And they
did. Now, Oreo’s Law is dead for this year, and the opponents of Oreo’s
Law have won, effectively issuing a death sentence to thousands of
defenseless animals across New York in the coming year.
But then came the second punch in the solar plexus: The
announcement right after the vote, that Jane Hoffman, who condemned
those animals to death, was invited as a “featured speaker” at the Best
Friends No More Homeless Pets conference in October.
And for several days, I’ve sat at my desk wondering what,
if anything, I should say about it. The other day I received an e-mail
from a rescuer who complained about my silence. She wrote, “Everyone
figured you were locked away typing a reply to the shelving [of Oreo’s
Law].” And I lashed out: Why should I have to be
the one to do it?
I shouldn’t have. I wish I hadn’t. I’ve since apologized.
But for the week after the June 15 vote that will cost thousands of
animals their lives, I’ve been filled with anger and hurt, and no matter
how many times I tried to write about the defeat of Oreo’s Law, my
writing always centered on Best Friends. Because what more could I
possibly say about Ed Sayres, Jane Hoffman, and Laura Allen? I’ve
written 17 articles about their efforts to ensure that animals continue
to be needlessly killed. But I’ve never written about Best Friends, how
they abandoned us, first by a cowardly embrace of neutrality when the
rescue groups and animals needed them the most, and then by a ham-fisted
attempt to get Animal Ark and Animal Wise Radio to withdraw their
support of the law.
And after staring at a blank screen for days, I’ve
written it, rewritten it, set it aside, come very close to deleting it
and if you are reading this, finally posted it. But having posted it,
having told of Best Friends’ behind-the-scenes lobbying and Best
Friends’ refusal to empower the rescue community, how does that change
my view of Best Friends?
Do they still run an important sanctuary for animals? Yes
they do. Do they still deserve our thanks and gratitude for their rescue
of the Michael Vick dogs and other animals? Yes they do. Are there some
amazing people there doing great things for animals? Yes there are.
But does Best Friends as an organization aspire to the
full potential that they can and should achieve given their size and
wealth? Does the leadership believe their rhetoric and live by the
principles they claim to espouse? Did they defend the rescue groups and
rescuers who made them who they are? Did they faithfully give voice to
the voiceless animals in NYS shelters being slaughtered every day
despite a readily available rescue alternative? Did they stand up for
the thousands of animals who are going to lose their lives because of
the June 15 vote? Did they act with honor, integrity, altruism, and
compassion in their official and unofficial conduct as it relates to
Oreo’s Law? That, they did not. Et tu, Best Friends?
As they prepare another conference pledging to provide
the roadmap to a world where there are “no more homeless pets”—a
conference I of course can no longer attend—I can’t help but wonder if
the lack of discussion of Oreo’s Law, legislation which would have
empowered the rescuers in attendance to actually succeed at the
endeavor, will be noticeably absent? I can’t help but wonder if the
unassailable fact that the very rescue groups in attendance are being
routinely turned away by their local shelters and the animals they have
offered to save are being killed instead will be addressed? And I can’t
help but imagine how Best Friends choosing to remain neutral or the
telephone call and e-mails to the contrary would go over with the
rescuers in attendance if they knew about it? If it comes up, how will
they spin it?
One thing we don’t have to conjecture is the message they
will hear from one particular speaker. Because Jane Hoffman who worked
diligently to make sure that rescue groups are not empowered, who worked
diligently to make sure that shelters are allowed to continue killing in
the face of alternatives, and who worked diligently to maintain their
unequivocal discretion to kill who they want, when they want, regardless
of whether a rescue group can save the animal or not, is very clear
about where she stands.
She will repeat what she told attendees at last year’s
conference—that
shelters have no choice but to kill because of “pet overpopulation.”
She will she tell them what she told attendees at this year’s HSUS Expo—that
no one should be made to “feel guilty” about that killing.
What is less clear is whether anyone will challenge her and make it
known that if they wanted excuses for killing and absolution for the
killers,
they would have attended HSUS Expo instead?
What is less clear is whether anyone will stand up and let it be known
that if you truly want to end the killing of animals, you need to make
it illegal to do so. You need to empower the rescue community. You need
to actually commit to the mission you claim to support. And you need to
stand up to bullies like Hoffman and Sayres who champion killing.
So what
happens now? Where do we go from here?
I believe that the only way forward is to lay bare the
forces that contributed to the bill’s demise so that in the next great
battle of this war for No Kill, be it the re-introduction of Oreo’s Law
in 2011 or similar legislation in another location, we can be better
prepared to overcome those trying to hold back our success and the
inevitable march of history. For in the end, it is the truth alone, and
not our apparently naïve hope that those who have long spoken the
rhetoric of No Kill and have financially benefitted as a result, will
also have the courage, conviction, and even determination to put
concrete action behind that rhetoric when the opposition is powerful and
there are costs to be paid for doing so. When large organizations speak
in opposition to our cause, even when their statement on the matter is
made through silence—when they “simply” choose to remain neutral at a
time rescuers and the animals need large groups to stand up for them,
they do so with the authority we have entrusted to them with our
support. Ultimately, their strength comes from us. When
that power is revealed to be inauthentic—when the use of the power we
have lent them is misused, we must look elsewhere for true leaders who
will move us courageously forward in spite of any potential personal
consequences.
While I was bitterly disappointed at the defeat of Oreo’s
Law, while I am hurt by the posturing of Best Friends, while many of you
were distressed at the failure to win this important victory for the
animals, and while it was important for me to say these things, I am not
in despair. Even though we learned that we cannot expect Best Friends to
come to the rescue, we will win justice for Oreo and protections for
animals yet. We are in a war to win the brighter future for our animal
friends that we know to be possible, and as with any war, we will win
some battles, and we will lose others. While it is natural to celebrate
our victories and mourn our losses, we must not forget that our failures
have much to teach us. We must use our defeats as learning
opportunities, which, if we heed their lessons, can make us stronger,
more effective, and ultimately invincible. While we may have lost this
round, we’ve seen where groups and people line up on this issue. Ed
Sayres and Jane Hoffman have won a pyrrhic victory because more people
see them for who they really are and what they really stand for. This
can only serve to weaken them and to strengthen our resolve.
Open any history book, and on those pages you will find
the story of our movement: a minority group with a new, more humane
vision, seeking to overcome the status quo and the voices of the vested
interests which champion them. Our struggle, in the end, is not a new
one. And if there is any justice in this world, it is that those who
seek to hinder progress are the cause of their own undoing, even when,
in our own time, it may sometimes seem as though they are winning.
Hindsight is unequivocal and unforgiving of those who seek to hold back
the progress which future generations will regard as self-evident.
So fellow activists, take heart. Not only is history on
our side, but so is our size. We outnumber our opposition—a small group
of cowering, fearful pretenders masquerading as members and leaders of
the humane movement beholden not to the animals they fundraise off of,
but to themselves and one another. Try as they might to hold us back,
try as they might to maintain their grasp on power and maintain the
charade that we all want the same thing, regardless of how many
conferences they are invited to as a “featured speaker,” the very
introduction of Oreo’s Law on their own turf and the chorus of thousands
of voices that supported it in their own backyard prove that while they
may have won this battle, they are losing the war.
Time marches in only one direction:
forward. Next year, we’ll be back. And, if necessary, the
year after that. However long it takes, we will not shrink from this
fight. And each time we are called upon to stand up for the animals, we
become smarter, bigger, more powerful, and ultimately unstoppable. And
whether it is next year or the year after that, or even thereafter,
eventually, we will
win.
The drumbeat that started
as a little patter in San Francisco those many
years ago is now beating louder than ever, all over our country. And as
we march, we are raising our voices for all to hear: no more excuses, no more
compromises, no more killing.
Do you hear the people sing, lost in the valley of the
night?
It is the music of a people who are climbing to the light!
For the wretched of the earth, there is a flame that never dies
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise!
Will you join in our crusade? Who will be strong and
stand with me?
Somewhere beyond the barricade is there a world you long to see?
Do you hear the people sing, say, do you hear the distant drums?
It is the future that they bring when tomorrow comes!
06:59 PM EDT Friday, June 18, 2010
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BP's main partner in the exploration well pouring crude into the Gulf
of Mexico says mounting evidence shows that the disaster was the result
of BP's "reckless decisions and actions."
The company, Anadarko Petroleum, said in a statement posted to its
Web site that BP should have to pay all damages associated with the
spill. Anadarko also said it any revenue it receives from oil collected
in cleanup efforts will be donated to charitable and civic groups.
Two days on the Louisiana Gulf Coast last
week changed me in profound and gut wrenching ways.
My throat burned and my head foggy and dizzy
from the Gulf's toxic fumes, I returned home and shared my pictures and
my flip-camera video with my wife, Fran, and 13-year-old daughter,
Nicole.
With the horrific images of gooey
peanut-butter colored oil, blackened wetlands, oil-soaked dolphins and
brown pelicans flashing on the screen, Nicole played the music from the
season finale of the popular TV series Glee. And I heard for the first
time the show's final song of the year, a slow, soulful, ukulele and
guitar-driven version of the classic "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."
The beautiful song and the heartbreaking
images blended in tragic irony. I choked up.
Thanks to some quick video editing by our
EDF team and to Fox for granting us rights to use the Glee version of
"Somewhere," we now have a video I hope will inspire you to keep up
constant pressure on our Senators to move a strong clean energy and
climate bill this year.
Then forward this email to your friends,
family, colleagues and anyone else you can think of to help get the
message out there: We have a choice. Let's choose a clean energy future.
This is for Nicole and for all of our kids –
and theirs to come.
Thank you for your support and activism,
David Yarnold
Executive Director, EDF
BP What really happened to cause this, can we verify
and how can the largest oil disaster in history that will affect all
Gulf residents, businesses and life there ever recover? Will 20 Billion
even begin to cover cleanup much less years of loss and damages? You
decide.
"Do you believe that the word God should stay in American culture?
NBC this morning had a poll
on this question.
They had the highest Number of
responses that they have ever had for one of their polls, and the
Percentage was the same as this:
86% to keepthe
words, in God we trust and God in the Pledge of Allegiance 14% against That is a pretty
'commanding' public response.
I was asked to send
this on if I agreed Now it is your
turn. It is said that 86% of Americans believe the word God should
stay....14% against...
Why is the world catering to
this 14%?
AMEN!
From a woman and an
organization that has done a lot for NEw Orleans:
"We note with interest
U.S. Rep Kevin Brady R-TX response to Obama's oval office address via
Twitter.
"I'll go the President one better and call for a truly independent
commission to investigate the government's role in the spill," he
tweeted.
"The public deserves to know if the federal government and Congress was
asleep at the wheel as it appears they were."
Where was Congressman Brady when the levees broke?
Had Congress shown one tenth the vigor it's showing now with the BP oil
spill in investigating the deadly levee failures during Katrina, heads
would have rolled at the Army Corps of Engineers.
But the Congress and the White House looked away even though over 1,000
people died.
And Congress virtually ignored Levees.org's demand since January 2007
for the 8/29 Investigation, a truly independent analysis of the flood
protection failures, and the decision making involved in the levee
failures.
Maybe it's because responsibility for the design and construction of the
levee protection system in New Orleans is solely federal, and an
investigation might have revealed some painful and inconvenient truths.
Want to do something?
Click here for the article that Huffington Post just published by
Levees.org.
Washington is
ablaze with news about the NRA's abandonment of free speech.
Some of you still may not believe the NRA could strike such a gruesome
deal with Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi on the DISCLOSE Act, which is
sponsored by the Senate's most shrill gun-hater, Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
Those of you still not convinced need to view this morning's
Wall Street Journal editorial, which jumped into the fray,
decrying the NRA's sell-out and pointing out that their exemption is not
only dangerous but abandons their natural allies.
"Cutting a
special deal at the expense of the First Amendment with lawmakers who
have decided for now to stop gutting the Second Amendment reveals an NRA
that is unprincipled and will be weaker for it in the long run"
-
Wall Street Journal, 6/16/2010
Or you can
check out this story from Roll Call:
"The National
Rifle Association is publicly pledging to uphold its end of the bargain
with House Democratic leadership over a measure to roll back a
controversial Supreme Court decision on political spending."
-
Roll Call, 6/15/2010
The NRA response (which can be read
here) is somewhat different than you might get on the phone
if you call NRA HQ.
Some members are reporting the NRA is responding with "Who, us??" while
others report the response as "We oppose DISCLOSE". But both of these
responses are the type you'd expect from politicians, not allies in the
fight for freedom (which they aren't).
But to better arm you in this battle, here is a supply of fact-tipped
ammo:
1.Every news source in Washington, and the NRA itself (in the NRA's
own words, linked above) agree that an exemption for the NRA itself
(which would not apply to any other gun rights group) will remove their
opposition to the DISCLOSE Act.
2.The existence of the exemption, in the form of an amendment to
the DISCLOSE Act, is not being debated by anyone, only whether or not
this deal with the Democrats serves their members (again, read the
alert).
3.Only a few organizations will be exempted, as is the intention.
4.If gun owners do not have the right to free speech, our firearms
freedoms are going away... quickly.
How, after
all, can we defend the Second Amendment if we're not allowed to talk to
voters, the general public, or even our own members?
How can politicians be held accountable if organizations cannot discuss
their votes? That's the ultimate politician protection device.
Though the NRA can say it's a one-issue group (just as we are), mark my
words: if we get rid of either the First or Second Amendment, the other
is sure to follow.
What can you do?
Call the NRA again, as soon as possible, and urge them to kill the
DISCLOSE Act, not cut a deal to pass it. Call them at 1-800-672-3888
today.
Sincerely,
Dudley Brown Executive Director
National Association for Gun Rights
News of three Israeli submarines,
armed with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles and positioned off the
coast of Iran in the Persian Gulf, is most disturbing. It would
surely be madness for Israel to launch a nuclear attack against
Iran, an act I wish I could say with confidence is unlikely. In
fact, given recent events, gauging the potential for such disaster
is pointless. Acting
to prevent it is the only rational course of action.
President Obama must be told by
those of us who know our history that such a disaster cannot be
allowed to occur. I'm not talking about telling Israel that's our
bottom line and leaving it at that, but rather taking immediate
action to resolve the crisis with Iran over its alleged nuclear
ambitions. Frankly, after a good start, a new beginning and high
hopes for success, the President has bungled the job. Sanctions and
threats are the stuff of failed diplomacy. The administration's
rejection of the deal brokered by Brazil and Turkey, followed by the
revelation the President had sent a letter to Brazilian President
Lula da Silva endorsing the deal is fodder for the Daily Show,
except it's very serious.
What can we do?
Tell President Obama he must make
clear to Israel no military action against Iran is acceptable. The
President needs to know a proxy war is not an option. Israel needs
to know the US pursuit of a non-military solution is a priority for
the administration and our 'special relationship' is at stake.
Peace Action has been a consistent
advocate for restarting negotiations for a Mideast Nuclear Weapons
and Weapons of Mass Destruction-Free Zone, which was one of the
action items that made the final report from the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Review Conference last month. The US reluctantly
signed off on the report, so it will need to a good push to play a
meaningful role in restarting negotiations. We need to keep up the heat.
We'll continue to oppose sanctions
on Iran. The Obama administration's hot pursuit of sanctions to
punish Iran for not complying quickly enough with US demands poisons
the diplomatic waters. Negotiations require give and take, perhaps
with a sprinkling of Reagan's 'trust but verify' added to satisfy
the less rabid skeptics. The 'my way or the highway' approach Obama
seems to have chosen is more reminiscent of the Bush approach than
'change we can believe in'.
We'll support the agreement
crafted by Turkey and Brazil to exchange Iran's low yield uranium
for the fuel it needs for medical purposes. This is the best way to
begin to constructively address any weapons-related activity Iran
might be involved in. US reaction to the nuclear fuel deal, a deal
which differed from an earlier US-sponsored proposal by only a few
insignificant details, was to brush it aside -- a really bad move if
you're a serious negotiator.
We'll oppose all US weapons sales
to the Middle East. Gasoline is proven to be useless when
extinguishing fires.
We'll continue to support the
international peace movement and most especially peace activists in
Israel and Palestine working for a real and permanent peace. Peace
Action members around the country have been working to support the
Freedom Flotilla actions and to end Israel's blockade and collective
punishment of Gaza and the Palestinians inside, and around, occupied
territories.
Finally,
you can make a contribution to Peace
Action. Supporting
grassroots action increases your impact. The President isn't Horton
and we'll need every voice involved to be heard.
As satisfying as it was for Obama to seize control of one-sixth of the economy,
he has had to suffer protest from the "little people" (like us). So he is
pushing the Orwellian "DISCLOSE" bill (HR 5175) to make sure gun groups and
other pro-freedom forces cannot mobilize their members in the upcoming
elections.
When Obama says "disclose," what he really means is "disclose gun group
membership lists"
Not surprisingly, these efforts to shut down free speech don't apply to Obama
allies, like Democratic-leaning labor unions. They only apply to groups which
are not reliable Obama allies, like Gun Owners of America.
But, for those groups whose free speech is targeted for Obama's wrath under this
bill, the consequences are severe:
* Under Title II of the bill, GOA (and other groups, as well as many bloggers)
who merely mention public officials within 60 days of an election could be
required to file onerous disclosures -- potentially including their membership
lists.
* Also under Title II, GOA could be required to spend as much as half of the
time of a 30-second ad on government-written disclosures.
* In addition, Sections 201 through 203 would potentially put the government's
snooping eyes on any American who voices a political opinion, despite the fact
that the Supreme Court, in Buckley v. Valeo, declared that Americans have
a right to voice their opinion to an unlimited extent, if unconnected with a
political campaign.
Here's an idea: If Obama is so irritated at the Supreme Court's defense of
political free speech by groups like GOA, why doesn't he apply his sleazy new
rules to his political allies, as well?
ACTION: Please urge your congressman to vote against the anti-gun HR
5175. This bill has moved out of committee and has now been placed on the House
calendar.
I urge you to oppose HR 5175, a bill that will deny the free speech rights of
all Americans. Under Title II of this bill:
* Groups like Gun Owners of America (and other groups, as well as many bloggers)
who merely mention public officials within 60 days of an election could be
required to file onerous disclosures -- potentially including their membership
lists -- even though the Supreme Court has previously ruled in NAACP v.
Alabama that membership lists (like those of GOA's) are off limits to
government control.
* Also, groups like GOA and the NRA could be required to spend as much as half
of the time of a 30-second ad on government-written disclosures.
* In addition, Sections 201 through 203 would potentially put the government's
snooping eyes on any American who voices a political opinion, despite the fact
that the Supreme Court, in Buckley v. Valeo, declared that Americans have
a right to voice their opinion to an unlimited extent, if unconnected with a
political campaign.
Here's an idea: If Obama is so irritated at the Supreme Court's defense of
political free speech by groups like GOA, why doesn't he apply the new rules in
HR 5175 to his political allies (like the labor unions), as well?
Suffice it to say, if you care anything about the First or Second Amendments,
you will vote against HR 5175. GOA will be scoring this vote on their rating of
Congress.
There
is a gang initiation reported by the local police department that gangs are
placing a car seat by the road...with a fake baby in it.. waiting for a woman,
of course, to stop and check on the baby.
Note that the location of this car seat will usually be beside a wooded or
grassy (field) area ...and the person - woman - will be dragged into the woods-
beaten and
raped- usually left for dead.
DO NOT STOP. DIAL 9-1-1 AND INFORM THEM.....
IF YOU ARE DRIVING AT NIGHT AND EGGS ARE THROWN AT YOUR WINDSHIELD.
DO NOT OPERATE THE WIPER AND SPRAY ANY WATER BECAUSE EGGS MIXED WITH WATER
BECOME MILKY AND BLOCK YOUR VISION UP TO 92.5% SO YOU ARE FORCED TO STOP BESIDE
THE ROAD AND BECOME A VICTIM OF ROBBERS. THIS IS A NEW TECHNIQUE USED BY
ROBBERS. PLEASE INFORM YOUR FRIENDS AND RELATIVES.
Several things to be aware of this year...as gangs and robbers are now plotting
different ways to get a person to "stop" their vehicle.
Ashlee Roberts
Utah Department of Corrections
Mail Unit Draper Site
801-576-7956 (Phone)
801-576-7955 (Fax)
aroberts@utah.gov
<mailto:aroberts@utah.gov>
Thank you,
Maggie Howells
UHP Training
801-256-2413 There is a gang initiation reported by the local police department
that gangs are placing a car seat by the road...with a fake baby in it.. waiting
for a woman, of course, to stop and check on the baby.
Note that the location of this car seat will usually be beside a wooded or
grassy (field) area ...and the person - woman - will be dragged into the woods-
beaten and
raped- usually left for dead.
DO NOT STOP. DIAL 9-1-1 AND INFORM THEM.....
IF YOU ARE DRIVING AT NIGHT AND EGGS ARE THROWN AT YOUR WINDSHIELD.
DO NOT OPERATE THE WIPER AND SPRAY ANY WATER BECAUSE EGGS MIXED WITH WATER
BECOME MILKY AND BLOCK YOUR VISION UP TO 92.5% SO YOU ARE FORCED TO STOP BESIDE
THE ROAD AND BECOME A VICTIM OF ROBBERS. THIS IS A NEW TECHNIQUE USED BY
ROBBERS. PLEASE INFORM YOUR FRIENDS AND RELATIVES.
Several things to be aware of this year...as gangs and robbers are now plotting
different ways to get a person to "stop" their vehicle.
Ashlee Roberts
Utah Department of Corrections
Mail Unit Draper Site
801-576-7956 (Phone)
801-576-7955 (Fax)
aroberts@utah.gov
<mailto:aroberts@utah.gov>
Thank you,
Maggie Howells
UHP Training
801-256-2413 "100s of people from
Terrorist Sponsoring Nations like Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan are caught
crossing Mexican/Amerian
Border: As Congressman Paul Brown (R) on HOmeland Security Committee
stated "Terrorists are being
smuggled into US
by Mexican Drug Lords." YOu
ready to demand more secure
borders?
According to the
Border Patrol
the public is being mislead as to WHO is coming into the US from Mexico.
This IS THE TRUTH. as reported by WSBTV in Atlanta.
(a reputable public news! Not 'Tea party' or any other special
interest group!)
Please
watch our video and post/publicize it any way you can:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE_sy17OaFY
U.S. donors have largely overlooked this disaster.
Chilean veterinarians and volunteers are "losing faith."
Kinship Circle has poured money into deployments, but had no major grants or
sustained funding to support months of work in Chile. Socorro Animal Chile
(SACH) -- the amazing coalition of Chilean animal groups/veterinarians we
work with -- don't have the veterinary supplies to go on.
JOIN KINSHIP CIRCLE:
subscribe@kinshipcircle.org
* Action campaigns on animal cruelty issues worldwide
* Animal rescue coordination/news in disasters
ABC 4 showed the
terrible devastation of Gulf Oil spill that Louisiana governor is furious about,
World Class Florida Keys refuge with Dolphins and Manatees are no in danger,
and confirmed of TOXIC chemical BP is using:
"The
dispersal agent Corexit 9500 is a solvent originally developed by
Exxon and now manufactured by the Nalco Holding Company of Naperville,
Illinois that is four times more toxic than oil (oil is toxic at 11 ppm
(parts per million), Corexit 9500 at only 2.61ppm). In a report written
by Anita George-Ares and James R. Clark for Exxon Biomedical Sciences,
Inc. titled “Acute Aquatic Toxicity of Three Corexit Products: An
Overview” Corexit 9500 was found to be one of the most toxic dispersal
agents ever developed. Even worse, according to this report, with higher
water temperatures, like those now occurring in the Gulf of Mexico, its
toxicity grows.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in discovering
BP’s use of this dangerous dispersal agent ordered BP to stop using it,
but BP refused stating that their only alternative to Corexit 9500 was
an even more dangerous dispersal agent known as Sea Brat 4.
The main differences between Corexit 9500 and Sea Brat 4 lie in how long
these dangerous chemicals take to degrade into their constituent organic
compounds, which for Corexit 9500 is 28 days. Sea Brat 4, on the other
hand, degrades into an organic chemical called Nonylphenol that is toxic
to aquatic life and can persist in the environment for years.
A greater danger involving Corexit 9500, and as outlined by Russian
scientists in this report, is that with its 2.61ppm toxicity level, and
when combined with the heating Gulf of Mexico waters, its molecules will
be able to “phase transition” from their present liquid to a gaseous
state allowing them to be absorbed into clouds and allowing their
release as “toxic rain” upon all of Eastern North America.
Even worse, should a Katrina like tropical hurricane form in the Gulf of
Mexico while tens of millions of gallons of Corexit 9500 are sitting on,
or near, its surface the resulting “toxic rain” falling upon the North
American continent could “theoretically” destroy all microbial life to
any depth it reaches resulting in an “unimaginable environmental
catastrophe” destroying all life forms from the “bottom of the
evolutionary chart to the top”.
Note: For molecules of a liquid to evaporate, they must be located near
the surface, be moving in the proper direction, and have sufficient
kinetic energy to overcome liquid-phase intermolecular forces. Only a
small proportion of the molecules meet these criteria, so the rate of
evaporation is limited. Since the kinetic energy of a molecule is
proportional to its temperature, evaporation proceeds more quickly at
higher temperatures.
As over 50 miles of the US State of Louisiana’s coastline has already
been destroyed by this spill, American scientists are warning that the
damage may be impossible to repair, and as we can read as reported by
the Associated Press News Service:
“The gooey oil washing into the maze of marshes along the Gulf Coast
could prove impossible to remove, leaving a toxic stew lethal to fish
and wildlife, government officials and independent scientists said.
Officials are considering some drastic and risky solutions: They could
set the wetlands on fire or flood areas in hopes of floating out the
oil. They warn an aggressive cleanup could ruin the marshes and do more
harm than good.”
And to understand the full import of this catastrophe it must be
remembered that this disaster is occurring in what is described as the
“biologically richest waters in America” with the greatest amount of oil
and toxic Corexit 9500 set to come ashore in the coming days and weeks
to destroy it completely for decades to come."
Much of the marine life dying in deep water may never be seen.
Now the enormous plume of oil is threatening a world-class barrier and coral
reef in the Florida Keys – and its manatees and dolphins.
Shell is moving full speed ahead to drill for oil this summer in the Arctic's
frigid waters, where there's no way to effectively clean up a spill. We only
have this week
to stop Shell's plans and prevent a disaster like the Gulf spill.
This week will be pivotal for the fate of Arctic wildlife: Interior Secretary
Salazar is expected to announce whether new wells will be drilled in Arctic
waters.
If we fail to learn the lesson of the Gulf spill, then it will have been a
double catastrophe – this time, we have to stop the drilling before it starts.
That's why
The Wilderness Society has put together a multi-pronged response to
this spill – to ensure that an environmental disaster like this never happens
again.
The Wilderness Society is very effective at this work. Just last week, Interior
Secretary Salazar released new rules that will help protect our public lands
from damaging
oil and gas development, something we've been working toward –
with WildAlert support – for several years.
Now, we are bringing that effectiveness to bear to stop drilling in Alaska's
Beaufort and Chukchi Seas. We have
just days left to convince Secretary Salazar to impose
common sense rules on
drilling in the Arctic – and to stop Shell Oil's plans.
If such a spill were to take place in the Arctic, whales – belugas, bowheads,
and endangered fins and humpbacks – could be poisoned, their feeding grounds
ruined for decades.
Polar bears, migratory birds, and virtually the entire
Pacific walrus population would lose their habitat. Native communities would be
unable to depend on an environment that
has sustained them for thousands of
years.
We're bringing everything we have to bear on the White House and Congress to
halt Shell's oil exploration plans in the Arctic Ocean. And we're joining forces
with more
than five dozen national and local environmental groups to pressure
the Senate to pass an energy and climate bill that would invest in renewable
energy and reduce emissions.
With your help, we will continue fighting for our
wild places.
How will we tell future generations that this happened on our watch? Won’t you
help?
Sincerely,
Bill Meadows
The Wilderness Society
It's now been over a month since the
Deepwater Oil Disaster began -- and not only has BP failed to stop the flow of
oil so far, but we still don't even know how big the spill is --
because BP won't allow anyone else to
investigate
the extent of the problem.
The secrecy must stop.
BP is refusing to share information --
data it's already tracking -- that would assist in the response and public
understanding of the scope and severity of the Deepwater
Oil Disaster. And they have every
incentive in the world to keep doing so -- news reports say that the smaller the
official estimates of the spill, the lower BP's liability could
be in court.1
We don't let criminals investigate their
own crimes, and this shouldn't be any different. It's time for BP to get out of
the way and allow access for independent scientists
and engineers to determine the real size
of this catastrophe.
Sign the petition today calling on BP to
provide full access to all their data to the government and independent
scientists.
Independent reviews by scientists across
the country are suggesting that the oil leak may be as much as 19 times worse
than the original estimates --
but BP refuses to provide them with
the data required to make their estimates more precise. All we know for sure is
that the oil just keeps on gushing.
BP is extremely sensitive right now to
public pressure -- so let's tell them that we won't stand for them hiding the
truth. We'll deliver copies of the petitions and any comments you submit to the
CEO of BP, as well as the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Soldier from New Jersey killed in Iraq Courier-Post
Tue, 25 May 2010 12:09 PM PDT
A 26-year-old soldier from Ocean Township and stationed at Fort Bliss has died
of injuries incurred in a noncombat-related incident in Iraq.
Taliban bombing kills
18, including 5 U.S. troops
06:16 AM EDT Tuesday,
May 18,
A Taliban suicide car
bomber struck a NATO convoy in Kabul Tuesday, killing six of its service
members, five of them American, officials said. Twelve Afghan civilians also
died - many of them in a public bus in rush hour traffic.
Forty-seven other
people were wounded in the blast, the first major attack in the capital since
February when suicide bombers struck two small hotels in the city center. That
attack killed 16 people and led Afghan police to pledge that they would tighten
security and surveillance.
America's military men and women were willing to
sacrifice their lives to serve their country. They should not have to
worry about their families' health care.
But that's exactly what's happening because of Congressional dithering.
Their health care program, TriCare, is connected to Medicare. And planned cuts
to Medicare physician reimbursement will make it difficult for veterans to find
the necessary care they require.
Some doctors have said the cuts will force them to decrease or stop seeing new
Medicare and TriCare patients. Which means older people and military families
may be forced to go to emergency rooms instead of doctor offices for basic care.
U.S. Representatives Diane Watson and Elton Gallegly have introduced the
Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act (H.R. 4733), an ASPCA-supported bill that
would require the federal government to purchase animal products only from
entities that do not keep animals cruelly confined in gestation crates, veal
crates or battery cages.
Factory farms in this country commonly house animals in cruel confinement
systems. Veal calves are chained in small crates without enough room to turn
around; sows are confined in gestation crates only a few inches wider and longer
than the sows themselves; and egg-laying hens are jammed into tiny “battery”
cages with less space, per bird, than the size of a regular 8.5″×11″ sheet of
paper.
Whether or not it intends to, the federal government supports these cruel
practices by spending over $1 billion per year on meat and eggs from animals who
are raised in overcrowded cages and cramped crates. (This food is distributed to
our military, federal prisons, school lunch programs, and many other government
programs and services.)
Since almost all major packers and distributors do business with the federal
government, passage of the Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act would have a
significant impact. It would dramatically improve living conditions for
countless farm animals across America, and would put an end to the federal
government’s economic support of this form of cruelty.
Immigration laws. What is everyone upset about? Why should any immigrant
be given special treatment? I sure wasn't and neither was my family, we applied
for a VISA,
WE applied for a Green Card, and paid our dues, and were proud to do all we had
to to become American Citizens, shouldn't every immigrant? REad a letter
Big Oil is trying to roll back California's groundbreaking clean energy law and
"chill" the entire green energy movement.
Texas-based Valero Energy has already spent half a million dollars on a
deceptive initiative to destroy AB 32, California's Global Warming Solutions
Act.
* The oil is spilling at a current
rate of more than 200,000 gallons of oil per day.
* Recovery and restoration of the
wetlands that harbor hundreds of species and provide a natural hurricane barrier
will take years or even decades.
* Even before the spill, Louisiana
had lost more wetlands since the 1930s -- 2,300 square miles -- than the size of
the state of Delaware, leaving the region particularly vulnerable to this oil
spill catastrophe.
We're going to need a lot of help over
the coming days, months and years to ramp up our coastal conservation and
fisheries work to restore the Gulf Coast to full environmental health.
Here are three things you can do right
now to provide assistance to our efforts:
We have deployed a number of EDF experts to the Gulf
Coast to work with federal and local agencies, colleague environmental groups
and local partners, including fishermen, local business, and members of the
energy industry.
As you read this message, our team of EDF wetlands and
marine scientists and experts are:
Coordinating response and recovery efforts among the
many local communities and partners with whom we have developed long-standing
relationships.
* Working with our local partners and with federal
officials to ensure that all possible steps are taken to ensure the safety of
the 35,000 miles of oil pipelines and 4000 oil rigs currently in the Gulf.
* Providing scientific expertise to federal and
local agencies to determine how best to deploy restoration resources once the
spill is under control.
* Advocating at the federal and local levels for the
funding necessary to properly clean up the ecological disaster and to promote
restoration efforts.
EDF has been at work in the Gulf Coast regions for many
years -- protecting and restoring critical wetlands, pioneering new sustainably
fishing strategies, and developing productive partnerships with
conservationists, business, and government.
WE are committed to the full restoration of the
fragile Gulf Coast and the affected wetlands and marine ecosystems.
It's true that the financial responsibility of the
clean up rests legally and morally with the oil industry. However, there is
still a very real and important role that EDF experts will play in the weeks and
months to come.
Our thoughts and hopes are with the hard-working and
beleaguered folks who make the Gulf Coast their home.
Thank you for your advocacy and support, Courtney
Taylor Coastal Louisiana Project
Kabul Afghanistan Military District
Presidency, from left, Winn Noyes, first
counselor, Eugene Wikle, district
president, David Andrews, second
counselor.
The Afghanistan Military District was created in
July 2008 and includes the entire country. It is
part of the Middle East/Africa North Area. The
Middle East Desk and the Church Military Relations
Division maintain contact with the district
presidency as they administer the affairs of the
Church in Afghanistan.
Latter-day Saints assigned to military,
diplomatic or aid and nation-building missions and
activities within Afghanistan may find themselves
among a large body of Church members or at a remote
location. The district includes four distinct
military branches and numerous LDS service member
groups across the country.
"We've had the blessings of having had LDS
chaplains on our District Council with the ability
to move about the country and meet with fellow
Saints, as well as others who've taken up the mantle
of leadership in assisting Church members when and
as needed," President Wikle said.
Bagram Military Branch Members,
Interdenominational Chapel, Bagram Air
Field, Afghanistan.
In many areas of the country, Latter-day Saints
follow the Islamic traditions of honoring the
Sabbath on Friday. "Being a bit adaptive is very
necessary to being successful in everything we do to
help Afghans," President Wikle said. "While we
clearly maintain our standards; we've learned to
adjust how and when we meet as both a practical
matter and also a matter of respect to our hosts.
Such courtesy demonstrates our true desire to be of
service and speaks more to the Afghans than almost
anything else we might say."
Each week Latter-day Saints receive a devotional
message and other important news from the Church
through the district presidency. To help relieve
some of the stresses of serving in a war zone, they
also are provided with DVDs and CD recordings of
"Music and the Spoken Word," Church devotionals and
general conference through the Church Military
Relations Division. The Brigham Young University
football team has provided DVDs for members from
time to time as well.
Many wards or branches "back home," no matter the
country, help provide service men and women with
generous amounts of special packages of food, treats
and other remembrances from members, friends and
families alike.
Service in Afghanistan is challenging. "We
encourage each member to stay close to the Lord
through daily prayer and scripture reading, and to
receive the blessings of the sacrament each week."
President Wikle said. "Our active participation in
Church services and association with other members
of the Church helps strengthen each of us. In this
manner, we are a positive example with those whom we
serve and with the citizens of Afghanistan."
Members preparing to deploy to Afghanistan can
contact the Church Military Relations Division to
obtain the current listing of branch and service
member group locations. Contact the Church Military
Relations Division at:
PST-Military@ldschurch.org or call
1-801-240-1931.
By TOM HAYS and COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press Writers Tom Hays And Colleen Long, Associated Press Writers – 27 mins ago
NEW YORK – A Pakistani-born U.S. citizen was hauled off a plane about to fly to the Middle East and arrested in the failed attempt to explode a bomb-laden SUV in Times Square, authorities said Tuesday. One official said he claimed to have acted alone.
Faisal Shahzad was on board a Dubai-bound flight that was taxiing away from the gate at Kennedy Airport when the plane was stopped and FBI agents and New York Police Department detectives took him into custody late Monday, law enforcement officials said.
U.S. authorities "will not rest until we have brought everyone responsible to justice," Attorney Eric Holder said early Tuesday, suggesting additional suspects are being sought.
In Pakistan, intelligence officials said at least one man has been detained in the southern city of Karachi in connection with the Times Square case: a man named Tauseef who was a friend of Shahzad. He did not say when the man was picked up.
Another Pakistani official said several people had been taken into custody since the failed attack. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of their work.
President Barack Obama said "hundreds of lives" may have been saved Saturday night by the quick action of ordinary citizens and law enforcement authorities who saw the smoking SUV parked in Times Square.
"As Americans and as a nation, we will not be terrorized. We will not cower in fear. We will not be intimidated," Obama said.
Shahzad, 30, had recently returned from a five-month trip to Pakistan, where he had a wife, according to law enforcement officials who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the investigation into the failed car bombing.
Shahzad became a naturalized U.S. citizen last year shortly before traveling to Pakistan, a federal law enforcement official in Washington said, speaking on condition of anonymity amid the ongoing investigation.
Investigators hadn't established an immediate connection to the Pakistani Taliban — which had claimed responsibility for the botched bombing in three videos — or any foreign terrorist groups, a law enforcement official told the AP.
"He's claimed to have acted alone, but these are things that have to be investigated," the official said.
Shahzad has been answering questions for investigators, the official said, declining to say what information was provided. It's unclear if those conversations will continue.
A Pakistani TV station reported that Shahzad spent time in Karachi and visited the northwestern city of Peshawar during his stay in Pakistan. Peshawar is a gateway for foreigners seeking to travel into nearby tribal regions, where militant groups have long had sanctuary.
In Washington, Pakistani Embassy spokesman Nadeem Haider Kiani said it's too soon to tell what motivated the bomber. Asked whether there were ties to foreign terrorist groups, Kiani said early indications suggest the bomber was "a disturbed individual."
Another law enforcement official said Shahzad was not known to the U.S. intelligence community before the failed bombing attempt, in which authorities found a crude bomb of gasoline, propane and fireworks in a 1993 Nissan Pathfinder parked on a bustling street in Times Square.
The U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan was handling the case and said Shahzad would appear in court later Tuesday, but the charges were not made public. FBI agents searched the home at a known address for Shahzad in Bridgeport, Conn., early Tuesday, said agent Kimberly Mertz, who wouldn't answer questions about the search.
Authorities removed filled plastic bags from the house in a mixed-race, working-class neighborhood of multifamily homes in Connecticut's largest city. A bomb squad came and went without entering as local police and FBI agents gathered in the cordoned-off street. FBI agents appeared to have found fireworks in the driveway that they were marking off as evidence.
Shahzad was being held in New York and couldn't be contacted. A phone number at a listed address for Shahzad in Shelton, Conn., wasn't in service.
He used to live in a two-story grayish-brown colonial with a sloping yard in a working-class neighborhood in Shelton. The home looked as if it had been unoccupied for a while, with grass growing in the driveway and bags of garbage lying about.
A neighbor in Bridgeport described him as quiet.
"Nobody ever had a problem with him," said Dawn Sampson, 34, who lives across the street from Shahzad's third-floor apartment. She said he had remodeled it and had put on the market to rent for $1,200, a fee she thought was much too high.
Law enforcement officials say Shahzad paid $1,300 cash three weeks ago for the Pathfinder, going first for a test-drive in a mall and offering less than the $1,800 advertised price. Peggy Colas, 19, of Bridgeport, sold the car to Shahzad after he answered an Internet ad, law enforcement officials said. The officials spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the case.
The vehicle identification number had been removed from the Pathfinder's dashboard, but it was stamped on the engine, and investigators used it to find the owner of record, who told them a stranger bought it. As the SUV buyer came into focus, investigators backed off other leads.
The SUV was parked near a theater where the musical "The Lion King" was being performed. The bomb inside it had cheap-looking alarm clocks connected to a 16-ounce can filled with fireworks, which were apparently intended to detonate gas cans and set off propane tanks in a chain reaction "to cause mayhem, to create casualties," police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.
A metal rifle cabinet in the SUV's cargo area was packed with fertilizer, but NYPD bomb experts believe it was not a type volatile enough to explode like the ammonium nitrate grade fertilizer used in previous terrorist bombings.
Police said the SUV bomb could have produced "a significant fireball" and sprayed shrapnel with enough force to kill pedestrians and knock out windows.
A vendor alerted a police officer to the parked SUV, which was smoking. Times Square, clogged with tourists on a warm evening, was shut down for 10 hours. A bomb squad dismantled the bomb and no one was hurt.
Holder urged Americans should remain vigilant.
"It's clear that the intent behind this terrorist act was to kill Americans," he said.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the arrest should not be as used as an excuse for anti-Muslim actions. "We will not tolerate any bias or backlash against Pakistani or Muslim New Yorkers," he said.
Authorities did not address Shahzad's plans in Dubai. The airport there is the Middle East's busiest and is a major transit point for passengers traveling between the West and much of Asia, particularly India and Pakistan.
Dubai-based Emirates airline said three passengers were pulled from Flight EK202, which was delayed for about seven hours. The airline did not identify Shahzad by name or name the other two passengers.
The aircraft and passengers were then screened again before taking off Tuesday morning, and the airline is "cooperating with the local authorities," Emirates said in a statement e-mailed to the AP. The other two passengers who had been removed were allowed to get back aboard the flight, the airline said.
Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik told the AP that authorities had not been formally asked for help in the investigation but would cooperate if asked.
More than a dozen people with U.S. citizenship or residency, like Shahzad, have been accused in the past two years of supporting, attempting or carrying out attacks on U.S. soil, illustrating the threat of violent extremism from within the U.S.
Among them are Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, a U.S.-born Army psychiatrist of Palestinian descent, charged with fatally shooting 13 people last year at Fort Hood, Texas; Najibullah Zazi, a Denver-area airport shuttle driver who pleaded guilty in February in a plot to bomb New York subways; and a Pennsylvania woman who authorities say became radicalized online as "Jihad Jane" and plotted to kill a Swedish artist whose work offended Muslims.
Police found an
"amateurish" but
potentially
powerful bomb
in a smoking
sport utility
vehicle in Times
Square,
then cleared the
streets of
thousands of
tourists milling
through the
landmark
district so they
could dismantle
it, authorities
said Sunday.
" Author of the video seen by everyone by now has
been stabbed near Kijow on 4.15 and transported in critical
condition to the hospital in Kijow. On 4.16 three unidentified
individuals unplugged him from life support system and stabbed
him 3 more times. Andrij was pronounced dead that afternoon.
Russian government claims it was a coincidence. "
Goldman
Sachs charged with fraud
(the former US Sec. of Treasury Paulsen that said if Bush and
Congress did not give him 750
Billion in Bail out MOney, who was former Chairman of Goldman Sachs)
10:52 AM EDT Friday, April 16, 2010
Goldman Sachs is preparing
its most detailed defense yet to allegations that it misled clients
in its mortgage securities business, arguing that it was unsure
whether housing
prices would rise or fall and
did not take any action at odds with the interests of its clients.
An internal Goldman document,
prepared for senior executives and obtained by The Washington Post,
addresses the criticism that the bank invested its own money
betting against the housing
market while simultaneously urging clients to invest in securities
that would increase in value only if the housing market did.
“We in Arizona have been more
than patient wiating for Washington act. But decades of federal
inaction and misguided policy have created an unaccepatable
situation,”
she said. In a lengthy
statement, Brewer declared the law would not lead to infractions of
civil liberties, saying she would impose new training standards for
police to guarantee
as much. “I will not
tolerate racial discrimination or racial profiling in Arizona,” Gov.
Jan Brewer said.
BAGHDAD, April 19 - Iraqi
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Monday that an Iraqi
intelligence team had found and killed al Qaeda's leader in Iraq,
Abu Ayyub al-Masri.
Maliki
said the team had also killed Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, the purported
leader of al Qaeda's local affiliate, the Islamic State of Iraq.
The claims, which followed a
March 7 election that produced no clear victor but which Maliki
hopes will give him a second term, were not immediately confirmed
by
the U.S. military, which Maliki said had conducted DNA tests on the
bodies.
The LDS Church this morning provided much needed food supplies for
people in the Northern and Eastern Division who have been affected
by Hurricane Tomas.
Acting Director DISMAC, Pajiliai Dobui is thankful for the
supplies received at the Government jetty in Suva which has been
loaded on government vessels to be shipped to various affected
areas.
Hurricanes. Earthquakes. Tornadoes. You hope they
will never happen where you live—that your family never has
to experience the devastation of a natural disaster. But if
one did strike, would you have the physical, mental, and
emotional tools to survive?
The images are heartbreaking--masses of Haitians, starving
and injured; people digging through the rubble of
Port-au-Prince with their bare hands in desperate search of
their loved ones. According to Haiti Prime Minister Jean-Max
Bellerive, the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that rocked the
small Caribbean nation on January 12 killed at least 212,000
people, injured 300,000, and left one million homeless.
The physical and emotional suffering in Haiti has thrown
into stark contrast the comfortable lives most of us enjoy.
And in the wake of the catastrophe, emergency preparedness
is weighing more heavily on many people's minds. Would you
be ready should the unthinkable suddenly become reality?
Here are some things you should know. Physical Provisions
As Church members, we know the importance of emergency
preparedness--ample supplies of food and water are vital for
surviving a crisis. By following these tips, you can gather
what you need without having anything go to waste. Water Storage
"Water is your number one priority," says Don Pectol of
Emergency Essentials, who has helped people prepare for
disasters for more than twenty years. "The body can only go
about three days before there is damage to vital organs."
The average adult needs at least one gallon of water per day
(two quarts for drinking and two quarts for cooking), and
preparedness experts recommend storing a minimum of fourteen
gallons of water per person. When storing water, Pectol
emphasizes the importance of using only food-grade
containers designed for water storage. "A lot of people try
to use plastic milk jugs, but they're only meant for
one-time use," he says. "They have a tendency to become
brittle and break in a short amount of time."
A great choice for permanent water storage is the large,
blue plastic barrels that restrict light (thereby inhibiting
algae and bacterial growth). While these barrels are very
useful, you'll want to make sure that at least part of your
water storage is portable, in case you need to leave your
home. The 5- or 15-gallon containers work well, but even
plastic 2-liter soda bottles will suffice.
If at all possible, store water in a dark, cool area and
cover containers with a tarp to prevent dust from
collecting. If you are using plastic containers, keep them
away from any harmful chemicals (plastic tends to absorb
vapors). Also, avoid placing plastic water storage
containers directly on a cement floor; they will leach
moisture from the cement that will end up in your water.
Instead, set the containers on boards or pallets. Emergency Kits
It can take days for relief agencies to mobilize and reach a
disaster area, so if you are forced out of your home, an
emergency kit could literally save your life.
There are a lot of things that need to go into your kit,
including at least a three-day's supply of water and food,
medication, a first-aid kit, an extra change of clothing, a
flashlight, copies of important documents (such as proof of
insurance and birth certificates), and personal hygiene
items. But with careful planning and packing, you can make
everything fit. (For a complete checklist of recommended
items to include in your emergency kit, visit
beprepared.com and click on "Insight Articles" and
"The First Three Days of an Emergency.")
Once your kits are assembled, Pectol recommends storing them
in backpacks near an exit of your home. Pack items like
clothing, matches, and personal documents in sealable
plastic bags to help keep them dry, and place a flashlight
in the top of your kit so you won't have to rummage around
in the dark. Finally, every six months take a few moments to
update clothing for proper season and fit, and check
expiration dates on batteries, light sticks, warm packs,
food, and water. Remember, disaster may strike when you're
away from home, so it's also a good idea for family members
to keep small emergency kits at school, the office, and in
the car. Food Storage
Pectol says that after you have your water storage and
emergency kits in place, then you should concentrate on your
long-term food storage. In today's economic climate,
however, purchasing a year's supply of food for an entire
family can seem especially daunting, even impossible. But as
President Gordon B. Hinckley counseled, "We can begin with a
one week's food supply and gradually build it to a month,
and then to three months. . . . As all of you recognize,
this counsel is not new. But I fear that so many feel that a
long-term food supply is so far beyond their reach that they
make no effort at all" ("To the Men of the Priesthood,"
Ensign, Nov 2002, 56).
To get started, Pectol recommends "the basics": grains,
legumes, milk, honey or sugar, salt, oil or shortening, and
garden seeds. "These items are the least expensive to buy,
they store the longest, and they provide the most
nutrition," he says. "After that, then you can customize
your storage to fit your tastes."
When building your food storage, collect a variety of items
and try to plan with complete, nutritionally balanced meals
in mind. If you suddenly needed to live on your present
storage, you would fare much better having a three-month's
supply of meat, grains, dairy products, fruits, and
vegetables rather than a year's supply of wheat. Also, be
sure your pantry is stocked with cooking essentials such as
vegetable oil, shortening, baking powder, soda, salt, yeast,
and powdered eggs, as well as plenty of herbs and spices to
give extra flavor to your meals. And don't forget to add a
few goodies, such as hard candy or pudding--they're a great
way to lift everyone's spirits in times of crisis.
To prevent your food storage from going bad, cook with it on
a regular basis. By incorporating food storage into your
family's favorite recipes, you'll also avoid the stressful
experience of trying to learn how to use it during a
catastrophe. Survival Psychology
Food and water are critical in a disaster, but it may not be
enough. The latest research suggests that how you react
during and after a catastrophe could make the most
difference to your survival.
Just like animals, humans have strong survival responses.
Unfortunately people often choose the wrong one, freezing
like a deer in the headlights at the worst possible moment.
Case in point: the September 28, 1994, sinking of the M.V. Estonia in the Baltic
Sea.
The automobile ferry was carrying 989 people on its usual
route from Tallinn, Estonia, to Stockholm, Sweden, when the
bow door to the car deck came unlatched. Water quickly
flooded the ship, sinking it in less than an hour. Only 137
people survived, including British passenger Paul Barney,
who said that while the ship was going down, many people
just sat there in shock, unable to move. He told the
Observer, "I kept saying to myself, 'Why don’t they
try to get out of here?'"
Laurence Gonzales, author of the bestselling book
Deep Survival, has spent more than three decades
analyzing survivor stories to learn who lives, who dies, and
why. His conclusion: "Personality, emotion, attitude, and
how well people cope with adversity have more to do with
survival than any type of equipment." Prepare and Practice LDS psychologist Dr. Elia
Gourgouris and Dr. Terry Lyles, one of the leading experts
on Traumatic Stress Response, spent two years training
employees of U.S. Space Command to
deal more effectively with potential future disasters. Their
training covered many aspects, including drills. "One of the
best ways to get the mind to perform under pressure is to
physically practice beforehand," says Gourgouris.
The more prepared you are, the less panicked you're going to
be when things go wrong," says Lyles. "But you have to
practice it--it's not enough just to know it."
Amanda Ripley, author of The Unthinkable: Who Survives
When Disaster Strikes--and Why, credits Rick Rescorla,
head of security for Morgan Stanley at the World Trade
Center, with saving the lives of 2,687 people from Tower 2
during the September 11 attack. She writes, "Rescorla
started running the entire company through his own frequent,
surprise fire drills. He trained employees to meet in the
hallway between stairwells and go down the stairs, two by
two, to the 44th floor." When he saw Tower 1 burning,
Rescorla "began systematically ordering Morgan Stanley
employees to get out. They performed beautifully. They
already knew what to do. . . . When the tower collapsed,
only thirteen Morgan Stanley colleagues--including Rescorla
and four of his security officers—were inside." Others may
have survived if they had practiced similar evacuation
drills. But in their panic, people started running up to the
roof in hopes of a helicopter rescue, only to find the doors
locked. Stay Calm and Adapt Quickly
"It's been proven that if you put somebody under stress,
they can't perform simple mathematical problems or recall a
sequence of words," says Gonzales. "In effect, losing your
cool makes you stupid. That's an oversimplification, but
emotion and reason work like a seesaw. The higher the
emotion, the lower your ability to reason, but reason is
what's going to get you out of trouble."
So how do you stay calm amid sudden chaos? Al Siebert,
author of The Survivor Personality, wrote, "Your
habitual way of reacting to everyday events influences your
chances of being a survivor in a crisis." In other words,
practice staying calm in stressful situations, such as
driving in rush-hour traffic or meeting a last-minute
deadline, and you'll be more likely to stay calm during a
true emergency.
Gonzales adds, "People who will be good at survival will get
upset when something bad happens, but they'll quickly regain
emotional control and begin figuring out what the new
reality looks like and what they can do about it."Get
Out of Your Comfort Zone
One of the best ways to train yourself to adapt quickly is
by periodically challenging your mind with new or unfamiliar
tasks. Studies show that something as simple as learning a
foreign language or taking up a new musical instrument can
help rewire your brain, making it easier for you to
acclimate to a new situation.
"Living in a low-risk environment dulls our abilities," says
Gonzales. "We have to make a conscious effort to learn new
things." Reach Out
Lancaster University psychology professor John Leach writes
in his book Survival Psychology that in disasters,
doctors and nurses have better survival rates because they
are trying to help other people. According to Gourgouris,
reaching out to someone else, even if you don't have medical
training, can help you survive, as well as others.
"Helping people gives you purpose," he says. "Something as
simple as comforting a child can make you feel useful, like
you're doing something. Otherwise, it's easy to remain in a
state of shock, staring off into space and not doing
anything at all."
Similarly, Gonzales says it's extremely important to have
someone other than yourself that you're working toward--even
if they aren't with you. "In many of the survival situations
I've researched, the survivors say they were thinking about
their mother or their child--someone they had to survive
for. So the corollary is, the more socially connected you
are, the better you do in survival situations."
Break Tasks into Small Steps
According to Gonzales, one of the best ways to cope during a
catastrophe is with some directed, organized activity. "It
helps to get you thinking again," he says. "In one case I
researched, there was a man skiing solo in Grand Teton
National Park when he broke his leg. He had to drag himself
for about five days before he found help. To get through the
ordeal, he broke up [his journey] into one hundred moves at
a time--and every hundred moves he dedicated to something or
someone in his life that he loved."
John Leach, who has conducted research on the mental,
emotional, and psychological elements of survival, writes,
"Debriefings of survivors show repeatedly that they possess
the capacity to break down the event they are faced with
into small, manageable tasks. Each step, each chunk, must be
as simple as possible. . . . Simple directed action is the
key to regaining normal psychological functioning." Stay Positive
Experts agree that having a positive attitude can
drastically affect a person’s recovery from a traumatic
event.
Gratitude is a huge way to give life definition," says
Lyles. "Even when tragedy strikes, if you can be grateful
for what's happening and for the learning experiences from
the event, it will give your life purpose."
Ask simple questions like: 'What am I grateful for?'"
counsels Gourgouris. "That might seem like a peculiar
question, but instead of concentrating on what you've lost,
focusing on your blessings elicits a positive response. In a
crisis, concentrate on the successes that you've had. It
will give you hope and strength for the next day."
n studies conducted by Stanford University psychology
professor Carol Dweck, people with a positive attitude are
shown to overcome obstacles and adjust to new situations
more quickly than others. She refers to a "growth mindset,"
indicating the attitude of people who are not discouraged
easily and are willing to make mistakes.
"Some people have the mindset of the victim--the world
happens to them," says Gonzales. "The other mindset people
have is that they can direct their behavior and direct what
happens in their lives--control their destiny to a large
degree. They think, 'Here's something bad, now what can I do
to not only deal with it but maybe turn it to my advantage?'
For people who look at themselves as victims, it's a good
idea to start practicing thinking about things in another
way." The Emotional Aftermath
Natural disasters leave more than a path of physical
destruction in their wake--they leave emotional scars for
both survivors and rescue workers. Gourgouris says common
emotional responses following a catastrophe include feelings
of panic, despair, anxiety, anger, and isolation. "Feelings
like this are natural reactions to trauma, but it's very
important to address them."
Lyles, who counseled people after 9/11 and in the aftermath
of Hurricane Katrina, says acknowledging your feelings about
a traumatic event is the first step to recovery. "The
misconception is that you'll just get over it," he says.
"But you have to detox from it, or it will stay in your
psyche."
Lyles recommends writing a letter about the experience,
explaining all the details and all of your feelings, and
then burning it. "Do it over and over again until you no
longer have a need to write," he says. "It's an emotional
catharsis--like emotionally vomiting and getting the poisons
out of your mind."
Of all the emotions survivors struggle with, guilt is
perhaps the most difficult for them to deal with and the
most difficult for others to understand. "After the
Columbine shooting, I worked with the students at the high
school to help them deal with what they'd witnessed,"
recalls Gourgouris. "One girl felt guilty for missing the
whole thing because she was at a doctor's appointment. She
wondered, 'Why me? Why am I alive?'"
Though it may be challenging, Lyles says it's vital for
survivors to work past the guilt and go forward, finding
gratitude for their lives. "The toughest part of coming back
from a tragedy is that you come back," he says. "People from
9/11 still to this day wonder, 'Why did I live when the
person next to me died?' It's the same situation in Haiti.
There are no answers, but you've got to move on and accept
the reality that you did survive." Helping Children Cope
Lyles and Gourgouris recommend specific techniques to help
children deal with their emotions following a traumatic
event. Having recently traveled to Haiti to work with the
children there, the two psychologists say tried and true
methods include talking, writing, or drawing pictures about
their experiences.
After the devastating tsunami of 2004, Lyles spent time in
Thailand helping children cope with what had happened. "I
would go by refugee camps to deal with children who lost
their parents. They were just sitting around, shell
shocked--not eating, not playing," he recalls. "With a
translator, I started asking them to draw pictures. Children
aren't as good at expressing themselves and not as good at
writing as adults are, so I asked them to draw pictures and
then describe those pictures to someone else. We hung the
pictures up with string between the palm trees. Once the
kids began getting their experiences outside of themselves
and sharing them with others, they began playing soccer and
just being children again.
Gourgouris cautions parents not to force a particular method
on their child. "You have to be flexible," he advises. "Not
all kids want to talk. Depending on their age, emotional
maturity, and willingness to open up, you may want to have
them write it down or draw a picture about the experience.
Any one of these ways can help children recover more
quickly." You can also find tips for comforting children
after a crisis on the Federal Emergency Management Agency's
website, fema.gov
Catastrophe can strike anywhere at anytime. If disaster does
reach you, struggle and pain are inevitable. But having a
plan--and having that plan be second nature--will bring
tremendous peace of mind and exponentially increase your
chances of making it through. With the appropriate physical,
mental, and emotional tools, the unthinkable can, in fact,
be survivable
--- A Child's Reaction to Disaster by Age
Below are common reactions in children after a disaster or
traumatic event
Birth-2 years: Pre-verbal children can't describe
the event or their feelings about it. However, they can
retain memories of particular sights, sounds, or smells.
As children get older, their play may involve acting out
elements of the traumatic event that occurred several
years in the past and was seemingly forgotten.
Ages 3-6 years: Preschoolers often feel powerless in
the wake of a disaster. As a result, they feel intense
fear and insecurity about being separated from
caregivers. Children this age cannot grasp the concept
of permanent loss. In the weeks following a traumatic
event, preschoolers' play activities may reenact the
incident or the disaster over and over again.
Ages 7-10 years: The school-aged child has the
ability to understand the permanence of loss. Some
children become intensely preoccupied with the details
of a traumatic event and want to talk about it
continually. This preoccupation can interfere with the
child's concentration at school, and academic
performance may decline. They may display a wide range
of reactions--sadness, anxiety, specific fears of the
disaster happening again, guilt over action or inaction
during the disaster, anger that the event was not
prevented, or fantasies of playing rescuer.
Ages 11-18 years: Children in this age range respond
to disasters almost like adults do. To cope, teenagers
may become involved in dangerous, risk-taking behaviors,
such as reckless driving. Others can become fearful of
leaving home. A teenager may feel overwhelmed by intense
emotions and yet feel unable to discuss them with
others.
When a dairy cow gives birth to a male, that
baby calf is immediately
taken from his mother and put in a veal crate: a small box
just 24 inches across,
where he will try to kick, scratch, and toss his head until
his bones are sufficiently weakened.
The government spends over 1 billion dollars a year,
including money from your tax dollars, feeding it's programs
and agencies such as the National School Lunch Program.
Urge the Rabbinate to
Uphold Promise to Phase Out
'Shackle and Hoist'
Following public
outrage over a 2007 PETA investigation of a kosher
slaughterhouse in Uruguay, Israel's chief Ashkenazi rabbi,
Yona Metzger, promised to phase out the "shackle and hoist"
slaughter method.
More than two years
later, a new PETA investigation of Frigorifico Las Piedras-the
largest cattle slaughterhouse in Uruguay-reveals that this
barbaric kosher slaughter method
continues to be used to produce meat that's exported to both
the U.S. and Israel.In "shackle and hoist" kosher
slaughter, cattle are tripped to the ground and forcibly
restrained while their legs are chained. Panicked cows are
turned upside down prior to slaughter while workers stand on
their legs and use a sharp metal instrument called the
"devil's fork" to pin their heads down and expose their
necks for the kosher slaughter cut. After the cut, the
cattle immediately are hoisted by one leg to be bled
out-during this procedure, most of the animals are still
conscious and able to feel pain.Regarding the slaughter
methods exposed in PETA's 2009 investigation of Frigorifico
Las Piedras, Dr. Temple Grandin, the world's leading
slaughterhouse expert, wrote the following:"I watched the
video. This plant is definitely doing the method of
shackling the live bovine and then hoisting and dragging
[the animal] out of the stun box and holding [the animal]
down. This is a cruel, dangerous practice that should be
stopped. This cruel method should be replaced with upright
restraint."
The largest kosher
meat company in the U.S., Alle Processing, gets much of its
meat from Frigorifco Las Piedras, and this meat is certified
by the Orthodox Union (OU), the largest kosher certification
company in the U.S.Ask Alle Processing and OU Kosher to
suspend their business relationships with Frigorifico Las
Piedras until it uses less cruel methods involving proper
restraining pens, and urge Chief Rabbi Metzger to fulfill
the promise that he made two years ago to end the use of
this cruel method among all South American companies that
supply kosher meat to Israel.
Mormon Stake President in Haiti Works to Build Hope
SALT LAKE CITY — It's physically impossible for Ghammald
Francillon to be in more than one place at a time, but
his mind and heart understandably are bouncing from Salt
Lake City to Philadelphia to his native Haiti.
With a two-fold LDS Church
connection as manager of physical facilities in the
Caribbean nation and president of the Port-au-Prince
Haiti North Stake, the 45-year-old Francillon came to
Utah to attend The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints' general conference.
It's his second visit to Salt Lake
City, but his first time to touch that cold, white stuff
called snow.
"It is our firm conviction as a
people that the stars and stripes
will be waving triumphantly in the
breeze, as a symbol of the greatness
and stability of the United States
of America, when the Lord comes.
This nation was established to be
the Lord's base of operations in
this final gospel dispensation.
>From it the gospel is to go to
every other nation and people. The
greater its influence among the
nations of the world, the more
rapidly the gospel spreads. But the
Lord has told us that all nations,
the United States included, shall
cease to be when he comes" (The
Millennial Messiah, 491).
JOSEPH SMITH
"We are fast
approaching that moment prophesied
by Joseph Smith when he said: 'Even
this nation will be on the very
verge of crumbling to pieces and
tumbling to the ground, and when the
Constitution is upon the brink of
ruin, this people will be the staff
upon which the nation shall lean,
and they shall bear the Constitution
away from the very verge of
destruction" (Church Historian's
Office, Salt Lake City, July 19,
1840) (The Teachings of Ezra Taft
Benson, 623 - 624).
JOSEPH SMITH
Words of James
Burgess: "In the month of May
1843, several miles east of Nauvoo,
the Nauvoo Legion was on parade and
review, at the close of which Joseph
Smith made some remarks upon our
condition as a people and upon our
future prospects, contrasting our
present condition with our past
trials and persecutions by the hands
of our enemies; also upon the
Constitution and government of the
United States, stating that the time
would come when the Constitution and
government would hang by a brittle
thread and would be ready to fall
into other hands, but this people,
the Latter-day Saints, will step
forth and save it. . . .I, James
Burgess, was present and testify to
the above" (The Words of Joseph
Smith, 279).
EZRA TAFT BENSON
"The Lord told the Prophet
Joseph Smith there would be an
attempt to overthrow the country by
destroying the Constitution. Joseph
Smith predicted that the time would
come when the Constitution would
hang, as it were, by a thread, and
at that time 'this people will step
forth and save it from the
threatened destruction' (Journal of
Discourses, 7:15). It is my
conviction that the elders of
Israel, widely spread over the
nation, will at that crucial time
successfully rally the righteous of
our country and provide the
necessary balance of strength to
save the institutions of
constitutional government" (The
Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson,
618 - 619).
HAROLD B LEE
Men may fail in this country,
earthquakes may come, seas may heave
beyond their bounds, there may be great
drought, disaster, and hardship, but
this nation,
founded on principles laid down by men
whom God raised up,
will never fail.
This is the cradle of humanity,
where life on this earth began in
the Garden of Eden. This is the
place of the New Jerusalem. . . .
This is the place where the Savior
will come to His temple.
We are living in a time of great
crisis. The Country is torn with
scandal and with criticism, with
faultfinding and condemnation.
There are those who have downgraded
the image of this nation as probably
never before in the history of the
country.
I plead with you not to preach
pessimism. Preach that this is the
greatest country in all the world. .
. . It is the nation that will stand
despite whatever trials or crises it
may yet have to pass through.
We must be on the optimistic side.
This is a great nation; this is a
great country; this is the most
favored of all lands. While
it is true that there are dangers
and difficulties that lie ahead of
us, we must not assume that we are
going to stand by and watch the
country go to ruin. We should not
be heard to predict ills and
calamities for the nation. On the
contrary, we should be providing
optimistic support for the nation.
You must remember . . . that this
church is one of the most powerful
agencies for the progress of the
world, and we should . . . all sound
with one voice. We must tell the
world how we feel about this land
and this nation and should
bear our testimonies about the great
mission and destiny that it has.
If we do this, we will help turn the
tide of this great country and
lessen the influence of the
pessimists. We must be careful that
we do not say or do anything that
will further weaken the country. It
is the negative, pessimistic
comments about the nation that do as
much harm as anything to the country
today. We who carry these sacred
responsibilities must preach the
gospel of peace, and peace can only
come by overcoming the things of the
world. Now, we must be the dynamic
force that will
help turn the tide of fear and
pessimism.
(Excerpts
from a talk given at Ricks College
Devotional Assembly, "Have Faith in
America," October 26, 1973, and
printed in two sources: Ye Are
the Light of the World: Selected
Sermons and Writings of Harold B.
Lee, 340, 350-351, and The
Teachings of Harold B. Lee,
edited by Clyde J. Williams,
365-366.)
Okay, truth
be told, if you're like me, you may not associate the
fondest feelings with April 15.
But the same
can't be said for many of our country's biggest
polluters.
Industries like big oil and dirty biofuels love tax time
because Uncle Sam hands them billions in giveaways.
Just one
example: Last year big oil giant Exxon Mobil reported
a record $45.2 billion profit, but paid zero dollars to
the IRS.1 That's outrageous!
A key reason
Exxon Mobil gets away with this? A recent Friends of the
Earth analysis2 found that the oil and gas
industry is slated to receive $32.9 billion in tax
giveaways and other federal subsidies between 2009 and
2013.
Oil and gas
production isn't the only polluting activity that
provides corporations with windfalls from your tax
dollars. The corporate giants -- including big oil --
that sell dirty corn ethanol, received $5 billion in
2009 from just one of many ethanol tax breaks. Corn
ethanol causes even more global warming pollution than
conventional gasoline, and growing corn for fuel causes
harmful fertilizer and pesticide runoff. It is not
something we should be subsidizing. But according to a
recent Friends of the Earth study,3if
these giveaways to dirty ethanol continue, taxpayers
like you and me will have funded the biofuels industry
to the tune of $400 billion by the year 2022.
Unfortunately, much of the public has no idea that these
massive, pollution-promoting giveaways exist.
Enough is
enough. If you're like me, you work hard to earn your
tax dollars. Our representatives in Congress ought to
spend our money wisely and invest in clean energy that
is in the public interest -- not waste our money on
polluter lobbyists' pet projects. Help us send them that
message through the media.
Brown rice protein is emerging as the natural,
plant-based protein of choice for many
health-conscious consumers, and a new wave of brown rice protein
products is USDA Organic, non-GMO, sprouted and
certified both Kosher and
Vegan.
In today's product review, I take a look at
three exciting new brown rice protein products that are taking
this supplemental food source to a whole new level where
nutritious meets delicious!
Attorneys for the family of Parker Jensen — who refused
a custody order to submit the boy to chemotherapy
treatment while they sought further testing — argued
before the Utah Supreme Court Wednesday that the case
could change family rights under the state constitution.
Daren and Barbara Jensen have spent the past seven
years seeking to establish that their rights were
violated when the state attempted to remove their son
from their custody after they refused to follow the
advice of doctors regarding the boy's medical
treatments.
The
poison in Rat Poison (that kills rats) is FLUORIDE
Similar in toxicity to mercury,
fluoride is one of the most poisonous substances on the
planet. It is in your drinking water because of
corporate greed:
If you are enlightened and aware of the dangers and the
many reasons to avoid fluoride in all its forms, you
probably wonder how on earth fluoride could ever be
approved and used for preventive health. The
issue of fluoride for health truly boggles the mind in
its absurdity.
The video (click on the link above) contains my
full-length interview with Dr. Bill Osmunson, a dentist
who has become an expert on, and advocate against,
fluoride. If you prefer to read the interview in its
entirety, you can download the transcript by clicking
the on the source link below. Normally, these
expert interviews are only sent to my
Inner Circle members. However, I believe this
fluoride issue is so critically important, I’ve decided
to share the entire interview with everyone, for free.
Like this vital interview with Dr. Osmunson, each of my
interviews with world-renowned health experts is
jam-packed with valuable information that you’d have to
search for hours to find on your own. Much of this
knowledge is simply not that easy to happen upon.
So, if you want more savings and other great benefits,
simply sign
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Your membership offers the added convenience of
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So,
with all the evidence against fluoride, how did water
fluoridation come about?The key to understanding how
fluoride was introduced into the public health system is
to understand how most commercial fluoride is
created. So sit back into your most comfortable chair
and let me enlighten you on the fraud, corruption and
misrepresentation that has allowed fluoride to become
common in most municipal water supplies, and how nearly
every health care professional is convinced that it is a
major public health benefit. This is a classic
example of how lies and deceptions are fostered on you
and your family, at your health expense, so some large
corporation can ultimately benefit.
How Commercial Greed Spawned a Hidden Health Disaster
It is first important to understand that most all
fluoride is actually a toxic waste product of aluminum-
and steel manufacturing. It is a HIGHLY toxic waste
product. When fluoride is produced it is so
reactive it can eat through steel, glass, iron,
aluminum, and most other substances. It rivals mercury
for being one of the most poisonous substances on the
planet. The sordid beginning of poisoning the
public water supply with fluoride began with Dr. Gerald
Cox nearly 80 years ago. Around 1930 Dr. Cox proposed
that fluoride in small amounts of 1 part per million (ppm)
could prevent dental cavities. He made his
recommendations without any studies, human or otherwise,
to suggest it would be safe or effective.
Interestingly, Dr. Cox was on the staff of the Mellon
Institute, and the Mellon family owned the Alcoa
aluminum company. But that’s not all. Andrew
Mellon, the founder of Alcoa, was also the Treasury
Secretary, and in 1930 the US Department of Public
Health was under the direct control of the Treasury
Secretary. Did these ties between the aluminum industry
and the Department of Public Health influence the chain
of events that led to water fluoridation?
Absolutely! Remember, the most dangerous and
expensive waste product in the production of aluminum is
fluoride. Because it is corrosive and toxic, it was
extremely expensive to dispose of safely and was costing
Alcoa
millions of dollars in lost profits
every year. By finding a “benefit” in this toxic
byproduct, the industry was able to not only save money,
but actually
make money from their toxic waste!
AMA is on the Record Stating Fluoride is a Poison
Amazingly, more than 13 years later, in 1943, the
American Medical Association stated that fluoride was a
powerful protoplasmic poison, and because of its
widespread occurrence in nature, toxic accumulation
could be a major problem if the water supplies were
fluoridated. The following year the American Dental
Association stated the potential for harm from
fluoridation far outweighed any public good, and they
also noted that fluoride in concentrations as low as 1
PPM could cause osteosclerois, spondylysis,
osteoporosis, and goiter. Despite these warnings, Dr.
Cox convinced Dr. Frisch, a Wisconsin dentist, to
actively promote fluoridation of the water supply.
According to historians, Frisch led the charge with the
frenzy of a religious zealot and turned it into a
political crusade.
Water Fluoridation -- One of the Most Successful PR
Campaigns in U.S. HistoryIn
1944 Alcoa hired a prominent attorney, Oscar Ewing, at
an annual salary of $750,000 even though they were not
facing any major litigation. A few months after being
hired he left the company to accept a job as Federal
Security Administrator that put him in charge of the US
Public Health Service. Not surprisingly, very shortly
after that Ewing launched a major national campaign to
fluoridate the water supplies. The fluoridation project
was a massive undertaking and Ewing spared no expense to
hire the absolute best marketing minds on the planet.
He hired the best PR firm money could buy at the time,
Edward, L. Benays, who was Freud’s cousin and had a
notorious reputation as the original spin doctor.
Opponents to fluoridation were carefully labeled by the
masterminds of Alcoa’s PR group as loonies and right
wing extremists who saw fluoridation as a communist
plot.Despite the dire warnings by the AMA and ADA, and
not a single shred of evidence that fluoride was safe or
effective, fluoride was initiated into the water supply
in an experiment in Michigan in 1945. But even before
the Michigan study was complete there was a complete
reversal in the ADA and AMA who both suddenly decided to
endorse widespread fluoridation.At that time any
dentists that dissented from the new views of the ADA
were either censored or lost their ADA membership as the
dental societies were also controlled by grants from the
US Department of Public Health.Eventually the Michigan
study was completed and used to prove that fluoridation
helped prevent cavities, but the study had terrible
controls, and never took into account that cavities were
being reduced all across the country because of better
hygiene and nutrition.
You won't want to
miss the debut episode of Treme this coming Sunday April
11 at 10pm EST.
Every review of HBO's new show is positive and
expectations are high.
But few are more excited than Levees.org.
Rumor has it the character played by actor John Goodman
will be saying things that Levees.org supporters will
love. Goodman is expected to talk about the root cause
of the 2005 flooding disaster in metro New Orleans.
(You may recall that John Goodman is a spokesperson for
Levees.org and volunteered to appear in a 2007 public
service announcement for us.)
If you watch the debut episode of HBO's new show Treme,
you will see for yourself that Levees.org has apparently
influenced the writers of TREME.
This is ongoing proof that your efforts are paying off.
And what started out as the voice of a little grassroots
group will soon become household knowledge.
Sandy Rosenthal, actor John Goodman and filmmaker
Francis James on the set producing a public service
announcement for Levees.org in 2007.
Please be sure to watch the debut episode of what our
sources close to the HBO series are calling 'the
postcard about New Orleans that America didn't get.'
Invite your family and friends to a home viewing party!
TAKE PICTURES AND SEND THEM TO US!
The Premier episode of TREME looks like it will be
evidence that your support of Levees.org is generating
results.
And it looks like we're winning!
Thank you,
Twenty cents a day helps
save lives in Haiti with MERCY CORPS
Even
before the earthquake shattered Haiti in January, it was tough for families to
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The
earthquake made these bad situations even worse, destroying entire communities
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support helps our team save lives.
By joining one of our three monthly giving programs,
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Just $6 a month -- that's only 20
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The House has approved the Senate version of the
health-care bill in 219 to 210 vote. This bill signed by President Obama . The House will now vote on the reconciliation bill. Well it is done,though all of our Congress Reps Chaffetz, Matheson and Bishop objected, and
now look at what Big Brother is ramming through:
"Far-reaching legislation to overhaul the nation's
system of financial regulation clears the Senate banking committee on a
party-line vote without consideration of major changes proposed by lawmakers
since the bill's unveiling last week.
Trailing
in popular vote, Iraq's Maliki demands a recount McClatchy Washington Bureau
Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:02 AM PDT
BAGHDAD â?� Iraq's electoral commission on Sunday rejected demands from
Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki and President Jalal Talabani for a manual recount
of ballots, saying there was no justification for further delaying results of
the March 7 parliamentary polls.
Iraq election commission rejects recount UPI
Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:55 AM PDT
BAGHDAD, March 21 (UPI) -- Iraq's electoral commission said Sunday it has
rejected calls for a recount of votes from the March 7 parliamentary election
West Bank town mourns youths killed by Israel AlertNet
Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:52 AM PDT
Source: Reuters By Ali Sawafta IRAQ BURIN, West Bank, March 21 (Reuters)
- Mourners grieving the loss of two Palestinian teenagers killed by Israeli
forces this weekend directed their anger on Sunday at Jewish ( But wait what
about the Rocket they shot at Israel the week befor? When will this end when
neither side wants to stop attacking?)
The Humane Slaughter Act only covers cows
and pigs it does not protect any poultry.
All animals and
poultry suffer and feel pain. Even with the
Humane Slaughter Act in place animals and
poultry are still frequently mistreated by
workers at the farms, on the way to
slaughter and at the slaughter houses. The
slaughter methods are inhumane. The stun
systems are ineffective and many
animals/poultry are either skinned, boiled
or dismembered alive and are aware of pain.
These procedures need to either stop
completely or at least be much more heavily
monitored. Please help get this
message to President Barack Obama!
The Humane Slaughter Act only covers cows
and pigs it does not protect any poultry.
All animals and
poultry suffer and feel pain. Even with the
Humane Slaughter Act in place animals and
poultry are still frequently mistreated by
workers at the farms, on the way to
slaughter and at the slaughter houses. The
slaughter methods are inhumane. The stun
systems are ineffective and many
animals/poultry are either skinned, boiled
or dismembered alive and are aware of pain.
These procedures need to either stop
completely or at least be much more heavily
monitored. Please help get this
message to President Barack Obama!
We are writing to you with our deep concern
for the animals and poultry in
commercial factory farming. Animals and
poultry are very frequently and horrifically
abused at the farms and on the way to
slaughter as well at the slaughter houses.
All animals and poultry feel pain.
If we are going to eat meat and poultry we
need to at least treat these animals and
birds with respect, decency and without
unnecessary suffering.
The Humane Slaughter Act only applies to
cows and pigs. There are no laws protecting
poultry from pain and abuse. Even with the
Law many animals have been insufficiently
stunned before slaughter, and so therefore
suffered pain being dismembered or boiled
fully aware. I am respectfully asking for your
attention to this matter. Please help end
the suffering to all animals and birds
raised for human consumption.
Thank you for your time.
We are
currently trying to raise money to bring home (to the United States) a
puppy my husband (an EOD tech in the USMC)
rescued after an explosion. Her name is "Spike" and
she is an Anatolian Shepherd, there are pics on her website as well as
the story if you would rather just read it there. We really need help,
even if people can't help if they could forward her story to someone who
can that wuld be great! We currently have
$425 raised, our goal is $3000 by next month. Thanks to everyone
who has the heart to help at least to pass the story on. She is a very
special puppy!
"Spike" is a vivacious
and fun loving young Anatolian Shepherd puppy rescued by Neil Kulik and
the infantry platoon with which he is serving in Marjah Afghanistan.
Many of you may have seen the News coverage of "Operation Moshtarak"
throughout February and into this month. SSGT Kulik an EOD tech attached
to an infantry company found tiny Spike alone and frightened after the
building she was living in was blown up. SSGT Kulik and his team went to
clear the building after blowing it up and he came upon her in a corner,
she was shaking and let out a fearful grown as he pet her.
SSGT Kulik promised Spike he would return to her and gave her some water
until the next time he could see her. He returned as soon as he was
able honoring his promise to the young little puppy. It was a day
later and he brought her food and more water. Spike recognized him and
wagged her tail. She grew fond of this human and his many friends who
brought her food and water and even played with her. She soon became one of them, going with them
when she could and bringing as much joy to the Marines as they brought
to her. Spike who suffered hearing loss in the explosion that
she survived has taken no notice to her injury, she is just happy
to be alive. She has become so fond of Neil and his friends that she protects
them, growling at people who are out of place and keeping all of the
Marines safe.
Her favorite human,SSGT Kulik, is to leave Marjah and return to the
United States soon and he has told her he wants her to come with.
All of the Marines who have had the joy of playing with her during such
a daunting time for them want to help to get Spike home as well. The
financial cost of getting Spike into the United States is a huge burden
and SSGT Kulik is hoping that enough kind people will step forward to
make this possible for Spike. He fears that if left behind she will die
with her hearing loss making hervulnerable to predators, other dogs, and
military vehicles . Many dogs in Afghanistan
are shot at and murdered. Dog fighting is prominent and Spike wants to
be honored for her service to our countries Marines and the men have
told her they don't leave anyone behind, Spike certainly
hopes that they will honor their promise when it comes to her as well,
that she will come home as one of them, as she deserves to, as a hero.
The cost to bring Spike to the United States is
approximately $3,000.00. This includes her flights and quarantine in
Pakistan.
I do not have more than several hundred dollars
myself so Spike is counting on the generosity of caring humans to help
her.
If enough money isn't raised in the next few weeks
to allow for Spike to be brought home with her new family the full
amount of the money raised will be donated to the ASPCA.
Please, any little bit helps, don't let Spikes
humans suffer any more loss, don't allow the Marines who love her to be
forced to leave one of their own behind.
Every little bit helps.
The Following is Info on the situation and the
background story.
Neil (Ssgt Kulik) has always cared deeply for
dogs. Here he is seen in Iraq in 2008 with
Daisy, a dog who was rescued in Iraq and given
working dog status and saved. Daisy remains in
Iraq but is now safe on a base. He rescued and
re-homed four dogs between deployments just last
summer (2009).
PLEASE CROSSPOST...TRYING TO BRING THIS BABY HOME...ON THE ABR BOARD UNDER
DISCUSSIONS...
If anybody can help......get
this little guy to US!
Marine in Afghanistan wants to bring this little puppy home
with him to US! You think it is just a puppy right? Well this buddy was the
only thing keeping this Marine going in a war zone and the only thing that
will keep him sane when he gets back from this war and all the horror he has
seen. That is why we help.
From:
Michelle Polaski [mailto:mpolaski@healthhopenetwork.org]
Sent:
Tuesday, February 02, 2010 10:09 AM Subject:
FW: Bear Pup Afghanistan Friend Buddy
"Hi Everyone,
We raised enough money for
Bear to come home, but Bear's friend Buddy has been adopted
by one of the other Marines. Please pass this link around
and if you can help that would be great. Thank you everyone
you all have been amazing at helping us get our Marine's
Furry Friends home.
The
past few weeks have been
particularly hard. Since
I filed a federal lawsuit against
McDonald's, the media has taken
an interest in this case. While I am
determined to hold McDonald's
accountable for their flagrant
discriminatory practices and an
assault and battery perpetrated by
their employees, it has been
stressful to have to revisit
memories of war and trauma through a
myriad of media interviews.
When I came home from my second tour
in Iraq in 2006 and departed the
Army in 2007, I had no idea I would
have to personally battle for my own
rights — rights I committed to
protect for the better part of my
life. I knew that recovering from
war was going to take time, but I
never, in a million years, thought
that I would have to defend the
right to live in my neighborhood and
go about my day just as any other
person does.
So now that it's come to this, I
thought I would share some of what's
been going on over the past few
weeks...
I hope this posting offers some
insight into what a number of people
and veterans with disabilities have
to endure. Hopefully, this fight
will help contribute to the
prevention of others from having to
deal with such issues in the future.
"how much oil
does the U.S.
have in the
ground?" Forbes
did not miss a
beat, he said,
"more
than all the
Middle East put
together."
Please read
below.
The U. S.
Geological
Service issued a
report in April
2008 that only
scientists and
oil men knew was
coming, but man
was it big.. It
was a
revised report
(hadn't been
updated since
1995) on how
much oil was in
this area of the
western 2/3 of
North Dakota ,
western South
Dakota , andextreme
eastern Montana
.
The Bakken is
the largest
domestic oil
discovery since
Alaska 's
Prudhoe
Bay, and has the
potential to
eliminate all
American
dependence on
foreign
oil. The Energy
Information
Administration (EIA)
estimates it at
503 billion
barrels. Even if
just 10% of the
oil is
recoverable...
at $107 a
barrel,
we're looking at
a resource base
worth more than
$5..3 trillion.
"When I first
briefed
legislators on
this, you could
practically see
their jaws hit
the floor. They
had no idea.."
says Terry
Johnson, the
Montana
Legislature's
financial
analyst.
"This sizable
find is now the
highest-producing
onshore oil
field found
in the past 56
years," reports
The Pittsburgh
Post Gazette.
It's a
formation known
as the Williston
Basin , but is
more commonly
referred to as
the
'Bakken.' It
stretches from
Northern
Montana, through
North Dakota and
into Canada ..
For years, U. S.
oil exploration
has been
considered a
dead
end. Even the
'Big Oil'
companies gave
up searching for
major oil wells
decades ago.
However, a
recent
technological
breakthrough has
opened up
the Bakken's
massive
reserves.... and
we now have
access of up to
500
billion barrels.
And because this
is light, sweet
oil, those
billions of
barrels
will cost
Americans just
$16 PER BARREL!
That's enough
crude to fully
fuel the
American economy
for 2041 years
straight. And if
THAT didn't
throw you on the
floor, then this
next one
should - because
it's from 2006!
U. S. Oil
Discovery-
Largest Reserve
in the World
Stansberry
Report Online -
4/20/2006
Hidden 1,000
feet beneath the
surface of the
Rocky Mountains
lies the
largest untapped
oil reserve in
the world. It is
more than 2
TRILLION
barrels. On
August 8, 2005
President Bush
mandated its
extraction. In
three and a half
years of high
oil prices none
has been
extracted. With
this
motherload of
oil why are we
still fighting
over off-shore
drilling?
They reported
this stunning
news: We have
more oil inside
our borders,
than all the
other proven
reserves on
earth. Here are
the official
estimates:
- 8-times as
much oil as
Saudi Arabia
- 18-times as
much oil as Iraq
- 21-times as
much oil as
Kuwait
- 22-times as
much oil as Iran
- 500-times as
much oil as
Yemen
- and it's all
right here in
the Western
United States ..
HOW can this BE?
HOW can we NOT
BE extracting
this? Because
the
environmentalists
and others have
blocked all
efforts to help
America
become
independent of
foreign oil!
Again, we are
letting a small
group of
people dictate
our lives and
our
economy.....WHY?
James Bartis,
lead researcher
with the study
says we've got
more oil in
this very
compact area
than the entire
Middle East
-more than 2
TRILLION
barrels
untapped..
That's more than
all the proven
oil reserves of
crude oil in
the world today,
reports The
Denver Post.
Don't think
'OPEC' will drop
its price - even
with this find?
Think
again!
It's all about
the competitive
marketplace, -
it has to. Think
OPEC just
might be funding
the
environmentalists?
Got your
attention yet?
Now, while
you're thinking
about it, do
this:
Pass this
along.. If you
don't take a
little time to
do this, then
you
should stifle
yourself the
next time you
complain about
gas prices - by
doing NOTHING,
you forfeit your
right to
complain.
Now I just wonder what would
happen in this country if
every one of you
sent this to every one in
your address book.
By the way...this is all
true. Check it out at the
link below!!!
GOOGLE it, or follow this
link. It will blow your
mind.
Senators question $1 million pay for charity's
CEO
By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER
03/12/2010 05:05AM
"A group of Republican senators is questioning high salaries and expensive
travel bills for executives at the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, raising issues
that could jeopardize millions in federal funding for the national charity. "
LDS Living Magazine. (Most of the big national
charities everyone always gives their money to without checking out where it is
going, like Make A Wish, and this one, have CEOs with million dollar salaries
that drive Hummers, have huge homes with expensive things, and expensive trips.
Why don't people help out the little charities that give all to those they help
and even what little they have and there is no money for salaries? Have you ever
seen the delapitated, nothing for kids to do Boys and Girls Clubs in PRovo, SLC?
Even the one in Laguna Beach, CA I lived and visited, had nothing except a few
books and basketballs but no one to play with the kids, and tons of poor
families used them for cheap babysitting. Wake up America!! Greed has taken
over. Do your homework.)
WASHINGTON -- A group of Republican senators is questioning high
salaries and expensive travel bills for executives at the Boys &
Girls Clubs of America, raising issues that could jeopardize
millions in federal funding for the national charity.
The four
senators said they were concerned that the chief executive of a
charity that has been closing local clubs for lack of funding was
compensated nearly $1 million in 2008. They also questioned why in
the same year officials spent $4.3 million on travel, $1.6 million
on conferences, conventions and meetings, and $544,000 in lobbying
fees.
"The question is whether or not a very top-heavy organization
might be siphoning off federal dollars that should be going to help
kids," said Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the top Republican on the
Senate Finance Committee.
The senators sent a letter to the head of the charity's board of
governors Thursday seeking detailed financial information about
executive compensation, travel and lobbying expenses, and how the
national charity awards grants to local clubs.
The issues they raise could threaten the reputation of a popular
charity that supports 4,300 local Boys & Girls Clubs serving about
4.8 million children. The timing threatens a bill moving through the
Senate that would provide up to $425 million in federal money to the
national organization over the next five years.
"That bill isn't going anywhere until we get the answers to these
questions," said Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla.
Along with Grassley and Coburn, the letter was signed by
Republican Sens. Jon Kyl of Arizona and John Cornyn of Texas.
Community Boys & Girls Clubs are all locally governed, but most
receive tens of thousands of dollars each year from the
Atlanta-based national charity. In 2008, the national charity
reported receiving $41 million in government grants and $51 million
in other gifts and contributions.
Roxanne Spillett, president and CEO of the Boys & Girls Clubs of
America, received a total compensation of $988,591 in 2008,
according to the charity's tax filings. She got a base salary of
$360,774, a bonus of $150,000 and other compensation of $83,152, for
a total of $593,926. She also received $385,500 in deferred
compensation, most of which went to a retirement plan, and $9,165 in
nontaxable benefits.
Evan McElroy, senior vice president of communications for the
Boys & Girls Clubs of America, said the charity would respond to the
letter before the March 29 deadline set by the senators. He declined
to answer questions about the charity's finances when contacted
Thursday but said in an e-mail that Spillett's base salary has not
increased since 2006.
In the e-mail, McElroy said the charity's compensation committee
follows Internal Revenue Service guidelines for nonprofit
organizations. He said Mercer, a human resources consulting firm,
analyzed executive compensation and found it was "appropriate for a
large, national, tax-exempt, youth organization."
Despite recent closings, Spillett has overseen significant growth
in the number of local Boys & Girls Clubs since becoming president
of the national organization in 1996. During that time, the number
of local clubs grew from 1,850 to 4,360.
Experts were split on whether Spillett's pay was excessive for a
charity with revenues of $107 million in 2008, the latest year
available.
"It's certainly not unusual to see
people leading major charities, which after all, are very large,
complex operations, making substantial salaries," said Brian Vogel,
a senior principal with Quatt Associates, a management consulting
firm in Washington.
Vogel said "$500,000 or $600,000 wouldn't be outside the
marketplace. ... Remember, these are organizations that can be as
hard to manage as a major for-profit business."
Annual compensation averaged $462,000 last year for the CEOs of
charities with expenses of more than $100 million, according to a
compensation study by Charity Navigator, a Web site that evaluates
charities.
"The people who use our site, donors, would be appalled by a
salary like this," Ken Berger, president and CEO of Charity
Navigator, said of Spillett's compensation. "If you want to be a
millionaire, go and work in the for-profit sector."
Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This
material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or
redistributed.
"Two months ago today, a massive earthquake struck Haiti,
killing almost 225,000 people and leaving more than a million
people homeless. For them, especially the women and girls, panic
sets in every night as the sun retreats.
The women here talk of
mauvais esprits (bad spirits) stalking the survivors
of the devastating earthquake.
"Young men come with weapons and rape the women. They haven't
reported it, because the hospitals, the police — everything was
destroyed in the earthquake," reports Hannah, a nurse who sleeps
in a makeshift tent in a volatile camp outside of
Port-au-Prince.
Incidence of rape in Haiti was high before the earthquake and,
now, women and girls are even more vulnerable: streets still are
dark due to lack of electricity, and crowded camps and
unprotected bathing and toilet areas leave women and girls
vulnerable to harassment and sexual brutality.
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From:Minuteman Civil Defense Corps Sent:Tuesday, March 16, 2010 12:22 AM
Message from
Minuteman Civil Defense Corps
President Carmen Mercer
Freedom is never Free!
URGENT ALERT TO ALL MINUTEMAN
Obama cuts border security funding and freezes hiring of new Border Patrol.
The Minutemen are returning to the border - LOCKED AND LOADED to say YOU ARE WRONG OBAMA- AMERICA COMES FIRST! Secretary of Homeland Defense Janet Napolitano thinks border security is a waste of time and a politically sensitive issue. The Minutemen are returning to the border - LOCKED AND LOADED because we think Napolitano is an unqualified buffoon who risks the lives of American citizens every day she is the head of DHS. John McCain told Chris Simcox in 2004 that he thought American citizens watching the border would pose a greater risk than the drug cartels. The Minutemen are returning to the border - LOCKED AND LOADED and ready to stop each and every person they encounter because John McCain is responsible for every death of an American citizen at the hands of illegal alien criminals and the drug cartels. The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps of Arizona is calling on all volunteers as we return to the southern border with Mexico, en mass, beginning Friday afternoon March 26 and lasting until our Congress deploys the U.S military to our borders to defend the United States of America. On the 8thanniversary of Chris Simcox' historic Tea Party protest on the border which began in Cochise County, Arizona, this muster will be a defining moment for our nation. President Obama in legion with John McCain, Lindsey Graham and most of the rest of our impotent and incompetent federal government have continued to exhibit as much contempt for our Constitution, rule of law and ordered society as the illegal aliens, drug dealers and Human smugglers who violate our sacred borders 24/7/365. Chris Simcox said it first in 2002, enough is enough! For 8 long years we Minutemen played nice; yet for the past 8-years we firmly expressed our opinions and desires for the border to be secured- but this muster will be completely different -President Obama and John McCain have left us no choice -this March we return to the border locked, loaded and ready to stop each and every individual we encounter along the frontier that is now more dangerous than the frontier of Afghanistan. This operation will not be for the faint of heart. MCDC volunteers will work under an entirely different SOP; we will approach our duty as citizens as we should - we have a zero tolerance for any and all violations of our border and we will forcefully engage, detain, and defend our lives and country from the criminals who trample over our culture and laws. Long arms will be allowed and frankly, encouraged. From the surveillance videos we have gathered in the field over the past six months it is more than evident the violators of our borders seem to have been given carte blanc permission to willfully violate our public safety. This time we will not be tempered by political correctness; every single individual we encounter WILL BE apprehended by Border Patrol with our help - even those who dare enter our country armed will be stopped and challenged. Political correctness is a fad of the past. This is for the survival of this great Republic! Basic SOP changes will be as follows. You are strongly recommended to bring a long arm - you will be permitted to carry long arms at all times on post as per Arizona State law. Thousands of individuals violate our borders 24/7 with the consent of President Barack Hussein Obama, Janet Napolitano and John McCain - you are strongly encouraged to exercise your rights and duty as an American citizen to carry a long arm and if challenged use it to defend the United States of America - something Obama, Napolitano and McCain refuse to do. Other specifics to the SOP will be emailed to card -carrying MCDC volunteers who respond to our call to arms.
We will be completely self reliant during this mission. Please prepare for a marathon and bring as much equipmet and supplies as you can carry - you will need it. We will support volunteers with equipment and help with food and water. We also have a generous supply of hats and shirts that are available for fund raising to support this massive operation. Please help us send a strong message to the cowards in charge of our nation's security. We are ready to defend our nation - are you?
In Liberty
Carmen Mercer President of Minuteman Civil Defense Corps.
The Petraeus briefing: Biden’s embarrassment is not the
whole story
Posted By Mark Perry Saturday,
March 13, 2010 - 11:05 PMShare
On Jan. 16, two days after a killer
earthquake hit Haiti, a team of senior military officers from
the U.S. Central Command (responsible for overseeing American
security interests in the Middle East), arrived at the Pentagon
to brief Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen on
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The team had been dispatched
by CENTCOM commander Gen. David Petraeus to underline his
growing worries at the lack of progress in resolving the issue.
The 33-slide, 45-minute PowerPoint briefing stunned Mullen. The
briefers reported that there was a growing perception among Arab
leaders that the U.S. was incapable of standing up to Israel,
that CENTCOM's mostly Arab constituency was losing faith in
American promises, that Israeli intransigence on the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict was jeopardizing U.S. standing in
the region, and that Mitchell himself was (as a senior Pentagon
officer later bluntly described it) "too old, too slow ... and
too late."
The January Mullen briefing was unprecedented. No previous
CENTCOM commander had ever expressed himself on what is
essentially a political issue; which is why the briefers were
careful to tell Mullen that their conclusions followed from a
December 2009 tour of the region where, on Petraeus's
instructions, they spoke to senior Arab leaders. "Everywhere
they went, the message was pretty humbling," a Pentagon officer
familiar with the briefing says. "America was not only viewed as
weak, but its military posture in the region was eroding." But
Petraeus wasn't finished: two days after the Mullen briefing,
Petraeus sent a paper to the White House requesting that the
West Bank and Gaza (which, with Israel, is a part of the
European Command -- or EUCOM), be made a part of his area of
operations. Petraeus's reason was straightforward: with U.S.
troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military had
to be perceived by Arab leaders as engaged in the region's most
troublesome conflict.
[UPDATE: A senior military officer denied Sunday that
Petraeus sent a paper to the White House.
"CENTCOM did have a team brief the CJCS on concerns revolving
around the Palestinian issue, and CENTCOM did propose a UCP
change, but to CJCS, not to the WH," the officer said via email.
"GEN Petraeus was not certain what might have been conveyed to
the WH (if anything) from that brief to CJCS."
(UCP means "unified combatant command," like CENTCOM; CJCS
refers to Mullen; and WH is the White House.)]
The Mullen briefing and Petraeus's request hit the White
House like a bombshell. While Petraeus's request that CENTCOM be
expanded to include the Palestinians was denied ("it was dead on
arrival," a Pentagon officer confirms), the Obama administration
decided it would redouble its efforts -- pressing Israel once
again on the settlements issue, sending Mitchell on a visit to a
number of Arab capitals and dispatching Mullen for a carefully
arranged meeting with the chief of the Israeli General Staff,
Lt. General Gabi Ashkenazi. While the American press speculated
that Mullen's trip focused on Iran, the JCS Chairman actually
carried a blunt, and tough, message on the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict: that Israel had to see its conflict with the
Palestinians "in a larger, regional, context" -- as having a
direct impact on America's status in the region. Certainly, it
was thought, Israel would get the message.
Israel didn't. When Vice President Joe Biden was embarrassed
by an Israeli announcement that the Netanyahu government was
building 1,600 new homes in East Jerusalem, the administration
reacted. But no one was more outraged than Biden who, according
to the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth, engaged in a
private, and angry, exchange with the Israeli Prime Minister.
(Face it Joe. They got you by
the balls.) Not surprisingly, what Biden told
Netanyahu reflected the importance the administration attached
to Petraeus's Mullen briefing: "This is starting to get
dangerous for us," Biden reportedly told Netanyahu. "What you're
doing here undermines the security of our troops who are
fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. That endangers us
and it endangers regional peace." Yedioth Ahronoth went
on to report: "The vice president told his Israeli hosts that
since many people in the Muslim world perceived a connection
between Israel's actions and US policy, any decision about
construction that undermines Palestinian rights in East
Jerusalem could have an impact
on the personal safety of American troops fighting against
Islamic terrorism." The message couldn't be plainer: Israel's
intransigence could cost American lives.
There are important and powerful lobbies in America: the NRA,
the American Medical Association, the lawyers -- and the Israeli
lobby. But no lobby is as important, or as powerful, as the U.S.
military. While
commentators and pundits might reflect that Joe Biden's trip to
Israel has forever shifted America's relationship with its
erstwhile ally in the region, the real break came in January,
when David Petraeus sent a briefing team to the Pentagon with a
stark warning: America's relationship with
Israel is important, but not as important as the lives of
America's soldiers. Maybe Israel gets the message now.
[UPDATE 2--from Mark Perry: A senior military officer
told Foreign Policy by email that one minor detail in my
report, "The Petraeus Briefing" was incorrect: a request from
General Petraeus for the Palestinian occupied territories (but,
as I made clear, not Israel itself), be brought within CENTCOM's
region of operation was sent to JCS Chairman Mullen - and not
directly to the White House. My information was based on
conversations with CENTCOM officials, who believed they were
giving me correct information. It is significant that the
correction was made, not because it is an important detail, but
because it is was inconsequential to the overall narrative. In
effect, the U.S. military has clearly said there was nothing in
this report that could be denied.]
News Alert:
Al-Qaeda crippled as leaders stay in hiding, CIA
chief says
03:56 PM EDT Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Relentless attacks against al-Qaeda in
the Pakistan tribal region appear to have driven Osama bin Laden
and other top leaders deeper into hiding, leaving the
organization rudderless and incapable of planning sophisticated
operations, CIA Director Leon Panetta said Wednesday.
So profound is al-Qaeda’s disarray that
one of its lieutenants, in a recently intercepted message,
pleaded to bin Laden to come to the group’s rescue and provide
some leadership, Panetta told The Washington Post in an
interview. For more information, visit washingtonpost.com:
http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/r/AADB45/2HK86/DWKYXC/2WVFGC/S8N0Q/OS/
Suit
Forces Walmart to Slash Greenhouse Gas Pollution
Settling
lawsuits filed by the Center for Biological Diversity, late last week Walmart
agreed to adopt significant anti-global-warming measures in constructing two new
Supercenters in Southern California. The settlement requires the nation's
largest retailer to install three 250-kilowatt rooftop solar facilities and
incorporate cutting-edge efficiency measures at planned stores in Perris and
Yucca Valley, as well as to start a refrigerant audit and improvement program to
reduce emissions at certain existing California Walmart stores. Walmart will
also contribute $120,000 to the Mojave Desert Land Trust for land-conservation
purposes. The big-box chain agreed to employ similar CO2-reduction
measures for a proposed Supercenter in Riverside.
The settlement adds to the Center's list of successes in upholding
California's premier environmental and land-use law, the California
Environmental Quality Act, to improve new development, reduce greenhouse gas
pollution, save energy, save money, and promote a vibrant green economy. In the
words of Center Senior Attorney Matt Vespa, "If big-box stores are to be built
in California, measures like the installation of solar-power systems must be
adopted to minimize the projects' greenhouse gas pollution."
There is an epidemic
of vitamin D deficiency sweeping the world, and now we know why this is so
important: New research reveals that vitamin D "arms" the immune
system T cells, allowing them to protect you from invading
microorganisms.
Iraqis Fasting Today for End to Killing Spree (Let's fast with them
this Sunday, many of our Utah LDS soldiers are there) Zenit News Agency
Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:59 AM PST
KIRKUK, Iraq, MARCH 1, 2010 ( Zenit.org ).- With less than a week before
national elections, and in the wake of a killing spree in Mosul that left eight
Christians dead in 10 days, the archbishop of Kirkuk has declared today a day of
fasting and prayer.
The U.S. Department of Defense says Lance Corporal Carlos Aragon, of Orem,
graduated from Mountain View HIgh School last year, died
March 1 while supporting combat operations in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
Utah Army surgical team deploys
to Afghanistan
March 2nd, 2010 @ 4:22pm
SALT LAKE CITY -- A Utah Army surgical team is deploying to
Afghanistan.
The 934th Forward Surgical Team is a reserve unit based at
Fort Douglas. (Utah)
The 22 soldiers will deploy for one year, assisting other
soldiers and providing care.
Capt. Jennifer Ysmael of the U.S. Army said, "My
responsibility will be an ICU nurse with this Forward Surgical
Team. I know a lot of these people from the past, [and] I'm
excited and it will be a very good group to work with."
Every summer, boys in the Denmark-owned Faroe Islands participate in a
coming-of-age tradition where they kill hundreds of dolphins and whales to prove
their "manhood."
President Obama to Say Democrats Will Use
Reconciliation to Pass Senate Health Care Reform Fix, If Not Given Up or Down
Vote
White
House officials tell ABC News that in his remarks tomorrow President Obama will
indicate a willingness to work with Republicans on some issue to get a health
care reform bill passed but will suggest that if it is necessary, Democrats will
use the controversial "reconciliation" rules requiring only 51 Senate votes to
pass the "fix" to the Senate bill, as opposed to the 60 votes to stop a
filibuster and proceed to a vote on a bill "
Facebook's offices are located at 1601 S. California
Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304.
"President Obama on Wednesday endorsed the controversial
legislative tactic known as reconciliation, saying his health-care overhaul
deserves the same treatment as other significant legislation that has passed
Congress with "nothing more than a simple majority." "Reform has already passed
the House with a majority," Obama said. " It has already passed the Senate with
a supermajority of sixty votes. And now it deserves the same kind of up-or-down
vote that was cast on welfare reform, the Children’s Health Insurance Program,
COBRA health coverage for the unemployed, and both Bush tax cuts – all of which
had to pass Congress with nothing more than a simple majority." Under such
an approach, the House would pass the health bill passed by the Senate in
December. The House and the Senate would then use reconciliation to pass a set
of fixes to the bill, to satisfy the demands of lawmakers in the House. Using
reconciliation rules, the fixes could not be filibustered and Senate Democrats
could approve them with a simple majority vote -- a move intended to bypass a
Republican caucus that remains united in its opposition to the legislation."
From a Leader of Disabled Veterans in Utah: "According to The
Trustees for the Social Security Administration, " THERE WILL NOT BE A COST OF LIVING INCREASE FOR THE NEXT TWO
YEARS IN SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS.
They, the Congress (BOTH
"REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATS TOGETHER") say no increase
is warranted because of the losses in gross national product and other
cute things.. NOW SPORTS FANS
THIS IS THE ONE THAT WILL
FLIP YOU OUT!!
THE SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION IS FUNDING TWENTY FOUR MILLION
DOLLARS-- LET ME REPEAT THAT AMOUNT...
SO YOU UNDERSTAND IT $ 24,000,000.00 DOLLARS FOR NEW ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS
PROCESSING FOR OUR CONGRESSMEN AND SENATORS !!
THEY ARE OBTAINING THESE FUNDS
And
I QUOTE DIRECTLY FROM THE SOCIAL SECURITY WEBSITE...
"THIS MONEY WILL BE COMING FROM THE SAVINGS TO BE GENERATED
FROM WITHHOLDING "COST OF LIVING INCREASES FOR 2010 & 2011
In SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS FOR THE ELDERLY
AND A $2.00 INCREASE ON ALL MEDICARE RX BENEFIT CO-PAY"
Please pass this to ALL your friends and have them
"PROTEST TO THE IDIOTS WE ELECTED TO CONGRESS"
Who by the way,have
just voted themselves ANOTHER 3% SALARY INCREASE!!!"
03/03/10 Representative Kucinich will introduce a privileged resolution
tomorrow invoking the War Powers Act to force the
President to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan this year. This
will force Congress to debate the war and our open-ended occupation of
Afghanistan.
This conflict has ruined too many American and Afghan
lives to be swept under the rug. Rather than a failed military strategy, the
U.S. needs to focus on long-term political solutions in the region and invest in
Afghan-led aid and development. Please click here and contact your
Representative in the House and tell her or him it's time for the troops to come
home <http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=VtzXKoxkeuM%2FPG%2BNbvw%2BNyGPBycCIM7m>
.
"About seven or
eight months ago my good friend Scott Kesterson who was and still is in
Afghanistan told me “things are changing here, they are going back to a Vietnam
way of patrolling”. I was not sure what he was talking about or implying so I
asked him. He told me that the troops were getting out of he vehicles and
walking every where they go. Vehicles were limited to the roads for the most
part and the enemy had them channeled and could focus the IEDs and EFPs on the
roads. Soldiers were finding (along with GEN McChrystal’s direction) that if
they went dismounted they were safer because the enemy could not IED wide open
space.
In order to have
freedom of movement and to increase the chance of survival, soldiers were going
“cross-country” by dismounted patrols. Since that time I have read reports and
stories where entire platoons and sometimes companies never even see vehicles.
They spend their whole year walking everywhere. Not to mention that this is the
most effective way to engage the local populace and truly exercise COIN. You
cannot get to know the local people by speeding through the bazaars behind 3″ of
glass and armor. So by going dismounted the troops are accomplishing several
things both tactically, and for force-protection.
Of course I am
speaking mostly of US Forces as local Afghan forces like to ride. My buddy
vampire-6 wrote on several occasions over at his blog
www.afghanistanshrugged.com about his ANA riding into an
objective rather than walking, which was against the plan. I guess when you
spend most of your life in dirt, farming dirt, and walking in dirt everywhere,
if you get a chance to ride you are going to take it.
I am also glad to
see our forces get out of the vehicles and back to the basics of movement, by
foot. We have been our own worst enemy in the military by coming up with so many
cool and beneficial technologies that in many areas we have lost sight of the
basics. How many junior leaders even know how to land navigate with a compass
and protractor anymore, much less even know what a protractor is.
Due to the fear
of IEDs, the reliance on body armor and the concern by commander to lose any
soldiers “on their watch”, our soldiers have been told to stick with the vehicle
and never leave. Heck, when I was an ETT in 06-07 we had an idiot
of a Corps Commander (COL)
tell us that we should never leave the truck. That ETTs had no reason to be on
the ground. We were the mentors, advisors, and even leaders (most of the time)
of the ANA,
so how were we supposed to “set the example” if we could not leave the vehicle,
yet we would tell our ANA to do it. This is the
same idiot of an officer that said we were…get ready for this, “non-combatant
combatants”. I am not exaggerating, that is an exact quote. I am a pretty smart
guy when it comes to military doctrine and tactics, and I know many other people
that are too, but I still cannot find anyone that knows what the hell a
“non-combatant combatant” is. By the way, this genius of a Colonel is now a
General in a certain state’s National Guard.
Well back to the
point of this blog, all of what I have written so far is really to prep you for
what you are about to read below. This story came out on March 4, 2010 in the
Stars and Stripes.
KANE IZAT,
Afghanistan — The airborne Soldiers of Company B walk. Then they walk some more.
Through snow and mud, across apple orchards and frigid rivers, in the shadow of
menacing, snow-capped peaks, when the Soldiers need to get somewhere, the road
is almost never an option.
Roadside bombs
have been the biggest killer in Afghanistan for coalition troops, and as armor
has improved, the bombs have gotten bigger and more sophisticated.
Capt. Kirby Jones, the commander of the 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment’s
Company B, sees a simple solution to this: Never drive. Anywhere.
“We almost always
walk,” he said. “I see two benefits to that: You get to interact with the people
and you don’t get blown up.”
Jones, 31, of
Bellingham, Wash., and his company of Soldiers, under the 173rd Airborne Brigade
Combat Team, are based at Combat Outpost Nerkh, perched more than 7,000 feet up
in the shadow of 11,000-foot peaks in northern Wardak province. Soldiers across
Wardak, much of it with similar terrain, have also largely eschewed vehicles.
It means a
boot-sucking slog with cold, wet feet, filthy uniforms, and a chill that
penetrates every layer of clothing. It also means a much longer commute. What
would be a 15-minute drive can become a two-hour walk, and for more remote
missions, Soldiers in Wardak often rely on helicopters, which are subject to the
whims of the weather.
Walking through
the village of Kane Izat near Combat Outpost Nerkh, Jones’ Soldiers are mobbed
by children asking for pens and stop to chat with residents. After stopping at
an outpost of a local U.S.-backed militia, where fighters complain they are not
getting their full pay, the Soldiers stop for tea with the principal of a nearby
school.
Insurgents have
been paying attention and there are signs they are adapting. In the Tangi Valley
in the south of the province, one Soldier was injured by a booby trap laid for
his foot patrol, and Soldiers in the area have found several similar explosives
in the area before they detonated.
In three months,
though, in an area notorious for roadside bombs, Jones’ men haven’t suffered a
single casualty.
It’s still early,
and with the melting snow traditionally comes more fighting, but Jones says he
is more comfortable handling a firefight than playing Russian roulette with
cleverly concealed bombs.
Even in the midst
of a steady, chilly rain on a recent patrol through fields of mud and snow, the
infantry Soldiers weren’t complaining.
“It doesn’t
really bother me,” said
Sgt. George Inana, 27, of Mobile, Ala. “That’s the job.”
What is perhaps more surprising than Company B’s almost complete abandonment of
vehicles is the fact that more units haven’t followed suit. In 2009, 275
coalition troops were killed by roadside bombs, more than 60 percent of total
casualties, with that percentage holding steady this year. Sixty troops already
have been killed by the bombs, according to icasualties.org.
In Afghanistan’s
bomb-plagued south, troops regularly commute to patrols in everything from
heavily armored Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected vehicles to the lightly armored
eight-wheeled Strykers, a vehicle that has proven nimble in urban combat but has
a miserable record of protecting Soldiers against buried explosives.
For Lt.
Col. Matt
McFarlane, who commands forces in Wardak province, pushing his men off the roads
was an easy call, in line with directives from Gen. Stanley McChrystal to have a
less intimidating presence and act more as guests than occupiers. Lumbering
through a town in hulking armored vehicles sends a very different message from
walking up with a handshake, said McFarlane, 40, of Burke, Va.
“When
we’re walking around, we’re at the people’s level. It allows us to engage the
population, it allows the population to engage us.”
Hawaii braces for a
potentially damaging tsunami triggered by the
earthquake off Chile
Areas on lookout
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Please watch this very short video to
give a champion World Cup Winning Horse not end up in a Mexican
Slaughter House but at the HOpe Ranch to help disabled children:
Photography by Scot Facer
Proctor
Maurine and
Scot Proctor, Meridian's editor and publisher, are currently in
Haiti with 125 LDS medical, construction and translation volunteers
from Utah.
Much of Haiti
lies in rubble. Collapsed roofs lie at angles, smashed against the
floor below them. Cinder blocks slant in heaps along the roads. Some
streets in Port-au-Prince look like old pictures of bombed-out
Berlin after World War II. It's a horror, an apocalypse.
Yet, amidst a
shoddy neighborhood stands a jewel, the Croix-des-Missions LDS
church and sounding through the air is a hymn: How Firm a
Foundation.
It is a
particularly well-chosen song in a land whose physical foundations
could not stand the earth's tremors, but whose Latter-day Saints
have proven to be remarkably resilient. They know that though all
but a handful have lost their homes, their foundation is in the
gospel of Jesus Christ and that is firm.
Attending the
3-hour church block on Sunday felt remarkably normal to us. There
were the Saints dressed well, many in crisp, white shirts that
looked newly ironed. The deacons wore their white shirts and ties
as they reverently passed the sacrament.
How can this
be? Without homes, they are living on the street in
hastily-assembled, makeshift shelters on any flat land that is
available. Their walls may be sheets hung over ropes or pieces of
cardboard. Their beds are concrete or hard earth. Everything they
owned-and that already wasn't much-has been stripped from them by an
initial quake that lasted about 45 seconds and after shocks that
continued for days.
Haiti, right
now and for the foreseeable future, is a land sleeping out. People
fill the church's courtyards at night-and instead of woe, they laugh
and talk. They have shanties on the median strip between two lanes
of riotous traffic.
We asked member
after member, how can you be so beautifully groomed on Sunday, given
your conditions? They answered that because most everyone is now
living in the street, they are indeed dirty during the week, plagued
by all the ills that befalls a newly-made street person, but, they
added that though they had no water to drink, they had water good
enough to wash their clothes.
So there they
were singing about what really is their firm foundation and looking
like any other LDS congregation across the world-except they are
homeless. Their Lessons and Talks
That is not
all. Their lessons and talks were sophisticated and scripturally
based, as if they had a library and computer at their fingertips to
prepare instead of the side of the road.
The sacrament
meeting began with strains of "Come, come ye Saints, no toil, nor
labor fear, but with joy wend your way." For most of us who come
from other nations, we would be hard-pressed to find joy in
impoverished and broken Haiti before the earthquake, let alone now,
but they sang like they meant it, "Happy day, all is well."
They prayed,
"We are all thankful to be counted among the living. We are
grateful to know of thy truth. There are many outside the walls of
this church who do not have this truth to sustain them through the
trials. We know we were kept alive because we have a mission to
complete. Bless us all that we can be strong and take care of each
other."
We listened
tearfully. The sacrament was passed and each of the seven children
sitting on the row next to us took not a single piece of bread but a
scoop each. They are hungry.
Then we heard a
talk, a surprising, enriching talk from France Nathalie Desir-so
beautifully done.
She told the audience:
"For some of the adversity we face, we can place the weight on our
own shoulders because we are not obeying God's laws. That adversity
we can control, but there are some kinds of adversity we can't
control like the earthquake. We didn't do anything to attract it.
We all had friends and families who were killed. A lot of people are
discouraged and have lost faith, but we as members of the Church now
have a mission.
"We know why we
have adversities. They are to make us stronger. We have the
freedom to either let them overcome us or to make us strong. Just
as we send little children to school, the Lord has sent us here for
a school.
"Our big enemy
is our pride that keeps us from loving our neighbour and obeying the
commandments.Since January 12, we all have experienced sleeping
outside. As I was lying in the courtyard looking up at the stars, I
knew this was the time to manifest charity and mourn with those who
mourn, give food to those who need food.
"We have a certain joy, and the joy is knowing these things are
temporary. The trials we are given on earth are for us, and the
Lord knows everything we are going through and they are to augment
our faith and bring us to God."
Primary and Youth
The primary children at the ward were
as happy, giggly and bright as any children in the world-maybe more
so.
Their lesson was on the plan of
salvation and the teacher talked to them-just as you'd think-about
the premortal, mortal world, paradise and resurrection, complete
with the traditional hand in the glove to describe what happens when
we are born and when we die. You can see them here.
The lessons for the youth were very
much like those for the adults.
We must be strong in this time of
adversity. We must reach out with love to those who are
discouraged. Home Teaching
Francy Saint-Preux, the High Priest
group leader for the ward, said doing home teaching is ten times
harder than it used to be because people are no longer in their
homes and sleeping somewhere on the street, but after the quake they
made every effort to assure that everyone was safe. Temporal needs
are difficult to meet because they are so overwhelming and every
priesthood leader is inundated. They'll do anything to help, but
there are some things they just can't do.
Francy said, "The island is in disarray from top to bottom."
He noted, "One of the first things I had to do as a leader in the
high priests is to restore confidence in the members. I remind them
that the important things are still intact. Your kids are safe. You
have the gospel. I encourage people to focus on staying close to
God.
"What we teach the members is the gospel," he said. Our gospel is
simple--pray, read your scriptures, pay your tithing and work. Do
everything you can to work. Even the solution to a temporal problem
is a spiritual one. Get back to the basics."
Meet the Members
We are here in Haiti with 70
Haitian-speaking missionaries who are assisting in translating for
medical teams and food delivery. At the airport before we left, we
asked several of them why their loyalty and love for the Haitian
people was so intense. Richard Clawson, a former missionary summed
it up: "I met so many people in Haiti who are friendly and
wonderful, but I also met a number of people in Haiti who I would
aspire to be if I can. I met people who were role models to me."
Watching them deal with this devastating crisis, you can see what he
means. Meet some of the members: Guerby Pierre
Guerby Pierre is one of those
exceptional people in Haiti who actually has a job. He is
well-educated and has a job as an accountant with a billboard
company. He tells what happened to him when the earthquake hit:
"The things I saw during the earthquake are forever engraved on my
memory. You see things in disaster movies, but it is nothing like
when it happens in real life, and I cannot ever forget it.
"I was inside at my work, working at
my computer, at what seemed like a normal day. Then, all of a
sudden with a roaring noise, it seemed like a giant beast had taken
the building in his arms and was twisting and shaking it back and
forth. My screen fell off my desk; bookshelves started falling, and
I ran for the door, but could hardly keep my footing with the
shaking. As I stood at the door, the wall I had been leaning
against before completely collapsed.
"It is so different when you experience this in real life. People
think of the great earthquakes in 3rd Nephi. People outside thought
it was the Second Coming.
"My work is destroyed. That was my
livelihood. I went to my house and it is completely gone, but I was
able to go in and get the things that really mattered to me-my
temple recommend, my passport, some clothes and my scriptures."
He held up his battered scriptures at that moment, the gilt-edged
pages long ago worn away, and we asked him, "Did that happen to your
scriptures during the earthquake?"
He just smiled back and said, "No, I really love my scriptures and I
use them all the time."
The day before the earthquake a tune started wafting through
Guerby's mind. Again and again it came and stayed with him through
the day. He realized that the words were "The Lord my pasture will
prepare, and guard me with a shepherd's care."
He was so impressed with the message that returned again and again
to him, that he wrote down the words to the hymn and sent them in a
note to his sweetheart. The next day the meaning was still in his
soul as his world was hurled apart, and he knew that no matter what
happened, the Lord had already sent him a message of comfort.
Now, Guerby is sleeping outside in a tent every night. The way he
looks at it is his first job is to take care of his friends and
other members of the Church. Even if he doesn't have a lot of money
he can strengthen them. His second job as an accountant is gone, so
he has more time for his first job.
Some things are really hard. It is hard to think that after working
hard to become college-educated that he might be back to shining
shoes to get enough money to live on. And it's hard not to have a
home. He misses the feeling of something comfortable and
recognizable to come back to at night.
He's holding on. He had saved a little money. He got some food and
shoes from the bishop.
Each night as he lays under the
stars, it reminds him of what is really important in life. He said,
"In one sense I have nothing, but in another, I have everything
because I have the gospel, and this earthquake has only augmented my
testimony. My life is changed. The earthquake simplified it.
Since the earthquake, I could all of a suddenly think clearly."
Gone are certain things he thought were really important. Instead,
he is hoping to find a way to take his best friend and sweetheart to
the temple to be married.
"Life can be hard sometimes," he says, "but it will be OK." Charles Marie Murielle
"When the earthquake happened, I was inside my house. I had just
come from school because I am studying to be a nurse. There was a
professor who was absent, so I came home early.
"I was just taking off my uniform when the earthquake started. I
heard the noise and felt the earthquake and thought to myself, this
is an earthquake.
"After it stopped, I found myself, I
was yelling, but I had a strong feeling I shouldn't leave my house.
I should just stay there. I went to open my door to go out, and my
door was blocked, I couldn't open it.
"I said a sincere prayer. I told the Lord that I was not ready to
die. I don't have a family, yet, and I haven't been to the temple.
With a lot of strategy I was able to open the door by myself.
"Outside, everyone was crying and
screaming out to God, 'What is going on?' The farther I got out, I
saw that churches had fallen and people had been killed.
"My school which is four stories tall had collapsed and all the
students and teachers had been killed. I would have been there if
my teacher had not shown up.
"All communications were cut off. No radio. No telephone. No one
knew what was going on. We were all trying to find an open space.
We kept hearing instructions, "Don't go inside. Don't go inside."
"From time to time the earth would shake again. I was continually
scared. I was the only member of the Church nearby, and I felt like
I was alone. People from other religions were making a lot of noise
and were screaming. I found myself in silence because the Spirit
told me exactly what to do. I knew it was not the end of the world.
"I prayed, 'Give me strength so that
I can hold on.' I found the strength to help a few people who were
injured. I found a lot of people who were in shock. The next day I
met a brother from the church who came to my house to see if I was
OK. He told me I needed to come to the church that all of the
members were meeting there. That gave me strength.
We asked her what the future holds for her without money or a house
or a school. She said she is determined to find a way to finish her
nursing, but for now, she lives at the church and she's scared to go
back to her house. Maybe she will make cookies to sell.
Erick Goimbert
Erick had just picked his son up from school and gone home when the
house started hurling back and forth with roaring, pounding,
confusing noises. A dresser hit the wall and whipped around and hit
him in the eye. Then pieces of the roof began crashing down, and he
ran into the other room to get his son.
They didn't try to get out, as it was
hard to stand, impossible to walk. They just started praying. He
did not know it was an earthquake as he had never experienced
anything so overwhelming before.
When they finally made their lurching way out of the house, he saw
that all the houses around him were completely destroyed and his
neighbors had been killed.
Now, he and his family are sleeping
wherever they can find a spot at night, mostly in the road by their
house. He'd like to come and sleep at the church, but his home is
too far away.
He has no tent, but sleeps under some corrugated tin cover. Every
morning he doesn't know where to get food. He just waits day to day
for help. Like most Haitians, he doesn't have a job, and his wife
just sells things in the street.
Among his slim possessions are a few Tylenol pills for when his
back, hit by the dresser in the quake, hurts too much.
He says with some good cheer,
"Everybody is praying. There is definitely a feeling of unity and
my testimony has been strengthened. You drive through my
neighbourhood and mine was the only house that is not completely
destroyed.
What for the future? He sees no possibilities to rebuild a house.
He has no money and can't see where he could possibly get any. Polycarpe Macking
The day of the earthquake, two of his children had just come home
from school and were watching television. He was out in the front
yard feeding the chickens, their main source of livelihood.
About 4:45, he started to feel the
shaking movement. Immediately his children ran outside as the
roaring, pitching earth got worse. As soon as they ran outside, the
house collapsed.
They knelt down and, crying, said a prayer for his wife and other
daughter, asking that they would be safe. They found her quickly
for which he was grateful.
Now, he doesn't know what he's going
to do. "God must have a plan for me," he said, "and I'm just going
to have to see what it is."
The scriptures are his life and he
loves to read.
A vibrant young man, he still hasn't had a job for seven years, and
the few chickens they had were crushed or scattered in the
earthquake. For now, they are sleeping in their yard. They have no
money to rebuild. Group Photograph
We couldn't help ourselves in wanting
to show the amazing light and joy in the faces of the Haitian Saints
here in the Croix-des-Missions Ward in Port-au-Prince.
The bishop announced in the meeting
that we would all gather after their sacrament meeting (sacrament
was last) and have a group picture of the ward. He said he wanted
all the children and youth and everyone to come. Some of the
investigators who were there on this day asked if they should be a
part of this picture. We said, "Of course you are a part
of this!"
We then told our translators to
instruct them to do something we learned from then President David
Bednar at BYU-Idaho. We told them to hold up their scriptures high
and let us see them.
We saw every variety of scriptures,
manuals and hymnbooks go up into the air.
Many of the children wanted to gather
for their own group picture.
Their faces captured it all.
--
This is a glimpse of the members of the Croix-des-Missions ward
after the earthquake. It's good they can sing "Happy day, all is
well," because like the handcart pioneers of old they have nothing
but God's help and the help of his children to see them through.
Last month’s devastating earthquake in Haiti affected over three
million people. The United Nations continues to coordinate relief
and reconstruction efforts with more than 600 NGOs and other
humanitarian organizations on the ground. But there is still a lot
to do, and the UN peacekeepers will be there every step of the way
to help Haiti rebuild.
On February 18, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched a “flash
appeal” of $1.44 billion for humanitarian and early recovery
assistance.
With the rainy season set to begin in April, the most urgent
priorities are shelter and sanitation. Also
critical: removing rubble and identifying suitable land for
constructing transitional shelters.
To help meet the Secretary General’s appeal, we are excited to
announce big news from our sister organization, the United Nations
Foundation. Last week, reigning AMERICAN IDOL Kris Allen and UN
Foundation CEO Kathy Calvin flew to Haiti to raise awareness of the
country’s continuing needs after January’s earthquake. Special footage of
their trip will air tonight at 8pm/7c on FOX during a special
episode of AMERICAN IDOL dedicated to Haiti.
This evening, millions of Americans will learn what you and I
already know: that the work of the UN has
an impact that goes far beyond clean water, medical care, and public
safety -- it supports the efforts of the Haitian people to rebuild
their lives and their country.
The UN and the Haitian people are working hard to rebuild. We are
grateful to have the support of FOX and Kris Allen, but we’re even
more grateful to have people like you supporting the lifesaving work
of the United Nations.
P.S. If you’re on Twitter, use the hashtag
#UNFIdol to share and connect with other AMERICAN IDOL and UN
Foundation fans.
The disaster in Haiti is fading
from the headlines. But the International Rescue Committee's
humanitarian work there is in full swing.
Join us for a live telephone briefing with Gillian Dunn, IRC's
Director of Emergency Response, who has been leading our efforts to
deliver critical aid in Port-au-Prince since the days immediately
following the earthquake.
You will also hear from IRC child protection experts Sarah Smith
and Rebecca Chandler, who are helping launch healing and
recreational programs for Haitian children and bringing to bear
IRC's expertise in reuniting separated children with their families.
I will moderate this exclusive Briefing. And you will have the
opportunity to ask our guests questions during the call.
Date: Friday, February 26, 2010
Time: 1:00-2:00 pm EST
Register:
Click here to register. Or call 1-888-861-6526.
Your confirmation code is 1526945.
Dial-In: We will email you the dial-in number after you register.
The Briefing will provide an in depth look into how the IRC is
working to meet the immediate needs of vulnerable children and to
safeguard the rights of women, who face an increased threat of
sexual and physical violence in the aftermath of disasters.
Our speakers are experts in humanitarian relief, and I can attest
that their eyewitness accounts of life on the ground in Haiti will
give you a new perspective on both the challenges and opportunities
the country faces.
There is a widespread, ongoing government-corporate
Ignoring the Law and Authorizing Torture is Not
Misconduct According to Justice Department
The Justice Department finally issued its
report on whether or not Bush attorneys John Yoo and Judge Jay
Bybee violated any rules of professional conduct worthy of
discipline when they drafted the now infamous torture memos and
advised the administration on the treatment of detainees. Not
surprisingly, the Department declined to refer either Yoo or Bybee
to state bar committees for misconduct proceedings despite nothing
short of a scathing assessment of their conduct in authorizing
torture.
The lack of surprise comes not from my deepening cynicism that we'll
witness any real accounting for those who conceived of and promoted
criminal policy in the name of national security. Rather, the lack
of surprise comes from an understanding that in self-policing
professions like the law, only those who intentionally and
deliberately refuse to exercise sound professional judgment are at
risk of becoming embroiled in a misconduct hearing. Lawyers tend to
protect their own, a fact made abundantly clear in the Justice
Department's report.
For Bybee and Yoo the report is hardly vindication of their time
spent at the Office of Legal Counsel. In fact, the Department
shreds their legal analysis and all but says the men were less
lawyers than blinded ideologues, too devoted to their fundamentally
flawed view of executive power to craft legally sound opinions. As
lawyers, the Department concludes, they failed in their single duty
to provide appropriate advice to their client--in this case the
President and Vice President. That failure was negligent, and even
grossly negligent at times, but it does not rise to the level of
professional misconduct.
Yes, only the law could create a distinction that allows one of its
lawyers to fail in doing his or her job and avoid any professional
repercussions. That is, in part, because professional misconduct
proceedings are not the only way we deal with lawyerly mistakes.
Typically clients who have received bad advice, and relied on it to
their detriment, have the ability to proceed via a malpractice
claim-- a standard civil remedy that has nothing at all to do with
professional misconduct proceedings. Not so, in this case.
In this case we have arguably one of the most egregious reported
acts of legal malpractice yet no ability to address it. Both men
continue on in their professions (as a law professor and federal
appeals court judge, respectively) while as a country we scramble to
piece together what remains of our Constitution and of our
reputation. But unfortunately since Yoo and Bybee's client was
President Bush and Vice President Cheney and not the American
people, professional misconduct proceedings were the only realistic
avenue for securing justice for the torture memos. With that
possibility now off the table it looks more and more like the only
real hope for justice will come from European trials.
Congress has
not given up just yet. House Judiciary Committee Chairman John
Conyers and Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy both condemned
the findings and announced plans to hold hearings on the report.
According to Conyers, the hearings are important because the report
"reveals that the [torture] memos were not the independent product
of the Department of Justice, but were shaped by top officials of
the Bush White House." In a statement Senator Leahy said the report
"is a condemnation of the legal memoranda drafted by key architects
of the Bush administration's legal policy, including Jay Bybee and
John Yoo on the treatment of detainees. The deeply flawed legal
opinions proffered by these former OLC officials created a 'golden
shield' that sought to protect from scrutiny and prosecution the
Bush administration's torture of detainees in U.S. custody."
What these hearings will uncover that is not already in the report
is unclear, but Rep Conyers and Sen. Leahy should be applauded for
not letting this issue just go away quietly. Unfortunately the pomp
of Congressional hearings means little with the reality of a
prosecution shield for those members of the Bush administration with
blood on their hands.
Wanted man runs in Iraqi elections UPI
Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:53 AM PST
TEHRAN, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- An Iraqi Shiite lawmaker informally
exiled in Tehran said he won't be campaigning in public in
Iraq because he fears arrest, or worse, by U.S.
officials.
Iraq to Rehire 20,000 Hussein-Era Army Officers New York Times
Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:48 AM PST
The reinstatement was surprising, because it came on the
heels of a decision to ban hundreds of candidates from the
upcoming election, supposedly for supporting the former
regime.
Egypt, Iraq talk bilateral relations Daily News
Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:41 AM PST
Egypt: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak discussed with Iraqi
Vice- President Tareq Al-Hashemi the status of their
relations and the pre-elections situation in Iraq
marked by violence.
Iraq's Uncertain Future: Elections and Beyond AlertNet
Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:38 AM PST
Source: International Crisis Group The run-up to the Iraqi
elections on 7 March has brought to light deep-seated
problems that threaten the countryâ??s fragile recovery.
KBR profit falls 17 percent in fourth quarter Houston Chronicle
Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:35 AM PST
Houston-based engineering firm KBR saw its net income fall
17 percent in the fourth quarter on revenue that slipped 12
percent, as demand for its Iraq-related services
began to slow.
Anti-American bloc gaining ground ahead of Iraqi
national elections The Morning Call
Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:03 PM PST
BAGHDAD (AP) â?� The political movement of Iraq's best-known
anti-American cleric has emerged as a major contender in next
month's national elections, raising the possibility that the next
prime minister could be openly hostile to the U.S. and friendly
toward Iran.
Veterans: Why 'The Hurt Locker' Isn't Reality Newsweek
Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:40 AM PST
'The Hurt Locker' has dazzled cinephiles and critics alike, and is a
favorite for best picture and best director at March 7's Oscars. But
a crucial group remains less than enchanted with the film about the
Iraq War: veterans.
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this buddy was the only thing keeping this Marine going in a war
zone and the only thing that will keep him sane when he gets back
from this war and all the horror he has seen. That is
why we help.
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Tuesday, February 02, 2010 10:09 AM Subject:
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Hi Everyone,
We raised enough money
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been adopted by one of the other Marines. Please
pass this link around and if you can help that would
be great. Thank you everyone you all have been
amazing at helping us get our Marine's Furry Friends
home.
Gritty
Iraq thriller The Hurt Locker and
blockbuster eco-extravaganza Avatar are
squaring off at the British Academy Film
Awards - a possible preview of their
showdown at the Academy Awards in Los
Angeles next month.
Each film
has eight nominations for Sunday's
prizes, including best picture and best
director for Avatar's James Cameron and
Hurt Locker's Kathryn Bigelow, former
spouses turned awards season rivals.
The
two directors, who were married from
1989 to 1991, are also going head to
head at the March 7 Oscars, where their
films have nine nominations apiece.
Top US
commander sees progress in two campaigns KOIN News 6 Portland
Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:48 AM PST
PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) â?� The U.S.
commander overseeing troops in Iraq
and Afghanistan says that the military
is on pace to shift away from a combat
mission in Iraq but that
casualties will worsen in Afghanistan.
Will you help me send them 4th of July
Cards and Christmas CAre Packages in
AFghanistan please?
www.letterstosoldiers.org
Dear Denise,
As reported on CNN, the Associated Press and the New York Times, Dr.
Ivor van Heerden has filed a wrongful termination lawsuit in Louisiana
state court against Louisiana State University (LSU).
Surrounded by big name supporters, Dr. van Heerden stood with his
attorneys who opened the press conference last week.
The suit alleges that LSU officials waged a campaign of retaliatory
harassment against Dr. van Heerden after an investigation team he led,
looking at the failure of the levees after Katrina, concluded that the
Army Corps of Engineers failed to safeguard metropolitan New Orleans.
LSU gets significant federal funding directly from the Corps.
LSU's campus newspaper immediately issued a strongly worded rebuke of
the LSU administration.
Discovery may reveal and make public that the leading hurricane
scientists in the state were intimidated and then fired by LSU at the
command of the Corps.
Ivor van Heerden has served on the advisory board to Levees.org since
2007 and recently accepted a position on Levees.org's board of
directors. (Records with the State of Louisiana will soon be updated.)
We have never been prouder to stand by anyone: Dr. Ivor van Heerden.
What you can do today:
The best thing right now is ask supporters of Dr. van Heerden to join
Levees.org.
Ask them to go to
www.levees.org and simply enter their first name, zip and email.
Levees.org will closely watch the progress of this lawsuit. And if
anything is announced, organized or revealed, we will alert you via
email on how and what you can support Dr. van Heerden.
Levees.org videotaped the entire press conference on Feb 10 and will
release it in segments in the upcoming weeks.
Thank you for supporting Levees.org.
Sandy Rosenthal
Founder, Levees.org
www.levees.org Thanks to you, The Katrina Myth, our video on the truth about
the New Orleans flooding has passed a milestone - 100,000 views!
If you haven't yet, click here to watch this short important documentary
that exposes the key myths and misunderstandings about the August 2005
flood.
The past few weeks
have been particularly hard. Since
I filed a federal lawsuit against McDonald's,
the media has taken an interest in this case.
While I am determined to hold McDonald's
accountable for their flagrant discriminatory
practices and an assault and battery perpetrated
by their employees, it has been stressful to
have to revisit memories of war and trauma
through a myriad of media interviews.
When I came home from my second tour in Iraq in
2006 and departed the Army in 2007, I had no
idea I would have to personally battle for my
own rights — rights I committed to protect for
the better part of my life. I knew that
recovering from war was going to take time, but
I never, in a million years, thought that I
would have to defend the right to live in my
neighborhood and go about my day just as any
other person does.
So now that it's come to this, I thought I would
share some of what's been going on over the past
few weeks...
Please call today to stop Nuclear
Dangerous Risks to come to Utah:
You want talking points? Here are some some
quick-but-not-nearly-as-dirty-as-Vermont-Yankee
talking points (from
NIRS) for your calls on Thursday:
The American people are tired of corporate
bailouts. In this case, taxpayers would provide the loans and take
all the risk. The large utilities would take any profits, and
taxpayers would pay for all losses. That is fundamentally unfair to
the American people.
Congress should wait and see how the current
loans (to the Vogtle reactors in Georgia and likely one or two more
reactors) fare before risking even more taxpayer money on nuclear
loans.
Nuclear power remains dirty and dangerous, as
demonstrated by the recent toxic tritium leaks at the Vermont Yankee
reactor and elsewhere.
It would be folly to repeat the mistakes of
the past and encourage new reactor construction when we still don't
know how to handle the radioactive waste from existing reactors.
We need to address the climate crisis with the
fastest, cheapest, cleanest and safest means possible of reducing
carbon emissions. Nuclear power is the slowest, most expensive,
dirtiest and most dangerous technology available. And nuclear power
is not carbon-free: its carbon footprint is greater than wind,
solar, and energy efficiency.
Our goal should be to attain a nuclear-free,
carbon-free energy future.
Thousands across the country are calling to make our voices
heard. We need your voice, please call today!
Thanks,
Arthur Morris
State Organizer
HEAL Utah
801.355.5055
healutah.org
National
Association for Gun Rights Executive Director, Dudley Brown, has
recorded an urgent message for you regarding Hillary
Clinton's “Small Arms Treaty” with the UN.
We desperately need you to listen to Dudley’s message and sign
the petition to your Senators demanding opposition to the “Small
Arms Treaty.”
After signing the petition, please make a generous contribution
to help NAGR oppose this radical gun-grabbing treaty.
Sincerely,
Luke O'Dell Director of Operations
National Association for Gun Rights
I’m sitting at a makeshift desk in my hotel room here in
Washington, D.C., writing just as fast as I can type.
Earlier this afternoon, I delivered to Congress boxes
upon boxes of the petitions good folks like you have
sent back to the National Association for Gun Rights
over these past few months.
My hope was, after delivering those petitions, I’d grab
a bite to eat and catch up with some friends . . . or
maybe see what the Jefferson Memorial looks like lit up
at night.
But what I saw and heard today on Capital Hill left
me scared stiff so I’m writing to urge you to take
IMMEDIATE action.
You see, Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Reid and the
rest of the anti-gun Democrat leadership in Congress
have read the “tea leaves.”
They know the political winds are changing. They
know more and more Americans from all over the country
are getting FED UP.
But they’re not backing down.
Instead, they’re counting on “The Machine” -- their pals
in various left-wing groups across the country -- to
turn out the vote and make sure they hold on to their
huge majorities in Congress this November.
Most liberal groups are falling in line. They’re more
than happy with all the legislative goodies they’ve been
given.
But with Sarah Brady and the rest of the gun-control
crowd, it’s a different story.
They’re FURIOUS.
They’re screaming that they’ve been given NOTHING in
return for putting anti-gun Democrats in power.
In fact, some gun control groups have even begun telling
anti-gun politicians that they’ll sit out the November
elections if they don’t see IMMEDIATE action on their
agenda!
Believe me, that’s the last thing Speaker Pelosi and
Majority Leader Reid want to hear.
That’s why you can be sure the Democrats in Congress
will do EVERYTHING they can to ram every item on
the gun-grabbers’ agenda into law, including:
*** H.R. 2159, the Disarming American
Citizens Act allowing anti-gun Attorney
General Eric Holder to revoke the Second
Amendment rights of ANY American he chooses
based on pure “suspicion”;
*** A new so-called “Assault Weapons” Ban,
targeting ALL semi-automatic rifles and shotguns
-- which, unlike the Clinton ban, will NEVER
expire;
*** H.R. 45, the “Catch-All” Obama Gun
Control Bill, which would create a national
gun registry, require a two-day waiting period,
hike taxes on gun sales, federally ban ALL
private firearms sales, and FORCE you to take a
written exam just to prove you’re “fit” to own a
firearm;
*** The U.N.’s so-called “Small Arms Treaty,”
which would confiscate and destroy ALL
“unauthorized” civilian firearms and set the
stage for INTERNATIONAL gun confiscation.
You see, considering the current balance of power in
Washington, D.C., you and I are already going into these
fights with our backs against the wall.
But to make matters worse, I’m afraid some
Republicans in Congress I met with don’t have the
stomach for an all-out fight.
In fact, I was asked point blank by a few Republicans
what “sensible” gun control bill I’d be “ok with” as a
compromise!
They explained how they wanted to “take the lead on
the gun control issue” to keep from getting hammered in
the press.
Perhaps I shouldn’t have. Perhaps it was the wrong
thing to do.
But I couldn’t help but get MAD.
I said the only gun bills I’m “ok with” are those that
RESTORE freedom -- NOT those that take freedom away!
I said they were completely missing the boat! Haven’t
they seen the Tea Parties?
Don’t they know just how ANGRY many Americans are at
all the madness we’ve seen coming out of Washington, D.C.?
They just laughed and said all those Tea Parties they’ve
been ignoring aren’t really about guns.
They said gun owners LIKE YOU “always vote Republican
no matter what!”
Frankly, I’d like to believe these Republicans are just
spineless -- that they’re just cowards who
crumble at the sight of Katie Couric or Keith Olbermann.
But it could be something more sinister.
You see, it’s no secret on Capital Hill the gun control
crowd is frustrated with the Democrat Congressional
Leadership.
I’m afraid these Republicans may just be scheming to
take the LEAD on gun control in a misguided attempt to
“grow the GOP tent!”
That’s why you and I must
act NOW. There’s no
time to waste.
Believe me, if you and I can mobilize enough Americans,
not only will we PROVE to every Republican that we’re
DEAD SERIOUS about our gun rights, but Democrats
will get the message as well.
The fact is, there are numerous Democrat Congressmen and
Senators representing swing districts and states.
I saw more than a few of their troubled faces when I
delivered huge stacks of petitions earlier today.
They’re worried about making Second Amendment supporters
angry -- but they’re also worried about losing support
from gun-control groups.
This
SECOND AMENDMENT PLEDGE simply states
that ANY Congressman or Senator who supports
ANY gun control legislation in the current Congress
deserves to be defeated this November REGARDLESS of
political party.
So won’t you please sign your pledge immediately so I
can distribute copies to your Congressman and Senators?
The fact is too many Congressmen and Senators are going
to decide between voting with us or voting with Sarah
Brady and the gun-control crowd based SOLELY on which
side turns up the most heat.
So in addition to your signed
SECOND AMENDMENT PLEDGE, I hope you’ll
also make a generous contribution of $200, $100, $50, or
$35 to help me create a grassroots firestorm.
From my hotel room tonight, I will finish working out
every detail of a full-scale nationwide program using
mail,
e-mail, blogs -- and if we can raise the additional
resources -- targeted radio, newspaper, and TV ads, as
well.
I don’t care if it takes me all night. There’s too
much at stake.
Of course, such a massive nationwide effort won’t be
cheap -- especially because everything is last minute.
But Denise, if we don’t
act now, I’m afraid everything you and I
have worked so hard to stop could be rammed into law.
I don’t know about you, but I can hardly stomach that
thought.
So please sign your
SECOND AMENDMENT PLEDGE at once. And please
also include your most generous contribution of $200,
$100, $50, or $35!
Dudley Brown
Executive Director
National Association for Gun Rights
P.S. The gun-grabbers are demanding Nancy Pelosi and
Harry Reid take IMMEDIATE action on their radical
anti-gun agenda -- or they’re threatening to sit out
the next election.
Worse, some Republicans believe gun owners can be
taken for granted and ignored!
That’s why it’s vital you act IMMEDIATELY by signing
the
SECOND AMENDMENT PLEDGE I've made
up for you which simply states that ANY Congressman
or Senator who supports ANY gun control legislation
deserves to be defeated REGARDLESS of party!
Colo. man leads vets on winter road trip - Army News,
news from
Iraq, - Army Times Army Times
Sun, 31 Jan 2010 11:41 AM PST
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. The first time Routt County
resident Rob Powers met Sgt. Austin "Ice" Eisinger, Sgt.
Chris "Bear" Bair and Spc. Jeff "Buckshot" Baker, there
was a multi-day sandstorm raging outside in 120-degree
heat.
Pregnant G.I.â??s Could Be Punished New York Times
Sat,
19 Dec 2009 11:30 AM PST
An Army general in northern Iraq has added pregnancy to
the list of reasons a soldier under his command could be
court-martialed.
"Russia Warns US Communist Threat Endangering Entire World
A lot of good information in this one, I strongly suggest you read and think
about it.
About 4,000 BC - Ether 2:8 And he had sworn in his wrath unto the brother
of Jared, that whoso should possess this land of promise, (America) from that
time henceforth and forever, should serve him, the true and only God, or they
should be swept off when the fulness of his wrath should come upon them.
9 And now, we can behold the decrees of God concerning this land, that it is a
land of promise; and whatsoever nation shall possess it shall serve God, or they
shall be swept off when the fulness of his wrath shall come upon them.
And the fulness of his wrath cometh upon them when they are ripened in iniquity.
10 For behold, this is a land which is choice above all other lands; (America)
wherefore he that doth possess it shall serve God or shall be swept off;
for it is the everlasting decree of God. And it is not until the fulness
of iniquity among the children of the land, that they are swept off.
11 And this cometh unto you, O ye Gentiles, that ye may know the decrees of
God—that ye may repent, and not continue in your iniquities until the fulness
come, that ye may not bring down the fulness of the wrath of God upon you as the
inhabitants of the land have hitherto done.
12 Behold, this is a choice land, and whatsoever nation shall possess it shall
be free from bondage, and from captivity, and from all other nations under
heaven, if they will but serve the God of the land, who is Jesus Christ, who
hath been manifested by the things which we have written. (emphasis - mine)
This has already happened twice, about 200 BC and 400 AD to two separate
civilizations / peoples.
Repent pray for your souls your families and nation.
They called My servants paper terrorists (the free men) they wanted terrorists I have given them terrorists I will not always strive with man whom I have created if they will not listen to My servants I will preach them a sermon with the elements I the Lord God will not be mocked.
Jesus Christ fall 2K1" Emailed by James Elmer
--
Jan. 30: The transportation of critically injured patients by the U.S. military has been temporarily halted over an issue Americans are all too familiar with: the cost of health care. NBC’s Kerry Sanders reports As Haitian corrupt Govt officials return to corrupt bribes to allow needed medical supplies to get into the country. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/35160631#35160631
10 Americans held in Haiti; tried to move kids 8 of 10 back in US, some were just volunteer carpenter, some of kids they had taken were given to them by parents.
Members of U.S. group claim it’s case of missing documents, not trafficking
NBC News and
news
services
updated 1
hour, 29
minutes ago
PORT-AU-PRINCE -
Haitian police
arrested 10 U.S.
citizens after they
tried to take 33
Haitian children out
of the
earthquake-stricken
nation, authorities
said Saturday.
The five men
and five women were
in custody in
Port-au-Prince after
their arrests on
Friday evening,
Reuters reported.
Their arrests
followed fears that
traffickers were
trying to exploit
the chaos and
turmoil following
Haiti's January 12
earthquake quake to
engage in illegal
adoptions.
The Americans
told NBC News they
were being charged
with child
trafficking,
although they
believe it was a
misunderstanding
regarding proper
documentation.
One of the arrested women, who
said she is leader of an Idaho-based
charity called New Life Children's
Refuge, denied any wrongdoing.
Sean Lankford of the Central
Valley Baptist Church in Meridian,
Idaho, said that his wife and
18-year-old daughter are among those
held.
New Life members told NBC News
that they had a signed letter from a
Haitian pastor releasing the children to
them, and they also had documentation
from the Domician Republican government
that was awaiting them at the border.
The suspects were detained at
Malpasse, Haiti's main border crossing
with the Dominican Republic, after
Haitian police conducted a routine
search of their vehicle.
Authorities maintained the
Americans had no documents to prove they
had cleared the adoption of the 33
children — aged 2 months to 12 years —
through any embassy and no papers
showing they were made orphans by the
quake in the impoverished Caribbean
country.
"This is totally
illegal," said Yves Cristalin, Haiti's social affairs
minister told Reuters. "No children can leave Haiti without
proper authorization and these people did not have that
authorization."
The children were
moved to another orphanage in Haiti, while the New Life
delegation remained in jail awaiting word from the U.S.
embassy.
U.S. authorities
could not be reached for immediate comment on the arrests.
Information
available online for New Life Children's Refuge confirmed
the names of the detained Americans and their mission to
rescue orphans from Port-au-Prince and return them to an
orphanage across the border.
Haiti has imposed
new controls on adoptions since the Jan. 12 earthquake. The
government now requires Prime Minister Max Bellerive to
personally authorize the departure of any child as a way to
prevent child trafficking.
Officials
estimate that thousands of kids have been separated from
their parents or orphaned by the earthquake.
Though 150,000 recovered dead, and 100,000 more estimated: President of Haiti retracted his
statement or stopping rescue as rescue continues and more are found alive on
11th day as one more man found alive today: ONe American could not stand by idly
anymore and went to Haiti with just a blackberry and found American woman that
would have died and got ARMY to bring her to medical aid and back to US, and
help one at a time, another lost her VISA and he was able to get copies for her,
and we can all do something.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/35031832#35031832
100 Volunteers are needed to go to Haiti WEd. Healing Hands of Haiti and Utah
Hospital Task Force
Info@Utahhospitaltaskforce.org, former Highland East Stake President Steve Studdert
and advisor to 3 US Presidents
is organizaing 150 Return Missionaries to fly out Wed or Thursday from SLC his
email is sms@mantford.com
with military liaisons, construction experts, and medical professionals to spend
21 days rebuilding the Healing Hands of Haiti medical facility that was
flattened in the quake. Steve Stuttert also offered
Wasatch International Adoption Organization with parents waiting to adopt
Haitian orphans to fly them back on the 737 he chartered coming back from Haiti
to Utah. We wish our friend Pierre the best of wishes and prayers. Anyone
have a blackberry they are not using we could loan him?
"donate or
questions regarding needed donations please contact us at info@utahhospitaltaskforce.org
Donated goods are being collected at the following address:
Aspire /
UHTF
Attn: Dave
Beachem
11585 South
State Street #104
Draper,
Utah 84020
Monetary Donations can be made at http://www.healinghandsforhaiti.org - during
the payment process please click on the “Add Special Instructions to Seller” and
note that the donation is for Utah Hospital Task Force.
Donations can also be mailed to:
Healing Hands for Haiti International Foundation, Inc.
P.O. Box 521800, Salt Lake City, Utah 84152-1800
Be sure to designate “Utah Hospital Task Force”."
Healing Hands for Haiti Medical Campus
This is
what is left of the 5 story Healing Hands for Haiti Medical Campus
This information was just sent out to members of the approved list.
We are still in the
process of raising funds for additional planes.
The following is for
information ONLY.
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You are part of the group of
whom a senior executive in the Haiti Earthquake Response Management Team of the
U. S. Agency for International Development said, “What a blessing to live in a
land where people so generously give of their time and talents. Your group
appears to be more ‘put together’ than any team I’ve seen during my time here at
AID.”
Thank you for volunteering to
bless Heavenly Father’s children in this critical emergency! Thanks also for
being patient with us – we are all volunteers too – and we’re responding to
thousands of emails while organizing as fast as humanly possible.
While this is NOT an official
LDS Church relief team, we are almost all members of the LDS Church. We are
grateful for the priesthood leadership that has made this relief effort
possible.
Here is the latest update:
Invitation: Come to Haiti and Help
About the Author:
Stephen M.
Studdert has served as a White House advisor to three U.S. Presidents.
In the Church he has served twice as a stake president and as a mission
president. He is the author of America in Danger.
With my White House and
extensive background in international catastrophes and major government
activities, and following the Lord's injunction in Matthew 25:40 and President
Monson's oft-repeated counsel to lift those in need, we are quickly organizing
to take approximately 150 Church members to Haiti, for twenty-one days. Men and
women especially with construction and medical skills, and French/Creole
language skills, are needed.
This is NOT an official Church delegation, but priesthood men being "anxiously
engaged in a good cause, and do(ing) many things of their own free will, and
bring(ing) to pass much righteousness; For the power is in them... (D & C
58:27-28) We are also very mindful of President Monson's requent counsel to
lift and help our neighbors in need. Surely there is no one in more desperate
need today than Heavenly Father's children in Haiti.
What we are doing is in this spirit:
President Gordon B. Hinckley: "Never lose sight of the fact that you hold the
priesthood of God. When John the Baptist conferred the Aaronic Priesthood upon
Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery, he stated that this priesthood "holds the keys
of the ministering of angels, ... (D&C 13).
And Elder Jack H Goaslind, then of the Presidency of the Seventy: "Ordinary
men, blessed with the privilege of holding the priesthood of God, may be called
upon to do extraordinary tasks. Holders of the holy priesthood can accomplish
mighty feats of heroism, bravery and service through faith in that sacred
power....... I declare unto you that His Spirit is with each of us. He desires
to bless and strengthen us. He will make us equal to every righteous task we
undertake in His name. He will magnify many times over our own natural ability.
You can succeed beyond your own strength, if you rely on the Spirit of the Lord
..........Each of us has a miracle to perform, a journey to complete, and a
marvelous mission to fulfill. With His strength and the guidance of the Spirit,
you too, can do all things ......"
In our conversations with USAID, the US government's lead agency, they
especially ask us to bring French/Creole speakers and those "who know Haiti".
We will go by charter 737 aircraft and hope to depart from Salt Lake City within
one week. The charter costs will be paid through donations. The departure date
is firming up quickly. If at all possible, the charter will return to Salt Lake
City from Haiti with a load of orphans; we are exploring this now.
We have reviewed this notion with senior USAID and UN officials, and they are
supportive and helpful. We will go with their official sanction, which will
greatly facilitate logistics in a very difficult environment. The language
capacity is extremely desirous to USAID, the US federal agency leading
all US Government assistance in/for Haiti.
Having known for years of
the extraordinary good works launched in 1998 by Jeff Randle (now a physician
who arrived back in Haiti today) through Healing Hands for Haiti, [see below] we
feel some natural connection to this Haiti charity which had its genesis in a
young man serving an LDS mission in Haiti. For primarily this reason, we want
to go and help Healing Hands restore what Jeff started. We understand the
Healing Hands clinic/hospital has been totally destroyed. [photo attached]
We are going to Haiti to
serve. A key purpose in Haiti is to assist in getting the Healing Hands medical
operation back in business. What precisely that means can only be determined in
the days ahead as things further unfold in-country. In simple concept, we
desire to arrive at the Healing Hands campus and “report for duty”. (I
recognize that some can come up with an endless list of “what ifs”, but from my
prior global disaster experience I can tell you that those questions simply
cannot all be answered up-front but will self-answer on-site and in-country.)
This group will be made up
of 150 LDS men and women who, following the admonition of Jesus Christ to love
thy neighbor, desire to offer help. Following customary disaster relief
organization tenants, we will organize into three 50-person teams with subunits
of 10 each, based on skills, language, etc. At this time, we anticipate
dividing the teams between USAID assigned needs and helping restore the medical
campus of Healing Hands for Haiti.
In informal counsel with
USAID, we have agreed we will also take our food/water/tents with us so that we
are essentially self-sustaining. We will utilize a 501(c)3 non-profit
tax-exempt organization to accept donations.
Our departure date is
Wednesday or Thursday, subject primarily due to facilitating aircraft landing
and other logistical considerations. Our working plan, at this time, is to
remain in-country 21 days.
You understand that
specifics at this very early stage are pretty much impossible, as so much of
this is notional. We are working aggressively to solidify things within
24-hours."
Pierre from OH8th singles ward is going and today will explain that
opportunity at 6pm meeting with other Haitian members, and other humanitarians
at
851 E. Highcountry dr. (1600 N. Orem Exit) up to 800 E. left up SKyline Dr, 2nd
right is highcountry, 2nd house on left with US flag.
Video: As officials clarified a
decision to call off the search for survivors, a man
is pulled out 11 days after the quake. And he said
there are more alive.
We recorded the "Hope for Haiti Now"
telethon and will be showing it at our
Help for Haiti Potluck meeting Sunday at 6pm at Denise's house. We recorded the
show and want to have a Potluck this Sunday again for Haiti. Do you want to
volunteer your services? Pierre, Lukner and I are talking about working on a
project to help the Haitian orphans. I have already started collecting clothes,
supplies for infants, etc. The LDS church asked Lukner if he could go to Haiti
to help, but he is in the middle of school tests at Utah State and can’t go. We
will be talking in the morning. I am French and it pains me not being able to go
there to translate for our medical teams from Utah. So we will be meeting
Sunday to put our heads and resources together to plan what we can do from here.
Thank you so much Potluck is 6pm at address below. Please bring something to go
with the Paella (Spanish Shrimp and Rice dish), or desert, drinks or salad.
Thank you for caring. WE all have to do something. Before the quake Haiti had
380,000 orphans, just imagine how many they will have now. We hope both
governments will just allow all orphans to be adopted into good families in the
US and other countries that can. Then they can work with the donated funds to
rebuild the country and reunite the families left that survived. Pierre
that is leaving for Haiti this week to start his own relief efforts with 99
other volunteers from Utah will be at this meeting along with Lukner of AMSEN.
From some of our friends: "Thanks
for all you do, Denise! You have a heart of gold. You may be interested to
learn that The Christmas Box Houses in SL and Ogden are gearing up to take 100
or so orphans from Haiti, so there will be opportunities to do things locally to
help as well... Thanks again for dinner last week. And please put me on your
list if you get together to discuss emergency preparedness...
Thanks!"
- Fran
HOpe for Haiti has raised 57 million so far and will continue to collect
donations for 90 days. The 2 hour program artists performances on podcast
can be ordered by the way for $7.99 on Itunes. It was amazing. I recorded
the whole thing and will be showing it here in Orem tomorrow at 6pm in at
our Help for Haiti meeting with Haitian organization we are meeting with.
One Haitian LDS member here we have known for years works with an LDS
Patriarch and his MD Wife in Haiti. The organization's name they have
started is called AMSEN incorporated in Utah.
Thank you Judson family in Orem for dropping off bags and bags of infant
toys and clothes in excellent condition and more for babies today for a
great start on this collection of clothes, toys, and needs for children of
all ages and teens for the orphans of Haiti that will be coming here. We
can all contribute so much for 100s of kids by each doing what we can. If
you have collected items, please contact me here. Thank you From Cherie
Judson: "Your welcome! :) Thank you for organizing these efforts and for all
of your work! :)"
I go out with my own disability money to do pick ups once a week, and the
rest of people donating for the kids and Utah soldiers use our drop off box
at 851 E. Highcountry Dr., 1600 N. Orem at 800 E. go left up hill on
Skyline Dr, 2nd right is highcountry 225-6491 you can drop them off anytime.
thank you
“Denise is
having friends over to her place to watch "Hope for Haiti" Sunday 6pm
Here is her
address:
851 E.
Highcountry Dr, Orem 1600 N. exit just past Pleasant Grove/Lindon and then east
to the foothills to left up Skyline Dr. (800 E.) 2nd right is Highcountry dr.,
2nd house on left with American Flag. 225-6491"
CONTACT INFORMATION FOR HEALING HANDS
FOR HAITI: 01/20/10 Another 5.9 after shock how horrible. Aid is not
getting there fast enough to the people in the city.
Doctors without Borders says some injured are dying due to backlog,
lack of anesthesia and infections.
Explanation by military why critically needed medical supplies are not arriving
becuase of lack of identification by planes with supplies not saying what their
cargo is and the ground having to decide which of 3 planes to allow to land and
others having to return back to US and therefore not getting to the injured and
hospitals. 1,400 flights waiting still today read below.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/34975300#34955917
We are also working with a Haitian brother Pierre who's sister was
killed in the quake to start sending support and cards of support and love to
Haiti here in Provo. Want to volunteer? We are going to start
collecting donations and clothes for all ages, grooming things, personal care
and infant supplies, since these people lost everything and need all we can send
them. We need to send them positive music and something to play it on so they
have something to listen to that is positive, Have you heard them sing?
They are an amazing people. You could buy some of those no water needed Colgate
Wisps mini
toothbrushes in package, and maybe someone could contact Colgate to donate 1
million of them. and don't forget:
WE are collecting
for the Road home Homeless with 150 kids and 31 families drop off in Orem too
851 E. Highcountry Dr. 1600 N. up Skyline Dr. just leave in box on porch. Thank
you all items from warm clothing, hats, gloves, scarves, booths, shoes, toys,
blankets, New diapers, baby items, etc. Newer items preferred for the their
YMCA Candy Corner Store for parents to pick out needed items for their family.
MAny babies and toddlers are in their and lost everything and really need warm
clothes, baby items, toys for Christmas morning. this is very rewarding. I have
taken them coats, etc. for 9 yrs now. This is our 10th year. Thank you
Our 4th
annual Operation Ensuring Christmas this year is collecting enough items to send
to 700 Utah National Guard that will be deployed this year. We can pick up with
address, directions and phone number please. thank you
For the
soldiers, I have been sending care packages for 3 years now, 2,850 to date. I
have sent, books, games dried foods, cds, dvds, church calendars, pictures,
anything positive they dont have there from home. Socks, tshirts, treats, Gold
Bond, toiletries, good lotions, shampoos, and they love getting all this since
the Army doesn't really have very nice things for them, and some of them are in
remote areas with so little comfort. Thank you so much, I would love for all
members like last year on this group to just gather all they can until about
October and then come together, maybe at ORem WalMart this year since the
manager told me they want to do what Payson WalMart did last year, and we
package them all together. Just let me know Thank you so much and come see and
read the cool cards we got back form the Utah soldiers at
http://www.letterstosoldiers.org/operationensuringchristmas09.htm
http://healinghandsforhaiti.org/ContactUs/tabid/60/language/en-US/language/en-US/Default.aspx
They are digging out wounded with their bare hands, they have no money, no
equipment, no professionals to get those poor people out of the rubble. Every
other building collapsed, 1000s have died. They desperately need
everyone's help. If you have supplies, services, resources, funds in your
company, please help by contacting this organization. There are 800,000 disabled children in Haiti. Everyone needs to help get them help.
MOre than 100,000 are dead, and so many have been trapped in rubble for two
days, others injured with no help sleeping in the streets. They have no
water and food. ONe runway with tower down, USS Forward there, and USS Vincent
coming with equipment for search and rescue that will drop them in by
helicopter. THey otherwise have to drive it in from the Dominican Republic.
Expert said today: " If this happened in America, most of buildings would
collapse. The History Channel that just aired earthquake, levee and bridge
documentary stated that San Francisco had an offer to set up above ground
seperate water pipes from ocean that would have been able to respond to the
fires after earthquake was rejected by corrupt Mayor. The major US Cities
are all very vulnerable." Are you prepared? Since the injured with broken bones,
open wounds cannot be helped due to lack of medical supplies and personnel, most
of t hem will suffer infection. Since there is no water, sanitation, most
people will get ill. Many viruses including AIDS will spread rapidly.
Why did the world allow such a poor country to stay this way? as many as 3
million people injured or made homeless. They are burying in mass graves, 7,000
bodies, families have to bury their own members. More aftershocks killing
more Friday am, transistor radios getting news from local priest telling of
bodies laying in the streets (can we heard online), but most in US cannot get
word yet about family members, and aid is slow to get there. One
family was passing out flyers of their lost 7 yr old boy. They have no where to
go, no tents to sleep in. Bodies being buried in shallow graves by roadside.
300 SEarch and REscue members from US have found people alive in buildings and 7
Americans. 4 patients with minor injuries were lost at airport adhoc hospital
that had they been in Miami hospital could have been saved, so they are flying
as many out as possible. The Red Cross says this the worst disaster the UN
has seen. ONe gas station open with $8 a gallon gas. Roads are clogged
with vehicles and supplies are outside the city. Logistics of driving
these supplies in and not having chaos by desperate people is a problem.
Dehydration is the immediate problem. President Obama pledged 100 million and
support, but the Haitian people can't hear him. Many Americans want to
stay in Haiti, they love the country. They will need help rebuilding safe
homes. 3 million people need help now. Children were being operated on in
makeshift tents with no anethesia. 94 degrees and no shelter, no water for
3 days, planes can't land, water, food and fuel are the currency now. The
Haitian people are very civil, no one is doing anything but being orderly
according to reporters. But as supplies are either dropped from helicopters by
organizations with not enough to go around, some are stealing them and selling
them on the black market, others fight over them as others ask them to share.
After 5 days, they are thirsty and hungry, injured and some still buried.
60 people were found alive in a supermarket by rescuers. Face book groups with
200,000 members posting missing family members' pics. and communicating. C-17
Cargo planes are transporting people back to US, and some planes have empty
seats because it is hard to get people to the airport. Five days of open wounds
are all infected, many amputations have to be redone at the only hospital in
Haiti that lost 7 of 10 buildings and with no electricity. Kidneys start to shut
down after 5 days without water and need IVs. IN the Next few weeks, there
could be an epidemic in Haiti and the children are th first to suffer, and the
orphans who have US adoptive parents waiting for them, one father came from
Nashville to the orphanage can't take them out since Haitian courts are in
ruins. Outbreaks of Cholera and Dysentery expected. OUt of desperation
some relief workers have been shot, one was killed from Wyclef. and Yele Haiti.
15 Americans were killed in the quake. 10 vehicle convoy of 60 specialists for
field hospital from Europe coming because 10 hospitals were destroyed. They are
asking for 100 million dollars in donations.01/18/10 Unbelievable story: LA
Firefighters saved Jeannette from rubble after 6 days, she had broken fingers
trapped under a beam, and told her husband that if she died that she loves him,
and her first words were "Thank you God." Maybe 200,000 killed. They
need toothpaste to fend off horrid smell of dead bodies.1.5 million Haitians are
homeless, 50,000 people in one camp of sheets in Landing 6 and is a distribution
center as the US 82nd Airborne division distribute only water, and the sweet
children say Thank you politely for just one bottle of water. ONe Military
doctor treats the injured children. 70,000 bodies buried but no one really knows
the count. LIttle baby "Vincent" born on the USS Vincent after his mother was
saved from the rubble while in labor and flown to the ship that helped her give
birth. AMputations of up to 70 people a day, as parents decide to sign for
amputations to save the lives of their children, and this "will be a nation of
amputees" according to news people. 14 AMerican Ships offshore of Haiti, 48
helicopters. But they need more medical teams. US Comfort should be there by
Wednesday. 25,000 UN troops approved. 9 distribution points have been set up.
One small town south all levelled have no relief yet. They are just
burying their dead as they dig them out themselves. There is no communication of
where to go. Illiteracy rate was 80%. The "Haitian people are the
most patient people I have ever encountered," stated a Senator from Florida
visiting from LIttle HAiti. He said the US can't do this by themselves. We
need other nations to come. It is amazing all the great stories our MSNBC
journalists are reporting to us. South Florida will be the coordinating center.
Organization of volunteer medical people and how to get them to that country is
needed. Poor orphaned Baby Jeanne had crushed ribs and maggots, along with
6 other children, to a compound of UN and medical volunteers were told they had
to move so as not to jeopardize the safety of the compound. Wyclef asked
for 2 million people to be moved out of Port of Prince and build 100,000 tents,
so then his organization can go in and rebuild. Kenneth Merten, US ambassador to
Haiti, stated Haitian police calls the shots then other volunteer forces like
Brazil, US and others help out. 85 seniors at a nursing home are still awaiting
aid. Reporters slept outside with the Haitians and woke up to people singing.
Doctors say humans can survive without water for about 5 days as rescuers keep
searching and finding victims alive. 01/21/10 More than 5,000 Americans
still missing. 54 after shocks since earthquakes. People 200 meters from airport still not
getting food, problem is getting supplies to people says top General there.
Tent camps outside of Port Au Prince for 400,000 is being talked about.
Bottlenecks including at airport keeping some from getting any aid after 9
days. 1,400 supply flights waiting to get in as 140 flights are getting in a
day. Absence of adequate security. "Choking an elephant down a
straw", one said. Now the most fragile survivors are victims. As they sing in
the camps.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/34975300#34965736
Simple fractures that could have been treated in US are not
being treated and having to be amputated with no xray machines/ no pain killers,
no morphine to be had anywhere per doctors there. Head phones and music were
only comfort for one amputee as she screamed.
One way we can help Haitians build a better tomorrow is to
convince global creditors to cancel Haiti’s $890 million
international debt. Doing so will help make sure that
every possible future dollar goes towards rebuilding a
stronger Haiti, not to servicing old debts.
Thankfully, the United States has
already forgiven Haiti’s past debts and now only gives
assistance in the form of grants. We need Haiti’s other
creditors—the International Monetary Fund, World Bank,
Inter-American Development Bank, and countries like Taiwan
and Venezuela—to follow our lead and do the same.
Treasury Secretary Timothy
Geithner has the power to help make that happen.
Please click the link below
to join me and send Secretary Geithner this urgent message:
100% of donations goes to the Haitian
kids with "ARtists for Peace and Justice" organization with Father Rick that was
only free clean water, orphanage, school that collapsed and killed all children,
and they are lost volunteers in a hospital, but they are there getting all the
help they can. They have been there for 20 yrs. Actress from "House"
was just in Haiti in December and is working hard to raise them money.
1800-4unicef
Red Cross has already raised 10 million
dollars by texting campaign.
IMF is offering Haiti a 100 million
dollar loan instead of a grant. HAiti needs grants and not loans for the next
five years, as France, the former colonizer, asked for all countries to cancel
Haiti's debts. They still owe 890 million for loans they borrowed after paying
off France for their freedom from slavery for 100 yrs of 150 million francs
equal to 21 billion today which put them in the debt they find themselves today
. They have paid billions for their freedom and have been kept below the
poverty line for 80% of the people. How shameful of the world and France
to make a people that were slaves pay debt that kept them in such poverty.. All
countries need to erase all Haitian debt and help them rebuild their country.
Jubilee USA Network Organization is working for them. 2008 Hurricanes
destroyed 70% of Haiti's farmlands. Italy has already erased their debt.
Athletes Relief Fund are getting all NBA players like Dwyane Wade, and other
athletes to participate with Medishare..
Oxfam.org and Mercy Corps:
1. Give a Haiti relief charity gift to a Facebook friend.
When you give a charity gift on Facebook, you are buying a specific item
needed on the ground in Haiti. We have several new gifts in the
Facebook Charity Gift Shop, including:
With hearts and minds focused squarely on the devastating earthquake that
occurred in Haiti on January 12, the ASPCA extends its full support to those
organizations providing humanitarian relief in the ravaged island nation. Soon,
the animal victims of this disaster will need help, too—that’s why the ASPCA has
joined the Animal Relief Coalition for Haiti (ARCH).
ARCH was created to address the needs of animals in Haiti in this time of
crisis. The coalition is headed by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW)
and the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA), and in addition to
the ASPCA, consists of a number of animal welfare groups including American
Humane, Best Friends, the Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society
International.
The ASPCA has joined ARCH with the belief that partnering across organizations
is the most effective way to address the serious and enormous problems facing
animals in Haiti. There are an estimated 5 million head of livestock in the
country (mostly goats), a large stray dog population, and an untold number of
companion animals and native wildlife all adversely affected by the earthquake.
Currently, a team of experts in animal emergency response is staging in the
Dominican Republic waiting to get into Haiti to begin work. IFAW and WSPA have
also begun to stock a mobile clinic with vaccines, antibiotics, bandages, food
and other supplies in anticipation of bringing direct aid to animals.
The ASPCA has committed to providing logistical support to the disaster
responders from the U.S. In addition, the ASPCA stands ready to deploy highly
skilled and specially trained members of our own Field Investigations and
Response Team to the area.
Additional relief workers are converging on Haiti from Africa, Asia and
North America. Included are responders to Hurricane Katrina, the Sichuan
earthquake in China and Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar.
Click here to meet our response team.
We're focusing first on the immediate needs -- for water, food, temporary
shelter supplies and much more -- and expanding our work to three areas:
Health, clean water and sanitation: We'll set up
high-capacity water filtration units through our partnership with ITT, a
leader in water treatment and transport. And we'll be delivering clean
water as a complement to the already robust medical response of Partners
in Health, a leader in medical relief in Haiti since 1987.
Post-trauma support for children: We plan to reprise "Comfort
for Kids," a counseling methodology we developed with Bright Horizons
and deployed in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, in China after the
Sichuan earthquake and in other post-disaster settings.
Job creation: We plan to pay earthquake survivors a daily
wage to clear debris, restore buildings and repair basic infrastructure
-- similar to what we've done in post-tsunami Indonesia and elsewhere to
jumpstart local economies in the wake of catastrophe.
The needs in Haiti are immense. Its capital lies in ruins, as many
as 200,000 may be dead, and survivors are increasingly desperate for food,
clean water and shelter.
Please give what you can to help families recover.
HUFH.org Hollywood's donating site
MAdonna, Alisa Milano, LAdy Gaga, George Clooney on Jan 22nd 8pm ET on NBC has a
telethon and has raised 1 million with Brad Pitt.
For a limited time the proceeds from
this album will go to the Red Cross
Haiti Humanitarian Aid Effort. There
is a need for everyone to offer
assistance. As a musician, a
Christian and even as a Army
Soldier, I am not able to go to
Haiti and offer my own assistance.
Even though my heart breaks watching
the devastation, there is something
I can do, and that is give my
support to the Red Cross who has
"Boots on the Ground" giving live
saving care and support to those in
need in Haiti.
As such I have decided to donate all
the proceeds of this special edition
album to the Humanitarian effort.
Please help us donate to the Red
Cross TODAY!
Go to my facebook store by following
this link
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on my profile and go to the MyStore
tab!
US AIR FORCE ARE SCOUTING OUT FOR CARGO
PLANES TO COME IN, USS COMFORT, FLOATING HOSPITAL ON THE WAY, 1000S OF MILITARY
WILL BE GETTING THERE TODAY TO MONDAY!! THANK YOU AMERICAN MILITARY!!! The
Dominican Republic has driven in 100s of trucks of help, supplies since this
morning while an after shock shook them again.
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Harbor reopens, new airport used in aid effort
As search teams leave Haiti, focus shifts to
burials and preventing disease
Hans Deryk / Reuters
U.S. Army Spec. Calvin Brown, left, shakes hands
with a Haitian resident before departing a security
mission with members of the 82nd Airborne in
downtown Port-au-Prince on Wednesday. The unit was
providing security during a search for earthquake
survivors in demolished buildings around the city's
cathedral.
Parents
unite with Haitian adoptees
Jan. 21: Amid the chaos following
the 7.0 magnitude earthquake, Brett
Schlenbaker locates the children he
and his wife adopted.
Security video shows Haiti quake
strike Jan. 21: Newly released
security camera video from a
Port-au-Prince cafe captures the
moment when last week's massive
earthquake struck Haiti.
Msnbc.com's Dara Brown reports.
PORT-AU-PRINCE,
Haiti - The U.S. military on Thursday said it was tapping
another airport in neighboring Dominican Republic to help
bring in relief supplies and that the capital's harbor had
been reopened to large ships bringing aid.
Gen. Douglas
Fraser, head of Southern Command, said that while 120 to 140
flights a day are now able to land at the Port-au-Prince
airport, the military has a waiting list of 1,400 flights.
In addition to
alternative airfields opened this week in Jacmel, Haiti, and
one in the neighboring Dominican Republic, another airport
is now open in the Dominican Republic, Fraser said.
Fraser added that
the U.S. military effort has cost more than $100 million so
far, but he could not say whether that was just military
operating costs or if it also included the physical supplies
(medical, meals, etc.) that the military has provided.
At the harbor in
Port-au-Prince, U.S. crews were able to move enough debris
to open some dock space.
"We're are on our
third vessel and the structural engineers have okayed this
operation we are doing," said Coast Guard Lt. Commander Mark
Gibbs said Thursday.
A week after the
earthquake, and with fewer signs of more survivors buried
under rubble, international rescue teams have begun pulling
out.
A Florida search
and rescue team left Haiti on Wednesday and it was reported
that teams from Belgium, Luxembourg and Britain did as well.
U.S. and
international teams have rescued 122 people, the White House
said, while Haitians themselves rescued many others in the
hours and days after the quake.
The 7.0 magnitude
quake which roiled Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, on Jan.
12 killed an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 people and left
the poverty-stricken country looking to the world for basic
sustenance.
Dying from
infection Most of the basics in Port-au-Prince are still
missing or barely functional. Hospitals are overwhelmed and
doctors lack anesthesia, forcing them to operate with only
local painkillers.
Doctors Without
Borders cited 10-to-12-day backlogs of patients at some of
its surgical sites as well as infections of untreated
wounds. "Some victims are already dying of sepsis," the
group said.
"The next health
risk could include outbreaks of diarrhea, respiratory tract
infections and other diseases among hundreds of thousands of
Haitians living in overcrowded camps with poor or
nonexistent sanitation," said Dr. Greg Elder, deputy
operations manager for Doctors Without Borders in Haiti.
Haitian
government figures relayed by the European Commission put
the death toll at 200,000, with 80,000 buried in mass
graves. The commission now estimates 2 million homeless, up
from 1.5 million, and says 250,000 are in need of urgent
aid.
"Are we satisfied
with the job we are doing? Definitely not," said Jon Andrus,
deputy director of the Pan American Health Organization.
"But progress is being made. Think of what we started with
when the world came crashing down on Haiti. No roads, only
rubble and dead bodies. No communication, only death and
despair."
'So many
children' in mass graves Workers are carving out mass graves on a
hillside north of Port-au-Prince, using earth-movers to bury
10,000 earthquake victims in a single day.
In the sparsely
populated wasteland of Titanyen, north of Port-au-Prince,
burial workers said the macabre task of handling the
seemingly never-ending flow of bodies was traumatizing.
Win McNamee / Getty Images
The bodies of victims of last week's
devastating earthquake are dumped into a
mass grave near the town of Titanyen, Haiti,
on Tuesday.
"I have seen so many children, so many children. I cannot
sleep at night and, if I do, it is a constant nightmare,"
said Foultone Fequiert, 38, his face covered with a T-shirt
against the overwhelming stench.
Workers say they
have no time to give the dead proper religious burials or
follow pleas from the international community that bodies be
buried in shallow graves from which loved ones might
eventually retrieve them.
"We just dump
them in, and fill it up," said Luckner Clerzier, 39, who was
helping guide trucks to another grave site farther up the
road.
Many of the
survivors are living on high-protein biscuits or dry
emergency rations. The Food for the Poor charity managed to
reopen its kitchens in Port-au-Prince and served up vats of
rice, beans and chicken, giving thousands of people their
first hot meal in more than a week.
The city's water
system was only partially functional but tanker trucks began
to deliver water to the larger makeshift camps, where
vendors did brisk business selling charcoal to families who
were using small tin barbecues to cook.
Cuba opens airspace to U.S. evacuation flights from Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- Efforts to rescue, feed and treat ten thousands of
Haitians trapped or injured in a devastating earthquake continued Friday
morning, and the U.S. government said it had received permission from Cuba to
fly through restricted air space on medical evacuation flights.
Many individuals, businesses and
charitable organizations wish to provide assistance to the victims of
Haiti's recent earthquake. Consult Disaster
Relief Resources for Charities and Donors on IRS.gov to
get information about how to provide assistance to victims through a
charitable organization.
Contributions to domestic tax-exempt, charitable organizations that
provide assistance to individuals in foreign lands qualify as
tax-deductible contributions for federal income tax purposes, provided
that the U.S. organization has control and discretion over the use of
funds. Donors should ensure that they make contributions to qualified
charities. Use the
Search for Charities function on IRS.gov to see if the charity you
intend to support is a qualified charity listed in Pub. 78.
Certain organizations, such as churches or governmental
organizations, may be qualified to accept charitable contributions, even
though they are not listed in Pub. 78.
01/21/10
Haiti wants to move 400,000 out of capital
Suburb picked to start; aid still backed up with
1,400 flights waiting
Ricardo Arduengo / AP
People use water from a pothole to wash in
Port-au-Prince on Thursday. Logistical problems have
slowed aid efforts, and many people are still
desperate for food and water.
Concerns over untreated disease
in Haiti Jan. 21: Town Square:
Winnie Romeril of the American
Red Cross discusses whether the
transportation of supplies to
earthquake victims in Haiti has
progressed in the past few days.
Earthquake
rocks Haiti
The Caribbean island is devastated
by a 7.0-magnitude quake and dozens
of aftershocks.
more
photos
INTERACTIVE
Close-up of the devastation
View street-level destruction as
well as searches and relief efforts
in Port-au-Prince.
msnbc.com news services
updated 2 hours, 44
minutes ago
PORT-AU-PRINCE,
Haiti - Haiti's government on Thursday unveiled plans to
move 400,000 earthquake victims to new settlements outside
the destroyed capital.
The first wave of
100,000 people were to be sent to transitional tent villages
of 10,000 each near Croix Des Bouquets, a suburb north of
Port-au-Prince, Interior Minister Paul Antoine Bien-Aime
told reporters.
The minister did
not provide a timeline, but Brazilian U.N. peacekeepers were
already leveling land at a site where the Inter-American
Development Bank planned to help build permanent homes for
30,000 people.
The plan would
let displaced Haitians help build their own new homes under
a food-for-work scheme, allowing them to stay close to the
area where they had made a living.
Many for now were
jammed into haphazard camps with no toilets, sleeping
outdoors because their homes were destroyed or out of fear
that aftershocks would bring down more buildings.
Aftershocks of 4.8 and 4.9 magnitude shook the capital on
Thursday, further stressing traumatized survivors.
The United
Nations has counted nearly 450 homeless encampments in
Port-au-Prince alone and urged the government to begin
consolidating them to streamline food distribution.
The city's water
system is only partially functional and tanker trucks are
delivering water to makeshift camps where people lined up to
fill their buckets.
Violence and
looting has subsided as U.S. troops provided security for
water and food distribution, and thousands of displaced
Haitians heeded the government's advice to seek shelter in
villages outside Port-au-Prince.
More than 13,000
U.S. military personnel are in Haiti and on 20 ships
offshore, and the number is expected to soar to 20,000 by
Sunday. Troops landed helicopters on the lawn of the
destroyed presidential palace to pick up the seriously
wounded and fly them to the U.S. Navy hospital ship Comfort,
which has advanced surgical units.
Small grocery
shops and barber shops, as well as some pharmacies, were
open again in Port-au-Prince, some extending credit to
regular customers short of cash.
Banks were to
reopen on Friday in the provinces and on Saturday in
Port-au-Prince, giving most Haitians their first access to
cash since the quake hit, Commerce Minister Josseline
Colimon Fethiere told Reuters.
1,400 flights waiting to land The U.S. military on Thursday said it was tapping
another airport in neighboring Dominican Republic to help
bring in relief supplies and that the capital's harbor had
been reopened to large ships bringing aid.
Gen. Douglas
Fraser, head of Southern Command, said that while 120 to 140
flights a day are now able to land at the Port-au-Prince
airport, the military has a waiting list of 1,400 flights.
Video
Gangs
resurface
Jan. 21: U.S. troops are
helping provide security but
problems include criminals
who escaped from prison,
then restarted gangs and are
now threatening relief
groups. NBC's Mike Taibbi
reports.
msnbc tv
In addition to alternative airfields opened this week in
Jacmel, Haiti, and one in the neighboring Dominican
Republic, another airport is now open in the Dominican
Republic, Fraser said.
Fraser added that
the U.S. military effort has cost more than $100 million so
far, but he could not say whether that was just military
operating costs or if it also included the physical supplies
(medical, meals, etc.) that the military has provided.
At the harbor in
Port-au-Prince, U.S. crews were able to move enough debris
to open some dock space.
"We're on our
third vessel and the structural engineers have OK'd this
operation we are doing," Coast Guard Lt. Commander Mark
Gibbs said Thursday.
Also Thursday,
two aftershocks, one a magnitude-4.9, prompted rescue crews
to briefly abandon work on ruined buildings, though there
were no reports of casualties or damage.
They followed a magnitude-5.9 temblor a day earlier. At
least 50 sizable aftershocks have jolted the city, sending
nervous Haitians fleeing repeatedly into the streets — and
keeping many sleeping in the open.
The 7.0 magnitude
quake which roiled Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, on Jan.
12 killed an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 people and left
the poverty-stricken country looking to the world for basic
sustenance.
A week after the
earthquake, and with fewer signs of more survivors buried
under rubble, international rescue teams have begun pulling
out.
A Florida search
and rescue team left Haiti on Wednesday and it was reported
that teams from Belgium, Luxembourg and Britain did as well.
U.S. and
international teams have rescued 122 people, the White House
said, while Haitians themselves rescued many others in the
hours and days after the quake.
Some teams were
still working with sniffer dogs at the collapsed Hotel
Montana, where a whiteboard listed the names of 10 people
found dead and 20 more still missing inside. Crews had
treaded gingerly, shifting rubble by hand, but were
switching to heavy machinery to dig up the bulk of the
hotel.
"As well as being
hopeful you have to be realistic and after nine days,
reality says it is more difficult to find people alive but
it's not impossible," said Chilean Army Major Rodrigo
Vasquez.
Dying from infection Most of the basics in Port-au-Prince are still
missing or barely functional. Hospitals are overwhelmed and
doctors lack anesthesia, forcing them to operate with only
local painkillers.
Doctors Without
Borders cited 10-to-12-day backlogs of patients at some of
its surgical sites as well as infections of untreated
wounds. "Some victims are already dying of sepsis," the
group said.
"The next health
risk could include outbreaks of diarrhea, respiratory tract
infections and other diseases among hundreds of thousands of
Haitians living in overcrowded camps with poor or
nonexistent sanitation," said Dr. Greg Elder, deputy
operations manager for Doctors Without Borders in Haiti.
(did you know that Bill Clinton was
with the UN, here is an email I received from his foundation:)
01/14/09 2pm:
"The
extent of the devastation of Tuesday's earthquake is
now coming into focus, and
we need your help.
News and
images like this one are coming in, painting a
painful picture of the damage. The situation is
worse than we could have imagined.
More
than 50,000 are feared dead, with some estimates as
high as 100,000 – with so much devastation, it's
just too soon to tell.
Having
worked in Haiti for over 30 years, Oxfam's team
knows only too well the extreme poverty this country
was already struggling to overcome. The people of
Haiti do not have the resources or government
infrastructure to respond to this crisis, so outside
help is critical.
The funds we raise today will determine how many
lives we can save now and how many people we can
help later to rebuild their lives.
We will
ensure that every penny is used to directly help the
people of Haiti overcome this disaster.
Our
thoughts and prayers are with the people of Haiti –
thank you for supporting this emergency response.
Sincerely,"
Raymond
C. Offenheiser
President
Oxfam America
"Yesterday I traveled to Haiti to deliver emergency
supplies, see the conditions on the ground
first-hand, and meet with government officials.
I wish you could have seen what I saw. Haitians were
performing surgeries at night, without lights, with
no anesthesia, using vodka to sterilize equipment.
It's astonishing what they've been able to
accomplish in such devastating conditions.
We delivered the first of the supplies made possible
by your support -- generators, gas cans, solar
flashlights, bottles of water, food, and medicines.
You can be assured that your donations are being put
to good use. We've already distributed more than $3
million to 12 organizations on the ground.
Only with your continued generosity will we be able
to sustain these efforts and save more lives. Please
make a donation of any size today:
Even after this earthquake, I believe Haiti has the
best chance in my lifetime to escape its history --
a history that Hillary and I have been able to share
in a small way.
It's going to take a lot of help and a long time,
but they can build a better future if we do our
part.
Thank you for your compassion and commitment to the
people of Haiti, "
Bill Clinton
"My UN office and the rest of the UN system are monitoring the situation.
While we don't yet know the full impact of this 7.0-magnitude earthquake, we do
know that the survivors need immediate help.
There's a way you can help Haiti recover and rebuild right now.
Help provide immediate relief and long-term support to earthquake survivors
by making a donation today:
Thank you for joining me in praying for the people of Haiti and bringing hope
to the survivors. Working together, we can help them build back stronger and
better.
Since they cannot live more than 3
days without water, and supplies cannot get there fast
enough, we need to get them water purification portable systems. Katadyn Extreme
system can filter 86,000 gallons of water. You could buy them one and get
it to the victims through the Red Cross or other organization like Oxfam, SLC Healing Hands for
Haiti that are there:
Katadyn Extreme Review
Katadyn North America Inc.
6325 Sandburg Road
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Tel +1 800 755 6701
Fax +1 763 746 3540 Katadyn Info
I was at a conference on Capitol
Hill yesterday when I heard the news of Haiti’s earthquake.
My heart sank as I thought of my aunts, uncles and cousins
who still reside in Haiti. Before I learned the extent of
the earthquake, I was already in a state of despair. Having
an intimate knowledge of Haiti’s history, I knew that the
lack of infrastructure, disaster preparedness and acute
poverty would make a bad situation even worse. However, I
was not prepared for the long night of waiting to hear which
of my loved ones made it, and which didn’t. Along with
horrific television images, the morning brought news that my
Aunt and Uncle Duchatelier are alive, but their home, and
the primary school they built collapsed and all they owned
is destroyed. As I wait, pray and hope for the safety of
other family members that I have yet to hear from, I am
struck with the realization that Haiti’s long struggle
against poverty is now exacerbated, its needs now magnified,
and the vulnerability of the Haitian people more greatly
exposed.
As we continue to hear about the
devastation that the powerful 7.0 magnitude earthquake
caused, our thoughts go out to the victims of this disaster
and those who are working to help the nation recover.
Disasters like this one are
especially devastating when they strike places that are
already struggling to provide the most basic of services
for its population. With weak government and private sector
institutions, and with uncertain security conditions, Haiti
is the poorest, least developed country in the Western
Hemisphere, and the majority of Haitians live in poverty.
The sheer scale of poverty in the country means that the
government has limited capacity to meet even the simplest
needs of its people, let alone address a disaster of this
magnitude. Haiti’s lack of development—which translates into
a lack of government capacity for emergency
preparedness—magnifies the impact of this tragedy. In
addition to creating a very real and immediate humanitarian
tragedy, this earthquake and the struggle to navigate its
aftermath will be an enormous setback to the hard-won gains
that Haiti has achieved in recent years in securing a more
stable environment and fighting poverty.
While disaster preparedness and long-term development
initiatives may seem to fall at opposite ends of the
development spectrum, they are in fact profoundly connected.
Disaster preparedness plays a crucial role in the fight
against poverty. Without it, gains against poverty are
physically erased, and post-disaster countries face
insurmountable challenges in getting back on track to meet
their development goals. In Haiti, once the immediate
disaster is addressed, it will be an uphill battle to return
to its former state of development, let alone make further
gains.
This situation demonstrates how
investments in long-term development, especially in fragile
and disaster-prone states like Haiti, could help countries
deal with disasters, and also keep them on track to develop.
In spite of this disaster, a
great aspect of Haitian history tells us the Haitian people
are resilient and determined to better their lives. I am
confident that with the help of strong partners around the
world, Haiti will rise from its rubble and Haitians will
live their motto: L’union fait la force (Unity is
strength)."
We encourage you to read more and
stay engaged on the ONE Blog:
A disturbing article alleging that "US Navy weapons
technology went array and caused the Haitian earthquake"
this week, and I was determined to prove it was a lie:
NOthing was found on Snopes, but I looked up information on
Tesla research, and other forms of weapons reseach on
Wikipedia and found:
"Tesla
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) was a noted
inventor, scientist and electrical engineer.
He invented
Tesla coils,
transformers,
alternating current
electrical generators and was the first
early pioneer of
radio technology. Tesla worked on plans
for a directed-energy weapon from the early
1900s until his death. In 1937, Tesla
composed a treatise entitled The Art of
Projecting Concentrated Non-dispersive
Energy through the Natural Media
concerning charged particle beams.[12]
Tesla was noted for making a claim that
he had developed what he called a "teleforce"
weapon, or death ray. This death ray would
"send concentrated beams of particles
through the free air, of such tremendous
energy that they will bring down a fleet of
10,000 enemy airplanes at a distance of
250 miles (400 km) from a defending nation's
border and will cause armies of millions to
drop dead in their tracks", as said in an
article at the time. He offered this
invention to the
U.S. War Department and to several
European countries without success. Various
conspiracy theories persist regarding
the nature of this device and the
whereabouts of Tesla's model or schematics[13]
for it. Tesla's 1917 proposal for Directed
Energy submarine warfare
[14] is
eerily similar to a 2008 US Department of
Defense proposal. During the
Gulf War, electromagnetic weapons,
including high power microwaves were used to
disrupt and destroy the enemy's electronic
systems and may have been used for other
effects. Types and magnitudes of exposure to
electromagnetic fields is unknown.[20]
Microwave guns powerful enough to injure
humans are possible.
Active Denial System is a millimeter
wave source, to heat the water in the
target's skin and thus cause
incapacitating pain. It is being
developed by the
U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory
in
New Mexico by researchers working
with
Raytheon for riot-control duty in
Iraq. Though intended to cause
severe pain while leaving no lasting
damage, some concern has been voiced as
to whether the system could cause
irreversible damage to the eyes. There
has yet to be testing for long-term side
effects of exposure to the microwave
beam. It can destroy
unshielded
electronics.
CBS broadcast a "60
Minutes" piece on the technology in
2008.[5]
The device comes in various sizes
including attached to a
humvee.
Vigilant Eagle is an airport defense
system that works by directing
electromagnetic radiation;
specifically, a set of high-frequency
microwave waves towards any projectiles
that is fired toward either an
approaching or landing aircraft.[6]
The system consists of three major
components: a missile detecting and
tracking subsystem (MDT), a command and
control system, and a scanning array.
The MDT is a fixed grid of passive
infrared (IR) cameras. The command and
control system determines where the
launch of the terrorist is taking place.
Then by using the scanning array, it
interferes with the surface-to-air
missile's guidance system and deflect it
away from the aircraft.[7]
Microwave weapons also have considerable
anti-material applications, as they are
capable of disabling or destroying
unhardened electronics. The components of a
microwave weapon—a power source, microwave
generator and an antenna—are all readily
available, and civilians have successfully
built and tested simple devices in this
category.
The United States, in cooperation
with the Canadian Government, built and
successfully tested a microwave gun. It
was shown working on a willing soldier
on American and Canadian television.[citation
needed]
Pulsed Energy Projectile or PEP systems
emit an infrared laser pulse which creates
rapidly expanding
plasma when meeting the target. The
resulting sound, shock and electromagnetic
waves stun the target and cause pain and
temporary paralysis. The weapon is under
development and is intended to be used as a
non-lethal weapon in crowd control.
Particle beam weapons
Particle beam weapons can use charged or
neutral particles, and can be either
endoatmospheric or exoatmospheric.
Particle beams as beam weapons are
theoretically possible, but practical
weapons have not been demonstrated. Certain
types of particle beams have the advantage
of being self-focusing in the atmosphere.
Blooming is not limited to lasers, but
is also a problem in particle beam weapons.
Energy that would otherwise be focused on
the target spreads out; the beam becomes
less effective.
Thermal blooming occurs in both
charged and neutral particle beams, and
occurs when particles bump into one
another under the effects of thermal
vibration, or bump into air molecules.
Electrical blooming occurs only in
charged particle beams, as ions of like
charge repel one another.
Plasma
weapons
Plasma weapons fire a beam, bolt, or
stream of
plasma, which is an excited
state of matter consisting of atomic
electrons & nuclei and free electrons if
ionized, or other particles if
pinched, not to be confused with
plasma stealth. Examples are:
The
MARAUDER (Magnetically Accelerated
Ring to Achieve Ultra-high
Directed Energy and Radiation).
See
this link for more details; the
antiaircraft potential of such a system
is mentioned.
The
plasma rifle is a staple of science
fiction. There may have been influence
from the real
plasma torch used to cut metal.
The discontinued
Shiva Star project was to be a
system for shooting down incoming
missiles with projectiles of plasma
traveling at speeds from 3,000
kilometers per second to 10,000
kilometers per second.
Electric
beam in a vacuum
In a
vacuum (e.g. in
space), an electric discharge can travel
a potentially unlimited distance at a
velocity slightly slower than the speed of
light. This is because there is no
significant electric resistance to the flow
of electric current in a vacuum. This would
make such devices useful to destroy the
electrical and
electronic parts of
satellites and
spacecraft. However, in a vacuum the
electric current cannot ride a laser beam,
and some other means must be used to keep
the electron beam on track and to prevent it
from dispersing: see
particle beam.
Speed
of the weapon
The speed of the energy weapon is
determined by the density of the beam or
laser. If it is very dense then it is very
powerful, but a particle beam is much slower
than the
speed of light, its speed being
determined by mass, power, density, or
particle or energy density.
Cavitation, which affects gas nuclei in
human tissue, and heating can result from
exposure to ultrasound and can cause damage
to tissue and organs. Studies have found
that exposure to high intensity ultrasound
at frequencies from 700 kHz to 3.6 MHz can
cause lung and intestinal damage in mice.
Heart rate patterns following vibroacoustic
stimulation has resulted in serious negative
consequences such as arterial flutter and
bradycardia. Researchers have concluded that
generating pain through the auditory system
using high intensity sound resulted in a
high risk of permanent hearing damage.
Organizations in a research program which
included several institutions[8]
involved high intensity audible sound
experiments on human subjects. The
extra-aural (unrelated to hearing)
bioeffects on various internal organs and
the central nervous system included auditory
shifts, vibrotactile sensitivity change,
muscle contraction, cardiovascular function
change,
central nervous system effects,
vestibular (inner
ear) effects, and chest wall/lung tissue
effects. Researchers found that low
frequency sonar exposure could result in
significant
cavitations,
hypothermia, and
tissue shearing. No follow on
experiments were recommended. Tests
performed on mice show the threshold for
both lung and liver damage occurs at about
184
dB. Damage increases rapidly as
intensity is increased. Noise-induced
neurologic disturbances in humans exposed to
continuous low frequency tones for durations
longer than 15 minutes involved development
of immediate and long term problems
affecting brain tissue. The symptoms
resembled those of individuals who had
suffered minor head injuries. One theory for
a causal mechanism is that the prolonged
sound exposure resulted in enough mechanical
strain to brain tissue to induce an
encephalopathy.[9]
History
AN INTERNATIONAL TREATY CAN NEVER BE REPEALED
LIKE A US LAW, IT IS FOREVER AND IF OUR ADMINISTRATION SIGNS THIS ONE, NO
AMERICAN WILL EVER HAVE THE "RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS" AS OUR CONSTITUTION
GUARANTEED, INTERNATIONAL LAW WILL OVERULE THAT CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT, WHAT
OTHER RIGHTS WILL THEY TAKE AWAY?
"The US has not signed any such treaty with the UN…yet.
The UN has been trying to negotiate an arms control treaty
for years, but past US administrations have never supported
such flagrant attempts by the UN to interfere with our
sovereignty or strip us of our Second Amendment rights.
However, the CURRENT administration has reversed the long
standing position of the US and has publically stated it
supports an arms control treaty.
Should a treasonous administration sign an arms control
treaty, the Senate would have the power to squash it by
refusing to ratify the treaty.
The age old natural remedy of tiny silver ions and
particles (traditionally called "colloidal silver") has been officially
banned in The European Union through
Codex Alimentarius. As of the first day of the new year, colloidal
silver can no longer be sold as a dietary or nutritional supplement in
health food stores within The European Union.
Is the United States next?
Pure silver and it's various compounds have been used as a natural
anti-bacterial element since the dawn of time. There has been endless
research spanning well over the past 100 years concerning silver as a proven
anti-bacterial, anti-viral, anti-fungal, anti-parasitic and anti-pathogenic
natural element of the Earth.
When pure silver is divided into nano-sized particles and ions, silver
(being a transition metal) chemically assists the process of
"oxidation", which in effect directly and indirectly works against
pathogenic media.
Silver (in low and safe concentrations) has virtually no toxicity nor side
effects. Common metals that we consume daily in our foods and nutritional
supplements are iron, copper, nickel, chromium, calcium, zinc, selenium,
boron, vanadium, cobalt, etc. Our bodies are designed to use and transport
metals effectively through ion channels and other pathways where
metals enhance our cells, health and vitality.
Now that The Europe Union has been targeted against the sale of colloidal
silver supplements, we see the immediate need to prepare for the same fate
to arrive in the United States. Having the ability to create colloidal
silver solutions in the comfort and privacy of our home becomes an immediate
concern.
There is a strong chance that
silver generating devices could fall under this ruling at a future time but
no such laws or regulations have been made public yet. If you are outside of
the United States, there could not be a better time to protect yourself
against the Codex Alimentarius "agenda" than now.
The SilverLungs Generator is a
professional-grade colloidal silver generator and lung-delivery
system as well as a complete solution allowing for silver to be
administered to the eyes, ears, nose, skin, digestive system and most
importantly into the lungs. Colloidal silver is also commonly given to pets
and livestock.
Lung-delivery is unsurpassed for bio-availability into the
bloodstream and requires far less volume for similar efficacy through
traditional oral ingestion (i.e. drinking.) Breathing a silver
solution also targets the respiratory system instantly and directly
through inhalation.
No other manufacturer of colloidal silver generators offers a complete
solution for administration throughout the entire body as well as the proper
UV protected glassware and applicators required to preserve and protect your
home-produced silver solutions.
Warning Hotmail, Yahoo email users: "HI
ALL THIS was sent to me by our son who is in charge of the computers for the
state of Florida -- whenever he receives anything like this it is a warning to
the State as well as all us little people --
VERY IMPORTANT , PLEASE READ THIS
Anyone-using Internet mail such as Yahoo, Hotmail,AOL
and so on.. This information arrived this morning,Direct
from both Microsoft and Norton Please send it to everybody you know who hasAccess
to the Internet. You may receive an apparently harmless e-mail titled 'Mail
Server Report' If you open either file, a message will appear on your
screen saying: 'It is too late now, your life is no longer beautiful.....'
Subsequently you will LOSE EVERYTHING IN YOUR PC, And the person who sent it to
you will gain access to yourName,
e-mail and password. This is a new virus which started to circulate on
Saturday afternoon. AOL has already confirmed the severity, and the anti
virus software's are not capable of destroying it..
The virus has been created by a hacker who calls himself 'life owner'.
PLEASE SEND A COPY OF THIS E-MAILTO
ALL YOUR FRIENDS, And ask them toPASS
IT ON IMMEDIATELY!
Operation Helping HEAL Inc., provides
financial assistance to wounded service men and women returning from our
current overseas military operations. During the Vietnam War there were
4 wounded to every soldier killed in action. Thanks to advances in
medicine, body armor and logistics, today’s ratio is twelve wounded to a
single deceased. Our current system is unprepared to handle the high
numbers of wounded servicemen. The severity and scope of the conflicts
have exceeded our government’s estimation, and as a result, many of our
soldiers are falling through the cracks.
An audit conducted by the Government
Accountability Office (GAO, dated Feb. 2005) found that "Gaps
in Pay and Benefits Create Financial Hardships for Injured Army National
Guard and Reserve Soldiers." In the thirty-eight cases reviewed,
twenty-four, a startling 63% of all wounded servicemen and servicewomen,
experienced "gaps in their pay which often resulted in financial
hardship." The majority of the 150,000 soldiers currently on duty in
Iraq are Reservists and National Guard.
(NaturalNews) Continuing with our 15-day self healing series, today we
focus on cleaning up your skin exposures. By "skin exposures," I
mean all the things your skin comes into contact with... and the sheer
quantity of those things will probably surprise you.
But first, let's get something out of the way that's crucial to all
this. The consumer products industry wants you to believe their "Big
Lie". The Big Lie is that chemicals you put on your skin don't get
absorbed into your bloodstream. So there's no need to make sure consumer
products are actually safe.
The FDA and most members of the conventional medical community also
believe this lie: They don't acknowledge the absorption properties of
the skin, so they tend to say that all the things you put on your skin
are perfectly safe for your health even if they contain toxic
chemicals. (Of course, these very same people then promote nicotine
patches and other drugs delivered through the skin, so they do
indirectly acknowledge that the skin absorbs chemicals.)
How many different products come into contact with your skin on a
regular basis? You'd be shocked to consider all the sources:
• Perfumes, colognes and other fragrance products.
• Shampoo.
• Shower soap or shower gel products.
• Pesticides used on your lawn which are carried to you through pets or
children.
• Skin creams.
• Sunscreen products.
• Cosmetics.
• Antibacterial hand soaps.
• Laundry detergents and dryer sheets (through your clothing).
• Dish soaps.
• Furniture polishes.
• Household cleaners such as window cleaners.
• Artificial dyes found in clothing.
• Feminine hygiene products.
• Deodorants and anti-perspirants.
• Shaving creams and after-shave products.
• Hair dyes.
• Massage oils and lotions.
• Hair sculpting products and hair sprays.
• Tattoos and temporary skin art.
• Insect repellants.
• Over-the-counter creams: Anti-itch, pain creams, etc.
• Chlorine in your shower water.
• Anti-flea and tick chemicals acquired by touching your pets.
Cancer-causing chemicals
If you look at all these products whose ingredients come into contact
with your skin, you'll begin to realize something quite disturbing:
They're loaded with cancer-causing chemicals!
The average perfume product, just as an example,
contains over twenty cancer-causing chemicals all by itself -- and these
are never even listed on the label. Antibacterial
soaps are made with a chemical that's similar to the nerve toxin
chemical called Agent Orange which
was used as a chemical weapon in the Vietnam War.
Hair dyes contain highly toxic chemical solvents. Conventional
laundry detergents are made with extremely toxic cancer-causing
fragrance chemicals. Conventional cosmetics are loaded with not just
cancer-causing chemicals, but also heavy metals like lead.
Lawn pesticides contain chemicals that promote
Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.
The list goes on and on...
The products listed above probably contain over 10,000 different
synthetic chemicals, and virtually none of them have ever been safety
tested or approved as safe for human consumption by any federal agency.
The EPA doesn't even know what many of these chemicals are because
companies claim they need to protect their formulation "trade secrets"
by not even listing the ingredients on product labels.
But think about these 10,000 chemicals for a moment and ask yourself
this question: Why are you putting them on your skin?
Mainstream consumers poison themselves
Consumers are very easy to covertly influence through corporate
advertising. I'm particularly struck by the advertising of a cologne
product called "Axe" which is marketed to clueless teenage boys who
naively believe that wearing these toxic chemicals will magically bring
them hoards of slutty women who want to have sex with them. That's the
underlying message of the Axe Cologne advertising, anyway.
So these teenage boys buy up these Axe products which include cologne,
deodorant and shampoo. Naturally, they're oblivious to the fact that
these products are made with artificial, synthetic fragrance chemicals
that are absorbed right through the skin. None of these chemicals have
been approved as safe for human consumption by the FDA, of course. But
young men coat their bodies with these chemicals with no regard for
their own health, thinking that smelling like Axe will reward you with
female companionship.
HR
615
On
Tuesday, the Senate health committee voted 12-11 in favor of a two-page
amendment, courtesy of Republican Tom Coburn which would require all Members of
Congress and their staff members to enroll in any new government-run health
plan.
Congressman John Fleming has proposed an amendment that would require
Congressmen and Senators to take the same health care plan that they would force
on us. (Under proposed legislation they are exempt.)
Congressman Fleming is encouraging people to go to his Website and sign his
petition. The process is very simple. I have done just that at: http://fleming.house.gov/index.html
Senator Coburn and Congressman Fleming are both physicians. Regardless of your
political beliefs, it sure seems reasonable that Congress should have exactly
the same medical coverage that they impose on the rest of us.
Please urge as many people as you can to do the same
If
a U.S. Census
worker knocks on your door, they will have a badge, a handheld device,
a Census Bureau canvas bag, and a confidentiality notice. Ask to see their
identification and their badge before answering their questions. However,
you should never invite anyone you don't know into your home.
Census workers are currently only knocking on doors to verify address
information. Do
not give
your Social Security number, credit card or banking information to anyone, even
if they claim they need it for theU.S. Census.
REMEMBER, NO MATTER WHAT THEY ASK, YOU
REALLY ONLY NEED TO TELL THEM HOW MANY PEOPLE LIVE AT YOUR ADDRESS.
While the Census Bureau might ask for basic financial information, such as a
salary range,
YOU DON'T HAVE TO ANSWER ANYTHING AT ALL ABOUT YOUR FINANCIAL SITUATION. The
Census Bureau will not ask for Social Security, bank account, or credit card
numbers, nor will employees solicit donations. Any one asking for that
information is NOT with the Census Bureau.
AND
REMEMBER, THE CENSUS BUREAU HAS DECIDED NOT TO WORK WITH ACORN ON GATHERING
THIS INFORMATION.. No
Acorn worker should approach you saying he/she is with the Census
Bureau.
Eventually, Census
workers may contact you by telephone, mail, or in person at home. However,
the Census Bureau will not contact
you by Email,
so be on the lookout for Email scams impersonating the Census.
Never click on a link or open any attachments in an Email that are supposedly
from the U.S. Census
Bureau.
For more advice on avoiding identity theft and fraud, visit www.bbb.org
U.S. agrees to timetable for UN Gun Ban
The United Nations and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are moving
forward with their plan to confiscate your guns.
The United States joined 152 other countries in support of the Arms
Trade Treaty Resolution, which establishes the dates for the 2012 UN
conference intended to attack American sovereignty by stripping
Americans of the right to keep and bear arms.
Working groups of anti-gun countries will begin scripting language for
the conference this year, creating a blueprint for other countries when
they meet at the full conference.
The stakes couldn't be higher.
Former United Nation's ambassador John Bolton has cautioned gun owners
about the Arms Trade Treaty and says the UN “is trying to act as though
this is really just a treaty about international arms trade between
nation states, but there’s no doubt that the real agenda here is
domestic firearms control.”
Establishing the dates for the Arms Trade Treaty Conference is just the
first step toward their plans for total gun confiscation.
The worldwide gun control mob will ensure the passage of an egregious,
anti-gun treaty...
. . .and that's where Secretary of State Hillary Clinton steps in.
Once the UN Gun Ban is passed by the General Assembly of the United
Nations it must be ratified by each nation, including the United States.
As an arch enemy of gun owners, Clinton has pledged to push the U.S.
Senate to ratify the treaty. She will push for passage of this
outrageous treaty designed to register, ban and CONFISCATE firearms
owned by private citizens like YOU.
That’s why it’s vital you
sign the special petition I’ve made up for your signature that
DEMANDS your U.S. Senators vote AGAINST ratification of the UN’s “Small
Arms Treaty.”
So far, the gun-grabbers have successfully kept the exact wording of
their new scheme under wraps.
But looking at previous versions of the UN “Small Arms Treaty,” you and
I can get a good idea of what’s likely in the works.
Don't let any of the "experts" lull you to sleep by saying "Oh, we have
it handled" or "Until you know exactly what's in the treaty you can't
fight against it."
Judging by Ambassador Bolton's comments -- who certainly knows what to
expect from the American-freedom-hating international crowd that infests
the U.N. -- we are certain the treaty's going to address the private
ownership of firearms.
If passed by the UN and ratified by the U.S. Senate (which is where we
must ultimately make our stand), the UN “Small Arms Treaty” would almost
certainly FORCE national governments to:
*** Enact tougher licensing requirements, making law-abiding citizens
cut through even more bureaucratic red tape just to own a firearm
legally;
*** CONFISCATE and DESTROY ALL “unauthorized” civilian firearms (all
firearms owned by the government are excluded, of course);
*** BAN the trade, sale and private ownership of ALL semi-automatic
weapons;
*** Create an INTERNATIONAL gun registry, setting the stage for
full-scale gun CONFISCATION. So please click here to sign the petition
to your U.S. Senators before it’s too late!
You see, this is NOT a fight we can afford to lose.
Here's what you can do to help the National Association for Gun Rights
fight Hillary Clinton and her United Nations cronies:
Without your help and support, the National Association for Gun Rights
cannot defeat this measure.
Thank you in advance for your support.
For Liberty,
Not only are we buying more and more "junk" from China, owing
them more than any other country, but now our lawmakers are allowing their
secret police into the US to spy on us:
"reporting today that “between 4,500 to 5,000” Chinese People's Armed
Police, and Second and Third Department Forces have been “secreted”
this past year (2009) into the United States for “purposes as yet
unknown”.
These Chinese forces are all a part of the People's
Liberation Army (PLA)
which is the unified military organization of all land, sea, and air forces
of the People's (Communist) Republic of China and is the largest military
force in the World.
The People's Armed Police Force (CPAP)
is a paramilitary force of nearly 700,000 troops primarily responsible for
civilian policing and fire rescue duties in the People's Republic of China.
CPAP border security forces also guard China's land and sea borders, as well
as its ports and airports, and were given, for the first time in their
history, the “statutory
authority to respond to riots, terrorist attacks or other emergencies”
in August, 2009.
The Third Department of China’s General Staff Headquarters is
responsible for monitoring the telecommunications of foreign armies and
producing finished intelligence based on the military information collected
and maintains the most extensive SIGINT network of all the countries in the
Asia-Pacific region, including the United States. The PLA Foreign Language
Institute at Luoyang also comes under the Third Department of the General
Staff Department and is responsible for training foreign language cadres for
the monitoring of foreign military intelligence.
The Second Department of China’s General Staff Headquarters is
responsible for collecting military information. Activities include military
attaches at Chinese embassies abroad, clandestine special agents sent to
foreign countries to collect military information, and the analysis of
information publicly published in foreign countries. The GRU states in these
reports that The Second Department are “most assuredly” in command of
both CPAP and Third Department forces currently operating in the United
States.
To the ability of China to secret such large numbers of military forces
into the United States these reports state would be (literally) a “cake
walk” as this Communist Nation (unbelievably) controls two of the
Americans largest port facilities through their China Ocean Shipping Company
(COSCO),
the merchant marine for the People's Liberation Army, located in Long Beach,
California and Boston, Massachusetts.
Important to note is that Russia had
previously rejected the notion of China controlling any ports in the
Motherland as being “incompatible” with its National security and
added on economic grounds “It doesn't make sense to assist natural
competitors.”
The United States, however, has not thought likewise in their giving to
Communist China such power over them, but for a more shocking reason then
seems possible, but is nevertheless true, the Chinese have bought off US
lawmakers, and as we can read as confirmed by the Washington Post News
Service:
An even greater threat to the Americans, this reports continues, is in
China’s now controlling the vast
Lazaro Cardenas Seaport in Mexico, and which through its linkage to the
currently under construction Trans Texas Corridor (TTC)
the GRU estimates that the Chinese, should they so choose, pour into North
America over 500,000 military troops within a four week period.
This report also, and ominously, warns that the United States and China
are on a “collision course” with each other over their fight for our
Earth’s last remaining natural resources, and which took a most dangerous
turn these past few weeks after President Obama, and those forces loyal to
him, put the Middle Eastern Nation into play in this
New Great Game after China’s top Naval officer
proposed the building of Chinese Naval Base in the critically located
Gulf of Aden that lies between Yemen and Somalia and raising the
Americans fear of this Communist Nation expanding its military presence
around the Globe.
So powerful has China become that reports this week are confirming that
not only has it
passed Germany to become the World’s top exporting Nation, it has also
passed the United States to become the
largest automobile market on the entire Planet.
Though the American people have been
continuously warned that they are at war with China these warnings
continue to fall upon deaf ears, especially by their bankers who incredibly,
as the New York Times News Service is
reporting today, are preparing to pay to themselves record bonuses as
the remainder of their countrymen continue their plunge into an economic
abyss, poverty and starvation, all of their own making.
Even worse reports coming from the United States are showing that the
warnings given to them by the World’s second richest man, Warren Buffet (who
in 2003
warned his countrymen and government that the “time bomb” that
exploded last year collapsing theirs, and the Global, economy was posing a
“mega-catastrophic risk”) are, likewise,
still being ignored by both their people and lawmakers.
Most astounding of all of these events, and as hard as it may be to
believe, the once great Nation of the United States, who just last century
had faced down the evil threats posed to our World by the Nazi German
Fascists and Communist Soviet Empire leading to freedom for over 1 billion
human beings, are today financing their own destruction by pouring upon the
Communist regime in China countless billions of their dollars for what
amount to, according to CNN commentator Jack Cafferty,
“junk”.
Equally astounding was the United States Army ordering from communist
Chinese factories just prior to the attacks of 9/11 over 600,000 military
berets worn by their soldiers. (a policy
quickly reversed after it was discovered)
To the purpose of these Chinese troops secreted into the United States
this past year it is not in our knowing, nor does this report speculate upon
it. However, the most logical conclusion would be in thinking what house
owner wouldn’t want to protect his property being mismanaged and potentially
destroyed by his deadbeat and broke renters?
A moderate swarm of earthquakes
is rattling Yellowstone
National Park say researchers at the
University of Utah. Jamie Farrell is a
doctoral student with the university in
Salt Lake City. He says that the
earthquake swarm started Sunday night
and that more than 200 had been counted
by 9 a.m. Monday.
Mitch Battros Research of the Sun -
Earth Connection and 2012
Mitch Battros presents fascinating,
and sometimes shocking, research
from the world's top scientists.
After years of dialogue with these
experts, Mitch has been accepted
into the guarded halls of NASA,
NOAA, ESA, Royal Observatory, the US
Naval Observatory and other highly
esteemed scientific bodies. In
addition to the latest research on
the Sun's influence on our
"weather", Mitch also presents
ground-breaking evidence of how the
Sun and other celestial orbs produce
'charged particles' and their impact
on humanity.
Just as the Sun's solar
activity affects the Earth's
magnetic field which has a
dramatic affect on Earth's "weather"
i.e. earthquakes, floods,
volcanoes, hurricanes; so does
this wave of electrical currents
affect the human body's magnetic
field. Mitch also reveals a
little-known development from
modern medicine known as
Transcranial Magnetic
Stimulation (TMS). TMS provides
empirical evidence of how
magnetic fields can influence
human emotions.
Solar Cycle 24 has
begun - and it has
been predicted by NASA, NOAA
and ESA to be up to 50%
stronger than its 'record
breaking' predecessor Cycle
23 which produced the
largest solar flare ever
recorded. The Sun will reach
its 'apex' (maximum) in late
2011 into 2012.
"I believe it will be
the magnetic influence
produced by the Sun which
will usher in what is
described by our ancient
ancestors as "the
transition" bringing us to a
new state-of-being".
(Mitch Battros)
No US combat deaths in
Iraq in December The Age
Fri,
01 Jan 2010 11:42 AM PST
The US army says it suffered no combat-related deaths in
December, the first month without battle fatalities since the
2003 invasion.
Drone on in peace Malaysian Mirror
Fri,
01 Jan 2010 11:37 AM PST
JOHOR BARU - Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology, normally
used in combat operations for surveillance and observation from
the air, especially in countries like Afghanistan, Iraq
and Palestine, is set to reach new heights through the efforts
of a local company.
Iraq death toll drops to lowest level since invasion AFP via Yahoo! News
Fri,
01 Jan 2010 11:37 AM PST
Violence in Iraq dropped dramatically in 2009 to its
lowest level since the 2003 invasion, figures showed on Friday,
but a monitoring group warned that security gains were levelling
off.
How Goldman Sachs Made Tens Of Billions Of Dollars From The Economic
Collapse Of America In Four Easy Steps
Investment
banking giant Goldman Sachs has become perhaps the most prominent symbol for
everything that is wrong with the U.S. financial system, but most Americans
cannot even begin to explain what they do or how they have made tens of
billions of dollars from the economic collapse of America. The truth is
that what Goldman Sachs did was fairly simple, and there may not have even
been anything "illegal" about it (although they are now being investigated
by the SEC among others).
The following is how Goldman Sachs made tens of
billions of dollars from the economic collapse of America in four easy
steps....
Step 1: Sell mortgage-related securities that are absolute junk to
trusting clients at vastly overinflated prices.
Step 2: Bet against those same mortgage-related securities and make
massive bets against the U.S. housing market so that your firm will make
massive profits when the U.S. economy collapses.
Step 3: Have ex-Goldman executives in key positions of power in the U.S.
government so that bailout money can be funneled to entities such as AIG
that Goldman has made these bets with so that they can get paid after they
win their bets.
Step 4: Collect the profits - Goldman Sachs is having their "most
successful year" and will end up reporting approximately $50 billion
in revenue for 2009.
So is it right for the biggest fish on Wall Street to make tens of
billions of dollars by betting that the U.S. housing market will collapse?
You see, when you are talking about a financial giant the size of Goldman
Sachs, the line between "betting that something will happen" and "making
something happen" gets blurred very quickly.
Not that Goldman Sachs was the only one betting against the housing
market.
According to the New York Times, firms like Deutsche
Bank and Morgan Stanley also created mortgage-related securities and then
bet that they would fail.....
Goldman was not the only firm that peddled these complex
securities — known as synthetic collateralized debt obligations, or C.D.O.’s
— and then made financial bets against them, called selling short in Wall
Street parlance. Others that created similar securities and then bet they
would fail, according to Wall Street traders, include Deutsche Bank and
Morgan Stanley, as well as smaller firms like Tricadia Inc.
But certainly Goldman Sachs was the most prominent financial player
involved in this type of activity.
In fact, without mentioning specifics, Goldman has even admitted publicly
to wrongdoing. On November 17th, 2008 Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein
even issued
a public apology....
"We participated in things that were clearly wrong and have
reason to regret."
But complicated financial transactions are something that most Americans
simply do not understand, so the public outrage towards Goldman Sachs and
others has been somewhat limited. But that does not change the very serious
nature of the activities that Goldman was involved in....
"The simultaneous selling of securities to customers and shorting
them because they believed they were going to default is the most cynical
use of credit information that I have ever seen," Sylvain Raynes,
an expert in structured finance at R & R Consulting in New York,
recently told The New York Times. "When you buy
protection against an event that you have a hand in causing, you are buying
fire insurance on someone else’s house and then committing arson."
But the sad thing is that many Americans do not even understand what
Goldman Sachs is. Goldman Sachs was founded in 1869 and has forged a
reputation as one of the elite financial institutions in the entire world.
They only hire "the best and the brightest" and Ivy League graduates flock
to the firm. Of the five major investment banks that dominated Wall Street
before the crash, only Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have
survived. Merrill Lynch and Bear Stearns were severely damaged by the crash
and ended up being purchased by retail banks and Lehman Brothers ended up
folding.
There are persistent rumors that Goldman played a major role in the
collapse of Bear Stearns and that ex-Goldman CEO Hank Paulson could
have done much more to bail out Lehman Brothers, but perhaps nobody will
ever know the full truth. All we do know is that at the end of the crash
several of Goldman's competitors were destroyed and Goldman found itself in
a more dominant position than ever.
The truth is that Goldman is a financial shark and they do not apologize
for it.
The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's
everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire
squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood
funnel into anything that smells like money.
So how did Goldman Sachs prosper so greatly in an environment that
destroyed their competitors?
The following is an extended breakdown of just how Goldman Sachs was able
to reap tens of billions of dollars in profits from the collapse of the U.S.
housing market....
Step 1: Sell mortgage-related securities that are absolute junk
to trusting clients at vastly overinflated prices.
In late 2006, Goldman Sachs made some fundamental changes in the way that
they were approaching the U.S. housing market.
According to a McClatchy report, Goldman spokesman
Michael DuVally said that the firm decided at that time to reduce its
mortgage risks by selling off subprime mortgage-related securities and by
purchasing credit-default swaps to hedge against a serious downturn in the
U.S. housing market.
The key moment came in December 2006. After
"10 straight days of losses" in Goldman's mortgage
business, Chief Financial Officer David Viniar called a meeting of key
Goldman personnel.
Vanity Fair described the results of that meeting this way....
After a now famous meeting in David Viniar’s office on December
14, 2006, Goldman’s traders began to protect the firm against further
declines in the market. Just as you can short the S&P 500, the traders took
short positions in an index that tracked the price of mortgage-backed
securities. They also either sold assets they owned to others at losses or
dramatically marked down the price on their own books. In the aftermath of
the crisis, criticism erupted that Goldman had continued to sell
mortgage-backed securities to its clients while betting against those very
securities for its own account. Clearly, in the simplest terms possible,
this is true: while Goldman was never the biggest underwriter of C.D.O.’s
(collateralized debt obligations—Wall Street’s vehicle of choice for
mortgage-backed securities), the firm did remain in the top five until the
summer of 2007, when the market crashed to a halt.
So Goldman Sachs proceeded to sell approxmiately $39 billion of its own
mortgage securities in 2006 and 2007 and they sold at least $17 billion more
mortgage securities for others, but they never told the buyers of those
securities that Goldman was secretly betting that a significant drop in U.S.
housing prices would send the value of those mortgage securities plummeting.
These sales and the massive clandestine wagers placed by Goldman enabled
the firm to pass most of its potential losses on to others prior to the
collapse of the U.S. housing market.
But many of the investors who got the short end of the stick were not
pleased. When they discovered that what Goldman had promoted as triple-A
rated investments were actually a bunch of garbage, many of them were
absolutely furious.
"The Securities and Exchange Commission should be very interested
in any financial company that secretly decides a financial product is a
loser and then goes out and actively markets that product or very similar
products to unsuspecting customers without disclosing its true opinion,"
said Boston University economics professor Laurence Kotlikoff.
"This is fraud and should be prosecuted."
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, whose state has lost $5
million of the $6 million it invested in Goldman's subprime mortgage-backed
bonds in 2006, said the state's funds are likely to lose "hundreds of
millions of dollars" on those and similar bonds.
California's huge public employees' retirement system, known as
CALPERS, purchased $64.4 million in subprime mortgage-backed bonds from
Goldman on March 1, 2007. While that represented a tiny percentage of the
fund's holdings, in July CALPERS listed the bonds' value at $16.6 million, a
drop of nearly 75 percent, according to documents obtained through a state
public records request.
So who is left holding the bag in cases such as these?
The taxpayers.
And that is just fine with Goldman Sachs. Just as long as they keep
raking in huge profits.
Vanity Fair was even more blunt regarding this injustice....
"Goldman’s management team was almost flawless in its execution.
But how many people needed government help because of the things Goldman
sold them?"
The truth is that a lot of people needed help because of the things
Goldman sold them, but up until now Goldman has completely gotten away with
it.
Step 2: Bet against those same mortgage-related securities and
make massive bets against the U.S. housing market so that your firm will
make massive profits when the U.S. economy collapses.
Not only did Goldman sell mortgage-related securities that were absolute
junk to investors at vastly overinflated prices, they also placed massive
bets that the U.S. housing market would absolutely collapse.
The New York Times recently described how Goldman used a
new index known as the ABX to make many of these bets....
A handful of investors and Wall Street traders, however,
anticipated the crisis. In 2006, Wall Street had introduced a new index,
called the ABX, that became a way to invest in the direction of mortgage
securities. The index allowed traders to bet on or against pools of
mortgages with different risk characteristics, just as stock indexes enable
traders to bet on whether the overall stock market, or technology stocks or
bank stocks, will go up or down.
Goldman, among others on Wall Street, has said since the collapse
that it made big money by using the ABX to bet against the housing market.
Worried about a housing bubble, top Goldman executives decided in December
2006 to change the firm’s overall stance on the mortgage market, from
positive to negative, though it did not disclose that publicly.
These bets would only make money for Goldman Sachs if the U.S. housing
market declined.
So if the biggest giant on Wall Street has a huge financial incentive to
see the U.S. housing market fail, what do you think the odds are that they
are going to do anything to support it?
Step 3: Have ex-Goldman executives in key positions of power in
the U.S. government so that bailout money can be funneled to entities such
as AIG that Goldman has made these bets with so that they could get paid.
For years, Goldman Sachs has encouraged executives to serve in U.S.
government positions. Now they are world famous for the amount of influence
their former employees have over government policy.
For example, according to the New York Times, Treasury
Secretary Hank Paulson (also a former Goldman CEO) spoke with the current
CEO of Goldman Sachs about two dozen times during the week of the bailout,
although Paulson says that he obtained an "ethics waiver" before doing so.
So does an "ethics waiver" make everything okay?
But the sad thing is that is not an isolated example.
It turns out that Goldman benefited greatly from a number of decisions
made by their former CEO while he was Treasury Secretary....
*Goldman greatly benefited when Paulson elected not to save rival Lehman
Brothers from collapse. Paulson certainly stepped in to help Fannie Mae,
Freddie Mac and AIG, but apparently had no problem with letting Lehman
Brothers fall apart.
*Under Paulson's direction, Goldman ended up receiving bailout money
(which they may or may not have needed) from the U.S. government and has
since paid back much of that money with interest. So why didn't Bear
Stearns or Lehman Brothers get the bailout funds that they needed?
*Goldman greatly benefitted when Paulson organized a massive rescue of
American International Group while in constant telephone contact with
Goldman CEO Blankfein. AIG ultimately ended up using $12.9 billion taxpayer
dollars to pay off every single penny that it owed to Goldman.
But it is not just Paulson who has had significant influence in
Washington.
On October 16th, Adam Storch, a Goldman Sachs vice president, was named
managing executive of the SEC's enforcement division. What do you think the
odds are that he will crack down hard on Goldman?
In addition, former Goldman Sachs lobbyist Mark Patterson is the chief of
staff for current Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.
In fact, ex-Goldman employees are seemingly everywhere.
According to Vanity Fair, at one G-7 meeting an
anonymous source identified at least 24 out of 32 finance officials in
attendance as ex-Goldman employees.
The influence of Goldman Sachs even reaches to the White House. Goldman
was Barack Obama's number one campaign donor, and its employees gave
$981,000 to his campaign.
If you don't think that kind of money does not buy influence then you are
delusional.
Goldman used some of that powerful influence to get the U.S. government
to bail out AIG so that AIG could pay off the bets that Goldman had made
with them.
In a recent article, Vanity Fair described part of what
went down....
After the government bailout of A.I.G., in order to end the
collateral calls on the insurance giant, the New York Federal Reserve—whose
chairman at the time was former Goldman chairman Steve Friedman—decided to
purchase a slew of the securities that A.I.G. had insured, including $14
billion of those on which Goldman had purchased insurance. The
government—meaning taxpayers—did so at full price, although according to a
recent Bloomberg story, there had been negotiations with A.I.G. to do so at
a 40 percent discount. Goldman says that the New York Fed broached the topic
of a discount only once. The firm’s response: a flat no. While no one will
ever know what would have happened had A.I.G. gone under, the essence of
what did happen is perfectly clear. As a recent report by the Office of the
Special Inspector General for tarpput it, the decision to pay full price
“effectively transferred tens of billions of dollars of cash from the
Government to A.I.G.’s counterparties.” Or to put it another way: because
Goldman felt it was owed its billions by A.I.G., the firm took it from
taxpayers instead.
So what about all of the thousands of small businesses that are failing
and what about the millions of Americans that are losing their jobs and
homes?
Do they get bailouts?
Of course not.
But the U.S. government definitely made sure that AIG and Goldman were
taken care of.
Step 4: Collect the profits - Goldman Sachs is having their "most
successful year" and will end up reporting approximately $50 billion
in revenue for 2009.
Goldman Sachs ranks #1 in annual net income when compared with 86 peers
in the investment services sector. They are on course for their best year
ever.
Yes, they are having a really good "crisis".
Goldman Sachs is on course to surpass $50 billion in revenue in 2009 and
to pay its employees more than $20 billion in year-end bonuses.
20 billion just in bonuses?
That would mean that the average bonus for all Goldman employees would be
over $700,000.
But because so many of Goldman’s competitors were gone or
disabled, spreads—the difference between the price at which you sell and buy
a variety of securities—were wider than they had been in years, meaning that
Goldman could practically mint money. By acting at the moment it did, with
Lehman out and Merrill Lynch down for the count, the government enabled this
situation.
The other reason for Goldman’s profits is that the government has
flooded the system with money, not just the money it used to rescue the
financial system but hundreds of billions more in stimulus, in support of
the housing market, and in the Federal Reserve’s purchases of securities.
But all of this success has not come without controversy. In fact,
Goldman executives are very much aware of the growing backlash against the
firm.
Senior officials at Goldman Sachs
have reportedly loaded up on firearms and are now
equipped to defend themselves if there is a "populist uprising" against the
bank.
They achieve this using the same playbook over and over again.
The formula is relatively simple: Goldman positions itself in the middle of
a speculative bubble, selling investments they know are crap. Then they
hoover up vast sums from the middle and lower floors of society with the aid
of a crippled and corrupt state that allows it to rewrite the rules in
exchange for the relative pennies the bank throws at political patronage.
Finally, when it all goes bust, leaving millions of ordinary citizens broke
and starving, they begin the entire process over again, riding in to rescue
us all by lending us back our own money at interest, selling themselves as
men above greed, just a bunch of really smart guys keeping the wheels
greased. They've been pulling this same stunt over and over since the 1920s
— and now they're preparing to do it again, creating what may be the biggest
and most audacious bubble yet.
The truth is that in this latest economic collapse there were millions of
losers and just a few winners.
Goldman Sachs was one of those winners.
So will they lose next time?
Not likely.
In their recent article, Vanity Fair quoted an anonymous
source in the financial industry as saying the following....
"Are they the Yankees? No, the Yankees actually lose! Goldman
never loses."
Actress Brittany Murphy dies in LA at age 32 (
I loved her performance with Dakota
Fanning when she played the loving nanny and only friend
to this little girl)
Associated Press - 1 hour, 54 minutes ago
12/20/09
In
this Dec. 1,2009 photo provided by PictureGroup
showing Brittany Murphy arriving at the 'Across the
Hall' Premiere in Beverly Hills, Calif. A Los
Angeles hospital spokeswoman says actress Brittany
Murphy has died. She was 32. (AP Photo/PictureGroup,
Gregg DeGuire)Associated Press
LOS ANGELES -
Brittany Murphy, the actress who got her start in
the sleeper hit "Clueless" and rose to stardom in "8
Mile" before her movie roles declined in recent years,
died Sunday in Los Angeles of what appeared to be
natural causes, a Los Angeles County coroner's official
said. She was 32.
Murphy was pronounced dead at 10:04 a.m. at
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, hospital spokeswoman Sally
Stewart said.
Murphy was transported to the hospital after the Los
Angeles Fire Department responded to a call at 8 a.m. at
the home she shared with her husband, British
screenwriter
Simon Monjack, in the Hollywood Hills.
Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter said Murphy
apparently collapsed in the bathroom, and authorities
were looking into her medical history.
An official cause of death may not be determined for
some time, since toxicology tests will be required, but
"it appears to be natural," Winter said. He said an
autopsy was planned for Monday or Tuesday.
Winter said Murphy's family was cooperating with the
coroner's investigation. Funeral arrangements have not
been announced, he said.
Los Angeles police have opened an investigation into
Murphy's death, Officer Norma Eisenman said. Detectives
and coroner's officials were at Murphy and Monjack's
home Sunday afternoon but did not talk to reporters.
Paparazzi were camped outside the multistory home,
located above the Sunset Strip.
Messages left for Murphy's manager and agent by The
Associated Press were not immediately returned.
Neighbor Clare Staples said she saw firefighters
working to resuscitate the actress Sunday morning. She
said Murphy was on a stretcher and "looked as though she
was dead at the scene."
Murphy's husband, wearing pajama bottoms and no
shoes, appeared "dazed" as firefighters tried to save
her, Staples said. "It's just tragic," she added.
TMZ.com first reported Murphy's death Sunday
morning.
Murphy's father, Angelo Bertolotti, said he learned
of her death from his son, the actress's brother, and
was stunned.
"She was just an absolute doll since she was born,"
Bertolotti said from his Branford, Fla., home. "Her
personality was always outward. Everybody loved her —
people that made movies with her, people on a cruise —
they all loved her. She was just a regular gal."
He said he hadn't heard much about the circumstances
of Murphy's death. Bertolotti divorced her mother when
Murphy was young and hadn't seen Murphy in the past few
years. He said he used to be in the mob and served
prison time on federal drug charges.
"She was just talented," Bertolotti said. "And I
loved her very much."
Meanwhile, Murphy's publicist, Nicole Perna, said in
a statement: "In this time of sadness, the family thanks
you for your love and support. It is their wish that you
respect their privacy."
Born Nov. 10, 1977, in Atlanta, Murphy grew up in New
Jersey and later moved with her mother to Los Angeles to
pursue acting.
Her career started in the early 1990s with small
roles in television series, commercials and movies. She
is best known for parts in "Girl, Interrupted,"
"Clueless" and "8 Mile."
Her on-screen work had lessened of late, but Murphy's
voice gave life to numerous animated characters,
including Luanne Platter on more than 200 episodes of
Fox's "King of the Hill" and Gloria the penguin in the
2006 feature "Happy Feet."
She is due to appear in
Sylvester Stallone's upcoming film, "The
Expendables," set for release next year.
Her role in "8 Mile" led to more recognition, Murphy
told AP in 2003. "That changed a lot," she said. "That
was the difference between people knowing my first and
last name as opposed to not."
Murphy credited her mother, Sharon, with being a key
to her success.
"When I asked my mom to move to California, she sold
everything and moved out here for me," Murphy said. "I
was really grateful to have grown up in an environment
that was conducive to creating and didn't stifle any of
that. She always believed in me."
She dated
Ashton Kutcher, who costarred with Murphy in 2003's
romantic comedy "Just Married."
Kutcher sent a message on Twitter Sunday morning
about Murphy's death: "2day the world lost a little
piece of sunshine," Kutcher wrote. "My deepest
condolences go out 2 Brittany's family, her husband, &
her amazing mother Sharon."
Aspartame alert: Diet
soda destroys kidney function
(NaturalNews)
Scientists from
Brigham and Women's Hospital in
Boston have
revealed results from a study outlining some of the effects of
artificial sweeteners
on the body. Conducted on a group of 3,000 women, the results
indicated that those who drank...
Green tea nutrients
prevent and treat brain disorders
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The Baghdad Iraq Military District was
recently created to provide increased
spiritual support for the needs of
approximately 1,300 members of The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints living in
Iraq. After six years of meeting as military
groups the Mormon Church now has a palpable
presence and priesthood structure in place
to serve those in the armed forces and
working in other capacities throughout the
country.
Frank Clawson, the Church's Director of
Military Relations, said the creation of the
Baghdad Iraq Military District will allow
for the exercise of priesthood keys on a
local level that was not previously
possible.
"The big difference is without a district
we can only have service-member groups,"
Brother Clawson said. "A group leader can
hold worship services and provide the
sacrament to members, but he does not have
priesthood keys. With keys present, it is
possible to meet the full range of spiritual
needs of our servicemen and women."
Elder
Paul B.
Pieper of
the Seventy
formed the
Baghdad Iraq
Military
District on
Nov. 9.
The
district
presidency
consists of
two U.S.
servicemen
and a
government
contractor.
E-mail
and other
Internet
technologies
help leaders
and members
watch over
each other.
The Baghdad
Iraq Military
District was
recently created
to provide
increased
spiritual
support for the
needs of
approximately
1,300 members of
The Church of
Jesus Christ of
Latter-day
Saints living in
Iraq. After six
years of meeting
as military
groups the
Mormon Church
now has a
palpable
presence and
priesthood
structure in
place to serve
those in the
armed forces and
working in other
capacities
throughout the
country.
Courtesy
of
President
Guy
M.
Hollingsworth
LDS
members
of
the
U.S.
military
pose
with
Elder
Paul
B.
Pieper,
second
from
left
in
front
row,
on
Nov.
8 in
the
interfaith
chapel
at
the
Victory
Base
Complex
near
Baghdad.
These
servicemen
are
part
of
the
newly
formed
Baghdad
Iraq
Military
District.
Frank
Clawson, the
Church's
Director of
Military
Relations, said
the creation of
the Baghdad Iraq
Military
District will
allow for the
exercise of
priesthood keys
on a local level
that was not
previously
possible. "The
big difference
is without a
district we can
only have
service-member
groups," Brother
Clawson said. "A
group leader can
hold worship
services and
provide the
sacrament to
members, but he
does not have
priesthood keys.
With keys
present, it is
possible to meet
the full range
of spiritual
needs of our
servicemen and
women."
Elder Paul B.
Pieper of the
Seventy visited
Baghdad on Nov.
8-9 to hold
meetings with
members and
friends of the
Church and to
organize the
Baghdad Iraq
Military
District
presidency. Col.
Guy M.
Hollingsworth
was called and
set apart as the
district
president, with
James D. Phipps
and Lt. Col.
Greg T. Adams as
the first and
second
counselors,
respectively.
The new
district
presidency is
representative
of the Church
members serving
and working in
Iraq. President
Hollingsworth is
a colonel in the
Army Reserves
who directs the
student
internship
program at
BYU-Idaho. He
was called up
for a 400-day
deployment and
coordinates the
U.S. training of
Iraqi troops.
Brother Phipps
is an
Arabic-speaking
attorney from
Virginia
employed as a
U.S. government
contractor to
build local
Iraqi
institutional
capacity.
Brother Greg
Adams is a
lieutenant
colonel and Army
Reservist from
Spokane, Wash.,
where he is
director of the
Institute of
Religion. He is
serving a
one-year
deployment
training the
Iraqi military.
Like most of
those deployed
in Iraq, all
members of the
district
presidency are
married and
dealing with the
challenges of
long periods of
separation from
their families.
"The
challenges faced
by those serving
in Iraq and
their families
are
significant,"
Elder Pieper
said. "We want
both to feel the
full support of
the Church's
organization to
bless their
lives and
strengthen them
during their
time of
separation."
President
Hollingsworth
said: "The
members of the
Church here in
Iraq already
feel the
excitement of
the newly formed
district. The
fact that
branches can now
be organized and
other Church
functions now
take place
throughout the
country is a
gospel blessing
that many
members serving
in this country
sense and are
grateful for."
The Baghdad
Iraq Military
District will
function in much
the same manner
as the Kabul
Afghanistan
Military
District,
created July 1,
2008. Because
gathering for
meetings is
difficult,
priesthood
leaders and
members watch
over and care
for each other
through the use
of Internet
technologies
such as e-mails,
Internet
telephone and
social
networking
sites.
"What has
happened in
Afghanistan is
gratifying,"
Elder Pieper
said. "When a
member has
needs,
priesthood
leaders have
used Internet
technologies to
inform others so
that service and
support can be
given and
prayers
activated. The
existence of the
district in
Kabul has bound
members together
in faith, love
and unity."
Courtesy
of
President
Guy
M.
Hollingsworth
Church
members
congregate
in
the
International
Zone
in
the
heart
of
Baghdad
on
Nov.
9,
the
day
the
Baghad
Iraq
Military
District
was
formed.
President
Eugene J. Wikle
presides over
the 700 members
of the Kabul
Afghanistan
Military
District.
"Members of
the district
comment how
their lives have
been blessed
while serving in
Afghanistan
because the
Church was here
for them,"
President Wikle
said. "I know
the members
serving in Iraq
will receive
those blessings
too."
In addition
to bringing
immediate
blessings to the
lives of members
living in Iraq,
the creation of
the Baghdad Iraq
Military
District will
also have
longer-term
effects.
"We are not
opening Iraq to
the preaching of
the gospel; that
will come when
the Lord is
ready," Elder
Pieper said. "By
virtue of having
priesthood keys
and faithful
members in this
land, the light
of the gospel is
beginning to
push back
darkness and
unbelief. That
righteous
influence and
the example of
Church members
will bless this
land and prepare
it for future
blessings."
The new
district is part
of the Middle
East/Africa
North Area.
Church members,
or families of
Church members,
deployed to Iraq
and Afghanistan
can obtain
additional
information by
contacting
Church Military
Relations at
800-453-3860,
ext. 2286, or
via e-mail at
pst-military@ldschurch.org.
President Barack Obama held
a "rigorous final meeting" with his Afghanistan war
council and is expected to announce his revised strategy
for the eight-year-old conflict just after his
Thanksgiving break. (While Our men and women in
Afghanistan get shot at and blown up as they wait for
extra needed troops needed months ago)
Norwegian scientists raise concerns about mutated form of swine flu
A mutated form of the virus has been found in two patients who died and one
who became severely ill, but scientists say it does not appear to be circulating
in the general population.
The year was 1921. America was entering a decade of robust prosperity. Later
called "The Roaring Twenties", it was a time of unparalleled economic expansion.
Debt money from Wall Street banks was plentiful and easy to obtain. The "Great
War" was over. America was flexing her industrial muscles. Factories were being
built and expanded in every major city. Automobiles began rolling off Detroit
assembly lines in record numbers. The stock market began making millionaires.
People were HEALTHY and HAPPY – largely
because the dreaded "world mystery disease" (which decades later became known as
the "1918 Flu Pandemic") had disappeared. Two entire years had passed with no
dreaded "mystery deaths" being reported. America had cause to celebrate, and
celebrate they did!
As a matter of fact, the American Public in general was so optimistic and
HAPPY in 1921, that relatively few people were unhealthy as well. For the first
time in decades, hospital beds were empty. The fledgling American Medical
Association, formed by John D. Rockefeller just a few years earlier, was
worried. Business was sagging. Profits from vaccines and drugs were spiraling.
Something had to be done, and done immediately. False, faux epidemics of
smallpox were created to solve the problem, and keep the Medical Mafia’s cash
registers ringing.
We know this dastardly plan actually happened, thanks to a citizen’s WATCHDOG
GROUP in Kansas City, Missouri named "The Advertiser’s Protective Bureau", who
filed, and successfully prosecuted criminal charges against the Missouri state
chapter of the AMA – the Jackson Medical
Society. The ‘Protective Bureau’s" official report of this cold-blooded plot
reads as follows:
"In the Fall of 1921, the health of the city was unusually good, but slow for
the doctors. So the Jackson Medical Society met and resolved to make an epidemic
in the city. According to the minutes of this meeting: ‘MOTION WAS MADE AND
SECONDED, THAT A RECOMMENDATION BE MADE BY THE COMMITTEE, TO THE BOARD OF
HEALTH, THAT AN EPIDEMIC OF SMALLPOX BE DECLARED IN THE CITY. (Investigation
later revealed that there was NO SIGN OF AN EPIDEMIC at the time, in the city,
or anywhere in the state or region!)
‘It was moved and seconded that a day be set aside, termed VACCINATION DAY,
on which physicians would be stationed at ALL SCHOOLS, clinics, public buildings
and hospitals to vaccinate "free of charge". (Vaccinations are never "free". The
taxpayers are always forced to pay for every one of the "free" vaccines.)
"IT IS FURTHER RECOMMENDED THAT WIDE PUBLICITY BE GIVEN, STATING THAT
VACCINATION IS A PREVENTIVE OF SMALLPOX, AND URGING THE ABSOLUTE NECESSITY OF
VACCINATION FOR EVERY MAN, WOMAN, AND CHILD IN THE CITY."
The Protective Bureau proved in court that there WAS NO EPIDEMIC before the
vaccinations!! The court records show that the Medical Society manufactured vast
amounts of posters, fliers, newspaper stories and ads featuring horrific and
lurid pictures of diseased children covered with massive smallpox sores and open
wounds. Some pictures actually showed children’s corpses covered with the same
ugly sores. The PANIC-DRIVEN message was clear --- VACCINATE EVERYONE, or face a
deadly public disease. There was a "sweeping epidemic" in the city; the disease
was "highly contagious" and would "strike anyone who was not vaccinated" was the
bill of goods sold! (Does this sound at all familiar today
– 88 years later??)
The Medical Mafia’s propaganda blitz was successful, and over a million
previously healthy and happy American citizens were hypnotized and terrorized
into placing the vaccine toxins into their bloodstreams. All public school
children in the region were vaccinated while at school! Parents who dared
question the vaccination of their children were ostracized and publicly
vilified.
THE COURT RECORD ON THIS CASE IS VERY CLEAR. In the weeks and months
following the "mass vaccinations" – the
area’s hospital beds were filled to over-flowing with VACCINE-INDUCED SMALLPOX
CASES! Tens of thousands of people became ill, and many hundreds of innocents
died, and many more were permanently crippled! Of course, THE NEWSPAPERS THEN
TRUMPETED HOW WISE THE MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT WAS TO PROMOTE THE VACCINES
– stating how much worse the death toll
would have been without the vaccination campaign!! Untold MILLIONS OF DOLLARS of
profit was generated by this massive "medical" fraud.
Thanks to the ADVERTISER’S PROTECTIVE BUREAU, however; the massive fraud was
exposed and criminally prosecuted to a successful conviction. During the trial,
three amazing facts were proven beyond any "reasonable doubt".
Fact 1: The poster and advertising pictures showing the diseased and dying
children used so successfully by the "doctors", WERE NOT EVEN CASES OF LOCAL
SMALLPOX CASES AS THEY WERE BILLED TO BE! The Protective Bureau documented that
they were pictures of ENGLISH CHILDREN who were victims of "court-proven" cases
of SMALLPOX VACCINE POISONING!! One of the pictures was of a 5-week-old baby
named Mona Stevenson, of Humphrey Street, Burnley, England. A previously healthy
and happy baby, Little Mona had been vaccinated for smallpox at 5 weeks of age.
Four weeks later, her pox-ridden little body was placed in a tiny coffin and
buried. The horrific photos of Little Mona and others in England had previously
been published in British newspapers where details of the resulting CRIMINAL
TRIALS were also given. The full details of the trials, as well as the pictures,
were also included in a comprehensively large medical boot titled "THE HISTORY
AND PATHOLOGY OF VACCINATION" by Edgar M Crookshank, MD
– professor of Bacteriology at the
ultra-elite Kings College, London England.
Fact 2: Vaccines containing LIVE VIRUSES, weakened (i.e. attenuated) or
otherwise universally causes more diseases than the vaccine ever could prevent.
Fact 3: Vaccine-Induced-Disease (VID) is an extremely effective
socio-economic tool. It has the potential to generate BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF
WINDFALL PROFITS, while permanently changing the social structures of large
groups of people.
While the Protective Bureau won the criminal court case
– the American People lost. The case should
have made front-page headlines around the nation, showing the Modus Operandi of
certain corrupt "medical practitioners". How, by means of fraud, treachery, and
trickery, they made millions of dollars in windfall profits while thousands of
innocent, trusting, and naïve Americans suffered and died. The entire sordid
affair, with all its damning details, was kept out of the American Press. John
D. Rockefeller’s AMA, with its millions of dollars of influence
– made sure of that!
Amazingly, even though thousands of people had died or become crippled by
this managed manslaughter, the doctors involved were only given a light penalty
in the form of a token fine. The medical establishment as a whole was not upset
in the least by the exposure – and has
continued on unabated perpetuating the same crimes against humanity
– creating vaccine-induced-diseases while
fleecing the people continually until this present day.
It is a proven (albeit little-known) fact, EPIDEMIC/PANDEMIC MANUFACTURING IS
STANDARD PRACTICE with the world-wide "Medical Mafia" circles. In order to
maximize profits and re-shape geographical regions, they often manufacture a
false-flag "emergency". If there is an outbreak of mild seasonal virus, they
call it an influenza pandemic, give it a fancy new name, and then actually
CREATE THE PANDEMIC by means of mass vaccinations using ATTENUATED, or LIVE
VIRUSES!! Remember the shocking words of the AMA’s Dr. Simon Louis Katzoff who
said: " DOCTORS LIVE BY DISEASE, SO THE PUBLIC CAN EXPECT THE SUPPLY OF DISEASE
TO MEET THE DEMANDS OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION."
OTHER DOCUMENTED CASES OF V.I.D.E.O.s (Vaccine Induced Disease Epidemic
Outbreaks.)
Case 1: Following the lead of their colleagues in Kansas City, the exact same
events occurred in Pittsburgh, PA under the direction of Pittsburgh’s "Health
Director", Dr. C.J. Voux in the autumn of 1924. As in Kansas City, a group of
public watchdogs brought suit against Voux and his vaccine-promoters. As in
Kansas City, the vaccine promoters were found guilty. The case documented that
over 1,000,000 vaccine shots were "sold" to the residents of Pennsylvania, even
though there had been ZERO documented cases of smallpox in the region. It was
successfully proven that ONLY AFTER the million shots had been given, that a
smallpox epidemic began. This vaccine-induced, manmade "epidemic" resulted in
330 deaths and at least 1,680 cases of severe smallpox that caused permanent,
crippling damage to the survivors. Moreover, it cost the city a total monetary
loss of $3,069,616; although Dr. Voux and his accomplices had collected more
than $10 million in hospital and related care revenues
– they were not forced to pay for damages or
reparations. As in the Kansas City trial, a small, insignificant fine was
levied, and the case was not widely publicized.
Case 2: The initial batches of Dr. Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine produced
thousands of cases of poliomyelitis in vaccinated individuals. (One such case
was Franklin D. Roosevelt – who was stricken
weeks after receiving a vaccine.) This was due to an unsafe amount of LIVE
VIRUSES in the vaccine itself. Dr. Sabin then introduced his "improved" vaccine
with "attenuated" or "weakened’ live viruses in 1958, and the following year his
vaccine was made to be compulsory (mandatory) in all school-age children in a
number of states. As a result, polio increased a whopping 300% in these states.
For example, Tennessee reported 119 polio cases in 1958, after "vaccination"
this total increased to 386 cases in 1959, Ohio –
17 cases in 1958, 52 cases in 1959, Connecticut –
45 cases in 1958, 123 cases in 1959, and North Carolina: 78 cases in 1958
compared to 312 cases in 1959 AFTER forcing compulsory shots in school children.
The modern record is equally damning. The ONLY cases of recorded polio in the
modern era is immediately following vaccinations. Poliomyelitis, you see, is a
water-borne virus and is caused by drinking contaminated water. During the early
60’s, water-treatment facilities became standardized across America
– small amounts of CHLORINATION effectively
wiped out polio viruses. The conquering of polio had NOTHING TO DO with the
vaccine needles and swallowing sugar cubes. In fact, as author Ed Haslem
documents so well in his book, HYPERLINK "http://doctormarysmonkey.com/"
Dr. Mary’s Monkey, the Sabin vaccines were actually contaminated with mutated
GREEN MONKEY VIRUSES (SV-40 viruses to be specific) which has caused untold
millions of SOFT-TISSUE CANCERS and deaths worldwide. (The cancer "industry" has
reaped BILLIONS of dollars from this "contamination" over the years, of course.)
HYPERLINK "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edikv0zbAlU"
Dr. Maurice Hilleman has actually confessed as being a part of this very
activity.
Case 3: Knowingly added to "hepatitis" vaccines, HIV viruses were inoculated
into thousands of homosexual men and intravenous drug users in America’s inner
cities resulting in the "AIDS epidemic" in the 80’s. Purposefully placed in
SMALLPOX VACCINE SYRINGES, HIV was also introduced into African nations as a
tool of ethnic cleansing and GENOCIDE. The covert development and weaponization
of the HIV/AIDS virus and its monkey-virus origins, along with the amazing story
of how the scientists involved are tied to President Kennedy’s assassination is
well documented in HYPERLINK "http://doctormarysmonkey.com/"
Dr. Mary’s Monkey. The covert biological experimentation labs responsible for
this mayhem are today consolidated into the NIH, the NAIDS, the National Cancer
Institute, and Ft. Detrick, Maryland. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in
Atlanta became the centralized hub of pandemic and epidemic creations and
propagation.
Case 4: The 1976 "Swine Flu" Fiasco and Fraud is perpetrated. A solitary
soldier at Ft. Dix collapses and dies following a reaction to an "experimental"
vaccine while completing an intense physical "forced march" exercise at Ft. Dix.
Immediately, the CDC swings into action, declaring a nationwide SWINE FLU
PANDEMIC is pending. Providentially, of course, the CDC just happens to have
200+MILLION DOSES of Swine Flu vaccine already stockpiled, prepared with
ATTENUATED (live, yet weakened) viruses and experimental ADJUVANTS. President
Gerald Ford, (with proven ties to Big Pharma and Nixon’s covert viral weapons
labs – also a key member of the "Warren
Commission’s" obfuscation of the JFK murder) rolls up his sleeves on national TV
and dutifully takes the vaccine. 40 million vaccines are given to naïve American
human guinea pigs. A rash of auto-immune disorders (Guillan-Barre Syndrome GBS,
and lupus) as well as a large number of deaths is immediately attributed to the
vaccine, and the mass vaccination campaign is halted. (What happened to the
other 140 million vaccines, one may ask?) In 1979, the television news magazine
60 Minutes did a documentary investigation on this travesty-for-money scandal.
Against all odds and the threats of Big Pharma, the OBJECTIVELY FAIR 60 Minutes
program aired ONE TIME. There was no follow-up story, No criminal indictments
were ever issued. There was no MASS- MURDER-FOR-HIRE trial. As a result, America
has largely forgotten the 1976 SWINE FLU SCANDAL! Click here for HYPERLINK "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lcJt4jX1Vo"
Part I of the 60 Minutes story; and HYPERLINK "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4c9Is1T3z4"
Part II.
Case 5: During the first Gulf War –
Operation Desert Storm, an experimental anthrax vaccine was forcibly given to
140,000 rear-echelon support troops. This experimental vaccine included an
oil-in-water adjuvant called squalene (aka MF-59 made by NOVARTIS). Despite
voluminous studies showing dangerous toxicity factors conducted on
"oil-in-water" adjuvants at such prestigious research labs as UCLA
– the U.S. Military brass consented to the
experimental injections. As a result, ALL 140,000 troops developed a condition
subsequently named "Gulf War Syndrome". This sordid tale is explained in a very
honest and credible book by HYPERLINK "http://www.vaccine-a.com/"
Gary Matsumoto, called, Vaccine-A.
ALL MODERN "PANDEMICS" ARE CAUSED BY VACCINE NEEDLES
As this author has repeatedly declared during many public radio interviews,
the deadly 1918 Influenza Pandemic was the direct result of
live-virus-contaminated Typhus Fever Vaccines mandatorily given to U.S. and
Allied military personnel during World War I. During that era, viruses were not
yet discovered and diseases were thought to be bacterial only. These deadly
typhus fever vaccines were manufactured by John D. Rockefeller’s research labs
and Chinese pharma factories. The vaccine "seed stock" consisted of viruses
harvested from human typhoid fever patients, cross-injected into swine herds to
create increased "seed stock", and then injected into chicken and turkey eggs
for further incubation of the pathogens. The final, harvested "vaccine material"
then was injected into HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF HUMAN VEINS. The result was a
massive ‘pandemic’ that claimed the lives of as many as 50 million people
worldwide.
In 1918, the viral pandemic was an honest mistake
– the result of a combination of a very bad
vaccine and gross ignorance about viruses and the diseases they cause. However,
the continued denial of these FACTS, and the subsequent REVERSE ENGINEERING OF
THE KILLER VIRUS in Ft. Detrick labs (1997-2003) is inexcusable and constitutes
a veritable crime against humanity.
Moreover, the ONLY WAY a modern "SWINE FLU PANDEMIC" can actually materialize
is by injection of certain LIVE VIRUSES via vaccine needles. Make no mistake,
the world is NOT experiencing a true pandemic explosion at this time
– but it most assuredly WILL when and if the
planned mass influenza vaccinations are completed worldwide.
THE DANGERS INHERENT IN "DUPLEX" VACCINES FROM DESIGNER VIRUSES
"Modern Medical Practitioners", including some well-meaning "osteopaths",
would have the world believe the MYTH that vaccines containing attenuated
(weakened) live viruses cannot cause the viral disease conditions they are
targeting. This is a most dangerous misconception for the following SCIENTIFIC
reasons.
Traditional "common" vaccines targeting measles, mumps and rubella for
instance, contain small amounts of "attenuated" live viruses which have been
"weakened" but not 100% killed outright. Research has shown that these weakened
"live" viruses create a very mild form of the disease in the human that has been
vaccinated, which in turn creates a cellular immunity from that pathogen. The
science behind this is correct, and valid for the most part. To keep the
targeted viral pathogen in a perpetually weakened state, specific amounts of
formaldehyde and ether are typically added, and in some formulations, mercury in
the form of thimerasol is added as a preservative to keep the egg albumin cells
from decaying and dying prematurely. The established theory behind all of this
‘vaccination’ is the "protect the herd" theory which originated with Pasteur in
the late 19th century. As in all vaccines, a certain small percentage of the
herd will develop severe, ‘full blown’ disease states CAUSED by the attenuated
viruses in the vaccine itself, and another percentage will exhibit side effects
from the chemicals added to the vaccine –
but if the vast majority of the herd is "protected" from the disease condition
– the vaccine is approved and stamped "safe
and effective".
Science has also proven that each viral pathogen has its own unique
characteristics that produce its own set of symptoms in the human hosts. Thus,
each viral pathogen has its own unique fingerprints of replication and
reproduction as well. Each virus also has a different level of effectiveness in
its attenuated (weakened) state. Moreover, some viruses have shown the ability
to "drift" and acquire additional genetic alterations over time. THIS IS
ESPECIALLY TRUE OF THE SO-CALLED "NOVEL" RECOMBINATION VIRUSES that have been
"reverse engineered" in the world’s weapons laboratories! When the RNA of the
virus is spliced with other viral genes, the resulting "Franken-virus" is very
unpredictable. Studies conducted (yet currently unpublished) by Terrence Tumpey,
Jeffrey Taubenberger, and others at the NIH and CDC show that these ‘resurrected
pandemic viruses’ do not exhibit the NORMAL tendencies of traditional, NATURAL
influenza viruses such as seasonal H3N2 human strains. They are best described
as "Viral Wild Cards".
This is just one problem with the headlong, mad rush to vaccinate Americans
with a series of reverse-engineered lab-created viruses, attenuated or
otherwise, in an UNTESTED, UNTRIED, EXPERIMENTAL VACCINE that has not been
subjected to LONG-TERM CLINICAL TRIALS TO DETERMINE THE LEVELS OF "DRIFT" or
even ATTENUATED TENDENCIES OVER TIME.
To supposedly minimize this "safety" issue, the CDC is now recommending a
DUPLEX vaccination, of all things. A "duplex" vaccination basically involves a
two-shot series. The first shot consists of a VERY WEAK, HIGHLY ATTENUTATED dose
of the live virus. This is intended to create an initial immune response
patterning the specific virus injected. Within a couple of weeks of the 1st
shot, a BOOSTER SHOT is given. The booster shot has only lightly attenuated, or
even FULL STRENGTH VIRUSES in the injection. This 2nd shot is then intended to
create a full-strength immune system response in the human subject.
This is, at the very least, BAD SCIENCE and borders on insanity for
self-evident and fairly obvious reasons. By their own admissions, the NIH
scientists in their various writings have declared that the level of potency of
these REVERSE ENGINEERED VIRUSES show abnormal, almost RANDOM tendencies in
their attenuated states. Nobody really knows what will happen over time as the
inevitable "genetic drifts" occur. It is a literal crap shoot. It is highly
probable that even the HIGHLY ATTENUATED FRANKEN-VIRUSES can swiftly regain
their FULL POTENCY even in the presence of ether and formaldehyde. (See Addendum
Below) Secondly, the full-strength BOOSTER shot viruses could just as easily
"DRIFT" into something much more deadly than the "original’ recombinant virus
that it is targeting.
I submit that the scientists responsible for this "pandemic" are not stupid.
They have to know these facts as well as I do.
Therefore, I can only conclude that this entire affair is following the Modus
Operandi of the medical elite since the 1920 engineered smallpox epidemics. It
is all being ORCHESTRATED first and foremost for MONEY, and secondly, for social
and geographical restructuring of the "human herd".
Also, it must be understood that this "Novel 2009 Influenza" is not easily
nor readily transmissible between humans. (See published study in the addendum).
If this report is accurate, how then did the "Pandemic" begin, and why the need
for mass vaccinations at all?? Like the "study" shows, the only way the test
ferrets could contract or transmit the 2009 "Novel Swine Flu" was by and through
INOCULATION OF THE DISEASE!! Humanity demands an answer, and demands it NOW!!!
number of Americans who lack
dependable access to adequate food shot up last year to 49 million,
the largest number since the government has been keeping track,
according to a new report released Monday.
13 killed in shooting at Fort Hood,
Tex.
Update by LTe. GEneral Cohn,
of 3 core, 4th ID, "13 dead and 31 wounded by
a soldier, and two others are suspects. A
civilian police officer was killed, shooter was
killed. " This is the largest military
base in US, and where our friend "Doc" We shipped
packages to is stationed at. He is back from Iraq
and we pray he was not there and is safe.He is safe,
thank you Doc for letting us know. WE pray
for the families of those killed and wounded.
(A Major in the Army was the shooter). These
were members of families: Fathers, mothers, sons,
daughters, brothers and sisters. I cried.
Nov 7, 2009 3:01 pm
US/Pacific
Remembering The
Victims Of Fort Hood
FORT HOOD, Texas (CBS) ―
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U.S. Army Command Sergeant Major Terrence Murphy,
center, and Col. Kent Savre, right, hold candles
during a vigil for those killed and wounded in a
shooting rampage at Fort Hood Army base, Texas.
The 13 people killed when an
Army psychiatrist allegedly opened fire on fellow
soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, included a pregnant
woman who was preparing to return home, a man who
quit a furniture company job to join the military
about a year ago, a newlywed who had served in Iraq
and a woman who had vowed to take on Osama bin Laden
after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Here is a look
at some of the victims.
Juanita
Warman
Warman, 55, was a military physician assistant with
two daughters and six grandchildren.
Warman's sister, Margaret Yagee, who lives in north
central Pennsylvania, told CBS station KDKA-TV her
sister deeply loved her country and her two
daughters.
"My sister wasn't the type of person to just sit
around and do nothing. She wanted to make a
difference," she said.
Warman lived in Peters Township for several years
where one of her neighbors described her as a quiet,
friendly person.
Another local soldier, 2nd Lt. Brandy Mason, of
Monessen, was among the more than two dozen people
wounded in the bloodbath.
"I think she was a little upset. She was overseas
and never got shot at or anything and she's right
here in the United States and got shot," Sabrina
Heath, the victim's aunt, said.
Mason served 14 months in Iraq and just recently
re-enlisted in the Army.
Yaggie told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that her
sister attended Pittsburgh Langley High School and
put herself through school at the University of
Pittsburgh. She said her sister spent most of her
career in the military.
Michael
Grant Cahill
Cahill, a 62-year-old physician assistant, suffered
a heart attack two weeks ago and returned to work at
the base as a civilian employee after taking just
one week off for recovery, said his daughter Keely
Vanacker.
"He survived that. He was getting back on track, and
he gets killed by a gunman," Vanacker said, her
words bare with shock and disbelief.
Cahill, of Cameron, Texas, helped treat soldiers
returning from tours of duty or preparing for
deployment. Often, Vanacker said, Cahill would walk
young soldiers where they needed to go, just to make
sure they got the right treatment.
"He loved his patients, and his patients loved him,"
said Vanacker, 33, the oldest of Cahill's three
adult children. "He just felt his job was
important."
Cahill, who was born in Spokane, Wash., had worked
as a civilian contractor at Fort Hood for about four
years, after jobs in rural health clinics and at
Veterans Affairs hospitals. He and his wife, Joleen,
had been married 37 years.
Vanacker described her father as a gregarious man
and a voracious reader who could talk for hours
about any subject.
The family's typical Thanksgiving dinners ended with
board games and long conversations over the table,
said Vanacker, whose voice often cracked with
emotion as she remembered her father. "Now, who I am
going to talk to?"
Maj.
Libardo Eduardo Caraveo
Caraveo, 52, of Woodbridge, Va., arrived in the
United States in his teens from Ciudad Juarez,
Mexico, knowing very little English said his son,
also named Eduardo Caraveo.
He earned his doctorate in psychology from the
University of Arizona and worked with bilingual
special-needs students at Tucson-area schools before
entering private practice.
His son told the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson that
Caraveo had arrived at Fort Hood on Wednesday and
was preparing to deploy to Afghanistan. Eduardo
Caraveo spoke to the newspaper from his mother's
Tucson home.
His father's Web site says he offered marriage
seminars with a company based in Woodbridge, Va.
Staff
Sgt. Justin M. DeCrow
DeCrow, 32, was helping train soldiers on how to
help new veterans with paperwork and had felt safe
on the Army post.
"He was on a base," his wife, Marikay DeCrow, said
in a telephone interview from the couple's home in
Evans, Ga. "They should be safe there. They should
be safe."
His wife said she wanted everyone to know what a
loving man he was. The couple have a 13-year-old
daughter, Kylah.
"He was well loved by everyone," she said through
sobs. "He was a loving father and husband and he
will be missed by all."
The couple were high school sweethearts who married
in 1996. Marikay DeCrow said her husband was first
stationed at Fort Gordon in 2000, and she had hoped
they would reunite at their home in nearby Evans
when another post there opened up.
DeCrow was stationed in Korea from September 2008 to
August. He left in September to go to Fort Hood.
His father, Daniel DeCrow, of Fulton, Ind., said he
talked to his son last week to ask him how things
were going at Fort Hood.
"As usual, the last words out of my mouth to him
were that I was proud of him," he said. "That's what
I said to him every time -- that I loved him and I
was proud of what he was doing. I can carry that
around in my heart."
Capt.
John Gaffaney
Gaffaney, 56, was a psychiatric nurse who worked for
San Diego County, Calif., for more than 20 years and
had arrived at Fort Hood the day before the shooting
to prepare for a deployment to Iraq.
Gaffaney, who was born in Williston, N.D., had
served in the Navy and later the California National
Guard as a younger man, his family said. After the
Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, he tried to sign up
again for military service. Although the Army
Reserves at first declined, he got the call about
two years ago asking him to rejoin, said his close
friend and co-worker Stephanie Powell.
"He wanted to help the boys in Iraq and Afghanistan
deal with the trauma of what they were seeing,"
Powell said. "He was an honorable man. He just
wanted to serve in any way he can."
His family described him as an avid baseball card
collector and fan of the San Diego Padres who liked
to read military novels and ride his Harley-Davidson
motorcycle.
Gaffaney supervised a team of six social workers,
including Powell, at the county's Adult Protective
Services department. Ellen Schmeding, assistant
deputy director for the county's Health and Human
Services Agency, said Gaffaney was a strong leader.
He is survived by a wife and a son.
Spc.
Frederick Greene
Green, 29, of Mountain City, Tenn., was assigned to
the 16th Signal Company, Fort Hood, Texas.
Spc.
Jason Dean Hunt
Hunt, 22, of Frederick, Okla., went into the
military after graduating from Tipton High School in
2005 and had gotten married just two months ago, his
mother, Gale Hunt, said. He had served 3 1/2 years
in the Army, including a stint in Iraq.
Gale Hunt said two uniformed soldiers came to her
door late Thursday night to notify her of her son's
death.
Hunt, known as J.D., was "just kind of a quiet boy
and a good kid, very kind," said Kathy Gray, an
administrative assistant at Tipton Schools.
His mother said he was family oriented.
"He didn't go in for hunting or sports," Gale Hunt
said. "He was a very quiet boy who enjoyed video
games."
He had re-enlisted for six years after serving his
initial two-year assignment, she said. Jason Hunt
was previously stationed at Fort Stewart in Georgia.
Sgt. Amy
Krueger
Krueger, 29, of Kiel, Wis., joined the Army after
the 2001 terrorist attacks and had vowed to take on
Osama bin Laden, her mother, Jeri Krueger said.
Amy Krueger arrived at Fort Hood on Tuesday and was
scheduled to be sent to Afghanistan in December, her
mother told the Herald Times Reporter of Manitowoc.
Jeri Krueger recalled telling her daughter that she
could not take on bin Laden by herself.
"Watch me," her daughter replied.
Kiel High School Principal Dario Talerico told The
Associated Press that Krueger graduated from the
school in 1998 and had spoken at least once to local
elementary school students about her career.
"I just remember that Amy was a very good kid, who
like most kids in a small town are just looking for
what their next step in life was going to be and she
chose the military," Talerico said. "Once she got
into the military, she really connected with that
kind of lifestyle and was really proud to serve her
country."
Pfc.
Aaron Thomas Nemelka
Nemelka, 19, of the Salt Lake City suburb of West
Jordan, Utah, chose to join the Army instead of
going on a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints, his uncle Christopher Nemelka
said.
"As a person, Aaron was as soft and kind and as
gentle as they come, a sweetheart," his uncle said.
"What I loved about the kid was his independence of
thought."
Aaron Nemelka was proud to serve and felt keenly the
responsibility of representing his nation and his
family, said another uncle, Michael Blades. Blades
said several of Nemelka's relatives were in the
military, including a grandfather who served in the
Korean War and received a Purple Heart.
"He felt it was his duty to stand with them in
defense of our country," Blades said.
Nemelka enjoyed soccer, bowling and snowboarding,
and was an avid fan of the Utah Utes, he said.
The youngest of four children, Nemelka was scheduled
to be deployed to Afghanistan in January, his family
said in a statement. Nemelka had enlisted in the
Army in October 2008, Utah National Guard Lt. Col.
Lisa Olsen said.
Blades said Nemelka had a tremendous love for his
family and a deep sense of duty.
"His mission is completed," Blades said, his voice
breaking. "He now serves a higher calling in
heaven."
Pfc.
Michael Pearson
Pearson, 21, of the Chicago suburb of Bolingbrook,
Ill., quit what he figured was a dead-end furniture
company job to join the military about a year ago.
Pearson's mother, Sheryll Pearson, said the 2006
Bolingbrook High School graduate joined the military
because he was eager to serve his country and
broaden his horizons.
"He was the best son in the whole world," she said.
"He was my best friend and I miss him."
His cousin, Mike Dostalek, showed reporters a poem
Pearson wrote. "I look only to the future for
wisdom. To rock back and forth in my wooden chair,"
the poem says.
At Pearson's family home Friday, a yellow ribbon was
tied to a porch light and a sticker stamped with
American flags on the front door read, "United we
stand."
Neighbor Jessica Koerber, who was with Pearson's
parents when they received word Thursday their son
had died, described him as a man who clearly loved
his family -- someone who enjoyed horsing around
with his nieces and nephews, and other times playing
his guitar.
"That family lost their gem," she told the AP. "He
was a great kid, a great guy. ... Mikey was one of a
kind."
Sheryll Pearson said she hadn't seen her son for a
year because he had been training. She told the
Tribune that when she last talked to him on the
phone two days ago, they had discussed how he would
come home for Christmas.
Capt.
Russell Seager
Seager, of Racine, Wis., was a psychiatrist who
joined the Army a few years ago because he wanted to
help veterans returning to civilian life, said his
uncle, Larry Seager of Mauston.
Pvt.
Francheska Velez
Velez, 21, of Chicago, was pregnant and preparing to
return home. A friend of Velez's, Sasha Ramos,
described her as a fun-loving person who wrote
poetry and loved dancing.
"She was like my sister," Ramos, 21, said. "She was
the most fun and happy person you could know. She
never did anything wrong to anybody."
Family members said Velez had recently returned from
deployment in Iraq and had sought a lifelong career
in the Army.
"She was a very happy girl and sweet," said her
father, Juan Guillermo Velez, his eyes red from
crying. "She had the spirit of a child."
Ramos, who also served briefly in the military,
couldn't reconcile that her friend was killed in
this country just after leaving a war zone.
"It makes it a lot harder," she said. "This is not
something a soldier expects -- to have someone in
our uniform go start shooting at us."
Pfc.
Kham Xiong
Xiong, 23, of St. Paul, Minn., was a father of three
whose family had a history of military service.
Xiong's father, Chor Xiong, is a native of Laos who
fought the Viet Cong alongside the CIA in 1972;
Chor's father, Kham's grandfather, also fought with
the CIA; and Kham's brother, Nelson, is a Marine
serving in Afghanistan.
Xiong's father said he was "very mad." Through
sniffles and tears, he said his son died for "no
reason" and he has a hard time believing Kham is
gone.
Kham Xiong was preparing to deploy to Afghanistan,
and his sister Mee Xiong said the family would be
able to understand if he would have died in battle.
"He didn't get to go overseas and do what he's
supposed to do, and he's dead ... killed by our own
people," Mee Xiong said.
Xiong was one of 11 siblings and came to the U.S.
when he was just a toddler. He grew up in
California, then moved to Minnesota with the family
about 10 years ago, Chor Xiong said.
He was married and had three children ages 4, 2 and
10 months. His wife, Shoua, said they started dating
in eighth grade, and the last time she saw her
husband was Thursday morning at their Texas home.
She said he gave everyone a kiss and went to work.
"It was an ordinary day," she said. After she heard
about the shooting, she tried to call him, but never
got an answer.
At 3 a.m. Friday, the doorbell rang.
"My heart dropped," she said. "I knew the reason
they were here, but I asked them to tell me he was
OK."
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, November 5, 2009; 4:12 PM
At
least seven people were reported killed in a shooting
Thursday at Fort Hood, an Army post in central Texas
that is home to two divisions.
A spokesman at Fort Hood said two gunmen opened fire
at the post's Soldier Readiness Center. One gunman
was captured, Sgt. Major Jamie Posten told CNN, and
a manhunt was underway for the second.
"We are on the lookout for the second shooter,"
Posten said. "At this time, Fort Hood is locked down
to in-and-out traffic."
Posten said he could not confirm or deny casualty
figures.
Local news media said more than a dozen people
were wounded in the shooting. The attack occurred
about 1:30 p.m. Central time at Fort Hood's Soldier
Readiness Center, where troops are processed before
deployment and upon their return from combat tours
abroad, cable news networks reported.
Located near Killeen, Tex., Fort Hood is the U.S.
military's largest installation and the only Army
post in the United States that houses two divisions.
It is also the home of III Corps headquarters.
About 65,000 soldiers and family members live on
the post.
Nov. 2009 Article in The Atlantic about
Flu vaccines
"Does the vaccine matter?
What follows is my point-by-point summary of this groundbreaking
article by Shannon Brownlee, originally published in The Atlantic. My
opinion statements are shown in brackets and italics.
• Vaccination is the core strategy of the U.S. government's plan to
combat the
swine flu.
• The U.S. government has spent roughly $3 billion stockpiling vaccines
and
anti-viral
drugs.
• The
CDC is
recommending that 159 million Americans receive a swine
flu vaccine
injection (as soon as possible).
• What if vaccines don't work? More and more researchers are skeptical
about whether they do.
• Seasonal flu (that's the regular flu) currently kills an estimated
36,000 people each year in the
United States.
[But most people who die are already suffering from existing diseases
such as
asthma.]
• Most "colds" aren't really caused by
the flu virus. As
few as 7 or 8 percent (and at most, 50 percent) of colds have an
influenza
origin. There are more than 200 viruses and pathogens that can cause
"influenza-like" illnesses (and therefore be easily mistaken for the
flu).
• Viruses mutate with amazing speed, meaning that each year's
circulating influenza is genetically different from the previous year.
• The vaccine for each upcoming
flu season is
formulated by
health
experts taking a guess [a wild guess, at times] about what strain
of influenza might be most likely to circulate in the future.
• The 1918 Spanish Flu infected roughly one-third of the world
population and killed at least 40 million.
• In the U.S., the President's Council of Advisors on Science and
Technology predicted that
H1N1 influenza could infect up to one-half of the U.S. population
and kill 90,000 Americans.
[Keep reading, the good part is coming...]
• Of those who have died from the Swine Flu in the U.S., roughly 70
percent were already diseased with some serious underlying condition
such as asthma or AIDS.
• Public health officials consider vaccines to be their first and best
weapon against influenza. Vaccines helped eradicate smallpox and polio.
[I don't agree with that assessment. Vaccines did relatively little
compared to improvements in public sanitation.]
• Each year, 100 million Americans get vaccinated, and vaccines remain
"a staple" of
public health policy in the United States.
You might want to pass this on, take a look at WALMART.
WOW they do it right
WHERE TO BUY AMERICAN GASOLINE. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO
KNOW. READ ON.
Are you aware that the Saudis are boycotting American
products? In addition, they are gouging us on oil prices.
Shouldn't we return the favor? Can't we take control of
our own destiny and let these giant oil importers know who REALLY
generates their profits, their livings? How about leaving American
Dollars in America and reduce the import/export deficit?
An appealing remedy might be to boycott their GAS. Every
time you fill up your car you can avoid putting more money into the
coffers of Saudi Arabia . Just purchase gas from companies that don't
import their oil from the Saudis.
Nothing is more frustrating than the feeling that every
time I fill up my tank, I'm sending my money to people who I get the
impression want me, my family and my friends dead. The following gas
companies import Middle Eastern oil:
Shell.................................... 205,742,000
barrels
Chevron/Texaco..................... 144,332,000
barrels
Exxon /Mobil........................ 130,082,000
barrels
Marathon/Speedway............. 117,740,000 barrels
Amoco.................................. 62,231,000
barrels
And (Petro mart) Citco oil is imported from Venezuela by
Dictator Hugo Chavez who hates America and openly avows our economic
destruction! (We pay Chavez's regime nearly $10 Billion per year in oil
revenues!)
The U.S. currently imports 5,517,000 barrels of crude oil
per day from OPEC. If you do the math at $100 per barrel, that's over
$550 million PER DAY ($200 BILLION per year!) handed over to OPEC, many of
whose members are our confirmed enemies!!!!! It won't stop here - oil
prices could go to $200 a barrel or higher if we keep buying their
product.
Here are some large companies that do not import Middle
Eastern oil:
Sunoco..........................0 barrels
Conoco.........................0 barrels
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BP / Phillips................. 0 barrels
Hess..............................0 barrels
ARC0.............................0 barrels
Maverick........................0 barrels
Flying J.........................0 barrels
Valero..........................0 barrels
Murphy Oil USA *.........0 barrels
*Sold at Wal-Mart , gas is from South Arkansas and fully
USA owned and produced.
*Not only that but they give scholarships to all children
in their town who finish high school and are legal US citizens..
All of this information is available from the U.S.
Department of Energy and each company is required to state where they get
their oil and how much they are importing.
But to have a real impact, we need to reach literally
millions of gas buyers With the help of the internet, it's really simple
to do. Now, don't wimp out at this point....keep reading and I'll
explain
how simple it is to reach millions of people!!
I'm sending this note to about thirty people. If each of
you send it to at only ten more (30 x 10 = 300)....and those 300 send it
to at least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000)....and so on, by the time the
message reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reached over
THREE MILLION consumers!!!!!!!
If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten
friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted! If it goes
one level further, you guessed it...THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE-the
entire population of the United States of America !!!!
Why the research is bogus
• Because researchers can't exactly pin down who has influenza and who
doesn't, the research conducted on the effectiveness of vaccines simply
calculates the
death rate from all causes among those who take the vaccine vs.
those who don't. [This includes deaths from accidents, heart attacks,
medications, car wrecks and everything.]
• These studies show a "dramatic difference" between the death rates of
those who get the vaccines vs. those who don't. People who get
vaccinated have significantly lower death rates [from ALL causes, and
herein lies the problem...].
• Flu shot propaganda cites these studies, telling people that if they
get their
flu shots
every year, they will have a significantly reduced chance of dying. But
this is extremely misleading...
• Critics question the logic of these studies: As it turns out, compared
to the number of deaths from all causes, the number of people killed by
influenza is quite small. According to the National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases, deaths from influenza account for -- at
most -- 10 percent of the total deaths during the flu season (and
this includes all indirect deaths aggravated by the flu).
• This brings up a hugely important dilemma: If influenza only accounts
for roughly 10 percent of all deaths during the flu season, how could
an influenza vaccine reduce total deaths by 50 percent? (As is
claimed by the vaccine manufacturers.) [It doesn't add up. Even if
the vaccines were 100% effective, they should only reduce the total
death rates by 10%, given that only 10% of the total deaths are caused
by influenza.]
• Here's a direct quote from the story: Tom Jefferson, a physician based
in Rome and the head of the Vaccines Field at the Cochrane
Collaboration, a highly respected international network of researchers
who appraise medical evidence, says: "For a vaccine to reduce mortality
by 50 percent and up to 90 percent in some studies means it has to
prevent deaths not just from influenza, but also from falls, fires,
heart
disease,
strokes, and car accidents. That's not a vaccine, that's a miracle."
[Emphasis added.]
The failure of cohort studies
• So how do the vaccine companies come up with this "50% reduction in
death rate" statistic? Through cohort studies.
• Cohort studies compare the death rates of large groups of people who
received the vaccine to large groups of people who did NOT receive the
vaccine. But there's a fatal flaw in this approach: People
self-select for vaccinations. And what kind of people? As it turns
out: People who take more precautions with their health!
• [Thus, you automatically have a situation where the more
health-cautious people are getting the vaccines because they THINK it's
good for them. Meanwhile all the masses of people who don't give a darn
about their health tend to skip the seasonal flu vaccines. And these
people tend to not take very good of their health in lots of other ways.
In other words, in terms of the masses, people who get vaccines are more
likely to avoid junk food and live a more health-cautious lifestyle.
This explains the differences in the death rates between the two groups!
It has nothing to do with the vaccine...]
• There is extreme "cult-like" peer pressure put on
doctors and
researchers to swallow the vaccine
mythology
without question. Quoted from the story: Lisa Jackson, a physician and
senior investigator with the Group Health Research Center, in Seattle,
began wondering aloud to colleagues if maybe something was amiss with
the estimate of 50 percent mortality reduction for people who get flu
vaccine, the response she got sounded more like doctrine than science.
"People told me, 'No good can come of [asking] this,'" she says.
"'Potentially a lot of bad could happen' for me professionally by
raising any criticism that might dissuade people from getting
vaccinated, because of course, 'We know that vaccine works.' This was
the prevailing wisdom." [In other words, don't dare question the
vaccine, and don't ask tough scientific questions because the vaccine
industry runs on dogma, not science... and if you ask any questions, you
might find yourself out of a job...].
[Here's where the really good part begins...]
• Lisa Jackson was not deterred. She and three other researchers began
to study the widely-quoted vaccine statistics in an attempt to identify
this "healthy user effect," if any. They looked through eight years of
medical data covering 72,000 people aged 65 or older and recorded who
received flu shots and who didn't. Then they compared the death rates
for all causes outside the flu season.
The vaccine made no difference in mortality
• What she found blows a hole right through the
vaccination
industry: She found that even outside the flu season, the death rate was
60 percent higher among those who did not get vaccines than among those
who do. [In other words, even when you take the flu season completely
out of the equation, elderly people who don't get vaccines have other
lifestyle factors that makes them far more likely to die from lots of
other causes.]
• She also found that this so-called "healthy user effect" explains
the entire apparent benefit that continues to be attributed to vaccines.
This finding demonstrates that the flu vaccine may not have any
beneficial effect whatsoever in reducing mortality.
• How well done were these particular studies? Quoted from the story:
Jackson's papers "are beautiful," says Lone Simonsen, who is a professor
of global health at George Washington University, in Washington, D.C.,
and an internationally recognized expert in influenza and vaccine
epidemiology. "They are classic studies in epidemiology, they are so
carefully done."
• Many pro-vaccine experts simply refused to believe the results of this
study [because it conflicts with their existing belief in vaccine
mythology]. The Journal of the American Medical Association
refused to publish her research, even stating, "To accept these results
would be to say that the earth is flat!" [Which just goes to show you
how deeply ingrained the current vaccine mythology is in the minds of
conventional medical practitioners. They simply cannot imagine that
vaccines don't work, so they dismiss any evidence -- even GOOD evidence
-- demonstrating that fact. This is what makes the vaccine industry a
CULT rather than a science.]
• Jackson's papers were finally published in 2006, in the
International Journal of Epidemiology.
[And here's the really, really juicy part you can't miss...]
Vaccine shortage proves it never worked in the first place
• The history of the flu vaccine reveals some huge gaps in current
vaccination mythology, essentially proving they don't work:
• For example: In 2004, vaccine production was low and there was a
shortage in vaccines (a 40 percent reduction in vaccinations). And yet
mortality rates did not rise during the flu season. [Clearly,
if vaccines actually worked, then a year when the vaccine wasn't even
administered to 40% of the people who normally get it should have
resulted in a huge and statistically significant increase in mortality.
It should have spiked the death rates and filled the morgues... but it
didn't. You know why? Because flu vaccines don't work in the first
place.]
• In the history of flu vaccines, there were two years in which
the formulated flu vaccine was a total mismatch to the
widely-circulating influenza that made people sick. These years were
1968 and 1997. In both of these years, the vaccine was a
completely mismatch for the circulating virus. In effect, nobody was
vaccinated![Knowing this, if the vaccine itself was effective at
reducing death rates, then we should have once again seen a huge spike
in the death rates during these two years, right? Seriously, if the
vaccine reduces death rates by 50% as is claimed by vaccine
manufacturers, then these two years in which the vaccine completely
missed the mark should have seen huge spikes in the
winter death rates,
right? But what really happened was... nothing. Not a blip. Not a spike.
Nothing. The death rates didn't rise at all.]
• If vaccines really worked to save lives, then the more people you
vaccinate, the lower death rates you should see, right? But that's
not the case. Back in 1989, only 15 percent of over-65 people got
vaccinated against the flu. But today, thanks to the big vaccine push,
over 65 percent are vaccinated. And yet, amazingly, death rates among
the elderly have not gone down during the flu season. In fact, they've
gone up!
• When vaccine promoters (and CDC officials) are challenged about the
"50 percent mortality reduction" myth, they invoke dogmatic language and
attack the messenger. They are simply not willing to consider the
possibility that flu vaccines simply don't work.
• Scientists who question the vaccine mythology are routinely shunned by
the medical establishment. Tom Jefferson from the Cochrane Collaboration
is an epidemiologist who questions the claimed benefits of flu vaccines.
"The reaction [against Jefferson] has been so dogmatic and even
hysterical that you'd think he was advocating stealing babies" said a
colleague (Majumdar).
• Jefferson is one of the world's best-informed researchers on the flu
vaccine. He leads a team of researchers who have examined hundreds of
vaccine studies. To quote directly from the article: The vast majority
of the studies were deeply flawed, says Jefferson. "Rubbish is not a
scientific term, but I think it's the term that applies [to these
studies]."
[And here's the real kicker that demonstrates why flu vaccines are
useless...]
Flu vaccines only "work" on people who don't need them
• Vaccines supposedly "work" by introducing a weakened viral strain that
causes the
immune system to respond by building influenza antibodies. However,
as Jefferson points out, only healthy people produce a good antibody
response to the vaccine. And yet it is precisely the unhealthy
people -- the ones who have a poor immune response to the vaccine -- who
are most at risk of being harmed or killed by influenza. But the
vaccines don't work in them!
• [In other words -- get this -- flu vaccines only "work" in
people who don't need them!]
• [At the same time, it's also accurate to say that vaccines don't
work at all in the very people who theoretically could benefit from them.
They only produce antibodies in people who already have such a strong
immune response that they don't need the vaccine in the first place.]
• Jefferson has called for randomized, placebo-controlled studies of the
vaccines. But vaccine pushers are resisting these clinical trials!
They call the trials "unethical" [but, in reality, they know that a
randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled study would reveal the
complete failure of flu vaccines, and they will do anything to prevent
such a trial from happening. Don't you find it amazing that drug pushers
and vaccine advocates claim they have "science" on their side, but they
won't submit their vaccines to any real science at all?]
• [No placebo-controlled studies have ever been conducted on flu
vaccines because the industry says they would be "unethical." So where
do these people get off claiming their vaccines work at all? The whole
industry is based on fabricated statistics that are provably false...
and the injections continue, year after year, with absolutely no benefit
to public health whatsoever...]
• On the anti-viral drug front, hospitals are urged to hand out
prescriptions for
Tamiflu and Relenza to almost anyone who is symptomatic, whether
they actually have swine flu or not. Concern is growing about the
emergence of drug-resistant strains of swine flu. " Flu can become
resistant to Tamiflu in a matter of days..." says one researcher.
• In 2005, the U.S. government spent $1.8 billion to stockpile antiviral
drugs for the military. This decision was made during the time when
Donald Rumsfeld was Defense Secretary. Rumsfeld also held millions of
dollars worth of stock in Gilead Sciences, the company that holds
the patent on Tamiflu. That company saw its stock price rise 50 percent
following the government's stockpiling purchase of Tamiflu.
• The evidence supporting Tamiflu's anti-viral benefits is flimsy at
best. Even worse, as many as one in five children taking Tamiflu
experience neuropsychiatric side effects including hallucinations
and suicidal behavior. [In other words, your kid might be "tripping
out" on some bad Tamiflu...]
• Tamiflu is already linked to 50 deaths of children in Japan. Cause of
death? Heart failure.
• The evidence supporting Tamiflu is based on cohort studies,
just like the vaccines, which may distort or exaggerate the apparent
benefits of the drug.
• Even supporters of Tamiflu admit it's never been proven to help. A CDC
official says that randomized trials to determine the effectiveness of
Tamiflu would be "unethical."
• In all, neither vaccines nor anti-viral drugs have any reliable
evidence that they work against influenza at all. Both are being
promoted based entirely on pure wishful thinking, not hard science.
• The history of pharmaceutical medicine is littered with other examples
of drugs that doctors "knew worked" but which later turned out to harm
or kill patients. [All along, the proper scientific studies were
avoided because, hey, if you already know everything, why bother
conducting any actual science to prove anything?]
• The hype about vaccines provides a false sense of security, taking
away attention from other things that really do work to prevent
influenza deaths. That's why, except for "hand washing," virtually no
advice has been offered to the public on preventing influenza beyond
vaccines and anti-viral drugs.
• Concluding quote from the author: "By being afraid to do the proper
studies now, we may be condemning ourselves to using treatments based on
illusion and faith rather than sound science."
A recap of these astonishing points
Let's recap what we just learned here (because it's just mind-boggling):
• There have been no placebo-controlled studies on flu vaccines because
the vaccine pushers say such clinical trials would be "unethical." Thus,
there is actually no hard scientific evidence that they work at all.
• The "50 percent reduction in mortality" statistic that's tossed around
by vaccine pushers is a total fabrication based on "rubbish" studies
("cohort" studies).
• Scrutinizing the existing studies that claim to support vaccines
reveals that flu vaccines simply don't work. And when vaccines
aren't available or the formulation is wrong, there's no spike in death
rates, indicating quite conclusively that these vaccines offer no
reduction in mortality.
• Flu vaccines only produce antibodies in people who don't need
vaccines. At the same time, they fail to produce antibodies in people
who are most vulnerable to flu. Thus, vaccines only work in people who
don't need them.
• The entire flu vaccine industry is run like a cult, with dogma ruling
over science. Anyone who asks tough, scientific questions is immediately
branded a heretic. No one is allowed to question the status quo. (So
much for "evidence-based medicine," huh?)
As you can see from all this, the flu vaccine is pure
quackery.
Those who administer vaccines are, by inference, QUACKS. They claim to
have scientific minds, and yet they are the most gullible of all:
They will believe almost anything if it's published in a medical journal,
even if it's complete quackery.
Today, countless doctors, nurses and pharmacists across North
America and around
the world are pushing a medically worthless, scientifically-fabricated
chemical injection that offers absolutely no benefit to public health...
and yet they're convinced it's highly effective! It just goes to show
you how easy it is to brainwash people in the field of conventional
medicine.
They've abandoned real science long ago, you know. Now the whole
industry is just run on the momentum of dogmatic arrogance and the
illusion of authority. From the CDC and FDA on down to the local
pharmacist at
the corner store, the American medical system is run by some seemingly
smart people who have been brainwashed into become full-fledged members
of the Cult of Pharmacology where vaccine mythology overrules
real science.
The vaccine industry is perhaps the greatest medical scam ever pulled
off in the history of the world. Don't fall for it.
"Reading everything you've read here, you might wonder: Why do people
get vaccinated at all?
The reason is because no one knows whether they work or not, so
people keep on taking them "just in case." It's exactly the kind of
superstitious ritual that "science-minded skeptics" rail against on a
regular basis... unless, of course, it involves their vaccines, in which
case superstition is all okay.
People take vaccines for the same reason they rub a rabbit's foot. It's
a good luck ritual that may or may not work, but no one really
knows. And besides, what's the harm in it? (They think...)
Personally, I'd rather get some vitamin D and have a healthy,
functioning immune system. But for those who prefer to play the lotto,
gamble in Vegas or bet their lives on medical superstitions, flu
vaccines are readily available.
So what are you waiting for? Shoot up a few flu vaccines, rub your lucky
rabbit's foot, then spin around clockwise seven times and you, too, may
be able to generate enough luck to avoid the flu this winter."
"With time running out and the game on the line, Governor Gary Herbert was
given the opportunity to win one for the home team.
At our meeting with the Governor last week, we put forth a range of
possibilities to address his professed worries over nuclear waste. Given
that Herbert expressed "deep concerns" about depleted uranium (DU) and its
exceptionally long half-life and has vowed to keep foreign waste out of our
borders, we presented him with several winning strategies.
But once handed
the ball, he promptly fumbled.
On DU, he deferred to last month’s timid decision by the Radiation
Control Board to allow depleted uranium into our state on terms proposed by
EnergySolutions. This vote was badly compromised by legal threats from the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission as well as the country’s largest nuclear waste
dump.
On foreign waste, despite his bravado and complaints about federal
inaction, Gary Herbert has thus far failed to lift a finger to support the
RID Act. This bill, scheduled to receive a hearing in Congress on Friday,
would ban the import of foreign nuclear waste. Read the Salt Lake Tribune
story
here.
Governor Herbert offers up the excuse that he cannot support the RID Act
because the state of Utah is defending itself in court over the right to
import foreign nuclear waste. His argument is illogical. Nothing is
preventing EnergySolutions from pursuing a legal strategy, a regulatory
strategy, a marketing strategy, as well as a bribery (legislative) strategy.
It’s not too late for Herbert to get back into the game. We can’t afford to
have him standing on the sidelines at this critical moment. His legacy, and
the interests of Utahns (present and future), are at stake. Email
Governor Herbert at
gherbert@utah.gov or call (801-538-1000 in the Salt Lake area or
800-705-2464 outside of it) and ask him to support the RID Act to ban
foreign waste.
In the meantime, help us keep the drive alive in the fight
against depleted uranium dumping and join us at Tuesday’s Radiation Control
Board meeting. The Board is expected to vote on a license
amendments which would require thorough studies in advance of DU disposal.
This is a sensible request that would finally put the horse before the cart!
WHAT: Radiation Control Board Meeting WHEN: Tuesday, October 13th, 3pm-5pm WHERE: 1950 W. North Temple, Department of Environmental
Quality, Building #2
Please respond to this email if you can attend! We hope to see you there."
68 S. Main St., Suite 400
Salt Lake City, UT 84101
****************************
Health freedom attorney Jim
Turner has told NaturalNews he is filing a lawsuit mid-day Friday that seeks
to halt the distribution of all swine flu vaccines in America. The lawsuit
claims that the
FDA approved the vaccines in violation of federal law and
that no proper safety testing has ever been conducted on them.
Read more about this
breaking news in today's exclusive feature story:
Other BEnefits of Vitamin D besides
protecting from Swine Flu viruses: How to Stay Sharp as a Tack by Dr.
Julian Whitaker (he was my doctor in Newport Beach but did not know how to
reverse Chronic Fatigue that I had, Dr. Robert Young with his diet did 80%
vegetable 20% legumes, whole grains, fruits/nuts)
Eat, Drink, and Get Smart
There is a consensus that the best "brain foods" are those that address
the underlying processes in age-related degeneration: inflammation and
free-radical damage. That being said, the standard American diet of
meat, potatoes, breads, sweets, and processed foods is a recipe for
dementia. Saturated fat fuels inflammation. Potatoes, breads, and sweets
precipitate insulin resistance and weight gain. And processed foods are
devoid of vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients that nourish the brain.
Replace meat with salmon and other omega-3- rich fish that dampen
inflammation. Eliminate starches and sweets, and eat more beans and
other low-glycemic carbohydrates. And load up on protective nutrients by
eating plenty of vegetables and a little fruit. If you're looking for a
food plan to follow, make it the Mediterranean diet, which, in addition
to these items, includes modest amounts of olive oil and wine. A recent
study revealed that older people who most closely adhered to a
Mediterranean diet over four and a half years were 28 percent less
likely to develop cognitive impairment.
I also recommend drinking coffee. You probably know that coffee makes
you more alert and improves short-term memory, but did you realize it
also protects against Alzheimer's? Scandinavian scientists recently
found that people who drank three to five cups of coffee a day during
middle age were 65 percent less likely to develop dementia!
Take Vitamin D...
Studies on the diverse benefits of vitamin D keep pouring in, and one of
the latest focuses on cognitive function. Researchers tested the vitamin
D blood levels of nearly 2,000 Brits over age 65. After adjusting for
age, education, and other factors, they found that those with low levels
of vitamin D were more than twice as likely to have cognitive problems.
Deficiencies in this vitamin are common among the general population,
but they're rampant in older people, who have a decreased ability to
produce vitamin D in the skin. One of the most important things you can
do to preserve your memory is to get your blood level of this vitamin
tested and take supplements to bring it into the optimal range.
...And Other Supplements
Vitamin D isn't the
only nutrient that improves brain health. Vitamin B12 guards against
age-related brain shrinkage and reduces risk of dementia. Vitamin B3 (nicotinamide)
lowers levels of a protein linked to Alzheimer's. Folic acid and
vitamins B6 and B12 keep toxic homocysteine in check. And you can't
protect against free-radical damage without antioxidants.
Fish oil is crucial because it provides DHA, a dominant fat in the
brain, and EPA, a potent anti-inflammatory. Curcumin, an extract from
turmeric, curbs inflammation, and vinpocetine, a periwinkle extract,
improves cerebral blood flow. Phosphatidylcholine (PC) and
phosphatidylserine (PS) are also important constituents of neuronal cell
membranes, plus PC is a precursor to acetylcholine, a key
neurotransmitter.
Due to inefficient absorption and poor diet, the vast majority of older
Americans are deficient in some or all of these nutrients. Simply
correcting nutritional deficiencies can engender dramatic improvements
in memory and general health. Therefore, I cannot over-emphasize the
importance of a good nutritional supplement program when it comes to
cognitive support.
Keep Your "Entries" Intact
Oscar Wilde once said, "Memory is the diary that we all carry about with
us." Keep your "entries" intact by taking these recommendations to
heart, and enjoy optimal cognitive function for years to come.
Vicki Malsumari: “How are people guided? By the
influence of the Holy Ghost..if we are worthy…virtue garnish our
thoughts continually….I will tell you in your heart and in your
mind…provide still and quiet time each day to allow still small voice to
give guidance and comfort to us…"
Recommendations
The easiest way to meet the suggested supplement recommendations is to
take a good daily multivitamin, two or more fish oil capsules, and a
combination brain/memory formula. Look for these products in your health
food store or call (800) 722-8008 to order my formula, Memory
Essentials.
Talk to your doctor about bioidentical hormone replacement therapy and
vitamin D testing. For information on receiving these services at the
Whitaker Wellness Institute, call (800) 488-1500.
To order iMusic's memory-enhancing BrainAmp CDs, call (800) 722-8008.
Here is the best advice by a doctor on how to prevent contracting H1N1:
"Most
N95 respirators are designed to filter 95% particulates
of 0.3µ, while the s ize of H1N1 virus is about 0.1µ. Hence,
dependence on N95 to protect against H1N1 is like protecting
against rain with an
umbrella made of mosquito net.
Tamiflu does not kill but prevents H1N1 from further
proliferation till the virus limits itself in about 1-2
weeks (its natural cycle). H1N1, like other Influenza A
viruses, only infects the upper respiratory tract and
proliferates (only) there. The only portals of entry are the
nostrils and mouth/ throat. In a global epidemic of this
nature, it's almost impossible not coming into contact with
H1N1 in spite of all precautions. Contact with H1N1 is not
so much of a problem as proliferation is.
While you are still healthy and not showing any symptoms of
H1N1 infection, in order to prevent proliferatio n,
aggravation of symptoms and development of secondary
infections, some very simple steps ? not fully highlighted
in most official communications - can be practiced (instead
of focusing on how to stock N95 or Tamiflu):
1.
Frequent hand-washing (well highlighted in all official
communications).
2. "Hands-off-the-face" approach. Resist all temptations to
touch any part of face (unless you want to eat, bathe or slap).
3. *Gargle twice a day with warm salt water (use Listerine
if you don't trust salt). *H1N1 takes 2-3 days after initial
infection in the throat/ nasal cavity to proliferate and
show characteristic symptoms. Simple gargling prevents
proliferation. In a way, gargling with salt water has the
same effect on a healthy individual that Tamiflu has on an
infected one. Don't underestimate this simple, inexpensive
and powerful preventative method.
4. Similar to 3 above, *clean your nostrils at least once
every day with warm salt water. *Not everybody may be good
at Jala Neti or Sutra Neti (very good Yoga asanas to clean
nasal cavities), but *blowing the nose hard once a day and
swabbing both nostrils with cotton buds dipped in warm salt
water is very effective in bringing down viral population.*
5. *Boost your natural immunity with foods that are rich in
Vitamin C (Amla and other citrus fruits). *If you have to
supplement with Vitamin C tablets, make sure that it also
has Zinc to boost absorption.
6.* Drink as much of warm liquids as you can. *Drinking warm
liquids has the same effect as gargling, but in the reverse
direction. They wash off proliferating viruses from the
throat into the stomach where they cannot survive,
proliferate or do any harm.
All these are simple ways to prevent, within means of
most households, and certainly much less painful than to wait in long
queues outside public hospitals."
Happy breathing!
Merck employees had "hit list" of doctors they sought to
"neutralize", court documents reveal (opinion)
NaturalNews) Previously secret documents that surfaced at a
Vioxx court case in April of this year reveal pharmaceutical
giant Merck maintained a "hit list" of doctors to be
"neutralized" for speaking out against Vioxx. Although this
story was reported on NaturalNews and other sites in April,
Merck's involvement in the recent round of swine flu vaccines
raises new questions regarding Merck's behavior towards its
critics (see below).
As was reported in The Australian, documents that have
surfaced in the Federal Court in Melbourne expose the criminal
intent of
Merck
staffers who admitted they intended to "stop funding to
institutions" and "interfere with academic appointments." (These
actions are highly illegal, by the way.)
According to on-the-record testimony in this Australian trial,
one Merck employee said, in referring to the
doctors on
the hit list, "We may need to seek them out and destroy them
where they live..."
That sounds a lot like a mob boss ordering a hit on a competing
street thug, doesn't it?
At least eight clinical investigators were threatened or
intimidated by Merck, the court heard in testimony. This is
congruent with the many reports of academic intimidation by
Merck that have already been published on NaturalNews.com and
other news outlets. The picture of Merck that emerges from these
revelations is a company run by thugs who deal with dissent by
seeking to destroy the lives and
careers of
academics who dare to tell the truth about Merck's dangerous
drugs.
A culture of criminality
Merck is a company steeped in a culture of criminality. Among
its numerous questionable actions, Merck intentionally hid the
liver-damaging effects of its cholesterol drug (http://www.naturalnews.com/024072_Z...),
it intentionally withheld the release of clinical trial data
that showed the failures of another cholesterol drug (http://www.naturalnews.com/023889_V...),
it has dumped vaccine waste and manufacturing
chemicals
into the water supply (http://www.naturalnews.com/023124_w...),
it set up offshore banking accounts to avoid billions of dollars
in U.S. taxes (http://www.naturalnews.com/021645_M...),
and it was caught in a massive scheme of scientific fraud when
it was revealed that the company used in-house writers to
secretly author "independent" studies that were published in
peer-reviewed medical journals (http://www.naturalnews.com/023052_M...).
And that's just the beginning of the real story on Merck. Read
more astonishing news stories about this company here:
http://www.naturalnews.com/merck.html
There's little question that Merck operates from a criminal
mentality, resorting to tactics of deception and intimidation to
accomplish what it could not achieve through honest means: An
increase in sales of its pharmaceutical products.
Are they being intimidated into silence by Merck and other
vaccine makers?
Intimidating the scientists
Many who speak out against Merck products quickly find their
credibility assaulted. If they are in an academic institution,
they quickly find their research support drying up, and some end
up blackballed by the
pharmaceutical industry. What Merck has made perfectly clear
over the last several years is that speaking out against
Merck's products is academic
suicide.
So how are honest scientists or doctors supposed to be able to
raise concerns about the swine
flu
vaccines being manufactured by Merck and other companies?
From watching the news, they already know that publicly
questioning the safety of this vaccine could cost them their
careers.
Is this what modern "science" (if you can call it that) has come
to? A band of intimidated, frightened scientists too scared to
raise their voices and question the safety of pharmaceutical
products? And if so, how can anyone call this "scientific
medicine"
in the first place? It's more like gunpoint medicine,
where you say what you're supposed to say because the big
corporate players are holding a (metaphorical) gun to your head.
In terms of the swine
flu
vaccine itself, Big Pharma is already pumping the
mainstream media full of "preemptive defense" stories,
claiming that whatever
side
effects occur from the vaccines would have occurred
anyway and the
vaccines
aren't to blame. Note that this story is being fronted before
the vaccine is even in widespread use! They are, in essence,
already predicting a wave of nasty side effects and trying to
brainwash the American public into dismissing such concerns as
mere coincidence.
This is the astonishing, contradictory mindset of
Big Pharma:
When any harm comes to a patient taking their drugs, that's just
coincidence. But if any help comes their way and they see a
health
improvement, that's always due to the drugs alone, they claim.
It is precisely this sort of selective, unscientific thinking
that has caused the utter destruction of credibility for the
pharmaceutical industry (and of those who push drugs and
vaccines). Science has been outright abandoned, replaced with
slick marketing, financial arm-twisting and blatant intimidation
of anyone who steps outside the lines.
The truth isn't afraid of honest questions
Don't you find it odd that virtually no one in the conventional
medical
community has raised questions about the safety of the
swine flu
vaccines? Isn't it odd that these vaccines, having been
long-term tested on no one at all, were suddenly approved by the
FDA all on the same day and are now being advocated by doctors
everywhere without a single question about their safety?
Now you know why this Merck court case in
Australia
is relevant: Knowing the way Merck operates, it's not
unreasonable to suppose that doctors have been intimidated
into silence about the vaccine. Questioning this vaccine is
equivalent to committing professional suicide.
Vaccines are the core
mythology
of modern medicine, you see. Questioning their safety or
efficacy is considered sacrilegious in the medical community.
The entire mythology of
western medicine is based on the (false) belief that
chemical intervention is preferable to self-healing, and
vaccines are the central fulcrum upon which that argument
hinges. If vaccines fall, the whole philosophical facade behind
which western medicine now hides will be shattered at the same
time.
Protecting the profitability of western medicine necessitates
the perpetuation of the vaccine myth. And since that myth can't
be maintained based on pure science alone (because there's no
real science backing it), it has to be supported through
mob-style tactics of intimidation and
bribery.
That's why the bribery of physicians by
drug
companies is now routine. It's the way the "science" of
pharmaceutical medicines is propagated through the machinery of
our modern medical-industrial complex. Money buys what real
science can't support: The idea that the world medical system
must be based on chemical intervention (which just happens to
financially benefit the drug companies perpetuating these
myths).
Unraveling the fiction
These revelations about Merck threaten the mythology of modern
medicine upon which so many billions of dollars of drug revenues
are based. Even doctors don't want to talk much about Merck.
Why? Because they realize that as one of the largest
pharmaceutical companies in the world, the
ethics of
Merck reflect on the ethics of western medicine as a whole.
Much of western medicine, after all, is based on
pharmaceuticals. And believing that pharmaceuticals make you
healthy requires that you also believe the drug companies are
acting with integrity and looking out for the welfare of the
people. But believing that little piece of mythology requires
that the drug companies are believed to be benevolent,
compassionate corporations that would never resort to unethical,
dirty or illegal tactics to accomplish their aims.
This whole tapestry of pharmaceutical fiction begins to quickly
unravel when you begin to see the truth about what really goes
on inside Merck -- and that's what we've seen time and time
again with previously secret documents that emerged through
court cases or other means. The Merck culture is one that most
reasonable people would describe as "thuggish" or "criminal" in
nature. It has virtually no resemblance to the compassionate
image the company tries to peddle through mainstream media
advertising.
Besides, if Merck's products are really so good, why would it
need to resort to intimidating and threatening researchers
in the first place? If its drugs were really so good and so
safe, wouldn't the science speak for itself?
Clearly, the intimidation of academics is only necessary when
real science turns up answers that you don't want to hear. So
intimidation is invoked to replace the science with fear.
And that's what our entire pharmaceutical system is based on
today, folks: FEAR. The media won't report the truth about
pharmaceuticals because they are afraid to lose their
advertising dollars. Researchers won't report the real science
about pharmaceuticals because they are afraid to lose their
careers. Doctors won't tell you the truth about pharmaceuticals
because they're afraid to lose their medical licenses. The
entire system is held together by fear and intimidation rather
than honest science.
Belief systems in which questions are suppressed and "truths"
are reinforced at the end of a stick are called "dogmas." They
cannot, by definition, be called "scientific." Anyone believing
that modern drugs or vaccines are based on rigorous "science"
does not understand the definition of the word.
Keep that in mind when you're deciding whether to get a vaccine
shot. Remember that any researchers who voiced safety concerns
about those vaccines might have already been "neutralized" or
"discredited," to use the exact words of Merck's own
employees.
And the "scientific" conclusions of today's pharmaceutical
researchers can be no more believed than the testimony of a U.S.
soldier who is captured and tortured by terrorists, then told to
speak to the camera with a gun pointed at his head.
NaturalNews:
http://www.naturalnews.com/026420_M...Another young girl has
nearly lost her life this week after being injected with the
cervical cancer
vaccine. Her brain swelled and she suffered
permanent brain damage. Read why her parents are now
convinced these teenagers are being used as guinea pigs
by Big Pharma:
TRUTH OR DARE? (to
take your chances)
*the military dont
have a choice, they have to take the shots ordered by those in charge.
Unnamed US Navy vessel put to
sea in April with 347 man crew.
Entire crew was vaccinated
with H1N1 Swine Flu vaccine shortly after they put to sea.
Crew sickened so severely
that other ships had to respond to render aid. 16 Medical Dr.s put
aboard from an unnamed aircraft carrier and other responding vessels.
Total of 50 Navy personnel sent aboard to respond to crisis.
Two of the crew of 347 died -
including the Captain of the ship (a Lieutenant Commander) and a Chief
Petty Officer.
50 personnel sent aboard to
help are quarantined in Navy hospital in Balboa, Spain after 10 of them
caught the flu from the ship's crew. Two of the 50 quarantined are in
serious condition at last report.
Of the 347 man crew that were
vaccinated, 333 contracted the H1N1 flu FROM THE VACCINE. Two died,
as mentioned above, and 331 survived. Only 14 of the 347 vaccinated
sailors did not show any ill effects from the vaccine.
Navy has threatened all the
spouses of the ship's crew to remain silent - claiming all this
information is classified. Some are whistle-blowing and that is where
this information is coming from.
On the unnamed aircraft
carrier that provided assistance, 415 sailors contracted the swine flu
and are currently quarantined onboard.
PLEASE pass this email along. The truth is that the swine flu epidemic
will be created BY THE VACCINE. If we don't take it, there will be no
epidemic. From this one test it's apparent that the vaccine as tested
on that ship's crew in April is 96% effective at infecting the recipient
with swine flu. Such an infection rate is impossible to achieve by any
natural means. Though it only killed 1% immediately, there is no
telling what the long term effects on those injected with the vaccine
will be. See the research on the long term effects of the 1976 swine
flu vaccine, and the Gulf War anthrax vaccine programs for more
information.
Also note that mere contact with those that have
been vaccinated creates a 20% chance of you contracting the swine flu
even if you have not been vaccinated. Please pass this data along to
anyone you care about!
The Radiation Control Board is meeting and voting on the
fate of depleted uranium (DU) disposal in Utah and we need YOUR help! This may
be our last opportunity to influence our regulators to take a stand against a
waste stream that continues to grow in hazard for thousands of years.
Please attend the RCB meeting tomorrow or send an email to the below
board members telling them to support a moratorium on DU disposal.
Congressman Jim Matheson has made it clear that he cares about this issue and
Utah's vulnerability to DU. Last week he wrote Secretary of Energy Steven Chu,
insisting that all shipments of DU be immediately suspended. However, Secretary
Chu, whose Department of Energy oversees the vast stockpiles of DU, has thus far
not responded to our congressman’s request.
That leaves the decision-making power within the hands of the Utah State
Radiation Control Board, which has listened to arguments about DU disposal, but
failed to make a decision after four months of debate.
In the meantime, the clock has been ticking. Three days after telling the
board that their company had no specific or imminent plans to bring DU to Utah,
media reports proved otherwise. On July 17th, the Department of Energy announced
a million-dollar contract to ship nearly 15,000 drums of DU to Utah beginning
this October.
Please let the Radiation Control Board know that they must act NOW to
prevent a permanent radioactive hazard from being dumped on our doorstep.
Join us at the Radiation Control Board Meeting on Tuesday, September
22nd from 3pm-5pm, and show your support for a moratorium on depleted uranium
disposal. Everyone who attends will receive a “No DU” pin.
WHEN: Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 3:00PM-5:00PM
WHERE: Department of Environmental Quality (Bldg #2),
Conference Room 101, 168 North 1950 West, Salt Lake City
If you can’t attend, you can still help. The following board
members have yet to publicly take a position on DU disposal. The prospect of an
EnergySolutions lawsuit has had a chilling effect on the resolve of more than
one representative. Please take a moment and email your encouragement to these
board members and give them the support they need to pass new rules!
EnergySolutions and the Department of Energy would prefer depleted uranium to
be cheaply and quietly buried in the west desert. Please act now to prevent them
from sweeping the nation’s hazardous nuclear by-products under Utah’s rug!
GUN
CONFISCATION IS BEGINNING--
SENATE BILL SB-2099
Concerning the Blair-Holt proposed legislation: Senate Bill SB-2099 will
require us to put on our 2009 1040 federal tax form all guns that you have or
own. It may require fingerprints and a tax of $50 per gun.
In November, our president promised he was not going after our Second
Amendment rights. This bill was introduced on Feb. 24. This bill will become
public knowledge 30 days after it is voted into law. This is an amendment to the
Internal Revenue Act of 1986. This means that the Finance Committee can pass
this without the Senate voting on it at all. The full text of the proposed
amendment is on the U.S. Senate homepage,
http://www.senate.gov/
http://www.senate.gov//>
http://www.senate.gov/http://www.senate.gov/>
> You can find the bill by doing a search by the bill number, SB-2099.
Congress is now starting on the firearms confiscation bill. If it passes,
gun owners will become criminals if you don't fully comply. It has started. Very
Important for you to be aware of a new bill HR 45 introduced into the House.
This is the Blair Holt Firearm Licensing & Record of Sale Act of 2009. Even gun
shop owners didn't know about this because the government is trying to fly it
under the radar. To find out about this - go to any government website and type
in HR 45or Google HR 45 Blair Holt Firearm Licensing & Record of Sales Act of
2009. You will get all the information.
Basically this would make it illegal to own a firearm - any rifle with a
clip or ANY pistol unless: It is registered -You are fingerprinted -You supply
a current Driver's License -You supply your Social Security # -You will submit
to a physical & mental evaluation at any time of their choosing - Each update
change of ownership through private or public sale must be reported and costs
$25 - Failure to do so you automatically lose the right to own a firearm and are
subject up to a year in jail. - There is a child provision clause on page 16
section 305 stating a child-access provision. Gun must be locked and
inaccessible to any child under 18. They would have the right to come and
inspect that you are storing your gun safely away from accessibility to children
and fine is punishable for up to 5 yrs. in prison.
If you think this is a joke - go to the website and take your pick of many
options to read this. It is long and lengthy. But, more and more people are
becoming aware of this. Pass the word along.. Any hunters in your family pass
this along.
This is just a "termite" approach to complete confiscation of guns and
disarming of our society to the point we have no defense - chip away a little
here and there until the goal is accomplished before anyone realizes it.
This is one to act on whether you own a gun or not. If you take my gun,
only the criminal will have one to use against me. HR 45 only makes me/us less
safe.
Please.. copy and send this out to EVERYONE in the USA , whether you
support the Right to Bear Arms or not. YOUR rights are next. Government is
taking away our right to choose, as well as the right to defend ourselves from
intruders.
CALL YOUR SENATOR
September 24, 2009
Australia Hit By “Blood of God” As Dragon Tail
Of Death Returns
By: Sorcha Faal, and as
reported to her Western Subscribers
Russian scientists are reporting today that the Southern Hemisphere
continent of Australia has been coated by red “dust” from our Planet
Earth’s first interaction with the tail of the Comet known as NEAT (C/2002
V1) in an event not seen in our modern times, but known in depth by our
most ancient of peoples and called by them the “Blood of God”.
Comet NEAT first appeared in November, 2002, and became one of the
brightest celestial events of the past century and garnered considerably
controversy when in February, 2003, it engaged in a “battle”
with our Sun causing a massive solar eruption
[photo 3rd left] that scientist report hit this comets
tail. Also important to note about Comet NEAT is its considerable size that
is estimated to be
twice the size of our mammoth Planet Jupiter.
After Comet NEAT’s being hit by this massive solar eruption in 2003 our
Sun entered into what is being called an historic Deep Solar Minimum that
since 2004 has seen over
717 days of no sunspots appearing on its surface…that is until yesterday
when as this comet’s dust was falling upon Australia two large areas of
sunspots (1026 and 1027) erupted on our solar spheres surface.
To how the red dust from Comet NEAT entering our atmosphere could
possibly affect our Sun, these reports detail how that after the tail of
this comet was hit by our Sun’s massive solar explosion the ions in it were
changed from positive to negative and have left throughout our Solar System
a “massively destruction magnetosphere disrupter” that our most
ancient of peoples called the “Dragons Tail”.
Even worse for our Planet in regards to this positively charged “Dragons
Tail” being able to interact with us was the stunning 2008 discovery by
NASA that our Earth’s defenses against it were not what we had previously
believed it to be, and as we can read:
For the greatest understanding of this unprecedented event for our modern
times one must look backwards in our history to when these same things
occurred, and, perhaps, with no better guide than the much maligned by the “science
cartel” Russian-born American researcher,
Immanuel Velikovsky, who detailed the last time our Planet was hit with
this “Dragons Tail” when its
red dust fell upon ancient Egypt causing its rivers to turn blood red.
Now the importance of a comets tail being changed from positive to
negative, Velikovsky stated, would be its “natural attraction” to the
Planet Earth due to our large deposits of positively charged iron ore
deposits, and of which Australia has our World’s second largest deposit of.
The myths of our most ancient peoples further state that when the “Dragon
Tail” returns it will “reawaken” within human beings the “knowledge”
of our last downfall that is still enacted to this very day by the
religious rite of baptism, and where in remembrance of the
many continents that were swept beneath the seas in “a
single day and night” during our Earths last “overturning”
one symbolizes the “rising from the water” of our species to a
“new birth” of humanity.
Unfortunately though, our World today seems to have become no wiser, or
perceptive, than those of our most ancient of ancestors, but whose wisest
members left for us, all around the Earth, many warnings of what is soon to
come, and which this first contact with the “Dragon Tail” is but the
first of many celestial warnings to be seen.
And instead of the people of today remembering what has been ingrained in
their very DNA, they continue to turn away from these warnings, even those
received within them, and comfort their troubled souls and spirits with
drugs and alcohol believing they are depressed instead of what is truly
occurring within them, a WARNING to act.
What are the 3 best things you
can do for your relationship?
Here's what 3 of the top relationship
experts say is their best piece of
marriage advice.
NUMBER ONE comes
from psychologist Harville Hendrix,
author of "Getting the Love You Want".
He says - stop all the
shame, blame and criticism!
Instead, ask for what you want in a
clear, specific and positive manner.
This goes double for wives! Men need to
feel competent. They react better when
you tell them what you do like, which
behaviors make you happy. So instead of
grabbing the sponge and telling your
husband he doesn't know how to wash the
dishes, instead, say 'thank you for
pitching in!' When men get acknowledged
for things, they'll keep doing them.
NUMBER TWO - The
second piece of marriage advice comes
from Dr. Mira Kirshenbaum, author of
"The Weekend Marriage". She says, when
your relationship starts to break down,
you need Triple A - apology,
affection, and a promise of action.
Say you're sorry for what you've done to
disappoint your partner. Immediately
offer a hug, a kiss, a meaningful
gesture of warmth. Then pledge to do
something that matters to your partner.
The whole thing will take 2 minutes, but
in that time you've healed the past,
built a bridge to the present, and
created hope for the future.
NUMBER 3 - The
third and final piece of relationship
advice comes from Dr. Ruth Westheimer.
Dr. Ruth says, all
relationships grow stale as time goes
by. The best thing you can do is to pump
some fresh air into it. A
long weekend away would be ideal, but
even a few hours away from work, the
kids, the cell phone, and life's
responsibilities helps. Reconnect with
each other by remembering the things
that made you fall in love in the first
place. Do the things that you used to do
- talk over dinner, walk with your arms
around one another. When you get home,
you'll find 'your relationship has
acquired ruddy cheeks' - those are Dr.
Ruth's words.
Natural News update on Swine Flu Vaccine:
"Did you know that
infectious disease outbreaks
often follow mass vaccination campaigns that claim to stop the
disease? In fact, in 1977 Dr.
Jonas Salk (the developer of the first polio vaccine) testified along
with other scientists that mass inoculation against polio was the cause of
most polio cases throughout the USA since 1961.
Drug companies and health
authorities don't want you to know the true history of vaccines, but with
thanks to the website
VaccinationDebate.com,
we've listed a collection of some rather shocking historical facts about
vaccines that you need to know:
Doing the math on the
swine flu vaccine reveals some astonishing numbers. Even if you
believe the vaccine works, it turns out you'd have to vaccinate 200,000
people to prevent the death of just one person from swine flu. And
vaccinating 200,000 people would probably result in the harm or death of
several just from the vaccine side effects.
Questions about these allegations from "alleged" police officer in video:
Ask your
trucker friends if this is true in OK, I wish they gave the name of this
officer to check out if he truelly is an officer of the law. If they are
telling the truth,t hen they should put all their contact info on there
too. Don’t you think?
This
journalist says it will happen “here” not sure which state he lives in.
First I have heard of this wristband, and I wish they would give the
states’ law codes so we can verify these laws have been passed. Federal
HHS has not mentioned any mandatory flu shots, and deny any will be
issued. So
How can states
individually pass these mandatory flu shot laws?
"From:
James Elmer [mailto:jdobson@tribcsp.com] Sent: Monday,
September 21, 2009 3:49 PM To: Constitution
Party; Rep. Mark Semlek; Rep. Ron Paul MD (R) TX; Senator Barrasso;
Senator J Schiffe; Senator Larson Subject: LOOK AROUND
AND OBSERVE- it is almost too late !!!
Well Family, friends, and loved
one..This is it!!!
PLEASE WATCH THE
VIDEO ..
it is going to happen
here SOON..
Either you take the flue -shot
willingly or off to a concentration camp you will go ...
We have a set up near us for this
purpose....
It leads to a main State
Highway...
And you Will NOT get
through without a check point..
Voices of Liberty "If ye love wealth better than
liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of
freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you,
and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!"
— Samuel Adams
God bless the REPUBLIC with
Liberty and Justice for ALL.
I am James Elmer :-)"
A million march to US Capitol to
protest against 'Obama the socialist'
By
David Gardner
Last updated at 6:59 AM on 14th September 2009
"As many as one
million people flooded into Washington for a massive rally organised by
conservatives claiming that President Obama is driving America towards
socialism.
The size of the
crowd - by far the biggest protest since the president took office in
January - shocked the White House.
Demonstrators
massed outside Capitol Hill after marching down Pennsylvania Avenue waving
placards and chanting 'Enough, enough'.
Tens of
thousands of people converged on Capitol Hill on Saturday to protest against
government spending
The focus of much
of the anger was the president's so-called 'Obamacare' plan to overhaul the
U.S. health system.
Demonstrators
waved U.S. flags and held signs reading 'Go Green Recycle Congress' and 'I'm
Not Your ATM'.'
The protest on
Saturday came as Mr Obama took his campaign for health reforms on the road,
making his argument to a rally of 15,000 supporters in Minneapolis.
Saying he was
determined to push through a bill making health insurance more affordable,
Mr Obama said: 'I intend to be president for a while and once this bill
passes, I own it.
US President
Barack Obama sports a mustache famously worn by German dictator Adolf Hitler
Demonstrators
hold up banners on Capitol Hill in Washington on Saturday
'I will not waste
time with those who think that it's just good politics to kill healthcare.'
But in
Washington, protester Richard Brigle, 57, a Vietnam veteran, said: 'It's
going to cost too much money we don't have.' Another marcher shouted: 'You
want socialism? Go to Russia!'
Terri Hall, 45,
of Florida, said she felt compelled to become political for the first time
this year because she was upset by government spending.
'Our government
has lost sight of the powers they were granted,' she said. She added that
the deficit spending was out of control, and said she thought it was putting
the country at risk.
Anna Hayes, 58, a
nurse from Fairfax County, stood on the Mall in 1981 for Reagan's
inauguration. 'The same people were celebrating freedom,' she said. 'The
president was fighting for the people then. I remember those years very well
and fondly.'
Saying she was
worried about 'Obamacare,'Hayes explained: 'This is the first rally I've
been to that demonstrates against something, the first in my life. I just
couldn't stay home anymore.'
Andrew Moylan, of
the National Taxpayers Union, received a roar of approval after he told
protesters: 'Hell hath no fury like a taxpayer ignored.'
Republican
lawmakers also supported the rally.
'Republicans,
Democrats and independents are stepping up and demanding we put our fiscal
house in order,' Rep. Mike Pence, chairman of the House Republican
Conference, said.
'I think the
overriding message after years of borrowing, spending and bailouts is enough
is enough.'
FreedomWorks
Foundation, a conservative organization led by former House of
Representatives Majority Leader Dick Armey, organized several groups from
across the country for what they billed as a 'March on Washington.'
Organisers said
they had built on momentum from the April 'tea party' demonstrations held
nationwide to protest at Mr Obama's taxation policies, along with growing
resentment over his economic stimulus packages and bank bailouts.
The heated
demonstrations were organized by a Conservative group called the Tea Party
Patriots
Other sponsors of
the rally include the Heartland Institute, Americans for Tax Reform and the
Ayn Rand Center for Individuals Rights.
Recent polls
illustrate how difficult recent weeks have been for a president who, besides
tackling health care, has been battling to end a devastatingly deep
recession.
Fifty per cent
approve and 49 per cent disapprove of the overall job he is doing as
president, compared to July, when those approving his performance clearly
outnumbered those who were unhappy with it, 55 per cent to 42 per cent.
Just 42 percent
approve of the president's work on the high-profile health issue.
'Parasite-in-chief': The title given to the American President during the
demonstrations on Saturday
The poll was
taken over five days just before Obama's speech to Congress. That speech
reflected Obama's determination to push ahead despite growing obstacles.
Prior to Obama's
speech before Congress U.S. Capitol Police arrested a man they say tried to
get into a secure area near the Capitol with a gun in his car as President
Barack Obama was speaking.
On Thursday
police spokeswoman Kimberly Schneider said that 28-year-old Joshua Bowman of
suburban Falls Church, Virginia, was arrested around 8pm on Wednesday when
Obama was due to speak.
Bowman's
intentions were unclear, police said.
This Democrat
is proud to see my nation still allows this type of peaceful protest, and
it's citizens are not yet afraid to speak out against Chairman Obama and his
Politburo ... that is until B & M Obama's well-funded Basij militia takes to
the streets.
- Cat, New
Jersey, USA, 13/9/2009 03:55
Iraq troops' PTSD rate as high as 35 percent, says
Management Insights study EurekAlert!
Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:02 PM PDT
The Veterans' Administration should expect a high volume of
Iraq veterans seeking treatment of post traumatic
stress disorder, with researchers anticipating that the rate
among armed forces will be as high as 35 percent, according
to the Management Insights feature in the current issue of
Management Science, the flagship journal of the Institute
for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.
Local Soldier Killed in
Iraq The Charleston State Journal
Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:02 PM PDT
Sergeant First Class Duane A. Thornsbury was from
Bridgeport.
Russia Warns Of Global Catastrophe Due
To Historic Drought
By: Sorcha Faal, and as
reported to her Western Subscribers
Drought 2009 Map
2006 World Crop Map
"A dire report prepared by
Russia’s Agricultural Ministry for Prime Minister Putin is warning that
the historic drought our Earth is currently experiencing has overtaken
two-thirds of our entire World’s total agricultural output and risks
plunging humanity into “catastrophic conditions” as Nations begin
preparing to fight each other in order to feed their starving populations.
From a relative abundance of crops available during the 2006 growing
season, in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, to the current
drought conditions being reported in 2009 [see
maps, top left], this grim report states that by no later than
October of this year our Earth will no longer be producing enough food to
feed its entire population.
To how apocalyptic this grave situation has become this report notes
that: the World’s largest populated country of
China is experiencing its
worst drought in 60-years; the World’s second largest populated country
of
India is facing a crippling drought
after the failure of their 2009 monsoon season; the World’s third largest
populated country of the United States
is experiencing its
worst drought in modern history in its vital crop growing State of California, while its State of Texas has drought condition so severe
that its farmers are said to be ‘wishing
for a hurricane’ to strike them.
This historic Global drought has also plunged the critical agricultural
Nation of Australia into its
worst drought in 117 years, as well as the important agricultural South
American Nation of Argentina into
drought conditions so catastrophic that their farmers are
facing total ruin.
So dangerous has this situation become that Canada's National Farmers
Union (NFU)
has issued a
dire warning that our World’s grain stocks have plunged to their lowest
level in 30 years due to the fact that in five of the last six years the
Global population ate significantly more grains than farmers were able to
produce.
In the United States meanwhile, and of no great surprise, their
government and propaganda media are refusing to allow their citizens to know
of this grave Global danger and have, instead, embarked upon a totalitarian
scheme to steal from their citizens the right to water [see our May 8th
report: Chilling New Law Gives US Government Ownership Of
All Water In Nation] and
food, and all without these peoples even being aware of what is
happening to them.
Note: So totalitarian has the
United States become that their federal government has even criminalized
their citizens for selling second-hand goods, and as we can read as reported
by the McClatchy News Service:
Even worse, during a time of such crisis where we no longer have the
ability to feed our World’s human beings, the United States is preparing to
make this already catastrophic situation even worse, and as we can read as
reported by the USA Today News Service:
But to truly see how far these once great Americans have fallen and are
not able to either hear, or prepare, for such warnings as these, one only
need look at Communist China, where parents by the thousands took to the
streets this past week to protest the
poisoning of their children by lead smelters. In the United States,
meanwhile, this Wednesday past they began
inoculating thousands of their children with an experimental swine flu
vaccine, and leaving one to wonder what kind of permission these innocents
could possibly have given to become guinea pigs for their ‘fearless’
War Leaders ‘plans’ to ‘reduce’ their population.
So as our World plunges into they abyss of mass starvation, these witless
Americans should, perhaps, REALLY
start listening to what their ‘leaders’ have said is their ‘newvision’ for the United States…such as President Obama’s Science Czar,
John P. Holdren, who has said:
But to the truly monstrous plans of these Westerners against our World,
one need only read the words of the famous British evolutionary biologist
Richard Dawkins, one of supporters of the “Scientists
for Obama” and author of the “God
Delusion” who said:
[Ed. Note: Western governments and their
intelligence services actively campaign against the information found in
these reports so as not to alarm their citizens about the many catastrophic
Earth changes and events to come, a stance that the
Sisters of Sorcha Faal strongly disagrees with in believing that it is
every human beings right to know the truth. Due to our missions conflicts
with that of those governments, the responses of their ‘agents’ against us
has been a longstanding misinformation/misdirection campaign designed to
discredit and which is addressed in the report “Who
Is Sorcha Faal?”.]
NaturalNews Tip of the day (from Mike):
Tomorrow we'll be launching my new hip-hop song called Don't Inject
Me (the
Swine Flu Vaccine song). It's a riot!
You can listen to
the song and watch the music video today, ahead of the launch, by
clicking on
this page.
Should we all boycott
Whole Foods due to the words of its CEO who said Americans have no
intrinsic right to health care?
Not exactly. There may lots
of good reasons to boycott Whole Foods, but read my story to learn what's
actually more powerful than any boycott:
The
influenza vaccine or flu shot is a
vaccine to protect against the highly variable
influenza
virus.
The annual flu kills an estimated 36,000 people in the
United States. The annually updated
trivalent flu vaccine for the 2007–2008 season consists of
hemagglutinin (HA) surface glycoprotein components from influenza
H3N2,
H1N1, and
B influenza viruses.
Each year the influenza virus changes and different strains become dominant.
Don't fall for disease "screening" scams. Without
exception, all "screening" programs offered by hospitals, clinics and
non-profit groups are, in reality, recruiting schemes which aim
to diagnose you with a disease and scare you into dangerous (but
profitable) treatments.
A leaked memo written by health
authorities in the U.K. reveals that the
swine flu vaccine may be
linked to a deadly neurological disorder. So why are worldwide health
authorities insisting on injecting children with the swine flu vaccine even
before it has been tested on children? Read more in today's eye-opening
report:
Why won't U.S. health
officials (or even the President) dare teach the nation about vitamin D
ahead of the coming swine flu pandemic? You gotta wonder...
Today, my feature story
asks the question: Why the conspiracy of silence about vitamin
D and its ability to help stop influenza? Read some possible theories
(population control?) in my feature story today:
(NaturalNews) A warning letter about the swine flu vaccine was leaked to
the DailyMail over the weekend. Written by Professor Elizabeth Miller,
head of the Health Protection Agency's Immunization Department, it warns
neurologists that the influenza vaccine of 1976 was linked to a
devastating neurological condition called Guillain-Barre Syndrome
(GBS). "The vaccines used to combat an expected swine influenza pandemic
in 1976 were shown to be associated with GBS and were withdrawn from
use," says the July 29 letter.
GBS can cause
paralysis and death. One woman mentioned in the DailyMail story --
Hilary Wilkinson -- was stricken with GBS and had to be fed through a
drip while needing a tracheotomy just to breathe. It took her three
months in the hospital to learn how to walk and talk again. On the topic
of the swine
flu
vaccine, she says today, "It makes me feel wary that the Government
is rolling out this vaccine without any clear idea of the GBS risk, if
any. I wouldn't wish it on anyone... I'm frightened to have the
swine flu
vaccine if this might happen again -- it's a frightening illness and I
think more research needs to be done on the effect of the vaccine."
An 800 percent increase in GBS risk
A second letter has also surfaced with a warning about the swine flu
vaccine. It's from the Association of British Neurologists and is
authored by Dr. Rustam Al-Shahi Salman and Professor Patrick Chinnery.
It says "Following the 1976 program of
vaccination
against swine influenza in the US, a retrospective study found a
possible eight-fold increase in the incidence of GBS."
Adding to the concern, Dr. Tom Jefferson from the Cochrane Collaboration
is on the record saying "New
vaccines never
behave in the way you expect them to. It may be that there is a link to
GBS, which is certainly not something I would wish on anybody. But it
could end up being anything because one of the additives in one of the
vaccines is a substance called squalene, and none of the studies we've
extracted have any research on it at all."
In other words, what we really have with the swine flu vaccine is an
untested, potentially dangerous cocktail of
chemicals and
viral fragments that could plausibly be linked to a devastating
neurological condition.
These
doctors and
scientists are warning about the possibility of dangerous neurological
side effects precisely because the government is failing to do so.
Governments and pharmaceutical companies don't want the People to know
about any of the risks associated with the vaccine, so they don't talk
about them. Nor do they reveal the rather startling fact that the
vaccine has never been tested on children or expectant mothers even
though those are the two primary groups being targeted for the vaccine.
Vaccines = Modern medical quackery
Even today, most doctors in both the U.S. and U.K. insist there is no
link between the 1976 vaccine and GBS. They say there's "no convincing
evidence" that the vaccine caused GBS. It's the same story with vaccines
and
autism. Instead
of examining the real reasons why autism's rise almost perfectly mirrors
the rise in childhood
vaccinations,
doctors simply dismiss any such link outright, without consideration.
Vaccines are the bedrock of the pharmaceutical industry's profit
centers. Through vaccines, the
drug companies
can ensure generations of future profits from diseases that are promoted
or worsened by vaccines: Alzheimer's, cancer, Parkinson's
disease, and so
on. They can also, importantly, prevent people from taking
responsibility for their own
immune system
health.
The vaccine approach to disease prevention implies that
health cannot be
experienced from within and must be achieved solely through intervention
that just happens to involve paying money to drug companies. It is in
this way that the real harm of vaccinations isn't limited merely to
those people who are paralyzed or killed by the vaccines... it also
includes all those people who have been taught to delegate their immune
system function to a corporation pushing dangerous chemicals for profit.
To question vaccines is to question the very foundation of
western
medicine, which paints people as victims requiring heroic
intervention with synthetic chemicals (but only the ones that have been
patented). The real harm in this medical philosophy is not merely all
those people who are harmed or killed by the vaccines themselves, but in
how many people are dis-empowered and taught to abandon any hope
that their own bodies might be able to attain health through innate
physiological wisdom.
In this way, the
pharmaceutical industry has taught people to betray who they
really are. They have convinced people that they are inferior
biological beings who can only arise to greatness through chemical
intervention. It is all a myth, of course, carefully weaved into the
minds of the unaware through layer upon layer of cleverly crafted
propaganda.
Its aim is to leave you nutritionally ignorant, victimized and
helplessly addicted to a never-ending stream of chemical interventions
justified by the invention of (mostly) fictitious diseases. That is the
state of western
medicine today.
Healthy people need no swine flu vaccine, nor seasonal
flu shots. Ten
years ago (or so), when I stopped getting flu shots and stopped allowing
junk
foods and
pharmaceuticals into my body, my colds virtually ceased. For me today,
getting sick is an ancient memory. Although I've experienced mild
symptoms from time to time (usually after being in an immune-compromised
state such as working too hard at a trade show), they're nothing that
can't be cured by an hour of sunshine, a cup of ginger tea and a good
night's rest. I haven't been floored by a cold or flu for longer than I
can remember.
Swine flu is easily overcome through natural health. H1N1 is no match
for a healthy, adaptable immune system that's largely free from toxic
chemicals and is boosted with the intake of superfoods, herbal remedies
and quality nutritional supplements.
It's official: Scientists
fake their "scientific" study results with alarming frequency. This is the
conclusion from a new study that apparently wasn't faked:
P.S. Thank you
all for your support of the Health Revolution Petition! (www.HealthRevolutionPetition.org)
Signatures have now exceeded25,000. Please
spread the word, as we need 100,000 signatures to take this to Washington D.C.
and make an impact regarding the
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he nationwide revolt against government plans to implement a mass swine flu
vaccination program in the United Kingdom has picked up steam, with a poll
revealing that a third of NHS nurses will refuse to take the shot.
Despite nurses and frontline health workers being the primary target group
to take the vaccine, just 37 per cent of them said they would take the swine
flu vaccine in a survey conducted by Nursing Times magazine. 30 per cent
said they would not be immunized and 33 per cent said they were unsure.
Of the 30 per cent who said they would refuse to be vaccinated, 60 per cent
said the reason was due to fears about the safety of the vaccine, following
revelations that the shots will contain mercury and squalene and have also
been
linked with the killer nerve disease Guillain-Barre Syndrome.
Another 31 per cent said they would refuse the vaccine because they did not
consider the risk from swine flu to be great enough.
The government responded to the poll by claiming that nurses have a duty not
to infect their patients and urged them to take the vaccine, but it seems
that many fear the health consequences of taking the vaccine will be worse
than catching the virus itself.
Interestingly,
a London Times article on the story reveals that fewer than one
in seven nurses in the UK receives the annual flu shot, highlighting the
fact that health workers, who would be in a position to be well educated on
the issue, are already fully aware of the dangers associated with vaccines
in general.
It was previously revealed that some batches of the vaccine
will contain mercury, a toxin linked with autism and neurological
disorders. The vaccine will also contain
the dangerous ingredient squalene, which has been directly linked
with cases of Gulf War Syndrome and a host of other debilitating diseases.
It was also recently reported that the UK government sent a confidential
letter to senior neurologists telling them to be on the alert for cases of
brain disorder called Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), which could be
triggered by the vaccine.
Following the leak of the letter a senior neurologist
told the Daily Mail, “I would not have the swine flu jab because
of the GBS risk.”
The last attempt to mass vaccinate the public against swine flu, during the
1976 outbreak in the United States, killed more people than the virus
itself.
The vast majority of respondents to
the London Times article about the nurses’ refusal to take the
shot commented that they too would refuse to take the vaccine, mirroring
sentiment across the country.
At this stage only a deadlier return of the virus backed by a massive
government fearmongering campaign is going to make anything like a majority
of the population take the swine flu shot.
Since the majority of the population will refuse to take the vaccine, the
government’s only option will be to institute a mandatory program backed by
force, or to drop plans for mass vaccination altogether.
Paul Joseph Watson
According to federal deficit calculators at USDebtClock.org, more than $57
trillion is currently owed, including $39 trillion(T) in medicaid/medicare debt,
$10T in social security payables, plus $8T in prescription drug liabilities,
levying$189,210.00 in servitude upon every American citizen.
1) Washington, DC is a "district," not a "state" in the Republic. Legally, it
is an offshore or "foreign" corporation.
2) U.S. Federal employees, including Capitol Hill legislators, are legally
contracted to perform on behalf of the "foreign corporation."
3) The "foreign corporation" in now unable to pay its debts.
4) The "foreign corporation" is now calling in its notes.
5) Under Uniform Commercial Code (UCC--global economic administrative banking
and accounting law) a liquidity account called a "bond" was created for you at
birth.
6) This "bond" secures every American citizen with a birth certificate and
social security number against debtor obligations administered through the IRS
and Justice Department.
7) Your "bond," (private trust-like account created when your birth
certificate was filed with the state, then sent to the federal corporation) is
worth millions of dollars based on expert legal testimonies and insurance
industry actuarial projections of your net worth--gross personal production--
from birth to grave.
8) Considering your gross personal productivity over your lifetime carries
this economic value, you might call this your "gross personal product."
9) The "foreign corporation" assays America's "gross national product," and
your "gross personal product" as well.
10) Assets of the "foreign corporation" may be liquidated to pay debts; and
you may be liquidated, likewise, for available currency in your "transaction
account," to pay the corporation's debts through the international bank-serving
IRS "balance sheet" provisions that have been secreted from the public, but
heralded legally by expert witnesses in tax courts.
The aforementioned FACTS EVIDENCE . . .
THE SINGLE, MOST IMPORTANT, FUNDAMENTAL MOTIVE DRIVING DECLARATIONS OF WAR,
WAR ECONOMIES, AND CURRENT INCESSANT POLITICAL IMPOSITIONS, INCLUDING WARS ON
TERRORISM, BIOTERRORISM; WAGING BIOLOGICAL WARFARE AGAINST PEOPLE AND MICROBES
THROUGH MODERN MEDICINE, VACCINATIONS, AND DEADLY PHARMACEUTICALS.
So you probably never realized you are worth more dead to our current "legal
guardians" than alive. This best explains why:
1) Throughout history, global economic collapses have fueled major wars.
2) Hideously harmful, scientifically proven killers are often certified for
use by the FDA and "fast-tracked" to markets,
3) The FDA incessantly advances Big Pharma's Codex Alimentarius plot to
terminate over-the-counter access to vitamins, minerals, herbs, homeo-pathics,
the healing natural sweetener stevia and energizing ginseng, but grants deadly
addictive aspartame, even caffeine, free distribution everywhere.
4) Safe methods of water decontamination, such as inexpensive ultraviolet
light and ozonation, or even nano-silver disinfection, is grossly excluded from
municipal water purification methods in favor of totally toxic carcinogenic
chlorine.
5) Fluoride, a mind-numbing bone-mottling intoxicant, is forced upon nearly
everyone as a replacement for education and motivation for dental caries
prevention.
6) Mercury in vaccines and dental fillings is still approved after extensive
research proving toxicity and substantial morbidity and mortality linked to the
heavy metal poison.
7) John Holdren became Obama administration "science czar" given his
voracious appetite for population reduction through intoxication of water and
food supplies, and the previously conducted mass vaccination causing
sterilization as endorsed in his book Ecoscience.
8) US officials plan to administer 3 toxic immune system destroying squalene
injections this fall under the guise of swine flu "biodefense," despite
substantial scientific evidence proving this is a deadly immune-intoxicating
substance.
9) CDC and NIAID officials lie about HIV/AIDS, in many different ways,
quashing safe and effective low-to-no-cost treatments while partnering with
private companies advancing profitable drug sales.
10) The new additional federal $1 billion contract for swine flu vaccines
include Baxter corporation's provisions despite the company's history of
genocidal operations. Federal officials were well aware the company spread
HIV/AIDS in contaminated blood products AND spread H5N1 allegedly "accidentally"
in time for this "biodefense" season.
11) Hillary Rodham Clinton, Obama's Secretary of State, overseeing CIA, FBI
and Foreign Policy, was politically positioned to dictate "health care reform,"
"national security," and "national health insurance policy,"
12.
12) Mrs. Clinton went to Mexico precisely when the mysterious Mexican swine
flu outbreak occurred to persuade government officials there to stop supporting
drug traffickers whose WAR killed more than 7,000 people the previous 12 months.
This just proves the "WAR on Drugs" is a profitable security investment for Big
Pharma, political liars, and inside traitors(Ref); and why . . .
13) Every one of the deadliest pandemics throughout history has come when
severe socioeconomic/political upheaval occurred.
PRess Conference with Secretaries of HHS, Homeland
Security, CDC and Education: "Because influenza virus changes each season, it is
a pandemic strain, little background immunity, but for some reason elderly
exposed to it in past were immune to H1N1 were given the 1976 Influenza vaccine.
Documented Guiomebare adverse affect is a rare event, they should not get
vaccine. "
"110 million doses of vaccine by October."
“ 5 Categories of people to get vaccines: Pregnant
women, health workers, 6 mos to 21, 21 to 65 and those on drugs.” “Recommended
groups to get vaccine” Local level will decide where to deliver vaccine.
"WHO what the new strain will be is a guess. Strain
circulating in southern hemisphere is same as was in Spring, and return in Fall
vaccine will be as perfect a match."
Planning and Preparation Act of 2005 relieves the agencies
of liability. $350 million by Congress to local communities to deal with
pandemic. To rehire emergency personnel that were laid off due to economy.
CDC is connection from Federal Govt to local levels.
Flu.gov
Dr. Anthony Fauci, CDC Director : “immunity to flu and we
don’t get it.” “Chances of getting the flu are greater if you don’t get
vaccinated.” Media is prepared, in case something does happen. Health Care act
will make sure you get the vaccine if you don’t have insurance. Tamiflu 1 yr
old or older, effective in decreasing duration and potency of flu. Anti-viral
for those that are very ill. Vulnerable group should get drugs.
Forced Inauculation if Govt declares emergency? “There
will not be any compulsory vaccination, …need to educate people for the risk of
not getting vaccinated…Argentina, Australia, lots of disease.” “Schools as
distribution process for vaccine, school closures guidelines.” On video
08/07/09
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Everybody knows that H1N1 swine
flu is due to surge back in the fall, but what's really likely to happen with
it? Today, I present some possibilities to consider for "best case" and "worst
case" scenarios. Check 'em out here:
On the Big Pharma front, it
turns out that
Proton Pump Inhibitor (PPI) drugs actually cause the very
problem they claim to treat! Check out this fascinating report from Sherry Baker
here:
If you log on to CARS.GOV to turn
in your old Clunker watch what happens: (Govt can take over all the info
on all your computers anytime after that) SCARY!!! Any .gov site will do
the same some are saying now?
The
Washington Post confirmed today that the swine flu vaccine,
which is set to be rolled out nationwide this fall in what some
fear could ultimately become a mandatory vaccination program,
will contain mercury, a toxin linked with autism and
neurological disorders.
Mercury is POISON, a heavy metal which settles in and screws up the
hypothalamus region in your brain. One reason why you don't want amalgam
filings in your teeth, when carbonated water, pop, beer, etc. comes in
contact with the fillings they dissolve and do the same thing - so I hear.
Causes people to be lethargic / brain impaired and easily herded by the
global ranchers and man farmers on their global plantation.
Ten Things You're Not Supposed to Know about the Swine
Flu Vaccine
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
(NaturalNews) She was deathly afraid of the flu.
So she asked her doc what she should do.
He jabbed her unseen
With a swine flu vaccine
Blurting, "Darling, I haven't a clue."
- by the Health Ranger
Let's not beat around the bush on this issue: The swine flu vaccines now
being prepared for mass injection into infants, children, teens and adults
have never been tested and won't be tested before the injections
begin. In Europe, where flu vaccines are typically tested on hundreds (or
thousands) of people before being unleashed on the masses, the European
Medicines Agency is allowing companies to skip the testing process
entirely.
And yet, amazingly, people are lining up to take the vaccine, absent any
safety testing whatsoever. When the National Institutes of Health in the
U.S. announced a swine
flu vaccine trial beginning in early
August, it was inundated with phone calls and emails from people desperate
to play the role of human guinea pigs. The power of fear to herd sheeple
into vaccine injections is simply amazing...
Back in Europe, of course, everybody gets to be a guinea pig since no
testing will be done on the vaccine at all. Even worse, the European
vaccines will be using adjuvants --
chemicals used to multiply the potency of the active ingredients in
vaccines.
Notably, there is absolutely no safety data on the use of adjuvants
in infants and expectant mothers -- the two groups being most aggressively
targeted by the
swine flu vaccine
pushers. The leads us to the disturbing conclusion that the swine flu
vaccine could be a modern medical disaster. It's untested and
un-tried. Its ingredients are potentially quite dangerous, and the adjuvants
being used in the European vaccines are suspected of causing neurological
disorders.
Paralyzed by vaccines
I probably don't need to remind you that in 1976, a failed swine flu vaccine
caused irreparable damage to the nervous systems of hundreds of people,
paralyzing many. Medical
doctors gave the problem a name, of course,
to make it sound like they knew what they were talking about:
Guillain-Barre syndrome. (Notably, they never called it "Toxic Vaccine
Syndrome" because that would be too informative.)
But the fact remains that doctors never knew how the vaccines caused these
severe problems, and if the same event played out today, all the doctors and
vaccine pushers would undoubtedly deny any link between the vaccines and
paralysis altogether. (That's what's happening today with the debate over
vaccines and
autism: Complete
denial.)
In fact, there are a whole lot of things you'll never be told by
health authorities about the upcoming swine
flu vaccine. For your amusement, I've written down the ten most obvious ones
and published them below.
Ten things you're not supposed to know about the swine flu vaccine
(At least, not by anyone in authority...)
#1 - The vaccine production was "rushed" and the vaccine has never been
tested on humans. Do you like to play guinea pig for
Big Pharma? If so, line up for your swine
flu vaccine this fall...
#2 - Swine
flu vaccines contain
dangerous adjuvants that cause an inflammatory response in the body. This is
why they are suspected of causing autism and other neurological disorders.
#3 - The swine flu vaccine could actually increase your risk of death
from swine flu by altering (or suppressing) your immune system response.
There is zero evidence that even seasonal flu shots offer any meaningful
protection for people who take the jabs. Vaccines are the snake oil of
modern medicine.
#4 - Doctors still don't know why the 1976 swine flu vaccines paralyzed so
many people. And that means they really have no clue whether the upcoming
vaccine might cause the same devastating side effects. (And they're not
testing it, either...)
#5 - Even if the swine flu vaccine kills you, the
drug companies aren't
responsible. The U.S. government has granted drug companies complete
immunity against vaccine product liability. Thanks to that blanket immunity,
drug companies have no incentive to make safe vaccines, because they
only get paid based on quantity, not safety (zero liability).
#6 - No swine flu vaccine works as well as vitamin D to protect you from
influenza. That's an inconvenient scientific fact that the U.S. government,
the FDA and Big Pharma hope the people never realize.
#7 - Even if the swine flu vaccine actually works, mathematically speaking
if everyone else around you gets the vaccine, you don't need one!
(Because it can't spread through the population you hang with.) So even if
you believe in the vaccine, all you need to do is encourage your friends
to go get vaccinated...
#8 - Drug companies are making billions of dollars from the production of
swine flu vaccines. That money comes out of your pocket -- even if you don't
get the jab -- because it's all paid by the taxpayers.
#9 - When people start dying in larger numbers from the swine flu, rest
assured that many of them will be the very people who got the swine flu
vaccine. Doctors will explain this away with their typical Big Pharma
logic: "The number saved is far greater than the number lost." Of course,
the number "saved" is entirely fictional... imaginary... and exists only in
their own warped heads.
#10 - The swine flu vaccine centers that will crop up all over the world in
the coming months aren't completely useless: They will provide an easy
way to identify large groups of really stupid people. (Too bad there
isn't some sort of blue dye that we could tag 'em with for future
reference...)
The lottery, they say, is a tax on people who can't do math. Similarly, flu
vaccines are a tax on people who don't understand health
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A recent study in the April 2009, Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety
journal found no change in the suicide rate in teens as a result of the
regulatory ban in the UK on the use of SSRI antidepressants with
children under 18, which did result in a drastic reduction in SSRI use
among kids.
"Anti-depressant use in under 18 year olds halved after the warnings,"
Pulse Today reported on April 24, 2009.
The research team from the University of Bristol concluded that "there
was no evidence of an overall effect on
suicides of
regulatory action to restrict prescribing of
SSRIs to young people."
Lead researcher, Dr Benedict Wheeler, told Pulse: "We found no clear
evidence of a beneficial effect on population
suicide rates. However, and equally
importantly, we did not find evidence of an adverse effect on suicide
rates either."
"This is important, because many
mental health
workers and researchers have been concerned that reduced antidepressant
prescribing to children might inadvertently lead to an increase in
suicides," he said.
Although "the rate of suicide among 15 to 19 year olds fluctuated to
varying degrees in the 22 countries analyzed between 1990 and 2006,
there was 'no consistent change' in the rate of suicide after the
restrictions came into place in 2003," Pulse reported.
A year and a half ago, Medscape reported that a study found the drop in
SSRI prescribing
in the UK did not lead to a spike in youth suicides on February 21,
2008.
The study, also led by Dr Wheeler, was published online February 14,
2008, in the BJM. The researchers set out to evaluate the impact of
changing patterns of antidepressant use on suicide or self-harm in young
people in the UK, following 2003 regulatory action.
"These data for England do not indicate that reductions in
antidepressant use have led to an increase in suicidal behavior," the
group wrote.
"The findings are important, in that reduced access to
antidepressants
in young people in the United Kingdom following regulatory intervention
appears not to have had an adverse impact on suicide deaths or
hospital
admissions for deliberate self-harm," Dr Wheeler told Medscape.
Continuing adherence to regulatory guidance on prescribing
antidepressants to young people is supported by this evidence, he added.
In a related time trend study also published online February 14, 2008 in
the BMJ, Lucy Biddle, PhD, and colleagues at the University of Bristol
reported that the rate of death by suicide in young men in England and
Wales was the lowest it had been in 30 years.
To investigate overall suicide trends, the researchers reviewed data
from 1968 to 2005 for men and women aged 15 to 34, and found suicide
rates in young men aged 15 to 24 and 25 to 34, peaked in 1990 and 1998,
respectively, and then showed a steady decline. In 2005, suicide rates
for men in these age groups were the lowest they had been since the
mid-1970s.
The researchers reported that suicide rates in young women were also at
the lowest level they had been in many years and they did not find any
temporal correlation between the changes in antidepressant prescribing
rates and changes in suicide rates.
On February 15, 2008, a researcher in both studies, Professor David
Gunnell, noted in a BBC News report that concerns about the dangers of
reducing antidepressant use in children, who might therefore be at an
increased risk of committing suicide, had been raised by US research.
"There's been a greater fall in antidepressant prescribing in the UK but
we have seen none of the potentially alarming upturn in suicides," he
said.
In the Medscape report, Dr Wheeler pointed out that his findings
differed from those of Robert Gibbons and colleagues, who reported in
the September 2007, "American Journal of Psychiatry," that mortality
rates for suicides in 5- to 19-year-olds in the US increased in 2004,
following regulatory action.
In a Newsweek article titled "Trouble in a 'Black Box'", Gibbons went so
far as to say: "I think
the FDA has made a very serious
mistake. It should lift its black-box warning because all it's doing is
killing kids."
"You may induce two suicides by treatment, but by stopping treatment
you're going to lose dozens to hundreds of kids. You're losing more than
you're saving. That's the calculus," said Dr Robert Valuck, of the
University of Colorado Heath Sciences Center, in the Newsweek article.
In the Medscape report, Dr Wheeler noted that "critiques" of the Gibbons
study in "Letters to the Editor" in the Journal, suggested that the US
situation might not actually differ that much from the study findings in
UK.
In fact, in one such letter, the respected British Columbia researcher,
Jon Jureidini, said the Gibbons study "incorrectly analyzed the
relationship between U.S. selective
serotonin
reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) prescription rates and suicide rates among
children."
The Gibbons study claimed there was a correlation between a 22% decrease
in SSRI
prescriptions and
a 14% increase in youth suicide rates between 2003 and 2004, after
warnings were issued by the FDA.
"As it turns out," Dr Jureidini wrote, "preliminary figures are now
available from the
Centers for Disease Control
(CDC), which show that fewer people under age 25 committed suicide in
2005 (when prescribing did decrease) than in 2004."
"In the year in which suicide rates rose sharply," he said, "there was
no significant drop in SSRI prescribing."
When broken down into separate age groups, government statistics for
2005, show the number of suicides was lower for all young people in the
US, on the website of the National Center for Injury and Prevention and
Control.
For children aged 5 to 14, there were only 270 in 2005, compared to 285
suicides in 2004. In the age group of 15 to 24, the number of suicides
dropped to 4,139 in 2005, from 4,316 in 2004.
The statistics show that overall, when children are combined in the age
group of one through eighteen, suicides fell from 1,471 in 2004, down to
1,408 in 2005. In 2006, the latest year posted, there were only 1,296
suicides in this age group.
On July 24, 2008, Pharmalot's Ed Silverman reported on data from the
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality that showed antidepressant
prescriptions rose in 2005. "The increase amounted to roughly 10
percent, and that occurred in a year in which new and controversial
Black Box warnings were added to the labeling," he wrote.
A survey of doctor and hospital visits in 2005, by the
CDC,
found the most commonly prescribed
drugs were antidepressants, with 48% of
the prescriptions written by primary care physicians.
Yet, as recently as January 30, 2009, in a Medscape Continuing Medical
Education seminar, sponsored by Lexapro and Celexa maker, Forest Labs,
Robert Gibbons was still saying: "we have seen in 2004 and 2005, the
years for which CDC [Centers for Disease Control] has available data on
youth suicide rates, the largest increases in youth suicide rates in
history since they initially were monitored," in citing his own
discredited study.
"There have been significant decreases in the prescriptions overall of
antidepressants to children and adolescents," Gibbons said "And that has
spilled over to the young adult and middle-aged adult range as well."
The disclosure section for the seminar shows Gibbons has served as an
expert witness for Zoloft maker,
Pfizer, and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals,
maker of the antidepressants, Effexor and Pristiq.
Gibbons is a Professor of Biostatistics and Psychiatry and Director of
the Center for Health Statistics at the University of Illinois at
Chicago College of Medicine, according to his bio on the Department of
Psychiatry's webpage.
In 2007, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and Paxil
maker,
GlaxoSmithKline,
donated between $10,000 and $24,000, to UIC College of Medicine,
according to the Spring 2008 "UIC Medicine," newsletter.
Zoloft peddler, Pfizer, donated between
$50,000 and $99,000.
A co-author on the Gibbons study was Dr John Mann, a former president of
the AFSP, and a professor of
psychiatry at
Columbia University.
Columbia University's 2007 Annual Report shows donations of between
$100,000 and $499,000 from the AFSP, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer
Incorporated and Pfizer International. The Pfizer Foundation gave $1
million or more.
The report also shows gifts of between $50,000 to $99,999 from
Wyeth, the GlaxoSmithKline Foundation,
Eli Lilly and
Company, and the Eli Lilly Foundation.
Mann has served as a paid expert witness for antidepressant makers
Pfizer and Glaxo. He testified in the only
Paxil suicide-homicide case ever to
make it to a jury. During his testimony, Houston attorney, Andy Vickery,
brought out the fact that Mann had received more than $30 million in
research funding from
drug companies
over the previous decade.
Mann admitted during cross-examination that he had written in three
articles that there was possibly a small, subpopulation of patients
vulnerable to suicide or
violence under
the drug, Vickery told Lawyers Weekly.
On June 6, 2001, the jury ruled against the drug maker and found that
Paxil "can cause some people to become homicidal and/or suicidal," and
awarded the plaintiffs over $6 million.
In nearly all the studies and papers published over the years that claim
SSRIs work with children and do not cause suicide, the same academic
quacks appear as investigators and co-authors. The list of names
includes, but is not limited to, Joseph Biederman, David Brent, Jeffrey
Bridge, David Dunner, Graham Emslie, Daniel Geller, Robert Gibbons,
Frederick Goodwin, Martin Keller, Andrew Leon, Anne Libby, John Mann,
John March, Charles
Nemeroff, John
Rush, Neal Ryan, David Shaffer, Karen Wagner and Robert Valuck.
Many of the same names also appear on the ever-growing list of so-called
"Key Opinion Leaders," who have been exposed in an investigation by the
US Senate Finance Committee, under the leadership of Senator Charles
Grassley, as not disclosing Big Pharma money, which thus far includes,
Harvard's Biederman, Thomas Spencer and Timothy Wilens; Nemeroff and
Zachary Stowe from Emory; Melissa DelBello at the University of
Cincinnati; Stanford University's Alan Schatzberg, president of the
American Psychiatric Association; Keller at Brown University; Wagner and
Rush from the University of Texas; and Goodwin, the former host of a
radio show called "Infinite Minds."
Graham Emslie's earnings from antidepressant makers were highlighted in
the media last year due to his role in the "Texas Children's Medication
Algorithm Project." Emslie was chairman of the panel that issued
guidelines in 1998, instructing
doctors to prescribe SSRIs off-label to
children for
depression.
On August 18, 2008, the Dallas Morning News ran the headline: "Conflict
of interest fears halt children's mental
health project."
"A state mental health plan naming the preferred
psychiatric drugs
for children has been quietly put on hold over fears drug companies may
have given researchers consulting contracts, speakers fees or other
perks to help get their products on the list," the News reported.
Emslie "has made at least $130,000 in drug company speakers fees and
consulting contracts since 2002," the
paper noted, citing University
disclosure forms. Co-authors on guidelines of the "Texas Children's
Medication Algorithm Project," include Karen Wagner, John Rush and Neil
Ryan.
The SEC filings for Cypress Bioscience provide a good source for
estimating the amount of money these "KOLs" are pulling in per year,
from each separate company.
Keller and Nemeroff have served on the board of directors, the
scientific advisory board, and as consultants for Cypress. Under their
2004 consulting agreements, the firm was required to pay $50,000 per
year for services rendered up to and including "two days per fiscal
quarter." In addition, Cypress could request additional services at a
rate of $5,000 per day.
Nemeroff was paid $19,000 for additional services in 2003, and Keller
made an extra $18,000. For serving on the scientific advisory board,
Nemeroff was paid $19,000 and Keller earned $18,000, in 2003. As members
of the board of directors in 2002, they each received $24,000.
A July 25, 2002, bio for Keller in the agenda for a Cypress annual
meeting, shows he was also a consultant to, "Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli
Lilly, Forest Laboratories, Janssen,
Merck, Inc, Organon, Otsuka
Pharmacia/Upjohn, Pharmastar, Pfizer, Inc. and Wyeth-Ayerst
Laboratories."
The bio also reports that Keller served on the scientific advisory
boards of, "Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cephalon, Cyberonics, Inc., Eli Lilly,
Forest Laboratories, Merck, Inc, Mitsubishi, Organon, Pfizer, Sepracor,
Scirex, SmithKline Beecham, Somerse, Vela Pharmaceuticals and
Wyeth-Ayerst."
Suicide Victims on Antidepressants
In the first seven months of 2008, the "Evansville Courier & Press,"
reported a near record number of 23 suicides in Vanderburgh County,
Indiana. On August 11, 2008, the County's chief deputy coroner, and a
member of the local suicide prevention coalition, told the Courier that
in the results of a preliminary investigation "one element" stood out:
"In a majority of the cases investigated, the victim was on
antidepressant
medication. And
none of the victims were in counseling."
A study in the August, 2006, Archives of General Psychiatry, found
children aged 6 to 18, who took antidepressants in an inpatient setting,
were 52% more likely to attempt suicide in the 60 days following
discharge than children who were not taking the drugs.
This study analyzed data from the national Medicaid Analytic Extract
Files, including information from all 50 states, and determined that
children who filled prescriptions for antidepressants after an inpatient
stay were over 15 times more likely to die by suicide than kids who were
not taking antidepressants.
On May 25, 2007, MedPage Today reported a study that found young suicide
victims were significantly more likely to have SSRIs in their
bloodstream than were young homicide or accident victims.
"In an analysis of 'unnatural' deaths recorded by the Virginia Medical
Examiner's Office for 1987 through 2003," MedPage wrote, "Antony
Fernandez, MD, and colleagues, found that selective serotonin reuptake
inhibitors or the serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor
venlafaxine appeared significantly more often in post-mortem toxicology
of suicides than of accident or murder victims."
Studies show the SSRIs were passed out like candy to children during
this time period. According to FDA estimates, in 2003, eleven million
antidepressant prescriptions were written for under 19-year-olds,
representing a 27% increase in 3 years.
Dr Thomas Moore, with the Drug Safety Research group, conducted a study
of antidepressant use with kids during the 4-period of 1998 to 2001, and
found the use of SSRIs with children doubled, and in 90% of the cases
the drugs were prescribed off-label for uses not approved by the FDA.
For example, among boys 6 to 12-years-old, 52% of the prescriptions were
written for attention deficit or conduct disorders, and typically, Dr
Moore says, in combination with an antipsychotic or a stimulant.
There is "no scientific evidence that says that combination therapy is
effective in these disorders and I know of no evidence that it is safe
either," he advises.
The study found that 17% of the children were taking drugs that were
ineffective in clinical trials, and 42% were taking two or more
antidepressant drugs.
"So, what we are seeing is when drugs are ineffective, rather than
abandoning them or trying alternatives, doctors increase the dose or
combine the drugs in ways, the safety of which we are not aware," Dr
Moore warns.
Wyeth's Effexor me-too drug, Pristiq, was approved for adults with
depression in May 2008. By the end of 2008, the FDA's adverse event
reporting system showed 17 death reports for which Pristiq was listed as
the primary suspect, including twelve completed suicides. Another 31
reports turned up with a search for "Suicidal Ideation."
On July 17, 2009, a press release issued by "Wichita Family
Examiner.com," announced a "Child and Adolescent Depression Study in
Wichita." The Clinical Research Institute in Wichita, Kansas, is
"looking for children from 7 to 12 years of age that are suffering with
depression to participate in the trial of Pristiq," the press release
states.
"Pristiq is a
FDA approved
antidepressant," the announcement states, without informing parents that
the drug is not FDA approved for use by children under 18.
"Participants are compensated for their time up to $750," according to
the press release.
Iraqi Immigrants Face
Lonely Struggle in U.S.
Todd Heisler/The New York Times
Uday Hattem al-Ghanimi, with his son
Mohammed, 11, won asylum after being shot in Baghdad.
Not long after the Iraq war began in 2003, Uday
Hattem al-Ghanimi was accosted by several men outside
the American military base where he managed a
convenience store. They accused him of abetting the
Americans, and one fired a pistol at his head.
Nour al-Khal has been
working as a translator in New York after
initially working as a receptionist when she
first arrived in 2007.
Now, after 24 operations, Mr. Ghanimi has a
reconstructed face as well as political asylum in the
United States. On July 4, his wife and three youngest
children joined him in New York after a three-year
separation.
But the euphoria of their reunion quickly dissipated
as the family began to reckon with the colder realities
of their new life. Mr. Ghanimi, 50, who has not been
able to work because of lingering pain, is supporting
his family on a monthly disability check of $761, food
stamps and handouts from friends. They are crammed into
one room they rent in a two-bedroom apartment on the
Upper West Side of Manhattan, in a city whose small
Iraqi population is scattered. And Mr. Ghanimi’s wife
and children do not speak English, deepening their sense
of isolation.
“They say, ‘Let’s go back,’ ” Mr. Ghanimi said
glumly. “It’s not what they were thinking. I told them,
‘Just be patient.’ ”
For years after the American invasion of Iraq,
thousands of Iraqis clamored for admission to the United
States and found the door all but closed — until the
government reacted to widespread criticism in 2007 by
making it easier for more to enter with special visas or
as refugees.
But now that Iraqis are arriving in larger numbers,
many are discovering that life in the United States is
much harder than they expected.
A
report released in June by the International Rescue
Committee, a refugee resettlement organization in New
York, said that many Iraqi immigrants have been unable
to find jobs, are exhausting government and other
benefits and are spiraling toward poverty and
homelessness.
Advocates for immigrants in New York and elsewhere
say that Iraqis have had more difficulty getting settled
than most migrant populations. Many are well educated
and arrive with unrealistically high expectations of the
life that awaits them. Though most have received
assistance from government or private agencies, large
numbers have immigrated in the depths of the
recession.
Many also need help dealing with the physical and
emotional wounds of war.
“I’ve never seen a population where the trauma is so
universal,” said Robert Carey, vice president for
resettlement and migration policy at the International
Rescue Committee.
More than 30,000 Iraqis have been resettled in the
United States since the 2003 invasion as refugees, or
with special visas for those who worked closely with the
American government. At least 1,500 more have been
granted asylum, federal officials say.
A vast majority have arrived in the past two years,
settling thinly across the country, with larger
concentrations in San Diego, Phoenix, Houston and
Dearborn, Mich. More than 1,100 have been resettled in
the New York region, with at least 100 in New York City.
In Iraq, many worked as doctors, teachers, scientists
and interpreters — often for Americans, giving some the
hope that they would be rewarded with a comfortable life
here. But like accomplished immigrants from other
countries, most have found that overseas credentials do
not always apply in the American market, compelling them
to compete for lower-skill jobs.
Nour al-Khal, 35, who arrived in New York as a
refugee in 2007, has been mentoring several Iraqi
families. Among the hardest adjustments, she said, is
accepting the likelihood that they will not make a
lateral professional move.
“We fight over that,” said Ms. Khal, who was shot in
Basra, Iraq, in 2005 while working as an interpreter for
Steven Vincent, an American journalist who was killed in
the attack. Ms. Khal was a senior manager for an
American development contractor; in New York, the best
job she could initially find was as a receptionist at a
real estate firm.
“I just accepted it,” said Ms. Khal, who now works as
a translator. “It was so hard.”
The New York region offers notable opportunities for
newcomers. Public transportation is good, and social
service agencies have a wealth of experience with recent
immigrants. But living costs are high, and the Iraqi
population — unlike other immigrant groups that have
colonized neighborhoods and formed associations — is
atomized, fostering an alienation that is aggravated by
the city’s relentless pace.
My life is miserable,” said Dunya al-Juboori, 29, a
former hair salon owner in Baghdad who came as a refugee
in 2007 and lives in Medford, N.J. She has been working
for minimum wage at a salon in the mornings and
attending cosmetology school the rest of the day,
leaving no time or money to develop a social life. She
has not seen her family since 2006, when she left Iraq
to seek treatment in Jordan for advanced lymphoma.
“I cry every day,” she said, adding quickly, “Not in
the morning, because I’m too busy.”
Ehab, 34, who worked for a development contractor in
Baghdad but fled after receiving threats, said recent
immigrants from Iraq are in need of profound guidance.
(He spoke only on the condition that his surname not be
published, saying he feared that insurgents in Iraq
would attack his family.)
“An Iraqi who is transitioning from a country in war
needs a lot of care,” said Ehab, who arrived in New York
as a refugee in 2007 and works as a project coordinator
for
Proskauer Rose, a Manhattan law firm that has helped
hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers.
Mr. Ghanimi, the store manager who was shot, is
deeply grateful for the free medical care, legal
assistance and housing he received while his face was
repaired and his family’s asylum applications were
processed.
But the tasks still at hand are overwhelming, he said
— like finding a new apartment, getting his wife
treatment for a variety of physical and emotional
ailments and enrolling his children, 21, 17 and 11, in
classes.
His most important job, he said, is to convince them
all that they are better off here than in Baghdad — at
the very least, because their lives are not at risk.
“I told them everything here is beautiful,” he said.
“Electricity 24 hours, not like in Iraq. The weather is
very good, not like in Iraq. There are many things you
can’t get in Iraq. And they come and say, ‘Yeah, but you
can’t get it.’ ”
A few days later, he took the family to Times Square
at sunset, to experience the full effect of the lights.
They were wide-eyed, dazzled by the swirl of activity.
“Maybe it will take time to put everything in place,”
Mr. Ghanimi said. “But I feel like everything will be
good.”
Times &
Transcript
Sat,
01 Aug 2009 12:01 PM PDT
Iranian state TV confirmed Saturday that Tehran has detained
three Americans after they crossed the border from northern
Iraq.
A U.S. Marine Corps CH-53D Sea Stallion helicopter
lands to deliver supplies at Patrol Base Jaker,
Afghanistan, on July 28, 2009. DoD photo by Lance Cpl.
James Purschwitz, U.S. Marine Corps.
US troops now a 'coalition of one' in
Iraq FOX 11 Santa Maria
Sat,
01 Aug 2009 11:59 AM PDT
BAGHDAD (AP) â?� The war in Iraq was truly an
American-only effort Saturday after Britain and Australia, the
last of its international partners, pulled out.
Remember HR 875 I told you about 2
months ago that would make genetically engineered produce the only food
Americans can buy and grow: WEll read this:
Russian Scientists Warn Of Genetically
Modified Fast Food Link To Pandemic Flu
By: Sorcha Faal, and as
reported to her Western Subscribers
(Traducción al Españolabajo)
"Scientists from Russia’s
Ministry of Health are warning in a report to Prime Minister Putin
that they have discovered a ‘critical link’ between the
H1N1 influenza (Swine Flu) virus and genetically modified
amylopectin potatoes that are consumed in massive quantities nearly
exclusively by Westerners and sold in fast food restaurants as French
Fries.
According to these reports, the protease enzyme genetically modified in
the potatoes being sold through Western fast food restaurants as French
Fries to protect against
Potato virus X causes an “explosive” replication of the H1N1
influenza virus by increasing the acidic conditions of the endosome and
causing the hemagglutinin protein to rapidly fuse the viral envelope with
the vacuole's membrane, then causing the M2 ion channel to allow protons to
move through the viral envelope and acidify the core of the virus, which
causes the core to dissemble and release the H1N1’s RNA and core proteins
into the hosts cells.
Evidence confirming these dire findings by top Russian scientists is also
supported by the
World Health Organization who in their reporting on the current
Influenza Pandemic, clearly shows that the H1N1 virus is nearly totally
confined to those Western Nations allowing their citizens to consume these
genetically modified potatoes, and which include: The United States with
over 17,000 cases being reported with 45 deaths; Canada with 2,978 cases;
the United Kingdom with 1,226 cases; and Australia with 1,823 cases.
Important to also note about the World Health Organization’s statistics
on the spread of the H1N1 Pandemic influenza virus is that the South
American Nation of Chile is the only country in the World outside of The
United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Australia to allow the planting of
these genetically modified potatoes due to their
Free Trade Pact with the US and who are reporting 1,694 cases of this
disease.
Also important to note are that most of the World’s largest Nations do
not allow the planting of these genetically modified potatoes and therefore
are reporting very limited outbreaks of the H1N1 Pandemic influenza,
including Russia with 3 cases, China, the World’s most populated country,
with 318 cases, and India, the World’s second largest country, with 16.
These reports further state that with the linkage between the H1N1
Pandemic influenza virus and fast food French Fries made from genetically
modified potatoes the most venerable people to being infected are the
youngest who, by far, are the
largest consumers of these types of cheap Western foods, and which was
recently confirmed by the Washington Post News Service that reported:
These reports further warn that though the genetic history of this
insidious man-made influenza seems to initially offer some protection for
those Nations not consuming these genetically modified potatoes, to believe
so would be a “grave mistake” as new evidence is emerging that this
H1N1 Pandemic influenza virus is rapidly mutating, and as we can read from
these two reports:
More ominously to be examined in these reports is the response of the
United States to this Pandemic which, to date, is the World’s largest
infected Nation (reporting
7 more H1N1 flu deaths today) and which has already declared a
Public Health Emergency and, just yesterday, passed a bill in its
Congress
allocating $7.7 Billion to prepare themselves for this catastrophic
disease that, in essence, they created themselves.
Sadly, it remains a fact that the American people are not allowed to know
how their giant fast food and genetically modified food industries, with the
consent of their government, is destroying the lives of their children, and
with the US fast food industry paying over
$10 billion in advertising and
millions more as lobbying payoffs to government officials, there remains
no evidence of this changing any time in the foreseeable future.
Even worse, with the current Global economic crisis destroying their way
of life, and with the American people having
lost over $1.3 Trillion of their wealth in the last four months alone,
the sheep-like masses of these Westerners are continuing to flock to these
fast food restaurants in search of cheap food, never for once recognizing
their similarity to cattle and sheep who are, likewise, always fattened up
before being slaughtered.
But, as one wise Russian sage once pointed out, what else should these
Westerns expect from their most honored doctors and scientists who use as
their symbol the ancient twin-headed snake
Caduceus[pictured 2nd and 3rd
photos, left] staff belonging to the Mesopotamian deity of the
underworld, and “messenger” of the “Earth Mother”,
Ningishzida, and whose name in Sumerian means “lord of the good tree”.
by Barbara Minton, Natural Health Editor(NaturalNews)
As the anticipated July 2009 release date for Baxter's
A/H1N1 flu pandemic vaccine approaches, an Austrian investigative journalist
is warning the world that the
greatest crime in the history of humanity is underway.
Jane Burgermeister has recently filed criminal charges with
the FBI against the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations
(UN), and several of the highest ranking government and corporate officials
concerning bioterrorism and
attempts to commit mass murder.
She has also prepared an injunction against forced
vaccination which is being filed in America. These actions follow her
charges filed in April against Baxter AG and Avir Green Hills Biotechnology
of Austria for producing contaminated bird flu vaccine, alleging this was a
deliberate act to cause and profit from a pandemic.
Summary of claims and allegations filed with FBI in Austria on June
10, 2009:
In her charges, Burgermeister presents evidence of acts of
bioterrorism that is in violation of U.S. law by a group operating within
the U.S. under the direction of international bankers who control the
Federal Reserve, as well as WHO, UN and NATO. This bioterrorism is for the purpose of
carrying out a mass genocide against the U.S. population by
use of a genetically engineered flu pandemic virus with the intent of
causing death.
This group has annexed high government offices in the U.S.
Specifically, evidence is presented that the defendants,
Barack Obama, President of the U.S, David Nabarro, UN System Coordinator for
Influenza, Margaret Chan, Director-General of WHO, Kathleen Sibelius,
Secretary of Department of Health and Human Services, Janet Napolitano,
Secretary of Department of Homeland Security, David de Rotschild, banker,
David Rockefeller, banker, George Soros, banker, Werner Faymann, Chancellor
of Austria, and Alois Stoger, Austrian Health Minister, among others, are
part of this international corporate criminal syndicate which has developed,
produced, stockpiled and employed biological weapons to eliminate the
population of the U.S. and other countries for financial and political gain.
The charges contend that these defendants conspired with
each other and others to devise, fund and participate in the final phase of
the implementation of a covert international bioweapons program involving
the pharmaceutical companies Baxter and Novartis.
They did this by bioengineering and then releasing lethal
biological agents, specifically the "bird flu" virus and the "swine flu
virus" in order to have a pretext to implement a forced mass vaccination program which would be the means of administering a toxic biological agent
to cause death and injury to the people of the U.S.
This action is in direct violation of the Biological
Weapons Anti-terrorism Act. Burgermeister's charges include evidence that
Baxter AG, Austrian subsidiary of Baxter International, deliberately sent
out 72 kilos of live bird flu virus, supplied by the WHO in the winter of
2009 to 16 laboratories in four counties.
She claims this evidence offers clear proof that the
pharmaceutical companies and international government agencies themselves
are actively engaged in producing, developing, manufacturing and
distributing biological agents classified as the most deadly bioweapons on
earth in order to trigger a pandemic and cause mass death.
In her April charges, she noted that Baxter's lab in
Austria, one of the supposedly most secure biosecurity labs in the world,
did not adhere to the most basic and essential steps to keep 72 kilos of a
pathogen classified as a bioweapon secure and separate from all other
substances under stringent biosecurity level regulations, but it allowed it
to be mixed with the ordinary human flu virus and sent from its facilities
in Orth in the Donau.
In February, when a staff member at BioTest in the Czech
Republic tested the material meant for candidate vaccines on ferrets, the
ferrets died.This incident was not followed up by any investigation from the
WHO, EU, or Austrian health authorities. There was no investigation of the
content of the virus material, and there is no data on the genetic sequence
of the virus released.
In answer to parliamentary questions on May 20th, the
Austrian Health Minister, Alois Stoger, revealed that the incident had been
handled not as a biosecurity lapse, as it should have been, but as an
offence against the veterinary code. A veterinary doctor was sent to the lab
for a brief inspection.
THE UN/WHO WOULD TAKE OVER AMERICA IN A PANDEMIC-
Burgermeister's dossier reveals that the release of the
virus was to be an essential step for triggering a pandemic that would allow
the WHO to declare a Level 6 Pandemic. She lists the laws and decrees that would
allow the UN and WHO to take over the United States in the event of
pandemic.
In addition, legislation requiring compliance with
mandatory vaccinations would be put into force in the U.S. under conditions
of pandemic declaration. She charges that the entire "swine flu" pandemic
business is premised on a massive lie that there is no natural virus out
there that poses a threat to the population.
She presents evidence leading to the belief that the bird
flu and swine flu viruses have, in fact, been bioengineered in laboratories
using funding supplied by the WHO and other government agencies, among
others. This "swine flu" is a hybrid of part swine flu, part human flu and
part bird flu, something that can only come from laboratories according to
many experts.
WHO's claim that this "swine flu" is spreading and a
pandemic must be declared ignores the fundamental causes. The viruses that
were released were created and released with the help of WHO, and WHO is
overwhelmingly responsible for the pandemic in the first place.
In addition, the symptoms of the supposed "swine flu" are
indistinguishable from regular flu or from the common cold. The "swine flu"
does not cause death anymore often than the regular flu causes
death.Burgermeister notes that the figures for deaths reported for the
"swine flu" are inconsistent and there is no clarity as to how the number of
"deaths" has been documented.
There is no pandemic potential unless mass vaccinations are
carried out to weaponize the flu under the guise of protecting the
population. There are reasonable grounds for believing that the mandatory
vaccines will be purposely contaminated with diseases that are specifically
designed to cause death.
Reference is made to a licensed Novartis bird flu vaccine
that killed 21 homeless people in Poland in the summer of 2008 and had as
its "primary outcome measure" an "adverse events rate", thereby meeting the
U.S. government's own definition of a bioweapon (a biological agent designed
to cause an adverse events rate, i.e death or injury) with a delivery system
(injection).
She alleges that the same complex of international
pharmaceutical companies and international government agencies that have
developed and released pandemic material have positioned themselves to
profit from triggering the pandemic with contracts to supply vaccines. Media
controlled by the group that is engineering the "swine flu" agenda is
spreading misinformation to lull
the people of the U.S. into taking the dangerous vaccine.
The people of the U.S. will suffer substantial and
irreparable harm and injury if they are forced to take this unproven vaccine
without their consent in accordance with the Model State Emergency Health
Powers Act, National Emergency Act, National Security Presidential
Directive/NSPD 51, Homeland Security Presidential Directive/HSPD-20, and the
International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza.
In the U.S. since 2008, Burgermeister charges that those
named in her allegations have implemented new and/or accelerated the
implementation of laws and regulations designed to strip the citizens of the
U.S. of their lawful constitutional rights to refuse an injection. These
people have created or allowed provisions to remain in place that make it a
criminal act to refuse to take an injection against pandemic viruses.
They have imposed other excessive and cruel penalties such
as imprisonment and/or
quarantine in FEMA camps while barring the citizens of
the U.S. from claiming compensation from injury or death from the forced
injections. This is in violation of the laws governing federal corruption
and the abuse of office as well as of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
MASS GENOCIDE FOR THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE-
Through these actions, the named defendants have laid the groundwork for mass genocide.
Using the "swine flu" as a pretext, the defendants
have preplanned the mass murder of
the U.S. population by means of forced vaccination. They have installed an extensive network
of FEMA concentration camps and identified mass grave sites, and they have been involved in devising and implementing a scheme
to hand power over the U.S. to an international crime syndicate that uses
the UN and WHO as a front for illegal racketeering influenced organized
crime activities, in violation of the laws that govern treason.
She further charges that the complex of pharmaceutical
companies consisting of Baxter, Novartis and Sanofi Aventis are part of a
foreign-based dual purpose bioweapons program, financed by this
international criminal syndicate and designed to implement mass murder to
reduce the world's population by more than 5 billion people in the next ten
years.
Their plan is to spread terror to
justify forcing people to give up their rights, and to force mass quarantine
in FEMA camps. [NOTE-What
have I been telling you for the past 13 years about FEMA camps!-Pam]
The houses, companies and farms and lands of those
who are killed will be up for grabs by this syndicate.
By eliminating the population of
North America,the
international elite gain access to the region's natural resources such as
water and undeveloped oil lands.
And by eliminating the U.S. and its democratic constitution
by subsuming it under a North
American Union, the international crime group will have
total control over North America.
Highlights from the complete dossier:
The complete dossier of the June 10th action is a 69 page
document presenting evidence to substantiate all charges. This includes:
Factual background that delineates time lines and facts
that establish probable cause, UN and WHO definitions and roles, and history
and incidents from the April, 2009 "swine flu" outbreak.
Evidence the "swine flu" vaccines are defined as bioweapons as delineates
in government agencies and regulations classifying and restricting vaccines,
and the fear of foreign countries that "swine flu" vaccines will be used for
biological warfare.
Scientific evidence the "swine flu" virus is an artificial
(genetic) virus.
Scientific evidence the "swine flu" was bioengineered to
resemble the Spanish flu virus of 1918 including quotes from Swine Flu 2009
is Weaponized 1918 Spanish Flu by A. True Ott, Ph.D., N.D., and a Science
Magazine report from Dr. Jeffrey Taubenberger et.al.
The genome sequence of the "swine flu"
Evidence of the deliberate release of the "swine flu" in
Mexico.
Evidence as to the involvement of President Obama that
delineates his trip to Mexico which coincided with the recent "swine flu"
outbreak and the death of several officials involved in his trip. Contention
is made that the President was never tested for "swine flu" because he had
been previously vaccinated.
Evidence as to the role of Baxter and WHO in producing and
releasing pandemic virus material in Austria includes a statement from a
Baxter official stating the accidentally distributed H5N1 in the Czech
Republic was received from a WHO reference center.
This includes delineation of evidence and allegations from
Burgermeister's charges filed in April in Austria that are currently under
investigation.
Evidence Baxter is an element in a covert bioweapons
networkEvidence Baxter has deliberately contaminated vaccine material.
Evidence Novartis is using vaccines as bioweapons
Evidence as to WHO's role in the bioweapons program
Evidence as to WHO's manipulation of disease data in order
to justify declaring a Pandemic Level 6 in order to seize control of the
USA.
Evidence as to the FDA's role in covering up the bioweapons
program
Evidence as to Canada's National Microbiology Lab's role in
the bioweapons program.
Evidence of the involvement of scientists working for the
UK's NIBSC, and the CDC in engineering the "swine flu".
Evidence vaccinations caused the Spanish killer flu of 1918
including belief of Dr. Jerry Tennant that the widespread use of aspirin
during the winter that followed the end of World War I could have been a key
factor contributing to the earlier pandemic by suppressing the immune system
and lowering body temperatures, allowing the flu virus to multiply. Tamiflu
and Relenza also lower body temperatures, and therefore can also be expected
to contribute to the spread of a pandemic.
Evidence as to manipulation of the legal framework to allow
mass murder with impunity.
Constitutional issues: the legality vs. illegality of
jeopardizing the life, health and public good by mass vaccinations.
The issue of immunity and compensation as evidence of
intent to commit a crime.
Evidence as to the existence of an international corporate
crime syndicate.
Evidence of the existence of the "Illuminati".
Evidence as to the depopulation agenda of the
Illuminati/Bilderbergs and their involvement in the engineering and release
of the artificial "swine flu" virus.
Evidence that weaponized flu was discussed at the annual
Bilderberg meeting in Athens from May 14-17, 2009, as part of their agenda
of genocide, including a list of attendees who, according to a statement
once made by Pierre Trudeau, view themselves as genetically superior to the
rest of humanity.
Media is keeping Americans clueless about the threat they
are under
Jane Burgermeister is a dual Irish/Austrian who has written
for Nature, the British Medical Journal, and American Prospect. She is the
European Correspondent of the Renewable Energy World website.
She has written extensively about climate change,
biotechnology, and the ecology.In addition to the charges currently under
investigation that she filed against Baxter AG and Avir Green Hills
Biotechnology in April, she has filed charges against WHO and Baxter among
others concerning a case of exploding "swine flu" vials meant for a research
lab on a busy IC train in Switzerland.
In her view, control of the media by the ruling elite has
allowed the world crime syndicate to further its agenda unabated while the
rest of the people remain in the dark about what is really going on. Her
charges are an attempt to get around this media control and bring the truth
to light.
Her greatest concern is that "in spite of the fact Baxter
has been caught red handed nearly triggering pandemic, they are also moving
ahead, together with allied pharma companies, with supplying the vaccine for
pandemics." Baxter is hurrying
to get this vaccine to market some time in July.
Vaccine Pushed To Be Ready for JULY???Does This MEAN.... —
OpenYourEyes, Fri Jun 26 09:38
From previous article: ...Her greatest concern is that "in spite of the fact
Baxter has been caught red handed nearly triggering pandemic, they are also
moving ahead, together with allied pharma...
more
Minnesota Soldiers Prepared To Ship Out To
Iraq KELO Sioux Falls
Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:51 AM PDT
More than 500 members of the MN National Guard have finished
their training at Fort Hood in Texas and are preparing to go
to Iraq.
Iraqi PM promises safety ahead of US withdrawal Belfast Telegraph
Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:45 AM PDT Iraq's prime minister said today that the full
withdrawal of US combat troops from cities and towns was a
message that his country was ready to take over its own
security. Related Stories At least 13 killed in Baghdad bomb
attack Iranian authorities threaten protesters with
execution
Please join me in sending some letters
of support to our LDS military from Utah: here is a recent email from one of our
Utah Airman:
"Denise,
"I think Army gets it worse mentally than AF does,
because they have to be over here for so long, and
sometimes see some pretty bad stuff. Yeah we have a
bunch of LDS guys from Hill here, and we have church
service every week. Actually I tought the lesson last
week, and the Group Leader wants me to be Assistant
Group Leader, so I'll be doing that until I leave I
guess. If you want to send something out I'll give you
my addy. I'm sure some of the guys would love to get
stuff. That's really nice of you. Thanks Danny"
06/15/09 We hope our dear LDS friend Medic in Mosul and
his team will be safer now in Mosul: We are shipping
them 4th of July cards and goodies this week, if anyone
wants to participate:
“BAGHDAD
- The top U.S. commander in Iraq said Monday that he
remains "absolutely committed" to pulling back all
combat troops from urban areas by the end of the month,
as provided for in a U.S.-Iraqi security agreement.
Gen. Ray
Odierno said a limited number of advisers and trainers
will remain in the cities to work with Iraqi security
forces, leaving unanswered questions about how many U.S.
troops would remain and where they would be located.
"We will
not get into any specific numbers, but it is a very
small number," Odierno told a joint news conference with
key Iraqi officials.
Odierno
said the pull back of combat troops would also extend to
the northern city of Mosul, where Sunni insurgents still
pose a threat.
Earlier
this year, he said Mosul might be one of the cities
where combat troops might remain. Odierno said violence
and tensions in Mosul have declined.
"I feel
much more comfortable with the situation in Mosul now,"
Odierno said.
The news
comes two weeks before one of three key deadlines in
America's withdrawal from Iraq.
Under
the Iraqi-U.S. security pact, American combat troops
must withdraw by June 30 and leave the country
completely by the end of 2011. President Barack Obama
has said all combat troops will leave Iraq by Aug. 31,
2010, leaving up to 50,000 troops in training and
advising roles.
Iraqi
spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh called June 30 an historic day
that "will be written in Iraqi history."
"The
American troops will complete withdrawal by leaving some
technical limited members for training purposes of Iraqi
government," Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh.
He also
said the U.S. mission in Iraq would be limited.
"There
will be no combat missions unless by the invitation of
the Iraqi government," al-Dabbagh said.”
Wow I have my own amazing news that I am
so excited and humbled by:
06/08/09 "Denise,
These are great photos! Thank you. Great job on the interview too. Hussein
was wonderful ((Iraqi Translator) LListen to INterview on SLCActivities page.
The show will be emailed out on Wednesday morning to those who subscribe to
YourLDSNeighborhood.com, it will also be hosted on the website on the "Personal
Touch" link at YOurLDSNeighborhood.com site. Once the mp3 is uploaded (Wed) you can have access to it off the
website.
Here's a link to last week's. But I wouldn't post your link until Wednesday
afternoon, that way you're picture and interview appears on the page.
Thanks again!"
Rebecca C. FM100
Every week Rebecca Cressman posts new topical and enlightening audio
interviews with exemplary individuals who stand up for the right principles. Our
goal is to celebrate all people from diverse careers throughout the world who
inspire others because of their work, their drive, and their positive
lifestyles. Check back each week for even more inspirational resources.
"After
being the Keynote Speaker at the Disabled Veterans Conference, and meeting the
dearest vets including one Air Force Injured Vet that offered to help me with
anything I needed to support our deployed troops, and then being invited
to the Airshow at Hill Air Force Base to have my booth for Letters, and meeting
so many wonderful military families. 500,000 people attended the show. I met a
dear widow of a pilot that offered also to help me, and a Major of 24 yrs
retiring that offered to help and so many other dear people. One young man came
up to me and he had an accent. I asked him where he was from and he said “Iraq”
“ I was a translator, " he said. Wow, I have only heard from many of our
guys how these young men that speak English are so helpful to our US military
and how they risk their lives and their families to help them. He told me the
US gov't had brought him over here after his life was almost taken 3 times and
he and his friend who also translated and were Chemical Engineers but stopped
their education so they could help the coalition forces, are now in the US and
helping other refugees. He has been living in SLC in an apartment with two
Americans but he doesn’t like how they smoke and have girls over all the time
they find on the street, because he promised his mom that he would not drink,
not smoke or be wild in the US. So he is looking to rent a room and I have one
here for $250. Don’t worry I will check with Immigration that he just got his
green card from and make sure all he is telling me is true and he has contact
with many of his US military he worked with and I will check with them too.
Hussein keeps telling me he will do anything to help the Coalition Soldiers and
I know he loves them dearly. He told me how much he cried when one of the
soldier friends in Iraq was blown up next to him and how he cried for his family
back in America that had lost their father. He too lost his father who served in
the Iraqi Army when Iraq was fighting Iran. His mother and 20 yr old brother
are still in Iraq and he is working with Immigration to bring them over here
too. So anyway my friend Rebecca on FM100 had scheduled me to be interviewed on
her radio show tomorrow am and I am going to surprise her with this special
guest that loves our US soldiers even more than I do. He wants to help me as
much as possible with Letters to Soldiers and then attend one of the
Universities to get his Masters in Chemical Engineering. His English is really
good. He is going to show me many pictures of his Army friends in Iraq that
helped the Iraqi people and children. He says the Press doesn’t tell the good
stories and he feels that God/Allah has sent him here to tell the wonderful
things the US military do in Iraq. I felt like the Lord has blessed me to meet
someone like this and I too have to help him tell the stories of the good the
soldiers are doing over there."
Another read-to-go replacement for the gasoline
(i.e. toxic waste) fueled automobile.
Good luck finding one.
The existence of this oil industry busting Japanese car
has never been reported in the US or Europe.
I only stumbled on it on an Asia-only Reuters
news feed from 2008.
Mother Nature added another sight to see at the Oquirrh Mountain
Temple, Saturday.
As weekend rain and lighting storms moved across the Salt Lake
Valley, one strike took a path through the Angel Moroni's golden
horn en route to the ground. Steve Allison, a resident of South
Jordan who lives near the temple said lightning was dropping in the
area Saturday and Sunday it was obvious lightning had struck the
temple's unofficial lightning rod.
(update
on HR 875 to outlaw organic farming still in subcommittee for livestock and
agriculture, Utah Rep Jason Chaffetz will vote no and HR 707 has 237 cosponsors
so it is very strongly supported to give free shipping for packages to our
military from Home Yeah!! 05/19/09)
05/21/09 Brother Clawson of Church
headquarters for military liaison office forwarded to Letters to Soldiers a
request for 1,000 care packges last year for Marine unit with LDS Chaplain
Harding. It was so cool, and a few return missionary soldiers really
need the support. Also the UTNG 142nd we shipped 310 packages to with LDS
Chaplain Montoya said he flew around to over 300 church member soldiers in
Afghanistan. So we
need to write them:
"Hey denise..i actually found the family, and am going
to visit them tomorrow at the ywca they are staying at
will keep you posted on how things progress..
Thanks so much!"
Alex boye'
"Tis better to give than to recieve, but when you do,
both happens"
-Me
"Would you my friends help a brother pay it forward?
If you are interested, just simply click "attending",
you don't even have to be there!!
Obama Calls for New Beginning Between U.S., Muslims
( The doors are opening for the spreading of the Gospel,
let's thank our brave soldiers!) Anyone want to volunteer?
In Cairo, president says no single speech can
eradicate years of mistrust, adding that America and Islam share common
principles of justice, progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
"I do not KNOW if this is true or not, everything I have checked out about the
Sisters' reports have checked out as they said, more accurate by far than our
non-news at 5 propaganda!.
I don't know how to check this out, but it is most assuredly interesting.
It asks a question, if not the Federal Reserve, will we then have the Amero?
Will we go back to gold and silver backed currency?
Is he/they just lying because he/they can?
Obama said he was going to change things, question is, what is he going to
change them to? Does that automatically mean things will be BETTER? I think
not, but I do not KNOW.
If he is going to begin obeying his "Oath Of Office" that would be a good thing,
a welcome change, and getting rid of the Federal Reserve / Central Bank, a plank
of the communist manifesto, would also be a good thing,
The stakes are high, we are playing for all the marbles boys and girls. Semper
fi
I am James Elmer :-)"
-------- Original Message --------
Subject:
Obama Orders “Total Takedown” Of US Federal Reserve Bank
Results from the USDA's "Listening Sessions" are now
clear: No NAIS, no way, no time! Here are two short summaries of what
livestock owners had to say at the listening sessions in
Missouri and in
Texas. Share them with your neighbors and ask them to tell their
congress-critters to not allow the USDA to implement any form of NAIS.
Also known as the Clean Water Restoration Act (S787) is
scheduled for full committee consideration Thursday, June 18. Call your
senator at
(202) 224-3121 and make sure he/she knows how you
feel about this confiscation of all water and the expansion of
government power.
You may also want to see some of the 20+ Czars that
"Administrator" Obama has appointed so far. This
unprecedented expansion of executive power is designed to bypass
congressional approval and oversight. These new "Czars" are accountable
to no one but Administrator Obama.
"6 soldiers sue KBR, Hallibuton( Cheney's company) over burn pits
The Associated Press
Posted : Thursday Jun 4, 2009 14:41:37 EDT
SAN ANTONIO — Soldiers are among six Texans suing Houston-based KBR and
Halliburton over burn pits at U.S. camps in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The suit filed in a San Antonio federal court alleges the military
contractors burned everything from trucks and tires to human corpses in the
large war-zone pits. Plantiffs say the burning waste released toxins that harmed
at least 10,000 people.
KBR spokeswoman Heather Browne told the San Antonio Express-News the
assertion that the company knowingly harmed troops is “unfounded.” Halliburton,
formerly the parent company of KBR, says it had no involvement in the
allegations.
The suit seeks unspecified punitive and compensatory damages.
Attorneys for the plantiffs have filed lawsuits in 10 states, including the
one in San Antonio."
Governor Huntsman Offers Condolences to Wahlen Family
Salt Lake City - Utah Governor Jon Huntsman issued the following statement
today about the death of Medal of Honor recipient George E. Wahlen:
"Our state has lost our humble hero. As our only remaining Medal of Honor
recipient, he touched countless lives during his exemplary public service. He
helped all who knew him remember service to country and, by doing so, to honor
the Greatest Generation. No one has been a more dedicated advocate for the
recognition of veterans than George.
"Mary Kaye and I offer our most sincere condolences to his lovely wife Melba
and the Wahlen family and thank them for sharing his wonderful life with all of
us."
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This is my friend and Famous Gospel Singer Angela Winston's
project, tell everyone please.
Two Church members competed against more than 3,000 talented
musicians and won the opportunity to appear in the world’s first
online-auditioned orchestra at New York’s Carnegie Hall in April
2009.
YouTube, a popular online video sharing Web site, sent out a call
for musicians of all ages, levels of expertise, and locations to
compete online for a spot in their Concert Symphony.
Violinists Benjamin Chan, from New York, and Jacqueline Metz
Morant, from Texas, submitted their auditions online and made it
past voting from a panel of professional musicians and voters from
the online YouTube community.
“It was such a new and unbelievably exciting adventure,” Sister
Morant said of participating in the symphony. “It was unique. It was
perhaps the most memorable part of my violin career.”
Sister Morant has played the violin for 21 years, from the age of
5, and attended the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in
Houston, Texas, where she obtained a degree in violin performance.
Brother Chan also began playing when he was 5 years old, which
eventually led him to Brigham Young University, where he graduated
with a degree in music performance.
Both Brother Chan and Sister Morant described the three days in
New York as a “whirlwind,” with eight hours of rehearsals each day.
But the results were rewarding. Sister Morant was made
concertmaster, allowing her to lead the first violin section and
play a solo during part of the three-hour concert.
“The concert was a culminating event,” she said. “It was amazing
to see how people from all over the world came together to produce
amazing music. It was a thrill to be a part of it all.”
“It’s always been a dream of mine to play at Carnegie Hall,” said
Brother Chan. He was also grateful for the opportunity to represent
the Church in a small way. “There are always people watching, so you
have to be an example.”
“Our rehearsals at Juilliard were right across from the
[Manhattan] temple,” Sister Morant said. “It was fun to talk to
other people about the Church. It was a great missionary
experience.”
The symphony orchestra’s performance, as well as Sister Morant’s
and Brother Chan’s auditions, may be found at YouTube.com/symphony.
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Where did all
the $$ go?
In recent months, the Federal Reserve has
created and distributed as much as eight trillion
dollars to recipients that even the Federal
Reserve's own Inspector General cannot identify.
Ron Paul's Federal Reserve Transparency Act
(HR-1207) will help bring accountability to the Federal
Reserve. Please ask your congressmen to support it.
And please share this short video with all
your lists. This bill will need overwhelming public support
to get the attention of Congress.
Have you joined the Freedom21
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SB 250 - The Pet
Responsibility Act, authored by Senate Majority Leader Dean
Florez - will be voted on in the FULL SENATE between June 2nd
and June 5th. We need your help now!
All 40 California State
Senators will be voting on the bill. As you know, your support
phone calls have been absolutely crucial in moving animal
friendly bills forward this year. This vote is the most critical
so far for SB 250.
Make a phone call now to help assure SB 250 gets the 21 votes
it needs to pass the Senate.
Please make your calls by the end of Monday June 1st!
!! Please make this call even if you have previously called or
faxed !!
"Hello, my name is <your name>, and I live on <your street>
in <your city>, in Senator <name's> district.
I am calling to ask that the Senator to please support SB 250
when it comes to the Senate floor for a vote."
You can leave a message if nobody answers.
Please make these calls by end of day June 1st. And, please
forward this important email to other supporters of animals in
California!
Thank you for your support during these critical votes. More
information on SB 250 is shown below, if you want to learn more
about the bill.
Much appreciation and thanks for your support. The animals
need your voice.
SB 250 at a glance
Each year, over $250 million dollars is spent housing and
euthanizing homeless dogs and cats in California. Approximately
1 million dogs and cats enter California’s shelters each year,
and over half of them are euthanized (killed) simply because
there are not enough homes.
Right now in California our shelters are seeing an explosion
of animals coming into the shelters due to the bad economy,
while the shelters are faced with budget cuts and laying off
staff.
This enormous number of homeless pets is a moral and ethical
crisis, and an expensive drain on our state's finances. SB 250
provides a reasonable, fiscally responsible step towards
reducing pet overpopulation in California in two ways: by
fostering responsible pet guardianship through increased animal
licensing, and by offering incentives for guardians to spay and
neuter their companion animals.
Please note that SB 250 does not affect feral cat caregivers.
The bill applies only to pets who live on your property.
Before this economic downturn we needed SB 250, but now we
cannot afford another year without it. Just this past week our
state passed an expensive milestone... since January 1, 2009,
California has now spent over $100,000,000 in tax dollars just
to house and euthanize the unwanted pets in our state. Please
help reduce the suffering of dogs and cats in our shelters, and
support the overburdened shelter staff that cares for them.
From Church News:
An American History Lesson
If there is anyone out there that doesn't know this information, this is a very good visual presentation covering the subject. Now don't be mad at old people, just remember who did this. THINK ABOUT "YOURS..."
Our Social Security Franklin Delano. Roosevelt (Terms of Office March 4, 1933, to April 12, 1945), aDemocrat, introduced the SocialSecurity (FICA) Program.
He Promised: 1.) That participation in the Program would be Completely voluntary, 2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual Incomes into the Program, 3.) That the money the participants elected to put Into the Program would be deductible from Their income for tax purposes each year, 4.) That the money the participants put into the Independent 'Trust Fund' rather than into the General operating fund, and therefore, would Only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program, and 5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income.
Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Securitycheck every month -- and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to 'Put Away'-- you may be interested in the following:
A wonderful Program - Very muchly needed - Every thing is spelled out - A great President - Billy C.
------THEN ------
Dwight David Eisenhower 34th.President, Republican, Term Of Office: January 20, 1953 to January 20, 1961
Insert by Vincent Peter Render,
If I recall correctly, 1958 is the first year that Congress, not President Eisenhower, voted to remove funds from Social Security and put it into the General Fund for Congress to spend. If I recall correctly, it was a democratically controlledCongress.
From what I understand,their logic at that time was that there was so much money in Social Security Fund that it would never run out; that is, be used up for the purpose it was intended that it was set aside for.
------ WORSE STILL ------
Lyndon Baines Johnson36th.President, Democrat Term Of Office: November 22, 1963 to January 20, 1969
Question: Which Political Party took Social Security from the Independent 'Trust Fund' and put it into the General Fund so that Congress could spend it?
Answer: It was Lyndon B. Johnson(Democrat, Term of Office: November 22,1963 to January 20, 1969) and the democratically Controlled House and Senate.
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Question: Which Political Partyeliminated the income tax Deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?
Answer: The Democratic Party.
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William Jefferson Clinton (Bill Clinton) 42nd. President
DemocratTerm of Office: January 20, 1993 to January 20, 2001
Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. (Al Gore) 45th. Vice President DemocratTerm of Office: January 20, 1993 to January 20, 2001
Question: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities? Answer: The Democratic Party, with Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. (Al Gore) [Vice President Term of Office: January 10, 1993 to January 20, 2001] casting the “tie-breaking” deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the US .
------ The Straw that Broke the Camel’s Back! ------
James Earl Carter, Jr (Jimmy Carter) 39th President, Democrat Term of Office: January 20, 1977 to January 20, 1981
Question:Which Political Party decided to start giving Annuity payments to immigrants?
AND MY FAVORITE:
ANSWER: That's right! JAMES EARL CARTER, JR. (jIMMY CARTER) (DEMOCRAT, TERM OF OFFICE: JANUARY 20, 1977 TO JANUARY 20, 1981 AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
IMMIGRANTS MOVED INTO THIS COUNTRY, AND AT AGE 65, BEGAN TO RECEIVE SOCIAL SECURITY PAYMENTS: THE DEMOCRATIC PARTYGAVETHESE PAYMENTS TO THEM,EVEN THOUGH THEY NEVER PAI D A DIME INTO IT!
- - - - - -
Then, after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away! And the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it!
If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of Awareness will be planted and maybe changes WILL evolve! ... Maybe not, some Democratsare awfully sure of what isn't so. But it's worth a try. How many people can YOU send this to?
Actions speak louder than bumper stickers..
AND CONGRESS GIVES THEMSELVES 100% RETIREMENT FOR ONLY SERVING ONE TERM!
THEY ALSO VOTE FOR THEIR OWN PAY RAISES!
Thomas Jefferson 3rd. President, Democrat Term of Office: January 20, 1777 to January 20, 1781
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have." Thomas Jefferson
May 25, 2009
Obama Assumes Dictatorial
Powers As Israel Prepares For All-Out War
By: Sorcha
Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
(Traducción al
Español
abajo)
Reports from the United States today are painting a
grim picture of that once great Nation as its new
President, Barack Obama, continues upon the path laid
down before him by his predecessor on assuming what can
only be described as a dictatorship, and as more of his
helpless peoples are being forced into
tent cities as their jobs and savings are lost, one
cannot but help to forced to admit that the American
Dream has truly been transformed into an American
Nightmare.
Failing to be noticed by the majority of the American
people are that the many new laws being forced upon them
by President Obama are not, in fact, ‘bailing out’
anyone, but are instead consolidating and expanding the
US Governments massive and unprecedented intrusion into
its private sector, and which now sees the United States
Government being the largest owner of its Nations banks,
insurance companies, auto manufactures, auto financiers,
steel production and too many other once private
industries to mention.
Even worse for the American people, aside from the
Obama’s government quickly taking over the banking,
insurance and industrial power of the United States, a
new law is set to take the ownership of all water in the
US away from its citizens and give it all to their
rulers to use as they see fit, and as we had previously
reported on in our May 8 report, “Chilling
New Law Gives US Government Ownership Of All Water In
Nation”.
History has long shown that the rights and powers
that used to belong to citizens and private interests
that are taken over by its government can only lead to
dictatorial rule, and which Hitler’s Nazi Germany and
Mussolini’s Fascist Italy of last century gave our World
stark examples of, including a Global war that cost the
lives of nearly 100 million.
Ominously, too, for our World is that as Obama has
accumulated for his government this unprecedented power
over his Nation, this past week he
vowed to his elite military forces that he would
maintain America’s military might over the World, and
also laid out his plan for the “prolonged
detention” inside the United States without
trial of anyone deemed a threat to the Homeland,
and which
reports from the US state include Obama’s political
opponents and any American daring to put their countries
interests ahead of the New World Order.
What remains to be seen, however, is how Obama is
actually going to vanquish those forces opposing his
dictatorial rule as this past week he also was forced to
admit during an interview with the C-SPAN News Service
that his Nation is
completely broke and out of money, and with the US
preparing this week to
sell a further $100 Billion in debt to a World that
may not even buy it, China has just issued a
new warning to the US Federal Reserve that it is
growing tired of the American’s continued printing of
money with nothing to back it.
Obama is not just preparing for dictatorial rule in
the US either, as during the past month he has sent his
forces against both the European Royal Houses and Israel
in what Russian Intelligence Analysts state is a ‘clear
warning’ for neither of these power-blocs to
oppose him in his quest for total domination of not just
his Homeland, but the entire World.
But, to the most shocking warning from Obama to the
European rulers was last weeks US
commando attack upon the European Parliament
Building in Brussels’s which caused a massive fire
nearly destroying nearly 60 years of accumulated
evidence of the United States collaboration with the
German Nazi’s, and which many Russian historians have
stated the US actually surrendered to in order to obtain
Germany’s atomic weapons in exchange for the
protection of all top Nazi officials, including Hitler,
and which 3 months after the alleged capitulation
of Germany the American’s used against the Japanese
cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Further complicating Obama’s grand scheme for total
power is Israel’s plan to hold the most massive war
drill in its history beginning on May 31 and scheduled
to last 5 days which is intended to simulate an attack
on the Jewish state by Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria and Iran,
and which the Israelis themselves have admitted “can
ignite an all-out war in the region”.
Though US CIA Director Leon Panetta stated this past
week that Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu “understandsthat if Israel goes it alone against Iran, it
will mean big trouble”, Russian Military
Analysts warn that Netanyahu’s promises to the United
States mean nothing, especially as evidenced by his 1997
promise to President Clinton not to assassinate Hamas
leaders, which he then
promptly broke by sending his Mossad agents into
Jordan to kill Hamas political leader Khaled Mishal.
Worse for the Israelis, Russian Military Analyst’s
warn, is the accelerated pace that Obama has put the US
on in providing to Muslim Nations nuclear fuel, of which
the United Arab Emirates is set to become the Arab
World’s first nuclear energy program due to the
American efforts to arm all of Israel’s enemies with
atomic weapons.
To all of these events, it remains the sad fact that
the American people of today have been brainwashed by
their propaganda government, media and corporate elites
on a scale not seen since Adolph Hitler’s Nazi Germany,
who like Obama, was a charismatic and articulate leader
who while seducing the German people with the delusions
of their Nations total power over all the World was, in
fact, planting the seeds for their ultimate destruction.
And, to the grimmest outlook facing these deluded
Americans, none need look no further than the research
of Russian historian Boris Borisov, who in examining the
entire population statistics for the United States
during their last Great Depression during the 1930’s
discovered that over 7 million American citizens simply
‘vanished’,
and which allowed the US government to forever change
its makeup by transferring power from the individual US
States to the Federal Government.
Too how many American citizens will be ‘vanished’
this time around it is not to our knowing, other than to
state the obvious…these people have no idea about what
is to happen and how cruel their future is about to
become.
Monday May 18, 2009 Learn from the Author of "Angels and
Demons" , the authors of the Templar, and more experts
what the movie is about:
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/624.html
The
equation for free fall is pretty basic. Drop
anything—from a dime to a rock—from a tall building, for
example, and once that object hits an acceleration of
9.8 meters per second squared, it’s free falling. This
equation applies to everything, even to buildings.
In the
fall of 2005, Brigham Young University professor Steven
Jones presented this simple principle in a BYU campus
auditorium packed with hundreds of people to illustrate
how several of the World Trade Center towers fell too
quickly on Sept. 11, 2001, to have only been hit by
planes. To reach free-fall speed, Jones explained, the
building’s floor supports would have needed to be blown
apart. In other words, the carnage of 9/11 would have
required another catalyst of destruction beyond hijacked
planes—an explosive to cause the buildings to implode.
The
discussion ran two hours and only ended because students
began arriving for a class to be held in the room.
Before concluding, Jones asked if anyone was not
convinced more investigation was needed. Only one
professor raised his hand. “And he tracked me down the
next day on campus and told me I changed his mind,”
Jones says.
Jones’
speech began his rise as an outspoken skeptic of the
official 9/11 report. But, it was also the beginning of
the end for his career as a college professor.
Jones
and his colleagues theorized that a military-grade
explosive called nano-thermite sliced through the
building supports and brought down the buildings.
Recently, they bolstered their theory with analysis of a
mysterious powder collected from around New York City, a
powder they asserted in the April 2009 Open Chemical
Physics Journal was nano-thermite.
If the
theory sounds like bad science fiction, it is because a
similar explosive substance, “nanomite,” was used by
Cobra (the bad guys) in this summer’s over-the-top
action movie, G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra. In the movie,
Cobra uses nanomite to disintegrate buildings and
national monuments in a cloud of green dust.
Nano-thermite, however, is no green powder from comic
book fiction—it’s actually a red-chip substance that
Jones and his researchers have matched specifically to
an explosive residue using electron microscopy.
But
before Jones recent red-chip research came to fruition,
he continued to speak frankly about other pieces of the
puzzle: the reported sounds of explosions on 9/11,
molten steel at the site, steel beams shooting out
horizontally like missiles from the buildings, and the
sloppy federal explanations about what happened at World
Trade Center 7, the third building that collapsed and
the only one that did so without being hit by any
planes.
Jones
now casually rattles off the official testimony that
claimed air defenses were called off and describes
suspicious stock deals that netted mysterious
individuals billions of dollars in profits from the 9/11
disaster.
“The
problem in this country is that we accept one conspiracy
theory,” Jones says. “That it was Al Qaeda—that’s the
official conspiracy theory. OK, but it doesn’t explain
the lack of air defenses that day, it doesn’t explain
why World Trade Center 7 came down the way it did, and
it doesn’t explain the billions made off these extremely
suspicious stock trades. So, there really is a lot of
evidence for foul play,” the professor says matter of
factly.
Beyond the figures and formulas, perhaps Jones’ most
incendiary conclusion is that the explosions were the
result of an inside job. Ironically, Jones says his
theory is supported by Occam’s razor: the principle that
states where there are multiple competing theories, the
simplest one is better. For Jones, the simplest theory
is that the U.S. government conspired to commit terror
on its own citizens and kill thousands in the process.
The storm Jones has stirred up speaking out on 9/11
eventually forced him, in 2006, into early retirement
from BYU.
Down
but not out, the soft-spoken professor continues his
controversial research, having created a peerreviewed
journal for multidisciplinary 9/11 research. He
continues to call for a complete investigation into the
events of 9/11. Looking to explain this generation’s Day
of Infamy, Jones fights to retain his credibility while
fending off criticism from those more-or-less in his own
camp for being dismissive of their 9/11 theories—laser
beam attacks and holographic planes—all while
reconciling his faith with his own controversial work.
Some
see the exiled BYU professor as the voice of dissent
against the greatest cover-up in American history.
Others see a reckless professor with a messiah complex,
tilting at windmills that just aren’t there.
We All Fall Down Page 2
After 9/11, BYU prof. Steven Jones’ teaching career
imploded just like the twin towers, but he still insists
planes were not to blame.
Bless His Heart
The small town of Spring City in Sanpete County is a
long way from New York City. It is here, in a town
dotted with quaint historic buildings, spotty cell-phone
service and a single gas station, that Jones spends his
retirement. On a recent summer day, the town’s greatest
drama seems to be an infestation of grasshoppers, dozens
of which fly from under the feet of pedestrians
sauntering along its sidewalks.
Despite his reputation, Jones’ home looks the way most
would imagine a retired BYU professor’s to look. You
won’t find images of UFOs or collapsing World Trade
Center towers tacked to the walls. Rather, Jones’ living
room is homey, adorned with large glossy portraits of
family members and LDS Church President Thomas S.
Monson. One of Jones’ children finishes practicing the
piano in the living room.
A career scientist, Jones, with his quiet paternal wit,
reminds one of a seminary teacher or, again, a retired
BYU professor. While Jones is like a walking
encyclopedia of disturbing 9/11 facts, the inflection in
his voice is not that of tinfoil-hat vitriol against the
New World Order. It is the soft-speak of a lifelong
Mormon who can’t help but say “bless his heart” when
referring to a whistleblower in the Bush administration
who claimed former Vice President Dick Cheney ignored
warnings of planes headed for the Pentagon.
Jones knows his theories have made him the target of
ridicule. In an exasperated chuckle, he talks about
trying to convince people his research is not in league
with UFO spotting or Bigfoot hunting. But his humor also
surfaces in explaining how the explosive residue he and
his colleagues discovered was analyzed using X-ray
electron dispersive microscopy. “That will be on the
quiz,” he says with a chuckle.
Jones’ political views have greatly changed since 9/11.
He voted for George W. Bush in 2000, but now he only
shakes his head when he reflects on a recent poll where
a majority of Americans agreed that torture committed by
the Bush administration was wrong but that those who
executed the policy shouldn’t be punished.
“If you know something went wrong and you’re not willing
to prosecute or have a fair trial and see what went
wrong … it’s amazing,” Jones says. “The Constitution is
set up with an opportunity to petition for redress.
That’s what I requested as I was going along with [the
9/11 research]—impeachment—that’s the fair thing to do.
But that was not done and [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi
says that it was off the table—which means the
Constitution is off the table, I guess,” Jones says with
a frustrated laugh. “It’s like we recognize that evil
was done, but we’re not willing to stop it or punish
it.”
Since
his retirement, Jones continues his work in an online
journal that publishes academic works critical of the
official 9/11 account, covering air-defense
deficiencies, the twin towers, World Trade Center 7 and
the nanothermite research.
To the layperson, Jones’ research boils down to ideas
that don’t require much math. His paper cites the
account of multiple responders and investigators who
observed molten metals pooling and bubbling for weeks
after 9/11, evidence of chemical reactions consistent
with latent reactions to explosive chemicals like
nano-thermite.
His research quotes a Fox News anchorman at Ground Zero
reporting sounds like explosions near the base of the
towers. It also presents the physics of how all three
buildings happened to collapse at free-fall speeds,
straight down into their own footprints—imploding in the
manner of a Las Vegas casino. Which is unusual, Jones
points out, because, for the buildings to collapse upon
themselves, the central and strongest columns have to go
first. If the towers were trees, and the planes struck
them like the blow of an ax, rather than the trees
falling toward the striking ax, Jones says the official
account would have the trees collapsing upon themselves.
Jones and several of his colleagues made some of their
most damning arguments in the article, “Fourteen Points
of Agreement with Official Government Reports on the
World Trade Center Destruction” in the 2008 Open Civil
Engineering Journal, where they highlighted concessions
made by federal investigators.
For example, in 2002, the Federal Emergency Management
Agency said that “the specifics of the fires in WTC 7
and how they caused the building to collapse remain
unknown at this time.” Also, officials from the National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) said that,
because of “the tremendous energy released by the
falling building mass, the building section came down
essentially in free fall.”
While Jones is like a walking encyclopedia of disturbing
9/11 facts, the inflection in his voice is not that of
tinfoil-hat vitriol against the New World Order.
“It’s science, it’s repeatable. It doesn’t matter if
you’re Mormon, atheist, Jewish—you can check it out
yourself. You do the experiment, you get the results.
That’s the way science works.”
For Jones, there is only one explanation for what
brought about the free-fall speeds of the towers’
collapse: “That’s explosives, on the face of it,” he
says. “They don’t deny that, because they didn’t look
into it.”
This denial is in response to a question posed by
reporter Jennifer Abel of the Hartford Advocate, who, in
2008, asked NIST why the agency decided not to search
for evidence of explosive residue. In response, the NIST
spokesman told her: “If you’re looking for something
that isn’t there, you’re wasting your time … and the
taxpayer’s money.”
The Razor’s Edge
The razor of “Occam’s razor” might be thought of as a
blade of logic. Where multiple theories compete for a
claim to the truth, Occam’s razor lays waste to theories
that are too encumbered by assumptions to be true.
In the hands of scientists and investigators, wielding
Occam’s razor often ends up like a knife fight. Whether
it’s NIST cutting costs by not searching for explosives
or BYU cutting off controversy by giving a professor
“early retirement”—the search for truth is combative,
bloody and, oftentimes, personal.
Jones has been there before, of course. In the ’80s,
Jones delved into another controversial field of
research: cold fusion. In 1989, while working for the
U.S. Department of Energy on the emergent field of
coldfusion research—creating energy fission from
room-temperature environments— Jones was asked to peer
review the research of Stanley Pons and Martin
Fleischmann, two University of Utah researchers who were
doing similar research.
Finding certain overlaps in their research, Jones, Pons
and Fleischmann agreed to submit their research at the
same time. On March 24, 1989, Jones faxed his paper that
claimed experiments suggested the possibility of cold
fusion to Nature. Pons and Fleischmann, on the other
hand, held a press conference and announced that they
could create energy equivalent to nuclear fusion within
a glass jar filled with water.
Soon after this declaration, when the scientific
community of the world could not replicate Pons and
Fleischmann’s results, the duo’s research was
discredited. Perhaps as collateral damage, so was
Jones’.
Still, Jones says, his fusion experiments, while
offering modest results, are repeatable, unlike the
discredited work of Pons and Fleischmann.
“They can say what they want,” Jones says. “It’s
science, it’s repeatable. It doesn’t matter if you’re
Mormon, atheist, Jewish—you can check it out yourself.
You do the experiment, you get the results. That’s the
way science works.”
The reliability of science has always appealed to Jones.
As a child, Jones’ family traveled throughout the
country for his father’s work at Boeing Co. and, later,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Raised as a Mormon, Jones has
never felt a conflict between his personal testimony of
faith and the universal truth of the scientific process.
“It’s not a subtle difference,” Jones says. “Maybe for
nonscientists, it is. But for me, those are two
completely different areas.”
Still, Jones has not shied away from applying scientific
methods to help validate contested LDS beliefs. In the
late 1990s, Jones used carbon dating on archaeological
evidence of a prehistoric horse species that existed in
the Americas prior to the arrival of Columbus—a sticking
point for LDS detractors who dispute accounts in the
Book of Mormon that refer to horses on the continent
prior to the arrival of European settlers.
Jones authored an article in 1999 highlighting Mayan
artwork that depicted the deity Itzamna with markings on
his hands that, Jones argued, were representations of
the stigmata. Itzamna had other Christlike parallels,
Jones says, such as the ability to heal the sick with
his hands, or as a being whom it was believed would
someday be resurrected.
On the Website where he presents some of his evidence,
Jones concludes the article in a traditional LDS manner
by bearing his testimony of the truth of the Book of
Mormon: “These discoveries have provided me a deeper
appreciation of the reality of the resurrection of Jesus
and His visit to ‘other sheep’ who heard His voice and
saw His wounded hands.”
Jones says the Mayan artwork research was never meant to
be a scientific claim but rather was “evidence hoped
for.” He has no qualms about it, despite criticism that
his research blurred the lines between religion and
science. “Some people take any excuse they can to ignore
results they don’t like because they don’t like
somebody’s religion,” he says. “I’m not going to give up
my religion—that’s their problem.”
It’s safe to say, then, that religious belief wasn’t a
factor in Jones’ early “retirement” from BYU in 2006.
When asked about Jones’ retirement, BYU officials would
only provide a copy of Jones’ October 2006 statement: “I
am electing to retire so that I can spend more time
speaking and conducting research of my own choosing.”
Looking back, Jones is uncomfortable going into much
detail about his retirement. Even professors critical of
Jones in 2006 would not comment for this story.
“It was very painful for me,” Jones says. In September
2006, Jones says he was placed on administrative leave.
At the time, he says, administrators told him he would
be able to continue to publicly discuss his research as
long as he stopped specifically mentioning Vice
President Cheney in connection with his 9/11 claims.
Soon after, however, Jones was told the leave was not
temporary and that he was being “offered” early
retirement.
Jones questions the timing of being told not to say
“Cheney” and his retirement. “In April of 2007, BYU gave
[Cheney] an honorary doctorate degree for public
service,” Jones says, referring to Cheney’s 2007
commencement address at BYU. “I think they were rather
glad I was not a part of the university at that time.”
Yet among all of his critics, it’s unusual that some of
the strongest criticism Jones has received has come from
within the “alternative”-911-theories crowd itself
The Death
Star Theory
“Steve is, by far, the most influential member [of the
alternative 9/11 research community],” says James
Fetzer, the man who, along with Jones, formed in 2005
the first academic 9/11 group, the Scholars for 9/11
Truth. “But, while he likes to think what he practices
is science and not politics—its not. And what it is … is
completely destructive!”
Fetzer’s beef with Jones arose when he felt Jones was
being dismissive of other theories. “I have a Ph.D. in
the history and philosophy of science,” Fetzer says. “I
know well that scientific inquiry is handicapped if you
don’t consider the full range of alternative
explanations.”
How broad is this range? For Fetzer, Jones’
controlled-demolition theory unfairly cuts out other
ideas, such as the possibility that a directed energy
beam, possibly from outer space, hit the towers.
Since Jones’ theory was more “palatable” than others,
Fetzer says Jones won over contributors from the
original group into a new group, the Scholars for 9/11
Truth and Justice. Fetzer also claims Jones sabotaged a
2007 9/11 conference he organized by convincing
presenter Frank Greening, a Canadian physicist, not to
attend.
While Jones is ordinarily mild-mannered, he quickly
grows frustrated hearing Fetzer’s allegations. His good
humor disappears, and Jones asks if any theory Fetzer
supports can be backed up with an experiment.
Greening sides with Jones. He says he didn’t attend
Fetzer’s conference because, at the last minute, Fetzer
reneged on covering Greening’s travel expenses—and not
because of anything Jones did. But Greening acknowledges
that Jones is more politically savvy than he lets on
beneath his goodnatured, absent-minded-professor faade.
“He comes across as very meek and mild,” Greening says.
“I’ve seen another side of him.” Greening says that,
while Jones calls for scientific scrutiny of his
theories, when actually challenged he becomes defensive
and dismissive of scientific criticism.
Greening, who has a Ph.D. in chemistry and 20-plus
years’ research experience in radio-analytical chemistry
at Ontario Power Generation, says Jones has never
seriously considered his arguments.
For one, Greening cites aluminum experts whose research
shows that molten aluminum (such as what could have
resulted from the melting heat of jet fuel) falling from
extreme heights could have a reaction that would be
similar to what Jones attributes to nano-thermite.
Greening balks at the experiments Jones uses to refute
this claim.
“Jones just gently poured molten aluminum on some rusty
girders, and said, ‘I hereby discredit Greening,’”
Greening says, pointing out that the experiment called
for the aluminum to be dropped from greater than 6 feet.
He also notes how Jones quickly leapt to the conclusion
that the presence of sulphur in building rubble is
evidence of nano-thermite before even considering other
sources, such as diesel fuel from the building’s
generators. This pattern of jumping to the
conspiratorial conclusion is what disturbs Greening
about Jones’ methods.
“If history proves him correct, people will say he’s a
hero, and he stuck to his guns in the face of ridicule
and pressure from everyone to drop it,” Greening says.
“And I think he sees himself that way, like he’s a
prophet of some top secret he’s revealed. The other side
of the coin is that his work is sometimes sloppy. He’s
stubborn in admitting error and he jumps to
conclusions.”
We
All Fall Down
Science can be violent. Trying to carve out the truth
from conflicting accounts means some theories get cut
down, and at times, even the scientist espousing the
theory can be silenced.
Cut off from his university hardly means that Jones is
done seeking the truth. And while a man of science, his
drive to continue his search is as informed by his faith
as it ever was. “The truth cuts its way, and it is
getting out,” Jones says, noting his colleague James
Farrer is currently giving presentations on the
nano-thermite research in Europe.
Yet, even as he pursues truth, he has serious doubts
about whether Americans will ever accept his account,
and even if they did, if they would ever hold anyone
accountable.
“I believe in God, so I know there will be justice
someday,” Jones says. “People that allow their leaders
to get away with, well, murder—the whole country becomes
due for justice. You see this in the Book of Mormon, you
see it in the Roman Empire … all these empires get to
the point where the tyrant is doing stuff and the
citizens do nothing and pretty soon …” Jones says, as he
wiped his hands apart, “the empire crumbles.”
For links to Jones' research, articles criticizing his
theories, and more, read the related story,
Cuts
Both Ways.
Bible quotes on war briefings raise questions
WASHINGTON — A series of cover sheets for intelligence
reports written for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
and other senior Pentagon officials during the early
days of the war in Iraq in 2003 were adorned with
biblical quotations, and appeared Sunday, six years
later, on the Web site of GQ magazine.
The
daily briefings were called the “Worldwide Intelligence
Update,” one of several intelligence reports compiled
overnight and presented to Rumsfeld and other officials.
In
the selection of the cover sheets that GQ placed on its
Web site, photographs of soldiers praying or in action
in the sands of Iraq were overlaid with quotations like
this one from Isaiah: “Their arrows are sharp, all their
bows are strung; their horses’ hoofs seem like flint,
their chariot wheels are like a whirlwind.”
Another, showing a tank at sunset, had this quotation
from Ephesians: “Therefore put on the full armor of God,
so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to
stand your ground, and after you have done everything,
to stand.”
The
accompanying article, written by Robert Draper, the
author of a book about President George W. Bush
published last year, suggested that Rumsfeld often
delivered the briefings “by hand, to the White House.”
But
several former officials said Sunday that they doubted
that Bush regularly saw the Pentagon briefing, which was
considered both less complete and less sensitive than
the President’s Daily Brief, the compilation of
overnight and long-term intelligence assessments
prepared for the president and delivered every morning.
Lawrence Di Rita, the former Pentagon spokesman during
Rumsfeld’s time as secretary of defense, said that he
had no recollection of the biblical briefs, but doubted
that the famously acerbic former defense secretary would
have tolerated them for long, much less shared them with
Bush.
“The
suggestion that Rumsfeld would have used these reports
to somehow curry favor over at the White House is pretty
laughable,” Di Rita said. “He bristled anytime people
put quotes or something extraneous on the reports he
wanted to read.”
Rumsfeld’s reputation at the Pentagon was as a strong
ideologue, but not as someone motivated by religious
convictions.
The
GQ article reports that the cover sheets were thought up
by a general who worked on the Joint Staff, and that
they replaced humorous covers that had been created in
the prelude to the war.
The
magazine reported that some Pentagon officials were
concerned that if the cover sheets — marked “Top Secret”
— were leaked, they could be interpreted as a suggestion
that the war was religiously driven, a battle against
Islam.
But
those officials were not named in the article, and a
number of former Pentagon officials interviewed Sunday
said they had no memory of seeing the quotations.
But
those officials were not named in the article, and a
number of former Pentagon officials interviewed Sunday
said they had no memory of seeing the quotations.
Still, the publication of the cover sheets may raise
more questions about the proper role of religion in the
military, and whether a Christian-influenced culture,
rather than a neutral one, permeated some corners of the
military.
Central banking in
general and the Federal Reserve Octopus in
particular is the heart of the beast. It is
the source of all power for the international
banksters. If the people do not take back
control of their monetary system then they will
be enslaved by it.... T.
Rep. Ron Paul has over 170 Co-Sponsors
on HR 1207 to Audit the Fed!
A
federal judge refuses a case against
the federal reserve because "He
doesn't want blood on his hands."
Part 2: 05/20/2009
Freedom Watch 15 w/ Rand Paul, Lew Rockwell,
Tom Woods, Otto Guevara, more
Breaking: U.S. Asks Firms to Make H1N1 Flu
Vaccine <
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/22/AR2009052203216.html>
23 May 2009 The federal government has asked
three drug companies to make enough swine Fort
Detrick flu vaccine to immunize at least 20
million people in key positions in health care,
national security and emergency services,
officials said yesterday. The order, announced
by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen
Sebelius, is part of a $1 billion investment in
immediate production and testing of vaccine
'against' the newly emerged strain of the H1N1
flu virus. HHS has contracts with five companies
to make pandemic vaccine. The department has
activated the ones with Sanofi Pasteur, Novartis
and GlaxoSmithKline. It is still negotiating
with the two others, MedImmune and CSL, an
Australian company. [See: Baxter working on
vaccine to stop swine flu, though admitted
sending live pandemic flu viruses to
subcontractor <http://www.legitgov.org/baxter_flu_vaccine_260409.html>
26 Apr 2009.]
Obama's Preventive Detention Plans Face
Scrutiny <
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124302633236948169.html>
22 May 2009 The Obama administration's efforts
to craft what it calls a "preventive detention"
plan for suspected terrorists will face
constitutional challenges similar to those
raised against the Bush regime's policies. A
White House task force reviewing detention
policy is set to make recommendations in late
July. The administration has floated with
Congress a possible plan that would seek
legislation allowing the government to hold
suspected terrorists without trial indefinitely
on U.S. soil... Civil liberties and human rights
groups who criticized the Bush administration's
detention policies are definitive in their
opposition to Mr. Obama's plans. "It's really
crossing a constitutional Rubicon," said
Jonathan Hafetz, American Civil Liberties Union
attorney who represented Ali al Marri.
Mancow Waterboarded, Admits It's Torture <
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Mancow-Takes-on-Waterboarding-and-Loses.html>
--"It is way worse than I thought it would be"
22 May 2009 And so it went Friday morning when
WLS radio host Erich "Mancow" Muller decided to
subject himself to the controversial practice of
waterboarding live on his show... Turns out the
stunt wasn't so funny. Witnesses said Muller
thrashed on the table, and even instantly threw
the toy cow he was holding as his emergency tool
to signify when he wanted the experiment to
stop. He only lasted 6 or 7 seconds <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUkj9pjx3H0>
. "It is way worse than I thought it would be,
and that's no joke," Mancow said. "It is such an
odd feeling to have water poured down your nose
with your head back...It was instantaneous...and
I don't want to say this: absolutely torture."
The Obama-Cheney "debate" and the threat of
dictatorship in America <
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/may2009/pers-m22.shtml>
By Joe Kishore 22 May 2009 Whatever his
criticisms of the Bush administration's
policies, Obama defends its basic aims. On
domestic policy, he is continuing the massive
handouts to the banks and Wall Street investors.
On military policy, he is continuing the
occupation of Iraq, while expanding the war in
Afghanistan and Pakistan. His argument for
legality is undermined by the fact that his
administration has restarted military
commissions, refused to publish torture photos,
and in general maintained the anti-democratic
measures of his predecessor. Whatever verbal
warnings Obama may make about the erosion of
democracy in the United States, the actions of
his administration facilitate and accelerate its
breakdown. It is impossible to combine
imperialist war with democracy. The latter
cannot survive without opposing the former.
Pelosi Says She Stands by Previous Statement
on CIA <
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aEOHmBwCdvd0>
22 May 2009 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stood by
her statement that the Central Intelligence
Agency misled Congress about harsh
interrogations torture of suspected terrorists
and refused to discuss the political controversy
triggered by her assertion. "I stand by my
comment," Pelosi, a California Democrat, said
today at a news conference in Washington.
CIA agents lose bid to halt trial over
rendition <
http://www.smh.com.au/world/cia-agents-lose-bid-to-halt-trial-over-rendition-20090521-bh86.html>
22 May 2009 The landmark trial of American and
Italian spies accused of abducting an Egyptian
cleric in Milan will continue, a judge has
ruled, rejecting a defence bid to end the
proceedings. The ruling was a victory for
prosecutors in the first trial to examine the
"rendition" process, in which the CIA allegedly
abducted suspects abroad and sent them to other
countries for harsh interrogation torture.
Satire: Obama: Gitmo Detainees to be Sent to
AIG, Citibank and Bear Stearns <
http://www.legitgov.org/shulman_gitmo_detainees_sent_to_aig_220509.html>
By R J Shulman 22 May 2009 President Barack
Obama announced today at a press conference that
the detainees at the US prison at Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba, will be transferred to AIG, Citibank,
Bear Stearns and other troubled banks and
financial firms starting June 1. "These
detainees will need something to keep them out
of trouble," Obama said. "So, sending them to
these beleaguered firms will keep them
completely occupied. Besides, they couldn’t mess
things up any worse than the regular Wall Street
gang did." (Satire)
Top US official warns that war in Afghanistan
strengthens Taliban in Pakistan <
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/5369740/Top-US-official-warns-that-war-in-Afghanistan-strengthens-Taliban-in-Pakistan.html>
22 May 2009 America's top military official
warned that the US offensive in Afghanistan
could end up fuelling the conflict in Pakistan
by pushing more Taliban fighters across the
border. Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the
US joint chiefs of staff, said the surge of
21,000 additional US troops into Afghanistan had
raised the prospect that Pakistan could face
even greater turmoil in the months ahead. "They
want Afghanistan back," he said.
Gag me with a chainsaw! Former UNOCAL/RAND
Corporation - Bush/Rumsfeld troll rears ugly
head: Former U.S. envoy eyed as Afghan 'CEO' <
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/05/19/Former-US-envoy-eyed-as-Afghan-CEO/UPI-50411242758003/>
19 May 2009 Former U.S. ambassador to
Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad is negotiating with
President Hamid Karzai to take a role in his
government, diplomatic sources say. Khalilzad,
who served as U.S. envoy to Kabul under former
President [sic] George W. Bush, has abandoned
plans to challenge Karzai in Afghanistan's
upcoming presidential elections and is instead
looking to take on an unelected positioned
described as the country's chief executive
officer, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
Senate Approves $91 Billion Funding Bill for
Iraq, Afghan Wars <
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=azrugelHilAg>
--Total costs for both wars to top $900B 22 May
2009 The U.S. Senate approved a $91 billion
spending bill that would fund President Barack
Obama’s troop buildup in Afghanistan and block a
lawsuit seeking to force the release of photos
showing abuse of war prisoners. The vast
majority of the money in the bill would fund
military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan,
pushing total costs for the two wars to more
than $900 billion.
Bombings kill dozens in Iraq 3 Americans on
foot patrol among dead <
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2009/05/22/bombings_kill_dozens_in_iraq/>
22 May 2009 Bombers struck in Baghdad and a
northern city yesterday, killing three American
soldiers and nearly two dozen Iraqis in a new
spasm of violence that has taken at least 66
lives in two days. The deadliest blast yesterday
occurred in an outdoor market in Baghdad's Dora
district, when a bomb exploded near a US foot
patrol, US and Iraqi officials said.
US soldiers charged over Spanish journalist's
death <
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i3C4U15NsvycGcRWP4cJGvlk0aCg>
21 May 2009 A Spanish judge on Thursday revived
murder charges against three US soldiers over
the killing a Spanish television cameraman
during the shelling of a Baghdad hotel in 2003.
The same judge, Santiago Pedraz, had thrown out
the charges one year ago, citing "insufficient
evidence" of deliberate intent on the part of
the three to target civilians inside the hotel
where journalists were known to be staying.
Israeli toxic waste threatens Palestinian
life <
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=95575§ionid=351020202>
22 May 2009 Tel Aviv illegally dumps hazardous
waste in the Palestinian West Bank, gifting
cancer, sterility and mental disorders to the
local population. In an exclusive interview with
Press TV, Deputy Director of the Palestinian
environmental authority, Jamil Mtoor, confirmed
that Israel cuts disposal costs by discarding
its waste on Palestinian territory at the
expense of the population. "For several years,
Israeli companies have been dumping solid and
hazardous waste in different West Bank
villages," Mtoor said.
White House: "Don’t Ask, Don't Tell" under
review <
http://www.365gay.com/news/white-house-dont-ask-dont-tell-under-review/>
22 May 2009 The White House is insisting that
officials are working to overturn a policy that
bans gays and lesbians from serving openly in
the military, pushing back against Pentagon
assessments a day earlier that such efforts were
low priorities and Democratic activists’
complaint of slow progress.
Colorado plan to give police power to draw
blood from 'uncooperative' suspects <
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_12424987>
--'100 days of heat' crackdown will involve 150
sobriety checkpoints 22 may 2009 One Colorado
police chief is preparing to launch a
controversial practice in the fight against
drunken driving by seeking search warrants that
would give his officers the power to have blood
drawn from uncooperative suspects. To Chief
Bruce Kozak of the Avon Police Department, the
blood in a suspected drunken driver's veins is
no different than a gun next to a murder victim
-- evidence that must be collected by
investigators. Kozak's plan is part of the "100
days of heat" crackdown on drunken driving by
law enforcement agencies across Colorado.
'Anything using RF energy -- we have the
right to inspect it.' FCC's Warrantless
Household Searches Alarm Experts <
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/05/fcc-raid>
By Ryan Singel 21 May 2009 ...[I]f you have a
wireless router, a cordless phone, remote
car-door opener, baby monitor or cellphone in
your house, the FCC claims the right to enter
your home without a warrant at any time of the
day or night in order to inspect it... And the
commission maintains the same policy applies to
any licensed or unlicensed radio-frequency
device. "Anything using RF energy -- we have the
right to inspect it to make sure it is not
causing interference," says FCC spokesman David
Fiske. That includes devices like Wi-Fi routers
that use unlicensed spectrum, Fiske says.
WHO chief warns H1N1 swine flu likely to
worsen <
http://www.reuters.com/article/asiaCrisis/idUSN22387871>
--Chan says H1N1 could mutate in "unpredictable
[!] ways" 22 May 2009 The world must be ready
for H1N1 swine flu to become more severe and
kill more people, World Health Organization
chief Dr. Margaret Chan said on Friday. The
virus must be closely monitored in the southern
hemisphere, as it could mix with ordinary
seasonal influenza and change in unpredictable
ways, Chan told the WHO annual congress in
Geneva. An international team of researchers who
analyzed all eight genes of the new virus
confirmed its sneakiness, saying it was so
different from its ancestral strains that it
must have been circulating undetected for years
created in a USAMRIID <http://www.usamriid.army.mil/>
lab.
Australia's swine flu alert level raised <
http://www.theage.com.au/national/australias-swine-flu-alert-level-raised-20090522-bhr2.html>
22 May 2009 Australia's swine flu alert level
has been raised from delay to contain. The
announcement by Federal Health Minister Nicola
Roxon this afternoon comes after after the first
case of human to human transmission was
confirmed at a school in Epping, in Melbourne's
north.
Verizon Willing to Let 62-Year-Old Man Die
Unless Cops Pay $20 of His Overdue Bill <
http://consumerist.com/5265854/verizon-willing-to-let-62+year+old-man-die-unless-cops-pay-20-of-his-overdue-bill>
22 May 2009 Ohio police are pissed with Verizon
after the company refused to help them find a
missing 62-year-old man unless they paid his $20
of his overdue cellphone bill. The cops got a
call that the man was rampaging around his house
and breaking windows. When they arrived, the man
had fled, taking bottles of pills with him. The
sheriff contacted Verizon to ask them to turn
the man's cellphone service on so they could
track his signal, but the operator said the
missing man's bill had to be paid first. After
some back and forth, the sheriff started to make
arrangements to pay his bill. Just as he was
doing so, the search party... found the man,
unconscious, after 11 hours of searching. "I was
more concerned for the person's life," Sherrif
Williams said. "It would have been nice if
Verizon would have turned on his phone for five
or 10 minutes, just long enough to try and find
the guy. But they would only turn it on if we
agreed to pay $20 of the unpaid bill.
Ridiculous." [See: Unconscious Carroll man found
after 11-hour search <http://www.timesreporter.com/homepage/x862899385/Unconscious-Carroll-man-found-after-11-hour-search>
--Sheriff unhappy with Verizon's 'line' on
emergency 21 May 2009.]
Obama Signs Credit-Card Consumers' 'Bill of
Rights' <
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=aM5MWbboKysM>
22 May 2009 President Barack Obama signed into
law a credit-card consumers' ""Bill of Rights"
that limits fees and curbs contract changes,
saying it will give Americans "the strong and
reliable protections they deserve."
Credit Card Bill Allows Guns In National
Parks <
http://cbs4denver.com/seenon/credit.card.bill.2.1015276.html>
20 May The U.S. House of Representatives
followed the Senate's lead and passed the Credit
Card Holders Bill of Rights -- but there's more.
The bill contains an amendment that has nothing
to do with credit cards. The bill allows
concealed weapons to be carried in America's
national parks.
TARP Warrants Show Banks May Reap 'Ruthless
Bargain' <
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aOQPmbrh1ZrA>
22 May 2009 Banks negotiating to reclaim stock
warrants they granted in return for Troubled
Asset Relief Program money may shortchange
taxpayers by almost $10 billion if Treasury
Secretary Timothy Geithner’s first sale sets the
pace <http://www.legitgov.org/essay_southwell_arming_the_left_is_the_time_now_102203.html>
, data compiled by Bloomberg show. While 17
financial institutions have repaid TARP funds,
two have come to terms with the U.S. on the
value of the rights to buy stock that taxpayers
received for the risk of recapitalizing the
industry.
'The executive branch will construe this
subsection of the bill not to abrogate any
constitutional privilege.' Obama Issues Signing
Statement After Creating Financial Investigative
Panel <
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/20/obama-signs-financial-bill-creating-investigative-panel/>
20 May 2009 President Obama on Wednesday signed
legislation aimed at curbing financial fraud in
the mortgage and other industries, including a
provision that created an independent panel to
investigate the root causes of the nation’s
economic downturn. This one would have subpoena
power; its work would be independent of
Congress. But after signing the bill, the White
House issued what is called a signing statement
by Mr. Obama, which includes this advisory to
agencies about the financial panel’s potential
reach... In other words, the president is
reserving the right to claim executive privilege
if the commission seeks information or documents
that the White House considers to be beyond the
bounds of public information and/or privileged
communications and negotiations within the
executive branch.
FDA: Calif. pistachio plant knew some nuts
were tainted but kept shipping them for 6 months
<
http://www.whnt.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-us-salmonella-pistachios,0,4535180.story>
22 May 2009 Food safety inspectors say a
California plant at the center of a salmonella
scare knew some of its pistachios were tainted
but continued shipping nuts for another six
months. The Food and Drug Administration issued
a sweeping national warning in March for
consumers to avoid eating pistachios after
concerns surfaced about nuts from Setton
Pistachio of Terra Bella, Inc.
Illinois Company Recalls 95,898 Pounds of
Beef <
http://www.whnt.com/news/whnt-beef-recall-valley-meats-illinois-52209,0,5514453.story>
22 May 2009 A Coal Valley, Illinois company is
recalling 95,898 pounds of ground beef because
of possible E. Coli contamination. The U.S.
Dept. of Agriculture announced the recall
Thursday morning. Valley Meats LLC makes ground
beef products for several different brands,
including J & B and Grillmaster. The USDA says
the meat was produced on March 10th. The
government calls this a Class One recall. That
means there is a reasonable chance that eating
this product will cause serious health problems.
U.S. appeals court finds tobacco companies
lied <
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE54L44820090522>
22 May 2009 Cigarette companies systematically
lied for years in order to sell tobacco products
they knew were dangerous, a U.S. appeals court
said on Friday as it upheld a trial judge's
racketeering verdict. But in a blow to
anti-smoking groups, the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia also upheld the
lower court's decision to reject expensive
remedies, like funding a smoking cessation
program.
Previous lead stories: How MI5 blackmails
British Muslims <
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/exclusive-how-mi5-blackmails-british-muslims-1688618.html>
--'Work for us or we will say you are a
terrorist' 21 May 2009 Five Muslim community
workers have accused MI5 of waging a campaign of
blackmail and harassment in an attempt to
recruit them as informants. The men claim they
were given a choice of working for the Security
Service or face detention and harassment in the
UK and overseas. They have made official
complaints to the police, to the body which
oversees the work of the Security Service and to
their local MP Frank Dobson. Now they have
decided to speak publicly about their
experiences in the hope that publicity will stop
similar tactics being used in the future.
Undercover Agents Supplied Missile and
Explosives to NYC Plotters <
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30856404/>
--The FBI and other agencies monitored the men
and provided an inactive missile and inert C-4
to the informant for the defendants, a federal
complaint said. 21 May 2009 Four men arrested
after planting what they thought were explosives
near two New York City synagogues were
disappointed that the World Trade Center wasn't
still around to attack, a federal prosecutor
said Thursday as the men appeared in court for
the first time. The suspects were arrested
Wednesday night. Authorities said the men also
plotted to shoot down a military plane. James
Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams, and
Laguerre Payen, all of Newburgh, were charged
with conspiracy to use weapons of mass
destruction within the United States and
conspiracy to acquire and use anti-aircraft
missiles.
Obama Is Said to Consider Preventive
Detention For Suspects Deemed 'National Security
Threat' <
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/21/us/politics/21obama.html>
--'The idea that we might find ourselves
fighting with the Obama administration over
these powers is really stunning.' 21 May 2009
President Bush Obama told human rights advocates
at the White House on Wednesday that he was
mulling the need for a "preventive detention"
system that would establish a legal basis for
the United States to incarcerate terrorism
suspects who are deemed a threat to national
security but cannot be tried, two participants
in the private session said. One participant
said Mr. Obama did not seem to be thinking about
preventive detention for terrorism suspects now
held at Guantánamo Bay, but rather for those
captured in the future, in settings other than a
legitimate [?] battlefield like Afghanistan.
Those who wish to be added to the list can go
here:
Bilderberg Group
Orders “Total” Destruction Of US Dollar
By:
Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western
Subscribers
(Traducción al Español abajo)
A new Kremlin report on the shadowy
Bilderberg Group, who this past week held their
annual meeting in Greece, states that the West’s
financial, political and corporate elite emerged
from their conclave after coming to an agreement
that in order to continue their drive towards a
New World Order dominated by the Western Powers,
the US Dollar has to be “totally” destroyed.
Prior to the Bilderberg Meeting, the Kremlin
report continues, most of the West’s wealthiest
elite convened at an
unprecedented secret meeting in New York called
for and led by the staunch New World Orderlist David
Rockefeller to plot the demise of the US Dollar and
which, strangely, was reported in the US mainstream
propaganda media, but to which the dissident
American website PrisonPlanet.Com questioned by
stating:
To the ‘ultimate’ outcome of the plans of
the West’s elite classes, connived under the
auspicious of the
Nazi backed Bilderberg Group, Russian
Intelligence Analysts predict that their fears of “losing
control” due to the catastrophic chaos they are
embroiling our World in are, indeed, valid,
especially since the unleashing upon our Earth’s
population the
bioengineered H1N1 Swine Flu variant that is
continuing its unrelenting march of death and
illness across our entire Earth, and when coupled
with the total collapse of the Global economic
system can only lead to Total War.
Russian President Medvedev has joined calls by
China, Brazil, and other Nations, to prepare for
the collapse of the US Dollar and has
put forth the Russian Ruble as one of a number
of International Reserve Currencies to replace the
soon to collapse American currency, and as warned
about by the St. Petersburg Times News Service:
With the US now reporting
another record being set in the number of their
citizens out of work and claiming unemployment
benefits, the true number of American jobless has
reached a
staggering 15.8% of their workforce with no
relief in sight and many Russian analysts predicting
a summer of violence due to massive discord among
these beleaguered people as once their relief
payments run out there exists no more money to pay
them.
It is important to note that Great Britain is
preceding the US into bankruptcy and is reported
close to losing its AAA Credit Rating as it
suffers its worst economic crisis since World War
II, with the Financial Post issuing a further
warning to the Americans, and as we can read:
After the deliberate collapsing of the US Dollar,
these reports continue, the Bilderberg ‘plan’
for the Global economy rests on what are called
Special Drawing Rights issued by the Western
controlled International Monetary Fund, and which
the Telegraph News Service succinctly warns:
Russian economists warn that this IMF attempt to
destroy the value of Eastern European, Asian and
Middle Eastern economies is ‘doomed to failure’,
and now being reported that oil rich Saudi Arabia
has now joined Russia, China and Brazil by
refusing to lend to this travesty of a bank
backed by the West and intent upon massive
destruction to obtain their goals.
The American people continue to remain, for the
most part, blissfully unaware of catastrophe looming
before them and continue to believe the litany of
Orwellian lies being poured upon them by their
propaganda media organs, never once raising any
objection to trillions of dollars that have been
stolen from them and which continues to flow the
pockets of their political and corporate overlords
intent upon destroying, forever, their once great
Nation and which the US Federal Reserve Inspector
General Elizabeth Coleman stated brazenly before the
US Congress that she has “no
idea” where $9 Trillion of US taxpayer has
gone, or who got it.
But, to the worst actions being done by these
witless Americans is their continuing to pay into
their bankrupt banks their hard-earned monies which
within the next year will cease to have any value
whatsoever instead of using what little time they
have left to prepare for the many catastrophes to
come. And, what makes this especially appalling is
that these Americans are continuing to pay their
debts so that they can remain good credit risks,
while at the same time their banks are bankrupt,
their government broke and their way of life changed
forever.
One wonders if these people have truly lost the
instinct to survive or, before all is said and done,
they will explode with righteous anger over the
destruction of their homes, families and Nation as a
whole.
The historical framework of these events shows
but two possibilities, the Nazi Germans who
continued following their doomed leaders to the
utter destruction of their homeland, or the Russian
people who rose in mass to throw off the manacle’s
of communism after decades of slavery….one can only
hope these people choose wisely, and fast, before
all is lost.
Five U.S. Soldiers Killed at Base in Baghdad
by PTSD fellow soldier at counseling center
Five U.S. soldiers were killed
Monday in a shooting at a large military base in Baghdad,
the military said in a statement. The soldiers were slain at
2 p.m. at Camp Liberty, one of the largest American bases in
Iraq, the military said. Source:
Soldier in shooting is on third
Iraq tour WOAI San Antonio
Tue, 12 May 2009 12:04 PM PDT
The soldier charged in the deaths of fellow troops in
Baghdad is on his third tour of duty in Iraq,
according to his service record. (We have military we support
from Utah at Camp Liberty, let us all pray for comfort and
peace for their families and fellow soldiers)
*Libya
reports prison suicide of top Qaeda man
Reuters
Mon, 11 May 2009 12:00 PM PDT
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - A Libyan Islamist whose fabricated
testimony about al Qaeda was
used
by the United States to justify its 2003 invasion of Iraq
has killed
himself in his Libyan jail cell, a Libyan newspaper reported
on Monday.
For those who love Our Constitution : "Watch for
Patriots Party 4th of July at Provo High Football
Stadium with food from Rumbi Island Grill and other
restaurants, Patriotic Speakers, Give-Aways, and Angela
Winston Gospel Sensation will sing "Love Will Prevail" and
other Patriotic Songs for an hour concert. 10 am to 2
pm.
Since the Pledge of Al legiance
And
The Lord's Prayer
Are not
allowed
in most
Public
schools
anymore
Because
the word
'God' is
mentioned.....
A Kid in
Arizona
wrote
the
attached
NEW
School
prayer :
Now I
sit me
down in
school
Where
praying
is
against
the rule
For this
great
nation
under
God
Finds
mention
of Him
very
odd.
If
Scripture
now the
class
recites,
It
violates
the Bill
of
Rights.
And
anytime
my head
I bow
Becomes
a
Federal
matter
now.
Our hair
can be
purple,
orange
or
green,
That's
no
offense;
it's a
freedom
scene.
The law
is
specific,
the law
is
precise.
Prayers
spoken
aloud
are a
serious
vice.
For
praying
in a
public
hall
Might
offend
someone
with no
faith at
all.
In
silence
alone we
must
meditate,
God's
name is
prohibited
by the
state.
We're
allowed
to cuss
and
dress
like
freaks,
And
pierce
our
noses,
tongues
and
cheeks..
They've
outlawed
guns,
but
FIRST
the
Bible.
To quote
the Good
Book
makes me
liable.
We can
elect a
pregnant
Senior
Queen,
And the
'unwed
daddy,'
our
Senior
King.
It's
'inappropriate'
to teach
right
from
wrong,
We're
taught
that
such
'judgments'
do not
belong.
We can
get our
condoms
and
birth
controls,
Study
witchcraft,
vampires
and
totem
poles.
But the
Ten
Commandments
are not
allowed,
No word
of God
must
reach
this
crowd.
It's
scary
here I
must
confess,
When
chaos
reigns
the
school's
a mess.
So,
Lord,
this
silent
plea I
make: Should
I be
shot; My
soul
please
take!
Amen
If you
aren't
ashamed
to do
this,
Please
pass
this on.
Jesus
said,
If you
are
ashamed
of me,
I will
be
ashamed
of you
before
my
Father.'
Not
ashamed.
Pass
this on
It may seem like business as usual at EnergySolutions,
but depleted uranium is not your "usual" nuclear waste.
We have recently learned that EnergySolutions has already
been disposing of depleted uranium in Utah's West Desert.
Unless we act now, the 5,500 drums buried in their landfills
last October will just be the beginning.
The nation's stockpile of uranium enrichment leftovers is
estimated to be 745,000 and new planned enrichment
facilities will create another 600,000. This radioactive
material will continue to grow hotter over thousands of
years as it decays into more radioactive and hazardous
elements. If the Department of Energy and EnergySolutions
are left unchecked by regulators, Utah will become the final
resting place for this waste.
Tomorrow, Tuesday May 12, the state's Radiation Control
Board will consider new rules regulating the disposal of
depleted uranium. We will be asking for nothing less than
an immediate moratorium and an eventual ban on depleted
uranium dumping in Utah. Will you help us influence their
decision?
Here are two ways YOU can help:
Attend the upcoming Radiation Control Board
Meeting
Help us pack the room to send a message that this issue
matters to the citizens of Utah. HEAL Utah Policy Director
Christopher Thomas will be giving a presentation to the
Board on the hazards of depleted uranium disposal. Show the
board that we stand behind him! WHERE: Department of Environmental Quality
(Bldg #2), Conference Room 101
168 North 1950 West, Salt Lake City, Utah WHEN: 3:00 – 5:00 PM, Tuesday, May 12
Please note:this is the correct date and time. Our last
alert mistakenly listed the date as May 11.
Email the public representatives on the Radiation
Control Board.
Express to them your concerns with the disposal of depleted
uranium at the EnergySolutions site. Remind them that the
long term health of the public should be their first
consideration and that the EnergySolutions dumpsite is NOT
an acceptable disposal solution! Patrick D. Cone
patcone@allwest.net Elizabeth Goryunova
elizabethgor@yahoo.com Christian K. Gardner
cgradiationboard@yahoo.com
On a lighter note, this Wednesday we bid a fond farewell
to our Outreach Director of four years, John Urgo. Help us
celebrate his hard work and success over the years as we
roast and toast our favorite New Yorker.
WHAT: Going-Away Party for HEAL's Outgoing
Outreach Director John Urgo WHEN: Wednesday, May 13th, 6:00-8:00 p.m. WHERE: At the home of HEAL board member Sue
Corth at her home 600 N. East Capitol Street, Salt Lake City
Founded 1997 Saturday, May 9, 2009The names behind the secret meetings of the Bilderbergers
(republished)( The BofM calls them "Secret Combinations" in
the last days that will try to take away all the freedoms of
this nation and all nations, to get power and gain, ...but
if we awaken to our awful situation..." we can with the
Lord's power stop them. Don't forget we outnumber
them!
Guess who's at super-secret Bilderberg meeting today
Italy hosts 50th-anniversary confab of mysterious society of
world leaders:
The 50th anniversary conference of the elite Bilderberg
group – which many believe conspires semi-annually to
foster global government – is under way in Stresa, Italy.
The
conference, which began yesterday and will run through
Sunday, is being hosted at the Grand Hotel des Iles
Borromees.
Since 1953,
the Bilderberg group has convened government, business,
academic and journalistic representatives from the U.S.,
Canada and Europe with the express purpose of exploring the
future of the North Atlantic community.
According
to sources that have penetrated the high-security meetings
in the past, the Bilderberg meetings emphasize a globalist
agenda and promote the idea that the notion of national
sovereignty is antiquated and regressive.
'Shadowy
aura'
"It's
officially described as a private gathering," noted a BBC
report last year, "but with a guest list including the heads
of European and American corporations, political leaders and
a few intellectuals, it's one of the most influential
organizations on the planet."
And
according to a current BBC report on the conference in
Stresa:"Not a word
of what is said at Bilderberg meetings can be breathed
outside. No reporters are invited in and while confidential
minutes of meetings are taken, names are not noted. The
shadowy aura extends further – the anonymous answerphone
message, for example; the fact that conference venues are
kept secret. The group, which includes luminaries such as
Henry Kissinger and former UK chancellor Kenneth Clarke,
does not even have a website."
But,
counter participants, the secrecy is not evidence of a grand
conspiracy, but only an opportunity to speak frankly with
other world leaders out of the limelight of press coverage
and its inevitable repercussions.
"There's
absolutely nothing in it," argues the UK's Lord Denis
Healey, one of the four founders of Bilderberg. "We never
sought to reach a consensus on the big issues at
Bilderberg," he told the BBC. "It's simply a place for
discussion."
Here is the
partial guest list of the current meeting obtained by
WorldNetDaily – which includes Senators John Edwards,
D-N.C. and Jon Corzine, D-N.J., Henry Kissinger, Richard
Perle, Melinda Gates (wife of Bill Gates), David
Rockefeller, Timothy F. Geithner, president of the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York, Donald Graham, chairman and CEO of
the Washington Post Company, and even Ralph Reed, former
head of the Christian Coalition:
N - Auser,
Svein - CEO, DnB NOR ASA; D - Ackermann, Josef - Chairman,
Group Executive Committee, Deutsche Bank AG; I - Ambrosetti,
Alfredo - Chairman, Abbrosetti Group; TR - Babacan, Ali -
Minister of Economic Affairs; P - Balsemao, Francisco Pinto
- Chairman and CEO, IMPRESA, SGPS, Former Prime Minister; ISR - Barnavie,
Elie - Department of General History, Tel-Aviv University; I
- Benedetti, Rodolfo De - CEO, CIR; I - Bernabe, Franco -
Vice Chairman, Rothschild Europe;
F - Beytout, Nicolas -
Editor In Chief, Les Echos; INT - Bolkestein, Frits -
Commissioner for the Internal Market, European Commission,
former leader of Dutch right wing Liberal Party VVD; USA -
Boot, Max - Neoconservative, Council on foreign Relations,
Features Editor, Wall Street Journal; CH - Borel, Daniel -
Chairman, Logitech International S.A.; I - Bortoli, Ferrucio
de - CEO, RCS Libri; S - Brock, Gunnar - CEO, Atlas Copco
AB; GB - Browne, John - Group Chief Executive, BP plc; NL -
Burgmans, Antony - Chairman, Unilever NV; F - Camus,
Phillipe - CEO, European Aeronautic Defence and Space NV; I
- Caracciolo, Lucio - Director, Limes Geopolitical Review; F
- Castries, Henri de - Chairman, AXA Insurance; E - Cebrian,
Juan Luis - CEO, PRISA (Spanish language media company),
former Chairman, International Press Institute; TR - Cemal,
Hasan - Senior Columnist, Milliyet Newspaper; GB - Clarke,
Kenneth - Member of Parliament (Con.), Deputy Chairman,
British American Tobacco; USA - Collins, Timothy C - MD and
CEO, Ripplewood Holdings LLC, Yale School of Management,
Trilateral Commission; USA - Corzine, Jon S. - Senator (D,
New Jersey), Chairman and CEO, Goldman Sachs; CH -
Couchepin, Pascal - Former Swiss President, Head of Home
affairs Dept.; GR - David, George A. - Chairman, Coca-Cola
Hellenic Bottling Company SA; B - Dehaene, Jean-Luc - Former
Prime Minister, Mayor of Vilvoorde; TR - Dervis, Kemal -
Member of Parliament, former senior World bank official; GR
- Diamantopoulou, Anna - Member of Parliament, former
European Commissioner for Social Affairs; USA - Donilon,
Thomas L - Vice-President, Fannie Mae, Council on Foreign
Relations; I - Draghi, Mario - Vice Chairman and Managing
Director, Goldman Sachs; USA - Edwards, John - Senator (D.
North Carolina), Democratic Presidential Candidate; DK -
Eldrup, Anders - Chairman, DONG gas company (becoming
privatised) A/S; DK - Federspiel, Ulrik - Ambassador to the
USA; USA - Feith, Douglas J. - Undersecretary for Policy,
Department of Defense; I - Galateri, Gabriele - Chairman,
Mediobanca; USA - Gates, Melinda F. - Co-Founder, Gates
Foundation, wife of Bill Gates; USA - Geithner, Timothy F. -
President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; I - Giavazzi,
Francesco - Professor of Economics, Bocconi University;
adviser, world bank and European Central bank; IRL -
Gleeson, Dermot - Chairman Allied Irish Bank Group
(currently being investigated for personal and corporate tax
evasion); USA - Graham, Donald E. - Chairman and CEO,
Washington Post Company; USA - Haas, Richard N. - President,
Council on Foreign Relations, former Director of Policy and
Planning staff, State Department; NL - Halberstadt, Victor -
Professor of Economics, Leiden University; B - Hansen,
Jean-Pierre - Chairman, Suez Tractabel SA; S - Heikensten,
Lars - Governor, Swedish Central Bank; USA - Holbrooke,
Richard C - Vice Chairman, Perseus, former Director, Council
on Foreign Relations, former Assistant Secretary of State;
USA - Hubbard, Allen B - President E&A Industries; USA -
Issacson, Walter - President and CEO, Aspen Institute; USA -
Janow, Merit L. - Professor, International Economic Law and
International Affairs, Columbia University; USA - Jordan,
Vernon E. Senior Managing Director, Lazard Freres & Co LLC;
USA - Kagan, Robert - Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace; GB - Kerr, John - Director, Shell,
Rio Tinto, Scottish American Investment Trust; USA -
Kissinger Henry A. - Chairman, Kissinger Associates Inc.; TR
- Koc, Mustafa V. - Chairman, Koc Holdings AS; NL -
Koenders, Bert (AG) - Member of Parliament, president,
Parliamentary Network of the World Bank; USA - Kovner, Bruce
- Chairman Caxton Associates LLC, Chairman, American
Enterprise Institute; USA - Kravis, Henry R. - Founding
Partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., acquisitions
financier; USA - Kravis, Marie Josee - Senoir Fellow, Hudson
Institute Inc.; FIN - Lehtomaki, Paula - Minister of Foreigh
Trade and Development; FIN - Lipponen, Paavo - Speaker of
Parliament; CHN - Long, Yongtu - Secretary General, Boao
forum for Asia; P - Lopes, Pedro M. Santana - Mayor of
Lisbon; USA - Luti, William J. - Deputy Under Secretary of
Defense for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs; CDN -
Lynch, Kevin G. - Deputy Minister, Department of Finance;
USA - Mathews, Jessica T. - President, Carnegie Endowment
for International War Peace; USA - McDonough, William J. -
Chairman and CEO, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board,
former president, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; CDN -
McKenna, Frank - Counsel, McInnes Cooper, former premier of
New Brunswick; I - Merlini, Cesare - Executive Vice
Chairman, Council for the United States and Italy, Council
on Foreign Relations, former director, Italian Institute for
International Affairs; F - Montbrial, Thierry de -
President, French Institute of International Relations; INT
- Monti, Mario - Competition Commissioner, European
Commission; USA - Mundie, Craig J. - Chief Technical
Officer, Advanced Strategies and Policies, Microsoft
Corporation; N - Myklebust, Egil - Chairman, Scandinavian
Airline System (SAS); D - Naas, Matthias - Deputy Editor,
Die Zeit; NL - Netherlands, HM Queen Beatrix; GB -
Neville-Jones, Pauline - Chairman, QuinetiQ (UK privatized
military research/services company), governor of the BBC,
Chairman Information Assurance Advisory Council, formar
Chairman Joint Intelligence Committee, former Managing
Director NatWest Markets; USA - Nooyi, Indra K. - President
and CEO, PepsiCo Inc.; PL - Olechowski, Andrzej - Leader,
Civic Platform; FIN - Ollila, Jorma - Chairman, Nokia
Corporation; INT - Padoa-Schioppa, Tommaso - Director,
European Central Bank; CY - Pantelides, Leonidas -
Ambassador to Greece; I - Passera, Corrado - CEO, Banca
Intesa SpA; USA - Perle, Richard N. - Resident Fellow,
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research,
former Likud policy adviser, former chair Defence Policy
Board, former co-chairman, Hollinger Digital; B - Phillipe,
HRH Prince; USA - Reed, Ralph E. - President, Century
Strategies; CDN - Reisman, Heather - President and CEO,
Indigo Books and Music Inc.; I - Riotta, Gianni -
Editorialist, Corriere della Serra; USA - Rockefeller, David
- Member JP Morgan International Council, Chairman, Council
of the Americas; E - Riodriguez Inearte, Matias - Vice
Chairman, Grupo Santander; USA - Ross, Dennis B - Director,
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy; D -
Sandschneider, Eberhard - Director, Research Institute,
German Society for Foreign Policy; I - Scaroni, Paolo - CEO,
Enel SpA; D - Schilly, Otto - Minister of the Interior; USA
- Schnabel, Rockwell A. - Ambassador to the EU; A -
Scholten, Rudolf - Director, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank
AG; D - Schrempp, Jurgen E. - Chairman, DaimlerChrysler AG;
E - Serra Rexach, Eduardo - Head, Real Institute Elcano; RUS
- Shevtsova, Lilia - Senior Associate. Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace; PL - Sikora, Slawomir - President
and CEO, Citibank Handlowy; I - Siniscalo, Domenico -
Director General Ministry of the Economy; P - Socrates, Jose
- Member of Parliament; USA - Strmecki, Marin J. - Smith
Richardson Foundation; B - Struye de Swielande, Dominique -
Permanant repressentative of Belguim, NATO; IRL -
Sutherland, Peter D. - Chairman, Goldman Sachs
International, Chairman, BP plc; USA - Thornton, John L. -
Chairman, Brookings Institution, Professor, Tsinghua
University; I - Tremonti, Giulio - Minister of Economy and
Finance; INT - Trichet, Jean-Claude - President, European
Central Bank; I - Tronchetti Provera, Marco - Chairman and
CEO, Pirelli SpA; N - Underdal, Arild - Rector, University
of Oslo; CH - Vasella, Daniel L. - Chairman and CEO,
Novartis AG; NL - Veer, Jeroen van der - Chairman, Committee
of Managing Directors, Royal Dutch/Shell; GB - Verwaayen,
Ben J. M. - CEO, British Telecom; former director, Lucent
Technologies; I - Visco, Ignazio - Foriegn Affairs Manager,
Banca D'Italia; INT - Vitorino, Antonio M. - Justice and
Home Affairs Commissioner, European Union; INT - Vries, Gijs
M. de - EU Counter Terrorism Co-ordinator; S - Wallenberg,
Jacob - Chairman, SEB investments (including biotech);
Chairman, W Capital Management AB; D - Weber, Jurgen -
Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Deutche Lufthansa AG;
GB/USA - Weinberg, Peter - CEO, Goldman Sachs International;
NL - Wijers, Hans - Chairman, AkzoNobel NV; D - Wissmann,
Matthias - Member of Parliament; GB - Wolf, Martin H. -
Associate Editor/Economic Commentator, The Financial Times;
INT/USA - Wolfenson, James D. - President, The World Bank;
RUS - Yavlinsky, Grigory A. - Member of Parliament; USA -
Yergin, Daniel - Chairman, Cambridge Energy Research
Associates; D - Zumwinkel, Llaus - Chairman, Deutche Post
Worldnet AG.
In
addition, according to the
Bilderberg.org website, two reporters ("rapporteurs")
from the British publication The Economist will also be
attending: Gideon Rachman, Brussels correspondent, and
Adrian D. Wooldridge, the magazine's foreign correspondent.
That may afford slightly more
transparency than in the past. In 1998, British free-lance
journalist Campbell Thomas attempted to cover the conference
in Turnberry, Scotland, for the Daily Mail. Thomas began by
seeking the opinions of neighbors to the secret meeting
being held nearby. One of those was a young woman who told
him he was in the hotel's staffquarters and should
leave immediately, which he did. A short while later, two
local police officers arrested Thomas, who reportedly
remained in custody for eight hours.
British
journalist Jon Ronson, who is the author of a book on
Bilderberg, had this to say: "I'm a sort of semi-conspiracy
theorist when it comes to Bilderberg because I think they
wouldn't go to that much trouble of having this incredibly
expensive international conference every year and they'd go
to all this trouble to keep themselves out of the press and
be really secret and invite the world's most powerful people
if it was just a chat and a game of golf, which is basically
what they say it is. So I do think they have some impact on
world affairs."
Some
observers are even speculating that President Bush will make
an appearance at this year's event, just as Bill Clinton did
at the group's 2000 meeting. By coincidence, it just happens
that Bush will be in Italy over the weekend ¦
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Montana Governor Signs
Revolutionary New Gun Law by Ernest Hancock
Freedom's Phoenix May 4, 2009
"Executive Summary" The USA state of Montana has signed
into power a revolutionary gun law. I mean
REVOLUTIONARY.
The State of Montana has defied the federal government
and their gun laws. This will prompt a showdown between
the federal government and the State of Montana. The
federal government fears citizens owning guns. They try
to curtail what types of guns they can own. The gun
control laws all have one common goal of confiscation of
privately owned firearms.
Montana has gone beyond drawing a line in the sand. They
have challenged the Federal Government. The fed now
either takes them on and risks them saying the federal
agents have no right to violate their state gun laws and
arrest the federal agents that try to enforce the
federal firearms acts. This will be a world-class event
to watch. Montana could go to voting for secession from
the union, which is really throwing the gauntlet in
Obamas face. If the federal government does nothing they
lose face. Gotta love it.
Important Points:
If guns and ammunition are manufactured inside the State
of Montana for sale and use inside that state then the
federal firearms laws have no applicability since the
federal government only has the power to control
commerce across state lines. Montana has the law on
their side. Since when did the USA start following their
own laws especially the constitution of the USA, the
very document that empowers the USA.
Silencers made in Montana and sold in Montana would be
fully legal and not registered. As a note silencers were
first used before the 007 movies as a device to enable
one to hunt without disturbing neighbors and scaring
game. They were also useful as devices to control noise
when practicing so as to not disturb the neighbors.
Silencers work best with a bolt-action rifle. There is a
long barrel and the chamber is closed tight so as to
direct all the gases though the silencer at the tip of
the barrel. Semi-auto pistols and revolvers do not
really muffle the sound very well except on the silver
screen. The revolvers bleed gas out with the sound all
over the place. The semi-auto pistols bleed the gases
out when the slide recoils back.
Silencers are maybe nice for snipers picking off enemy
soldiers even though they reduce velocity but not very
practical for hit men shooting pistols in crowded
places. Silencers were useful tools for gun enthusiasts
and hunters.
There would be no firearm registration, serial numbers,
criminal records check, waiting periods or paperwork
required. So in a short period of time there would be
millions and millions of unregistered untraceable guns
in Montana. Way to go Montana.
Discussion : Let us see what Obama does. If
he hits Montana hard they will probably vote to secede
from the USA. The governor of Texas has already been
refusing Federal money because he does not want to agree
to the conditions that go with it and he has been saying
secession is a right they have as sort of a threat.
Things are no longer the same with the USA. Do not be
deceived by Obama acting as if all is the same, it is
not.
INTRODUCED BY J BONIEK, BENNETT, BUTCHER, CURTISS,
RANDALL, WARBURTON
AN ACT EXEMPTING FROM FEDERAL REGULATION UNDER THE
COMMERCE CLAUSE OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
A FIREARM, A FIREARM ACCESSORY, OR AMMUNITION
MANUFACTURED AND RETAINED IN MONTANA; AND PROVIDING AN
APPLICABILITY DATE.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF
MONTANA:
Section 1. Short title. [Sections 1
through 6] may be cited as the "Montana Firearms Freedom
Act".
Section 2. Legislative declarations of
authority. The legislature declares that the
authority for [sections 1 through 6] is the following:
(1) The 10th amendment to the United States constitution
guarantees to the states and their people all powers not
granted to the federal government elsewhere in the
constitution and reserves to the state and people of
Montana certain powers as they were understood at the
time that Montana was admitted to statehood in 1889. The
guaranty of those powers is a matter of contract between
the state and people of Montana and the United States as
of the time that the compact with the United States was
agreed upon and adopted by Montana and the United States
in 1889.
(2) The ninth amendment to the United States
constitution guarantees to the people rights not granted
in the constitution and reserves to the people of
Montana certain rights, as they were understood at the
time that Montana was admitted to statehood in 1889. The
guaranty of those rights is a matter of contract between
the state and people of Montana and the United States as
of the time that the compact with the United States was
agreed upon and adopted by Montana and the United States
in 1889.
(3) The regulation of intrastate commerce is vested in
the states under the 9th and 10th amendments to the
United States constitution, particularly if not
expressly preempted by federal law. Congress has not
expressly preempted state regulation of intrastate
commerce pertaining to the manufacture on an intrastate
basis of firearms, firearms accessories, and ammunition.
(4) The second amendment to the United States
constitution reserves to the people the right to keep
and bear arms as that right was understood at the time
that Montana was admitted to statehood in 1889, and the
guaranty of the right is a matter of contract between
the state and people of Montana and the United States as
of the time that the compact with the United States was
agreed upon and adopted by Montana and the United States
in 1889.(5) Article II, section 12, of the Montana
constitution clearly secures to Montana citizens, and
prohibits government interference with, the right of
individual Montana citizens to keep and bear arms. This
constitutional protection is unchanged from the 1889
Montana constitution, which was approved by congress and
the people of Montana, and the right exists, as it was
understood at the time that the compact with the United
States was agreed upon and adopted by Montana and the
United States in 1889.
Section 3. Definitions. As used in
[sections 1 through 6], the following definitions apply:
(1) "Borders of Montana" means the boundaries of Montana
described in Article I, section 1, of the 1889 Montana
constitution.
(2) "Firearms accessories" means items that are used in
conjunction with or mounted upon a firearm but are not
essential to the basic function of a firearm, including
but not limited to telescopic or laser sights,
magazines, flash or sound suppressors, folding or
aftermarket stocks and grips, speedloaders, ammunition
carriers, and lights for target illumination.
(3) "Generic and insignificant parts" includes but is
not limited to springs, screws, nuts, and pins.
(4) "Manufactured" means that a firearm, a firearm
accessory, or ammunition has been created from basic
materials for functional usefulness, including but not
limited to forging, casting, machining, or other
processes for working materials.
Section 4. Prohibitions. A personal
firearm, a firearm accessory, or ammunition that is
manufactured commercially or privately in Montana and
that remains within the borders of Montana is not
subject to federal law or federal regulation, including
registration, under the authority of congress to
regulate interstate commerce. It is declared by the
legislature that those items have not traveled in
interstate commerce. This section applies to a firearm,
a firearm accessory, or ammunition that is manufactured
in Montana from basic materials and that can be
manufactured without the inclusion of any significant
parts imported from another state. Generic and
insignificant parts that have other manufacturing or
consumer product applications are not firearms, firearms
accessories, or ammunition, and their importation into
Montana and incorporation into a firearm, a firearm
accessory, or ammunition manufactured in Montana does
not subject the firearm, firearm accessory, or
ammunition to federal regulation. It is declared by the
legislature that basic materials, such as unmachined
steel and unshaped wood, are not firearms, firearms
accessories, or ammunition and are not subject to
congressional authority to regulate firearms, firearms
accessories, and ammunition under interstate commerce as
if they were actually firearms, firearms accessories, or
ammunition. The authority of congress to regulate
interstate commerce in basic materials does not include
authority to regulate firearms, firearms accessories,
and ammunition made in Montana from those materials.
Firearms accessories that are imported into Montana from
another state and that are subject to federal regulation
as being in interstate commerce do not subject a firearm
to federal regulation under interstate commerce because
they are attached to or used in conjunction with a
firearm in Montana.
Section 5. Exceptions. [Section 4] does
not apply to:
(1) A firearm that cannot be carried and used by one
person;
(2) A firearm that has a bore diameter greater than 1
1/2 inches and that uses smokeless powder, not black
powder, as a propellant;
(3) ammunition with a projectile that explodes using an
explosion of chemical energy after the projectile leaves
the firearm; or
(4) a firearm that discharges two or more projectiles
with one activation of the trigger or other firing
device.
Section 6. Marketing of firearms. A
firearm manufactured or sold in Montana under [sections
1 through 6] must have the words "Made in Montana"
clearly stamped on a central metallic part, such as the
receiver or frame.
Section 7. Codification instruction.
[Sections 1 through 6] are intended to be codified as an
integral part of Title 30, and the provisions of Title
30 apply to [sections 1 through 6].
Section 8. Applicability. [This act]
applies to firearms, firearms accessories, and
ammunition that are manufactured, as defined in [section
3], and retained in Montana after October 1, 2009.
Ernest Hancock's website Thanks to Joe Heibel for this article Source: Freedom's Phoenix
"Dr. Ron Paul: "The last
time we had a Swine Flu
outbreak was 1970 and one person died. Except for the
folks that took the vaccination, twenty five of those
died."
One thing Dr. Paul neglected to mention were the
hundreds of people who took the vaccination and were
paralyzed for life.
You want to watch this one too folks - about 3 minutes.
Gee, how did Bayer Aspirin make vaccine contaminated
with AIDs?
Keep in mind these folks / New World Order have a STATED
goal to reduce the population of the planet from 6
billion to 1/2 billion people."
Inside
Puppy Mills
Friday May 8th
2009 – National Geographic channel (US) - 9pm et
Cesar's work with Last Chance for Animals results in
happy endings for rescued puppies.
Every year, millions of dogs are
mass-produced at puppy mills - often packed in tiny wire
cages, neglected, dehydrated, dirty and chronically sick
- and then sold legally to pet stores throughout the
country. In this powerful episode, Cesar sees puppy mill
horror and works to rescue and rehabilitate caged pups
with the animal rights group Last Chance for Animals.
With hidden cameras, LCA operatives spot check Los
Angeles county kennels, rescue eleven dogs considered
worthless by breeders and learn from Cesar as he teaches
them how to immediately rehabilitate the traumatized
pups.
Preview videos, photos, information
and more details are at the link below.
05/04/09KBR
Contracts Are Majority of Fraud Referrals (Update1)
Bloomberg
Mon, 04 May 2009 12:06 PM PDT
May 4 (Bloomberg) -- Billings from KBR Inc. , the Army's
largest contractor in Iraq, constitute the vast majority of
32 cases referred by government auditors for criminal
investigation, the Pentagon's top auditor said today. *(ONe
of KBRs CEOs was prosecuted for Bribbery!) (KBR is Dick
Cheney's Subsidiary of his company Halliburton that he has
stock in! Just a coincidence KBR is also responsible
for many "accidental deaths of soldiers by electrocution,
bad water, and more, Oh and charging $75 for a hammer? If
you haven't figured it out, that is why Dick Cheney and his
lawyers had the Iraq War planned long before 9/11. WAR
IS A MONEY MAKING MACHINE AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN! Read "Descent
Into Slavery" by Des Griffin for a history lesson that will
shock you.)
Iraq
insists on US leaving cities by June 30
AP via Yahoo! News
Mon, 04 May 2009 11:49 AM PDT
Iraq's government Monday ruled out allowing U.S. combat
troops to remain in Iraqi cities after the June 30 deadline
for their withdrawal, despite concern that Iraqi forces
cannot cope with the security
Iraq will not extend U.S. deadline
The World
Mon, 04 May 2009 11:54 AM PDT
BAGHDAD - Iraq will not extend the June 30 deadline for U.S.
troops to withdraw from urban areas, a spokesman said today
despite concerns about a resurgence of violence in recent
weeks.
05/03/09
Iran attacks Kurdish guerillas with helicopters
Morning Star
Sun, 03 May 2009 10:22 AM PDT
IRANIAN helicopter gunships and artillery units pummeled
suspected Kurdish guerilla positions in northern Iraq at the
weekend.
Iraqi forces arrest US-allied militia leader
The Malaysian Insider
Sun, 03 May 2009 10:16 AM PDT
TIKRIT, Iraq, May 3 (Reuters) - Iraqi forces backed by US
troops have arrested a US-allied Sunni Arab militia leader
charged with murder, Iraqi officials said on Sunday. The US
military said Nadhim al-Jubouri, leader of a
government-backed local militia and a religious leader in
the town of Dhuluiya, 70 km (45 miles) north of Baghdad, and
his two brothers were seized from their home on Saturday.
...
Iraqi president says will not barter disputed city
AlertNet
Sun, 03 May 2009 10:15 AM PDT
Source: Reuters SULAIMANIYA, Iraq, May 3 (Reuters) - Iraqi
President Jalal Talabani said on Sunday the country's
Kurdish minority would not give up their bid for control of
the disputed oil region of Kirkuk. ...
Accidental deaths plaguing US in
Iraq
Boston Globe
Sun, 03 May 2009 11:30 AM PDT
WASHINGTON - The 130,000 American troops serving in Iraq are
more likely to die in accidents, from natural causes, or in
other "nonhostile" incidents than at the hands of
insurgents, according to Defense Department statistics for
the past eight months ending in April.
05/02/09 From the front where our friend Doc is after a
close call a few weeks ago when 5 US soldiers were killed:
Gunman
in Iraqi army uniform kills 2 US soldiers
AP via Yahoo! News
Sat, 02 May 2009 11:43 AM PDT
A gunman wearing an Iraqi army uniform opened fire on a U.S.
military team Saturday, killing two American soldiers and
wounding three others at a combat outpost in northern Iraq,
the military said.
Two U.S. soldiers killed in northern
Iraq (Reuters)
Yahoo!7 World News
Sat, 02 May 2009 11:16 AM PDT
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An attacker wearing an Iraqi army
uniform shot and killed two U.S. soldiers outside the
volatile northern city of Mosul on Saturday, the U.S.
military said.
Anatomy of an `inside' ambush in
Iraq
AP via Yahoo! News
Sat, 02 May 2009 11:41 AM PDT
U.S. soldiers and Iraqi police had just sat down for
lunch inside a police building in Mosul. Flak vests
and other protective gear were removed.
Replacing God Less than 3 months into the Obama
administration, we are no longer a Christian nation.
While speaking in Ankara , Turkey, President
Obama made an astonishing proclamation. [1] He
claimed, "We do not consider ourselves a Christian
nation." Instead, he said, "We are a nation of
citizens," essentially assigning fealty to "the
state" over fealty to God. The world listened, and
nodded.
Back home in the U.S., Newsweek editor Jon
Meacham welcomed The End of Christian America [2]:
"The decline and fall of the modern religious
right's notion of a Christian America creates a
calmer political environment and, for many
believers, may help open the way for a more
theologically serious religious life."
I guess it's settled. God is now outdated, at
least among our political and media elite. In their
worldview, what they sneeringly call the religious
right is now merely a fringe group. America itself
has evolved to a higher plane. A more progressive
plane, if you will.
The overwhelming majority of Americans who
profess faith in God are being told that the times
have changed. Christianity, our ruling elite inform
us, is only one of many religions, all of which are
equal.
In case we don't get it, President Obama, while
abroad, expressed a deep appreciation for the
Islamic faith [3] while, here at home, he appointed
a gay-rights activist to the federal government's
faith-based initiative. Said activist described Pope
Benedict XVI and certain Catholic bishops as
"discredited leaders." Get it?
The election of Barack Obama has ushered in a new
era in the war for hearts and minds in America.
Obama, representing the Left, believes that man, not
God, is omnipotent, thus paving the way for man
(Obama) to take control of every facet of life in
America. Obama and the government know best. They
are now in charge.
President Obama is asking for your blind faith,
the faith usually reserved for God. Without any
record of achievement, he asks that you believe in
him, that you follow his dictates. That you allow
him to lead us from the wilderness.
What Obama is doing has been done before.
Successfully. In the former Soviet Union , churches
operated only with permission of the state. In China
, the crackdown continues on underground churches.
The "state" knows it must have supremacy over God in
order to effectively rule (subjugate) its citizens.
Pol Pot knew this. Lenin knew this. Mao Tse Tung
knew this. Any dictator who conquers a country
through force knows this. And Obama knows this.
In order for the state to be supreme, fealty to
God, and allegiance to family and to communities,
must be replaced with fealty to the state. This
strategy is now being implemented in America and all
other western Christian countries, with increasing
success. The traditional family, the backbone of our
nation, is being redefined as we speak. The
institution of marriage is being undermined by the
creeping acceptance of gay marriage. Faith in God is
being replaced with faith in Mother Earth. It's no
mistake that the Obama administration is jumping
aboard the environmental bandwagon. They recognize
the basic human desire to believe in a cause or
ideal greater than ourselves. By making the
environment the new religion, all those higher
feelings may be directed and manipulated by the
state. And all that money, formerly called tithing,
may now be directed towards supposed efforts by the
government to "save the planet." In other words, God
can't save the planet, only man can. Guilt may now
be assuaged by advocating for environmental
controls. Best of all, total redemption is available
for those who care enough to become"carbon neutral."
In order for this to work, government has to get
God out of the way. And they're doing a bang-up job.
The ACLU has terrorized cities across the country
with threats of lawsuits for allowing the barest
hint of religion into state policy. The secularist
media portrays anything smacking of Christianity as
totally beyond the pale. Newspapers, magazines and
television are of one mind, depicting any show of
faith in God as a fringe mentality, as unseemly as
picking one's nose in public. God is now passe, at
least according to those elites who set the agenda
in our country. Environmentalism is the new religion
for all right thinking people. And if you don't
agree, well, it doesn't matter. Obama won, haven't
you heard? He has claimed a mandate, and, so far, no
one is challenging it. We voted for it. We got it.
Ether 2:8 And He (God) had sworn in his wrath
unto the brother of Jared, that whoso should possess
this land of promise, from that time henceforth and
forever, should serve Him, the true and only God, or
they should be swept off when the fulness of his
wrath should come upon them. <
9 And now, we can behold the decrees of God
concerning this land, that it is a land of promise;
and whatsoever nation shall possess it shall serve
God, or they shall be swept off when the fulness of
His wrath shall come upon them. And the fulness of
His wrath cometh upon them when they are ripened in
iniquity. <
10 For behold, this is a land which is choice
above all other lands; wherefore He that doth
possess it shall serve God or shall be swept off;
for it is the everlasting decree of God. And it is
not until the fulness of iniquity among the children
of the land, that they are swept off. <
11 And this cometh unto you, O ye Gentiles, that
ye may know the decrees of God
—that
ye may repent, and not continue in your iniquities
until the fulness come, that ye may not bring down
the fulness of the wrath of God upon you as the
inhabitants of the land have hitherto done. <http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/134665230/direct/01/>
12 Behold, this is a choice land, and whatsoever
nation shall possess it shall be free from bondage,
and from captivity, and from all other nations under
heaven, if they will but serve the God of the land,
who is Jesus Christ, who hath been manifested by the
things which we have written.
Before leaving office, the Bush administration rammed
through regulatory changes to the Endangered Species Act
that threaten efforts to save polar bears, wolves, manatees
and more than 1,300 other species from extinction.
If left in place, these changes will...
Prevent
the Endangered Species Act from protecting our vanishing
polar bears from global warming, which would effectively
allow America's threatened polar bears to drown in a sea
of inaction; and
Let federal agencies in charge of building highways,
dams and other projects decide whether those projects
might drive rare plants and animals toward extinction,
without ever checking with the expert biologists in the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine
Fisheries Service.
Defenders of Wildlife -- and caring wildlife supporters like
you -- fought hard in Congress for legislation that gives
Secretaries Salazar and Locke the authority to overturn
these rules. Now it’s up to Secretaries Salazar and Locke to
use this hard-fought authority before it expires on May 9th.
More than 200,000 comments opposing the changes were
submitted to the Interior Department in the 60 days that the
Bush/Cheney administration allowed for the public to respond
to its changes. And newspapers across the country have
editorialized overwhelmingly against the Bush/Cheney
administration’s gutting of Endangered Species Act
protections.
Nonetheless, these regulations are now in place, and
each day they remain in effect our polar bears and other
vulnerable species are being placed at greater risk of
extinction.
The good news is that a stroke of the pen by Secretary
Salazar and Secretary Locke can restore Endangered Species
Act protections for the polar bear and other endangered
wildlife. The bad news is that neither secretary has taken
action yet.
When all the food is genetically engineered and causing
everyone diseases, do you want to right to choose to grow
organic "heirloom" safe/unartificially engineered
seeds? Then act fast:
* Monsanto
URGENT APRIL CONGRESS WILL
VOTE TO OUTLAW ORGANIC FARMING, ORGANIC PRODUCE, ORGANIC
"safe Heirloom" SEEDS, AND FRUIT & VEGETABLE STANDS, FARMERS
MARKETS and last safe produce in AMerica!! CAll them please,
and all Congressmen of AMERICA TO VOTE NO!!!! Congressmen
Chaffetz and Matheson told me they were voting against this
bill.
The same company trying to get bill
passed to outlaw organic farming and
creating the Terminator Seed that
only grows one crop and no more
Heirloom seeds is at it again:
Killing us with Round up:
Come read how Monsanto foods have
Round Up pestisides that cause cell
damage research
If you click on the above link you will be on Christie's web
site, her picture in the upper right, with part of Dr.
Betty's story, and picture below.
Thank you Dr. Betty, for all you do, for all you have done,
and are continuing to do.
Thank you for your reports - which I send on to many others
- some will listen.
Come read more
Subject: Monsanto: A bill to outlaw organic farming next
week?
US House and Senate are about (in a week and a half) to vote
on bill that
will OUTLAW ORGANIC FARMING (bill HR 875). There is an
enormous rush to get this into law within the next 2 weeks
before people realize what is happening.
Main backer and lobbyist is (guess who) Monsanto (aspartame
maker) - chemical and genetic engineering giant corporation.
This bill will require organic farms to use specific
fertilizers and poisonous insect sprays dictated by the
newly formed agency to "make sure there is no danger to the
public food supply". This will include backyard gardens that
grow food only for a family and not for sales.
If this passes then NO more heirloom clean seeds but only
Monsanto genetically altered seeds that are now showing up
with unexpected diseases in humans.
Representative James D. Matheson (D - 02)
202-225-3011 202-225-5638
they are aware of bill and have gotten lots of calls, but
need more calls please!!http://matheson.house.gov
A North Carolina legislative committee has passed a
pro-gas chamber
bill. If this bill becomes law, it would ensure gas
chambers remain
available as a means to kill shelter animals.
In November 1995, nine
activists were hanged in Port
Harcourt, Nigeria. They were
innocent of any crime, and
guilty only of demanding
environmental and human rights
for their people, the Ogoni.
Last week, I
testified in Congress about
the role of Shell oil in
environmental and human rights
violations in the Niger Delta.
And in a few weeks, a landmark
trial will open in federal court
in New York City at which Shell
will face charges for its role
in the murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa,
and the other Ogoni.
I knew Ken Saro-Wiwa. I've been
to the Niger Delta.
One of the abuses these
activists died struggling to end
was the practice of "gas
flaring"-burning off gas
released by oil extraction
activities in massive fires that
send plumes of toxic smoke, soot
and vapors into the air.
Gas flaring in Nigeria endangers
human health, harms local
ecosystems, and is sub-Saharan
Africa's largest historical
source of greenhouse gas
emissions.
It also wastes vast quantities
of natural gas, and is against
the law in Nigeria.
But Shell is still doing it.
And they won't stop, unless we
make them. We've organized
a global effort, ShellGuilty, to
stop gas flaring and highlight
Shell's crimes.
Ken Saro-Wiwa and his colleagues
died for organizing against gas
flaring and demanding their
rights.
Now we must take up their
struggle.
Please, help us turn up the heat
on Shell to stop gas flaring
once and for all by taking
action, and then telling your
friends to do the same.
In his final statement to the
military tribunal that falsely
convicted him, Ken Saro-Wiwa
said:
"Shell is here on trial…there is
no doubt in my mind that the
ecological war the company has
waged in the delta will be
called to question sooner than
later and the crimes of that war
duly punished. The crime of the
company's dirty wars against the
Ogoni people will also be
punished."
The New York Post reports this morning that in just
the first few months of 2009, Bank of America added 15,000
jobs to its workforce in India. This is after Bank of
America cut 34,000 jobs in the US, and pledged to cut 35,000
more.
Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis just doesn't get it.
It's time for taxpayers to call for him to go.
More than 20,000 people have already signed "taxpayer proxy
cards" asking for CEO Ken Lewis to be fired and to reform
Bank of America. Can you help us reach 30,000 in the
next 48 hours?
When CEO Ken Lewis was asked about the nearly 35,000
announced job cuts, he showed little care for his employees:
"I feel bad about firing people, but at least I have the
courage to do it."
This is the same Ken Lewis who took home $35 million in
compensation in the last two years, and the same Bank of
America that may receive up to $199.2 billion in taxpayer
dollars.
You'd think they'd have some semblance of responsibility to
the American public. After all, it's our government's
money that's helping keep Bank of America alive.
Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis is apparently only interested
in his personal bottom line, and not that of his company,
his employees, or his investors
Acting CFO of Freddie Mac Found Dead in Apparent Suicide
The acting chief financial
officer of troubled mortgage giant Freddie Mac committed
suicide overnight in his Vienna home, Fairfax police said
this morning. David Kellermann, 41, has been Freddie Mac's
chief financial officer since September. His body was found
in the 1700 block of Raleigh Hill Road.
April 15 Special Tea Party
with Mark Shurtleff, Jason Chaffetz, Doug Osmond, Bob
Bishop,
1,000 people came by
the Letters To Soldiers table to write a letter about
what the Constitution means to them that we will send to our
soldiers. Wow they invited me up to speak after AG Mark
Shurtleff and Congressmen Chaffetz and Bishop!! 2,000
patriots that love our Constitution and Freedoms came. It
was fun to see my LDS single friends and many other friends.
Read more about it below under News.
In addition, Doug Osmond sang "The Star Spangled Banner" at
the beginning and "I AM Proud To Be An American" at the
conclusion of our event. We were all so proud to express
what our Constitution and this country, and the sacrifices
of brave men's lives that gave us these rights means to us.
THE MEDIA THAT DID NOT COVER THIS NATION-WIDE EVENT OF
PATRIOTS OF ALL PARTIES, IS LYING ABOUT WHAT THESE PARTIES
WERE ABOUT:"
Anti-tax protests have been around as long as there have
been taxes, but this last week was special. At a time
when American taxpayers are actually quite
content with the amount they are taxed; one cable news
network hijacked,
actively promoted, and then participated in what was
supposed to be the
Boston Tea Party, reborn. The Fox News
production of "Tea Party 2009," had no more impact than any
of its predecessors. It sure was fun to watch, though.
Here are some of the highlights:
Countdown aired a great segment on the eve of the protests.
Subbing for Kieth Olbermann, David Schuster gives his
synopsis of the "teabagger" movement and the media's
coverage of it, followed by some scathing commentary from
Lawrence O'Donnell:
The "tea parties" ended up drawing over
300,ooo protesters. Such numbers might have even
been impressive if they weren't spread accross 2000 cities.
The attendence figures will no doubt be disputed by
supporters of the teabaggers, however, their credibility is
suspect (see
Neil Cavuto caught exaggerating attendence by DailyKosTV).
Objective figures for the rallies may be found at Nate
Silver's
538.com.
Certainly,
Fox's
propaganda effort contributed to the size of the crowds.
It remains questionable, though, whether their promotion
accomplished anything for the credibility impaired news
network. Much to the proper anti-taxers' dismay, Fox News, Freedomworks,
Progress for America, and other big money
conservative
groups destroyed all assertions that the tax day
protests represented a "grassroots" uprising. Paul
Krugman offered his assessment in his New York Times,
April 12 post:
They’re AstroTurf (fake grass roots) events, manufactured by
the usual suspects. In particular, a key role is being
played by FreedomWorks, an organization run by Richard
Armey, the former House majority leader, and supported by
the usual group of right-wing billionaires. And the parties
are, of course, being promoted heavily by Fox News.
But that’s nothing new, and AstroTurf has worked well for
Republicans in the past. The most notable example was the
“spontaneous” riot back in 2000 — actually orchestrated by
G.O.P. strategists — that shut down the presidential vote
recount in Florida’s Miami-Dade County.
Indeed, Astro Turf has worked for the Republican Party in
the past, and Krugman is absolutely correct in warning
Democrats and other progressives to resist the urge to
ignore the GOP's efforts to remain relevant.
What do you think? Does the Democratic Party need to
worry about this nonsense? The GOP surely needs to be
watched closely, however, crowds of people holding up signs
declaring, "Obama is a Socialist," won't bring Republicans
back into the majority any time soon. Additionally,
angry protesters shouting, "Obama is a fascist," is only
going to isolate them further.
By the way, I have to ask any wing nuts who happen to be
reading this: Socialist or Fascist, which is it?
Honestly, I'm not sure they know, or care to know, the
difference.
Unsurprisingly, Jon Stewart explored the tax day tea
protests last night. He not only took on Fox News for
sponsoring these events, but the people themselves for
protesting wasteful spending by buying a million tea bags
and wasting them. Stewart also looked at the amazing
coincidence in timing that these people decided to go
anti-government around two and a half months ago.
View the clip at either of the above links, and I think
you'll agree that the behavior on display at the anti-tax
tea parties was nothing more than sour grapes left over from
Obama's victory last November".
THAT IS NOT WHAT THESE TEA PARTIES WERE ABOUT. IT WAS ABOUT
"WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH!" ENOUGH OF CARTER, REAGAN, BUSH SENIOR,
CLINTON, BUSH JR, AND NOW OBAMA LIES, ABUSE AND TREADING OF
OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, PUTTING US INTO DEEPER DEBT,
WORLD WIDE BRIBERY AND SECRET DEALS!! NO MORE SECRET SOCIETY
MEETINGS, NO MORE LIES.
We
absolutely MUST make sure that our US Senate does not ratify
and enter us into this treaty.
A danish scientist
Niels Harrit, on nano-thermite in the WTC
dust ( english subtitles ). Just as BYU
Professor and other University Scientists
examined and concluded: (Who are the real
enemies?)
We learned yesterday
that the Obama
Administration has
publicly released those
secret torture memos.
What we saw in them was
disturbing and immoral,
but it's important that
these actions can no
longer be denied or
hidden.
President Obama took a
big step toward proving
that he is committed to
openness and
transparency.
The American people have
a right to know what is
inside those memos and
Common Cause will be
among those looking
closely at them.
We commend the
Administration, and urge
President Obama to
support the creation of
an independent panel to
investigate abuses of
power by the Bush
Administration,
including torture and
other reprehensible acts
believed to have taken
place during the
previous administration.
A U.S. based
pharmaceutical company
that just weeks ago was
involved in a scandal
involving vaccines
tainted with deadly
avian flu virus has been
chosen to head up
efforts to produce a
vaccine for the Mexican
swine flu that has
seemingly migrated into
the U.S. and Europe.
Baxter
confirmed over the
weekend that it is
working with the World
Health Organization on a
potential vaccine to
curb the deadly swine
flu virus that is blamed
for scores of deaths in
Mexico and has emerged
as a threat in the U.S.,
reports the
Chicago Tribune.
Baxter
has previously worked
with governments all
over the globe to
develop and produce
vaccines to protect
against infectious
disease or potential
threats from
bioterrorism. After 9/11
Baxter helped supply
stockpiles of a smallpox
vaccine and in 2003 the
company was contracted
to develop a vaccine to
combat the SARS virus.
In 2006 the UK
Government announced
plans designed to
inoculate every person
in the country
with Baxter's vaccines
in the event of a flu
pandemic.
However, Baxter has a
very recent and most
disturbing connection to
flu vaccines.
As reported by
multiple sources last
month, including the
Times of India,
vaccines contaminated
with deadly live H5N1
avian flu virus were
distributed to 18
countries last December
by a lab at an Austrian
branch of Baxter.
It was only by
providence that the
batch was first tested
on ferrets in the Czech
Republic, before being
shipped out for
injection into humans.
The ferrets all died and
the shocking discovery
was made.
Initially, Baxter
attempted to stonewall
questions by invoking
“trade secrets” and
refused to reveal how
the vaccines were
contaminated with H5N1.
After increased pressure
they then claimed that
pure H5N1 batches were
sent by accident.
Since the probability
of mixing a live virus
biological weapon with
vaccine material by
accident
is virtually impossible,
this leaves no other
explanation than that
the contamination was a
deliberate attempt to
weaponize the H5N1 virus
to its most potent
extreme and distribute
it via conventional flu
vaccines to the
population who would
then infect others to a
devastating degree as
the disease went
airborne.
The fact that Baxter
mixed the deadly H5N1
virus with a mix of H3N2
seasonal flu viruses is
the smoking gun. The
H5N1 virus on its own
has killed hundreds of
people, but it is less
airborne and more
restricted in the ease
with which it can
spread. However, when
combined with seasonal
flu viruses, which as
everyone knows are
super-airborne and
easily spread, the
effect is a potent,
super-airbone, super
deadly biological
weapon.
Now it
has been announced that
Baxter is seeking a
sample of the
potentially lethal
never before seen
form of
swine/avian/human flu
virus in order to assist
the World Health
Organization in
developing a new
vaccine, reaping
billions in the process.
Why
should Baxter be
trusted, when they have
already been proven to
be at the very least
criminally negligent,
and at worst a prime
suspect in attempting to
carry off one of the
most heinous crimes in
the history of mankind?
The
company has already put
the safety of the entire
human race at risk, and
now, just a few weeks
later, we're expected to
invest our confidence in
them and take their
shots with a smile and a
still tongue?
As Mike
Adams of Natural News
has commented, "If you
mail an envelope full of
anthrax to your Senator,
you get arrested as a
terrorist. So why is
Baxter — which mailed
samples of a far more
deadly viral strain to
labs around the world —
getting away with
saying, essentially,
'Oops?'"
WHO
officials are reportedly
still closely monitoring
the investigation into
Baxter's contaminated
flu vaccines, seemingly
they are not too
concerned. Perhaps we
should be.
From:
CLG_News
To:
CLG News
Sent:
Sunday,
April
26, 2009
5:33 PM
Subject:
Drug
companies
prepare
for
swine
flu
epidemic
26 Apr
2009
Breaking
News and
Commentary
from
Citizens
for
Legitimate
Government
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/pharmaceuticalsandchemicals/5225935/Drugs-companies-prepare-for-swine-flu-epidemic.html>
26 Apr
2009
Pharmaceutical
stocks
are
expected
to rise
on
Monday
morning,
after
Roche
and
GlaxoSmithKline
said
they may
need to
supply
millions
of
vaccine
doses to
help
protect
against
the
swine
flu that
has
killed
up to 81
people
in
Mexico.
26 Apr
2009
Vaccines
from
Roche,
which
sells
Tamiflu,
and GSK,
maker of
Relenza,
have
been
shown to
work
against
viral
samples
of the
new
disease.
The
drugs
were
also
used to
help
protect
against
outbreaks
of bird
flu in
Asia,
providing
windfall
profits
for the
companies.
Roche
confirmed
it
already
has a
stockpile
of 3m
packs of
Tamiflu
ready
for use
by the
World
Health
Organisation
(WHO).
[Well,
knock me
over
with a
feather!
Instead
of
facing
trial
and
execution
for war
crimes,
Donald
Rumsfeld
is going
to make
a
killing
- maybe
even
greater
than
Rudy
Giuliani/'Lucky
Larry'
killings
from the
9/11
terror
attacks.
See:
Rumsfeld's
growing
stake in
Tamiflu
<http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/31/news/newsmakers/fortune_rumsfeld/>
--Defense
Secretary,
ex-chairman
of flu
treatment
rights
holder,
sees
portfolio
value
growing
31 Oct
2005 The
prospect
of a
bird flu
outbreak
may be
panicking
people
around
the
globe,
but it's
proving
to be
very
good
news for
Defense
Secretary
Donald
Rumsfeld
and
other
politically
connected
investors
in
Gilead
Sciences,
the
California
biotech
company
that
owns the
rights
to
Tamiflu,
the
influenza
remedy
that's
now the
most-sought
after
drug in
the
world.
Rumsfeld
served
as
Gilead
(Research)'s
chairman
from
1997
until he
joined
the Bush
administration
in 2001,
and he
still
holds a
Gilead
stake
valued
at
between
$5
million
and $25
million,
according
to
federal
financial
disclosures
filed by
Rumsfeld.]
Mission
accomplished.
CDC to
conduct
avian
flu
pandemic
experiments
<
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1104186283991_7/>
27 Dec
2004 Can
the
highly
virulent
flu
strain
-- known
as H5N1
--
actually
acquire
the
ability
to
spread
easily
to and
among
people?
And if
it can,
how
likely
is that
dreaded
event to
occur?
Early in
the new
year,
U.S.
scientists
will
begin
experiments
that
should
provide
some
answers
to those
questions...
The
researchers,
from the
influenza
branch
of the
Centers
for
Disease
Control
in
Atlanta,
will
mate
H5N1 and
human
flu
viruses
in a
process
known as
reassortment.
Viable
offspring
will be
tested
in
animals
thought
to be
good
surrogates
for
humans,
to see
if the
viruses
can
infect,
can be
transmitted
easily
from
infected
animals
to
healthy
ones and
to note
the
severity
of
disease
each
provokes.
Swine
flu:
passengers
inspected
at
Heathrow
<
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/5225730/Swine-flu-passengers-flying-in-to-Heathrow-from-Mexico-inspected-on-runway.html>
--Passengers
flying
into
Heathrow
from
Mexico
City
were
held on
their
plane
for 45
minutes
while
health
officials
checked
them for
signs of
the
killer
disease.
26 Apr
2009 Two
inspectors
boarded
British
Airways
flight
242 at
the
airport
in west
London
to ask
passengers
and crew
if they
felt
unwell.
Swine
flu,
which
according
to one
expect
has the
potential
to kill
120
million
worldwide,
can be
carried
for up
to a
week
before
its
effects
begin to
show.
Swine
flu: two
admitted
to
hospital
in
Scotland
as world
braces
for more
cases <
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/5225729/Swine-flu-two-admitted-to-hospital-in-Scotland-as-world-braces-for-more-cases.html>
26 Apr
2009 Two
people
have
been
admitted
to
hospital
in
Scotland
amid
fears
they may
have
contracted
a deadly
form of
swine
flu
after
returning
from
Mexico
where
the
disease
has
claimed
at least
81
lives.
Their
admission
has
reignited
fears
that
swine
flu may
have
arrived
in the
UK
although
there
have
been no
confirmed
reports
of the
virus
infecting
anyone
in
Britain.
British
officials
remain
on high
alert as
scores
of
travellers
return
from the
centre
of the
outbreak
as the
United
States
government
declared
a public
health
emergency.
Israeli
suspected
of
having
swine
flu in
Mideast
first <
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gW5lBZvuysU9NLUb7vMhSt2mC3UA>
--Patient
had been
put in
isolation
26 Apr
2009 In
the
first
suspected
swine
flu case
in the
Middle
East, a
26-year-old
Israeli
man has
been
hospitalised
upon
returning
from
Mexico
on
suspicion
of
contracting
the
potentially
fatal
strain,
hospital
officials
told AFP
on
Sunday.
The man
checked
into the
Laniado
hospital
in the
coastal
city of
Netanya
with
flu-like
symptoms
and
doctors
were
trying
to
determine
whether
he had
contracted
the
disease,
a
spokeswoman
said.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g-G1kSAM9yaH00eBrXD2S5s-3ZhgD97QBDI02>
26 Apr
2009
Canada
became
the
third
country
to
confirm
human
cases of
swine
flu
Sunday
as
global
health
officials
considered
whether
to raise
the
global
pandemic
alert
level.
Nations
from New
Zealand
to Spain
also
reported
suspected
cases
and some
warned
citizens
against
travel
to North
America
while
others
planned
quarantines,
tightened
rules on
pork
imports
and
testing
airline
passengers
for
fevers.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/25/politics/main4968913.shtml>
--Man
Obama
Met
Later
Died
With
Flu-Like
Symptoms
25 Apr
2009
President
Barack
Obama's
health
is fine
a little
more
than a
week
after he
traveled
to
Mexico,
where an
outbreak
of swine
flu has
killed
at least
68
people
and
sickened
more
than
1,000,
the
White
House
said
Saturday.
"The
president's
trip to
Mexico
has not
put his
health
in any
danger,"
said
spokesman
Robert
Gibbs.
The
World
Health
Organization's
director-general,
Margaret
Chan,
said the
outbreak
of the
never-before-seen
virus is
a very
serious
situation
and has
"pandemic
potential."
U.S.
Declares
Public
Health
Emergency
Over
Swine
Flu <
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/world/27flu.html>
27 Apr
2009
American
health
officials
on
Sunday
declared
a public
health
emergency
over
increasing
cases of
swine
flu,
saying
that
they had
confirmed
20 cases
of the
disease
in the
United
States
and
expected
to see
more as
investigators
fan out
to track
down the
path of
the
outbreak.
Although
officials
said
most of
the
cases
have
been
mild and
urged
Americans
not to
panic,
the
emergency
declaration
frees
government
resources
to be
used
toward
diagnosing
or
preventing
additional
cases,
and
releases
money
for more
antiviral
drugs.
Press
Briefing
on Swine
Influenza
with
Department
of
Homeland
Security,
Centers
for
Disease
Control
and
Prevention,
and
White
House <
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN26490216>
26 Apr
2009 A
top
official
at the
U.S.
Centers
for
Disease
Control
and
Prevention
said on
Sunday
she
feared
some
people
in the
United
States
would
die as a
new
strain
of swine
flu
spreads.
The
agency's
Dr. Anne
Schuchat
said in
a
telephone
briefing
with
reporters
that
officials
are
preparing
for a
possible
spread
of the
illness
beyond
the 20
cases
confirmed
in the
United
States
and
added,
"I do
fear
that we
will
have
deaths."
CDC
confirms
Queens
high
school
students
have
swine
flu;
National
state of
emergency
declared
<
France
Says
Studying
Four
Possible
Swine-Flu
Cases <
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=aQrJamMEbEr8>
26 Apr
2009
French
health
officials
said
they’re
studying
four
possible
cases of
swine
flu in
the
north of
the
country.
Test
results
should
be
available
within
24
hours,
said
Francoise
Weber,
director-general
of the
Sanitary
Surveillance
Institute,
at a
news
conference
in Paris
today.
Briton
quarantined
as
killer
flu
spreads
<
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article6169120.ece>
26 Apr
2009 A
British
Airways
cabin
crew
member
was
taken to
hospital
with
flu-like
symptoms
yesterday
afternoon
after
falling
ill on a
flight
from
Mexico
City to
Heathrow.
The
Health
Protection
Agency
said it
was
keeping
a close
eye on
the
situation.
Mexico
Takes
Powers
to
Isolate
Cases of
Swine
Flu <
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/world/americas/26mexico.html>
--The
Centers
for
Disease
Control
and
Prevention
in
Atlanta
said
Saturday
that it
had sent
a team
of
experts
to
Mexico
to
assist
with the
investigation
cover-up
of the
outbreak.26
Apr 2009
This
sprawling
capital
was on
edge
Saturday
as...
President
[sic]
Felipe
Calderón
published
an order
that
would
give his
government
emergency
powers
to
address
a deadly
flu
outbreak,
including
isolating
those
who have
contracted
the
virus,
inspecting
the
homes of
affected
people
and
ordering
the
cancellation
of
public
events.
The
newspaper
Reforma
reported
that
President
Obama,
who
recently
visited
Mexico,
was
escorted
around
Mexico
City’s
national
anthropology
museum
on April
16 by
Felipe
Solis,
an
archaeologist
who died
the next
day from
flu-like
symptoms.
Texas
Gov
orders
37,430
courses
of
antiviral
medications
from
Strategic
National
Stockpile
<
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/042509dntswswinesanantonio.23ffd9f.html>
--New
possible
case of
swine
flu
identified
in Texas
25 Apr
2009 A
Texas
high
school
where
two
students
are
confirmed
to have
swine
flu is
temporarily
closing
after a
new
possible
case of
swine
flu was
identified
there,
state
health
officials
announced
Saturday...
Gov.
Rick
Perry
announced
Saturday
that
because
of the
outbreak
he was
asking
the
Centers
for
Disease
Control
and
Prevention
to give
Texas
37,430
courses
of
antiviral
medications
from the
Strategic
National
Stockpile
to
prevent
the
spread
of swine
flu.
CLG:
Baxter
working
on
vaccine
to stop
swine
flu,
though
admitted
sending
live
pandemic
flu
viruses
to
subcontractor
<
http://www.legitgov.org/baxter_flu_vaccine_260409.html>
By Lori
Price 26
Apr 2009
The OMFG
moment
of the
century.
Illinois-based
Baxter
working
on
vaccine
to
'stop'
swine
flu
outbreak
in
Mexico
(25 Apr
2009).
But,
looky
here!
Baxter
admits
sending
live
avian
flu
viruses
to
subcontractor
--People
familiar
with
biosecurity
rules
are
dismayed
by
evidence
that
human
H3N2 and
avian
H5N1
viruses
somehow
co-mingled
[!] in
the
Orth-Donau
facility.
(27 Feb
2009) Is
Baxter
International
taking a
page
from the
Blackwater
playbook?
Just as
Blackwater/Xe
keep on
killing
to
justify
their
multi-billion
dollar
contracts
to
provide
'security'
in Iraq
and
Afghanistan,
Baxter
International
is
poised
to make
*billions*
If you
saw the
starving
polar
bear in
Disney's
Earth,
you know
that we
need to
keep
them on
the
Endangered
Species
Act that
BUsh/Cheney
removed!!
SEe
below
what you
can do.
Statistics of Illegals in California
Illegals and pseudo refugees in all countries
should be rounded up and sent back home.
This is only one State...............If this doesn't open your eyes nothing
will !
From the L. A. Times
1. 40% of all workers in L. A. County ( L. A.
County has 10.2 million
people)are working for cash and not paying taxes. This is because they are
predominantly illegal immigrants working
without a green card.
2. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.
3. 75% of people on the most wanted
list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens.
4. Over 2/3 of all births in Los Angeles County
are to illegal alien
Mexicans on Medi-Cal, whose births were paid for by taxpayers.
5. Nearly 35% of all inmates in California
detention centers are Mexican
nationals here illegally.
6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles
County are living in garages.
7. The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los
Angeles are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border.
8. Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.
9. 21 radio stations in L. A. Are Spanish speaking.
10. In L. A. County 5.1 million people speak English, 3.9 million speak Spanish.
(There are 10.2 million people in L. A. County )
(All 10 of the above are from the Los Angeles Times)
Less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops, but
29% are on
welfare. Over 70% of the United States ' annual population
growth (and over 90% of California, Florida, and New York) results
from immigration. 29% of
inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens.
And this is only one State...
This is the scariest news that has been coming out and one of our Utah LDS
singles did see railroad cars in Springville that looked like jails:
"The
Reality
of
Coming
POLICE
STATE
USA
and
BECK'S TELEVISION DENIAL
of AMTRAK DEATH CAMP in BEECH
GROVE, INDIANA
by Pamela Schuffert presenting investigative journalism with a Christian
perspective-
I almost choked when someone told me about Glenn Beck coming on national
television a few weeks ago and DENIED the reality of the coming NWO AMERICAN
HOLOCAUST and NWO police state agenda including DEATH
CAMPS FOR AMERICANS.
Beck even declared on national television that the AMTRAK
REPAIR FACILITY in BEECH GROVE, IN, is somehow NOT going to be used as a
future termination camp facility under martial law.
Sorry, Beck, but CIA and other insiders have declared otherwise. I have
performed years of investigative journalism exposing the accursed NWO death camp
agenda against my fellow Americans, and several former CIA sources admitted to
me PERSONALLY that indeed, this facility has been in part retrofitted to provide
termination facilities that will destroy the lives of
26,000 POLITICAL and RELIGIOUS opponents of the NWO under martial law EVERY 24
HOURS!
I have performed a live radio broadcast in front of this eery AMTRAK facility,
four layers of barbed wire fencing deep surrounding it. Locals, when
interviewed, even admit that IT IS TO KILL NWO RESISTERS and CHRISTIANS
OPPONENTS under martial law, when asked.
One CIA source, G from Tulsa, OK, admitted that indeed it is a killing facility
to take out 26,000 every 24 hours.
But WHY focus on just THAT one, Glenn? There are hundreds of FEMA/
HOMELAND SECURITY/MILITARY camps nationwide prepared to terminate all future NWO
resistance! The issue of whether or not THIS one is really a death camp is not
the main point.
The MAIN issue should have been, Glenn, WHY are there HUNDREDS of known
detention/termination camps located nationwide and throughout this NA continent,
and in fact underground as well?
Tell us, Glenn: WHAT IS COMING TO OUR NATION, AMERICA?
Against WHOM will these ominous camps be used? And WHY?
WHY are potentially MILLIONS of my fellow Americans marked on secret
government/military lists and flagged for arrest and termination under martial
law?
WHAT HORRIBLE CATASTROPHES are coming to OUR nation to bring it down in a state
of chaos/martial law? And WHO is behind the planning of such black ops? And the
funding? And carrying them out against us?
WHO has been brainwashed and hardened and trained to operate these death camps
against our fellow Americans under martial law? And just WHO has been training
them in such ANTI-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES?
And WHY, Glenn, are you so ANTI-AMERICAN as to join with the NWO liars in DENIAL
and COVER-UP over such future agendas? WHO PAID YOU TO LIE to the American
people? You LIED...and MILLIONS WILL DIE...under the coming AMERICAN HOLOCAUST
of the innocents.
"Republican-led state
legislatures and far-right GOP governors are
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Francillon to be in more than one place at a time, but
his mind and heart understandably are bouncing from Salt
Lake City to Philadelphia to his native Haiti.
Attorneys for the family of Parker Jensen — who refused
a custody order to submit the boy to chemotherapy
treatment while they sought further testing — argued
before the Utah Supreme Court Wednesday that the case
could change family rights under the state constitution.
Investment
banking giant Goldman Sachs has become perhaps the most prominent symbol for
everything that is wrong with the U.S. financial system, but most Americans
cannot even begin to explain what they do or how they have made tens of
billions of dollars from the economic collapse of America. The truth is
that what Goldman Sachs did was fairly simple, and there may not have even
been anything "illegal" about it (although they are now being investigated
by the SEC among others). 
In
this Dec. 1,2009 photo provided by PictureGroup
showing Brittany Murphy arriving at the 'Across the
Hall' Premiere in Beverly Hills, Calif. A Los
Angeles hospital spokeswoman says actress Brittany
Murphy has died. She was 32. (AP Photo/PictureGroup,
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The Baghdad Iraq Military District was
recently created to provide increased
spiritual support for the needs of
approximately 1,300 members of The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints living in
Iraq. After six years of meeting as military
groups the Mormon Church now has a palpable
presence and priesthood structure in place
to serve those in the armed forces and
working in other capacities throughout the
country.
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Father
of new 5 day old baby, with three other children says goodbye
and son and brother says good bye for next 12 months, and so
many of our dear friends lined up to get on the bus headed for
the plane to TX for 2 months of training and then 10 months in
Iraq away from their families. 
Families
had signs of Love, "We will miss you," and stood as their loved
ones got on the bus.
Families
wave goodbye as the buses leave Ft. Douglas.
Soldiers
see their family members for the last time for next 12 months
through the bus windows, the father of the family with the 5 day
old new baby looked so sad. This is why we do what we do
to send them support and love from home and support their
families while they are away sacrificing so much.
Our
dear friend Lte. Col
Felsch, a good LDS
former BYU alumni of
mine.
Families
wait holding the
Tahitian Noni binders
for their soldier
This
picture says it all as
family cries with last
look at husband, dad,
son.
How
can any of us imagine
seeing your husband
going off for 12 months
away from the family?
Nineveh
Nimha of FOX13
interviews newlywed
couple before soldier
leaves.
Hussle
of Checkin of Luggage.
6am
arrivals
Check
in counter
Mother Nature added another sight to see at the Oquirrh Mountain
Temple, Saturday.
