Cryptocurrency's Posts - 12160 Social Network2024-03-19T13:46:37ZCryptocurrencyhttps://12160.info/profile/KRYPKE32https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1961328541?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://12160.info/profiles/blog/feed?user=1s90y2nmvhhxa&xn_auth=noRome Burned, Will We?tag:12160.info,2018-09-27:2649739:BlogPost:9509502018-09-27T12:19:44.000ZCryptocurrencyhttps://12160.info/profile/KRYPKE32
<p>Ruling class accelerates planned economic implosion</p>
<p><strong>Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones</strong><br></br> Infowars.com<br></br> Tuesday, August 14, 2012</p>
<p align="left">As America’s engineered economic implosion accelerates, the parallels with how the Roman empire fell are staggering. It is now abundantly clear that the ruling class is preparing for a planned economic implosion after which they will declare themselves the saviors.…</p>
<div class="caption right"><img alt="" height="240" src="http://www.enterpriseirregulars.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/fall-roman-empire.jpg" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;" width="370"></img></div>
<p>Ruling class accelerates planned economic implosion</p>
<p><strong>Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones</strong><br/> Infowars.com<br/> Tuesday, August 14, 2012</p>
<p align="left">As America’s engineered economic implosion accelerates, the parallels with how the Roman empire fell are staggering. It is now abundantly clear that the ruling class is preparing for a planned economic implosion after which they will declare themselves the saviors.</p>
<div class="caption right"><img style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;" src="http://www.enterpriseirregulars.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/fall-roman-empire.jpg" alt="" width="370" height="240"/></div>
<p align="left"><a href="http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/08/10/idINL2E8J6D7920120810">A recent Reuters report</a> highlighting how the Federal Reserve has been telling major banks in the U.S. to prepare for a “worst case scenario” financial collapse and that these banks would not be able to rely on government support underscores once again how the elite are positioning themselves to exploit the next leg of the orchestrated financial meltdown.</p>
<p align="left">Just as happened in the aftermath of 2008, the ruling class is getting ready to offer the solution of more centralized control and more financial serfdom as the solution to the problem they created in the first place.</p>
<p align="left">By making the public and industry beg for QE3, the Federal Reserve will once again try to manipulate the crisis to portray itself as the guardian of a fragile system and accumulate yet more power.</p>
<p align="left">America is now ruled by a gaggle of completely corrupt financial terrorists who will stop at nothing to hollow out the country in pursuit of their own maniacal and selfish gain.</p>
<p align="left">This precisely parallels Rome’s rapacious ruling Emperors and Senators of the fifth century who were so obsessed with seizing wealth and control that they ended up destroying their own culture, their own country and its empire in the process.</p>
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<p align="left">Just as in Rome, while the ruling elite got filthy rich, the people struggled and starved.</p>
<p align="left">More than <a href="http://www.rightsidenews.com/2012081216844/us/politics-and-economics/more-than-100-million-americans-are-on-welfare.html">100 million Americans are now on government welfare</a>, a third of the entire country, and that figure doesn’t even include Social Security or Medicare.</p>
<p align="left">22.3 million households and 46.5 million Americans have now entered technical poverty and <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/465-million-americans-record-223-million-us-households-foodstamps">live off food stamps.</a></p>
<p align="left">Just as in Rome, where the need to constantly generate revenue to satisfy the cost of defense and a sprawling bureaucracy ultimately led to the country becoming bankrupt as Nero and subsequently emperors hiked up taxes and debased the currency, America is hurtling towards a similar fate.</p>
<p align="left">Entitlement spending, military defense and a bloated federal bureaucracy has left the United States<a href="http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/"> almost $16 trillion dollars in debt, and </a>the prospect of QE3 threatens to sink the dollar as the world reserve currency for good.</p>
<p align="left">Just as Romans found their currency becoming increasingly worthless, the <a href="http://observationsandnotes.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/100-year-declining-value-of-us-dollar.html">U.S. dollar has lost almost 100 per cent of its value</a> since 1900.</p>
<p align="left">Just like Rome, America was once a Republic that has been hijacked and turned into an empire. Just as the Roman Empire crumbled under its rulers’ inability to afford its maintenance, America’s overseas presence (the <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/sep/14/ron-paul/ron-paul-says-us-has-military-personnel-130-nation/">U.S. has troops in a staggering 130 countries</a>), is bankrupting the country.</p>
<p align="left">Like America, Rome once had an influential middle class whose wealth allowed them to have a political stake in their country. Merchants and traders were able to prosper because taxes were modest and economic regulation was relaxed. However, beginning in the third century B.C., the Roman economy became more regimented and taxes were raised. This eviscerated and disenfranchised the middle class, just as has unfolded in America, where <a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2011/11/16/study-middle-class-neighborhoods-disappearing">middle class neighborhoods are disappearing</a> and income is polarized between a struggling downtrodden mass of people and a tiny rich elite.</p>
<p align="left">When the economic collapse arrives, it could be more brutal than anything America has experienced in its history as a nation.</p>
<p align="left">Consider the fact that during the ten years of the 1929 Great Depression, some <a href="http://english.pravda.ru/world/americas/19-05-2008/105255-famine-0/">8 million Americans starved to death</a>. And this at a time when 90 per cent of the population lived in rural areas and were at least somewhat self-sufficient. That number is now 50 per cent and many people who live outside major cities are not self-sufficient in any way.</p>
<p align="left">Aside from economic factors, cultural and societal parallels can also be drawn between Rome and 21st century America.</p>
<p align="left">Rome’s increasing use of illegal immigrants to do agricultural work its host population refused to undertake mirrors America in 2012. As Peter Heather writes in <em>The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and Barbarians</em>, “The Roman government allowed uncontrolled hostile immigration to dissolve the fabric of their civilization. Illegal and legal Immigrants grew more powerful while exercising their own character of their cultures. They did not adopt Roman ways. Second, vast blocks of once Roman lands became foreign held and even the Roman population, once outnumbered, was no match for hostile immigrants.”</p>
<p align="left">“Factors that destroyed Rome now manifest in accelerating numbers in America. Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, New York City, San Francisco, Raleigh and all large cities suffer millions of illegal immigrants. Uncounted millions of them cannot and do not speak English. Millions work under the table without paying taxes. Millions use our hospitals without paying. They immigrate but do not assimilate. They colonize in ethnic enclaves separated from Americans. They fracture our country,” <a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty123.htm">writes Frosty Wooldridge.</a></p>
<p align="left">Just as Roman rulers created bread and circuses to distract their population from the fact that the country was collapsing, Americans are also enraptured by entertainment and sports, which in turn encourages them to lead superficial, meaningless lives.</p>
<p align="left">As Roman poet Juvenal (circa 100 A.D.) wrote, “Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions–everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses.”</p>
<p align="left">This loss of interest in civic duty and its replacement with an obsession for entertainment and folly is routinely cited by scholars as one of the primary reasons behind the collapse of Rome.</p>
<p align="left"><a href="http://hotbedinfo.com/2011/06/top-10-similarities-between-the-fall-of-rome-and-the-fall-of-america/">As Kyle Trottier writes</a>, “In many modern books written about Ancient Rome and her people, the ancient Romans are often portrayed as people who enjoyed violence and thought it amusing to see people being injured and killed to the point of obsession. It is now common knowledge that, in Ancient Rome, people often attended (and enjoyed) gladiatorial fights to the death, wild beast hunts, naval battles and chariot racing. Some public thinkers today have suggested that “entertainment” today, as it was in ancient times of Rome, reflects the decline of culture, into a plethora of lust, greed, violence, selfish individualism and bad behavior. Some Scholars suggest that history is repeating itself and we are now in a reoccurring cycle of moral decay and social breakdown. From the excessive amount of glorified violence in Hollywood movies, video games, music and on the internet, one can easily see the downward spiral of decency.”</p>
<p align="left">The moral decay of the Roman culture is also being aped almost precisely in America. While fertility and birth rates of the host population continue to plummet, sexual promiscuity and infidelity is lauded. As Dr. Carle Zimmerman’s 1947 book <em>Family and Civilization</em> documented, America shares the pattern of its moral decline with Rome. Zimmerman identified a number of behavior traits that signaled the decline of a civilization. These included “the breakdown of marriage and rise of divorce,” “acceleration of juvenile delinquency, promiscuity and rebellion,” “refusal of people with traditional marriages to accept their family responsibilities,” “a growing desire for and acceptance of adultery” and “increasing interest in and spread of sexual perversions and sex-related crimes.”</p>
<p align="left">All of these traits have come to shape American society in the 21st century.</p>
<p align="left">It does not take a crystal ball to see where all this is heading, and the planned economic implosion is going to be the trigger. Europe has already been rocked by riots over the past two years and federal authorities are already preparing for similar scenes in America only on a far bigger scale.</p>
<p align="left"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVKcB_PSdb8">As Ron Paul has warned</a>, the coming engineered financial breakdown is leading directly to domestic unrest which will inevitably lead to a state of martial law.</p>
<p align="left">Riots prompted by food shortages, inflation, inequality and political corruption are inevitable should the ruling class continue to deliberately implode the economy – as is the brutal police state response that will come as a result.</p>
<p align="left">Just as Rome burned <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Rome_%28455%29">when it was sacked in 455AD</a>, the historical point which marked the formal end of the Roman Empire, America faces the same fate.</p>
<p align="left">The only way to prevent or try to lessen the kind of collapse that could make the dissolution of Rome look like a cakewalk is to use the tools that ordinary Romans never had – the power of the modern alternative media.</p>
<p align="left">Only by relentlessly emphasizing that the collapse is being deliberately engineered by those who seek to exploit it for their own gain can we hope to deflate the myth that the ruling class are our only saviors in the coming time of peril.</p>
<p align="left">*********************</p>
<p align="left"><em>Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for <a href="http://prisonplanet.com/">Prison Planet.com</a>. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.</em></p>
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</ol>Are there drones in your town? Check the map to see -- Rise of spy planes exposed after FAA is forced to reveal 63 launch sites across U.S.tag:12160.info,2015-03-21:2649739:BlogPost:8521832015-03-21T04:26:13.000ZCryptocurrencyhttps://12160.info/profile/KRYPKE32
<h1>Is there a drone in your neighbourhood? Rise of spy planes exposed after FAA is forced to reveal 63 launch sites across U.S.</h1>
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<li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><font style="font-size: 1.4em;">Unmanned spy planes are being launched from locations in 20 states and owners include the military and universities<br></br></font></span></li>
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<p>By <a class="author" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Julian+Gavaghan" rel="nofollow">Julian…</a></p>
<h1>Is there a drone in your neighbourhood? Rise of spy planes exposed after FAA is forced to reveal 63 launch sites across U.S.</h1>
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<li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><font style="font-size: 1.4em;">Unmanned spy planes are being launched from locations in 20 states and owners include the military and universities<br/></font></span></li>
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<p>By <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Julian+Gavaghan" class="author" rel="nofollow">Julian Gavaghan</a></p>
<p><span class="article-timestamp"><strong>PUBLISHED:</strong> 05:15 EST, 24 April 2012</span> | <span class="article-timestamp"><strong>UPDATED:</strong> 07:39 EST, 24 April 2012</span></p>
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<p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">There are at least 63 active drone sites around the U.S, federal authorities have been forced to reveal following a landmark Freedom of Information lawsuit.</font></p>
<p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">The unmanned planes – some of which may have been designed to kill terror suspects – are being launched from locations in 20 states.</font></p>
<p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Most of the active drones are deployed from military installations, enforcement agencies and border patrol teams, according to the Federal Aviation Authority.</font></p>
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<div><img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/04/24/article-0-12BD6D73000005DC-24_964x651.jpg" alt="Exposed: Location of sites where licences have been granted for the use of drones within the U.S." class="blkBorder" height="651" width="964"/><p class="imageCaption">Exposed: Location of sites where licences have been granted for the use of drones within the U.S. There are 63 active sites based in 20 states. Red flags show active sites and blue show those locations where licences have expired since 2006</p>
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<p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">But, astonishingly, 19 universities and colleges are also registered as owners of what are officially known as unmanned aerial vehicles.</font></p>
<p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">It is thought that many of institutions, which include Cornell, the University of Colorado, Georgia Tech, and Eastern Gateway Community College, are developing drone technology.</font></p>
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<p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">There are also 21 mainstream manufactures, such as General Atomics, who are registered to use drones domestically.</font></p>
<p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">As well as active locations, the FAA also revealed 16 sites where licences to use spy planes have expired and four where authorisations have been disapproved, such as Otter Tail County, Minnesota.</font></p>
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<div><img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/04/24/article-0-12BD6D7D000005DC-411_964x621.jpg" alt="Unusual: The University of Connecticut - one of 19 educational institutions to own spy planes - is the drone site closest to New York City" class="blkBorder" height="621" width="964"/><p class="imageCaption">Unusual: The University of Connecticut - one of 19 educational institutions to own spy planes - is the drone site closest to New York City. The North East is the region with the highest concentration</p>
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<div><img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/04/24/article-0-12BD6D85000005DC-311_964x687.jpg" alt="Concentration: The Beltway around Washington DC has the highest concentration of urban and suburban drone sites" class="blkBorder" height="687" width="964"/><p class="imageCaption">Concentration: The Beltway around Washington DC has the highest concentration of urban and suburban drone sites, including the U.S. Marine Corp base as Quantico Station, Virginia</p>
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<p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">The authority revealed the information after a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by</font> <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/04/faa-releases-its-list-drone-certificates-leaves-many-questions-unanswered" target="_blank"><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Electronic Frontier Foundation</font></a><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">.</font></p>
<p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Its website hosts an interactive map that allows the user to zoom in to the area around where they live to see if any sites are nearby.</font></p>
<p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">However, the FAA is yet to reveal what kinds of drones might be based at any of these locations.</font></p>
<p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">The agency says it will release this data later.</font></p>
<p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Most of the drones are likely to be small craft, such as the Draganflyer X8, which can carry a payload of only 2.2lb.</font></p>
<p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Police, border patrols and environmental agencies, such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), could use for them effectively.</font></p>
<p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">While few would object to vast open areas being monitored for wildfires, there are fears of privacy violations if drones are used to spy over cities.</font></p>
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<div><img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/04/24/article-0-12BD6D95000005DC-489_964x789.jpg" alt="Florida: Mostly police and Sheriff departments are registered to use drones in the state" class="blkBorder" height="789" width="964"/><p class="imageCaption">Florida: Mostly police and Sheriff departments are registered to use drones in the state</p>
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<div><img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/04/24/article-0-12BD6DA5000005DC-94_964x778.jpg" alt="Watch out Canada! Border agents are registered to use drone in North Dakota, just a few hundred miles from Winnipeg, Manitoba" class="blkBorder" height="778" width="964"/><p class="imageCaption">Watch out Canada! Border agents are registered to use drone in North Dakota, just a few hundred miles from Winnipeg, Manitoba</p>
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<div><img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/04/24/article-0-12BD6DAB000005DC-259_964x632.jpg" alt="Remote: The University of Alaska's drones are the most distant from any major urban centres. They are, however, the closest to Russia" class="blkBorder" height="632" width="964"/><p class="imageCaption">Remote: The University of Alaska's drones are the most distant from any major urban centres. They are, however, the closest to Russia</p>
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<div><img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/04/24/article-2134376-12BD6D9D000005DC-99_964x689.jpg" alt="Hotspot: Texas has one of the highest number of drone sites" class="blkBorder" height="689" width="964"/><p class="imageCaption">Hotspot: Texas has one of the highest number of drone sites</p>
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<div><img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/04/24/article-2134376-12BD6D8E000005DC-725_964x667.jpg" alt="West Coast: There are comparatively few drone sites in California and Western states" class="blkBorder" height="667" width="964"/><p class="imageCaption">West Coast: There are comparatively few drone sites in California and Western states</p>
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<p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Other drones – likely to be operated only by the armed forces – might include the MQ-9 Reaper and the MQ-1 Predator, which was used to kill American Al Qaeda boss Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen last September.</font></p>
<p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">The FAA released two lists of public and private entities that have applied for authorisations to fly drones domestically.</font></p>
<p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Certificates of Authorizations (COAs), issued to public entities like police departments, are active in 42 locations, expired in 16 and disapproved in four.</font></p>
<p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Special Airworthiness Certificates (SACs), issued to private drone manufacturers, are active in 21 locations and not active in 17.</font></p>
<p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Among the other unanswered questions, however, are is exactly how many drones each registered user owns. <br/></font></p>
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<div><img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/04/24/article-2134376-12BD7D62000005DC-511_964x480.jpg" alt="Killer: Some of the drones owned by the military might be the MQ-9 Reaper, which has been used to target terrorists overseas" class="blkBorder" height="480" width="964"/><p class="imageCaption">Killer: Some of the drones owned by the military might be the MQ-9 Reaper, which has been used to target terrorists overseas</p>
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<div><img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/04/24/article-2134376-12BD79B7000005DC-236_964x520.jpg" alt="Draganflyer X8" class="blkBorder" height="520" width="964"/><p class="imageCaption">Watching you: Most of the drones are likely to be small craft, such as the Draganflyer X8, which can carry a payload of only 2.2lb. Police, border patrols and environmental agencies, such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), could use for them effectively</p>
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<p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">The FAA has confirmed that there were about 300 active COAs and that the agency has issued about 700-750 authorizations since the program began in 2006.</font></p>
<p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">But this information does not reveal how many are owned, for example, by Miami Dade Police Department.</font></p>
<p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">While the use of drones in the U.S. is little known, American operations overseas have been well documented.</font></p>
<p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">As well as high-profile terrorists, campaigners claim hundreds of innocent civilians have been killed in the border regions of Pakistan, where they are most active.</font></p>
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<div class="cleared art-ins news"><h3 class="wocc"><span style="font-weight: bold;">SO WHICH PUBLIC ENTITIES ARE REGISTERED OWNERS OF DRONES?</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">FULL LIST REVEALED HERE</span></h3>
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<p>U.S. Air Force</p>
<p>Mississippi Department of Marine Resources</p>
<p>Arlington Police Department</p>
<p>Mississippi State University</p>
<p>U.S. Army</p>
<p>U.S. Navy</p>
<p>City of Herington, Kansas</p>
<p>New Mexico Tech</p>
<p>City of North Little Rock, AR</p>
<p>Police Department Ogden Police Department</p>
<p>DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)</p>
<p>Ohio University</p>
<p>DHS (Department of Homeland Security) / CBP (Customs and Border Protection)</p>
<p>Orange County Sheriff's Office</p>
<p>DHS (Department of Homeland Security) / Science and Technology</p>
<p>Polk County Sheriff's Office</p>
<p>DOE (Department of Energy) - Idaho National Laboratory</p>
<p>Seattle Police Dept</p>
<p>Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service</p>
<p>Texas A&M University Corpus Christi</p>
<p>Department of the Interior - National Business Center/Aviation Management Directorate</p>
<p>Texas A&M University - TEES</p>
<p>Eastern Gateway Community College University of Alaska Fairbanks <br/> Texas State University University of Colorado</p>
<p>FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) University of Connecticut</p>
<p>Gadsden Police Department</p>
<p>Georgia Tech Research Institute University of Florida</p>
<p>Kansas State University University of North Dakota</p>
<p>USMC (United States Marine Corps)</p>
<p>Mesa County Sheriff's Office</p>
<p>Miami-Dade Police Department</p>
<p>Utah State University</p>
<p>Middle Tennessee State University</p>
<p>Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University</p>
<p>New Mexico State University Physical Sciences Laboratory (NMSU-PSL)</p>
<p>Washington State Department of Transportation</p>
<p>NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)</p>
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<p><font face="times new roman"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/cointelprocasebook.htm#cpusa">Communist Party, USA</a> <br></br> <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/cointelprocasebook.htm#swp">Socialist Workers Party</a> <br></br> <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/cointelprocasebook.htm#civilrights">Civil Rights</a> <br></br> <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/cointelprocasebook.htm#blacknationalist">Black…</a></font></p>
<p><font face="times new roman"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/cointelprocasebook.htm#cpusa">Communist Party, USA</a> <br/> <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/cointelprocasebook.htm#swp">Socialist Workers Party</a> <br/> <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/cointelprocasebook.htm#civilrights">Civil Rights</a> <br/> <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/cointelprocasebook.htm#blacknationalist">Black Nationalist</a> <br/> <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/cointelprocasebook.htm#whitehate">White Hate Groups</a> <br/> <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/cointelprocasebook.htm#newleft">New Left / Anti-War</a> <br/> <br/> <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/cointelprocasebook.htm#aim">American Indian Movement</a> <br/> <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/cointelprocasebook.htm#cispes">Committee In Solidarity with the People of El Salvador</a> <br/> <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/cointelprocasebook.htm#ef">Earth First!</a> <br/> <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/cointelprocasebook.htm#other">Other</a> <br/> <br/> <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/cointelprocasebook.htm#nationalsecurity">Recent Developments in National Security Law</a> <br/> <br/> <br/></font> <font face="times new roman"><font face="times new roman"><a name="cpusa" id="cpusa"></a><b>Communist Party, USA</b></font></font></p>
<blockquote><p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/usvmesarosh116FSupp345.htm"><i>United States v. Mesarosh</i>, 116 F.Supp. 345 (D.C.Pa.1953)</a>, affirmed, <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/usvmesarosh223F2d449.htm"><i>United States v. Mesarosh</i>, 223 F.2d 449 (3rd Cir.1955)</a>, cert granted, Mesarosh v. U.S., 350 U.S. 922 (1955), reversed, <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/mesaroshvus352US1.htm"><i>Mesarosh v. United States</i>, 352 U.S. 1 (1956)</a>, <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/mesaroshvus352US808.htm"><i>Mesarosh v. United States</i>, 352 U.S. 808 (1956).</a></p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/mesaroshvus352US808.htm"></a> <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/cpusavsacb223F2d531.htm"><i>Communist Party of U.S. v. Subversive Activities Conrol. Board</i>, 223 F.2d 531 (D.C. Cir.1955)</a>, certiorari granted, <i>Communist Party of the U.S. of America v. Subversive Activities Control Board</i>, 349 U.S. 943 (1955), reversed, <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/cpusavsacb351US115.htm"><i>Communist Party of U.S. v. Subversive Activities Control Board</i>, 351 U.S. 115 (1956)</a>.</p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/boordavsacb421F2d1142.htm"><i>Boorda v. Subversive Activities Control Board</i>, 421 F.2d 1142 (D.C.Cir.1969)</a>, cert. denied, 397 U.S. 1042 (1970) (disclosure provisions of the Subversive Activities Control Act held unconstitutional).</p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/wilkinsonvus272F2d783.htm"><i>Wilkinson v. United States</i>, 272 F.2d 783 (5th Cir.1960)</a>; cert granted, 362 U.S. 926 (1960); <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/wilkinsonvus365US399.htm"><i>Wilkinson v. United States</i>, 365 U.S. 399 (1961)</a>; <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/wilkinsonvus774FSupp1360.htm"><i>Wilkinson v. United States</i>, 774 F. Supp. 1360 (N.D. Ga. 1991)</a> (petition for writ of error coram nobis denied); affirmed <i>Wilkinson v. United States</i>, 959 F.2d 973 (11th Cir. 1992); <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/bradenvus272F2d653.htm"><i>Braden v. United States</i>, 272 F.2d 653 (5th Cir.1960);</a> <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/bradenvus365US431.htm"><i>Braden v. United States</i>, 365 U.S. 431 (1961)</a> ; petition for rehearing denied, Braden v. U.S., 365 U.S. 890 (1961); <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/wilkinsonvfbi99FRD148.htm"><i>Wilkinson v. F.B.I.</i>, 99 F.R.D. 148 (D.C.Cal.1983)</a> (NCARL, class action civil rights case); <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/wilkinsonvfbi633FSupp336.htm"><i>Wilkinson v. F.B.I.</i>, 633 F.Supp. 336 (C.D.Cal.1986)</a> (FOIA case)</p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/lamontvdoj475FSupp761.htm"><i>Lamont v. Department of Justice</i>, 475 F.Supp. 761 (D.C.N.Y. 1979)</a> (FOIA case. Security Index subject denied membership in Communist Party to McCarthy Committee; FBI/DOJ investigation unsuccessful attempt to prove perjury.)</p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/inreus872F2d472.htm"><i>In re U.S.</i>, 872 F.2d 472 (D.C. Cir. 1989)</a> (Federal Tort Claims Act, denial of government's motion to suppress evidence based on state secrets privilege)</p>
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<p><font face="times new roman"><font face="times new roman"><a name="swp" id="swp"></a><b>Socialist Workers Party</b></font></font></p>
<blockquote><p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/SWP%20v%20Attorney%20General%20387FSupp747.htm"><i>Socialist Workers Party v. Attorney General of U. S.</i>, 387 F.Supp. 747 (D.C.N.Y. 1974)</a> (proposed FBI surveillance of convention of controversial political organization threatened a substantial impairment of First Amendment rights and warranted preliminary injunctive relief, in absence of evidence of violent revolutionary activity or any other illegal activity)</p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/swp642FSupp1357.htm"><i>Socialist Workers Party v. Attorney General of U.S.</i>, 642 F. Supp. 1357 (S.D.N.Y.1986)</a> (Federal Tort Claims Act, order awarding defendants $264,000 for COINTELPRO disruption), <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/swp666FSupp621.htm"><i>Socialist Workers Party v. Attorney General of U.S.</i>, 666 F.Supp. 621 (S.D.N.Y.1987)</a> (Order for injunction preventing use or release of illegally obtained evidence).</p>
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<p align="justify"><a name="civilrights" id="civilrights"></a><b>Civil Rights</b></p>
<blockquote><p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/lesar636F2d472.htm"><i>Lesar v. U. S. Dept. of Justice</i>, 636 F.2d 472 (D.C. Cir.1980)</a> (Martin Luther King assassination; FOIA case)</p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/liuzzovus485FSupp1274.htm"><i>Liuzzo v. U. S.</i>, 485 F.Supp. 1274 (D.C.Mich.1980)</a>; <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/liuzzovus508FSupp923.htm"><i>Liuzzo v. U. S.</i>, 508 F.Supp. 923 (D.C.Mich.1981)</a>; <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/liuzzovus565FSupp640.htm"><i>Liuzzo v. U.S.</i>, 565 F.Supp. 640 (D.C.Mich.1983)</a>; <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/rowevgriffin497FSupp610.htm"><i>Rowe v. Griffin</i>, 497 F.Supp. 610 (D.C.Ala.1980)</a>, affirmed <i>Rowe v. Griffin</i>, 676 F.2d 524 (11th Cir.1982); <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/peckvus470FSupp1003.htm"><i>Peck v. U. S.</i>, 470 F.Supp. 1003 (D.C.N.Y.1979)</a>; <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/peckvus88FRD65.htm"><i>Peck v. U. S.</i>, 88 F.R.D. 65 (D.C.N.Y.1980)</a>; <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/bergmanvkemp97FRD413.htm"><i>Bergman v. Kemp</i>, 97 F.R.D. 413 (D.C.Mich.1983)</a>.</p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/kenyattavkelly375FSupp1175.htm"><i>Kenyatta v. Kelly</i>, 375 F.Supp. 1175 (D.C.Pa. 1974)</a>; <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/kenyattavmoore744F2d1179.htm"><i>Kenyatta v. Moore</i>, 744 F.2d 1179 (5th Cir.1984)</a> (FBI agents sued in individual capacities); <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/kenyattavmoore623FSupp220.htm"><i>Kenyatta v. Moore</i>, 623 F.Supp. 220 (D.C.Miss.1985)</a> (state claims dismissed); <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/kenyattavmoore623FSupp224.htm"><i>Kenyatta v. Moore</i>, 623 F.Supp. 224 (D.C.Miss.1985)</a> (defendant's motion for summary judgment denied); rehearing denied, <i>Kenyatta v. Moore</i>, 752 F.2d 646 (5th Cir.1985) (table); cert denied, <i>Moore v. Kenyatta</i>, 471 U.S. 1066 (1985).</p>
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<p><font face="times new roman"><font face="times new roman"><br/> <a name="blacknationalist" id="blacknationalist"></a><b>Black Nationalist</b></font></font></p>
<p align="justify"><i>Black Panther Party</i></p>
<blockquote><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/peoplevnewton8CalApp3d359.htm"><i>People v. Newton</i>, 8 Cal.App.3d 359 (Cal.App.1.Dist.1970)</a> (unconsciousness is a complete defense to homicide)<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/usvseale%20461F2d345.htm"><i>United States v. Seale</i>, 461 F.2d 345 (7th Cir.1972)</a></p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/hamptonvcityofchicago339FSupp695.htm"><i>Hampton v. City of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois</i>, 339 F.Supp. 695 (D.C.Ill.1972)</a>; <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/hamptonvcityofchicago484F2d602.htm"><i>Hampton v. City Of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois</i>, 484 F.2d 602 (7th Cir.1973)</a>; <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/hamptonvhanrahan600F2d600.htm"><i>Hampton v. Hanrahan</i>, 600 F.2d 600 (7th Cir.1979)</a>, rev'd in part, <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/hanrahanvhampton446US754.htm">446 U.S. 754 (1980)</a>, remanded to <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/hamptonvhanrahan499FSupp640.htm">499 F. Supp. 640 (D.C.Ill.1980)</a> .</p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/blackpantherpartyvsmith661F2d1243.htm"><i>Black Panther Party v. Smith</i>, 661 F.2d 1243 (D.C. Cir.1981)</a>, judgment vacated and remanded with instructions to dismiss with prejudice, <i>Smith v. Black Panther Party</i>, 458 U.S. 1118 (1982).</p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/inrepratt112CalApp3d795.htm"><i>In re Pratt</i>, 112 Cal.App.3d 795 (Cal.App. 2 Dist.1980)</a>; <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/prattvwebster508FSupp751.htm"><i>Pratt v. Webster</i>, 508 F.Supp. 751 (D.C.D.C.1981)</a> (FOIA case); <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/prattvwebster673F2d408.htm"><i>Pratt v. Webster</i>, 673 F.2d 408 (D.C. Cir.1982)</a>; <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/inrepratt82CalRptr2d260.htm"><i>In re Pratt</i>, 82 Cal.Rptr.2d 260 (Cal.App. 2 Dist.1999)</a></p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/wahadvfbi131FRD60.htm"><i>Wahad v. FBI</i>, 131 F.R.D. 60 (S.D.N.Y.1990)</a> (order denying FBI motion to protect informant's identity); <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/wahadvfbi132FRD17.htm"><i>Wahad v. FBI</i>, 132 F.R.D. 17 (S.D.N.Y.1990)</a> (affirms magistrate's rulings); <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/wahadvfbi813FSupp224.htm"><i>Wahad v. FBI</i>, 813 F.Supp. 224 (S.D.N.Y.1993)</a> (Unsuccessful <i>Bivens</i> and § 1985 action); <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/wahad154Misc2d405.htm"><i>People v. Wahad</i>, 154 Misc.2d 405 (N.Y.Sup.1993)</a>; <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/wahadvcityofny1999WL608772.htm"><i>Wahad v. City of New York</i>, 1999 WL 608772 (S.D.N.Y.1999)</a> <br/> <br/> <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/conwayvstate289A2d862.htm"><i>Conway v State</i>, 289 A.2d 862 (Md.App.1972)</a>; <i>cert denied</i> 413 U.S. 920 (1973); Conway v. Hawkins, 506 F.2d 1397 (4th Cir. 1974) (table); <i>cert denied</i> 421 U.S. 989 (1975); <i>Conway v. Smith</i>, 163 F.3d 598 (4th Cir. 1998) (table). <br/> <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/Turco%20v%20Allen334FSupp209.htm"><i>Turco v. Allen</i>, 334 F.Supp. 209 (D.C.Md., 1971)</a></p>
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<p align="justify"><i>Revolutionary Armed Task Force</i></p>
<blockquote><p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/usvbuck1986WL14970.htm"><i>U.S. v. Buck</i>, 1986 WL 14970 (S.D.N.Y.1986)</a> (order denying subpeona for FBI documents)</p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/usvferguson548FSupp1390.htm"><i>U.S. v. Ferguson</i>, 548 F.Supp. 1390 (D.C.N.Y.1982)</a>; <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/usvferguson758F2d843.htm"><i>U.S. v. Ferguson</i>, 758 F.2d 843 (2nd Cir.1985)</a> cert denied, 474 U.S. 841 (1985).</p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/usvlumumba741F2d12.htm"><i>U.S. v. Lumumba</i>, 741 F.2d 12 (2nd Cir.1984)</a></p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/usvodinga576FSupp1038.htm"><i>U.S. v. Odinga</i>, 576 F.Supp. 1038 (D.C.N.Y.1983)</a></p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/usvshakur560FSupp313.htm"><i>U.S. v. Shakur</i>, 560 F.Supp. 313 (D.C.N.Y.1983)</a>; <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/usvshakur570FSupp333.htm"><i>U.S. v. Shakur</i>, 570 F.Supp. 333 (D.C.N.Y.1983)</a>; <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/usvshakur570FSupp336.htm"><i>U.S. v. Shakur</i>, 570 F.Supp. 336 (D.C.N.Y.1983)</a>; <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/usvshakur656FSupp241.htm"><i>U.S. v. Shakur</i>, 656 F.Supp. 241 (S.D.N.Y.1987)</a> (defendant released on bail); <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/usvshakur1988WL34828.htm"><i>U.S. v. Shakur</i>, 1988 WL 34828 (S.D.N.Y.1988)</a></p>
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<p align="justify"><i>Afro Set</i></p>
<blockquote><p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/jonesvfbi41F3d238.htm"><i>Jones v. F.B.I.</i>, 41 F.3d 238 (6th Cir.1994)</a> (FOIA case)</p>
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<p align="justify"><i>Revolutionary Action Movement</i></p>
<blockquote><p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/fergusonvfbi762FSupp1082.htm"><i>Ferguson v. F.B.I.</i>, 762 F.Supp. 1082 (S.D.N.Y.1991)</a>; <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/fergusonvkelley448FSupp919.htm"><i>Ferguson v. Kelley</i>, 448 F.Supp. 919 (D.C.Ill.1978)</a> (FOIA case); <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/fergusonvkelley455FSupp324.htm"><i>Ferguson v. Kelly</i>, 455 F.Supp. 324 (D.C.Ill.1978)</a></p>
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<p align="justify"><i>Republic of New Afrika</i></p>
<blockquote><p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/usvjames528F2d999.htm"><i>U. S. v. James</i>, 528 F.2d 999 (5th Cir.1976)</a>, rehearing denied, 532 F.2d 1054 (1976), cert denied 97 S.Ct. 382 (1976), rehearing denied 97 S.Ct. 770 (1977); affirmed in part and remanded <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/usvshillingford586F2d372.htm"><i>U. S. v. Shillingford</i>, 586 F.2d 372 (5th Cir.1978)</a>, petition for rehearing granted sub nom <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/usvhenry611F2d983.htm"><i>U. S. v. Henry</i>, 611 F.2d 983 (5th Cir.1979)</a> vacated and remanded <i>United States v. Henry</i>, 621 F.2d 763 (5th Cir.1980) (en banc); affirmed <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/usvhenry680F2d403.htm"><i>U. S. v. Henry</i>, 680 F.2d 403 (5th Cir.1982)</a>; vacated for en banc reconsideration, 693 F.2d 31 (5th Cir.1982); <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/usvhenry709F2d298.htm"><i>U.S. v. Henry</i>, 709 F.2d 298 (5th Cir.1983)</a> en banc; <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/obadelevuspetition124sct226.htm">petition for writ of certiori</a>; cert denied <i>Obadele v. Cockrell</i> 122 S.Ct. 2304 (2002); cert denied <i>Obadele v. Cockrell</i>, 123 S.Ct. 498 (2002); cert denied, <i>Obadele v. U.S.</i>, 124 S.Ct. 226 (2003), <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/obadelevkelley1988WL40282.htm"><i>Obadele v. Kelley</i>, 1988 WL 40282 (D.D.C.1988)</a> (claims against added defendants dismissed for lack of personal jurisdiction), <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/obadelevus52FedCl432.htm"><i>Obadele v. U.S.</i>, 52 Fed.Cl. 432 (2002)</a> (claims under Tucker and Civil Liberties Acts), affirmed, <i>Obadele v. U.S.</i>, 61 Fed.Appx. 705 (Fed.Cir.2003), <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/republicofnewafrikavfbi656FSupp7.htm"><i>Republic of New Afrika v. F.B.I.</i>, 656 F.Supp. 7 (D.D.C.1985)</a> (FOIA case)</p>
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<p><font face="times new roman"><font face="times new roman"><i>All African Peoples' Revolutionary Party</i></font></font></p>
<blockquote><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/US%20v%20Brown%20908F2d968.htm"><i>U.S. v. Brown</i>, 908 F.2d 968 (Table), 1990 WL 101946 (4th Cir.(Va.) 1990)</a></blockquote>
<p align="justify"><a name="whitehate" id="whitehate"></a><b>White Hate Groups</b></p>
<blockquote><p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/unitedklansvmcgovern453FSupp836.htm"><i>United Klans of America v. McGovern</i>, 453 F.Supp. 836 (D.C.Ala.1978)</a>; <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/unitedklansvmcgovern621F2d152.htm"><i>United Klans of America v. McGovern</i>, 621 F.2d 152 (5th Cir.1980)</a></p>
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<p align="justify"><a name="newleft" id="newleft"></a><b>New Left / Anti War</b></p>
<blockquote><p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/inredellinger461F2d389.htm"><i>In Re Dellinger</i>, 461 F.2d 389 (7th Cir.1972)</a></p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/hobsonvwilson556FSupp1157.htm"><i>Hobson v. Wilson</i>, 556 F.Supp. 1157 (D.C. Cir.1982)</a>; <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/hobsonvwilson737F2d1.htm"><i>Hobson v. Wilson</i>, 737 F.2d 1 (C.A.D.C.1984)</a>, cert. denied sub nom., <i>Brennan v. Hobson</i>, 105 S.Ct. 1843 (1985); <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/hobsonvbrennan625FSupp459.htm"><i>Hobson v. Brennan</i>, 625 F.Supp. 459 (D.D.C.1985)</a>; <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/hobsonvbrennan646FSupp884.htm"><i>Hobson v. Brennan</i>, 646 F.Supp. 884 (D.D.C.1986)</a> (damages, includes DETPRO document as appendix); <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/hobsonvbrennan637FSupp173.htm"><i>Hobson v. Brennan</i>, 637 F.Supp. 173 (D.D.C.1986)</a></p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/usvwhitehorn710FSupp803.htm"><i>U.S. v. Whitehorn</i>, 710 F.Supp. 803 (D.D.C.1989)</a>, rev'd on other grounds sub. nom. <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/usvrosenberg888F2d1406.htm"><i>United States v. Rosenberg</i>, 888 F.2d 1406 (D.C. Cir.1989)</a></p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/rosenfeldvdoj761FSupp1440.htm"><i>Rosenfeld v. DOJ</i>, 761 F.Supp. 1440 (N.D.Cal.1991)</a> (FOIA case, University of California "campus files")</p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/struthvfbi673FSupp949.htm"><i>Struth v. F.B.I.</i>, 673 F.Supp. 949 (E.D.Wis.1987)</a> (FOIA case)</p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/fondavgray707F2d435.htm"><i>Fonda v. Gray</i>, 707 F.2d 435 (C.A.Cal.,1983)</a></p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/lemmervarkansasgazette620FSupp1332.htm"><i>Lemmer v. Arkansas Gazette Co.</i>, 620 F.Supp. 1332 (D.C.Ark.,1985)</a></p>
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<p><font face="times new roman"><font face="times new roman"><i>Progressive Labor Party</i></font></font></p>
<blockquote><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/US%20Servicemens%20Fund%20v%20Eastland%20488F2d1252.htm"><i>United States Servicemen's Fund v. Eastland</i>, 488 F.2d 1252 (D.C. Cir. 1973)</a></blockquote>
<p align="justify"><a name="aim" id="aim"></a><b>American Indian Movement</b></p>
<blockquote><p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/usvbanks368FSupp1245.htm"><i>United States v. Banks, 368 F.Supp. 1245 (D.S.D., 1973)</i></a>; <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/usvbanks374FSupp321.htm"><i>U. S. v. Banks, 374 F.Supp. 321 (D.C.S.D. 1974)</i></a>; <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/USvBanks383FSupp368.htm"><i>U. S. v. Banks, 383 F.Supp. 368 (D.C.S.D. 1974)</i></a></p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/meansvwilson383FSupp378.htm"><i>Means v. Wilson</i>, 383 F.Supp. 378 (D.C.S.D.1974)</a>, aff'd in part, rev'd in part in <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/meansvwilson522F2d833.htm"><i>Means v. Wilson</i>, 522 F.2d 833 (8th Cir.1975)</a>, cert denied 96 S. Ct. 1436 (1976); <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/USvMeans513F2d1329.htm"><i>U. S. v. Means</i>, 513 F.2d 1329 (C.A.S.D. 1975)</a>, <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/USvMeans409FSupp115.htm"><i>United States v. Means</i>, 409 F.Supp 115 (1976)</a></p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/peltier585F2d314.htm"><i>U. S. v. Peltier</i>, 585 F.2d 314 (8th Cir.1978)</a> cert. denied 440 U.S. 945 (1979) (affirming conviction); <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/peltier529FSupp549.htm"><i>U. S. v. Peltier</i>, 529 F.Supp. 549 (D.C.Cal.1982)</a>; <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/peltier553FSupp886.htm"><i>United States v. Peltier</i>, 553 F.Supp. 890 (D.N.D.1982)</a>; <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/usvpeltier693F2d96.htm"><i>United States v. Peltier</i>, 693 F.2d 96 (9th Cir.1982)</a>; <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/peltier731F2d550.htm">United States v. Peltier, 731 F.2d 550 (8th Cir.1984)</a>; <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/peltier609FSupp1143.htm"><i>United States v. Peltier</i>, 609 F.Supp. 1143 (D.N.D.1985)</a>; <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/peltier800F2d772.htm"><i>United States v. Peltier</i>, 800 F.2d 772 (8th Cir.1986)</a> (teletype which stated that recovered rifle had different firing pin than that in rifle seized at murder scene held to be merely cumulative in relation to evidence produced at trial and its admission would not have affected outcome of trial); <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/peltiervhenman997F2d461.htm"><i>Peltier v. Henman</i>, 997 F.2d 461 (8th Cir.1993)</a>; <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/peltier189FSupp2d970.htm"><i>U.S. v. Peltier</i>, 189 F.Supp.2d 970 (D.N.D.2002)</a>; <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/peltier312F3d938.htm"><i>U.S. v. Peltier</i>, 312 F.3d 938 (8th Cir.2002)</a>; <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/peltier348F3d888.htm"><i>Peltier v. Booker</i>, 348 F.3d 888 (10th Cir.2003)</a></p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/JanisvWilson385FSupp1143.htm"><i>Janis v. Wilson</i>, 385 F.Supp. 1143 (D.S.D. 1974)</a>, remanded, <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/JanisvWilson521F2d724.htm"><i>Janis v. Wilson</i>, 521 F.2d 724 (8th Cir.1975)</a></p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/USvBearRunner502F2d908.htm"><i>US. v. Bear Runner</i>, 502 F.2d 908 (8th Cir. 1974)</a></p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/WoundedHeadvTribalCouncil507F2d1079.htm"><i>Wounded Head v. Tribal Council of Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation</i>, 507 F.2d 1079 (8th Cir. 1974)</a></p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/WKLDOCvFBI507F2d1281.htm"><i>Wounded Knee Legal Defense/Offense Committee v. Federal Bureau of Investigation</i>, 507 F.2d 1079 (8th Cir. 1974)</a></p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/USvConsolidatedWoundedKneeCasees389FSupp235.htm"><i>United States v. Consolidated Wounded Knee Cases</i>, 389 F. Supp. 235 (D.Neb. 1975)</a>, aff'd in part, rev'd in part sub nom. <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/USvDodge538F2d770.htm"><i>United States v. Dodge</i>, 538 F.2d 770 (8th Cir. 1976)</a>, <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/USvCooper397FSupp277.htm"><i>United States v. Cooper</i>, 397 F.Supp. 277 (D.Neb.1975)</a>, aff'd in part, rev'd in part sub nom. <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/USvDodge538F2d770.htm"><i>United States v. Dodge</i>, 538 F.2d 770 (8th Cir. 1976)</a></p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/USvRedFeather392FSupp916.htm"><i>United States v. Red Feather</i>, 392 F.Supp. 916 (D.S.D. 1975)</a>, aff'd sub nom. <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/USvCasper541F2d1275.htm"><i>United States v. Casper</i>, 541 F.2d 1275 (8th Cir. 1976)</a></p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/USvCrowDog399FSupp228.htm"><i>United States v. Crow Dog</i>, 399 F.Supp. 228 (N.D.Ia. 1975)</a>, <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/USvHolder399FSupp220.htm"><i>United States v. Holder</i>, 399 F.Supp 220 (D.S.D. 1975)</a> , aff'd, <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/USvCrowDog532F2d1182.htm"><i>United States v. Crow Dog</i>, 532 F.2d 1182 (8th Cir. 1976)</a>, aff'd, <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/USvCrowDog537F2d308.htm"><i>United States v. Crow Dog</i>, 537 F.2d 308 (8th Cir., 1976)</a>, <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/USvCamp541F2d737.htm"><i>United States v. Camp</i>, 541 F.2d 737 (8th Cir. 1976)</a></p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/InreVisitor400FSupp446.htm"><i>In re Visitor</i>, 400 F.Supp. 446 (D.S.D. 1975)</a>, affirmed, <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/InreLongVisitor523F2d443.htm"><i>In re Long Visitor</i>, 523 F.2d 443 (8th Cir. 1975)</a></p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/USvButler410FSupp942.htm"><i>United States v. Butler</i>, 410 F.Supp. 942 (D.S.D. 1976)</a>, judgment vacated by <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/USvButler541F2d730.htm"><i>U.S. v. Butler</i>, 541 F.2d 730 (8th Cir.(S.D.), 1976)</a></p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/usvbissonette586F2d73.htm"><i>U. S. v. Bissonette</i>, 586 F.2d 73 (8th Cir.1978)</a> (affirms conviction for harboring fugitive)</p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/lamontvhaig590F2d1124.htm"><i>Lamont v. Haig</i>, 590 F.2d 1124 (D.C. Cir.1978)</a> (action to recover damages for occupation of Wounded Knee dismissed for lack of venue); <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/bissonettevhaig776F2d1384.htm"><i>Bissonette v. Haig</i>, 776 F.2d 1384 (8th Cir.1985)�</a> (military encirclement and aerial surveillance of Wounded Knee not unreasonable search and seizure of residents)</p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/usvjaramillo380FSupp1375.htm"><i>U. S. v. Jaramillo, 380 F.Supp. 1375 (D.C.Neb. 1974)</i></a>, appeal dismissed, <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/usvjaramillo510F2d808.htm"><i>U. S. v. Jaramillo, 510 F.2d 808 (C.A.Neb. 1975)</i></a></p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/pricevvikingpressinc625FSupp641.htm"><i>Price v. Viking Press, Inc.</i>, 625 F. Supp. 641 (D.Minn.1985)</a> (FBI agent unsuccessfully sued author and publisher of book, <i>In the Spirit of Crazy Horse</i>, for defamation); <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/pricevvikingpenguininc676FSupp1501.htm"><i>Price v. Viking Penguin, Inc.</i>, 676 F.Supp. 1501 (D.Minn.1988)</a> ; <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/pricevvikingpenguin881F2d1426.htm"><i>Price v. Viking Penguin, Inc.</i>, 881 F.2d 1426 (8th Cir.1989)</a></p>
<p align="justify">More cases available at <a href="http://ishgooda.nativeweb.org/peltier/cases.htm"><i>Native News Online</i></a>.</p>
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<p align="justify"><a name="cispes" id="cispes"></a><b>CISPES</b></p>
<blockquote><p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/cispesvfbi770F2d468.htm"><i>CISPES (Committee in Solidarity with People of El Salvador) v. F.B.I.</i>, 770 F.2d 468 (5th Cir.1985)</a>; <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/cispesvsessions738FSupp544.htm"><i>Committee In Solidarity With The People of El Salvador (CISPES) v. Sessions</i>, 738 F.Supp. 544 (D.D.C.1990)</a>; <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/cispesvsessions929F2d742.htm"><i>Committee In Solidarity With The People of El Salvador (CISPES) v. Sessions</i>, 929 F.2d 742 (D.C. Cir.1991)</a></p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/alliancetoendrepressionvcityofchicago561FSupp537.htm"><i>Alliance To End Repression v. City of Chicago</i>, 561 F.Supp. 537 (D.C.Ill.1982)</a>, <i>Alliance to End Repression v. City of Chicago</i>, 91 F.R.D. 182 (N.D.Ill.1981), <i>Alliance to End Repression v. City of Chicago</i>, 561 F.Supp. 575 (N.D.Ill.), affirmed, <i>Alliance to End Repression v. City of Chicago</i>, 733 F.2d 1187 (7th Cir.1984), rehearing, <i>Alliance to End Repression v. City of Chicago</i>, 742 F.2d 1007 (7th Cir.1984), <i>Spanish Action Committee of Chicago v. City of Chicago</i>, 766 F.2d 315 (7th Cir.1985), <i>Alliance to End Repression v. City of Chicago</i>, 1985 WL 3300 (N.D.Ill. Oct 24, 1985), <i>Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. v. City of Chicago</i>, 1985 WL 3450 (N.D.Ill.1985), reconsidered, <i>Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. v. City of Chicago</i>, 1986 WL 2534 (N.D.Ill.1986), <i>Alliance to End Repression v. City of Chicago</i>, 627 F.Supp. 1044 (N.D.Ill.1985), <i>Alliance To End Repression v. City of Chicago</i>, 1986 WL 9762 (N.D.Ill.1986), order vacated, <i>Alliance to End Repression v. City of Chicago</i>, 820 F.2d 873 (7th Cir.1987), appeal after remand, <i>Alliance to End Repression v. City of Chicago</i>, 899 F.2d 582 (7th Cir.1990), rehearing denied (1990), <i>Spanish Action Committee of Chicago v. City of Chicago</i>, 811 F.2d 1129 (7th Cir.1987) , <i>Alliance to End Repression v. City of Chicago</i>, 840 F.2d 920 (7th Cir.1988) (table), appeal after remand, <i>Alliance to End Repression v. City of Chicago</i>, 899 F.2d 582 (7th Cir.1990), rehearing denied (1990), <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/alliancetoendrepressionvcityofchicago1989WL88237.htm"><i>Alliance to End Repression v. City of Chicago</i>, 1989 WL 88237 (N.D.Ill.1989)</a> , <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/alliancetoendrepressionvcityofchicago1989WL92030.htm"><i>Alliance to End Repression v. City of Chicago</i>, 1989 WL 92030 (N.D.Ill.1989)</a> , <i>Alliance to End Repression v. City of Chicago</i>, 1990 WL 115571 (N.D.Ill.1990), <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/alliancetoendrepressionvchicagocispes1991WL117915.htm"><i>Alliance to End Repression v. Chicago CISPES</i>, 1991 WL 117915 (N.D.Ill.1991)</a> , <i>Alliance to End Repression v. City of Chicago</i>, 1991 WL 206056 (N.D.Ill.1991), reversed in part, vacated in part, <i>Alliance to End Repression v. City of Chicago</i>, 119 F.3d 472 (7th Cir.1997), <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/alliancetoendrepressionvcityofchicago1992WL80527.htm"><i>Alliance to End Repression v. City of Chicago</i>, 1992 WL 80527 (N.D.Ill.1992)</a> , affirmed, <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/alliancetoendrepressionvcityofchicago1992WL159495.htm"><i>Alliance to End Repression v. City of Chicago</i>, 1992 WL 159495 (N.D.Ill.1992)</a> , <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/alliancetoendrepressionvcityofchicago1992WL296388.htm"><i>Alliance to End Repression v. City of Chicago</i>, 1992 WL 296388 (N.D.Ill.1992)�</a> , reversed, <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/alliancetoendrepressionvcityofchicago119F3d472.htm"><i>Alliance to End Repression v. City of Chicago</i>, 119 F.3d 472 (7th Cir.1997)</a> , <i>Alliance to End Repression v. City of Chicago</i>, 1994 WL 86690 (N.D.Ill.1994), <i>Alliance to End Repression v. City of Chicago</i>, 119 F.3d 472 (7th Cir.1997), <i>Alliance to End Repression v. City of Chicago</i>, 66 F.Supp.2d 899 (N.D.Ill.1999), reversed and remanded, <i>Alliance to End Repression v. City of Chicago</i>, 237 F.3d 799 (7th Cir.2001), <i>Alliance to End Repression v. City of Chicago</i>, 2000 WL 562480 (N.D.Ill.2000), <i>Alliance to End Repression v. City of Chicago</i>, 2000 WL 709482 (N.D.Ill.2000), reconsidered, <i>Alliance to End Repression v. City of Chicago</i>, 2000 WL 1367999 (N.D.Ill.2000), <i>Alliance to End Repression v. City of Chicago</i>, 2000 WL 709485 (N.D.Ill.2000), <i>Alliance to End Repression v. City of Chicago</i>, 2000 WL 1368004 (N.D.Ill.2000), <i>Alliance to End Repression v. City of Chicago</i>, 2000 WL 1947055 (N.D.Ill.2000), <i>Alliance to End Repression v. City of Chicago</i>, 2000 WL 1898594 (N.D.Ill.2000).</p>
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<p align="justify"><a name="ef" id="ef"></a><b>Earth First!</b></p>
<blockquote><p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/mendocinoenvironmentalcentervmendocinocounty14F3d457%20.htm"><i>Mendocino Environmental Center v. Mendocino County</i>, 14 F.3d 457 (9th Cir.1994)</a>, <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/mendocinoenvironmentalcentervmendocinocounty192F3d1283.htm"><i>Mendocino Environmental Center v. Mendocino County</i>, 192 F.3d 1283 (9th Cir.1999)</a>, <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/mendocinoenvironmentalcentervmendocinocounty192F3d1283pbrief.htm">plaintiffs appellate brief</a>, <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/mendocinoenvironmentalcentervmendocinocounty192F3d1283dbrief.htm">defendants appellate brief</a>.</p>
<p align="justify">More <a href="http://www.judibari.org/%60legal_index.html"><i>legal documents in Judi Bari v. FBI</i></a> are available on the Judi Bari Website. <a href="http://www.monitor.net/monitor/bari/"><i>Judi Bari v. FBI Trial Coverage</i></a> appears in the Albion Monitor.</p>
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<p align="justify"><a name="other" id="other"></a><b>Other</b></p>
<blockquote><p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/abramsonvfbi658F2d806.htm"><i>Abramson v. FBI</i>, 658 F.2d 806 (D.C. Cir.1980)</a> ("name check summaries" of White House enemies, compiled for political, not law enforcement purposes, do not fall within FOIA exemption 7)</p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/handschu605FSupp1384.htm"><i>Handschu v. Special Services Div.</i>, 605 F.Supp. 1384 (D.C.N.Y.1985)</a>(various political groups in class action § 1983 against NYPD; settlement required NYPD to change investigative policies), affirmed, <a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/handschu787F2d828.htm"><i>Handschu v. Special Services Div.</i>, 787 F.2d 828 (2d Cir.1986)</a></p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/law/halkinvhelms690F2d977.htm"><i>Halkin v. Helms</i>, 690 F.2d 977 (D.C. Cir.1982)</a> (CIA CHAOS Program)</p>
</blockquote>Banker leaps to his death in finance world’s 8th suicide this yeartag:12160.info,2014-03-19:2649739:BlogPost:14358132014-03-19T14:50:20.000ZCryptocurrencyhttps://12160.info/profile/KRYPKE32
<p>Not a week seems to pass without some banker or trader committing suicide. Today we get news of the latest such tragic event with news that 28-year old Kenneth Bellando, a former JPMorgan banker, current employee of Levy Capital, and brother of a top chief investment officer of JPM, jumped to his death from his 6th floor East Side apartment on March 12.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2014/03/JPM%20suicide.jpg"><img height="333" src="http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2014/03/JPM%20suicide_0.jpg" width="500"></img></a></p>
<p>From…</p>
<p>Not a week seems to pass without some banker or trader committing suicide. Today we get news of the latest such tragic event with news that 28-year old Kenneth Bellando, a former JPMorgan banker, current employee of Levy Capital, and brother of a top chief investment officer of JPM, jumped to his death from his 6th floor East Side apartment on March 12.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2014/03/JPM%20suicide.jpg"><img src="http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2014/03/JPM%20suicide_0.jpg" height="333" width="500"/></a></p>
<p>From the <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/03/17/investment-banker-leaps-to-his-death/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPFacebook&utm_medium=SocialFlow">NY Post</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Bellando, a former investment bank analyst at JPMorgan, is the son of John Bellando, chief operating officer and chief financial officer at Condé Nast. His brother, John, a top chief investment officer with JPMorgan, works on risk exposure valuations.</strong></p>
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<p>Several John Bellando emails were cited during testimony at the Senate Finance Committee’s inquiry into the bank’s losses during the infamous London Whale trade fiasco.</p>
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<p>Kenneth Bellando — who grew up in Rockville Center, LI, and was a Georgetown graduate — worked as a summer analyst at JPMorgan while in school. Upon graduation in 2007, he was hired as an investment bank analyst and worked there for one year before moving on, according to his LinkedIn page.</p>
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<p>The investment banker then went to Paragon Capital Partners, according to his LinkedIn page, until leaving at the end of 2013.</p>
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<p>And so another young life is tragically taken before his time, the 11th financial professional to commit suicide in 2014, and the third in as many weeks. How many more to come?</p>
<p>In summary, here are all the recent untimely financial professional deaths we have witnessed in recent months:</p>
<p><strong>1 - William Broeksmit</strong>, 58-year-old former senior executive at Deutsche Bank AG, was found dead in his home after an apparent suicide in South Kensington in central London, on January 26th.</p>
<p><strong>2 - Karl Slym,</strong> 51 year old Tata Motors managing director Karl Slym, was found dead on the fourth floor of the Shangri-La hotel in Bangkok on January 27th.</p>
<p><strong>3 - Gabriel Magee</strong>, a 39-year-old JP Morgan employee, died after falling from the roof of the JP Morgan European headquarters in London on January 27th.</p>
<p><strong>4 - Mike Dueker</strong>, 50-year-old chief economist of a US investment bank was found dead close to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington State.</p>
<p><strong>5 - Richard Talley,</strong> the 57 year old founder of American Title Services in Centennial, Colorado, was found dead earlier this month after apparently shooting himself with a nail gun.</p>
<p><strong>6 - Tim Dickenson</strong>, a U.K.-based communications director at Swiss Re AG, also died last month, however the circumstances surrounding his death are still unknown.</p>
<p><strong>7 - Ryan Henry Crane</strong>, a 37 year old executive at JP Morgan died in an alleged suicide just a few weeks ago. No details have been released about his death aside from this small obituary announcement at the Stamford Daily Voice.</p>
<p><strong>8 - Li Junjie</strong>, 33-year-old banker in Hong Kong jumped from the JP Morgan HQ in Hong Kong this week.</p>
<p><strong>9 - James Stuart Jr,</strong> Former National Bank of Commerce CEO, found dead in Scottsdale, Ariz., the morning of Feb. 19. A family spokesman did not say whatcaused the death</p>
<p><strong>10 - Edmund (Eddie) Reilly, 47,</strong> a trader at Midtown’s Vertical Group, commited suicide by jumping in front of LIRR train</p>
<p><strong>11 - Kenneth Bellando, 28</strong>, a trader at Levy Capital, formerly investment banking analyst at JPMorgan, jumped to his death from his 6th floor East Side apartment.</p>Piers Morgan Admits Gun Control Advocacy Led to Show Being Axedtag:12160.info,2014-03-17:2649739:BlogPost:14190042014-03-17T17:42:41.000ZCryptocurrencyhttps://12160.info/profile/KRYPKE32
<p>Decision sends clear message that Americans are rejecting networks acting as state media mouthpieces</p>
<p><strong>Paul Joseph Watson</strong><br></br> Infowars.com<br></br> February 24, 2014</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 350px;"><img alt="" height="550" src="http://static.prisonplanet.com/p/images/february2014/240214morgan.jpg" width="350"></img><p class="wp-caption-text">Image: Piers Morgan (Wikimedia Commons).</p>
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<p align="left">After his show was axed by CNN, television host Piers Morgan admitted that his relentless advocacy for gun control was the primary factor behind…</p>
<p>Decision sends clear message that Americans are rejecting networks acting as state media mouthpieces</p>
<p><strong>Paul Joseph Watson</strong><br/> Infowars.com<br/> February 24, 2014</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 350px;"><img alt="" src="http://static.prisonplanet.com/p/images/february2014/240214morgan.jpg" height="550" width="350"/><p class="wp-caption-text">Image: Piers Morgan (Wikimedia Commons).</p>
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<p align="left">After his show was axed by CNN, television host Piers Morgan admitted that his relentless advocacy for gun control was the primary factor behind plunging ratings that led to the decision to shelve the broadcast, proving that Americans will not tolerate the establishment media undermining constitutional freedoms in concert with White House talking points.</p>
<p align="left">Asserting that his show being canceled had nothing to do with recent revelations that he had been interviewed by police over the phone hacking scandal, Morgan admitted, “Look, I am a British guy debating American cultural issues, including guns, which has been very polarizing, and there is no doubt that there are many in the audience who are tired of me banging on about it.”</p>
<p align="left">After taking over Larry King’s spot in January 2011, Morgan’s viewing figures have been on a steady decline, sinking to just 50,000 viewers among adults aged 25-54 for his February 18 broadcast.</p>
<p align="left">Morgan undoubtedly attempted to capitalize on the unusually high ratings he enjoyed in the immediate aftermath of radio host Alex Jones’ appearance by continuously pushing the gun control angle.</p>
<p align="left">Although this worked for a while, the sheer lack of support for such measures amongst the American people (<a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/12/04/cnn-poll-support-for-stricter-gun-control-fades/">polls show</a> enthusiasm for restricting Second Amendment rights is fading), eventually took its toll.</p>
<p align="left">In addition, the establishment’s disconnect in thinking a British citizen lecturing Americans on social issues would go down well was a monumental mistake.</p>
<p align="left">However, Morgan’s treatment is not a special case. He is the victim of the general malaise that mainstream media finds itself mired in thanks to Americans’ growing distrust of television news.</p>
<p align="left">Liberty is popular. If CNN wanted ratings through the roof, they would hire Alex Jones as Morgan’s replacement. However, since they have chosen to promote tyranny, which is unpopular, the dinosaur media is sinking without a trace.</p>
<p align="left">Distrust in mainstream media has been on a steady decline for years, with a recent <a rel="slb" href="http://cdn.storyleak.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/mainstream-media-gallup-trust.png">Gallup poll</a> confirming that just 23 per cent of Americans trust the institution of television news. This lack of confidence has driven ratings down, with MSNBC <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2013/11/27/cnn-and-msnbc-lose-almost-half-their-viewers-one-year">losing almost half of its viewers</a> over the course of just 12 months, shedding 45 per cent of its audience. CNN also lost 48 per cent of its viewers over the same time period.</p>
<p align="left">The United States’ <a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/02/18/united-states-falls-to-46th-in-the-world-for-press-freedom-n1796607">world ranking in terms of freedom of the press</a> also recently fell to number 46, below the likes of South Africa, Slovenia and Lithuania.</p>
<p align="left">Earlier this month, the <a href="http://www.infowars.com/msm-collapsing-ny-times-now-irrelevant-according-to-its-own-writers/">New York Times’s own writers</a> told a newspaper that NY Times opinion pieces are now seen as “irrelevant” and have no impact on public discourse whatsoever.</p>
<p align="left">The <a href="http://www.infowars.com/government-promises-to-stop-lying-under-drudge-report-spotlight/">Pentagon’s recent lament</a> that it would have to up its public relations propaganda in order to combat a rising tide of public skepticism goes to the heart of why the corporate press is floundering.</p>
<p align="left">The cancellation of <em>Piers Morgan Tonight</em> should be celebrated as another benchmark of the mainstream media’s decline and fall, while sounding a warning to other broadcasters – particularly MSNBC – that more and more Americans are rejecting mainstream media talking points as networks increasingly resemble little more than state media mouthpieces.</p>11 Companies That Surprisingly Collaborated With the Nazistag:12160.info,2014-02-09:2649739:BlogPost:13599692014-02-09T03:18:53.000ZCryptocurrencyhttps://12160.info/profile/KRYPKE32
<p>Here are 11 companies that you may not realize collaborated with the Nazis.</p>
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<b>Kodak.</b> During World War Two, Kodak's German branch used slave laborers from concentration camps. Several of their other European branches did heavy business with the Nazi…</li>
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<p>Here are 11 companies that you may not realize collaborated with the Nazis.</p>
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<b>Kodak.</b> During World War Two, Kodak's German branch used slave laborers from concentration camps. Several of their other European branches did heavy business with the Nazi government.<br/> <br/> And Wilhelm Keppler, one of Hitler's top economic advisers, had deep ties in Kodak. When Nazism began, Keppler advised <span class="exagger">Kodak and several other U.S. companies that they'd benefit by firing all of their Jewish employees.</span> (Source: <a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20010326/friedman" target="_blank">The Nation</a>)<br/></li>
<li><b>Hugo Boss.</b> In the 1930s, Hugo Boss started making Nazi uniforms. The reason: <span class="exagger">Hugo Boss himself had joined the Nazi party, and got a contract to make the Hitler Youth, storm trooper and SS uniforms.</span><br/> <br/> That was a huge boon for Hugo Boss... he got the contract just eight years after founding his company... and that infusion of business helped take the company to another level.<br/> <br/> The Nazi uniform manufacturing went so well that Hugo Boss ended up needing to bring in slave laborers in Poland and France to help out at the factory.<br/> <br/> In 1997, Hugo's son, Siegfried Boss, told an Austrian news magazine, "Of course my father belonged to the Nazi party. But who didn't belong back then?" (Source: <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B00E4DF153FF936A2575BC0A961958260" target="_blank">New York Times</a>)<br/></li>
<li><b>Volkswagen.</b> Ferdinand Porsche, the man behind Volkswagen and Porsche, met with Hitler in 1934, to discuss the creation of a "people's car." (That's the English translation of Volkswagen.)<br/> <br/> Hitler told Porsche to make the car with a streamlined shape, "like a beetle." And that's the genesis of <span class="exagger">the Volkswagen Beetle... it wasn't just designed for the Nazis, Hitler NAMED it.</span><br/> <br/> During World War Two, it's believed that as many as four out of every five workers at Volkswagen's plants were slave laborers. Ferdinand Porsche even had a direct connection to Heinrich Himmler, one of the leaders of the SS, to directly request slaves from Auschwitz. (Source: <a href="http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1095/did-krups-braun-and-mercedes-benz-make-nazi-concentration-camp-ovens" target="_blank">The Straight Dope</a>)<br/></li>
<li><b>Bayer.</b> During the Holocaust, a German company called IG Farben manufactured the Zyklon B gas used in the Nazi gas chambers. They also funded and helped with Josef Mengele's "experiments" on concentration camp prisoners.<br/> <br/> IG Farben is the company that turned the single largest profit from work with the Nazis. After the War, the company was broken up. Bayer was one of its divisions, and went on to become its own company.<br/> <br/> Oh... and aspirin was founded by a Bayer employee, Arthur Eichengrun. But Eichengrun was Jewish, and <span class="exagger">Bayer didn't want to admit that a Jewish guy created the one product that keeps their company in business.</span> So, to this day, Bayer officially gives credit to Felix Hoffman, a nice Aryan man, for inventing aspirin. (Source: <a href="http://www.ahrp.org/infomail/05/01/27a.php" target="_blank">Alliance for Human Research Protection</a>, <a href="http://www.chemheritage.org/educationalservices/pharm/asp/asp60.htm" target="_blank">Pharmaceutical Achievers</a>)<br/></li>
<li><b>Siemens.</b> Siemens took slave laborers during the Holocaust and had them help construct the gas chambers that would kill them and their families. Good people over there.<br/> <br/> Siemens also has the single biggest post-Holocaust moment of insensitivity of any of the companies on this list. <span class="exagger">In 2001, they tried to trademark the word "Zyklon" (which means "cyclone" in German) to become the name a new line of products... including a line of gas ovens.</span><br/> <br/> Zyklon, of course, being the name of the poison gas used in their gas chambers during the Holocaust.<br/> <br/> A week later, after several watchdog groups appropriately freaked out, Siemens withdrew the application. They said they never drew the connection between the Zyklon B gas used during the Holocaust and their proposed Zyklon line of products. (Source: <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2233890.stm" target="_blank">BBC</a>)<br/></li>
<li><b>Coca-Cola, specifically Fanta.</b> Coke played both sides during World War Two... they supported the American troops but also kept making soda for the Nazis. Then, in 1941, the German branch of Coke ran out of syrup, and couldn't get any from America because of wartime restrictions.<br/> <br/> So <span class="exagger">they invented a new drink, specifically for the Nazis: A fruit-flavored soda called Fanta.</span><br/> <br/> That's right: Long before Fanta was associated with a bunch of exotic women singing a god-awful jingle, it was the unofficial drink of Nazi Germany. (Source: <a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/200405240002" target="_blank">New Statesman</a>)<br/></li>
<li><b>Ford.</b> Henry Ford is a pretty legendary anti-Semite, so this makes sense. He was Hitler's most famous foreign backer. On his 75th birthday, in 1938, Ford received a Nazi medal, designed for "distinguished foreigners." <br/> <br/> He <span class="exagger">profiteered off both sides of the War -- he was producing vehicles for the Nazis AND for the Allies.</span><br/> <br/> I'm wondering if, in a completely misguided piece of logic, Allianz points to the Detroit Lions giving Ford the naming rights to their stadium as a reason why they should get the rights to the Meadowlands. (Source: <a href="http://reformed-theology.org/html/books/wall_street/chapter_06.htm" target="_blank">Reformed Theology</a>)<br/></li>
<li><b>Standard Oil.</b> The Luftwaffe needed tetraethyl lead gas in order to get their planes off the ground. Standard Oil was one of only three companies that could manufacture that type of fuel. So they did.<br/> <br/> <span class="exagger">Without them, the German air force never could've even gotten their planes off the ground.</span><br/> <br/> When Standard Oil was dissolved as a monopoly, it led to ExxonMobil, Chevron and BP, all of which are still around today. (But fortunately, their parent company's past decision to make incredible profits off of war have not carried on.) (Source: <a href="http://mit.edu/thistle/www/v13/3/oil.html" target="_blank">MIT's Thistle</a>)<br/></li>
<li><b>Chase bank.</b> A lot of banks sided with the Nazis during World War Two. Chase is the most prominent.<br/> <br/> <span class="exagger">They froze European Jewish customers' accounts and were extremely cooperative in providing banking service to Germany.</span> (Source: <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E02E5DE123EF934A35752C1A96E958260" target="_blank">New York Times</a>)<br/></li>
<li><b>IBM.</b> <span class="exagger">IBM custom-build machines for the Nazis that they could use to track everything</span>... from oil supplies to train schedules into death camps to Jewish bank accounts to individual Holocaust victims themselves.<br/> <br/> In September of 1939, when Germany invaded Poland, the "New York Times" reported that three million Jews were going to be "immediately removed" from Poland and were likely going to be "exterminat[ed]."<br/> <br/> IBM's reaction? An internal memo saying that, due to that "situation", they really needed to step up production on high-speed alphabetizing equipment. (Source: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/Probing-IBMs-Nazi-connection/2009-1082_3-269157.html" target="_blank">CNet</a>)<br/></li>
<li><b>Random House publishing.</b> Random House's parent company, Bertelsmann A.G., worked for the Nazis... <span class="exagger">they published Hitler propaganda</span>, and a book called "Sterilization and Euthanasia: A Contribution to Applied Christian Ethics".<br/> <br/> Bertelsmann still owns and operates several companies. I picked Random House because they drew controversy in 1997 when they decided to expand the definition of Nazi in Webster's Dictionary.<br/> <br/> Eleven years ago, they added the colloquial, softened definition of "a person who is fanatically dedicated to or seeks to control a specified activity, practice, etc." (Think "Soup Nazi".)<br/> <br/> The Anti-Defamation League called that expanded definition offensive... especially when added by a company with Nazi ties... they said it, quote, "trivializes and denies the murderous intent and actions of the Nazi regime... it also cheapens the language by allowing people to reach for a quick word fix... [and] lends a helping hand to those whose aim is to prove that the Nazis were really not such terrible people." (Source: <a href="http://www.observer.com/node/40950" target="_blank">New York Observer</a>, <a href="http://www.adl.org/presrele/holna_52/2881_52.asp" target="_blank">ADL</a>)</li>
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<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">Your top priority <u>right now</u>, though, is preparing for your own immediate family survival!</font></p>
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<hr/><p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><b>This guide is for families preparing for <u>imminent</u> terrorist or strategic nuclear attacks<br/> with expected blast destruction followed by widespread radioactive fallout downwind.</b></font></p>
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<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><b><u>THEN TAKE EFFECTIVE PROTECTIVE ACTION, BEFORE THEY STRIKE, WITH CONFIDENCE...</u> <u>FAST!</u></b></font></p>
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<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><b>#1 - <u>STAY OR GO</u>?</b></font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">You must <b>decide FIRST if you need to prepare where you are, or attempt evacuation.</b> The nature of the threat, your prior preparations, and your confidence in your sources of information should direct your decision. If you know already you will be preparing to stay at your own home or, at least, the immediate local area, go now to #2 below.</font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">If you are considering evacuation, your decision requires very high confidence that it is worth the risk. <u>You do not want to get stuck between your current location and your hoped for destination, as there will probably be no easy getting back.</u> If you fail to get to your destination, you may be exposed without shelter, in a dangerous situation with little effective law enforcement, perhaps among panicked hordes of refugees. Whatever supplies you have may be limited then to what you can carry on foot. <u>IF</u> you are in a big city or near a military target, <u>AND</u> you have relatives or friends in the country that you know are awaiting you, <u>AND</u> the roads between you and them are clear, <u>AND</u> the authorities are not yet restricting traffic, <u>AND</u> you have the means and fuel, evacuation may be a viable option for a limited time. DO NOT attempt evacuation if all of the above is not clearly known, or if the situation is deteriorating too quickly to assure the complete trip. <u>You do not want to get stuck and/or become a refugee being herded along with panicked masses.</u> <b>If evacuation is truly a viable option, do not wait - <u>GO NOW</u>!</b> Do so with as many of the supplies listed in #7 as possible. Better to be two days too early in arriving than two hours too late and getting snagged mid-way, potentially exposing your family to a worse fate than having stayed where you were. Because of the very real danger of getting caught in an evacuation stampede that stalls, almost all families will be better off making the best of it wherever they currently are.</font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><b>#2 - <u>WHAT YOU NEED TO DO FIRST</u></b></font></font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">Because time is of the essence, you need to first <b>delegate and assign to different adult family members specific tasks</b> so they can all be accomplished at the same time. Your first priorities to assure your family survival are <u>Shelter</u>, <u>Water</u>, and <u>Food/Supplies</u>. <u>While some are working on the water storage and shelter at home, others need to be acquiring, as much as possible, the food and supplies.</u></font></font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><b>#3 - <u>FOOD/SUPPLIES</u></b></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">Because much of the food and supplies listed at #7 of this guide may quickly become unavailable, <b>you need to assign someone <u>NOW</u> to immediately go to the stores with that list!</b> Get cash from the bank and ATM's first, if it can be done quickly, but try and use credit cards at the stores, if at all possible, to preserve your cash.</font></font></font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><b>#4 - <u>WATER</u></b></font></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">With one or more adults now heading to the stores with the list at #7, <b>those remaining need to begin storing water <u>IMMEDIATELY!</u></b> Lack of clean water will devastate your family much more quickly and more severely than any lack of food. Without clean water for both drinking and continued good sanitary practices in food preparation and for bathroom excursions (which could be much less sanitary than normal), debilitating sickness could rampage through your family with little hope of prompt medical attention. That is a likely but, avoidable, disaster, <u>ONLY IF you have enough water</u>.</font></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><b>Every possible container needs to be filled with water RIGHT NOW!</b> It will be very hard to have stored too much water. When the electricity/pumps go down or everybody in your community is doing the same thing, thus dropping the water pressure, what you've got is all you might be getting for a very long time. Empty pop bottles (1-3 liter) are ideal for water storage, also filling up the bathtub and washing machine. (Remember, later you'll have some in your hot water tank.) If you have any kiddie pools or old water beds, pull them out and fill them up, too. (Water from a water bed should be used only for bathing or cleaning, not for drinking as it may contain traces of algaecide and/or fungicides.) <u>Anything and everything that'll hold water needs to be filled up quickly RIGHT NOW!</u>!</font></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">One of the shopping items listed at #7 is new metal garbage cans and liner bags which you'll also use for storing water. If you can't get any more new cans, you could clean out an existing garbage can and scrub it throughout with bleach, then put in a new garbage bag liner and fill it with water. Even sturdy boxes could be used with bag liners. (Use two liners if they are very thin/flimsy.) Choose well where you fill up garbage cans with water because they won't easily be moved once full and many of them together could be too heavy for some upper floor locations. Ideally, they need to be very near where your shelter will be constructed and can actually add to its shielding properties, as you'll see below. BE ASSURED, <b><u>YOU CANNOT STORE AND HAVE TOO MUCH WATER!</u> Do not hesitate, <i>fill up every possible container</i>, <u>RIGHT NOW!</u></b></font></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><b>#5 - <u>SHELTER</u></b></font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">The principles of radiation protection are simple - with many options and resources families can use to prepare or improvise a very effective shelter. You must throw off any self-defeating <i>myths of nuclear un-survivability</i> that may needlessly paralyze and panic, and then seal the fate of, less informed families.</font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">Radioactive fallout is the particulate matter (dust) produced by a nuclear explosion and carried high up into the air by the mushroom cloud. It drifts on the wind and most of it settles back to earth downwind of the explosion. The heaviest, most dangerous, and most noticeable fallout, will 'fall out' first closer to ground zero. It may begin arriving minutes after an explosion. The smaller and lighter dust-like particles will typically be arriving hours later, as they drift much farther downwind, often for hundreds of miles. Once it arrives, whether visible or not, all that will fall will have done so usually in under an hour, then blow around everywhere just like dust does on the ground and roofs. However, rain can concentrate the fallout into localized 'hot spots' of much more intense radiation with no visible indication.</font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">This radioactive fallout 'dust' is dangerous because it is emitting penetrating radiation energy (similar to x-ray's). This radiation (not the fallout dust) can go right through walls, roofs and protective clothing. Even if you manage not to inhale or ingest the dust, and keep it off your skin, hair, and clothes, and even if none gets inside your house, the radiation penetrating your home is still extremely dangerous, and can injure or kill you inside.</font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">Radioactive fallout from a nuclear explosion, though very dangerous initially, loses its intensity quickly because it is giving off so much energy. For example, fallout emitting gamma ray radiation at a rate over 500 R/hr (fatal with one hour of exposure) shortly after an explosion, weakens to only 1/10th as strong 7 hours later. Two days later, it's only 1/100th as strong, or as deadly, as it was initially.</font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><b>That is really <i>very good news</i>, because our families can readily survive it <u>IF</u> we get them into a proper shelter to safely wait it out as it becomes less dangerous with every passing hour.</b></font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">What stops radiation, and thus shields your family, is simply putting mass between them and the radiation source. Like police body armor stopping bullets, mass stops (absorbs) radiation. The thicker and heavier the mass, the more radiation it stops, and the more effective it is with every inch more you add to your fallout shelter. The thickness in inches needed to cut the radiation down to only 1/10th of its initial intensity for different common materials is: Steel 3.3", concrete 11", earth 16", water 24", wood 38". The thickness required to stop 99% of the radiation is: 5" of steel, 16" of solid brick or hollow concrete blocks filled with mortar or sand, 2 feet of packed earth or 3 feet if loose, 3 feet of water. (BTW, lead is nothing special, same as anything else pound for pound.) You may not have enough steel available, but anything you do have will have mass and can be used to add to your shielding - it just takes more thickness of lighter wood, for example, than heavier earth, to absorb and stop the same amount of radiation. Increasing the distance between your family inside and the radiation outside also reduces the radiation intensity.</font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><b>The goals of your family fallout shelter are:</b></font></font></font></font></font></p>
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<li><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><b>To maximize the distance away from the fallout 'dusting' outside on the ground, roof and trees.<br/></b></font></font></font></font></font></li>
<li><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><b>To place sufficient mass between your family and the fallout to absorb the deadly radiation<br/></b></font></font></font></font></font></li>
<li><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><b>To make the shelter tolerable to stay in while the radiation subsides with every passing hour</b></font></font></font></font></font></li>
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<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">While a fallout shelter can be built anywhere, you should see what your best options are at home or nearby. Many structures already provide significant shielding or partial shielding that can be enhanced for adequate protection. <b>If you do not have a basement available, you can still use the techniques shown below in any above ground structure, you'll just need more mass to achieve the same level of shielding.</b> You may consider using other solid structures nearby, especially those with below ground spaces, such as commercial buildings, schools, churches, below ground parking garages, large and long culverts, tunnels, etc.. Some of these may require permissions and/or the acquiring of additional materials to minimize any fallout drifting or blowing into them, if open ended. Buildings with a half-dozen or more floors, where there is not a concern of blast damage, may provide good radiation protection in the center of the middle floors. This is because of both the distance and the shielding the multiple floors provide from the fallout on the ground and roof.</font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">Bottom Line: choose a structure nearby with both the greatest mass and distance already in place between the outside, where the fallout would settle, and the shelter inside.</font></font></font></font></font></p>
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<tbody><tr><td align="left" valign="middle"><p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">Leave a small crawl-through entrance and more mass there that can be easily pulled in after you, but with a gap at the top to allow exhaust air out. Have another gap of 4-6" square low at the other end for incoming fresh air. Make bigger if crowded and/or hotter climate. A small piece of cardboard can help fan fresh air in if the natural rising warmer air convection current needs an assist moving the air along. This incoming air won't need to be filtered if the basement has been reasonably sealed up, however any windows or other openings will require some solid mass coverage to assure they stay sealed and to provide additional shielding protection for the basement. More details on this in the next (#6) section.</font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">With more time, materials, and carpentry or masonry skills, you could even construct a more formal fallout shelter, such as the FEMA lean-to on the right, but you will need to assure structural integrity is achieved and adequate mass is utilized.</font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">An effective fallout shelter constructed in a basement may reduce your radiation exposure 100-200+ fold. Thus, if the initial radiation intensity outside was 500 R/hr (fatal in one hour), the basement shelter occupants might only experience 5 R/hr or even less, which is survivable, as the radiation intensity will be decreasing with every passing hour.</font></p>
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<tbody><tr><td align="left" valign="middle"><p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">Adding mass on the floor above your chosen basement corner, and outside against the walls opposite your shelter, will also increase your shielding protection. Every inch thicker adds up to more effective life-saving radiation shielding.</font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">As cramped as that table space fallout shelter might seem, the vital shielding provided by simply moving some mass into place could be the difference between exposure to a lethal dose of radiation and the survival of your family.</font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">The majority of people requiring any sheltering at all will be many miles downwind, and they will not need to stay sheltered for weeks on end. In fact, most people will only need to stay sheltered full-time for a few days before they can start coming out briefly to attend to quick essential chores. Later, they can begin spending ever more time out of the shelter daily, only coming back in to sleep. As miserable as it might seem now, you and your family can easily endure that, especially compared to the alternative.</font></p>
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<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><b>#6 - <u>ESSENTIAL DETAILS</u></b></font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">If you've accomplished the above; securing your supplies, stored water, and built your family fallout shelter, <u>CONGRATULATIONS</u>! You have now succeeded in improving the odds of survival for your family 100-fold, or more! Now, you need to expand your knowledge and fine-tune the tactics that will make the most of your family survival strategy.</font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
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<font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><br/></font></font></font></font></font></font></li>
<li><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><u>If close to a target</u>, your first indication of a nuclear detonation may be with its characteristic blinding bright flash. The first effects you may have to deal with before radioactive fallout arrives, depending on your proximity to it, are blast and thermal energy. Promptly employing the old "Duck & Cover" strategy, <b>immediately upon the first indication of the flash</b>, will save many from avoidable flying debris injuries and minimize thermal burns. Those very close will soon experience tornado strength winds and should quickly dive behind or under any solid object, away from or below windows. Even in the open, laying flat, reduces by eight fold the odds of being hit by any debris. A very large 500 kiloton blast, 2.2 miles away, will arrive about 8 seconds after the detonation flash with a very strong three second wind blast. That delay is even greater further away. That is a lot of time to duck & cover IF alert and you should stay down for 2 minutes. If not near any target 'ground zero' you will only, like the vast majority, have to deal with the fallout later.</font></font></font></font></font></font><p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"> </font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
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<li><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><u>When fallout is first anticipated</u>, but has not yet arrived, anyone not already sheltered should begin using their N95 particulate respirator masks and hooded rain ponchos. Everyone should begin taking Potassium Iodide (KI) or Potassium Iodate (KIO3) tablets for thyroid protection against cancer causing radioactive iodine, a major product of nuclear weapons explosions. If no tablets available, you can topically (on the skin) apply an iodine solution, like tincture of iodine or Betadine, for a similar protective effect. <u>(WARNING: Iodine solutions are NEVER to be ingested or swallowed.)</u> For adults, paint 8 ml of a 2 percent tincture of Iodine on the abdomen or forearm each day, ideally at least 2 hours prior to possible exposure. For children 3 to 18, but under 150 pounds, only half that amount painted on daily, or 4 ml. For children under 3 but older than a month, half again, or 2 ml. For newborns to 1 month old, half it again, or just 1 ml. (One measuring teaspoon is about 5 ml, if you don't have a medicine dropper graduated in ml.) If your iodine is stronger than 2%, reduce the dosage accordingly. Absorption through the skin is not as reliable a dosing method as using the tablets, but tests show that it will still be very effective for most. <u>Do not use if allergic to iodine.</u> If at all possible, inquire of your doctor NOW if there is any reason why anybody in your household should not use KI or KIO3 tablets, or iodine solutions on their skin, in a future nuclear emergency, just to be sure.</font></font></font></font></font></font><p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"> </font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
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<li><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><u>You don't need to risk fire</u>, burns, and asphyxiation trying to cook anything in the cramped shelter space, if you have pre-positioned in your shelter enough canned goods, can opener, and other non-perishable foods, that are ready-to-eat without preparation. More food, along with water, can be located right outside your crawl space entrance that you can pull in quickly as needed when safe to do so.</font></font></font></font></font></font><p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"> </font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
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<li><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><u>For lighting needs</u> within the shelter have some small LED flashlights or LED head-lamps to stretch your battery life. Try not to have to use candles if at all possible. Bring in some books for yourself and games for the children. Throw in a small/thin mattress, some cushions, blankets, pillows, etc.</font></font></font></font></font></font><p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"> </font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
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<li><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><u>Toilet use</u> will be via a portable camp toilet or a 5 gallon bucket with a seat borrowed from one of the house bathrooms, if you did not purchase a separate one. Garbage bag liners, preferably sized for it, should always be used and a full-size and bag lined garbage can should be positioned very close outside the shelter entrance for depositing these in when it is safe to do so quickly. Hanging a sheet or blanket will help provide a little privacy as shelter occupants 'take their turn'. The toilet needs to have its new 'deposits' sealed up tight with the plastic liner after each use and hand sanitizer towelettes nearby. Use a very secure top on the bucket and position it near the wall entrance with the outgoing upper air vent.</font></font></font></font></font></font><p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"> </font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
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<li><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><u>Pets, and what to do about them</u>, is a tough call if you fail to make provisions for them. Letting pets run free is not a humane option, both for their potential to die a miserable death from radiation exposure outside and/or to be a danger to others, especially with dogs running in the inevitable packs of multitudes of others abandoned. Preparing for them is ideal, if truly realistic and not a drain on limited resources, while 'putting them down' might eventually become a painful, but necessary reality if the disruption of food supplies becomes very long term.</font></font></font></font></font></font><p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"> </font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
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<li><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">Boiling or bleach water treatments will be used for <u>cleaning questionable water</u> later for drinking. (This is for killing bacteria, not for radiation contamination, which is never a concern for any stored and covered water containers or even sealed food.) Tap water recently put into clean containers won't likely need to be purified before using. To purify questionable water, bring it to a roiling boil and keep it there for 10 minutes at least. If you don't have the fuel to boil it, you can kill the bacteria by mixing in a good quality household bleach at the rate of 10 drops per gallon, and letting it sit for at least 1/2 an hour. The bleach should be at least 5.25% pure, like Clorox, but be sure it has no additives such as soap or fragrance. You can later get rid of the flat taste from boiling, or some of the chlorine taste when using bleach, by pouring it from one container to another several times.</font></font></font></font></font></font><p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"> </font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhDi0zoTcSo" target="_blank"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">"Know What To Do" 3 minute PSA video</font></font></font></font></font></font></a></p>
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<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">Civil Defense films made during the Cold War. Old fashioned, but physics and tactics of radiation protection are timeless.</font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/Survival1951" target="_blank"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">Survival Under Atomic Attack</font></font></font></font></font></font></a></p>
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<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">If still available <u>and enough time to be overnight shipped</u> your own radiation detection and monitoring instruments, potassium iodide anti-radiation pills, Nuclear Survival handbooks, etc., check at...</font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
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<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"> </font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
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<hr/><p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">This guide was purposely designed with the sober realization that the overwhelming majority of our fellow Americans would not be compelled to read such a guide until a nuclear crisis was imminent and, unfortunately, their preparation options and time to do so then would be very limited. <a href="http://www.ki4u.com/" target="_blank">www.ki4u.com</a> and other survival equipment suppliers will again be quickly sold-out, as all were after 9/11. This guide then will be the best/only help that we can offer. If you are fortunate enough to be exploring your family preparation needs and options before such a future national crisis, there is much more that you can and should do now to insure that they are even better prepared.</font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
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<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">If stores are still at all stocked, and safe to go to, try to buy as many of the following items as possible... <b><u>IMMEDIATELY</u>!</b> There are no quantities listed here on the food items below as family size varies and because, as the emergency and panic widens, many items will become quickly sold-out or quantities restricted and you'll need to try to get more of what does remain on the shelves. At a minimum you should be looking at two weeks of provisions, but <u>much better to be aiming for two months or more</u>. The reality is, if/when we are attacked, it will be a very long time before anything is ever 'normal' again, especially at any grocery stores. Hurricane victims can attest to the prolonged misery and disruptions from such a localized disaster, even with the rest of the country still able to help out. Nobody can begin to imagine how bad the suffering will be, and for how long, if nuclear weapons have gone off... and in multiple locations!</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">The half-dozen top listed and <u>UNDERLINED</u> food items below are primarily for use while in the shelter. They are mostly ready-to-eat that requires no cooking or preparation, just a can opener at the most. (The iodine solution is included here because of its importance for its thyroid-blocking topical use detailed above, IF you do not have KI pills, <u>but it's NEVER to be ingested or swallowed</u>.) The other foods listed below there are better cost/nutrition staples for later use during the extended recovery period. Then follows general non-food supplies, tools and equipment.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
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<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">Better to risk being a little early when securing your families essential food and supplies, rather than a few hours too late and going home empty-handed...</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><u>Canned goods (pasta, soups, chili, vegetables, fruit, tuna, meats, beans, peanut butter, etc.)<br/> Ready-to-eat foods (pop-tarts, raisins, cheese, granola/energy/protein bars, snack-paks, etc.)<br/> Some perishable foods (breads and fruits like bananas, apples, oranges, grapes, etc.)<br/> Assorted drink mix flavorings (with no cold drinks, just plain water, kids will appreciate it!)<br/> Plenty of potent Multi-Vitamins, Vit C, Pepto Bismol, other meds, etc.<br/> Iodine solution, like Betadine (16 ounces)- NOT TO BE INGESTED OR SWALLOWED!</u></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">Largest bags of rice, beans, flour, potatoes, pasta, quick oats and other grains<br/> Multiple big boxes of dried milk (Could include/use some inside shelter, too.)<br/> Multiple big boxes of pancake and biscuit mix & syrup<br/> Large bag of sugar and jar of honey<br/> Large 2 gallons or more of cooking oil<br/> Baking powder & soda & yeast & spice assortment pack<br/> Bottled water (especially if home supplies not secured yet)</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">Paper or plastic plates/bowls/cups/utensils and paper towels<br/> Quality manual can opener, 2 if you don't already have one at home<br/> Kitchen matches and disposable lighters<br/> New metal garbage cans and liner bags (water storage & waste storage)<br/> 5 gallon bucket and smaller garbage bags sized for it (toilet)<br/> Toilet seat for the bucket (or use one from inside the house)<br/> Toilet paper and, if needed, sanitary napkins, diapers, etc.<br/> Baby wipes (saves water for personal hygiene use)<br/> Flashlights (ideally LED) and more than one portable radio<br/> Plenty more batteries, at least three sets, for each of the above<br/> Bleach (5.25%, without fragrance or soap additives)<br/> Alcohol and Hydrogen Peroxide and hand sanitizers<br/> Aspirin/Tylenol/Motrin, Pepto Bismol, etc.<br/> Prescription drugs filled, and as much extra as possible<br/> First aid kits<br/> Fire extinguishers<br/> Plenty of inexpensive N95 particulate respirator masks<br/> Plenty of cheap plastic hooded rain ponchos for everyone<br/> Water filters and all other camping type supplies, such as portable camp toilet,<br/> cook stove and fuel, ammo, etc., if any sporting goods stocks still available.<br/> And, of course, rolls of plastic sheeting, duct tape, staple guns, staples, etc.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
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<h3><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">Some Final Thoughts...</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></h3>
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<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><br/> As mentioned above, this guide was written assuming it would not be read by the majority of its intended audience until a nuclear crisis is already fully upon us--when remaining time and resources to prepare will be extremely limited, maybe with only hours remaining before 'the music stops'.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">For that reason, the food, equipment and supplies listed above has been restricted to only the most common and typically available from local resources.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">If you are fortunate enough to be reading this well before a nuclear threat (or other major disaster) occurs or appears imminent, there's a great deal more that you can and should do beyond the scope of this brief guide.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">Surviving the initial threats of a nuclear 'event' and radioactive fallout is relatively easy with the proper knowledge and even the most modest of preparations, as we've detailed above.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">The ongoing bigger challenge, though, will be the one brought on by the extensive and much longer-lasting disruptions of services after you survive the nuclear event and emerge safely once the fallout threat has diminished.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">You might go many months with little or no new food supplies, along with disruptions of water, sewer, gas, electric, and telephone services, little or no gasoline, and severely limited medical and banking services, law enforcement and fire protection.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">With more time to research, make plans, and order supplies, families are well advised to acquire more in-depth training, reference books, longer-term food and water stocks, fuel, medical supplies, personal security, communication equipment, radiation monitoring instruments, camping equipment, supplies and tools. Many informative web sites and suppliers make available all of the above, including military MRE's ready-to-eat meals, dehydrated and freeze-dried foods, as well as buckets of beans, rice, and grains. They also offer solar cookers, water purifiers and barrels, camp and compost toilets, comprehensive medical kits and manuals, shortwave and local two-way radios, perimeter alarms, alternative energy and heating systems, fuel preservatives, long-term packaged seeds, gardening tools, canning equipment, etc. Survivalblog.com has many of the best advertising there. For radiation meters, potassium iodide, etc., see <a href="http://www.ki4u.com/products1.php" target="_blank">www.ki4u.com</a>.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">If all of this preparation seems daunting, here's one strategy to make it a little less overwhelming: Think in two's. First, acquire all the equipment and supplies your family would need to survive for two weeks if totally cut off from stores and utility and municipal services. It might help to consider all you would need during an extended camping trip in any season. Then, once you've accomplished that, expand your preparations and supplies to meet the goal of surviving at home for two months with no utilities or services. After that, continue adding provisions for two more additional months, with the eventual goal of gathering enough supplies so that your family can survive under these distressed conditions for a year or more.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">A year might seem like overkill, but you'll no doubt discover that in any disruptive event, numerous friends, neighbors, and relatives will be in need and you will want to help them if you can. Of course, ideally, they should also be preparing their own families for surviving coming disasters, so sharing this information with them might help get them started. Also, for your own family's security, you always want to try to surround yourself with a buffer of like-minded people who are also doing the right things to prepare so they will become helpful allies instead of only a drain on your limited resources. Reality is, they could possibly even become an outright threat for your family retaining enough supplies for the full duration if difficult circumstances were to drag on and became ever more desperate.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">Some are e-mailing the link to this guide, or printing up extra copies of the pdf version of this guide and mailing it out, with a quick note; <i>"Hope you never need this information, but just-in-case, keep it handy."</i> Few recipients find that low-key approach offensive or alarmist, and many have reported back to us that they were very grateful. Others have printed up extra copies for church members or for school or work and still others with the intent to anonymously distribute them to all their neighbors surrounding them if/when a nuclear crisis looms. Point is, you want everybody you care about, and those near and around you, to be preparing, it's both better for them and your families security. Also, everyone that does prepare will be one less family then later standing in line for hours (or days) ahead of others who failed to, awaiting a hoped for arrival of a FEMA handout of food or water. Being prepared makes a ton of sense and will one day soon be seen by all, many painfully, perhaps even fatally, as clearly obvious and self-evident.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">If you're trying to convince yourself or a spouse to make the investment in prep equipment and supplies, also keep in mind this fact: Many of the supplies save money because buying in bulk and stocking up now is less expensive than buying smaller quantities later, especially as inflation ramps up and/or shortages appear. Further, if nothing bad ever happens, you can eventually eat the food and use most of the supplies, like toilet paper, fuel, etc., so they won't go to waste.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">They will also be useful in many disasters besides nuclear events. For example:</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
<div style="margin-left: 2em;"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">Job loss -- Having two to four months of food at home would certainly relieve much of the stress of losing your job and being without an income while looking for another.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font><p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">Pandemic -- We could someday see a pandemic unleashed that would require families to self-quarantine themselves at home for many weeks to avoid catching the disease. Having these supplies and having made these preparations would make that extremely difficult time more endurable.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">Natural disasters, economic dislocations, civil disruptions -- Your family could ride out any number, or cascading combination, of these events in much better shape if you are sufficiently prepared.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
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<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">Being prepared and stocking up makes sense on numerous levels, especially during this age when costs for many essentials, such as food, fuel, and ammunition, will surely only continue to increase. Stocking up now both saves money today and may well save your family tomorrow.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">How People Act in Times of Trouble</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">When tough times come, you'll likely discover that people today, overall, are not as resilient as they were in times past. For many of us, our grandparents generation included a higher percentage of self-reliant rural folks who both 'made do' on less while growing and raising their own food. Today, most people are far removed from the land and the routine of being responsible for supplying their own food; many even have a dangerous government-dependent mentality of entitlement. Fact is, the morality that both sustained and restrained previous generations during tough times is not as widely embraced in this present population. As a result, many people will more quickly rationalize theft, robbery, looting, and rioting when they fear hunger and deprivation. Crime is already a problem today--even with nobody being hungry, and with law enforcement in place. Crime, then, could explode when hunger threatens and law enforcement deteriorates concurrently. It is therefore prudent for anyone making serious preparations to also include plans for maintaining their own security if law enforcement is either unavailable or cannot keep pace with the demands of an overwhelming crime wave. If you do not own or use guns, I would strongly urge you to re-evaluate your personal security. If you find it lacking, acquire some guns and ammunition immediately, and get some safety and practical tactical training in their use. Ask the clerks at your local gun store for advice on defensive arms and to point you to local resources for that essential training.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">For those who already have weapons, be sure they are effective models and calibers for self-defense, and that you have stocked plenty of ammunition and high-capacity magazines if needed. Weapons and ammo will quickly disappear, or they will become prohibitively expensive or restricted, once the essential need is more widely recognized.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">Financial Concerns</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">Once you are well on your way to acquiring your family's preparation tools, equipment, and supplies, consider acquiring extra items to help others and to use as future barter goods. You might be able to trade extra water filters, garden seeds, survival books, cooking fuel, batteries, antibiotics, and ammo for other needed products or services. Some people are even converting a modest percentage of their traditional paper investments into some gold and/or silver coins for trading purposes, as well as for prudent wealth diversification. Having wealth in forms other than solely paper dollars, plastic credit cards, or a 401k account might make the critical difference in one day being able to buy gas or get your gravely ill child to the front of a mile-long line to see the only overworked doctor or dentist or pharmacist in town. It'll sure beat only waving around your last mutual fund or bank statement then.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">A Final Word</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">To better avoid unhealthy and overwhelming angst trying to prepare for all future dislocations and disruptions, keep in mind, too, that each step is like acquiring medical insurance. We all hope and pray we won't need that insurance, but if we ever do, our families won't find us then lacking in providing for their basic safety and welfare.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">Once you've started making these preparations, strive to stay balanced. Thank God that you have begun, try to awaken others, and begin to confidently relax in your new alert status. You'll then be able to more fully enjoy life with your family knowing that you're firmly on the road to better being able to handle just about any event that might occur in this quickly changing world.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
<center><hr/><p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><b><i><a href="http://www.ki4u.com/why.htm" target="_blank">"A prudent man foresees the difficulties ahead and prepares for them;<br/> the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences."</a></i> - Proverbs 22:3</b></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
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<p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">Shane Connor is the CEO of <a href="http://www.ki4u.com/main.htm" target="_blank">www.ki4u.com</a><br/> consultants and developers of Civil Defense solutions to government, NPO's and individual families.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
<hr/><p><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font face=" Verdana, Arial,Helvetica" size="2">Everyone is invited to copy, post, print, and distribute this '<u>WHAT TO DO IF A NUCLEAR DISASTER IS IMMINENT!</u>' guide anywhere, as long as they do so without charging anything for it. It must be reproduced in entirety, including this notice, and not be altered or edited. To contact the author with comments and suggestions, e-mail: <a href="mailto:webmaster@ki4u.com">webmaster@ki4u.com</a>. This guide will be continually 'fine-tuned' so, before distributing it, download it fresh from <a href="http://www.ki4u.com/guide.htm" target="_blank">http://www.ki4u.com/guide.htm</a> or to print out, use this PDF version here <a href="http://www.ki4u.com/guide.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.ki4u.com/guide.pdf</a></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p>
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<h1 class="singlePageTitle">Thanksgiving: Celebrating The Genocide Of Native Americans</h1>
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<p>The sad reality about the United States of America is that in a matter of a few hundreds years it has managed to re-write its own history into a mythological fantasy. The concepts of liberty, freedom and free enterprise in the “land of the free, home of the brave” are a mere spin. America was founded and became prosperous based on two “original sins”: First, the murder of Native Americans and the theft of their land by European colonialists, then subsequently slavery. This grim reality is far removed from the fairy tale version of a nation that views itself in its collective consciousness as a virtuous universal agent for good and progress. The most recent version of this mythology was expressed by Ronald Reagan when he said that <em>“America is a shining city upon a hill whose beacon light guides freedom-loving people everywhere”</em>.</p>
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<p>In re-writing its own history about Thanksgiving, white America tells a Disney like fairy tale story about the English pilgrims and their struggle to survive in a new and harsh environment. The pilgrims found help from the friendly Native American tribe Wampanoag Indians in 1621. But unfortunately for Native Americans the thankfulness of European settlers was very short lived. By 1637, Massachusetts governor John Winthrop ordered the massacre of thousands of Pequot Indian men, women and children. This event marked the start of the Native American genocide which would take a bit more than 200 years to complete, and of course to achieve its ultimate goal which was to take the land from Native Americans and to systematically plunder their resources. The genocide,started in 1637, marks the beginning of the conquest of the entire continent until Native Americans had been either exterminated for most, assimilated into white society for very few, or put in reservations to dwindle and die.</p>
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<p>In other words, celebrating Thanksgiving is as if Germany had a day of celebration for the Holocaust. Thanksgiving is the American Holocaust. The original crimes of genocide and slavery are not limited to the United States early history, but found an extension in the current policies of modern day America. The systematic assault on other nations and cultures is still going on today under various pretenses or outright lies. The United States wars of empire are going on today more than ever before. They have left millions of people dead across the world in the course of American history, and they are still fought for the same reasons behind the Native American genocide and slavery: Namely, expand the wealth of the United States’ elite.</p>
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<p>Defenders of Thanksgiving will say that whatever the original murky meaning of the holiday was, it has now become a rare chance to spend time with family and to show appreciation for what one has. However, for most Americans today it is hard to be thankful. As matter of fact, unless you belong to the 2 percent representing the United States ruling class you should not be thankful at all. How can you be appreciative for what you have if you lost your house to foreclosure, don’t have a job and can’t feed your family? How can you be appreciative if you are a homeless veteran? How can you be appreciative living in a society with no social justice when you are poor or sick? Today rich celebrities and politicians will make a parody of what should be real charity by feeding the countless poor and homeless, and it will ease their conscience, at least for a while. But charity should not be a substitute for social justice, and just to ruin some people’s appetites before attacking that golden turkey; keep in mind that today we are celebrating a genocide.</p>
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<div class="credit-text"><p>LETTERKENNY ARMY DEPOT, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Linda Woodford spent the last 15 years of her career inserting phony numbers in the U.S. Department of Defense's accounts.</p>
<p>Every month until she retired in 2011, she says, the day came when the Navy would start dumping numbers on the Cleveland, Ohio, office of the Defense Finance and Accounting Service, the Pentagon's main accounting agency. Using the data they received, Woodford and her fellow DFAS accountants there set about preparing monthly reports to square the Navy's books with the U.S. Treasury's - a balancing-the-checkbook maneuver required of all the military services and other Pentagon agencies.</p>
<p>And every month, they encountered the same problem. Numbers were missing. Numbers were clearly wrong. Numbers came with no explanation of how the money had been spent or which congressional appropriation it came from. "A lot of times there were issues of numbers being inaccurate," Woodford says. "We didn't have the detail … for a lot of it."</p>
<p id="geom_inter_5_1384832738881_48">The data flooded in just two days before deadline. As the clock ticked down, Woodford says, staff were able to resolve a lot of the false entries through hurried calls and emails to Navy personnel, but many mystery numbers remained. For those, Woodford and her colleagues were told by superiors to take "unsubstantiated change actions" - in other words, enter false numbers, commonly called "plugs," to make the Navy's totals match the Treasury's.</p>
<p>Jeff Yokel, who spent 17 years in senior positions in DFAS's Cleveland office before retiring in 2009, says supervisors were required to approve every "plug" - thousands a month. "If the amounts didn't balance, Treasury would hit it back to you," he says.</p>
<p>After the monthly reports were sent to the Treasury, the accountants continued to seek accurate information to correct the entries. In some instances, they succeeded. In others, they didn't, and the unresolved numbers stood on the books. …</p>
<p>STANDARD PROCEDURE</p>
<p>At the DFAS offices that handle accounting for the Army, Navy, Air Force and other defense agencies, fudging the accounts with false entries is standard operating procedure, Reuters has found. And plugging isn't confined to DFAS (pronounced DEE-fass). Former military service officials say record-keeping at the operational level throughout the services is rife with made-up numbers to cover lost or missing information.</p>
<p>A review of multiple reports from oversight agencies in recent years shows that the Pentagon also has systematically ignored warnings about its accounting practices. "These types of adjustments, made without supporting documentation … can mask much larger problems in the original accounting data," the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, said in a December 2011 report.</p>
<p>Plugs also are symptomatic of one very large problem: the Pentagon's chronic failure to keep track of its money - how much it has, how much it pays out and how much is wasted or stolen.</p>
<p>This is the second installment in a series in which Reuters delves into the Defense Department's inability to account for itself. The first article examined how the Pentagon's record-keeping dysfunction results in widespread pay errors that inflict financial hardship on soldiers and sap morale. This account is based on interviews with scores of current and former Defense Department officials, as well as Reuters analyses of Pentagon logistics practices, bookkeeping methods, court cases and reports by federal agencies.</p>
<p>As the use of plugs indicates, pay errors are only a small part of the sums that annually disappear into the vast bureaucracy that manages more than half of all annual government outlays approved by Congress. The Defense Department's 2012 budget totaled $565.8 billion, more than the annual defense budgets of the 10 next largest military spenders combined, including Russia and China. How much of that money is spent as intended is impossible to determine.</p>
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<p>In its investigation, Reuters has found that the Pentagon is largely incapable of keeping track of its vast stores of weapons, ammunition and other supplies; thus it continues to spend money on new supplies it doesn't need and on storing others long out of date. It has amassed a backlog of more than half a trillion dollars in unaudited contracts with outside vendors; how much of that money paid for actual goods and services delivered isn't known. And it repeatedly falls prey to fraud and theft that can go undiscovered for years, often eventually detected by external law enforcement agencies.</p>
<p>The consequences aren't only financial; bad bookkeeping can affect the nation's defense. In one example of many, the Army lost track of $5.8 billion of supplies between 2003 and 2011 as it shuffled equipment between reserve and regular units. Affected units "may experience equipment shortages that could hinder their ability to train soldiers and respond to emergencies," the Pentagon inspector general said in a September 2012 report.</p>
<p>Because of its persistent inability to tally its accounts, the Pentagon is the only federal agency that has not complied with a law that requires annual audits of all government departments. That means that the $8.5 trillion in taxpayer money doled out by Congress to the Pentagon since 1996, the first year it was supposed to be audited, has never been accounted for. That sum exceeds the value of China's economic output last year.</p>
<p>Congress in 2009 passed a law requiring that the Defense Department be audit-ready by 2017. Then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in 2011 tightened the screws when ordered that the department make a key part of its books audit-ready in 2014.</p>
<p>Reuters has found that the Pentagon probably won't meet its deadlines. (See related article [ID:nL2N0J00PX].) The main reason is rooted in the Pentagon's continuing reliance on a tangle of thousands of disparate, obsolete, largely incompatible accounting and business-management systems. Many of these systems were built in the 1970s and use outmoded computer languages such as COBOL on old mainframes. They use antiquated file systems that make it difficult or impossible to search for data. Much of their data is corrupted and erroneous.</p>
<p>"It's like if every electrical socket in the Pentagon had a different shape and voltage," says a former defense official who until recently led efforts to modernize defense accounting.</p>
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<p>"AMALGAM OF FIEFDOMS"</p>
<p>No one can even agree on how many of these accounting and business systems are in use. The Pentagon itself puts the number at 2,200 spread throughout the military services and other defense agencies. A January 2012 report by a task force of the Defense Business Board, an advisory group of business leaders appointed by the secretary of defense, put the number at around 5,000.</p>
<p>"There are thousands and thousands of systems," former Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England said in an interview. "I'm not sure anybody knows how many systems there are."</p>
<p>In a May 2011 speech, then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates described the Pentagon's business operations as "an amalgam of fiefdoms without centralized mechanisms to allocate resources, track expenditures, and measure results. ... My staff and I learned that it was nearly impossible to get accurate information and answers to questions such as ‘How much money did you spend' and ‘How many people do you have?' "</p>
<p>The Pentagon has spent tens of billions of dollars to upgrade to new, more efficient technology in order to become audit-ready. But many of these new systems have failed, either unable to perform all the jobs they were meant to do or scrapped altogether - only adding to the waste they were meant to stop.</p>
<p>Mired in a mess largely of its own making, the Pentagon is left to make do with old technology and plugs - lots of them. In the Cleveland DFAS office where Woodford worked, for example, "unsupported adjustments" to "make balances agree" totaled $1.03 billion in 2010 alone, according to a December 2011 GAO report.</p>
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<p>In its annual report of department-wide finances for 2012, the Pentagon reported $9.22 billion in "reconciling amounts" to make its own numbers match the Treasury's, up from $7.41 billion a year earlier. It said that $585.6 million of the 2012 figure was attributable to missing records. The remaining $8 billion-plus represented what Pentagon officials say are legitimate discrepancies. However, a source with knowledge of the Pentagon's accounting processes said that because the report and others like it aren't audited, they may conceal large amounts of additional plugs and other accounting problems.</p>
<p>The secretary of defense's office and the heads of the military and DFAS have for years knowingly signed off on false entries. "I don't think they're lying and cheating and stealing necessarily, but it's not the right thing to do," Pentagon Comptroller Robert Hale said in an interview. "We've got to fix the processes so we don't have to do that."</p>
<p>Congress has been much more lenient on the Defense Department than on publicly traded corporations. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, a response to the Enron Corp and other turn-of-the-century accounting scandals, imposes criminal penalties on corporate managers who certify false financial reports. "The concept of Sarbanes-Oxley is completely foreign" to the Pentagon, says Mike Young, a former Air Force logistics officer who for years has been a consultant on, and written about, Defense Department logistics.</p>
<p>Defense officials point out that most plugs represent pending transactions - like checks waiting to clear with a bank - and other legitimate maneuvers, many of which are eventually resolved. The dollar amounts, too, don't necessarily represent actual money lost, but multiple accounting entries for money in and money out, often duplicated across several ledgers. That's how, for example, a single DFAS office in Columbus, Ohio, made at least $1.59 trillion - yes, trillion - in errors, including $538 billion in plugs, in financial reports for the Air Force in 2009, according to a December 2011 Pentagon inspector general report. Those amounts far exceeded the Air Force's total budget for that year.</p>
<p>Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel declined to comment for this article. In an August 2013 video message to the entire Defense Department, he said: "The Department of Defense is the only federal agency that has not produced audit-ready financial statements, which are required by law. That's unacceptable."</p>
<p>DFAS Director Teresa McKay declined to be interviewed for this article.</p>
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<p>In an email response to questions from Reuters, a Treasury spokesman said: "The Department of Defense is continuing to take steps to strengthen its financial reporting. ... We're supportive of those efforts and will continue to work with DOD as they make additional progress." While the Treasury knowingly accepts false entries, it rejects accounts containing blank spaces for unknown numbers and totals that don't match its own.</p>
<p>Senators Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma Republican, and Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, introduced legislation earlier this year that would penalize the Pentagon if it isn't audit-ready by 2017. Under the proposed Audit the Pentagon Act of 2013, failure to meet the deadline will result in restrictions on funding for new acquisition programs, prohibit purchases of any information-technology systems that would take more than three years to install, and transfer all DFAS functions to the Treasury.</p>
<p>"The Pentagon can't manage what it can't measure, and Congress can't effectively perform its constitutional oversight role if it doesn't know how the Pentagon is spending taxpayer dollars," Coburn said in an email response to questions. "Until the Pentagon produces a viable financial audit, it won't be able to effectively prioritize its spending, and it will continue to violate the Constitution and put our national security at risk."</p>
<p>TOO MUCH STUFF</p>
<p>The practical impact of the Pentagon's accounting dysfunction is evident at the Defense Logistics Agency, which buys, stores and ships much of the Defense Department's supplies - everything from airplane parts to zippers for uniforms.</p>
<p>It has way too much stuff.</p>
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<p>"We have about $14 billion of inventory for lots of reasons, and probably half of that is excess to what we need," Navy Vice Admiral Mark Harnitchek, the director of the DLA, said at an August 7, 2013, meeting with aviation industry executives, as reported on the agency's web site.</p>
<p>And the DLA keeps buying more of what it already has too much of. A document the Pentagon supplied to Congress shows that as of September 30, 2012, the DLA and the military services had $733 million worth of supplies and equipment on order that was already stocked in excess amounts on warehouse shelves. That figure was up 21% from $609 million a year earlier. The Defense Department defines "excess inventory" as anything more than a three-year supply.</p>
<p>Consider the "vehicular control arm," part of the front suspension on the military's ubiquitous High Mobility Multipurpose Vehicles, or Humvees. As of November 2008, the DLA had 15,000 of the parts in stock, equal to a 14-year supply, according to an April 2013 Pentagon inspector general's report.</p>
<p>And yet, from 2010 through 2012, the agency bought 7,437 more of them - at prices considerably higher than it paid for the thousands sitting on its shelves. The DLA was making the new purchases as demand plunged by nearly half with the winding down of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The inspector general's report said the DLA's buyers hadn't checked current inventory when they signed a contract to acquire more.</p>
<p>Just outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the DLA operates its Eastern Distribution Center, the Defense Department's biggest storage facility. In one of its warehouses, millions of small replacement parts for military equipment and other supplies are stored in hundreds of thousands of breadbox-size bins, stacked floor to ceiling on metal shelves in the 1.7 million-square-foot building.</p>
<p>Sonya Gish, director of the DLA's process and planning directorate, works at the complex. She says no system tracks whether newly received items are put in the correct bins, and she confirmed that because of the vast quantities of material stored, comprehensive inventories are impossible. The DLA makes do with intermittent sampling to see if items are missing or stored in the wrong place. Gish also says the distribution center does not attempt to track or estimate losses from employee theft.</p>
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<p>The Pentagon in 2004 ordered the entire Defense Department to adopt a modern labeling system that would allow all the military branches to see quickly and accurately what supplies are on hand at the DLA and each of the services. To date, the DLA has ignored the directive to use the system. William Budden, deputy director of distribution, said in an interview that the cost would have exceeded the potential benefits, and that the DLA's existing systems are adequate.</p>
<p>A "Clean Out the Attic" program to jettison obsolete inventory is making progress, DLA Director Harnitchek said in an interview. But the effort is hindered because the lack of reliable information on what's in storage makes it hard to figure out what can be thrown out.</p>
<p>The DLA also has run into resistance among warehouse supervisors who for years have been in charge of a handful of warehouse aisles and jealously husband their inventory. "I believe that the biggest challenge is helping item managers identify things we have in our warehouses that they can just let go of," Budden said in an interview published in an undated in-house DLA magazine.</p>
<p>OLD AND DANGEROUS</p>
<p>A few miles away, amid the gently rolling hills of south central Pennsylvania, a series of 14 explosions interrupt the stillness of a spring afternoon, shooting fountains of dirt more than 100 feet into the air. Staff at the Letterkenny Army Depot - one of eight Army Joint Munitions Command depots in the United States - are disposing of 480 pounds of C4 plastic explosive manufactured in 1979 and at risk of becoming dangerously unstable.</p>
<p>If Woody Pike could have his way, the soldiers would be destroying a lot more of the old, unused munitions stored in scores of turf-covered concrete "igloos" ranged across the Letterkenny compound.</p>
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<p>There are runway flares from the 1940s, and warheads for Sparrow missiles that the military hasn't fielded since the 1990s. Most irksome, because they take up a lot of space, are rocket-launch systems that were retired in the 1980s. "It will be years before they're gone," says Pike, a logistics management specialist and planner at Letterkenny.</p>
<p>More than one-third of the weapons and munitions the Joint Munitions Command stores at Letterkenny and its other depots are obsolete, according to Stephen Abney, command spokesman. Keeping all those useless bullets, explosives, missiles, rifles, rocket launchers and other munitions costs tens of millions of dollars a year.</p>
<p>The munitions sit, year after year, because in the short term, "it's cheaper for the military to store it than to get rid of it," said Keith Byers, Letterkenny's ammunition manager. "What's counterproductive is that what you're looking at is stocks that are going to be destroyed eventually anyway."</p>
<p>Also, an Army spokesman said, the Pentagon requires the Army to store munitions reserves free of charge for the other military services, which thus have no incentive to pay for destroying useless stock.</p>
<p>To access ammunition and other inventory still in use, depot staff often must move old explosives, much of which is stored in flimsy, thin-slatted crates. "Continuing to store unneeded ammunition creates potential safety, security and environmental concerns," Brigadier General Gustave Perna said in a 2012 military logistics newsletter, when he was in charge of the Joint Munitions Command. The cost and danger of storing old munitions "frustrates me as a taxpayer," he said. Perna declined requests for an interview.</p>
<p>Sometimes the danger leads to action, as when the C4 was detonated. And the depot recently received funding to destroy 15,000 recoilless rifles last used during World War II, Pike says.</p>
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<p>Yet, on the day of the C4 blasts, piles of Phoenix air-to-air missiles - used on Navy F-14 fighter jets that last flew for the U.S. in 2006 - had just been offloaded from rail cars and were waiting to be put into storage.</p>
<p>In 2010, as part of the Defense Department's modernization effort , the Joint Munitions Command scrapped a computer system that kept track of inventory and automatically generated required shipping documents. It was replaced with one that Pike says doesn't do either.</p>
<p>His staff now must guess how much inventory and space Letterkenny has. The Army built at additional cost a second system to create shipping documents and an interface between the two systems. "We're having problems with the interface," Pike says.</p>
<p>COSTLY REPAIRS</p>
<p>Media reports of Defense Department waste tend to focus on outrageous line items: $604 toilet seats for the Navy, $7,600 coffee makers for the Air Force. These headline-grabbing outliers amount to little next to the billions the Pentagon has spent on repeated efforts to fix its bookkeeping, with little to show for it.</p>
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</div>Mafia targeting the pope? Vatican says no cause for alarmtag:12160.info,2013-11-16:2649739:BlogPost:13586782013-11-16T03:47:53.000ZCryptocurrencyhttps://12160.info/profile/KRYPKE32
<p><b>AFP -</b> The Vatican has downplayed a warning that Pope Francis could be targeted by the mafia because of his reforms to Holy See financial bodies.</p>
<p>"There is no reason for concern, and there is no need to feed alarmism," Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said.</p>
<p>He added that the Vatican -- and, by extension, the pope -- was "extremely calm" regarding the alleged threat.</p>
<p>The warning was voiced by Nicola Gratteri, a respected state prosecutor in the southern…</p>
<p><b>AFP -</b> The Vatican has downplayed a warning that Pope Francis could be targeted by the mafia because of his reforms to Holy See financial bodies.</p>
<p>"There is no reason for concern, and there is no need to feed alarmism," Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said.</p>
<p>He added that the Vatican -- and, by extension, the pope -- was "extremely calm" regarding the alleged threat.</p>
<p>The warning was voiced by Nicola Gratteri, a respected state prosecutor in the southern Calabria region, who said the vicious local mafia, the 'Ndrangheta, is "nervous" the pope is threatening its interests.</p>
<p>"Those who up to now have fed off the power and wealth coming directly from the Church are nervous, upset," he said in an interview published by the newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano this week.</p>
<p>The pope, Gratteri said, "is dismantling the Vatican's economic centres. If the mafia bosses can trip him up, they won't hesitate."</p>
<p>Gratteri didn't substantiate his warning. But his words reverberated through the Italian and foreign media, sparking fears for the pontiff's safety.</p>
<p>Initially the Vatican tried to dismiss the allegation. But from Thursday it started saying it was simply taking the warning in its stride.</p>
<p>Implied in Gratteri's comments is that Italy's mafia has its tentacles in the Vatican's obscure financial dealings and agencies, some of which have been marred by scandal.</p>
<p>Since taking the papacy in March, Pope Francis has set about cleaning up the Holy See's vast holdings and making them more transparent.</p>
<p>One of his first steps was to install a special commission tasked with investigating the Vatican's bank and another to probe Vatican finances in general.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.france24.com/en/20131115-mafia-targeting-pope-vatican-says-no-cause-alarm">http://www.france24.com/en/20131115-mafia-targeting-pope-vatican-says-no-cause-alarm</a></p>
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<h2 class="p"><a href="http://searchtopics.independent.ie/topic/Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>'s opium production surged to record levels this year, despite international efforts over the past decade to wean the country off the narcotics trade, according to a…</h2>
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<h2 class="p"><a href="http://searchtopics.independent.ie/topic/Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>'s opium production surged to record levels this year, despite international efforts over the past decade to wean the country off the narcotics trade, according to a report by the UN's drug control agency.</h2>
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<p>The harvest this May resulted in 5,500 metric tons of opium, 49% higher than last year and more than the combined output of the rest of the world. Even Afghan provinces with some past successes in combating poppy cultivation saw those trends reversed, according to this year's annual UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) report.</p>
<p>The withdrawal of foreign troops next year is likely to make matters worse, said Jean-Luc Lemahieu, the UNODC regional representative in <a href="http://searchtopics.independent.ie/topic/Kabul">Kabul</a>. He warned that as international assistance falls off, the Afghan government will become increasingly reliant on illicit sources of income.</p>
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<p>Americans overwhelm bank’s planned Q&A session with real questions</p>
<p><strong>Kit Daniels</strong><br></br> Infowars.com<br></br> November 14, 2013</p>
<p>JPMorgan Chase & Co. cancelled a planned question and answer session on Twitter yesterday after Americans began asking the bank real questions prior to the start of the session, denying JPMorgan Chase the ability to control the narrative.</p>
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<p>Follow the link to read these Tweets---->…</p>
<p>Americans overwhelm bank’s planned Q&A session with real questions</p>
<p><strong>Kit Daniels</strong><br/> Infowars.com<br/> November 14, 2013</p>
<p>JPMorgan Chase & Co. cancelled a planned question and answer session on Twitter yesterday after Americans began asking the bank real questions prior to the start of the session, denying JPMorgan Chase the ability to control the narrative.</p>
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<p>Follow the link to read these Tweets----> <a href="http://www.infowars.com/jpmorgan-begs-for-mercy-while-not-giving-us-any/">http://www.infowars.com/jpmorgan-begs-for-mercy-while-not-giving-us-any/</a></p>Obama’s Secret Treaty Will Merge America Into The Emerging One World Economic Systemtag:12160.info,2013-11-14:2649739:BlogPost:13578922013-11-14T20:13:12.000ZCryptocurrencyhttps://12160.info/profile/KRYPKE32
<p><strong>Michael Snyder</strong><br></br> <a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/obamas-secret-treaty-which-will-merge-america-more-deeply-into-the-emerging-one-world-economic-system">Economic Collapse</a><br></br> November 14, 2013</p>
<p>Did you know that the Obama administration is negotiating a super secret “trade agreement” that is so sensitive that he isn’t even allowing members of Congress to see it? The Trans-Pacific Partnership is being called the “NAFTA of the Pacific” and…</p>
<p><strong>Michael Snyder</strong><br/> <a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/obamas-secret-treaty-which-will-merge-america-more-deeply-into-the-emerging-one-world-economic-system">Economic Collapse</a><br/> November 14, 2013</p>
<p>Did you know that the Obama administration is negotiating a super secret “trade agreement” that is so sensitive that he isn’t even allowing members of Congress to see it? The Trans-Pacific Partnership is being called the “NAFTA of the Pacific” and “NAFTA on steroids”, but the truth is that it is so much more than just a trade agreement. This treaty has 29 chapters, but only 5 of them have to do with trade.</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 400px;"><img alt="" src="http://static.prisonplanet.com/p/images/november2013/141113tpp1.jpg" height="210" width="400"/><p class="wp-caption-text">Image: Wikimedia Commons.</p>
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<p>Most Americans don’t realize this, but this treaty will fundamentally change our laws regarding Internet freedom, health care, the trading of derivatives, copyright issues, food safety, environmental standards, civil liberties and so much more. It will also merge the United States far more deeply into the emerging one world economic system. Initially, twelve nations will be a party to this treaty including the United States, Mexico, Canada, Japan, Australia, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. Together, those nations represent approximately <strong>40 percent</strong> of global GDP. It is hoped that additional nations such as the Philippines, Thailand and Colombia will join the treaty later on.</p>
<p>There are some very good reasons why Obama does not want the American people to know anything about what is in this treaty. This agreement will impose very strict Internet copyright rules on the American people, it will ban all “Buy American” laws, it will give Wall Street banks much more freedom to trade risky derivatives and it will force even more domestic manufacturing offshore.</p>
<p>It contains a whole host of things that Obama would be unable to get through Congress on his own. But he is hoping to spring this on Congress at the last minute and get them to agree to this “free trade agreement” before they realize all of the things that are contained in it.</p>
<p>The secrecy surrounding these treaty negotiations have really been unprecedented. The following is an excerpt from a recent article <a title="by Kurt Nimmo" href="http://www.infowars.com/secret-globalist-treaty-threatens-internet-freedom/" target="_blank">by Kurt Nimmo</a>…</p>
<blockquote><p>“Since the beginning of the TPP negotiations, the process of drafting and negotiating the treaty’s chapters has been shrouded in an unprecedented level of secrecy,” Wikileaks notes in a <a title="statement on the release" href="https://wikileaks.org/tpp/pressrelease.html" target="_blank">statement on the release</a> of the TPP draft. “Access to drafts of the TPP chapters is shielded from the general public. Members of the US Congress are only able to view selected portions of treaty-related documents in highly restrictive conditions and under strict supervision. It has been previously revealed that only three individuals in each TPP nation have access to the full text of the agreement, while 600 ’trade advisers’ – lobbyists guarding the interests of large US corporations such as Chevron, Halliburton, Monsanto and Walmart – are granted privileged access to crucial sections of the treaty text.”</p>
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<p>And Obama reportedly is seeking <a title=""trade promotion authority"" href="http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/obama-secretly-signing-away-u-s-sovereignty/" target="_blank">“trade promotion authority”</a> which would give him the ability to sign this treaty before Congress even votes on it…</p>
<blockquote><p>Normally free -trade agreements must be authorized by a majority of the House and Senate, usually in lengthy proceedings.</p>
<p>However, the White House is seeking what is known as “trade promotion authority” which would fast track approval of the TPP by requiring Congress to vote on the likely lengthy trade agreement within 90 days and without any amendments.</p>
<p>The authority also allows Obama to sign the agreement before Congress even has a chance to vote on it, with lawmakers getting only a quick post-facto vote.</p>
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<p>This is so insidious that it is hard to find the words to describe it.</p>
<p>In essence, Obama is trying to make a giant end run around Congress on dozens of different issues that are addressed by this treaty.</p>
<p>Fortunately, there are at least some members of Congress that are waking up to this. Earlier <a title="this week" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/12/trans-pacific-partnership-house_n_4263174.html" target="_blank">this week</a>, a small group of Republicans and a small group of Democrats both sent Obama a letter condemning this “free trade” agreement…</p>
<blockquote><p>Separate groups of House Republicans and Democrats on Tuesday condemned the Obama administration’s proposed sweeping free trade agreement with 11 Pacific nations, known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership.</p>
<p>Strongly worded letters to President Barack Obama Tuesday were signed by hardline tea partiers, true-blue progressives, and moderate, corporate-friendly lawmakers in both parties, indicating political trouble for a trade deal the administration had hoped to seal by year end.</p>
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<p>This is one of the most important political issues facing our nation here at the end of 2013, and yet you hear next to nothing about this treaty on the mainstream news. If this treaty is approved, the United States will be permanently bound by the provisions of this treaty and will never be able to change them <a title="unless all of the other countries agree" href="http://www.thenation.com/article/168627/nafta-steroids" target="_blank">unless all of the other countries agree</a>…</p>
<blockquote><p>Countries would be obliged to conform all their domestic laws and regulations to the TPP’s rules—in effect, a corporate coup d’état. The proposed pact would limit even how governments can spend their tax dollars. Buy America and other Buy Local procurement preferences that invest in the US economy would be banned, and “sweat-free,” human rights or environmental conditions on government contracts could be challenged. If the TPP comes to fruition, its retrograde rules <strong>could be altered only if all countries agreed, regardless of domestic election outcomes or changes in public opinion</strong>. And unlike much domestic legislation, the TPP would have no expiration date.</p>
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<p>Are you starting to understand just how dangerous this treaty is?</p>
<p>Let me give you just one example of how this treaty could directly affect you.</p>
<p>Do you remember <a title="SOPA" href="http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/why-we-must-stop-sopa" target="_blank">SOPA</a>?</p>
<p>There was a huge public backlash when the very strict Internet copyright provisions of SOPA were revealed to the public, and the American people loudly expressed their displeasure to members of Congress.</p>
<p>But now the provisions of SOPA are back. Most of them have reportedly been very quietly inserted into this treaty. If this treaty is enacted, those provisions will become law and the American people will not be able to do a thing about it.</p>
<p>And according to an article in <a title="the New York Times" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/03/opinion/obamas-covert-trade-deal.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130603&_r=1&" target="_blank">the New York Times</a>, there are all sorts of other disturbing things that have been slipped into this treaty…</p>
<blockquote><p>And yet another leak revealed that the deal would include even more expansive incentives to relocate domestic manufacturing offshore than were included in Nafta — a deal that drained millions of manufacturing jobs from the American economy.</p>
<p>The agreement would also be a boon for Wall Street and its campaign to water down regulations put in place after the 2008 financial crisis. Among other things, it would practically forbid bans on risky financial products, including the toxic derivatives that helped cause the crisis in the first place.</p>
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<p>Are you starting to grasp why the Obama administration is so determined to keep this treaty such a secret?</p>
<p>In addition, this “free trade” agreement will push the ongoing deindustrialization of America into overdrive. Every year, we buy hundreds of billions of dollars more stuff from the rest of the world than they buy from us. Tens of thousands of American businesses have been lost as a result, and millions of good jobs have been shipped overseas.</p>
<p>If you are not familiar with our “trade deficit”, you really should be. It is one of the issues at the very heart of our economic problems. Posted below is a short <a title="3 minute video" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEQO0PBC5L8" target="_blank">3 minute video</a> that briefly discusses the trade deficit and why it is so important…</p>
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<p>Slowly merging our economy with the rest of the planet has been absolutely disastrous for America. Just consider the following statistics…</p>
<p>-Overall, the United States has run a trade deficit of <a title="more than 8 trillion dollars" href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/22-stats-that-show-how-the-emerging-one-world-economy-is-absolutely-killing-american-workers">more than 8 trillion dollars</a> with the rest of the world since 1975.</p>
<p>-The United States has lost <a title="more than 56,000" href="http://www.politifact.com/ohio/statements/2011/nov/07/betty-sutton/betty-sutton-says-average-15-us-factories-close-ea/" target="_blank">more than 56,000</a> manufacturing facilities since 2001.</p>
<p>-Back in the year 2000, there were <a title="more than 17 million" href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/data/MANEMP.txt" target="_blank">more than 17 million</a> Americans working in manufacturing. Now there are <a title="less than 12 million" href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/data/MANEMP.txt" target="_blank">less than 12 million</a>.</p>
<p>-There are less Americans working in manufacturing today <a title="than there was in 1950" href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/10-amazing-charts-that-demonstrate-the-slow-agonizing-death-of-the-american-worker">than there was in 1950</a> even though the population of the country has more than doubled since then.</p>
<p>-Back in 1950, <a title="more than 80 percent" href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/LNS12300001" target="_blank">more than 80 percent</a> of all men in the United States had jobs. Today, <a title="less than 65 percent" href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/LNS12300001" target="_blank">less than 65 percent</a> of all men in the United States have jobs.</p>
<p>-When NAFTA was pushed through Congress in 1993, the United States had a trade <strong>surplus</strong> with Mexico of 1.6 billion dollars. By 2010, we had a trade <strong>deficit</strong> with Mexico of <a title="61.6 billion dollars" href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/we-need-more-economic-nationalists/" target="_blank">61.6 billion dollars</a>.</p>
<p>-Back in 1985, our trade deficit with China was approximately <a title="6 million dollars" href="http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html" target="_blank">6 <strong>million</strong> dollars</a> (million with a little “m”) for the <strong>entire</strong> year. In 2012, our trade deficit with China was <a title="$295.4 billion" href="http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html" target="_blank">315 <strong>billion</strong> dollars</a>. That was the largest trade deficit that one nation has had with another nation in the history of the world.</p>
<p>-According to the Economic Policy Institute, America is losing <a title="half a million jobs" href="http://economyincrisis.org/content/trade-deficit-china-could-cost-half-million-jobs" target="_blank">half a million jobs</a> to China every single year.</p>
<p>-According to Professor Alan Blinder of Princeton University, <a title="40 million" href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/44625759" target="_blank">40 million</a> more U.S. jobs could be sent offshore over the next two decades if current trends continue.</p>
<p>Once upon a time, our great manufacturing cities were the envy of the entire planet. In fact, at one time Detroit actually had the highest per capita income in the United States.</p>
<p>But now Detroit is a rotting, decaying, festering hellhole that is completely bankrupt. And there are dozens of other formerly great manufacturing cities that are heading down the exact same path.</p>
<p>These “free trade” agreements are neither “free” nor “fair” when you really examine them, and they are absolutely eviscerating the middle class.</p>
<p>Please urge your representatives in Congress to block the Trans-Pacific Partnership. If this treaty does get approved, it is going to make a lot of our problems a whole lot worse.</p>
<p style="color: #333; font-size: 11px;">This article was posted: Thursday, November 14, 2013 at 6:22 am</p>EXCLUSIVE: Snowden Level Documents Reveal Stealth DHS Spy Gridtag:12160.info,2013-11-12:2649739:BlogPost:13568692013-11-12T21:11:00.000ZCryptocurrencyhttps://12160.info/profile/KRYPKE32
<p>Government documents obtained exclusively by Infowars expose massive DHS domestic spy grid designed to track citizens in real time through mega government databases.</p>
<p><strong>Anthony Gucciardi & Mikael Thalen</strong><br></br> Infowars.com<br></br> November 12, 2013</p>
<p>Exclusive documents obtained by Infowars from an insider government source have revealed the true origin and nature of the highly secretive ‘mesh network’ spy grid that has garnered massive media attention due to the…</p>
<p>Government documents obtained exclusively by Infowars expose massive DHS domestic spy grid designed to track citizens in real time through mega government databases.</p>
<p><strong>Anthony Gucciardi & Mikael Thalen</strong><br/> Infowars.com<br/> November 12, 2013</p>
<p>Exclusive documents obtained by Infowars from an insider government source have revealed the true origin and nature of the highly secretive ‘mesh network’ spy grid that has garnered massive media attention due to the fact that the network’s strange downtown Seattle spy <a href="http://www.infowars.com/dhs-funds-installation-of-white-boxes-that-can-track-population-of-entire-city/">boxes can</a> track the last 1,000 GPS locations of cellphone users. But as new documents reveal, the grid is far deeper than the media is telling you. The Seattle DHS spy system ultimately ties in with an enormous stealth database that acts as an intelligence hub for all of your personal data</p>
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<p>On page 55 of the “Port Security Video Surveillance System with Wireless Mesh Network” project document that we have obtained, a diagram reveals the system’s basic communication abilities in regards to the Port of Seattle that the DHS has refused to comment on despite funding with millions in taxpayer dollars:</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 625px;"><img class="" alt="" src="http://www.storyleak.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/MESH.png" height="470" width="625"/><p class="wp-caption-text">DHS spy system’s basic communication abilities in regards to the Port of Seattle ‘mesh network’ tracking system.</p>
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<p>The Infowars team is closely reviewing the document and will publish it in whole soon. More images seen in the extensive documentation:</p>
<div id="attachment_94083" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 777px;"><a rel="slb" href="http://static.infowars.com/bindnfocom/2013/11/dhs-spy-pdf-2.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-94083" alt="dhs-spy-pdf-2" src="http://static.infowars.com/bindnfocom/2013/11/dhs-spy-pdf-2.png" height="975" width="777"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text">A documented image of the actual spy system put in place, highlighted in the original document itself.</p>
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<div id="attachment_94084" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 649px;"><a rel="slb" href="http://static.infowars.com/bindnfocom/2013/11/seattle-dhs-spy-1.png"><img class=" wp-image-94084" alt="seattle-dhs-spy-1" src="http://static.infowars.com/bindnfocom/2013/11/seattle-dhs-spy-1.png" height="779" width="649"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text">A further breakdown of the spy operation.</p>
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<p>The wireless mesh network, which allows for private communication between wireless devices including cell phones and laptops, was built by California-based <a href="http://www.arubanetworks.com/" target="_blank">Aruba Networks</a>, a major provider of next-generation mobile network access solutions.</p>
<p>Labeled by their intersection location such as “1st&University” and “2nd& Seneca,” the multiple network devices are easily detected in Seattle’s downtown area through a simple Wi-Fi enabled device, leading many residents to wonder if they are being detected in return.</p>
<p>“How accurately can it geo-locate and track the movements of your phone, laptop, or any other wireless device by its MAC address? Can the network send that information to a database, allowing the SPD to reconstruct who was where at any given time, on any given day, without a warrant? Can the network see you now?” asked Seattle newspaper <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/you-are-a-rogue-device/Content?oid=18143845" target="_blank">The Stranger</a>.</p>
<p>According to reports from <a href="http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/seattle-police-have-wireless-network-can-track-you/nbmHW/" target="_blank">Kiro 7 News</a>, the mesh network devices can capture a mobile user’s IP address, mobile device type, apps used, current location and even historical location down to the last 1,000 places visited.</p>
<p>So far Seattle police have been tight-lipped about the network’s roll-out, even denying that the system is operational. Several groups including the ACLU have submitted requests to learn the programs intended use, but days have turned to months as the mesh network continues its advancement.</p>
<p>According to The Stranger’s investigation, Seattle Police detective Monty Moss claims the department has no plans to use the mesh network for surveillance… unless given approval by city council. Despite a recently passed ordinance requiring all potential surveillance equipment to be given city council approval and public review within 30 days of its implementation, the network has remained shrouded in secrecy.</p>
<p>Unknown to the public until now, information regarding the system has been hiding in plain view <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/seattle-police-can-use-cameras-to-spy-from-squad-cars-anonymous-leak-shows" target="_blank">since last February</a> at minimum. Diagrams attached to a March 2012 proposal request (# DIT-2996), which have since been approved, updated and finalized, are publicly viewable at the Seattle.gov website.</p>
<p>Several connections can be made by studying the diagram, including its now apparent link to Seattle’s public waterfront. The recent instillation of 30 Department of Homeland Security-funded surveillance cameras on Seattle’s popular waterfront, complete with mesh network devices attached, were purported to increase the Port of Seattle’s protection against such acts as terrorism. Residents soon discovered <a href="http://westseattleblog.com/2013/02/new-seattle-police-cameras-qa-with-the-assistant-chief-in-charge/" target="_blank">multiple cameras facing inward</a> toward Seattle homes, not towards the coast line as allegedly intended. The “accident” was later remedied by city officials.</p>
<p>While unknown members of multiple law enforcement agencies will have access to the mesh network, so will the Seattle Fusion Center, where FBI and Homeland Security gather data on Americans deemed “extremist” for such crimes as “<a href="http://www.infowars.com/homeland-security-report-lists-liberty-lovers-as-terrorists/" target="_blank">l</a><a href="http://www.infowars.com/homeland-security-report-lists-liberty-lovers-as-terrorists/" target="_blank">oving liberty</a>.” Incredibly, even the U.S. Senate called the Fusion Centers a “useless and costly effort that tramples on civil liberties” in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgZzRrTo5r8" target="_blank">2012 bi-partisan repor</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgZzRrTo5r8" target="_blank">t</a>.</p>
<p>Page 65 of the public document details the information-collecting capabilities of the Mesh Network Mesh System (NMS), revealing its ability to collect identifying data of anyone “accessing the network.” Although the document details an alert system for reporting unauthorized access, a public user guide from a similar Aruba software program lists the ability to collect “a wealth of information about unassociated devices,” validating fears of local residents who walk through the mesh network’s perimeter.</p>
<p>“The NMS also collects information about every Wi‐Fi client accessing the network, including its MAC address, IP address, signal intensity, data rate and traffic status,” the document reads. “Additional NMS features include a fault management system for issuing alarms and logging events according to a set of customizable filtering rules, along with centralized and version‐controlled remote updating of the Aruba Mesh Operating System software.”</p>
<p>The bottom left of the diagram shows what may be the Seattle Department of Transportation Intelligent Transportation Systems Network, linked directly into the mesh network. According to the <a href="http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/its.htm" target="_blank">Department of Transportation website</a>, the system controls several surveillance related items such as license plate readers and closed circuit TV (CCTV) systems.</p>
<p>An <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/seattle-police-can-use-cameras-to-spy-from-squad-cars-anonymous-leak-shows" target="_blank">early draft of the diagram</a> appears to show Seattle police vehicle’s ability to receive and “control” certain aspects of the mesh network. Whether police were originally intended to control surveillance cameras from their vehicles, including their panning, tilting and zooming abilities, remains unclear. According to statements made by <a href="http://westseattleblog.com/2013/02/new-seattle-police-cameras-qa-with-the-assistant-chief-in-charge/" target="_blank">Seattle’s Assistant Chief Paul McDonagh last February</a> regarding the waterfront cameras specifically, “only a few people would have that capability, so the officer on the street would just have the ability to view it.”</p>
<p>In reality, Seattle is only one of countless cities across the country being flooded with a sea of surveillance equipment. While the public has focused mainly on surveillance issues relating to the NSA, the federal government has continued its 20-plus year dragnet surveillance grid <a href="http://www.infowars.com/spy-grid-can-now-record-your-conversations-in-real-time/" target="_blank">roll out of covert conversation-recording microphones</a>.</p>
<p>As recently reported by Storyleak, multiple cities including Las Vegas <a href="http://www.storyleak.com/las-vegas-installs-intellistreets-light-fixtures-capable-video-recording/" target="_blank">have begun using</a> “Intellistreets” light fixtures capable of recording conversations. The device has received increased scrutiny since 2011 when their “Homeland Security” application, which shouts government messages from a loudspeaker system, was widely <a href="http://www.infowars.com/new-street-lights-to-have-homeland-security-applications/" target="_blank">revealed to the public</a>.</p>
<p>Other audio recording devices like the ShotSpotter microphones, allegedly used to analyze the location of gun shots, have been found to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/us/shots-heard-pinpointed-and-argued-over.html?pagewanted=all" target="_blank">record conversations</a> of unsuspecting city residents.</p>
<p>Despite the federal government’s constant justification of throwing away civil liberties in the name of fighting terrorism, which kills less Americans than <a href="http://scark.org/docs/Animal%20Related%20Fatalities.pdf" target="_blank">bee stings</a>, continued NSA revelations show that the federal government’s continued surveillance system build-up is aimed at everyday Americans, not foreign Al Qaeda <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/updated-obama-waives-ban-on-arming-terrorists-to-allow-aid-to-syrian-opposition/article/2535885" target="_blank">admittedly supported</a> by the U.S. government in Syria.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.infowars.com/exclusive-snowden-level-documents-reveal-stealth-dhs-spy-grid/" target="_blank">Read the rest here</a></p>Yahoo Finance Correspondent NAILS Ittag:12160.info,2013-11-12:2649739:BlogPost:13561912013-11-12T05:55:46.000ZCryptocurrencyhttps://12160.info/profile/KRYPKE32
<p>Excellent 2 minute summation. A must see:</p>
<p><a href="http://screen.yahoo.com/daily-ticker/america-learn-china-politics-competence-220810952.html">http://screen.yahoo.com/daily-ticker/america-learn-china-politics-competence-220810952.html</a></p>
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<p><span class="full" id="yui_3_11_0_1_1384235625691_1954">The Daily Ticker's Aaron Task discusses what political lessons China has for the U.S. with Ann Lee who wrote the book "What the U.S. Can Learn from…</span></p>
<p>Excellent 2 minute summation. A must see:</p>
<p><a href="http://screen.yahoo.com/daily-ticker/america-learn-china-politics-competence-220810952.html">http://screen.yahoo.com/daily-ticker/america-learn-china-politics-competence-220810952.html</a></p>
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<p><span id="yui_3_11_0_1_1384235625691_1954" class="full">The Daily Ticker's Aaron Task discusses what political lessons China has for the U.S. with Ann Lee who wrote the book "What the U.S. Can Learn from China." Find more DailyTicker videos on Yahoo Screen.</span></p>Tesco petrol stations to scan customers' facestag:12160.info,2013-11-04:2649739:BlogPost:13511822013-11-04T22:52:42.000ZCryptocurrencyhttps://12160.info/profile/KRYPKE32
<p>London (AFP) - Britain's biggest retailer Tesco is to install screens at its petrol stations that scan customers' faces so that advertising can be tailored to their age and gender.</p>
<p>The world's third biggest supermarket chain will install the hi-tech screens at the tills of its 450 British petrol stations, according to Amscreen, the digital advertising firm that developed the technology.</p>
<p>Amscreen chief executive Simon Sugar admitted that the devices were "like something out of…</p>
<p>London (AFP) - Britain's biggest retailer Tesco is to install screens at its petrol stations that scan customers' faces so that advertising can be tailored to their age and gender.</p>
<p>The world's third biggest supermarket chain will install the hi-tech screens at the tills of its 450 British petrol stations, according to Amscreen, the digital advertising firm that developed the technology.</p>
<p>Amscreen chief executive Simon Sugar admitted that the devices were "like something out of 'Minority Report'", the 2002 sci-fi movie directed by Steven Spielberg.</p>
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<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/tesco-petrol-stations-scan-customers-faces-140113145.html">http://news.yahoo.com/tesco-petrol-stations-scan-customers-faces-140113145.html</a></p>
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The spat between the US and Germany is getting worse by the minute. Following yesterday's meaningless escalation by the Treasury accusing, via official pathways, Germany of being the main culprit for Europe's lack of recovery (and <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-31/us-blasts-germanys-economic-model-germany-blasts-right-back-and-may-use-snowden-leve">Germany's subsequent retaliation</a>), it is Germany's turn now to refocus public attention on Big Brother's spying pathology when a union representing Germany's journalists advised its members earlier today to stop using Google and Yahoo because of the latest report implicating the NSA in <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-30/how-nsa-spies-your-google-and-yahoo-accounts">eavesdropping on Google and Yahoo</a>.<br />
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<p>"The searches made by journalists are just as confidential as the contact details of their sources and the contents of their communication with them," said Michael Konken, head of the union which represents about 38,000 journalists. He said there were safe alternatives for both searches and email.</p>
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<p>And while in the US having one's dirty laundry is almost perceived as a status symbol by a culture that encourages online exhibitionism via Facebook and other social media (so what if some bureaucrat in Virginia knows more than what is public), in Germany privacy is actually taken seriouysly.</p>
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<blockquote><div><div><div id="current-page">Americans are slowly waking up to the sad fact that much of the food sold in the US is far inferior to the same foods sold in other nations. In fact, many of the foods you eat are BANNED in other countries.</div>
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<p>Here, I’ll review 10 American foods that are banned elsewhere, which were featured in a recent MSN article.<sup><a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/07/10/banned-foods.aspx?e_cid=20130710_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130710#_edn1" name="_ednref1">1</a></sup></p>
<p>Seeing how the overall <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/01/23/united-states-health-ranking.aspx">health of Americans</a> is so much lower than other industrialized countries, you can’t help but wonder whether toxic foods such as these might play a role in our skyrocketing disease rates.</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">#1: Farm-Raised Salmon</h2>
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<blockquote><p>If you want to maximize health benefits from fish, you want to steer clear of farmed fish, particularly farmed salmon fed dangerous chemicals. Wild salmon gets its bright pinkish-red color from natural carotenoids in their diet. Farmed salmon, on the other hand, are raised on a wholly unnatural diet of grains (including genetically engineered varieties), plus a concoction of antibiotics and other drugs and chemicals not shown to be safe for humans.</p>
<p>This diet leaves the fish with unappetizing grayish flesh so to compensate, they’re fed synthetic astaxanthin made from petrochemicals, which has not been approved for human consumption and has well known toxicities. According to the featured article, some studies suggest it can potentially damage your eyesight. More details are available in yesterday’s article.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong><em>Where it’s banned:</em></strong> <em>Australia and New Zealand</em></p>
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<p>How can you tell whether a salmon is wild or farm-raised? The flesh of wild sockeye salmon is bright red, courtesy of its natural astaxanthin content. It’s also very lean, so the fat marks, those white stripes you see in the meat, are very thin. If the fish is pale pink with wide fat marks, the salmon is farmed.</p>
<p>Avoid Atlantic salmon, as typically salmon labeled “Atlantic Salmon” currently comes from fish farms. The two designations you want to look for are: “Alaskan salmon,” and “sockeye salmon,” as Alaskan sockeye is not allowed to be farmed. Please realize that the vast majority of all salmon sold in restaurants is farm raised.</p>
<p>So canned salmon labeled “Alaskan Salmon” is a good bet, and if you find sockeye salmon, it’s bound to be wild. Again, you can tell sockeye salmon from other salmon by its color; its flesh is bright red opposed to pink, courtesy of its superior astaxanthin content. Sockeye salmon actually has one of the highest concentrations of astaxanthin of any food.</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">#2: Genetically Engineered Papaya</h2>
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<blockquote><p>Most Hawaiian papaya is now genetically engineered to be resistant to ringspot virus. Mounting research now shows that animals fed genetically engineered foods, such as corn and soy, suffer a wide range of maladies, including intestinal damage, <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/04/27/19-studies-link-gmo-foods-to-organ-disruption.aspx#%21">multiple-organ damage</a>, <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/09/22/superbugs-destruct-food-supply.aspx#%21">massive tumors</a>, <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/05/22/jeffrey-smith-interview-april-24.aspx">birth defects</a>, premature death, and near complete <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/05/22/jeffrey-smith-interview-april-24.aspx">sterility</a> by the third generation of offspring. Unfortunately, the gigantic human lab experiment is only about 10 years old, so we are likely decades away from tabulating the human casualties.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong><em>Where it’s banned:</em></strong> <em>The European Union</em></p>
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<p>Unfortunately, it’s clear that the US government is not in a position to make reasonable and responsible decisions related to genetically engineered foods at this point, when you consider the fact that the Obama administration has placed former Monsanto attorney and Vice President, Michael Taylor, in charge of US food safety, and serious conflicts of interest even reign supreme within the US Supreme Court! That’s right. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is also a former Monsanto attorney, but refuses to acknowledge any conflict of interest.</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">#3: Ractopamine-Tainted Meat</h2>
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<blockquote><p>The beta agonist drug <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/03/06/why-does-fda-allow-banned-drugs-to-be-fed-to-livestock.aspx">ractopamine</a> (a repartitioning agent that increases protein synthesis) was recruited for livestock use when researchers found that the drug, used in asthma, made mice more muscular. This reduces the overall fat content of the meat. Ractopamine is currently used in about 45 percent of US pigs, 30 percent of ration-fed cattle, and an unknown percentage of turkeys are pumped full of this drug in the days leading up to slaughter. Up to 20 percent of ractopamine remains in the meat you buy from the supermarket, according to veterinarian Michael W. Fox.</p>
<p>Since 1998, more than 1,700 people have been “poisoned” from eating pigs fed the drug, and ractopamine is banned from use in food animals in no less than 160 different countries due to its harmful health effects! Effective February 11, 2013, Russia issued a ban on US meat imports, slated to last until the US agrees to certify that the meat is ractopamine-free. At present, the US does not even test for the presence of this drug in meats sold. In animals, ractopamine is linked to reductions in <em>reproductive function, increase of mastitis in dairy herds, and increased death and disability.</em> It’s also known to affect the human cardiovascular system, and is thought to be responsible for hyperactivity, and may cause chromosomal abnormalities and behavioral changes.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong><em>Where it’s banned</em></strong><em>: 160 countries across Europe, Russia, mainland China and Republic of China (Taiwan)</em></p>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">#4: Flame Retardant Drinks</h2>
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<blockquote><p>If you live in the US and drink Mountain Dew and some other citrus-flavored sodas and sports drinks, then you are also getting a dose of a synthetic chemical called <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/01/11/brominated-vegetable-oil-in-us-soda.aspx#%21">brominated vegetable oil</a> (BVO), which was originally patented by chemical companies as a flame retardant.</p>
<p>BVO has been shown to bioaccumulate in human tissue and breast milk, and animal studies have found it causes reproductive and behavioral problems in large doses. Bromine is a central nervous system depressant, and a common endocrine disruptor. It’s part of the halide family, a group of elements that includes fluorine, chlorine and iodine. When ingested, bromine competes for the same receptors that are used to capture iodine. This can lead to iodine deficiency, which can have a very detrimental impact on your health. Bromine toxicity can manifest as skin rashes, acne, loss of appetite, fatigue, and cardiac arrhythmias. According to the featured article:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“The FDA has flip-flopped on BVO’s safety originally classifying it as ‘generally recognized as safe’ but reversing that call now defining it as an ‘interim food additive’ a category reserved for possibly questionable substances used in food.”</em></p>
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<blockquote><p><strong><em>Where it’s banned:</em></strong> <em>Europe and Japan</em></p>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">#5: Processed Foods Containing Artificial Food Colors and Dyes</h2>
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<blockquote><p>More than 3,000 food additives — preservatives, flavorings, colors and other ingredients — are added to US foods, including infant foods and foods targeted to young children. Meanwhile, many of these are banned in other countries, based on research showing toxicity and hazardous health effects, especially with respect to adverse effects on children’s behavior. For example, as reported in the featured article:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“Boxed Mac & Cheese, cheddar flavored crackers, Jell-O and many kids’ cereals contain red 40, yellow 5, yellow 6 and/or blue 2, the most popularly-used dyes in the United States. Research has shown this rainbow of additives can cause behavioral problems as well as cancer, birth defects and other health problems in laboratory animals. Red 40 and yellow 6 are also suspected of causing an allergy-like hypersensitivity reaction in children. The Center for Science in the Public Interest reports that some dyes are also “contaminated with known carcinogens.”</em></p>
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<p>In countries where these food colors and dyes are banned, food companies like Kraft employ natural colorants instead, such as paprika extract, beetroot, and annatto. The food blogger and activist <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/07/07/van-hari-food-babe.aspx">Vani Hari</a>, better known as “<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/07/07/van-hari-food-babe.aspx">Food Babe</a>,” recently launched a Change.org petition<sup><a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/07/10/banned-foods.aspx?e_cid=20130710_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130710#_edn2" name="_ednref2">2</a></sup> asking Kraft to remove artificial dyes from American Mac & Cheese to protect American children from the well-known dangers of these dyes.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong><em>Where it’s banned:</em></strong> <em>Norway and Austria. In 2009, the British government advised companies to stop using food dyes by the end of that year. The European Union also requires a warning notice on most foods containing dyes.</em></p>
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<p><em>Read it and weep ----> <a href="http://topinfopost.com/2013/07/10/10-american-foods-that-are-banned-in-other-countries">http://topinfopost.com/2013/07/10/10-american-foods-that-are-banned-in-other-countries</a></em></p>Michael Savage Launches Investigation Into Missing Nukestag:12160.info,2013-10-29:2649739:BlogPost:13472322013-10-29T01:47:11.000ZCryptocurrencyhttps://12160.info/profile/KRYPKE32
<p><strong>Anthony Gucciardi</strong><br></br> Infowars.com<br></br> October 28, 2013</p>
<p>Radio host calls for media attention over missing nuke report and termination of top nuke commanders</p>
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<p><strong>Anthony Gucciardi</strong><br/> Infowars.com<br/> October 28, 2013</p>
<p>Radio host calls for media attention over missing nuke report and termination of top nuke commanders</p>
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<p>Since Alex Jones and I originally reported on the high level military <a href="http://www.infowars.com/exclusive-high-level-source-confirms-secret-us-nuclear-warhead-transfer-to-east-coast/">intelligence revealing</a> that an unsigned nuclear weapons transfer had taken place back on September 3rd, an absurdly high number of red flag events lending credibility to the intel have followed. From the termination of the second highest nuke commander in the country <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2436621/Second-command-countrys-nuclear-arsenal-suspended-investigated-GAMBLING.html">on the</a> exact same day as the leak, to Senator Lindsey Graham <a href="http://www.infowars.com/sen-graham-warns-of-nuke-strike-after-missing-nuke-report/">warning of</a> a nuclear strike on the exact destination of the missile transfer — the red alert scenarios continue to pile up.</p>
<p>And now, Michael Savage of Savage Nation is launching an investigation into the issue and calling upon the media to properly address the situation.</p>
<p>I joined the Savage Nation to discuss the intel timeline of the nuke transfer, specifically highlighting the fact that the transfer was unsigned for and completely off the books. Originally covered by <a href="http://www.storyleak.com/video-radio-host-michael-savage-covers-missing-nukes-report/">Savage earlier this</a> month following the suspension and termination of the two top nuke commanders in the nation, the missing nuke intel has since spread internationally — and still, the United States media has failed to even mention it despite the vital events that continue to point towards its accuracy.</p>
<p>But that fact is nothing new, considering the reality that even the local media was quick to ignore sources revealing the unsigned transfer to them. As usual, the mainstream media is deathly afraid of crossing the establishment. After all, it’s who grants them their reach (and oftentimes funding).</p>
<p>The brief report from the top level military source, which was written in a rush to get the information out, reads:</p>
<p>“Dyess is beginning to move out nuclear war heads today. I got a tap from DERMO earlier. He said it was the first time they have been even acknowledged since being put there in the 80′s. No signature was required for transfer… There was no directive. He said that Dyess Commander was on site to give authority to release. No one knew where they were going really, but the truck driver said to take them to South Carolina and another pick up will take them from there.”</p>
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<p>Anthony Gucciardi is a writer, analyst, and Founder of Storyleak.com whose articles are routinely featured on top sites like Drudge Report and regularly appears on national and international television media.</p>SEAL Veteran: Military Leaders Being Asked if They Will Disarm Americanstag:12160.info,2013-10-23:2649739:BlogPost:13443942013-10-23T21:59:51.000ZCryptocurrencyhttps://12160.info/profile/KRYPKE32
<p>Litmus test includes question of whether top brass are comfortable with ordering NCOs to fire on U.S. citizens</p>
<p><strong>Paul Joseph Watson</strong><br></br> Infowars.com<br></br> October 23, 2013</p>
<p>Former Navy SEAL Ben Smith warns that the Obama administration is asking top brass in the military if they would be comfortable with disarming U.S. citizens, a litmus test that includes gauging whether they would be prepared to order NCOs to fire on Americans.…</p>
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<p>Litmus test includes question of whether top brass are comfortable with ordering NCOs to fire on U.S. citizens</p>
<p><strong>Paul Joseph Watson</strong><br/> Infowars.com<br/> October 23, 2013</p>
<p>Former Navy SEAL Ben Smith warns that the Obama administration is asking top brass in the military if they would be comfortable with disarming U.S. citizens, a litmus test that includes gauging whether they would be prepared to order NCOs to fire on Americans.</p>
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<p align="left">Smith provoked headlines last week when he <a href="http://www.bizpacreview.com/2013/10/17/ex-navy-seal-government-provoking-vets-to-bring-on-martial-law-85417">appeared on Fox News</a> to assert that the federal government was trying to provoke veterans into violence as an excuse to implement martial law.</p>
<p align="left">Speaking exclusively to the Alex Jones Show, Smith stated, “Going back to the beginning of this administration, I’ve had friends within the community talking about how they were brought in and questioned with people from more towards the top side and the questioning….where it was pointing was do you feel comfortable disarming American citizens,” adding that this was one of the many “funny things” occurring within the military.</p>
<p align="left">When Smith was asked by radio host Alex Jones if this line of questioning included a litmus test whereby military officers were asked if they would fire on U.S. citizens, he responded in the affirmative.</p>
<p align="left">Smith said the litmus test was related to the <a href="http://www.infowars.com/top-nuke-commanders-fired-following-missing-nuclear-warheads-report/">recent firing of top military commanders</a> Navy Vice Adm. Tim Giardina and Maj. Gen. Michael Carey.</p>
<p align="left">Smith linked the premise to former Obama advisor Van Jones, who was forced to resign in September 2009 after his links with a Marxist organization were revealed.</p>
<p align="left">“You drop the radical pose for the radical ends,” said Smith, paraphrasing Van Jones.</p>
<p align="left">The idea of U.S. soldiers being asked if they will fire on American citizens during a crisis or mass disarmament program has emerged from several different sources over the last two decades.</p>
<p align="left">In January, <a href="http://www.infowars.com/nobel-peace-prize-nominee-obama-asks-military-leaders-if-they-will-fire-on-us-citizens/">2009 Nobel Peace Prize nominee Jim Garrow claimed</a> he was told by a top military veteran that the Obama administration’s “litmus test” for new military leaders is whether or not they will obey an order to fire on U.S. citizens.</p>
<p align="left">Concerns over U.S. troops being given orders to fire on American citizens in the event of mass gun confiscation first arose in May 1994 when hundreds of Marines at 29 Palms, California <a href="http://www.29palmssurvey.com/survey.html">were given a survey</a> as part of an academic project by Navy Lieutenant Commander Ernest Guy Cunningham which asked the Marines if they would, “Fire upon U.S. citizens who refuse or resist confiscation of firearms banned by the United States government.”</p>
<p align="left">The survey was subsequently leaked because many of the Marines who took it were shocked by the tone of the question.</p>
<p align="left">Facebook @ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/paul.j.watson.71">https://www.facebook.com/paul.j.watson.71</a><br/> FOLLOW Paul Joseph Watson @ <a href="https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet">https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet</a></p>
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<p align="left">Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for <a href="http://infowars.com/">Infowars.com</a> and <a href="http://prisonplanet.com/">Prison Planet.com</a>. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.</p>Girl smuggled into Britain to have her ‘organs harvested’tag:12160.info,2013-10-20:2649739:BlogPost:13426732013-10-20T18:10:36.000ZCryptocurrencyhttps://12160.info/profile/KRYPKE32
<p><strong>Steven Swinford</strong><br></br> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10390183/Girl-smuggled-into-Britain-to-have-her-organs-harvested.html" target="_blank">Telegraph.co.uk</a><br></br> Oct. 18, 2013</p>
<p>The unnamed girl was brought to the UK from Somalia with the intention of removing her organs and selling them on to those desperate for a transplant.</p>
<p>Child protection charities warned that the case was unlikely to be an isolated incident as traffickers were…</p>
<p><strong>Steven Swinford</strong><br/> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10390183/Girl-smuggled-into-Britain-to-have-her-organs-harvested.html" target="_blank">Telegraph.co.uk</a><br/> Oct. 18, 2013</p>
<p>The unnamed girl was brought to the UK from Somalia with the intention of removing her organs and selling them on to those desperate for a transplant.</p>
<p>Child protection charities warned that the case was unlikely to be an isolated incident as traffickers were likely to have smuggled a group of children into the country.</p>
<p>The case emerged in a government report which showed that the number of human trafficking victims in the UK has risen by more than 50 per cent last year and reached record levels.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10390183/Girl-smuggled-into-Britain-to-have-her-organs-harvested.html" target="_blank">Read more</a></p>
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<p><strong>Tom Cohen, Ben Brumfield and Greg Botelho</strong><br></br> <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/16/politics/shutdown-showdown/" target="_blank">CNN</a><br></br> Oct. 16, 2013</p>
<p><strong>[Breaking news update 12:20 p.m. ET]</strong></p>
<p>Senate leaders announced on Wednesday that they have reached a deal to end the government shutdown and avoid a possible U.S. default.</p>
<p><strong>[Original story moved at 11:45 a.m. ET]</strong></p>
<p>Senate leaders on Wednesday worked out a…</p>
<p><strong>Tom Cohen, Ben Brumfield and Greg Botelho</strong><br/> <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/16/politics/shutdown-showdown/" target="_blank">CNN</a><br/> Oct. 16, 2013</p>
<p><strong>[Breaking news update 12:20 p.m. ET]</strong></p>
<p>Senate leaders announced on Wednesday that they have reached a deal to end the government shutdown and avoid a possible U.S. default.</p>
<p><strong>[Original story moved at 11:45 a.m. ET]</strong></p>
<p>Senate leaders on Wednesday worked out a deal to reopen the government and avoid a potential U.S. default as soon as midnight, sources told CNN’s Dana Bash and Ted Barrett.</p>
<p>Formal announcement of the agreement will come at 12 noon ET on the Senate floor, a Republican Senate aide told Bash.</p>
<p><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/16/politics/shutdown-showdown/" target="_blank">Read more</a></p>
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<p><strong>Senate leaders announce agreement to end shutdown, raise debt</strong></p>
<p><strong>Seth McLaughlin and Stephen Dinan</strong><br/> <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/16/senate-leaders-announce-agreement-end-shutdown/" target="_blank">Washington Times</a><br/> Oct. 16, 2013</p>
<p>Top senators struck a deal Wednesday to reopen the government and extend the federal government’s borrowing authority into next year and both sides of the Capitol are hoping for quick action to reassure nervous financial markets eyeing a Thursday deadline set by the Treasury Department.</p>
<p>“The compromise we reached will provide our economy with the stability it desperately needs,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said after he and his GOP counterpart, Sen. Mitch McConnell, struck the deal.</p>
<p>For Republicans, the deal was more about getting an embarrassing couple of weeks behind them than in being able to claim victory in a deal that they felt compelled to make.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/16/senate-leaders-announce-agreement-end-shutdown/" target="_blank">Read more</a></p>
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<p><strong>White House: ‘There are no winners here’</strong></p>
<p><strong>Jennifer Epstein</strong><br/> <a href="http://www.politico.com/politico44/2013/10/white-house-there-are-no-winners-here-175216.html" target="_blank">Politico</a><br/> Oct. 16, 2013</p>
<p>While Democrats are being cast as the early winners in the deal to end the government shutdown and raise the debt limit, the White House doesn’t see itself as the victor.</p>
<p>“There are no winners here,” press secretary Jay Carney said at his daily briefing Wednesday. “We said that from the beginning, and we’re going to say it right up to the end because it’s true. The American people have paid a price for this.”</p>
<p>Earlier this month, a senior administration official <a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303492504579113781436540284" target="_blank">told the Wall Street Journal</a> that “we are winning” with a drawn-out shutdown, but the White House pushed back on that quote in much the same way that Carney did on Wednesday.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.politico.com/politico44/2013/10/white-house-there-are-no-winners-here-175216.html" target="_blank">Read more</a></p>A Border Patrol Agent Who Has To Work Without Pay Wants You To Stop Saying The Shutdown Is No Big Dealtag:12160.info,2013-10-13:2649739:BlogPost:13371432013-10-13T19:35:23.000ZCryptocurrencyhttps://12160.info/profile/KRYPKE32
<p><strong>Josh Barro</strong><br></br> <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-government-shutdown-is-a-big-deal-to-this-border-patrol-agent-2013-10" target="_blank">Business Insider</a><br></br> Oct. 11, 2013</p>
<p>I got an email Thursday evening from Erik Finkelnburg, a Customs and Border Patrol agent based in southern California.</p>
<p>He’s sick of hearing people say the government shutdown isn’t a big deal because 85% of government employees are still at work — a “government slimdown,” as…</p>
<p><strong>Josh Barro</strong><br/> <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-government-shutdown-is-a-big-deal-to-this-border-patrol-agent-2013-10" target="_blank">Business Insider</a><br/> Oct. 11, 2013</p>
<p>I got an email Thursday evening from Erik Finkelnburg, a Customs and Border Patrol agent based in southern California.</p>
<p>He’s sick of hearing people say the government shutdown isn’t a big deal because 85% of government employees are still at work — a “government slimdown,” as Fox News has called it.</p>
<p>Like about 1.5 million federal civilian employees, Finkelnburg is among that 85% because he’s “essential” to the protection of life and property. But until the shutdown is resolved, he won’t get paid for any work he’s performed after Sept. 30.<br/> <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-government-shutdown-is-a-big-deal-to-this-border-patrol-agent-2013-10" target="_blank"><br/> Read More</a></p>India’s monster storm may be worse than Katrinatag:12160.info,2013-10-11:2649739:BlogPost:13355422013-10-11T22:38:52.000ZCryptocurrencyhttps://12160.info/profile/KRYPKE32
<p><strong>Nita Bhalla</strong><br></br> <a href="http://www.trust.org/item/20131011112141-hrmqw/?source=hptop" target="_blank">trust.org</a><br></br> October 11, 2013</p>
<p>India’s weather office may be underestimating the severity of a cyclone which is hurtling towards the east coast, a meteorologist warned on Friday, adding that it could be worse than Hurricane Katrina which devastated parts of the United States in 2005.</p>
<p>Cyclone Phailin is forecast to hit the coast between Kalingapatnam in…</p>
<p><strong>Nita Bhalla</strong><br/> <a href="http://www.trust.org/item/20131011112141-hrmqw/?source=hptop" target="_blank">trust.org</a><br/> October 11, 2013</p>
<p>India’s weather office may be underestimating the severity of a cyclone which is hurtling towards the east coast, a meteorologist warned on Friday, adding that it could be worse than Hurricane Katrina which devastated parts of the United States in 2005.</p>
<p>Cyclone Phailin is forecast to hit the coast between Kalingapatnam in Andhra Pradesh state and Paradip in Odisha state late on Saturday with a maximum wind speed of 220 km per hour (135mph), the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said in its latest bulletin.</p>
<p>But both London-based Tropical Storm and the U.S. Navy’s Joint Typhoon Warning Centre forecast winds reaching 315 km per hour (195 mph) on landfall, classifying Phailin as a Category 5 storm – the most powerful.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.trust.org/item/20131011112141-hrmqw/?source=hptop" target="_blank">Read more</a></p>Calif. Condemns “Indefinite Detention”tag:12160.info,2013-10-03:2649739:BlogPost:13290502013-10-03T02:06:21.000ZCryptocurrencyhttps://12160.info/profile/KRYPKE32
<p>Statewide policy makes it illegal to enforce indefinite detention</p>
<p><strong>Julie Wilson</strong><br></br> Infowars.com<br></br> Oct. 2, 2013</p>
<p>Calif. achieved a tremendous victory yesterday when a coalition of grassroots’ efforts managed to persuade Gov. Jerry Brown to sign into law the “<a href="http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/legislation/liberty-preservation-act/#.UkxlRuuBFz8" target="_blank">California Liberty Preservation Act,</a>” also known as AB-351 and “Habeas Corpus.”…</p>
<p>Statewide policy makes it illegal to enforce indefinite detention</p>
<p><strong>Julie Wilson</strong><br/> Infowars.com<br/> Oct. 2, 2013</p>
<p>Calif. achieved a tremendous victory yesterday when a coalition of grassroots’ efforts managed to persuade Gov. Jerry Brown to sign into law the “<a href="http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/legislation/liberty-preservation-act/#.UkxlRuuBFz8" target="_blank">California Liberty Preservation Act,</a>” also known as AB-351 and “Habeas Corpus.”</p>
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<p>AB-351, which was first introduced by <a href="http://arc.asm.ca.gov/member/AD33/" target="_blank">Assemblyman Tim Donnelly</a> in Feb., rejects the unconstitutional National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), also known as “indefinite detention,” declaring the federal law null and void throughout the state. It also bans all cooperation with the NDAA and any other attempts by the feds to indefinitely detain Calif. citizens.</p>
<p>In 2012, Obama signed the NDAA which included a provision allowing “<a href="http://www.policymic.com/articles/20835/why-the-ndaa-bill-is-even-scarier-than-you-thought" target="_blank">indefinite detention of American citizens without due process at the discretion of the President</a>.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.infowars.com/federal-court-overturns-block-on-ndaa-indefinite-detention/" target="_blank">Infowars reported in Sept. of that same year</a>, US District Court Judge Katherine B. Forrest ruled the “indefinite detention” provision unconstitutional and permanently blocked it.</p>
<p>However, within just 24 hours the Obama administration appealed the judge’s ruling. The Second Circuit Court overturned the temporary injunction, making it once again “legal” for Americans to be kidnapped off the street and held without charges or a trial.</p>
<p>With indefinite detention being such a blatant violation of American’s civil liberties, outraged soared among states, prompting them to consider enacting legislation that would protect its citizens from the illegal federal law.</p>
<p>Calif. is one of two states that has actually passed legislation prohibiting state officials from cooperating with the NDAA. The bill also bans “every other federal law present or future that might be used for open-ended detentions, <a href="http://news.antiwar.com/2013/10/01/california-governor-signs-ban-on-ndaa-detentions/" target="_blank">according to Anti-war.com</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/11082-virginias-anti-ndaa-bill-set-to-become-law-ariz-joins-the-fight" target="_blank">Virginia passed similar legislation</a> in April when the House voted 89-7 last year, preventing state officers and agents from participating in the indefinite detention of its citizens.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2013/07/alaska-defeats-ndaa.html" target="_blank">Alaska also tried to enact protective legislation</a> in July when it signed into law HB69. HB69 was meant to “‘nullify’ the detention provisions of the NDAA,” however critics argue the bill fails to protect the inalienable rights of people because it doesn’t prohibit federal agents from using the powers in the NDAA detention provision.</p>
<p>The Calif. bill, or AB-351, started out as merely a grassroots effort supported by groups like the CA Libertarian Party, Bill of Rights Defense Committee, CA Republican Liberty Caucus, ACLU, and Oath Keepers, just to name a few.</p>
<p>The movement had literally zero support from the Calif. legislature until members of the above organizations showed up in court to testify at the bill’s first hearing.</p>
<p><a href="http://california.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2013/10/02/nullifornia-ab351/" target="_blank">According to the Tenth Amendment Center</a>, Chairman Tom Ammiano, who is considered to be the most progressive Democratic CA Assemblyman, told initiator Donnelly, who is highly conservative (arguably the most conservative Rep. in the state), that “you have found a zone we are all in.”</p>
<p>The bill passed unanimously in the committee, and also on the State Senate floor.</p>
<p>It’s refreshing to see Californians unifying to endorse this bill, much like they did for <a href="http://www.carighttoknow.org/" target="_blank">Prop 37</a>, a movement to require labeling of genetically-engineered organisms, which gained enormous amounts of support and brought awareness to millions of people despite its failure.</p>
<p>Hopefully we will see more states move to protect its citizens in the way Calif. has.</p>John McAfee is developing a $100 device to block the NSAtag:12160.info,2013-10-02:2649739:BlogPost:13285592013-10-02T05:28:07.000ZCryptocurrencyhttps://12160.info/profile/KRYPKE32
<p><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/54179-john-mcafee-is-developing-a-100-device-to-block-the-nsa.html" target="_blank"><strong>techspot.com</strong></a><br></br> October 2. 2013</p>
<p>During a recent chat at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, Antivirus software founder John McAfee unveiled plans to create a gadget called the D-Central which he claims can keep your information safe from the National Security Agency.</p>
<p>The gadget, which McAfee wants to sell for less than $100, would…</p>
<p><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/54179-john-mcafee-is-developing-a-100-device-to-block-the-nsa.html" target="_blank"><strong>techspot.com</strong></a><br/> October 2. 2013</p>
<p>During a recent chat at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, Antivirus software founder John McAfee unveiled plans to create a gadget called the D-Central which he claims can keep your information safe from the National Security Agency.</p>
<p>The gadget, which McAfee wants to sell for less than $100, would communicate with smartphones, tablets and notebooks to create a decentralized network that couldn’t be accessed by government agencies. Specifically, it would create a small private network that would act as a “dark web” where users could communicate and share files privately.</p>
<p>The device would have a wireless range of about three blocks and those in range would be able to communicate with each other. McAfee has reportedly been working on the gadget for a few years but has accelerated development in recent months given the NSA leaks.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/54179-john-mcafee-is-developing-a-100-device-to-block-the-nsa.html" target="_blank">Read more</a></p>They’re Lying to You: Appropriations and “Shutdown” Liestag:12160.info,2013-09-30:2649739:BlogPost:13272472013-09-30T17:29:54.000ZCryptocurrencyhttps://12160.info/profile/KRYPKE32
<p><strong>Thomas R. Eddlem</strong><br></br> <a href="http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/congress/item/16640-they-re-lying-to-you-appropriations-and-shutdown-lies">New American</a><br></br> September 30, 2013</p>
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<p>As Democrats and Republicans squabble over federal funding and a partial shutdown of the federal government looms, many in the press are mindlessly parroting Democratic Party’s talking points about the shutdown. But what’s the reality? Following are three false claims regarding the…</p>
<p><strong>Thomas R. Eddlem</strong><br/> <a href="http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/congress/item/16640-they-re-lying-to-you-appropriations-and-shutdown-lies">New American</a><br/> September 30, 2013</p>
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<p>As Democrats and Republicans squabble over federal funding and a partial shutdown of the federal government looms, many in the press are mindlessly parroting Democratic Party’s talking points about the shutdown. But what’s the reality? Following are three false claims regarding the looming shutdown, and why they are lies.</p>
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<div class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 400px;"><img alt="" src="http://static.prisonplanet.com/slideshow/300913shut.jpg" height="210" width="400"/><p class="wp-caption-text">Image: Government shut down.</p>
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<p><em><strong>False claim #1: Republicans are shutting down the government.</strong></em></p>
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<p>“So far, the Republicans in the House of Representatives have refused to move forward…. The House Republicans are so concerned with appeasing the tea party that they’ve threatened a government shutdown or worse unless I gut or repeal the Affordable Care Act.”</p>
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<p>— President Barack Obama,<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/09/27/statement-president" target="_blank"> press conference</a>, September 27</p>
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<p><em><strong>Why it’s a lie:</strong> </em>The House Republicans have<a href="http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/28/20732222-shutdown-nears-as-house-passes-funding-bill-that-delays-obamacare?lite" target="_blank"> twice passed</a> bills to fund nearly all the functions of the federal government through December 15. Congress must fund appropriations for nearly all federal programs each year by the time the fiscal year begins on October 1, or the programs will face shutdown. But the President and Democratic Senate have threatened to veto the House-approved spending unless the House passes a bill that also includes funding for ObamaCare. The White House and Senate Democrats do not object to any spending that is in the House bill, they are only objecting to funding that’s <em>not</em> in the bill. The reality is that President Obama is holding the federal government — and federal employees’ paychecks — hostage in order to extort more funding from the House.</p>
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<p><em><strong>False claim #2: Republicans must fund ObamaCare because it’s the law.</strong></em></p>
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<p>“That’s not really the American form of government. You [Host David Gregory] outlined the American form of government. The test by which we submit any new legislation and it’s submitted, the President signs it, and it’s reviewed by the courts. It’s the law.”</p>
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<p>— Chris Matthews, on Republican strategy to defund ObamaCare, on <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3032608/ns/meet_the_press/#53138754" target="_blank"><em>Meet the Press</em></a>, September 29</p>
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<p><em><strong>Why it’s a lie:</strong> </em>While it is true that Congress enacted ObamaCare in 2010, the original bill contained zero funding. The original ObamaCare law was not self-funded, and funding of ObamaCare is what’s at issue in Washington today. ObamaCare requires new appropriations spending each year, as <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articlei" target="_blank">Article I, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution </a>requires that “No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law.” Generally, this means annual spending bills passed by Congress, though in some rare instances Congress passes spending for more than a year.</p>
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<p>The Congress has complete discretion about whether to fund — or not fund — the programs it sets up under law, and Congress defunds laws all the time — such as <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/budget-cut-house-kills-35-joint-strike-fighter/story?id=12933195" target="_blank">pork barrel purchases for the military weapons systems </a>that are never funded. In fact, Congress is doing precisely the same thing right now under the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_sequestration_in_2013" target="_blank"> sequester law</a>, to the utter silence of Democratic Party mouthpieces like Chris Matthews. And no one argues that these are inappropriate uses of Congress’ discretion of what to fund.</p>
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<p>Regarding ObamaCare, there’s a stronger case to deny funding than most pork barrel military weapons projects. President Obama <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-to-a-Joint-Session-of-Congress-on-Health-Care" target="_blank">proposed the law with a price tag of $900 billion over 10 years</a>, but the Congressional Budget Office recently<a href="http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/44190_EffectsAffordableCareActHealthInsuranceCoverage_2.pdf" target="_blank"> projected that costs would be roughly double</a> the price estimated by Congress at the time it was passed into law.</p>
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<p><em><strong>False claim #3: House Republicans are bluffing, and President Obama holds all the aces in the budget debate.</strong></em></p>
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<p>“They said, “Yeah, we negotiate with everybody and we don’t like where it came out. We want our way. It’s our way or the highway. And if you don’t do it, we’ll shut the government down.” I think there are times when you have to call people’s bluff.”</p>
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<p>— Former President Bill Clinton, on Republican claims, to George Stephanopoulos in <em><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/09/full-transcript-former-president-bill-clinton-speaks-to-george-stephanopoulos-on-this-week/" target="_blank">This Week</a></em>, September 29</p>
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<p><em><strong>Why it’s a lie:</strong></em> Republicans hold a constitutional royal-straight-flush on funding, as they control a majority of the House of Representatives. Under the constitutional appropriations process, funding for just about all programs ends automatically every year. Thus, funding for all programs must pass the House of Representatives every year or the programs will die. Therefore, House Republicans an absolute, veto-proof constitutional stop on spending.</p>
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<p>Democratic Party talking points for the past year are that the GOP House has voted 30- or 40-odd times to defund Obamacare, to no effect. The reality is that House Republicans don’t need to vote at all to defund Obamacare; they simply need to avoid passing a bill to fund the program and it will die.</p>
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<p>When Bill Clinton told George Stephanopoulos that Obama should “call people’s bluff,” Clinton was projecting from experience. Clinton bluffed against Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s royal-straight-flush back in 1996 with the same pair of deuces which today Obama holds, and the GOP <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2011/02/lessons_from_the_great_governm.html" target="_blank">folded </a>its winning hand. Look for the same likely outcome this time. The real bluff may be that the GOP is pretending to have a spine, and it’s not there.</p>
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<p>The reality is that the GOP-controlled House of Representatives has been the lifeblood of ObamaCare thus far, always granting it full funding up until this point. If the GOP finds its spine, Republicans will have to convince the American people that true compromise must not be based upon what is <em>absent</em> from a bill, but instead on what <em>is</em> in a bill. In short, Republicans need to embrace constitutional “reductive compromise” and reject the White House extortion strategy, initiating a compromise strategy that involves only spending money that is agreed upon by both parties.</p>
<p></p>Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis left note blaming low-frequency attacktag:12160.info,2013-09-26:2649739:BlogPost:13246432013-09-26T15:30:00.000ZCryptocurrencyhttps://12160.info/profile/KRYPKE32
<p><strong>Richard A. Serrano</strong><br></br> <a href="http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-aaron-alexis-navy-yard-footage-20130925,0,2516735.story" target="_blank">LA Times</a><br></br> September 26, 2013</p>
<p>The Washington Navy Yard shooter believed he was being subjected to an “ultra low frequency attack” and left an electronic note saying this was “what I’ve been subject to for the last 3 months, and to be perfectly honest that is what has driven me to this,” the FBI revealed…</p>
<p><strong>Richard A. Serrano</strong><br/> <a href="http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-aaron-alexis-navy-yard-footage-20130925,0,2516735.story" target="_blank">LA Times</a><br/> September 26, 2013</p>
<p>The Washington Navy Yard shooter believed he was being subjected to an “ultra low frequency attack” and left an electronic note saying this was “what I’ve been subject to for the last 3 months, and to be perfectly honest that is what has driven me to this,” the FBI revealed Wednesday.</p>
<p>Aaron Alexis, 34, a computer technician for a private Navy contractor, killed 12 people and wounded four others in the Sept. 16 rampage as he fired a sawed-off Remington 870 Express shotgun in which he had etched several statements, including “End to the torment!”</p>
<p>The FBI also released video and still photographs from Building 197 at the Navy Yard, including scenes of Alexis in a dark blue-and-white shirt and dark trousers, wielding the shotgun as he roamed down hallways and stairwells in search of victims.<br/> <a href="http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-aaron-alexis-navy-yard-footage-20130925,0,2516735.story" target="_blank"><br/> Read More</a></p>Infowars Throws Israeli Agenda Into Spotlighttag:12160.info,2013-09-23:2649739:BlogPost:13225712013-09-23T19:46:11.000ZCryptocurrencyhttps://12160.info/profile/KRYPKE32
<p>Former Powell Chief of Staff warns neocon duo stirring up trouble and pushing Iran attack.</p>
<p><strong>Kurt Nimmo</strong><br></br> Infowars.com<br></br> September 23, 2013</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell’s former chief of staff, told Real News that Arizona Senator John McCain and South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham are “traitors” in cahoots with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and they are working to thwart any attempt to negotiate with…</p>
<p>Former Powell Chief of Staff warns neocon duo stirring up trouble and pushing Iran attack.</p>
<p><strong>Kurt Nimmo</strong><br/> Infowars.com<br/> September 23, 2013</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell’s former chief of staff, told Real News that Arizona Senator John McCain and South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham are “traitors” in cahoots with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and they are working to thwart any attempt to negotiate with Iran.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Wilkerson said Israel is primarily to blame for the effort to subvert negotiations with Iran. “First and foremost, Prime Minister Netanyahu and his extremely right-wing government in Tel Aviv. If you’ve seen what they’ve laid down as their deal parameters, if you will, it leads off with no enrichment at all, that is to say, they do not want any nuclear program whatsoever in Iran,” he said.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">In the United States, “you find Netanyahu’s allies in people like Senator John McCain, Senator Lindsey Graham from my home state, and others who are bordering on being traitors, in my view, because they won’t let this president have room to achieve a diplomatic solution.”</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Having failed in the effort to get the United States involved in directly attacking Syria and overthrowing its government, McCain and Graham are now concentrating on Iran. “And so they’re moving on to Iran, with Graham even saying he’s going to move for legislation to authorize the use of military force against Iran in the next four to five months. So these people are bordering on being traitors,” Wilkerson said.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Israel has “an enormous impact on U.S. foreign policy, but it’s beginning to be so detrimental to U.S. foreign and security policy that people like John McCain and Lindsey Graham, with their hands out to the Jewish lobby for more donations to their PACs and so forth, just simply need to shut up and go back into the dark shadows from whence they emerged.”</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>New Era of Negotiation Between West and Iran</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">On Monday, Iran’s new president, Hassan Rouhani, said he will use a visit to the United Nations this week to engage in talks with the West and end the dispute over his country’s nuclear program. Rouhani said Iran’s nuclear program is intended for peaceful purposes and said his country is not building nuclear weapons as Israel, the neocons and many members of Congress insist.</p>
<p>“Unfortunately in recent years the face of Iran, a great and civilized nation, has been presented in another way,” comments posted on <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/23/us-iran-nuclear-idUSBRE98M0IW20130923" target="_blank">Rouhani’s official website</a> state. “I and my colleagues will take the opportunity to present the true face of Iran as a cultured and peace-loving country.”</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a name="articleText" id="articleText"></a>“The West should opt for the path of talks and cooperation and consider mutual interests,” he said.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Negotiations between Iran and the West are supported by the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ali Hosseini Khamenei.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">McCain and Graham are undoubtedly horrified by the prospect of negotiations, including an engineered handshake at the United Nations between Obama and Rouhani.</p>
<p>Netanyhau plans to tell the United Nations this week a deal between the West and Iran will be a trap similar to one set by North Korea eight years ago. “Iran must not be allowed to repeat North Korea’s ploy to get nuclear weapons,” an Israeli official told the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/23/world/middleeast/netanyahu-is-said-to-view-iran-deal-as-a-possible-trap.html?_r=0" target="_blank">New York Times</a> on Sunday.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a name="articleText1" id="articleText1"></a>On Monday, Iran’s foreign minister and lead nuclear negotiator, Mohammad Javad Zarif, will meet with Catherine Ashton, the European Union foreign policy chief.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a name="articleText2" id="articleText2"></a>The developments represent a new era, according to Iran. IRNA, the official Iranian news source, has said talks between Iran and the West have been “completely transformed” by the election of Rouhani.</p>
<p>“This is a new game and it will have new rules and the aim is to reach common points of agreement between both sides,” IRNA quotes an Iranian government source as saying.</p>
<p style="color: #333; font-size: 11px;">This article was posted: Monday, September 23, 2013 at 11:00 am</p>