tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56799575673907990962024-02-25T00:21:03.534-08:00Take The Red Pill Nowincensemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00094084883316817998noreply@blogger.comBlogger4470125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5679957567390799096.post-19361076006809224132021-07-12T07:16:00.000-07:002021-07-12T07:16:39.367-07:00The Fat Mans Club<p> </p><div class="title-block " style="background-color: #f9f9f9; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: CrimsonText, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 0.625rem; padding: 0px;"><h1 style="box-sizing: inherit; color: inherit; font-family: MessimaSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.33333rem; letter-spacing: -0.03333rem; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0.83333rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Before Joey Chestnut, “Fat Men’s Clubs” Dominated the World of Competitive Eating</h1><h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; color: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0.83333rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Looking back at an era when Americans worshiped a different breed of gurgitator</h2></div><div class="article-grid grid-x grid-margin-x" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; background-color: #f9f9f9; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-flow: row wrap; font-family: CrimsonText, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 30px; margin: 0px -0.75rem; padding: 0px;"><div class="main-content cell large-auto" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 auto; margin: 0px 0.75rem; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; width: calc(100% - 1.5rem);"><div class="main-hero" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source media="(min-width: 0px)" sizes="(min-width: 1023px) 100vw, (min-width: 768px) 100vw, (min-width: 360px) 50vw, 100vw" srcset="https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Fat-Mens-Clubs.jpg?resize=450%2C300 450w, https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Fat-Mens-Clubs.jpg?resize=750%2C500 750w, https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Fat-Mens-Clubs.jpg?fit=1200%2C800 1200w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="Members of the Fat Man's Baseball Association, circa 1910" class="alignleft skip-lazy wp-post-image" data-pin-url="https://www.insidehook.com/article/news-opinion/revisiting-fat-mens-clubs" height="800" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px" src="https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Fat-Mens-Clubs.jpg?fit=1200%2C800" srcset="https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Fat-Mens-Clubs.jpg 1500w, https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Fat-Mens-Clubs.jpg?resize=1200,800 1200w, https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Fat-Mens-Clubs.jpg?resize=750,500 750w, https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Fat-Mens-Clubs.jpg?resize=450,300 450w, https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Fat-Mens-Clubs.jpg?resize=150,100 150w, https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Fat-Mens-Clubs.jpg?resize=50,33 50w" style="border-style: none; 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font-size: 0.5rem; line-height: inherit; margin-left: 0.625rem; padding-left: 0.66667rem; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">@ELIOTTPGROVER</a></div><div class="main-body" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">On a balmy October afternoon in 1885, two New York baseball teams met for a fall classic. The national media was on hand to cover the highly anticipated matchup. It wasn’t the Yankees versus the Mets. No, it was a much larger affair. Literally. </p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">The Brooklyn Fat Men’s baseball team traveled to Long Island to take on the Fat Men’s Club of Flushing. Upon arriving, Brooklyn’s starting nine crammed onto a hay scale. They weighed in at 2,211 lbs., or 245 per person. <em style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;">The New York Times</em> described the team in a <a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1885/10/09/106176695.html?action=click&contentCollection=Archives&module=LedeAsset&region=ArchiveBody&pgtype=article&pageNumber=3" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(255, 46, 6); box-sizing: inherit; color: black; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">colorful article</a> that ran on October 9, 1885. </p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“They were all [formerly professional] baseball men … since grown obese on beer and politics, but they were a lusty set of athletes and they declared that they could run their own bases and only wanted two small boys to assist the catcher.”</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">After the weigh-in, the Brooklyn players positioned “resuscitating beer kegs … at convenient intervals” while their captain addressed the media. Identified only as “Supervisor Jones,” he did not hide his discriminatory approach to roster building. </p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“I say with pride,” Jones bellowed, “that no man is allowed in this organization who weighs less than 212 pounds.” Leading by example, he tipped the scale at an impressive 325. “His general appearance,” the reporter from <em style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;">The Times</em> noted, “was that of the man in the moon in the gibbous state.”</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Jones was looking forward to the game, but dressing for it had proved challenging. He paid a boy 25 cents to help stuff him into his uniform. As the Brooklyn players finished their warmup, they noticed something was missing. Their opponents were nowhere to be seen. </p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“The Flushing men,” <em style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;">The Times </em>reported, “had mysteriously disappeared, all save the captain, who was discovered peering over the fence in unspeakable awe. Upon the arrival of the massy Brooklynites, they had become stricken with remorse at their own puny showing, which would not average more than 225 pounds to the player.” </p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“The Brooklynites were highly indignant and so were the spectators, and their rage was with difficulty modified by frequent potations of the amber flood.” In other words, the big boys got their drink on. </p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Despite this story’s anticlimactic ending, the day was not without drama. The wagon that had carted the “individual masses of rotund corpulency” from the train station to the ballpark nearly collapsed. </p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">If you start researching the Fat Men’s Clubs that enjoyed prominent social status across America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, one of the first motifs you notice is that transportation was often perilous — but not for the clubs’ members. Consider this short article from the April 6, 1909, issue of the <em style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Brownsville Daily Herald</em>, a local Texas paper.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“A report was brought in this afternoon that one of the horses that were hauling the Fat Men’s team to the baseball park dropped dead on the way. How the team finally got to the park is not learned. The price of the horse will be charged to the Fat Men.” Surely they had no trouble footing the bill. Fat Men’s Clubs (henceforth referred to as FMCs), had coffers that surpassed their significant waistbands. </p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">The first FMC was founded in New York City in 1869, according to Kerry Segrave’s <a href="https://bookshop.org/books/obesity-in-america-1850-1939-a-history-of-social-attitudes-and-treatment/9780786441204" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(255, 46, 6); box-sizing: inherit; color: black; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank"><em style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Obesity in America</em></a>. Before long, local chapters formed across the country. The unifying mission of all FMCs, articulated by W.A. Disborough, the president of the Fat Men’s Association of Texas, was “to draw the fat men into closer fraternal relations.” </p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Like many of the social clubs born in the wake of the Civil War, FMCs were ultimately about networking. As the country stumbled out of Reconstruction, different in-groups banded together to advance common interests and capitalize on political and financial opportunities. Like many of these clubs, FMCs had strict and discriminating membership policies. No man would be considered unless he weighed at least 200 pounds. He would also need to pay annual dues to fund the club’s rigorous social calendar. </p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Considering the popularity of these organizations (the <a href="https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/the-new-england-fat-mens-club/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(255, 46, 6); box-sizing: inherit; color: black; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">New England FMC</a>, for instance, had more than 10,000 members in its heyday), proud fat men were clearly happy to pay the price of admission. Through their banquets, dances, lectures and various athletic teams, FMCs gave members exclusive access to prominent business leaders and politicians. They hosted senators and presidents, many of whom — if you think about the presidents around the turn of the century — would easily qualify for membership. William Howard Taft actually received a formal invitation to join. Standing six feet tall and weighing 340 pounds, Taft was America’s largest president and <a href="https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/taft-clue-2/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(255, 46, 6); box-sizing: inherit; color: black; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">may or may not</a> have gotten stuck in a White House bathtub while in office. He politely declined the membership offer, but happily attended an FMC meeting in Wells River, VT.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Although FMCs sponsored a range of activities, their primary pursuit was celebrating and cultivating mass. Meetings began with customary weigh-ins, where the heaviest members were awarded prizes like whole pigs. Many clubs deferred to the scale as an objective tool for selecting officers. </p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.66667rem;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-510588 jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled" data-lazy-loaded="1" data-pin-title="Before Joey Chestnut, “Fat Men’s Clubs” Dominated the World of Competitive Eating" data-recalc-dims="1" height="1000" loading="eager" sizes="(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px" src="https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Fat-Mens-Clubs-2.jpg?w=1500&resize=1500%2C1000" srcset="https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Fat-Mens-Clubs-2.jpg 1500w, https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Fat-Mens-Clubs-2.jpg?resize=1200,800 1200w, https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Fat-Mens-Clubs-2.jpg?resize=750,500 750w, https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Fat-Mens-Clubs-2.jpg?resize=450,300 450w, https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Fat-Mens-Clubs-2.jpg?resize=150,100 150w, https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Fat-Mens-Clubs-2.jpg?resize=50,33 50w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="1500" /><figcaption class="grid-x grid-margin-x caption-container" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-flow: row wrap; font-size: 0.58333rem; margin: 0px -0.75rem -0.66667rem; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="cell medium-auto caption" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1; box-sizing: inherit; flex: 1 1 0px; font-size: 0.58333rem; margin: 0px 0.75rem; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0.25rem 0px 0px; width: auto;">Tug of war at the summer outing of a Massachusetts Fat Men’s Club in 1951</div><div class="cell medium-shrink medium-text-right credit" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: inherit; color: #9d9fa3; flex: 0 0 auto; font-size: 0.58333rem; margin: 0px 0.75rem; max-width: calc(100% - 36px); min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0.25rem 0px 0px; text-align: right; width: auto;">Harry Bagan Photographs, Cambridge Historical Commission</div></figcaption></figure><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">An 1884 <em style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;">New York Times</em> article entitled “<a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1884/08/28/106153137.html?pageNumber=5" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(255, 46, 6); box-sizing: inherit; color: black; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">The Glory of Adipose</a>” paints a vivid picture of the typical minutes at these summits. On August 27, the president of the Connecticut FMC arrived at the annual clambake with great expectations for his weigh-in. Philetus Dorlon was an imposing figure. “His obesity borders on the infinite,” <em style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;">The Times</em> observed. “The most hardened lean man cannot gaze upon his magnificent proportions without being unconsciously made purer and holier.” </p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">As the members proceeded to “compare circumferences,” hopes were high for Dorlon’s number. He clambered onto the scale, his portly comrades holding their breath as the ballasts were adjusted. “Three-hundred and forty pounds,” the master of ceremonies declared. Dorlon stoically stepped off the scale. He took one look at the golden scepter that was inscribed with the names and weights of his predecessors. And then he burst into tears. </p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“Mr. Dorlon wept as he apologized to the club for his comparative leanness after the immortal records of the presidents who had officiated before him.” <em style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;">The Times</em> noted that the previous three leaders weighed 415, 458 and 549 pounds. “There were other men in the club, Mr. Dorlon said, who were worthier than he to adorn the president’s chair because they were fatter; he would not selfishly stand between the club and glory with his insignificant 340 pounds.” He was unanimously re-elected.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">The average FMC spent nearly all of its annual budget on food. Their feasts were <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimalchio" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(255, 46, 6); box-sizing: inherit; color: black; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">Trimalchian</a> altars to gluttony; the menu at one New England FMC meeting, for example, included oysters, cream of chicken soup, boiled snapper, roasted chicken, roasted suckling pig, shrimp salad, steamed fruit pudding, cheese, cake and ice cream. The meeting’s sole agenda item, to be clear, was to consume as much as humanly possible. “The only men leaving the table,” <em style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;">The Boston Globe</em> reported, were “those who feared apoplexy.” </p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">FMCs did not invent eating contests — like most modern social phenomena, the <a href="http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1820052,00.html" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(255, 46, 6); box-sizing: inherit; color: black; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">history of competitive eating</a> reaches into mythology — but they certainly popularized them in American culture. When the Manhattan FMC held an all-you-can-eat contest at their East Third Street clubhouse in 1909, several reporters were present to watch Frank Dotzler, a 380-pound alderman, devour 275 oysters, 8 pounds of steak, 12 rolls, 11 cups of coffee and 3 pies. He won $50 and eternal glory. </p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">The considerable media attention enjoyed by these clubs says a lot about the era in which they prospered. “In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,” Laura Doan wrote in an <a href="https://www.texasmonthly.com/bbq/fat-mens-clubs-texas/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(255, 46, 6); box-sizing: inherit; color: black; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">engrossing article</a> about Texas FMCs, “attitudes about fat bodies were remarkably different than they are now … As fat men’s clubs were at their peak, people positively associated men of a larger size with wealth and affability.” </p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">The jolly fat man, with his distinguished paunch and hearty laugh, was a revered archetype. His corporal existence radiated power and leisure, evidence of his superhuman capacity for consumption and his ability to feed such a lavish lifestyle. Any woman, the cultural logic followed, would be lucky to have him.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Nobody championed the fat man’s status as a desirable mate more than other fat men, as demonstrated by a <em style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Mineola Monitor </em>op-ed from 1899: </p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“It may be observed, without intentional offence [sic] to any young lady who might be enamored of some skeleton-like young man that, as a rule, fat men, besides being the most jolly and convivial of the male species, are also apt to be the most considerate of and charitable to others.” The writer concluded with a compelling statistic. “The fact still remains that seven out of ten fat men make excellent husbands.”</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Women, as is often the case, faced a double standard. Although a handful of Fat Women’s Clubs existed, their membership was low and they were frequently lampooned by the male-dominated press. “Fat men may be popular,” declared a <a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth342713/m1/1/?q=%20%22fat%20men%22%20%22weigh%22%20date:1880-1930" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(255, 46, 6); box-sizing: inherit; color: black; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">1923 column</a> in <em style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;">The Brownwood Bulletin</em>, “but the fat lady is always awkward.” </p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Eventually society turned on the fat man, too. In the 1920s, doctors and insurance companies started raising awareness about the longterm health effects of obesity. Diet and exercise became part of the public discourse, and the arrival of the home scale made an individual’s weight a much more private subject. As medical and cultural attitudes shifted, FMC membership plummeted. By 1924, the New England FMC, once 10,000 strong, had just 38 members. </p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">FMCs disappeared almost overnight, and their dinosaur-like extinction ushered in the dark ages of competitive eating. It’s not that Americans suddenly lost interest in watching others inhale ungodly amounts of food, but the spectacle of the eating contest undermined the prevailing health movement. Competitions were relegated to backwater stages like county fairs and shopping malls. Every now and then, a trencherman was hailed as a folk hero, like <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB120010770762585761" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(255, 46, 6); box-sizing: inherit; color: black; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">Eddie “Bozo” Miller</a>, who consumed 25,000 calories a day and once ate 30 pounds of elk and moose meatloaf in a single sitting. But for the most part, digestive feats received little media attention until the end of the 20th century.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">And then the pendulum swung back with a hangry vengeance. In the early ’90s, a young publicity agent named George Shea started working on the account for Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs. Their annual July 4th contest on Coney Island, he thought, was an incredible marketing opportunity. He threw himself into promoting the event. Elbow grease and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/sports/04hotdogs.html" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(255, 46, 6); box-sizing: inherit; color: black; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">savvy world-building</a> generated impressive growth. George’s brother Rich came onboard a few years later, and they quickly discovered that the cultural appetite for competitive eating was immense and unsated. In 1997, they founded <a href="https://majorleagueeating.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(255, 46, 6); box-sizing: inherit; color: black; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">Major League Eating</a>, and have spent the last two-and-a-half decades turning eating into a professional sport. </p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“Obviously people can have a parochial attitude towards what is and isn’t sport,” Rich tells InsideHook, “but this is a physical discipline. There’s a set of rules. There’s strategy. These guys speak just like golfers speak. You know how golfers have different approaches for different holes? These guys have different approaches for different foods. They train. They literally study film of Joey [Chestnut] and other greats.”</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">And, just like other professional athletes, their talents are televised. ESPN started airing the Nathan’s contest in 2003. “That made believers out of a lot of people,” Rich says. They draw well over a million viewers every Fourth of July, and a new partnership with DraftKings gives the growing fanbase a chance to bet on results. </p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">A large part of Major League Eating’s success, and the hot dog contest in particular, stems from the Shea brothers’ rhetorical prowess. If you’ve ever watched one of the Nathan’s broadcasts, you’ve seen them in action. Rich provides commentary on ESPN while George, clad in the iconic straw hat of a Coney Island carnival barker, emcees from the stage. Their styles are different but equally potent.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“George is a bit more hellfire and brimstone,” Rich says. “I go for more pop culture and sports allusions.” </p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">George spends months writing and rewriting his introductions for each contestant. Draped in faux-epic language, they provoke laughter and awe. His <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGAU8BU0Hd0" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(255, 46, 6); box-sizing: inherit; color: black; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">2014 introduction</a> for Joey Chestnut, with The Who’s Baba O’Riley simmering underneath, is magisterial:</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“Only moments from her womb, and before she even placed him to her breast, his mother held him close and whispered in his ear. She said, ‘You are of my flesh, but you are not mine own. Fate is your father and you belong to the people, for you shall lead the army of the free.’ And she held him high, and the finger of power that destroys the unworthy descended, and it touched him on the forehead, and it anointed him the champion of the world!” </p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">There’s something reminiscent of the old FMC newspaper clippings when the Sheas crank up the hype mode. It’s an ironic self-awareness that also conveys genuine admiration for the obscure sport they’re representing, like the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLr0v9MyGgM" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(255, 46, 6); box-sizing: inherit; color: black; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">commentators from <em style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Dodgeball</em></a> if they were more literary and less stoned. </p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Rich laughs when I tell him about the history of FMCs and says he’s never heard of them. He’s amused, but he’s quick to point out that the majority of competitive eaters are in good shape. </p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“These guys tend to be more traditional athletes,” he says. “We have triathletes. We have two professional trainers that are competing this year, a husband and wife who met on the Major League Eating circuit. They’re ridiculously cut. Most of the eaters are more cut than not.”</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Like other sports, Major League Eating has inspired scientific research. With academic reverence, Rich tells me about the “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_of_fat_theory#:~:text=In%20competitive%20eating%2C%20the%20belt,well%20positioned%20to%20win%20contests." rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(255, 46, 6); box-sizing: inherit; color: black; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">belt of fat theory</a>,” a theory developed by former Nathan’s champion Ed Krachie, which posits that the more fat you have around your stomach, the less room your stomach has to expand. </p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Recent history has supported Krachie’s theory. In 2001, 131-pound Takeru Kobayashi shocked the world by eating 50 hot dogs and buns (HDBs) in 12 minutes. The previous record was 25 HDBs. Even Joey Chestnut, the undisputed G.O.A.T. of competitive eating, is relatively svelte at 6’1” and 230 pounds. During last year’s competition, with the buzz dampened by COVID, Chestnut broke his own record when he downed 75 HDBs in 10 minutes. </p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">This year’s July 4th contest promises a return to normalcy. “It’s going to be much more buoyant,” Rich says. Festivities kick off at 11 a.m. at Maimonides Park, the Coney Island baseball stadium, and a select number of tickets can be procured for free when you use the coupon code on Major League Eating’s <a href="https://majorleagueeating.com/contests/914" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(255, 46, 6); box-sizing: inherit; color: black; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">website</a>. </p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">A friend of mine with whom I was discussing this story asked me if competitive eating is the most American sport ever invented. “Without a doubt,” I answered. He thought I was joking. I assured him I wasn’t and relayed the origin story of the first Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Contest in 1916. According to the legend, four immigrants competed against each other with the winner earning the title of “most patriotic.” </p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“What’s more American than that?” I asked my friend. </p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“Apple pie,” he quipped. </p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“But you know what’s more American than apple pie,” I said. “An apple pie-eating contest.”</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“Not nearly as American as a hot dog eating contest,” he said.</p><section class="inline-related " style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(157, 159, 163); 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<span class="fontstyle0"><br /></span><span class="fontstyle2"><br /></span><span class="fontstyle3">Geo-engineering is an umbrella term for deliberate climate intervention that includes spraying<br />the sky with aerosols to reflect solar radiation away from Earth in order to cool the planet and<br />to save the environment and humanity from the effects of supposedly man-made global<br />warming. There is evidence that this program has already been implemented for many years<br />using unidentified chemical aerosols, known as chem trails.<br />Geo-engineering is touted as a last-ditch effort to save people and the planet from global<br />warming. But the truth is that Geo-engineering can alter rain cycles leading to droughts and<br />famine that could result in billions of deaths!<br />Therefore, Bill Gates appears to be using his concern over global warming to cloak his real<br />intent of controlling weather and/or depopulation.</span><br />
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<span class="fontstyle3">The Mount Pinatubo volcano in the Philippines erupted in 1991, spewing 22 million tons of<br />sulfur dioxide (SO2) into the upper atmosphere/stratosphere. A 2008 study from Rutgers<br />University based a model on Mount Pinatubo sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions and applied it<br />to Geo engineering; the scientists said that they expected overall global cooling, but some<br />regions would experience an increase in greenhouse gases and warming, as was recorded<br />after Pinatubo erupted.<br />Based on the SO2 volcanic model, the scientists reported that Geo engineering aerosols<br />sprayed in tropical or Arctic regions are likely to disrupt African and Asian/Indian summer<br />monsoons, threatening the food and water supply for billions of people!<br />Additional negative consequences include ozone depletion, reduced strength of hydrological<br />cycles resulting in decreased river flow and soil moisture.<br />While the scientists, led by Alan Robock, who performed the experiments appear to believe in<br />man-made global warming, they do have stern warnings against the dangers of Geoengineering.</span><span class="fontstyle3" style="color: #317298;">climate.envsci.rutgers.edu</span><span class="fontstyle4">2012 Geo-Engineering Study</span><span class="fontstyle3">The Max Planck Institute conducted a study of Geo engineering models based on volcanoes,<br />but the study was unrealistic because it used climate models with 400% more carbon dioxide<br />than the pre-industrial era. However, their results showed that Geo engineering will cause a<br />strong decrease in rainfall (a 15% loss in North America and Eurasia and a 20% decrease in<br />South America). Overall, global rainfall would be reduced by 5%.<br />Unless one considers the financial benefits (government and private grants), it is bewildering<br />why the academia would support Geo-engineering.</span><br />
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<span class="fontstyle3">Geo-engineering can actually cause global warming when tampering with clouds in the upper<b> </b>atmosphere/stratosphere. The Gates-funded scientist lobbyists propose spraying sulfur</span><br />
<span class="fontstyle3">dioxide 30 miles above Earth and the New Mexico experiment proposes spraying 15 miles<br />above surface- both of these fall within the parameters of the upper atmosphere/stratosphere.<br />The troposphere is the lowest portion of the Earth’s atmosphere, extending an average of 4 to<br />12 miles above surface. Clouds that are in the lower troposphere are generally thick white<br />clouds with a high rate of albedo or reflectivity of the sun’s rays away from Earth that produce<br />a cooling effect. However, the experiments are to be conducted above this level in the upper<br />atmosphere/stratosphere.<br />The upper atmosphere is called the stratosphere and extends as high as 31 miles above the<br />Earth’s surface. The clouds in the higher stratosphere are generally thin, have a lower albedo<br />reflective rate and act like a blanket that traps </span><span class="fontstyle3" style="color: #317298;">heat.</span><span class="fontstyle3">Both experiments propose dumping SO2 in the upper atmosphere/stratosphere, creating a<br />heat-trapping blanket that would theoretically increase warming. This is the opposite of<br />Gates’ stated goal to cool the planet.(Note: most long-distance planes fly at 6 miles above<br />surface, in the lower atmosphere/troposphere)</span><br />
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<span class="fontstyle3">Given that the EPA claims that sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions cause health problems and early<br />death and that they are shuttering coal plants over emissions, you may be wondering why the</span><br />
<span class="fontstyle3">\</span>EPA isn’t screaming bloody murder over Gates’ SO2 aerosol-spraying experiments.The answer<br />
<span class="fontstyle3">can be found on the EPA’s own website where they promote giving regulatory power over Geoengineering/chem trails to the UN and/or developed countries that fund the programs. The<br />EPA is abdicating power to international interests.Bill Gates’ failure to address the EPA’s dire<br />warnings of the dangers of SO2 is proof that he is aware that the EPA’s claims are<br />grossly overstated or that he doesn’t really care about the environment and has ulterior<br />motives.</span><span class="fontstyle4">Global Warming and UN Control </span><span class="fontstyle3">Global warming is a ruse that claims that life on<br />planet Earth is in grave danger- this alarmism is used for political gain. Global warming is a<br />hoax based on manipulated science from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate<br />Change. The UN currently is assuming control over Geo engineering through its Convention<br />on Biological Diversity treaty that declared a moratorium on experiments, except in<br />some cases. </span><span class="fontstyle4">Conclusion</span><span class="fontstyle3">Geo-engineering is either a risky adventure to test ignorant theories or a scheme to control<br />weather, water and food supplies.<br />Bill Gates’ record as a depopulation enthusiast supports the argument that Geo engineering is<br />a weather domination scheme that may be used as a weapon threatening the lives of billions<br />of people.</span><br />
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">33 year old David Hibbitt from Staffordshire cured by cannabis oil (which cost £50 a gram from a local dealer) after he refused chemo. Now he’ll live to get married to his bride to be and start a beautiful life together.</span></div>
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We are so excited to see this being carried in the mainstream news.</div>
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From the <a href="http://metro.co.uk/2015/04/17/cancer-patient-given-18-months-to-live-is-cured-by-cannabis-5155190/" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Metro article which talks about David’s miraculous recovery:</a></div>
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Friends had told me about cannabis oil and I dismissed it at first. I’ve never been into drugs,’ the father-of-one said.</div>
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‘I felt like the chemo was killing me and I had nothing to lose. I could not really accept I was going to die.’</div>
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He had underwent grueling sessions of chemotherapy and radiotherapy before having surgery to remove his large bowel in March 2013, which were all unsuccessful.</div>
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But after his cannabis ‘cure’ he is now looking forward to the future after tying the knot with his partner of six years Heather Martin, 26, at a registry office earlier today.</div>
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What great news! He’s been with his partner 6 years (who has stood by his side) and now can finally stand by her side to walk down the aisle!</div>
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For years now parents of kids cured with cannabis or stories of people like David were squelched by the mainstream media but finally, people are realizing that chemotherapy so often fails and cannabis is a safer alternative with fewer side effects -and in cases like David’s (and countless others) it’s working. It’s really working!</div>
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We’re thrilled that it’s becoming more readily available and only hope that they’ll pass a law in the state where I live for the use of medical marijuana. We see pregnant women prescribed oxycontin like it’s candy, yet people suffering with cancer cannot get marijuana to help them? The good news is cannabis oil is available to most people now, but it’s still got a way to go so that everyone can it. We’re also happy to see Cancer Research UK supports clinical use of the drug (or plant as most people call it) but wonder if they’ll ever really admit how it can cure cancer.</div>
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I’ve been going to NORML meetings since my teens starting in 1990 and hope that someday it will be completely normal for folks to walk into a store and get cannabis oil for them, their family and loved ones. Bravo David. We love stories like this!</div>
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We’ll start this off with the year 1905, when the American Medical Association (AMA) hired thugs to run what they called the Department of Investigation (DOI) to hunt down doctors who were using natural remedies and shut them down. This would ensure the rise of AMA profits. The DOI kept files on anyone who was cured of cancer by natural medicine. The DOI also kept notes about health foods and vitamins. A crook heading up the AMA at the time, Morris Fishbein, was an extortionist who required large payments to the AMA by pharma companies for the AMA’s golden “Seal of Acceptance” (sounds like today’s Fast Track drug approvals), even though the AMA didn’t have any facilities to test the highly experimental, chemical drugs.</div>
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It was a huge scam, but no medical doctors in America were privy to it. At the same time, all nutrition education was covertly removed from medical colleges, and chemical drugs were the only legal “medicine.” The tsunami of preventable diseases would ensue, including Alzheimer’s, diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, and cancer. Before the early 1900’s, barely a case of preventable disease and disorder existed. The <a href="http://www.truthwiki.org/american-medical-association-ama/" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">infamous AMA</a> we know today started it all and they’re still “working hard” today to perpetuate the nightmare.</div>
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What exactly is cancer? Cancer is the uncontrolled division, multiplication and spread of mutated and warped cells that attack healthy cells and organs. Most cancer stems from the consumption of chemicals that cause an acidic body to be deprived of oxygen and nutrients. Though cancer was not literally created in the United States, the toxic food and medicine environment that catapults it was, so let’s take a look at how we got to where we are today, where one in every three Americans gets cancer in their lifetime, and half of those unfortunates are terminated by it.</div>
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1900 – Cancer (<a href="http://canceratlas.cancer.org/history-cancer/19th-century/" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">especially lung cancer</a>) is rare. Only about 90 people out of every 100,000 are diagnosed with it.</div>
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1905 – The AMA begins suppressing known natural cures for ailments of all sorts and removes nutritional education from medical college curriculum.</div>
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1930 – Any scientists and physicians who discover cures for cancer find their labs destroyed or materials confiscated, then they’re <a href="https://www.healthnutnews.com/fifth-holistic-alternative-doctor-33-found-dead-in-florida-making-5-dead-and-5-more-missing-doctors/" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">arrested, silenced or murdered</a> (this is still happening today, by the way).</div>
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1930s – FDA, AMA, and CDC suppress and deny natural cures and prevention strategies for cancer.</div>
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1930 – Microbiologist Dr. Royal Rife proves that if microbes inside cancer cells are killed, the cells revert back to normal ones.</div>
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1931 – Doctors from around the country join Dr. Raymond “Royal” Rife, who invented the first high-powered microscope that could directly observe bacteria and viruses, as he isolates a filterable virus of carcinoma and succeeds in destroying the typhus bacteria, not to mention the herpes virus and even strains of polio.</div>
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1937 – The AMA indicts Dr. Rife for “fraudulent” medical practices.</div>
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1938 – The AMA visits all doctors who <a href="http://www.healthfreedoms.org/the-root-cause-of-cancer-kept-secret-since-the-1930s/" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">support Dr. Rife</a> (and those who use his instrument inventions) warning them that if they continue they will “lose their medical license.”</div>
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1939 – The AMA and the FDA destroy Dr. Rife’s lab (and attempted to destroy all of his research, including his academic committee records) because his cancer cure rate was 100 percent among his patients.</div>
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1939 – The AMA literally pays a cancer researcher, Dr. Arthur Kendall, over $250,000 (that would be worth about $5 million today) to stop working on cancer cures and retire in Mexico, where he owned land.</div>
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1944 – Dr. Kendall dies of mysterious, unknown causes.</div>
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1940s – Lung cancer is scientifically discovered to be caused by smoking cigarettes, yet the AMA and 20,000 doctors endorse cigarettes as healthy and good for digestion for thirty more years.</div>
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1945 – The auspicious beginning of water fluoridation begins in Grand Rapids, Michigan just as WWII ends. Hitler had previously used the same type of fluoride in the drinking water in concentration camps to weaken the Jews to keep them from rebelling.</div>
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1950 – Post WWII food factories and plants begin processing American food in cans, adding cancer-causing chemical additives and chemical preservatives.</div>
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1955 – Dr. Jonas Salk removes kidneys of rhesus monkeys, injects them with three different strains of polio and incubates them to stimulate growth of the virus. Then he dilutes the combination of strains with formaldehyde to weaken the virus, then injects it into live monkeys, mice and rabbits and claims, along with CDC, the new “miracle vaccine of the century!” has been discovered and that it’s “safe, potent and efficient.” Fake polio vaccine cure is shipped in vials all over the world. The false “herd theory” is invented.</div>
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Late 1950s – Polio vaccines given to nearly 100 million Americans contaminated with hidden leukemia and SV40 cancer viruses (it was all <a href="https://www.naturalnews.com/032854_sv40_polio_vaccines.html" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">admitted and recorded by Merck scientist</a> named Dr. Maurice Hilleman, who was there at the time and witnessed it all). He’s now called the “Forgotten Hero.”</div>
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1963 – Researchers inject cancer cells into 19 elderly, debilitated patients at a Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital in Brooklyn, NY. The pharma-funded experiment was carried out on blacks and Jews that were prisoners because “they were cheaper than chimpanzees,” according to pharma industry officials.</div>
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1970s – Invasive medical procedures become the “norm” for treating cancer, including surgery, radiation, mammograms, chemotherapy and other dangerous toxic pharmaceuticals.</div>
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1971 – President Nixon declares the fake “War on Cancer” by launching the “National Cancer Act” while dishing out a cool $100 million to front groups, including NCI (National Cancer Institute) funds for promoting toxic chemotherapy.</div>
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1970s – Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski finds an advanced, cutting edge and non-toxic gene-targeting cure for even the most lethal forms of cancer (such as brain cancer and tumors on the spines in children).</div>
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1977 – The FDA raids Dr. Burzynski’s clinic, steals his patented formulas, seizes 12,000 patient records, purposely dilutes the most important ingredients of his neoplastons formula, then claims it doesn’t work after running tests (Dr. Burzynski is still curing people of cancer today at his clinic in Texas).</div>
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1980s – Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) introduced to corn and soy across USA. Genetically engineered and mutated produce in America would now be infected with insecticides and herbicides from the inside out.</div>
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1980s – Komen Foundation, American Cancer Society, National Cancer Institute, Karmanos Cancer Institute, and many more <a href="https://www.naturalnews.com/033783_Komen_for_the_Cure_pinkwashing.html" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">front groups </a>all raise money (for administrative salaries and costs mainly) while pretending to “search for cure” for cancer.</div>
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2010 – Google, YouTube and Social Media controllers begin massive purge of all information about curing cancer, natural remedies, CBD oil, hemp, etc.</div>
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2012 – National Cancer Institute (NCI) spends over $1.2 billion annually to bury natural cures.</div>
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2018 – Mercury is still used in vaccines, including flu shots, while CDC lies and says that it is not. There is no safe level of mercury, formaldehyde or aluminum that can be injected into a human.</div>
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2018 – Toxic sodium fluoride is still insidiously dripped into municipal tap water for the majority of Americans to consume.</div>
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Cancer cures are still being buried by the FDA, CDC, and the cancer industrial complex of the USA. Where should you begin to find answers? Consider the information shared in the video below by Dr. Leonard Caldwell.</div>
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<br />incensemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00094084883316817998noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5679957567390799096.post-50724619480075932112017-12-29T05:30:00.001-08:002017-12-29T05:30:06.129-08:00The U.S. Is Not A Democracy — It Never Was<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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One of the most steadfast beliefs regarding the United States is that it is a democracy. Whenever this conviction waivers slightly, it is almost always to point out detrimental exceptions to core American values or foundational principles.</div>
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For instance, aspiring critics frequently bemoan a “loss of democracy” due to the election of clownish autocrats, draconian measures on the part of the state, the revelation of extraordinary malfeasance or corruption, deadly foreign interventions, or other such activities that are considered undemocratic exceptions.</div>
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The same is true for those whose critical framework consists in always juxtaposing the actions of the U.S. government to its founding principles, highlighting the contradiction between the two and clearly placing hope in its potential resolution.</div>
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The problem, however, is that there is no contradiction or supposed loss of <a href="http://humansarefree.com/2015/05/the-democratic-experiment-is-finished.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">democracy</a> because the United States simply never was one.</div>
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This is a difficult reality for many people to confront, and they are likely more inclined to immediately dismiss such a claim as preposterous rather than take the time to scrutinize the material historical record in order to see for themselves.</div>
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Such a dismissive reaction is due in large part to what is perhaps the most successful public relations campaign in modern history.</div>
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What will be seen, however, if this record is soberly and methodically inspected, is that a country founded on elite, colonial rule based on the power of wealth — a plutocratic colonial oligarchy, in short — has succeeded not only in buying the label of “democracy” to market itself to the masses, but in having its citizenry, and many others, so socially and psychologically invested in its nationalist origin myth that they refuse to hear lucid and well-documented arguments to the contrary.</div>
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To begin to peel the scales from our eyes, let us outline in the restricted space of this article, five patent reasons why the United States has never been a democracy.</div>
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To begin with, British colonial expansion into the Americas did not occur in the name of the freedom and equality of the general population, or the conferral of power to the people. Those who settled on the shores of the “new world,” with few exceptions, did not respect the fact that it was a very old world indeed, and that a vast indigenous population had been living there for centuries.</div>
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As soon as Columbus set foot, Europeans began robbing, enslaving and killing the native inhabitants. The trans-Atlantic slave trade commenced almost immediately thereafter, adding a countless number of Africans to the ongoing genocidal assault against the indigenous population.</div>
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Moreover, it is estimated that over half of the colonists who came to North America from Europe during the colonial period were poor indentured servants, and women were generally trapped in roles of domestic servitude.</div>
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Rather than the land of the free and equal, then, European colonial expansion to the Americas imposed a land of the colonizer and the colonized, the master and the slave, the rich and the poor, the free and the un-free.</div>
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The former constituted, moreover, an infinitesimally small minority of the population, whereas the overwhelming majority, meaning “the people,” was subjected to death, slavery, servitude, and unremitting socio-economic oppression.</div>
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Second, when the elite colonial ruling class decided to sever ties from their homeland and establish an independent state for themselves, they did not found it as a democracy. On the contrary, they were fervently and explicitly opposed to democracy, like the vast majority of European Enlightenment thinkers. They understood it to be a dangerous and chaotic form of uneducated mob rule.</div>
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For the so-called “founding fathers,” the masses were not only incapable of ruling, but they were considered a threat to the hierarchical social structures purportedly necessary for good governance. In the words of John Adams, to take but one telling example, if the majority were given real power, they would redistribute wealth and dissolve the “subordination” so necessary for politics.</div>
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When the eminent members of the landowning class met in 1787 to draw up a constitution, they regularly insisted in their debates on the need to establish a republic that kept at bay vile democracy, which was judged worse than “the filth of the common sewers” by the pro-Federalist editor William Cobbett.</div>
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The new constitution provided for popular elections only in the House of Representatives, but in most states the right to vote was based on being a property owner, and women, the indigenous and slaves — meaning the overwhelming majority of the population — were simply excluded from the franchise.</div>
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Senators were elected by state legislators, the President by electors chosen by the state legislators, and the Supreme Court was appointed by the President. It is in this context that Patrick Henry flatly proclaimed the most lucid of judgments: “it is not a democracy.”</div>
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George Mason further clarified the situation by describing the newly independent country as “a despotic aristocracy.”</div>
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When the American republic slowly came to be relabeled as a “democracy,” there were no significant institutional modifications to justify the change in name. In other words, and this is the third point, the use of the term “democracy” to refer to an oligarchic republic simply meant that a different word was being used to describe the same basic phenomenon.</div>
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This began around the time of “Indian killer” Andrew Jackson’s presidential campaign in the 1830s. Presenting himself as a ‘democrat,’ he put forth an image of himself as an average man of the people who was going to put a halt to the long reign of patricians from Virginia and Massachusetts.</div>
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Slowly but surely, the term “democracy” came to be used as a public relations term to re-brand a plutocratic oligarchy as an electoral regime that serves the interest of the people or demos. Meanwhile, the American holocaust continued unabated, along with chattel slavery, colonial expansion and top-down class warfare.</div>
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In spite of certain minor changes over time, the U.S. republic has doggedly preserved its oligarchic structure, and this is readily apparent in the two major selling points of its contemporary “democratic” publicity campaign.</div>
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The Establishment and its propagandists regularly insist that a structural aristocracy is a “democracy” because the latter is defined by the guarantee of certain fundamental rights (legal definition) and the holding of regular elections (procedural definition).</div>
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This is, of course, a purely formal, abstract and largely negative understanding of democracy, which says nothing whatsoever about people having real, sustained power over the governing of their lives.</div>
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However, even this hollow definition dissimulates the extent to which, to begin with, the supposed equality before the law in the United States presupposes an inequality before the law by excluding major sectors of the population: those judged not to have the right to rights, and those considered to have lost their right to rights.</div>
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(Native Americans, African-Americans and women for most of the country’s history, and still today in certain aspects, as well as immigrants, “criminals,” minors, the “clinically insane,” political dissidents, and so forth).</div>
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Regarding elections, they are run in the United States as long, multi-million dollar advertising campaigns in which the candidates and issues are pre-selected by the corporate and party elite.</div>
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The general population, the majority of whom do not have the right to vote or decide not to exercise it, are given the “choice” — overseen by an undemocratic electoral college and embedded in a non-proportional representation scheme — regarding which member of the aristocratic elite they would like to have rule over and oppress them for the next four years.</div>
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“Multivariate analysis indicates,” according to <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">an important recent study</a> by Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page, “that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence. The results provide substantial support for theories of Economic-Elite Domination […], but not for theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy.”</div>
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To take but a final example of the myriad ways in which the U.S. is not, and has never been, a democracy, it is worth highlighting its consistent assault on movements of people power. Since WWII, it has endeavored to overthrow some 50 foreign governments, most of which were democratically elected.</div>
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It has also, according the meticulous calculations by William Blum in <a href="http://amzn.to/2j5h5IG" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">America’s Deadliest Export: Democracy</b></a>, grossly interfered in the elections of at least 30 countries, attempted to assassinate more than 50 foreign leaders, dropped bombs on more than 30 countries, and attempted to suppress populist movements in 20 countries.</div>
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The record on the home front is just as brutal. To take but one significant parallel example, there is ample evidence that the FBI has been invested in a covert war against democracy.</div>
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Beginning at least in the 1960s, and likely continuing up to the present, the Bureau “extended its earlier clandestine operations against the Communist party, committing its resources to undermining the Puerto Rico independence movement, the Socialist Workers party, the civil rights movement, Black nationalist movements, the Ku Klux Klan, segments of the peace movement, the student movement, and the ‘New Left’ in general” (<a href="http://amzn.to/2kAX7px" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Cointelpro: The FBI’s Secret War on Political Freedom</b></a>, p. 22-23).</div>
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Consider, for instance, <a href="http://www.judibari.org/America's_Secret_Police.html" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Judi Bari’s summary</a> of its assault on the Socialist Workers Party: “From 1943-63, the federal civil rights case Socialist Workers Party v. Attorney General documents decades of illegal FBI break-ins and 10 million pages of surveillance records.</div>
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The FBI paid an estimated 1,600 informants $1,680,592 and used 20,000 days of wiretaps to undermine legitimate political organizing.”</div>
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In the case of the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement (AIM) — which were both important attempts to mobilize people power to dismantle the structural oppression of white supremacy and top-down class warfare — the FBI not only infiltrated them and launched hideous smear and destabilization campaigns against them, but they assassinated 27 Black Panthers and 69 members of AIM (and subjected countless others to the slow death of incarceration).</div>
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If it be abroad or on the home front, the American secret police has been extremely proactive in beating down the movements of people rising up, thereby protecting and preserving the main pillars of white supremacist, capitalist aristocracy.</div>
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Rather than blindly believing in a golden age of democracy in order to remain at all costs within the gilded cage of an ideology produced specifically for us by the well-paid spin-doctors of a plutocratic oligarchy, we should unlock the gates of history and meticulously scrutinize the founding and evolution of the American imperial republic.</div>
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This will not only allow us to take leave of its jingoist and self-congratulatory origin myths, but it will also provide us with the opportunity to resuscitate and reactivate so much of what they have sought to obliterate.</div>
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In particular, there is a radical America just below the surface of these nationalist narratives, an America in which the population autonomously organizes itself in indigenous and ecological activism, black radical resistance, anti-capitalist mobilization, anti-patriarchal struggles, and so forth.</div>
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It is this America that the corporate republic has sought to eradicate, while simultaneously investing in an expansive public relations campaign to cover over its crimes with the fig leaf of “democracy” (which has sometimes required integrating a few token individuals, who appear to be from below, into the elite ruling class in order to perpetuate the all-powerful myth of <a href="http://humansarefree.com/2017/11/now-just-five-men-own-almost-as-much.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">meritocracy</a>).</div>
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If we are astute and perspicacious enough to recognize that the U.S. is undemocratic today, let us not be so indolent or ill-informed that we let ourselves be lulled to sleep by lullabies praising its halcyon past.</div>
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Indeed, if the United States is not a democracy today, it is in large part due to the fact that it never was one.</div>
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Far from being a pessimistic conclusion, however, it is precisely by cracking open the hard shell of ideological encasement that we can tap into the radical forces that have been suppressed by it.</div>
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These forces — not those that have been deployed to destroy them — should be the ultimate source of our pride in the power of the people.</div>
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Source - World Truth TV</div>
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<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">By <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/13/the-u-s-is-not-a-democracy-it-never-was/" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Gabriel Rockhill</a></i></div>
incensemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00094084883316817998noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5679957567390799096.post-78494121618618104612017-12-22T07:57:00.000-08:002017-12-22T07:57:50.534-08:00Want inner peace? Let go of these 9 beliefs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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1. <b>“I need to be doing something right now.”</b></div>
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This is an incredibly subtle belief that most of us don’t even realize we are holding onto. It stems from our obsession with productivity and achievement, and it manifests as a constant, itching discontent.</div>
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Though our ego tricks us into believing we need this feeling to get things done, when we can let it go we see a lot of our anxiety dissolves and our relaxation deepens. We’re also much more likely to enjoy what we need to do without the constant internal pressure of feeling that what we’re doing in this moment is never enough.</div>
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2. <b>“When I get what I want I will be happy.”</b></div>
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This is another cliche that I’m sure most of us are aware of. But despite acknowledging that we don’t need to get anything to be happy, it’s easy for us to get caught up in the chase.</div>
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To overcome this, we need to be mindful of when we have the feeling that we need something before we can be happy. When we see we’re doing this we can practice letting go of that need, even if only for a brief moment. The more capable we become at doing so, the more we will naturally experience happiness in the present, and the less our minds will fixate on ideas of the future for fulfillment.</div>
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3. <b>“Finding inner peace is difficult.”</b></div>
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This is another myth that gets in the way. Many of us feel that we are far from inner peace, and we idolize those who seem to have found it. Because of this, we unconsciously believe that it’s a long way away from where we are in our lives, and we need to go on a long journey to find it.</div>
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Maybe we’ve read books that suggest that fundamental change in how we feel or act takes years of difficult training or some sort of pilgrimage. But often it is letting go of the belief that what we want is so far away, and understanding that when you stop striving so aggressively you will start to see the calm you’re looking for. It is this process of turning your beliefs upside down that becomes the journey in itself.</div>
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4. <b>“If I express my emotions honestly people will think I’m weak.”</b></div>
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We’re often taught, as we grow up, to keep a lid on our emotions. This is common for responses that are considered socially inappropriate such as anger, fear, and sadness. Though in many ways we’re also taught to limit how much we show our positive emotions such as joy and excitement. This leads us, in adulthood, to believe that honest expression will be met with disapproval by others.</div>
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The irony in this is that as everyone is dealing with the urge to be authentic, those that actually do so are often met with respect and admiration.</div>
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5. <b>“If people knew the real me, they wouldn’t like it.”</b></div>
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This is similar to the issue we have with emotional expressions. We hide certain aspects of our personality, defining ourselves publicly by what we show and privately by what we’ve hidden. The reality is that you are a lot more than either of those stories, and people will gravitate toward the real you because they appreciate honesty.</div>
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6. <b>“I should be happier right now.”</b></div>
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In our culture, we fixate too much on social comparisons between individuals. When we don’t feel good, we look at what we have and feel guilty for not being happy enough. Or, we look at what we don’t have and wonder why we’re not as happy as the next person. Happiness isn’t something you need to have all the time; it comes and goes, like any experience, but it’s not a prerequisite for being human.</div>
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7. <b>“Not being the best me isn’t good enough.”</b></div>
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There’s been a huge movement in the last twenty years toward personal development. Though a lot of these ideas are healthy, they can be driven by toxic motives. Most people don’t feel they need to better themselves out of a genuine need to improve their community, but out of the feeling that they’re not good enough in the first place.</div>
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When you can strip yourself of this idea you’ll soon realize that the chase to being your best self is infinite and anxiety-inducing. You’ll see that you can love and appreciate yourself now, as you are, without needing to be someone else before feeling okay.</div>
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8. <b>“I owe the world.”</b></div>
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This is a tough one and is related to the feeling of needing to be your best self. Though gratitude is important, it doesn’t mean we should walk around with the feeling that we’re in debt to the universe. We see this when people pathologically try to prove their worth to others. When we let go of the deep feeling of debt and obligation, we can then really start to give people what we have to offer.</div>
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9. <b>“There was a time in my past that absolutely sucked.”</b></div>
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Often we become so identified with bad times in our past that they get in the way of us enjoying the present. We define ourselves with these past experiences and feel they we need to share them with everyone we know before they know the real us. But when we come to realize that they are far less significant than we initially thought, we stop feeling like imposters and we let old memories fall away.</div>
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<span style="color: red;">SHOOTER IN VEGAS MASSACRE WAS A LONGTIME FED</span></h1>
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More than 48 hours after the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, police still don’t have a motive for the horrific crime.</div>
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But a more complete profile of the killer is beginning to emerge.</div>
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Stephen Paddock, the Las Vegas shooter who killed 59 people at a country music festival Sunday night, worked over a 10-year period as a letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service, an IRS agent and a defense auditor.</div>
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A spokeswoman for the federal Office of Personnel Management told the Associated Press Tuesday that Paddock’s employment included two years as a mail carrier from 1976 to 1978.</div>
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That was followed by a six-year stint with the Internal Revenue Service until 1984. And then he worked 18 months as an internal auditor for U.S. Department of Defense.</div>
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The latest revelation suggests the U.S. government should have an extensive file on Paddock, who not only worked directly for the government for nearly a decade but then worked another year-and-a-half for federal weapons contractor Lockheed Martin.</div>
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<a href="http://www.wnd.com/2017/10/rest-of-the-story/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(252, 215, 0); background: transparent; color: #667286; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What do YOU think? Does the FBI know more than it’s telling about Vegas attack? Sound off in today’s WND poll</i></b></a></div>
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With his institutional knowledge of how the federal bureaucracy works, Paddock was anything but the typical mass shooter. He would have been able to cover his tracks in the planning stages of his attack.</div>
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The Islamic State, or ISIS, has doubled down on its claim of responsibility for the attack, saying Paddock had converted to Islam in recent months and become a “soldier of the caliphate.”</div>
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But given the rapidly degrading status of ISIS, some analysts believe it could be entering a new phase where it is willing to risk credibility in its propaganda messages in exchange for a short-term boost in its prestige among Islamic terrorists worldwide.</div>
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In other news, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4944234/Two-23-rifles-inside-Stephen-Paddock-s-room.html" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(252, 215, 0); background: transparent; color: #667286; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">leaked photos of the scene inside Paddock’s hotel room at the Mandalay Bay Resort</a>appeared to show a note on a small table near the shooter’s dead body. As of this report, no details have been released about the contents of the note.</div>
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Photo reportedly shows Vegas shooters body after he killed himself in his hotel room Sunday evening</div>
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Meanwhile, Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo says his office has partnered with the FBI on the investigation but still has not come up with a motive for the shooting.</div>
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Lombardo said at a Tuesday press conference that Paddock had set up cameras both inside and outside his hotel room, with at least one placed on a service cart in the hallway.</div>
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“I anticipate he was looking for anybody to take him into custody,” he said. “The FBI took all digital and electronic evidence into custody and is evaluating.”</div>
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Lombardo said he did not know if Paddock transferred any of the video he captured to any third parties in the U.S. or overseas before taking his own life.</div>
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“We’ve completed our investigation at the properties, three separate locations in Mesquite and Reno, at the hotel and the suspect’s vehicle,” he said.</div>
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An additional five handguns, two shotguns, electronics and “a plethora of ammunition” were found Tuesday on top of the approximately 30 guns uncovered Monday.</div>
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Ammonium nitrate fertilizer, used for bomb making, was also found in Paddock’s vehicle.</div>
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The sheriff confirmed earlier reports that at least one of the rifles was modified with a “bump stock” device used to speed up the discharge of ammunition. Paddock had enough ammunition “to continue shooting a lot longer” than the nine minutes he fired on the concert goers but was engaged quickly by police and private hotel security.</div>
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The sheriff said his agency learned from studying other active-shooter operations, including the one at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, that it’s better to go in quickly and engage the shooter than to wait for an army of police to arrive and seal off a perimeter.</div>
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The sheriff said the quick police action saved dozens of lives that potentially could have been snuffed out by a man with such firepower at his disposal. He had 17 guns and at least 1,000 rounds of ammo in the hotel room.</div>
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The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department tweeted this image of a woman, Marilou Danley, who is sought for questioning regarding the investigation into the shooting in Las Vegas. Officials ask that anyone with information call 9-1-1 (Photo: Twitter)</div>
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Also in the spotlight during the Tuesday press conference was the shooter’s girlfriend, Marilou Danley. Her location is now confirmed to be in the Philippines, and Lombardo called her “a person of interest” who has not necessarily been cleared of charges as was widely reported Monday. She will be thoroughly questioned as soon as she returns to the U.S., which is expected later this week.</div>
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Ammonium nitrate, found in Paddock’s car, is the same substance Timothy McVeigh used to blow up the federal building in Oklahoma City in the 1990s.</div>
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Danley will be asked about any knowledge she may have of this substance as well as other weapons used in the attack, and any plans her boyfriend may have shared with her.</div>
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In the weeks before the shooting, Paddock wired up to $100,000 to the Philippines for unspecified reasons, possibly to Danley or her family.</div>
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Danley may also be asked about her trips to Japan, the Philippines and Dubai in the Middle East.</div>
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Paddock did not have a Facebook account, which makes him unusual, compared to other 21st century mass shooters and terrorists.</div>
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“I assure you this investigation has not ended with the demise of Mr. Paddock,” Lombardo said.</div>
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When asked if the shooter’s motive had been determined, the sheriff said: “No. We are making progress, but I don’t have complete answers yet. I anticipate substantial information coming in over the next 48 hours.”</div>
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Paddock continued shooting for approximately nine minutes.</div>
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“The world has changed,” Lombardo said. “Who would have ever imagined something like this? I would have never imagined it.”</div>
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He said some victims were shot “outside the venue,” and others were shot in the venue but continued to run away and died “several blocks” from the venue.</div>
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All but three of the 59 victims have been identified, Lombardo said.</div>
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“This individual was premeditated, it was preplanned extensively, and I’m sure he evaluated every one of his actions,” Lombardo said. “I pray that a citizen who sees something says something. A citizen sees things and thinks it’s trivial, ‘Oh, I don’t want to bother the police.’ We ask you to bother the police, because housekeeping and other individuals could have seen something,” but none of them reported anything unusual about what they saw in the room.</div>
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It’s important, he said, because, “I don’t know that there won’t be future prosecutions.</div>
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incensemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00094084883316817998noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5679957567390799096.post-17877181880547133942016-09-09T04:17:00.000-07:002016-09-09T04:17:05.952-07:00THE CLINTON BODY-COUNT <h2 id="title">
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<b> <span style="color: red;">NEW!</span></b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="color: red;"> Updated for Hillary's 2016 run!
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Adams"></a>
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<h2>
Don Adams</h2>
Died January 7, 1997
Long before Whitewater's land flips made the Clinton's circle of
friends rich, many of the same players had been involved in a similar
land swindle in Branson. Don Adams was a lawyer in Arkansas who got
involved trying to help the people who were being swindled out of their
life savings.
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<a href="http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/DEAD/da1.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="[Don Adams missing]" border="0" height="277" src="https://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/DEAD/SMALL_da1.jpg" width="173" /></a><br />
Click for full size Harrison Daily Times article of Don Adams missing.
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<a href="http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/DEAD/da2.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="[Don Adams found dead]" border="0" height="289" src="https://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/DEAD/SMALL_da2.jpg" width="220" /></a><br />
Click for full size Springfield News Ledger article of Don Adams found dead.<br />
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The successor attorney for Don left for parts unknown about a year after Don was killed.
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Ashe"></a>
<img src="https://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/DEAD/JohnAshe.jpg" />
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<h2>
John Ashe</h2>
<h3>
Former United Nations General Assembly President</h3>
Died: June 22, 2016Initially reported as having died from a heart
attack, John's throat had obviously been crushed. At that point the
official story changed to him accidentally dropping a
barbell on his own throat (the plot line from the episode "An Exercise
in Fatality" from the TV series "Columbo.") crushing his larynx.
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Ashe was about to begin trial for a bribery charge involving
Chinese businessman Ng Lap Seng, who had been implicated but not charged
in the 1996 "China-gate" scandal for funneling illegal donations to
Bill Clinton's re-election fund through Arkansas restaurant owner
Charlie Trie. Ashe was supposed to testify about Hillary's links to
Ng Lap Seng later the same day he died.
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Bates"></a>
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<h2>
Robert Bates</h2>
<h3>
Barry Seal's aircraft mechanic at Mena</h3>
Died: March 29th, 1995
Robert Bates supposedly died of an "overdose of mouthwash". Regarded by local authorities as an obvious homicide.
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Baugh"></a>
<img src="https://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/DEAD/gandybaughgrave.jpg" />
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<h2>
Gandy Baugh</h2>
<h3>
Attorney representing Mr. Lassater in a case concerning alleged financial misconduct.</h3>
Died: January 8, 1994 Died in an alleged suicide by jumping out of
a window of a multi-story building. - Mr. Lassater was a close
associate of Gov. Clinton, and was later indicted on drug related
charges, among other things. Baugh's law partner was "suicided" one
month later on February 9, 1994.
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Boorda"></a>
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<h2>
Admiral Jeremy Boorda</h2>
<h3>
Chief of Naval Operations</h3>
Died May 16th, 1996
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<img alt="[Admiral Boorda]" border="0" src="https://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/DEAD/Jeremy_M._Boorda.jpg" />
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Boorda supposedly went home for lunch and decided to shoot
himself in the chest twice, using two guns, rather than be interviewed
by Newsweek magazine that afternoon.
<br />
Explanations for Boorda's suicide focused on a claim that he
was embarrassed over two "Valor" pins he was not authorized to wear.
<br />
Former CNO Admiral Elmo Zumwalt said on the May 17 Larry King
Live show that Admiral Boorda was not only authorized to wear the "V" on
his medals, but that had personally authorized him to do so when he was
serving as Commander Naval Forces Vietnam.
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When it turned out that Boorda was entitled to those
decorations, blame shifted to stresses over the down sizing of the Navy,
and even (Washington Times) the adverse affect that feminism was having
on the Navy's morale.
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Boorda supposedly left two suicide notes, neither of which was released.
<br />
On Thursday, June 25, 1998, Navy Secretary John Dalton formally
acknowledged that Boorda had been entitled to wear the decorations.
<br />
So, like Brown, and like Foster, the proximate cause for the "suicide" turns out to be fraudulent.
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Brown"></a>
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<a href="http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/CRASH/BROWN/brown.php" target="_blank"><img alt="[Ron Brown]" border="0" src="https://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/DEAD/ronbrown.jpg" /></a>
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<h2>
<a href="http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/CRASH/BROWN/brown.php" target="_blank">Ron Brown</a></h2>
<h3>
Former Chairman, DNC; Commerce Secretary</h3>
Died: May 3, 1996
Ron Brown died along with 39 other people when the T-43 (a
converted 737 used by the Air Force) carrying the group on a trip to
Bosnia crashed while approaching the Dubrovnik airport. On the verge of
being indicted and having stated publicly his willingness to make a deal
with prosecutors, Ron Brown's death brought to an end his ability to
testify. The very next day, Ron Brown's personal lawyer was murdered in a
drive-by shooting. A few days later, the Air Traffic Controller who had
been in charge during the aircraft crash was found dead and declared a
suicide.<br />
<br />
On leaving Ron Brown's funeral, President Bill Clinton was seen
laughing and joking ... until he saw the camera, then he went into his
sad act!
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<img src="https://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/CRASH/BROWN/TEARS/clinton.gif" />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Bunch"></a>
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<h2>
James Bunch</h2>
<h3>
Influential Texan</h3>
Exact date of death unknown
Died from a gunshot "suicide", similar to Vince Foster. - Was
discovered to have a "little black book" containing the names of many
influential persons in Texas and Arkansas who visited certain
prostitutes.
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Butera"></a>
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<h2>
Eric Butera</h2>
<h3>
Witness</h3>
Died: December 4, 1997
An informant who came forward offering information regarding the
murder of White House intern Mary Mahoney. He was then sent into a known
crack house to make an undercover buy for the police and was beaten to
death. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/daily/oct99/pmstarbucks20.htm" target="_blank">His mother was awarded $100 million in compensation,</a> but a Federal Judge later <a href="http://www.mapinc.org/tlcnews/v01/n052/a03.html?191786" target="_blank">slashed it to just $1 million.</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Carani"></a>
<img alt="[Carani]" border="0" src="https://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/DEAD/carani.jpg" />
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<h2>
Caetano Carani</h2>
<h3>
Witness to a shooting near the White House.</h3>
Died: November 11, 1994
Suffered an unknown infection just before he was to testify. Death attributed to "apparent" food poisoning.
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Casolaro"></a>
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<img alt="[Danny Casolaro]" src="https://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/DEAD/casolaro.jpg" />
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<h2>
Danny Casolaro</h2>
<h3>
Journalist</h3>
Died: August 10, 1991
Casolaro had been working on a project he called "The Octopus."
Casolaro had started his investigation over the Justice Department's
theft of a software package called PROMIS from a company called Inslaw.
<br />
PROMIS stood for "Prosecutors Management Information System" and
it was a law enforcement database system that included a feature unique
for the time. This was a module that could be programmed
to automatically access other databases, in order to present to the user
a single picture of financial transactions or suspects from multiple
sources. This made it a powerful
spying tool, and the US modified their version to include a back door,
then made gifts of the software to other governments.
<br />
All this was happening at the same time as the CIA's clandestine
gun and drug running operation to supply the Nicaraguan Contras with
untraceable weapons. A totally illegal operation
(which violated the Boland Amendment and the Logan act) the US end of
the smuggling pipeline was located in <a href="http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MENA/mena.php" target="_blank">Mena, Arkansas</a>
under the protection of then-governor Bill Clinton. The arming of the
Contras was funded by smuggling vast quantities of cocaine into the US
(a violation of drug laws) and
then laundered through various banks, land flips, and a state agency,
the Arkansas Development Finance Authority, created by Webster Hubbell
and signed into law by Bill Clinton.
<br />
The shoot down of one of the CIA planes by Nicaragua and the
capture of CIA asset Eugene Hasenfus blew the cover off of the operation
and it became known as the Iran-Contra affair. During
the Congressional hearings into the scandal, attention was focused on
the gun-running, and all mention of the CIA's cocaine flowing into the
US was kept from the public eye
by the Committee chairman, Hawaii's Senator Daniel Inouye (a fixture in
Hawaii going back to the CIA's smuggling of heroin from Vietnam back to
the US).
<br />
Casolaro apparently stumbled over the existence of a vast network
of government operatives and politicians all linked together by the
vast wealth acquired from the selling of CIA cocaine in the US
and was working on a book exposing the government-sanctioned drug
running when he was found in a bathtub in a hotel room, his wrists both
deeply slashed in a manner that the pathologist
declared did not appear to have been done by Danny himself. In
particular, the deep cuts severed the tendons of the fingers, which
would have made it impossible for Danny to slash his other wrist with
the now useless hand.
<br />
Despite this, the official verdict was suicide, although none of
Danny's friends and families believed that, especially those who had
been direct witnesses to the many death threats
he had received.
<br />
When found, the large accordion file of the notes for his new book had disappeared from his hotel room.
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Caceres"></a>
<img alt="[Berta Caceres]" border="0" src="https://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/DEAD/bertacaceres.jpg" />
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<h2>
Berta Caceres</h2>
<h3>
Human Rights Activist</h3>
<br />
Died: March 3, 2016
Killed while sleeping in her home in La Esperanza, Honduras.
Berta Caceres had named Hillary Clinton as responsible for the Honduran
coup which toppled democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya. Since
the coup, Honduras has become one of the most violent places in the
world. Growing awareness of Hillary's role in Honduras became a serious
liability during Hillary's 2016 campaign.
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Colby"></a>
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<img alt="[William Colby]" src="https://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/DEAD/williamcolby.jpg" />
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<h2>
William Colby</h2>
<h3>
Director of Central Intelligence (ret)</h3>
Died: April 27(?), 1996
William Colby had been the DCI from 1973 to 1976 under Nixon and Ford.
<br />
At age 76, Colby had found a new career and had just started
writing for Strategic Investment at the time of his death. This had
worried many insiders in the intelligence community who felt that Colby
had already divulged too many of the CIA's secrets in the preceding
years. Indeed, his dismissal by Ford because of his over-cooperation
with Congressional investigations into CIA wrongdoing. It was Colby who
had revealed to Congress the plans to kill Fidel Castro, the spying on
American citizens (in direct violation of the CIA charter) and the
conducting of biological tests by the CIA on unsuspecting citizens.
George Bush replaced him.
<br />
According to the original CNN report, Colby was reported
missing by neighbors who "recovered" his canoe, by one story from under
the dock at Colby's house, by another report, 1/4 of a mile downstream
from Colby's home.
<br />
Colby was by all report a methodical, tidy man, yet police
found his home unlocked, his computer on, and a partly eaten dinner on
the table. The official story is that Colby just put down his fork and
decided to drop everything and go canoeing.
<br />
Colby at 76 was still a world-traveler and consultant to many
corporations. He recently became an editor of an important financial
newsletter, "Strategic Investment," which covered the Vince Foster
"suicide" in detail. Its editors hired three renowned handwriting
experts to investigate Foster's suicide note, which hadn't been found
when his briefcase was first searched, but later materialized, torn into
pieces, with no fingerprints on any of the pieces. Upon comparing this
document with others of Foster's writings, these experts declared it was
a forgery, and a not very good one at that.
<br />
Colby had old enemies as well as new, with plenty of motives
for his extermination. He was in charge of the infamous Operation
Phoenix during the Vietnam War, in which more than 20,000 South
Vietnamese citizens -- supposedly Vietcong sympathizers -- were rounded
up, tortured and executed. In the 1970s he opened some of the secrets of
the CIA to Congress: "Colby insisted on going public about the agency's
role in tapping the telephones and opening the mail of Americans;
plotting the assassination of Fidel Castro, and using human guinea pigs
for mind-control experiments involving LSD," the Times reports.
<br />
On Monday, May 6th, Colby's body was found just 20 yards from
where his canoe had been recovered, in an area that had been thoroughly
searched several times by helicopters and search teams.
<br />
Most notable about the body was the absence of a life jacket, which according to his wife, Colby always wore on the water.
<br />
As has since been proven to have happened in the <a href="http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/CRASH/JFK_JR/phonyphone.html" target="_blank">JFK Jr. case</a>
false stories were being deliberately planted in the media, including
one quoting Mrs. Colby herself as having been told by William Colby by
phone that he was going canoeing. Mrs. Colby denied any such story. The
week that he died, Colby was scheduled to meet with the Disclosure
Project.
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Coleman"></a>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Coleman"></a>
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<h2>
Suzanne Coleman</h2>
<h3>
Had affair with Clinton when he was attorney general of Arkansas.</h3>
Died: February 15, 1977
Died of "suicide" with gunshot wound to the back of her head. No
autopsy allowed. Was 7 months pregnant at time of her death. She had
told friends it was Bill Clinton's child. (See Danny Williams). She was
26 at the time of her death.
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Collins"></a>
<br />
<h2>
Gregory Collins</h2>
<h3>
Witness to the Train Deaths</h3>
Died: January 1989
Greg had information on the Ives/Henry deaths. He died from a gunshot blast to the face. Declared a suicide.
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Coney"></a>
<br />
<h2>
Keith Coney (or Koney)</h2>
<h3>
Witness to the Train Deaths</h3>
Died: May 1988
Keith had information on the Ives/Henry deaths. Died in a
motorcycle accident in July 1988 while being chased by a car. Ruled a
traffic accident.
<br />
<hr />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Davis"></a>
<br />
<h2>
L.J. Davis</h2>
Reporter investigating Clinton scandals. Attacked at his hotel room in Little Rock. His notes were stolen.
<br />
<hr />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Drye"></a>
<br />
<h2>
David Drye</h2>
Died 8/1999. Pat Matrisciana, owner of "Jeremiah Films" (which produces such vides as The<a href="http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ARCHIVE/CLINTON_CHRONICLES.html" target="_blank"> Clinton Chronicles</a>),
and David Drye planned a trip to Washington DC by Private plane. At the
last second, pat had to cancel and David left without him, dying when
the plane crashed.
<br />
<hr />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Dutko"></a>
<br />
<h2>
Daniel A. Dutko</h2>
<h3>
C-chairman of Leadership 2000</h3>
Died: July 27, 1999
Daniel A. Dutko, 54, was the co-chairman of Leadership 2000, the
Democratic National Committee's main fund-raising effort. He held many
other high-level political positions, including vice chairman of finance
for Clinton-Gore in 1995; finance chairman of the 53rd inaugural ball;
and vice chairman of finance for the DNC in 1996 (when the Chinese money
poured in). Attributed to a bicycle accident in which it's claimed he
struck his head on the concrete twice.
<br />
<hr />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Bodyguards"></a>
<br />
<h2>
Five Navy aviators</h2>
<h3>
Clinton bodyguards/escorts</h3>
(names not determined) Died: 3/26/93 - all died in a crash of an E-2C
Hawkeye in Italy. The crash occurred shortly after the plane was "waved
off" from a landing attempt on the Carrier Roosevelt, due to a "foul
deck". - All five men had been Clinton's escorts during Clinton's visit
to the Roosevelt 2 weeks prior. Three other men, who had flown Clinton
to the Roosevelt for that visit also died later in a helicopter crash.
<br />
<hr />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Friday"></a>
<br />
<h2>
Hershell Friday</h2>
<h3>
Attorney and Clinton fund raiser.</h3>
Died: March 1, 1994
Killed when his plane exploded. Cause unknown.
<br />
<hr />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Foster"></a>
<a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/FOSTER_COVERUP/foster.php" target="_blank"><img alt="[Vince Foster]" src="https://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/DEAD/hillaryandvincefoster.jpg" /></a>
<br />
<h2>
<a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/FOSTER_COVERUP/foster.php" target="_blank">Vincent Foster</a></h2>
<h3>
<a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/FOSTER_COVERUP/foster.php" target="_blank">Deputy White House Counsel</a></h3>
Died: July 20, 1993
Found dead in Ft. Marcy Park in Washington, DC, of a supposed
suicide by gunshot. A suicide note was supposedly found a few days
later, torn into several pieces, in his briefcase, after his office had
been entered by White House staff and materials removed. The "suicide"
note, (leaked despite official efforts to keep it from view) has since
been revealed to be a forgery.
<br />
The gun which he supposedly used to kill himself was reported
to be still in his hand, but the person who first found the body reports
that there was no gun at that time. Many irregularities surround the
death and the investigation of it.
For one thing, neither Foster's fingerprints or blood were on the gun
he supposedly inserted into his mouth and fired.
There was no blood on Foster's hands.
<br />
Foster was also from Hope, Ark., like Clinton, and also worked
for the Rose Law firm. Foster had intimate knowledge of the Clintons'
personal finances. Foster was involved in an investigation of their
finances, and reportedly made a phone call to Hillary Clinton, in Los
Angeles, just hours before his death.
Foster had been called to testify to Congress about the records
Hillary refused to turn over. Another possible motive for the murder
relates to the Clinton Presidential Blind Trust, being prepared by
Foster, but six months late. Testimony during the Whitewater hearings
suggests the trust was fraudulent, with the Clintons retaining control
over much of their finances, in order to profits from inside
information.
<br />
Recently, the signed report of M.E. Dr. Donald Haut was
uncovered at the National Archives, proving that Foster had a previously
unreported gunshot wound to his neck.
<br />
Finally, an FBI memo surfaced dated the day <i>after</i> the date of the official autopsy, in which the pathologist informed the FBI that there was NO exit wound.
<br />
<hr />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Secretservice"></a>
<br />
<h2>
Aldo Franscoia, Secret Service Agent</h2>
<h2>
Cpt. Kevin N. Earnest, Aircraft Commander</h2>
<h2>
Cpt. Kimberly Jo Wielhouwer, Pilot</h2>
<h2>
2Lt. Benjamin T. Hall, Navigator</h2>
<h2>
SSgt. Michael J. SmithJr., Loadmaster</h2>
<h2>
Sr. Airman Rick L. Merritt, Flight Engineer</h2>
<h2>
SSgt. Michael R. York, Loadmaster</h2>
<h2>
Sr. Airman Billy R. Ogston, Crew Chief</h2>
<h2>
Airman Thomas A. Stevens, Loadmaster.</h2>
<br />
Died: August 18, 1996
<br />
Killed when the C-130 carrying the Presidential Limos crashed
near Jackson Hole, Wyoming. All nine people on board a White House
support plane were killed late Saturday (10:48pm MDT), when it crashed
into Sheep Mountain (also known as Sleeping Indian Mountain) near
Jackson Hole Wyoming. The aircraft was en route from Jackson Hole to
John F. Kennedy International airport. The Air Force Lockheed Martin
C-130 Hercules transport aircraft was carrying a presidential vehicle
and many pieces of luggage, all related to the president's vacation
(50th birthday celebration in the Grand Tetons). President Clinton said
Sunday afternoon that he was told the pilot was attempting to return to
the Jackson Hole airport when it crashed (CNN news report). The Air
Force reported finding no evidence of an in-flight mechanical emergency
after examining the flight data and flight voice recorders and could not
find evidence that the pilot radioed mechanical trouble before crashing
into the mountainside as reported by the White House. The victims
included 8 crew members and one Secret Service agent. The aircraft and
crew were stationed out of Dyess Air Force Base.
<br />
<hr />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Pilots"></a>
<br />
<h2>
Four Marine Pilots</h2>
<h3>
Marine One Presidential Helicopter pilots.</h3>
Died: April 8, 2000
(names not determined) - all died (with 15 others) in a crash of a
V-22 Osprey near Tucson. Witnesses reported the craft burst into flames
in mid-air, then crashed.
<br />
<hr />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Ferguson"></a>
<br />
<h2>
Kathy Ferguson</h2>
<h3>
Witness</h3>
Died: May 10, 1994
Kathy Ferguson supposedly committed "suicide" May 10,1994 when she
shot herself in her living room. Kathy's ex husband was Danny Ferguson,
who was the Arkansas trooper who said he escorted Paula Jones to Bill
Clinton's hotel room. Kathy often told friends and co-workers about how
Bill had gotten Danny to bring women to him and stand watch while they
had sex. Danny Ferguson was a co-defendant along with Bill Clinton in
Paula Corbin Jones's sexual harassment suit. Kathy Ferguson was a
corroborating witness for Ms. Jones.
<br />
Oddly, next to Kathy's body were her packed bags, as if she was expecting to be going somewhere.
<br />
<hr />
<h2>
Duane Garrett</h2>
<h3>
Radio Host and Al Gore fund raiser.</h3>
Died: 7/26/95 A lawyer and a talk show host for KGO-AM in San
Francisco, Duane was the campaign finance chairman for Diane Fienstein's
run for the senate, and was a friend and fundraiser for Al Gore.
<br />
According to Garrett's lawyer, Garrett was under investigation
for defrauding investors in Garrett's failed sports memorabilia venture.
There was talk of a deal to evade prosecution. On July 26th, Garrett
canceled an afternoon meeting with his lawyer because he had to meet
some people at the San Francisco airport.
<br />
Three hours later he was found floating in the bay under the Golden Gate Bridge.
<br />
<hr />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Fox"></a>
<br />
<h2>
Cpl Eric S. Fox</h2>
<h3>
Crewman for Marine One, the Presidential Helicopter.</h3>
Died: March 22, 1999
Shot in the head, and declared a suicide.
<br />
<hr />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Ghigliotti"></a>
<br />
<h2>
Carlos Ghigliotti</h2>
<h3>
Thermal Imaging Expert</h3>
Died: April 28, 2000
Carlos Ghigliotti: 42, was found dead in his home just outside of
Washington D.C. There was no sign of a break-in or struggle at the firm
of Infrared Technology where the badly decomposed body of Ghigliotti was
found. Ghigliotti had not been seen for several weeks.
<br />
Ghigliotti, a thermal imaging analyst hired by the House
Government Reform Committee to review tape of the siege at Waco, Texas,
said he determined the FBI fired shots on April 19, 1993. The FBI has
explained the light bursts on infrared footage as reflections of sun
rays on shards of glass or other debris that littered the scene.
<br />
<hr />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Gibbs"></a>
<br />
<img src="https://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/DEAD/judigibbs.jpg" />
<br />
<h2>
<a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/alt.showbiz.gossip/tnJKNJho5jQ" target="_blank">Judi Gibbs</a></h2>
<h3>
Penthouse model, and call girl</h3>
Died: January 3, 1986
Judi Gibbs (along with her sister Sharon) appeared in the December
1979 issue of Penthouse, and later worked at a bordello in Fordyce, near
Mena, Arkansas which also ran a blackmail operation with photos taken
of the customers with their girls. According to the Gibbs family, Bill
Clinton was a regular customer of Judi, and there were photos of him
having sex with her that threatened his Presidential campaign! While
cooperating with law enforcement in a drug investigation, Judi died when
her house burned down. No cause for the fire was found. Judy had called
the fire department to report the fire, but her body was found on the
floor in front of a ground floor window, near a door that would have
allowed her escape. In a sworn statement, Clinton bodyguard Barry Spivey
related how he had been with the governor when the governor's plane had
flown over Judi Gibb's house and Clinton had shown Judi's penthouse
photos on the plane and pointed out the house.
<br />
<hr />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Grober"></a>
<br />
<h2>
Paula Grober</h2>
<h3>
Clinton's speech interpreter for the deaf.</h3>
Died: December 9, 1992
Died in a one-car accident with no known witnesses. Her body was
thrown 33 feet from the car, indicating a very high speed. A very
attractive women, Paula traveled extensively with Clinton from 1978
until her death. Clinton, through a spokesman, called Grober's death "a
great personal loss." He also said, "Hillary and I extend our sincere
sympathy to Paula's family. I had the privilege of working with her over
many years."
<br />
<hr />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Haney"></a>
<br />
<h2>
Staff Sgt. Brian Haney</h2>
<h2>
Marine Sgt. Tim Sabel</h2>
<h2>
Maj. William Barkley</h2>
<h2>
Capt. Scott Reynolds</h2>
<h3>
Clinton bodyguards</h3>
Died: May 19, 1993
All four men died when their helicopter crashed in the woods near
Quantico, Va. - Reporters were barred from the site, and the head of the
fire department responding to the crash described it by saying,
"Security was tight," with "lots of Marines with guns." The Marines
seized a videotape made by a firefighter. All four men had escorted
Clinton on his flight to the carrier Roosevelt shortly before their
deaths.
<br />
<br />
<br />
<hr />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Hastings"></a>
<br />
<img src="https://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/DEAD/michaelhastings.jpg" />
<br />
<h2>
Michael Hastings</h2>
<h3>
Journalist for Rolling Stone</h3>
Died: June 18, 2013
Michael Hastings died in a highly suspicious single-car accident.
He had told friends that he was afraid for his life following stories he
had written which were critical of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
One of the emails
leaked during the 2016 Democratic Convention confirmed that Hillary had
received Hastings' damning investigative report of the attack
on the Benghazi consulate 5 months before his death.
<br />
<hr />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Heard"></a>
<br />
<h2>
Stanley Heard</h2>
<h3>
Chairman, National Chiropractic Health Care Advisory Committee</h3>
<h2>
Steve Dickson</h2>
<h3>
Counsel to Mr. Heard</h3>
Died: September 10, 1993
Both died in a plane crash outside Dulles airport, after their
aircraft, rented after Heard's personal craft developed troubles,
crashed while attempting an emergency landing after reporting a fire on
board. Let's repeat that. They took off in a plane. It developed
problems. They got it back to the airport. They rented a new plane. They
took off in the new rented plane and IT developed a problem. On the way
back to the airport it crashed. - Heard, in addition to serving on
Clinton's advisory council, also personally treated Clinton's mother,
stepfather, and brother.
<br />
<hr />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Hillyer"></a>
<br />
<h2>
John Hillyer </h2>
<h3>
NBC and freelance cameraman</h3>
Died: 1996
Hillyer passed away in a Dentist's office from unknown causes,
despite being very health-conscious and in good physical condition.
Declared a heart attack. Was working on an investigation into Mena and
assisted with the "Circle of Power," and "Clinton Chronicles." Some
time after his passing, his widow recalled her husband saying he felt he
could be in danger.
<br />
<hr />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Huggins"></a>
<br />
<h2>
Stanley Huggins</h2>
<h3>
Partner in Memphis law firm</h3>
Died: June 23, 1994
Investigating Madison Guaranty. Reported to have succumbed to viral
pneumonia (See attack on Russel Welch). His 300-page report has never
been released. Stanley had been at a Cotton Carnival Party on a Friday
night. He was supposed to escort his wife all week during the 7 day
event, but told her he couldn't as something important was going down.
He has recently left the law firm in Little Rock where Hillary C worked
and set up a small office in Memphis. On that Friday night I saw Stan
and spoke to him briefly. He seemed extremely nervous & about to
jump out of his skin. The word circulated throughout the party that he
had been involved in some secretive issue that was under the microscope.
Soon after that we were told by his wife that he had flown up to a NE
University to give a speech on a Saturday. He checked into the provided
dorm room, by the university employees that said he looked fine. When
they called up to his room later in the day he didn't answer the phone,
so they went to check on him and found him dead. The death was declared
due to viral pneumonia. His wife has tried to get the hospital records,
but they were sealed by Janet Reno under presidential orders of Clinton.
Over that weekend his Memphis office was broken into and the only
noticeable thing taken were his files. His 300 page report was never
released.<br />
<br />
<hr />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Hume"></a>
<img src="https://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/DEAD/sandyhume.jpg" /><br />
<br />
<h2>
Sandy Hume</h2>
<h3>
Journalist</h3>
Died: February 2, 1998
On Sunday, February 22nd, 1998, Sandy Hume, the 28-year-old son of
journalist Britt Hume, was reportedly found dead in his Arlington,
Virginia home. Aside from the statement that this was an "apparent"
suicide, there remains in place a total media blackout on this story,
possibly out of concern that the actual facts will not withstand public
scrutiny. Indeed, it was reported in Associated Press that the Arlington
Police were not responding to any inquiries.
<br />
Hume was a reporter for The Hill magazine, newspaper about
Congress for Congress, and had broken a major story in 1997 regarding
the friction between House Speaker Newt Gingrich and a faction led by
Representative Paxon (who announced his resignation just 24 hours after
Hume's death).
<br />
In addition, Sandy Hume had just joined the staff at Fox TV
News and was just three weeks into a job that represented the pinnacle
of his young career. Oddly enough, aside from echoing the one Associated
Press story, the Fox News website has ignored the death of its newest
commentator.
<br />
Sandy already had a reputation for getting the story that
nobody else wanted to look at. It is worth noting that his death came
hard on the heels of reports that "a reporter" was about to break a
story confirming the White House's use of investigators to dig up dirt
on critics.
<br />
It has recently been confirmed that the man who performed the
as-yet-unreleased autopsy is none other than Dr. James C. Beyer, who has
a record of concealing homicides behind a ruling of suicide.
<br />
Kenneth Starr's "suicidologist" Dr. Alan L. Berman has waded in
again and as he did in the Foster death ruled it "100% certain that
this is a suicide and can be nothing else".
<br />
<hr />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Henry"></a>
<br />
<a href="http://www.idfiles.com/" target="_blank"><img alt="[Don Henry]" border="0" height="120" src="https://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/DEAD/don.jpg" width="160" /></a><img alt="[Kevin Ives]" border="0" height="120" src="https://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/DEAD/kevin.jpg" width="160" />
<br />
<h2>
<a href="http://www.idfiles.com/" target="_blank">Kevin Ives & Don Henry</a></h2>
<h3>
Witnesses</h3>
Died: August 23, 1987
Initial cause of death was claimed to be the result of passing
out on a railroad track in Arkansas after smoking twenty marijuana
cigarettes. This ruling was reported by the State medical examiner <a href="http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/malak_la.html" target="_blank">Fahmy Malak</a>,
and supported by Sheriff Jim Steed, whose "thorough" investigation of
the crime scene left one of the boy's foot sitting in the open for two
days! In April 1988, Kevin's body was exhumed, and
another autopsy was performed, this one by Atlanta
medical examiner Dr. Joseph Burton who discovered that Kevin died from a
crushed skull prior to being placed on the tracks. Don Henry's body was
exhumed and discovered to have been stabbed in the back prior to being
placed on the tracks. Governor Bill Clinton excused Fahmy Malek's
"errors" saying that Malek was "tired and stressed out." <a href="http://www.idfiles.com/" target="_blank">Reports indicate that Ives & Henry might have stumbled upon part of the Mena drug operation</a>,
specifically a drop site in the area of Bauxite and Alexander,
Arkansas. The police chief of Alexander, John Brown, acknowledged he
obtained a taped confession from one of the murderers of the two boys,
which was <a href="http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/murder_drugs_arkansas.htm" target="_blank">suppressed at the request of the FBI!</a>
<br />
Jean Duffey headed up Arkansas' 7th District drug task force
in 1990. She was never allowed to conduct a thorough
investigation of drug running in Mena or any possible
connection to the train deaths. Her task force and a
federal grand jury were shut down after they started
examining corruption involving public officials.
<br />
Dan Harmon was a local government official, the prosecuting
attorney for Saline, Grant, and Hot Springs counties in
1979 and 1980 and then again from 1991 through 1996. He
was convicted in June of 1997 on drug, racketeering, and
extortion charges and has started serving eight years
in prison. In January 1991, long before his drug offenses became public
knowledge, Harmon convinced a judge to subpoena evidence
obtained by Jean Duffey's task force -- evidence
gathered against him and other public officials. Ms.
Duffey refused to honor the subpoena, fearing for the lives of witnesses
(many of whom did turn up dead) and fled the state when
a warrant was issued for her arrest.<br />
<br />
<hr />
<img src="https://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/DEAD/GARY-JOHNSON-MENA-AK.jpg" /><br />
<h2>
Gary Johnson</h2>
<h3>
Witness</h3>
Attacked: June 26th, 1992
Beaten near death and left for dead. Someone in the Clinton
organization sent 3 goons to beat up and almost murder Gary Johnson,
who was Gennifer Flowers’ neighbor. Gary Johnson had a security camera
installed at his condominium and by chance he had many tapes of Bill
entering Gennifer's condominium while governor and married to Hillary).
Gary's tapes were taken.<br />
<br />
<hr />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Jones"></a>
<img src="https://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/DEAD/jones.jpg" />
<br />
<h2>
John Jones</h2>
<h3>
Julian Assange's lawyer</h3>
Died: April 18, 2016
John Jones, QC, was killed when struck by a commuter train on his
way to work. The police immediately declared the death as
non-suspicious. The Q.C. initially said
it was not suicide. Great Britain has the highest per-capita presence of
surveillance cameras of any nation in the world, yet no video has been
forthcoming as to just how Jones wound
up in front of that train. John Jones was working to prevent the
extradition of Julian Assange to the United States. Assange and
WikiLeaks have produced some of
the most damaging information about Hillary Clinton's scandals.
<br />
<hr />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Kennedy"></a>
<img src="https://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/DEAD/kennedy12.jpg" />
<br />
<h2>
<a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/CRASH/JFK_JR/jj.php" target="_blank">John F. Kennedy Jr.</a></h2>
<h3>
Potential Candidate for Senator from New York.</h3>
Died: July 16, 1999
Within days of an NBC Dateline story hinting at a possible run for
the Senate seat currently assumed to be the property of Hillary Clinton,
JFK Jr. and his wife and sister-in-law died when the Piper Saratoga II
TC JFK Jr. was piloting crashed in to the ocean just short of Martha's
Vineyard. The NEWSWEEK issue for the following Monday, which NBC
Dateline had reported would announce JFK Jr's candidacy, was yanked from
distributors and destroyed.
<br />
Even before the wreckage of the plane had been found, the media
was saturated with news stories declaring the weather to have been very
hazy (the weather was VFR conditions, and 8 mile visibility, plus
weather radar and witnesses on Martha's Vineyard all reported clear
skies) making it impossible for JFK Jr. to know which way was up (he
also had working instruments in the aircraft).
<br />
As was the case when <a href="http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/CRASH/TWA/twa.php" target="_blank">TWA 800</a>
was shot down, the United States Navy took control of the crash site,
ordering an unprecedented 5 mile wide no-fly zone while the wreckage of
the aircraft was recovered and taken to a military base.
<br />
Reporters <a href="http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/CRASH/JFK_JR/phonyphone.html" target="_blank">Cindy Adams</a> and <a href="http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/CRASH/JFK_JR/goldman.html" target="_blank">Andrew Goldman</a>
have documented the planting of false information about JFK Jr. in the
media in the days following his crash. The feeding of false information
to the press proves there is a cover-up. The existence of a cover-up is
why JFK Jr. gets an entry on the Dead Bodies List.
<br />
According to some reports, Mrs. Kennedy was pregnant.
<br />
<hr />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Kettleson"></a>
<br />
<h2>
Jordan Kettleson</h2>
<h3>
Witness to the Train Deaths</h3>
Died: June 1990
Kettleson had information on the Ives & Henry deaths. He was found shot to death in the front seat of his pickup.
<br />
<hr />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Lawhon"></a>
<br />
<h2>
Johnny Franklin Lawhon, Jr.</h2>
<h3>
Witness</h3>
Died: March 29, 1998
In the spring of 1997, a tornado ripped through some junked cars at
Johnny's transmission and opened up the trunk of a car that proved to
have a box of Whitewater records in it, including a copy of a $27,000
cashiers check drawn on Madison and payable to Bill Clinton. Johnny
Franklin Lawhon, Sr. realized what he was looking at and turned the box
of documents over to the FBI.
<br />
According to police, Lawhon Jr. (the son) and a friend hit a
telephone pole at a high rate of speed after their car had become
airborne and left the road. They had driven less than 1/4 of a mile at
the time of the accident.
<br />
This manner of death is similar to the single vehicle accidents that killed Paula Grober, and Neil Moody.
<br />
<hr />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Lucas"></a>
<img src="https://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/DEAD/shawn-lucas.jpg" />
<br />
<h2>
Shawn Lucas</h2>
<h3>
ATTORNEY</h3>
Died: August 2, 2016
On July 3, 2016, Shawn Lucas and filmmaker Ricardo Villaba served
the DNC Services Corp. and Chairperson Debbie Wasserman Schultz at DNC's
headquarters in Washington, D.C., in the fraud class action suit
against the Democrat Party on behalf of Bernie Sanders supporters.
<br />
This was before Wikileaks released documents proving the DNC was working against the Sanders campaign during the 2016 primary.
<br />
Shawn was found dead by his girlfriend. He had been in perfect
health and did not do drugs. The authorities are refusing to disclose
the cause of death even after three weeks. Meanwhile, the DNC is trying
to delay the lawsuit until after the November election by saying Lucas
did not "properly" serve the papers ... with Lucas conveniently unable
to testify on his own behalf.
<br />
<hr />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Mahoney"></a>
<img alt="[Mary Mahoney]" src="https://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/DEAD/mary-caitrin-mahoney.jpg" />
<br />
<h2>
Mary 'Caity' Mahoney</h2>
<h3>
White House Intern</h3>
Died: July 6, 1997
An attractive 25-year-old woman, Mary was a former White House
Intern for Bill Clinton working as the Assistant Manager at a Starbuck's
Coffee shop in Georgetown.
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<br />
In the pre-trial publicity surrounding Paula Jones lawsuit Mike
Isikoff had dropped hints that a "former White House staffer" with the
initial "M" was about to go public with her story of sexual harassment
at 1600 Pennsylvania. Just days later, gunmen entered the Starbuck's
while the crew was cleaning up after closing.
<br />
Mary's two associates, Aaron Goodrich, 18 and Emory Evans, 25,
were taken to a room and shot. Mary herself had five bullets in her,
from at least two different guns, most likely with silencers.
A total of ten shots were fired; none of them heard by neighbors in
the densely populated Georgetown section.
<br />
Mary was shot in the chest, her face, and in the back of the head. Someone wanted her <i>very</i> dead. Or to send a message.
<br />
Even though more than $4000 remained in the store, the police
have categorized the triple murder as a robbery, even as they
acknowledge the "execution style" killings.
<br />
There was no sign of forced entry, which means that either Mary
of one of the employees let the killers in (at least one hour after
closing). That means that the killers included at least one person known
to the victims.
<br />
One report is that the Starbuck's was still locked when the
bodies were found the next morning. Robbers don't bother locking doors.
<br />
George Stephenopolis, Monica Lewinsky, and Chelsea Clinton were all regulars at the Starbuck's.
<br />
Carl Cooper, the man charged with the Starbuck's murders on the
basis of a confession has now recanted that confession, claiming that
it was obtained under coercion (not unlike that of James Earl Ray).
<br />
A affidavit filed by NOAA's Sonya Stewart, confirms that the
Department of Commerce was selling trade mission seats in exchange for
campaign donations, and illegally blocking FOIA requests. Named in the
affidavit as the White House staffer directly connected to this
obstruction was Doris Matsui. Doris's assigned intern during this period
was Mary Mahoney.
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<h2>
Lieutenant General David J. McCloud</h2>
<h3>
Commander of Alaskan Command, 11th Air Force, and the Alaskan
North American Aerospace Defense Command Region, headquartered at
Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska.</h3>
Died: July 26, 1998
On July 26, 1998, McCloud died when his YAK-54 aerobatic plane
crashed, allegedly from sabotage. McCloud was one of several flag
officers (including Admiral Boorda) who had assembled
evidence against President Bill Clinton, leading to his arrest.
<br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Mirzayan"></a>
<br />
<h2>
Christine M. Mirzayan</h2>
<h3>
White House Intern</h3>
Died: August 1, 1998
On August 1, 1998, yet another young female government intern with
the initial "M", Christine M. Mirzayan, was murdered, beaten to death
with a heavy object near Georgetown University.
<br />
Eventually, Mike Isikoff's "former White House staffer" finally
surfaced and its NOT Mary Mahoney, or Christine M. Mirzayan, but Monica
Lewinsky. If the killing of Mary Mahoney and Christine M. Mirzayan was
to silence a "bimbo eruption", they got the wrong woman! (Just how many
of the interns was Clinton getting oral sex from anyway??)
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<h2>
Florence Martin</h2>
<h3>
Accountant subcontracting to CIA</h3>
Related to the Barry Seal case. Dead of three gunshot wounds to the
head. At the time of her death she had the account numbers and PIN for a
bank account in the Cayman's in the name of Barry Seal which held 1.4
million dollars. Immediately following her death, the money was moved to
someplace in the Virgin Islands.
<br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Matteson"></a>
<br />
<h2>
Gordon Matteson</h2>
<h3>
Clinton associate.</h3>
Died: May 15, 1997.
Shot in the head. Declared a suicide.
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<img alt="[McDougal]" border="0" src="https://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/DEAD/mcdougal.jpg" />
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<h2>
James McDougal</h2>
<h3>
Crook</h3>
Died: March 8 1998
<br />
Jim McDougal was serving his 3-year sentence for bank fraud at
the Fort Worth Federal Medical Center in Texas, a facility operated by
the federal Bureau of Prisons for inmates who need medical attention.
<br />
Just prior to another round of testimony before Kenneth Starr's
grand jury, and while the reporters who were covering that story were
two hours away covering a standoff situation in Waco that just "went
away", Jim McDougal suffered a heart attack while in solitary
confinement. Left alone for too long, when Jim McDougal was taken out of
solitary, instead of attempting to defibrillate his heart with
equipment on hand at the facility, he was driven over to John Peter
Smith hospital. Not the closest hospital to the Fort Worth Federal
Medical Center, John Peter Smith hospital is a welfare hospital, where
(in the words of one local) ,"They let interns practice on deadbeats".
<br />
NEW! The Fort Worth Star-Telegram acquired the
official report of the McDougal death via a Freedom Of Information Act
request, and report that <a href="http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/mcdougal.html" target="_blank">doctors ignored McDougal's signs of imminent death.</a>
<br />
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<br />
<h2>
Keith McKaskle</h2>
<h3>
Witness to the Train Deaths</h3>
Died November 10, 1988
Keith had information on the Mena drug running and the henry
& Ives murders. Stabbed 113 times. He had told his family someone
was out to kill him and told them "good bye".
<br />
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<br />
<h2>
Charles Meissner</h2>
<h3>
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for International Economic Policy.</h3>
Died: May 3, 1996
John Huang was placed on a Commerce Department contract that
allowed him to retain his security clearance by Charles Meissner.
Charles Meissner died on the plane with Ron Brown.
<br />
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<br />
<h2>
James "Dewey" Milam</h2>
<h3>
Witness to Mena drug operation and Henry/Ives murders</h3>
Died: 1989
Milam was decapitated. Clinton's notorious state Medical examiner, <a href="http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/malak_la.html" target="_blank">Fahmy Malak,</a>
initially ruled death due to an ulcer, claiming that the victim's small
dog had eaten the head, which was later recovered from a trash bin
several blocks away.
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<br />
<h2>
Charles Wilbourne Miller</h2>
<h3>
Vice President and Board Member for Alltel</h3>
Died: January 12, 1999.
Alltel was the computer company that wrote the White House "Big
Brother" computer system. Found shot to death with two guns. Multiple
shots had been fired. Declared a suicide.
<br />
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<br />
<h2>
Ron Miller</h2>
<h3>
Witness</h3>
Died: October 12, 1997
Ron Miller, investigated by authorities over the sale of his
company, Gage Corp. to Dynamic Energy Resources, Inc. was the man who
tape recorded Gene and Nora Lum and turned those tapes (and other
records) over to congressional oversight investigators. The Lums were
sentenced to prison for campaign finance violations, using "straw
donors" to conceal the size of their contributions to various
candidates. Indeed, Dynamic Energy Resources, Inc. had hired Ron Brown's
son Michael solely for the purpose of funneling $60,000 through him to
the Commerce Secretary, according to Nolanda Hill's testimony.
<br />
Reportedly a healthy man, Ron suddenly took ill on October 3rd,
and steadily worsened until his death 9 days later. (This pattern fits
Ricin poisoning.) Owing to the strangeness of the illness, doctors at
the Integris Baptist Medical Center referred the matter to the Oklahoma
State Medical Examiner's Office.
<br />
The Oklahoma State Medical Examiner's Office promptly ran tests
on samples of Ron Miller's blood, but has refused to release the
results or even to confirm that the tests were ever completed.
<br />
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<br />
<h2>
John Millis</h2>
<h3>
Staff Director of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Committee</h3>
Died: June 4, 2000
Millis had just helped the HPSCI complete it's "investigation" into
alleged CIA cocaine smuggling which predictably (given that Millis was
himself a long time CIA agent) concluded that the CIA was innocent of
all allegations of wrongdoing. Fairfax, Virginia police were tipped off
by an anonymous phone call claiming that "a man" was threatening suicide
in a motel room. Police arrived to find Millis dead of a gunshot wound.
As was the case with Vincent Foster and Sandy Hume, the death was
immediately declared a suicide.
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<img src="https://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/DEAD/joemontano01.jpg" />
<br />
<h2>
Joe Montano</h2>
<h3>
Chairman DNC (before Debbis Wasserman Shultz) and Regional Director for Tim Kaine</h3>
Died: July 25, 2016
Supposedly died of a heart attack right after the WikiLeaks email
dump proving the DNC had worked to sabotage Bernie Sanders and hand the
nomination to Hillary Clinton. Joe was 47, with no history of heart
problems.
<br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Moody"></a>
<br />
<h2>
Neil Moody</h2>
Died August 25, 1996
Following Vincent Foster's murder, Lisa Foster married James Moody, a judge in Arkansas, on Jan 1, 1996.
<br />
Near the time Susan McDougal first went to jail for contempt,
Judge Moody's son, Neil died in a car crash. There were other reports
that Neil Moody had discovered something very unsettling among his
stepmother's private papers and was threatening to go public with it
just prior to the beginning of the Democratic National Convention. He
was alleged to have been talking to Bob Woodward of the Washington Post
about a blockbuster story. Witnesses said they saw Neil Moody sitting in
his car arguing with another person just prior to HIS CAR SUDDENLY
SPEEDING OFF OUT OF CONTROL AND HITTING A BRICK WALL.
<br />
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<br />
<h2>
Tony Moser</h2>
<h3>
Anti-Corruption Journalist.</h3>
Died: June 10, 2000
Tony Moser, a critic of the Arkansas Democratic Party political
machine, was killed as he crossed a street in Pine Bluff 10 days after
being named a columnist for the Democrat-Gazette newspaper and two days
after writing an article which exposed the looting of programs designed
to obtain money from "Dead beat" parents to then give to their children.
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The police declared that no crime had been committed since the
anonymous driver of the 1995 Chevy Pickup truck that struck and killed
Moser was not intoxicated nor was he speeding. In Arkansas, that
apparently makes it legal to run down a politically unpopular
journalist.
<br />
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<br />
<h2>
Larry Nichols</h2>
<h3>
Former official at ADFA and author of "The Clinton Chronicles." </h3>
The man who broke many of the Clinton scandal stories. Several attempts on his life, but still alive.<br />
<br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Olson"></a>
<br />
<h2>
Paul Olson</h2>
<h3>
Federal witness in investigations to drug money corruption in Chicago politics</h3>
Died: September 8, 1994
Paul had just finished 2 days of FBI interviews when his plane
ride home crashed, killing Paul and 130 others. The Sept. 15, 1994 Tempe
Tribune newspaper reported that the FBI suspected that a bomb had
brought down the airplane.<br />
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<br />
<h2>
Jerry Luther Parks</h2>
<h3>
Head of Clinton's Gubernatorial security team in Little Rock.</h3>
Died: September 26, 1993
Gunned down in his car at the intersection of Chenal Parkway and
Cantrell Road, near Little Rock. Parks was shot through the rear window
of his car. The assailant then pulled around to the driver's side of
Park's car and shot him three more times with a 9mm pistol.
<br />
His family reported that shortly before his death, unknown
persons were following them, and their home had been broken into
(despite a top quality alarm system). Parks had been compiling a dossier
on Clinton's illicit activities. The dossier was stolen.
<br />
When news of the discovery of Vincent Foster's body came over
the news, Parks is reported to have said, "I'm a dead man." He had told
his wife that Bill Clinton's people were "cleaning house," and he was
"next on the list."<br />
<br />
<hr />
<h2>
Dennis Patrick</h2>
<h3>
Court clerk</h3>
Had millions of dollars laundered through his account at Lassater & Co without his knowledge. Four attempts on his life.
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<br />
<h2>
C. Victor Raiser II</h2>
<h3>
National Finance Co-Chairman, Clinton for President Campaign</h3>
<h2>
Montgomery Raiser</h2>
<h3>
Son of C. Victor Raiser II</h3>
Died: July 30, 1992
Both men died in a private plane crash in Alaska, one day before a
scheduled interview with John Hillyer. The crash was blamed on the
pilot, who survived. Five others not connected to Clinton died in the
crash. - DeeDee Meyers described Raiser as a "major player" in the
Clinton organization. Victor raiser was also chairman of Mobile Telecomm
Technologies Corp., whose subsidiary, SkyTel Corp. is an international
paging company used by federal police agencies such as the FBI.
<br />
Victor Raiser was a Washington lawyer and he was counsel to the
Washington law firm of Jones Day Reavis & Pogue until 1991. At his
death, he was the national finance co-chairman of the Clinton for
President campaign. The campaign's press secretary, Dee Myers, described
him as a "major player" in the Clinton organization. He and his wife
had been friends of the Clintons for ten years. He was the past national
finance chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He served on the
boards of the Democratic Business Council and the Center for National
Policy and the board of advisers of the Democratic Leadership Council.
<br />
On May 29, 1993, President Clinton announced that he had
selected Raiser's widow, Molly Raiser, 50, former Democratic co-chair of
the Women's Campaign Fund, to be his protocol chief and stated that he
planned to nominate her for confirmation as an ambassador.
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<h2>
Seth Conrad Rich</h2>
<h3>
DNC Voter Expansion Data Director</h3>
Died: July 10, 2016
<br />
Seth Conrad Rich was shot several times in the back a block from his home in D.C.'s neighborhood of Bloomingdale.
The police declared it a robbery gone bad, but nothing had been taken; Seth still had his wallet, watch, and cell phone.
<br />
One possible motive for his assassination lies with the
WikiLeaks dump of 20,000 DNC emails which proved the DNC was rigging the
primaries to favor Hillary Clinton. The scandal forced
DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Shultz to resign. Although Hillary's people
tried to portray this as a hack by Russia, to cast Hillary as a victim
of international intrigue, WikiLeaks,
while not identifying the leak, denied it was Russia, and stated it was
an "internal" leak. If Seth (who was in a perfect position to acquire
the data)
were the leak, that would be ample motive to murder him, as a warning to
others inside the DNC not to blow any whistles.
<br />
Shortly after the killing, Redditors and social media users
were pursuing a �lead� saying that Rich was en route to the FBI the
morning of his murder, apparently intending to speak to special agents
about an �ongoing court case� possibly involving the Clinton family.
<br />
A reward has been offered for information on this murder.
<br />
<img src="https://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/DEAD/seth-rich-REWARD.jpg" />
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<br />
<h2>
Jeff Rhodes</h2>
<h3>
Witness in the Train Deaths</h3>
Died: April 1989
Jeff had information on the deaths of Ives, Henry & McKaskle.
His burned body was found in a trash dump. He died of a gunshot wound to
the head and there was some body mutilation, specifically that his
hands and feet had been partially sawn off, leading to the speculation
that he was tortured prior to being killed. The body was then burned.<br />
<br />
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<br />
<h2>
Maj. Gen. William Robertson</h2>
<h3>
Deputy Commanding General, V Corps, Europe</h3>
<h2>
Col William Densberger</h2>
<h3>
V Corps Chief of Operations and Plans</h3>
<h2>
Col. Robert Kelly</h2>
<h3>
V Corps Chief of Intelligence</h3>
<h2>
Spec. Gary Rhodes</h2>
<h3>
Crew Chief</h3>
Died: February 23, 1993
All were killed when their Army UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter crashed
in Wiesbaden, Germany. No cause was ever determined. - V Corps figured
prominently in the US Bosnia-Serbia peacekeeping operations, along with
the carrier Roosevelt. These men, and 8 others associated with Clinton's
visit to the Roosevelt all died within 4 months of each other.
<br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Rogers"></a>
<br />
<h2>
Dr. Ronald Rogers</h2>
<h3>
Dentist from Arkansas</h3>
Killed in plane crash as he was on his way to an interview with a
"London Sunday Telegraph" reporter to reveal some Clinton dirt.
<br />
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<br />
<h2>
Charles Ruff</h2>
<h3>
Clinton lawyer</h3>
Died: November 20, 2000
<img src="https://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/DEAD/charlesruff.jpg" />
<br />
Charles Ruff was one of Clinton's attorneys during the
impeachment trial and was known to have inside information on the White
House emails scandal as well. Original reports were that he died in an
accident in his home although no details were given. Then the report
changed to claim that he was found in his bedroom unconscious, then
declared dead on arrival at the hospital. The authorities will provide
no details other than the usual (and quite premature) assurances that
there was no foul play involved.
<br />
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<br />
<h2>
Col. James Sabow</h2>
Died: 1991
Supposedly about to blow the whistle on drug running activity
taking place on the naval base where he was stationed, Col. James Sabow
was found by his wife in the backyard of their home with his head blown
off with a shotgun. The Navy ruled it a suicide. In all, more than 40
deaths by individuals concerned with drug traffic on military bases have
been declared as suicides despite evidence that murder was involved.
<br />
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<br />
<img height="265" src="https://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/DEAD/walterscheib.jpg" width="175" />
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<h2>
Walter Scheib</h2>
<h3>
Clinton White House Chef.</h3>
Died: June 13, 2015
Walter Scheib was hired by the Clinton White House and continued to
serve the Bush administration. He was reported missing by his family
when he failed to return from a hike. His body was found
more than one and as half miles off of the trail he was supposed to
be on, at the bottom of a river. No official cause of death has been
released.
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<img height="392" src="https://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/DEAD/tomschweich.jpg" width="560" />
<br />
<h2>
Tom Schweich</h2>
<h3>
Waco Investigator and candidate for governor</h3>
Died: February 26, 2013
Schweich served as Chief of Staff for former U.S. Senator John
Danforth's investigation of the federal government's actions in
connection with the 1993 FBI siege of the Branch Davidian compound in
Waco, Texas.
He had announced his candidacy for governor just one month before his
death, and was found with a gunshot wound to the left temple. Tom
Schweich wa right-handed. One month later, his media director, Robert
�Spence� Jackson, was found dead of a similar wound.
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<h2>
Barry Seal</h2>
<h3>
CIA drug pilot</h3>
Died: February 19, 1986
Now known to have been a gun and drug smuggler for the CIA,
operating out of the Mena airport, Barry Seal had reportedly kept in
contact with Bill Clinton's head of security at the governor's mansion,
Raymond "Buddy" Young, the ex rodeo clown who is now the number 2 man at
FEMA.
<br />
Following his fall from CIA grace, Barry was sentenced to live
at a Salvation Army Housing Complex by a judge who also prohibited Barry
Seal to either have any guns or to employ any bodyguards. Corruption
doesn't become any more obvious than this. Barry was gunned down with
machine gun fire in the parking lot of the Salvation Army Housing
Complex.
<br />
In violation of the court order, Barry had hired bodyguards who
worked a rotation schedule. But the bodyguard who was to be there when
Barry was killed never showed up. That bodyguard, according to video
producer Daniel Hopsicker, was a former associate (meaning drug pilot)
of Barry's named William "Bear" Bottoms. Bottoms prowled the internet
insisting that there never was any drug running operation at Mena,
Arkansas.
<br />
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<br />
<h2>
Bill Shelton</h2>
<h3>
Arkansas state trooper and fiancee of Kathy Ferguson</h3>
Died: June 1994
Allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself at the grave site
of his fiancee - Officer Shelton was the fiancee of Kathy Ferguson, who
was the ex-wife of Trooper Danny Ferguson. Kathy Ferguson also
supposedly committed "suicide" June 1994 when she shot herself in her
living room. Oddly, next to the body were her packed bags, as if she was
expecting to be going somewhere. Danny Ferguson was a co-defendant
along with Bill Clinton in Paula Corbin Jones's sexual harassment suit.
Kathy Ferguson was reported as a corroborating witness for Ms. Jones.
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<br />
<h2>
Victor Thorn, </h2>
<h3>
Independent Journalist</h3>
Died: August 1, 2016
Found dead of a gunshot on top of a mountain near his home, Thorn
has been a thorn in the side of the Clintons for decades, writing books
and articles for American Free Press that exposed many of the Clintons'
dark secrets, including the drug running out of Mena, Arkansas.
While officially declared a suicide, it is worth noting that Victor
Thorn was at the height of his success, with a long line of successful
books, including Crowning Clinton: Why Hillary Shouldn't Be in the
White House and the Hillary (And Bill) trilogy, which were strong
sellers.
The trilogy had just been purchased for translation and foreign
distribution.
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<h2>
Paul Tully, </h2>
<h3>
Democratic National Committee Political Director</h3>
Died: September 24, 1992
Found dead in a hotel room in Little Rock Arkansas of "unknown
causes." No autopsy allowed. - Described by Clinton as a "dear friend
and trusted advisor. Tully authored several key strategies for Clinton
and the party. Paul Tully, 48, Democratic National Committee political
director and architect of a strategy to make the party competitive again
in presidential elections, was found dead in his hotel room on
September 24, 1992, in Little Rock, Arkansas of unknown causes.
Authorities speculated his death was from a heart attack or stroke. In a
press release, then-presidential candidate Clinton called Mr. Tully "a
dear friend and trusted adviser." He said he was "deeply saddened by the
loss." Tully devised a strategy of targeting states based on their
value in the Electoral College, and coordinating the presidential
campaign with state and congressional races.
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Walker"></a>
<br />
<h2>
Jon Parnell Walker</h2>
<h3>
RTC investigator</h3>
Died: August 15, 1993
Mysteriously fell to his death from an apartment balcony. He was
investigating the Morgan Guaranty scandal. The same apartment which was
alleged to have been a secret getaway which Vince Foster may have
visited.
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Walraven"></a>
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<h2>
Calvin Walraven</h2>
<h3>
Drug witness</h3>
24 year old Walraven was a key witness in Jocelyn Elder's son's drug
case. Ten days after Elder's son was convicted of trafficking in
cocaine, Walraven was found dead in his apartment with a gunshot blast
to the head. Tim Hover, a Little Rock police spokesman said no foul play
was suspected.
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Gary Webb</h2>
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Journalist</h3>
Died: December 10, 2004
Webb, a Pulitzer prize winning journalist, exposed CIA drug
trafficking operations in a series of books and reports for the San Jose
Mercury News. He was found dead on Friday morning in what the police
said was an apparent suicide. Webb had been shot in the head TWICE!
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Maynard Webb</h2>
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Mena airport witness</h3>
Maynard Webb had stumbled on several aircraft whose tail numbers were
being changed on a regular basis. Was about to go public when he walked
headfirst into a spinning propeller.
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Russel Welch</h2>
Infected with military grade anthrax.
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Alan G. Whicher</h2>
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Oversaw Clinton's Secret Service detail. </h3>
Died: April 19, 1995
In October 1994 Whicher was transferred to the Secret Service
field office in the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City. Whatever warning
was given to the BATF agents in that building did not reach Alan
Whicher, whom died in the bomb blast.
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Paul Wilcher</h2>
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Washington attorney investigating gun running out of Mena, Arkansas.</h3>
Died: June 22, 1993
Found dead on a toilet in his Washington apartment. No cause of
death was ever reported by the coroner.
At the time of his death, he was investigating connections between the
"October surprise" during the 1980 federal election campaign and drug
and gunrunning out of Mena, Arkansas, as well as the BATF assault on the
Waco, Texas Branch Davidians. Was planning on producing a television
documentary on his findings. He had delivered a 105-page affidavit to
Janet Reno detailing the evidence he had collected regarding the drug
operation at Mena, just three weeks before his death.
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Ed Willey</h2>
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Real Estate Attorney, Clinton Fund Raiser</h3>
Died: November 30, 1993
Died of a shotgun blast to the head. Body found in deep woods in
Virginia. Ruled a suicide, no note was found. Died on the same day his
wife was sexually assaulted in the White House by Bill Clinton. -
Intimately involved in several Clinton fund raising events.
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Gareth Williams</h2>
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MI6 Agent</h3>
Died: August 16. 2010
Gareth Williams, an MI6 spy who worked on both sides of the
Atlantic, engaged in some unauthorized hacking by breaking into Bill
Clinton's database of friends and connections, ostensibly to give to a
friend in the media. This breach caused a diplomatic nightmare for MI6's
new director, Sir John Sawers.
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Gareth was found naked, padlocked into a sports bag, in his own
bathtub. No fingerprints, palm-prints footprints or traces of William's
DNA were found at the scene. The key to the padlock was inside the bag,
underneath his body.
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As usual, declared a suicide! The sheer absurdity of this claim
provoked a public uproar, and the
promoters of the suicide theory even went so far as to try to
demonstrate how Williams could have inserted himself into the bag!
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But even this charade failed to convince anyone and the police
were finally forced to acknowledge William's murder, even to the point
of admitting they had two suspects in the crime ... who were never
arrested.
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John Augustus Wilson</h2>
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Former Washington DC Council member</h3>
Died: May 18, 1993
Wilson claimed to have info on Whitewater, a political controversy
that began with the real estate dealings of Bill and Hillary Clinton
and their associates, Jim and Susan McDougal in the Whitewater
Development Corporation, a failed business venture in the 1970s and
1980s, and was willing to talk. Found hanged. Declared a suicide.
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Jim Wilhite</h2>
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Vice Chairman, Arkla, Inc.</h3>
Died: December 21, 1992
Died in a one-person skiing accident. - Wilhite had extensive ties
with Clinton and Mack McLarty, with whom he visited by telephone just
hours before his death.
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Theodore Williams, Jr.</h2>
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Bettie Currie's brother.</h3>
Died: December 16, 1997
A passing car hit the brother of Presidential Secretary Betty
Currie after his own car had somehow run off the road. Bill Clinton
called Monica Lewinsky at 2:00 AM the next morning to tell her of the
death and alert Monica that her named appeared on the Paula Jones
witness list. Betty's brother had also been beaten shortly before Betty
testified in a previous matter.
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Steve Willis</h2>
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Robert Williams</h2>
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Conway LeBleu</h2>
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Todd McKeehan</h2>
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Clinton bodyguards</h3>
Died: February 28, 1993
"executed" by gunfire in the Waco, Texas assault on the Branch
Davidians. - All four were examined by a "private doctor" and died from
nearly identical wounds to the left temple, so-called execution style.
According to Linda Thompson, videotapes and other evidence indicates
that none died from guns fired by Branch Davidians. In his <a href="http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/waco_bodyguard.html" target="_blank">address to employees of the Treasury Department</a>
in the Cash Room on March 18, 1993, Clinton said: "My prayers and I'm
sure yours are still with the families of all four of the Alcohol,
Tobacco and Firearms agents who were killed in WACO -- Todd McKeehan and
Conway Le Bleu of New Orleans; Steve Willis of Houston, and Robert
Williams from my hometown of Little Rock. Three of those four were
assigned to my security during the course of the primary or general
election." However, the Little Rock, Arkansas office of the ATF
confirmed that all four had at one point been bodyguards for Bill
Clinton, three while he was campaigning for President, and while he had
been governor of Arkansas. In the videotape by the American Justice
Federation, "WACO II, the Big Lie Continues," Linda Thompson
demonstrates that 15 shots were fired from six separate weapons into and
out of a room into which three of the four agents had entered through a
window. Four of these shots were fired from an overhead helicopter, an
agent outside the window, firing an MP5 submachine gun, who also threw
in a concussion grenade, fired at least two shots into the room. In the
autopsies of these agents, three had virtually identical wounds to the
left temple that exited through the rear of the head, execution-style. A
"private physician" treated all four.
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<a href="http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/wise.html" target="_blank">Barbara Wise</a></h2>
<h3>
Commerce Department Staffer</h3>
Died: November 29, 1996
As the scandals continued to swirl around the John Huang, one of
Huang's associates, Barbara Wise, was found dead in her locked office on
the fourth floor of the Department of Commerce, partially nude (by one
report completely nude) and covered with bruises. No cause of death has
ever been announced even though an autopsy was conducted (prior to next
of kin being notified). Calls to the D.C. pathologist, Dr. Jaardemal
have gotten an assurance that the bruises were not from being beaten but
nothing else. Despite claims of ongoing illness, no record of a
hospital visit in the months leading up to her death has surfaced. Oddly
enough, following the discovery of her body, Bill Clinton made an
unscheduled return to the White House from Camp David, claiming he
needed a book of poetry in order to complete his inauguration speech.
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Winters"></a>
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<h2>
Richard Winters</h2>
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Suspect in the deaths of Ives & Henry</h3>
Died: July 1989
Winters offered to cooperate. He was killed by a shotgun blast to
the face during a "robbery" which was subsequently proven to be a setup.
<br />
Dan Harmon, the Prosecutor who Winters reportedly made the
offer to, was implicated in the Kevin/Ives deaths and was jailed for
running his office as a criminal enterprise to extort narcotics and
cash, proof that elements of Arkansas law enforcement were corrupted
by drugs during Bill Clinton's tenure as governor.
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<h2>
Terrance Yeakey.</h2>
<h3>
First police officer to arrive at the <a href="http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/OK/ok.php" target="_blank">Murrah Building following the OK City bombing</a> </h3>
Died: May 8, 1996
Terrance Yeakey had collected together a vast amount of hard data
on the bombing of the Murrah building. Terrance Yeakey's patrol car was
found abandoned along a dirt road, the front seat covered with blood.
Officer Yeakey himself was found a short distance away, with 11 cut
wounds on both arms and two in his throat, plus a gunshot through the
head. No gun was ever found, and the death was declared a suicide. His
material on the OK City bombing was never found following his death.
His life had been threatened.
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<i>“In prison, illusions can offer comfort.” – <b>Nelson Mandela</b></i></h4>
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<i>For a magician to fool his audience
his deceit must go unseen, and to this end he crafts an illusion to
avert attention from reality. While the audience is entranced, the
deceptive act is committed, and for the fool, reality then becomes
inexplicably built upon on a lie. That is, until the fool wakes up and
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<i>Maintaining the suspension of disbelief in the illusion, however,
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We live in a world of illusion. So many of the concerns that occupy the
mind and the tasks that fill the calendar arise from planted impulses to
become <b>someone or something that we are not</b>. This is
no accident. As we are indoctrinated into this
authoritarian-corporate-consumer culture that now dominates the human
race, we are trained that certain aspects of our society are untouchable
truths, and that particular ways of being and behaving are preferred.
<a href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2015/01/22/psychopath-vs-empath-war-truth-deception/" target="_blank" title="Psychopath vs. Empath: the War Between Truth and Deception">Psychopaths</a> disempower
people in this way. They blind us with never ceasing barrages of
suggestions and absolutes that are aimed at shattering self-confidence
and confidence in the future.<br />
Bansky, the revered and elusive revolutionary street artist, once commented:<br />
<i>“PEOPLE ARE TAKING THE PISS OUT OF YOU EVERYDAY. THEY BUTT INTO YOUR LIFE, TAKE A CHEAP SHOT AT YOU AND THEN DISAPPEAR. <b>THEY LEER AT YOU FROM TALL BUILDINGS AND MAKE YOU FEEL SMALL.</b> THEY MAKE FLIPPANT COMMENTS FROM BUSES THAT IMPLY <b>YOU’RE NOT SEXY ENOUGH</b> AND THAT ALL THE FUN IS HAPPENING SOMEWHERE ELSE. <b>THEY ARE ON TV MAKING YOUR GIRLFRIEND FEEL INADEQUATE.</b> THEY
HAVE ACCESS TO THE MOST SOPHISTICATED TECHNOLOGY THE WORLD HAS EVER
SEEN AND THEY BULLY YOU WITH IT. THEY ARE THE ADVERTISERS AND THEY ARE
LAUGHING AT YOU.” – </i><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1844137872/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1844137872&linkCode=as2&tag=wakitime09-20&linkId=PY5SOPF2IXTZRAOE" target="_blank" title="Find at Amazon">BANKSY</a></b><br />
Advertising is just the tip of the iceberg. When we look further we
see that the overall organization of life is centered around the pursuit
of illusions and automatic obedience to institutions and ideas which
are not at all what they seem. We are in a very real sense
enslaved. Many call this somewhat intangible feeling of oppression ‘the
matrix,’ a system of total control that invades the mind, programming
individuals to pattern themselves in accordance with a
mainstream conformist version of reality, no matter how wicked it gets.<br />
The grandest of the illusions which keep us enslaved to the matrix,
the ones that have so many of us still entranced, are outlined below for
your consideration.<br />
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<b>1. The Illusion of Law, Order and Authority</b></h3>
For so many of us, following the law is considered a moral
obligation, and many of us gladly do so even though corruption, scandal,
and wickedness repeatedly demonstrate that the law is plenty flexible
for those who have the muscle to bend it. Police brutality and police
criminality is rampant in the US, the courts favor the wealthy, and we
can longer even lead our lives privately thanks to the intrusion of
state surveillance. And all the while the illegal and immoral Orwellian
permanent war rages on in the background of life, murdering and
destroying whole nations and cultures.<br />
The social order is not what it seems, for it is entirely predicated
on conformity, obedience and acquiescence which are enforced by fear of
violence. History teaches us again and again that the law is just as
often as not used as an instrument of oppression, social control and
plunder, and any so-called authority in this regard is false,
hypocritical, and unjust.<br />
When the law itself does not follow the law, there is no law, there
is no order, and there is no justice. The pomp and trappings of
authority are merely a concealment of the truth that the current world
order is predicated on control, not consent.<br />
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<b>2. The Illusion of Prosperity and Happiness</b></h3>
Adorning oneself in expensive clothes and trinkets, and amassing
collections of material possessions that would be the envy of any 19th
century monarch has become a substitute for genuine
prosperity. Maintaining the illusion of prosperity, though, is critical
to our economy as it is, because its foundation is built on
consumption, fraud, credit and debt. The banking system itself has been
engineered from the top down to create unlimited wealth for some while
taxing the eternity out of the rest of us.<br />
True prosperity is a vibrant environment and an abundance of health,
happiness, love, and relationships. As more people come to perceive
material goods as <i>the</i> form of self-identification in this culture, we slip farther and farther away from the experience of <i>true</i> prosperity.<br />
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<b>3. The Illusion of Choice and Freedom</b></h3>
Read between the lines and look at the fine print, we are not free,
not by any intelligent standard. Freedom is about having choice, yet in
today’s world, <i>choice </i>has come to mean a selection between
available options, always from within the confines of a corrupt legal
and taxation system and within the boundaries of culturally accepted and
enforced norms.<br />
Just look no further than the phony institution of modern democracy
to find a shining example of false choices appearing real. Two
entrenched, corrupt, archaic political parties are paraded as the pride
and hope of the nation, yet third party and independent voices are
intentionally blocked, ridiculed and plowed under.<br />
The illusion of choice and freedom is a powerful oppressor because it
fools us into accepting chains and short leashes as though they were
the hallmarks of liberty.<br />
Multiple choice is different than freedom, it is easy servitude.<br />
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<b>4. The Illusion of Truth</b></h3>
Truth has become a touchy subject in our culture, and we’ve been programmed to believe that <i>‘the</i>‘
truth comes from the demigods of media, celebrity, and government. If
the TV declares something to be true, then we are heretics to believe
otherwise.<br />
In order to maintain order, the powers that be depend our
acquiescence to their version of the truth. While independent thinkers
and journalists continually blow holes in the official versions of
reality, the illusion of truth is so very powerful that it takes a
serious personal upheaval to shun the cognitive dissonance needed to
function in a society that openly chases false realities.<br />
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<b>5. The Illusion of Time</b></h3>
They say that time is money, but this is a lie. Time is your life.
Your life is an ever-evolving manifestation of the now. Looking beyond
the five sense world, where we have been trained to move in accordance
with the clock and the calendar, we find that the spirit is eternal, and
that the each individual soul is part of this eternity.<br />
The big deception here is the reinforcement of the idea that the
present moment is of little to no value, that the past is something we
cannot undo or ever forget, and that the future is intrinsically more
important than both the past and the present. This carries our attention
away from what it actually happening right now and directs it toward
the future. Once completely focused on what is to come rather than what
is, we are easy prey to advertisers and fear-pimps who muddy our vision
of the future with every possible worry and concern imaginable.<br />
We are happiest when life doesn’t box us in, when spontaneity and
randomness gives us the chance to find out more about
ourselves. Forfeiting the present moment in order to fantasize about the
future is a trap. The immense, timeless moments of spiritual joy that
are found in quiet meditation are proof that time is a construct of the
mind of humankind, and not necessarily mandatory for the human
experience.<br />
If time is money, then life can be measured in dollars. When dollars
are worth less, so is life. This is total deception, because life is, in
truth, absolutely priceless.<br />
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<b>6. The Illusion of Separateness</b></h3>
On a strategic level, the tactic of divide and conquer is standard
operating procedure for authoritarians and invading armies, but the
illusion of separateness runs even deeper than this.<br />
We are programmed to believe that as individuals we are in
competition with everyone and everything around us, including our
neighbors and even mother nature. Us vs. them to the extreme. This
flatly denies the truth that life on this planet is infinitely
inter-connected. Without clean air, clean water, healthy soil, and a
vibrant global sense of community we cannot survive here.<br />
While the illusion of separateness comforts us by gratifying the ego
and and offering a sense of control, in reality it only serves to
enslave and isolate us.<br />
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<b>Conclusion</b></h3>
The grand illusions mentioned here have been staged before us as a
campaign to encourage blind acquiescence to the machinations of the
matrix. In an attempt to dis-empower us, they demand our conformity and
obedience, but we must not forget that all of this is merely an
elaborate sales pitch. They can’t sell what we don’t care to buy.<br />
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incensemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00094084883316817998noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5679957567390799096.post-26250068252573700602016-07-05T04:28:00.000-07:002016-07-05T04:28:20.425-07:00TSA Horror. “Partially Blind Young Woman Brutally Smashed by Goon Tug TSA”<em>“These people think they are God. They think they can do anything they want.” </em><br />
<a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/TSA-Logo.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.globalresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/TSA-Logo.gif" height="199" width="200" /></a>A partially blind, partially deaf young woman returning home from
treatment for a brain tumor was brutally smashed to the ground by goon
tug TSA “security” while her mother, a nurse, was shoved away.<br />
The goon tugs responsible should get at least 30 years in a maximum
security prison for assault with intent to kill. But nothing will happen
to them. Their corrupt bosses always cover up for the psychopaths who
occupy so many “security” and police positions from which they exercise
unaccountable brutality over those of us forced to pay their salaries.<br />
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<figcaption itemprop="description"> A brain tumor had left Hannah blind
in one eye, deaf in one ear and partially paralyzed, so when the guards
grabbed each of her arms it startled her, she said. Photograph: Courtesy
of Shirley Cohen
This is America today. We are forced to pay for our own brutilization
by a criminal element that has taken refuge in “security” that
“protects us.” We are in far more danger from the security forces
allegedly protecting us than we are from terrorists. Indeed, the
security forces are the terrorists.<br />
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Remember, during eight years of the Iraq War, US police killed more
Americans than the US lost troops in combat. We needed our soldiers at
home protecting us from the police, not over there “protecting” us from
Iraqis who were not bothering us at all.<br />
The only way to stop the continuous murder and brutalization of
American citizens by “security” is to give the same jail sentences to
the psychopaths, who comprise a large percentage of police, as are given
to criminals without badges to hide behind. Until this happens, no one
is safe, not even a handicapped young women traveling home from a
hospital with her mother.<br />
The same prison sentences should be given to executive branch
officials who initiate wars of aggression on the basis of lies and
fraud. These officials are criminals, not “world leaders.”<br />
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/02/disabled-cancer-patient-tsa-lawsuit-memphis-airport">Read the article from the Guardian</a> and weep for your lost country in which we are far less safe from “our” government than we were under King George.<br />
Indeed with Washington’s record of destroying seven countries in 15
years, no one in the world is safe from the government of “the land of
liberty.”<br />
America is now justice proof. “Security” has so thoroughly inoculated
us against justice that justice cannot happen in America. Winning some
taxpayer money in a civil lawsuit is not justice. Justice is prison for
the goon thug criminals with badges.<br />
<em><strong>Dr. Paul Craig Roberts</strong> was Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall
Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News
Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university
appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following.
Roberts’ latest books are <a href="http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/inbound/nbe81oi9d" rel="follow" target="_blank">The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West</a>, <a href="http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/inbound/7o5oendn3o">How America Was Lost</a>, and <a href="http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/inbound/w9noii8">The Neoconservative Threat to World Order</a>.</em><br />
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incensemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00094084883316817998noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5679957567390799096.post-21633015680263528992016-06-30T07:06:00.002-07:002016-06-30T07:06:55.576-07:00Mass Shooting at Club-Media’s Refusing to Report - It-Heres Why!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Why didn’t
you hear about it? Well,</span> <span style="color: #cc0000;">because it was promptly stopped by a concealed
carrier who used his gun to take out the bad guy before he could kill
anybody.</span></h3>
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According to the <a href="http://www.goupstate.com/article/20160627/ARTICLES/160629757/-1/wire?Title=Lyman-man-charged-following-shooting-at-nightclub" target="_blank">Spartanburg Herlad-Journal</a>,
the incident happened in the early hours of Sunday morning in Lyman,
South Carolina. Jody Ray Thompson, a 32-year-old Lyman resident,
allegedly got into a verbal confrontation with another man outside the
Playoffz nightclub at about 3:30.</div>
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Thompson
quickly decided to escalate the verbal altercation, firing at random
into the crowd and hitting three people. One of the men who was shot at,
however, had a concealed carry license. He fired back at Thompson,
wounding him in the leg and stopping his rampage.</div>
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Thompson has
been charged with four counts of attempted murder; the man who returned
his fire will not be charged, according to police, as he was acting in
self-defense.</div>
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Of the three
people who were hit, only one was seriously injured — Renada Shantrice
Irby, 34, who had one of the bullets lodged in her pelvis.</div>
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According to <a href="http://bearingarms.com/bob-o/2016/06/29/concealed-carrier-just-stopped-mass-shooting-night-club-media-remained-silent/" target="_blank">Bearing Arms</a>,
Thompson had a criminal record dating back to 2003 and should not have
legally had a gun. But apparently, gun control didn’t keep this criminal
from getting it.</div>
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Shocking, right?</div>
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<br /></div>
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Meanwhile,
liberals have been trying to take guns away from people like the man who
ended this mass shooting, legal gun owners who want to defend
themselves.</div>
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The media is
along for the ride. That’s why the fact that a potential Orlando-style
mass shooting, minus the terrorist motivation, isn’t being covered —
because a legal gun owner was able to stop it.</div>
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If the media
wants to pretend that they cover both sides of the story, then what
happened in Lyman, South Carolina, needs to be reported. It shows just
how important the Second Amendment is to protecting ourselves as a
people.</div>
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<br /></div>
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If someone like this man had been at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, maybe there wouldn’t be 49 dead people.</div>
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Please like
and share on Facebook and Twitter if you agree that a good guy with a
gun is the best way to stop a bad guy with a gun.</div>
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incensemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00094084883316817998noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5679957567390799096.post-13307182833114119022016-06-29T06:32:00.000-07:002016-06-29T06:33:16.973-07:00 Health 8 Natural Herbs To Treat Mental Disorders: Stress, Anxiety, Depression<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Daily life problems and on-going pressure can
create mental disorders such as anxiety, stress and ultimately
depression. All of which are linked to each other and for instance,
stress can make existing mental issues like anxiety worse. Approximately
14.8 million American adults are affected yearly with such disorders.
And instead of resorting to sedative drugs that can reflect side effects
such as addiction, weight gain and frenzy behavior. Alternative
medicine offers you the same therapeutic properties using only
natural elements.<br />
<h2>
Herbs to treat depression, stress and anxiety:</h2>
<h3>
<b>1 – St. John’s wort herb</b></h3>
If you are depressed and always anxious, unable to sleep? St. John’s
wort plant is the solution that you need. Herbal experts consider it one
of the best anti-depressants and prescribed for the treatment of light
and moderate depression.<br />
You can find this plant in health stores or in pharmacies in
different forms, such as pills, liquid extracts, capsules or injections.
But be careful, because consuming this plant should be in suitable
doses.<br />
To use the plant for more than 15 days, you must consult with a
doctor or a specialist in the field because drugs interactions can
create complications, especially antidepressant and antiviral drugs.<br />
<h3>
<b>2 – Rhodiola Rosea or the Golden Root</b></h3>
This plant prefers a particular slope in the cold regions of the
world to grow naturally. The plant is considered the golden root of the
perennial plants and pretty useful against mental stress.<br />
The roots are used in Scandinavia for the treatment of seasonal
depression, which is associated with the absence of sunny skies as well
as being an excellent stimulant and substitute for anti-anxiety
medication as it helps to regulate the production of adrenaline and
improving sleep in people who suffer from insomnia.<br />
If you feel tired and you need the energy to work, you can take
golden root plant in the form of a capsule or tablet half an hour before
breakfast or lunch. Avoid taking it in the evening so as not to bother
you while you sleep.<br />
<h3>
<b>3 – Valerian </b></h3>
Valerian plant is known for its sedative effects since ancient Greece
era and used as a natural remedy for sleep disorders and nervousness.
The important ingredients of this plant exist in its roots and consumed
in different forms such as dried roots, dye and dry extract of the herb.<br />
You can use this herb to reduce tension and anxiety by putting dried
roots in boiling water and drink from it twice a day. And you can also
add boiled valerian to your bath to release tension and stress.<br />
<h3>
<b>4 – Ginseng </b></h3>
Ginseng is called the “root of life” in Chinese traditional medicine
because it gives a sense of energy in the case of physical and mental
fatigue.<br />
The advantage of this plant is that it helps to increase the body’s
ability to cope with stress and fatigue of different situations you
encounter every day. To take advantage of its unique properties, take
ginseng on a daily basis, for example, in the form of capsules
containing 3 or 7 percent of the “ginsenoside”.<br />
<h3>
<b>5 – Chamomile</b></h3>
If you feel anxious, stressed, you should take a cup of chamomile
warm tea, which helps to calm the nerves and relieves anxiety and
depression.<br />
<h3>
<b>6 – Green tea</b></h3>
Green tea contains a substance called ‘Theanine’ that reduces high
heart rate and high blood pressure, drink green tea twice a day to
refresh your thoughts and to calm the nervous system.<br />
<h3>
<b>7 – Passion Flower</b></h3>
Despite its name, passion flower have no effect on the feelings or
pain and it works as a moderator for the nerves, anti-anxiety and
insomnia, but it is advised to to overtake it because it has the same
effect as other sedative drugs.<br />
<h3>
<b>8 – Lavender</b></h3>
Lavender flower has a strong aromatic smell and used to treat stress
and anxiety, you can create a lavender spray or drink it in the form of
tea, try it and you won’t be disappointed.<br />
<h3>
Important tips for anxiety, stress, depression:</h3>
<ul>
<li> Exercise is very beneficial for both the body and the mind, try
to practice any kind of sports on a regular basis and you will feel the
difference.</li>
<li>A deep breath is one of the easiest ways to fight anxiety and when
you feel the pressure. It will help you relax and refrain you from
getting nervous or angry.</li>
<li>If you notice low blood glucose, it may be due to anxiety feelings,
you need to eat something like chocolate or candy to restore normal
glucose level.</li>
<li>Make sure to eat breakfast on time because it’s considered one the
most important meals of the day. It helps the body to function
efficiently, where studies found that those who do not have breakfast
become more anxious than those who do.</li>
<li>Omega 3 is among the top beneficial nutrients for your health, such
as protecting the heart from disease, as they also protect against
depression {<b><a href="http://www.herbalismchoice.com/2016/03/natural-depression-remedies.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">depression home remedies</a></b>} and stress.</li>
<li>Magnesium components reduce the tension and lower high blood pressure and excess heart rate.</li>
</ul>
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<i>That’s it,</i></div>
<div>
What are some other herbs worth mentioning to treat stress, anxiety and depression?</div>
<div>
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><i>References:</i></span></div>
<ol>
<li><a href="http://umm.edu/health/medical/altmed/condition/stress" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://umm.edu/health/medical/altmed/condition/stress</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.theherbalspoon.com/2013/06/anxiety-and-depression-relief.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.theherbalspoon.com/2013/06/anxiety-and-depression-relief.html</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.herbalismchoice.com/2016/03/stress-and-anxiety-home-remedies.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.herbalismchoice.com/2016/03/stress-and-anxiety-home-remedies.html</a></li>
</ol>
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<br />incensemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00094084883316817998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5679957567390799096.post-85621609088571917562016-06-28T05:16:00.001-07:002016-06-28T05:16:05.044-07:00A history lesson about your Social Security card and benefits <blockquote>
<b>Subject: History Lesson on Your Social Security Card</b></blockquote>
<br />
<blockquote>
Just in case some of you young whippersnappers (& some older
ones) didn’t know this. It’s easy to check out, if you don’t believe it.
Be sure and show it to your family and friends. They need a little
history lesson on what’s what and it doesn’t matter whether you are
Democrat or Republican. Facts are Facts.<br />
Social Security Cards up until the 1980s expressly stated the number and card were not to be used for identification purposes.</blockquote>
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<h3>
<b> DID YOU KNOW</b></h3>
<blockquote>
Since nearly everyone in the United States now has a number, it
became convenient to use it anyway and the NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION
message was removed.</blockquote>
<br />
<blockquote>
Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program. His promises are in black, with updates in red.<br />
1.) That participation in the Program would be Completely voluntary [<span style="color: red;">No longer voluntary</span>],<br />
2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual Incomes into the Program [<span style="color: red;">Now 7.65% on the first $90,000, and 15% on the first $90,000 if you’re self-employed</span>],<br />
3.) That the money the participants elected to put into the Program
would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year [<span style="color: red;">No longer tax deductible</span>],<br />
4.) That the money the participants put into the independent ‘Trust
Fund’ rather than into the general operating fund, and therefore, would
only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no
other Government program [<span style="color: red;">Under Johnson the money was moved to the General Fund and Spent</span>], and<br />
5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income [<span style="color: red;">Under Clinton & Gore up to 85% of your Social Security can be Taxed</span>].<br />
Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a
Social Security check every month — and then finding that we are
getting taxed on 85% of<br />
the money we paid to the Federal government to ‘put away’ — you may be interested in the following:<br />
<strong>Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the
independent ‘Trust Fund’ and put it into the general fund so that
Congress could spend it? </strong><br />
A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically controlled House and Senate.<br />
<strong>Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding? </strong><br />
A: The Democratic Party.<br />
<strong>Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities? </strong><br />
A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the ‘tie-breaking’
deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of
the US<br />
AND MY FAVORITE:<br />
<strong>Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants? </strong><br />
A: That’s right! Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party. Immigrants
moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive Social Security
payments! The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though
they never paid a dime into it!<br />
Now, after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn
around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social
Security away!<br />
And the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it! If
enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted
and maybe changes will<br />
evolve. Maybe not, though. Some Democrats are awfully sure of what
isn’t so — but it’s worth a try. How many people can YOU send this to?<br />
Actions speak louder than bumper stickers.</blockquote>
<span style="color: red;"><strong></strong></span><strong>Source: </strong><a href="http://www.bookwormroom.com/">Bookworm Room</a>incensemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00094084883316817998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5679957567390799096.post-2729546312715496822016-06-28T05:06:00.000-07:002016-06-28T05:06:05.630-07:00Bill Requiring Women to Register for the Draft Passes Senate<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />
A provision that would require women to register for the military
draft alongside men for the first time in American history was included
as part of the massive <a href="http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/06/14/senate-backs-16-troop-pay-raise-bah-cuts-health-care-reform.html" target="_blank">2017 National Defense Authorization Act that passed the Senate</a> handily on Tuesday with an 85-13 vote.<br />
The language requiring the draft for women was added in committee and
received little debate on the Senate floor, but has created a firestorm
of controversy on and off Capitol Hill. It comes as the military
services welcome women into previously closed ground combat units in
keeping with a mandate from Defense Secretary Ash Carter given late last
year.<br />
On Feb. 2, a panel of top military leaders including <a href="http://www.military.com/army" target="_blank">Army</a> Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, <a href="http://www.military.com/marine-corps" target="_blank">Marine Corps</a> Commandant Gen. Robert Neller, and <a href="http://www.military.com/navy" target="_blank">Navy</a> Secretary Ray Mabus <a href="http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/02/02/us-military-leaders-support-having-women-register-for-the-draft.html" target="_blank">all told the Senate Armed Services Committee they supported</a> drafting men and women in light of the changes to combat assignments.<br />
"It is my personal view that based on this lifting of restriction for
assigning [job specialties], that every American that is physically
qualified should register for the draft," Neller said at the time.<br />
In the House, which previously passed its version of the NDAA, an
amendment requiring women to register for the draft passed narrowly with
a 32-30 vote, even though its author, California Republican Rep. Duncan
Hunter, voted against it.<br />
"I've talked to coffeehouse liberals in San Francisco and
conservative families who pray three times a day," Hunter said April 27,
as the House Armed Services Committee marked up the bill. "Neither of
them want their daughter to be drafted."<br />
The Senate proposal was hotly debated on the floor June 7 by Republicans Ted Cruz, from Texas, and John McCain, from Arizona.<br />
Cruz complained that the provision including women in the draft
entered the bill through committee, rather than in public, open debate.<br />
"I'm the father of two daughters. Women can do anything they set
their mind to, and I see that each and every day," Cruz said. "The idea
that we should forcibly conscript young girls in combat to my mind makes
little or no sense. It is at minimum a radical proposition. I could not
vote for a bill that did so without public debate."<br />
McCain countered that including women in the draft was a matter of equality.<br />
"Women who I have spoken to in the military overwhelmingly believe
that women are not only qualified, but are on the same basis as their
male counterparts," McCain said. "Every leader of the United States
military seems to have a different opinion from [Cruz], whose military
background is not extensive."<br />
Currently, U.S. law requires most male citizens and immigrants
between the ages of 18 to 25 to register in the selective service
system. The Senate NDAA would require all female citizens and U.S.
residents who turn 18 on or after Jan. 1, 2018, to register as well.<br />
Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah introduced an amendment that would
have removed the draft language from the bill, but it was unsuccessful.
Another Republican, Rand Paul of Kentucky, filed an amendment that would
have gotten rid of the draft altogether, but it too failed to get
traction.<br />
The House and Senate must now reconcile their versions of the NDAA in conference before final passage.<br />
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Source: Military.com incensemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00094084883316817998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5679957567390799096.post-26621721303706446782016-06-27T05:00:00.003-07:002016-06-27T05:00:56.209-07:00Pic De Jour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<h2>
The Quickly Changing World of Antibiotics</h2>
Well, if
you haven't been following along about the state of antibiotic
resistance in the world today... it's time to do your homework!<br />
The "superbugs" are here. But don't let the media fool you - antibiotic resistance isn't about a handful of "superbugs." <em>Any</em> bacteria can develop resistance to our antibiotics. And as it turns out, they already have.<br />
It's
odd that this story is still so surprising to so many people. The
inventor of modern antibiotics himself actually told us this would
happen, if we misused them. Long before "superbugs" were making any
headlines, Sir Alexander Fleming had this to say shortly after he
accepted the Nobel Prize for developing penicillin...<br />
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">
<strong>"The
microbes are educated to resist penicillin and a host of
penicillin-fast organisms is bred out... In such cases the thoughtless
person playing with penicillin is morally responsible for the death of
the man who finally succumbs to infection with the penicillin–resistant
organism. I hope this evil can be averted."</strong></div>
Uh... I've got some bad news, Dr. Fleming.<br />
<blockquote>
Read more: <a href="http://thegrownetwork.com/treating-infections-without-antibiotics/">Treating Infections Without Antibiotics</a></blockquote>
<h2>
What is Your Antibiotics IQ?</h2>
We put together this nifty quiz so that you can gauge your knowledge about antibiotic resistance against the general population.<br />
These
10 questions will show whether or not you've been paying attention, and
more importantly, whether or not you know the basic facts that you need
to know in order to make the best decisions for yourself and your loved
ones. Take the quiz by clicking on the banner below:<br />
<h2>
Pass or Fail?</h2>
Don't worry if you didn't ace the quiz on your first attempt. There's some technical stuff, and a lot of numbers to remember.<br />
You can always come brush up on the basics here at The Grow Network. For starters, check out Marjory's article <a href="http://thegrownetwork.com/23000-people-will-die-this-year-and-never-see-their-killer-coming/"><em>23,000 People Will Die This Year...</em></a> and the follow-up <a href="http://thegrownetwork.com/antimicrobial-resistance-in-the-news/"><em>Antimicrobial Resistance in the News</em></a>. And if those two are too depressing for you, there's a bit of positive news to be found here: <a href="http://thegrownetwork.com/new-understanding-life-earth-national-microbiome-initiative/"><em>A New View of Life on Earth - The National Microbiome Initiative</em></a>.<br />
And
we'd love to hear your feedback on the quiz. If you have thoughts or
comments, share them with us using the comments at the bottom of this
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<h2>
When Will Dinner Be Ready?</h2>
This is a serious
question: How long does it take to grow your own food? There's no easy
answer, but give it a little thought. If you woke up tomorrow and the
grocery store was empty, how long would it take before you could provide
food for your family to eat?<br />
Let's assume that you're an
accomplished gardener. You have good soil and you know what to do, but
you're starting from scratch...<br />
You can grow some radishes in
about 30 days. About 70 days for carrots. You could have some tomatoes
in about 100 days. Now, if you wanted to eat a chicken, we're talking
about more like 4 or 5 months - and make it 6 months if you want eggs.<br />
So,
starting from scratch, an accomplished gardener could whip up a tasty
salad in about 3 months. The bad news? It only takes 40 days to starve
to death.<br />
<h2>
What's My Point?</h2>
Venezuela is undergoing a
catastrophic food shortage right now. It's as bad as it gets - the
total collapse of a food system that relied heavily on imports. The
grocery stores have already been ransacked, the people are starving, and
food shipments are being transported under armed guard.<br />
Amid this
overwhelming and life-threatening crisis, the government has formally
advised its people that they should begin to grow their own food and
raise their own chickens. Can you imagine that?<br />
Even if you're an expert, gardening takes <em>a lot</em> of time. Now let's assume that you're not an expert. Now you're someone who has never before planted a single seed...<br />
<blockquote>
Read more: <a href="http://thegrownetwork.com/are-you-prepared-for-peak-chicken/">Are You Prepared for Peak Chicken? </a></blockquote>
<h2>
How Long Does it Really Take to Grow Food?</h2>
Developing
a rich soil that produces consistently might take you a few years,
depending on what you start with. Tack on another few years to learn
the basics about when you should plant and when you should harvest. In
the meantime, you'll also need to learn about pest and disease
management, nutrient deficiencies, pollination, crop rotation... the
list goes on.<br />
How long does it really take to grow food? The
short answer is... it takes a lifetime. Ask an old-timer with a
thriving garden how long it would take them to show you what they know,
and there's a fair chance they'll throw their head back and laugh out
loud.<br />
For someone who has never sunk a shovel into the ground to
consistently produce food on their own would take several years, at
least.<br />
<blockquote>
Read more: <a href="http://thegrownetwork.com/10-reasons-to-garden-now/">10 Reasons to Garden NOW</a></blockquote>
<h2>
Is Your Food Security At Risk?</h2>
Regardless
of the type of government or the people in power, any population that
relies on imports for its food supply could be the next Venezuela. Any
number of scenarios could disrupt the supply and leave the importer
without food. When you rely on food imports, you accept the risk that
tomorrow's food shipment might not show up... for any reason.<br />
So
the question for each of us becomes, "Does my country rely on food
imports?" If you live in the United States, the answer is clearly yes.
The U.S. imports more food than any other country on earth, followed by
China, Germany, Japan, and the UK.<br />
I'm sure that some people will
call this fear mongering, but my intent is just the opposite. I hope
that people won't just look the other way and pretend that this could
never happen to us. Instead, we should <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/20/world/americas/venezuelans-ransack-stores-as-hunger-stalks-crumbling-nation.html?smid=pl-share&_r=0&module=Slide&region=SlideShowTopBar&version=SlideCard-12&action=Click&contentCollection=Americas&slideshowTitle=A%20Hungry%20Nation&currentSlide=12&entrySlide=1&pgtype=imageslideshow" target="_blank">take a good long look</a> at the situation, learn from it, and begin to make changes in our own lives to take responsibility for our own food security.<br />
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Sources:<br />
1: <em>Venezuelans Ransack Stores as Hunger Grips the Nation</em>.
New York Times
(http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/20/world/americas/venezuelans-ransack-stores-as-hunger-stalks-crumbling-nation.html?ribbon-ad-idx=4&rref=world&smid=pl-share&_r=0&version=SlideCard-12&slideshowTitle=A%20Hungry%20Nation&currentSlide=12&entrySlide=1&module=ArrowsNav&contentCollection=Americas&action=swipe&region=FixedRight&pgtype=article)<br />
2: <em>Food shortages take toll on Venezuelans' diet</em>. The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/24/venezuela-crisis-basic-food-shortages)<br />
3: The Science of Starvation: How long can humans survive without food
or water? Public Library of Science
(http://blogs.plos.org/obesitypanacea/2011/05/13/the-science-of-starvation-how-long-can-humans-survive-without-food-or-water/)<br />
4: Countries Most Dependent On Others For Food. WorldAtlas
(http://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-countries-importing-the-most-food-in-the-world.html)<br />
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