Sunday, January 20, 2013

‘Lethal Weapon’ actor tells students Second Amendment was intended to preserve slavery

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‘Lethal Weapon’ actor tells students Second Amendment was intended to preserve slavery

The Daily Caller – Sat, Jan 19, 2013

Actor and progressive political activist Danny Glover informed a group of students at a Texas A&M University-sponsored event that the Second Amendment was created to put down slave rebellions and subjugate Native Americans.

“I don’t know if you know the genesis of the right to bear arms,” Glover said on Thursday. “The Second Amendment comes from the right to protect themselves from slave revolts and from uprisings by Native Americans.”
“A revolt from people who were stolen from their land or revolt from people whose land was stolen from, that’s what the genesis of the Second Amendment is,” he added.
That theory that the Second Amendment was included in the Bill of Rights to put down slave rebellions was recently resurrected by bestselling author and radio host Thom Hartmann, who said Virginia wouldn’t ratify the Constitution without a guarantee that it would have some way to keep slaves in check.
Campus Reform, which broke the story, reports that the “Lethal Weapon” and “Predator 2″ star made the controversial statements at the sixth-annual Martin Luther King Breakfast on Texas A&M’s flagship campus in College Station. Other event sponsors include the office of the president and the athletic department.
At another point during the event, the award-winning actor called the United States “a material, a militaristic and, frankly — let’s call a spade a spade — a racist society.”
The San Francisco State University graduate (B.A., 1964) also pontificated professorially about the causes and effects of global warming. Later, he called the Occupy movement a “reimagining of democracy.”
An extensive video of Glover’s statements is available on YouTube.
A spokesperson for Texas A&M said that the administration had no prior knowledge that Glover would make such statements.
“I had no idea. We really didn’t know that topic was coming up,” Luke Altendorf, director of the school’s Memorial Student Center, told Campus Reform. “Someone was asking a question about activism. I think that’s where some of that came from.”
Altendorf would not discuss Glover’s compensation except to say that no student fees were used. Harry Belafonte and Angela Davis received $25,000 for speeches at past Martin Luther King Breakfast events, Campus Reform notes.
Altendorf championed the school’s decision to bring Glover and other controversial speakers to campus.
“We didn’t feel those speakers you are referring to are bad decisions on these topics because we want to foster discussion,” he told Campus Reform.
Members of a student group called the Texas Aggie Conservatives recorded the event for posterity.
The group has also created an online petition that protests a series of speaker choices that it calls politically biased.
“We expect President Loftin to stand by his commitment to diversity and fully support our efforts to bring in a conservative speaker to provide an alternative to Mr. Glover’s far left message” the group’s chairperson, Erik Schroeder, told Campus Reform.

Sex is major reason military commanders are fired

By LOLITA C. BALDOR | Associated Press – 6 hrs ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair, fired from his command in Afghanistan last May and now facing a court-martial on charges of sodomy, adultery and pornography and more, is just one in a long line of commanders whose careers were ended because of possible sexual misconduct.

Sex has proved to be the downfall of presidents, members of Congress and other notables. It's also among the chief reasons that senior military officers are fired.

At least 30 percent of military commanders fired over the past eight years lost their jobs because of sexually related offenses, including harassment, adultery, and improper relationships, according to statistics compiled by The Associated Press.

The figures bear out growing concerns by Defense Department and military leaders over declining ethical values among U.S. forces, and they highlight the pervasiveness of a problem that came into sharp relief because of the resignation of one of the Army's most esteemed generals, David Petraeus, and the investigation of a second general, John Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan.

The statistics from all four military services show that adulterous affairs are more than a four-star foible. From sexual assault and harassment to pornography, drugs and drinking, ethical lapses are an escalating problem for the military's leaders.
With all those offenses taken together, more than 4 in every 10 commanders at the rank of lieutenant colonel or above who were fired fell as a result of behavioral stumbles since 2005.

The recent series of highly publicized cases led to a review of ethics training across the military. It also prompted Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to conclude that while training is adequate, it may need to start earlier in service members' careers and be reinforced more frequently.

Still, officials struggle to explain why the problem has grown and they acknowledge that solving it is difficult and will take time.

"I think we're on the path. I think the last two defense secretaries have made this a very high priority and have very much held people accountable. But we've got a ways to go," said Michele Flournoy, a former undersecretary of defense under President Barack Obama.

She said the military must enforce a "zero tolerance" policy and work to change the culture so service members are held accountable and made to understand that their careers will be over if they commit or tolerate such offenses.
"The policy is in place," she said. "I don't know that it's as evenly and fully enforced as intended."

For top officers, the numbers are startling.

Eighteen generals and admirals, from one star to four stars, were fired in recent years, and 10 of them lost their jobs because of sex-related offenses; two others were done in by alcohol-related problems.
The figures show that 255 commanders were fired since 2005, and that 78 of them were felled by sex-related offenses. A breakdown: 32 in the Army, 25 in the Navy, 11 in the Marine Corps and 10 in the Air Force.
Alcohol and drug-related problems cost the jobs of 27 commanders — 11 in the Navy, eight in the Army, five in the Marine Corp(s and three in the Air Force.

"It's troublesome," said Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Navy's top spokesman. "Navy leadership is taking a look at why personal conduct seems to be a growing reason for why commanding officers are losing their commands. We're trying to get to the root causes. We don't really fully understand it."

He and other military leaders agree that poor leadership, bad judgment, and ethical lapses, rather than operational failures, are growing factors in the firings. But Kirby said it's not clear whether that has anything to do with the strains of the past 10 years at war or simply reflects deteriorating morals among the general population.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta ordered the ethics review in November. He said that "when lapses occur, they have the potential to erode public confidence in our leadership and in our system for the enforcement of our high ethical standards. Worse, they can be detrimental to the execution of our mission to defend the American people."

Anu Bhagwati, executive director of the Service Women's Action Network, said there is more focus on this issue now than ever in the past, but that there really is no sufficient deterrent in place. She said a major problem is that military commanders are responsible for deciding what cases should move forward.

She said military lawyers, who are trained and have a greater appearance of impartiality, should make such an important legal decision.

The statistics gathered and analyzed by the AP represent a very conservative estimate of the problem. While the Army, Navy and Marine Corps provided details for all military commanders who were lieutenant colonels or commanders and above for 2005 until now, Air Force officials said they could only provide data for colonels and above from 2008 until today.

Also, the figures reflect only officers who were in command positions. The numbers don't include what could be hundreds of officers fired from other jobs, such as administrative or other military posts. Military officials said they only collect data on officers in command who are fired.
The reasons for the firings are also murky. In some cases, no reason was listed; in other cases, it was vague — such as "ethics" or "leadership" or for fostering a bad command climate.
There also are varying degrees of publicity when such action is taken.
In Sinclair's case, the charges and impending court martial have received extensive coverage. The five pages of allegations, which involve his conduct with five women who were not his wife, include one count of forcible sodomy, two counts of wrongful sexual conduct, six counts of inappropriate sexual relationships, and eight counts of violating regulations. He could receive life in prison if convicted.

But in many other cases, particularly of those below the rank of general, there is little public notice if the senior officer is in the Army or Air Force. The Navy, however, issues a public statement every time a commander is removed from a job.

The figures also highlight the Navy's reputation for being quick to justice. Although it is the second smallest of the four military services, the Navy has relieved the most commanders, 99, over the past eight years. By comparison, it was 83 for the Army, 41 for the Marines and 32 for the Air Force.

Dismissing a commander from a job does not mean that officer is forced out of the military. In some of the more serious cases, officers may be discharged or forced to resign. But in many other cases, service members may go on to another job for some time.

Still, a dismissal often signals the end of an officer's career, and with no chance for promotion, officers will often retire or leave the service.

The Army is the largest of the military services, reaching a peak of about 570,000 active duty soldiers at the height of the Iraq war. It is supposed to cut 80,000 troops by 2017. The Marine Corps is the smallest service, with about 202,000 at its peak during the wars and is set to slim down to about 182,000. The Navy has about 322,000 active duty forces and the Air Force has about 328,000.

The other reasons for dismissals by the services cover a broad range of offenses, from assault and drug and alcohol use to being a poor or abusive leader. There are also instances of fraud as well as a few cases where Navy officers commanding a ship have hit something, such as a buoy or another ship.

Four generals have lost their jobs in recent years as a result of public scandals. All were dismissed while Robert Gates was defense secretary:

—Gen. Michael Moseley, the Air Force Chief of Staff, was dismissed in 2008 for failing to address several nuclear-related mishaps by the service.

— Army Lt. Gen. Kevin Kiley and Army Maj. Gen. George Weightman were dismissed because of the poor outpatient treatment of wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in 2007.

—Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal resigned after members of his staff made disparaging remarks about Obama's national security team, including Vice President Joe Biden. A Pentagon investigation later cleared him of wrongdoing. http://news.yahoo.com/sex-major-reason-military-commanders-fired-123720150.html

Why collectivism is doomed and the next great crisis will massively shift America toward conservatism

Originally published January 19 2013

Why collectivism is doomed and the next great crisis will massively shift America toward conservatism

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

(NaturalNews) There is a very good reason why people who live in cities tend to be liberal while those who live in rural areas tend to be conservative. In a city, the existence of nearby neighbors, the shared dependence on infrastructure and the close proximity of police stations automatically lends itself to a socialist mindset. On issues like guns, city people seem to be unable to imagine why anyone would "need" a rifle, for example, and because all guns scare them, they would prefer to force everyone across the country to turn them all in.

People who live in rural areas, in great contrast, have every reason to be more conservative and independent. Their local sheriff might be 30 minutes away in an emergency, meaning that self protection is truly up to you and can't simply be delegated to someone else. Self-reliance means survival. In rural living, firearms are absolutely necessary tools to protect your animals from predators, eliminate varmints that are destroying your garden, and provide real security for legitimate threats to your safety. People who live in cities tend not to be able to understand these things because they can't imagine country life.

Because cities pack so many people in such a small space, there is a commonsense basis for lots of little laws and regulations on things like noise, littering and even your car's emissions. After all, one incredibly noisy person living in an apartment can prevent a hundred people from getting to sleep, so noise ordinances make sense where people live in close proximity.

Out in the country, where the nearest house might be a quarter-mile away, noise ordinances make no sense. Regulations on every little detail of the lives of the people simply don't fly.

FACT: Today, about 80% of the U.S. population lives in cities.

The political divide in America today is largely a division of "city folks" versus "country folks"

City people tend to be socialist-minded. Their motto is: Conform! Obey! Be part of the collective!

Country people tend to be libertarian-minded. Their motto is: Survive! Work hard! Stand out as an individual!

City people are afraid of non-conformity. They're afraid of tractors, guns, farm animals and anything else they don't understand.

Country people are afraid of being told what to do by a bunch of city people who have no clue where their food comes from, where water comes from, what "growing seasons" are, or how to survive in the real world.

City people tend to believe in "living off the government" and collective welfare and other entitlements wherever possible.

Country people tend to believe in "living off the land" and finding ways to survive on their own or with the help of family. They feel a sense of personal shame if driven to use food stamps or other forms of welfare.

City people tend to vote democratic because democrats reflect the lean toward socialism and everything socialism brings them: welfare, subsidized housing, conformity, obedience, etc.

Country people tend to vote Republican because Republicans reflect more of a rugged individualism mindset that encourages business ownership, financial savings and living a more free life with fewer regulations and government controls.

If you look at every voting map of America over the last few years, you'll find that rural areas overwhelmingly voted Republican while urban areas overwhelmingly voted Democrat. The following map shows the congressional district results from the 2010 election:

Modern-day cities are artificial constructs ripe for collapse

Cities are artificial constructs. They are not the "real world." Cities only exist because a massive amount of energy is expended to import water, food, electricity, consumer goods, fuel and other items to the people living there.

Cities offer tremendous advantages to residents, of course, including convenience, efficiencies of commerce, shared defenses against the wilderness, specialization of the workforce, a critical mass of population needed to offer universities, and so on. People live in cities precisely because cities seem to offer them more advantages than living in the country. For most people, this comes down to a single answer: JOBS.

Most people can't find work in the country, so they live in cities in order to get a job. Unfortunately, living in the city is far more expensive than living in the country, so much of their paycheck goes to paying the rent on their expensive city apartment, parking permits, higher food costs and so on.

Ultimately, however, cities are death traps. Let's look at Los Angeles as the perfect example of why this is the case.

Example: Why Los Angeles is a death trap

• LA has no inherent water supply. Virtually all the water used throughout the region must be imported and pumped over a mountain range at great cost. This pumping of water is entirely dependent on the power grid remaining functional.

• LA is incapable of being evacuated. The population density of the city is mathematically far too great to be evacuated via the limited number of roadways exiting the city.

• LA has multiple points of systemic failure. If the power grid goes down, LA is finished. If the water supply stops pumping, LA is finished. If farmers go on strike and stop producing food for the cities, LA is finished. If the police stand down or quit, LA is finished. If gasoline and fuel supplies are cut off, LA is finished. If the sewer and sanitation systems fail, LA is finished.

• LA has a scary population density of about 7,000 people per square mile. That's the highest of any city in the USA. This population density results in almost immediate panic and violence in any collapse scenario. Humans are not biologically designed to live in such high density environments.

• LA is infested with gangs that are barely kept under control right now. Those gangs would love nothing better than the see law enforcement go on strike or a power grid failure or some other kind of systemic collapse. That would give them the opportunity to go on the offensive and start looting, pillaging and murdering.

There are more reasons why LA is a death trap, but these five should paint the picture clearly enough. And it's not just LA, of course. Here are the top 20 death traps in America today...

The top 20 death traps in America

Source: 2010 census

1) New York City
2) Los Angeles
3) Chicago
4) Miami
5) Philadelphia
6) Dallas-Fort Worth
7) Houston
8) Washington D.C.
9) Atlanta
10) Boston
11) Detroit
12) Phoenix
13) San Francisco
14) Seattle
15) San Diego
16) Minneapolis
17) Tampa
18) Denver
19) Baltimore
20) St. Louis

While all of these cities are death traps, each has its own unique risks and vulnerabilities. Phoenix, for example, is especially susceptible to disruptions in the water supply. New York City is geographically cut off from the mainland and can easily be crippled by the destruction of its bridges. Houston and Miami are susceptible to hurricanes. Denver is heavily targeted by Russian nukes, and so on.

The more dense cities become, the more insane their leadership becomes

One thing you'll notice about this list is that the mayors and city council members of these cities tend to be some of the most outrageously insane people walking the planet today.

Why is that? Those who have a kind of mental sickness that causes them to seek control over others naturally flock to the highest population density areas where they can attempt to control as many people as possible. This is one reason why cities become home to control freaks who seek total domination over the private lives of everyone else.

New York City mayor Bloomberg, for example, wants to control the sizes of sodas you can buy, whether or not you get painkillers in the hospital emergency room and even how much rent landlords can charge tenants. If he could get away with it, he would probably also like to control how many square sheets of toilet paper you wipe with and how many times you chew each bite of food before swallowing. Control freaks love cities because that's where people can more easily be dominated. Citizens of cities tend to be more obedient and conformist than people living in rural areas. Plus, city folks are generally not as well armed, making them easy to dominate by force, if necessary.

"Any government that does not trust its citizens with firearms is either a tyranny, or planning to become one." - Joseph P. Martino, author of Resistance to Tyranny.

Community leaders of rural areas tend to be less insane and more practical than city leaders. That's because people know each other better, so there's more trust and reputation familiarity in small towns than in large cities. Plus, leaders of small towns know that if they try to become tyrants, some local rancher will just put a bullet in their head with a long-range hunting rifle. It's that kind of awareness that helps keep community leaders honest and accountable.

Why the coming collapse will shift America away from liberalism and toward conservatism

Here's the real point of this entire article. I wanted to start with this but needed everything above to provide the appropriate background and context.

Pick your crisis, any crisis: Global debt collapse, solar flare followed by power grid failure, EMP weapon strike by North Korea causing power grid failure, biological weapons attack, martial law declaration followed by civil war, etc. In any sufficiently large scenario, the cities become death traps.

• A sustained power grid failure (lasting several months) would likely result in something approaching an 80% fatality rate for those living in cities.

• A biological weapon release could easily cause a 30% fatality rate for those in the cities.

• An economic collapse (bank failures, etc.) could also see mass casualties across U.S. cities due to starvation, disease, outbreaks of violence and so on.

Aside from the devastating human cost of such scenarios, which I won't really focus on because that's not the point of this article, the net effect of any mass die-off would be a shifting of the population toward individualism, conservatism and country living.

A mass die-off of people living in cities, in other words, is essentially a mass die-off of Obama voters (or more liberal-minded, socialist-minded people). This is one reason why rugged individuals, survivalists, preppers and rural people are ultimately going to be in the majority: because crisis comes to civilization with surprising regularity. Every crisis resulting in a mass die-off inevitably kills those who are less able to survive because they are living as parasites on a system that will ultimately fail them. The true long-term survivors are those who live and breathe independence, self-reliance and personal defense.

To put all this another way, collectivists don't survive very long in a real crisis. Because they live their lives dependent on the system, they have lost the skills -- and the spirit -- to survive on their own.

The cycles of civilization

As populations tend to become more lazy, apathetic and dependent over time (enjoying the spoils of abundance and innovation their ancestors put in place), populations tend to slide toward collectivism as long as conditions allow. Click here to see my related video called the Cycle of Civilization.

This brings us to the following conclusion:

As population rises, nations tend to slide toward collectivism / socialism until there is a die-off crisis, at which point those remaining will largely be proponents of conservatism and libertarianism.

This is one of the reasons why civilizations tend to go through predictable cycles: After abundance and innovation comes apathy and collectivism. Then corruption, exploitation, a stripping of liberties and so on. This is then followed by revolution and a new era of freedom which creates abundance and innovation. Then the cycle repeats.

Today, America is in the downward stroke of the collectivism cycle, with the government having already crossed the threshold into criminal corruption, and now the effort to strip all rights from the people is well under way. History shows us that this will be followed by a dark period of intense violations of human rights, then a revolution and a new era of freedom.

But this cycle can be interrupted at any time with a sufficiently large crisis that causes a mass die-off. This is because die-offs are not equally applied across the population. It is the collectivist-minded societal parasite who is far more likely to die in any crisis than a productive, individual-minded taxpayer who currently supports the system.

The silver lining for the future of human civilization

In one sense, this is the silver lining that emerges from any potential crisis. While massive loss of life is always tragic, it may be precisely the thing that jolts a civilization out of its downward spiral of collectivism and restarts the engine of individualism and innovation that results in real progress.

Put another way, it is difficult to imagine the United States of America, as it exists today, achieving anything really profound in the sciences, space exploration, physics or human understanding because the nation is presently caught in a suffocating debt spiral consumed by paying out entitlements to a growing class of parasitic takers who contribute nothing meaningful to humankind. We have become, in part, a nation of mindless consumers whose lives really make no different whatsoever to the advancement of humanity. Should a crisis emerge that results in a massive die-off of the parasitic "takers," although the tragic loss of life would be immense, it would also have the effect of vastly reducing the masses who are holding back civilization from real progress in human understanding and achievement. For the record, in no way does this mean I wish for such an outcome nor endorse any such outcome. I have long been a defender of life, and I have no desire to see anyone suffer or die. I am merely discussing cause and effect and how demographics shift due to large-scale crisis.

I have heard this crudely (and incorrectly) paraphrased with the statement that, "What America really needs right now is a massive die-off to purge all the useless eaters." That's not what I'm saying, and it smacks of a desire to engage in genocide.

Instead, what I'm saying is that cities tend to breed a "failure" mindset that infects the population and turns otherwise productive and rugged people into pathetic, spineless, obedient cowards. This explains why nobody fought back during the Aurora, Colorado shooting carried out by James Holmes. It explains why people call 911 after an intruder has already smashed down their front door, screaming into the phone, "SHOULD I SHOOT THEM?" (And it also explains why 911 operators reply with, "No! Don't shoot!") It explains why city people tend to go along with tyranny and oppression.

It explains why humanity is stalled in a cycle of pathetic conformity, raising a generation of over-Google-fied morons who have lost all imagination and are but a shadow of their ancestors. The convenience of city life has, with some exceptions of course, produced apathy, timidity and acquiescence. The real values of progress -- innovation, invention, determination and self-reliance -- are now far more prevalent in rural-minded citizens who are strong, rugged survivors and explorers. (You want to see the future of humanity? Home-schooled children.)

That's the kind of mindset that's going to help human civilization reach for the stars. It's going to take courage, innovation and risk -- all the things that a "city mindset" sucks out of our souls and diminishes in our minds.

Cities are the last refuge of the weak-willed, weak-minded and conformist socialbots. And that's why they will suffer a disproportionate number of fatalities in any sufficiently severe collapse.

You want to survive? Learn country living

If you are a rural-minded person still living in a city, and you can't wait to get out of the city, the time to act on it is now. Get out to the country, learn some real-world living skills, toughen your will and sharpen your mind.

You will learn more in ONE YEAR of living on a working farm then you did in four years of college. The best education I ever got was living on a ranch in central Texas. It turned me into a hard-core survivor and problem solver who can overcome almost anything the universe might throw our way. http://www.naturalnews.com/z038739_cities_country_living_conservatism.html

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Armstrong's confession to have stark, wide-reaching impact

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Oprah Winfrey's televised interview of Lance Armstrong Thursday night is a game-changer. Not only for the man formerly known as a seven-time Tour de France champion but also for his many friends, confidants and -- yes -- enemies. All of them will be impacted by Armstrong's admission of doping.

Impact on Armstrong's Athletic Future and Marketability

Armstrong's admission is likely designed to persuade the U.S. Anti Doping Agency to reduce his lifetime ban from competitive sports, which follow the World Anti-Doping Code to an eight-year ban. In that regard, Thursday night's admission is a first and comparatively easy step. He still needs to tell USADA and its CEO, Travis Tygart, everything about his doping -- which substances he used, when he used them, who supplied them, who helped him avoid detection, which cyclists he pressured into doping, etc. Armstrong would have to make such declarations under oath, meaning any lies could lead to criminal perjury charges. He would also have to answer questions from USADA executives and attorneys -- the same people he sued for defamation last year in Texas in what now seems like a frivolous and vindictive lawsuit. Armstrong has almost no leverage -- if he doesn't play entirely by USADA's rules, his only option is to compete in non-sanctioned races.
DEITSCH: Armstrong falls short, but Winfrey shines
Armstrong also has to keep his stories straight. If he provides sworn testimony to USADA that contradicts or undermines his remarks to Winfrey, USADA won't believe him and won't reduce his penalty. Keep in mind, not every question is equal and not every questioner employs the same style. Winfrey was masterful in her questioning, showing herself more capable than even the most seasoned prosecutors. Her highlight may have been revealing Armstrong as a bully who implicitly pressured teammates to dope. At times, though, Winfrey allowed Armstrong to present himself as a somewhat sympathetic figure -- a cancer survivor whose wrongful conduct was fairly common in cycling and who felt pressured to live, as he told Winfrey, "perfect myth". Questions from USADA officials will likely be harsher and designed to make him decidedly uncomfortable. Armstrong going so far to sue USADA and Tygart for defamation probably won't help him when they start asking questions of him under oath.
If Armstrong expected his interview with Winfrey might restore his marketability, he will surely be disappointed. Although the second part of Winfrey's interview may focus on more personal issues, Armstrong in tonight's show often made apologies that seemed forced and half-hearted -- he described former assistant Emma O'Reilly, who he previously sued and spoke ill of, as "one of these people that I have to apologize to." There were also times he seemed surprisingly unprepared for Winfrey's questions, such as when he failed to produce a persuasive distinction between whether he pressured, but not required, other cyclists to dope, or when he weakly defended his doping program by saying it was not as bad as East Germany's infamous program from the 1980s.

Impact on Armstrong Facing Criminal Charges

The legal implications of Armstrong's comments to Winfrey are extensive. The possibility of criminal charges should give Armstrong the most concern, though the lengthy passage of time from most of his wrongful conduct advantages him.
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The most relevant criminal charge is perjury. Armstrong's explicit admission to Winfrey that he doped prior to 2009 contradicts sworn testimony he gave in 2005 in which he denied doping. The most plausible explanation for the discrepancy is simple: he knowingly lied eight years ago. Benefiting Armstrong is the five-year statute of limitations for federal perjury charges. Courts, however, sometimes delay the running of the statute until the wrongful act could have been discovered with reasonable efforts. Prosecutors might argue the statute of limitations for Armstrong's perjury in 2005 should not have begun until a later date -- perhaps when USADA published its report in 2012 or when Armstrong spoke with Winfrey this week. Don't expect those arguments to work. Judges are much more willing to delay the running in civil cases (where only money is at stake) than in criminal prosecutions (where someone could be sent to prison). A judge may also reason that the government -- which investigated Armstrong for years -- should have discovered Armstrong's lying.
Obstruction of justice, which is knowingly trying to interfere with a legal proceeding, and false statements to government officials are other potential crimes amplified by the now certain knowledge that Armstrong lied. Armstrong was the subject of a federal grand jury investigation in 2011 and 2012, during which time he may have interacted with government officials. If the government concludes Armstrong knowingly misled officials, obstruction of justice is conceivable and within the relevant statute of limitations.
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Armstrong's admissions to Winfrey also implicate his conduct as a member of a team sponsored by the U.S. Postal Service from 1999 to 2004. While Armstrong denied an active role in distributing drugs to teammates, he seemed to acknowledge he implicitly pressured them. His quasi-admission is consistent with the USADA's report which, supported by the sworn testimony from 15 cyclists who were familiar with the U.S. Postal Service team, portrayed Armstrong as unlawfully distributing the blood booster erythropoietin (EPO) and as threatening his teammates with termination unless they doped. Related criminal charges range from illegal distribution of steroids and prescription drugs, conspiracy (collaboration with others to commit crimes), racketeering (illegal business activity), misuse of public funds and embezzlement. While the statute of limitations on these charges has ostensibly expired, Armstrong should still worry about a court reasoning that the charges remain possible.
Should the government decide that Armstrong may have committed crimes, it would convene another grand jury. While a grand jury did not indict Armstrong in 2012, the government may reason that new information -- namely the USADA report and now Armstrong's admissions -- warrants another look. Then again, the Justice Department may be wary of initiating "another" prosecution of an athlete for charges related to lying and using performance-enhancing drugs. The Justice Department suffered two high-profile defeats in the Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds prosecutions. Plus, Armstrong, like Clemens and Bonds, has the financial wherewithal to assemble a top legal team that can capably stimulate enough doubt for jurors, who must apply the high burden of beyond a reasonable doubt.

The Interview's Impact on Armstrong Facing Civil Liability

While Armstrong is generally well-positioned to avoid criminal sanction, he faces an altogether different legal landscape for civil liability. Armstrong's admissions to Winfrey highlight how cruel and abusive he acted in protecting a myth; he acknowledged that he was a "bully". Even worse, his admissions demonstrate how he went so far as to abuse the U.S. legal system -- including the valuable time of judges and American taxpayer-funded courts -- to defend a story he knew was untrue. Expect blowback in the form of lawsuits, and anticipate Armstrong to attempt to settle claims before they require him to testify under oath, in which case he might be susceptible to criminal perjury charges.
Armstrong is already facing litigation. Former USPS teammate Floyd Landis, who cooperated with the government, is suing him in a whistle-blower suit. Landis asserts Armstrong and others breached contractual and fiduciary duties to USPS by cheating. The government can join Landis' civil suit, which asks for the approximately $30 million USPS paid the team, a quarter of which Landis would be entitled to under the law. Even better for Landis, damages could be trebled, thus totaling about $90 million.
Expect Armstrong to be sued by others. One is SCA Promotions, a Dallas insurance company that wants Armstrong to pay back $12.5 million in bonuses for winning the Tour de France in 2002. Because Armstrong doped, he violated his contract with SCA. The company will likely ask for its money back on grounds Armstrong committed fraud in breaching their agreement.
Another likely plaintiff is The Sunday Times, which says it will soon sue Armstrong to recover about $1.5 million it paid him to settle a libel claim he brought against it. If Armstrong is sued, his attorneys will likely argue that The Sunday Times made a calculated risk in settling the lawsuit before it went to trial and no court should give them a second bite at the apple. In response, The Sunday Times can emphasize Armstrong's dishonesty.
Emma O'Reilly, who served as an assistant to the U.S. Postal Service team and who helped to transport and distribute performance-enhancing drugs to cyclists, is another potential plaintiff. Armstrong also sued her for libel, claiming she defamed his reputation through lies. While O'Reilly settled without paying Armstrong, he sullied her reputation, with The Guardian reporting that Armstrong told others she was "an alcoholic and prostitute." It is very possible she files the same defamation lawsuit against him he filed against her. In his interview with Winfrey, Armstrong seemed to deflect blame, using the passive voice to say O'Reilly "got run over" as one of the "many" people he (or, as he awkwardly put it, "we") sued.
Armstrong's "cooperation" with USADA may lead to other lawsuits. If, as expected, Armstrong implicates others in cycling, including those at the International Cycling Union, they might sue him for defamation. Also, companies that endorsed Armstrong may also seek their money back. They can claim fraud.
There are three factors that work against the filing of claims against Armstrong. First is that the relevant statute of limitations for some claims have expired. Second is that in some cases damages may be difficult to show. Landis, for instance, may have difficultly showing that USPS actually lost money through its endorsement of the cycling team, which was successful and during which time Armstrong was perceived as a hero. An economic analysis might find USPS gained more financially than it lost through its endorsement, even if years later it was shown to have been a team with many cheaters. Third, some potential plaintiffs may worry that litigation and pretrial discovery might portray them in a negative light, particularly if they helped Armstrong cheat or adopted a "see no evil, hear no evil" mentality to suspicions about him.

Impact on Livestrong

Some speculate that Armstrong's motives for admission partly relate to promoting a clean break between himself and Livestrong, a foundation Armstrong founded in 1997 and, until recently, served as chairman. Although contributions to Livestrong have not dropped during the Armstrong controversy, there has been some concern they might and that some donors might ask for their money back. Those donors would almost certainly fail. When someone makes a donation, it is a true "gift." The donor no longer has control of the funds, unless made with a condition that the money be used in a certain way. Plus, returning donations creates difficult tax questions, because the donors have already taken a tax deduction for their gift.
A more divisive issue is whether Livestrong could have committed fundraising fraud by using Armstrong for inspiration when knowing of his cheating. Such an argument, however, seems speculative, especially since Livestrong, by all accounts, has abided by tax and charitable fundraising law. Nothing in the first night of the Armstrong-Winfrey interview suggests otherwise.
Michael McCann is director of the Sports and Entertainment Law Institute at the University of New Hampshire School of Law and the distinguished visiting Hall of Fame Professor of Law at Mississippi College School of Law. He also directs the sports law program at Vermont Law School.

IBM Watson Starts using Swear Words, Gets HardDrive Wiped by Creators

again even the comput' s ----get/ have potty mouth & they wipe the hard drive hehehe ....what bout soap ? IBM Watson Starts using Swear Words, Gets HardDrive Wiped by Creators 2013 01 18
By Ravi Mandalia | ParityNews.com

IBM has learned a rather strange lesson when it comes to teaching artificial intelligence (AI) enabled supercomputers to understand the subtlety of slangs used humans as it was recently revealed by Eric Brown that they had to develop a filter to keep Watson from swearing.

The head researcher at IBM had an idea of training Watson to understand natural language as he believed that ability to understand slangs would probably be an ultimate test that would ensure that Watson could understand the way real people communicate. To put this into practice Watson was made to learn the Urban Dictionary.

There was a slight problem though as the dictionary was made up of swear words along with nasty and dirty words which the Watson learned as well. The end result “Watson couldn’t distinguish between polite language and profanity -- which the Urban Dictionary is full of”, revealed Brown in an interview with Fortune Magazine.

“Watson picked up some bad habits from reading Wikipedia as well. In tests it even used the word "bullshit" in an answer to a researcher’s query”, he added.

To stop Watson from using the cuss words, Brown not only had to develop a filter that would stop the supercomputer from swearing but also had to scrape the entire Urban Dictionary from the computer’s memory.

Article from: paritynews.com

Swearing May be Good for Us – Study Shows

We’re taught not to swear in several stages throughout life, especially as children. In a wide number of social and formal situations, using expletives can in fact land someone in quite a bit of trouble. But when we’re by ourselves and under stress, the ability to yelp out a forbidden word or two might be more therapeutic than it would seem on the surface. This idea is perhaps most prevalent in those instances where we stub a toe or otherwise accidentally hurt ourselves, one of the most popular instances in which people let loose with swear words. Drawing on this common occurrence, a team at Keele University in Blightly has performed a study, with interesting implications for the worlds of psychology and pain relief.

The study was a delicate operation –after all, asking participants to endure a bit of pain and then sound off with words they’ve been instructed not to utter in the presence of others is a lofty quest, even in the academic environment. But the study met this challenge with the use of icy water. Participants were asked to submerge their hands into the water, and some subjects were encouraged to let out any “bad words” that came to mind, while others were limited to saying something defined as non-offensive. The results proved interesting: those who swore reported less pain, and on average were able to endure submersion for forty seconds longer than their clean-mouthed counterparts.

While it isn’t exactly cause for replacing every other word with something deliciously uncouth, the study does suggest that allowing ourselves a greater range of speech in times of stress –which may include therapy sessions– may be helpful in allowing us to work past our basic sensory barriers.

http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=23432
Source: GoodTherapy.org

FORT HOOD THE NUMERIC JIHAD

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By Clyde Lewis Friday November 13th 2009

The American people have endured many painful initiatory rituals at the hands of the power elite. As the world readies for its triumphant passing into a new paradigm, the forces of chaos will see to it that the future will be fraught with pain and suffering. Gone are the days of sanitized ideologies. The world has adjusted the levels of evil to make way for the painful advent of pathocracy. There are too many coincidences to indicate that sinister influences may be at work.
I have pointed out that the dark sinister workings have been set forth and that there are actions, reactions, sigils and numbers that play into the workings of what are called “black ops” in the military. This is black magic for those practitioners who see indicators of the sinister forces unleashed on our country and quite possibly the entire world.
On September 9^th, 2009, I prepared a very important show dealing with sinister forces called “Turn me On, Dead Man.” The show dealt with synchronicities concerning the number 9 and how its mystical qualities spin off all kinds of anomalies. If you have them pointed out to you, you can see that life is all in the numbers; we are under the spell of great numerologists and magicians that rule the world and program us like “sleepers” who wait for the voice of our controllers to have us rise.
In order to reveal these sinister occult influences, we must go beneath the political skin and realize that there is something far more valuable to the elite. It is something that everyone possesses. It is your blood. In some respects, blood is more valuable than oil. In a world of vampires it is fresh meat that attracts the beasts.
They kill indiscriminately and leave behind witchy or dark signatures or signals which, when revealed, demonstrate that not only are there puppet masters pulling our strings, but that the puppet masters have others pulling their own strings. We may not be able dissect and analyze the entire truth because of the darkness that it has within its core.
These sinister influences have infiltrated every part of our lives. Many religions are altering their doctrines to allow for the practice of occult ritual, folk magic, and ceremonial magic. These rituals are violent, sexual, and paranormal. You can look at these changes in religious attitudes and notice the similarities of ritual that can date back to Renaissance magicians, the Jewish Qabalah and the Babylonian secret schools.
The use of numerology and divination are all part of the apocalyptic blue print. Numbers that are sacred to the Masonic hierarchy like 33 and 9 are now being used as portent signatures to indicate that a ritual is taking place. The numbers 3, 7, 9, 11, 13, 33, and 39 have special meaning to the ELITE. The Brotherhood of the Serpent was founded in ancient Sumeria and its founder was overthrown by those who were considered corrupt. Those corrupt usurpers now in control took this Brotherhood of the Serpent and made several spin-offs of it. The Bilderberg Group is one. It has 39 members in its core who are divided into 3 groups of 13. And these 39 answer to the 13 who make up the Policy Committee. That group of 13, in turn, answer to the Round Table of Nine. The number 9 is a powerful, sinister number associated with Satanic ritual.
Those who know of the sacred numbers and codes are paying attention, because they know that the fullness or quickening is approaching and the gods of the fortresses are about to return.
When I played with the number 9 sequences in my show, I did so to demonstrate their magical aspects and how all events have sacred or sacrilegious significance. Whatever numbers create power remains to be seen. In acts of murder or terror the numbers repeat as if by design. Call it numeric pareidolia, call it stretching coincidence, but if it all adds up then maybe we can see the patterns and stop the future in the present, a bit of reverse causality.
How crazy is it to believe that all things fall together in place like a puzzle? That in all of the chaos, the universe is a well-oiled machine that somehow mechanically corrects itself, or throws itself into a syncopated order when something causes a cosmic stir?
When I look over the news of the day and I see things that seem to be out of place I tend to get obsessive-compulsive, like someone who sees a picture that is off kilter and has to put it into balance again.
Take, for example, the psychotic killer that opened fire on the soldiers based at Fort Hood, Texas. To me it was just a story; another horrible event that seemed to have all sorts of misleading stories surrounding it. It was exhausting to keep up with the mainstream narrative on the whole subject.
I sat and waited for the smoke to clear before I would comment. As the dust settled and the alleged killer’s health was upgraded from dead to seriously wounded, I decided that when the paranormal becomes reality it is time for me to get to work.
A glaring coincidence attracted my attention right from the beginning. The alleged killer’s address was like a paranormal kick in the teeth. Believe it or not, he lived in apartment Number 9 at the Casa Del Norte Apartments. It was a shabby little hole in the wall for a psychiatrist that made $90,000 a year. The nines had me again, but they most certainly weren’t the other number signatures that I saw; now I was becoming more convinced that this was a “black ops” accident or an intentional attack for a political motive.
As Charles Manson ordered his army to murder to the chant of “Number nine, number nine, number nine,” the control numbers and signatures of the Fort Hood case seemed clearly to echo the Luciferian art of political witchcraft.
As I write, I see it is all crazy; however I have to say to myself that all of those events that distract us in our lives are business as usual in the apocalypse. It is also known in the realm of magic that death and murder have a vibration and signature that alerts those in the know that “something witchy this way comes.”
You take your chances with every move you make. Everything has a symbolic meaning. Your actions definitely cause reactions in the ether. Your present is affected by your past, and now we may even see that the future also affects your present.
In this apocalypse, there seems to be a weird sense of retrocausality. Retrocausality is any of several hypothetical phenomena or processes that reverse causality, allowing an effect to occur before its cause…Retrocausality is primarily a philosophy of science, a thought experiment based upon elements of physics. It addresses the question: can the future affect the present, and can the present affect the past?
I have fixated on reverse causality in several of my shows lately. I seem to see it in many things, many events. It sounds crazy, but whether you believe it or not, it seems to be happening. Events appear to move backward and forward and change at every moment, making it impossible to know the truth about everything.
The Fort Hood shootings have a coincidental signature, but they also cause a certain déjà vu, because five days after the massacre in Texas another American Muslim soldier was put to death for his part in the Beltway Sniper case.
It is as if there were an echo in the Möbius strip: one demon falls and another takes its place using the same numeric signatures and the same traits as the “sleeper” assassin ready to be awakened to make his mark on history.
Fort Hood, Texas is now being called the site of the worst mass shooting at a U.S. military base. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a military psychiatrist and Muslim, reportedly attacked fellow soldiers, shouting “Allah Akbar” and firing more than 100 rounds into Fort Hood’s crowded processing center. The first reports said that he ended up killing 13 and wounding 31. The numeric reversal of wounded and dead stuck out like some cryptic signature. The number 13 and the number 31, reversed, were a peculiar coincidental, semi -palendromic mind-bender, quite an interesting digital signature if you know something about the occult.
The number 13, as we all know, is considered an unlucky number, but 13 reversed is a term used in the Tarot. The 13^th card of the Major Arcana is the death card. When you write “two plus eleven,” you are writing a sentence of 13 letters in order to give the sum of 13. You are doing the same in duplicate by writing the words “One plus twelve,” another sentence of 13 letters that give the sum of 13. Eleven plus two is an anagram of twelve plus one. Both have 13 letters and both add up to 13.
This is significant when you realize that the counts of murder against Hasan are One civilian plus 12 Military or 12 Military and one civilian or “TWELVE PLUS ONE,” the magical 13-letter anagram.
Fort Hood, where the shooting took place, has a very interesting location on a map. It is located at latitude 31.13 N. There you see the reversal again. 13 dead, 31 injured, at 31.13 north latitude.
That is what some might call a poetic coincidence. Or is it?
This activity indicates that our lives are full of patterns to which we assign meaning. They can also indicate the presence of the trickster, which from the beginning has been a figure looked upon with disdain. The trickster is the joker who gives us the riddle; if we fail to answer it with wisdom, the joker becomes the bringer of death.
The Biblical verse says “Behold the pale horse, and he who sat on him was death.” Death rides a pale horse on the thirteenth card of the Tarot, the death card. The number 13 or three ten, said quickly in sequence, sounds like the word “threaten.” Numeric patterns and coincidences seem to be happening like they are by design. It could be an effect of causal engineering, though I can imagine skeptics rolling their eyes and saying that it is highly unlikely.
However, five days after one Muslim soldier killed 13 on a base, another Muslim soldier was executed for the shooting of 13 people in 2002.
On November 10^th 2009, at 9:11 PM, John Allen Mohammad, a trained American military sniper, was executed for the murders he committed during the Beltway Sniper massacre, a mass shooting that happened over three weeks in October of 2002.
Mohammed’s first victim was a 13-year-old boy. There was a signature left at the crime scene: the death card from the Tarot, the 13^th card in the Major Arcana. On the card, he wrote, “Dear Mr. Policeman: I am God.”
Thirteen days into the killing spree, the killers had managed to shoot and kill 9 with a total of 11 victims. As pointed out earlier, Mohammad died at 9:11 PM by lethal injection 5 days after the Fort Hood shooting. The Beltway killing spree ended with a tenth death and three injuries. The total became 10 plus 3. When Mohammed was arrested, he was 41 years old. His partner, John Lee Malvo, was 17.
4+1+1+7=13. John Allen Muhammad was born December 31st, 1960. 12/31/60 (1+2+3+1+6=13)
The suspects were arrested at 3:19 AM (3+1+9=13).
The numeric signatures, symbols and signs are being presented in plain sight by our elite through secret handshakes and gestures and through geographic positions that either duplicate sacred symbolism or add up to sacred or secret numerology. Many people believe that this is evidence of political witchcraft and that no event goes without its numerological coincidence.
Perhaps the Beltway Snipers were “sleeper” assassins programmed by a hodgepodge of words and numbers.
I speculated about this before and noticed that not only did the statements sent out seem to be disinformation, but that the mainstream media itself declared on many occasions that press conferences that were held by Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose seemed to deliver cryptic messages that only the sniper would understand.
The last cryptic offering sounded like a blatant trigger phrase used to trigger a counterprogram in the killers. Moose read form a piece of paper on national television and radio:
“You have indicated that you want us to do and say certain things. You’ve asked us to say we have caught the sniper like a duck in a noose. We understand that hearing us say this is important to you.”
Important why?
Was this a phrase intended to bring the murdering spree to an end?
I saw this as a “trigger phrase” meaning, “it is done,” “time to turn yourself in,” “time to kill yourself,” or something similar.
Victims of mind control have stated that these trigger phrases are known as “the voice of God” or the voice of the controller. It declares that mission is accomplished and that the time has come to either turn oneself in or eliminate all witnesses. In the case of the Beltway Sniper we can conclude that Mohammad declared a jihad on America, or that he was a military “sleeper” assassin, or that he was just plain crazy. The media was once again baffled and reported several red herrings in the case, such as the sighting of a “white box truck” that was allegedly in the vicinity of where the shootings took place.
The story faded away. This could indicate that while the media was just doing its job, intelligence operatives took over and created an “official story” of the Beltway shootings.
It can only be concluded that when these attacks take place it is vital for intelligence operatives to take control of the situation with coordinated responses from the media. This is apparent in the case of the shootings at Fort Hood and in all other cases involving Muslims in the United States.
In the case of the Fort Hood shooting, it was first reported that a civilian police officer was killed and that Hasan himself had been shot and killed as well. It was reported that he shouted “Allah Akbar” as he shot his victims.
I see the number signatures and the strangeness of these stories; essayist and newspaper columnist David Warren believes that it is the use of words that influence the attitude of what happened at Fort Hood, and, in retrospect, what was covered up in the Beltway Sniper case.
He argues that “the words and attitudes conveyed in the reporting of a massacre can be, and in this case are, more consequential than the massacre itself.”
This suggests that the American media has been well advised not to alarm its people with the idea that jihadists are in our midst.
This would mean a well coordinated cover-up is taking place.
Barry Rubin, a well known expert on the Middle East, had blogged about something that I once talked about on a Ground Zero show in 2006. I had wondered why attacks by single Muslim “lone nuts” are never reported as terror attacks. I cited the example of Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, an Iranian-born American citizen, who confessed to intentionally hitting people with an SUV on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to “avenge the deaths of Muslims worldwide” and to “punish” the United States government.
Rubin stated the following on his blog :
“Jihadist attacks in the United States have been defined out of existence. No matter what happens–a planned attack on Ft. Dix, the murder of two people standing in line at the El Al counter at Los Angeles airport, a driver deliberately running down people or two others with a trunk full of weapons in the Carolinas, or honor killings all over the place–we will be told this has nothing to do with Jihad or Islamism or an interpretation of Islam.
Afterward, there will be a different type of a cover-up in pretending that this had nothing to do with Islamism or Jihad but is merely a matter of an individual’s mental illness. those who speak out on these points won’t be killed but merely will have their characters assassinated.”
Keep in mind that in the John Allen Muhammad case it was later revealed, through the testimony of his partner John Lee Malvo, that both were hoping to alert other Muslims to their cause and encourage them to create chaos in the United States.
Malvo testified that Muhammad, driven by hatred of America because of its “slavery, hypocrisy and foreign policy” and his belief that “the white man is the devil”, planned to kill six whites a day for 30 days.
Malvo alleged that Muhammad had said: “We are going to go to the Washington DC area and we are going to terrorize these people.”
They then intended to move to Baltimore, Maryland, for part two of their campaign, to shoot a policeman and then blow up explosives at his funeral.
More explosives would target the ambulances that would then rush to the funeral. Another plan to kill three busloads of schoolchildren was thwarted because the pair were arrested when Malvo fell asleep while keeping watch at a Maryland gas station.
Muhammad’s ultimate plan, Malvo testified, was to indoctrinate 140 young homeless men at a Canada compound who would “shut things down” in cities across America, unless they received five million dollars.
Muhammad wanted Malvo to shoot a pregnant woman. But Malvo couldn’t. However, Nidal Malik Hasan did when he allegedly went on his rampage at Fort Hood, and now lawmakers are wondering if he should face a 14^th count of murder.
The media never told us of a much bigger jihad that may have been in the works back then and now we see a virtual echo in the ether with the event of the Fort Hood massacre. It is once again a causal anomaly to see an execution of a possible jihadist 5 days after an event that may be coordinated by another possible lone jihadist.
And even though there have been reports of the Fort Hood Shooter in contact with members of al-Qaeda, the media been very careful with the words it chooses to use and the other significant signatures that reveal that something darker may be afoot.
Talking about all of this makes me look like an extremist, maybe even a bigot. Showing numeric political witchcraft makes me look crazy. But the anomalies add up to something in the future that will lay to waste all rumor.
The possibilities are there and must be addressed. The obfuscation of the so-called religion of peace and the ideologies of terror are mixed in word salad and mystical numeric palindromes.
It is enough to make one crazy as perhaps we see that there are again reasons to believe that sleeper cells exist and that extremism of all kinds will wage war at home, giving government the excuse to crack down and declare martial law.
After all, we can look down a roster of attendees and advisors to Barack Obama regarding Homeland Security priorities. The Homeland Security Policy Institute (HSPI) Presidential Transition Task Force’s Proceedings Report of April 2008 – January 2009, titled “Thinking Anew – Security Priorities for the Next Administration”, has listed among its attendees Nidal Hasan with “uniformed services for the University School of Medicine.”
Keep in mind that he was not an Obama advisor, but a distinguished attendee at a homeland security “think tank.” Was Hasan really so influential as to have been invited to participate in the George Washington University Study for Homeland Security? This transition task force was for the incoming administration. How was he appointed and by whom?
Hasan also warned a roomful of senior Army physicians a year and a half ago at Walter Reed to avoid “adverse events,” that the military should allow Muslim soldiers to be released as conscientious objectors instead of fighting in wars against other Muslims.
The title of Hasan’s PowerPoint presentation was “The Koranic World View As It Relates to Muslims in the U.S. Military.” It consisted of 50 slides. In one slide, Hasan described the presentation’s objectives as identifying “what the Koran inculcates in the minds of Muslims and the potential implications this may have for the U.S. military.”
He also described the nature of the religious conflicts that Muslims who serve in the U.S. military may have and to persuade the Army to identify these individuals. Other slides spoke of the history of Islam, its tenets, statistics about the number of Muslims in the military, and explanations of “offensive jihad”, or holy war.
The final slide suggested that Muslims love death more than Americans love life.
Remember that it was originally reported that five shooters were at Fort hood, then it was reduced to three, and finally we magically see one lone nut with a gun. Conveniently, he was a Muslim and had attended a transition teams’ think tanks and advised other physicians about troubled soldiers. Now he is the poster child for his own warning.
What if the five shooters were five soldiers who rebelled, and were subsequently debriefed and whisked away in official vehicles? The dead patsy was convenient until he lived. Now we await his death by suicide or some other method. It always happens that way. It will also include all of the significant words and phrases, numbers and coincidental hocus-pocus.
American soldiers rebelling against the President’s war policies is bad for morale. Creating a Muslim patsy is good for the war effort.
Sometimes, seeing the patterns in the chaos can be a curse. But knowing what has happened in the past can help you determine events of the future. Days are numbers, time is numbers, and dates are numbers. Patterns are magic and magic is what rules our world.
I see these weird artifacts all the time. Whether or not you wish to believe that these coincidental events have meaning really doesn’t matter at all. It doesn’t hurt my feelings if you are rolling your eyes, or laughing out loud. I see what see and I speak about what I see.
It won’t save you to know these things. It is only there to allow you to contemplate that these events may be planned or that they may have the signature of the trickster. The future is influencing the present.
The past is reminding us of this. It is like a card game in which the decks are stacked against you.
Draw the next card from the deck.
It’s death.
Someone important and significant assumes room temperature, and immediately another conspiracy yarn is fashioned by people who see these accidental dances with the grim reaper as evidence that something greater and more nefarious exists in the shadows.
How frighteningly appropriate.
How absurd is the coincidence?
How absurd is the idea that it is just a coincidence?
We wait and see which warrior will awaken next from their hypnotic sleep with that trigger control phrase.
There could be any NUMBER of possibilities.

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3-D sonar provides new view of Civil War shipwreck

By MICHAEL GRACZYK | Associated Press – Sat, Jan 19, 2013

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — The remains of the only U.S. Navy ship sunk in the Gulf of Mexico during Civil War combat now can be seen in 3-D sonar images from the Gulf's murky depths, revealing details such as a shell hole that may have been among the ship's fatal wounds.

The high-resolution images of the 210-foot, iron-hulled USS Hatteras are being released this month to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the battle where the ship was lost. Besides the shell hole, they also show previously unknown details like a paddle wheel and the ship's stern and rudder emerging from the shifting undersea sands about 20 miles off the coast of Galveston.

"This vessel is a practically intact time capsule sealed by mud and sand, and what is there will be the things that help bring the crew and ship to life in a way," said Jim Delgado, the project's leader and director of maritime heritage for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries.

"You can fly through the wreck, you're getting a view no diver can get," Delgado said.
The Hatteras had sat mostly undisturbed and unnoticed from January 1863 — when a Confederate raider sunk the ship and took most of the crew prisoner — until its discovery in the early 1970s.
Recent storms shifted the sand and mud where the Hatteras rests 57 feet below the surface, exposing more of the ship. So archaeologists and technicians, racing to beat any potential seabed movement that could conceal the Hatteras again, spent two days last September scanning the wreckage using sonar imaging technology for the first time at sea.
Divers used the 3-D gear to map the site in the silt-filled water where visibility is from near zero to only a few feet. The water's murkiness doesn't affect sonar technology like it would regular photography equipment. Sonar technology produces computer-colored images by analyzing sound waves bouncing off objects.
"We have very crisp, measureable images that show the bulk of the steam machinery in the engine room is there," Delgado said. "Some of it is knocked over, been toppled, which suggests we probably have 60 percent of the vessel buried."
Also revealed were platforms for the ship's 32-pounder guns, named for the size of the cast-iron shell the cannon delivered, and the bow.

"Very exciting," said Jami Durham, manager of historic properties, research and special programs for the Galveston Historical Foundation. "We knew the ship was out there, and to finally see the images. It seemed to make it more real."

The imaging plots the paddle wheel shaft, which appears to have been bent when the ship capsized, and damage to engine room machinery, including the shell hole that likely helped doom the ship, Delgado said.
The Hatteras site is in waters administered by the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. The ship itself, even 150 years later, remains U.S. Navy property.
The 1,126-ton Hatteras was built in 1861 in Wilmington, Del., as a civilian steamship, according to the Navy Historical Center. It was purchased by the Navy later that year, commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard and assigned to join the blockade of the Florida coast to keep vessels from delivering supplies and war weapons and ammunition to the Confederacy.
The ship had an active tour in Florida, raiding Cedar Keys. It destroyed at least seven schooners and facilities before being transferred to the Gulf.
On Jan. 6, 1863, the Hatteras joined the fleet commanded by David Farragut, of "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" U.S. Navy fame, for similar assignments off Galveston. At the time, Galveston was the most prominent city and port in Texas, which had joined the Confederacy.

Days earlier, Union forces had been expelled by Confederate troops in the Battle of Galveston, considered the most significant military event in Galveston history.

On Jan. 11, the Hatteras spotted and tracked down a three-masted ship that identified itself as British, then opened fire from 25 to 200 yards away and revealed it actually was the CSS Alabama, a notorious Confederate raider credited with some 60 kills.

Forty-three minutes later, the Hatteras was burning and taking on water. Cmdr. Homer Blake surrendered and he and his crew were taken aboard the Alabama as prisoners, eventually winding up in Jamaica. Of the 126-man crew, two were lost and are believed entombed in the wreck.

The two crewmen, William Healy, 32, a coal heaver, and John Cleary, 24, a stoker, were from Ireland.

"Two of those guys paid the ultimate price," Delgado said. "This is a place where history happened and people died ... giving their all, making a choice to follow their captain and likely die, to try to do their duty and to serve."

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Online:

USS Hatteras video flyover: http://www.exploreocean.org/hatteras-2012-video.html

NOAA Hatteras photo gallery: http://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/news/press/2013/pr011113.html#photo

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