The Boston Marathon Bombing’s Inflated Injury Tallies

By James F. Tracy

Global Research, May 11, 2013

Region: USA

Exactly how many people were injured as a result of the April 15 Boston Marathon Bombing (BMB)? An official tally from the Boston Public Health Commission puts the number at an incredible 282 injured and four killed, including MIT police officer Sean Collier. “Only two patients wounded in the Boston Marathon bombings remained in critical condition” on April 22, the Boston Globereported, “but the count of injured people who were treated in area hospitals has risen sharply to 282, according to the Boston Public Health Commission. That is far higher than the initial estimate of 170.”
According to the Globe,

The number rose because dozens of victims delayed seeking medical care for minor wounds or symptoms that they thought would go away on their own, said Nick Martin, a spokesman for the health commission. He said the latest data … show patients were seen at 27 hospitals in Greater Boston.

The threshold for allegedly having sustained a bomb-related injury is not high.

“One of the best examples is hearing issues,” Martin said. “People might have first thought their hearing problems would be temporary.” Instead, hearing loss or continuous ringing or buzzing in their ears remained. Others sought delayed care for minor shrapnel wounds.[1]

On the same day Reuters reported 264 people injured.[2] Each of the exorbitant figures trumpeted by these organs differs sharply with the tallies provided by the New York Times-owned Boston Globe and listed on the popular Globe-owned website Boston.com. Here one finds only 55 victims out of the purported 268 (Reuters) or 286 (City of Boston and Boston Globe) injured and deceased.
“This is a list of confirmed deceased and injured victims of the Marathon explosions and their aftermath,” the website reads.

“We will continue to update this list. If you have some information, please click here … If you would like to donate to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings, please visit onefundboston.org.

The 55 victims listed on Boston.com are categorized below by name, age, hometown, injury description, and the news source where initial reportage of their injuries or deaths appeared.[3]

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Name	Age	Hometown	Injury	News Source
Krystle Campbell	29	Arlington	Fatal injury	Boston.com
Martin William	8	Dorchester	Fatal injury	Boston.com
Lingzi Lu	23	China	Fatal injury	Boston Globe
Sean Collier	26	Wilmington	Fatal injury	Boston.com
Sydney Corcoran	17	Lowell, Lowell High School Senior [sic]	-	Boston Globe
Richard H. Donohue Jr.	33	Woburn	Severe injury	Boston.com
Kaitlynn Cates	25	Boston	Severe leg injury	Boston Globe
Heather Abbott	38	Newport, R.I.	Severe leg injury	Boston Globe
Jeff Bauman Jr.	27	Chelmsford	Severe leg injury [sic]	Boston Globe
Roseann Sdoia	45	Dracut	Severe leg injury	Boston Globe
David Yepez	15	Andover	Head and arm injuries	Boston Globe
Jarrod Clowery	35	Stoneham	Hearing loss, leg injuries	Boston Globe
Aaron Hern	11	Martinez, Calif.	Leg injury	Boston Globe
Remy Lawler	25	Amesbury	Upper leg injuries	Boston Globe
JP Norden	31	Wakefield	Severe leg injury	Boston Globe
Paul Norden	33	Stoneham	Severe leg injury	Boston Globe
Beth Rothe	59	Highland, Ind.	Severe leg injury	Boston Globe
Marc Fucarile	34	Stoneham	Severe leg, chest injuries	Boston Globe
Michelle Connolly	52	South Boston	Head injuries	Boston Globe
Nicholas Yanni	32	Boston	Temporary hearing loss	Boston Globe
Ascer Barlatier	35	Boston	Wounded in chest and leg	Boston Globe
Jenny Chung	-	-	Shrapnel wounds	Boston Globe
Dan Soleau	36	-	Hearing loss	Boston Globe
Unidentified female	9	-	Severe leg injury	Boston Globe
Zhou Danling	-	China	Chinese student studying actuarial sciences [sic]	Boston Globe
Gillian Reny	17	Boston	Senior at Buckingham Brown & Nichols School in Cambridge [sic]	Boston Globe
Marilyn Kight	63	Redding, Calif.	Severe leg injury	Boston Globe
Erika Brannock	NA	Towson, Md.	Severe leg injury	Boston Globe
Darrel Folkert	42	Redondo Beach, Calif.	Leg injuries	Boston Globe
Unidentified male	5	-	No longer in critical condition, severe injuries,	Boston Globe
Celeste Corcoran,	47	Lowell, Sydney’s mother	Severe leg injury	Boston Globe
Denise Richard	-	Dorchester	Severe upper body injury, Martin Richard’s mother [sic]	Boston Globe
Jane Richard	7	Dorchester	Severe leg injury, Martin Richard’s sister [sic]	Boston Globe
Lee Ann Yanni	31	-	Severe leg injury	Boston.com
John Odom	NA	-	-	Boston.com
J.P. Craven	24	Hingham	Head injuries	Boston.com
Patrick Downes	30	Cambridge, BC alumnus [sic]	Severe leg injuries	Boston.com
Jessica Downes	32	MGH nurse [sic]	Severe leg injuries	Boston.com
Brittany Loring	29	Ayer Boston College JD/MBA student	Severe head, leg and arm injuries	Boston College
Liza Cherney	-	Boston College MBA student was a spectator [sic]	-	Boston College
Jacqui Webb	-	-	Severe leg injury	Fundraising website
Ryan C. McMahon	33	Longmeadow	Back and arm injuries	MassLive
William White	-	Bolton	Severe leg injury	Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Mary Jo White	-	Bolton	Hand injury	Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Kevin White	-	Bolton	Moderate injuries [sic]	Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Nicole Gross	31	Charlotte, N.C.	Leg injuries	Charlotte Observer
Michael Gross	38	Charlotte, N.C.	Head injuries	Charlotte Observer
Eric Whalley	65	Charlestown	Severe head injury, other wounds	Eagle-Tribune
Ann Whalley	65	Charlestown	Severe flesh wounds	Eagle-Tribune
Kevin Corcoran	-	Lowell, Sydney’s father [sic]	Minor injuries	The Lowell Sun
Denise Spenard	-	Manchester, N.H.	Abdominal injury	GreenwichTime.com
Victoria McGrath	20	Northeastern student	Severe leg injuries	Connecticut Post
Sarah Girouard,	20	Falmouth, Maine	Injuries to lower extremities, received surgery	Portland Press Herald
Michelle L’Heureux	NA	Quincy	Severe arm and leg injuries	Lewiston-Auburn Sun Journal

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As indicated in the above table, The Boston Globe and Boston.com are responsible for the initial and in many cases only reportage on 37 of the 55 victims, with Boston.com otherwise referring readers to either Boston College’s website, eight local or regional newspapers’ sites, and in one instance a donation page, for information on the remaining 18 injured.
The 231 added to the overall City of Boston count of April 23 appear to be phantom victims who might have sought care for modest injuries in the week following the incident but for which no records have been made publicly available. Even Boston.com’s list of 55 has numerous informational gaps. For example, eleven of the 55 have no age recorded, an especially glaring oversight for medical authorities administering care, while five have no injury listed.
Boston.com provides an online form for victims to submit a description of their injuries and the hospital where they are being treated. When I contacted Boston Globe newsroom via telephone on May 11, 2013 to clarify why the injury list had not been updated in accord with the City of Boston’s figures, or whether entire names and injury descriptions might still remain unpublished, a reporter identifying herself as Mary Covlu responded that the website “is just for people with serious injuries.” When I inquired whether “temporary hearing loss,” listed as the medical condition of 32-year old Nicholas Yanni of Boston could be considered a “serious injury,” the reporter expressed astonishment and could not respond.
Repeated email inquiries by Memory Hole to Boston Globe’s chief and associate editors asking whether the newspapers have obtained autopsies or death certificates for the four decedents remain unanswered.
If temporary hearing loss can indeed be counted as a demonstrable injury and the figures provided by Boston’s Commission on Public Health are comprised primarily of those complaining of such minor problems, then roughly eighty percent of the BMB-related injuries might be negligible.
The 264/282 figures stand in even greater contrast with the original injury count in the immediate wake of the BMB, which was reported as a much less sensational 23 injured and two deaths—figures in rough accord with the number of individuals whose images were recorded on CCTV and surveillance cameras involved in and around the initial blast that exhibited ostensible injuries.
This estimate of injured also conforms with arguably excessive eyewitness accounts, such as those of Roupen Bastajian, an off-duty Rhode Island State Trooper who told the Associated Press that he just completed the race when he heard the first detonation. “I started running toward the blast. And there were people all over the floor,” Bastajian recalls. “We started grabbing tourniquets and started tying legs. A lot of people amputated. … At least 25 to 30 people have at least one leg missing, or an ankle missing, or two legs missing.”[4]
Early reports lend further credence to the event’s drill-like qualities, with acknowledgment from “a senior U.S. intelligence official” who said “on condition of anonymity” that “two other explosive devices found nearby were being dismantled.” According to the AP,

A third explosion was heard about an hour after the first two after authorities warned spectators to expect a loud noise from a water cannon that police apparently were using to destroy one of the devices.[5]

This account closely conforms with reports in alternative media outlets that drills were being carried out around the Marathon.
In sum, the photos, videos, stories and figures comprising the mediated BMB do not add up and suggest elements of a manufactured event. The inflated injury count provided by the City of Boston is not readily supported by existing visual documentation of the two bombings, where at most several dozen individuals may have been seriously impacted. Nor are the calculations supported by the information made publicly available through the primary news outlet reporting on the event.

The Boston Globe has played an inordinately powerful and arguably suspect role in framing the BMB narrative. The outlet’s distribution of information concerning victims—information that remains inconsistent or sorely lacking in important details–clearly diverges from the dubious and unusually high “official” casualty counts so heavily propagated in corporate media.

Notes

[1] Deborah Kotz, “Injury Toll From Marathon BombingRises,” Boston Globe, April 23, 2013.

[2] “Boston Officials Say 264 Injured in Boston Marathon,” Reuters, April 23, 2013.
[3] “Victims of the Marathon Bombings,” Boston.com, n.d. Accessed on May 11, 2013.
[4] “RI State Trooper at Boston Marathon Says Blast Tore Limbs Off Dozens,” Associated Press/Providence Journal, April 15, 2013.[5] Ibid.

Arctic rising as economic, security hot spot

Source: Japan Times
The icy Arctic is emerging as a global economic hot spot — and one that is becoming a security concern for the United States as world powers jockey to tap its vast energy resources and stake out unclaimed territories.
Diplomats from eight Arctic nations, including U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, will meet this week over how to protect the thawing region as its waterways increasingly open to commercial shipping traffic.
U.S. officials estimate the Arctic holds 13 percent of the world’s undiscovered oil reserves and 30 percent of undiscovered gas deposits. Until recently, however, the resources that could reap hundreds of billions of dollars in revenues were frozen over and unreachable.
But global warming has melted sea ice to levels that have given rise to what experts describe as a kind of gold rush scramble to the Arctic.
On Friday, President Barack Obama announced a new U.S. strategy for the Arctic, calling the region “an amazing place” and maintaining a need among nations to protect its fragile environment and keep it free of conflict.
“An undisciplined approach to exploring new opportunities in this frontier could result in significant harm to the region, to our national security interests, and to the global good,” the 13-page strategy concluded.
The Arctic is warming faster than any part of the globe. Experts predict the region will be free of sea ice during the summer within about 20 years. Sea ice is important because it keeps the rest of the world cooler, and some scientific studies suggest that its melting may be indirectly connected to the extreme weather in the United States and elsewhere over the past few years.
The environmental changes could threaten not only polar bears, whales, seals and indigenous communities hunting those animals for food, but also islands and low-lying areas much farther away, from Florida to Bangladesh.
Yet the melting may be a boon for business.
New shipping routes could provide faster and cheaper passageways for worldwide exports and cargo hauling, including everything from food and electronics to cars and military equipment. And it could also bolster global tourism with cruises in the region’s around-the-clock summertime daylight.
But the biggest prize is the vast and untapped supply of oil, gas, minerals and precious metals that are believed to be buried in the Arctic. Already, there is a global race to get energy out of areas that in the past were locked up in ice and frozen ground.
In 2007, a Russian research ship placed a Russian flag on the bottom of the Arctic Ocean near the North Pole in a symbolic gesture.
And last year, China joined Russia, Denmark and Canada and the U.S. in the competition, sending its first icebreaker ship through the Arctic — even though China doesn’t abut Arctic territory.
Economic rivalries in the Arctic have made the area a burgeoning security priority. Arctic nations are eyeing sending additional military forces to the region to maintain stability on the seas and protect against maritime crime, according to a report last month by the Congressional Research Service.
Russia is planning to train and equip a brigade of military troops specifically for Arctic warfare, and Canada is revitalizing its Arctic fleet with $33 billion to build 28 ships over the next 30 years. Norway, Denmark and the U.S. are all expanding military command centers and operations within the Arctic.
The U.S. Navy is nearing the end of a five-year plan, set in 2009, to plot out what path it will take in the Arctic. That potentially will include policing waterways and interdicting pirates as it does in warmer waters, officials said, although it is still not clear how often that may be needed.
And the U.S. Coast Guard’s small Arctic ice-breaking fleet is getting a much-needed boost: One of its three ships is about to be relaunched after being docked for major repairs. Another ship is already fully operational and the third is out of service, officials said.
Next year, the U.S. Navy and coast guard will draw up plans to have an enduring presence in the Arctic and be able to run search and rescue operations there, navy chief Adm. Jonathan Greenert said in congressional testimony last month.
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Wednesday that the body has no plans to increase its presence in the Arctic.
Norway, which shares a border with Russia, has made the far north its top priority and has in recent years tried to draw the attention of NATO and the European Union to the region.
“Norway has, like all other allies, a legitimate expectation that NATO’s collective defense should cover all of NATO’s territory, including of course the north of Norway,” Fogh Rasmussen said at a news conference with Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg.
The military ramp-up is a piece of what experts say is an inevitable political competition that will grow in the Arctic as it opens. The region — and the economic and military forces flocking to it — is potentially the latest front to pit the U.S. and other Western powers against uneasy allies like China and Russia.
“This is going to now become a part of the bigger issue: What are the overall political and policy perspectives with respect to China, or Russia or the EU? Those decisions will not be made in a much larger framework than just oil and gas,” said expert Bob Corell, who advises the U.S. and foreign governments about Arctic issues and is a principal at the Global Environment and Technology foundation.
“It’s about how does the decision-making in the Arctic fit into larger relationship with, say, China, and that’s a new ballgame,” Corell said. “And it’s one that’s really come onto the front just in the last few years, largely because the melting is occurring much faster than we ever expected.”
Russia is readying a request to the United Nations for claiming territorial rights to a sprawling underwater ridge that extends to Canada. Experts say that has unnerved officials in Washington and Ottawa. If accepted, it would give Russia claim to almost half of the Arctic area. The U.S. is not a signatory to the U.N. treaty that charters such decisions and would therefore not have a vote in the matter.
Fourteen governments — including China, India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and the European Union — now are seeking rights to attend meetings of the eight-nation Arctic Council as observers.
Emerging giants India and China have been bumping up against each other across the globe, and that rivalry is now extending to the Arctic.
“Neither China or India have any basis to claim to be Arctic nations, but because of the rush for minerals and resources there is a fear that we will be left behind if we don’t also stake our claims in these distant parts,” said Sreeram Chaulia, dean of Jindal’s School of International Affairs.
The council traditionally seeks to address issues and problems facing the Arctic, like climate change and the region’s indigenous people. It holds high-level meetings every two years, where it issues nonbinding declarations about its future goals and past work.
Eight nations — Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the U.S. — are members of the council. Six European nations are considered permanent observers and are allowed to attend the meetings. The council will meet Wednesday in Kiruna, Sweden.
Sannamaaria Vanamo, the economic and Arctic affairs counselor at the Finnish Embassy in Washington, said Finland supports allowing new observers with “legitimate interests” to the Arctic Council, including the European Union. She would not comment on other possible observers, but said the inclusion of newcomers could bring additional resources and greater global cooperation to strengthen the Arctic Council.
Finland is updating its own national strategy to address Arctic issues.
“Environmental changes and the opening of shipping routes have global impacts, and that is why it is important to develop cooperation within the structure, but also with non-Arctic states and actors,” Vanamo said Friday. “In a way, the Arctic Council is at a crossroads, and we hope it will become a stronger player.”

Scared Americans and “The US Terror State”

By Daniel Patrick Welch

Global Research, May 11, 2013

Region: USA

Theme: Culture, Society & History

Syria, Libya and other US crimes invisible to financially scared Americans.  
Watch Out, World! Even America’s Wealthy Are Losing Ground.
Cognitive dissonance among the US sub-elite means more war and death for everyone else.
Occasionally the tip of the iceberg pokes through, and the reported facts corroborate the experience of most of the people. The recent Pew Center report that has now reached broad circulation shows that a full 93% of US households *lost* ground in the much vaunted recovery of 2009-2011.
This just validates what we are all living through, glossed over by averages, smoke and mirrors. There is no “recovery.” Sectors *within* the top quintile are holding on, barely.
This is the starkest portrayal I’ve seen in black and white; I had previously been telling anyone who would listen that, while there seems to be a pickup for those in the $250,000 and up range, it is clearly not the case for the bottom 4 quintiles [i.e. $100,000 combined household income 2010]. It should be shocking enough to most middle class types that the real picture is so different from what they believe to be living–that is, that they are actually in the top 8-10%… BUT the data shows even worse. Even families up to $500,000 (!) are losing ground.
This bespeaks the desperation in the political outlook of what Zinn called The Guards and what Chomsky called The Priesthood: people who are doing just fine in the current system but think it needs a few tweaks. As this sector shrinks, the internal contradictions will become more apparent and the response of the state becomes harsher and less elastic. So households with “two good jobs” say $100,000 plus each, are prone to seeing some hope, the famous ‘green shoots’ mantra that fell on deaf ears for most of us a few years ago. Come on, guys–it *can* work! We all need to just be a bit more patient! Etc.
The political ramifications are quite alarming. This sector is crucial to the viability and perceived legitimacy of the system, and their panic has far reaching consequences. It may just beginning to dawn on them that they, too, will ultimately be left behind in the wealth shift, and that it was never really about them. Slowly but surely, and to varying degrees, they are recapitulating Judas’ epiphany [the Andrew Lloyd Weber version, at least]: “My god I’m sick. I’ve been used–and you knew all the time!” They are just beginning to see that they are facing an uphill battle in a rigged game against the House with a stacked deck–and any other cheesy analogies you want to cram in there–but there is nowhere for them to go.
Paradoxically, the initial wave of reaction to this newfound betrayal by their patrons in the ruling class is not to turn on their masters. It is to express this anger at those below, in the age-old game of shooting the messenger. Consequently, they become even better “shushers,” the Seinfeld term for viewers who keep order in a theater. Border collies, gatekeepers… they have always been there, but they were more consciously part of the professional ‘left,’ an icon of the political class. In the current period, their anger is more desperate and more diffuse: They have always been more inclined, for example, to trust the police, to believe the official version of events, to avoid sources of information considered by their class position and experience to be beyond the Pale. Having rarely, if ever, been on the wrong side of Officialdom, or had to bail relatives out of jail, or had any race-tinged experiences themselves, they are primed and pampered to be the intellectual shock troops of Acceptable Discourse. In the face of increased perfidy on the part of their class betters, they can’t (yet) bring themselves to bite what they still perceive as the hand that feeds them. Consequently, they will lash out at the incongruously labeled ‘parasites’ who they feel are ruining their banquet, even as the din of cognitive dissonance grows inside their heads.
The brutal fallout from this game is apparent all around us, as the body counts rise and the single minded state terrorism of the state apparatus grows ever more horrific in its attempt to maintain their bloated lifestyles through hegemony over the world’s resources. This transaction is completely lost on the Shushers–rather, they become its ghoulish cheerleaders, with or without acknowledgement. They are capable, somehow, of rationalizing the complete destruction of country after country–even as they are shown they are being lied into doing so. It is inconsequential to them that their government is funding, arming and training the very Islamic terrorists in Syria and Libya that they are primed to fear elsewhere. The simple mathematical rule of balance and scale demands that they acknowledge and reject the 1000 : 1 ratio of violence ravaging the world in their name, with their money, with their silence at best and enthusiastic endorsement at worst. They just don’t give a shit, and their macabre privileging of the relatively few victims among their own–as awful as these surely are–is lost outside the bubble, where the rest of the world grieves for their victims.
The economic consequences of their loss of station “scares the sh..t” out of them: while logic and basic morality dictate that they should wake up every morning with the bloody carnage of their own drone army foremost in their minds, they are instead preoccupied with how they can no longer afford an annual pilgrimage to Disney, or that they may have to postpone the kitchen/bath/boat/car upgrade they have been contemplating. If this makes them sound like monsters, it should. There is something epic about the horror of simultaneously having no power over a political system that wreaks such destruction and yet defending that very system as acceptable and benign, without at the very least having been the proverbial canary in the coal mine, the littlest Who shouting ‘We are here!’ from the tallest available tower. It is more than a sham and a shame. It is a moral crime, a breach of ethical duty that will yield unimaginable consequences when the balance is eventually righted. And yes, for international readers, I do realize the self-absorption of focusing on the internal American experience, and hear your cries of “Who gives a shit!’ inside my head.” If you have stuck with me this long, much respect. Sometimes I feel it necessary to speak to and about my American countrymen from the perspective of one who shares, albeit sometimes tangentially, their experience.
I believe we are living in the time of tremendous turmoil. It may take a year or two or ten, but in historical terms we are living in that instant, that one day where, looking back, it will become apparent that everything changed. It is the pivotal moment so brilliantly enacted by the montage at the end of Les Miserables where all social actors, no matter their role or position, sense that something momentous is on the horizon: “Tomorrow we’ll discover what our God in heaven has in store. One more dawn. One more day. One day more!”

Denver International Airport Whistleblower: Continuity of Government Plans Exposed

For the first time, a whistle-blower from within the Denver International Airport confirms the existence of a massive deep underground military facility located on the airport’s property.

Denver International Airport – A sign posted on door “T-47 M” reads, “No Escorting Allowed”. (Photo: Shepard Ambellas – Intellihub.com)

Special Report

by Shepard Ambellas
Intellihub.com
May 11, 2013
DENVER — The Denver International Airport (DIA), nestled on a vast 53 square mile complex, owned and operated by the City of Denver, is the largest airport in the United States in terms of land mass garnered, and the second largest airport in the world to Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd International Airport.
The airport serves over 50 million passengers a year and is now incorporating a massive new project called “Airport City” an aerotropolis which has been presented publicly by the Mayor of Denver, Michael Hancock.
The new aerotropolis will incorporate an expansive business district, new lodging, as well as an agricultural and technical district within the confines of the airport property to attract more revenue to Denver’s growing economy.
The concept is innovative, a first for an airport in America, and is likely to become the envy of other airports around the world.
In fact, according to Airport City Denver’s official website, “In 2010, DIA and the City and County of Denver took a major step in DIA’s evolution to fulfill its gateway role by inviting firms from around the world to submit proposals to assist DIA in planning, assessing and creating an Airport City at DIA as the core of and competitive accelerator for the emerging Denver aerotropolis. Later that year, DIA selected MXD Development Strategists (MXD) and its collaborative team including Design Workshop, CH2M Hill, Dr. John Kasarda, Integrity Parking, Transcore and Ambient Energy to prepare the Denver International Airport City Development Strategy.”
However, local residents and others are questioning the new construction in an around the airport property as several red flags have been raised. In fact, since the early construction phases of the airport in the early 1990′s, there have been several indicators that something else may be taking place on or under the grounds of the 53 square mile complex.

The Facility

Some speculate that a deep underground military facility, part of the Continuity of Government (COG) program exists on the site. A massive underground city that will be used by our government in the event that Washington or our central governments command hub is compromised. According to some investigative reports, including one headed up by the former Governor of Minnesota  Jesse Ventura, the underground city that lies beneath the airport quite possibly connects to other deep underground military installations throughout the country.
A source of mine within the airport confirmed for the first time astonishing information regarding the underground facility, providing details unknown to airport staff and the general public until now.
The following are details regarding a deep underground military installation located on the grounds of the DIA as provided by my source:

• Level 1 of the airport is inset into the ground to protect from vibrations coming from underneath. The base board characteristics lead on to this technical design. The employees have been told the reason for this is to protect from vibrations from the public train that leads back and forth to all concourses, A, B, and C.
  
• The airport’s gate and door numbers correspond to emergency action and response plans that indicate specific details to people “in the know”.
  

• The design of the airport is built to throw people off as levels are labeled differently on each in some cases and grading changes make it difficult to pinpoint your actual elevation. This was a security feature added by the designers.
  

• Due to lawsuits (or potential staged events) in the “United Airlines, Inc.” section of one of the basement levels at DIA, an infectious bio-hazard or fungal outbreak has instigated quarantined off areas of the underground, as they are now inaccessible to the airport staff and personnel. The quarantined section of the underground was confirmed by the source to be located in Concourse B’s East side lower levels.
  

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  Denver International Airport: External Intermediate Entrance (Photo: Shepard Ambellas – Intellihub.com)
  The landfill located off of Tower Rd. two miles west of the Jeppesen Terminal was added onto in the early 2000′s despite the airports appeal to the District Court against the landfill in 2002, claiming it was an FAA safety hazard. The landfill has a functioning element to it but is “mocked-up” to look like a landfill hidden in plain sight.
  

• There is a militarized intermediary entrance located in the “United Airlines” section of the underground. The actual door number was reveled by my source with great hesitation. The actual door code is “BE64B” unknown until now to the general public.
  

• A swift door will also allow access to the intermediary entrance of the facility if you have the proper “speed-pass” clearance on a Department of Defense (DOD) level. This door was also a secret to the general public until now. The actual door number is “T-47 M” located on the level 4 exterior.
  

• The dirt in parts of the train tunnels looks unnatural, and “if anyone steps on it they know”, said my source.
  

• Gates can “lock-down” certain sections of the airport in the event of an emergency.
  

• A nearly 3 mile long tunnel heads out from the intermediary entrance “BE64B”, to a full-blown Department of Defense (DOD) sanctioned militarized entrance nestled in a set of 5 buildings 120′ beneath the surface located Northeast of the Jeppesen Terminal.
  

• All VIP activity typically originates under the Northwest section of “Concourse C”
  

The information provided by the whistle-blower does indeed beg the following question. Does the DOD have any ties to areas of the airport owned and (or) operated by domestics airline carriers?

Department of Defense Ties To Domestic Airline Carriers

New information uncovered by Intellihub.com investigators concludes that, yes indeed the DOD has ties to a commercial airline carrier that operates out of the Denver International Airport.
Documents requested by a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by the Investigative Report Workshop in 2004 reveal that, “United Airlines, Inc” is involved in a DOD “Air Transportation Program” likely connected to COG. This contract would allow United Airlines to fly VIP’s, sitting Senators, Congressmen, and top elected officials including Head’s of State to-and-fro the main COG hub located on DIA grounds.
According to the Investigative Report Workshop, “The Department of Defense audits commercial air carriers it contracts with to fly DOD employees. The Workshop and PBS FRONTLINE sent a FOIA request to learn about United Airline’s maintenance procedures. Last year, we had sent the same request for another company and the audits proved to be very informative. This time, however, we received about 94 mostly blank pages.”

The Dirt Came From Somewhere

According to my source from inside, a massive pile of dirt was added to an existing landfill in the area dispite the FAA’s request that it was dangerous to travelers and could pose a radar issue causing a potential disaster. This addition to that landfill was pressed hard and was supposed to take place over a 40-60 year period, but instead took place over the course of about 4 years. The pile of dirt, which is masked as a landfill in-plain-sight, now exceeds 300′ in altitude.
An excerpt from the FAA appeal reads, “In the Hazard Determination and Affirmation, the FAA found that the Tower Road landfill at its proposed height “would be in the radar line of sight and vehicles [i.e., dump- trucks and graders] operating at the landfill may cause radar reflection and consequently create false targets.” JA 7.
The Determination and Affirmation themselves provide no evidentiary basis for the “false target” finding. Indeed, we can find at most only two pages in a 462-page record to support it. The FAA’s aeronautical study reports that Airways Facility radar technicians have “identified the potential for false targets. At the current elevation of 5,423′ AMSL [above mean sea level], the landfill is below the radar line-of-sight. At the new height of 5,542′ AMSL, the large dump trucks, graders, and other heavy equipment create the potential for reflecting the radar and causing false targets…. The impact in this circum- stance would be an erroneous position indication for the aircraft.”

Conclusion

 The Denver Airport is part of a Continuity of Government Program and does indeed house an underground facility.

Sources:
^http://www.mxddevelopment.com/strategists/
^http://www.airportcitydenver.com/plan.html
^http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver_International_Airport
^http://intellihub.com/2013/03/29/denver-international-airport-probe-2-billion-overbudget/
^http://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/16B185228608394B85256F82005D3238/$file/01-1152a.txt
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Senior IRS Official: ‘I’m Not Good at Math’ – Yeah, We Know

During a conference call with reporters, senior IRS official Lois Lerner uttered words that are now reverberating across the blogosphere: “I’m not good at math.”

Photo: AFP

by Mike Adams
Natural News
May 11, 2013
Don’t worry, Lois, neither is anyone else. And the less you can do math, the happier you’ll be at the IRS where, let’s face it, no two people ever come up with the same answer for any given tax return.
This utterance bubbled out of Lois’s mouth in the middle of a conference call concerning the stunning revelations that the IRS targeted conservative groups for punitive audits during the 2012 elections. Yep, when you’re not a gung-ho supporter for the socialist agenda, IRS agents just happen to come knocking on your door. The IRS apologized for the punitive targeting, but that’s hardly enough. People should be going to jail over this. This is political witch hunting at its worst.
But don’t worry. Nobody involved in this can do math, either. In fact, most journalists can’t do math and hardly any taxpayers understand math at all. If they did, they would be impeaching Obama faster than an AR-15 being raffled off at a Tea Party rally for his outrageous explosion in government debt spending that has ballooned the national debt more than all the other presidents in U.S. history… combined! See www.USdebtclock.org
Obama has set America on course for an apocalyptic financial blowout, but no one seems to notice because they can’t do math. After all, sixteen trillion in debt sounds a whole lot like sixteen million. It’s only one letter off. How big of a difference could that be, after all?

If you could do math, you would realize the IRS has no purpose other than social engineering

But here’s the real kicker in all this: Anyone who can do math realizes the entire “take” from taxpayers by the IRS each year is only about $1.2 trillion (this is personal income tax, not corporate). And yet, as we’ve seen over and over again, the U.S. government can conjure up a trillion dollars anytime it wants! Especially for bankster bailouts, stimulus spending or anything else it’s trying to push.
Why is this a big deal? Because it means the government doesn’t need an IRS to raise the money to fund itself. The IRS exists for only one reason: To socially control and manipulate the population while keeping people as impoverished as possible.
Let me say that another way: The government doesn’t need your tax money to fund itself. It can whip up trillions out of dollars out of nothing any time it wants (as it has done repeatedly since the first bankster bailouts of 2008).

The income tax is a mathematical myth

The idea that the government needs your tax dollars to fund its operations is a mathematical myth. It doesn’t need a penny from you! Geesh, the Fed is right now creating $85 billion a month in new money just to prop up the derivatives debt market. That’s over one trillion dollars a year all by itself. If it can create $1 trillion each year, it can certainly create another $1.2 trillion on April 15th if it really wanted to.
Your paltry $10,000 in federal taxes (or whatever you pay) is inconsequential to the government’s debt spending blowout. All the money you earn in your entire life couldn’t even put a dent in the national debt. The idea that the federal government needs your $10,000 to run things is utterly ridiculous.
In summary, the real news today is not that a top IRS official can’t do math. The real jaw-dropper is that the very idea of paying taxes to “fund the government” is a mathematical hoax.
April 15th is nothing more than a vestigial ritual that has no economic function whatsoever other than keeping people enslaved and “guilty” of crimes that are selectively enforced.

Year of Lear: Benedict, Thatcher, Ferguson

Year of Lear: Benedict, Thatcher, Ferguson

This piece is historical and prophetic in a synchromystic fashion we are accustomed to here at Twilight Language.

Today something special: A guest essay from writer Thomas McGrath. He wants to share some insights from across the pond, having watched the United Kingdom experience interesting times.

"Football" in Europe, of course, is what we call "soccer" in America. To say it is popular is an understatement. Football in the UK is taken very seriously, and major changes in leadership are felt on a societal level.

McGrath tackles the resignation of Sir Alex Ferguson, the manager of the well-known and honored team, Manchester United.

Before launching into McGrath's contribution, let me just add a note or two about Alex Ferguson's name, etymologically.

Alexander is derived from the Greek "Αλέξανδρος" (Aléxandros), meaning "defending men" or "protector of men", a compound of the verb "ἀλέξω" (alexō), "to ward off, to avert, to defend" and the noun "ἀνδρός" (andros), genitive of "ἀνήρ" (anēr), "man." Alexander is an example of the widespread motif of Greek (or Indo-European more generally) names expressing "battle-prowess," in this case the ability to withstand or push back an enemy battle line.

Ferguson is a Scottish-Irish surname and given name. The surname is a patronymic form of the personal name Fergus. The name Fergus is derived from the Gaelic elements fear ("man") and gus ("vigor", "force", or "choice"). Thus the name "Ferguson" literally means the "son of a man of force/vigor" (the "male offspring of a strong powerful father").

The combination of the two names make for a powerful mix.

Now the item for your consideration:

Year of Lear: Benedict, Thatcher, Ferguson

by Thomas McGrath © 2013

In perhaps the most famous opening scene of all, King Lear divests himself of power and divides his kingdom, so that he might “unburdened crawl towards death.” 
Didn’t quite work out like that, of course, Lear’s attempt to separate who and what he was. His story, though, is one with plenty of relevance to 2013, which is emerging as a kind of Year of Lear.

First, Pope Benedict XVI retired. Which felt like a kind of paradox. People made sympathetic faces, but beneath these, there was often a little discernible disappointment, and even contempt. It was as if, in the great mystery play of Roman Catholicism, the lead part had simply decided to break character, ruining the illusion for some, and the illusion of the illusion for everyone else. No wonder lightning struck St Peter’s Basilica. 
Then there was the death of Thatcher.

In her case, death itself was a kind of afterthought. Her real demise, as is well known, occurred on the Conservative Party’s own Night of the Long Knives in 1990, when it took turns to stab at her political power, a virtual assassination that nonetheless seemed to kill the actual woman, leaving behind a shell whose subsequent longevity sounded less a retirement than a surreal waltz on the border between two worlds.

Unlike a Pope, a Prime Minister is only meant to borrow the robes of office, not take them to the casket. But just as Benedict XVI was unable to go on existing with the burden of his role, Thatcher (more Caesar than Lear) was unable to go on existing without hers.

What, then, of Alex Ferguson – can a mere football manager (those quintessential kings-for-a-day) fit this pattern? Of course, because Ferguson was different. 
In recent years, I often thought of Ferguson as an embodiment of humanity's quirky relationship to the grave. It is one thing to see a twenty-five-year-old player roar and raise a trophy high into the air, celebrating a victory dependent upon a vast suspension of disbelief, but the absurdity is always that much more stark when the man with his arms in the air is of an age where, in ancient Japan, you were expected to shave your head and prepare for eternity.
Ferguson, it was clear, was hiding from death in the make-believe world of sport (itself only a diorama of our own, wider world of make believe). He admitted as much himself. Now, this self-made Pope of the Red Devils has retired too, causing at least as much shock (in the UK, anyway) as his Catholic counterpart. 
“All perform their tragic play,” Yeats wrote in “Lapis Lazuli,” along with Shakespeare imagining history as unfolding upon a grand stage, “There struts Hamlet, there is Lear.” The players, at present,  seem to be shifting. Whoever will be next, I wonder, to take their bow? 

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Tim Tebow blackballed by NFL teams because of cult-like following, media frenzy

May 9th, 2013 BuzzyBuzzard        http://www.tebowzone.net/2013/05/tim-tebow-blackballed-by-nfl-teams-because-of-cult-like-following-media-frenzy/

By Michael Silver
….As a journalist who has consistently experienced the wrath of Tebow Nation — mostly for passing along the slings and arrows voiced by various NFL players, coaches and talent-evaluators — I’m well aware that many devotees of the world’s most celebrated unemployed quarterback carry a heavy persecution complex.
Yet as Tim Tebow’s career wheezes to an underwhelming halt, with less apparent interest in his services than Massachusetts funeral parlors have in Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s remains, something strange is happening. Against all odds, I’m starting to wonder whether the man who helped the Denver Broncos become one of the league’s most stunning success stories in 2011 is getting unjustly blackballed.
Nine days after Tebow was released by the New York Jets, it has become increasingly clear that the ultra-popular quarterback who has hijacked many a news cycle has no viable landing spot. No NFL team seems to want him — as a starter, backup, converted H-back or fake-punt decoy — and it’s not like he’s fending off big-money offers from Canada, either.
Now, here’s the interesting part: Tebowmania is at least partly to blame.
Tim Tebow arrives for a Jets offseason workout last month. (AP)As much as prospective employers are wary of Tebow’s flawed mechanics, much-maligned throwing motion or deficiencies when it comes to reading defenses, the incessant media and fan attention that accompanies his presence on the depth chart is an even bigger concern.
“He seems like a great guy to have on a team, and I’d be tempted to bring him in as our backup,” one NFC head coach told me Wednesday. “But it’s just not worth dealing with all the stuff that comes with it.”
In a business in which coaches and general managers strive to avoid distractions, Tebow, as one NFC offensive coordinator told me last spring, carries more of a stigma than Terrell Owens.
Or, in the words of one AFC head coach to whom I spoke recently: “You don’t want to put up with the circus.”
Given that his presence in the Jets’ locker room coincided with a Benzini Brothers-style disaster of a 2012 season — and provoked controversial comments from teammates on various sides of the Tebow vs. Mark Sanchez spectrum along the way — it’s easy to understand why some teams are shying away from Tebow.
But all of them, in a league in which guys like Ryan Lindley, Chandler Harnish and Matt Blanchard have jobs?
[More: Tim Tebow tops Forbes' list of most influential athletes]
It’s as if Tebow is the unwanted love child of Ryan Leaf and JaMarcus Russell.
So, even though I sort of understand why Tebow is toxic, the fact that he’s not even being given a chance to compete for a third-string job is troublesome. And just as I feel compelled to call out the league when it comes to injustices like the dearth of minorities in offensive play-calling roles, the apparent blacklisting of a quarterback who went 7-4 as a starter in 2011 and won a memorable playoff game over the Pittsburgh Steelers doesn’t seem kosher to me.
Tebow, by all accounts, is a hard worker who radiates a relentlessly positive attitude. He has obvious leadership qualities and, as Broncos fans, 2011 opponents and “Saturday Night Live” aficionados alike can attest, an uncanny knack for getting the stars to align in his favor. (Or, perhaps, his deep Christian faith really does translate into things like Marion Barber inexplicably running out of bounds in high altitude. After the weirdness I witnessed that season, I’m not ruling anything out.)
Clearly, even after shredding what was then the NFL’s top-ranked defense for 316 passing yards in that Jan. 2012 playoff triumph, Tebow still has some serious refinement to do in order to bring his game to NFL-starter standards. That was evident in his final game with the Broncos, a lopsided playoff defeat to the New England Patriots.
What I can’t understand is why no NFL team has enough faith in Tebow’s upside to see if he’s capable of pulling it off.
Tim Tebow leads a players prayer after a game vs. the Chargers. (Getty)Since that defeat to the Patriots, the guy has been treated as dismissively as Kent Dorfman in the opening scene of “Animal House”.
Broncos executive vice president John Elway couldn’t wait to rid himself and his franchise of the Tebow phenomenon, using the pursuit of Peyton Manning as a means of solving that problem while, in his words, bringing “hope” to the locker room.
Jets coach Rex Ryan never seemed comfortable with Tebow, talking him up as a change-of-pace for struggling starter Sanchez and instilling him as the up-back on the punt team but essentially showing very little enthusiasm for giving him the ball.
“I don’t understand what the Jets did,” the AFC coach says. “You have to have a plan for him, but they had no idea what they were doing. I do think they were shocked how bad he looked in practice and in the preseason … how bad his accuracy was. But why make the trade for the guy if you’re not clear on how to use his abilities?”
[More: White House removes petition to get Tim Tebow signed to Jaguars]
Isn’t there a coach out there who can help Tebow get the most out of his abilities? Logic would suggest that someone with his level of commitment would be a strong candidate for improvement.
It may have already happened: After Tebow was released by the Jets, one of the franchise’s former quarterbacks, Vinny Testaverde, expressed his disappointment to ESPNNewYork.com’s Rich Cimini. Testaverde, who had just spent a week working with Tebow in Florida, said he and another ex-NFL quarterback, Chris Weinke, made a key footwork adjustment that produced noticeable results.
“Chris and I looked at Tim careful and we were both amazed,” Testaverde told Cimini. “Everybody has been focusing on his throwing motion, trying to fix that, but nobody had picked up his footwork. His footwork was all screwed up …
“We got his footwork fixed. His throwing motion is now a non-issue. He throws with what we call ‘effortless power.’ He doesn’t have that elongated motion anymore and his head isn’t moving two-and-a-half feet when he throws it.”
Referring to the Jets’ coaches, Testaverde added, “I think they would have been impressed if they had compared this year to last year.”
Instead, Tebow is metaphorically throwing into the wind, and it’s a cold, heartless squall.
The Jacksonville Jaguars, who’d expressed interest in trading for the local hero before the Jets made the deal with Denver last year, said “no thanks” more quickly than Phil Jackson turned down the Brooklyn Nets’ coaching job. Instead, newly hired general manager Dave Caldwell decided to stick with the embattled Blaine (Don’t Call Me “Blame”) Gabbert.
First-year Chicago Bears coach Marc Trestman, who told me in advance of the 2010 draft that “in the right environment… Tim Tebow can develop into being an elite quarterback in the NFL,” apparently doesn’t believe that Halas Hall qualifies — or couldn’t convince general manager Phil Emery otherwise.
And while there’s plenty of media chatter that Tebow could land with the Patriots (whose offensive coordinator, Josh McDaniels, was the man behind the Broncos’ decision to draft Tebow in the first round), my organizational sources tell me that’s very unlikely to happen, with one going so far as to say that Coach Bill Belichick “hates” Tebow as a player. As for the prospect of employing Tebow as a change-of-pace quarterback — and asking Tom Brady to come off the field in those situations — the source says, “No chance. Plus they wouldn’t like the circus that comes with it.”
Ah, yes — there’s that word again. And, of course, it’s highly regrettable that the excitement Tebow provokes has negatively impacted his ability to earn another opportunity to, you know, provoke more excitement.
The circus isn’t Tebow’s fault, though some former teammates have speculated as to the possible passive-aggressive nature of his actions, such as refusing to disavow a billboard clamoring for him to replace then-Broncos starter Kyle Orton.
Neither Mark Sanchez nor Tim Tebow was the answer for the Jets last season. (AP)And while many of Tebow’s fervent supporters may, in fact, be well-meaning, folks like Florida attorney John Morgan — who recently created a video imploring the Jaguars to sign the quarterback — are actually doing him a disservice.
Can you hear the Tebowphiles, chanting in the background? All we are saying … is give Tim a chance.
And is it possible — scarily — that I’m singing along?
Right now, pro-football powerbrokers don’t seem to be listening, and that’s their prerogative. No man, even one as revered in some quarters as Tebow, has a divine right to wear an NFL uniform. This is a highly competitive sport, performed at its highest level, and players with strong credentials and promising starts to their careers get bounced out of the league with regularity.
This time, however, there’s a glaring difference. In virtually every other case, the once-prominent player who washes out does so after flailing on the field, and/or getting into trouble off the field.
Since playing in a pair of playoff games 16 months ago, Tebow, whose only off-the-field baggage comes in the form of his cult-like following and the media frenzy it provokes, hasn’t been afforded the opportunity to show that he sucks.
It’s certainly possible that he’s simply not up to NFL standards, and never will be, but wouldn’t it be nice to get some conclusive proof before this story comes to a meek and unfulfilling close?
If you’re a franchise like the Seattle Seahawks, San Francisco 49ers or Carolina Panthers — teams with young, athletic quarterbacks who should absolutely feel secure in their starting roles — wouldn’t you think about bringing in Tebow as a similarly mobile backup?
Something tells me that the people running these teams — like those in charge of 29 others — have already considered and rejected the possibility. That’s not fair, but that seems to be the way it is.
And sadly, the persecution complex shared by so many of Tebow’s fervent supporters seems to have become a self-fulfilling prophecy.