IRS Official Overseeing Obamacare Implementation Placed On Leave For Accepting Gifts

Wednesday, June 5, 2013 13:58

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Excerpted from BUZZFEED
WASHINGTON — The IRS has put a top official in charge of implementing Obamacare on administrative leave after it was discovered he had accepted $1,100 in free food and other items during a 2010 conference, according to multiple House and Senate sources.
The IRS informed congressional staff investigating the agency that Fred Schindler had been put on leave for accepting the gifts. A second unnamed staffer in the division was also put on leave for accepting the gifts, the aides said.
Schindler is the deputy for Sarah Hall Ingram, who is heading up implementation of the Affordable Care Act for the IRS. Ingram has come under scrutiny recently because she oversaw the division of the IRS which targeted conservative organizations seeking nonprofit status.
According to congressional sources, the suspensions appear to be the first examples of employees being punished as part of a separate scandal over the service’s spending on conferences. One congressional source said it also appears the free meals and gifts were accepted at the same 2010 conference during which participants filmed a Star Trek spoof video.
House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa is scheduled to hold a hearing on conference spending by the IRS Thursday.
An IRS spokesman did not immediately return a request for comment.


Source: http://patdollard.com/2013/06/irs-official-overseeing-obamacare-implementation-placed-on-leave-for-accepting-gifts/

The Father Of Weaponized Weather

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Veteran weather modification expert Ben Livingston is a former Navy Physicist who briefed President Lyndon B. Johnson on the effectiveness of weather control back in the 1960′s during the Vietnam era, when he was involved in cloud seeding programs that worked to slow down the advance of Vietnamese and Korean troops. Livingston asserts that asserts that hurricane control was a national priority of the government more than 40 years ago and that the technology was fully operational to control the weather at the time.
In this exclusive interview for Prison Planet.tv subscribers, Livingston explains how for decades the US government has had the power to both lessen and increase the severity of adverse weather for their own purposes.
Dr. Livingston was assigned in 1966 from the Naval weapons research Laboratory to a marine fighter squadron in Vietnam. Instead of guns, the aircraft under Livingston’s control were fitted with cloud seeding equipment. “My mission was to find clouds and seed them for maximum precipitation value” he stated.
Dr. Livingston presents evidence from the Stanford research Institute, who were brought into Project Storm Fury (a weather control program) in the late sixties as a third party, which stated conclusively that knowledge of how to stop hurricanes had been uncovered and that they would be directly liable should a hurricane hit and cause extensive damage and loss of life. Four decades later and Livingston exposes how the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina could have been greatly minimized but was allowed to fully impact Gulf states for political reasons.
Having personally flown on 265 missions into the eyes of hurricanes, Livingston remarks that he was “disgusted” by the failure to lessen the impact of Katrina. Livingston’s revelations that weather control has been a decades long program in which the US government has been deeply involved are particularly alarming given the abundant modern-day evidence of how chemtrails are being used to warp our environment in a secret geoengineering plot that threatens a myriad of unknown human health and ecological consequences.http://aircrap.org/father-weaponized-weather/337438/

Bill Nye: ‘Heat Energy In the Atmosphere’ Enlarged Recent EF5 Tornado ’16 Times’

http://intellihub.com/2013/06/05/bill-nye-heat-energy-in-the-atmosphere-enlarged-recent-ef5-tornado-16-times/

The deadly F5 tornado that measured over two and a half miles wide is raising eyebrows amongst weather modification researchers like myself.

MOORE, OK – Brian Vitsmun sorts through debris at his home that was destroyed by a tornado on June 2, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma. Residents of Moore, Oklahoma continue to recover and sift through the remains of their homes two weeks after a devastating EF-5 tornado ripped through the town killing 24 people and destroying hundreds of homes and businesses. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

OpEd

by Shepard Ambellas
Intellihub.com
June 4, 2013
NORMAN — Recently a record breaking, massive 2.6 mile wide tornado struck near Oklahoma City causing some to ask questions.
There is a clear pattern that something unusual has been taking place, natural or not, as two EF5 tornadoes have ripped through a local swath in recent weeks.
Some type of added “heat energy” in the atmosphere could be a key indicator that recent EF5′s in the region are likely a bi-product of man made experiment.
Weather modification is real and has been taking place for years, both in the militarized and private sector.
It was reported by TulsaWorld.com that, “The deadly tornado that struck near Oklahoma City late last week had a record-breaking width of 2.6 miles and was the second top-of-the-scale EF5 twister to hit the area in less than two weeks, the National Weather Service reported Tuesday.
The weather service initially rated the Friday tornado that hit El Reno as an EF3. But the agency upgraded the ranking after surveying damage from the twister, which along with subsequent flooding killed 18 people. The weather service determined that the storm packed winds reaching 295 mph.
The update means the Oklahoma City area has seen two of the extremely rare EF5 tornadoes in only 11 days. The other hit Moore, a city about 25 miles away from El Reno, on May 20, killing 24 people and causing widespread damage.”
Recently on CNN, Bill (The Science Guy) stated, “What would make it so wide is more heat energy it the atmosphere … it would be 16 times as much energy (as an average F5)…. If this is the third tornado to go through very narrowly this track, since 1999, maybe it’s the beginning of something that’s troublesome. So this is really something for everyone to consider”.

Classmates At Colombia University Think Obama Lied About Going There

AUTHOR Bookworm

June 5, 2013 10:32am PST

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Columbia University is rather small by American university standards. Columbia’s class of 1983 had only 700 students. One of them was Wayne Allen Root. He, like Obama, was in the Political Science department, which had only about 150 graduating students in 1983. What perplexes Root is that none of that small body of students has any memory of Barack Hussein Obama, the striking mixed-race black man who hails Columbia as his alma mater.

(Read More: Obama’s Birth Certificate Being Questioned In Alabama Supreme Court.)

Writing at The Blaze, Root comments on Obama’s conspicuous absence from the 30th class reunion for his and Obama’s graduating year. It wasn’t just that Obama didn’t show up at the reunion – it was that memories about him weren’t there either:

(Read More: 4 Questions Every American Needs To Ask About Obama’s Birth Certificate.)

I thought I knew, or met at least once, (or certainly saw in classes) every fellow Poly Sci classmate in my four years at Columbia.
But not Obama. No one ever met him. Even worse, no one even remembers seeing that unique memorable face. Think about this for a minute. Our classmate is President of the United States. Shouldn’t someone remember him? Or at least claim to remember him?
One of the speakers at the 30th reunion should have reminisced about “my days with the future President.” But no one did. You’d think Obama might have sent a video to tell us all how much he enjoyed his time at Columbia. You’d think he’d have sent at least a letter to be read aloud from one of his former college buddies. Right? But he didn’t. Because Obama has no former college buddies. No one that ever met Obama, let alone befriended him, was in attendance at our 30th class reunion.

(Read More: British National Archives Confirm Obama Sr. Had A Child in 1961 Kenya.)

Root didn’t leave anything to chance. That is, he didn’t just note an absence of Obama reminiscences from the attending graduates. Instead, he asked every single Poly Sci major he saw whether he or she had ever met, seen, or even heard of Obama during the years from 1981 through 1983. He was met with a chorus of “noes”, with all of the people he questioned responding that, yes, it was strange that none can remember the man who is now president. That they answered this way is even more peculiar given that most of them voted for Obama.

(Read More: Alabama Supreme Court Reviews Shocking Evidence Obama’s Birth Certificate Likely A Forgery.)

Root is willing to accept as true that Obama registered at Columbia and even graduated. It’s what happened in between that perplexes him:

The question isn’t was he ever registered, or did he graduate. And it’s interesting that one photo, one professor, and one newspaper article exists- just enough to provide a thin cover. But the serious question the media should be asking is…What did Obama do for two full years in-between registration and graduation? Did he ever attend a class? Did he ever have a single friend other than a Pakistani national? Why is the only professor to ever come forward and claim he remembers him a radical leftist who hates Israel? What exactly was he doing when no one met him, saw him, or heard of him? Why are his college records sealed? What has he got to hide?

(Read More: 7 Questions About Obama’s Birth Certificate, Identity, And Past The Media Won’t Ask.)

Add the missing Obama Columbia years to the many mysteries that surround the man. He’s like an android, who suddenly appeared in America, the perfect embodiment of everything Leftist in a politically popular package.

DOJ Warns Anti-Muslim Comments on Social Media Can Be Considered Felony

AUTHOR Bookworm

June 1, 2013 11:22am PST

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The First Amendment to the United States Constitution says “Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the free of speech. . . .” This right is, perhaps, the one that Americans cherish most and that distinguishes America from all other countries in the world. To which Obama’s Department of Justice says “Blow it out your ear. Free speech? We don’t need no stinkin’ free speech.”
Two top U.S. Department of Justice officials in Tennessee have announced that saying mean things about Muslims on social media (i.e., Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc.) may violate Muslim civil rights and open the way for the federal government to prosecute the person who made the post.

(Read More: Marine Imprisoned After Making A Facebook Comment Sues Government.)

According to The Tullahoma News, a local Tennessee newspaper, the American Muslim Advisory Council of Tennessee is hosting a special meeting to raise awareness of the fact that just because an American is a Muslim does not automatically mean that the American is a terrorist. (And we most certainly agree with that statement.)  The speakers at the event will be Bill Killian, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, and Kenneth Moore, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Knoxville Division.
The paper goes on to report that the U.S. attorneys will make a special point of addressing social media postings:

Killian and Moore will provide input on how civil rights can be violated by those who post inflammatory documents targeted at Muslims on social media.
“This is an educational effort with civil rights laws as they play into freedom of religion and exercising freedom of religion,” Killian told The News Monday. “This is also to inform the public what federal laws are in effect and what the consequences are.”

In the interests of political correctness, the attorneys will also assure Muslims that terrorist acts committed in the name of Islam are no different from the rare non-Islamic terrorist attack in America:

Killian said the presentation will also focus on Muslim culture and how, that although terrorist acts have been committed by some in the faith, they are no different from those in other religions.
He referred to the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing in which Timothy McVeigh, an American terrorist, detonated a truck bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995. Commonly referred to as the Oklahoma City Bombing, the attack killed 168 people and injured more than 800.
It was the deadliest act of terrorism within the United States prior to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history. Terry Nichols was also charged and incarcerated as a coconspirator.
Killian also referred to the Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting on Aug. 5, 2012, when Wade Michael Page, an American white supremacist, fatally shot six people and wounded four others in a mass shooting at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis. Page committed suicide by shooting himself in the head after he was shot in the stomach by a responding police officer.
“Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were both Christians as was the guy who shot up the Sikh temple,” Killian said. “Sikhs are not Muslim, Many people think they are Muslim, but they split off with the Hindu religion.”

Even Bill Maher cried foul over comparing Muslim and non-Muslim violence. Christianity does not preach violent jihad, although there are violent people who are Christians. By contrast, the Q’uran explicitly mandates that devout Muslims wage war against all nonbelievers.

(Read More: Teenager Denied Bail After Being Arrested For “Threatening” Comments About Boston Bombing.)

Aside from making muddled an inaccurate comparisons between Christianity and Islam, the DOJ attorneys are going to make very clear that speech against Muslims can and will be prosecuted. (This incidentally, is a fundamental tenet of sharia law.)

Killian referred to a Facebook posting made by Coffee County Commissioner Barry West that showed a picture of a man pointing a double-barreled shotgun at a camera lens with the caption saying, “How to Wink at a Muslim.”
Killian said he and Moore had discussed the issue.
“If a Muslim had posted ‘How to Wink at a Christian,’ could you imagine what would have happened?” he said. “We need to educate people about Muslims and their civil rights, and as long as we’re here, they’re going to be protected.”
Killian said Internet postings that violate civil rights are subject to federal jurisdiction.
“That’s what everybody needs to understand,” he said.

Killian’s statements are a complete perversion of the Constitution. Free speech means free speech. There are a few recognized limitations: Speech directed at children can be limited (such as TV commercials) and or speech that is an immediate incitement to violence. There is no limitation on speech that offends or insults someone.. That type of limitation on speech exists only in socialist Europe or under sharia law.  In perhaps, sad to say, in Obama’s America.

get ready America ....you've ALLOWED this to HAPPEN !!!                   

Obamacare to Come: British Patients Die in Hospital Waiting for Care

AUTHOR Warner Todd Huston

June 4, 2013 6:05pm PST

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Britain is ahead of us in many ways. Not in good ways but in ways that foreshadow where we are headed. Here is a perfect case: In Britain a man died while in the hospital waiting for his government healthcare to begin.And his isn’t a lone case. Get ready for Obamacare, folks, because here it comes.
A married father of two went to Gillingham, England’s Medway Maritime Hospital complaining of stomach pains. He was placed in a hospital exam cubical where he sat for six hours, eventually dying from what ailed him.
The Brits have government-controlled healthcare. This, folks, is where America is headed with Obamacare.

Stewart Fleming, 37, went to the emergency room in Gillingham complaining of flu-like symptoms. He sat for six hours as the virus he had began to attack his heart and lungs. Despite that he was transferred to another hospital Mr. Fleming died.
This is only one of hundreds of stories of Brits dying while waiting for attention while in the hospital.
(Related: Was Chief Justice Roberts Blackmailed Into Supporting Obamacare? Maybe.)
In another case, a 91-year-old grandmother was left lying on a gurney for 16 hours until she died without ever having been seen.
In another case, a 52-year-old chambermaid went to the hospital with severe headaches. She was slumped in a waiting room chair for six hours, then spent three more hours in an exam cubical. She then died from a brain aneurism.
Folks, this is what we will see when government takes over our healthcare completely thanks to Obamacare. It’s no wonder why Americans already have an deep distaste of Obamacare.
It’s bad enough, of course, if a for-profit hospital fails a patient–and they sometimes do, to be sure. But in that case those institutions are open to lawsuit. Further, for-profit hospitals have a built-in reason not to mistreat patients.
Government, on the other hand, has no reason at all to care about you or your loved ones. And don’t you just know that if they haven’t already, soon they will change the rules so you won’t be able to sue murderous government doctors when they kill you or your loved ones.
We are already seeing the lies Obama has foisted on the nation about Obamacare. Insurance rates, for instance, are already about to go up 140% despite that Obama claimed that his healthcare law would make healthcare “affordable.”
Absurdly, we are seeing our federal politicians pleaded for more money to implement Obamacare… as if they haven’t soaked the American people enough already.
Worse, we’ve already found out that Obamacare will cost twice as much as Obama claimed.
And remember, all of this mess is before the first doctor sees his first patient under Obamacare. How much worse will it get once that all starts? Look to Britain for the “death panels” it will bring us.
What do you think of Obamacare? Tell us below.

FBI Eliminates Training Material That Is “Offensive” To Muslims

AUTHOR Warner Todd Huston

June 4, 2013 10:11pm PST

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation seems to be undertaking a massive effort to re-write history by eliminating things in the agency’s anti-terror training materials that officials think might be “offensive” to Muslims.
Government watchdog Judicial Watch has found hundreds of pages showing how the FBI has altered its training documents.
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton recently released a statement saying:

“The FBI is rewriting history in order to help al Qaeda. This shows that the law enforcement agency is in need of serious top-to-bottom reform. As we recently learned from the Boston Marathon terrorist attack, the country is less safe when we allow radical Muslim organizations to tell the FBI how to train its agents and do its job. The FBI’s purge of so called ‘offensive’ material is political correctness run amok, and it puts the nation at risk. The Obama administration needs to stop putting the tender sensibilities of radical Islamists above the safety of the American people.”

Judicial Watch found the materials in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
Judicial Watch also found that the FBI took a meeting with Muslim groups where the federal agency promised to be more responsive to their needs.
(Read More: DOJ Warns Anti-Muslim Comments on Social Media Can Be Considered Felony)
Fox News’ Todd Starnes recently reported that,

During the February 8 meeting, Mueller reportedly assured the Islamic groups in attendance that the agency had ordered the removal of presentations and curricula on Islam from FBI offices around the country that were deemed “offensive.” As reported by NPR: “The FBI has completed a review of offensive training material and has purged 876 pages and 392 presentations, according to a briefing provided to lawmakers.”

Some of the demands by Muslims included the following:

• “Article is highly inflammatory and inaccurately argues the Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organization.”
• “Page 13 inaccurately states that AQ [al Qaeda] is responsible for the bombing of the Khobar Towers and that AQ is ‘clearly linked’ to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.”
• “The overall tenor of the presentation is too informal in the current political context.”
• “The Qur’an is not the teachings of the Prophet, but the revealed word of God.”
• “Remove references to mosques specifically as a radicalization incubator.”
• “Remove sweeping generality of ‘Those who fit the terrorist profile best (for the present at least) are young male immigrants of Middle Eastern appearance’”
• “author seems to conflate ‘Islamic militancy’ with ‘terrorism’ and needs to define the difference and use it in their analysis”

(Read More: Terrorist Who Beheaded British Soldier Arrested For Trying To Join Al-Qaeda In 2010)
Well, here is the Islam the FBI claims that we need to be more sensitive about: : Saudi Writer Says That Men Should Sexually Molest “Women Who Work”.

Saudi Writer Says That Men Should Sexually Molest “Women Who Work”

AUTHOR Bookworm

May 30, 2013 12:04pm PST

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In America, workplace sexual harassment is a very big deal. Businesses can be financially destroyed by a sexual harassment lawsuit. This explains why, depending on the size of the business, American businesses spend hundreds to hundreds-of-thousands of dollars training their employees to see away from anything that could even remotely be interpreted as harassment.
Things are a bit different in Saudi Arabia. Back in 2011, as part of its move to put some life into its flabby non-oil-producing private sector, the Saudi government loosened up on its restrictions against women working. To protect these women, the legislature is now contemplating a law that would protect women from sexual harassment.
Although the number of women workers in Saudi Arabia is still extremely small, there are enough women to have upset Abdullah Mohammed Al Dawood, who writes self-help books and has almost 100,000 Twitter followers. This past week, Al Dawood took to Twitter and, using the hashtag “harass_female_cashiers,” encouraged his followers to sexually harass female store clerks.

Al Dawood justified his position by pointing to an old Islamic fable about Al Zubair, a famous warrior who did not want his wife to go alone to pray in the mosque. One night, when she went out, he hid on the streets and molested in her the dark. She never realized that her attacker was her husband. Rushing home after the assault, she promised never to stray again, saying that “there is no safer place than home and the world out there is corrupt.”
While logical minds would say that the only corrupt person in the story is the husband, hardliners immediately applauded Al Dawood’s tweet. Those supporting him believe that the new Saudi laws run counter to God’s laws. As one said, “It is a man-made law and it can’t be accepted in a kingdom ruled by God’s law. They had better ban mingling of the sexes, not protect it.”
Khalid Ebrahim Al Saqabi, a conservative cleric, saw using harassment as a way to drive women out of the workforce as an excellent antidote to the risks of have a co-ed business environment. To him, mixed sex offices are “only meant to encourage consensual debauchery.” Another commentator, however, responding to Al Dawood’s tweet, accused Al Dawood himself of contributing to debauchery. Thus, Waleeed Al Khawaji asked “What kind of person urges the youth to commit debauchery.”
Women in the Muslim Middle East have a long haul ahead of them before they can achieve security and respect. Women end up in jail if they’re raped; clerics encourage men to beat their wives and rape them if the wives refuse sex; clerics specifically tell soldiers that the enemy’s women should be raped; and non-Muslim women in the Western countries in which Muslims live are deemed fair game for gang rapes.  Because by-the-book Islam is extremely hostile to women, the Saudi government’s tentative steps at granting Saudi women even some human rights are going to run into bitter resistance from the men who learned their fundamentalist beliefs in Saudi schools.

FBI: Knew About Saudi 9/11 Hijacker Ties—But Lied to Protect “National Security”

By Russ Baker on Jun 5, 2013

The FBI apparently has known for a decade about links between powerful Saudi interests and the alleged 9/11 hijackers, and has been forced to tacitly admit that it lied about it for all of these years.
In case the import is not clear, let us state emphatically: this is a huge development.
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In court filings seeking to stave off a media Freedom of Information request, the FBI has stated that releasing documents relating to this issue will harm “national security.”  As proof of the sensitivity of the matter, the FBI gave the judge a document dated April 4, 2002, in which the FBI states that its own inquiries “revealed many connections” between a well-connected Saudi family with a house in South Florida and “individuals associated with the terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001.”
The Sarasota Affair
The Freedom of Information request that prompted these reluctant admissions was filed by the Broward Bulldog, a South Florida nonprofit investigative site which first covered the Saudi connection in 2011.
The Bulldog’s reporting explained how a family living in an exclusive gated community outside Sarasota, on Florida’s West Coast, had apparently vanished suddenly some 10 days before the 9/11 attacks. Investigators, including a swarm of FBI agents, found that the family’s departure was clearly so sudden that they left almost their entire household intact, down to cars, clothing, and food in the refrigerator. Most significant, though, investigators had established that several of the men publicly identified as among the 9/11 hijackers, including purported ringleader Mohammed Atta, had visited the house and/or been linked to it through a web of telephone communications.
The FBI told none of this to Congress, and it was not mentioned in the original 9/11 Commission report released in 2004.
WhoWhatWhy, in an original investigation, went deeper, and established that the owner of the house was  a prominent Saudi businessman who works directly for the Saudi prince most involved with aviation—including being the first Saudi who trained to fly planes in South Florida.  You can read our complete story here.
The significance of this cannot be stated strongly enough. Although many people think they “already know” about ties between the hijackers and Saudi royals, they confuse these important revelations with reports that prominent Saudis were permitted to leave the country shortly after 9/11, as popularized in Michael Moore’s film Fahrenheit 9/11.
This new revelation is far more significant. The older story shows possible favoritism toward, or at least concern for, well-connected Saudis on the part of the US government in permitting them to leave. The Sarasota story, however, shows that the US government came upon what may have been a command or control center for the men we are told hijacked the planes.
And with the connections documented by WhoWhatWhy, it is almost impossible not to conclude some kind of awareness, either before or after the act, on the part of Saudi Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud and the powerful clique he represents within the royal clan. Again, for more on this, please read the entire story, which continues over three pages on our site.
The FBI Reversal
Kudos to the Bulldog for filing the FOIA request, which unearthed that gem of an FBI submission. It was included in filings by Miami Assistant U.S. Attorney Carole M. Fernandez, and was part of a sworn 33-page declaration from FBI Records Section Chief David M. Hardy. He stated that producing classified information related to the matter “would reveal current specific targets of the FBI’s national security investigations.” The purpose of the filings was to convince U.S. District Judge William J. Zloch not to allow the FOIA suit to succeed.
The April 4 document is significant for three reasons: (1) it demonstrates that the authorities are aware of the Saudi link, (2) it demonstrates that the FBI previously lied when it declared that its inquiries in the matter found no links to the terrorists or the plot, (3) it has the FBI asserting that no more disclosures should be made in order to protect “national security.”
The FBI’s practice of finding evidence tied to Saudi Arabia, then denying it had such evidence, then reluctantly admitting that it did (but only as a way of blocking still more disclosure) is telling. The apparent willingness of the FBI to brazenly lie and then reverse itself—seemingly with no consequences—is now beginning to look like standard operating procedure.
As WhoWhatWhy has demonstrated in articles about the Boston Marathon bombing, the FBI has been guilty of an astonishing array of disinformation, story reversals, unaccountable violence, and general misbehavior just in that one affair alone. See this, this, this, and this.
In the Boston bombing case, the FBI claimed not to know anything about the alleged perpetrators, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, then was forced to admit it had had direct contact with them and their family. It also initially claimed via leaks to mainstream media reporters that one of its officers shot and killed Ibragim Todashev, a figure connected with the Tsarnaevs, because he attacked them with a knife, Since then, the story has changed repeatedly and is now obscured by a thick fog of misdirection. We’ve pointed out many other changing aspects of the FBI’s story.
Hence, when we look back at the granddaddy of all purported terrorist plots, 9/11, and see the FBI’s astonishing actions to block disclosure, we have to ask: Just what is going on in this country? What is the FBI, and does it actually serve democracy and the public interest? And where is the president, purportedly the most powerful person in the country, and the public’s representative? If the president is unable or unwilling to get to the bottom of these bizarre and deeply worrisome developments, what does that say about the health of the system itself?
The Biggest Revelations, Ignored
Fortunately for the FBI, almost the entirety of the media—from the corporate owned “mainstream” to purportedly outsider ”alternative” news outlets and websites—have steered clear of the entire subject.
The recent FBI court filings were revealed by a Bulldog article published in conjunction with one mainstream outlet—the Miami Herald. Previous revelations that appeared in The Herald were generally ignored by the rest of the press, and we may reasonably expect the same disturbing indifference to the latest bombshell.
This development leaves us with three significant conclusions:
-The US government knows about, and is concerned about, apparent ties between its allies in the Saudi royal family and the men accused of having hijacked the planes on 9/11 and orchestrated the greatest attack in history on the American mainland.
-The FBI continues to lie and suppress information in other matters of public concern, supposedly all in the interest of our shared “national security.”
-The media continues to demonstrate how weak, compromised and intimidated it is. With the majority of Americans still dependent for their understanding of current events and their world on these same media, the ramifications can be considered alarming.              http://whowhatwhy.com/2013/06/05/fbi-knew-about-saudi-911-hijacker-ties-but-lied-to-protect-national-security/

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IRS Audited Over Inappropriate Spending, Claims It Can't Find Its Receipts

from the off-with-their-heads dept   http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130605/08482023326/irs-audited-over-inappropriate-spending-claims-it-cant-find-its-receipts.shtml

Just a guess, but it probably sucks to be the IRS right now. Between reports about them snooping on people's emails and their targeting of conservative groups, it's quite easy to paint them as a big, evil bureaucracy. Actually, it was pretty easy to do so before all that. You can generally rely on the hatred of the people for a group that requires meticulous spending records and then collects taxes. Big, bad, evil. What could be worse?

Well, how about hypocritical? That sure seems like an apt word in light of reports on how flighty the IRS was with tax-payer money for their own comforts.

The conference spending included $4 million for an August 2010 gathering in Anaheim, Calif., for which the agency did not negotiate lower room rates, even though that is standard government practice, according to a statement by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
Instead, some of the 2,600 attendees received benefits, including baseball tickets and stays in presidential suites that normally cost $1,500 to $3,500 per night. In addition, 15 outside speakers were paid a total of $135,000 in fees, with one paid $17,000 to talk about "leadership through art," the House committee said.

Infuriating, right? The bald-faced audacity of the organization that collects our taxes using some of that tax money to go to baseball games has the air of outright thievery. Fortunately, thanks to the investigation by the Treasury Department, we now have a full and accurate account of the awful IRS spending, right?

No, we damn well don't, because the IRS -- and I stress this, the IRS -- is claiming it can't find its own receipts, so the spending may well have been even worse.


Hypocrisy, thy name is now an acronym, and that acronym is IRS. This is the type of thing that keeps pitchfork and torch manufacturers in business. In fact, were it not for the undeniably smooth face and impossibly perfect coiffure of Anderson Cooper getting me through this, I might just be leading the mob.

Irony Alert: John Steele Denies Uploading Anything Ever Despite Growing IP Evidence

from the irony-alert dept

Well, well. We recently wrote about a new filing in the Paul Oppold case in Florida, in which lawyer Graham Syfert presents very, very detailed and compelling evidence, as put together by Delvan Neville, that many of the films that Prenda sued people over were initially uploaded by John Steele. The folks over at The Pirate Bay added to this by presenting evidence that the sharkmp4 user who uploaded the works came from the very same IP address that Neville had found (among other evidence) in his findings. Basically, there's a ton of evidence that, at the very least, whoever controlled the Prenda Law domain name, also uploaded the torrent, ran a website "releasing" the movies, controlled John Steele's confirmed email account and commented on various blogs with clear insider knowledge of Prenda Law's actions.

John Steele's response? Deny, deny, deny. Here's him talking to Ars Technica:

"I have never uploaded a torrent in my life, I have never instructed anyone to do so, and I am not aware of anyone I have worked with in any capacity whatsoever (other than pirates of course). I am not sure how much more unequivocal about it I can be. I have no involvement with any case in Florida, including Mr. Oppold's case. I have not read a single document in that case. I don't intend to. As far as Mr. Syfert, you will have to ask him why he is hiring experts to try to connect me to a case I have no involvement with."

For what it's worth, Syfert didn't actually hire an expert to try to connect one to the other, but merely to investigate who did what. That a tremendous amount of evidence then poured out all pointing to John Steele is the result.

That said, here's the really ironic bit: In all of the John Steele cases of copyright trolling, in which he and his partners have been accusing people of copyright infringement and hacking computers, their "evidence" tends to be a single IP address involved in a single action, which they argue is enough information to accurately identify the person and the actions they did. Here, we not only have a single IP address, but a ton of additional information, including that identical IP address showing up in multiple places, while a variety of other evidence directly links Steele to the IP address, yet he insists it's not true. Fascinating.

One of our commenters put it all together in a single image. At this point, not only is the evidence that John Steele was directly involved in uploading the files pretty overwhelming, but on its own it's orders of magnitude more compelling than the evidence that Steele and Prenda have been using against people in court.

Intellectual Ventures Responds To This American Life & President Obama By... Filing More Patent Lawsuits

from the how-do-these-guys-live-with-themselves? dept

Ah, Intellectual Ventures. Over the weekend, This American Life ran their report updating a critical look at Intellectual Ventures from two years ago by showing that the shell company, whose patent IV had insisted was a perfect example of IV helping small inventors get their due was (a) completely bunk and invalidated in court, and (b) despite IV "selling it off," 90% of the profits from the approximate $100+ million that was raised via shakedown threats with that patent... went back to IV. On Tuesday, President Obama came out strongly against patent trolling, and part of his proposal would require revealing who was really behind various shell companies.

So how did Intellectual Ventures respond? By filing patent infringement lawsuits. Yes, basically, a big "F*** you" to those concerns. At this point, they seem to just be laughing at everyone as they rake in the cash from threatening businesses who don't pay up. Apparently, a few billion dollars paves over any conscience pretty easily.

And, yes, IV did also release a laughable "statement" about the This American Life episode, in which the company tries (as it normally does) to brush off the issues raised in the report, with the basic summary being, "Hey, this is how business gets done." But they're not being fully honest here. Let's just pick off a few points.

• Oasis Research is an independent company who purchased patent assets from IV.
• Oasis Research is not a holding company that IV owns, controls or manages.
• Oasis Research is not a company doing business at IV’s direction.

No, but your deal gets you 90% of the profits from any trolling efforts. For a bogus patent that lots of people knew was completely bogus all along and said so. At the very least, this makes you a clearly very interested party in the litigation -- and in the original TAL episode, IV's Peter Detkin clearly was trying to play down the relationship, and made statements that most normal people would take to suggest that IV had sold off most of its financial interest in the patents, and maybe was taking back a small royalty. No, he didn't say it, but the implication was quite clear. Most people would consider this dishonest.

IV’s acquisition entities (what others refer to as “shell companies”) are holding companies that hold our assets – they are not vehicles for our litigations. Since that part of our business continues to confuse people and generate speculation, we wrote about it at length here last December.

No. The first sentence would be a lot more accurate if it said "hide our assets" instead of "hold our assets" because that's what's really going on. Whether or not they're vehicles for litigation is really not that important. Especially when you can "sell off" (*cough cough* *nudge nudge* *wink wink*) the patents to a "third party" shell company in which 90% of the profits go right back into your coffers.

As for the inference that we sold Oasis low-quality assets – IV has no business interest in buying, litigating or selling assets that are going to be found invalid. Our business depends on owning and monetizing high-quality assets.

Again, this is not true. Their business depends on buying low value assets but then convincing others that they're high value assets -- sometimes by bundling them with so many other low value assets that the "threat" of that giant bundle makes it make sense to pay off IV not to sue them. Whether or not the patents are actually low value or high value is immaterial to IV so long as it can make more money off of it in the long term. And... it just so happens that they can buy low value patents for much cheaper, and then bundle them and make much bigger margins.

This attention to quality has been validated by some of the world’s largest technology companies who are our customers, licensees, and, in some cases, investors. In the intellectual property industry, we are recognized for our market leadership and for creating a portfolio that stands above the rest.

Again, I'd argue that's a rather charitable rewriting of history, especially as many of the "world's largest technology companies" that IV speaks about felt that IV pulled a bait and switch to get them to invest in the first place, promising that the focus was on creating a "patent defense fund" to protect companies from trolls, not to create the world's largest troll. And, many of those same companies who paid up felt like they had to in order to avoid getting sued -- which is the whole basis of any trolling operation. They didn't buy in because of the "high value" of the patents, but because it was cheaper to buy in than get sued. Many of those same companies seem quite happy to talk off the record about how much they hate IV and how they felt completely shaken down by IV.

Intellectual Ventures keeps trying to present itself as something that it's not. But almost no one believes it.

Russian 'Pirate' Unofficially Ports Xbox Live Arcade Game To The PC; Moral Conundrums And Fractured English Ensue

from the in-Soviet-Russia,-the-dept-is-from-you dept

Usually when software is cracked, it's to remove DRM or other limitations that were inserted to prevent unauthorized reproduction and distribution. Once that's complete, the unauthorized reproduction and distribution begins, with these illicit copies occasionally ending up in the hands of paying customers who just want the software they paid money for to work correctly. (Funny how that works/doesn't work.)

That's the usual scenario. There's nothing "usual" about Russia, as anybody who's reworked a Yakov Smirnoff quote/watched a few hundred hours of dash cam footage can attest. A Russian hacker going by the name of Barbarus cracked an Xbox Live Arcade game... to port it to the PC.

Ska Studios released their excellent hack-’n'-slash sequel, The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile, back in 2011, exclusively on the Xbox 360. This was the follow-up to the original The Dishwasher game that won the Dream.Build.Play contest back in 2007, which scored the studio $10,000 and an Xbox Live Arcade publishing contract. So when creating the sequel, Ska and Microsoft were already set up to carry on the exclusive publishing contract on XBLA, which meant that the game never saw a release on any other platforms. But that hasn’t sat well with some people, and now a PC port has been managed outside of any official parties.

Barbarus uploaded his unofficial port to torrent site rustorka.net, but the traffic jump took it down. He has since posted it at Yandex as well. The unofficial port is in (unofficial) beta, but is obviously very popular with PC users (or Xbox users who also want to play the game on their PCs). It also has triggered a bit of backlash in support James Silva, one of the game's developers. Barbarus posted this in response.

The ethics of publication

The view was expressed that, with respect to the authors, it is not very nice to publish the game on the PC. I have to argue that the part of the authors are not very nice to publish the game exclusively for the Xbox 360, making it impossible for PC gamers to play such a great game.

About Piracy

Piracy – yes, that is bad. On the other hand, we did not steal the game for the Xbox 360; we released it for the PC port. Given that the developers ignored the PC platform, about any loss of profit for them is not out of the question. After all, if they wanted to earn money, then the game would be issued on all available platforms. If the game came out on PC officially, then this thread would not exist.

Barbarus' arguments defending his actions are not completely without merit. It can be argued that Ska Studios does lose money from this unofficial PC version (diverting Xbox users who now have a way to play the game without purchasing it through the Xbox Live Arcade), but then again, no PC version exists, so any amount of money lost lies in the realm of the theoretical.

On the other hand, James Silva didn't ignore the PC market. The terms of his contract with Microsoft made it exclusively an Xbox title. Again, one can argue against the limitations of the deal or second-guess Silva's wisdom in agreeing to these restrictions, but that doesn't do much to address the issue at hand: how much does Barbarus' port harm Silva and Ska Studios?

Barbarus goes so far as to claim his liberation of Silva's game from the confines of the Xbox was a "restoration of justice" rather than piracy. This it clearly isn't. But it really isn't piracy either, at least not in the normally accepted sense of the word. It's somewhere in between, traveling in the gray area usually populated by emulators and fan translations. The original has been altered, made to do things it normally doesn't (run on other operating systems, speak English) and released to the public.

James Silva's response is understandably conflicted.

“I guess you could say my reaction is mixed. I’m flattered that there’s this much interest in Vampire Smile on PC. I’m not mad about the crack itself; in fact, I’m actually pretty impressed. But I’m bewildered by the cracker’s attempt to justify the morality of it. He assumes a lot about why Vampire Smile’s not on PC yet, and he could have cleared up a lot of those assumptions by just emailing me. I get that piracy is a service problem, but that’s a consequence, not a justification.”

If there was a potential PC market for Silva's game, Barbarus has beaten him to market (so to speak) with his own game. Barbarus, for his part, has continued to defend his actions, pointing out that his port is far from perfect...

The PC version has a lot of limitations. Cooperative gameplay is unavailable, network gameplay is unavailable, achievments is unavailable...

and offering a bit of an apology to Silva.

I should apologize to James Silva did not put him know before porting. Sorry James. I did not want anything bad. I just wanted to give an opportunity for PC gamers to play this game.

A very strange situation. Most people seem to agree that porting a game without the developers' permission is just bad form (at the very least). On the other hand, porting a game to a platform where it isn't currently available does very little harm as it's sort of hard to damage a market that doesn't exist. Could it undercut an official port to the PC? Possibly, but it looks as though Silva is choosing to go the route of combating infringement by crafting a bigger, better version of Dishwasher for the PC.

Sorry the game's not on PC in any official capacity yet! The main reason it's not is because even though the game was developed on a PC, releasing on PC and working out all of the input, display sizes, graphics options involved is a lot of work (and a lot more work than it sounds like!). I know Dean was working on Dust PC for at least a few months before it was even announced (sorry if I've said too much, Dean!), and for us, when Vampire Smile shipped, we were already full speed on Charlie Murder. Once Charlie ships, I'd like to try working on a Vampire Smile PC port, but I'd really like to give it a Director's cut treatment--rework some areas, add environmental hazards and new enemies, etc., so we wouldn't really be missing out if there's a cracked torrent with broken shaders floating around somewhere.

And honestly, out of all the possible responses, Silva's chosen the best one. Going legal is prohibitively expensive and tends to turn a certain amount of public opinion against you, no matter how right you are. If an unofficial, cracked port exists, it's not going to be as polished as the original. This weird little saga only adds to the reasons for fans to support Silva when the official PC hits and his graceful handling of this screwed up situation should land Ska Games even more supporters.

New HD Video Debunks 9/11 Airline Scenario

The Video Google/YouTube Doesn’t Want You to See

                                                                                   9/11 Plane, Not an Airliner
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Foreword by Gordon Duff, Senior Editor

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As with the OJ trial, “if it doesn’t fit, you must acquit.” 

9/11 may well be the greatest bamboozling job in history.  Nearly a dozen years later, the experts fight over planes or “no planes,” over nuclear weapons (a hypothesis presented by Pentagon experts, leaked to the press), thermite “pixie dust” or energy weapons from space.

One thing we have inexorably accepted, thanks to Senator John McCain’s treasonous visit to Syria, is that “Al Qaeda” is now and always has been organized, financed and controlled by western intelligence agencies clearly answerable to organized crime. 

For consideration today, we have an HD video with witness statements, some highly qualified analysis and some glaring inconsistencies that put the “airliner/hijacker” theory to bed for all time.

YouTube - Veterans Today -

On May 23, 2013, President Obama strongly hinted at a 9/11 conspiracy in his speech on terrorism.  His multiple references to the effect extended war had on American democratic principles was couched in terms that were undeniable.  War crimes were admitted to.  Only a careful analysis of what was said and how can tell whether we heard the first “truther” sounds from Obama.

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Imminent: “I Don’t Think Obama is Going to Finish His Second Term Without the Bottom Dropping Out”

Mac Slavo June 3rd, 2013 SHTFplan.com

One year ago this month it was revealed that throughout the course of this crisis some 40% of all wealth in America had been vaporized. It was a stunning number to be sure, and one that many analysts predicted would reverse as the Bernanke/Obama recovery took hold. Now, a full year on, the news has not gotten any better. It’s gotten much, much worse. According to a new report, the average American household has lost 55% of their net worth since the onset of the recession in 2008.
Many are likely holding to the belief that our benevolent government politicians and financial leaders have taken the necessary steps to turn this economy around.
But they’d be wrong.
The next wave of crisis is imminent and the end result will be a total wipe out for Americans:

“I think we are heading for a worse economic crisis than we had in 2007,” [Peter] Schiff said. “You’re going to have a collapse in the dollar…a huge spike in interest rates… and our whole economy, which is built on the foundation of cheap money, is going to topple when you pull the rug out from under it.”
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According to Schiff, these numbers are unsustainable.
And the Fed has no credible “exit strategy.”
Eventually interest rates will rise… and when they do, Schiff says, stocks will tank and bonds dip to nothing. Massive new tax hikes will be imposed and programs and entitlements will be cut to the bone.
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“The crisis is imminent,” Schiff said. “I don’t think Obama is going to finish his second term without the bottom dropping out. And stock market investors are oblivious to the problems.”
“We’re broke, Schiff added.
“We owe trillions. Look at our budget deficit; look at the debt to GDP ratio, the unfunded liabilities. If we were in the Eurozone, they would kick us out.”
Schiff points out that the market gains experienced recently, with the Dow first topping 14,000 on its way to setting record highs, are giving investors a false sense of security.
“It’s not that the stock market is gaining value… it’s that our money is losing value. And so if you have a debased currency… a devalued currency, the price of everything goes up. Stocks are no exception,” he said.
“The Fed knows that the U.S. economy is not recovering,” he noted. “It simply is being kept from collapse by artificially low interest rates and quantitative easing. As that support goes, the economy will implode.“
Via Money Morning

Peter Schiff knows a thing or two about what’s going on, and he’s been sounding the alarm since before 2008. He, like many others, understand that there is no way out.
There is no credible financial or economic exit strategy.
The government knows this and that’s why they are actively implementing an expansive control grid across this entire country.
Those with insider knowledge fully understand what’s coming and they have been war-gaming large scale economic collapse and the widespread civil unrest that will follow.
Make no mistake. The powers that be have an exit strategy – it just doesn’t involve recovery, stability or your well-being.

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Be A Victim: When Your Kid Is Being Attacked, Teachers Are Just Minutes Away

Mac Slavo June 4th, 2013 SHTFplan.com

Should your child go to school and make a gesture with his hands resembling a gun, under zero-tolerance policies you can be 100% assured that  he or she will be promptly suspended or expelled.
However, if a student bully or random attacker should throw a desk at your child’s head, leaving a hole in his skull, that sense of urgency turns to apathy and indifference.

A mother is outraged after she says no one called 911 when her teenage son suffered a skull fracture at the hands of another student. The alleged incident happened on campus during school hours.
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Victoria Canales says what happened to her son at Beechnut Academy is unacceptable.
“They should have called 911 when my child had a big hole in his head instead of waiting for me to go pick him up,” she said.
The seventh-grader did not want to be shown on camera. His skull was fractured on Friday when a classmate hurled a desk at his head. He says it was the fifth attack he endured at the hands of school bullies.
“I was pretty freaked out and scared,” her son said. “It’s violent, it’s a violent school.”
Canales said she’d repeatedly contacted the school, but was ignored.
KTRK Houston

This so-called movement against bullying touted by school districts across the country is nothing more than propaganda:

The schools like to talk a good talk about their firm stances against bullying.  They make a big deal of having  the kids wear pink to school for International Stand Up to Bullying Day.  They hang colorful posters and spend classroom time discussing bullying.
They even have the students sign pledges saying that they will stand up for the victims of bullying.
But what happens when a kid takes the message to heart?
Source: The Organic Prepper

If you are 13 year old Brian MacLean, who disarmed a knife wielding bully by body slamming him and leaving him incapacitated as he attempted to harm another student, you get to spend the entire day in the principal’s office, have your locker searched and undergo questioning for your heroic actions.
In fact, the school attended by MacLean issued an official statement in response to the incident in which he may have well saved the life of another student, saying that they do not “condone heroics.”
What they do condone, however, is being a victim.
And that’s exactly what they are teaching our children is the proper behavior. Common sense in our schools, as stated so succinctly by former teacher Ellie Rubenstein, is extinct.
Early in the school year our 10 year old son, having just entered a new school, was attacked by a classmate. It was a typical 5th grade scuffle. The other student ran towards him and started kneeing him in the ribs and leg. Our son, who has trained Karate for nearly two years, simply threw up a ‘block’ (in our style of Karate, a block is equivalent to a strike). The closed fist block struck the attacking student in the jaw, laying him out on the pavement.
As you may have guessed, we subsequently received a phone call from the principal’s office advising us that our son was being suspended over the incident. After further questioning, the principal admitted that our son acted in self defense (according to reports from student witnesses), but stressed that the proper response would have been for him to contact a ‘yard duty’ teacher.
When I pressed the principal on how that would have been possible under the circumstances, he simply responded with, “Sir, our policy is that students who engage in physical confrontation, regardless of the circumstances, will be suspended or expelled.”
Would the principal have taken the same stance as our son had he come under attack in the ‘real world,’ or would he have responded according to his school policy and ran for police help in the middle of being beaten? Maybe he can take Janet Napolitano’s advice, and just ask the attacker to stop.
When he returned home from school that day our son was terrified about the consequences he would face at home.
Suffice it to say, he not only didn’t get into trouble, but was commended for taking his personal safety into his own hands.
I explained to him… when a bully is attacking you and causing you bodily harm, your teachers are minutes away.
There’s a saying I related to him:

It’s better to be judged by twelve, than to be carried by six.

:O      

New Jersey Man Who Named Son After Adolf Hitler Shows Up For Family Court Hearing Wearing Full Nazi Uniform

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/nazi-dad-in-family-court-691243

The New Jersey man who is fighting to regain custody of his young children--one of whom he named Adolf Hitler Campbell--showed up today for a Family Court hearing wearing a full Nazi uniform and a Hitler mustache.
Heath Campbell, founder of the Hitler’s Order hate group, appeared this morning at a Flemington, New Jersey courthouse for a closed hearing on his request for visitation with his youngest child, a two-year-old boy.
In November 2011, the child (and his three siblings) were taken into custody by state welfare officials, who accused Campbell, 40, and his wife of child abuse. Campbell has contended that he never neglected his children, claiming that they were seized by the state solely due to the their names (one of his daughters is JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell).
As seen above, Campbell was accompanied to court by a woman wearing a costume with a swastika on its sleeve and a Nazi Iron Eagle.
When asked if wearing the Nazi uniform would hurt him in the eyes of the Family Court judge, Campbell told a TV reporter, “Well, if they’re good judges, and they’re good people, they’ll look within and not what’s on the outside.”
While Campbell's uniform appeared authentic, historical records contain no reference to Nazis carrying laptop bags.

hehe guess what just got ADDED 2 the DHS   'watch list'   .........that's right ...soccer moms!  :O  LOL  i always 'wondered ' Y 'they'/soccer moms  R always 'runnin' around in them  BIG VANS & SUV'S    ..i knew 'they '  was up 2 sum~thin  :)      man ...peddling ....didn't c that ?  tho :o

DEA: Soccer Mom Ran Massive Pot Grow Operation

Budding equestrian, 45, is facing federal narcotics trafficking rap

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JUNE 4--A suburban mom--and budding equestrian--has for years maintained a secret life as the alleged head of a multimillion-dollar marijuana grow operation that was finally broken up last month when federal agents raided a New York City warehouse and discovered nearly 3000 pot plants and state-of-the-art cultivation equipment, The Smoking Gun has learned.
Andrea Sanderlin, 45, was arrested two weeks ago outside a Queens building housing a “sophisticated operation to grow and process marijuana,” according to a Drug Enforcement Administration agent. During the May 20 raid, investigators seized about 2800 pot plants, “large quantities of dried marijuana,” and “lighting, irrigation and ventilation systems.”
Sanderlin was subsequently named in a criminal complaint charging her with narcotics trafficking, a felony carrying a minimum 10-year prison term. Since her arrest, Sanderlin--who allegedly ran her marijuana business through a front company called “Fantastic Enterprises, Inc.”--has been locked up at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
The DEA’s arrest of Sanderlin--an attractive, divorced mother of two girls (ages 3 and 13) who lives in tony Scarsdale, New York--will likely draw comparisons to the Showtime series “Weeds,” which starred Mary-Louise Parker as the sexy young matriarch of the hydroponic pot-distributing Botwin family.
Joel Winograd, Sanderlin’s lawyer, described her as a “full-time mother” who had no criminal record and has “never been in trouble before.” Winograd added that he is seeking to work out a bail package for his client, who has pleaded not guilty to the trafficking charge. Sanderlin is pictured above during a March riding competition.
When federal agents searched Sanderlin’s home, they recovered about $6000 in cash and books on money laundering and growing marijuana, according to a U.S. District Court filing. They also seized $7900 from Sanderlin’s nanny, who was trying to sneak the cash to Sanderlin’s boyfriend (who is the father of her youngest daughter).
The raid on Sanderlin’s home came as a shock to neighbors not accustomed to the presence of armed federal agents in the leafy Westchester County village, which is among the country’s wealthiest communities. Sanderlin, who leases her Saxon Woods Road residence--four bedrooms/five bathrooms/5438 square feet--is often  seen behind the wheel of her Mercedes-Benz SUV (though she once had a Maserati coupe registered in her name).
Over the past year, Sanderlin has become a regular at Twin Lakes Farm, a horse riding academy in the neighboring town of Bronxville. She boards one horse that she owns at the facility and leases a second horse there. In March, during her first riding school competition, Sanderlin won several ribbons (as memorialized in a video uploaded to her YouTube page).
For the time being, however, Sanderlin has been forced to curb all equestrian pursuits and swap her breeches, show coat, and riding boots for Bureau of Prisons garb.
[The DEA evidence photo at left was snapped during last month’s raid at the Queens grow house allegedly run by Sanderlin.]
The federal investigation of Sanderlin began following the April arrest of five men for their alleged roles in a marijuana grow business operating from two New York City warehouses. That organization, agents allege, was headed by Stephen Haberstroh, a 50-year-old Scarsdale resident who is a longtime friend of Sanderlin (the pair have previously shared addresses in Queens and Manhattan). Jacques Coupet, who was arrested with Haberstroh, is one of Sanderlin’s 34 Facebook friends.
One member of the busted quintet began cooperating with federal investigators and fingered Sanderlin (whom he knew as “Andi”) as the operator of “at least one marijuana grow house in Brooklyn or Queens,” according to the criminal complaint sworn by DEA Agent David Lee.
The confidential witness--who is not identified in court filings--told agents that “Andi” lived in Scarsdale, drove a Mercedes-Benz SUV, and had provided fellow traffickers with “marijuana seedling plants and large amounts of cash” that she had stored in her home.  The witness also told of seeing Sanderlin at a Brooklyn gardening store making large cash purchases of “items that could be used in a marijuana grow house.” Additionally, during visits to Sanderlin's former Manhattan apartment, the source recalled seeing “large quantities of cash stacked” in her bedroom.
In short order, agents linked Sanderlin to several industrial properties at which she had established Con Edison service. Two closed accounts--which were in arrears--had “unusually high usage when they were active,” according to a search warrant application. Agents concluded that this indicated the leased spaces were used as grow houses, which use massive amounts of electricity to power lighting units that mimic sunlight.
Investigators also discovered that Sanderlin’s Fantastic Enterprises firm had, since February 2009, an active electric account at a one-story warehouse on 57th Drive in Queens (seen below). Her bill, which was usually paid in cash, was remarkably steep--about $9000-a-month. Again, agents concluded that the high electricity tab was consistent with the warehouse being used as a hydroponic grow operation.
On several days last month, surveillance teams watched as Sanderlin drove to and from the Queens property. On May 20, as she approached the warehouse in her SUV, agents stopped Sanderlin and brought her to the building’s entrance. While she “confirmed the warehouse was hers,” investigators reported, Sanderlin “declined to provide law enforcement agents with her consent to enter the location.”
Search warrant in hand, agents subsequently raided the property and found the massive grow operation, which was divided between two separate rooms constructed inside the warehouse. Since the facility held in excess of 1000 plants, Sanderlin faces a mandatory minimum of ten years in prison if convicted of narcotics trafficking.
According to a source, agents are continuing to investigate whether Sanderlin is connected to any other grow operations, and are seeking to determine what she may have done with profits from the illegal venture.
While court filings do not address how long Sanderlin has allegedly been in the lucrative marijuana trade, online posts appear to show her hydroponic interests date back at least five years. In March 2008 messages posted to a cannabis.com forum, registered user “and68i” wrote about ph balances for hydroponic grows.
Sanderlin, who was born in February 1968, has used the “and68i” handle in her e-mail address, postings to other message boards (unrelated to pot) on which she signed messages “Andrea,” a YouTube account, and a horse sale web site on which she uses her full name.
In a TSG interview, Sanderlin’s longtime nanny said that she was shocked to learn of the arrest of her boss, who “kept to herself and didn’t share much with me.” Asked what Sanderlin said she did for a living, the woman replied that was never a topic of discussion. “I just know that she told me she was going to work in the morning,” the woman said. (7 pages)